1 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:08,640 - I love when the Holy Spirit just starts 2 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,680 to tie the bow on things. 3 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:15,240 And you're like, okay, now like David didn't know 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:18,160 I was teaching on birthrights and blessings, 5 00:00:18,160 --> 00:00:20,080 but his whole thing there was on blessing 6 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:22,940 and some of the words that have been spoken this morning, 7 00:00:22,940 --> 00:00:26,640 I can't tell you how many times this morning 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,840 I've heard somebody say something about blessing. 9 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:35,800 And so I love when we just kind of can settle our spirits 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:40,800 in under the Holy Spirit and allow him to just minister 11 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,080 the things that he wants to minister, you know? 12 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:47,500 So this, today we are going to jump forward. 13 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:50,560 I tell you what, I miss our teens today, 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:52,160 our little worship leaders. 15 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,580 And we have, they're on a retreat of their own this weekend 16 00:00:56,580 --> 00:00:58,320 and we miss them and we pray that the Lord 17 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:03,320 is just messing them up in the most amazing ways. 18 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:08,160 I pray for Doug and Jody and James and Dana 19 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:11,160 and all the leaders and that the Lord would just pour out 20 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:12,260 over them this weekend. 21 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:15,280 I'm so excited for them and Pastor Kevin 22 00:01:15,280 --> 00:01:18,620 and some of the others are ministering in East Tennessee 23 00:01:18,620 --> 00:01:20,600 this weekend and we miss them as well. 24 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:21,700 But you know what? 25 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:24,520 God has a word for us today too, you know? 26 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,560 So Father bless them, use them today. 27 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,140 And Father I pray that you be with us today. 28 00:01:30,140 --> 00:01:35,340 We are going to be talking about birthrights and blessings. 29 00:01:35,340 --> 00:01:40,340 Okay, the assignment was Jacob, but I don't really like him. 30 00:01:40,340 --> 00:01:44,380 (congregation laughing) 31 00:01:44,380 --> 00:01:48,060 I'm just gonna put that out there. 32 00:01:48,060 --> 00:01:50,840 He did some stuff that made you go, "What?" 33 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,380 And he's one of the ones that God used. 34 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:55,260 But fortunately for us, people look at us sometimes 35 00:01:55,260 --> 00:01:56,100 and go, "What?" 36 00:01:56,100 --> 00:02:00,280 Yeah, that's one of the ones that God used too, you know? 37 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:03,820 So anyway, he eventually gets it right. 38 00:02:03,820 --> 00:02:06,020 But in the beginning, I'm just kinda like, 39 00:02:06,020 --> 00:02:08,100 "What's up with this guy?" 40 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:10,140 And so we changed the title. 41 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:12,980 We took his out of the big part and put it on the little part 42 00:02:12,980 --> 00:02:15,180 and we're gonna stand up and we are gonna read 43 00:02:15,180 --> 00:02:16,520 a passage of scripture together, 44 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:18,380 then we're gonna jump into the word. 45 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Genesis 25, 21 through 34, if you brought your Bible, 46 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:25,840 I think this is really important. 47 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:27,200 That way you can look and make sure 48 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:29,660 that we're telling you the truth here. 49 00:02:29,660 --> 00:02:31,040 All right, here we go. 50 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,280 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife 51 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:37,000 because she was unable to have children. 52 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,640 And the Lord answered him and his wife, Rebecca, conceived. 53 00:02:41,640 --> 00:02:45,620 And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb 54 00:02:45,620 --> 00:02:49,340 "and two peoples will be separated from your body. 55 00:02:49,340 --> 00:02:52,460 "And one people will be stronger than the other 56 00:02:52,460 --> 00:02:55,660 "and the older will serve the younger." 57 00:02:55,660 --> 00:02:58,560 When the time came for her to give birth, 58 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,800 the first to come out was red, 59 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,320 his whole body like a hairy garment, so they named him. 60 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:08,280 Does anybody else get the image of animal from Muppets 61 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,320 when you read that? 62 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:12,020 I'm just asking for a friend. 63 00:03:12,020 --> 00:03:16,620 Anyway, after this, his brother, now wait a minute, 64 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:19,240 I corrected that and then I took the R back out 65 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,260 because it just seemed appropriate 66 00:03:21,260 --> 00:03:24,660 that his bother came out rather than his, 67 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:26,180 (audience laughing) 68 00:03:26,180 --> 00:03:28,640 it should say his brother, but his, okay. 69 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:33,640 "His brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel, 70 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:36,360 "so he was named Jacob. 71 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:40,740 "The boys grew up and Esau became a skillful hunter, 72 00:03:40,740 --> 00:03:42,820 "a man of open country, 73 00:03:42,820 --> 00:03:47,160 "while Jacob was content to stay home among the tents. 74 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:51,220 "Isaac loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob." 75 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:53,040 How messed up is that? 76 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:59,260 I'm just saying, if you have favorites, you don't tell 'em. 77 00:03:59,260 --> 00:04:02,300 (audience laughing) 78 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:06,940 "Once when Jacob was coating some stew, 79 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:10,640 "Esau came in from the open country famished. 