SIGNAL CHURCH CAPE TOWN
Jessie Hayden:- Jesus: Jesus Inaugurates The Kingdom. Pt.20
Hi. Oh, it's so nice to be here and get to complete or continue our series on Jesus. For those of you that it's your first time here, we've been in a series about Jesus for a number of weeks and we're going to stay on the topic of Jesus for the rest of the year. And today I'm going to look at a really exciting part of Jesus' ministry. It's the time when he actually inaugurates the kingdom. So we're going to get into that in a minute, but before we did, I just have had a friend that's in our church on my heart for the whole week. She's going through a lot of challenges in her health, and I'd really love for us to pray for her before we even begin the preach. If she's here, Alana, she is here, will you come up? So in our church, we believe that God is powerful to heal us, that He is Jehovah-Raph for our healer. And so Alana, I know I messaged you yesterday because sometimes we have things that just go on and on and on in our body, and it's time for God to break through. And so I really want us to just pray for her. I'm going to ask Rajan Gazz, can you also just come up and lay hands? And the rest of us, just as a sign of agreement, could you just stretch your hand towards Alana? We're just going to agree with the fact that God is our healer. So Father God, this morning, we just want to bless Alana's body. Lord, we just declare that she is well in Jesus' name. We just speak to every cell, every organ. We speak to fatigue, and we command it to break in Jesus' name. We speak energy into her body in Jesus' name, Lord, anything that has come to attack her body, we command it to go, because your word says that by your stripes we are healed. So we just declare that over her this morning, and our authority as your sons and daughters, your kingdom come, you will be done in her body. She is well in Jesus' name. Amen, amen. Okay, so today I'm going to get straight into the scripture because it's long and it's sets the scene. So we're in Luke 4, verse 16 to 31. So Jesus went to Nazareth where he'd been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. And rolling it, he found the place where it was written, "The spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim the good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor." And then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him. He began by saying to them, "Today the scripture is fulfilled in your hearing." All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his lips. "Isn't this Joseph's son?" They asked. "Jesus said to them, 'Surely you will quote this proverb to me, 'physician, heal yourself,' and you will tell me, 'Do you hear in the home in your hometown what we have heard that you didn't cap an arm.'" Truly, I tell you, he continued, "No prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's time when the sky was shut for three and a half years, and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarifath in the region of Sidon. And there were many in Israel with leprosy at the time of Elisha the prophet, yet not one of them was cleansed, only name in the Syrian. All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. They got up, drove him out of the town, took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built in order to throw him off the cliff. But he walked straight through the crowd and went on his way. And that last line is the best part of the whole thing. Then he went down to cap an arm, a town in Galilee, and on the Sabbath he taught the people. So this is an incredible set of verses, because in these verses Jesus is explaining in his own words who he is and what he was called to do. And he describes this using a prophecy that was in the book of Isaiah from the prophet Isaiah that prophesied the coming Messiah. So when we read this we must understand that every single person sitting there would have known exactly what these verses meant and what he was saying about himself. This wasn't a small deal. This had been this expectation of what the Messiah would be like, it had been set up for centuries. It started way back when the Israelites were in Egypt and they were enslaved, and then we all know the story of Moses brings them out and they get to the Promised Land. And then there's these kingdoms of David. And then unfortunately the kingdom is lost and the Israelites go into exile. And now they're under the oppressive rule of Rome. But they have this prophecy, they have this prophecy from Isaiah that will say one day this Messiah will come and he will once again intervene for his people. And so they'll probably be expecting something similar to what happened when the Israelites were under the rule of Egypt, a deliverer to come to pull them all out, they get to take all the gold of Egypt and walk into this new Promised Land. And actually that is what they get, but they get it far more expensively than they were expecting. They couldn't see it all because we can't always see the expansiveness of what God wants to do. And so it came in a package that they weren't expecting. So this is who Jesus is saying here, he's saying I am this Messiah, I am this deliverer, I am this conqueror that's going to come and we're going to overthrow Rome and we're going to see the people set free once again. And he's also saying this is what I'm bringing, I'm bringing a kingdom and he explains what this kingdom is. And I know that many of you have been in church for many, many years and