EAST WIND | PASTOR TRAVIS GREENE | FORWARD CITY CHURCH

Hey family, I am so honored that you guys decided to hang with us today here at Forward City Church. Our theme for the year is winds of revival. And so literally that's a series we're in teaching about the four winds. The Lord commanded Ezekiel to prophesy to the four winds.

And so we're believing God for revival from the north, south, east, and west. Each week we are breaking down what these winds represent. And we're believing God for revival in every area of our life. Please pull out your notebook, get your Bible, and get ready to receive a word from God for you.

Love you. >> Ezekiel 37:9. Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath. >> Prophesy, son of man, and say to it, this is what the sovereign Lord says. >> Come breath." >> Read it. From where? >> For when breathe into these slain that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me and breath entered them.

They came to life and stood up on their feet. A vast >> army. It's time to ride. It's uh we've been in a series called Winds of >> Revival. >> Revival. Today I'm excited. We're going to jump right into it. Today we are on week three. We are on the east wind.

Do me a favor. Elbow somebody. Tell them, "Get ready for the east wind." >> Get ready for the east wind. If you're excited to receive a word from God, give him a praise on your way down. Come on, church. Winds of revival. Winds of revival. There's a wind blowing, ladies and gentlemen.

And the enemy cannot fight the wind of God, but the wind of God won't fight you. meaning that it does require a curse word in 2026, >> surrender. >> It does require you letting go and letting God. Revival is not random. It is a response. >> It is God's return on the investment of our surrender.

So many times we have been in a habit of saying, "God, I'm waiting on you." And he says, "No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm actually waiting on you." Because revival winds only blow on certain postures. >> Ask your neighbor, are you ready for the win? >> So we one, let let me just set this real quick and I'm not going to take long in here, but I have to just set this as groundwork that this message of revival is for us.

The Bible that you're holding in your hand was written for us. Okay? When Ezekiel is in the dry in the valley of dry bones, he's speaking to dry bones in the vision and they represent the people of God. In 2 Chronicles 7:14, when God gives Solomon a visitation in his sleep and he tells them, "Hey man, the people are going to stray away.

But if my people, my people, my people who are called by my name will humble themselves." So all of this is for us. >> Do me a favor. Look at your neighbor. Say, "He talking to you." >> Then lay hands for yourself. Say, "And me, too." And >> did I hate when people say that?

Y'all stop saying that. And did dumb. We just say dumb stuff. And did week one was uh was the north wind. That's the wind of repentance. And we broke down what repentance mean. Ladies and gentlemen, repentance is not regret. It is redirection. So the word repent literally means this.

It means to turn or to return. >> And so the proof of repentance is transformation. >> It's not just saying I'm sorry. It's saying I'm done. >> As a parent, ain't it irritating when your children say they sorry and you know >> they going to do it again? >> Come on.

Holl at your boy. I'd rather you not even tell me you're sorry >> and just stop. Change. Don't do it. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS AN HOUR AGO. >> And if you as a parent feel that way, >> imagine what it must be for God for us to keep apologizing for the same thing. >> So you can have sorrow but not have change.

So repentance in the Bible means to >> turn. Last week we did south wind. That's the renewal. The wind of renewal. I talked about four areas that God wants to renew in you. He wants to renew the right spirit. If you have not watched these messages, please go to YouTube or wherever you stream your stuff at and check them out.

But we talked about the four things that God wants to renew. He wants to renew your the right spirit. He wants to renew your strength. He wants to renew your faith. He wants to renew your passion. This week is the east wind. in the east when I write this down is the wind of removal. >> Repentance, renewal, removal.

And all of these are necessary for revival. >> In other words, there cannot be any revival outside of repentance, outside of renewal and outside of removal. >> Come on, say it again. He talking to me. >> And so the Bible, where did you get this from, Travis? I'm glad.

Yes. The Bible says Exodus 14. This is a story of God performing a miracle and splitting the Red Sea wide open. It says that Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. And all that night the Lord drove back the sea. He drove the sea back with a strong east wind.

You see it east wind and turned it as dry wind land. The waters were divided. Watch this. And the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on their right and on their left. That word wall of water. I had to research it.

I said, "Well, how tall was the wall?" And many scholars believe that this wall was anywhere from 50 to 100 ft tall. I mean, the wall right here is probably only about 25 ft. >> And it could have been four times that >> of water. That scripture read a little different now, don't it? >> See, it's one thing to trust God to open the sea.

Sir, >> can we make our services longer? >> I ain't had no help over here. They like, "No." >> Cuz if it was longer, I would just talk about this point for 5 minutes and I don't. So, I'm going have to do it in 20 seconds. Many of us start shouting and celebrating and praising God.

I'm trying to break it down, baby girl. Many of us start shouting and celebrating and being excited because God opened something for us. >> Watch this. But we stay on sure. Because God opening it is just level one. >> I know you got faith. Not when God opens it for you, but you could trust him enough to sustain it for you to walk through. >> Oh, what does this look like?

Just look like God didn't just make a way, but I trust him enough to actually step out and say, "The God who called me to it is a God who's going to sustain me in it." >> My God. My God. And the Bible says they walked through this and there's a wall on their left and a wall on the right. 50 to 100 feet tall.

And God told me to tell you that he is the God who can't just open a thing, but a God that can sustain that thing. That's the God you serve. And he said, "The way I'm going to do it, Travis, I'm going to do it with my wind."

Man, God, please, please, please don't let us grow fatigued after these 21 days. Some of us grew tired after three days. God give us >> the ability to last. This has been my prayer not just for 21 days. >> I don't just want to experience revival in January. >> I need it in June.

