Chain Breaker (Bishop T.D. Jakes)

for being my true north. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being a pioneer. Thank you for being an example. Preach this word before I turn forty. Eleve says sharks, let's welcome on me. Only be it comparable, please l cd ejach what's that? If you love Jesus? Why Glory said? I said, I have you gotta have energy to go to this church. I gotta take Jared Toll, Invitamin D and C and E and F and get my knees all and everything to pull with y'all. Y'all

are rowdy? Anybody rowdy for Jesus in this glak Wow? Well, thank you for letting me be here on your birthday. In the church's fourteenth anniversary, we celebrate you. My lovely wife celebrates your stand up honey, show them my deg you. The finest grandmama I saw in my life, five kids, nine grand kids is still rocketed. She can still twork for the Lord and give God a praise. See that spirit that was on you jumped on me, cast it out. Well, I'm going to do something in the third service that

we didn't get to do in the first service. And this is just part of my way of celebrating. Your Pastor texts me at least twice a week, and if I preach something really good, he calls me. That's my barometer. There are levels. If he doesn't call or text, I go into depression. I think I just completely failed. He missed about three weeks. I said, what's wrong with you? Call me say something. We love you. It's not a slage love. It's not a in front of people love.

It's it's a deep, abiding love. So much of your story is like mine. You came up from a small town in the rural area in monks Creek. It is it ought to be monks Creek, a monk's corner and he came out of Monks Corner and then Charlotte. I grew up in Charleston, West Mcgod, Virginia, you gotta throw the back God in there. You're not a true West Virginia. Take me home Country Road to the place I belong

West Virginia, Mount Marma Tigh Country Road. I just had to authenticate that I am a true West Virginia when you know all the words to that's all. You are from West Virginia. And God sent me to Dallas, Texas, and I had whatever happened in my life happened in my life, and I just so relate to you in so many ways. And I was trying to think of something to commemorate because he's always getting me all these

cool shoes, and I got big feet, you know. So he gets me the shoes and then calls me and asks me, did I get all my toes in them? So I started to get you some cool shoes, but I wasn't sure you could get all your toes in them. But I do want to make a presentation to you that I thought reminded me of you. And this is part of my birthday present to you. And I hope the right thing is under here, because this is great faith,

because I didn't get to check behind. So if I unveiling and it's the wrong thing, I'm going to cover it up. Then for the first time in my intern life, I'm going to turn red. Okay, because you, as a very young man, did such amazing things that shook the world, that transcended denominations and culture and ethnicities and backgrounds and politics and generational ideologies. Shook the world in such a powerful way. When I think of Bible characters, I thought

of David. I think you are a giant killer, and so I had them get this bronze statue so that you could put this somewhere in your life and every time you run into something big or feel in anequin or wonder can you do it? Brought this David to remind you that the head of the giant is under your feet. And this is my sermony. You come on up close. You've been coming up a while I was preaching. Look at it. I paid a lot of money for this.

Want you I wanted I want you to get the impact that everything that roared against you is under you, and your sword is grown, and you are good. And every time you think of it. I want you to tell the Lord to bless me. Will you do that for me? I love you. Give it up for him. Thank you hug somebody while you're standing there until he turned blue. I'm grateful to be here. You can be seated. Doctor Andipus. What you're saying, Doctor Andapus runs my new

Jake's Divinity School, giving up for him. He comes up here to make sure that I'm theologically in order and correct, and he's running my school for me. Now. I just started an online Jake's Divinity School is also online in Dallas, and we're proud to announce it. Thank you for being here, playing hooky away from church. I'm gonna get you later, amen. I'm all through the other service. I kept I was preaching.

I kept looking at this guy that looked like Mike Todd and I said, gosh, looks just like my car. And I thought I might text you later and tell you that you have a look alike in Charlotte, and I found out, No, it's not his twin brother. It's really him giving up him and his lovely wife I just met. Stand up, take a bow, let's celebrate them. Yeah, I appreciation. This is just good. Since you're both here,

I got a breg. I got both of them preaching at my leadership conference right here in Charlotte in April thirtieth through May. A second, I'm not worried about no devils being nowhere between Steven Ferdick and Mike Todd. All the devils have moved down to Charlotte. They're scared to be around. Amen. Thank god I've got them. Kean Henderson, myself and a whole lot of others invite you to come and be a part of it and enjoy the Lord with Denzel Washington, Tyler Period, a whole bunch of people.

It's going to be absolutely unlike anything you have, whether you're in ministry or in business. I've got a component that really will touch your life. Dave Stewart, who is a billionaire that stays out of sight, low profile African

American Saint Louis, Missouri. I don't know how I talked to him into coming, but what's really cool about him, there's a lot of billionaires out He's a born again bloodwa wash spirit, feel loves Jesus, and he's going to show you how to use your faith to move your finances. To the next level, because God's getting ready to pour out wealth on these people like we've never seen before, so that we can have impact in this present world. Shall all a millionaires shout out an idiot. That's what

I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. It's going to be good anyway. Thank you Jesus, Thank God, Thank God for your life, thank God for this church. Go to the Book of Acts, chapter eight, verse one through eight, and while you turn into it, I want to tell you about my dog Pup. You know, you're not very creative when you get a dog and you name him pup. He was just a puppy and Mama said, what are you gonna name him? I said, well, let's call him Pup.

