You are invited to examine where dishonor might be blocking your faith today. Start by forgiving past hurts and speaking life over your leaders, knowing that honor paves the way for God's power to move freely. Commit to honoring God with your heart, not just your lips, and release any bitterness that limits your spiritual breakthrough.
This session that I'm about to go into has changed my life. I flew into Kenya, into a village called Webooye. In fact, Dave, you just met my friend Rob. He was with me in that meeting. I flew into Webullah.
Well, I flew into Eldoret, which is maybe an hour away from Webullah. When I got off the plane, there were hundreds of people standing at the outside of the airport waving and cheering. And I thought there may be like a politician or a rock star or some person on the plane, but they'd actually come to greet me. And we had to get off the plane, get in the car, travel, not even have time to shower or change after 24 hours of travel, I was gonna go straight into a meeting. And and when I got there and I greeted the lead passer, he said, all the people have come to greet you.
And I and I was actually annoyed. I thought, what a waste of money and time because they don't have money for taxis and vehicles and fuel. They're subsistent farmers. And I thought, what a waste. Why would you get them to come and we don't even have time to go through the crowd and greet the people and respond appropriately because we gotta get in the vehicle.
We gotta get going. We gotta get back. The meeting's about to start. And and I felt annoyed. And I'll just leave that there for a moment.
So I'm doing 2 weeks of meetings in this area, crusades every afternoon. I have a team of about 80 people with me. We're going to do street evangelism, going to the police, to the army, to the hospitals, to the schools, to the colleges, and 20 surrounding villages. We're going to go preach. They're to go out.
I'm going to work with the pastors. I'm going to work with the leaders in the day. And I got a few guest speakers that will work with me with the pastors, but the bulk of the people will be out doing evangelism. With everyone that I took, I said to the locals, I want 10 from your churches to go with 1 that I bring. So that would give us, like, hundreds of people out testifying.
So we get to the meeting. Great move of God. Oh my goodness. The place was "wall to wall". The building was maybe the size of this school gym, and the people couldn't sit.
They stood. There were no chairs because they were wall to wall people. There was a stage and people from the stage back packed as many inside the building were outside the building. So the glory hit. People would fall out under the power.
They couldn't even fall because they'd be stuck in the crowd. They'd lift them up and pass them out through the window. So it was like "body surfing", people drifting over the heads of people out the window left for baptism in the spirit, right for deliverance. There's this witch doctor, famous witch doctor, the y 2 k. Do you remember when you may have read about it where they this guy locked the people in his church, nailed the windows and doors shut, and set it ablaze in Uganda.
He had fled to guess where? Webue. His wife is in this meeting, and, he's a famous witch doctor. All his people walk around naked, painting red with a skull tied to their head. This is their their uniform.
She's in the meeting. She gets delivered from a legion of demons in that meeting. Great manifestations of god. So after the the last day of the crusade, the line to testify not of healings but of *miracles* is 2 hours long from the front of the line to the back of the line where they would walk up, I was blind. I can see.
The mayor of the city came up on the stage. It was a we made it out of wood. And if you danced, which Africans do, the whole stage would shake. And I gotta preach on this shaky stage, and you had to be there to see witch doctor sitting around trying to nullify what god is doing on the field that that didn't intimidate me. So, the mayor comes up to greet me.
She's got a withered arm like this, and the faith of god hits me. I grab her arm and say, in the name of Jesus, be made whole. Her arm grows out in front of the eyes of the entire city. She says, she's shaking my hand. She says to the to the city, I've never done this in my life.
I've never used this arm to this day. She was healed before their eyes. People that were carried there walked away blinds. So 1 woman had a baby dead in her womb, and so I could go on and on, just miracle after miracle. In fact, 1 of the men I've got a English school and a Swahili school, and, his name is pastor John.
He was 1 of my converts. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol. He came. They made a bonfire of all their magic stuff, not solicited just like in Ephesus. They did it.