I need it in October. I want the wind to sustain what the wind begins. And so I was reading this and God said, "Man, do you see? I set a strong east wind to remove the red sea." But watch this. I removed a barrier. Please catch this. But he didn't just remove the barrier for them just to get free to be free. >> It was Moses who declared to Pharaoh in Exodus 7:16.

He says, "Hey man, I'm just telling you what God said. Let my people go." Watch this. So that they may worship me in the wilderness. >> Which tells me the purpose of freedom is worship. Oh, don't say that, Travis. Yep, I am going to say it. >> Don't pray for deliverance if you're not going to worship. >> The Israelites will tell you a worship list deliverance will lead you into wandering.

Did you hear what I just said, Titus? And now many of us are w wondering why we're wandering. And we're wandering because we don't worship. AND IT IS WORSHIP THAT SUSTAINS the deliverance. My God. God said, "I can free you from that." But worship is your is your nutrients.

IT IS IT IS WHAT KEEPS YOU GOING. IT'S WHAT KEEPS YOUR spirit man strong. And many of us START OUT ON FIRE, BUT A FEW MONTHS LATER WE GET WEAK. WHY? BECAUSE WORSHIP SUSTAINS. >> YES, SIR. >> My God. My God. >> My God. >> Yeah. I'm I might have to I'm going have to finish some of this later.

But I was excited because I'm like, man, God made a way. And he said, "No, I made a way for something." >> Oh man. Oh man. Oh man. >> The Lord has been maturing me, y'all. And I'm talking about beyond my age. Not just in age. He's been maturing my faith >> and just my perspective. >> Because an immature faith is just excited that God made a way without understanding why the way was made. >> Here we go.

Here we go. I'm about to go somewhere. Elder Landa, a immature faith just celebrates the fact that Egyptians gave you gold on the way out, >> not knowing that the Egyptians gave you gold on the way out because God wants you to build a tabernacle in the wilderness. >> And this is why we get tight when we start talking about things like big gift net Sunday.

Cuz you thought that the blessing God gave you was for you. >> Come here. Come here. Come here. God said no. No, no, no. That's an IMMATURE BELIEVER. A MATURE BELIEVER understands that I'm blessed to be A BLESSING. AND GOD GAVE ME GOLD IN THE PREVIOUS SEASON TO BUILD HIS HOUSE IN THE NEXT SEASON. >> Come on, lean on somebody.

Tell them, "I'm a kingdom builder. I'm a kingdom builder. I'm a kingdom builder." Man, he's a And let's go a little further. A MATURE BELIEVER UNDERSTANDS THAT I'M NOT just saved to make it in. >> No, no, no, no, no. I'm saved to rob hell of souls. Come here.

Come here. So he blessed me to be a blessing. He saved me to HELP SAVE SOMEONE ELSE. HE FREED ME TO WORSHIP. AND IT IS WORSHIP THAT SUSTAINS ME EVEN IN THE wilderness season. My God. >> And so here are the Egyptians. And they forgot this. And this is why this is important because if you don't UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER THE PURPOSE OF FREEDOM, you replace worshiping HIM FOR WORSHIPING IDOLS.

YOU'RE GOING TO WORSHIP SOMETHING. So the enemy's primary priority in your life is to block you from your place of worship. >> Be at church, be it your prayer closet, he don't mind you doing anything >> that's just entertaining. >> Have you noticed? >> Have you noticed that when you can't eat, you don't even be hungry?

I mean, you just be chilling. You're supposed to be like, "I'm making some noodles. You want something?" Like, I'm good, actually. And now you can't even fix pudding for the kids without being like, "If I just taste it, pudding." It's because the enemy is trying to stop you from intimacy with God. >> That's the purpose of the Red Sea, >> to block them from getting into worship.

But God is in the removal business. He will remove every distraction, every obstacle, every stronghold, every idol, every soul tie, every addiction. God will remove any barrier blocking you from his presence. And that's what he's been doing. He will remove any barrier. He will remove any barrier. If that barrier is a relationship, he'll move it.

If Come on here. If that barrier is an addiction, he'll move it. If that barrier is a boo, T call, he'll move it. He will remove any barrier that's been blocking you from your place of intimacy with him because he's a jealous God. And your Bible says 700 years later now Ezekiel after this FREEDOM AFTER THIS RADICAL FREEDOM WITH A WALL on the right and left of water. 700 years later here they are in exile because exile is always the outcome of idol worship. >> Not just in ancient times.

Ladies and gentlemen, >> some of y'all are in this room right now in exile. What is exile? Exile is a life that exists without the presence of God in it. >> Idols. Idols. Idols. Idols and high places. Idols. Just for a second. Idols. Idols is what we privately defend.

High places is what we publicly excuse. >> So your idol, your idol can be lust, can be greed, can be money, can be success, can be an affiliation. It's something that shaped your decisions. But high places shape our culture. >> How do I know if an idol or a high place exists in my life?

Here you go. A very easy way to tell. When I find myself defending something that God stands against. >> Pornography is a high place. >> Oh, he said the P word in church. >> Y'all remember in the 1990s? Anybody from the 90s and early 2000s >> when you used to have to How many perverts from back then?

You remember X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X >> delivered y'all remember you ain't got to lift your hands she said me dog me dog I was at freate 98 y'all better be glad they had no phones back then none of y'all would be but back then you used to have TO GO TO VIDEO WAREHOUSE house blockbuster in the back left corner.