80 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:15,100 "He said to Jacob, 'Quick, let me have some of that stew, 81 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:16,640 "'I am famished.' 82 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:20,060 "Jacob replied, 'First, sell me your birthright.' 83 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:21,180 "That was random. 84 00:04:21,180 --> 00:04:24,860 "'Look, I am about to die,' Esau said. 85 00:04:24,860 --> 00:04:27,520 "'What good is birthright to me?' 86 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:30,720 "But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.' 87 00:04:30,720 --> 00:04:32,940 "So he swore an oath to him, 88 00:04:32,940 --> 00:04:35,500 "selling his birthright to Jacob. 89 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:39,820 "Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. 90 00:04:39,820 --> 00:04:44,820 "He ate and then drank and then got up and left and this. 91 00:04:45,260 --> 00:04:50,080 "So Esau despised his birthright and won final." 92 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:54,460 Watch out for the Esau syndrome, 93 00:04:54,460 --> 00:04:57,500 trading away God's lifelong gift 94 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:01,160 in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. 95 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:04,680 Father, thank you for the truth of your word. 96 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,740 It's pretty clear, Lord Jesus, if we just grab hold of it, 97 00:05:07,740 --> 00:05:11,020 let our hearts be wide awake to learn from you this morning. 98 00:05:11,020 --> 00:05:13,220 Lord, let my stuff fall in your stand. 99 00:05:13,220 --> 00:05:14,980 In Jesus' name, amen. 100 00:05:14,980 --> 00:05:17,740 - Amen. - Amen. 101 00:05:17,740 --> 00:05:19,580 Okay, I'm already a little convicted 102 00:05:19,580 --> 00:05:21,460 over saying I didn't like Jacob. 103 00:05:21,460 --> 00:05:25,800 Not terribly much, but just a little bit. 104 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,980 But here's the beautiful part of it. 105 00:05:27,980 --> 00:05:32,800 We are doing the greatest stories ever told, 106 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,060 not the greatest people ever talked about. 107 00:05:37,060 --> 00:05:38,940 We're talking about their stories. 108 00:05:38,940 --> 00:05:42,500 And I love that God uses ordinary people 109 00:05:42,500 --> 00:05:44,940 to tell extraordinary stories. 110 00:05:44,940 --> 00:05:48,180 And that tells me that he can use us 111 00:05:48,180 --> 00:05:52,340 to do extraordinary things with these little ordinary lives, 112 00:05:52,340 --> 00:05:55,380 with these little ordinary gifts that we have 113 00:05:55,380 --> 00:05:58,840 as they are imparted by him. 114 00:05:58,840 --> 00:06:01,300 You know, I always thought, 115 00:06:01,300 --> 00:06:04,380 does everybody know the story of Jacob and Esau? 116 00:06:04,380 --> 00:06:05,720 If so, let's go to lunch. 117 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,820 We're out of here. 118 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:12,700 Jacob and Esau from the very beginning, 119 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:16,460 you know, I'll look at this and I do this thing. 120 00:06:16,460 --> 00:06:19,380 And if you walk by my office during the day, 121 00:06:19,380 --> 00:06:22,060 I apologize in advance because I look at some 122 00:06:22,060 --> 00:06:26,300 of these stories and I have this mental thing going on. 123 00:06:26,300 --> 00:06:30,580 And it'd be like a story of intrigue, 124 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:36,100 birthright stolen, blessings captured, lies, 125 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:38,580 deceit, parental favoritism. 126 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:43,960 Join us this week for The Supplanter. 127 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:48,280 Because that's what they are, man, 128 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:51,320 they're these stories that should have been a mini series. 129 00:06:51,320 --> 00:06:54,460 You know, it's like if Lifetime would just grab hold of it, 130 00:06:54,460 --> 00:06:55,620 it should be a story. 131 00:06:55,620 --> 00:06:57,380 But the Lord is teaching us through these things. 132 00:06:57,380 --> 00:07:01,540 But I always thought, you know, when Esau, 133 00:07:01,540 --> 00:07:03,340 was he dramatic or what? 134 00:07:03,340 --> 00:07:06,100 I need to eat or I'm gonna die. 135 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:08,800 This is the right service for that message, isn't it? 136 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,320 But he's, I mean, he's so dramatic. 137 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:13,460 It's like, what does birthright matter to me 138 00:07:13,460 --> 00:07:16,220 if I starve to death standing right here? 139 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:20,280 And man, Jacob just goes, "Well, sell me your birthright." 140 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,840 How long had he been carrying that 141 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,040 for it to come out like that? 142 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,380 I mean, seriously, the abundance of the heart, 143 00:07:27,380 --> 00:07:29,220 the mouth speaks, "Sell me your birthright 144 00:07:29,220 --> 00:07:31,120 "and I'll give you this bowl of beans." 145 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,720 How ridiculous! 146 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,120 Seriously, who does that? 147 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:37,960 We do. 148 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:40,760 (congregation murmuring) 149 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:42,040 We do. 150 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:43,780 We know the promises and the things 151 00:07:43,780 --> 00:07:45,100 that the Lord has promised us, 152 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,960 the things that he's spoken over us and given us, 153 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,360 and he's going, "This is the way," walk in it, 154 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:52,920 and we're like, "Yeah, but this looks so much better 155 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:54,960 "over here and I'm famished." 156 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:58,840 Oh, I would never sell my birthright. 157 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:02,460 Some of us don't even know what our birthright is. 158 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,080 But all the time, God gives us opportunities 159 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,480 and he speaks things over us and we choose a different path 160 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:15,000 because that path just feels better to our flesh. 