Hey, this is Pastor John Ryan Cantu from PNEUMA Church in Houston, Texas.

Thank you for listening to the message today.

I hope that it blesses you and all those that you share it with.

God bless you.

Amen.

Praise the Lord.

Amen.

If you, if you, uh, if you don't see somebody today, there's, we got a few people missing.

Just text them and be like, where you at?

Amen.

I'll just tell them we missed you.

Summertime is a time of travel.

And so a lot of people go out of town.

And so what we just want to make sure that they're missed.

Amen.

Um, so this morning, I know we have our kids in here with us and, and, um, we have our fellowship hall is pretty much done.

Well, phase one is pretty much done.

It looks great in there.

Um, we had some last minute things to kind of fix.

And so we had to, we had to cancel class, uh, for the kids this morning.

And I want to just thank y'all for y'all's patience, because I know, I know y'all have been patient and I know, I know there's, there's families who don't come when their kids don't have class.

They don't come to in-person church.

And, uh, and you know, we want to be a place for the whole family and, and, um, this is not, you know, we don't treat kids ministry like a place to just babysit your kids while you're here.

We treat it as a place for them to get poured into.

Um, so next week we'll be, we'll be open again.

Um, and I can't wait for y'all to see it, man.

Thank y'all so much for, for, for giving to project vision.

Um, there's still, there's still more to be done, but man, praise God.

Can you just give it up for God?

Because man, when vision becomes a reality, you gotta, you gotta praise God for that.

Okay.

When, when vision goes past just the talks and the ideas and the hopes and, and the dreams, when a vision becomes a reality, you have to give God a glory for that.

And so we're giving God glory for that.

Um, also this Wednesday we have our night of worship.

Yeah.

So y'all come through at seven o'clock.

It's going to be, it's going to be powerful, man.

Our nights of worship are always powerful and it's just a time for the church to come together.

Um, there's no agenda.

There's no, there's no sermon, but we're just worshiping the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords.

So, um, come, come through this Wednesday.

Amen.

Also pray for my wife, uh, Layla six, this girl, the kids are always getting sick, man.

Uh, but, um, yeah, so just pray, pray for, pray for them.

They're, they're at home resting.

I want you to stand with me.

We're going to go to the book of Exodus, Exodus 19.

We're going to read one through eight, one through eight.

Exodus is the second book of the Bible.

If you have it, say amen.

Amen.

If you don't have it, I got you up here.

It says this, it says on the third new moon, after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt on the day, they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai and they encamped in the wilderness there.

Israel encamped before the mountain.

While Moses went up to God, the Lord called to him out of the mountain saying, thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the people of Israel, you yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on Eagle's wings and brought you out to myself.

Now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples for all the earth is mine and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.

So Moses came and called the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him and all the people answered together and said all that the Lord has spoken.

We will do and Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.

Let's pray.

Heavenly father.

I thank you for this word that you've spoken over your servant.

My God, I pray that there would not be an ounce of me my God, but only your spirit speaking this morning to your people.

I pray that as I have received it, my God, we as a body would receive it.

We would consume your word my God and not just take it and hear it, but be doers of your word.

Father God, I pray that this would fall on fertile ground Lord and that you would bring healing and conviction my God and and obedience my God to what you are calling your church to do in Jesus name.

Amen.

Amen.

You can be seated.

God is good all the time.

I know you got to help me preach.

Okay, when it's a little bit when it's a little bit thinner, I need I need some help and today's message is going to be very simple, very practical, hopefully moving to many of you.

It's possible that you've probably heard a version of this preach before.

I've definitely preached the version of this before, but it's been on my heart to share with you.

This is something that I have really personally learned to be intentional with and and I've seen God open doors through this not because of anything that I've done, but simply because of obedience, you know, there's power in obedience and and pastor Danny this morning in Spanish.

He preached on obedience.

So I believe that God is wanting to grab our attention to be obedient sons and daughters.