Come on, y'all. Don't do that, acting like you're looking for a movie for the kids. But now, you don't have to go to the video store. It's right there on your phone. Come on. Just look straight ahead. Some of y'all didn't even You still got it on your phone.

Don't pick UP MY PHONE. WHY YOUR CHILD CAN'T PICK UP YOUR PHONE? MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN ENTERTAINING, watch this, not pornography, but spirits. >> Pornography is a high place. It is a multi-billion dollar >> business that is employed by people, many of which are trapped >> in sex trafficking.

So your enjoyment is at the expense of someone else's slavery. >> And because nobody know you think it's harmless, >> but you are helping to fund the very thing that that girl's parents are praying that she'll be free from. >> And what culture does, I'm going to take my time, is normalize it. >> It normize it because the high place is pornography, but the idol is perversion. >> Come on, say it again.

He talking to me. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See, see, we we like this stuff for them. But the reason they ain't in here with you is because >> perhaps they're waiting for you to actually be free enough to have power. >> There's something on you that get on them.

My God. My God. And we have too many tainted evangelists. Come on here. Come on here. Mismanage mantles. COME ON HERE. WE GOT PEOPLE WHO TALK ABOUT ONE THING IN HERE, BUT AS SOON AS YOU GET ABOUT YOURSELF, COME ON HERE. THIS IS NOT JUDGMENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

THIS IS SAYING THAT God >> is saying that all of us, Travis, >> have to live our life to a biblical standard >> and to a posture >> that is worthy of the wind. >> Are you dead enough for breath? High place of abortion. >> It's 2026. Don't you know what year this is? >> No, no, no.

It's a high place. Why? >> Because premarital sex is an idol. It >> was a few years ago. I had made a post and I was just like, man, like when do we get when did the church become okay saying it's my body? >> You know, the last one who said this is my body, >> HIS NAME IS JOSHUA, JESUS.

HE SAID THIS at communion TABLE. AND SO EVERY TIME WE SAY THIS IS MY BODY IS AN ANTICHRIST SPIRIT THAT HAS RISEN UP IN THE GENERATION THAT IS TRYING TO CLAIM SOMETHING THAT HE BOUGHT. MY GOD. THIS IS WHY PAUL SAID PROJECT YOUR BODY AS A LIVING SACRIFICE.

HOLY AND HOLINESS IS STILL RIGHT. I KNOW IT'S NOT POPULAR. I know it's not sexy. I know you can't moni MONETIZE IT BUT IT'S STILL RIGHT. AND GOD IS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO SAYS NO THIS AIN'T MY BODY. I MADE A POST SAYING, "WHEN DO WE GET OFF SAYING THIS IS OUR BODY?" >> And somebody COMMENT ON THIS A FEW YEARS ago and said, "Well, what if somebody don't want to get pregnant?"

I said, "Well, they shouldn't sleep around." And they said, "Good luck TELLING THAT TO THIS GENERATION. >> I I don't need luck. I got the Holy Ghost. AND IT IS MY job to tell this generation that plan B is man's idea. Plan A is God's idea. A is for abstinence.

ZIP YOUR PANTS UP, PULL THEM UP, DO WHAT YOU GOT TO DO. MOVE IN WITH a roommate that CAN HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE. WHATEVER IT TAKE, BUT I WOULD NOT COMPROMISE THE ANOINTING AND THE GRACE OF MY LIFE FOR A TEMPORARY HIGH WHEN I GOT AN ETERNAL call on my life.

SOMEBODY GIVE GOD PRAISE LIKE YOU KNOW YOU'VE been bought with a price. COME ON, CLAP. EVEN IF YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE IT. Plan B. Don't let me see you at CVS. >> IT'S BECAUSE DISOBEDIENCE ALWAYS REQUIRES CONTINGENCIES. >> Whenever you're in rebellion, you always have to have a backup plan.

And the backup plan is never as good as God's initial plan. >> Imitation, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. IMITATION. IMITATION. IMITATION. PREMARITAL SEX IS AN IMITATIONAL form of love. >> You call it love, but it's actually lust. It's an imitation. And the reason we like IMITATION SOME OF OUR JEWELRY TODAY, COME ON, LOOK STRAIGHT.

THE REASON WE LIKE IT IS BECAUSE IT'S CHEAPER. BUT IF YOU WEAR IT LONG ENOUGH, IT'S GOING TO CAUSE YOU TO HAVE GREEN ON YOUR NECK. AND WE'RE WONDERING WHY WE HAVE SYMPTOMS IS BECAUSE WE'VE INVITED THINGS INTO OUR LIFE THAT'S not real. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

JUST BECAUSE IT'S POPULAR, JUST BECAUSE IT'S HOT ON TIK TOK, JUST BECAUSE EVERYBODY ELSE DOING IT, DON'T MEAN YOU DOING IT. WHAT YOU GOING TO SAY WHEN YOU STAND BEFORE the Lord as judgment day? Well, everybody else was doing it. HE SAID, "BUT I TOLD YOU MY WAY WAS NARROW.

I TOLD YOU THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE WAY TO THE FATHER, AND THAT'S THROUGH THE SON. I TOLD you to give me your heart." And the whole time you were entertaining idols, I was standing at the door. He said, "I was standing at the DOOR EVERY NIGHT WHILE THE DEVIL was wooing you and enticing you and tempting you.

I WAS STANDING AT THE DOOR, BUT YOU KEPT THE DOOR CLOSED and you kept running to what satisfied your flesh." Yes. And ladies and gentlemen, I have determined in my mind, as for me and my house, if we the only ones standing for holiness in Columbia, South Carolina, as for me and my house, I got to hear him SAY, "WELL DONE."