161 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,900 I wanna be fed now. 162 00:08:17,900 --> 00:08:20,600 So I always thought when he sold that, 163 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:22,960 when he traded that, when the brothers did that, 164 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,960 when Jacob deceived him, I always thought, 165 00:08:24,960 --> 00:08:29,160 "Well, that's why Jacob would go in and get the blessing," 166 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:32,160 and all of that stuff that had happened to him. 167 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:35,040 But birthright and blessing 168 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,800 are two completely different things. 169 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:40,840 Birthright and blessing are two completely different things. 170 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:43,560 Birthright, birthright was given, 171 00:08:43,560 --> 00:08:46,400 assigned to the firstborn son, 172 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,080 which is why it says birthright. 173 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:53,080 By right of birth, the firstborn was given a double portion. 174 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,140 A firstborn was given the name. 175 00:08:57,140 --> 00:08:59,240 He would be the one that carried the name forward. 176 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,360 He would automatically become the new patriarch of the family 177 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:06,840 all of these things and they were related to family 178 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:10,760 because birthright is about family. 179 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,340 Birthright names the patriarchs, doubles the portions. 180 00:09:13,340 --> 00:09:15,300 It makes you the name carrier. 181 00:09:15,300 --> 00:09:19,340 You are the one that is gonna carry on the tradition. 182 00:09:19,340 --> 00:09:20,180 You are that one. 183 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:25,180 So when Esau traded it for soup, for beans, 184 00:09:25,180 --> 00:09:28,600 it was the equivalent of him going, 185 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,060 "I'm changing my name. 186 00:09:30,060 --> 00:09:34,480 "Now I don't wanna carry these traditions forward. 187 00:09:34,480 --> 00:09:37,280 "I don't wanna carry these things forward." 188 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:39,960 And that always concerned me because it says, 189 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:42,080 Esau despised his birthright. 190 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:45,520 And I'm like, "How do you despise your birthright? 191 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:46,880 "How do you despise it?" 192 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:51,480 I mean, I have a warped and wonderful history. 193 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,320 My family, those that are not in jail 194 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:57,880 are really doing well, but they didn't always do that. 195 00:09:57,880 --> 00:09:59,200 I mean, I have a lineage. 196 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,320 I was told first service, Mario would be very proud 197 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:08,100 'cause I did find out that we have a Chicago mafioso person 198 00:10:08,100 --> 00:10:08,940 in my bloodline. 199 00:10:08,940 --> 00:10:10,640 I just thought you'd appreciate that. 200 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:12,920 (audience laughing) 201 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:14,440 He's no longer with me. 202 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,300 (laughing) 203 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:20,840 I mean, to despise your birthright. 204 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,360 Yeah, I might have some prostitutes in my background 205 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,340 and some addicts and some alcoholics and some stuff, 206 00:10:28,340 --> 00:10:30,360 but you know what else I got? 207 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:34,200 I have a whole lineage of the kindest, 208 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:39,200 most soft-hearted, calloused hand farmers and poorer. 209 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:44,520 I have the most wonderful musicians and singers 210 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,580 and songwriters in my lineage. 211 00:10:48,580 --> 00:10:51,400 And see, we can choose to focus on this 212 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,800 or we can choose to focus on that. 213 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:58,320 But regardless, I am breathing because a man and a woman 214 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,080 decided to bring me into this world 215 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:01,520 and the Lord allowed me to come. 216 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,360 How could I ever despise everything that they've done 217 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:07,380 to bring me to the place that I am? 218 00:11:07,380 --> 00:11:12,760 And as good or as bad as your parents were, 219 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,000 they were just people. 220 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:17,840 They were dealing with their own stuff. 221 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:20,080 But to despise everything, 222 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,040 and I thought, how does that even make sense? 223 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,160 And then he began to show me, 224 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:28,880 it says he bazawed his birthright. 225 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:30,740 He disdained it. 226 00:11:30,740 --> 00:11:33,320 It was basically him going, "Whatever." 227 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,860 He counted it of little value. 228 00:11:36,860 --> 00:11:43,440 Do you count your family of little value? 229 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:48,360 Do you count those that God has surrounded you with? 230 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:50,600 The everything that he's poured into your life, 231 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:52,840 do you value it? 232 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:57,340 Is it important to you or is it a small thing to you? 233 00:11:57,340 --> 00:11:58,180 And it matters. 234 00:11:58,180 --> 00:11:59,820 You know what's interesting to me? 235 00:11:59,820 --> 00:12:02,840 Is that we don't see at all. 236 00:12:02,840 --> 00:12:07,640 We do not see at all Esau being super upset 237 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:09,600 about losing that birthright. 238 00:12:09,600 --> 00:12:12,920 He said he got up from the table and went on his way. 239 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,020 We don't see that at all over the birthright. 