So he grew to me that high. But we still called him Pup and he was nice to us, but he would terrorize the community, so we had to keep him chained and a little. I lived in a little raggedy house on the side of the hill, on the backside of a mountain in Charlton, West Virginia, and half

of the house was on the mountain. Another half was supported by four by four posts, and we had him tied to the posts on the chain, and we didn't know that he could break the chain until one day this young man came down there on the bicycle and he was moving real fast, you know, on the bicycle, and that he's now, he's been in my church, gosh forty years now. But at that time, I was just a little boy, and we didn't know that Pup could

break the chain. But Pup showed us that when what he wanted in front of him was bigger than what was behind him, he broke the chain that held him and went to the next level. And I'm believing God for everybody in here to do some chain breaking in your life. Hey man, any chain breakers in the room, tell somebody, tell him I'm a chain breaker. I want you to go to the Book of Acts eight, verse one, and if you want to make me feel real and home,

stand for the reading of the word. Just because we stood for everybody else, we might as well stand for God. Beginning at verse one, I'm going to read eight simple verses I will extrapolate from the text. I think I'm going to I think I'm going to just use Pup as an example and just call it chain breaker. And look at him as said I'm a chain breaker. And

Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the Church which was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles and devout men carried Step into his burial and made great lamentations over him. This is the embryotic stages of the development of the church. The church hadn't even really come into

the realization of who it really was. It had power, it had purpose, but it didn't even understand itself fully. It didn't have structure or order. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Saul, who would later become converted and be one of the greatest participants of the church, had not come into the awareness of who he was. So the church, who didn't know who he was, was being persecuted by a man who didn't know who he was.

As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering into every house and hailing men and women, committing them to prison, hauling men and women and committing them unto prison. Therefore they were scattered abroad. They were therefore therefore therefore, therefore, because of the persecution. Therefore, because of the persecution, they were scattered abroad and went everywhere preaching the Gospel. Then Philip,

then Philip, Then Philip went. Then Philip went down to Samaria, to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake. Hearing and seeing the miracles which he did, they heard what he said, they watched what he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice came out of many that were possessed with them, and many were taken, many taken with palsy, and that were lame were healed, and there was great what joy in

that city. Chain breakers, Let's pray, Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that your presence and power would prevail in this place today, that your glory would emanate through the Word of God, that it would touch lives, that it wouldn't just touch us, but it would touch all that concerns us, all that is around us, all that we envelop I pray God that this would be the kind of yoke breaking, thirst, quenching, mind, renewing Chain breaking word that releases the captives and sets him free,

that heals the lame that binds up the broken hearted. I pray a special prayer for people whose heart has been broken today and they bear a pain that no medicine can heal. But today, in the name of Jesus, I pray that healing would break out in the hearts of not only this campus, but every campus that is watching. I speak. Healing and deliverance have your way in this place in the name of Jesus, we pray, and I need everybody with a sound of thunder to shout amen.

You may be seated in the presence of God. Next time you introduce me, bring it down like quite a bit, you know, bring the expectation level down. Turn it down a little bit. I'd rather you about there and that way. If I hit there, I'm up. But if you put it up there, I have to leap up like Magic Johnson to get there. So pray for me. Somebody shout amen. We are in the Book of Acts. It has wrongly been called the acts of the Apostles, when in fact, with careful ste you will understand it is not so

much the acts of the Apostles. It is in fact the acts of God. It is the acts of God through the apostles in the early formation of the Church. This book is written by Luke. It is a continuation of the Gospel of Luke and initially was not divided. Later it was divided from the book, but it continues the thoughts of Luke when he says, so, former treaties have I made in acts one to one? The former treaties have I made? O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, the indication is

that Jesus began it, but he is not finished. Of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach into Samaria Judea in the utmost parts of the earth. It is just that the Jesus that is doing it now is not doing it through the body he initially did it through. But rather than to do it through his physical body, he is now doing it through his mystical body. But it is still him. There are very few occasions that we see the physical body and the mystical body in the same place, like we do at

the Passover. Allow me to share what I mean. At the Passover service, you see all aspects of the Body of Christ. You see the physical body of Christ, and through the bread and the wine, you see the memorial body of Christ serving the physical body of Christ is serving the memorial body of Christ to the mystical body of Christ, who is the Church. And they're all at

the table together. So the Body of Christ says to the Body of Christ, says, take eat, this is my body, and we see all three manifestations of one body in one place. Had the enemy understood what I just said, he would have never crucified the Lord, because when he crucified the Lord, he crucified the Lord to get the Body of Christ out of the earth. But all the Body of Christ did was move from the physical body of Christ into the mystical body of Christ so that

the work of God could continue. And that's who you are. Your name is not James or Robert or Richard or Angela or Shaniqua. No, no, your name. Yeah, I gotta cover everybody. This is an equal opportunity to uri say, man, somebody that is not really your name, Your name is really Christ Jesus. Yes, Because when the Father looks at you, he does not see you as an individual. He sees you as Jesus Christ, because Christ has covered you in such a way that the truth of the miner is.

