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And in this multiplication year, multiplication always starts with movement. And every move you make in faith unlocks something in heaven. So we like the result of planting the seed. But it's the process of making the move to plant the seed in the first place. He said, "But every time I start doing something right, God, my car breaks down. Uh something happens at my house, the dishwasher breaks, somebody hit me, and every time I start working ON SOMETHING, IT FEELS like somebody's picking on me." AND GOD SAID, "OF COURSE I PROTECT YOU. That's me. I'm protecting you and pruning you, but heaven cannot fill your hands if your hands are closed."
I'm so glad to be here. Uh child dedication weekend. And Saturday, what is Saturday about? It's about making moves that get multiplication. You can do the same thing over and over again and then we get the same results over and over again, right? And how many of you are ready for something new? Say me. Me. I'm ready for something new. And even when something new is right in front of us, sometimes we don't grab it, right? Uh I'm not real good at Well, I can cook when I think about it. The problem is I don't think about it until I'm already starving, right? Like I'm kind of add I'm everywhere. I'm doing everything. And then I'm like I'm fainting. And my husband's like, "What's your problem? Would you eat less?" I'm like, "Yesterday morning." He's like, "We have to eat now." And so that was me. I was home alone yesterday. Pastor David's at Fairview Heights. Hey Fairview. Hey honey. Oh, sorry y'all. I just had a mental snack.
Um, so where was I? Snack refrigerator. I was at my refrigerator. And so I opened the door and y'all were moving. We have like three bottles of water. We have a ketchup, a mustard, some soy sauce packets. Why did we move those? And two containers of yogurt. One I bought right before we moved from the last house and one I bought in this house. So, I looked at the new one. I'm like, "Oh, December 3rd. We're good." I grabbed the old one and the expiration date's like October 24th or something. And I'm like, "Okay, well, 25th 26th, 27th." I mean, it's yogurt. What's it going to do? Go sour? It's already sour. It's yogurt. Like, and even though I had like a little kind of in my little tummy, I just started dishing it up. I only had this many berries left. I had like six berries in the whole refrigerator. They were kind of skanky. I I I rinsed them off, put them in there. My my protein still not feeling real great about it. You know, the consistency is a little watery. And I go to take a bite and I hear the Holy Spirit tell me, "How loud do I have to say it? Oh, y'all think that's funny?" Like you listen to the Holy Spirit. And I just paused right there and I was like, "I'm sorry, Holy Spirit. I I don't I don't mean to make you say things that loud." And he's like, "Yeah, my people are holding on to so many things that are past their expiration date."
Because if we want to make moves that get multiplication, we have to have open hands. Everybody say, "All campuses say open hands." We got to have open hands. Because if we don't have an open hand, we definitely don't have an open mind. If we don't have an open mind, we don't have an open heart. And if we don't have an open heart, we're not going to consider it because we've already made a decision. I'm not going to waste the old yogurt because my husband might find out that I ordered too much yogurt even though he's in another city and if I throw it in the trash can it needs to be half empty because I'm sure he's going to jump on an airplane from Fairview Heights to Florida to check the trash to make sure I ate the yogurt. And I would love to tell you that it's a one-time thing with us or that it's like a one-issue thing with us, but as I was getting dressed, um, Erica, could you bring me my shoe box? Y'all don't hate on the amazing shoe brands that I buy. You two can shop at Target and Macy's and we'll be fine. Um, so I'm like, I I I put these shoes on the other day. I took a pair of shoes to the office and they're like the brown suede boots. They're in style. Mine are as old as my daughter, like 20 years, but they look good and they're back in style. I'm like, "Yeah, pull them off the shelf, put them on." I used the bathroom at the office and I'm like, I had a twisted sock. Anybody ever had a twisted sock and a boot? I'm like, "Oh man, I got to take this boot off. I got to straighten the sock off." I take the boot off and as I take the boot off, all of these little speckles Oh, you've been there, too? the inside of the boot has disintegrated. So I come out of the restroom, I'm like, "I need a broom." And they're like, "Pastor, we got you. We got you." So Janna at Sunset Hill, she goes, "Pastor, I got you. I will clean up after you, but you got to get rid of those boots." Of course. So I came home. I put them in a box. We were going to have the funeral. And as I go to put the box in the trash, I'm like, I can't do it. They're in style. I'll do it next year. and I put them back on the shelf. Holy Spirit trying to tell me stuff that's in St. Louis. I come to Florida. I go to get my outfit on and I pull out my kneelength boots that are going to match my outfit and they're not just crumbling on the inside because see when when we're crumbling on the inside, other people can't see it. But these I didn't wear these today cuz they're crumbling on the outside. And what happens is a lot of us are crumbling on the inside because we're in the wrong place. We're not in our call. We're not in our lane. We're not in our purpose. We're not chasing God. We're crumbling on the inside, but we're not going to do anything about it till we start crumbling on the outside. And the Lord told me, "If you won't even clear out what's crumbling, so good. How can I give you what's coming?" Somebody say, "You got to clear out the old." These are going in the trash. I'm never going to see them again. I'm just Everybody in sync these boots. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. See you. I'm going to miss you. They were so cute in their day. $50. I'll never get back.
