Divine Lifting: God Raises His People
In this message, the preacher explores God’s power to lift His people from lowly places into positions of honor, drawing on the stories of Joseph’s rise from prison to palace and the healing at the pool of Bethesda. Congregants are encouraged not to despise small beginnings, to trust God’s timing, and to believe that no matter how long a struggle has lasted, God can bring sudden breakthrough and restoration. The sermon closes with a powerful time of prayer declaring freedom from long-standing bondages over families, finances, and future generations.
Overview
Preached as part two of a series titled "Divine Lifting," this message declares that God is actively in the business of raising His people from lowly, dust-bound circumstances to positions of honor. Anchored in Psalm 113:7-8, the sermon weaves the stories of Joseph (Genesis 41) and the invalid at the Pool of Bethesda (John 5) to show that no matter how long a person has suffered — in poverty, sickness, or bondage — God can suddenly and gradually lift, reposition, and restore them for His glory.
Key Scripture Passages
- Psalm 113:7-8 — The central text: God "raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy out of the ash heap, that He may seat him with princes."
- Genesis 41:41 — Pharaoh sets Joseph over all the land of Egypt, the climax of his journey from pit to prison to palace.
- Genesis 3:14 (referenced) — The serpent is cursed to "eat dust," used as the basis for the sermon's dust/food imagery for those living outside of Christ.
- Isaiah 60:22 — "A little one shall become a thousand... I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time," applied to small beginnings that God multiplies.
- John 5:1-9 — Jesus heals the man at the Pool of Bethesda who had been an invalid for 38 years, illustrating sudden deliverance after long waiting.
- Psalm 91 (referenced) — "He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High... under the shadow of the Almighty," cited as the believer's protected position once lifted out of the enemy's reach.
- Proverbs 18:10 (referenced, paraphrased as "the name of the Lord is a strong tower") — Trusting God's name rather than "chariots and horses" (cf. Psalm 20:7).
- 1 Samuel 15 (referenced) — Saul's disobedience at Gilgal in rushing ahead of God's instruction, used as a warning against impatience.
- Joel 2:25 (referenced) — Restoring "the years the locust has eaten," applied to God's restorative lifting.
Sermon Outline
- God's Nature as the Lifter of His People
- The church culture should celebrate others being "lifted" rather than harbor jealousy or comfort with poverty.
- Testimonies given: formerly homeless members now housed; a woman with high-school-level education now a nurse; a young woman with seizures ("Azure") now a college graduate.
- Psalm 113:7-8 — From Dust to Princes
- Connects the "dust" of the psalm to the curse on the serpent in Eden (Genesis 3:14): those outside of Christ remain vulnerable, becoming "food for the devil."
- Receiving Christ moves a person into "the secret place of the Most High" (Psalm 91), a position the enemy cannot touch.
- Joseph — A Case Study in Divine Lifting (Genesis 41:41)
- Joseph's dream, betrayal by his own household, false accusation, and imprisonment.
- Despite every setback, God moved him from prison to palace "within 24 hours" once His timing arrived — proof that God can change destiny suddenly.
- Application: trust God's name and promises rather than worldly securities (government, finances).
- Being "Raised," Not Just Lifted — Isaiah 60:22
- Being raised involves correction and shaping of character, not merely elevation of circumstance.
- Illustration of children who are "raised" (well-formed) versus those who are not, showing that God's raising process forms integrity and humility.
- Do not despise small beginnings — small things (bank accounts, businesses, families) can multiply into "a thousand" and "a strong nation" in God's timing.
- Testimony of a pastor who began earning $10/hour and now runs a daycare paying employees $18/hour.
- The Necessity of Patience in the Process
- Illustration of farming (tilling, watering, weeding) before the harvest appears.
- Warning against rushing ahead of God, illustrated by King Saul's disobedience (1 Samuel 15).
- Testimony of a woman rebuilding her life and family after abandonment ("the God of new beginnings").
- The Pool of Bethesda — Sudden Deliverance After Long Waiting (John 5:1-9)
- The setting: many sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people waiting at the pool for the stirring of the water.
- The man had been afflicted 38 years; Jesus already knew the full extent of his condition before asking, "Do you want to be made well?"
- The man's answer reveals a lack of a "divine helper" — paralleled to the believer's Helper, the Holy Spirit.
- Jesus commands, "Rise, take up your bed and walk," and the man is healed immediately, on the Sabbath — showing Jesus operates by kingdom authority, not religious restriction.
- Corporate Declaration and Prayer of Breakthrough
- Congregational decrees against long-standing bondages (financial, marital, health, generational, witchcraft, professional).
- Intercession for children and future generations, invoking "the generation of the righteous shall be delivered."
- Closing prophetic declarations of divine lifting over every area of life — family, ministry, business, finances.
Theological Insights
- Divine reversal as a biblical motif — Psalm 113 echoes the Song of Hannah (1 Samuel 2:8) and the Magnificat (Luke 1:52), where God consistently exalts the lowly and humbles the proud.
- Positional theology in Christ — the sermon frames salvation not merely as forgiveness but as a change of position (from "dust" to "seated with princes"), echoing Ephesians 2:6, that believers are raised and seated with Christ in heavenly places.
