This sermon emphasizes the concept of "chain breaking" and spiritual warfare, encouraging believers to overcome generational curses, personal struggles, and societal limitations through faith and divine power, ultimately transforming their lives and communities.
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What I want to say on every location and I want to make sure I say this the
greatest communicator on planet earth is about to stand in this pulpit and bring
forth the Word of God. Thank you Bishop for being my true north, thank you for
being my friend, thank you for being a pioneer, thank you for being an example.
Preach this word before I turn 40. Elevation Church let's welcome the one, the only,
the incomparable, Bishop T.D. Jakes!
What's up everybody!
If you love Jesus, scream!
Sit down, sit down. You gotta have energy to go to this church. I gotta take
Geritol and vitamin D and C and E and F and get my knees oiled and everything to
fool with y'all. Y'all are rowdy. Anybody rowdy for Jesus in this place?
Wow. Well, thank you for letting me be here on your birthday and the church's 14th
anniversary we celebrate you, my lovely wife celebrates you. Stand up Honey,
show them I did good.
You the finest grandmama I ever saw in my life.
Five kids, nine grandkids and still rocking it.
She can still twerk for the Lord, give God a praise. See, that spirit that
was on you jumped on me; I've--
Cast it out. I'm gonna do something in the third service that we didn't get to
do in the first service and this is just part of my way of celebrating that your
Pastor texts me at least twice a week and if I preach something really good he
calls me; that's my barometer there are levels. If he doesn't call or text I go
into depression. I think I just completely failed God. He missed about
three weeks I said, "What's wrong with you?Call me! Say something!" We love you.
It's not a stage love, it's not an in front of people love, it's a deep
abiding love. So much of your story is like mine. You came up from a small town
in a rural area of Moncks Creek? It ought to be Moncks Creek; Moncks Corner.
And he came out of Moncks Corner into Charlotte. I grew up in Charleston,
West by God Virginia. You gotta throw the "by God" in there or you're not a true West Virginian.
"Take me home country road to the place I belong West Virginia mountain mama take me home country roads"
I just had to authenticate that I am a true West Virginian. When you know all the words to that song you are from West Virginia.
And God sent me to Dallas, Texas in my head that whatever happened in my
life happened in my life and I just so relate to you in so many ways and I was
trying to think of something to commemorate because he's always getting
me all these cool shoes and I got big feet you know. So he gets me the shoes
and then calls me and asked me did I get all my toes in them. So I started to get
you some cool shoes but I wasn't sure you could get all your toes in them.
But I do want to make a presentation to you that I thought reminded me of you
and this is part of my birthday present to you.
And I hope the right thing is under here, because I--
This is great faith because I didn't get to check behind so if I unveil it and
it's the wrong thing, I'm gonna cover it up then for the first time in my entire
life I'm gonna turn red okay because you as a very young man
did such amazing things that shook the world that transcended denominations
and culture and ethnicities and backgrounds and politics and
generational ideologies shook the world in such a powerful way when I think of
Bible characters I thought of David I think you are a
giant killer
And so I had them get this bronze statue so that you could put this somewhere in
your life that every time you run into something big or feel inadequate or
wonder can you do it I've brought this David to remind you that the head of the
giant is under your feet.
And this is my sermon to you. Come on up close you've been coming up all while I
was preaching. Look, I paid a lot of money for this I want you
to get the impact that everything that roared against you is is under you and
your sword is grown and you were good and every time you think of it I want
you to tell the Lord to bless me. Will you do that for me? I love you. Give it up
for him. Hug somebody while you're standing there till they turn blue.
I'm grateful to be here you can you can be seated. Ddr. Antipas would you stand? Dr.
Antipas runs my new Jake's Divinity School. Give it up for him. He comes up
here to make sure that I'm theologically in order and correct and he's running my
school for me. I just started an online
Jake's Divinity School is also online and in Dallas and we're proud to
announce it. Thank you for being here; playing hooky away from church. Imma get
you later. Amen. All through the other
services I kept-- I was preaching, I kept looking at this guy that looked like
Mike Todd I said my gosh let's just like Mike Todd
and I thought I might text you later and tell you that you have a look-alike in
Charlotte. And I found out no it's not his twin brother it's really him.
Give it up for him and his lovely wife. I just met.
Stand up take a bow. Let's celebrate them. Yeah.
This is just a good-- Since you're both here I gotta brag. I got both of them preaching at my
Leadership Conference right here in Charlotte April 30th through May 2nd.
I'm not worried about no devils being nowhere between Steven Furtick and Mike Todd all
the devils have moved down to Charlotte they're scared to be around. Amen. Thank God.
