WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.800 Good day everyone. So we are on 29. Day 29 of our journey. And this one is entitled Used 2 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:20.120 by God to Turn the Enemy's Plans Upside Down. Amen to that. Restful one, listen with your 3 00:00:20.120 --> 00:00:29.000 spirit to the word of God for you. Mordecai recorded these events and he sent letters 4 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.800 to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes near and far to have them celebrate 5 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:41.800 annually the 14th and 15th day of the month of Adar as the time when the Jews got relief 6 00:00:41.800 --> 00:00:47.080 from their enemies. And as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their 7 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:52.920 mourning into a day of celebration, he wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting 8 00:00:52.920 --> 00:01:00.240 and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor. Esther 9, 20-22. 9 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:07.040 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them triumphing 10 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:15.320 over them by the cross. Colossians 2.15. When the Jews were in captivity, an evil man named 11 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:21.840 Haman tried to destroy the nation of the Jews. He got the authority of the king by deception. 12 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:26.960 He passed laws directing the killing of the Jews. God moved in a powerful way to save 13 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:34.960 the Jews and to secure their peace and prosperity within an enemy people. Mordecai ordained 14 00:01:34.960 --> 00:01:40.360 two days of celebration after their sorrow was turned into joy. When Jesus was on the 15 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:47.520 cross, he appeared to be losing everything. Yet his death on the cross paid the penalty 16 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:54.000 for your sins and mine. Therefore Satan has no more legal right over us once we confess 17 00:01:54.000 --> 00:02:00.160 our sins and claim the salvation and protection that our Father offers us through Jesus. So 18 00:02:00.160 --> 00:02:06.600 the death of Jesus on the cross was not to the end of something, but rather the beginning. 19 00:02:06.600 --> 00:02:12.760 It was not a tragedy, but a triumph. Not a time when Satan won, but a time when he became 20 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:19.640 public spectacle. The righteous death of one holy man, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, released 21 00:02:19.640 --> 00:02:25.560 salvation for every person in the world who will acknowledge their sin and embrace the 22 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:32.560 truth of his saving power. Restful one, I bless you with full understanding of the gift 23 00:02:32.560 --> 00:02:38.480 of complete forgiveness that Jesus Christ offers. I bless you with the desire to surrender 24 00:02:38.480 --> 00:02:44.920 control of your life to Jesus as your Lord, allowing him to be your master, governing 25 00:02:44.920 --> 00:02:50.960 you, protecting you, and allowing all other blessings to come become a reality for you 26 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:57.960 as you trust him completely with every part of your being. I bless you with the joy of 27 00:02:58.160 --> 00:03:04.160 regularly seeing Satan's plans to destroy people turned upside down and seeing God bring 28 00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:10.400 good out of potentially painful life circumstances. I bless you with the joy of partnering with 29 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:16.440 your Father to take many situations that Satan intends for harm and defeating the enemy's 30 00:03:16.440 --> 00:03:22.600 plan for evil and turning bad situations into beauty as you experience your Father's presence 31 00:03:22.600 --> 00:03:28.640 with you. I bless you as a normal course of life to see the problems that Satan brings 32 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:35.240 into the world used by God to reveal new wisdom, new grace, new strength, and new freedom as 33 00:03:35.240 --> 00:03:42.240 God makes a public spectacle of his enemy and yours through you. I bless you with God's 34 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:48.400 perspective on the pain and suffering in the world that it will be an opportunity for you 35 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:55.400 to rise to your calling and live up to a fuller potential than you have ever known. 36 00:03:59.160 --> 00:04:04.640 I bless you with partnering with God for his purposes, using problems as a platform to 37 00:04:04.640 --> 00:04:11.640 see him work in ways that are unmistakably him. I bless you with these blessings of victory 38 00:04:12.520 --> 00:04:18.360 and bringing the victory of the cross forward to the present. I bless you in the name of 39 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:25.360 Jesus of Nazareth, your Lord. 40 00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:36.640 Oh Lord, it is so interesting to think of you having such a finality in the victory. 41 00:04:40.400 --> 00:04:47.400 I mean, I think most of us know it, but such a tremendous, earth-shattering, heaven-shaking, 42 00:04:50.080 --> 00:04:57.080 disruptive force that completely disarmed and you made a public spectacle of your enemies. 43 00:04:57.080 --> 00:05:00.080 That it's done. That it's done. 44 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.320 It's happened and it's playing itself out in everyone's lives. 45 00:05:07.320 --> 00:05:11.920 That moment, kind of like the moment where they think the big bang happened, where all 46 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:19.160 life began, that something catalytic happened, reconciling the past and working its way out 47 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:33.500 to the future, all of which to culminate in your return and whatever it is that it is 48 00:05:33.500 --> 00:05:39.440 to truly look like, no matter what the preconceived ideas are going to be, that there's an outworking 49 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:42.740 of this taking place in our lives. 