- The curse-and-redemption contrast — the serpent's judgment to "eat dust" (Genesis 3:14) is used typologically: remaining in sin keeps a person within the enemy's domain, while union with Christ removes one from that jurisdiction (Colossians 1:13).
- Sanctification as part of exaltation — being "raised" by God is presented as a refining process, not instant elevation; this aligns with Hebrews 12:10-11 on discipline that yields righteousness.
- Sovereign timing versus human striving — Isaiah 60:22 ("I the Lord will hasten it in its time") and the Joseph narrative both emphasize God's providence (Romans 8:28) working even through betrayal, delay, and injustice.
- The danger of partial obedience — Saul's disobedience at Gilgal (1 Samuel 15) is invoked as a caution that rushing ahead of God's instructions, even with good intentions, forfeits blessing.
- Christ's compassionate omniscience — in John 5, Jesus' foreknowledge of the man's 38-year condition reflects a broader biblical theme that God is intimately aware of suffering before it is even voiced (Psalm 139:1-4).
- The Holy Spirit as the "Helper" who fills the gap — drawing on John 14:16-18, the sermon reinterprets the lame man's lack of "a man to help" as being resolved in the New Covenant by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Word & Context Study
- "Dust" / "ash heap" (Psalm 113:7) — In Hebrew, ʿāp̄ār ("dust") and ʾašpōṯ ("ash heap" or "dunghill") both depict the lowest, most degraded social status in the ancient Near East — the place of beggars and outcasts sitting outside the city gate. The imagery intensifies the scale of the reversal: from society's discard pile to a seat among nobility.
- Bethesda — Meaning "house of mercy" or "house of grace" in Hebrew, the pool near Jerusalem's Sheep Gate had five covered porches, likely built as a healing shrine; archaeological excavations have identified a pool matching this description near St. Anne's Church in Jerusalem, lending historical credibility to John's Gospel account.
- Sheep Gate — One of Jerusalem's ancient gates (mentioned in Nehemiah 3:1) near the temple, associated with bringing sacrificial animals into the city — an apt location for a place associated with healing and restoration.
- Joseph's transition ("prison to palace") — In Genesis 41:14, Joseph is brought "hastily" from the dungeon (Hebrew bôr, "pit" or "cistern") and shaved and changed his garments before appearing before Pharaoh — a cultural detail underscoring the completeness of his change in status, mirrored in the sermon's language of being lifted "within 24 hours."
Application
- Cultivate a church or community culture that celebrates others' progress and breakthroughs rather than envying them.
- Recognize small beginnings — in finances, business, or family — as seeds God intends to multiply; don't despise or hide where you started.
- Respond to Christ's question "Do you want to be made well?" with active faith expressed in behavior, not just words.
- Practice patience during seasons when God seems silent, trusting that He is still working things together for good.
- Invite God's shaping and correction, not just elevation — ask Him to remove pride and character flaws as part of being "raised."
- Intercede for your children and future generations, believing for their deliverance and protection.
- Declare and pray Scripture (e.g., Psalm 113:7-8, Isaiah 60:22) over your circumstances as an act of faith.
Reflection & Discussion Questions
- In what ways might your own environment (family, workplace, church) discourage others from being "lifted"? How can you become a place that celebrates others' growth?
- The sermon connects Genesis 3:14 (the serpent eating dust) with living outside of Christ. How does understanding your position "in Christ" change the way you respond to attacks or setbacks?
- Joseph experienced betrayal, false accusation, and years of delay before his elevation. Which part of his story most resonates with a season you have walked through, and why?
- The sermon distinguishes between being merely "lifted" and being "raised" (shaped and corrected). Where in your life might God be more interested in forming your character than simply changing your circumstances?
- Jesus asked the lame man, "Do you want to be made well?" Why might Christ ask a question whose answer seems obvious? What does your day-to-day behavior reveal about your true desire for change?
- What is a "38-year" situation in your own life or family — something long-standing you have been waiting on God to resolve? How does this sermon encourage you to pray about it differently?
Conclusion
The central call of this message is simple but weighty: God is not a distant observer of human struggle but the active Lifter who takes people from the dust of poverty, sickness, and bondage and seats them among princes. Whether through the sudden reversal of Joseph's prison-to-palace story or the immediate healing of a man crippled for 38 years, the sermon urges believers to trust God's timing, submit to His shaping process, and boldly declare that their season of remaining in the dust is over — believing that the same God who lifted others will surely lift them too.
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But we started a series called Divine
Word. Lifting. Amen?
That we know that God is the God
that does what? He lifts people up.
He's changing us from a lower position
to what? A higher position.
