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Increasing Spiritual Capacity Part Two
When you walk in the confidence that God is working all things to your good, His Will comes into alignment with your ability to steward the blessings he has put into your path.
Redemption to the Nations Church aspires to become the most loving church in the world. Our purpose is to demonstrate the Kingdom of God and we exist to become a global voice that crosses every racial, generational, and socio-economic barrier by evangelizing and restoring people from all walks of life through the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
[Music] (upbeat music) - Hey everyone, I'm Kevin Wallace from Redemption to the Nation's Church, and I'm grateful that we are going to have this opportunity to bring this message of hope, healing and restoration to you and your family today. I want you to stay with me till the end. I'm gonna come back and pray. Be blessed by the Word of the Lord. Luke chapter five, I will continue this morning, this thought that I began last week on increasing spiritual capacity. Look at your neighbor and say neighbor. Uh-huh, y'all had to break the press material off y'all. Talk to them like you have the Holy Ghost and say neighbor. God, say God is going to increase your spiritual capacity. Tell them this year, I declare greater. Mine, body, soul, and spirit. Every area of your life, greater. Tell them like you believe it, greater. It's on the way. Stretch us low and do it. Luke chapter 5 verse 1. And when you haven't seen man, So it was as the multitude pressed about him to hear the word of God, that he Jesus stood by the lake of Ganesirid and Saul two boats standing by the lake. But the fishermen and going from them and were washing their nets, and he got into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and he asked him to put out a little from the land, and he sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat. And when he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon, "Launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch." but Simon answered him and said to him, "Master, we have tore it all night and called nothing, nevertheless, nevertheless." I'm very thankful that when you hear the voice of God, it is nevertheless, all the more. Nevertheless, at thy word, I will let down the net. And when they had done this, they called a great number of fish and their net was breaking. So they signaled to their partners and the other boat to come and help them and they came and filled the boat. filled both the boat so that they began to sing. When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, from a sinful man, O Lord, "for he and all who were with him were astonished "at the great catch of fish which they had taken." And so were James and John the sons of Zebedee who were partners with, say, partners. Come on, say, partners, partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid. from now on you will catch men. Lord have mercy. This entire story is about what he's going to do for them in this story so that it shapes their future. Don't miss that. This story was about stretching these men of God because he knew what was going to happen in their life in the future. Can I tell you whatever God is doing in your life right now? And you feel like it's unbearable and you can't take it Oh God, I'm being stretched. If he's stretching you right now, it's because he sees something coming in your future. And you got to be ready for it. Oh, look at your neighbor, tell him, we're not gonna miss it. We're not gonna miss it. (congregation clapping) Lord have mercy. And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not be afraid from now on, you will catch men." So when they brought their boats back to land, they first shook all and followed him. Jesus helped me teach today and help them receive it. Amen. You can be seated in the presence of God. I told you last week that you stop where you stop. And this is not the year to stop where you usually stop or stop where I usually stop. This is the year to go beyond. In order to go beyond and encounter and experience what God wants to do in your life spiritually this year, we must first, as I said last week, tap into and believe the fact, listen, that God is the God of more. There is this thing we preach here called the more of God. Say the more of God. We do not just believe in the past of God. We do not just believe in the history of God. We do not just believe in the sort of written down, recorded move of God in the past. We believe that there is more of God hidden than has ever been revealed. If we believe in the more of God, then we must ask the question, who is the more of God for, and we are audacious enough to believe that the more of God is for us, His people, that God has revealed Himself historically and in the past to us, but He's not through revealing Himself to us. The greater is still yet to come. The best is still yet to come. I don't say that it's some pie in the sky. You know, cute thing like, you know, we never go have another bad day and all life is going to be tulips and roses and peanut butter and jelly. know is not that we are denying the fact that the enemy will show up. We are just rejecting the idea that he will win. We reject the idea that anything he does is greater than what God has purpose to do in our life. God's yes is bigger than the devil's no. God's promises are bigger than the problems the devil would attempt to create for your life and mine. Whose report will you believe? That's really what 2023 about. It's about whose report will you you believe. If you add your faith to the lie of the devil, he may keep you up at night, wake you up early in the morning and keep you tired and stressed and all wore out. But if you will believe in the report of the Lord, you will sleep, you will rest, you will wake up, put your feet on the ground and you will be the devil's worst nightmare when you walk in the confidence that your God is up to something great in your life. And I just believe you need to know that. And how many are thankful that when God called you at what in the conference When God called you and went to conference call it, let