(Easter Sunday) The End is Just the Beginning

Does your life feel chaotic or uncertain right now? Wondering what God is saying or which direction to go? Join us as Liz encourages us to discern the season God has us in, both personally and spiritually. Don’t miss your season! Often, God is speaking, just not in the way we expect, and it's important to come into agreement with His Word and His timing. As we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection, we’re reminded that God brings dead dreams and dashed hopes back to life by the power of His Spirit. What feels like the end may actually be the beginning when we surrender and receive the Hope of His Resurrection.

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SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hey, this is Pastor Gill from the Father's House TC in Jensen Beach, Florida, and we welcome you to our weekly podcast. Thank you for joining us today for the relevant messages and genuine conversations. We hope dreams and God's promises for you are awakened and restored. Be inspired, be challenged, and be reminded that God is not done with your story, and He has more for you than you can think or imagine. Enjoy the message. Welcome to the Father's House, a community of believers to restore hearts and souls to redig the ancient wells and to build on the ancient foundations.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

Yep, the ancient foundations that Pastor Tom, my father, started. It's funny you should say that because I was actually thinking about when I was in a prayer meeting up in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2021, and I opened my Bible to Isaiah 58, 12, and it said, and some of you will rebuild the ancient ruins and you know uh become repairers of the breach, etc. And I just said to the Lord, I said, God, are you calling us to go back to Florida and rebuild the foundations that dad had built that are no longer there with the church? And I felt he also said Jensen Beach. But I didn't tell you that when I got home that night, we were sitting around at the dinner table and I was sharing about Isaiah 58 and sharing about rebuilding the ancient ruins. We didn't know what that looked like at all. And um, but you, Gil, you go, yeah, and it's to be Jensen Beach. And it was less like that was a confirmation because I I literally didn't tell you Jensen Beach because I wanted to hear if the Holy Spirit would, you know, confirm it through you, which he did. So here we are, we're back in Jensen Beach. We're literally back in the home that the church basically began in, the neighborhood the church began in back in the late 70s. God just did a full circle, and we're back here to rebuild ancient ruins. And we've been through a lot. We've been through a lot of disillusionment. We've been through a lot of um, you know, just struggles with our own unbelief, struggles with our own dashed dreams, struggles with being in the ministry, and ministry life is hard. You know, you a lot of things happen in ministry life. There can be betrayal, there can be all of these things. And we had to work through a lot of that in the times of wilderness and just in times of God's presence. But you know what's really on our heart, and just like we were so disillusioned in many ways, we feel that God first had to rebuild our ancient foundations, our spiritual lives. God had to rebuild us, and that was the first rebuilding of the ancient ruin, you know, because when you go through a lot of things in life, you grow and you mature, but you can also be dealing with things in your heart, and our hearts have to be purified. And God has been purifying our hearts. Also, though, with rebuilding the ancient foundations, we just see that there could be so many others that are not in church right now, but have such a call of God on their lives, and it might be to ministry, or it might be to business, or it might be to, you know, whatever that desire and that dream and that destiny is in your heart. Maybe somebody listening is saying, Hey, that's me. You know, I've I've had some really rough times. I've had some dreams that are dead. You know, I just don't see how they'll come to pass. And I've had hopes that have been dashed, etc. And we say we raise both our hands and we say we can relate. We can relate with that because that's been our life.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

So you know, I was thinking as you're talking, there's something that's been on my heart for the last couple of weeks is those who had been in the church. Uh this just touched on it. But there are those who were in the church at one point and they were hurt by situations and circumstances within that church. Now, they might be going to another church right now, but you have never you have never been joined in the spirit to the body that you're in now because you are disjointed in the spirit of what happened in the past. And I want to say to you this morning that God sees your place where you're at. He sees the the glitch in your matrix, if you will. He wants to he wants to heal that part of your life, he wants to take that that rough patch where you are stuck. You are literally stuck in the past. Even though you moved on, you're stuck in the past. I know what that feels like. I know what's like to feel stuck in the