God is in the business of
lifting people. And you know,
this past week I was listening to a
powerful man of God and he was saying that
you have to surround yourself or position
yourself in places where you can be allowed to be lifted how many of us know that there's not many
places that you can go and they are comfortable with people being lifted there are some places
that you go everybody wants to be in low position there are actually in some churches that preach
that it's okay to be what to be poor they want you to be comfortable in the state of poverty
but i i am telling you that we belong to a church that lifting is part is com we are comfortable
with each other's lifting hallelujah oh you are not clapping your hands for jesus we actually
celebrate when some people somebody gets what lifted we don't get jealous of somebody when they
get lifted we don't get envious when somebody get lifted we actually share when we realize that
something is lifting someone we actually share with each other so that we can all be lifted
oh somebody just praise the lord oh hallelujah lifting is a common thing in this house amen
hallelujah because we believe that god what lifts people amen when you serve him you don't stay in
the same place that you came that you came in when you served her he changed your position to his
glory and to his honor amen so today i just want to go to part two of this message and say that god
is in the business of raising his people oh you are not shouting hallelujah god is what is in the
business of doing what raising his people hallelujah god is in the business i know some
people that walk through this door they were homeless today they have houses hallelujah god
is in the business of what lifting people there are people that walk in here with high school
diplomas and today they are nurses god is in the business of doing lifting people hallelujah there's
a young woman i was telling them last week one were on the line on tuesday she came to the service
she has seizures she couldn't sit in classroom for even two hours amen her name is azure i think
is satel's daughter she couldn't even sit in class for one hour because immediately she says
she started having seizures we begin to pray this child has now finished college
hallelujah so god is in the business or do you want lifting people but we as the people need to
believe that god lives hallelujah god is the lifter of people and we have to start believing
it i want us to look at psalm 113 verse 7 to 8 the book of psalm 113 verse 7 to 8
psalm 113 verse 7 to 8 says he raises the poor out of the dust and lifts the needy out of the
our sheep that he may sit him with princes with the princess of his people amen so since i need
you to believe to begin to believe this word because it's not the word of god that you just
read that makes a change in your life that the word of god that you actually do what believe
that he actually when you serve this lord god almighty his word is telling that he raises us
poor people out of the dust since i need you to understand that one thing that happened in the
garden of the eden when adam fell you know that one curse that came upon the adversaries that
he's going to do what eat dust so since as long as you are in the position of dust the enemy will eat
you up since listen to me when we stay in sin and bondage what happens the enemy does what
we position ourselves in the position where the enemy will eat us up because the god already
pronounced on the adversary the devil that he's going to do what it does so when we have not
received jesus christ as our lord and savior what happened the enemy can do what eat us up
but when you receive jesus christ as your lord and savior you receive something we call abandoned life
you find yourself positioned in the secret place of the most high the enemy cannot do what touch
you anymore oh hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah you begin to shift position
that is why some 91 becomes so powerful in our lives that we dwell in what the secret place of
the most high and we abide under what the shadow of the almighty so i know i'm not in the position
for the devil to eat me up anymore so since when you are in sin and bond when we don't receive
christ what have you done we are positioning ourselves for the enemy to eat us up we become
the food for the devil our finances become food for the devil our organs become food for the devil
but immediately we receive jesus christ we are no longer food for the devil oh somebody hallelujah
oh somebody hallelujah he will look for us and he will not find us anymore hallelujah
because god himself has raised us the poor from the dust and lives as the needy so that he can set
us with princes and kings hallelujah somebody i need to turn to turn to your neighbor and say god
is a lifter oh somebody say god has lifted me up oh let's look at genesis chapter 41 verse 41.
let's go there genesis i just want to give you how god lifts our people
Genesis chapter 41 verse 41
Genesis chapter 41 verse 41
You see, Joseph is a kind of
person in the word of God that we always need to study.
This young man, one day he had a vision.
He said, I saw the sun, the moon, and the stars.
They were all bowing to me.
He went and told his father.
He went and told his siblings.
They were all angry.
They did not receive it.
Do you know that most of the time when you share your vision to that,
Jesus one day begins to say that.
Our enemies are our own foes.
The people are our own.
Do you know that when you want to go through any warfare,
the one warfare that you go through to become great is the people in your household.
When you get up and say, oh, I'm going to be the president.
What do you think they'll say?
No.
What is she talking about?
Hallelujah.