Okay. So, the scripture for this, if you came for a child dedication, do not worry. My husband will be back preaching next week. Okay. Our scripture for this is something that the Lord spoke to me in September and I have not been able to let go of it. And I don't know that I've ever preached out of Leviticus before. But the Lord told me once upon a time, you only get as much revelation as you seek out. And so when the Lord gave me this scripture in September, I told my husband, there's something to this. I have to dig into it. And so I've been digging since the beginning of September. And here we are in November and we're going to dive into Leviticus 26:10. And Leviticus 26:10 says, "You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out." And make room for the new. Turn to your neighbor on campuses and say, "You better make room. You better make room. You better make room." You know, no. Let's change that. Turn to your neighbor. Say, "You got to move it. Move it." You know, some of us that can be a good thing. You can still be eating off last year's blessing, last year's harvest. 2025 is the year of grace multiplied. For some of us, good things have happened. And we're like, I like it in this place. I like it where I am, Lord. But don't get too comfortable in your calling because God is going to take you from faith to faith, level to level, victory to victory. And then some of us are like, "No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm ready to move it. Move it." But we're holding on to a little bitterness, holding on to uh last year's revelation. We're holding on to last year's hurt. We're holding on to last year's layoff. Tell your neighbor, "You can't bring that into next year." Tell them, "Let it go. Let it go." I think I might figure out how many songs I can put in this message today. I'm doing this impromptu, so don't judge me. Okay. 2025, the year of grace multiply five. The biblical number of grace times five. The biblical number of grace multiplied equals 25. And as I was studying this scripture just yesterday for this message, I was like, Lord, what is this? He said, it's Leviticus 26. That's good. He said, "As you're in grace multiplied into 2026, you are you are building on it. It's not just another year. It's a multiplication year." Everybody say, "A multiplication year." And in this multiplication year, multiplication always starts with movement.
So, would you hear me in my Bible real quick? You I'm a I'm a huge fan of a paper Bible and um I just I can't get away from it. But I took a picture of Leviticus 26 in the very beginning of the chapter. Will you guys put that up for me? Yeah. Okay. Paper Bible without a table. I'm just going to have to quote it to you. So, but when you go to the very top in my Bible, it says the rewards for obeying God. And that was one of the things that God just was kind of scratching on my heart. He said, you know, some people are going to hear 2025, the year of grace multiplied. Some people are going to hear Leviticus 26 that 2026 you'll still be eating last year's harvest when you have to move it out. You have to move out some of the things you still love. Some of those things you're still eating. Some of the yogurt that still might be good. Some of the boots that are crumbling on the inside that you can wear one more time. You will have to move it out to make room for the new. But we're so busy holding on to the 20-year-old boots and the half crusty yogurt that God's like, "I've got provision and sustenance you know not of. You just can't fit it in your closet or your refrigerator."