When Christ was on the cross, God didn't see his son, he saw your sin, and so when he reacted to what he saw, and Christ was smitten of God, confused, saying, elie lie lama, sabothane, God, my God, why is forsaking me? The reason that he felt forsaken is that he was covered up with you so that you could be covered up with him, so that the life that you now live in the flesh, you live by the faith of the son of God, who loved himself and gave himself a ransom for you. I'll prove it to you, so

Jesus tells you. When you go to the Father, don't use your name because he can't see you. But whatsoever you ask the Father in my name, that will I do. So. When you come to the Father in the name of Jesus, it's only because you look like Jesus, for his blood is the propitiation of your sin and has so covered you. That's why you can come boldly to the throne of grace. You don't have to walk up with your head down, ashamed of your sins because your sins were judged on

the cross. You can come like the beloved Son because you are covered with the Beloved Son. And you got to remember to use his name to somebody, say say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus. When you come, say Jesus, because you're wearing Jesus and you're walking in Jesus, and you're moving in Jesus, and you're living in Jesus. In him. I live in Him, I move in Him.

I have my being. And the Church is really trying to get his hands around this whole notion of who they are and understanding themselves because the Holy Spirit has fallen on the Day of Pentecosts in Night chapter one, verse eight, and they have received this power, this power from God which is so amazing and so incomprehensible that they will spend the rest of their lives understanding how

to operate in this new dimension of the spirit. They do not have deaconshit they do know how to have elders or pastors or apostles that will come with Paul. They just have power. But power without structure is a

dangerous thing. Do you hear what I'm saying. The Holy Spirit has fallen with such power in that chapter one, and that's chapter two, that whenever there were problems to arise, they would all gather in Jerusalem because they were afraid to get out of Jerusalem because they didn't feel ready yet.

Have you ever not felt ready yet? And you knew God was going to do some amazing things in your life, but you didn't have all your details together, and you didn't have everything worked out yet, and you felt like destiny was moving faster than revelation was in your life, and you were walking by faith and not by sight. That was the feeling of the early Jight. So whenever we don't know what to do, we hang around what

we know. And whenever we hang around what we know too long, God has to send something to get us to move. Because being a christ which they weren't even named yet at this point, being a Christian is not a monument. It is a movement. It is a movement. It is a movement, not a monument. It's not a building. It's not a denomination, it's not a doctrine. It's a movement. Elevation is not a church. It's a movement. You understand,

Thank you. It's not about a building. It's not about four walls, it's not about where you sit in a building. The vision of this church is a movement. That's why you call elevation, which means we move, We elevate, we rise, we escalate, we move forward. Don't look for us where we used to be. Because we are elevation. We will move on a brother. We will walk on a brother. We will rise on a brother. If the enemy tries to attack us, we will rise on the devil. Because

we are elevation. We are like eagles. We take to the air, We rise above the storm. Come on, elevation. I'm talking about your church. I'm talking about your church, and all of your locations. Make some noise if you're getting ready to elevate in this place. The problem is fear will make a movement turn into a monument. And most of our denominational entanglements just tell us where they stopped moving, and we memorialize where God has been, rather than to thirsty be where God is. Oh, follow me,

because I'm going somewhere today. They told me that this is the third service, and I heard you all could handle it. So I'm gonna drop it like it's hot in here. Okay, you ready for this. I'm getting ready to set it off in this place. Are you ready for me to set it off in this place? I'm getting ready to tell you that God has a way of shifting things, getting us out of our comfort zone, pushing us away from the familiar. He forces us to scatter.

And that's exactly what this text is all about, because in a chapter eight, the church that is trying to memorialize where God was is being pushed out of their comfort zone by the attack of Saul. Kind of the persecution of Saul comes direction. Direction. Persecution. Persecution is direction. Sometimes you shout about the doors God opens, but you ought to be shouting about the doors God closes. He

will push you. And what has happened up into the first eight ten years of the Early Church They kept coming back to the Council at Jerusalem, because, after all, Jerusalem is the epicenter of almost every major religion in the world today claims its origin and root to go back to the city of Jerusalem. That is why the Middle East has so much conflict, because they're fighting over territory.

Because Jerusalem becomes jeruse Adam, the Holy City, the City of Peace, the offspring, and the progenitor, of which three major religions claim heritage. Yet you must realize that Jesus throws us a hint when he was crucified, according to the Book of Hebrews outside of the city. Jesus, by his crucifixion, is already preaching to us that he's trying to escape religion, his order, that he's breaking up Orthodoxy, that he refuses to be left into the expected, but

he's going to move in the unexpected. And so when the Book of Hebrew said that he died without the city, it means that he escaped the religious order to expose who he really was, so that he wouldn't be stuck in the prison of religious ideology. That's why some people can't handle elevation, because you are unexpected. You're out of the box. You break all the rules, you change the game,

you change the flow, you broke the order. Look at you young folks and old folks, and you black folks and white folks and brown folks shouting and dancing and praising God, elevation and our Now you must understand that Christianity was not popular then it didn't even have a name yet. It wasn't until they got to Antioch that they started to be called Christians. The early Church was called the Way, and then later they were called the Believers,