240 00:12:17,020 --> 00:12:19,440 That tells me he might've had some family issues 241 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:22,140 because he didn't value it. 242 00:12:22,140 --> 00:12:23,880 It wasn't important to him. 243 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:28,660 But your family's important to the Lord. 244 00:12:28,660 --> 00:12:31,200 And he put you in it with purpose. 245 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:34,600 And you might just be the one that speaks healing into it. 246 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,920 You don't know what God will do. 247 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:38,560 But if he has placed you 248 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,840 in the middle of a dysfunctional family, 249 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,000 show them what functioning looks like. 250 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,440 Show them what walking with Jesus can do for their lives. 251 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:48,480 Don't just totally separate yourself 252 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,720 unless the Lord tells you to be that light in that place. 253 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,840 Change the bloodline, man. 254 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:56,640 Draw a line across it. 255 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:57,480 Draw a line across it. 256 00:12:57,480 --> 00:13:00,040 But it's always struck me as interesting 257 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,320 that Esau just, he didn't seem too upset about it. 258 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:05,920 Oh, but we see something he's getting ready 259 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:09,280 to be upset about because birthright is one thing, 260 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:10,680 but blessing is another. 261 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:15,120 Blessing was both prophecy and divine decree 262 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:18,440 and it passed on breath. 263 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,220 So we see Jacob and Esau later in life. 264 00:13:22,220 --> 00:13:26,040 It comes time and Isaac calls for his son to come. 265 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,200 He wants to speak a blessing over him. 266 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,920 And that was when Rebekah decided it would be really cool 267 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,760 to just, let's pretend that Jacob is Esau 268 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:38,700 so the spoken blessing can be spoken over Jacob 269 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:40,060 instead of Esau. 270 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:42,440 What mama does that? 271 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:43,800 I mean, seriously, come on. 272 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:44,940 We're gonna cut some skins 273 00:13:44,940 --> 00:13:46,800 and we're gonna put some hair on your arms 274 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,940 and we're gonna put the scent of the field on you 275 00:13:49,940 --> 00:13:53,520 so that you can go and deceive your aging 276 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:56,620 heart of sight father. 277 00:13:56,620 --> 00:14:00,600 But that's what they do. 278 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,960 And he goes in and he feeds his father 279 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:08,960 and Jacob waits and he gets the blessing. 280 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:10,200 Now here's the thing too. 281 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,480 Blessing passed from the father 282 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:17,160 is based on everything he had in terms of possession, 283 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:19,820 in terms of wisdom and in terms of power. 284 00:14:19,820 --> 00:14:21,280 This one wasn't about stuff. 285 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,520 This was an invoked blessing 286 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,140 and guys blessing in the word of God, 287 00:14:26,140 --> 00:14:28,600 there's nothing like it and I'm not talking about stuff. 288 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:30,440 Here let me bless you with this gift card. 289 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,160 Here let me bless you with whatever. 290 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:36,320 No, this is a spoken word breathed over people 291 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,240 and it was invoked and it activated 292 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:40,920 when the breath hit the air. 293 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:44,560 It wasn't activated until it was spoken. 294 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:48,080 I can look at Tina and I can think in my mind, 295 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:50,760 Lord bless her, Lord cover her. 296 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:56,680 But until I go, be blessed in the name of Jesus. 297 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,320 Be blessed, your children will rise up and call you blessed. 298 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:02,280 You are the head and not the tail. 299 00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:03,840 You are above and not beneath. 300 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:05,160 You are a teacher. 301 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,680 You are a daughter of the most high God. 302 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:11,480 Go and do everything that he created you to do. 303 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,000 That's released towards you. 304 00:15:15,000 --> 00:15:17,280 I can't retrieve that. 305 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:18,680 I can't retrieve that. 306 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,780 A breath blessing and something that has to happen 307 00:15:21,780 --> 00:15:25,520 in that moment is that the receiver has to understand 308 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,280 the authority of the blesser to bless. 309 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:33,220 The blesser to bless and so when that's spoken, 310 00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:36,640 it's activated and then Tina gets a choice now 311 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,440 whether she wants that to be activated over her life. 312 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:41,340 And I see you teaching. 313 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:42,580 I see you pouring. 314 00:15:42,580 --> 00:15:44,560 Again, I know you were a teacher previously. 315 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,920 You're still a teacher. 