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Ooh. They want me to cry straight up. Yeah. And I am. First of all, I'd like to say thank you. See, I'm already Reagan, don't look at me. Thank you to Geo and Destiny for this honor. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I'm honored and humbled.
But, first thing I'd like to do this morning is follow Destiny's example. Who better to follow in the house, right? So, every time she gets up and speaks, she always sings a song, right? She always sings. And of course, she would. She has that beautiful, anointed voice. Well, I have a song I'd LIKE TO SING. AND don't judge me for my voice. No, I am no Destiny Munoz.
And Happy Mother's Day to all the moms in the room. And although it is Mother's Day, it's also Participation Sunday. I want everybody to help me sing this song. And I am sure that all the moms and the grandmas know this song. And it's all about love. And what better song to sing that's all about love? Amen. Are you ready? Are you going to participate? All right, here we go.
"I love you, you love me, we're a happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you. Won't you say..."
Here's a funny story. The first time I told Jessie and Jamie that I would be speaking this morning, the first thing out of Jamie's mouth was, "You're not going to embarrass us, are you?" And I said, "Absolutely. Yes, I am, and I just did."
So, everybody, you found your questionnaire on your seats. What I need you to do is check off everything that you have experienced or are experiencing in right now. And raise your hand. Raise your questionnaire when you're done. And we have extra pens and pencils in the back if you need them. I'll give you about 10 seconds.
What this is going to do is some people learn just by talking to them, and other people learn, like myself, visually. It clicks in my brain when I see something rather than just you talking to me. I mean, it'll click, but it takes a little longer. This is going to reveal to you that the enemy talks to each of us the same way. When you're going through a valley, you think, "Oh, I'm the only one that's going through this. Nobody understands me. Nobody gets what I'm going through." And that's a lie. Yes. That's a lie, and we are going to expose the lies of the enemy this morning. Amen. And we are going to break the chains of the lies that we have come into agreement with this morning. Yes. Are you with me?
All right, raise your Raise your questionnaire up if you're done. Oh, you guys understood the assignment. That's great. Now, what I want you to do is switch. Switch with the person to the right, behind you, in front of you. Switch up. Switch up. I don't want you holding your questionnaire.
All right, so now, when I read the question, if it is checked on your questionnaire, I want you to stand up. All right. Are you ready?
Have you felt the pain of rejection? Stand up if it's checked. Whoa. Do y'all see that? Look around. Just about everybody is standing up. Do you see that? All right, sit down.
Have you spoken negatively about yourself? Stand up. Oh my gosh. Y'all. Look at this. All right.
I have let unforgiveness take root in my heart. OH, Y'ALL ARE STILL JUST STANDING. ALL RIGHT, SIT DOWN. MAYBE.
I have suffered from depression and anxiety. Oh my gosh. Last one, I have been unhappy with my life. Oh my gosh, give the Lord a hand.
So, what happens is you feel the pain of rejection. Let's say Reagan did not invite you out to dinner. She only invited a few. And now you feel rejected. And then you start speaking negatively about yourself. "Oh, there must be something wrong with me. I must be too much. Or I must not talk enough. Or she just don't like my personality." So, if Reagan doesn't like me, hm, nobody else does. And then you get unforgiveness. When you see Reagan walking in, you go, hm. And you turn around and walk away. Now you've got a problem with Reagan, and she has no idea. She has no idea. And now you're thinking, oh, now you're getting depressed. Because now you're thinking nobody's going to invite you anywhere because you're this, that, and the other. Right? And then you come unhappy with your life 'cause you're in your bedroom depressed because you didn't get invited thinking that nobody likes you and life and your life just sucks. All because of one thought. And that one thought is a lie. And I am tired of our my brothers and sisters being manipulated, being controlled by a lie. And we are going to expose those lies this morning.
What I do, and y'all may laugh about this, but what I do is I go like this. "He's under my feet. He's under my feet. He's under my feet. He's under my feet." And if I'm driving down the road and I get this weird thought, "Katie didn't look at me this morning. Uh-oh, I might have I must have done something wrong. Oh, she don't like me." My right foot's on the gas or the brake, but my left foot's going like this. "He's under my feet. He's under my feet." That's just a lie from the enemy, and he wants to distract you from what God wants you to do. And we can't just cave in and go, "Oh, that's right. Katie doesn't like me." That's not true. She loves everybody, right? But what you have to do is you have to put on the armor of God. You have to have your shield up, your breastplate on, your sword, reading the word of God every single day. I'm not the only one that gets those weird thoughts. I know I'm not because the enemy, we just saw, spoke to each and every one of us the same way. The same way. So, we're not going to fall for him anymore, right? We're not doing it. I want to see people's feet going like this. When you get a weird thought, boop boop boop, "He's under your feet. He's under your feet."