Obedience unlocks doors that we could not unlock on our own, right?

There's power when we obey God.

Now when we say that we've got to be careful to not make that about us, you know, obedience is something that it's okay to honor people who model obedience.

The Bible does that especially with Abraham, but we have to remember that glory doesn't come from my obedience.

God's going to get the glory with or without me.

My obedience is just the first step to God getting glory through something.

He is called me to do like my obedience determines whether or not God is going to use me to get his glory.

He's still going to get glory either way.

If I disobey God, he's simply going to move on the way that he did with Saul.

Saul the spirit departed from Saul because of his disobedience and and it moved on to God's servant David.

David was a simple man who simply allowed God to use him and God got glory, but God doesn't depend on your obedience.

God doesn't depend on anything.

But God using you how many want to be used by God?

God using you to get glory that totally depends on your obedience.

I hope that makes sense because when you think about it like this obedience isn't a burden.

It's a privilege.

I get to obey God.

I get to say yes to God.

I get to be used.

I get to serve.

You know, if I treat obedience like a privilege, I'm more likely to say yes to everything that God is calling me to do even when it feels like a burden and and you know what, you know, God was making me live this out today this morning.

I woke up and I needed to finish this sermon, which is honestly very common these days.

I'm finishing my sermons Sunday mornings.

The weeks are busy and I was telling somebody earlier this week, you know, preaching is really only about 20% of the pastoral role, right?

But it's one of the things that I personally love doing the most.

It's a privilege to get revelation from the Lord and preach it to his people, man.

I love that.

It's such a privilege to me and that's honestly, it's a constant prayer and you know this if you ever reach out and ask, hey pastor, what can I pray for you on?

I'm probably going to say that pray for wisdom and hearing the word of God because I never I never want to get up here with just something that I have to say because honestly, I don't got much to say y'all know me.

I don't talk a lot but when I'm up here, I have a lot to say because the spirit is speaking it and so I never want to run dry of what the Lord has called me tasked me to do as a pastor and as a preacher.

But sometimes I'm going to say sometimes sometimes it feels like a burden.

Sometimes preaching feels like a burden.

It's a privilege but some weeks that privilege feels a little bit more weighty than others.

And so I woke up this morning.

I was tired and I said Lord, I need your spirit to bring this word today to your people because I've got no strength.

I've got I've got nothing to say and if it's not you without you Lord, this is a burden and and so I wasn't even sure if I wanted to preach this word because if I'm honest can be honest ministry lately has been burdensome.

But this is why obedience is powerful and and you may never feel the power directly but God is still going to get the glory through you if you allow yourself to say yes to the Lord.

And so I want to I want to challenge each of you today to carry a heart posture that is constantly saying yes Lord.

Yes to the that's that's the title of my sermon this morning.

Yes Lord.

Can somebody say that nice and loud with me?

Yes Lord.

Come on y'all be careful because you say yes Lord God's going to use it.

But that's that's what you know as Christians we always talk a lot about calling and purpose and and anointing right like Christians Christians love to talk about calling.

That's probably like the number one sermon that Christians preach.

I feel like I don't talk about calling a lot but we're going to talk about it today because it's true.

God calls his people as believers.

We have all been called according to his purpose.

We have all been invited into this salvation right as Christians.

We have been called to reflect and bear the image of Christ.

We've been called to be a holy priesthood a holy nation to be salt and light in this world.

We have been called to him and if you've answered that call you've already said yes to Jesus.

Well, you get to partake in the glory that already belonged to Jesus and I think that's many of us.

I hope that's many of us in the room that we've said yes to this salvation that's already been given and we're walking with Jesus.

That's that's every believer you have been called to Jesus.

Amen.

Now within that greater broader calling many of us have been called to a specific purpose.

You've been called to represent Jesus in your place at work.

You've been called to reach people in your family.

You've been called to reach the people that you grew up with the people that you've got influence to if you're a husband you have a calling to your wife.

If you're a wife, you have a calling to your husband.