so you should be quite well versed with what the kingdom of God is and it's very clear in these verses. But the way that I most like to describe it is to think about the kingdom of heaven being whatever is allowed in heaven is now being brought to earth. So that atmosphere of heaven, that everything that's heavenly is the kingdom. So in heaven we picture what's in heaven, there's no evil, there's no darkness, there's no sickness, there's no torment. So all of that, that's what the kingdom is and that's what Jesus wants to bring to earth. So let's look again at what Jesus is saying, the kingdom of God has arrived. I think it's quite interesting the order that he puts it in and these sort of overwhelming headlines that he chooses. So the first one is the kingdom comes to those who are poor. So there's no doubt that Jesus is talking about those who are physically poor. So you know, these are people that have nothing. And as I was reading this, I was reflecting on how sad God must be when he looks at the earth and he sees this abandoned creation where there's more than enough for everyone. And yet because of the systems of this world, we have these incredibly poor people that have to live with nothing and they don't get to share in that abundance. So we know that the kingdom is for the poor. But we also know from Matthew 5 verse 3 that blessed are the poor in spirit because theirs will also be the kingdom. So there's also people that are spiritually poor, that they're looking for the meaning in life, they're looking for that spiritual fullness. And anybody that wants the kingdom, anybody that's hungry also gets to participate in it. So he's coming for anybody that feels poor, physically poor in spirit. Secondly he says he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners. Now there are stories in the Old Testament where, I mean in the New Testament, sorry, people are literally just get to walk out of prison doors. But it's so much bigger than that. It's also freedom for anybody that is caught in the prison of their own minds, caught in the prisons of sin perhaps, caught in the prisons of mental cycles that we just can't break through. He comes to declare freedom for all of those prisoners. He offers a clean slate. Thirdly, he comes to recover sight to the blind. We just prayed for healing because he came to heal and one of the hallmarks of Jesus' ministry was physical healing. So many people got healed, in fact everybody that came to him got healed. And yet we know that recovery to the sight for the blind is also about giving a higher perspective, that everybody gets to see a little bit more clearly from that perspective of heaven, not just from our earthly perspective. He comes to bring clarity. He comes to set the oppressed free. The oppressed is anybody that is prevented from receiving opportunities that are actually theirs or blessings that should be theirs. So if you're oppressed, it's got this image of someone's pushing me down, I'm impressed. So you can be oppressed in the systems of this world and you can also be oppressed by the lies and the schemes of the enemy. How often do you feel like you've got like a lie in your head and that lie is preventing you from stepping into a confidence or stepping into something that you know that you should have, a freedom that you know that is yours. He came to set all the oppressed free. And finally, he came to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. And this is this ultimate liberation. It's linked to the Jubilee, which was what the Hebrews believed that every 50 years there was this great reset where all of the slaves were returned and to their own lands and they were allowed to go free, debts were cancelled, this big reset, freedom and liberation. It's an allusion to coming home. So this idea of a reset is we get to come home. Which reminds me of the prodigal son who goes out and then he comes back into everything that was always his. That's what this Jubilee time is like. We get to come home to everything that was always ours in the kingdom. So as I said, I know that many of us have heard these truths before and we know what the kingdom of God is. It is exciting and it's amazing and it's available. And all of us, if we're in church and we're in church regularly, we're probably living our lives and trying to understand and to bring the kingdom. But what I really want to share today is a slightly different emphasis and that is that these words in Isaiah, they don't just describe the kingdom that Jesus brought. They actually reveal and describe the kingdom that he brought that we can bring through him as well. Because it would be a very sad day if we spend the whole year looking at Jesus and we never truly take in what Jesus is saying about us. So when we look at Jesus, we're actually looking at ourselves. He didn't come to be an example for us. He actually came to be an example of us. And that's a really significant difference. So I'm going to read a beautiful verse here. It says, "And we all, with unveiled face, continually seeing as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are progressively being transformed into his image from glory to glory which comes from the Lord who is the Spirit." So we're looking in a mirror at ourselves in Jesus. And I just want to be clear, a mirror isn't the future. When you're looking at a mirror, you're not looking like through the looking glass and seeing the future, was it sleeping beauty, he looked into the mirror to see the