There was no 1 saying, bring your stuff. They came bringing a bonfire this big in front of the stage 2 hours. I had to leave because I'm gonna jump on a plane, and they told me later, 2 hours from the front to the back testifying of miracles. Anyway, so I'm I leave, and god says to me, oh, I just got hit by the power of god. Nice.
I like it. He says to me, the reason why you've seen such breakthrough in this time is because they came to the airport to greet you, because they showed honor to the god inside of you. Yes. Honor, he said, **makes a way** for miracles. Suddenly, I understood in in The United States why we don't see miracles because is that we have a "culture of dishonor".
That's right. I'm not talking here. Your pastor honors me. You've honored me. And 1 thing when god gave me this word, I said, god, everyone is dishonored, but I have lived in honor.
People have always honored me. I've been treated well. I don't I hear the nightmares of other preachers. I have not lived that. I have been honored.
Of course, I've had dishonor, but nothing that has wounded me to the point that I've gotta preach on it to overcome my pain. I don't have a sense of, like, I've been shamed. I've been dishonored now. Let me beat up the people. I have been honored.
The same when it comes to finances. I'd never preach on finance from a position of poverty and need. I preach from the revelation of the word, not my need. I don't preach my hurt. So when god said to me, I want you to preach on honor and faith and miracles, I've made sure that my heart, that I wasn't living from a platform of dishonor, that I would somehow impose a guilt trip on people to give me honor.
So I wanna be very secure in sharing that with you. But I discovered in that meeting that there was a link to faith, *honor, and miracles* that I think has caused the blockage in this nation. Pastors and leaders are not honored much. Most people in the church who've been in the church 20, 30 years or longer have been through multiple church splits, which has always been initiated by elders or deacons or by leaders. And and so even when I think of James, if there be any sick among you, let them call on the elders of the church.
People don't actually honor the office of an elder. And so how does the prayer of faith work where they're not honored for their gift? I was a soldier and and and your pastor was a officer in the navy. We in the military have a culture of honor. We salute.
We stand to attention. Why? Because it is enforced upon us under military law, but it becomes who you are. You you you may not even like that officer or that drill sergeant, but you honor the office. But we don't have that in the church.
And so, what's happened is there's this blockage through dishonor. And I'm gonna share with you the secret to operating in science, wonders, and miracles. Faith, honor, will equal miracles. Are you ready for that? So in 1 Samuel-2 and verse 30, therefore, the lord, the god of Israel, declares, those who honor me, I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.
People *honor God* often with their mouth, but not with their lives or with their hearts. And if you read the book of Malachi, you'll see that they were honoring God with their mouth, but their hearts were far removed from God. Amos is the same. They were honoring God, but they were bringing polluted sacrifices. They were giving under duress, under compulsion with a sense of, like, let me bring the blind.
Let me bring the lame. And what they were doing was insulting Calvary. They didn't understand that because every offering was symbolic as a type and a shadow pointing to messiah. So if they brought something blemished, they were insulting Calvary. That's why every gift had to be perfect.
And that's why he says in Romans-12 that you present your body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to god, which is your reasonable service. And in Philippians-4, it says, and the offering came as a "sweet smelling aroma" and acceptable sacrifice, well pleasing to God, and my God shall supply. The moment there's *honor* and faith, you get the provision. And so honor becomes a platform for the operations of faith. Well, when you live in a society that dishonors the police, dishonors the government, dishonors the the office of of of the principal of the school, the teachers of the school, mothers and fathers are dishonored.
What's happened is we've we've been raised in a dishonoring culture. Parents don't honor, children don't honor their parents because they've been dysfunctional, but they you're not told to honor functional parents. You're told to honor your mother and your father. And so people grow up despising authority. People in the church, they've been offended by this evangelist, this pastor.
And so when a pastor says, god's telling me we need to do this, I think, who are you to tell me what to do? I can make up my own decisions. And so they don't hear the word of god. They don't we're gonna go into 21 days of prayer and fasting. We're gonna prepare ourselves for the new year for a great move of god.