And I want you to tell you I want to tell you that you are not too much. You are not too shy. You are not too messed up for God to use you. That is a lie. You are never ever too. He loves messed up people. Come on. Look at the apostles, right? Look at me. I was totally messed up when I gave my life to the Lord at 17. You are enough. I You are enough. I want you to be encouraged, men and women, that you are enough. God made you the way he wanted you to be. Don't try to be Sherry. Don't try to be Rachel. You be you. Jesus needs you to be you.
So, if you would, go with me to 2 Kings. This morning, we're going to be talking about the Shunammite woman. And listen, what bugs me the most about this woman, she is a remarkable woman, deep-rooted faith, woman of God. But she doesn't have a name. The Bible just calls her Shunammite woman. So, if it's okay with you guys, I'm giving her a name. I'm going to call her Shuna for short. I figured that fit. So, let me give you a little background. The Bible says that Shuna was a wealthy woman. She was generous and hospitable. She apparently lived on the main road of Shuna, Shunem, because she noticed that Elisha came by frequently. So, what she did is she invited him in for a meal and told him any time he comes by, just come on in. All right.
So, let's read start verse 8, chapter 4, verse 8. It says, "One day Elisha went on to the Shunem, and where a wealthy woman lived, who urged him to eat some food. So, whenever he passed that way, he would just turn in there to eat food. And she said to her husband, 'Behold now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who is continually passing our way. Let us make a small room on the roof with walls, and put there for him a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp. So, whenever he comes to us, he can go up there.'"
Now, let's stop. It wasn't extravagant, but it was intentional. Now, some of you know me, I would have got on my phone, Amazon Prime. "I need a comforter, a quilt, I need a throw, I need a couple fluffy pillows for the man of God. I'd call Destiny, 'Get me a rug, so it matches here, you know, the coral color.' I'd get a little refrigerator, 'cause I'm going to have a Keurig for the man of God for his coffee or his tea. And oh, oh, wait, don't forget the microwave, because he's going to be sitting in his lazy boy chair eating his popcorn at night.'" That would have been me, but it wasn't about the external. It was about the spiritual. She was more about honoring the presence of God and the man of God, and making him comfortable. It was about honor. She was honoring the man of God. And because of her honor and her kindness, a promise was released. She got a son. And she didn't even ask for a son.
Let's read verse 11 quickly. "One day he came there and he turned into the chamber and rested there. And then he asked his servant Gehazi, 'Call this Shunammite.' See, he didn't even call her by name. 'Call this Shun- Shuna.' I'm going to call her Shuna. When he had called her now, and he said to her, 'Say now, see, you have taken all this trouble for us. What is it that I can do for you? Would you have a word spoken on your behalf to the king or to the commander of the army?'" And she answered, "Uh I dwell among my own people." In other words, she's like, "I'm good. I've got everything. I don't need you to do that for me." So Geha- So he said, "What then is to be done for you?" And Gehazi answered him, "Well, she has no son, and her husband is old." And he said, "Call her back." And when she had he had called her, she stood in the doorway and he said, "At this season, about this time next year, you shall embrace a son." And she said, "No, my lord, oh man of God, do not lie to your servant." But the woman conceived and she bore a son about that time the following spring just as Elisha had said to her.
Now, this tells me she was a bold woman 'cause she's telling the prophet Elisha, "Man of God, hey man, don't mess with me. Don't mess with my emotions. That is a sensitive subject in our household about not having kids. So, don't mess with me." But he said you will bear a child next year. Now she is remarkable up to this point. But now she's ready to take it to the next level. Watch what she does and the faith that she has. We've been talking about faith, Pastor Steven, Pastor Geo. It's going to raise a whole new level.
