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02:18Welcome, greetings. I just wanted to take a few minutes to celebrate Purim. It is Purim. Tuesday is Purim.
02:25And hopefully, if you're watching this, you also are celebrating because it's a wonderful time of celebration. It's a beautiful
02:33season. It's somewhat what we've already been talking about when we talked about the divine reversal.
02:39And so Purim, the story of Esther, many know it, but some may be not so familiar with it. And
02:46so we wanted to share just a little bit so you can understand the season that you're in and realize
02:52what an important time, what a powerful time it is.
02:54Did you know that the book of Esther is also known as the book of turnaround or the turnaround book.
03:03In other words, it is simply reversal. It's much of what we've shared with you.
03:10You know, God moves with precision. And what he does, it's not random, but it's precise. It's a precise timing.
03:19And Purim is a very special time. It goes right in line with your reversal.
03:25The reversal. The reversal that is taking place is a season. You know, heaven does not react. It plans. And
03:33when God does something, it is strategic and perfectly planned. God orchestrates a release and an alignment for your purpose.
03:45And so we wanted to talk a little bit about purpose and Esther and understanding her timing. She came into
03:53it. It was something that was already planned, already set in place. And I believe that for you as well.
04:00You know, the book of Esther or the book of turnaround, you see God's reversal in action and so precise
04:10in its precision.
04:11You know, your purpose, as well as your assignment is etched around all of what God's original intent is for
04:21you. Your very soul, every part, your spirit, soul and body is all based on God's plan and purpose for
04:32you.
04:32And in other words, you look at the beginning of the story of Esther. We see Vashti, who is the
04:39current queen at that time, but she becomes dethroned.
04:44And what happens? Esther's coronation takes place. Wow. You see Haman.
04:51Haman. And remember, whenever his name is mentioned during this time, noisemaker.
04:56Yeah. Haman was first, he was in power and authority and his empowerment was reversed.
05:07And actually it was, it became very fatal and a disempowerment to him.
05:13While Mordecai, his humble beginnings and his humble spirit rises into a place of royalty, into the royal court of
05:23the king.
05:24Can you see yourself in the season of turnaround?
05:27Because that's what Purim is all about.
05:29It's a season of turnaround where God turns it around and you can celebrate.
05:35You can be excited. You can rattle your noisemaker at the enemy because he has lost.
05:41And God, again, his precise timing is working with you right now.
05:46The story opens with Persia and banquets.
05:52It's a celebration. It's a beautiful party.
05:55It closes, though, with not Persian banquets and celebration, but Hebrew banquets and celebration, a turnaround in their favor.
06:07You know, the plot to eliminate an entire nation, the Jewish people, was turned into the annihilation of the enemy.
06:19I want you to see that because God is so good at turning things around for your benefit, for your
06:28sake.
06:29God knows exactly what's going on.
06:32He hasn't missed not one chapter in your life.
06:35In fact, he is writing it with you and for you.
06:38And so understand when Purim comes around, it's a season.
06:43It's a wonderful season.
06:45And we can take part in the celebration of the defeat of the enemy, knowing that God's precise time is
06:54working on our behalf.
06:57You know, sometimes divine appointments are disguised in very serious levels of inconvenience.
07:06OK, you know, but one word from heaven changes it, eliminates the difficulty, eliminates the enemy.
07:15And God likes to celebrate.
07:18OK, he likes to make it very clear that he has made a show of them defeating the adversary in
07:28your life.
07:28What you are having that you think is much harder or too much, it's God shaping you, training you, preparing
07:36you, making you into the person that his original intent for you was always intended.
07:44So when we talk about Purim, this season of the turnaround, we're talking about a divine reversal.
07:52Only God can bring out what's been hidden into the open.
07:59OK, and bring clarity where there was confusion.
08:04And so I just wanted to share this moment of Purim with you.
08:09Some, again, are not aware of it.
08:10I invite you to read the story of Esther and just learn some wonderful things about this season called Purim.
08:20And understand that what you're in is not always going to be.
08:24Everything has an expiration date.
08:28Esther and the people of the Jewish nation were in such distress because of the enemy.
08:37And we can say that for so many people who are under the distress of the adversary.