316 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:50,160 And I see that over her and when I speak it, 317 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,960 it isn't because I created it. 318 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,320 It's because I know it in my spirit 319 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,240 because the Holy Spirit has already spoken that over her. 320 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:01,700 And the breath blessing that is invoked, that is released. 321 00:16:01,700 --> 00:16:03,960 And he does this. 322 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,020 This is what Jacob goes in and he gets. 323 00:16:06,020 --> 00:16:10,040 Isaac says, may God give you heaven's due 324 00:16:10,040 --> 00:16:12,640 and earth's richness, grain and new wine. 325 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,260 May nations serve you, your brothers bow down to you 326 00:16:16,260 --> 00:16:18,160 and may those who bless you be blessed 327 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,480 and those who curse you be cursed. 328 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:25,920 And Jacob receives that blessing 329 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:31,020 because it's spoken and it's out there. 330 00:16:31,020 --> 00:16:34,840 And as soon as the blessing is spoken, 331 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:39,500 Jacob gets up and he leaves and in comes Esau. 332 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,620 Who's cooked for his dad. 333 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:49,420 And Isaac says, I just gave away the blessing. 334 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:50,920 Who did I just bless? 335 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:57,160 And the word tells us that Esau cries out in anguish. 336 00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:01,540 He cries out in anguish. 337 00:17:01,540 --> 00:17:05,320 And he says, Father, do you have a blessing for me? 338 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:08,660 Father, what about me? 339 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:13,380 And Isaac says, I have blessed him and he will be blessed 340 00:17:13,380 --> 00:17:17,500 because it had already been released over him. 341 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:22,200 I blessed him and he will be blessed. 342 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:25,980 The things that are breathed over our lives, 343 00:17:25,980 --> 00:17:29,220 the things that are spoken over our lives 344 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:33,980 get activated over our lives. 345 00:17:33,980 --> 00:17:38,760 I blessed him and indeed he will be blessed. 346 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:45,260 And Esau might not have wept over his birthright. 347 00:17:45,260 --> 00:17:48,860 He might not have wept over the double portion 348 00:17:48,860 --> 00:17:51,780 or losing his name or losing the right 349 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:54,500 to be the patriarch of the family. 350 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:58,660 But at this, he says he wept aloud. 351 00:17:58,660 --> 00:18:03,660 He wept aloud because see blessing is irrevocable. 352 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:07,500 Blessings irrevocable. 353 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:10,880 You can't retrieve it. 354 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,380 So doesn't that make you just wanna release it 355 00:18:14,380 --> 00:18:16,380 over the lives of people? 356 00:18:16,380 --> 00:18:21,020 Doesn't it make you wanna just speak blessing over people? 357 00:18:21,020 --> 00:18:23,940 What if we began to start sentences with, 358 00:18:23,940 --> 00:18:26,500 I bless you in the name of Jesus. 359 00:18:26,500 --> 00:18:29,460 I bless you in the name of Jesus. 360 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:30,520 I bless you. 361 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:35,000 I pray that you would be filled, your home would be filled 362 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,720 with the peace of God and that you would have the wisdom 363 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,960 to make every right decision that would cause your life 364 00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:43,340 to be the best it could ever be. 365 00:18:43,340 --> 00:18:46,260 I bless you in the name of Jesus. 366 00:18:46,260 --> 00:18:49,520 I can't give that to them, but I can release it 367 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,060 through the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus 368 00:18:52,060 --> 00:18:52,900 over their lives. 369 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:55,680 And here's the thing, it's not like I'm making up something 370 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:56,600 for somebody. 371 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,000 These are things he's already spoken over you 372 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,420 in his word. 373 00:19:01,420 --> 00:19:04,900 In the book of Genesis alone, 374 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:08,400 there's more than 80 spoken blessings. 375 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,900 This book right here is filled with spoken blessings. 376 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:15,420 And the very first one, you might not have recognized it 377 00:19:15,420 --> 00:19:20,420 as a blessing, but when God speaks to Adam and Eve, 378 00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:25,180 and he says, go, be fruitful and multiply, 379 00:19:25,180 --> 00:19:27,600 have dominion over this thing. 380 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,380 Was that not a blessing? 381 00:19:29,380 --> 00:19:33,080 Instruction comes in blessing form too, you know that? 382 00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:36,060 But from beginning to end throughout the word, 383 00:19:36,060 --> 00:19:40,600 it is the activation of a blessing over these lives. 384 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,060 I had somebody in my office recently, 385 00:19:45,060 --> 00:19:48,140 and her words were, 386 00:19:48,140 --> 00:19:55,340 I don't think anybody has ever said anything good over me. 387 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:02,980 I don't think anybody has ever thought I would be anything. 388 00:20:02,980 --> 00:20:05,020 I don't think, and I'm sitting there going, 389 00:20:05,020 --> 00:20:10,020 God, she just needs someone to speak life over her. 390 00:20:10,020 --> 00:20:13,340 And that's what I was beginning to do. 391 00:20:13,340 --> 00:20:18,320 Because some of us have had so many negative things 392 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:19,500 breathed over our lives. 393 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:22,380 And let me tell you something, it works the same. 394 00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:24,820 You can speak curses over people's life. 395 00:20:24,820 --> 00:20:28,740 People who would never cuss in the Southern slang. 