me get all these opinions and everybody else's input about what he's going to do in your life. When God called you, he put his hand on your life and give you a purpose for which he placed you on this planet. This is the year for somebody. Maybe not everybody. Maybe not even everybody on your role. But somebody in this room today is hearing what I'm saying. And you got this feeling that I feel like preaching here. You got this feeling down on the inside of you that this is going to be the year where things get connected. Things start lining up. Things start happening in my life. You may not be my neighbors. My neighbor may be on Facebook, tweeting people right now, text them, filing your nails. They can't even hear what Pastor's saying. But for me and my house, this is the year where God stretches us beyond where we've ever been stretched and begins to do something in us that he's never done before. This is the year for that. And I believe you need to to tap into that and receive that, you need to begin to believe that. In order for God to stretch you and me and to increase our spiritual capacity, I want to understand it will probably involve breaking cycles. You cannot increase in spiritual capacity if you continue to walk with the same lid on your life that has been a limit for you and has sought to identify you and keep you bound in some sort of identity That is less than what God intended for you to have. In order for God to give you a year of increased spiritual capacity, he's gonna have to break a cycle in your life. And he did that for Peter here in this text. And I want you to catch this. Peter has just come off of a fishing trip where he did not catch one fish. I told Cleveland this morning when my dad and I would come back home and we didn't catch any fish. And mom would say, how many did you catch? We act like we didn't hear what she said. If you catch fish and then you take pictures and whether anybody asks or not, you come in and start showing everybody this is what I call today. Look what I call. But if you catch nothing, you just hope nobody asks you what you call. And the reality of it is fresh off a season of failure. The Bible says that Jesus came to Peter and offers Peter an interruption to an intention that was on Peter to shake Peter and begin to make Peter think maybe I don't know how to fish anymore. Hear me very clearly. The Lord that you serve, the God that saved you and rescued you will often break cycles to keep you from believing the lie that the enemy is attempting to put on your life and the enemy has evidence to support his claim that your failure. Because you caught no fish the night before and the enemy will use a season of failure as evidence Lord I feel this thing right here. Season of failure becomes evidence that you are not who you thought you were. You can't do what you said you could do that maybe you don't have it down. But maybe you're not as as victorious as you thought you were. You're not as straight, solid, and life isn't as blessed as you've been acting like they in and will take one opportunity of failure as evidence to make you feel like you're a failure. And God steps in and breaks the cycle and says you didn't catch anything last night, but we're going fishing again. How many think for that God refuses to allow you an eye to get swallowed up by a cycle of failure? You might have failed, but you do not have to be a failure. And he says, "Let's go fishing. Let's go fishing. And this time I want you to go to a different place. And I'll touch that in a minute. But let me just tell you this, when God breaks a cycle, it's to keep you from falsely identifying with a reality that you You were never intended to walk in. Some of you have got to be able to say, and I don't care if it's been years. God broke a cycle of failure in Israel that lasted 40 years in a wilderness. God broke a cycle of failure that lasted 18 years in a woman who was bent over in the synagogue and the Bible said she couldn't know why it's lived herself up. When Jesus walked into the synagogue, one trip into Jesus presence, he looked at her and said, "Woman, now are loose from that infirmity." In other words, 18 years you had this, but you will not have it another day in your life. Oh, let me talk about the man who for 38 years was sat down at the side of a pool and lived for almost four decades in a cycle of failure. And all it took was one trip of Jesus to say, "Will thou be made?" Oh, oh, that ain't it. Let me talk about the woman with the issue of blood. Who for 12 years was in a cycle of defeat and failure and again to get a complex about how jacked up she was. And one day she said to herself, I better quit 'cause I feel like preaching. She said to herself, "If I can just touch him, I don't know what the rest of them Jokers did with all the money I gave him, but I didn't get any better. I got worse. And when she touched him, what was in him got in her. And what was in her got out. And the cycle was broken." (audience cheering) Touch your name and tell him God's gonna increase your capacity. But he's gonna break a cycle to do it. He'll break a cycle of doubt. Oh God, he'll break a cycle of fear. He'll break a cycle of bondage. He'll break a cycle of addiction. And you say, and the devil says, yeah, but I've had him 18 years. And you better find out what you're gonna do with the rest of your life being free from that. from that because you're not going to be a slave to it. You got that day of your life. (audience applauding) I got an introduction, we got to calm down, please calm down. Cycles are being broken so that capacity can be increased. God wants to increase your capacity, but you have to allow Christ to break you out of the cycle. Now, he says to Peter, Peter, "Long child into the deep and drop down your nuts." And I touched on this here last Sunday and I'm just gonna give it a little bit more and then I'm gonna move to the next thing that I see in this text. When Jesus says, "Long child into the deep," he gives Peter an invitation, an invitation to the deep place. Now, let me talk about the deep place. Because when you start talking about the deep place in church, people either get nervous or they're like, "Yeah, let's