Episode Transcript
Welcome to the World Changers Church Gold Coast Podcast. Join us as we listen to today's message. Amen.
Let's welcome our powerful and our dynamic minister of the Word of God this morning, Mrs. Caitlin Self. Amen. Thank you, worship team. Thank you, Pastor Tina.
You stole all of my notes. It's almost like we have the Holy Spirit. We'll turn to the person next to you.
Say good morning. Give them a hug. Tell them it's about to get spicy. If I can kindly request some water because it's nice and warm today.
So who's had a good week? Did we enjoy the public holiday on Monday? Did everyone have some rest? Did anyone get brutally sunburned? Yes, I did. My ear, my left ear all week was so swollen and so sore.
And I mean, I don't know how many times I need to learn that lesson, but hopefully it's got in. This morning, I'm really, I'm excited and I'm nervous and I'm all the things about the Word that the Lord has been preparing in my heart. Coming into this new year, can you believe that we're in February?
What in the actual, that's crazy. I feel like we blinked, January disappeared. And as I was coming into the new year, I was just reflecting and I was asking the Lord, like, what is it?
What are the things that you've been teaching me in this season? And it's so important that we take the time in our journey with the Lord that we are reflective and understand. And that's why it's important that we're in our Word.
Like, Father, show me, like, what is your heart for me in this season? And I was reminded of a message I preached a couple years ago, and it was called Purpose in the Wilderness. And this was brought out of a place in my life where I was going through a really difficult, desert season, it was a hard season, it was a waiting period and the Lord showed me the goodness of His timing in the process that He took the Israelites on when they came out of Egypt and the lessons that He taught them and before I jump into the message that I have this morning, I just want to quickly recap it because there's so much goodness in that story and I don't know about you, but have you ever felt like the Lord is taking the long way on some things?
Like, let's be honest in the house this morning. Can I get an amen? Can I get an amen?
Then you're like, I'm not exactly sure what the plan is, but I'm just gonna have to trust you. And what we see with the Israelites is that they come out of Egypt. God has said, I'm gonna take you to the promised land.
And then we see the verse that says that there was a road that went directly straight into the promised land, but the Israelites were not ready for warfare. So God took them the long way. And we see this beautiful journey and there's three quick, keys, unchanging biblical principles that I just want to sow into your hearts today that you can take hold of.
And all of these, I can guarantee you, take it to the bank. You apply this to your life. 2025 is going to be a very different year than any year you've had before.
Amen. So the first thing is you and I require daily bread. So the story of manna, God is taking them out of captivity and He brings them to this place and they settle and He provides for them miraculous food every single morning and every single night without fail.
And He's teaching them, you need to trust on Me every single day. There's a study that was recently done looking at what changes in a Christian's life when they read the Bible. So they looked at people who read the Word one day a week.
So that being either, you know, you open the Word, you read it, or just hearing the Word on a Sunday. And what they found was that it had negligible effect on some key areas of their life. The same result was true of people engaged in the Scriptures two times a week.
The result had little to no effect three times a week. It wasn't until they looked at what's the effect when they look at the Word of the Lord four times or more in the week. And what they found was amazing because it didn't just go like this, it went like skyrocketed, these results.
So the first thing they found is that feelings of loneliness dropped by 30%, anger issues dropped by 32%, bitterness in relationships dropped 40%, alcoholism dropped 57%, Sex outside of marriage dropped 68%. Feeling spiritually stagnant dropped 60%. Pornography addiction dropped 61%.
Sharing your faith jumps 200%. And discipling others in the way of the Lord jumps by 230%. Isn't it amazing when science lines up with what the Word of God has already laid out for us?
See, the Word is important because it renews our mind, which is important because the second thing that I talked about is that slave mentality is not welcome in the Kingdom of God. And I want to change that this morning. Victim mentality is not welcome in the Kingdom of God.
You are not what happened to you. You are not what they say about you. Amen.