If you're a parent, you've been called to your children, right?

So you know don't get quiet on me.

We can go even further than that.

Many of you have been anointed for a specific ministry or purpose in this very building.

God has anointed pastors and ministry leaders and worship leaders and missionaries like you have been anointed for a task and the Old Testament Kings were anointed to lead prophets were anointed to speak on God's behalf.

Priests were anointed to lead in the ministry of the temple.

Like there are varying degrees within the Christian community and what I'm trying to say is this many Christians only have a certain number of yeses they give to the Lord.

Some people say yes to Jesus on a Sunday.

Yes, Lord.

I accept you into my heart.

I want you to be my Lord and Savior.

Yes, Lord.

I repent of my sin and that's the only yes they ever give to God.

You say yes to Jesus, but you say no to discipleship.

You say yes to Jesus, but you say no to spiritual growth.

You say no to Bible study.

You say no to any service that is not Sunday at 11 o'clock.

Some people go even further though, right?

Some people actually say yes to the growth.

They say yes to the discipleship.

They say yes to serving.

Praise God for them.

Amen.

We're all servants of the Most High God, but you know, there's some people that God has called into places of leadership among men.

He wants to put more into your hand, but you're like, nah, God, I don't want it.

Don't give it to me.

That makes me nervous.

How many of you have ever told God, God, I'm a follower.

God, I'm a, I'm a behind the scenes person.

I bet you that was Moses.

I bet you Moses was like, God, I'm a behind the scenes person.

I bet you Moses would have rather been an Aaron than a Moses 100%.

You see that in his call.

He's giving God all these, all these excuses, but God is saying no, I am calling you Moses to be a leader.

I'm calling you to stand before Kings and before nations and lead my people out of Egypt.

And I believe that God is calling some people today who haven't said yes to that.

Then there's other people who would say, Pastor, I go all in.

I'm, I'm, I give God my every, everything.

I, Pastor, you might be, this, this message isn't for me, Pastor.

I give God my whole yes.

I always show up to church.

I always show up to serve.

I always do this.

I always do that.

But if you got a wife and kids at home and you're always at church, you ain't saying yes to them.

See or no?

Most Christians only have a certain number of yeses that they give to God.

And I said this before, before obedience in one area doesn't cancel out disobedience in another area.

I'm not here today to tell you what you're anointed to do.

I don't have that type of power to anoint you without the revelation of God.

But the word that God has put on my heart today is to tell his people that if you're going to say yes, say yes to God.

Don't say yes, but don't say yes with contingencies.

Don't, don't tell God.

How many of you have told God you got to pray about it?

I'm saying like God called you.

Let me pray about it.

What do you, what are you praying about?

Don't, don't tell God.

Yes, God, but in the future.

Yes, God, but not right now.

Yes, God, but I just had a baby.

Giving God your full heart means giving God your every yes.

And understand this, that the more you say yes to the Lord, the more God is going to use you.

100%.

The more you say yes to God, he will use you.

God will look at your yes before he looks at your talent.

He will look at your yes before he looks at your experience and your qualifications.

Like when I really think about it, all I have is my yes to God.

That is all I've got.

I've got nothing else.

God's not impressed with my degrees.

He's not impressed with my title, with my position.

He doesn't care if I'm a fourth-generation pastor.

That's a really cool story to tell people and I'm really proud of it, but God don't care.

I can't tell God, Lord, I'm a fourth-generation pastor.

God, look at my pedigree.

God don't care.

Who are you?

All I've got is my yes.

All you have, church, is your yes.

God is not impressed with your theological wisdom.

He doesn't care if you know the Greek and the Hebrew.

He doesn't care about your intelligence or your talent.

Like all you've got to give to God is your yes, is your obedience, is your faithfulness, is your faith.

And so the reason I bring this passage of Scripture is because it provides a really good example of a failed yes.

It's a good example of a yes that didn't go all the way.

Have you ever said yes to God, but your yes didn't go all the way?