go." People get nervous because they think deep means weird. Sometimes I will tell you deep is different. But the deep place in God is where you want to be. Where your feet don't touch about Him. you're not the one calling the shots. Where you literally do what Peter said, when Jesus said, "Long shot into the deep," Peter said, "Master." Now this is an interesting word, because it's only used a handful of times in the New Testament. It is not the word out of "na" which means "Lord" and "Master." Now that's not what this word means. This word means the super-intended, the one calling the shots. That's literally what this word master means in the Greek. When Peter looked at Jesus, Peter was the expert fisherman. Jesus is the carpenter. The carpenter looks at the fisherman and says, "I'm gonna tell you where to go fish." And the fisherman wanted to look back in the carpenter and said, "You go build tables." And I'll stick to fishing. But Peter knew something about Jesus. This is not just a table maker, this is master. And if you can see Jesus as master and when he gives you a word, you don't spend your life in analysis paralysis. If you can see Jesus as master, when he tells you to do something, you don't spend your time trying to figure out how he's going to do it. You say like Mary, be it under me, according to your word. I don't know how you're going to do this, but I know you're the master and the superintendent. Watch this and the superintendent said, when I want you to get out of this shallow end and launch out into the deep. Wait a minute, God. A fish don't gather in the deep in the daytime. That's not how we fish. Fish don't go to the deep place in the daytime. That's not what they do. And I want to tell you this, most of the time, they would be correct. Fish don't go to the deep place in the daytime unless they have a reason to. Well, what would cause a fish to want to swim to the deep end in a big school, in a place they don't usually gather at a time they're not usually there? What would make fish do that? A voice. What voice? The master who created them in Genesis 1 and gave fish life and put them in the ocean. That same master that gave them life started talking to them in the sea of Galilee and said to the fish, "I'm the superintendent that tells you where to go. to the deep place and can't you see the fish? The fish looking up there. Why are we going to the deep end? And they're going to the deep end because the disciple has decided I fished all night and caught nothing. Never the less at that word, I'm going to the deep end. The point is this, if you get to where God told you to get, God will talk to your blessing and tell it to get there too. (audience cheering) Stop somebody tell them God's talking to your blessing right now. Some of you are wondering how you're gonna pay your bills. God's talking to your money. God's talking to your boss. Oh, you're looking at me funny. But when God gets in your business and you call him master, he will talk to everything that's connected to you. And if you get to the right place, you'll get it there. He will get your blessing to the right place. He is the master. If you will listen to God, your blessing will listen to Him too. But I digress. I really don't want to preach that point today. I want to talk about this business of partners. Because if you're going to see an increase in your spiritual capacity, I want to know who you're partnering with. Lord have mercy. I usually say this, show me your friends, and I'll show you your future. I'm gonna take you to step deeper today. Show me your partners, and I'll show you your capacity. Let me teach here. Open your Bible to second Corinthians chapter six. I'm gonna slow down and teach. But I feel like hollering. So I'm conflicted. So I'll teach now and holler in a minute. Second Corinthians chapter six. Can you put that up on the screen for me, brothers? Oh, he Corinthians. This is Paul speaking to the church at Corinth. You take a note, you wanna write this down. Say partners. Come and say it like you mean, say partners. We'll help you or hurt you. The people who you are connected to while either will either increase your spiritual capacity or it will help decrease your spiritual capacity. Oh, he Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you. Our heart is wet. Come on, say it, enlarge next verse. You are not straightened or shrunk. That's the key, the word there in the Greek is made small. You are not straightened or shrunk or made small in us, but you are made small in your own heart. Keep going. Next verse, watch this. Now for a recompense in the same, don't you love King James, who can understand this? I speak as unto my children. Be also what? In large. Can you do the next verse? I didn't tell you that, but I want them to see what the next verse is in context. And I'll wait for you to get it and pill it and put it on there. But the next verse talks about being unequally yoked. See that? I'm gonna teach this. Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers what, how many of her descriptors quoted, especially in a holiness church. When y'all start to get married to sinners, we quoted this scripture we would review. Don't begin unequally y'all with them unbelievers. Come on, y'all know, and I still believe that. I believe Christians are the merit Christians. Y'all, I'll come down off this stage. I said, I believe Christians are the merit Christians. And I believe Christians ought to get married to Christians and not just live with Christians. And I'm not being mean or critical. We will hold a, we did this. How many remember four years ago we had a mass wedding and we married like 12 couples. All at the same time and paid for the wedding and the cake and the friends and everybody that came to church did that because we have so many people getting saved who were living together and I'm not being mean. They were living together because that's what they thought they could do. when they got saved they started saying we don't feel right about this we need to get married and I said you do and if you and they said past we don't have the money get man I said you know what we're going to do a mass wedding church will pay for