So a lot of times we come into salvation, we accept the beautiful gift that is the person of Jesus, but we still see ourselves as a sinner who is struggling to achieve righteousness instead of seeing yourself as the righteousness of Christ. So this morning, if there's anything, shift your perspective. You are not a sinner who is struggling, who is trying their hardest to try and pursue righteousness, but you are the righteousness of Christ and you need to walk in that identity.
And then the last thing that I wanna quickly share is that life and death is in the power of your tongue. When they are about to enter the promised land, Moses sends out 12 spies, 10 men in groups of two to go out into the land and survey it. And all he says to them is, go and see what I have laid out for you so that you can put your amen to it.
And 10 of them come back and they say, The land is indeed flowing with milk and honey and it is beautiful, but there are some big giants, some adversaries in there and we are not well equipped to defeat them. And you know what? They were right. And there were two men who said, it is indeed a land flowing with milk and honey, but the Lord is gonna go before us.
He is gonna make a way. He's gonna make the path straight. And we are gonna take and we are gonna claim what God has promised us.
And you know what? They were right as well. And what happens is God keeps them in the wilderness for 40 years because they doubted that He could bring them into the promised land.
Proverbs 18 verse 20 says, I have a question for you. Do you wanna be eating the fruit of the words you say? There are some times I do not wanna be eating the fruit of the words I say. And there are other times when I'm rooted in the Word, in the Scripture, I'm like, you know what? I do wanna see the fruit of what I'm declaring over all of my life. Because it's not in and of my own self that there is power, but it's because of the power that He has put in this book that we can look at this and we can declare the goodness of God.
And we can say, you know what? I'm gonna see the goodness of God in the land of the living. So the last thing that I wrote, I went back and looked at my messages.
I was like, wow, Holy Spirit, you set this up perfectly. The last thing that I said when I would preach this message is that it's important to understand what God is teaching us in waiting seasons and dry seasons. But the desert is a very uncomfortable place because one, you can't grow where you are comfortable.
And number two is that God doesn't want you to be rooted there. That is not the place that you are supposed to occupy. It is not the place that you are supposed to put storehouses in, that you are supposed to stay complacent in, but God wants you to move forward into everything that He has laid out for you. So the message that I'm gonna preach this morning is a sequel and it is called Purposed for the Promised Land.
So I wanna remind you of some promises in the Word of God. Maybe you felt like you've been in a waiting season. I don't know about you, but coming out of 2020 to 2024, very weird year, years.
They call it PTSD for a reason, post-traumatic stress disorder. It wasn't till 2022, 2023 that we started realising, okay, like there was some serious effects that happened. And it's important to recognize that, but to move forward into healing.
I mean, there's still some things, if I'm standing in the grocery line and someone gets too close to me, I'm like, what are you doing? Like, you're a little close to comfort my guy. And just like that thing in the natural is so true for the spiritual that sometimes we receive salvation and there's things in our past that haven't been dealt with that the Lord is saying, we're gonna bring that up.
We're gonna bring that up this morning. So I want to cite precedence. Apparently this is something that happens in a courtroom when someone is bringing their case to the judge and they will say, here is the way that you ruled 50 years ago or the way that a judge ruled in this case 50 years ago.
And the Bible is full of promises of God and stories of His greatness and His goodness and His faith that we can look at and we can say, you know what, just like you did it for that person, Father, I believe that you're going to do it for me. It's not to manipulate God and say, are you going to do this? But it's to remind you that He is good and that He is faithful.
So I want to inject some faith into you this morning. Are you ready? Oh yeah.
Amazing. So today I'm gonna look at the life of a woman who was absolutely radically changed because she put her faith in God and the promises of God that we see as a knock-on effect from it. So I want to look at the life of Rahab.
And Rahab is a character, a woman who the Israelites meet as they are on their way into occupying the promised land. What God had promised them for over 400 years, this is coming to pass and they meet this woman. So before they enter the Promised Land, Joshua sends two spies into Jericho to scope out the situation.