50 00:05:42.740 --> 00:05:49.620 And Lord, that we would see, witness, and then even be given the privilege to be a part 51 00:05:49.620 --> 00:05:56.840 of the turning the enemy's plans upside down. 52 00:05:56.840 --> 00:06:04.560 So many times, Lord, that you've allowed me the privilege to know great people, but also 53 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:13.160 to be a part of the process of healing, of reconciling, and watching your work in the 54 00:06:13.160 --> 00:06:17.800 redeeming of lives. 55 00:06:17.800 --> 00:06:25.440 There are the instantaneous, like lightning bolt moments, where someone is set free, or 56 00:06:25.440 --> 00:06:30.920 healed of something, or some great thorn is removed from their flesh. 57 00:06:30.920 --> 00:06:35.420 But often times, I've seen a process take place. 58 00:06:35.420 --> 00:06:38.520 There's a process that you'll walk people through. 59 00:06:38.520 --> 00:06:42.840 And in that walking through of a process, of which many of us are in a process right 60 00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:48.960 now, there's something that is imparted, some level of authority, something that happens 61 00:06:48.960 --> 00:07:01.240 in that place, some level of impartation, or transference, or osmosis, or matriculation 62 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:06.520 of who you are, and who we know you to be, and what we learn in that process, that also 63 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:12.440 gains us a proximity to you, the ultimate authority, but a place where we start to walk 64 00:07:12.440 --> 00:07:16.960 in a level of authority of the things that we've overcome with you, and through you, 65 00:07:16.960 --> 00:07:20.520 and you, through us. 66 00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:26.480 And this, in a place, I've seen so, so many times, that my words of saying it are that 67 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:31.360 God's vengeance looks different than our own. 68 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:37.460 That your vengeance, Lord, looks different than our idea of vengeance, and that sometimes, 69 00:07:37.460 --> 00:07:42.800 you take the things that were done to us, things that were designed to destroy us, things 70 00:07:42.880 --> 00:07:49.480 that were meant for evil, and we want them to be turned to good, that, you know, like 71 00:07:49.480 --> 00:07:56.480 sour turns into sweet, but oftentimes, the very thing that was being used against us, 72 00:07:56.480 --> 00:08:02.320 that was supposed to destroy us, you, in your process, heal us and deliver us, but Lord, 73 00:08:02.320 --> 00:08:07.400 that you lead us into this place where now we have authority, and we become the instruments 74 00:08:07.400 --> 00:08:12.520 of your vengeance, where we now are the ones that are going forth and destroying the enemies. 75 00:08:12.520 --> 00:08:16.640 We now are taking the very things that were supposed to be, you know, leading us into 76 00:08:16.640 --> 00:08:22.480 captivity, and we are leading people out into freedom, that we now become those. 77 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:27.580 And so that there's hope in every situation that has come and transpired in our life, 78 00:08:27.580 --> 00:08:31.840 that there is a place of overcoming in you and with you, and that the very things that 79 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:37.960 were used against us are the very things that catalyze and become great places of victory 80 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:40.520 and authority in our own lives. 81 00:08:40.520 --> 00:08:46.240 And in that place, we're rescuing, we're destroying the kingdom, we're bringing your kingdom into 82 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:51.080 all these types of places, you're now using us, and the things that the enemy meant for 83 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:55.440 evil now become good. 84 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:01.200 And that we then become the thing, not only that has been, in a sense, turned upside down, 85 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:07.120 but that we become instruments where the enemy's plans are now turned upside down, and God's 86 00:09:07.120 --> 00:09:14.480 ultimate plan can come into play. 87 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:22.960 So Lord, I don't pray in my humanity for any of us to have to endure any more than we already 88 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:28.280 have, and I have no doubt that the people that are listening to my voice, I can tell 89 00:09:28.280 --> 00:09:35.200 right now, I can see some of it, have been through things that they don't ever even want 90 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:42.960 to speak about, and I'm so sorry for each and every person that has endured things that 91 00:09:42.960 --> 00:09:46.480 they shouldn't have, have seen things that they should never have seen, that have been 92 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:56.320 betrayed, stabbed in the back, abused by people of authority, physically, spiritually, emotionally. 93 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:10.640 Where our parents, try as they might, just fell short of who you are and who you are 94 00:10:10.640 --> 00:10:13.480 wanting them to be in our lives. 95 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:23.080 And Lord, I pray Lord that that one stone go unturned. 96 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:29.960 Just like I've prayed that like Samuel, that not one word fall to the ground. 97 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:40.140 But that Lord that the fields of promise, all that you've set for at the table or across 98 00:10:40.140 --> 00:10:45.000 the span of the lives of the people that are under the hearing of my voice, that not one 99 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:51.000 kernel, not one nugget be wasted. 100 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:57.520 And that Lord you would turn the enemy's plans upside down into every area of their life. 101 00:10:57.520 --> 00:11:03.320 That Lord that your victory spans from end to end, coast to coast, that Lord there is 102 00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:09.760 no end, that it is always going out, that as your creation is expanding so is your victory, 103 00:11:09.760 --> 00:11:18.200 that it is so complete that we can't even seem to be able to fathom its truth and reality. 