and eventually Antioch they were called the Church. And so this nameless group of Jesus freaks were coming to Jerusalem because that's where they had last spotted His glory. Whenever there was a dispute, they came back to Jerusalem. Whenever there was confusion, they came back to Jerusalem. And they kept huddling in Jerusalem. So God sent persecution to shift them. I want to talk to everybody who's been persecuted and

you've been thinking it was the devil. If it was the devil, God used him, because God will often use the devil to shift you from one dimension to the next dimension. That's why we glory and tribulation. Anybody can glory when things are going well, but real believers glory

and tribulation. Oh. I appreciate all of you that are praising God because everything's going right, But the real praise go to the people where all hell is breaking loose and you're still praising God anyway, because God is shifting you through persecution. And the Bible says that God sent persecution to Jerusalem to scatter the church out of its comfort zone, to make them move to the next dimension, to get them out of Monk's corner or creek or whatever.

You see. God has a way of ordering your steps in such a way that sometimes you have to pack your bags and flee your comfort zone to find your destiny. And that's what we're reading in the Book of Acts and the Bible, carefully, cautiously, almost as a footnote. And sir said, Philip went down to Samaria. Now, let's talk about Samaria. It is not happenstance, said Philip would scattered to Samaria. God has unfinished business in Samaria. The Gospel of Saint John declares that Jesus sat by the well,

a well, sitting on a well. I waited for that to seek in in. Yes, Jesus is jacob'swell, Israel's well, and he's sitting on Jacob's well, and he's waiting for this one loose woman, this woman I called her a loose woman. I called her loose. Forgive me, I mean, maybe you don't like that. But she had had five husbands in a society that forbid that kind of caring on. She had five husbands and a situation. You know, some of us get into these situations. It's not here, who

is it. He's not exactly with friends. So she had five husbands and a friend. She came down to the will, having been married five times and was living with a man on the sixth time, and came down to the will and met the seventh man. And when she met the seventh man, the search was over, because he quenched the thirsting of her soul and set her free and liberated her and gave her the victory. And you will remember that it was not her thirst that initiated the conversation.

But if you will and back in the Gospel of Saint John, you will find out that what provoked the initial conversation was not her thirst, because she expected her thirst to be quenched by the well that he was sitting on. But what started the conversation is his thirst, he says, woman, I thirst. She did not know. She thought she was a tramp. But the tramp was a thirst quencher misapplied and misallocated, I will admit. But the

reason that she was always able to get somebody. Is that there was something in this woman that was designed to be a thirst quencher. She just had not found the right thirst to quench. You missed that. Yeah, sometimes it has to be the right man to bring out in you what's really down inside of you. And none of those other men could really bring it out in the first place. But when she got to the Seventh Man, the seventh Man and showed her why she was the

way she was, she was a thirst squincher. You see. She thirsted for water. He thirsted for her because she was going to be the vessel that set it off. You will remember that we don't know her name. We don't know whether she's Helen or Jane. We just know that she is a woman from Samaria, and God needed something to be planted in Samaria so that there would be something to harvest in Samaria. No seed, no harvest. So the woman at the well was the seed. And

Philip goes down to collect the harvests. Are you with me so far? Come on? They told me you was really smart in the third service, so I could drop it in here. You can handle it. The woman at the well was the seed. Now Philip goes down to Samaria to collect the harvests. I want you to get that in your spirit one. I want you to get that some of the things that are wrong and you are only wrong because you haven't met the right man, that there is a reason that you are the way

you are. And when you get the right piece of the puzzle in the right place, everything will make sense. If you were crossword puzzles, you'll understand that you can't cram the right piece into the wrong place. And some of you have been crammed into all kinds of places that you didn't really fit. But when you find Jesus, you will find out why you are shaped the way

you shape, and you fall into place anyway. So says the story that the woman who was at the well, she dropped her water pots look at her shifting occupation. She dropped her water punch and went running into the city to tell all the men. Yeah, baby, tell all the men. Since she knew all the men, she had influence with the men, She had access to the men. So the woman told all the men, the men to come see a man. She said, let me show you

what a real man is. So after church, I want you to call all your exes and say, don't do that, don't do that. This teaser, I'm just teasing. I'm just teasing. I don't want to have to get you out of jail. Just be cool, just illustration. Okay, she says, come see a real man who told me all things I had ever done. And the men came out to see. Imagine a that's a genic society. Means they don't respect women. That God would use that which they do not respect

to bring him respect. And the women sowed the seed, and the women sowed the seed, and the women sowed the seed. And the women sow the seed, and the women sowed the seed. I want to start a revolution with every woman in this room. Come out of the shadows, come out of the corner, come out of the background. Stop feeling sorry for yourself in spite of all of your mistakes. God it's going to use you to set it off. I need some sisters that can set it off in this place. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah

yeah yeah yeah yeah. Now, Now everybody in here that's a woman is a woman. But then they're amongst the women. There are real women there. There there are women. I'm not talking to all you women who never did anything, and never smoked anything, and never drink anything, and never went anywhere and never been in a club. And even by the way, i've any Christian that's wonderful. I'm not against you. I'm proud of you. I'll celebrate you. But there's a reason that some of these broken women that