I've got them, Keion Henderson, myself and a whole lot of others. I invite
you to come and be a part of it and enjoy the Lord with Denzel Washington,
Tyler Perry a whole bunch of people it's gonna be absolutely unlike anything you
have whether you're in ministry or in business I've got a component that
really will touch your life. Dave Stewart who is a billionaire that stays out of
sight, low-profile, African-American, St. Louis, Missouri. I don't know how I talked
him into coming but what's really cool about it there's a lot of billionaires
out he's a born-again blood wash spirit feel loves Jesus and he's gonna show you
how to use your faith to move your finances to the next level because God's
getting ready to pour out wealth on his people like we've never seen
before, so that we can have impact in this present world. All the
millionaires shout Hallelujah! That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm
talking about. It's gonna be good. Anyway thank you
Jesus thank God. Thank God for your life, thank God for this church. Go to the
book of Acts chapter eight verse one through eight.
Now while you're turning to it I want to tell you about my dog Pup.
You know you're not very creative when you get a dog in your name him Pup. He was
just a puppy and mama said what are you gonna name him I said well let's call
him Pup. So he grew to be about that high but we still called him Pup and he was
he was nice to us but he would terrorize the community so we had to
keep him chained and I lived in a little raggedy house on the side of
the hill on the back side of a mountain in Charleston, West Virginia and half of
the house was on the mountain another half was supported by 4x4 posts and we
had him tied to the posts on a chain and we didn't know that he could
break the chain until one day this young man came down there on the bicycle and
he was moving real fast you know on the bicycle and he's now-- he's
been in my church, gosh, 40 years now but at that time I was just a little boy
and we didn't know that Pup could break the chain but Pup showed us and when
what he wanted in front of him was bigger than what was behind him he broke
the chain that held him and went to the next level and I'm believing God for
everybody in here to do some chain breaking in your life. Amen. Any chain
breakers in the room? Touch somebody tell them, "I'm a chain breaker". I want you to
go to book of Acts 8 verse 1 and if you want to make me feel real at home
stand for the reading of the Word just because we stood for everybody else we
might as well stand for God. Beginning at verse 1 I'm gonna read 8 simple verses I
will extrapolate from the text I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna just use Pup
as an example and and and just call it chain breaker mm-hmm and look at
somebody say, "I'm a chain breaker".
This is the embryonic stages of the development of the church. The church hadn't even really come into the
realization of who it really was. It had power, it had purpose but it didn't even
understand itself fully it didn't have structure or order.
Saul who would later become converted and be one of the
greatest participants of the church had not come into the awareness of who he
was so the church who didn't know who he was was being persecuted by a man who
didn't know who he was.
Therefore, therefore, therefore, therefore because of the persecution. Therefore because of the persecution they were
scattered abroad and went everywhere preaching the gospel then Philip then
Philip then Philip when then Philip went down to Samaria to the city of Samaria
preached Christ unto them and the people with one accord gave heed unto those
things which Philip spake hearing and seeing the miracles which he did they
they heard what he said they watch what he did for unclean spirits crying with a
loud voice came out of many that were possessed with him and many were taken
many taken with palsy and that were lame were healed
and there was great...what? Joy in that city. Chain breakers. Let's pray. Father in the
name of Jesus I pray that your presence and power would prevail in this place
today that your glory would emanate through the Word of God. That it would
touch lives. That it wouldn't just touch us but it would touch all that concerns us
all that is around us all that we envelope. I pray God that this would be
the kind of yoke breaking, thirst quenching, mind renewing, chain breaking
Word that releases the captives and sets them free, that heals the lame, that binds
of the brokenhearted. I pray a special prayer for peoples who whose heart has
been broken today and they bear a pain that no medicine can heal but today in
the name of Jesus I pray that healing would break out in the hearts of not only
this campus but every campus that is watching I speak healing and
deliverance have your way in this place in the name of Jesus we pray and I need
everybody with the sound of thunder to shout "Amen".
You may be seated in the presence of God. Next time you introduce me bring it down
like a quite a bit you know bring the expectation level down down a little bit
I'd rather you about there and that way if I hit there I'm up but if you put it
up there I have to leap up like Magic Johnson to get there so pray for me.