I'm gonna eat. They won't take it as the word of the Lord. They'll just think, it's another day, another word. And they wonder why we don't get the breakthroughs. Because dishonor is a platform for normality, the same old.
But where there's honor, there's breakthrough. So honor becomes the soil for faith and miracles to flourish. Where there's dishonor, faith withers. Where there is honor towards god, his word, his servants, and 1 another, you will see the power of god flows freely in that environment. I was in a meeting, and I and I've used names because I mean in no ways any harm.
I was in a meeting when Beni Hinn was at his prime. And I've worked with Benny Hinn in in Africa. We've done meetings together. He's a good man. And, yeah, he's had his issues.
He's a prima donna. He's he was at 1 stage so full of himself. But god really used him as a as a worshiper and a carrier of his power. I was in a meeting before I knew Benny, and people were standing in line for hours to get into his meeting. And people flooded the building, and Benny came up in his normal flamboyant self and get those children out.
They'll quench the spirit. I'm thinking, wow. The holy spirit is really in he gets mad at babies crying. Why would he give us babies if he's gonna drift out of the meeting because there's a baby crying? And I'm thinking, Vinny, you're too full of yourself.
Anyway but miracles took place despite his flamboyant ways and, you know, his mannerisms that he got from Catherine Coleman. Incidentally, I was in a meeting where I was sharing the stage with Benny, and I'd fallen and I'd hurt my arm. And it had been in I'd it wasn't broken, but it felt broken. I had torn something on the inside. I didn't wanna go spend money on an MRI.
So I just put, this cost, you know, 1 of those straps around just to remind myself to be sensitive to this arm. I had it for a year. And Benny is going on and on and on, and I'm standing there. He says, now those who are sick, I want you to stand, and people stood. And there were no, like, real outbreaks of miracles.
But my arm that had been injured for a year was instantly healed. Why? Because I could look beyond his flamboyant ways, beyond his little idiosyncrasies, and I could see that god had put his hand upon his life. And I honored the gift that he represented and carried. And I got my miracle.
But the others were offended because of what they had read about him in his in his weakness and frailty. And what happened, they weren't receiving. But when the building was flooded, miracles took place. People were being hit and filled. Why?
Because he was the same person. But what had happened, they honored him. Now they were dishonoring him because what they read in media and because of his little weird ways. Great man. He really is.
I had wonderful times with him. He's actually very beautiful in his heart and spirit when you sit alone with him on the stage. He's like, Benny. So I've seen these operations. The Greek word for honor means to price, to value, to revere, to fix a value upon.
The Hebrew kabod, literally means weight worthy. And we talk about the glory, the weight of God. And the same as we talk about the glory, we see in that word honor. It's the "weightiness of God". How many of you been in a meeting and the pastor says raise your hands and you really want to but you feel like there's this strong tangible.
Have you ever been in it? Like let's stand and you feel like I can barely stand. What that is is the manifestation of god's glory, the weight of god in the meeting. Settles in the meeting. You're like, you just wanna drift off.
I get in that zone in worship. Like, it's time to preach and I just wanna lay on my face because the weightiness of God's glory. The same is the *honor*. Now there's a scripture which says, if you receive a prophet in the name of the prophet, you'll get what? The prophet's reward.
The origins of that comes from, I believe, the ancient Chaldean text which says something like this. If you receive an elder, you will receive the Shekinah. So he's talking about just honor. The honor is attached to the elder or to the role that they represent, the authority that they represent. The Shekinah comes in in the environment of honor.
If you *honor* the prophet in the name of a prophet, then what you're gonna get is the prophetic reward. If you honor the pastor in the office of the pastor, you will get the pastor's reward. And so honor creates an environment for what? Faith to operate. When faith operates, you get the glory.