were called into the kingdom. Because you're courageous, because you're bold, because you say what you think and let the chips fall where they may. I want to raise up some sassy sisters in this room that can make some knowing. Let me hear the sassy sisters set it off. God, I think he's about to use what was working against you to work for you. He's getting ready to take you to the next level. So this is a water pot dropping moment, leaving the lesser for the greater, leaving

the form of the latter. She now runs into the city and says, come see a man. She planted a seed. No wonder Jesus waited for her. He said, I must need go to Samaria. I have to go to Samaria. And then didn't go to Samaria. He just met the woman from Samaria. He met the woman from Samaria because all he had to go to Samaria for was to find a woman who was bold enough to set it

off in that city, and she planted a seed. Fast forward, we had not heard anything else out of Samaria since this one wild radical woman has started a little revival meeting that caused the men to see the prophets. Fast forward to Acts chapter eight, when persecution of rose in Jerusalem. All of a sudden it got so nasty. Saul was killing and imprisoning so many believers that Philip says, I'm going to guess what Samaria? Because God had unfinished business

in Samaria. Something had been planted in Samaria. Time had passed, and now Philip goes to Samaria. The only problem with Samaria is that Simon the Sorcerer had set up a camp in Samaria and begin to afflict the city. See, any time the enemy knows that God is going to do something great in your life, in your city, in your church, he will always send Simon the Sorcerer to

counteract what God is doing in your life. What I'm trying to get you to see is the reason you're under attack is because God has started something in your life. And anytime the enemy sends wheat he will always plan tear. Y'all still with me, You're good, you all right? Breathe in, breathe out, Shout Holladelujah, because something is about to happen in Samaria. Samaria is up under attack by Simon the Sorcerer. Now I'm getting ready to go in for the kill.

Simon has taken over the region, and convince him that he is some wonder. Simon has taken over the region. Now let me show you something about Satanic attack. The enemy likes to take over territories, what the Bible calls principalities. They rule over regions, over cities, over And the enemy has set himself up in Samaria trying to stop the power of God from prevailing in the city and against

all of these forces that have ensnared the city. God sins Philip Clorida, God God, since Philip watches, I want to go deeper. The enemy is over a region. He sets up territories. That's why we call him principalities. He takes over regions. The spiritual warfare that exists over Charlotte is different from the spiritual warfare that exists over Tulsa, is different from the spiritual warfare that exist over Chicago. That's why you can't use a Charlotte weapon against a

lago spirits. You have to understand the warfare that exists over your city. You remember when Jesus went to the man who was with demons in Gatherines, and when he finally cast out the demons, the demons said to Jesus, suffer us not to leave the region. We've done so much work in this territory. We don't mind if we have to change vessels, but don't let us leave the region. There's demonic warfare that takes over areas, and certain areas

are given over to certain types of perversities. There are demonic warfares that are over certain families, and certain warfares have taken over certain families. Grandma got pregnant out of where, Mama got pregnant out of water, and now my daughter comes in the house and tells me she's pregnant. That's a spirit instead of brain over the territory. My daddy was an alcoholic and I'm a drug adday, and now

my son has started getting high. That's a regional territorial principality that didn't want to let the Johnsons go that didn't want to let the Wilsons go, that didn't want to let the Richardsons grow. I know you can't say anything, but there are certain things that run in your family. Yeah, and you can say. You can look at your sister's acting just like your auntie, and your auntie's talking just like your grandmama, and all of them got the same spirit.

And you want to break the chain. Oh my god, Oh my god, I feel something. I feel something. I feel something, I feel something, I feel something. Touch your neighbor and say break the chain. Yeah, that's why God save you, to break the chain. That's why Pastor baptize you, to break the chain, to bury who you used to be so you could rise up into who you're gonna be. He baptized you to break the chain that was holding you down in your life. Look at your nigh and say,

I'm a break this chain. My uncle committed suicide, my cousin committed suicide, my brother committed suicide. I feel the spirit of suicide, but I'm going to break the chain. Look at your neighbor and say, break the chain. You don't even know what kind of chain it is, but everybody in the room has got a chain that's got a break in order for them to be free. They're a chain that has to break in order for them to be delivered. Shout, yes, somebody, I'll show you another chain.

Abraham got to Jerrar, and when he got there, he lied and told the king that his wife was his sister. Okay, at the time that Abraham told the lie about Sarah, Isaac wasn't even born yet. Fast forward, here comes Isaac with his wife. Tells the same lie that his father to. Oh, a lie that he never even heard. But there was a chain between Abraham and I say so that the chain was there, and the same lie was there, and the same struggle was there. But something is about die.