past and and to recognize all the resentment, the hurt, the anger, and uh the backbiting and the and the deception that that had walked that you'd walk through, and then and then people talking about you and people accusing you of things. And all those things are tactics and plans of the devil to to stop you in your assignment. And your assignment may not be fulfilled yet because you're not in the right spot, or you have not been healed. And I I want to encourage you this morning to to allow God to work in your heart. We call this day Resurrection Sunday for a reason. It's the day that Jesus rose from the dead. He was He was beaten and and accused and and charged with crimes that he had never committed. Yet on the third day he rose to glory. And this is your day to rise to glory. This is your day to succeed. This is your day to uh to step into your calling, to step into your purpose that God has predestined for you.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Amen. Amen. That is so true, and that's why I love Resurrection Sunday. It's the Easter season, but you know, this whole week it's been Passover, it's been Good Friday, it's been where we sit and reflect on Jesus' sacrifice. But when we think about the resurrection, and as I was preparing the word for today, I just thought the end is just the beginning. The end is just the beginning. Things never end in God, they're not ended until they are ended well, you know. God doesn't end things in death. So where there may have been a death in our lives or a death in a listener's life in some way, shape, or form. I mean, we've had a we've, you know, I was just thinking about this. We've experienced miscarriage, we've experienced loss, we've experienced financial loss, we've experienced loss of family members, we've experienced business loss, we've just experienced a lot of loss, you know. But all of these things have been experiences that God is now using in the later portion of our life. Nothing we go through is for naught. But back to the end of something is really just the beginning of something new and something fresh that God is going to be doing. So let's be rejoicing today. And I just feel like it's a fresh start, too, for the Father's house. We invite um any listener to follow us on podcasts or to join us on Sunday mornings at 10:30. God is building something here. This is a prophetic house. And this is a house that's not just starting out of nothing. Our wells of ministry, our wells in the Word of God, they they go deep. They go deep, they go generations. And, you know, we're talking this church was founded originally by Pastor Arnie Dahl, who was from Norway. He had pastored and started four churches in America. And Calvary, a full gospel assembly that it was first called back in 79, was his last church. God had brought him here, joined him with Pastor Tom, my father, and then dad was eventually appointed the pastor of the church. And so our wells here in Jensen Beach are deep. Our wells in the Word are deep. We're not just, I don't say this irreverently at all, because I believe God calls the young and the old, but we're a little older, but we're we're not just a young buck starting up a church or somebody just fresh out of Bible college. I graduated Bible college in 1982. So, you know, and um here we've served in the ministry for over 30 years, but God is doing something fresh and new today in the Father's house. And we just invite those, we invite in the prodigals, we invite those who know they're not walking right with God. This is going to be a place where you are going to find his presence and you're gonna find healing, you're gonna find a place of love, you're gonna find a place that is going to wrap their arms around you. But the main thing is you're going to find a place that is built upon his presence. And we know we are nothing, nothing without his presence, because we can't heal ourselves. You know, if I hadn't learned the power of God's presence, when I would wake up at three or four in the morning and just filled with anxiety or, you know, various things, his presence is what brought me healing. His presence is what gets me through hard times and times of uncertainty. But that is this place for prodigals. That is this place for maybe others who have been in the ministry and maybe they're just like us and they're just looking for a place. Hey, I want to rebuild. I know I'm not finished with my calling yet. I know I'm not finished with my fulfilling my destiny yet. Well, the father's house could be that place, you know, that God would want to bring you to bring some healing into your life and restoration.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