it we had a party out how many remember that had a party out in the lobby and had a celebration I want to say this you who are born again don't need to be dating and hanging and checking people out that are not in the kingdom of God. that's somebody start the car up. If you if if well, you know, I feel like the Lord told me that if I keep dating them, they're going to get saved. Listen, you are not the apostle Paul. You are not a missionary later. Okay. So the reality of it is you don't need to be unequally yoked, but he's talking about something more than marriage and dating here. Now what it says. Paul, let me go back and break this down for you, say partners will help you increase or either decrease spiritual capacity. So Paul says, go back to verse 11 for me, let's walk through this. Paul says to the believers at Corinth, he says Corinthians our mouth, which means what we were saying, our message, our speech is wide open to you, our heart, wide open to you. We are looking to have connection. That's what he's saying. We were connected. We're speaking life into your life. We're giving you the truth. We're giving you the way of God. We're telling you the word of the Lord and you're growing. And he said, our heart is wide open to you. We're in this relationship together next verse. But the problem is you're not, but the problem is that there's this shrunken capacity and it's not small and shrinking because of us. because we're wide open, giving you all we got. But the capacity in your spirit is small because you have shut your heart off to us. Next verse, watch this. For now, a recompense and the same. And then he says, just like we have an open heart to you, you do the same and open up your heart to us. In other words, let's be partners together. Let's work together in the kingdom of God. Let's advance the kingdom together, quit making this. what he's saying is quit making this a one-sided investment. We are speaking to you, we're giving you all, we got our hearts are open to you, our mouths are open to you, we're sharing the word of the Lord, and we're giving you everything we got, and you have this narrow way of living and you have kept us out of your life, and he said, now open your heart, enlarge your heart toward us. And then that passage comes, almost out of nowhere. And be you not next first, please, unequally yoke together. What's he really saying? He's saying, hear you have some people in your life that are pouring into you, giving you the word of the Lord. They care about your spiritual future. They love you enough to tell you the truth. They love you enough to walk with you through your failure, your pain, your problems. They're there for you. They give you everything they got and you shut them off. But on the other hand, you got partnered up with some evil people. Paul says, "How in the world are you gonna soar with eagles if you keep connecting and partnering with chickens?" How are you ever gonna be everything God wants you to be if your entire life is about being yoked up and partners with people that do not. I want you, don't do it, don't say nothing, don't cry, don't wink, don't do nothing. It's a rhetorical question. I want you to take inventory of who you spend a lot of your time with. And if the people who you spend a lot of your time with are people that constantly draw off of you and suck out of you and when they do get ready to invest something, it's darkness, it's nastiness, it's perversion and you're always surrounded by people who never have a king to mind set. They never talk about the goodness of God. I'm not telling you you can't have friends, but there's a difference between friendship and fellowship. in 2023, I feel like I need to tell somebody who you are partnering with is going to help determine your spiritual capacity. There are circles of access into our lives. And the problem with some people is that they have shut off kingdom voices and they have opened the door for people who don't even know God. And all we do is hear this barrage of negativity and you get that from the church people sometimes. You gotta be careful what you let in your heart and in your ear and in your eyes because your ear gate and your eye gate are an access to your heart. And if you are trying to figure out why you always struggling with doubt and fear and unbelief if you will take inventory of those who are speaking into your life it will help you understand why you are struggling to expand in spiritual capacity. I don't just need friends who understand football with me. I need kingdom citizens who understand kingdom principles and kingdom life so that when the enemy shows up they don't just sympathize. They take a felonty with me over my problem and my pain and stand with me until I get a breakthrough. You need to be Cuba who has access. I'm not talking about being arrogant, nasty. You know, some people take this message and they go to the extreme with it. And if people come and try to talk to them, talk to the hand, I hate it. You're too spiritual. It's not that I don't, I have a lot of friends who are not born again. And I can have fun with them, we can have friendship, but we don't have Cornania. What in the world? Cornania. Cornania is spirit, empowered fellowship among brothers in the system and the system is in Christ. You've got to be very careful in 2023 that you don't allow people access the places in your heart that will shrink your spiritual capacity. I used to listen, I'm not talking just about you know this will be easy if people wore a badge that says capacity shrinker. It would be very easy to be like, "Oh, my pastor told me no, no, no, no." But they ain't like that. Some of them are even in the kingdom. Some are in preachers. Oh, God. Negativity all the time. I used to go to this preachers meeting. We did once a month and we were supposed to have prayer. We prayed for three minutes of complaint for an hour and a half. I would leave like this. (audience laughs) Until one day I recognized that in a prayer meeting, I actually feel worse after that meeting than I did before the meeting started. Why? Because listen, listen, you got to be careful that people who you open your heart to are opening their heart to you and