 How's everyone doing tonight good turn to your neighbor and say you look good Turn to your other neighbor and say and better you look amazing Come on you guys God is so good and all the time God is good you guys we have been talking about the conference because God is going to do great and amazing things Amen, we were so happy that you people that came from Portland and those that will be coming from different cities to Be with us at this conference. You see this conference is Not just like Lilia and Brittany and others have mentioned is not for a show It is not just for us to sing a song to you guys are just to even show preaching But it is to expand the vision that our church has and that is for the masses We are believing for every single person to be touched and to be saved in our city and not just our city But our region and not just our region even our country come on our pastor has such a huge vision He believes that we will be able to even branch out Further down the road, but we are believing that God is on a move Amen, and we want to partner up with the Holy Spirit We want to be part of what God has for us and we've This year and a year back We've seen what God has been doing. He's been healing lives He's been even that Nehemiah that amazing testimony I was just weeping in tears when I heard him share his testimony that night because it was so amazing We were specifically praying as a church on Friday night prayers for asthma for people to be able to be set free from asthma And that conference he received his healing. Come on. Come on. You guys give God a hand of applause That is truly our God He is the God that we serve and we would just want to I want to just talk a little bit about a Scripture and I want you guys to open up your Bibles And I'm just wanting to focus on two points two characteristics And I want us just to open up to Genesis 25 verse 27 And I want to talk about a man named Jacob in the Bible and some of you guys may know him And he pretty much he has a bad reputation you would say because he is known to be cunning He is known to be a deceiver and a liar and But I do not want to focus on his bad traits tonight I want to focus on two amazing traits that this man has that brought him to a place of blessing That has brought him to a place of breakthrough and a place that he met face-to-face with God So I want to talk about those two traits with you guys tonight. Are you guys ready to receive tonight? Do you guys believe for good things? Come on I want you guys to just bow your heads real quick with me And we're just gonna pray and ask for holy spirit to join us tonight and for him to touch you Lord We thank you so much father for every single person that is here Everyone that is watching on livestream and everyone that is sitting Lord We thank you holy spirit that this is a divine notice for them God that you want to do something in their hearts tonight that you want to do a stirring in them God And I just pray that you touch them Lord that you open and awaken their hearts to Belong to you God to desire you in Jesus name and everybody said amen amen So Genesis 25 verse 27 let me read but before I read let me just give you a back story Just enough for you guys to get the idea There was a man of God named Abraham and Abraham's promise was a son and his son was Isaac And that was God's promise to Abraham and Isaac had two sons. This is which is Esau and Jacob they were twins and the first born was Esau and Jacob was the second back then in the days of the Bible Just back then the first born was the one to get the birthright and the blessings And the second one is pretty much too bad too sad. Is there anybody that are second borns in here? Come on raise your hands. Hi. I was one of them. Yes. Yes And so we have these twins and they even began in rivalry from the very beginning See the first born already had it set for his life. He knew what his future looked like You know what it looked like it looked amazing. It looked great It looked with promises with blessings because first born that's it you get the birthright you get the promise But Jacob was a second one just a few seconds right after him. He was a twin So he's just a little bit after him, but he was not okay with that and as they grew up They went upon their own ways and this will Mention here on Genesis 25 27 Let me read and it says the boys grew up and Esau became a skillful hunter a man of the open country While Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents Isaac who had a taste for wild game loved Esau the father, but Rebecca loved Jacob once when Jacob was cooking some stew Esau came in from the open country Famished he said to Jacob quick. Let me have some of that red stew. I'm famished I'm starving that in other words and Jacob replied first. Sell me your birthright Look, I'm about to die Esau said what good is the birthright to me? But Jacob said swear to me first So he swore an oath to him selling his birthright to Jacob then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew He ate and drank and then got up and left so Esau despised his birthright from there on see right there You can see that Jacob was Using him for his advantage See the thing is is that it didn't just come up suddenly like hey, give me your birthright I'll give you this soup no It was something inside of Jacob from the beginning that he was wanting that he had a desire that he said I want that birthright. I want something that I don't have that my brother has and the thing is is that One characteristic trait that I want to emphasize about Jacob was that he had an insatiable desire an Insatiable