future. We're not looking at that. We're not mirrors, don't show us the past. Mirrors, we put up a mirror before us in the present. Do you see the difference? I had this amazing encounter once with the Lord where I was sitting in front of a mirror. This was a few years ago. And I was sitting in front of the mirror and I was so excited because I was just about to start three years of ministry training. And I was so excited to become everything that God wanted me to become. And as I was looking in the mirror, he said to me, "I was putting on makeup." And he said, "You know that when I show you who you are, you're not here for me to put things on you so that you can be better, so that you can look better. What I do is I take the makeup off. I take everything that you've put on yourself off so that I can reveal who you've always been." So you see, sometimes in church we can start thinking that we need to really work our part of be better people so that we can look like Jesus. And this progressive transforming is this process that we endlessly go on to get better and better and better. And yes, we're becoming more Christ-like, but we're sort of going the other way to more Christ-like. We're taking off all the things that are not of him so that we can reveal who we really are in him. It's a really important difference. And for today's message that the prophetic word on my heart for us this morning was, "We must come out of the shadows." I feel like Jesus is saying, "My people are not supposed to live in the shadows." Now maybe some of you don't feel like you are living in the shadows, and that's amazing. And for many of us it will mean different things, but I know that there are people in here that feel like you are living in the shadows. And for some of us it means, it's actually quite hard to be a Christian in culture at the moment. It's quite hard sometimes to be a Christian around your non-Christian friends. But we're not supposed to be in the shadows. Some of us might be here and you actually don't know what it means to be a son or a daughter of God, and so you're holding back and you're in the shadows because you don't fully understand who you are. And we're here to bring you on a journey, all of us are on this journey of understanding more and more what that is. But we must come out of the shadows. And there's others of us who might have been going after the kingdom for a long time, and we've believed Jesus' words and we've been praying for breakthrough, but we're disappointed with what we've seen, and so we've shrunk back and we've stopped taking ground because of the disappointment of the gap. So whatever that means for you today, I feel like the Lord wants to speak into that space and say today is the day that we remember who we are, and we remind ourselves that we were not meant to live in the shadows. So we're going to go back into these verses and have a look at Jesus. Did Jesus' return to his hometown in Nazareth? If you've been tracking with the series, you'll know that he was baptized in the River Jordan with John, the Holy Spirit descended as a dove. We heard the voice of the Lord of God say, "This is my son in whom I'm well pleased." Then this Holy Spirit led him into the wilderness to be tested by the devil, and he overcame those tests, and then he was in Capernaum, and he's been doing miracles, and he's been teaching the people, and now he arrives in Nazareth, his hometown. And everybody there would have heard whispers of Jesus has been doing these miracles, and I think they really wanted to see some of those miracles. They wanted him to prove himself, and he sits down, and he first reads these verses from Isaiah, and then he sits down, and this would have been the part in the service of the synagogue where somebody starts to teach. And they're looking at him, and they're so overwhelmed with the graciousness of his words at first. "Wow, this is amazing." And throughout this section of teaching on Luke, the overwhelming question is, "Who is Jesus? Is he just an amazing prophet? Is he an amazing teacher?" But this is where he says, "I'm actually the Messiah." And suddenly, they step out of this place of actually receiving by grace the words that he has said, and they start to think with their human mind. And they go, "Wait a minute, isn't this Joseph's son? Isn't this Joseph's son? We know this kid." I mean, who knows what they would have seen? It's like somebody growing up in our church, and we've seen them, "My son, the other day, ate a rice cake off the bottom of the broom." You know, kids, they pick their noses, and suddenly this kid, when you're watching them growing up, you sort of form all these expectations of who they're going to be. And so they've got all of these expectations of who Jesus was because they're very familiar with him. And suddenly he's saying, "But I'm the Messiah." And I'm telling you, that did not fit with the expectations of the Messiah that they were expecting. This was not the package that they were expecting, and they could not get past it. They were also deeply offended because in his message, he alluded to the fact that perhaps with this Messiah, the Liberator, was not just there for the Jews, but for the Gentiles, which means the people that were oppressing them. I don't know how many of you have watched the chosen, but it gives you this really good picture of how mean those Romans were to the Hebrew people. I mean, they were mean, they probably, it probably properly oppressed them. And so you can