Verse 18, "When the child had grown, he went out one day to his father among the reapers and he said to his father, 'Oh my head, oh my head.' And the father said to his servant, 'Carry him to his mother.' And when he had lifted him and brought him to his mother, the child sat on her lap till noon and then he died."
And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, shut the door behind him and went out. Then she called to her husband and said, "Send me one of the servants and one of the donkeys that I may quickly go to the man of God and come back." And he said, "Why? Why are you going today? It's neither new moon nor Sabbath." And she said, "All is well. It is well."
And then if you read on, I encourage you to read the whole story about the Shunammite woman. But as you read on, she's approaching Elisha's house and he sees her. So he sends Gehazi out and Gehazi asks her, "Is everything okay? Is everybody okay?" And she tells him, "All is well. It is well."
I would like to think that I would respond in that way. But probably not. I would think that Jay would take one look at me when I said, "Hey, start the car. I need to go see Geo right now." And Jay would go, "Whoa, what is happening?" All he would have to do is look at my face. But she did not do that. She did not panic. She did not announce it to everybody. She brought her son where the presence of God rested. Where the prophet of God slept many nights. And in this today's language, she went straight to God. She said, "Lord, have mercy." It didn't look well. It didn't feel well. But she refused to let her situation speak louder than her belief in God. She stood strong. She stood steady in a situation that would pretty much break a lot of us, myself included. And God responded. God raised her son from the dead.
So, what do we learn from Shuna? There's a lot of different lessons we can learn from her, but for me, this is two major things. We must always, number one is we must always make room for God. Always. Now, Jay and I had a rough patch in our marriage at one time. And I was checked out, y'all. I was done. And I was 99.9% sure we were divorced. Jamie was at UF, I drove up, told her told Eric we're done. But God. But God. And I mean, like I said, I was checked out. I was done. And two men from Louisiana came in for a youth rally one year and one of them point to Jay and I and said, "Bridges have been burned, but the Lord's going to build them back up." And Jay looked at me like and I looked at him and said I walked out to those woods and I said, "God, how cruel can you be? That's not going to happen. I'm done. We're done." And then another man said to me, he pointed me out one night. He They These two guys didn't know us from Adam. And he pointed at me. And he said, "The Lord is going to line up your family." And I was like, "Good Lord, what?" And I said, "Say that again." And I walked a little closer. And he said, "The Lord is going to line up your family." And I'm like, "No." I walked a little closer and I said, "Repeat that." And he said, "The Lord is going to line up your family." And somebody came to me and said, "What are you going to do?" And I'm like I always give God the last say. I always give him the last second. I'm not I try not to ever move on my own. Did it feel right? No. Did I want it to work? No. I didn't see how it was going to work. But it did. Because we got on our face before the Lord. We went to counseling. Baby step by baby step by baby step. Did it happen overnight? No. Did it happen within months? No. But it happened. I'm happily here to tell you that we are HAPPILY MARRIED. WE WILL CELEBRATE 48 years of MARRIAGE IN NOVEMBER. ALL because of God. Because this heart had to change. His heart had to change. But we were willing to put in the work. We were willing to do it. Don't give up. Don't just walk away. Give God his half second. Let him talk to you.
And I I'm I feel like there are people in here that have gone through battles. I'm not the only one. You have gone through battles and you're battle weary. And you had every right to succumb to your feelings of anger, of revenge, of being bitter. You know, they they should have loved you. They shouldn't have done that. But you didn't do it. I hear the Lord say, "You laid before him and you did not succumb to those feelings. So, don't feel guilty for feeling that way." He says, "Well done. Well done that you didn't succumb to that, that you looked to him first. And you moved with Jesus. So, give yourselves a hand. Have peace this morning. He's not angry with you for thinking that. He's so happy with you for not staying there. For reading your word the word of God that is life-giving. And you believe this word of God.
And now I want to remind men and women in the room. I know it's Mother's Day and this can be directed to moms, but it's to the men. It's good for men, too. So, don't check out on me. Don't get on your phones, okay? I want to remind you that our homes are not normal. They are marked. Because we walk with Jesus, the enemy does not like it. So, know that. Know that when you pray, you're not just praying. When you worship, you're not just worshipping. When you are declaring, you are not just declaring. Don't have this attitude, "Nah. It's not a big deal. Nah. Who cares? That's not hearing my prayers, enemy. Lie, lie, lie. He's under your feet. Lie, lie, lie. He hears you and he knows your name and he's listening and answering your prayers. Even if you don't feel it. Even if you don't see it. It's happening. It's happening. James 5:16 says, 'The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman availeth much.' Amen. Amen. You know it. So, don't believe the lie.