passion that could not be shaken by anything Such a desire that he would even do this as an option You will see throughout his life that I'll just emphasize on a couple things about Jacob is that he was a hard worker He was persistent. He could not stop until he got the full-on blessing and as I continue to talk I will emphasize on those parts, but I want to tell you guys is that desire is absolutely powerful Could you agree if you are in desire to lose weight you will lose it I have seen people that once something clicks inside of them. They lose 20 pounds immediately I mean, it's amazing what desire does to you It's also a thing a characteristic trait when a man desires a woman He will do anything and everything to get her he will try to impress her He'll buy her flowers. Hopefully he buys her flowers or anything he has to do to be able because there is a desire come on a Desire that is in some mothers that their children are in drugs and there's such a desire to see They're a child saved and free from drugs that they would be praying and fasting for them because they believe that one day God will touch them a desire a desire that stirs and changes the future a desire That does something inside of us that we cannot explain why but it does something See the thing is when you have desire it changes reality When you have desire it changes something inside of you it changes what you see in the outside See Jacob was not okay Insatiable means not satisfied not quench you could not quench his desire He had this passion to be able to have a blessing Has anyone ever felt like an underdog kind of like Secondhand not not there. You're kind of there, but you're just not there. Okay, there's always someone better Always something going at you and you're just kind of like I'm just an underdog. I don't have that many talents I don't have that many skills. I'm just not that much of anything Maybe some of you guys felt that and that was exactly what Jacob was feeling See that void that feeling can only be filled by God himself So I'm gonna talk to you guys if you have a desire tonight Many of you guys in this room and those that are watching you guys all have a desire in some sort in some fashion some of you guys desire to have your family free from a generational curse or maybe you're in the verge of divorce and You have a desire to see your family restored Some of you guys just simply have a desire to go and finish college because no one in your family has Whatever your desire is or maybe you want to prove something to yourself and say, you know Well, I have what it takes because no one my whole life someone told me that I'm just nobody just like Jacob They told them from the beginning that he was a liar that he was a deceiver That was his name So you could imagine that he had a desire to have a blessing But I want to tell you right now is that if you have a desire tonight You have to do one thing is you have to partner up with the Holy Spirit with that desire Because that desire could either bring you to your destiny or it can destroy your destiny Remember that your desire can either bring you to your destiny or it can destroy your destiny What do I mean is that if your desire is in the wrong hands the enemy can use it to use you to be able to Compromise anything that you have to able to get that thing that you want just like Jacob He became cunning and deceitful. He broke the family apart because Because it's something that he wanted so it is so important that you guys understand and that we understand that we need The partnership of the Holy Spirit because when we partner up with the Holy Spirit, he gives us his desires He gives us his desires and I want to tell you when he gives you His desires something changes in your heart. You become a different person, you know a lot in our church We're talking about compassion. We talk about let us be on fire for God and fire for people and some of us We don't have that desire. It's just not there and we're like trying to push it trying to come to morning prayer But it's not there. I want to tell you is that you can have it You can't ask for it You just have to have that will and ask God God give me that will give me that desire for more of you Because when you have that he changes your heart this year I had an experience where a Holy Spirit did that and I share this a couple of times Friday night prayer or maybe at my home group and I want to share with you guys because this was a very huge turning point in my life and it was this year where I had someone close in my family and I come from a family that has a generational curse and some of you say how that's such a very strong statement How could you say that? Well, it was very evident Every single person a man was an alcoholic Coming down from my father's side and my mother's side Everyone was an alcoholic and almost every single person is in divorce and you're thinking wow That's a coincidence absolutely not that is a generational curse and it was coming after me and I broke that curse Based on our vision and I will talk about that later But right now what happened was it hit somebody a Depression a heaviness a spirit of death hit somebody in my family and it was so strong on them that I was afraid Because they were really close to me and I saw something happen to them They became a different person every time I saw them. They were crying and weeping. There's just depression this heaviness You couldn't even enter into that household because it was so bad and so heavy that I avoided that place I became resentful. I became so resentful I just wanted to flee from that place because