see why they're sitting there going, "There will come a day where our Messiah is going to come, and then we will show you." And now suddenly the Messiah comes and says, "Actually, my kingdom is so big, it's not just for you, but it's also for them." Deeply, deeply, deeply offensive. But what's really amazing about the story is how Jesus walks straight into that synagogue knowing that is what they're thinking. And he stands in who he is, and he declares, "This is who I am, and this is what I've come to do." And I've been thinking a lot lately about how hard it is to be different when your community expects something particular of you. I think this must be one of the hardest things to do. Culture is incredibly strong. I read a book by Trevor Noah a few years ago called Born a Crime. Anyone else read Born a Crime? Such an amazing book. And so interesting because Trevor Noah and I are similar-ish in age, and both grew up in Johannesburg in the 80s. We actually went to the same church for a while, although it was so big we never would have known. I only knew that from reading the book. And I got this chance to really reflect on how different our lives were, how we could-we went to the same place on a Sunday, and yet we had these incredibly different experiences, totally different cultures that we grew up in. And one of the things that he-one of the stories that he tells in this book is how he was living in the townships, and he talked about this power of culture where everybody was hustling, and everybody was struggling a little bit. And actually if somebody started to do well, nobody liked it. And there was one particular story where he says this guy got a job at Nike, and he started doing really well, and he started coming with his nice shoes, and he had these nice clothes, and he was starting to progress in his career and being successful, and everybody made his life so difficult. They teased him so much, they ostracized him so much, that eventually he just let the job go. He quit so that he could belong, even though it was so detrimental to him. These are the awful stories that I read when I was living in the UK about an old care home for older people, and these stories came out about how badly people were treated. And there was a young man there that-it was his first job, and his parents said he's just the most amazing guy, I don't know how he could have been involved in doing these awful things that had been uncovered. And eventually they said it's the power of culture, that's the conclusion everyone drew, the power of culture is that if everybody is pushing in one direction, everybody will go in that direction, and it is very, very, very difficult to not follow the crowd. And yet as followers of Jesus, we're actually required to be set apart, but it's not easy. And here we see Jesus, he is set apart, he knows that he has to look different, and he stands in who he is. And then what happens straight after that, they want to throw him off the cliff. There's this angry mob wanting to throw him off the cliff, and that's why I said this is the best line in the whole thing, and Jesus just walks through the crowd. How do you overcome a whole lot of angry men who want to throw you off the cliff? And I think the lesson in that is that when we overcome the crowd in our own hearts, and we are willing to be set apart, the crowd cannot overcome us. You just walk through, and you do what you are meant to do. He just continues on, and starts to teach, and to cast out demons, and heal the sick, and raise the dead, and be the Messiah that he knows everyone needs, even if they didn't know it themselves. The Kingdom of God was counter-cultural in Jesus' time, and it's counter-cultural in our time, but it is so beautiful. It is exactly what people need. It's exactly what we need, and it's exactly what Cape Town needs. We will not see the fullness of His Kingdom come if we can't shake off the weakness of double-mindedness. You see, the Jews and the synagogues were double-minded. Oh, these are really gracious words. We can feel it. We can feel the grace on this. This is Joseph's son, and it's not what we were expecting. You see, it's double-minded. They can't decide where they sit. And I know that even in my own life, I've had so many moments of that, and I'm like, "Oh, I know that I'm called to this. I know that God, that I know that the gospel is powerful, but then I'm like, "Oh, but I'm praying for this person, and I'm not seeing them healed." And you start to sit on the fence, but we must know who we are and continue to go after all the time, the Kingdom of God, through our lives. We cannot be double-minded. Bill Johnson, the pastor from Bethel, he always says, "You cannot let your level of experience tell you what Scripture says. Cannot reduce Scripture to your level of experience. We read what the Bible says, and then we keep going until our experience matches what he said." So I just want to read a couple of quotes here. This is Derek Morfue. He says this, "Lack of confidence in our identity as beloved sons and daughters of God can paralyze Christians and prevent them from going forth in the authority and anointing of Jesus." And this one from Graham Cook. We are too used to mediocrity, to thinking in small things, but we are called to more than that. We have met Jesus, a man who is incredibly powerful, deeply intentional, and overwhelmingly confident. Nothing phases him, nothing worries him. He is so full of joy that he even sings over his people. He