You get the **weight of God** manifesting in that environment. You remember when Jesus went to his hometown, he came in and they they treated him like the "son of Mary and Joseph". And it says that in that place, he could not work any miracles because of their unbelief. Well, what was unbelief rooted in? Dishonor.
Yeah. Because he then goes on and he says, a prophet is not worth *honor* unless he's in his hometown. In other words, he was saying, in the culture of dishonour, *faith* cannot operate. Therefore, they could not get their miraculous breakdown. And funny enough, he's called Jesus of Nazareth.
And yet in Nazareth, he could work no miracles. *Jesus* of Nazareth, a man *anointed of god* who went about doing good and healing all the oppressed of the devil. He's known as Jesus of Nazareth operating in the miraculous except where? In Nazareth. Why?
Because of unbelief. Why? Because of dishonor. And so honor and faith work together and create an atmosphere for revival. So you remember when David was in the cave and Saul came into the cave to relieve himself and David cut the robe and he could have killed Saul?
And then he comes out afterwards saying, listen. I could have killed you, but I didn't. What was he operating in? *Honor*. And he was even repentant that he had cut the garment because he esteemed the office even though Saul no longer had the anointing and the favor of God.
He held to the place of honor. And so David was raised in a culture of honor. And because of that, faith operated. And so we understand the importance. Remember when Hannah goes into the tabernacle and, Eli was the the priest, And she goes in and she's praying.
She's interceding. And he turns around and he rebukes her for being drunk. In the modern day church, if someone came in in travail, weeping, crying, seeking God, you said, hey. You really need to stop doing drugs or coming into church drunk, you would have what? A lawsuit on your hands.
And if not a lawsuit, you'd be facing a church split because you'd go live on social media and say, Pastor Dave just called me drunk and there I was seeking God. He is so insensitive to the realm of the spirit. He called my hunger for God drunkenness. Before you know it, you're the critical mean insensitive pastor. But she turns around.
She says, no, my lord. What is my lord? The language of honor. When she speaks the language of honor, I am a woman of sorrowful spirit. Do not consider your maid servant a wicked woman.
He's insensitive. He's missing the reality of the situation. Immediately, he turns around and he blesses her life, creates an environment for the gift of faith to come into play, and guess what happens? She has a son. Why?
Because she's held the platform of honor. The second 1 that I wanna speak about is Nehemiah. He's in the palace. He's been in travail. He's been in fasting.
He's been seeking God. And the king comes to him and says, why are you down? Are you feeling sick? And the bible says that Nehemiah became dreadfully afraid. Why would he become dreadfully afraid if he was just down having a bad day because he knew he had crossed the line?
Remember when Joseph was in prison, people were added. It was the baker, the Cup bearer. The cup bearer, and the candlestick maker. They came to the prison. He gave a word to them.
Why were they there? Because they had violated pharaoh by bringing their personal squabbles into the palace. Because those days, you didn't have green peace. You didn't have red cross. You didn't have red crescent.
You had nothing back in you. You had the king's authority. And when you violated the king's authority, you were either dead or imprisoned. The same with Joseph when he was in Potiphar's house. He wasn't given a fair trial.
He wasn't given a defense. You violated the platform I've given you. Prison. So he gets into the prison, and they come in. Why?
Because they had dishonored Pharaoh. He gives them a word and some die and some live. But the point that I wanna make is when Nehemiah was in the the palace and he was showing his pain, his broken heart because of the city was in ruins, and the people were in ruins. And the king came to him and said, what's going on? And you gotta understand that Nehemiah was a trusted servant.
The king had to have a Nehemiah because the cup bearer could kill him. The soldiers may not but poison. That would be the way to get to a king. So a king really trusted his cup bearer, and yet, in despite that good relationship, Nehemiah becomes dreadfully afraid. Have a look at the word dreadfully afraid means in the Hebrew.
Let me tell you what it means. Dreadfully afraid. Have you been dreadfully afraid? Could you imagine you're in the sub and there's a power breakdown and you're at whatever depth you are. And the captain turns around and says, listen.