Somebody shout "Amen". We are in the book of Acts it has wrongly been called the
Acts of the Apostles when in fact with careful study you will understand it
it's not so much the acts of the Apostles it is in fact the acts of God
it is the acts of God through the Apostles in the early formation of the
church this book is written by Luke it is a continuation of the Gospel of Luke
and initially was not divided later it was divided from the book but it
continues the thoughts of Luke when he says the former treaties have I made in
Acts 1:1 the former treaties have I made out Theophilus of all that Jesus began both
to do and to teach the indication is that Jesus began it but he is not
finished of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach and to Samaria Judea and
outermost parts of the earth it is just said that Jesus that is doing it now is
not doing it through the body he initially did it through but rather than
to do it through his physical body he is now doing it through his mystical body
but it is still him. There are very few occasions that we see the physical body
and the mystical body in the same place like we do at the Passover allow me to
share what I mean at the Passover service you see all aspects of the body
of Christ you see the physical body of Christ and through the bread and the
wine you see the memorial body of Christ serving the physical body of Christ is
serving the memorial body of Christ to the mystical body of Christ who is the
church and they're all at the table together so the body of Christ says to
the body of Christ and say take eat this is my body and we see all three
manifestations of one body in one place had the enemy understood what I just
said he would have never crucified the Lord because when he crucified the Lord
he crucified the Lord to get the body of Christ out of the earth but all the body
of Christ did was move from the physical body of Christ to the mystical body of
Christ so that the work of God could continue and that's who you are your
name is not James or Robert or Richard or Angela or Shaniqua no no your name
yeah I gotta cover everybody this is an equal opportunity Church
say Amen somebody. That is not really your name your name is really Christ Jesus
yes because when the father looks at you he does not see you as an individual he
sees you as Jesus Christ because Christ has covered you in such a way that the
truth of the matter is when Christ was on the cross God didn't see his son he
saw your sin and so when he reacted to what he saw and Christ was smitten of
God confused saying Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani my God my God why has thou
forsaken me the reason that he felt forsaken is that he was covered up with
you so that you could be covered up with him so that the life that you now live
in the flesh you live by the faith of the Son of God who loved himself and gave
himself a ransom for you I'll prove it to you so Jesus tells you when you go to
the Father don't use your name
because he can't see you but whatsoever you ask the Father in my name that will
I do so when you come to the Father in the name of Jesus it's only because you
look like Jesus where his blood is the propitiation of your sin and has so
covered you that's why you can come boldly to the throne of grace you don't
have to walk up with your head down ashamed of your sins because your sins
were judged on the cross you can come like the beloved son because you are
covered with the beloved son and you gotta remember to use his name tell somebody
say Jesus say Jesus say Jesus say Jesus say Jesus when you come say Jesus
cuz you're wearing Jesus and you're walking in Jesus and you're moving in
Jesus said you're living in Jesus in him I live in him I move in him I have my
being. And the church is really trying to get his hands around this whole notion
of who they are and understanding themselves because the Holy Spirit is
falling on the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 and they have received
this power this power from God which is so amazing and so incomprehensible that
they will spend the rest of their lives understanding how to operate in this new
dimension of the Spirit they do not have Deacons yet they do not have
Elders or Pastors or Apostles that will come with Paul. They just had power but
power without structure is a dangerous thing. Do you hear what I'm saying? The
Holy Spirit has fallen with such power in Acts chapter one and Acts chapter
two that whenever there were problems to arise they would all gather in Jerusalem
because they were afraid to get out of Jerusalem because they didn't feel ready
yet. Have you ever not felt ready yet? And you knew God was gonna do some amazing
things in your life but you didn't have all your details together and you
have everything worked out yet and you felt like destiny was moving faster than
revelation was in your life and you were walking by faith and not by sight? That
was the feeling of the early church. So whenever we don't know what to do we
hang around what we know and whenever we hang around what we know too long God
has to send something to get us to move.
Because being a Christian, which they weren't even named yet at this point,
being a Christian is not a monument it is a movement. It is a movement. It is a
movement. Not a monument, it's not a building, it's not a denomination, it's
not a doctrine, it's a movement. Elevation is not a church it's a movement. You
understand? Thinking it's not about a building it's not about four walls, it's
not about where you sit in a building, the vision of this church is a movement.
That's why you're called Elevation, which means we move, we elevate, we rise, we
escalate, we move forward. Don't look for us where we used to be because we are
Elevation, we will move on a brother, we will walk on a brother, we will rise on a
brother. If the enemy tries to attack us we will
rise on the devil because we are Elevation. We are like Eagles we take to
the air we rise above the storm. Come on Elevation I'm talking about your
church, I'm talking about your church and all of your locations
make some noise if you're getting ready to elevate in this place. The problem is
fear will make a movement turn into a monument and most of our denominational
entanglements just tell us where they stopped moving and we memorialize where
God has been rather than to thirst to be where God is follow me cuz I'm going
somewhere today they told me that that this is the third service and I heard
you all could handle it so I'm gonna drop it like it's hot in
here okay you ready for this I'm getting ready to set it off in this
place are you ready for me to set it off in this place I'm getting ready to tell
you that God has a way of shifting things getting us out of our comfort
zone pushing us away from the familiar he forces us to scatter. And that's exactly
what this text is all about because in Acts chapter 8 the church that is trying
to memorialize where God was is being pushed out of their comfort zone by the
attack of Saul out of the persecution of Saul comes direction. Direction,
persecution, persecution is direction. Sometimes you shout about the doors God
opens but you ought to be shouting about the doors God closes
He will push you. And what has happened up into the first eight/ten years of the
early church they kept coming back to the council at Jerusalem because after
all Jerusalem is the epicenter of ever of almost every major religion in the
world today claims its origin and route to go back to the city of Jerusalem that
is why the Middle East has so much conflict because they're fighting over
territory because Jerusalem becomes Jerusalem the holy city the city of
peace the offspring and the progenitor of which three major religions claim
heritage yet you must realize that Jesus throws us a hint when he was crucified
according to the book of Hebrews outside of the city Jesus by his crucifixion is
already preaching to us that he's trying to escape religious order. That he's
breaking it up orthodoxy that he refuses to be left into the expected but he's
gonna move in the unexpected and so in the book of Hebrews said that he died
without the city it means that he escaped the religious order to expose
who he really was so that he wouldn't be stuck in the prison of religious
ideology. That's why some people can't handle Elevation because you are
unexpected you're out of the box you break all the rules you change the game
you change the floor you broke the order look at you young
folks and old folks of you the black folks and white folks and brown folks
shouting and dancing and praising God. Elevation is-- oh!