AND I WONDER, is there anybody in this BOUGIE ROOM OR WATCHING ONLINE THAT SAY, "GOD, DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO. I AIN'T here to lie. I ain't here to front. I NEED A SAVIOR THAT COULD COME AND CHANGE ME FROM THE INSIDE OUT. Remove whatever it is in me that's blocking me from your presence.

If God has used you this much with half of you, If you've been this blessed with partial obedience, >> no wonder the devil want to keep you playing back and forth. No wonder the devil wants to just have you saved on Sunday but crazy on Tuesday. NO, NO WONDER THE DEVIL WANTS YOU PLAYING WITH OUIJA BOARDS.

NO WONDER THE DEVIL WANTS YOU DIBBLING AND DABBLING in pornography. NO WONDER BECAUSE HE KNOWS IF YOU EVER sell out, IF YOU EVER GIVE GOD EVERYTHING, if you ever COME TO THE ALTAR AND SAY, "GOD, TAKE IT AWAY. I DON'T WANT IT. I don't need it. Strip it from."

IF YOU EVER GET RIGHT WITH GOD, HELL IS NERVOUS OF THE REAL YOU RISING UP. AND I GOT A QUESTION. IS THERE ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM THAT SAY, "GOD, WHATEVER IT TAKES, LET HEAVEN VERSION OF ME RISE." Ladies and gentlemen, THIS IS NOT THESE ARE NOT POLITICAL ISSUES. >> That's camouflage. >> So that's why the DEVIL WANTS TO DRAW THIS LINE AND SAY, "OH, IF YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, THAT MEAN YOU'RE LIKE THIS."

NO. NO. I DON'T LEAN LEFT. I DON'T LEAN RIGHT. I STAND STRAIGHT. I STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD. I am A KINGDOM MAN. MORE THAN A DEMOCRAT, MORE THAN A REPUBLICAN. NO. I AM A KINGDOM MAN. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE CROSS. >> We become so divided. >> I'M NOT TALKING TO THEM.

I'M TALKING TO US. We become divided. I >> saw a young lady post on one of my things. I rarely repost, but she posted. I stopped going to church. I walked out cuz he told the church they shouldn't have been celebrating when when Charlie Kurt got killed. >> Bye. >> NO.

BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH us >> when we can be excited WHEN A MAN IS KILLED BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH US WHEN WE FORGET THAT OUR BODIES BELONG TO HIM. THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG WITH US WHEN WE'RE DEFENDING SATANIC AGENDAS. in the church. >> In the church, >> THEY TRIED TO CANCEL ME.

PEOPLE GOT MAD AT ME CUZ I SAID THE LORD HAD ME DENOUNCE AN ORGANIZATION. >> CHURCH PEOPLE >> LIKE THEY FORGOT IN ORDER TO CROSS WE HAD TO BOW DOWN BEFORE AN ORACLE. You can't tell. I WAS THERE. I WAS THERE WITH THE CANDLE. I WAS THERE WITH THE SMOKE.

I WAS THERE WITH THOSE SATANIC PRAYERS. YOU CAN'T TELL ME. AND WHEN GOD REQUIRE ME TO DEMOLISH AN IDOL, I AIN'T SCARED OF NO DEVIL. I GOT TO BE FREE FROM THIS. THERE'S A CALL ON MY LIFE. THERE'S A GRACE ON MY LIFE. THERE IS A PURPOSE FOR ME TO FULFILL.

AND I'M NOT HERE TO BE POPULAR. I'M NOT HERE TO FIT IN. I'M HERE TO DELIVER SOMEBODY. GRAB YOUR NEIGHBOR AND TELL THEM, "PREPARE FOR FREEDOM." Tell them, "Prepare for freedom." HEAVEN'S VERSION OF YOU IS READY TO RISE. 20 SECONDS OF INTERCESSION. LIFT your hands and pray in the spirit.

I feel a breakthrough. If you need deliverance, get to this altar. IF THERE'S AN IDOL IN YOUR LIFE THAT NEED TO be removed, get to this altar. If there's A HIGH PLANK THAT NEED TO BE DEMOLISHED OFF YOUR FAMILY, GET TO THIS ALTAR. GOD, WHATEVER YOU DO, SAY GOD, whatever you do, don't leave me in this situation.

Don't leave me like this. Take the taste out of my mouth. Uh take the DESIRE OUT OF MY HEART. CHANGE ME. Change me. Hey. Hey. Hey. Change me. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit in me. Change me. I NEED A CHURCH THAT'LL PRAY.

PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. Deliver me from evil. Deliver me from evil. Deliver me from evil. OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME, YOUR KINGDOM COME, YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT is in heaven. On earth as it is in heaven.

On earth as it is in heaven. Give me daily bread. Deliver me from evil. GIVE ME FRESH BREAD. DELIVER me from evil. Give me fresh bread. DELIVER ME FROM EVIL. For yours is the kingdom. Hey, the power. HEY, THE POWER. HEY. HEY. HEY. The power and the glory.

IT BELONGS to you. The deliverer is in the room. The keyholder is in the room. Lift up your heads. Hey, all ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors. And the king, hey, and the king, hey, and the king of glory, he will come in. He will come in.

He will come in. Who is the king of glory? The Lord God strong and mighty. Who is the king of glory? The Lord God mighty in battle. Lift up your head. Be lifted up. You're coming out of this. You're coming OUT OF THIS. YOU'RE COMING OUT OF THIS.