Every time you walk into your job, every time you drive down the road, every time you go anywhere, and God, I pray you're praying before you walk into Walmart, right? But every time you go, everywhere you go, you are not just praying you are establishing boundaries. You are claiming territory for Christ. You take the spirit of God with you in that spot, in that job. So, don't ever think and let the enemy and come into agreement that the enemy says, "Uh my prayers don't mean anything." That's a lie. That's a lie. You are a powerful powerful child of God. And don't you ever ever forget it because it is hap- happening. It is happening in the atmosphere. Judy Kings- Kingsbury, you are a powerful woman of God. You are a powerful MK. She is a powerful woman of God. You guys don't think that nothing's happening. Your prayers are powerful. Young people, your prayers are powerful. Understand that and keep praying. Keep praying.
I had a a moment last week that normally when I go to the grocery store and I'm in the parking lot, I always try to look for older people, you know, that that need help. And nine times out of 10, you'll see somebody that's struggling to put their groceries away, right? So, I go up, "Can I help you?" And usually they say, "Sure." And so, that opens the door for me to say, "Hey, can I pray with you for anything?" And normally they say, "Yeah." And I pray with them. Well, last week I had cases of water in my buggy, and I picked one up, and I'm putting it in my car, and a young man says, "Hey, can I help you?" And I'm like, "Sure." So, he puts the water in my car, and I go and I sit down in the driver's seat, and I'm like, "Well, okay then." I have just had a realistic moment. I am now an older person. All right. But, my brain tilts, and it goes My brain says, "That does not compute. That does not compute. I cannot be here right now." And I'm saying all that to say this, life will not always be perfect. You will not always be sitting in a lavender field in a Adirondack chair sipping sweet tea all your life. That's not going to happen. But, what I am saying is keep on praying. That's right. Keep on declaring. >> Yes. Keep on worshiping. Don't stop. Don't ever quit.
Ladies and gentlemen, our children, our grandchildren, our great great grandchildren are depending on us to walk out our purpose and not quit. And not stop praying. They are depending on us. Even when I hold the babies, okay? When Juliana was little, I'd hold her, and I'd sing, "There's no place that she'd rather be." And I'm declaring it over for Yeah. Jaci's was Waymaker, Miracle Worker. Yeah. Malachi's song is "He will sing of your love forever." Yeah. When I hold Serenity, when I hold Enoch, I'm hold I'm swaying, I'm singing, and I'm declaring "They will love you all the days of your their lives. They will worship you. You will be their one thing." I mean, mamas, that's our job. We need to pray over them immediately when they're infants. And claim their lives for Jesus. Don't stop. Don't give up. Don't quit.
And this morning we're going to be breaking chains this morning. Because I want and I know you want your grandchildren, your great great grandchildren, your great great great grandchildren. I want them to talk about us. I want them to say, "My Nana did ba ba ba ba ba ba." "My great papi did ba ba ba ba ba ba." Generation to generation to generation. Make matriarchs, it's time to rise up. That's right. It's time to get up. Your voice is needed. Pam, your voice is needed. Christie, your voice is needed. Madeline, Denise, your voice is needed. Don't stop. Don't give up. We need you. God needs you. I need you. As a mother in this house, I'm not the only one. Come up, ladies. Let's draw, you know, take hands and pray for this generation right here. For this generation right here. Gosh, you know what? We have overcome battles that our cram grandparents didn't even know anything about. We have broken cycles that this generation have normalized. But we're not going to stop. Loser boy wants you to think that uh it's just a prayer. He's got L on his forehead, okay? He wants you to think uh it's just a prayer. What's it matter? It's just a journey. Big deal. It's just my testimony. Uh Let me tell you something. What does Revelations 12:11 say? "They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony." Don't let your testimony die. You have to speak what battles you have conquered in your life. I want this generation to be overcomers. And if we keep our testimony to ourselves, they won't know what battles we have fought and how God had overcome. That's right. We need to speak to them. Let them know. I want them I feel like I want them to be overcomers. I want my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, and I know you do, too, to be overcomers. And our testimony, I look at it this way. It's a weapon. Yes. Our testimony is a weapon. And you got to take your weapon out and speak it out, or they'll never know.