And this is a miracle. We're stuck here for the rest of the oxygen we've got. You become dreadfully afraid. How many of you have been dreadfully afraid where you feel like your legs just wanna collapse under you? You break out in a sweat.
You your whole body anyone ever been there? Bullets flying past you. You'll know what dreadfully afraid means. Someone holding a knife against your chest, you'll know what dreadfully afraid means. He became dreadfully afraid.
Why? Because he had dishonored the king. So he turns around and he says, no, my lord. I'm not sick, but what has happened is I'm really concerned about the city that, by the way, your predecessors overran, took the gold, took the jewels, and plundered us into, brought us into this place of being plundered and, separated. And and and so the king says to him, well, what do you want me to do?
Kings never tell servants, what can I do for you? Kings tell servants, this is what I want you to do for me. But immediately because he shows honor to the king, he has favor, And favor releases resource and releases him to go to the rebuilding of a city. Why? Because of honor.
You also see this when the apostles gathered in Jerusalem, and it says, and the people held them in high esteem. And even the "shadow of Peter" would fall upon them as they laid out in stretches on the street, and they were healed and delivered. What they were doing you think about the modern day church where you think, Peter's become too big for his britches. That's American, by the way. It's not South African.
I don't even know what britches means. But he's got so full of himself that he doesn't have time to stoop down and lay hands on us. He's he used to be Peter the fisherman, so friendly, and now he's all aloof, just so busy with the things of God. Has no time for my sick relative. Think about it.
Put yourself in that position. But they held them in high esteem. What's high esteem? Honor. That when he walked, they no worries, Peter.
We'll just lay out on the side of the street where your shadow's gonna fall. This will be more than enough. You don't even have to stop. Get on with what you gotta do because your shadow is enough. The culture of honor, *faith*, *miracles*, they were healed.
The same with Paul. You're busier. You don't have time to lay hands and go visit relatives. Just let us put our handkerchiefs, our aprons on you. We'll go lay it on our relatives.
*Miracles take place. The Roman centurion comes to Jesus*. Jesus calls it great faith, but it was actually great honor. He says, listen. He says, no, my lord.
You don't have to come to my house. Notice the language. No, my lord. For a Roman centurion to call a Jewish rabbi lord. Yeah.
Sentence of death. Violating Rome. His authority, his office. But he's got such respect and honor for *Jesus* that he calls him *lord* and said, yes, Leon's expanded translation. If you come to my house, you've gotta go through ablutions, cleansing, separation.
For 7 days, you've been in the house of a Gentile. Why would you do that? Just speak a word. Wow. I haven't seen such great faith in all of Israel, but was it great faith or great honor?
Well, great faith and great honor, what? They run parallel and equal. Unbelief and dishonor run equal. Faith and honor run equal. Miracle takes place.
Immediately, the servant is healed. Why? Because of faith, great faith, or great honor. Let me think of another instance. Although I've given you enough scriptures there to show honor, I think it's have I missed 1?
I'm sure there's more. Is a lot. We see *honor* working together with faith. Honor is connected with obedience. *Jesus* told the disciples to wait, and they honored his word by waiting until the Holy Spirit came.
Yeah. Faith, honor. Yep. Faith, honor, obedience. Well, faith and obedience, 1 and synonymous faith and honor.
Yeah. *Jesus* was never hurried. Do you notice that about him? He just, like, took his time to get to Lazarus because it was very important that prophetic 3 days because it was gonna be a glimpse of resurrection glory. And and so I wouldn't say it was dishonor because they that was his closest friends, Lazarus and Mary.
That was his his friends. They they had very close relationship, but it showed *Jesus* was portraying the importance of *resurrection* power, and so it was an important step along the way. Dishonor limits the flow of God's power. I'm trying to think of other instances in scripture where there was honor. Think about when Peter went into the house of Cornelius.