CHURCH, I need you to pray. I need you to pray. I need you to pray. I need you to pray upon this rock. I'll build my church and the gates of hell. The gates of hell will not prevail. It would not prevail. Hey, it would not prevail. So we decree and we declare to every spirit of darkness, every soul tie, every spirit of perversion, every spirit of pornography, every spirit of fornication, every spirit of homosexuality, EVERY SPIRIT OF LESBIANISM.

WE MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT that God is coming for his children. God is fighting for us. GOD IS FIGHTING FOR US. GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO. HE'S IN THE ROOM. HE'S IN THE ROOM. He's in the room. Fight, fight, fight. fight. Hey, hey, hey. God said you asked for revival.

It's here. It's here. It's here. It's here. It's here. East wind blow. East wind blow. East wind blow. Remove what you need to remove. God told me there are three things he's going to remove very quickly. He says, "I'm going to remove shackles. >> I'm going to remove shine. >> And I'm going to remove shame." >> Shackles.

Shackles. Shackles. Shackles. Shackle is a lingering effect of bondage. It is it is when you want to get free from something but you can't because idols always appear to be manageable. >> You hear me? >> It always appears to be something that you can control. >> And the real question is who's holding who? >> If God ask you for something and you can't release it, hear me.

The reason you can't release it is because it refused to release you. >> An idol will always appear manageable, but it's really a shackle. The other thing the Lord wants to remove is shine. Shackles that have been entertained and kept. After a while, what start to happen is that these shackles start being worn as jewelry.

And then we just we defend it. We make an identity out of it >> and we say this is just me. >> So we try to shine something. Hear me that was actually sent from the devil to be a shackle. >> It's the justification to a lifestyle that God does not like.

We just try to shine it. Wax on, wax off. and we try to keep it. What it it it it's a shackle that outlasts surrender. It becomes the shiny thing in our life. And this is a very interesting text in Ezekiel 36:26. He said, "Man, I'm going to I'mma I'mma reclaim my people.

I'm going to take them back." He says, "But I will give them a new spirit, a new heart." He says this in Ezekiel 36:26. He says, "I will remove from them >> a heart of stone. >> I will remove a heart of stone." Come on, somebody shout, "Remove it, God." >> I asked the Lord, I said, "Well, how do I get a stony heart?"

And he said, "Stonony hearts come when I've housed stony idols. >> Whatever spirits I make comfortable in me will create an atmosphere that's conducive to his dwelling. >> What's a stony heart? You ready? A stony heart is a heart that is not moldable. >> It's stubborn. >> It It's the heart again.

Say, "He's talking to me." >> It's the heart that tries to justify something that the Lord asked for. That's a stony heart. >> That's why he said, "Harden not your heart. But it's hard not to have a stoning heart when I'm housing idols. >> WHEN I'M HOUSING SOMETHING THAT GOD don't want. >> In order for any spirit, the Lord told me this in prayer.

He said, "In order for any spirit to remain, it must be comfortable." >> Including his. >> So many of us say, "God, come rest on us. God, make my heart your dwelling place. >> But we don't prioritize his comfort. >> Holiness is his natural domain. >> Man, PT, you talking like this stuff is easy. >> No, I never said it was easy, >> but it's not complicated.

It is a choice. >> And I know it's an idol. When I wanted to get out >> and it refused to. >> I I want this lust to get out and it said, "I ain't going nowhere. I want this pride to get out." It said, "I ain't going nowhere." >> It's the difference between me holding one of my sons and saying, "Man, go somewhere." and I can push him away because I'm stronger than him.

Versus my trainer, he's been training me for 10 years. If I push him away and he decided to hold on to me right here, wave your hand, Chris. If Chris said, "I'm not going nowhere." It don't matter how hard I push. It don't matter how hard I cry.

It don't matter how hard I beg. >> It don't matter how hard I praise. If he don't want to leave, he ain't going to leave. >> The only thing that can get something stronger than me off of me >> is a force that's stronger than it. >> I need somebody to take 10 seconds and give the force.

His name is Jesus. Here we go. Shackles, shine, shame. This is perhaps the most important. >> Shame is the residue that the the shackle left behind. >> It it's this is one of the sneakiest attacks >> because I believe this plagues the church the most. And we don't know that true deliverance requires being also delivered from the shame.

Amen. >> Now sorrow is different from shame. >> You should be remorseful. You should say, "Man, God, you expect more and you deserve more." You should you should feel bad for that. Okay? But shame doesn't say, "Man, I feel bad." Shame says, "I am bad >> and that I'll always be what I was and that I'm not worth anything." >> That's shame.

And it is something that the Lord wants to remove from you. There's a story that I stumbled across this week. The Lord brought it back to my mind and it's found in Genesis 14. I'm going somewhere and we're about to have a very strong prophetic moment. I'm telling you.

Do me a favor. Tell your neighbor. You're not leaving the same. >> I'm telling you, the wind, y'all hear me? The wind that's about to hit this room >> is about to change your life forever. Amen. >> But I got to give you Bibles so you understand what's happening. >> Do not be conformed to this world.

Romans 12:2. But be ye transformed >> by the renewing of your mind. >> Lasting change happens not when you have an emotional moment, but when your mind is renewed. >> And we've majored on emotion and minored on mind renewal. >> As a man thinkketh, so is he. So the devil don't mind you COMING AT CHURCH HAVING A GOOD TIME as long as you don't >> learn something >> and it is the knowledge is the wisdom of Christ >> that'll get an understanding >> and man when that light bulb goes off >> transformation happens.