I'm thinking of people who right now have actually been in church. And when I look at their lives, they're empty. They're in they're in a place of nowhere. They're they're I mean, I've seen some that are just they're ten and bar, if you will. Um they still act like they're back in high school or they're still back in you know, elementary school. They still act the same way, they talk the same way, they present themselves the same way. And we all know that we change. We change you know, pretty much every seven years we are a different person. And there's no one perfect in this, but I'm just saying that if we fail to change, if we fail to recognize the change, then we stop the process of God in our lives. And that sometimes goes well, comes through hurt and disappointment. And I I was thinking about this even in my life, you know, where there are times where I even lose faith. I question God, I question the calling that's on my life, I question the gifts that God has given me. And that's not a good place to be in because we are to look to God and to trust God in everything. And it's interesting because at that point in time, when we kind of fade in our faith in God and our trust in Him and we we don't seek Him as much, there's two categories. You're either the part of the five wise virgins, or you're part of the five foolish virgins where you just think everything's cool and we're just gonna move on with life and and we'll have plenty of time when he comes to get ready and go. And that's just not the way God operates. He wants us to be seeking him daily and looking to him and being filled with the Spirit on a daily basis. And that's so that's keeping our oil lamps full. Keeping our lamps full of oil. The Bible says that we are lights of the world. But if our oil runs out or runs low, when it comes time, we can't get oil. I mean, what's they can't get oil? Uh the times that we live in, they have the potential of getting worse. And that makes it even harder to take the time and get alone and seek God and be filled with his spirit. And so I just want to encourage us this morning as we're in the season of renewal, in the season of change, and the time of if I can use your word, turnaround, I think it's an awesome time to come back and to really seek God and see what really He has for you. Because everybody's calling is different and everybody's walk is different in in a in a sense, and God has prepared you through the walk that you've been walking, He's prepared you for what He wants you to do. You may have been through some really tough stuff, but God has prepared you for the time that is coming through those things that you went through. When we were up in Tennessee and pastoring a church in Clinton, God allowed a lot of things to take place in my wife and I's life and we knew God was teaching us things. God would send people to us to encourage us, and then the devil would always bring someone in right afterwards to try to tear us apart. Or or distract us, if you will. Dangle a carrot in front of you, whatever it is. But those were teaching moments in our lives. And I will say that whoever's listening, you've been through some teaching moments. You've been through some tough times, and you may not have all the answers. But God has the answers and He's equipped you. And I just want to encourage you this morning to allow God to use those things that you've been through so that you can teach and minister to others.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

That's so good. Um rise, shine, Isaiah 60 says, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you, and deep darkness will cover the earth and cover the peoples, but a light will rise upon you. And uh when we were in um Tennessee pastoring, we taught out of Isaiah 60 a lot. The whole chapter in there was really for the church, our church, and it's really for the father's house. And we are coming into dark times. We can feel it in the world. The world is shifting, there are things shifting. But also, though, one thing it's time for us to wake up. You said it, it's time for the church to wake up, it's time for the pulpits to come back to preaching the word of God and the church is ministering in the power of the Spirit. But it is a time for God to move. It is a time we could be literally right on the cusp of a great awakening, the third great awakening in this nation. Why do you think there's so much coming against the church? The enemy knows that there is a power in us, and if we wake up, it'll be like the Japanese said when they bombed Pearl Harbor. They said, We think we just what did they say? We feel that we just awakened a sleeping sleeping giant. And the church right now, I think, has been a sleeping giant, but I'm telling you, we're seeing evidences all around the nation. And it just needs to keep growing a fire, fire, fire in the pulpits because the people out there are hungry. Some people are very adamant against God, but there is such a uh a hunger in others. And one of the greatest hungers is on our college campuses and in our young people and in Gen Z. And so, you know, God is just um, He is just at work. Let's get in step with Him, let's not forget and let's recognize seasons because God works in seasons, like even Jesus, you know, the Old Testament and the sacrifice of the lamb once a year by the high priest, that was all at a certain time of the year. Well, when Jesus was crucified, it was done that same time, that Passover week. Jesus is a total fulfillment of the Old Testament, and he is that final lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world for the atoning and for the cleansing of our sins. So even Jesus, his death and his burial and his resurrection was in the exact timing that God had ordained for it. I want to talk about the importance of times and seasons, because in Genesis 1.14 it says that God created the sun, the moon, and the stars, quote, for signs and for seasons, for days and for years. And the amplified