they will never believe you so joseph went and said i saw the sun the moon and the stars back
into me they did not believe him the word of god said that they actually sold him they decided to
put him in a pit and kill him that they but they couldn't kill him so they ended up selling him
into slavery in slavery he found himself also someone accusing him so that is another warfare
you're going to go through in what accusation the accused when they put him in prison but today i
need to tell somebody that it doesn't matter what the enemy does if god says he's going to lift you
he will surely lift you hallelujah so then he found himself in prison but you know that's why
i want us to read genesis for the one verse for the one and i want us all of us to read it together
and said that and it said and pharaoh said to joseph see i have set you over the land of what
of egypt so that vision that he saw that god is setting him up came to pass he found himself
over the whole land of egypt a foreign land that he did not belong to so you see there is a word
of god that said that we should god works all things together for our good sometimes when we
are going through it can be so challenging sometimes when you look at your situation
some of us will look at our mother's house and our father's house the the area that we were raised
the community the environment everything that will never make it but i need to tell you that
when you study joseph's story it makes you come to a place of understanding and a place of
encouragement that no matter where the enemy will push you god will lift you up hallelujah
since i'm telling you no matter where the enemy puts you we have all we have to do believe that
god is going to do what is the lift around for people and he will do what he will lift us up he
lifted up this young man how can you go from prison one day you are wearing prison outfit
my god in this country is orange can you imagine that one day you are in orange outfit and the next
day my god within 24 hours you are now sitting in a white house oh somebody hallelujah do you know
that this thing only god can do it so then i want to encourage you so that in this season he says
somebody says some trust in chariots some trust in horses but we should trust in the name of the
lord because the name of the lord is what a strong tower the righteous running and they are saved
hallelujah because since all of us sometimes we do you know we trust in other things somebody can
be sitting here trusting in the government right now i think my husband was telling me about how
the government has promised that if they vote for him he's going to give everybody five thousand
do you know that people are trusting that that five thousand will come and somebody's waiting for
that five thousand is to come into the bank account but we don't realize that god is the
god that he said i make one poor and i'll make one rich if he says he's going to change your destiny
he can change it within 24 hours because within 24 hours he picked up joseph from the prison
oh somebody hallelujah they didn't send him to go and do volunteer services they didn't send him
to go and say listen all he put him from what from prison and straight into palace may you this season
be picked up from every area of imprisonment to your palace or somebody in the name of jesus
hallelujah god is the god of setup hallelujah that is what i've been reading first somewhere
chapter 2 verse 8 i've been just meditating on it put it up again for us first somewhere chapter 2
verse 8 i just want you to begin every morning begin to meditate on it just begin to meditate
meditate think about it ponder over it let the word of god enter you because he said that i will
raise up the poor out of the dust he will raise you up he didn't say he would he will raise you
and says when there's something about raising when you are being raised what happened he shapes you
so sometimes you see we want to be lifted up we don't want god to raise us do you know that he
will raise us and pull the background stuff out of our lives there are prideful ways he will pull it
out my god the things that we do that causes us not to be able to stand before him when something
is you know that when you look at some child i think pastor mary is a teacher the other day she
was telling me she said some students will come that you will know that they have been raised
and then you see some children too they'll come and you know they were just doing whatever they
were doing she was sharing with me about this young child now i just begin to weep in my spirit
that already at five year old smelling of marijuana when they enter the class their eyes are red
pointing to the teachers what is it this child is and she said this child will just go and see
one teacher and say hello beautiful this do you tell me this child is being raised no but when you
are being raised saying that is why we need to give god time to raise us hallelujah allow him to
correct us allow him to change us we are not all not perfect allow him to shape us mold us and bring
us into the image and his and his likeness in that position the enemy cannot ease us up in that
position will not be the food for the enemy but god himself would do us will lift us up oh
hallelujah oh hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah god is in the business of
lifting people up he would never leave us the way we came in with him hallelujah when i look at my
when i think about the goodness of god when i think of where he started with me and i see where
he has brought me i can do nothing but to praise him hallelujah i can do nothing but to worship him
I might not be where I want to be but I am not where I started Oh somebody Hallelujah Hallelujah I was full of sin iniquity and transgression But today my God i telling you there are some things that i said in my own bed i said father
this one i would never do that again hallelujah i said and i tell myself father got me this one
it will never happen to me again because why i've come to the place where i've allowed him to shape
me and allow him to change me i have allowed me to change my thinking so that i can be good for
this kingdom in the name of jesus oh hallelujah oh hallelujah let's go to isaiah chapter 60 verse 22.
so i need to tell somebody that do not despise your small beginnings
hallelujah do not despise it do not despise when you came from oh you know the other that
met this doctor in the hospital but when i look at the last name i knew he's from ghana so i you
know i said oh are you from ghana oh my mother is from ghana oh i said okay hallelujah because
sometimes we don't even want to identify where we came from hallelujah but since until you you have
to know where you came from so that you can appreciate where he has taken you hallelujah
but the god so do not despise what your small beginnings maybe that business that you are
starting you are starting from beginning i need to tell you it will grow oh hallelujah as long
as we work with god that business will do what it will grow hallelujah maybe your finances you
started i remember days that i used to 200 dollars in my bank account was so much money
i'm telling you 200 dollars in my bank account was so much money the other day pastor Terry were
talking to the pastor he said apostle do you remember when i started this church i was making
actually making ten dollars an hour some of you will not believe it but i remember saying to her
you are going up because this church you know we believe in lifting hallelujah i said you are
you are getting sleepless nights for ten dollars you better get out hallelujah hallelujah and then
god begin to give her ideas she said no i need to start my daycare i need to move get into a building
not that she had the money sitting there
to go and open that daycare
but she believed God
oh somebody she did what she believed God
hallelujah and today
she's paying people
sometimes she tells me she's paying people $18 an hour
oh somebody
hallelujah
she's paying people more than what she was being paid
so somebody I need to tell