It was like it stopped at a certain point.

The people of God are being asked to remember what God saved them from.

He says, I want you to remember where I took you from.

Remember that I saved you from the hand of Pharaoh.

Remember that I took you out of slavery.

I took you out of Egypt.

How many of us have been saved from something by God?

Every single one of us have been saved for the power of sin.

Some of you, he saved from physical death.

You should be dead right now.

Some of you, God saved from demonic forces.

He saved you from the hand, the grip of Satan over your life.

Some of you, he saved your marriage.

He saved you from depression.

He saved you from suicide.

God has saved some people in this room.

That is why Jesus' name is Yahweh is salvation.

If you're in the kingdom of God, you have been saved from something.

Don't forget it.

Don't forget it.

Tell the person next to you, don't forget it because sometimes we forget.

And so God tells Israel now, therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be to me a treasured possession among all people for all the earth is mine.

This verse alone is proof that God doesn't depend on my obedience.

He doesn't need my obedience for his plan to succeed.

His plan is going to succeed with or without me.

But my status, I want you to understand this, my status as treasured possession, that totally depends on my obedience.

You didn't get it.

You didn't get it.

Your status as a child of God, your status as a treasured possession who God looks upon with favor, that depends your obedience on your obedience.

He says, if you obey my commandments, if you obey my commandments, you shall be my treasured possession.

Then he says, all the earth is mine.

All of it.

He's saying whether or not you obey me, whether you tell me yes, you tell me, no, I am still Jehovah over all the earth, but your status as a treasured possession, your status as a child of God, your status as anointed by God, that depends on your yes to God.

And so this is why just a few chapters later when the people of Israel construct this golden calf to worship it.

God says to Moses, go down for your people whom you brought up from the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.

What happened to my people?

Right?

What what happened to God's treasured possession?

Well, he had to give them back to Moses.

These are your people Moses because my people don't act like this.

My people obey my voice.

My people hear the sound of my voice and they tremble with fear and they bow down to their knees to worship me.

My people don't look at any other God but me.

So take your people back.

He says.

They have turned aside, verse 8, they have turned aside quickly out of the way that I've commanded them.

They made for themselves a golden calf and worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said these are your gods of Israel who brought you out of the land of Egypt and the Lord said to Moses I have seen this people and behold it is a stiff neck people now therefore let me alone that my wrath may burn hot against them.

That's hard.

That's hardcore.

That's hardcore.

These are these are known as covenant chapters between Israel and God.

Covenant is a promise, right?

It's a promise between two parties in this case between Yahweh and his people.

He was trying to form into a nation of holiness and this is where we get the Ten Commandments and we get the law of God and all that all that stuff.

Now remember God had already saved them from Egypt.

They were they were already redeemed before this covenant was even made.

You understand that like God didn't make them obey the law and then save them.

He saved them and then gave them the law.

So when people when I hear people say that they need to get right before they come to Jesus, that's not how it works.

It is never worked like that from the very beginning of time.

God saves us in our deprivation.

He saves us in all of our filth as we are and then he calls us to obedience, right?

So when we come to Christ, it's not because we've already unlocked some type of holiness.

It's because we need to be transformed into something holy.

And so we say yes to Jesus and and we commit to obeying him.

We commit to following him.

We commit to walking in the spirit.

That's the new covenant.

But the model is really the same as the old covenant.

He saves us and we agreed to being his.

The Israelites agreed to being his in verse 8.

All the people answered together.

They said all the Lord has spoken.

We will do.

They said yes to God already.

And and and you know what they witnessed some really powerful amazing things in the process of saying yes, like God really showed Israel some convincing things.

They witnessed the power of God over the most powerful man and the earth of that time Pharaoh.

They they saw God part the Red Sea.

They heard the sound of God's voice rumbling like Thunder.

They saw the glory of God to send over Mount Sinai with a thick cloud and they were they were trembling with fear because this this this Yahweh is so powerful.