Come on. I know. Is this is this hitting you? Ferguson Florison, WHO AM I TALKING to today? Is this hitting you? So, we have to believe that there are rewards. So, that's that those are some words, but those aren't scripture. So, what's some scripture for that? I always like to make sure it's at least in three places. And and just three places off the top of my head is Hebrews 11:6. So many of us know, right, that without faith, it's impossible to please God. Yeah, we know that part and I believe that part and I believe that's one of the things he's speaking to us today is we have to have faith because you can't be comfortable and be in faith at the same time because faith will take you places that you cannot go by yourself. So, Sunset Hills, if you if you are accomplished and you're like, I've got this. I know what I'm doing. I'm calling you to get uncomfortable today because God wants to move you. Why? So he can reward you. It's impossible. please him. For he he comes, right? For he comes. For he who comes to God must believe that he is because he is a rewarder. Everybody say a rewarder. Rewarder. Colossians 3:24 it says, "Since you know you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward." Right? Ephesians 6:8 says, "Because you know the Lord will reward you for whatever good you do." Here's the point. I want you to believe that God's not out here to judge you, to crush you, to push you down, to bring your sins into remembrance, to hurt you, to harm you. He just can't wait till you screw up so he can kick you out of the way. Your last boyfriend or your last girlfriend might have treated you that way, but I'm here to tell you, your God is a good God. He is faithful and he's looking to lift you up. Turn to your neighbor and say, "You got to move it. Move it." And every move you make in faith unlocks something in heaven. But heaven cannot fill your hands if your hands are closed.
So let's back up in Leviticus 26 just a little bit. Go to verse three if they'll put that on the screens at all the campuses. It says, "If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and perform them," Okay, I just want to pause right there by the Holy Ghost. Don't disqualify yourself because you screwed up. God knew that we were going to screw up and that we are human and that is why he sent Jesus to the cross. So when we screw up, we confess it. We repent and we turn and we go the other way. Right? Turn to your neighbor and says, "God forgave you. God forgave you. I'm working on it." Then I will give you rain in its season. Listen to this. and the land shall yield its produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. I got stuck there for a minute because I started thinking about what God was saying there. And he said, "Land, when do farmers plant?" They plant in the spring. They plant at the beginning of the season. He said, "When do farmers harvest?" Well, it's fall. We're harvest time. They harvest in the fall. He said, "What you plant in the land will yield a harvest in the same year, but what you sow as an offering, what you sew as fruit becomes a tree. And a tree does not produce fruit immediately. But a tree will produce fruit continually." So when you go into this next scripture on the uh verse 5, your threshing shall last until the time of vintage and the vintage until the time of sewing and you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely. What's that saying? It's saying your refrigerator is never going to be empty. It's saying that when they let you offer your job, it's good because there's another job waiting for you. It's saying when your friend gets a little crazy and betrays you, it's okay because there's a friend who's going to call you up to another level. It's saying that THERE IS A GOD WHO WILL forgive you. And not only forgive you, when you get your heart right, he promotes you to A NEXT LEVEL. IT'S SAYING THAT THERE is a next for you. AND YOU DON'T HAVE to wait and you don't have to sit THERE AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE DOWN BECAUSE GOD IS FAITHFUL. HE IS GENEROUS. HE IS A PROVIDER. He is a healer. He is a peacegiver. He's a wheel in the middle of the wheel. He's a lion OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. HE'S A BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR. HE'S A LILY OF THE VALLEY. HE'S A SHARING. COME ON, SOMEBODY.
