MY FATHER WAS A DRUG USER, DIED IN AN ABANDONED BUILDING WHILE MY MOTHER WAS A SCHOOL DROPOUT BUT GOD PUT HIS HANDS ON ME AND STEPPED OVER THE CURSES IN MY BLOODLINE.

-Pastor John Hannah, New Covenant Church Southeast, Chicago
RCCG, The Americas 25th Annual Convention Tagged ‘A New Beginning’
(Day 3, Evening Session, Festival of Life)

*Open your mouth and say, “I’m a curse breaker.”
*It doesn’t come easy, you have to fight to get it but my brothers and my sisters, you have the victory over every curse that is in your bloodline.
*God has a new beginning for you in mind and it can’t start without you.

I am excited to be a part of this Conference, the RCCG The Americas Conference. I just want to say Thank You to Pastor Adeboye, the overseeing Pastor of this amazing move of God and the host Pastor, Pastor James Fadel, thank you.
For everyone that is tuned in, for everyone that is physical or virtual, can you do me a favour, can we just adore the Lord, just for few seconds.

God, we honour You, we glorify You, You are great. You are God. You are excellent, You are excellent, You are holy. We open our mouths and we express our gratitude, our love, our appreciation by giving You glory. We say Hallelujah to the God that has carried us. Hallelujah to the God that has been with us. Hallelujah to the God that has chosen us and for that we say Thank You. Thank You for just being God. Thank You for being holy, thank You for being merciful, thank You for being kind. Thank You for just being God and we give You glory today and we magnify You. We adore You. We stand on top everything that we’ve been through, everything that we are going through. We declare that our God is great, our God is mighty, our God is strong. Let Your Word come forth. Hallelujah. Let Your Word fall on good ground and let it produce good fruits. You’ll be glorified! Hallelujah. For there is nobody like you, we lift You, we exalt You, we blow You up, we sound the alarm, we blow the Trumpet in Zion that You are good, that You are great, that You are our everything. Have your way today and be glorified…Have Your way.
One of the things that I will encourage everyone that is listening: Never Be Reluctant; Never Be Afraid to Be New Again. Never feel as if you’ve wasted your time but know that God is calling you for such a time as this.

A NEW BEGINNING WITH YOU IN MIND
There is a lot of things that has been going on but I want you to hear me clearly, it can’t start without you. It cannot begin without you.
A new beginning with you in mind.
The name ‘Judges’ means Ruler, Deliverer, Saviour. For everyone that is listening and you are a child of God, hear me: You are the Head, not the tail. You are the lender not the borrower; You are the light of this world and many people will be delivered because God is using you. Not just in the Church, in your business, in your place of work, in your community. God is using you to be a deliverer.
If you study the Book of Judges, you see 5 S’. When I look at this, it seems the children of Israel are in a repeated cycle, it is a repeated cycle throughout the entire Book of Judges. If you study Judges, there are a total of 12 Judges that are mentioned but you see a continual cycle. Judges describe various cycles of hypocrisy, oppression, deliverance.

Don’t get stuck in the oppression, don’t get stuck in the sin, but push towards the deliverance.

1. The first S is Sin: when you look at that the children of Israel would end up in sin because they would begin to worship the gods of their nature. They begin to submit to their surroundings. They begin to blend in and when they blended in, it led to sin. When it led to sin, God would then release their enemies on them or allow the enemies to take them captive which would lead to the 2nd S – Slavery.
2. Slavery: Now they are bound. They are not bound forever.
   How do you get out of this bondage? Church, I need you to hear me now.
3. Supplication: Supplication is prayer. You have to hear me now. Chains don’t just break. Church Gist. You are not just released because you want to be released, but it has to come through supplication.
   There is one line we read continuously in the Book of Judges: “and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.”
   One thing God cannot do is ignore the cry of His children.
4. Salvation only comes because God would raise up a judge to be the one to bring them out of the chains of the enemy.
   There is a new beginning with you in mind. With everything that is going on, my brothers and sisters, hear me clearly. Salvation is going to hit the earth because of prayer and you.
5. Silence: means no problem, no warfare, no enemy coming up against you.
   Why? Because you are submitted to God, you’ve cried out to God and now it is silence.
   I pray that God will lead you to the era in your life that the warfare cease.

The problem is, I need you to hear this, is that if they stayed in silence for too long, unfortunately, they would go back to the first S which is Sin.
So it was a consistent cycle…hear me, God is about to use you mightily in this day and time.

Worship God that He is about to use you for His glory. You are about to do things that you never imagined. You are about to go to places that you never imagined, you are about to impact the earth like you’ve never imagined. God is about to get the glory out of your life. Just begin to say 2 words: Yes, Lord. Use me for such a time as this. Hallelujah.