They saw Aaron be anointed with oil.

You know what?

It's so easy to say yes to God when there's some glory attached to it, right?

It's easy to respond to the altar when when the sermon hit the right pressure points and the right song came on.

It's so easy to say yes to God when a prophet comes and he tells you all the things that God wants to do through you.

It's so easy to say yes to God in those glory moments.

But what happens when there's a delay in the process?

What happens when things start to go south?

What about when God is asking for your patience?

He's asking you to wait.

He's asking for you to be at peace.

He's asking for your pride.

What about when it's been years since you received that special anointing and you have no fruits?

That's when God starts to get our nose and our never minds.

And while I was down back then, but it's been 10 years.

Saying yes to God is saying yes to God.

Don't be the Christian who says yes to God, but no to the assignment.

Abraham's yes wasn't just a yes to going.

It was a yes to the struggle.

It was a yes to marriage tension.

It was a yes to waiting.

It was a yes to being a foreigner.

God is constantly reminding me that saying yes to God means also saying yes to some burdens.

Are you still with me this morning?

Saying yes to him is also saying yes to some burdens and though every burden is a privilege.

Sometimes it still feels very heavy over me.

I said yes to the calling.

So I always say yes to being tired.

I always have to say yes to my body feeling depleted.

I've accepted that some weeks.

I'm not going to be able to hit the gym.

I've said yes to having my plans get disrupted.

When you say yes to God, that means you say yes to the things you didn't even sign up for.

You can't say yes to ministry and then constantly say no to the people that you were called to minister to.

You can't say yes to the pulpit, but no to the preparation.

You can't say yes to the spirit, but no to conviction.

God will use you as far as your yes is willing to go.

Now, I realize that these passages of Scripture are pretty extreme and I don't mean to compare Christ's beloved church with a bunch of idolatrous, but the principle remains the same.

Like our yes has to go farther than a moment.

You know, I find it so easy to say yes to God when I'm motivated.

I find it easy to say yes to God when I'm in a room full of other believers and there's just atmosphere of just a spirit is in the room.

It's so easy to say yes when I'm feeling inspired and when I'm pumped up, but it's not really easy when the motivation stops.

It's not easy when I'm not feeling inspired.

Man, when I don't feel inspired, I just want to throw in the towel.

Like when I'm trying to come up with a sermon and I'm like, God, you're not even speaking to me.

Where's the inspiration?

Where's the revelation?

I'm like, God, you must not be calling me anymore.

I kind of don't want to say yes.

I kind of want to ask somebody else to preach this week.

Like, like, like, like that's that's when the flesh wants to start making excuses.

And I simply want to remind you of that.

Yes, you gave to God.

I don't know what it was, but I know that every Christian at some point says yes to God.

Don't forget about it.

Don't forget about it.

Stop dropping your yes when things get too hard.

Stop dropping it.

Earlier, earlier.

I said that, you know, this is this is something that I've been intentionally trying to live by, you know, saying saying yes to a calling.

Is a lot easier.

Listen, saying yes to a calling is a lot easier than saying yes to the things that align with that calling.

You hear me?

Just a few of you are hearing me.

Saying yes to the calling of God is much easier than saying yes to the things that align with the calling of God.

Sometimes that takes discerning.

You know, several people have asked me, Pastor, how has, how has Pneuma been growing so much?

Some people say, man, I walked in the other day and I don't recognize even half the people.

It looks like it's, it looks like it's growing.

And they asked me, several people asked me, how, how are you growing the church?

As if we're doing something very strategic and we're doing all these marketing promotions and all these plans and all these campaigns.

We ain't doing none of that.

Every, since the very beginning, our strategy has simply been obedience to the Spirit.

That's it.

And I think we can point to some different things and many people and our ministries are great and all that stuff and all of that has a part to play.

But the main Avenue of growth has been the hand of God.

I think of the words of Paul to the Corinthians, I planted Apollo's waters, but God brought the growth.