It's interesting, the first time they went into the Promised Land, we see 12 go in and then the second time there's only two because God's like, we're going to keep a wrap on this situation. This is happening. So when they arrive, they come to an inn in the city wall.
And this is a place, an inn of a hotel, but also an inn of ill repute, if you can pick up what I'm putting down. So they meet Rahab, who is a harlot. She's a prostitute.
And the king hears that these spies have come in. And he puts out a citywide search. He says, you need to find them.
And Rahab, as a woman of questionable morals, she is in a place, in a position where she hears about the stories of the Israelites, about the God of the Israelites. Because during this time that God had taken them through the wilderness, all of these other tribes and nations are hearing about the goodness of God and His faithfulness. And they're like, who is this God of the Israelites?
So when she meets these men, she's like, there is something different and I wanna put my faith in whatever God you serve because something is working out. So Joshua 2 verse eight. So we see Rahab puts her faith in God and she's like, you know, I'm gonna trust in you.
I don't know you yet, but I'm gonna trust in you. I'm gonna help these men. Because of you.
We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for when you came out of Egypt and what he did at Sion and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan, whom you completely destroyed. When we heard of it, our hearts melted in fear and everyone's courage failed because of you for the Lord your God is in heaven above and on the earth below. Now then, please swear by me Our lives for your lives, the men are sure.
They're saying, if anything happens to you, we promise it's our lives only. if anything happens to you, that we're gonna die. This is a really strong oath that they say, if you do not tell what we are doing, we will treat you kindly and faithfully when the Lord gives us land.
Later on, we jump forward five chapters. We see the Israelites, they cross over the river. They come and occupy the place.
And God tells them to walk around the walls of Jericho for six days in silence. And on the seventh day, to let out a glorious noise, to let out worship, to let out praise, to let the trumpets go off and that the walls were gonna fall down. Now, I don't know about you, I've never been in the military, but very odd military strategy.
And the reason this is, is because God was saying, this isn't about your strength or your ability, this is about my strength and my ability to rescue you and save you. So the walls fall down. And as we heard before, her house is in the walls.
She's in a bit of a pickle because she's If she doesn't get out, her and all of her family are gonna die. But we see that her house is saved and she puts a scarlet thread through the window. Joshua 6 verse 24 says, But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute with her family and all who belonged to her because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho.
And she lives among the Israelites to this day. Now, obviously we're not talking about to this day, but the time that this was written. The epic thing about this story is her story does not stop here. We see her mentioned three other times in the New Testament.
Matthew 1 verse five, which is the genealogy of Jesus. Now genealogy is usually not very interesting, very boring, but this one is an epic one. And I would encourage you go read through this chapter because we see the goodness and the grace of God through these people's lives. Matthew 1 verse five, Salmon, the father of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz, the father of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed, the father of Jesse, and Jesse, the father of King David.
Now, I don't know about you, but that is some epic lineage. Like, I don't think you quite understand this. She was a Canaanite woman.
She was a prostitute. There was innocence that was taken from her. She was not living in everything that God had called her to be.
God created her to be a beautiful, prized daughter of the King and the world had stripped that from her. And she puts her faith in the one true God, the King. And she is included in the genealogy of Jesus.
Women were not even mentioned in genealogies. And a lot of the genealogies you look in the Bible, they're not even mentioned because of the importance was the father's seed. But God sees it fitting to show the grace over her life and spell her out by name and say, look what I did for her.
I can do that for you. Out of her faith comes the lineage of the Messiah, the Saviour, the Son of God. She's praised two other times in the New Testament.
Hebrews 11 is an epic chapter that lays out some of the giants of faith in the Bible. Characters like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses. And then we come to verse 31.
She is used as an example in James when he's talking about how faith without action, without work, is dead. James 2, verse 25. So faith without deeds is dead.