God is in the business of what
lifting his people
hallelujah
you will not be in the same situation
you'll not be in the same state things will change for his good in the mighty name of jesus
hallelujah somebody said god is changing me for his good
hallelujah so isaiah chapter 60 verse 22 he says a little one shall become a thousand
and a small one a strong nation i the lord who hasten it in his time since you know listen this
word that i just gave you you see how the ending he will hasten it in his time a little one shall
become what a thousand so that little bank account that you came to the church and you are you receive
jesus christ god can make it a thousand hallelujah that little family you know some people come to
church they don't have anybody but god can change your situation and make you into a strong nation
grace international somebody said we are a strong nation oh hallelujah hallelujah and he said i the
lord i will hasten it i will do it in my time because in his time he makes all things beautiful
some of the challenges we have as children of god is that we want to go ahead of god do you know that
we want to do things in our own way but i have come to a place where when i try to do my own way
doesn't work so then i come to a place where i totally surrounded the situation and i said father
i don't know what is happening i don't like it but he's going through some things that i have to go
through but father i surrender everything my god do what you want to do in your time so he said in
his time he makes all things what oh in his time he makes all things what so somebody i need to tell
that by the time you look that little thing that you that small beginning has multiplied to be a
thousand begin to speak over your tithes and your offering when you are bringing it to the lord
father make it multiplied into a thousand hallelujah and god will multiply it to his glory
and to his honor in the mighty name of jesus oh somebody say i will allow him to shape me
i will allow him to change me he will take my letter and make it into much he will take my small
and tell it to be great in my weak areas he will make me strong in my unknown areas
he make me influential oh hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah
because god is the god of gradual process you know that god is the but don't quit
don't quit god is the god of gradual process you might start with little i remember the first time
uh my my father-in-law came to me and said oh we are selling the the whole people are selling lands
it's two thousand dollars do you know they took me like one year to pay 100 years 50 years 50
year 50 years oh my god but somebody if you don't quit you will finish that thing hallelujah don't
quit gradual process there is nothing those of you that are farming sometimes i hear pastor mary
she'll call me she said today i'm i'm tilling the ground sometimes she tell me today i'm just watering
oh today i'm just pulling out the weeds but one day it blossoms then she shows up in my house
and she has cucumber she has eggplant she has this and then i'll be like it's just the two of us
it's just the two of us don't bring us too much food but i'm telling you if you don't have patience
you will not see the hand of god that is why patience is one of the fruits of the spirit
when we are patient we will see the hand of god god himself will shape us and mold us and at the
end of it you will look and say god you have been too good to me you know some people rush ahead of
god they fail hallelujah the word of god tells us a story about a man named saul he was in rush to
do what he wants to do but one one day the word of god said that god told him to send him to gilgar
kill all the people kill the kings everyone but because he was listening to people what did he do
he did not obey God and God took the kinship from him sometimes you know what what happens to us we
don't want to listen to God like today we learn in the Bible study we want to listen to people
but since I'm telling when we listen to people who always fail but when we listen to God sometimes
the situation do not even look like what it's going to be but at the end of it it is going to
work together for our good oh somebody hallelujah how somebody hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah
Amen. So I am here to tell
announce to somebody, don't be in a place
of disappointment. Don't
be in a position where you think you are failing.
Sometimes the things that even when you
think you are failing, that is when God is actually
working it out. Sometimes when
we are working with God, you feel like he's so quiet.
How many of us have been in that place?
That is the place that you want to actually
hear God speak. And nothing
is going on. Why sometimes
why is he so quiet?
My God, why is
he so quiet? Financially
is quiet i mean my workplace my family is so quiet i don't hear anything and you know what let me tell
you you might not even get a prophetic word either you can go to a conference you won't be called
you can come to church no topic will come that is relating to that but that doesn't mean that
god is not working it i need to tell you that he's working everything together for our good
oh hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah so we should not despise our small
beginners don't despise everything that you are going through god in his own time he will make
everything beautiful hall i'll always stop uh listen to pastor mary cedo she'll tell me she
was going to live in when her husband left her she said the husband had left now the man is with
another woman she's now with left with the children she don't even know what she's supposed to do
i remember she said i started i'm doing living and i will come home and i'll be sleeping on the floor
because i gave the bed to my children today is she sleeping on the floor the god of new beginnings
oh somebody hallelujah the god of new beginnings have made everything new for her today my god i'm
sure these children that she was sacrificing for she'll look at them and say that this is what the
good lord has done oh somebody hallelujah oh somebody hallelujah so you might be sleeping on
the floor today but tomorrow i'm telling you you will not be on the floor you might be eating the
little crumbs or somebody but tomorrow you will live in overflow or somebody you might have the
small bank account but i need to tell you uh tomorrow your bank account will be in overflow
you might be the despised one in your family but i need to tell you tomorrow you will no longer be
despised they will look for you and they will not even recognize you because god has changed you for
the god in the name of jesus my god god can change any situation since god can change every new
situation hallelujah they will look at you say no it's not her but somebody you say it is me
oh it is me it is me oh it is me it is me it is me hallelujah thank you lord father we thank you i
want us to look at john chapter 5 verse 1 to 9 and then we go john chapter 5 verse 1 to 9.
i have decided to follow jesus
i have decided to follow jesus
to follow jesus oh no turning back no turning oh i have decided i have decided
oh to follow jesus oh i have decided oh to follow jesus oh i have decided oh to follow jesus
oh no turning back no turning back so john chapter 5 verse 1 to 9 it says after this there was a feast
of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem now there is in jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool
which is called in hebrew bethesda having five porches in this lay a great multitude
of sick people blind lame paralyzed waiting for the move of the water for an angel went down at
a certain time into the pool and stared up the water then whoever stepped in first after the
stirring of the water was made well from whatever disease he had now a certain man was there who had
an infirmity 38 years when jesus saw him lying there and knew that he already had been in that
condition a long time he said to him do you want to be made well the sick man answered himself i
I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up.
