- 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)
You don’t live in the present, you live already in the future because the hand of God is on your life. I need you to be okay with people not liking you, it’s amazing, you are worthy. I am amazed at those throwing daggers at you. Why are they throwing daggers at you? Because favour is on your life. Would you rather have them as a friend? or would you rather have God’s favour? I came to tell you; they don’t like you but they can’t do anything about it.
Joseph’s brothers stripped him of the robe his father gave him. What they really wanted to do was to strip him of his favour, strip of his dreams. Many of you have lost some stuffs, but you still have favour, you’ve lost some things but you still have the hand of God on your life. ChurchGist. I need somebody to know right now, any trap the enemy has set, it has not worked, for you wrestle not against flesh and blood, this thing is spiritual. I’ve come to let you know that they might hate you now but they’re going to respect the anointing and the call that is on your life later.
Lift up your hands and worship God because every trap the devil set for you did not work. They tried to abuse you, it didn’t work, they tried to kill you, it didn’t work, they spoke evil of you but it didn’t work, they hated you but it didn’t work, they put you out but it didn’t work, they cursed you but it didn’t work because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.
When you go through this season, the devil surrounds you with people to make you feel that you are in your environment. Judges 11: 3, there was a circle around Jephthah that he had to fight out of. When the devil knows that the enemy knows the hand of God is upon you, he gathers some scoundrels to try and box you in, they are the things that don’t go with your calling. The enemy will try to use your past against you. ChurchGist. Jephthah was able to fight his past and his background. You are bigger than your city, you are bigger than the school you went to, you are bigger than your background, your resume doesn’t define you, your criminal background doesn’t define you. Every fight you’ve had has prepared you for the battles that are coming.
When the children of Israel needed a deliverer? Who did God look for? He looks for thrash then He sees treasure. The Bible says sometime later, when things got tough, they sought out Jephthah. God is seeking you out. There’s someone there saying, ‘How can God use me?’. ChurchGist. Can I tell you something, He used Abraham; and he was old, He used Joseph; and he was abused, He used Moses; and he had a speech problem, He used Gideon; and he was afraid, He used Samson; and he was a womaniser, He used Rahab; and she was a prostitute, He used the Samaritan woman; and she was divorced, He used Noah; and he was a drunk, He used Jeremiah; and he was young, He used Jacob; and he was a cheater, He used David; and he was a murderer, He used Naomi; and she was a widow, He used Peter; and he cursed and he lied. Tell me, then how come he can’t you.
Get on your feet and lift your hands because it is a new beginning and He has you in mind.
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