looks at the enemy and laughs. Is that all you've got? He says, "Just bring it." We have made allowances for losing, but a good fight is one that we win. God's will is that Christ would dwell within you, rooting you in his love. His children are supposed to be eagles soaring in the wind, but all too content to be chickens. Fullness is our destiny, but emptiness is our crutch. But it doesn't have to be that way, whether we're pecking on the ground like chickens. Now, where are chickens are so focused on what's right in front of them? But instead, we can choose the flights of the eagle where we lift our eyes to that heavenly perspective. Jesus offers an incredible hope for our age, and that hope is you. That hope is me. Hope is us. Colossians 1.27 says, "To them, God is chosen to make known among the Gentiles the riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory." You are in Christ, and he is in you, the hope of glory. So then when we read these verses again, we can say, "The spirit of the Lord is on you," because he has anointed you or us to proclaim the good news to the poor and the poor of the spirit, to everyone searching for truth. He has sent me to proclaim freedom to the prisoners, and recovery of sight to the blind, to bring a higher perspective that makes sense of the world, to set the oppressed free, all those that are oppressed by the devil or others, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. It is finished, and the kingdom is now. Jesus inaugurated the kingdom, and now his kingdom is advancing through us. But it does require our act of participation. See, he told us to pray on earth as it is in heaven. Now, I know in the vineyard we like to say the kingdom is now, and it's also not yet, and I believe that probably is true, because until the second coming of Jesus, we're not going to experience the fullness of everything that the kingdom is. But that doesn't mean that it's not available right now. And for me, I really believe that this is rooted in who we know ourselves to be. What if the kingdom coming is actually dependent on how much of that identity we've really internalized so that we can bring it? You see, God has always wanted to bring the kingdom with His people. Right from the very beginning, He said to Adam, "Come name the animals with me." It was the original assignment that Adam and Eve would go out and they would extend the kingdom, they would extend that garden of Eden out into all the world. And that's still what Jesus wants to do. He wants to do it with us. Remember Moses, Jesus could have just parted the Red Sea. He could have just liberated the Israelites, but he used Moses. He said, "You lift your staff and do it." He's empowering. We even see Jesus doing this all the time when the 5,000 are hungry and then the 4,000. He says to His disciples, "They're hungry, we'll give them something to eat." He's saying to them, "I've given you everything. I've given you all the authority and I've taught you how to do this. You feed them." And I think He's saying that to us as well, wouldn't it be exciting if we could do this? Why don't you go and do it? Perhaps that's why we haven't seen the fullness of the kingdom come. So yes, the kingdom is here and not yet, but let's not use that as an excuse to disqualify ourselves from becoming people that can really bring the kingdom now. Later in Luke, Jesus says to Peter, "Who do you think I am?" And Peter says the Christ. And here's what Jesus says back to him. He says, "I have given you the kingdom, the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you do not allow on earth will not be allowed in heaven. And anything that you do allow on earth has already been allowed in heaven." So he's given Peter the authority to bring heaven to earth. Anything that is not allowed in heaven cannot be allowed in earth. Sickness is not allowed in heaven, it cannot be allowed on earth. And that's the authority we have. The kingdom of God came through the anointing of the Spirit of Jesus, giving him the authority to inaugurate this kingdom. He delegated the authority to the disciples through the power of the Spirit and Pentecost, and now that authority sits with us. And I understand that for many of you, this is not going to be the first time that you've heard this. But it is we need to keep reminding ourselves over and over again, because it's all too easy to slip back. It's all too easy to sit back and think, "Well, God can do whatever God wants. Of course he can, but his choice is to do it with you and through you." And it takes faith, but it's also faith that pleases him, and that's our lifelong journey. So I've been asking myself in the last couple of weeks preparing this message, "Where can I expand my faith? Where am I thinking too small? Where am I thinking like a chicken? Where am I thinking about what's in front of me? Where am I just looking after my own and not thinking wider?" And I think that's a question that we can all ask ourselves today. Why do we need to ask the Holy Spirit for his perspective? Where do we need to give time to let him inspire us to bring his kingdom to someone near us? Where do I need a clearer view of who he is so I can have a clearer view of who I am? See it's probably a lifetime journey to truly understand who we are. But remember where we started? How do we figure out who we are as by looking at him? We have to go to Jesus, and we have to ask him to take off everything that we're not so that we can learn who we truly are. It's by