But while I was coming, another steps down before me.
Jesus said to him, rise, take up your bed and walk.
And immediately, if it is your Bible underlining, the man was made well.
Took up his bed and walk.
And that day was the Sabbath.
Amen.
Amen.
we learn if we really dissect this word we learn so much about how we need to wait on this god
sometimes we find ourselves in situations that we want that answer immediately but sometimes god
wants to take glory in that situation that you are going through so the word of god says that
invest to that there in jerusalem by the ship gate which is called in hebrew bethazza having
what five poaches in this lay great multitude sick people says i need to tell that when we even come
to the house of the lord everybody comes with their situation when we can you just imagine that's why
i believe that god has the biggest ear think about it we are here in grace international praying
other people are in victory church praying other people are in breakthrough church praying other
people are in abandoned life praying other people are in every but god is listening to all of us
so he's saying that what the sick people there is blind people there are people that are crying out
to god father help me to see i can't see the way i want to see so since it's not just physical
blindness you know sometimes we can be what spiritual blindness and we need god to do what
open our eyes there are people that are lame they can't walk that are crying out onto the lord
father why do i find myself in this situation where i can't move forward some people are paralyzed
they need help they cannot take care of themselves or if you are somebody if you are in the hospital
taking care of paralyzed people you realize that sometimes for the food ah my god somebody got to
feed you yes and we are all waiting for the move of god hallelujah and said that they were all
waiting if it is your bible for the moving of the water moving of the holy spirit since in this season
and in this time everybody's waiting on god for something you know i i tell you that i i'll be
listening i'll be listening to i listen to this powerful man of god and how when i will look at
his life this man has one of the biggest churches in ghana this man's church is a whole city this
man has a wife this man has sons and daughters this man has businesses but this man said there
is one prayer that i've been praying for 17 years so don't make you don't even think that you just
because you have a situation that everybody else doesn't have something that they are seeking god
for we are all here in this sanctuary somebody is crying out for healing somebody wants
prosperity somebody wants favor somebody wants their children to be delivered somebody wants
their spouse to be delivered somebody wants to break generational patterns somebody everybody
is crying out to god for something we are all waiting for the move of the water
now it says now a certain man was there who had had the infirmity for 38 years since i don't know
what it is that you are waiting god for what 38 years 38 years they've been waiting for god to
answer that prayer my god huh when jesus saw him but when we come to jesus you see this is why i
need i need you to pay attention to that situation might be five years 10 years 17 years 20 years 30
years 40 years but somebody i need to tell somebody when you are coming the more you are getting close
to jesus the more he's working that 10 hours for you 38 years that situation has been going on
mama but that day when he met jesus amen oh mama mama and jesus knowing immediately jesus saw him
because since some people will not know your condition but i need to tell that jesus knows
your condition he knows how long you have been battling with cancer he knows how long you have
been battling with that infirmity my god poverty ah my god marital issues children issues god knows
he said he saw him and knew how long that condition has been so i need to tell somebody that he said
even the house on our head he knows god knows every condition that we are in since i'm telling
you that the condition that we are in is not powerful than our god he knows every condition
that we are in mama and he says that what he asked him do you want to be made well somebody have you
ever thought about it why did jesus ask him that question because sometimes you know that some of
us will see that thing that we are going through we love the poverty so that we can go to people
and say can you help me can you help me you love in the poverty until you come to a place where you
say i'm breaking out the lord shall supply all my knees according to his riches and glory by christ
jesus because many people be like what is he talking about all of us are at the pool waiting
for the move of the water what do you mean you asking this man if he wants to be made whole
why is god asking me if i want to be blessed why is god asking me i want to be delivered
that is why i have come to the house of the lord because i want to be delivered but sometimes jesus
wants our response today i want to ask somebody what are you responding to jesus now what are you
tell him because you see the response will not come with what you say sometimes it has to come
with how you behave yes god is looking at our behavior do you want to be made well in says
the verse seven let's read it together the sick man answered him said i have no man to put me in
the pool when the water is stirred up ah but while i am coming another steps down before me my god he
said i don't have a divine helper so sometimes you see we sit and we say we don't have a divine
helper i don't have any help nobody's helping me i want to be a millionaire but nobody's helping me
but i pray unto the king of kings and the lord of lords that you will always have a helper oh somebody
hallelujah my god that you will do what always have a helper and if you don't have a help i need
to tell somebody that he has sent us the helper which is the holy spirit oh jesus said i am saying
i'm not sending you what comfortless i am sending you with a helper and when the helper comes he
will do what he will show you all things so since as long as you have the holy spirit you have
everything hallelujah hallelujah oh mama so jesus said to him rise take up your bed and walk since
you know that anytime that you are coming to the house of the lord anytime that you are going to
his presence what he's doing to you is rise take up your bed and walk rise take up your bed and walk
oh somebody the situation that has been for 38 years you find yourself that you have overcome
that thing i need to tell somebody that heaven is for overcomings oh are you are you hearing me
oh somebody we are not rushing to go to heaven right now because heaven is for what overcome
overcome that poverty oh somebody are you listening today overcome that disease and infirmity
oh somebody overcome that broken home oh somebody overcome the generational bloodline
hurt may they look at you and say you are the one that is in the family that has overcome amen
they have to look at you in the family and say because why you have jesus
because that situation of 38 years when he met jesus he rose up mama he was not in that situation
anymore and verse 9 says what and oh somebody say immediately oh somebody what oh somebody
shouted out again it means that it did not it didn't happen tomorrow he did what immediately
the man was what?