And so my, my seed planting or my watering, whatever metaphor you want to use, has been to discern the things and the people and the programs and the ministries that align with the God that the call that God has placed over this ministry.

So for example, when the opportunity arise, arose for, for PNEUMA to partner with, with just the beginning ministry, brother Alvaro, are you here?

We got brother, my brother right there, last year.

When he, he approached us to partner with them.

My brother Alvaro, he showed some gratitude.

He said, pastor, thank you so much.

Thank you for opening the doors to this ministry.

When so many other churches and so many other pastors are saying no, because they feel threatened by, by another ministry that they, that they don't know.

And, and, and what if, what if we take their members?

And so he says, pastor, thank you so much.

And I don't know, brother Alvaro, if you just think that I said, yes, just because I'm a nice guy, I am pretty nice, but I want you to know that there was intention behind that decision.

Like, like, like a ministry that partners with churches who help disciple men.

How could I say no to that when it aligns with the heart of God over this church?

And so I, I knew, I knew this is, this, this is just me planting the seed.

I knew that if I said no to that, I was saying no to what God wanted to do through that.

Remember last year when Cuts for Christ came, they approached us to, to partner with them, to do an outreach for the community.

And then they wanted to do a worship night to end the night.

They wanted to do it at the end of the year, the busiest time of the year.

I could have said, man, this is a really busy time for us, which is true.

And then they didn't even want to use our worship team.

Brought other people.

They didn't even ask me to preach.

Brought in somebody else.

I could have easily said, no, no, we maybe, maybe another time, but there was intention behind that.

Yes, there was intention, especially when they said, and Hey, we're calling the night out pour of the Holy spirit.

It was like, God, how much more obvious can you make it?

I've got to say yes to this because I know you're going to do something through it.

When the opportunity came, when God started bringing some of these young adults over here with their ministry, Kwanonia, and they said, pastor, we want to, we want to do something with the young people, with the, with the young adults of this ministry.

We want to, we want to bring life to it.

How could I say no to that?

We're simply being obedient to the things that God wants to do.

God has brought growth through, through obedience and we get to witness the glory of all that God wants to do through obedient servants.

He doesn't need my obedience church.

He doesn't need it.

If I say no, somebody else is going to say yes.

If we say no, another church is going to say yes, because God will always get the glory because this is his church.

It's not my church.

It's not our church.

We are the church.

We are his bride.

When you consider it a joy and a privilege to be used by God, your yes will unlock doors that could never be open.

But I really want to reiterate this point because you need to get it.

And I know, I know this is not like a Pentecostal sermon this morning, but I just, I want, I want to teach you something that God has been teaching me.

Saying yes to the calling means saying yes to everything that comes with that calling.

I'm going to say it again because you got to get this today.

You got to, you got to walk out the door with this on your Saying yes to the calling means saying yes to everything that comes with that calling.

The Israelites didn't understand this.

Their yes was tied to a miracle.

Their yes was tied to, to witnessing God's glory.

It was tied to Moses, this man who was leading them.

And so when Moses goes up to the mountain to spend some time with God and the Israelites felt abandoned because he was taking too long, they started to feel alone.

They started to get in, inpatient.

They forgot about their yes, that they told, that they told God in verse eight.

Yes, all the things that you're saying we're going to do.

No cap, right?

Is that?

They said, yes, we got it.

God, we got it.

The law, the 10 commandments, all of it.

We got no idols before you.

Yeah, check, check, check.

And then when things start to get difficult, when the man of God is no longer before them, hey, Aaron, let's, let's build some golden calves to worship it.

Because at least we can touch it.

At least we can see it.

At least it provides certainty.

Church, God is going to call you to things and there's not always going to be certainty.

Being called to God also means being called to trust in God.

It means being, being called to have faith in God.

It means that you're not always going to have further instructions.

You're just going to have the word and you got the weights.

It means, listen, it means you're going to have to say yes to people who have been sent by God, but who you don't like.