looking at his face that we become most ourselves, and then we get to show his face to others. Now, you might ask, "How do I seek his face?" Ezekiel 39, 20 says, "I will no longer hide my face from them, for I will pour my spirit upon them." This is the reality that we're looking at, that we're living in at the moment. His face is in his spirit. So every time the Holy Spirit shows up, whether it's in that still small voice, whether it's a revelation of Scripture, whether it's in the healing, the prophetic word, that moment where you feel that manifest presence alone with him and worship, that's when he's transforming us, that's when we're seeing who he truly is. So let's be intent on seeking his face, and letting him show us who we really are. Let's let him set us free and restore clarity to our vision, and help us to unovercome the lives of accusation from the devil. Let's set our mind not to settle for a mediocre gospel, but the year of the Lord's favor. And I just want to finish with the original prophecy from Isaiah 61. See, the promise is beauty for ashes, joy for mourning, praise where there was despair. And then on the other side of that, it says, "Then they will become oaks of righteousness, a display of God's blender, and from this place we restore the ruined cities." So I just want us to just think about that journey for a minute. We bring in our vulnerability, we bring ourselves to the Lord, every part of us that feels like ashes that we need to see beauty. And once we've done that, we stand in it, and then we start to take ground. Last week, Dave led us in a beautiful time of learning how to stand in the armor of God. But once we've stood in the armor of God, we start to walk forward and take ground for his kingdom. So we're going to do some ministry today, because we really want to go after some of these things. I'm going to call Rajap as well. We're going to go after everything that would hold us back from being able to see ourselves truly who we are, and being able to take ground in the kingdom so that we can restore the ruined cities in that delegated authority that we've been given. So let's stand, and the worship team is going to come back. I just had two specific pictures that I felt in the week that I'm just going to share, and if you feel that's for you, if they resonate with you, please put your hand out. These are quite specific, and then we are going to go into a corporate time of ministry as well. But I felt like there might be someone here who's been in a kind of legal battle, and it's been going on and on and on and on. And the picture I saw was of handcuffs, and you've only got one handcuff on, so I feel like there's just a part of it that won't let go, but it's maybe almost over. I'm not sure. But if you're in an ongoing legal battle, it's really wearing you down. And if that applies to everyone, you can just lift your hand quickly. And then the second one, I felt like somebody today had received a letter or an email, something written that had really just knocked the stuffing out of them, something really, really shocking, I think it was maybe for a family member, if that was you, can you also just put your hand up? Okay, thank you. So for the letter, I just felt like right next to the letter, the Lord showed me a picture of a U-turn sign. And I just felt like he wanted to say that he can turn things around, that nobody else can turn around. And I just felt like he wanted to restore some of the faith that when something knocks the stuffing out of you, that he knows the end from the beginning. And so I just pray that whatever situation that was, Lord, we just pray your kingdom come into that situation. If there needs to be a complete turn around, a complete U-turn, Lord, I just pray that you would put that on the heart of the person that sent it. And Lord, if that U-turn needs to happen from the other side, then God, or we need to be open to it, Lord, I just pray that you would do what needs to be done, your kingdom come, your will be done in that situation in Jesus' name. And I just want to do a corporate prayer for anybody who feels like they're under intimidation. So intimidation means to be made to feel small or timid. So perhaps you're facing a situation in your life where you feel small and timid. If that's you, then I want to pray for you, you can just quickly raise your hand, or maybe it means that actually just when you hear this message of the kingdom and you hear the message of taking ground and you just, it just intimidates you. You just feel like that can't possibly be me. Anyone feel like that? Do either of those things, if you just quickly put your hand up, I'm going to pray. So Lord, we thank you that your kingdom is a kingdom of eagles, that your children are meant to be eagles soaring above. So Lord, we just break any place of intimidation, any stronghold of intimidation by the enemy that is stopping your people from being all they were called to be. Lord, would you just come and would you just squish that thing in Jesus' name? Lord, we just pray for expensive vision. We pray for giants in the faith, Lord, that you would show everybody here who feels intimidated, made small or timid in a particular situation or in their life generally. Lord, would you come and bring clear sight to their minds in Jesus' name? Lord, would you come and bring clear sight to their minds in Jesus' name?
Jessie Hayden:- Jesus: Jesus Inaugurates The Kingdom. Pt.21
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