You've been trying to change your life without a changed mind >> and the only reason you keep going back is because your mind hadn't been transformed yet. But today is the day. I said today is the day that light bulb called the Holy Spirit is about to go off in you. >> And even when you want to go back, your mind is going to say, "No, man.

We don't even think like that no more. No man, we don't even want that no more. No man, we felt the real thing in the name of Jesus. >> EXODUS 14 HAS A STORY." I want you to read this when you get some time. Is a story OF A WAR THAT BREAKS OUT.

And the Bible says THE WAR BREAKS OUT AND the kings are outnumbered. And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah, they try to flee. >> And when they TRY TO FLEE, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THERE ARE PITS OF TAR THAT THEY GET STUCK IN. And because they got stuck, they end up getting captured. >> Pits of tar.

This is important, ladies and gentlemen, BECAUSE A LIFE OF compromise will always have you living with unstable ground. >> And no matter how slick you think you are, >> say it again, he's talking to me. >> No matter how sneaky you think you are, I'm just minding my business.

A life of sin is designed to have pits around to keep you stuck. >> Have you ever I know we are we're not conditioned to be honest in church, but have you ever had a God encounter and said, "Man, I'm getting out of this." >> And it felt good in church. >> Then you got home >> and you was like, "I THOUGHT I WAS, WHY am I stuck?"

And then you get stuck and it feel like the enemy is like, "Yep, I told you. You ain't going nowhere. >> I just let you get free enough to think you were free. >> But I got some pits around you that's going to get you stuck." And one of those pits is called shame. >> So I can get liberated in a moment, but shame would get me stuck again long enough for the enemy to come and get me back.

A part of THE PEOPLE WHO WAS CAPTURED IS THIS MAN NAMED LOT. NOW, Lot did not live like the people of Sodom. The Bible say he settled near it. >> God, >> come on. He's renewing your mind. God's renewing your mind. >> You need to hear this because the next thing that's going to be under attack, hear me prophetically. >> God is freeing you in this moment. >> But the next thing that's going to be tried is proximity.

It's one thing for God to free you. >> It's another thing for you to decide to leave those. >> Your spirit needs to hear this. >> You need a detox season. >> It's not going to make you a bad sibling. It's not going to make you a bad friend.

It's not going to make you a bad whatever. But but you this is a season where you're going to have to be a little selfish just to be free for real >> and say, "Hey man, I hit you up in a FEW MONTHS. GOD IS DOING SOMETHING in my life right now.

I can't." No, NO, NO. CUZ THAT'S A WINDOW. THAT'S A WINDOW. And every time I PEEK INTO IT, I'M GOING WANT TO GO BACK. SO I CAN'T TALK TO YOU. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. I HAVE TO DETOX FROM THIS BECAUSE LOT WOULD TELL YOU THAT PROXIMITY HAS A COST.

HE WASN'T INVOLVED IN THE LIFESTYLE OF SODOM, >> BUT HE LIVED TO IT CLOSE ENOUGH >> THAT WHEN THE KINGDOM WAS CAPTURED, SO WAS HE. >> And like my trainer, the captivity was too much. It's a lot to get free from. >> But I love my God >> cuz he's in the redemption business.

Look around. These are people who God said the enemy might have had you. These are people who God said the pit might have got you stuck. These are people WHO GOD SAID YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN stuck in shame and in SHINE AND IN SHACKLES. BUT I am sending a east wind to remove everything that the e that the enemy went for evil.

And the Bible says that Lot's uncle named Abraham heard about it. He heard that his nephew was in trouble. >> He gathered 318 trained men >> and said, "We're going to get my family >> and he went into the enemy's camp >> and took his family back. Lot was in trouble and it required a force stronger than him >> to get him free." >> And I love this in your Bible.

The Bible doesn't say that Abraham scolded Lot. He didn't shame him. He was just satisfied with getting him free. >> Ladies and gentlemen, there's a greater Abraham. His name is Jesus. >> And he said, "The devil has had you long enough." >> He said, "I'm coming to get my family.

I'm coming to get my children. I'm coming to get my sons. I'm coming to get my daughter. I'm going to the enemy's camp and taking back what was stolen. You don't belong to him. A specific prayer I'mma pray in this moment. Tell her deliverance is breaking out. >> Revival is here. >> I said, "Revival is here. >> I was praying this week over a young lady at one of our noonday prayers.

The spirit of God fell on me so heavy that I just put my head on the altar and just started weeping in intercession and in hope because the spirit of the Lord told me, he says, "Travis," I want you to hear me, church. He says, "Travis, I am sending revival to the gay community." >> And I was overwhelmed by the presence of God. >> I was overwhelmed.

He said, "I'm going to the enemy's camp. Now >> I'm getting my kids back. >> I want you to hear me. If homosexuality has been a struggle or if it is currently a struggle, there's a force greater >> than the chain. >> Hear me. Hear me. And he won't shame you.

He won't scold you. >> He says, "I still love >> you." >> And I believe you came to church today and I believe you're watching online not in search for permission, but in search for truth. There's something on the inside of you. >> There's something I know. I know that's saying, "My life has to mean more than this. what you've been feeling, what you've been sensing is the spirit of God >> knocking on your heart. >> He says, "I'm coming and taking my kids back. >> I'm taking my kids back."

The Lord said, "Travis, get ready >> for the east wind to blow even on that community. >> The community that the church has pushed away. The community that the church said there's no place for you." God says, "I'm going to grab them. I'm going to remove from them Not just the shackle >> but the shame. >> Lift your hands in the house of God. >> He said in Joshua 5, I love this 40 years of wondering God removes the shackles, the shine, the shame.