I didn't know how to help I didn't know what to do and I said God you have to do something I can't do it because I can't I don't know how to help this person Only you God yourself can help and I began to pray and then what happened was I partnered up with God And what happened was that Holy Spirit gave me compassion Now compassion is oh not pity pity It was compassion to the point where I was a different person. I couldn't sleep I couldn't eat I couldn't function as a person because the only thing I was thinking about was this person to be saved All I cared was this person to be free and I cried at night in the middle of the night I would wake up just bawling and you're thinking wow you're a really emotional person No, it was Holy Spirit moving inside of me for this person on their behalf And I was weeping and I was crying and I said God touch them Tell me what to do move on their behalf It was this moment between me and Holy Spirit and then as I came and I came one time over just to visit And I said Holy Spirit. I'm ready if you're ready. I want to know what you want to do What do you want me to say and this person just was not there They were just completely you could talk to them and it was as if you're talking to a wall But I saw a moment of brokenness and I was like that's it That's where it is and I just began to pray for that person And I began to cast out every single thing that could possibly be in there And I just saw Holy Spirit touch that person faithfully they fell under the power of God and then they got up and something changed and Something changed and I know how that changed because the next few weeks. I was just watching I was like, okay maybe it was just a prayer whatever and No, not one tear came from their eyes the only tear of joy and as I saw that I was like wow What a powerful thing is when you desire When you desire the things of God when you partner up with Holy Spirit What amazing incredible things can happen and you know what happened is that I realized that God wants to use me That God wants to use you. I want you to repeat after me and say God wants to use me Repeat after me say God wants to bring revival Through me it is true Well, you didn't have to say that You didn't have to say that part But and this is what the conference is all about this is what the vision is all about you guys This little piece that I shared with you is something that our pastor is feeding us and Striving for us to believe each and every one that is gonna come to this conference or to this weekend Is to have a moment with God and believe God you can use me God You can take my desires and stir it up to you and you can use me to change your Change the surroundings of people in my life. He wants to do that He wants to use you and I believe that God wants to make that encounter with you and the desire Insatiable passion that will cause you to move and do things that you thought you would never do you will do and The week after that I had somebody from my home group come and asked for prayer because they were really ill and I prayed for them and they received a healing now. This is not about one person or one leader healing It's about all of us It's about each and every single one that is sitting here that God wants to do that through Because God wants to build a confidence in you that you are a son and daughter of the most high God He wants you to believe that when you speak there is authority because why? Because Jesus Christ said that you will walk through authority that every single train you will trample over snakes and scorpions Come on. There is going to be authority in your voice There's going to be authority when you speak that is our calling and that is what God has promised for us. Amen And just like Jacob here was this man that was completely Not in content with himself. He wanted something more and so he took that moment of someone else's Vulnerability and he took the birthright and Esau freely gave it to him. Well not really He gave him a bowl of soup, but Anyways, he gave it to him so Two things is that when you have an insatiable passion and desire Partner up with the Holy Spirit because Holy Spirit uses Desire he works with desire It says that you abide in him and he will abide in you is when you are drawn to him He'll be drawn to you because there's desire every single book that I have read and Our youth group has read about Holy Spirit It is one thing that is consistent in the generals of God They say you have to have a desire of a relationship with the Holy Spirit And that is our vision that is our passion as a church is to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit Amen, that is our desire We want more of Holy Spirit because when there is more of Holy Spirit there is a move of God There's a power there is a fire that demons cannot stand in this place Come on that there's gonna be something in this place and we know it's because of Holy Spirit and so that is one thing that Jacob had now I want to move on with the story is that He also was very persistent That's the second quality that I think is very powerful and that he has is he's persistent You think that he was fat satisfied with the birthright? No He wanted the firstborn blessing to and his mother helped him with this one and said look Esau went to go Start hunting. This is the time where you can trick your dad for the blessing and see Esau was a very hairy man And so he put on Something that was hairy. I don't know. I remember if it was a sheep or whatever it was But it was enough to deceive Isaac because he was blind He was of old age and he went over there and he said is