Made well. He took up his bed
and walked. And that day
was the Sabbath. You see, because God
is not a God of religion. God is a God
of kingdom.
And immediately, that man
began to walk.
I want to ask somebody here today.
What is the situation that you need to walk out of here?
That man
had been for what? 38 years.
Long time
problems.
But when we meet Jesus,
oh somebody that thing can receive the suddenness of god oh long time sickness oh but when he meets
jesus my god that thing can be destroyed in the name of jesus long time poverty oh somebody ah
generational curses oh soul ties the works of principalities and powers wicked spirit from
high places but we stand by the authority of the word of god the same god that delivered this man
for 38 years has entered into the house of the lord oh somebody rise up let every long time
problem come to an end in the name of jesus i don't know what issue you brought to the house
of them because somebody we are all looking 17 years they said i've been praying for him
maybe there's a problem that you have been praying for 38 years but we are going to shoot only one
prayer that this week my father let's visit me suddenly oh you are not shouting hallelujah father
my god that poverty problem visiting me suddenly oh that generational curse problem somebody do a
visit you are suddenly that poverty problem somebody cried out to the lord me suddenly 38
yes
don't be a spectator open your mouth
I
I love
I love you do papa
i
now
Alapalapalabha
Aliya patnubudya papa
Aliya patnubusan naliya papa
Aliya patnubusataya
Aliya patnubusundu ya hasataya
Aliya nabbasanaya ha
Aliya nabbasanaya ha
Aliya nabbasanaya ha sataya
I am not a man.
So
I love
papa you see me i am done with going to church and play going church like i'm going to for a show
i came for something i've decided that anytime that i go in the presence of god
no pretending no acting i have come for something hallelujah we are putting our faith together yes
that any long time bondage in our lives he said that one shall put a thousand to fry and two shall
put what ten thousand we are praying that any long time bondage that money was for 38 years
maybe yours is five years maybe 10 years maybe somebody's 20 years maybe it's 30 years 40 years
we are praying that any bondage in this house breaks in the mighty name of jesus open your mouth
open your mouth ah but uh father my god we have come before your throne of grace
father my god any lifetime bondage father my god every bondage of god in grace international
in our lives to go in our families to go after that in our ministry in our business lord god
father my god today we come before the king of kings every form of professional bondage
our marital bondage our business bondage our family bondage our father we come father my lord
together and father we break that bondage in the name of jesus
Father my God, every bondage, Father my God has been in our life for a long time.
Father, we come in agreement today and we break the bondage of our lives, of our ministry,
of our family, of our finances, in the name of Jesus. Every health bondage, I break it in the name of Jesus.
Ashtar, every witchcraft bondage, we break it in the name of Jesus. Every principality bondage,
we break it in the name of Jesus. Every power, every wicked spirit, that has held us, and our families in bondage.
Father we break it, we break that bondage in the name of Jesus
is
our financial bondage we're breaking our maritime bondage we're breaking in the name of jesus
open your mouth
every bondage
I'll be broken in the name of Jesus.
I'll be broken in the name of Jesus.
Yes, sir.
I am a man.
Jesus Lord God.
Lift up our two hands. We are going to cry out for our children.
And our children's children.
He said the regeneration of the righteous, they shall be delivered.
Amen.
That we are crying our Christ.
The Father delivered the sins. I'm telling you.
Not coming to church and all can nothing.
No. We are not here for an act.
We have come to a man's eye.
The company of many angels.
Oh, where just men are made perfect.
I need you to cry out for our children.
Our next generation.
out to the third and fourth generation any bondage in the life of our children we stand by the
authority of the word of God and we are breaking it in the mighty name of Jesus open your mouth
oh father my God we come before your throne of grace father my God we cry out for our children
father my God we cry out ah crystal Christina and precious father my God I cry out to God
all the children of grace international we cry out lord god that every bondage in their life
breaks this morning in the mighty name of jesus lord god we break every witchcraft bondage upon
our children in the name of jesus father we break oh god uh makata yakaliya papa
Infermity of our children in the name of Jesus.
For the generation of the righteous.
They shall be delivered.
Father, deliver our children.
Father, we pull them from darkness into your light.