So the first promise I want to talk about this morning is a promise of redemption. We see when Rahab puts her faith, her trust in God, what we see is a radical transformation in her life. She goes from being a woman who her innocence has been stolen, the world has taken from her.
She's not being treated right. She is living in a pagan country and that isn't just to say that they were living without Yahweh, but they were sacrificing their children, that there was so much perversion and wickedness in this land and this is what she's having to put up with. It's so radical that she's included in the genealogy of Jesus for three reasons.
One, she's a Canaanite, she's a Gentile. Number two, she was a prostitute. And three, she was a woman.
But let me tell you, no matter what the world says, no matter what the world puts on you, everything can be transformed when you put your faith in Jesus. When you say, blood of Jesus, cover me. There is not a place in hell that He cannot pick you up and out from and redeem you and restore you to the fullness of what He has called you to be.
Can I get an amen? The greatest promise in the Word of God is the person of Jesus Christ. Everything in the Old Testament points to Him.
Everything in the New Testament points to Him. Ephesians 1 verse 7 says, says this, Verse 13 goes on to say, To the praise of His glory. 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.
The old has gone, the new is here. I just wanna encourage you this morning. Some of you need to start living like you're a new creation in Christ Jesus and let go of every weight and burden that tries to hold onto you from your past, from the mistakes, from the dysfunction.
And actually step into, you know what? This is the righteousness that Jesus has laid out for me. That this is the goodness and the grace that was paid with a high price by His blood on the cross.
Amen. That's all I have to say on that. Number two, a promise to generations.
There are a couple of epic things that come out of this story. My favourite one out of all three is the monumental generational impact. From the line of Rahab and her husband Salmon, which is just such a funny name, but anyway, comes not just Boaz, Jesse, King David, King Solomon, but also six prophets of Israel, two of them being Jeremiah and Ezekiel, and one prophetess.
Like, are you kidding me? How good is the grace of God? No matter what the past screams about the generations before you, no matter what your mother, your father, your grandparents, your great grandparents did as a transgression against the Lord, when you put your faith in Jesus, let me tell you, it is all wiped clean.
And the fruit that will come from you saying, as for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. I don't care about the past, whether you serve the Lord or not, but I'm putting my stake in the ground. I'm drawing a line in the sand. I'm saying as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
You will see fruit in that. I just really wanna encourage you this morning. I'm actually, I'm quite sad because my family is not here, but that's okay, they'll listen to it on the podcast.
But there is so much goodness when one person, a single person says yes to Jesus. When my mum was 26, she was second in Australia for body shaping and she was preparing for her next competition. And her friend who was training her, she was a Christian and every now and then she'd drop the bomb, she'd drop the seed.
What are you doing Sunday? Why don't you just come to church with me? And mum would be like, no, thank you.
Not a vibe, not going there. I have had too much hurt and brokenness in my life and the last thing I want to deal with is a bunch of Christians singing Happy Lula, whatever. And she goes through this journey and one day she reaches the end of herself and she says, you know what?
I have nothing left to lose. I'm just going to go to church. And she walks into a church in Sydney and she hears the worship and she gets smacked in the face with the Holy Spirit and the goodness of God.
She gives her life on the altar when they said, do you wanna receive salvation? She runs to the altar and she says, yes, please. What you're talking about sounds great.
I need some help in my life. She meets my father, they get married. For one year after she received salvation, she prayed diligently every single day for her parents because a lot of the brokenness that had happened in her life was because of her father and the brokenness in his life and why she went into toxic relationship and abusive relationship because the standard that was set for her was not good.
And so for one year, she prays every single day, Lord, I wanna see salvation for my parents. I wanna see you change their lives. And he answers her prayers.
The fruit of that is still outworking today. As of a result of my grandparents receiving salvation, her brother and her sister-in-law received salvation. Their kids, their grandkids are raised up in the house of the Lord.