Now you must understand that Christianity was not popular then it
didn't even have a name yet it was until they got to Antioch that they started to
be called Christians the early church was called the way and then later they
were called the believers and eventually in Antioch they were called the church. And
so this nameless group of Jesus freaks were coming to Jerusalem because
that's where they had last spotted his glory. Whenever there was a dispute they
came back to Jerusalem whenever there was confusion they came back to
Jerusalem and they kept huddling in Jerusalem so God sent persecution to
shift them. I want to talk to everybody who's been persecuted and you've been
thinking it was the devil. If it was the devil God used him because God will
often use the devil to shift you from one dimension to the next dimension
that's why we glory in tribulation anybody can glory when things are going
well but real believers glory in tribulation oh I appreciate all of you
that are praising God cause everything's going right but the real praise goes to
the people where all hell is breaking loose
and you're still praising God anyway because God is shifting you through
persecution. And the Bible says that God sent persecution to Jerusalem to scatter
the church out of its comfort zone to make them move to the next dimension to
get them out of Moncks Corner or Creek or whatever. You see God has a
way of ordering your steps in such a way that sometimes you have to pack your
bags and flee your comfort zone to find your destiny and that's what we're
reading in the book of Acts and the Bible carefully cautiously almost as a
footnote and said Philip went down to Samaria. Now let's talk about Samaria. It
is not happenstance that Philip was scattered to Samaria God has unfinished
business in Samaria the Gospel of St. John declares that Jesus sat by the well;
a well sitting on a well. I waited for that to sink in.
Yes Jesus is Jacob's well and Israel's well and he's sitting on Jacob's well
and he's waiting for this one loose woman this woman I called her a loose
woman. I called her loose forgive me. Maybe you
don't like that. But she had had five husbands in the inner society that
forbid that kind of thing. She had five husbands and a situation.
You know some of us get into these situations. "It's not-- who is that-- well, he's not exactly-- uh...We're friends."
So she had five husbands and a friend she came down to the well having
been married five times and was living with a man on the sixth time and came
down to the will and met the seventh man and when she met the seventh man the
search was over because he quenched the thirsting of her soul and sent her
free and liberated her and gave her the victory. And you will remember that it
was not her thirst that initiated the conversation but if you will study it
back in the Gospel of St. John you will find out that what provoked the initial
conversation was not her thirst because she expected her thirst to be quenched
by the well that he was sitting on but what started the conversation is his
thirst he says, "woman I thirst". She did not know she thought she was a tramp but
the tramp was a thirst quencher.
Misapplied and misallocated, I will admit, but the reason that she was always able
to get somebody is that there was something in this woman that was
designed to be a thirst quencher she just had not found the right thirst
to quench. You missed that. Yeah sometimes it has to be the right man to bring out in
you what's really down inside of you and none of those other men could really
bring it out in the first place but when she got to the seventh man the seventh
man showed her why she was the way she was she was a thirst quencher
you see she thirsted for water he thirsted for her because she was going
to be the vessel that set it off you will remember that we don't know her
name we don't know whether she's Helen or Jane we just know that she is a
woman from Samaria and God needed something to be planted in Samaria so
that there would be something to harvest in Samaria no seed no harvest so the
woman that the well was the seed and Philip goes down to collect the harvest
Are you with me so far? Come on they told me you was really
smart in the third service so could I could drop it and you can handle it
The woman at the well was a seed now Philip goes down to Samaria to
collect the harvests. I want you to get that in your spirit. What I want you to
get that some of the things that are wrong in you are only wrong because you
haven't met the right man
that there is a reason that you are the way you are and when you get the right
piece of the puzzle in the right place everything will make sense if you work
crossword puzzles you'll understand that you can't cram the right piece into the
wrong place and some of you have been crammed into all kinds of places that
you didn't really fit but when you find Jesus you will find out why you are
shaped the way you shape and you fall into place. Anyway so says the story
that the woman who was at the well she dropped her water pots look at her
shifting occupations she dropped her water pots and went running into the
city to tell all the men yeah baby tell all the men says she knew all of the men
she had influence with the men she had access to the men so the woman told all
the men to come see a man. She said let me show you what a real man is.
So after church I want you to call all your exes and say-- don't do that I'm just
teasing. I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing.