this you Esau and he said yes This is I and he said oh it must be because you smell and you feel like him because he's hairy and he must have smelled very lovely but He he deceived him to receive that blessing Esau came back and he was very upset very angry that Jacob was afraid for his life and so Rebecca his mom told him to go run run after his life Now that's not a really great place to start with a blessing so but That's what happened now God is faithful and God met Jacob and there's this is where I want to read off because Jacob went on with his life He got a family he got children and he was blessed and he had many sheep and he had just had a Blessing anything that he touched was a blessing just like that promise that he received that blessing he received from the firstborn now he came to the point where he was alone and He couldn't run any more from what he's done because you have to understand that He was guilty because he knew his brother Esau this is after a few years his brother knew He felt guilty for what he did because he knew Esau was coming and he was afraid for him He was afraid to meet him So he knew that that was on his conscious You knew that that was on his mind that he did something wrong that blessing is his but it's not really his and They had to have a face off between him and God and be like God. I want to know will you bless me? I took a blessing, but I want to know will you bless me this person how I am He's the God of Jacob and he said God will you bless me and this is the scripture says Genesis 32 24 so Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him till daybreak When the man saw that he could not overpower him He touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man Then the man said let me go for it is daybreak But Jacob replied I will not let you go unless you bless me repeat after me you say I will not let you go Unless you bless me You guys don't have to repeat after that and the man asked him. What is your name Jacob? He answered then the man said your name will no longer be Jacob But Israel because you have struggled with God and with man and have overcome Jacob said please tell me your name, but he replied Why do you ask my name then he blessed him there so Jacob called the place? Penile saying it's because I saw God face to face and yet my life was spared See it wasn't just a fight with God It was a fight with himself because all this time he was told that he was this liar that he was the second person That he was just not enough So a lot of this fight this argument this Constant wrestling match that he had with God was with himself to believe that he is not Just a liar, but there was something else inside of him He was a child of God that God it was going to use him and to bless him and like I mentioned earlier He had this insatiable Desire this passion that caused him to not let go of God himself Until he was blessed see there's gonna be something about our church and it's something that's already being stirred Inside of our spirits all of us leaders and all that are coming or have been coming We will not let go of this city until every single person knows about God We will not let go until we see the divorce rates go down and the marriage is restored We will not let go until we see the passion stirred up revival to happen We will not let that go and I believe is that this conference What's going on what we want for you guys to partake of this vision wherever you are at to believe that God wants to use you That he wants you to know is that he wants you to bring revival to your city to your surrounding That is our God We have to be persistent We cannot give up just maybe if we did it the first time and it didn't work or the second time that you tried pursuing it we cannot give up until we see the promise and One thing that God said to Jacob That as he was going on his life and this was very powerful is that he said this He said I am with you and will watch up watch over you wherever you go And I'll bring bring you back to this land and this is what God says I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you God will not leave us until he have fulfills the promises of God and that is to bring revival To bring revival to our family to bring revival to our city to our nation And that is something that we need to ask is the Holy Spirit to partner up with us tonight to bring that desire back For us to have a stirring to know that God wants to use us Amen that is something that God wants all of us to have and I believe it in my heart that This vision is going to expand to other churches because this conference is not just about a show But it's to awaken. Amen How many of you guys believe that God wants to do that for you? How many of you believe that God wants to use you? Amen, and I want us just to take the time we're going to pray for the conference tonight, but we're also gonna pray for this night We're gonna pray for you every single person that is here I want you guys to understand that God sees your desire God sees maybe something that you're going through or that you are fighting with today Maybe you are fighting with drugs or alcohol or something you're fighting a generational curse Or maybe on the verge of divorce whatever it may be I want you to know is that God is more powerful than that feeling that desire of yours that Bondage that stronghold that sickness that you're battling with tonight and God wants to set you free Amen, and he wants to do a new awakening and each and every one of us come on So I want us just to rise up right now, and I want us just to worship and give God all of our desires