396 00:20:28,740 --> 00:20:31,940 I'm not a cusser. 397 00:20:31,940 --> 00:20:33,520 No, but you might be a curser. 398 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:41,340 If you speak things over people or about people, 399 00:20:41,340 --> 00:20:43,300 understand that you have a God, 400 00:20:43,300 --> 00:20:45,660 you have a Father whose breath, 401 00:20:45,660 --> 00:20:48,740 whose words created universes. 402 00:20:48,740 --> 00:20:51,260 And you are created in his image. 403 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:53,100 And the word tells me that there is life 404 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:55,260 and there is death in the power of the tongue. 405 00:20:55,260 --> 00:20:57,300 What do you think that means? 406 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:01,020 You can speak life, or you can speak death. 407 00:21:01,020 --> 00:21:04,220 You can speak blessing, or you can speak curse. 408 00:21:04,220 --> 00:21:07,780 You ever wonder sometimes why your child is struggling 409 00:21:07,780 --> 00:21:10,420 when all you're doing is talking about their struggle? 410 00:21:10,420 --> 00:21:15,920 What if you begin to speak something differently about them? 411 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:16,940 You know what? 412 00:21:16,940 --> 00:21:18,860 I don't know if I ever told you this, Hal, 413 00:21:18,860 --> 00:21:19,700 close your ears. 414 00:21:20,460 --> 00:21:23,620 (audience laughing) 415 00:21:23,620 --> 00:21:25,740 It was probably 20 years ago. 416 00:21:25,740 --> 00:21:28,520 He had done something, I'm sorry, 417 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,820 I probably did whatever it was. 418 00:21:30,820 --> 00:21:32,520 But we had had like a little spat. 419 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:35,900 We're not fighters, that's just not who we are. 420 00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:40,300 But we had had some kind of argument and I got mad at him. 421 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:41,900 I know, it's shocking. 422 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:45,500 And given how kind I am, I'm speaking it over me. 423 00:21:48,340 --> 00:21:52,680 And I walked into the kitchen and mumbled under my breath. 424 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,940 I'm sure none of you have ever done that. 425 00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:59,480 But I walked into the kitchen and I was mad at him. 426 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:01,040 I'm gonna face this direction. 427 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:07,440 And standing there, I just went, "Oh, he is such a jerk." 428 00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:12,000 And as soon as I said it, the Holy Spirit went, 429 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,700 "You have what you say. 430 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,220 "You have what you say." 431 00:22:16,220 --> 00:22:19,400 And for the next couple of days, I know he didn't know 432 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,860 what I had done to him. 433 00:22:20,860 --> 00:22:22,900 But he was so unhappy. 434 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:24,860 He was so dissatisfied. 435 00:22:24,860 --> 00:22:28,420 He was grumpy and grouchy. 436 00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:29,760 And I was walking around going, 437 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:31,740 "He is the head and not the tail. 438 00:22:31,740 --> 00:22:33,780 "He is the priest of my household. 439 00:22:33,780 --> 00:22:35,660 "He is kind and he is generous 440 00:22:35,660 --> 00:22:37,980 "and he thinks I'm amazing, Lord." 441 00:22:37,980 --> 00:22:42,980 And I thought about throwing in that. 442 00:22:43,660 --> 00:22:46,360 And he gives me cash all the time. 443 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,060 But I didn't. 444 00:22:49,060 --> 00:22:52,800 What the Lord used that to do is to go, 445 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,560 "Be careful what you speak over your spouse. 446 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:59,860 "Be especially careful what you speak to your spouse. 447 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:03,840 "Don't curse them. 448 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:07,160 "Bless them because you will get what you say. 449 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,700 "You will get what you say. 450 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:16,980 "So many are desperate for the breath blessing." 451 00:23:16,980 --> 00:23:19,860 So how many of you have ever had negative things 452 00:23:19,860 --> 00:23:21,920 spoken over you or to you? 453 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,920 Mm-hmm. 454 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:26,540 You ever had anybody ridicule you, 455 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:28,580 tell you you're worthless? 456 00:23:28,580 --> 00:23:30,220 Not gonna amount to anything? 457 00:23:30,220 --> 00:23:33,580 Were they wearing a uniform and have a badge 458 00:23:33,580 --> 00:23:34,420 when that happened? 459 00:23:34,420 --> 00:23:36,500 (laughs) 460 00:23:36,500 --> 00:23:41,760 That has impact. 461 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,340 That impacts us. 462 00:23:44,340 --> 00:23:46,660 Even when we try to think that it doesn't, 463 00:23:46,660 --> 00:23:48,900 I mean, some of the words that were spoken over me 464 00:23:48,900 --> 00:23:52,120 by my father, man, I still have to sometimes go, 465 00:23:52,120 --> 00:23:54,140 "Nope, that's not what my dad says. 466 00:23:54,140 --> 00:23:56,060 "That's not what my father says." 467 00:23:56,060 --> 00:23:58,100 And to begin to speak life over that. 468 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:02,820 And I just wonder how many need a breath blessing 469 00:24:02,820 --> 00:24:05,100 spoken over your life? 470 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,880 Who needs somebody to just look at you and go, 471 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,780 "Oh, I see the prophetic in you, Chris. 472 00:24:10,780 --> 00:24:12,980 "I see the worshiper in you, Chris. 473 00:24:12,980 --> 00:24:16,140 "I see the frustration that you have sometimes 474 00:24:16,140 --> 00:24:19,100 "because you wanna go so deep with the Lord." 475 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:22,140 And my encouragement to you would be go, go deep. 476 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:23,420 Go do what he's called you to do. 477 00:24:23,420 --> 00:24:25,800 Write the songs, do the things that you know 478 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,300 that he's destined you to do 'cause it's in there. 479 00:24:29,300 --> 00:24:32,920 It's in there to have that breath blessing. 480 00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,020 Now let me take it to the next level. 481 00:24:35,020 --> 00:24:36,520 Let me take it to the next thing. 