So, I'd like to introduce you right now to a woman named Gabriella. She's a marathon runner, and she ran in the 1984 Olympics in LA. But what she didn't realize is she didn't prepare for was how hot it was going to be. So, when she ran into the stadium the last leg of the marathon, she was dehydrated, her body was shutting down, it was freezing up. Let's watch this video clip of Gabriella. She can barely stand up. And she's like giving up. Doctors are walking beside her watching her. There's the finish line. And look at the stands. Everyone is standing. Everyone is clapping. Everyone is saying, "You got this, girl. Keep going." There's the FINISH LINE. You got it. And she can barely move. Her body was in great pain.
I have been where Gabriella barely able to move. One foot in front of the other. But, I feel what those stands were doing is what heaven does for us. When we are in a valley, THE ANGELS ARE GOING, "GO, GIRL. YOU GOT THIS. Get up. You can do it. You can do it. We're right there with you. We're walking right beside you. Go. Go. It's time, people. It's time to get up. We have all been knocked down.
At one point in my life, I was in a fetal position in my bedroom bawling my eyes out. That was the day of answering machines, telling my age. And the phone rang and I was not about to answer it. And a lady was leaving a message. A very good friend of mine, still a friend today. She said, "Sherry, I know you can hear me. I know you're right there. And I want you to know I love you. I'm with you. You are not alone. We're going to fight this together." I'll never forget it. And I I felt in my spirit that some people in here are feeling like you failed, like you're failing, like, you know, something went wrong in your life. And the Lord is saying, "You've not failed. He's repositioning you." And that is for me, also. Not just for somebody out here. That that spoke to me. You are not failing. You are repositioning. He is repositioning you. Now, does that feel good? No. Let's say you didn't get that promotion at work. Now you're feeling like, "Blah. What did I do wrong? Why why can't I get that that promotion?" Because he is repositioning you to where he wants you to be, where somebody needs you in that unit to represent Jesus Christ so they can get saved. Think outside the box. Um a relationship didn't work. How many of us are very, very happy some relationships did not work? I got my heart broken one time and I was really broken 'cause I I really liked this guy, right? Before Jay ever came in the picture. And um, what, about maybe a month later, he's got another girlfriend already. And then less than a year, he's married. And she's pregnant. And I'm like, How did that happen? What what's wrong with me? What? And um, about a year after that, I was like, oh God, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. But at the moment, oh, man, I was like tore up. So, you're not failing, he's repositioning you and he's asking you to trust him. To trust him. We celebrate doors open, right? But what about when God shuts a door? We put our foot in and say, no, no, no, no, not there, God. No, no, no, you can't shut that door and you're miserable. And he's saying, trust me. Trust me. I've got it. I've got you. I want nothing but good for you, Alec. You know, I want nothing but good for you, Robert.
So, at this moment, I want to introduce another woman to you. And um, her story is that she was raped at the age of 14. She gave her life to Jesus at the age of 17. Angry and bitter and upset, but God had her number. She gave her life to the Lord at 17, was married at 20, and then she had to deal with infertility for 10 years. Went through all kinds of biopsies and tests. And then 10 years later, she had a little girl. The answer to her prayers. And then unbeknownst to her, 4 years later comes a son that she was three week I mean three months pregnant and didn't even know it. And then she had a gallbladder taken out. Then she had an emergency appendectomy. And then she had um she was diagnosed with uterine cancer. And praise God, if you haven't guessed already, that's me. But God. But God. Everybody was betting when I gave Everybody was betting when I gave my life to the Lord, "She ain't going to last. This girl This girl, she's got a lot to work on." And I'm like, yeah, I sure did 'cause I didn't know nothing about anything. I didn't even know the song Amazing Grace, okay? I was I was not brought up in a Christian home. But saying all that, I'm now cancer free, too. I AM CANCER FREE. BUT SAYING ALL THAT TO SAY THIS, if I can do it, so can you. That's right. He if if if he can do that for me, he will do it for you. >> That's right. You are powerful.