08:42But let me introduce to you this season of the turnaround, this season of reversal, so that you'll begin to
08:50walk in your purpose.
08:52Believe God that he has made it for you.
08:55And you're no longer going to be talking about what the enemy is doing.
09:01But you are going to celebrate what God has already done.
09:05You know, it's not good that we can say so much about what someone or something has done to us
09:13more than what God has done for us.
09:17And so, again, this is a powerful time where God himself steps into the picture and you can begin to
09:27praise him.
09:28In other words, I find it like this Purim, to me, is not a time to ask God for anything,
09:35but I praise him for everything, for all that he has done, for bringing me up to this moment and
09:42up to this time.
09:43And to realize that, you know what, he was testing my faith.
09:48He was building my faith.
09:50And that's what he's doing for you.
09:52He's building your faith.
09:54You know, it was a very stressful time for Esther.
09:59And, you know, that's where that famous scripture comes from, that so many quote from time to time where she
10:05has to go before the king.
10:07And if he does not accept or receive her, she could lose her life.
10:13But she says, you know what?
10:14If I perish, I perish.
10:17But I'm going to go and see the king.
10:20They did go through a fast.
10:22I think it was a three-day fast.
10:23Maybe some of you may want to do a fast a day or two or however God leads you.
10:28But anything at this point to understand that this is not just a Jewish season.
10:34We've shared many, many times that these are the feasts of the Lord.
10:39They are the celebrations of God's triumphant victory over our enemy so that we can know beyond the shadow of
10:47a doubt that God's purpose lives through us.
10:51God's will lives through us.
10:54Thy kingdom come in me.
10:57Thy will be done in me, in earth as it is in heaven.
11:03The problems and the things that you are dealing with here in the earth is not in heaven.
11:09And that's why he taught us to pray that prayer that we are to bring the kingdom into this earthly
11:16realm.
11:16Thy kingdom come.
11:18Thy will be done.
11:19Where?
11:20In earth.
11:21Where we are.
11:22As it is in heaven.
11:24The glorious wonders of heaven we bring into this earthly realm.
11:29In earth as it is in heaven.
11:32God moves by his vision.
11:35And many times his visions are invisible to us.
11:40We cannot see what God can see.
11:43But he absolutely already knows and is way ahead of us, which is so wonderful because God conceals, you know,
11:53what he's constructing in us.
11:55And it's, you know, something that he hides from the adversary because many times we are not strong enough or
12:05we don't have the wisdom.
12:07We don't even always know how to fight him.
12:10We teach spiritual warfare, okay, intensively.
12:14But even in this season of the reversal where God is doing the work, God is doing the turnaround.
12:22And so we were sharing with you that it just came up so strong in our spirit when we were
12:28praying and doing spiritual warfare against the attacks that were not only coming against ourself,
12:35but against many of God's people with sickness and disease and financial distress.
12:40And we began to go before the Lord and God began to direct us to the term, which many have
12:47heard of it, but I don't know how many actually apply it.
12:51But he began to show me that I was to pray in the name of the Lord of hosts.
12:58Now, does that substitute make, you know, take the place of Jesus?
13:02Jesus, no, not at all, because he is the Lord of hosts.
13:05He's the God of angel armies.
13:07And sometimes people of God, there are battles in the spirit realm, in the invisible realm that we cannot see,
13:16that you don't even know.
13:17That's why a lot of things can come and you never saw it coming.
13:21And God began to direct me and instruct me to pray and come in the name of the Lord of
13:28hosts.
13:29I began to study the scriptures.
13:31I started, of course, with Hannah.
13:34This was the first prayer that God directed me to, where she was praying to have a child.
13:39She wanted a son.
13:40She wanted to have a baby.
13:41And I thought, well, that's such a simplicity.
13:44That's a simple prayer.
13:46Really?
13:47The Lord of hosts, the God of angel armies?
13:50Is that what is needed?
13:51But you see, God knew that Samuel would come through her and through her prayers, through her cries out to
14:00him, one of the greatest prophets that ever lived.
14:04We lived by those scriptures and the stories about him to this day.
14:09Well, only God knew that.
14:11She just wanted a son.
14:12She wanted a child.
14:14But God knew that it was much more behind her prayer.