to the thing God has for you. Say partners. This word partner comes from the old English origin, the entomology of this word, it comes from an old English origin, don't miss this, and it means that you have a part in something. That's where the word partner comes from. Partners are people who play a part and have a part in the thing God is getting ready to do in your life. They play a part and they take part or have a part of the thing God is getting ready to do in your life. Mm. Jesus tells Peter, "Launch out into the deep, let down your nets for a catch." Now I want to tell all the scholars in the room that will be quick to rebuke me, "Yeah, I'm going to end the Greek." It was singular in both locations. It is not conclusive in the Greek. There is a reason why different translations say nets or nets. or net. It is because the earliest manuscripts differ. And most of the manuscripts actually use the plural in this place. Jesus said literally let down your nets. When he said let down your nets, he was not just telling Peter to go get more nets. He was making sure Peter understood that he had to get connected to the right people who had a net to join with his net. He was actually speaking to Peter's ability to partner for the harvest that was coming. When he said, "Long shot into the deep and let down your neck," he said, "Peter, I want you to get to the deep, but don't go by yourself. Some people who got a net with them and y'all put y'all's net together. All of y'all's nets can't handle. I'm about to preach in this church. He said, you're getting ready to go into a place where what you got in your boat can't handle what I'm getting ready to put in it. So you better be connected to some partners who have a part to play and a part to receive God. I feel like preaching here. What would I tell you if your increase, what would you say if I told you, God's ability to increase in your life was ability was was contingent and predicated upon your ability not to waste it when he sends it. Let down your nets for a catch. Peter said, woo, I thought word. I will let down my net. He already blew it. Read the text. Go back to Luke 5 for me. Long shout in the deep, let down your nets for a catch. Next verse, please. Next verse, please. Verse five. That's time and Peter said, "Master, we told all night call nothing. Nevertheless, that man word, I will let down the..." What? Net! How do you blow it that quickly? Jesus said, "Get out to the deep, let down your nets." Peter said, "I got you. I'm heading out there. I'm taking my net." I can see Jesus going, "Oh, God." This is about to be an unmitigated disaster. He launched down into the deep and he took his net. And Jesus is just watching this all happen. I try to tell him, "I'm going to reduce something in his life. He's never seen." And he gets out there in the deep and he drops down his net. And all of a sudden, the unthinkable happens. Fish start flying to the net. Peter sees the net jerking. Oh, I got a few fish here. What is happening here? Oh, I can't even pull that in. My God, the boat, starting to sink. I did little research, and I found out that most boats in that day are 7.5 feet wide by 25 feet long, approximately. boats in that day was seven and a half feet long. About 20 feet wide, this bears out. If you've ever been to Jerusalem, there is an actual institute and a museum just on the shore of Galilee. And they actually found a boat from around the first or second century, and it's about that long, about seven and a half feet wide, about 25 feet long. And if it's seven and a half feet wide, about 25 feet long, it could actually-- if you filled the boat up, it's about-- would be about two tons of fish per boat. That's a lot of fish. I see Raymond over here who goes down to the Gulf and he brings me back shrimp 'cause he got a shrimp boat, shrimp. Somebody said, "What kind of shrimp do you like?" Dead shrimp, any kind of shrimp. Fried, broad, shrimp, kabob, shrimps, campy. I like all kinds of shrimp. I ain't never met a shrimp I didn't like. (audience laughs) Like my friend for his gum, shrimp kebabs, barbecue shrimp, fries shrimp, smoked shrimp. And about after an hour and a half, Bubba said, "I think that's about all the kind of shrimps "there he is." (audience laughs) That's me, I like all kind of shrimp. Raymond brings me back shrimp, but he just showed me pictures sometime of shrimp all over the boat. Can you imagine being Peter and catching nothing the night before? and a carpenter who build tables tells you, get to the deep and drop down your nets. And he goes out there and say, well, I guess at the word of the master, how drop down my net, all of a sudden fish starts swimming to the net. And all of a sudden he got more fish and he knows what to do with. When God starts blessing you, who you are partnered to will determine your spiritual capacity. Can you imagine, oh, this is, don't miss this, had Peter not had the right partners. I'm not trying to overstate this. I am not trying to work somehow this text that is not there. But my mind leads me to believe that the boat began to sink. Can you imagine the blessing being so substantial that had he not had the right partners who helped him increase his spiritual capacity? His blessing could have actually sunk him. And do you know that there are people? And I know that's true because there are people in the kingdom of God, their success has ruined them far more than their failure has. Why? Because as God begins to bless you and your bond, as your boat begins to fill up, if you don't have the right partners, the blessing will start getting in the boat. And one boat can't handle it all. You were never meant to be so blessed that you didn't share it with somebody. And the people that become so narcissistic and myopic and they see the fish as merely their, their blessing and they don't understand that God is in kingdom mindset. He's not just trying to feel your net. He has your partners in mind and he wants the kingdom thing to happen. Don't let your blessing sink you by being selfish. Seedler, don't let your blessing sink you by being so selfish. Peter is bringing all these and he's trying to figure out how am I not going to sing? Two tons of