But we forget that God is better than an apple orchard. So we love apple orchards, right? In St. Louis and in Illinois, we have Eerts and we go pick there. Y'all ever been to Benders in Florida? Got Benders and and so we've been there. I I've got some pictures and stuff I pulled off of my Instagram from there's the apple fields and stuff in in uh I think we were in Illinois that day. It's over in Illinois. It's Zackard's fields and we went out. We picked some apples and we had such a great time and I looked around and I saw the orchard and I started thinking, how did this orchard get here? And I realized it got there one seed at a time. So let's let's talk about seeds, right? Because you can tell how many seeds are in an apple if we cut this apple open. I don't have a knife. Great. Now I got to talk with my mouth full. Okay, it's going to take a while to get the seeds, but we could count eight, nine, 10 seeds. You can tell how many seeds are in an apple, but it's hard to tell how many apples are in a seed. So when you sew your seed, tell your neighbor, "I know you're a sewer." When you sew your seed, you don't know how many apples are going to be generated. So I started doing the research and I'm like, "Well, I want to know about this." So cuz I'm nerdy. Is it okay to be a nerdy pastor? I'm like, "Okay, one seed when you plant it grows 10,750 apples. What if one seed is a minute? What if one seed is a deed of kindness? What if one seed is a dollar? What is your seed? Ask your neighbor, "What's your seed?" So, if you take those 10,750 apples and you open them up, you're going to get approximately 86,000 seeds all from the first seed. If you take those 86,000 seeds and you don't just sit there and Actually, I'm the person in my family who can't stand chewing with the mouth open. So, for the fact that I did that, I just cringed myself out. You plant 86,000 seeds, you get 924,500,000 apples. What do you get? YOU GET I'LL STILL BE EATING LAST YEAR'S HARVEST CUZ I GOT 10,000 OF THESE APPLES AND I GOT TO EAT 27 OF THEM ALL DAY. WHEN I'M GOING TO BE GETTING ENOUGH SEED THAT I'M GOING TO BE FULL OF MYSELF. I PROVIDE SEED FOR THE SEWER. I PROVIDE BREAD FOR the eater. I'm going to have enough to eat, ENOUGH TO SEW, ENOUGH TO HELP PEOPLE, ENOUGH TO REACH OUT AND MAKE SURE NEEDS ARE MET, ENOUGH TO GIVE TO THE FOOD PANTRY, ENOUGH TO HELP my neighbor, ENOUGH TO BUY THE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS, ENOUGH TO PAY THE MORTGAGE, ENOUGH TO PAY IT OFF. I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, GOD IS MORE THAN ENOUGH. IF YOU BELIEVE IT, you give him some praise in this house.
Y'all, God is good at girl math. Y'all don't know what girl math is. You got to look it up on TikTok. You're going to have a lot of fun. So, we like the result of planting the seed, but it's the process of making the move to plant the seed in the first place. Okay. So, what what is that like? It's like a tree. I'm going to put this in the basket. So, um if you go to the basket, don't eat this one. This is an apple tree. It's so pretty, right? I'm gonna bring it over here so all the campuses can see it. Look at this. Did you know that apple trees had such pretty little flowers? I know. They're beautiful. I'm like, I kind of want to plant one at my house because I'll get all the flowers and I'll get all the apples. The thing about an apple tree is this. You plant the tree and you don't get fruit this year. Now, if I pre If I plant wheat, I get fruit this year. But if I plant an apple tree, I don't. If we plant wheat, we get fruit this year, but we only get it for one year. If we give an offering, we plant apples, we don't get it this year, the next year, the next year, the next year. But this tree will produce fruit for 20, 30, and 40 years. But how do you get it to produce fruit? Because I think that's where a lot of us are. We're like, "God, I've been doing this for a while. I mean, I've been coming to church for six months. God, I've been serving on a dream team for a year. God, I've been reading my Bible every day. Like, like almost every day, God, like four out of five days, five out of seven days, I've been reading my Bible for like two years now, and I haven't seen the change." He's like, "Hold on a minute. Ouch. I mean, who in their right mind would pick a flower off a beautiful tree and throw it off? Why would somebody do that? Well, I won't explain it to you. Let Tik Tok explain it to you. Look at Tik Tok. This is my one-year-old apple tree. I planted this last year and it's doing so well and it pushed out a whole bunch of blossoms. But I'm going to pick them off for the first 3 years so that this tree focuses on getting a really strong root system before trying to grow fruit. So, it's kind of sad to pick these off. It's doing such a good job pushing these out, but we want strong