And I I don't like seeing my Christian brothers and sisters with chains chaining them down and not getting up because the Lord has a purpose for every one of us in here. And we need to be walking in our purpose and in our destinies. >> That's right. No excuses. We need to get up and if you're having a hard time if you're having a hard time, don't be ashamed of that. Ask. Get help. You have a roomful of people here who would love to walk with you, pray with you, talk with you, be there for you.
So we are all on a fast and this is one of the verses that we um had last week as said Isaiah 58:6. "Is not this the fast that I have chose to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?" And some verses and some versions say break every chains. >> Yes. We are going to break chains this morning. Are you with me? Yes. Are you tired of being chained up and down? >> That's right. Let's go. We've got territory to take. People will will accuse you of this, that, and the other. Let them talk. We have work to do. We have territory to take. We have people who are waiting for us out there that need to hear our voice and need to hear about Jesus.
In Acts, just chapter 12, it says when um verse six and seven. "Now when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter, on that very night. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and centuries before the door were guarding the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him. And the light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and said, 'Get up. Come. Get up.' And Peter got up. And the chains fell off." Now, Peter didn't sit there and go, "Duh, angel. I'm in a cell. You see, I have chains on me. I can't get up." No. What did he do? He got up, and the chains fell off. And that's what's going to happen this morning.
But I want to give you one more testimony of my chains. About five or six years ago, I felt the Lord impressing on me to write a book. And I was like, "Nah. Everybody writes a book. Why would I do that? Nah. I don't want I don't want to do that. Who's going to want to read what I have to write? You know, I just meh." I had a bad attitude about the whole thing. So, what did I do? Instead of being obedient, I shelved it. I just put it away. So, this past February, Pastor Guillermo and Destiny took the staff up to Atlanta to a conference. And part of that conference was a prophetic session. So, I sat down in my turn, sat down in a chair in front of two men, and we introduced ourselves, and we prayed. Y'all, and the first thing the man said to me was, "You need to get out your pen and pencil, and start writing down what the Lord says to you." And I was like I looked at my eyes were like this big. And then he says, "I see a book in your future. The Lord wants you to write a book." Now my mouth is hanging open. Because I had shelved that idea. I shelved that. Now, y'all I had to repent. I had to repent for not listening to the Lord, for having my bad attitude saying, "Meh, I'm not going to do that. Eh, I don't want to do that." I always want to be obedient to what the Lord tells me to do, and I know you do, too. And that was a chain on me, and man, when I got out of that prophetic session, girls and boys, I went on my face, I cried, and I repented before the Lord. And when I got up, I felt so free, the chains were off, and I was free. Now, how am I going to I I don't know anything about writing a book. I don't know where to start, what to do, but I'm going to start. And I'm going to do it, and God will send the people I need to me, and y'all get ready, a book is coming.
So, my question this morning in closing to all of you is what are your chains this morning? What do you have chained up on you that's holding you in your seat? You know, it could be anger, it could be deep hurt, it could even be a bad attitude like mine. Um it could be fear, doubt, um I should have done this, I should have done that. Oh, I should have said this or I shouldn't have said that. What is it that is keeping you in your seat saying, "Oh, let somebody else do X, Y, and Z. I'm staying in my seat." The Lord is calling you to do it. The Lord is calling calling you to get up.
So, I'm going to ask you this morning just like Peter to get up, to stand right at your seat, and when you do, the chains will fall off. And you will feel so free, and so clean, and so pure, and ready to go because Jesus needs you free. You're going to have so much freedom like you have never had before. So, if that's you, I invite you to stand. I want you to stand. If you have chains that are holding you down, I want you to stand. Is it unforgiveness? Did that person that was so mean to you never apologized? Never said they were sorry? Some people don't know how to say sorry. But that's okay because you're going to forgive them for you to be free. So, if there's anyone standing around you, please lay your hand on them. Let's pray for them. I need my Shepherds Table leaders. We are going to get free. Free, free, freedom reigns in this house this morning by the blood of Jesus. Freedom reigns. Thank you, Jesus.
Father, we thank you right now that chains are falling off of our of your children, Jesus. Father, I thank you that fear is gone by the blood of Jesus. That disappointment is gone. You thought your life was going to be further, but Jesus says he's got you. He's got you. Don't let the enemy lie to you any longer. He is right there with you. Freedom. Freedom right now. Father, I thank you that doubt and strife be gone in Jesus' name. I thank you, Lord, for the forgiveness in this room for a mom or a dad. Lord, I thank you. I thank you that hearts are getting free right now in Jesus' name. He is such a good good father. And he loves you so so much. I want you to leave here empowered knowing that who you are and whose you are.