fish. Fish all in the boat. The boat is starting to sing. And he looks around. And he says, this ain't working. Help! This is Wallace on Authorized Translation. Peter is Halloween. James, John, get your mama and all of them. Somebody help me and they start rolling out there. Bring their net and it's so much fish that everybody connected to Peter starts filling the weight of the blessing. Yo, I'm not trying to make more of this than I'm trying to shape, I'm trying to help you understand some God is doing this in this story to shape the mind of a man who had depended on his own ability, all of his life. And Jesus is saying to Peter, I'm going to get you so good that when I get through blessing you with this, you will never be able to blame it on somebody, some connection. It'll never be that system. It'll never be your sugar daddy. It'll never be that one that gave you to hook up. Oh, God, I'm about to bless you, Peter. And everything connected to you so much so that when I get through with it, It's gonna make you fall down and say surely he is the son of the living God. It wasn't listen to me. It was not judgment that made Peter weep. It was not the harshness of God that made Peter tremble. It was not the judgment of God that made him repent. It was a boat full of fill the Holy Ghost here. It was a boat full of fish flopping all over his feet. That made him say surely you are the son of the living God. I'm telling you God blew the mind of the apostle. You hear me. God is going to blow your mind in 2023. Somebody better hear me. You're tired of fishing in your own power. You're tired of raising children in your own power. You're tired of trying to run a business. I've never heard of Shia in your own streets. The master is about to give you one word. If you run with the word, God's about to bless you. And everybody connected to you. Slap somebody tell them you're about to be glad we're partners. Yes, you have a part in what God is getting ready to do in my life. I have a part in what God is about to do in your life. If this was a little blessing, I would go sit down and teach a lesson. But this ain't a little blessing. God is about to bless you. Good-mash. Press down. Shake into the devil. Touch somebody. Tell them get ready. Get ready. get rid. So why I'm sorry I got to answer this question before I leave you but I have a question. Why? Oh go ahead and take it all sweet lady. Somebody out of helper praise hello. Hallelujah. Yeah let's just go ahead and do it real quick. A 22nd praise break. What's wrong? Who? What's wrong the way? Yes, you say, Pastor, I've been asking him for this. I want to tell you what he told me to tell you. Not only he's going to give you what you asked for, but he's going to abandon me. A bad... Oh, no. Oh, you can ask. thing. According to the power. I got a dough. What's this? What's this? He gets the fish in and it's all going everywhere and he calls for his partners and don't call for nobody. Don't call for nobody in your season of blessing who wasn't with you. I'ma come over here and teach this part. Don't call for nobody in your season of blessing that didn't stick with you when you called nothing the night before. Hey! I'm getting ready to see a miracle and the same fault that caught nothing are about to be the very ones who are about to be glad they still I got I can't touch that when I got to go on that man He he says He says He falls down in was astonished mind blown And then I missed this all these years. I've been preaching this text. I missed this. He looked at Peter and said, "From now on, my God, he said, from now on, from this moment forward, you're not going to just catch fish, but you're going to catch me." In other words, I let this whole thing happen so that you could see that what works in the fishing, a fish is going to work in the fishing of me. Lord, I feel like preaching here. He said, Peter, you're about me. You're about to move from catching living fish that you watch die. To catching dead men, that you watch come to life. [CHEERING] Oh, Lord, I've got a holler about that. That God said, oh, your life, you've been catching living fish and you've been watching them die. But for the rest of your life, you're gonna catch dead men And you're gonna watch 'em leave Look at somebody tell 'em, "Een crease" Oh "Een crease, my spiritual capacity Let me understand that the success I had in the world Will never become greater than the success I'm getting ready to see in the kingdom" I gotta go here, I gotta go here. So he got this boat full of fish and he had to call some help and they come and they start catching off these fish. And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all in one man, they were all in one accord, and it wasn't a Honda, and they were all in one place. And suddenly, suddenly, suddenly, that came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and the clove in tongues of fire set up on each of them and they all began to speak with tongues as the Holy Ghost gave their mutants. The Bible said that Peter stood up when they started saying they looked like drunk men. It was Peter, the same one who launched out into the deep, the same one who's both got full of fish, the same one who almost sank in the blessing of God. That man saw the whole multitude. Everybody was wondering what was going on. And they said, these men are drunk and Peter said, oh no, these men are not drunk and are preach like a fillet today as you suppose. But this is that which was spuck under Hoshataya, spoken by the Prophet Joel. In the last day, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. And he kept on preaching until all the fish sitting at the pool that day looked at Peter and said, "What do we do?" He said, "I know what to do." I remember how he filled the boat in loop fast. And he preached to them a salvation message. And it went in two turns of fish that jumped in the boat. It was three thousand men that came out of death. Yeah Slap your name on telewink and ready to go fishing. We're getting ready to go fishing This is the year of increase. This is the year of abundance. This is the Stand my mouth for preaching I dare you I dare you to see every indication of success. God's ever given you