My cousins become kids' church pastors of one of the biggest kids' ministries on the Gold Coast. My other cousin is a dance teacher at a Christian dance academy. My brother, my sister and my brother-in-law are youth leaders at their church.
My grandparents, who have the most incredible story, biggest transformation out of all of this, my grandfather was an alcoholic. He was emotionally abusive, physically abusive. He becomes a pastor of a church in rural Queensland.
I wanna encourage you today. Maybe what I'm talking about, you're like, that sounds amazing, but I'm not seeing the fruit of that in my family. There are still family members every single day that I am praying for, that I'm petitioning for, that I'm saying, Lord, I'm gonna see salvation in their life because I saw you do it with everyone else.
And He is faithful and He will not let you down. Let me tell you right now. We see in Rahab's story that her son is Boaz.
And when we look at the Bible, we go from Joshua and we see a very obedient people, the Israelites, that they wanna serve the Lord. And then what happens is the generation of Joshua and the elders die out. I want you to catch this, this is important.
And the generation that comes up after, they weren't discipled in the ways of the Lord, so they fall away. And Judges is just very interesting, very spicy. All of the crazy that you could think would happen, did happen.
Lots of bonkers. And then what happens before we jump into God's plan of redemption, which was to raise up kings, is a little story. And she's the only other woman who has a chapter in the Bible that's named after her.
So that's important. And what we see is Ruth is a Canaanite. She marries into an Israelite family who had fleed the promised land because there was a famine.
And the father, the two husbands die and the girls are left to fend for themselves. And women really didn't have much means of survival. They were reliant on the men in their life.
And it was God's plan of covering and protection for these women. So Naomi is the mother-in-law and she says, we're gonna go on this journey. We're gonna go back to the promised land.
because we can't stay here, we're gonna die. And Ruth says, you know what, I'm gonna follow you. Your God will be my God, your people will be my people, and I'm gonna follow you.
And what happens is this beautiful plan of redemption happens, But Naomi says to Ruth at the time of harvest, there's a man who is a close family relative who can become your kinsman redeemer. And that means that he will pay the price, he will marry her and that he will redeem that family lineage and he will bring prosperity back to that family. And so Naomi lays out a plan, a sneaky little plan. She says to Ruth, it's harvest time.
Everyone's going to be very merry, which means drinking lots of wine. And what I want you to do is when it's late at night, I want you to go to Boaz's bed and I want you to just lay at the end of it and he will tell you what to do. I think he will, Mr.
Drunk Boaz. But it doesn't happen the way that she thinks it will. What happens is he uncovers her and he sees her and he says, daughter, what are you doing here?
Good question. What are you doing here? And he says to her, basically, this is not the way it's gonna play out.
What's gonna happen is there's a man who's closer related to you who can become your kinsman redeemer. So I'm gonna go check with him. If he doesn't wanna marry you, I'll marry you.
So he goes and he doesn't want her. He doesn't wanna have to deal with the mess. So Boaz says, you know, I'm gonna marry you.
I'm gonna redeem you. So Boaz, this man who is able to redeem this family line, he's brought up by the woman of Rahab. And I can imagine the kind of conversations that she was having with her son when she was bringing him up, when she was raising him up in the ways of righteousness.
That this is the way that we treat women, that we do not take from them without marrying them. That we do not abuse them until they... we do not take from them, we do not take their innocence, that we sow dignity and respect and honour and you're gonna marry her before anything happens. And this is the legacy that is set out because we see in her life, that was not the case.
And she puts her line in the sand and says, you know what, that's not gonna happen for my son and his wife. I'm gonna sow the seeds now of the goodness and grace of God, of what His perfect plan is for relationships. We serve a God who's a redeemer of lost time.
Your grandparents, your parents may not have been the greatest example. They may have laid a very poor foundation for you. Even my parents, as amazing as they are, there's still some dysfunction.