14:18Do you realize that some prayers that seem so simple to you, that if God would just do this, do
14:26you realize that there's probably so much more to that prayer than you can see, so much more than what
14:32is visible to the eye that you do not understand?
14:36And maybe you're not getting a breakthrough because God is trying to break through to you and instruct you how
14:45some things must be done.
14:47Now, we know how to pray, of course.
14:49We pray in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
14:52We do warfare whatsoever we bind and loose.
14:56We understand that.
14:57But there comes a time, people of God, when God has to be.
15:02He has to go before you.
15:04He had to go before Esther.
15:06He had to go before Malachi.
15:09He had to show them that there are some things that are so behind the scenes.
15:16Okay?
15:17They had to learn of these things that were taking place.
15:22They had to come into the knowledge of it.
15:25Then they were better able to understand.
15:27And so what are you coming against that just doesn't seem to move?
15:32That you just can't seem to break.
15:35I invite you to come in the name of the Lord of hosts.
15:40You know, David, he was the other one that I studied many times.
15:45He said, you come to me with sword and spear, but I come in the name of the Lord of
15:51hosts, the God of angel armies.
15:53He will fight for you, people of God.
15:56Yes, there's spiritual warfare.
15:58We've taught that.
16:00And I believe you have worked and operated in it very well.
16:04But there comes a time when God calls you off the battlefield.
16:08And he uses strategic measures to teach you and to show you that he is so precise in what he's
16:16doing.
16:17His strategies don't miss.
16:19And I encourage you during this season of the turnaround, this time of reversal, I want to encourage you to
16:28come off the battlefield.
16:30Hallelujah.
16:30Trust God for this one.
16:33Trust God, because no matter how simple it seems to you, like this should just be done already.
16:39You know, we sometimes think that we know, but can I tell you that God knows way more than what
16:47he tells us.
16:47And so we must realize that this season, this season, you come off the battlefield.
16:55This season, you allow the spirit of the Lord to direct your path.
17:01The scripture in Hebrews, I believe it's that first chapter in that very last verse.
17:07It says, have we not ministering spirits?
17:11That means, and they are there to minister for us.
17:15And I believe we're in a season, in the time, where we must allow God to release his ministering spirits
17:23and go before us.
17:25That way, whatever needs to be dealt with, he knows exactly what to do.
17:31He knows exactly what's going on behind the scenes, the things that we cannot see.
17:37And only he can know, he knows exactly what to do.
17:41And so I just, again, I release you at this point from the worry, from the cares of it all.
17:49The scripture says, cast all your cares upon the Lord because he cares for you.
17:55You know, when you humble yourself, that's connected to casting your cares because you're saying, Lord, I can't do this
18:02one.
18:03This one is beyond me.
18:04I need you to intercede.
18:07And when God begins to intercede, in fact, it's something that you don't even understand what needs to take place.
18:15But when he does, what you've been laboring with for so very long is now coming to a close.
18:24It's coming to an end.
18:25This thing had been going on and on with the hatred of the Jews, even up to this day.
18:31And so, I mean, we are in a very serious time.
18:36America now is in war with Iran.
18:40America is aligning itself with Israel because they are allies.
18:44We are allies to them.
18:45They are allies.
18:46It's a very serious time.
18:48These are in time events that are taking place.
18:52And if ever we need the Lord to fight for us, we need him now.
18:57And so, as you are considering this season of Purim, this time of celebration, you know, it's a beautiful celebration.
19:09They dress up with beautiful decorated costumes and beautiful colors because it is a celebration that finally we are not
19:22on the battlefield dealing with an adversary.
19:25That finally, God has come and heard the cry of his people and the turnaround has begun.
19:32The reversal is at hand.
19:35God is going to literally heighten your discernment.
19:38You're going to find yourself in a place of peace.
19:42You're going to find yourself in a place of celebration.
19:46Thanksgiving, you'll enter his gates with thanksgiving.
19:50His courts with praise and thank God, you know, for your time that he brought you into this time.
19:58You know, God's move is always precise in his timing.
20:03The wisdom of God does not have to explain itself to us.
20:08You know, all we need to do is submit.
20:12Submit to him.
20:14Glory to God.
20:15You know, when you submit to the Lord, the enemy has to flee.