in anything. As a pre-announcement of the greatest success that's coming in your spiritual walk. If you thought the business being blessed was the greatest thing you missed the kingdom, it was never about the fish. It's never about the money. It's never about the job. It's never about the increase of stuff. It's all given so that your mind can be stretched out of a place of limitation who can not overhashaya into a place of expectation for more. I want you to shake hands with seven people in your zip code and tell them I declare God is increasing your spiritual capacity. Yeah, she can't be seven of them. And tell them this year. This is the year. Yes, this is the year. When God is not just gonna fill your bowl with fish, God is gonna empty hell of its authority and save dying men and give them eternal more shy of filiparra court. Dying men are gonna find internalized. Dying women are gonna come at a sex trafficking. I felt dead in my soul, I felt dead in my soul Dying women are coming out of sex trafficking and they're coming into the... I mean somebody to dance, I mean somebody to shout [MUSIC] Where all the sisters look and dance like depredants? Shout like Miriam's shout! [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] If you'll move your feet, gotta move some outfits for you. If you'll live up a shell, gotta drop some balls. Sam Madagascar in praise! Watch, I'm gonna release a prophetic word. Did you hear what Devon said when she introduced choices and willow men farm? and all of my other. I didn't even put it together, y'all. But God was prophesying that the blessing coming on us is getting ready to get on them. Hey, choices! God's got you covered! Willowbim! God's got you covered! Yeah! [MUSIC] Take 20 more seconds and praise God for the increase. [MUSIC] How? [MUSIC] [MUSIC] Whoo! Lift up on my shot of praise, come on! Listen, I need to tell you this before I pray. Oh, I love you, Sam. Hey! I'm trying. I'm trying. Ah! I just got a picture of nets that are overflowing with blood, say, made it increased. Somebody take 20 more seconds and get God prayed. I still have all the floor with no idea getting on us! Hallelujah! Lift your hands! Lift your hands! This is the year! Hadam Baselam Akosa I... can't not see it! But I hear! I hear rain! I... cannot see it! But I hear! I hear rain! abundance. I'm not just excited. I'm expecting. And it's not just because I got a feeling, but I got a promise. And I want you to open your heart this year to kingdom people who are partners. Why are they partners because they have a part to play and will receive a part of what God is going to do in your life? This whole week it's been crazy y'all. I don't want to overstate it but I don't know how many people. Let me say it that way. Who Texan reached out this week and said, "We have an anticipation that this year is going to be the greatest year of our business." year of our business is going to be the greatest year for our family. Do you know how foolish that sounds? To look at the foolish crazy mess happening in this world and have the unmitigated goal to say, God's going to give us the best year we've ever had in our life. And you would say, Pastor, how can God do that in an economy like this? It's because you got your eyes on the wrong God. [MUSIC] If Joe was my God, I'd be having a nervous breakdown. But Yahweh, Jehovah is my God. I don't serve El Chippo, I serve El Shaddai. I don't serve Jehovah, maybe I serve Jehovah Jaram. Somebody give him praise. I cannot see it. But I hear, I hear, right. Hands up, I want to pray for you. Father, more than the emotion of a moment is the conviction of my eternal spirit that you are going to bless these people this year. And I thank you that they're going to hear and obey your voice and get to the place. And when they get to the place, you are already going to have spoken to their blessing. and it will meet them at the place where you're telling them to get to. I declare in the name of the Lord that what you will do in their life in the midst of expanding their spiritual capacity. What you're going to do is blow their mind and leave them astonished. And I pray for the judge, the person in this place that is so religious in their mindset that they feel it is your judgment that leads people to repentance. Remind him of what Peter said. It is the goodness of God that leads a man and woman to repick. And God, I'm praying that this year a boat full of fish Would bring conviction To a person who keeps on straining Take the crooked out of them Lord JET THE CROOKIN' RIGHT OUT OF OUR HARD. And you don't have to judge us to get us straight. It is the goodness of God. That's going straight and us out. So straight and us out. If you're in this room right now, you need to make Jesus Lord, it's about an hour's close. If you're in this room, you would say, "Bitch if I need to get right with God." I don't know if you've ever been right with God or never been right with God and it don't matter if you've never been or you have, but it's been a long time. If you're in this room right now and you need to get right with God through His Son, Jesus Christ, I'm counting the three for you and I want you to shoot your hand up and say, "Past, I need to just get it right. Get it under the blood. I need in January of 2023. I need to get my life in order and I'm going to start today." If I'm talking to you right now, don't you hesitate and act like you got all kind of time. Today is the day of salvation. When I say three, if I'm talking to you, just shoot your hand up. We want to pray for you. And God's gonna make everything right through the blood of His Son Jesus in your life. One, two, three. Lift your hand right now. God bless you, sir. Bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you, bless you. I see hands. Put your hands down, family. Everyone look at me. There's no judgment, condemnation in this house. Ain't nobody gonna ask you what you've been doing in any of our business. Here's what we know. We are all saved by grace. Anybody who prays for you was jacked up and messed up just like me and all of us. And today we're not what we're gonna be, but we can testify by the grace of God we are not who we used to be. (congregation