No one's perfect. There's still stuff that we have to continually go to the cross with and be like, Lord, deal with this in me. Search my heart, oh Lord.
But there is one that redeems and restores all things, who is your Father in heaven. Your dad may not have been an angel and your mother may not have been a saint, but allow the blood of Jesus to set you free from the dysfunction of the past and choose today that a new creation starts with me. And as for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord.
Can I just encourage you that when, especially if you are the first one who said yes to Jesus, I just wanna empower you and prepare you and say that there is gonna be struggle, that there is gonna be an attack and that it's gonna be hard, that it is gonna be hard to plough that. but trust in Him, the One who is good and faithful to complete the good work that He started in you. He will not leave you as He finds you.
He wants to see you take hold of everything that has been promised to you and your family. They did a study recently, one of the largest Christian research institutes in America. They studied 30,000 Gen Zers.
And they do this every generation. They look at, you know, how open are they to Christianity? What do they think about Jesus?
And kind of what's their response? And they started this and they titled it, they titled it Gen Z Study. Pretty self-explanatory.
And they got to the end of it and they said, you know what? We actually need to change the name of this because they are the most open generation to the gospel. My generation, Gen Z, I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like an answered prayer of people who have gone before and who have said, I'm putting my stake in the ground and we are gonna do the work that wasn't done for us and we're gonna plough the ground.
I just, I want to put a plea out there from Gen Z to the generations that have gone before us. Can I tell you, like, please don't put the baton down now. It is not your time to sit down.
It is your time to stand up as the generations who've gone before us and say, this is the wisdom of God for your life. We need you. We need you.
But you need us. You need the fresh fire and the young energy to make sure that we aren't sitting down and sleeping. Amen.
Psalms 112 verse one, praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in His commands. Their children will be mighty in the land.
The generation of the upright will be blessed. Wealth and riches are in their houses and their righteousness endures forever. This brings me to my last point, a promise to prosper. So this was the part that I wasn't gonna preach.
I was like, two points is good. That's enough. And then I was talking to my beautiful mother-in-law who is paved the way for me to reap the harvest of the most amazing husband in the world.
Amen. Pastor Tina. I was like, I'm like lost.
I really, I don't know what my like third point is. And she's just like a promise to prosper. And I was like, yes, but no.
Because let's be honest here, prosperity has become a bad word, a naughty word in the church. I just want to kind of bring some balance and correction to a lie from the pit of hell. It's interesting that when the world prospers, they're okay with it.
That they're fine, that's good. You go, you get your house together in order. But when the church prospers and when Christian prospers, it's a problem.
I wonder, I wonder why that might be. See, we need to be really careful that we don't let the lies of the world impact the way that we do ministry and that we preach the gospel. Because I don't know about you, but this is a gospel of prosperity. Seriously. Seriously.
No, God is not a genie in a bottle that you can rub and say, Lord, I wanna get all of the things. No, that is not. But this is a gospel of prosperity that when you choose to lay the foundation of your life on the Word of God, that things in your life will start to shift. That there may not have been wealth that was laid up for you by your family, but you can say, you know what? Just as my soul prospers, the sphere of my life is gonna prosper.
The tent pegs are gonna expand in my life. If as Christians, we believe everything that the Lord says in His Word, then we should have it tapped down as the hardest workers, the craziest business ideas, the most incredible creative arts. Like, are you kidding?
You serve the Creator of the universe? Joshua 1 verse eight, keep this book of the law always on your lips, meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Let's not get our knickers in twist when people do what God has asked them to do and we see that there's abundance and fruit in their life. God watches over His Word to perform and when you're obedient to that, you will see that His Word happens and that it goes forth.
Can I get an amen? Back to school. Pastor Tina just mentioned it before.
That would not have been able to happen without the pouring out of finances and wealth from people who are good stewards of what God has given them. The biggest lie I think that we can believe as Christians is that God wants you to have just enough for yourself. I don't know about you, but that sounds like the most selfish thing to me.