Bible says, let them be useful for signs or tokens of God's provident care, God's provident care, and for marking seasons, days, and years. What is this saying? This is saying that life is not just random. Time itself is organized by God. And seasons mark appointed times. The Hebrew word Moed means appointed time and a meeting. So seasons remind us that God works according to intentional timing, not chaos. Wow. Seasons remind us that God works according to intentional timing, not chaos. Through every mistake we've made, through everything that we feel has backed us up or we've lost time on, can we realize, every listener also, can you realize that God was not taken off his throne when you made that mistake? You did not, you did not make God slap his forehead and go, oh my gosh, the old Schlagers just did that. Now what am I going to do? It didn't throw God. As a matter of fact, it was probably very much in his intentional timing. And I can't tell you enough what I'm feeling in the spirit right now, but it is the timing for the father's house. It is the timing for the for the calling that he put on us back up in Tennessee. And we've obeyed, we've been back in Florida, and we've been doing what we felt we should be doing, but it is now the time. And I believe the doors are open, and I believe the Father is going to be bring be bringing people here from the north, the south, the east, and the west. And they will be people that will come, and some might come, and they might just go right back out. They might just receive something, they might hear a direction from God, and it would be what they were looking for, and then they know what they're to do. And God will bring in others that are called here to work alongside of us and labor and help restore and fulfill the rebuilding of the ancient ruins. So seasons though are just very, very important. So in the Bible, in Genesis 8 22, God talks about two seasons. There's only two in the Bible. And it says that as long as the earth remains, there will be seed time planting, there will be seed time. And harvest two seasons seed time and harvest. There will be cold and heat, there will be summer and winter, there will be day and night. But the current time that we're in right now, according to the biblical calendar, is what seed time. So, what does that mean? It's time for us to be intentional about what seeds we are sowing in our lives in this season. Because why? The Bible says we reap what we sow. How are we sowing into our families? Are we sowing kindness? Are we sowing leadership? Are we sowing guidance? Are we sowing faith? Or are we allowing unbelief or strife or other things? Whatever we allow, whatever seeds we allow to be sown, that's what we're going to reap. So it's the time right now in seed time to be very intentional about what you're planting, even financial seeds. I've, you know, we firmly believe in this, you know. Um, we're tithers, according to the word, tithing 10%, giving offerings when we feel led by the Holy Spirit to do so. But those seeds are seeds that we're planting in the ground. And God can then have something to water and to grow. Prayer. Prayer is a seed. So when we pray in faith, we are literally planting seeds of faith and hope in the ground. And then when we water them by more prayer and by speaking truth, and just by, you know, not allowing the doubts to come in, when we allow that to happen, we are literally watering those seeds, and those seeds are going to grow, and they're going to grow into answered prayer. But if we're not praying, what prayer seeds are we sowing? So just be intentional because seasons reveal that life has rhythms. Rhythms. Ecclesiastes 3 1 talks about to everything, there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven. And I'm telling you, there is coming a time, and I believe this is a prophetic word. There's coming a time, and it's very, very soon, where people are going to begin walking in their divine purpose under heaven. And when you get there, you are going to be walking in your sweet spot. You might have been in years of frustration. You might have been in years of God, what am I supposed to be doing? He's going to show you, he's going to lead you. And as you take that step of faith to follow him and to obey, you are going to literally walk into your divine purpose under heaven, and you are going to be in a sweet spot. And you're going to know that you're walking right where God would have you. So it what Ecclesiastes 3 is saying is that there are times to build. There's times to rest. We've been actually in a season of resting and also building. There are times to grow, there are times to mourn, there are times to rejoice. But not every season is meant to feel the same way. Now, this is important. Trying to force one season into another leads to frustration. When I was putting together this word, which it doesn't really seem to have much to do with Easter and the resurrection, but I'll get there. But God had me thinking about seasons because there was a season and a time for Jesus to be born and to die. God has a specific time. As a matter of fact, I learned this week it was so cool listening to a Christian apologist named Jeremiah Johnston. He's got P PhGs just a mile long from Oxford and all these things. He's a very learned man, very, very interesting to talk