Oh, don't make me preach on that.

Don't make me preach on that because God has called you to minister to certain people and he's sending them your way, but you don't even like them.

So you're like, God, I don't, I don't want to do that.

I don't want to help him.

I don't want to pray for her.

Saying yes to God means saying yes to things you've never done before.

Oh, but God, we don't do that here.

God, that's not a part of the culture of PNEUMA.

Shut up.

Cares about your culture.

Who cares about whether mama did it growing up?

Who cares about that?

Whatever God is calling you to, you have to get comfortable with the uncomfortable.

You have to get comfortable with all the things that you're not used to doing.

That's what it means to say yes to the call of God.

I'll separate.

I've been a Christian a long time.

Long time.

I've been to all of the youth camps.

I've been to all of the youth conventions where there's a where there's a massive row of young people who are crying out to God because they're saying yes to the pastoral ministry.

Yes, Lord, send me.

I'm a missionary.

Yes to the prophetic voice.

They say yes in a moment of glory.

You say yes in a moment where where the music is going and back, you know, back when I was a young kid, the fog machine was happening, right?

It's the glory of God thick cloud.

But when we get past all of that, we don't say yes to everything that God is trying to bring to make that greater calling into fruition.

We cannot say yes to the calling and no to the assignment.

That was your cue right there to come up right here.

So you're a little early, but it's all good.

Be right there.

We cannot say yes to the calling and no to the assignment.

We cannot say yes to the calling and no to the people, the places, the things that are associated with that calling.

I had a quick thought this morning as I was wrapping up the It's like God, man.

It was it was like a quick revelation.

I kid you not.

The Lord is wanting to challenge somebody today.

So let me get your attention.

There is somebody in the room today that has said yes to the calling of God on their life, but you've been wondering for a long time.

When is it going to start?

Where's the fruit?

You were given a word a long time ago and you've been waiting for it and you're wondering if God even called you.

You started to doubt the calling over your life.

This isn't for everybody, but this is for somebody God is saying you said yes to the calling, but you said no to the tasks.

God has sent people that were supposed to be opportunities, but you told them no.

God will only take you as far as your yes is willing to go.

I'm gonna close with this.

Moses, we know this story.

In Numbers 20, Moses is frustrated.

He's angry with these people that he was called to lead.

They're complaining.

They're groaning.

It says non-stop complaining with these people.

I get it.

Complaining is the worst.

Sometimes you don't want to be a parent anymore when your kids are complaining, right?

I get him.

I get his frustration.

He was sick and tired of these ungrateful people that God called out of slavery and they're complaining to Moses.

Moses, there's no water.

You just brought us out here to die.

That's why that's why you saved us so we could die out here of dehydration.

And so Moses is fed up, man.

And so he brings this to God and God tells him what he needs to do.

God says, I want you to command the rock.

Speak to it.

And when you speak to it, it's gonna produce water and all of Israel is going to see that once again, I am God.

I have never left them.

I've never forsaken them.

I am with them.

I have not forgotten about them.

You just gotta speak to the rock, Moses.

Moses is mad, right?

He's on fire.

And so he gets all the assembly together.

He says, man, I'm tired of y'all complaining, man.

Y'all want to see some water?

Y'all want to see some water?

You thirsty?

And then he strikes the rock two times.

I bet it was like, man, I wish I could have seen it, man.

I bet you he hit it once.

And then he paused a little bit.

He didn't see water and then he hit it again.

He tried to produce something out of human strength instead of obedience to the God.

And he did it two times.

He struck the rock.

Water came gushing out.

And God says to Moses, because you did not believe me, because you didn't believe me to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel.

Therefore, you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I swore to them.

Man, you know, when I read that the very first time as a kid, I was like, God, that's kind of mean.

This man, your servant, has been doing all the things that he never even signed up to do all his life.

He's been saying yes to you when he's been wanting to say no.

He's been led through his own weaknesses.

He's been faithful to you.