Like, are you kidding? Just enough for myself? I want the fruit of my life to make an impact in the kingdom, to take territory, to say, you know what I ask for the Gold Coast?
Gold Coast is for Jesus. And we're gonna take territory in the place that He has given us. And the fruit of our lives should be that we're able to bless, that we are blessed to be a blessing, that we are not blessed to sit on our butts and not do anything, but we are blessed to go out into the world, go and make disciples, go and make an impact for the kingdom of God.
Guess what? Sometimes that takes a little bit of moolah. Like, let's just be real.
There are homeless people out there on the Gold Coast. They need food. Like that costs.
Amen. Well, I want you to stand this morning. We're gonna pray.
We're gonna pray together. I'm gonna open up the altar for a couple of things. So ministry team, if you're ready.
Jeremiah 29, 11. I don't know what's happened in your past. I don't know what the story was that was written over your life from what happened before Jesus.
But when you step into... the salvation that Jesus has available for us, the promise of redemption, that His Son came and died on the cross, that His blood was shed for your life, that there are things that we're gonna unlock because He has laid it out for us in His Word, that there are promises. With every head bowed and every eye closed, I just wanna ask if you haven't received the good news of Jesus, I just want you to raise your hand this morning, just trusting and saying that when you put your faith and your hope and your belief in Him, that He is good, that He is faithful to save. Yeah, thank you.
Well, we're just gonna say this prayer together, everyone in this place, just repeat after me. Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for the sacrifice of Your Son, Jesus. I put my faith and hope in Him and accept the gift of His salvation.
I thank You for all these things in Your mighty Name, Amen. Amen. Thank You, Jesus.
That's all it takes. One moment, one yes to change generations. I want... We're gonna put a petition to the courts of heaven this morning.
We're gonna stand in agreement with one another. We're gonna link arms this morning, declaring that what He said about a generational impact, that He is the Father of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He's not worried just about your life.
He's worried about your kids' life. He's concerned about your grandkids' lives, your great grandkids' lives, your cousins, your aunties and uncles. Thank you, Jesus.
Everyone in your family that sees that you've been changed, if you are standing in the gap for some family members this morning, I just want you to come down to the front. If there are people in your family, whether it's your son, your daughter, your grandkids, your auntie, your uncle, your second cousin's dog, I want you to come and stand in the gap. I am standing here.
I am standing here this morning. I have some beautiful family members that I am believing for their salvation. Let's just lift up your prayer this morning.
Lift up, just pray in the Spirit if you know how to. Father, we just thank You, Jesus. We thank You for Your goodness and Your grace.
Lord, we stand in the gap this morning. We lift up the names of those that we are praying for, that we are believing for, that Your grace is sufficient to save them. Father, I just thank You this morning that as a church body, that we are coming together, Lord.
We are linking arms and we are saying, we're putting our stake in the ground. As for me and my house, that we will serve the Lord and that we will see the goodness of God in the land of the living. Thank you, Jesus.
I just pray, I declare, I thank you for the blood of Jesus to cover every single name that is being prayed for this morning. Father, I thank you for the sons, the daughters, the prodigals. Father, I thank you that they are coming home right now in the name of Jesus. That devil, you have been put on notice that you do not have the authority to be... occupying their life, but we just declare right now that Jesus Christ reigns and that He is Lord of their life. Father, we thank You for the salvation, the restoration that is coming for families.
I just pray this morning that You are knitting back together families who've been broken by dysfunction and by trauma and toxicity and the past, Father. I just thank You that Your grace is healing every wound. Thank You, Jesus, that Your grace is enough to cover it all.
We just lay these people before You. We thank You, Father, for their lives. And we thank You for all of these things in the mighty, mighty Name of Jesus.
And the Church says, Amen. Thank you for tuning in to today's message. To connect or find out more, you can reach us online at worldchangers.life.
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