Cornelius showed great honor to Peter because Peter is pretty insulting. Like, he shows up the door even after angelic visitation and open vision. He shows up the door at at the door and says, now listen. I shouldn't even be coming to you people. It took an angel to you and to me and a vision, and here I am.
But he invites him, falls at his feet. And and and and so he's creating an environment of honor and *faith. Peter's still preaching and the spirit* falls. Didn't even wait till they every head out bowed, every eye closed, no 1 looking around. Raise your hand if you wanna be saved.
They saved, filled with the spirit all in 1 go. Yeah. Why? Because he showed honor. That's right.
And in fact, when you read about Cornelius, he so honored *God* that it almost looks like works got him favor, but it wasn't works that got him favor with his giving and his praying that built this. It was his honor for God despite his culture, his origins, but he he had such honor for god that god said, I've got to send Peter to him, a "platform of honor". So you see honor and faith working together in that environment. So dishonor in Malachi-1 and verse 6, a son honors his father. If I am a father, where is my honor?
Because they were bringing polluted sacrifices. Moses showed dishonor when god said to him, speak to the rock. And because he's frustrated and angry at the people, what does he do? He strikes the rock. What did he do?
He dishonored god. Why? Because Christ could only be struck once. The first time he struck, water came out, salvation. The second time he's frustrated, angry, he strikes the rock.
He violates the cross. He violates the Christ. What's he doing? Dishonoring god. You cannot enter into the promised land because you dishonored the cross.
Woah. That's a oh moment. But can you see the importance of honor? And I go back to Africa when I flew into Webooya. Why was there such manner?
I haven't seen that in all of my ministry because they created a atmosphere of honor. I was irritated and annoyed at the waste of money, but they weren't wasting money. They were actually showing honor for the god inside of me. That's right. I went to a village in Africa.
It was a miserable day. My driver was meant to pick me up at 5 in the morning. He got there at about 6. I'd paid a lot of money for a good vehicle. He came in a rust bucket.
I'd given him money for fuel through my people, and he came on an empty tank. And then to save a few pennies, he went off the route. We're already running late to go get black market fuel to save a few pennies, which is not even his money. It was mine for the fuel. So I'm already annoyed.
I look really meek and mild, but I can get pretty strong. So we're driving. He's got a coat on a scarf. It's in tow it's in Togo, right on the Equator. He's got the heater blowing.
I'm sitting in my cargo pants, my cargo shirt, you know, my safari stuff. I said, dude, he says, oh, it's a "cold front". It's like 95 outside. Anyway, so the car's hot. We drive.
We break down. So we're running late. We drive. We break down. We're running late.
The first time, I reach about 200 souls for the Lord. The second time, I reach about 3 or 4 souls for the Lord. Came out of the forest. We're gonna be at the "King's Palace" at noon at 06:00 in the evening as I come into the village. The king is still sitting with his whole entourage waiting for me to arrive 6 hours late.
I drive. I'm coming into the village. They start taking palm branches and throwing them on the road. They they have no biblical culture. They don't know about Jesus of Nazareth and the palm branches.
I get out of the vehicle, and this is in the middle of an African voodoo region where they're still sacrificing children. They got maidens with **rose petals** in baskets, and they start throwing the rose petals down for me to walk into this sanctuary that the king had built that would seat 2,000 people made of wood and palm branches As far as the eye could see at 06:00 in the evening, people packed. He's sitting there with his whole government entourage waiting for me to arrive 6 hours late. What were they doing? Honoring the Christ inside of me.
I got out of the cars, like, embarrassed with the rose petals and this. I'm thinking I'm saying, Jesus, this is for you. This is for you. We worship you. We honor you.
This isn't for Leon. This is for you. I don't wanna touch that glory. I walk in miracles, **signs, wonders**. I reached that entire village.
I've planted church there. Guess how many people are my members on day 1 of the church? 2,000. I get up the next morning to preach. 06:00 in the morning, I'm sitting under a tree reading my new testament.