roots. So, I will do this for two more years, and then on its fourth year, I'll let it start to grow fruit. Wow. You know, some of us like I feel like a tree. The the Bible even says be like a tree planted by living waters. Like God, I feel like a tree and I feel like I finally planted myself. I feel like I've been growing roots. The Bible says to be rooted and grounded in love and God is love. He said, "But every time I start doing something right, God, my car breaks down. Uh something happens at my house, the dishwasher breaks, somebody hit me. Uh uh my best friend left. I got betrayed. I got laid off. You see what's happening with the economy, God? AND EVERY TIME I START WORKING ON SOMETHING, IT FEELS LIKE somebody's picking on me. They're pulling stuff OUT OF ME, GOD. WHAT'S GOING ON? DON'T YOU LIKE ME? Don't you PROTECT ME? AND GOD SAID, "OF COURSE I PROTECT YOU. THAT'S ME. I'M PROTECTING YOU and pruning you. I'm pruning you because I'm preparing you. I'M PREPARING YOU NOT TO BE A ONE SEASON, NOT TO BE A ONE YEAR, NOT TO BE A ONE-HIT WONDER, NOT TO BE A ONE-TIME HARVEST, BUT I'M PRODUCING YOU TO BE A FRUITFUL TREE for years that you can feed your family, YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN, A legacy blessing. Do you believe God is a legacy God? Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Y'all feel the spirit of God moving. Y'all, there is preparation before provision. If you want to have something, you got to be able to hold something.
So, let's go let's go for a minute to second Kings 3. And let me set up this story for you, right? The nation of Israel, y'all, they're human. They got mad at each other. They divided in two and they have became Judah and Israel. So, there's one king of Judah, one king of Israel. They're in trouble, both of them. So, they got to get along and make an alliance to try and fight their enemy, Moab, the Moabites. And they're like, "How are we going to do this, guys? Will you Will you be my partner?" "Yeah, okay. We'll be your partner." And like, "What are we going to do? We've been We've been being picked on." Oh, wow. They got picked on. So, they had to work together. All right, God. I see you. We've been picked on. We're going to die. We have to work together. So, how do we get to the enemy? They started surveying the situation. And the only way to get to the enemy was to go through a desert. You know, if you're a notetaker, write this down. When God is trying to multiply you, he'll make you move. Okay? Now, before you break your lease, put your house on the market, or turn in your two weeks notice, that's flesh. Everybody say, "That's flesh." I'm talking internal. He's going to move your prayer life. He's going to make you say, "I'm sorry." He's going to get you vulnerable with your partner. He's going to get you vulnerable with your best friend. He's going to get you vulnerable in your small group. He's going to make you move into an accountability group that's going to strengthen you. He's going to move you into friendships that make you better. He's going to move you deeper into the word of God. And he's going to say things like, "How loud I got to say it?" Turn to your neighbor and say, "I'm making moves. making. I'm making moves." So when God is trying to multiply, he's going to make you move. So he made these guys move to work together. Then he made them move through a desert. Well, why why did they have to go through the desert? And so they get to the desert and they haven't had anything to drink in seven days. Y'all, I'm not talking they didn't have anything to drink like they didn't get a shot of Jack Daniels. No water, no soda, no Diet Coke. They were fresh out of Cook Zero, nothing for seven days. So when they're there, they finally consult the prophet, which is their way of accessing God in the Old Testament. And the prophet says to them, Elijah says to them in verse 16, "Make this valley, this low place." Sometimes you got to go low to get high. out of the way. Make this valley, this low place that is dry, that is barren, that you cannot plant, that there is no seed, that you can't make any money, that there is no money in the bank account. Make this valley full of ditches. And then God says, I'm not going to do it the way you think that I'm going to do it because here's something else you can write down. When God is working on your miracle, your miracle is never going to make sense. Because if miracles made sense, we would do them ourselves. So God said, "I'm not going to do something that you can concept, something you can think of, or a way that you can see, because I'm a God that makes a way where there is no way. I'm a God that shows up when you have no other option." So of course, Isaiah 55, I don't think like you think. I don't do what you do. So he says, "Thus sayith the Lord, you will not see