And in Joshua 5, he says this. He says, "Then the Lord said to Joshua, today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery. Hey, it's one thing. It's one thing and it's often cute to pray for him to remove shackles. No more shackles. No more. That's cool.

Take the shackles off my feet. >> But nobody think about him taking shame off of you. My prayer is not just for the shackles to come off, >> for the shame that the shackles left. >> I felt the presence of God impressed upon me that some of his children are plagued with the shame disease.

And >> it's almost like leprosy. It's like I'm just so ashamed. You know, I I did research on this. I read several books on it and I wrote a paper about it when I was in seminary. I did a whole the Lord stirred my heart to do a whole research about.

And what I found out about the gay community is one reason that the gay community continues to populate is not even simply because of lust. And that's what a lot of people think. Even Christians and people who are so mean and hatred, it's like, "Oh, you're just lusting.

It's not even lust. >> From my research, the number one reason that that community continues to grow is because of acceptance. >> That when you had QUESTIONS AND YOU TOLD YOUR PARENTS, "Hey man, I'm having these desires." They immediately threw shame on you >> instead of even talking it out with you and allowing you to process it, giving you hope. and reminding you of what God said to you.

Or perhaps YOU WENT INTO A CHURCH AND SAT IN THE BACK AND WAS LIKE, "MAN, I'm just I'm dying here." And they just he was like, "Yo, man, THERE THERE'S NO HOPE." AND SO YOU GO BACK >> TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU feel >> accepted. >> THE BEAUTIFUL THING ABOUT YOUR KING JESUS, >> she says, "My table is big enough. >> There's a seat for you."

Trans, there's a seat for you. Confused, there's a seat for you. Bitter, there's a seat for you. Abused, there's a seat for you. It's not MY JOB TO FIX YOU. It's not my job to clean you. IT'S NOT MY JOB TO CHANGE YOU. It's only my job TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE that he's comfortable in. >> And he said, "If I be lifted up, I I'll try.

Let me tell you how this works. And I'm about to pray for you. Last Sunday, we had another breakout experience like this. And deliverance hit the room. And everybody shouted, "It just broke." And people ran to the altar. One woman ran to the altar and left from the altar and filed for divorce from a woman she was married to.

I did not get up here and preach a whole message about lifestyles and do this and do that. >> The presence of God still works. He is the chain breaker. HE IS THE TRANSFORMER. HE IS THE ONE that can shift you. And he's here now. Lift your hands.

He's here. Miracle can happen now for the spirit of the Lord. He's in the room. Shame is leaving you. The evidence is on. Oh my spirit of the Lord is Oh man, I'm I've been really wrestling with this in the spirit because I do not want I Y'all hear me?

Hear me. I just have to obey him. But I do not want to embarrass anybody. That's not my goal here. Okay? So if you're uncomfortable, you don't have to. There's no shame. But I do feel like the Lord, Pastor Jamal, I want you to get praying oil on your hand.

Um PJ, I want you to get praying oil on your hands. I I do really feel just for a moment if you're in this room and you've been stuck in the tarpit of homosexuality. Hear me. You are loved. You are wanted. And like Abraham left you, the world may call you a lot, >> but God calls you his. >> I do want to pray for everybody, but I feel a special like a special grace just in this moment.

I don't want to prolong the time, but can y'all do me a favor? Can everybody just step back? Just take like three steps back. You don't have to go back to your seats because God is doing something even in your hearts too. I want you to stay where you are if you can.

Just take a couple steps back and specifically spec and hear me church. Hear me church. If anybody's bold enough to come up here and we pray for them and they get any judgment from you, you're the problem. But I feel the spirit of God saying, "I'm going to the enemy's camp and I'm rescuing you." >> And if acceptance is what you've been looking for, acceptance is what you're about to receive right now. >> The Lord told us we're going to get praying on some of the ministers and elders and we're going to anoint you.

And I'm telling you, I'm believing that God is about to free you for real. Specifically. specifically homosexuality, lesbianism. The spirit of the Lord is here for you. Freedom. I want you to come forward. I want you to come as close to this altar as you can. No shame.

No shame. No shame. No shame. No shame. Come on, baby. Come on. Come on. No shame. Come on, man of God. Come on, son. Come on, baby. Come on. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. There's no shame. There's no shame.

Come home. Come home. Come home. Come home. You don't have to go out there looking. Come home. Come home. Come home. I see you, baby. Come through the crowd. Come home. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come home. Let them through. Let them through. If people are coming up, let them through.

If you're coming up for this, get through this crowd. Do what you got to do. Do what you got to do. Get through the crowd. Get through the crowd, y'all. Let them through. Let these babies through. Let Let them through. Let them through. Let them through. God says, "I'm coming to the enemy camp.

I'm getting my children back. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord." I feel like there's still several more out here. There's still several more. And shame has you stuck. God wants to break and remove the stain of shame. If that's you, get up here. In my father's house >> is a place for me.

I'm a child of God. Yes, I am. The sun sets free. >> I'm a child of God. Yes, I am. >> There's no sh Philippines. Oh, it's free and I'm a child of God. Yes, I am. I am. I am chosen, not forsen. I am who you say I am. >> The force is coming to get you. >> The force is coming to get you. >> Coming to get you out. >> I am who you say. >> He's coming to get you out.

He's coming to get you out. It's taking up enough times. >> For God has not given you a spirit of fear, >> but of love, power, and a sound mind. You have a sound mind. >> You have a sound. You're not losing your mind. >> You're not losing your mind. >> I come against every form of confusion, >> anger, and rage, >> freedom to your heart. freedom to your heart. >> God is healing even the child abuse. >> Yep.