Then let me go deeper. It used to be when you went to the doctor, the doctor only examine you. Now when you go to the doctor, he wants to know. Did your grandmother have heart trouble? Did your grandfather have high blood pressure? Did your grandfather have diabetes? Did your father die diabetes? Why does it matter what my grandmother had? She's dead. I'll tell you what matters. There's a chain link between you and your grandmother. There's a chain link

in the health of your body. In the wealth of your mind, in the way you handle emotions. There's a chain between the two. If Grandma was prone to depression and Mama was prone to depression, and now you're sitting up here, you couldn't feel it, But now twenty three years starting to feel the press. That's not your depression. That's your grandma's depression. Trying to hook of a link between who you are and who they were. But I came to serve notice on the devil. The devil is

a liar. You've rained terror over the city long enough, you've recabit long enough, You've held us in bond is long enough. I'm not gonna let my daddy's devil defeat me. Oh hell no, there's gonnakay. I've chained the break in this place today. I don't know who I'm preaching to, and I don't know who God sent me here for, but something is about to break in your life like it never broke before. And I command the spirit of release to happen in this place. I need about sixty

seconds of crazy and craze in this place. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. Praise him, Praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him, praise him in defiance. Praise him with that intude, praising with convintion, Praise him with tenacity, praising like your main business, Praising like your life depends on it. Praise

him like you're going to repeal suicide. Craizy, like you're coming out of depression, crazy, like you're coming out of promisecurity, crazy, like you're coming out of pornogal fa, crazy, like you're coming out of adg ur. Praise him crazy, praising. I will not leave mamausband, I will not abuse my wife, I will not beat my child. I'm going to praise

the change shign out. The reason you couldn't stay in Monk's Corner is because you had a devil to fight, and everything God did to get you ready was to get you to come into an area where the enemy had set up camp in a region, and he was preparing you in Monk's Corner, getting you ready for what he was going to do down in Charlotte, so the yokes could be broken over the lives of the people who have been praying and said, I gotta be free,

I gotta be delivered, and I gotta be whold. And the reason there's such an annoying in this church, and there's such praise in this church, and there's such deliverance in this church. Is because when you got in here, something broke in your life. If I got a witness anywhere in the house, make some noise like your lost shimne. So the text sense the Philip went down to Samri. It's not like he went strolling down to Samaria, you know, rather that at all. He didn't come to head a

cup of tea. You know, he didn't come down there because he wanted to ride the fairies field in Samaria. He was on a mission. When God puts somebody on a mission, hell gets nervous. When God puts a man on a mission, demons begin to troumble. They start trying to stop the man from getting to where he's trying

to go. Let me prove it to you. When Jesus got ready to go to deliver the man who was bound in the tomb of Gathererines, on his way to the area, a storm arose out of nowhere, and the Bible said that the whole ship began to rock and reel. And the Bible says that Jesus was asleep in the bottom of the boat, and Peter began to be a friend that the whole thing was gonna capsize. Why do

you think that the storm broke out. The storm broke out because the devil knew that Jesus was on his way to deliver the man that was found by the demonic influencer. And I and I said, Oh, I feel like preaching. Oh I feel something in this way. Your neighbors say, you came to the right service. Jesus sees I's Jesus, I's Jesu. I' chees I changed, I stee that's Jesus, Jesus, I Jesu. I's changed. I's cheese. That's Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus. Jesus.

Jesus is down in the bottom of the boat, and he's resting, and he's resting up because there's gonna be a fight. He's resting up because he knows when he gets to the destination, he's got a devil to fight. In fact, he's got several devils to fight. He's got legions of the devils to fight, and he's got to fight them by himself. And so the Bible said he was down in the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping at

the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping in the bottom of the boat. Jesus will sleeping in the bottom of the boat. Jesus was sleeping the bottom of the moat in the middle of a hurricane. What kind of Jesus can sleep in the middle of a storm And the whole boat is rocking and relling, and the boat is filling with water, and neither the winds nor the rains had interrupted his rests. Y'all didn't get in it.

The winds you were blowing, the lightning was flashing, the thunder was erupting out of nowhere, and water was filling up the boat so bad that Peter was afraid the boat was gonna go underwater. And Jesus was in the hinder parts of the ship. He had to be wet This is not the carnival cruise line. He had to be wetted. And the wind was blowing and the boat was rocked, and none of that woke up Jesus. But when one of his believers called him, can I go off with I want you to know that you got

the power, so wake up Jesus. Why nobody else can did you hide, Lord, that seven people would say just say say something, Say something. That's why whenever you get depressed, that devil don't want you to say nothing. Whenever you're going through a test, that devil don't want you to say nothing. Whenever you're in great temptation, that devil don't want you to say nothing. Whenever your marriage is in trouble,

that never don't want you to say nothing. Because Hell knows that the power of life and death is in your tongue. And if you open up your mouth, you can wake up Jesus. Like nobody else can waken Jesus. The wind can't waken him, the waves can't wake him, the storm can't waken up. But I dare you know? Do you think that Peter's voice had more decibel impact than thunder or light? With nobody else but Jesus. He

can hear your faintest crime. He can hear a tear slide over the bridge of your nose at three o'clock in the morning. God is so in tune with you, while nothing else can break his rest. If you get in trouble, when you are at disease, your disease will wake him up. By the way, half of your diseases are coming from your disease. I speak to every nervous, upset, restless, frustrated condition that you have said nothing about that's coming out in illnesses and stress and touched and insomnia and

eating disorders. God's gonna give you a breakthrough today. You're not eating because you're hungry. You're not up because you're not tired of You're up because you're at this ease. But God is about to give you some peace today. Somebody, hollow piece, Geezus woke up. Jeezus woke up, rose to the bower of the ship, in the middle of the