482 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,640 If breath blessing releases and activates something 483 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:45,640 in our life, now let's read this passage in that context. 484 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,820 And again, Jesus said to them, "Peace be with you. 485 00:24:48,820 --> 00:24:52,360 "As the Father has sent me, so also I am sending you." 486 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:57,360 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said, 487 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:00,520 "Receive the Holy Spirit." 488 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:07,500 Was there ever such a breath blessing as this to go, 489 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,500 "Receive the Holy Spirit." 490 00:25:12,500 --> 00:25:17,020 Receive the Holy Spirit. 491 00:25:17,020 --> 00:25:20,740 And that breath, I believe it activated everything 492 00:25:20,740 --> 00:25:21,960 on the planet. 493 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,300 I believe as it went into effect, I believe the ground shook. 494 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:28,760 I believe the thunder was in the distance. 495 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,300 I believe the cloud the size of a man's hand became huge 496 00:25:32,300 --> 00:25:33,120 in that moment. 497 00:25:33,120 --> 00:25:36,660 And I just believe that when Jesus spoke 498 00:25:37,980 --> 00:25:40,540 and breathed over them and said, 499 00:25:40,540 --> 00:25:44,440 "Receive the Holy Spirit," everything changed 500 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,480 from then to now. 501 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:50,420 Now what about this one? 502 00:25:50,420 --> 00:25:54,160 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 503 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:59,160 "who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing 504 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,780 "in the heavenly places." 505 00:26:02,780 --> 00:26:05,960 He has already, let me, okay, here it goes right here. 506 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:06,800 Look here. 507 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:11,500 (speaking in foreign language) 508 00:26:11,500 --> 00:26:14,980 It literally means he has pronounced blessing 509 00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:19,980 from the place of God and angels through breath blessing. 510 00:26:19,980 --> 00:26:24,340 He has pronounced from the place of God and angels 511 00:26:24,340 --> 00:26:26,940 a breath blessing over your life. 512 00:26:26,940 --> 00:26:30,020 He's already speaking it. 513 00:26:30,020 --> 00:26:30,860 How? 514 00:26:30,860 --> 00:26:33,920 Through Christ, in Christ, Jesus. 515 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:38,260 All of these blessings are being spoken over your life. 516 00:26:38,260 --> 00:26:40,780 And I'm not talking about monetary things, 517 00:26:40,780 --> 00:26:44,140 though he does provide, but the word goes on to tell us 518 00:26:44,140 --> 00:26:48,640 this blessing provides wisdom and holiness and knowledge 519 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:52,780 and understanding on and on and on this list goes 520 00:26:52,780 --> 00:26:56,620 about the things that have been spoken over you 521 00:26:56,620 --> 00:26:59,000 from a place of God and angels. 522 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:04,420 From a place of God and angels. 523 00:27:04,420 --> 00:27:11,000 Jacob and Esau hit the point in their lives 524 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,400 where God is getting ready to fix things. 525 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:17,580 Esau has a pretty rough life, but the Lord blesses him. 526 00:27:17,580 --> 00:27:20,360 Every blessing we get is from him, 527 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:21,760 and we know he's a little bit blessed 528 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,720 because when Jacob goes to meet him, 529 00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:25,420 he has several hundred men with him, 530 00:27:25,420 --> 00:27:29,480 and he obviously has been covered a bit. 531 00:27:30,460 --> 00:27:32,620 But Jacob is feeling it. 532 00:27:32,620 --> 00:27:35,220 He knows what he's done to his brother. 533 00:27:35,220 --> 00:27:37,220 He's stolen his birthright, he's deceived him, 534 00:27:37,220 --> 00:27:39,380 and he has received the blessing. 535 00:27:39,380 --> 00:27:42,500 He's taken the name, he's the patriarch of the family now. 536 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:44,860 And so he's getting ready to come face to face 537 00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:47,140 with his brother for the first time. 538 00:27:47,140 --> 00:27:50,540 And Jacob in his fear divides his family 539 00:27:50,540 --> 00:27:53,440 and sends some in this direction and some in that direction 540 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,980 because he is basically assuming 541 00:27:55,980 --> 00:27:57,980 that Esau's gonna kill him. 542 00:27:59,060 --> 00:28:02,820 And so the night before, it says that he's in his tent, 543 00:28:02,820 --> 00:28:05,940 and it says he wrestled with the Lord. 544 00:28:05,940 --> 00:28:07,940 Have you ever wrestled with the Lord? 545 00:28:07,940 --> 00:28:12,180 Have you ever had the Lord tell you something 546 00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:14,940 and you can't receive it or you don't receive it 547 00:28:14,940 --> 00:28:18,260 and you go back and forth and back and forth? 548 00:28:18,260 --> 00:28:20,540 And you know Jacob had to be going, 549 00:28:20,540 --> 00:28:23,080 "I know what I did to him. 550 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,260 "I know what I stole, I know what I took. 551 00:28:26,260 --> 00:28:27,580 "I know what I've cost him. 552 00:28:27,580 --> 00:28:29,980 "Lord, please don't let him kill my family. 553 00:28:29,980 --> 00:28:30,820 "Don't let it." 554 00:28:30,820 --> 00:28:33,480 You know, sometimes our lack of faith shows. 555 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:40,240 So he wrestles all night long with this man, 556 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:41,940 with this Lord, with the Lord. 557 00:28:41,940 --> 00:28:46,000 And then the, and he's like, "You gotta let me go." 558 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,820 And the man, the angel touches his hip 559 00:28:48,820 --> 00:28:50,140 and puts it out of joint. 560 00:28:50,140 --> 00:28:55,140 And Jacob tells him, "I will not let you go 561 00:28:55,140 --> 00:28:57,160 "until you bless me. 562 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:00,040 "I will not let you go until you bless me." 563 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:04,780 I'm sure he was thinking, "Don't let him kill me." 564 00:29:04,780 --> 00:29:07,220 But God's plan and blessing is so much different, 565 00:29:07,220 --> 00:29:09,940 it's so much better because what he does in that moment 566 00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:11,620 is he renames him. 567 00:29:11,620 --> 00:29:13,840 Does anybody need to be renamed? 