Judges 2:10
“… and there arose another generation after them that knew not the Lord” – Judges 2:10b
One of the things that scare me is that sometimes we are looking at a generation that don’t know our God, the moral standard is not the same, the respect is not the same.

Judges 21:25 (NIV)
“In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.”
Why? Because they had no one to show them what to tell them what to do.
Those of you that are listening to me right now, I need you to hear me. God is about to raise up some deliverers. God is about to raise up some individuals that will proclaim His Word. God is about to raise up individuals that will seek His face. God is about to raise up some deliverers that know this world is not our home. God is about to raise up individuals that are going to be peculiar. God is about to raise up individuals that are going to be different…and you, my brothers and sisters are the ones God is about to raise.

The Judges were game changers. For everyone that is listening to me right now, we are game changers. Church Gist.

Jephthah
Judges 11, 12
Jephthah is identified as a mighty warrior. What he has to fight personally determines what he has to fight publicly. I don’t know about you but I don’t want to be a public victory but a private failure. I want God to help me to be able to fight through what is going on within me personally before I can fight publicly.
You are a warrior. Open your mouth and say, “I am a mighty warrior.”
The Bible says, “David encouraged himself in the Lord.”
Declare, “I am a mighty warrior. I have been called to fight and I am going to fight the good fight of faith.”

Allow me to show you, before you can fight publicly, what you have to fight privately within yourself.
The first thing we find out he has to fight through is the bloodline curses.
In verse 1 (Judges 11:1), “his father was Gilead, his mother was a prostitute.”
What you find out that in his bloodline is infidelity. The Bible lets us know that his father actually had a wife but his mother was a prostitute which means there are certain things in his bloodline.

There was a book that was written in Chicago called the American Milestone’ according to a community. What they saw was that the grandmother got pregnant at 15 and the mother got pregnant at 15 and now the daughter was pregnant at 15. They said, “this is the permanent underclass” because this is a cycle that continues through the family. But how many of us know that God has called us to be curse breakers.
God has already called us not to be who our mother is, not to be who our father is; but there is a new beginning when it comes to you.
Why? Because you have been called to be a warrior to fight through bloodline curses. You are not like your family. He has already predestined you to be great. You are the different one. You are the Dreamer, you are the Joseph of your house, you are the curse breaker. What you went through, your children will never have to go through it.
When I look at my life and see how God literally stepped over everybody and He said, “you didn’t choose me, I chose you.”
When I look at my life, when I look at what is in my bloodline: my father was a drug dealer, my father was a drug user, my father died in an abandoned building. My mother was a high school dropout, my mother only worked at… level jobs but he who God has chosen, He will step over every generational curse, look at you, put His hands on you, “but you won’t be like them.”
Open your mouth and say, “I’m a curse breaker.”
It doesn’t come easy, you have to fight to get it but my brothers and my sisters you have the victory over every curse that is in your bloodline. Hallelujah.
Why? Because you have been washed in the Blood, you had a blood transfusion and the Blood of Jesus has made you new.

Mighty warrior, not like your family, not where you grew up in, not what you came out of. You are not like them, the curse has been broken.

2. He had to go through a period of being unstable
   Judges 11:2
   What I love about God is that He will allow us to go through a wilderness season. Your wilderness season builds up certain characteristics that is going to make you. During your unstable season, you get to see God as your stability. Your unstable season only prepares you for what God has in store for you. There are many of us that we have not felt settled. I have come to let you know God was behind your wilderness season.
   For everyone that is listening to me right now, that feels a little unstable, what if I told you this is only your wilderness to get you to your Canaan. Anybody can worship God once you get to your Canaan, but it takes a special person to worship God in your unstable season knowing that your better days are ahead of you.
   Jephthah had to fight through his unstable season.
3. Many people become addicted, many people become alcoholics, many people take their lives but you are a mighty warrior and you are coming out of this. You have already come out of some unstable season. I will like to let you know that God’s hand is already on your life. A new beginning is coming and you are part of it.
4. He had to fight past hatred
   He literally had to deal with people not liking him, that should love him.
5. Judges 11:2 (NIV)
   Why have his brothers targeted him? Because he has already been marked, he has already been predestined, there is a leadership on him.
   When God marks you with favour, all you do is to show up and immediately hatred comes in your direction. You haven’t done anything to deserve it, you haven’t asked for anything to deserve it, then why is it coming at you? Because you have been predestined by God.
   They don’t like you because you have been marked by God.
6. They don’t like you because favour is on your life.
   Do you remember when Joseph had a dream, when Joseph told his brothers, he showed the secret that, “I have been marked for greatness.” He went back to tell them the second testimony and the Bible says, “they hated him the more.”
   Isn’t it amazing how people can hate you when you don’t have anything yet?
   Isn’t it amazing how people can hate you when haven’t arrived yet
   Why do they hate you in your present? because they are intimidated with your future.

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