wind. You're not going to see rain. And yet the valley is going to be filled with water so that you, your cattle, and your animals can drink. He will deliver the Moabites in to your hand. What is asking? What is God asking you to do? That makes no sense. Now, that doesn't make sense. You had So, these guys have to go and they have to convince an army to grab shovels. They didn't bring shovels. grab swords, grab picks, grab their grab their vest, grab something to start digging in and making ditches and make it full of ditches. You can't dig one little hole and say, "Okay, that's full of ditches." No, you have to dig and dig and dig and dig and you're tired and you're thirsty and you're dehydrated and you are sick and you are weak and you are pretty sure you're gonna die. And God says, "Go work hard. go dig ditches. And then 2 Kings 3:20, it says, "Now it happened in the morning." So he told them, "Dig dishes." I guess they had to dig ditches all night. And they had to be thinking, "Okay, this prophet is an idiot cuz we've been digging all night. It is morning. They're going to find us. He wasted our time. I told you what they said would not work." Hold up. Wait a minute. Just see what God does. What does God do? Well, I know you've been working all night and I know you were finally listening. By the way, obedience is the blessing exchange, but I'm going to pick just a little more off you. And they said, "Go give a grain offering." God, I've been doing all this stuff and now you want an offering. Fine. Okay, here we go. And it says, "And when the grain offering was offered that suddenly water came by the way of Eden and the land was filled with water." How did God suddenly fill all the ditches when they couldn't see anything happening? There wasn't any rain. They couldn't Oh, I can smell rain. They didn't hear any They didn't hear any pitterpatter anywhere. They didn't like, "Oo, my joints are achy. I feel it. It's raining somewhere." There was no sign of any rain. There was no sign of any water. But when you see a suddenly show up in your life, God has been working on your suddenly for A LONG TIME. GOD HAS been planning your suddenly for years.
Before I tell you what happened, let me tell you what happened to Pastor Austin. Pastor Austin's at RPC right now. Pastor Austin, he was he was like seven years old. He was at Johnson Shutins, St. Louis. It's this big river with these huge rocks and they make like these natural water slides and you play in the river and you slide through the rocks. And my mom and dad and Austin were all at the river with my sister and I was dating David. We got a date day. And I thought it was great until it was like six o'clock and they weren't home. And 7 o'clock not home. 8 o'clock, nine o'clock, 10 o'clock, no home, no call, no nothing. I'd only been dating David for a few weeks, but I said, "Sir, I don't know how well you know me, but I'm about to know you. I'm going to go clean your closets cuz that's when I do when I stress. Look out. Look out. Look out." I'm cleaning through his closets. And after that, we got married. So, they were swimming and my mom said, "All of a sudden, I saw your dad's flip-flops going down the river." And I said, she said, "Rob, you left your flip-flops in the river." He said, "No, Nancy, my flip-flops were way off the river. Run." You see, what had happened at Johnson Shutins that day is miles up river, a torrential rain had come and all of the water went rushing into the river. It went rushing to the river and it made this thing called a flash flood and the river rose so fast. They were they literally called out police and sheriffs and helicopters and and special agents and they're making bridges across the river because people were stranded in hot places that they couldn't get to. Austin had no shoes, no clothes, swim trunks till 10:00 at night trying to get away from this flash flood. I'm telling you, when God when they said suddenly this water came from Edom, it wasn't like oh wow, suddenly there's water in the ditches. No. A roaring flood of God's favor came in from a place THEY DID NOT EXPECT and and filled the ditches suddenly. Everybody say, "Suddenly." If there were no ditches, there would be no water retention. I put on Instagram, I don't know, a few weeks ago, and I didn't know it was going to resonate so hard. So many people liked it. The pain of obedience is the price of the blessing. What is God asking you to do? What is he asking you to move? Is he asking you to dig the ditch? Is he asking you to join the group? Is he asking you to become a tither? Is he asking you to call up the person you offended and take responsibility for your words? What is he what is he asking you to do? It's not for your pain. It's for your pleasure. So the water comes and here's what happens as we start to wrap up. 2 Kings 3:22, they rose