Yep. Yep. >> He's healing it. He's healing it. He's healing it. He's healing it. >> He's healing it. He's healing it. He's healing it. >> No one would listen to you when you told him what happened. >> God says, "I heard you. and I love you. >> Yes.

Show my >> I'm no longer a slave. >> I'm no longer a slave. God says you don't have to be strong for me. Release it. >> Release it. >> Release it. >> Release it. Come on. Lift your hands. Release it. Release it. And receive his love. >> God says, "This is real love.

This is what you've been wanting. >> You just been looking in the wrong places. >> This is real love. >> Yeah. >> This is real love. >> He said, "You don't have to be strong for me. I'm strong enough for you. >> I'm strong enough for you. Let me carry you.

I am. I am. >> You split the sea so I could walk right through. >> My feet will drown. >> Let it all go. Let it all go. >> Let it all go. Let it all go. >> All of it. >> All of it. >> All of it. >> You split the sea. >> Your love. >> Your love. >> You wanted it.

You resedu >> hug this young lady for me. Just hug her. Just hug her. Oh. Oh. >> Oh. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Lord. He came to get you. >> He came to get me. >> He came to get me. Love came and found me. >> Love came and found me.

Come on. Freedom is in the room. Freedom is in the room. I want you to lift your hands. God, I thank you for deliverance. I thank you that what was holding me >> must let me go. >> Come on, say that. What was holding me >> What was holding me >> must let me go. >> must let me go. >> And what I was holding >> What I was holding >> I release. >> I release. >> Say, "Thank you, Lord." >> Thank you, Lord. >> For freeing me. >> For freeing me. >> To worship you. >> to worship you. >> Now do it.

Worship him. Worship him. Worship him. He frees you to worship. There's only two options. Worship or wander. He frees you to worship. Come on, church. I said he freed you to worship. Hey, before anyone leaves, I don't want to take for granted that you've made the first step, which is receiving him as your Lord and your Savior.

If you're in this room or watching around the world, you're saying, "I need that Jesus. >> I want him to come into my life and I want him to change me for real >> and I want to be in a relationship with him. This may be your first time or your first time in a long time and you're saying, "I'm coming home.

I want a fresh start with Jesus for real. >> I want him to be not just my savior. I want him to be my lord, master, king, ruler. I'm going count to three and hands are going to go up around this room and around the world as a sign of saying, "I need Jesus in my life."

Hey, this is what you're saying. You're saying, "Save me. Change me." And you're saying, "I surrender to you." We're going to pray for you right where you are and celebrate the work of Christ in your life. If that's you, I'm going to count to three. Need you to lift your hand like your life depends on it because it does.

A new start with Jesus. You ready? I want to be saved. Do one, two, three. Lift that hand high. Lift that high. Lift it high. Proud of you. Lift that high. I see you, EJ. I'm proud of you, boy. I see you. I see you in the back.

Come on. Keep it up. I see you over here. I see you, baby. I see you. I see you, my lady. I'm so proud of you. I see you in the glasses. I'm so proud of you. Hey, keep it up for just a moment. We have a host running to you.

They're going to put a book in your hand. This book explains to you the decision you made. Pastor Jamal is going to come and lead you through some steps of what to do with that. We have a Bible for you in our lobby and we're going to pray for you right here in this moment.

Have you lifted your hand and you didn't receive that book? Can you lift your hand again? I just want to make sure we put it in your hand. Anybody? We got a few people in the middle. Let's make sure we get them. Thank you. That Thank you. Thank y'all.

Thank you. Hey, man. I'm so proud of you, bro. I'm so you, man. In the pink. I'm proud of you, man. So proud of you back here. I see you. I'm so proud of you. If there's a hand lifted around you, would you put a hand on their shoulder?

Everyone who lifted your hand just, lift it one more time so we can make sure we surround you in prayer. Hey, this counseling is the first lie. The first lie is that you're alone. >> You're not. You got a family that's praying, that's standing, that's believing God for you.

I want you, as soon as you get in your car, text the loved one that's been praying for you and tell them, "I did it. I gave him my heart." There was somebody in church this morning praying for you. And God did a miracle. You're a miracle. You're a miracle.

And God got imagine what he's going to do >> with all of you. >> Just imagine. >> Eyes haven't seen and ears haven't heard. >> What heaven has planned. Repeat after me. Lord Jesus. >> Lord Jesus, >> I receive you. >> I receive >> as my Lord. >> Lord >> and as my savior. >> Thank you >> for changing me. >> Thank you >> for dying on the cross. >> For dying >> for my sins. >> For my s.

And thank you >> for getting up >> so I don't have to stay down >> today. >> I receive you >> as my Lord and my Savior. >> Because of you. >> I'm saved. >> I'm changed. >> I'm different now. >> In Jesus name. Amen. 20 seconds of a loud praise, church.

Man, what an incredible move of God. I'm so encouraged that you decided to watch today's message. And I'm believing in my heart that he said something that he did something that stirred you eternally. There's a few ways you can respond. First of all, and the most importantly, if you're far from him, I want to give you an opportunity to receive him into your heart.

This is a very important decision. It's very simple. The gospel is this, that Jesus came and lived a a blameless life and took on our sins and died a gruesome death, but he rose so that we can get up as well. I want you to repeat after me if you want to receive him into your heart today.

Lord Jesus, I believe you died for my sins. And I believe that you got up so I don't have to stay down today. I give you my heart. You are my king. You are my Lord. Thank you for saving me, for changing me, for delivering me in Jesus' name.

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