People see me sitting there. They start gathering. I'm still in my shorts, t shirt. I've got bed head because even though it's hot, I got under the the my sleeping bag because I didn't want malaria yet again. I had it, like, 6 times.
So I'm just like, I'd rather sweat through the night than have mosquito bites. I'm sitting under a tree in a broken desk, like a school desk, little bench. I'm sitting there reading, praying. People gather. People gather.
People gather. 07:00, people coming. 08:00, people coming. 09:00, people coming. 10:00, the crowd's growing, growing great.
People start coming down the mountain from different surrounding villages. 11:00 that night, I haven't stopped preaching. From 6 in the morning, the dust from their dancing and shouting and *worshiping* fills the air. Signs, wonders, and miracles because of honor and faith. Miracles happen in that environment.
Some closing thoughts. Guard your heart from criticism and familiarity that would allow you to step into a place where you'd quench and grieve the spirit of God and quench the flow of faith. Speak well of others, especially elders and leaders. Even if they frail and have failed, let your criticisms be few. Let your compliments be many.
See beyond the flesh. See the potential of God's call upon their lives. Show gratitude openly and consistently. Submit joyfully to godly authority. Celebrate other successes.
Give your best in worship, service, relationship. Whatever you do when it comes to god, honor him. When you sing, sing from the heart. When you dance, dance from the heart. When you bring your your financial gifts, honor god.
In fact, don't just go through the mechanics, through the sterile operations of this is what we do every Sunday. Focus on god. Look beyond the veil of the flesh and see him high and lifted up. His train fills the temple. See his glory.
See the angelic beasts that surround him *worshiping* holy, holy, holy without ceasing and honor him. Give god honor as you honor those. The bible says honor the widows. Honor 1 another. Honor those that lead or obey those that lead you.
So honor is not just to the leaders. We as leaders must honor you. That's right. And sometimes there's this abuse of authority where elders want to be honored, but they won't honor the people. And they treat them as the people instead of gifts of God.
And so it's a 2 way street. I think people can show honor and leaders can show dishonor. It's not gonna be an environment for miracles. So it's gotta be a 2 way street. Honor is more than words.
You can honor with your lips, but your heart can be far removed from the things of God. So it's never giving "lip service". It's always heart condition. So I want you just to take a few minutes and reflect on this lesson, and then we'll take a break, and, and then we'll go to the next and closing session. I trust you got something out of this.
This session has revolutionized my approach to ministry in the spirit, honor. Just take a few moments, close your eyes, and just reflect and ask god to seal these words and thoughts in your heart, showing you what to do with them. And I'd say this if you have ought in your heart against anyone, unforgiveness, offense, bitterness. We've all been through some church hurt in 1 way or another. I want you to let it go.
I want you to forgive and let it go. Don't hold on to stuff that you shouldn't. Be quick to forgive. Bring it under the blood of Jesus. Even if they've violated you, hurt you, humiliated you, it doesn't matter.
In the light of eternity, I have this. I got hurt in a church. And the lord appeared to me and said, Leon, if you don't get over this, it will always be over you. I've learned to let it go quickly because if you don't, it will always be over you. It will limit your destiny.
It will limit your faith. Let it go. It's not worth it. Live under the blood and show mercy. Show compassion.
Show kindness even when it's undeserved. Father, forgive them. You gotta live with that same thought. Don't hold this charge against them. Forgive them.
Release them. Even if they deserve judgment, give them mercy. Because in giving mercy, you'll receive it. Be a "peacemaker" at all costs. Lord God, seal this word in our hearts and shift your people even in this nation from a **culture of dishonor** to be in a spiritual culture with kingdom values and kingdom honor.
*Lord*, I pray this shift to take place in our hearts by revelation beyond these lips of clay and what I've shown, God. Holy Spirit, come and show the the the depth of this realm that would awaken a heightened *faith* to lay hold of miracles. I pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Pastor David.