I don't wanna have to get you out of jail just be cool. This is just a illustration
okay she says come see a real man who told me all things I had ever done and
the man came out to see imagine in a misogynistic society, means they don't
respect women, that God would use that which they do not respect to bring him
respect and the women sowed the seed and the women sowed the seed and the
women sowed the seed and the women sowed the seed and the women sowed the seed I
want to start a revolution with every woman in this room come out of the
shadows come out of the corner come out of the background stop feeling sorry for
yourself in spite of all of your mistakes God is gonna use you to set it
off. I need some sisters that can set it off in this place
yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah yah now not everybody-- in here there's a
is a woman but then there amongst the women there are real women there are
there there are women I'm not talking to all you women who never did anything
they never smoked anything and never drank in anything and never went
anywhere and never been in the club and you've always been a Christian that's
wonderful I'm not against you I'm proud of you
I'll celebrate you but there's a reason that some of these broken women that
were called into the kingdom because you courageous because you're bold cause
you say what you think and let the chips fall where they may
I want to raise up some sassy sisters in this room that
can make some noise let me hear the sassy sisters set it off.
God is about to use what was working against you to work for you. He's getting
ready to take you to the next level. So this is a water pot dropping moment.
Leaving the lesser for the greater, leaving the former for the ladder. She
now runs into the city and says come see a man she planted a seed no wonder Jesus
waited for her. He said I must leave go to Samaria I have to go to Samaria and
then didn't go to Samaria he just met the woman from Samaria he met the woman
from Samaria because all he had to go to Samaria for was to find a woman who was
bold enough to set it off in that city and she planted a seed fast forward we
have not heard anything else out of Samaria since this one wild radical
woman has started a love revival meeting that costs the men to see the Prophet
fast forward to Acts chapter 8 when persecution arose in Jerusalem all of
a sudden it got so nasty Saul was killing and imprisoning so many
believers that Philip says I'm going to guess what Samaria
because God had unfinished business in Samaria something had been planted in
Samaria time had passed and now Philip goes to Samaria the only problem with
Samaria is that Simon the sorcerer had set up a camp in Samaria and began
to afflict the city. See, anytime the enemy knows that God is gonna do
something great in your life in your city in your church he will always send
Simon the sorcerer to counteract what God is doing in your life what I'm
trying to get you to see is the reason you're under attack is because God has
started something in your life and any time the enemy sends wheat he will
always plant tare. Y'all still with me? You good? You alright? Breathe in breathe out
Shout Hallelujah cause something is about to happen in
Samaria. Samaria is up under attack by Simon the sorcerer now I'm getting ready
to go in for the kill Simon has taken over the region and convinced him that
he is some wonder Simon has taken over the region now let me show you something
about satanic attack the enemy likes to take over territories what the Bible
calls principalities they rule over regions over cities over areas and the
enemy has set himself up in Samaria trying to stop the power of God from
prevailing in the city and against all of these forces that have ensnared the
city God since Phillip glory to God God since Philip watches I want to go deeper
the enemy is over a region he sets up territories that's why we call him
principalities he takes over regions the spiritual warfare that exists over
Charlotte is different from the spiritual warfare that exists over Tulsa
is different from the spiritual warfare that exists over Chicago that's why you
can't use a Charlotte weapon against a Lake
spirit you have to understand the warfare that exists over your city. You
remember when Jesus went to the man who was filled with demons in Ganarene And
when he finally cast out the demons the demon said to Jesus suffer us not to
leave the region. We've done so much work in this territory we don't mind if we
have to change vessels but don't let us leave the region
there's demonic warfare that takes over areas and certain areas are given over
to certain types of perversities there are demonic warfares that are over
certain families and certain warfare's have taken over certain families grandma
got pregnant out of wedlock mama got pregnant out of wedlock and now
my daughter comes in the house and tells me she's pregnant
that's a spirit. Instead of reign over the territory my daddy was an
alcoholic and I'm a drug addict and now my son is started getting high. That's a
regional territorial principality. That didn't want to let the Johnsons go. That
didn't want to let the Wilsons go. That didn't want to let the Richardsons go.
I know you can't say anything but there are certain things that run in your
family. And you can say you can look at your
sisters acting just like your auntie and your aunties talking just like your
grandmama and all of them got the same spirit and you want to break the chain
oh my god oh my god I feel something I feel something I feel something I feel
something. I feel something. Touch your neighbor and
say break the chain yeah that's why God saved you to break the chain that's why
Pastor baptized you to break the chain to bury who you used to be so you could
rise up into who you're gonna be he baptized you to break the chain that was
holding you down in your life look at your neighbor and say, "Imma break this chain". Uncle
committed suicide my cousin committed suicide my brother committed suicide I
feel the spirit of suicide but I'm going to break the chain look at your neighbor
and say, "break the chain". You don't even know what kind chain it is but
everybody in the room has got a chain that's gotta break in order for them to
be free there's a chain that has to break in order for them to be delivered
Shout yes somebody. I'll show you another chain Abraham got to Gerar and when he
got there he lied and told the king that his wife was his sister okay at the time
that Abraham told the lie about Sarah Isaac wasn't even born yet fast forward
here comes Isaac with his wife. Tells the same lie that his father told a lie that he
never even heard but there was a chain between Abraham and Isaac. So that
the chain was there and the same lie was there and the same struggle was there
but something is about to happen. Let me go deeper. It used to be when you went to
the doctor the doctor only examine you now when you go to the doctor he wants
to know did your grandmother have heart trouble?
Did your grandfather have high blood pressure? Did your grandfather have diabetes?