568 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,340 Have you been a liar? 569 00:29:17,340 --> 00:29:18,280 Have you been a cheat? 570 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:19,660 Have you been a deceiver? 571 00:29:19,660 --> 00:29:20,700 Have you been an addict? 572 00:29:20,700 --> 00:29:22,300 Have you been all of these things? 573 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:24,540 Because see, the world loves to name us 574 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,520 and we love to name ourselves. 575 00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,020 But God calls us something different. 576 00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:34,180 God calls you his son. 577 00:29:34,180 --> 00:29:36,220 God calls you his daughter. 578 00:29:36,220 --> 00:29:37,220 God covers you. 579 00:29:37,220 --> 00:29:39,700 He sees you as completed. 580 00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:45,540 And so in that moment, in Jacob's desperation, 581 00:29:45,540 --> 00:29:47,060 he gets his hip touched. 582 00:29:47,060 --> 00:29:51,100 And the Lord says, "From this point forward, 583 00:29:51,100 --> 00:29:52,540 "you'll be known as Israel." 584 00:29:53,620 --> 00:29:56,640 So yeah, your brother's not gonna kill you, 585 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,440 but you're gonna be the father of nations. 586 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,200 You're gonna have, think about it, man. 587 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,140 In that tent, he had no idea 588 00:30:05,140 --> 00:30:07,840 if he would breathe past tomorrow. 589 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,720 But when you go down the story after the blessing 590 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,880 that he wouldn't let go of him until he got the blessing, 591 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:17,280 after that, he had a new name. 592 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,000 He had a new identity. 593 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:22,680 And he would have 12 sons that would shape the nations 594 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,420 from then to now. 595 00:30:24,420 --> 00:30:27,640 That's what a blessing does. 596 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,860 That's what a blessing does. 597 00:30:29,860 --> 00:30:33,860 And I just cannot help but think, 598 00:30:33,860 --> 00:30:40,980 it is time to start breathing blessing over one another. 599 00:30:40,980 --> 00:30:42,780 Can I get the worship team? 600 00:30:42,780 --> 00:30:48,240 Last week when Pastor Kevin was teaching 601 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,100 and I was sitting right there where Caitlin is, 602 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:53,320 I had this thing hit me in my spirit 603 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:54,960 and I didn't really know the direction 604 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,280 I was gonna go with my teaching, 605 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,320 but I did after that, 606 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,920 because what I saw in my spirit was this. 607 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:06,080 I'm gonna need some elders, 608 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:10,460 because what I saw in my spirit was this. 609 00:31:10,460 --> 00:31:12,460 We had elders, remember what I said 610 00:31:12,460 --> 00:31:16,500 about recognizing the authority of the blesser to bless. 611 00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:21,200 And I could just see our elders lined up right here. 612 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:26,800 And one after the next, after the next came. 613 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,280 And they began with, 614 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:33,440 "In the name of Jesus Christ, I bless you." 615 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,880 And then they began to speak over the lives of the people. 616 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,760 And I don't know how God wants to do that this morning, 617 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,500 but I wanna be obedient in that. 618 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:45,560 So if I could have the elders and their wives 619 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,540 come and line up here for a second. 620 00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:53,040 Joshua, can you come? 621 00:31:53,040 --> 00:32:01,340 So many of us raised our hands 622 00:32:01,340 --> 00:32:05,580 when we said we've had these things spoken over us. 623 00:32:05,580 --> 00:32:11,680 Now elders, guys, wives, look at me for just a second. 624 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,040 I know the Holy Spirit resides 625 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,200 on the inside of each and every one of you. 626 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:21,320 And I know that the Holy Spirit is gonna give you words 627 00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:24,240 that are gonna break chains, that are gonna break yokes, 628 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,720 that are gonna break the power of some words 629 00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:28,960 over some people's lives today. 630 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,440 So do what he's equipped you to do. 631 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,600 Bless them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 632 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:36,080 Can you stand with us? 633 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,680 We're gonna sing the blessing. 634 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,520 And if you raised your hand, 635 00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:44,400 even if you think you're healed, 636 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:47,420 if you raised your hand, I want you to come 637 00:32:47,420 --> 00:32:50,920 and I want you to receive your blessing this morning 638 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,760 and have life spoken over you in the name of Jesus. 639 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,720 Jesus, Father God, I thank you, Lord, 640 00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:04,120 that you are sending a blessing, 641 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:09,120 a breathed over breath blessing for your people today. 642 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,420 Lord, give us wisdom as we go into it in Jesus' name. 643 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:15,920 Amen. 644 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,280 Amen. 645 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,240 Jesus. 646 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,820 (gentle music) 647 00:33:20,820 --> 00:33:23,400 (gentle music) 648 00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:25,400 [music fades out]