104 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:23.400 Lord today that we would grab hold of a greater truth, that today Lord we would somehow come 105 00:11:23.400 --> 00:11:30.520 into a greater understanding, a greater encapsulation, a greater revelation, a greater encounter 106 00:11:30.520 --> 00:11:36.520 Lord with the finality and the grandiosity of who you are and what has already been done 107 00:11:36.520 --> 00:11:42.160 and that Lord that that create a shaking within us and our soul that not one structure or 108 00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:50.240 system that the enemy has tried to set up over us can stand. 109 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:55.080 That today Lord that the earth would shake, the heavens would roar, the seas would roar, 110 00:11:55.080 --> 00:12:04.120 that there be a collision in the spirit where your kingdom that is already done and finished. 111 00:12:04.120 --> 00:12:11.440 So much of the work that Lord that there be a cascading effect today. 112 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:16.920 Through us the redeeming of our bloodlines Lord forward through the future and the generations 113 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:21.440 that are on the earth and that are still to come. 114 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:29.160 And that Lord that we would not just see your hand move but Lord that we would be part of 115 00:12:29.160 --> 00:12:37.280 the extension of your hand to see it take place. 116 00:12:37.280 --> 00:12:43.880 Lord it is something to experience a miracle, it is something to hear about a miracle or 117 00:12:43.880 --> 00:12:52.120 see a miracle but there is something that changes you when you become part of that miracle 118 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:53.680 taking place. 119 00:12:53.680 --> 00:13:02.160 It is the kindest thing, the most humbling thing that you have ever allowed me to experience 120 00:13:02.160 --> 00:13:10.760 me personally and I have never forgotten it and I always knew that Lord you could have 121 00:13:10.760 --> 00:13:14.080 chosen someone else to do it. 122 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:20.520 It was always the greatest honor to serve you Lord. 123 00:13:20.520 --> 00:13:28.200 Lord I pray everybody here have fresh encounters and fresh access that you would remind them 124 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:34.080 of every time and make them aware of every time that you have done this in our lives 125 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:38.480 and all that we have been able to see because we are creatures that have seemed to be very 126 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:46.560 short sighted or have short term memories but Lord there would be fresh opportunity 127 00:13:46.560 --> 00:13:52.840 of freshness over and a hunger Lord and a fervor Lord to see the destruction. 128 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:58.120 It is one of the main reasons that we are here to destroy the works of the enemy. 129 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:02.400 That Lord that the plans of the enemy to be turned upside down and there is an active 130 00:14:02.400 --> 00:14:12.240 place that we play in it and there is also a place where we sit and rest in you knowing 131 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:19.240 in the core of our being every day more and more it settles in of who we are, who you 132 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:25.800 are and these things manifesting before us. 133 00:14:25.800 --> 00:14:39.440 That it is a truth not a it is a truth that is I don't know how to say what I am seeing 134 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:45.320 it is something that is not to be aspired to but something that is already transpired 135 00:14:45.320 --> 00:14:51.640 that it is a truth not something that is going to become true or that we hope is true 136 00:14:51.640 --> 00:14:53.520 but it is something that is truth. 137 00:14:53.520 --> 00:14:58.760 The Lord that we can release that we can receive this deep within us Lord so that it can release 138 00:14:58.760 --> 00:15:00.040 powerfully from us. 139 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.880 And Lord, today the plans of the enemy and the works of the enemy to be destroyed and 140 00:15:05.880 --> 00:15:10.740 the plans to be turned upside down. 141 00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:16.800 And Lord, whether it's in our own personal life or the lives of those around us, Lord 142 00:15:16.800 --> 00:15:22.320 will we get to participate in it or witness it, or whether we're as a Mordecai where 143 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:27.000 many, many are affected. 144 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:40.480 And I pray too, Lord, that for all of us that seem to have small minds, small 145 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:47.520 perspectives on who we are or our plans, which is really just minimizing who you are, that 146 00:15:47.520 --> 00:16:00.240 there be a new grandiosity of what is possible for what you want to achieve, release and 147 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:06.600 be done, including the overturning and the turning upside down of the enemy's plans 148 00:16:06.600 --> 00:16:17.240 and the domino effect of what anything that we do or touch can ignite. 149 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:26.000 And today, Lord, let something in this be released today, that there be more things 150 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:30.600 to be turned upside down, more awareness of these types of things, Lord, and that there 151 00:16:30.600 --> 00:16:35.760 is times when we're supposed to act, there are things that we need to work on, and there 152 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:41.200 are things that you're going to do. 153 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:45.080 And Lord, that there be a settling of these things within us, Lord, and we see this released 154 00:16:45.080 --> 00:16:49.040 and manifest today, Lord, in Jesus' holy name.