Did your father die of diabetes? Why does it matter what my grandmother had, she's
dead? I'll tell you what matters there's a chain link between you and your
grandmother there's a chain link if the health of your body and the wealth of
your mind and the way you handle emotions there's
a chain between the two. If grandma was prone to depression and mama was prone
to depression and now you're sitting up here you couldn't feel it at 15 but now
at 23 you're starting to feel depressed. That's not your depression that's your
grandma's depression trying to hook up a link between who you are and
who they were but I came to serve notice of the devil the devil is a liar you
wreak terror over the city long enough you wreak havoc long enough you held
us in bondage long enough. I am not gonna let my daddy's devil defeat me. Oh hell naw.
There's gonna be a chain to break break in this place today. I don't know
who I'm preaching to and I don't know who God sent me here for but something
is about to break in your life like it never broke before. And I command the spirit of
release to happen in this place I need about 60 seconds of crazy praise in this place.
yeah yeah yeah praise him praise Him praise
praise him praise him. Praise him in defiance. Praise him with attitude. Praise him with
conviction. Praise him with tenacity. Praise him like you mean business. Praise him
like your life depends on it. Praise him in order to rebuke suicide. Praise him
like you're coming out of depression. Praise him like you're coming out of
promiscuity. Praise him like you're coming out of pornography. Praise him like you're
coming out of adultery. Praise him. Praise him. Praise him. I will not leave my
husband. I will not abuse my wife. I will not beat my child. I'm going to break the chain.
Shout it out!
The reason you couldn't stay in Moncks Corner is because you had a devil to
fight and everything God did to get you ready was to get you to come into an
area where the enemy had set up camp in a region and he was preparing you in
Moncks Corner getting you ready for what he was going to do down in Charlotte so
the yolks could be broken over the lives of the people who live and pray and
said I gotta be free I gotta be delivered and I gotta be whole and the
reason there's such an anointing in this church and there's such praise at this
church and there's such deliverance in this church is because when you got in
here something broke in your life if I've got
a witness anywhere in the house make some noise like you lost your mind.
So the text says
that Philip went down to Samaria it's not like he went strolling down to Samaria, you know? It wasn't like that at all. He didn't come to have a cup of tea you know?
He didn't come down there because he wanted to ride the Ferris wheel in Samaria. He was on a
mission when God put somebody on a mission hell gets nervous when God puts
a man on a mission, demons begin to tremble they start trying to stop the
man from getting to where he's trying to go. Let me prove it to you. When Jesus
got ready to go to deliver the man who was bound in the tomb of Ganarene on
his way to the area a storm arose out of nowhere
and the Bible said that the whole ship began to rock and reel and the Bible
says that Jesus was asleep in the bottom of the boat and Peter began to be afraid
that the whole thing was gonna capsize why do you think that the storm broke
out the storm broke out because the devil knew that Jesus was on his way to
deliver the man that was bound by the demonic influence and oh so I feel like
preaching. Oh I feel something in this place up. Touch your neighbor and
say you came to the right service. Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus
Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus. Jesus is down in the
bottom of the boat and he's rested and he's rested up cause there's gonna be a
fight he's rested up because he knows when he gets to the destination he's got
a devil to fight. In fact he's got several devils to fight
He's got legions of devils to fight and he's got to fight them by himself and so the bible says he was down in the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping in the bottom of the boat in the middle of a hurricane.
What kind of Jesus can sleep in the middle of a storm and the whole boat is rocking and
reeling and the boat is filling with water and neither the winds nor the rains
had interrupted his rest. Y'all don't get it. The winds were blowing the lightning
was flashing the thunder was erupting out of nowhere and water was filling up
the boat so bad that Peter was afraid the boat was gonna go underwater
and Jesus was in the under part of the ship he had to be wet
This is not the Carnival Cruise Line he had to be wet and the wind was
blowing and the boat was rocking and none of that woke up Jesus but when one of
his believers called him.
Can I go off? I want you to know that you've got the power to wake up Jesus like nobody else can. If you call on Jesus.
Touch seven people and say, just say, "say something". Say something. That's why
whenever you get depressed the devil don't want you to say nothing
Whenever you go into a test the devil don't want you to say nothing. Whenever
you're in great temptation the devil don't want you to say nothing. Wwenever your
marriage is in trouble the devil don't want you to say nothing because hell knows
that the power of life and death is in your tongue and if you open up your
mouth you can wake up Jesus like nobody else can wake up Jesus the wind can't
wake him, the waves can't wake him, the storm can't wake him, but I dare you to--
Do you think that Peters voice had more decibel impact than thunder or lightning?