winds and the waves. He opened his mouth and cleared his throat, wiped the sleep out of his eyes, and the Bible says he rebuilt the winds and the waves and sad peace, peace, be still, Wait a minute, let's roll it back. He rebuts, the winds and the waves rebuilt. You don't rebuke winds and waves. You might stop winds and waves, you might arrest winds and waves. You don't rebuke winds and waves. You rebuilt spirits. I came to tell you there's a spirit behind your storm. There's a

spirit behind your distress. There's a spirit behind your dysfunction. There's a spirit behind me the problem with your child. That child doesn't need no more of retland, they don't need no more meditation, they don't need to be some kind of their head. There's a spirit that's after your child. You could put away half of that man, and I said, had rebuilt that spirit. The idle said, he rebuilt the

winds and the waves. And when the winds and the waves heard the voice of the master who made them, he overruled the spirit that sent them, and the winds got slain in the spirit, and the waves lay prostrate in the floor. And there was a great calm in the tempest of the sea. And they sailed on without incident. Because God always gets to the core of a situation. Watch me, we pray about the symptoms of a situation. You ask God to fix the symptom. But God is

after the court of the situation. Who am I helping today? This same God is the God that sent Philip to Samaria to take back the region. This is not just about you. God wants to take back the region. He wants to take back the neighborhood. He wants to take back your bloodline. And the reason the enemy is fighting you so hard is not just you. It's your daughter and your son and your grandchildren that are at stake

because God wants to take back the territory. I feel the kind of power that will release suits inner rationally, that will break the me. You don't quotever your minding, over your spelling. I need some real praisers. I don't mean no cute crazers. I mean some real praisers. Somebody who will praising for your daughter, had praised him for your son, had praised them for your children, had praised

them for your sister's children. I want to give you thirty minutes to praise him like you're expecting Jesus to show up in the room right now. Off in your mouth, to move your hands, to move your feet, move your knees, or move your nibs. To move your eyes some your eyes, move your jaws, make sometime. Let everything that have broath prazy preacher. For years, For years, Pump stayed under the house. You're with me. He would run out in the bar

and the chain would pull him back. He would run out of the bar, and the chain would pull him back. Somebody would drive off in the car. He'd run up there, and the chain would pull him back. And because it had pulled him back so many times, we thought the chain was stronger than the dog. Somebody has tried to go forward, but every time you tried to go forward, the chain would pull your back. You're made of New

Year's resolusen, but the chain would pull you back. And you're starting to think that the chain is stronger than you. But one day I saw something in front of him that was stronger than what was behind him. And when he ran out in the chain trying to pull him, he snarled and said, not this time. Somebody said, not this time. You can't have my daughter. You can't to have my son, you can't have my marriage, you can't to have my life. To clown you something in this room.

I'm gonna pray them till my daughter gets to live in her. I'm gonna pray them her till my son comes home. I'm gonna pray them till my marriage is here. Lift your boys, lose some mine, she have, y'all gonna well, blassy. When Philip got to some barrier. He turned the city upside down. Since you're all standing, I can't tell you to stand, so turn around in a circle. God is getting ready to turn things upside down in your life.

He's getting ready to shake things up. Everything that was tied up, It's about to break loose in your life. My God, wait a minute before I'm praising for what he's about to do. I want to praise him for the persecutioner that brought me the way I am. If I had to have been hated like that, if I had to have been an attack like that, if I had to cry it out like that, I wouldn't have had the power taibody of the Holy Ghost. Something it's about it's a snap. I didn't come to preach in

this last service. I came to bring a prophetic utterance in this last service. Something is about to snap in your life. Something that's been pulling you back for years is about to snap in your life. You've been praising God over top of pain, but the pain is about

to snap in your life. I don't know who I'm preaching to, but something is about to snap in your life, and you're gonna thank God for the trouble that push you over the edge because it has driven you to a breaking point, and something is about to break loose in your life. If I'm preaching to you, how as a boy, when Philip came to Samaria, there was demonic influence, There was possessions, and the Bible said, there was sickness, and there was disease. And God sent one man against

a city of trouble. Stop pastoring this church and pasted the city. This is not about a church, It's about a city. It's about a city. And every satellite church is a cell. And I came to activate every cell in every city that's watching me online. There's a reason that a cell has been planted in your area, because God is about to activate you like a terrorist, to go into the enemy's camp and take back what he stole from you. Every thing that the devil stole is

coming back. I don't know who I'm preaching to, and I better stop, because I feel my old preacher standing up inside of me. And what I feel right now ain't even in style no more. But I feel the power of the Holy culture, the kind of power that resurrected Jesus up out of the grave. Somebody in this room throw your hands up a shot shot. I want you to understand every city, every area, every neighborhood you're in, every place God puts you to work. He did not

send you there to make money. He sent you there as a witness in that area, to turn that area inside out. God to give you money anywhere He told his disciples money ain't nothing. I'll put your money in a fish's mouth for money is not your problem. You're not there to make money. You are assignment. And when this service is over, I'm going to release you to go in the places you've never call her and see the power of God move like it's never moved before.