up early in the morning and the sun was shining on the water and the Moabites saw the water on the other side and it looked like blood. So it says then it says that the Moabites thought it was blood and they're like, "Oh my gosh, we knew Judah and Israel couldn't get along. They've killed each other. Let's go get the spoil. Let's go take their coats, their shoes, their jewelry. We're going to pull it off the dead bodies." They left their swords and went running down and Israel and Judah won the war. What did they use as their main weapon? For seven days, what looked like death because they didn't have the water that they needed was actually God storing up their life and their victory so that he could release it in a moment. Come on, somebody. To save not just their prosperity, but their lives. But sometimes we have to be thirsty enough. We have to be desperate enough to start digging. We have to be desperate enough to start listening. We have to be desperate enough to go, God, this makes no sense, but I know you've got it scratching on me to throw the yogurt away. Doesn't make I'm just going to do it, God. I'm just going to do it. And when you do it, can I wrap up with Leviticus 26? Can I Can I take it home? Can I take his back? He says, "I'm going to give you peace in the land. You're going to lie down and none will make you afraid. I'm going to get the land rid of evil beasts." Yeah, that could be your ex. That's the Nicole commentary. And the sword will not go through your land. You will chase your enemies and they will fall by the sword before you. Now see this next verse prophetically. Five of you, we're in 2025. Five is the number of what? Grace. Five of you shall chase 100. Wait a minute. That's multiplication. If five can chase a hundred, what's five? Five is your small group. Five is your connect group. Did you get in a connect group yet? You're missing your multiplication. If you're not in a connect group and connecting with Christians who are taking you deeper and praying for you, one puts a thousand to flight. Two puts 10,000 to flight. What is that? It's multiplication. You need somebody to pray with. Everybody say connect group. Connect group. And it says a hundred of you shall put 10,000 to flight. 100 of you look around the room. What is it? That's church. You get in your small group. You pray with them. You get in church. You worship together. And it magnifies your power in your prayer. And your enemy shall fall before you. I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful. That's not Oh, yeah. That is my apple first time. It looks so good on the other side. I thought it wasn't mine. He says, "I will make you fruitful. I will multiply you." I told you it was multiplication. And confirm my covenant. The Lord's just got the word multiplication resounding in my spirit for 2026. And I want multiplication in my life. But to get the multiplication of God, we've got to make a move. We got to make moves that make multiplication. We got to get obedient. We got to do the things we were scared to do. We got to start listening to God. We can't hold on to last year's boots and have our hands open for this year's apples. We got to plant this year to get this year's harvest. And we got to offer this year to get our fruitful sustenance. God's got a plan and he's working it in you.
So, as I close, every head bowed and every I close for one moment. If this was you, if you're like, I know God's been like scratching on me to make a move and I haven't made it yet and I want you to pray for me, Pastor Nicole, would you raise your hand? All campuses so I know who I'm praying for. Oh my gosh, so many hands at West Palm Beach. So many hands. Go ahead and put them down. Father God, I pray over every hand. Every person, every soul, every finger, every thought, every need, every desire, God, you know what it is. We don't have to speak it, but God, right now, each one of us, everyone, whisper that need, that desire, that thing. Just whisper it so quiet. Just only to God. Just move your lips. You don't even have to make a sound. Just tell God what it is. Move your lips. There's power in your words. And then everybody say, "I need you, God. God, move on my life. I am an instrument in your hands. I will listen. I will move. Use me." Father God, I just pray over every person. I decree your blessing. I decree your favor. I decree your breakthrough. Holy Spirit, I ask you to whisper the things like, "How many times do I have to tell you? How loud do I have to speak?" Speak, Lord, for your servant listens. incline our ear to you, God. Amplify our hearing. Give us spiritual hearing aids so that we can walk into the fruitfulness that you have for us. In Jesus' name we pray. And all campuses said, "Amen." And amen. Was that okay for today?
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