With nobody else but Jesus He can hear your faintest cry
He can hear a tear slide over the bridge of your nose at 3 o'clock in the
morning God is so in tune with you while nothing else can break his rest if you
get in trouble when you are at dis-ease your dis-ease will wake him up by the way
half of your diseases are coming from your dis-ease. I speak to every nervous
upset restless frustrated condition that you have said nothing about that's
coming out in illnesses and stress attached and insomnia and eating
disorders God's gonna give you a breakthrough today
you're not eating cuz you're hungry you're not up because you're not tired
you're up because you're at dis-ease but God is about to give you some peace
today somebody holler peace Jesus woke up Jesus woke up rose to the bow of the
ship in the middle of the winds and the waves he opened his mouth and cleared
his throat wipe the sleep out of his eyes and the Bible says he rebuked the
winds and the waves and said peace
peace be still. Wait a minute let's roll that back. He
rebuked the winds and the waves. Rebuked? You don't rebuke winds and waves you
might stop winds and waves you might arrest winds and waves
you don't rebuke winds and waves you rebuke spirits I came to tell you
there's a spirit behind your storm there's a spirit behind your distress
there's a spirit behind your dysfunction there's a spirit behind that problem
with your child that child that need no more Ritalin they don't need no more
medication they don't need to be zonked out of their head there's a spirit
that's after your child you could put away half of that medicine and rebuke
that spirit. The Bible said he rebuked
the winds and the waves and with the winds in the ways heard the voice of the
master who made them he overruled the spirit that sent them and the winds got
slain in the spirit and the waves laid frustrated on the floor and there was a
great calm in the tempest of the sea and they sailed on without incident because
God always gets to the core
of a situation watch me we pray about the symptoms of a
situation you ask God to fix the symptom but God is after the core of the
situation. Who am I helping today?
This same God is the God that sent Philip to Samaria to take back the
region this is not just about you God wants to take back the region he wants
to take back the neighborhood he wants to take back your bloodline and the
reason the enemy is fighting you so hard it's not just you it's your daughter and
your son and your grandchildren that are at stake because God wants to take back
the territory. I feel the kind of power that will release you generationally,
that will break every yoke over your mind and over your spirit. I need some
real praisers. I don't need no cute praisers. I need some real praisers. Somebody who will
praise him for your daughter and praise him for your son and praise him for
your children and praise him for your sisters children. I want to give you 30
minutes to praise him like you're expecting Jesus to show up in the room
right now. Open your mouth and move your hands and move
your feet move your knees and move your lips move your eyes slap your eyes and move your jaw
Make some-- and let everything that have breath praise Jesus
Preaching for years, for years. Pup stayed under the house. Y'all with me? He would run out and bark and the chain would pull him back.
Somebody would drive off in the car and he would run out, and the chain would pull him back
and because it had pulled him back so many times we thought the chain was
stronger than the dog
Somebody has tried to go forward but every time you tried to go forward the
You made a New Year's Resolution but the chain would pull you back. And you're starting to think the chain is stronger than you.
But one day, Pup saw something in front of him that was stronger than what was behind him.
And when he ran out and the chain tried to pull him, he snarled and said, "not this time".
Somebody say, "not this time"!
You can't have my daughter. You can't have my son. You can't have my marriage. You can't have my life.
I declare unto you, something in this room--
I'm gonna praise him til my daughter gets delivered. I'm gonna praise him til my son comes home. I'm gonna praise him until my marriage is healed.
Lift your voice. Lose your mind. Give your God-- I will bless the Lord at all times.
When Philip got to Samaria he turned the city upside down since
you're all standing I can't tell you to stand so turn around in a circle God is
getting ready to turn things upside down in your life. He's getting ready to shake things up everything
that was tied up is about to break loose in your life. My God. Wait a minute, before I praise Him for
what He's about to do I wanna praise Him for the persecution that brought me to where I am.
If I hadn't been hated like that. If I hadn't been attacked like that. If I hadn't cried out like that I wouldn't have had the power. I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
Something is about to snap.
I didn't come to preach on this last service, I came to pray the prophetic
utterance in this last service. Something is about to snap in your life.
Something that's been pulling you back for years it's about to snap in your
life you've been praising God overtop of pain but the pain is about to snap
in your life I don't know who I'm preaching to but something is about to snap in
your life and you're gonna take God for the trouble that pushed you over the edge
because it has driven you to a breaking point and something is about to break
loose in your life. If I'm preaching to you holla at your boy.
When Philip came to Samaria there was demonic influence there was possessions
and the Bible said there was sickness and there was disease and God sent one
man against a city of trouble
Stop pastoring this church and pastor the city. This is not about a church
it's about a city it's about a city and every satellite church is a cell
and I came to activate every cell in every city that's watching me online there's a
reason that a cell has been planted in your area because God is about to
activate you like a terrorist to go into the enemy's camp and take back what he
stole from you everything that the devil stole is coming back I don't know who I'm
preaching it to and I better stop cause I feel my old preacher standing up inside
of me and what I feel right now ain't even in style no more but I feel the
power of the Holy Ghost. The kind of power that resurrected Jesus up out of the grave. Somebody in this
room--
Throw your hands up and shout, "YES"!