Lay hands on the sister next to you and the brother next to you, and say you're ready. Get ready, Get ready. God is getting ready to take you somewhere. God is getting ready to use you somewhere. God is getting ready to release you somewhere. I feel the annoyedy you of the Holy Ghost in this place. I'm gonna take my seat, but I feel a spirit of release coming in this place. Right now. Behold, I give you power over the head, and then power all of your problems,

power all your fear, power over your situation. I'm tied of counseling her what we ought to test out to get back down, Get out of my mind, Get out of my benny, get out of my body, get out of my sphearhead, open your mouth and het out for your to seven people and tell them you're a chain breaker. You're a chain breaker. You're chain breaker. You're a chain breaker. Something getting ready to break in your house, break in your ministry, break in your body, break in your inner chat,

break in your mind. Get you're ready for you to break? Shout out the God. When Filling hit Samaria with his ministry, he revolutionized the city so much so that Simon the Sorcerer wanted what he had. Get ready for the people who once hated you to want what you have. There's a reason you couldn't win them. There's a reason nothing you did could please him. There's a reason they couldn't accept you. God meant for you to be alone and lonely and walk by yourself, because He never meant for

you to become them. He meant for them to become you. And you have finally reached the season that those who once fought you are now going to seek you. And you've got to be healed enough and feel safe enough to let people in that you've been scared of, because God is going to use you to minister to people who maligned you, and you've got to know who you are well enough to be ready to receive them, because you're bigger than that. You're bigger than that. What's this church?

The last verse of the text says that when Philip hit Samaria, he rebuked the devils, he healed the diseases, and there was great joy. Not in the church in the city. You have not been sent to churches, but regions. So when the region is in crisis, you must speak because your vision cannot be contained by walls or campuses. The Bible said, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ. This is about kingdoms. Now something is about to shift. It.

Something is about to shift. Oh Lord, something is about Something is about to shift. Can you feel it? Can you feel it? Can you feel it? How many are glad? You're in this service right now on every campus everywhere. This word is being streamed everywhere you're watching on Facebook live and everywhere else. A chain is about to break off of your life like it has never broken before. Take your city, Take your region, think the region, Take your region. You gotta get out of thinking your vision

fits within the topography of your walls. You're bigger than that. You must speak to regions a Shia. You must speak to territories. You must speak to areas that are desperate to hear your voice beyond your walls. These are not your congregations. These are your disciples, and everywhere you send them. The people God gave you are not your destination. They are your transportation to go into all the world and all the world's systems. And there is a shift coming

in this place. And I can feel it from the crown of my head to the souls of my feet. Some of you, you're in that family to turn that family upside down. And you don't have to argue, and you don't have to fight, and you don't have to be super deep or super spiritual. All you have to do is just let the glory of the love of God flow out of you in such a way. You're

not gonna have to approach them. They're gonna approach you to see what it is you've got that gave you that kind of peace and all I need to do is break the link that yet connects you to a family or a region that is dysfunctional, that's trying to hold your neck back from the next dimension. You are not fighting with your devil. It's your mama's devil and your grandmama's devil, and your grandfather's devil, and the devil

of your family, and the devil of your region. And the mentality from where you grew up and where you came from, say that the set of a principality. And because you are straining the chain, he does not want to let you go because if you get loose. If I'm not talking about playing church and putting on games and play, but if you actually get loose everything connected to you, it's going to be loose. By the power

of God. Join hands. When somebody leaving no one in touch, pop pop that chain like it was a popsicle stick. And when it pops, he started running. I'm gonna count to three. And when I get to three, everything physically ailments in your body, afflictions that have attacked your health, every mental and emotional disorder, every nervous condition, every bipolar, every neurotic, every distressed, every anger, everything, that has ever held you. I'm believing God, it's going to break loose.

The storm cannot stop you. Greiter is he that is in you than he that's in the world. Squeeze that hand you're holding. The enemy doesn't want her to have peace. He doesn't want him to have peace because they are a chain breaker. Somebody slipped back from the first service to be in the second service. Something just told you to stay there. God's got something else for you. You're in the right place at the right time. We're getting

ready to pop something in this place. Hollylujah. If your on line getting ready for it to pop, it's going to pop. The thing you're fighting is not yours. It's passed through your family and your bloodline. But today it's gonna pop. It's in your way. It's in your way of your destiny. It's in your way of your future. It's in the way of your prophecy. Squeeze that ham family dysfunctions. Getting ready to pop in this place. Oh, this is a big service. I'm not talking about the people.

I'm talking about the glory. It's getting ready to pop in this place. Some of you came out of regions with attitudes and dispositions, and every now and then you act like where you came from. But squeeze that hand. The chain is about to pop. What are you ready for it? Do you believe that God is bigger than anything that ever held you, that ever had you tied up? Do you believe that He's great than anything you've been feeling in your body, in your mind, and your soul

and your spirit. Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Do you believe it? Teld Do you believe that no women from that that you shall be able to prosper? And every tongue that rises against your God will condemn? Do you believe that this is today that the Lord hath made and you're gonna get a release today that's gonna be on you the rest of your life. It's gonna get in the car with you, He's gonna

get in the house with you. It's going to work with you. When I get to three, I want you to shot like you lost up. Thank you for joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give generously to this ministry. Is because of you that this ministry is possible You can click the link in the description to give now or visit Elevationchurch dot org slash podcast for more information and if you enjoyed the podcast, you can subscribe.

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