I just really sense the Lord um the phrase the Bible talks about a root of bitterness. I just see the Lord removing a root of bitterness as you choose to forgive. The Bible talks about a root of bitterness causing all kinds of vile things, and it's not even that It's not that you want to be that way, but something that has taken root. I see the Lord just tearing up that root. So, Father, in Jesus' name, we ask for grace to forgive. And any place where bitterness has taken root, and any place, God, where that has spread like cancer in our souls, God, we ask for healing over our souls, over our emotions, God, we ask you for freedom. Even now for freedom. For the shalom peace of God to rest upon everyone standing. And any place where they're bound, God, we thank you for freedom's sake. You've set us free. So, Father, we pray for every root of bitterness and unforgiveness to be rooted up now in Jesus' name. We don't forgive because we feel, we forgive because we choose to release that person of that debt. So, Father, we forgive. We release them. We ask you to remove the root of bitterness.
We'd also love for Sherry to pray for anyone that's dealing with infertility. She's 10 years waiting on the Lord. So, there's a grace in the waiting. I would I would love for you, Sherry, to come pray. If there's anyone that's struggling with that, I know it's a very sensitive. You don't have to raise your hand, but I just want Sherry to pray that grace over you. Would you pray, Sherry? Hey, I I this is a sensitive subject, but if there's anyone else that's dealing with this, we would love to lay hands and believe God with you. Many biblical stories of this. I know it's sensitive and it's painful. If there's anyone else, would you would you just come? We want to pray over you. Anyone else that's dealt with this. We're going to as a family pray for this. Can we just stretch our hands towards these that have come?
Father, we bless these that have been in this season of waiting. And Father, we just speak grace over them even on this Mother's Day. Fresh grace to be released. God, that you in the waiting would just pour out grace. God, that you would put fresh faith in them. God, we stand with them. They're not alone in the waiting, but Father, we pray over them that you even now would touch their womb. In the name of Jesus, would you stretch out your hand, God, for these that come and those in seats, God, that are in this season of waiting and of pain, God, we stand with them. We thank you for mercy being extended and for grace. We pray for any bit of unbelief or hopelessness to be uprooted and we bless them with confident hope. We ask for supernatural healing. We bless you. Jesus.
There is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain, break every chain, break every chain. Want to pray as Sherri was declaring about chains falling. If there's anyone that's dealing with sickness in their body or an impossibility, would you just lift up your hand? Even as they're declaring, we want to come into a moment of faith. I just feel faith in the room to just pray. If you've got to go, we love you. Happy Mother's Day, but we just want to take a few more minutes to pray. If there's someone around you with a hand up, let's just come around them. Let's just pray a prayer of faith over them and let's bless them. Right over here in the back. Let's just find someone. Let's have a family moment in Jesus name.
Father, we ask would you release faith in the room? God, we thank you for the body and the blood of Jesus that speaks a better word. God, we thank you that nothing is impossible. God, you are the God who moves mountains, the God who heals bodies, the God who restores minds. So, Father, in Jesus name, whether it's physical ailment, we ask you, would you stretch out your hand and heal? We speak to every cell in that body to come back into alignment with the word of God. We ask even now, would you release ministering angels to heal bodies and to restore? We ask for issues of the mind and imbalances and depression and anxiety to dissipate right now in Jesus name. We speak the peace of God that the peace of God would guard your heart and your mind. And Father, we pray over relationships and marriages to be restored. We thank you that you are the God of the impossible. You are the God who who makes way where there is no way. We bless you. We bless you.
Let's sing one more time, there's power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain, break every chain, break every chain. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus to break every chain, break every chain, break every chain. To break every chain, break every chain, break every chain. To break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.
Well, we want to thank you so much for coming and joining us on this Mother's Day. We pray that God's blessing would go with you this week. Continue with our fastings, continue seeking him. Wednesday night prayer. And have an amazing Mother's Day. If you still want prayer, if we can ask the ushers to come to the front and we'll be happy to pray with you. Have a God bless you and enjoy the rest of your Sunday. Thank you for coming. Your presence is known.