He's leading people who don't even like him and you're not even going to let him go to the promised land because of a little moment of weakness and frustration that this man had.

And this is what God says.

God wanted to provide him as an example that the higher you go in holiness, the higher you go in anointing, the more sensitive your disobedience becomes.

The higher you go, the higher you go, the more sensitive it is to say no to God because God has learned to depend on you.

Not depend on you, but he knows that he can count on your yes.

And Pastor Danny preached this morning that Abraham had to go up all the way to the mountain to see the provision of God when God was calling Abraham to sacrifice his son.

God was calling Abraham to give him the yes that he told him about when he first called him.

Isn't that crazy?

Like he was asking for the promise back.

But every step of the way, the higher he went, he was saying yes to God.

Yes, I trust you.

Yes.

I don't know where the provisions at.

Yes.

I don't know if there's going to be a substitution.

I don't know.

But he trusted in God all the way up to the mountain to the very moment he was about to sacrifice his son to the Lord when God said, wait, now I know that you fear me.

The higher you go in your yes, the more you say yes to God, the more sensitive your disobedience becomes.

And I believe that God is calling so many of you to be anointed and holy.

And Brother Adrian, that conversation that we had the other day where you were telling me, I don't, my spirit is sensitive.

You know why it's sensitive is because you say yes to God.

It's because you are covered and anointed by the Holy Spirit and you feel the sensitivity when you move, when you walk into a room, there is something that you can feel.

There is an oppressive spirit because you are sensitive to the spirit because you're so tight with God.

And that's what God is calling for many of us today to say yes to him.

Say yes to God.

So maybe you're here today.

I'm almost done.

You can go ahead and stand with me.

Maybe you're feeling stuck.

Maybe you're feeling stuck today because you said yes to God all your life and you're still in a struggle.

Maybe you're feeling discouraged.

Maybe you said yes to God recently for the first time you accepted Jesus into your heart and you welcomed him in but you're wondering why you're feeling stuck.

Why aren't things getting better?

Where's the joy?

Where's the peace?

Maybe you've been a Christian a long time.

Maybe you have a ministry and you said yes to God a long time ago, but you're just in a moment of discouragement and stuckness and frustration.

All I have today to tell you is don't give up on your yes to God.

Remember what the Lord has done in you and through you remember what God has taken you out of remember remember the trenches that you were in and keep saying yes to God.

I don't know what it is.

I don't know who it is.

I don't know what the thing is that you have to say yes to I don't I don't know that's none of my business my challenge this morning is that the people of God would always say yes to God and the things of God and if you have to have a moment right now in the altar where you just lay it out at the feet of Jesus and you surrender some things and you and you give up some things that you've been kind of withholding.

This is this is your moment to say yes to God.

So right there where you're at.

I'm going to I'm going to pray the worship team is going to sing and we're going to open up these altars.

If you if you need prayer the prayer team is here, but let's pray Heavenly Heavenly Father.

I I thank you for this word my God because Lord I know I know that there's people in the room who need to hear this my God.

I know there's people in the room.

My God who have been making excuses.

I know there's people in the room who haven't said yes to you all the way my God they said yes to the calling but assignment after assignment.

They're turning away task after task my God.

They're saying no to they're saying no to the people that you have called them to my God.

They're saying no to the things that you have called them to step into I pray in Jesus name Lord that you would remove you would remove every obstacle that is causing your people to say no I pray father that you would bring to remembrance that word that you spoke back then my God.

I pray that you would bring into remembrance everything that you have taken us out of my God that we would know and trust that you are a holy God and that we are called according to your purpose to be used by you.

And I pray in Jesus name that as we say yes to you God we would see the power of the divine we would begin to see miracles my God I pray in Jesus name Lord that we would see salvation my God simply out of yeses my God simply out of obedience my God.

I pray that we would see doors open that would never be open without the yes my God I pray in Jesus name that you are calling this holy priesthood to you to say yes to you once again come on these altars are open if you need to have a moment.

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