applauding) Yeah, so here's what I want you to do. I want you to go as an evangelist right now to your neighbor on your right and left, and here's what I want you to do, whether you've known him your whole life or you never met him before today. I want you to ask him one question, do you need someone to go to the altar with you in prayer? And if you lifted your hand or you should have, when they ask you that question, if you needed prayer, if you lifted your hand, or you should have lifted your hand to get right with God. They'll come down here with you and I'm gonna stand right here and meet you. Right here all over this house. I saw at least 10 hands. I'm not gonna come get nobody. But if you wanna get right with God, come out your seat, come stand with us right now. We're gonna pray. Come on, anybody at all. I'm gonna give my life to Christ. I'm giving my life to God. Anybody at all, come on, don't be ashamed. Come on, buddy. Come on, God bless your friend. God bless your friend, come on, family. (audience cheering) Come on. Oh, they're coming down the high. ♪ Oh Lord, oh Lord ♪ - Come on, they're coming and we're clapping. They're coming and we're celebrating. Somebody give them real praise. I mean, it'll be good if God blesses you with a great financial year, but this is why we came to church today. This is really what they increase is all about. They're still coming and we're still selling. Hallelujah! They're still coming and we're still coming. Come on! We celebrate. I'm gonna break it. (music) At the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light, and the bird in my heart. (music) Sing while they break. Come on. It was I received my sign I told everybody to sing it again by their pray and the cross And the cross will offer us all the light And the burden of my heart will be away ♪ Oh, we must live ♪ I want you to stretch your hands toward this altar and pray for these precious brothers and sisters that have come today, like you want somebody to pray for you if you came to the altar. Hallelujah. Pray for them, Lord. I pray I'm multiplying of your peace grace upon their hearted mind. Rob the devil of every ounce of influence and authority he had over their mind. Give them freedom in the name of the Lord. Bless them and free them by the power of God in the name of Jesus. I break every cycle of failure and defeat over your life in Jesus name. I speak by the power of the Holy Spirit, the truth of God that you are free. If the sun makes you free, you're free and deep. I declare you're free today. Make your God. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hala Masora, my baby. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And I surrender, say, [MUSIC PLAYING] ♪ And the wrong ♪ ♪ Come on family sing ♪ ♪ I surrender all ♪ ♪ All the wrong ♪ ♪ All to the blind ♪ ♪ I bless and say your ♪ ♪ I think that's something we can all do before we leave today ♪ ♪ Even the saint who have been saved a long time ♪ ♪ Time can we all lift our hands and give them our hearts ♪ ♪ Sing high surrender ♪ ♪ As we lift our hands we sing to your Lord our surrender ♪ ♪ Say all to thee my blessed Savior ♪ ♪ My blessed Savior ♪ ♪ I can't wait for time for we go ♪ ♪ This comes to create our hearts to the Lord ♪ ♪ And sing our surrender, all sing ♪ ♪ Our surrender, all sing ♪ ♪ All our surrender ♪ ♪ Sing it all to the end ♪ ♪ Oh, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord ♪ Holy and so long. - Father, I pray for an alignment of relationships and partnerships in the hearts of your people. In January of 2023, God, I thank you that you are revealing and clarifying who it is that are partners with us in our life. Those who have a part and will play a part, God, I pray that you will reinforce and galvanize those relationships. And I pray people who are pretenders and not partners will be removed. And I pray that that would be done Christianly and kindly, but Lord, we don't have time to stay connected to people who keep causing us to live in a reduced spiritual capacity. So right now lay your hands on your heart. Come on, right now, God, touch our hearts. Align us with the right people, remove relationships that are harmful, and add people to their life, to our life, who will add value to us, and to our spiritual capacity, in the holy name of Jesus. And everybody's saying, "Listen, Wednesday night, I have a dear friend who's coming to preach. He passes a tremendous church in Chicago, Illinois, and he will be with us, Pastor Regi Royale. They are coming and if you've never heard Pastor Regi, you are in for a tremendous treat. A mighty man of God, he'll be here Wednesday night. So make sure you invite somebody and get here. Shake hands. If y'all let me get right down this aisle, I'm gonna go hug y'all in the lobby, but if y'all clog the aisle up, I can't get there. So I'm gonna come right behind her. I'm coming, you the left guard, I'm the full back and we're running up the middle. I love you, I'll see you Wednesday night in the house of the Lord, go in peace. - I love you. - Friend, I believe God is a miracle working God and the greatest miracle that God could ever work in your life is the gift of salvation. And I believe today somebody's watching me who says, "Pasic heaven, would you pray for me? I wanna give my life to God. I wanna serve the Lord. I want Jesus to save me. Let's pray this prayer together today. Mean it in your heart. Say dear God, I repent of my sins. I turn to you today, Lord Jesus. "I'm leaving that you're the Son of God "and that you died for my sins. "Forgive me, Lord Jesus. "Come into my heart and be the Lord of my life. "In Jesus, name my pray. Amen." Listen, friend, if you prayed that prayer, I want you to go to kevinwallis.tv and I just want you to drop us a prayer request and let us know that you gave your heart to Christ. Our team want to pray for you. We want to make sure that you're in a good, loving, Bible-believing church wherever you're from and that you continue to grow in your walk with Jesus Christ. The best days of your life are still ahead of you, and we're praying for you today. God bless, I look forward to seeing you next week right here. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)