20:20And this is really what you're doing.
20:22When you submit to him so he can begin to fight this unseen battle, this ongoing situation that seems to
20:33never go away.
20:34God is saying this is the turnaround.
20:38This is a divine reversal.
20:41God will turn this thing around.
20:43If you trust him, I know it's been difficult.
20:46And you are, the Bible talks about the trying of our faith.
20:51Why?
20:52Well, because faith that can't be tested, can't be trusted.
20:59And so God will test your faith.
21:01He will teach you how to endure and what to believe and how to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
21:09And know that when those doors open, it's because God had already pre-ventured, he'd already seen it and set
21:18it up and gone before you.
21:21Glory to God.
21:22So I just wanted to take this short amount of time and simply invite others to join us in Purim
21:31and to remind others that it is the season of Purim and that you are in a season of the
21:37turnaround.
21:38You will see that what seems to never move is about to move that seems to never heal is going
21:46to be healed.
21:48And God is moving on your behalf, just as he did for Esther and an entire nation of Hebrew, the
21:56Hebrew nation that the enemy wanted to wipe out.
22:01Instead, the enemy was wiped out.
22:04What a praise celebration.
22:06What a time this is.
22:08You know, why don't you even begin to praise God for the things he's already done?
22:13Because when you can see that, you know what?
22:16This is right on because I remember when this was going on in my life and I just couldn't seem
22:22to get rid of it, couldn't shake it, couldn't beat it.
22:26But God came along.
22:27You know, it's a wonderful thing.
22:29You know, oh, that men would praise the Lord.
22:33Oh, that we would thank him for what he's already done.
22:36Before we jump and go into the next thing, have you taken time to praise and thank God for what
22:42he's already done?
22:43Because that will begin to strengthen and heighten your faith for what he's going to do.
22:51And he's going to do it in Jesus' name.
22:55Your time is now.
22:58God's move is now.
23:00When you align, God prepares you and does things that you cannot do for yourself.
23:08So welcome to the season of Purim, the season of the turnaround, the season of divine reversal, where God moves
23:19on your behalf.
23:20Because while you were praising and worshiping and blessing him, you've come this far by faith, praise God.
23:28You didn't come of yourself on your own, but it was he that brought you.
23:32Thank God that he is merciful and he is faithful.
23:36Never to forget his people.
23:39Welcome to the season of Purim.
23:42I hope that you will celebrate.
23:44Have yourself a praise party.
23:46Bless God for what he's always done, what he's going to do.
23:50And watch him move on your behalf in this beautiful season.
23:54Listen, if I perish, I perish, but I'm going to see the king.
23:59But the wonderful part is, is that boldness.
24:02You know, there's a scripture that says God has an expected end.
24:06I believe somewhere within her spirit.
24:08She totally expected that God would move on her behalf.
24:13And that's exactly what he did.
24:16I'm going to stop there.
24:17It's just a brief minute again, because we celebrate the feast of the Lord.
24:23And we make it very clear that this is our roots.
24:27Our Hebrew roots are in the word of God.
24:31And we don't want you to forget that.
24:33So as Purim approaches on Tuesday, and you come into this season of the Lord,
24:40why don't you celebrate?
24:41Why don't you give him praise?
24:43Thank God for what he has done.
24:44Thank him for that thing that wouldn't move.
24:47And now all of a sudden, he's turning it around.
24:50And you will be so relieved and loosed from the pressures
24:57and the attacks of the enemy in this season.
25:00I say again, come on off the battlefield.
25:03This one is the Lord's.
25:05Lord of hosts, I thank you that you will fight for me,
25:11that you have never lost a battle,
25:13that you know exactly where the enemy is operating.
25:17You see what we cannot see.
25:20You hear what we cannot hear.
25:23And you can do what we cannot do.
25:26So we commit this thing into your hands.
25:30And we thank you in advance for this turnaround.
25:33We thank you for a divine reversal that's taking place even while we are speaking right now.
25:40In Jesus' name, I pray that you have a blessed and prosperous time, a prosperous season.
25:47And let the Lord do exactly what only he can do.
25:51In Jesus' name, in the name of the Lord of hosts.
25:57God bless you.
25:58We'll see you next time.
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