I want you to understand every city every area every neighborhood you're in
every place God put you to work he did not send you there to make money he sent
you there as a witness in that area to turn that area inside out God could give
you money anywhere he told his disciples money ain't nothing I'll put your money
in a vicious mouth money is not your problem you're not there to make money
you're on assignment and when this service is over I'm going to release you
to go into the places you've never gone and see the power of God move like it's
never moved before lay hands on the sister next to you and the brother next
to you and say get ready get ready get ready
God is getting ready to take you somewhere God is getting ready to use
you somewhere God is getting ready to release you somewhere I feel the anointing of
the Holy Ghost in this place. I'm gonna take my seat but I feel a spirit of release
coming in this place right now. Behold, I give you power
over the enemy power over your problems power over your fear power over your situation.
I'm tired of counseling what we ought to cast out. Get back devil. Get out of my mind. Get out of my belly.
Get out of my body. Get out of my spirit. Open your mouth and--
Touch seven people and tell them your a chain breaker your a chain breaker your
a chain breaker your a chain breaker. Some-- get ready to break in your house break in
your ministry break in your body break it your energy break break in your mind.
If you're ready for it to break shout unto God.
When Philip hit Samaria with his ministry he revolutionize the city so
much so that Simon the sorcerer wanted what he had get ready for the people who
once hated you
two want
what you have there is a reason you couldn't win them
there's a reason nothing you did to please them there's a reason they
couldn't accept you God meant for you to be alone and lonely and walk by yourself
because he never meant for you to become them
He meant for them
to become
and you had finally reached the season that those who once fought you are now
going to seek you and you've got to be healed enough and feel safe enough to
let people in that you've been scared of because God is going to use you to
minister to people who maligned you and you've got to know who you are well
enough to be ready to receive them because you're bigger than that
you're bigger than that. Watch this church. The last verse of the
text says that when Philip hit Samaria he rebuked the devils he healed the
diseases and there was great joy in the-- not in the church, in the city you have
not been sent to churches but regions so when the region is in crisis
you must speak because your vision cannot be contained by walls or campuses
the Bible said the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our
God and of his Christ this is about kingdoms now something is about to shift
attention something is about to shift Oh Lord something is about something is
about to shift. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? How many are
glad you're in this service right now?
On every campus everywhere this word is being streamed everywhere you're
watching on Facebook Live and everywhere else a chain is about to break off of
your life like it has never broken before
take your city take your region take your region take your region you gotta
get out of thinking your vision fits within the topography of your walls
you're bigger than that you must speak to regions you must speak to
territories you must speak to areas that are desperate to hear your voice beyond
your walls these are not your congregations these are your disciples
and everywhere you send them
the people God gave you are not your destination they are your transportation
to go into all the world and all the world's systems and there is a shift
coming in this place and I can feel it from the crown of my head to the soles
of my feet some of you you're in that family to turn that family upside down
and you don't have to argue and you don't have to fight and you don't have
to be super deep or super spiritual all you have to do is just let the glory of
the love of God flow out of you in such a way you're not gonna have to approach
them they're gonna approach you to see what it is you got that gave you that
kind of peace
and all I need to do is break the link that yet connects you to a family or a
region that is dysfunctional that's trying to hold your neck back from the
next dimension you are not fighting with your devil it's your mama's devil and
your grandmama devil and your grandfather's devil and the devil of
your family and the devil of your region and the mentality from where you grew up
and where you came from; satan inside of a principality and because you are
straining the chain he does not want to let you go because if you get loose
if I'm not talking about playing church and putting on games but if you actually
get loose everything connected to you it's going to be loose by the power of God.
Join hands with somebody leave no one untouched
Pup popped that chain like it was a popsicle stick and when it popped he
started running I'm gonna count to three and when I get to three everything
physically ailments in your body afflictions that have attacked your
health every mental and emotional disorder every nervous condition every
bipolar every neurotic every distressed every anger everything that
has ever held you I'm believing God is going to break loose the storm cannot
stop you. Greater this He that is in you than he that's in the world squeeze that
had you're holding the enemy doesn't want her to have peace he didn't want
him to have peace because they are a chain breaker.
Somebody slipped back from the first service to be in the second service
something just told you to stay there God's got something else for you you're
in the right place at the right time we're getting ready to pop something in
this place Hallelujah if you're online get ready for it to pop. It's going to pop!
The thing you're fighting is not yours it's passed to your family and your
bloodline but today is go pop it's in your way it's in your way of your
destiny is in your way of your future is in the way of your prophecy squeeze that
hand family dysfunctions get ready to pop in this place oh this
is a big service I'm not talking about the people I'm talking about the glory
it's getting ready to pop in this place some of you came out of regions with
attitudes and dispositions and every now and then you act like where you came
from but squeeze that hand the chain is about to pop. One! Are you ready for it?
Do you believe that God is bigger than anything that ever held you, that ever
had you tied up? Do you believe that he's greater than anything you've been
feeling in your body in your mind and your soul in your spirit? Do you believe
it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do
you believe it? Two! Do you believe that no weapon
formed against you shall be able to prosper and every tongue that rises against
you God will condemn? Do you believe that this is the day that the Lord has made
and you're gonna get a release today that's gonna be on you the rest of your
life? It's gonna get in the car with you He's gonna get in the house with you
He's going to work with you. When I get to three I want you to shout like you lost your mind.
Three!
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