In the mighty name of Jesus.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
open your mouth the generation of the righteous and they shall be delivered father my god any area
of bondage uh father concerning our children father we cry out for their deliverance in the
name of jesus father deliver them oh god and we cry out god earlier for you said the righteous
cry and you hear them father contend with god with those that contend with us and save our children
in the name of Jesus
our children
any mother will rise up against our children and we condemn it in the name of jesus
jesus was bruised for their iniquity it was wounded for their transgression
all the chastisement of our truth our peace is upon him by the stripes of jesus our children
and i may have a child and deliver our children
and deliver our next generation and deliver our children
i will pull them from darkness into your light
i will pull our children from darkness into your light
in the name of jesus
i'll be upon our children i'll let your hand of protection i'll be upon our children we build a
head of protection i will come against premature death i will come against premature death in the
name of jesus i will come against every arrow of the wicked over our children's life we break
the dance of the wicked one we release our children father my lord we release our children
from every prison and from every place of captivity we release our children
and we release our children
Father deliver them, deliver our children, Father deliver our children, Father deliver
our children, the generation of the righteous, they shall be delivered, Father deliver our
children
hi
right hand thank you thank god for your children thank god for the next generation open your mouth
tanto our children our children's children after the third and fourth generation we thank you
father we thank you for their preservation father we thank you for their deliverance
father we thank you for their divine help father we thank you for their prosperity
father we thank you for your favor upon their life father we thank you for your mighty
hand upon our children we thank you for protection for preservation for your favor
oh your loving kindness and your tender mercy our children are blessed our children children are
blessed father we thank you god father we bless you for our children we glorify you for testimonies
in the life of our children father we thank you god ah father for guiding them leading them
protecting them lord god father we bless you father for our children in the name of jesus lord
god thank you lord god thank you jesus say this after me my season of remaining in the dust is over
my season of remaining in the dust is over the lord is raising me the lord is raising me lifting
me lifting me and positioning me and positioning me where his purpose for my life where his purpose
will be fulfilled in the name of Jesus begin to prophesy over life open your mouth father my God
I decree and declare today that my season of remaining in the dust is over father my God the
Lord himself is raising me lifting me and positioning me where his purpose for my life
is fulfilled in the mighty name of jesus father my god in the wonder be in christ is a new creation
the old has passed away behold all things have become new so father i declare today that the
lord is raising me the lord is lifting me up and positioning me where his purpose for my life
has been fulfilled in the name of jesus father my god you are the lifter up of men
father i thank you for lifting me up god i thank you god in every area of my life just as you said
the whole world on pillars father i thank you oh god for divine setup oh god now you lifting me up
god father my god i will be the head and never the tail i will be above and never me father my god
i am more than a conqueror everything i touch is blessed god you are positioning me with princes
and kings and people in authority lord god i will not be limited i will not be broken father you are
the lifted off of mine i thank you for divine lifting father my god ministry divine lifting
father family divine race lifting marital divine lifting and financial divine lifting
father i thank you this morning father my god for divine lifting professional divine lifting
father you have lifted me all around and nobody can bring me down and cry out lord god i thank you
that your word is yes and amen and let the one become a thousand and father a small one has
become a strong nation and you will look upon your way to perform father this way oh god you
perform your lifting in my life beyond human imagination i will not be in the dust i am
lifted up my family is lifted up my business is lifted up my ministry is picked up my heart in the
workplace i am lifted up father my god every area of my life i see a divine lifting uh beyond human
imagination
Grace International is lifted up.
Our businesses are lifted up.
Our families are lifted up.
Our marriages are lifted up.
our finances are lifted up
at the power
we have gone to another dimension of your glory this morning
another dimension of your goodness this morning
at the power
at the upper top
at the upper top
at the upper top
father you are the one that said the whole world
on it
uh
I will cry out.
I will lift us.
I will praise us.
I will governance.
I will presidents.
I will see you.
I will people of authority.
You set us up.
oh
oh father for you lift us up and nobody can pull us down divine lifting
I am a minister divine lifting.
thank you jesus father we thank you oh you are not thanking the lord hallelujah
oh father we thank you oh god oh we bless your name oh god oh father we thank you for divine
god father we thank you for divine oh father we thank you for divine
center we bless you for divine lifting father taking us to go from a lower dimension loud god
father we will no longer be found among the guys we will not be food for the devil our families
will not be food for the devil our businesses will not be food for the devil our jobs are not food for
the devil our destiny is not food for the devil father my god i thank you for restoration that you
restore unto us the years that the locals have eaten i had the canker worms and the palmer ones
father just as you did to joseph god father you take him from prison to palace
father do so therefore every area of imprisonment you have moved us god
father we thank you for divine shifting you have shifted us from our prison to our palace
in the name of jesus lord father we just thank you you know god just begin to say just as i
shifted Joseph from prison to palace.
I will shift you from every area of captivity to a place
of elevation in the name of Jesus. So Father, we thank
you, God, for this season of elevation.
Just as you did with Joseph, you shifted him from prison
to palace. So you have shifted us in the realms of the
spirit and positioned us with princes,
kings, people of authority
CEOs, governors
presidents
in the name of Jesus
Father my God, we thank you God
for testimonies
testimonies, mind blowing
testimonies, oh we thank you
for the suddenness of God
suddenly God
suddenly God, suddenly life
have changed, suddenly our
finances have changed, suddenly
our families have changed
Father we thank you
we bless you today
we give you the glory
daddy we give you the honor
and we give you the praise
in Jesus name
amen
oh hallelujah
oh hallelujah
oh hallelujah
father we just thank you
we exalt you for today
we give you the glory
we give you the honor
and we give you the praise
in Jesus name.
Amen.
Amen. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Somebody shout out, be lifted.
I'm telling you,
meditate on this word.
Let it be in your eye gate,
your ear gate. Hallelujah.
In Jesus name.
Amen. Amen.