to. But there is literal historical fact that Jesus was crucified on this particular day. And here it is. Friday, April 3rd, A.D. 33. What was Good Friday? Friday, April 3rd, 2026 was literally 1993. It was 1993 years to the exact date of Jesus' crucifixion. So therefore, here on Easter Sunday, he was resurrected by the historical time on April 5th, Sunday, April 5th, which is that day today. So we are literally 1993 days later than Jesus' burial and resurrection. I don't look at that as a coincidence. When we begin to think that God works in times and seasons, everything has an appointed time. But when we try to stay in a season where God's trying to get us to somewhere else, if we're hanging back here, maybe we have unbelief, maybe we have fears, maybe we're we don't want we don't like change or whatever. So if we hang on to this season, we're going to be in a season of frustration because we're trying to force and stay into one when God has changed the season. What if we tried to force winter to stay? I mean, we live in Florida. There's not much change from winter to spring to summer, you know, summer gets really hot. This winter we did have a freeze. You know, it was about 25 and it was cold. I mean, we really felt like we were in the Antarctic. But what if we tried to force Florida weather into Alaska weather, where they have winters much longer than we do? You can't force seasons from one into the other. They're going to naturally change. So spiritually, this means you may be in a planting season, not a harvesting one. So if it's seed time, we're in a different season. Or maybe you're in a maybe God's had you just waiting. Maybe you're in a waiting season. But when God says the waiting season's over, then we have to be ready to move. So Jesus' death was at the right appointed time. God literally sowed his son. He planted the seed of his son to earth. Jesus lived in heaven with God. He lived there. He had to leave heaven and come to earth and live as a man. He was son of God, but he had to come to heaven and live as earth as a son of man. So God literally sowed Jesus to the earth so that God could reap a harvest of many sons and daughters who were in restored fellowship with him. Do we get what the Lord was saying here? God sowed Jesus, let him come to the earth, let him be crucified and buried. Why? So that God could have restored fellowship with you and I, which is why God created man in the first place. Sin broke that. So our fellowship with God has been broken. And so all through the Old Testament, just this Old Testament sacrifice of the lambs was how men met with God. But God said, I need something more. I need the blood of my perfect son to be sacrificed so that I can have restored fellowship with my children. And so, because of what Jesus did, we're able to come into that restored fellowship with God. So God literally sowed into the earth his son so that he could reap a harvest. And if God sowed, then we must sow so that we can reap harvest. We must sow. We must sow our obedience too. Everything we do into the Lord is not for nothing. It's not for nothing. He remembers everything and he rewards that which we do for him. Jesus's death felt like the end. It seemed like the end. Why? Think about this. If you read any of the resurrection accounts in Matthew, and Mark and Luke, etc., if you read them, they're they're kind of hilarious because the disciples didn't remember what Jesus said. I'll tell us some of those in a minute. But it's kind of like us. God tells us something, like He told us, He told us you go to Florida, rebuild the ancient ruins. Okay. But we can kind of forget that at times. We can get caught up in a business or whatever. We can forget. And so God can be speaking to us as his people so often, but just like his disciples, they didn't remember some of the things that Jesus said about the resurrection. And I just thought, oh my gosh, that's so much like me. You know, God will tell me something and I can forget. But you see, his death seemed like an end to the disciples, but rightfully so, because they lacked the spiritual understanding of what Jesus was telling them. So here's some of what Jesus would say. He said, I'm gonna rise again on the third day. They're like, Oh. It probably went like just straight over their heads. Because he said, I must be betrayed, but I will rise again on the third day. Another thing he said was, As Jonah was three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of Man be three nights in the heart of the earth in Matthew 12, 40. The women went first to the garden, to the tomb, and they saw the stone rolled away. They saw a man there, and the man says to them, was an angel, why do you seek the living among the dead? Don't you remember what he said? Jesus foretold, he told them what was going to happen. I'm gonna die, but I'm gonna rise again. But none of his disciples seemed to remember it. I just thought it was kind of fascinating part of the story. So after Jesus was crucified, Peter had denied him, and Peter's life was a living hell. He felt, after hearing that cockrow, so much grief because Jesus told him that too. He said, You're going to deny me, Peter. You're going to deny me. You're going to deny me three times, and you'll hear the cockrow. And it happened exactly that way. And when Peter heard that cockrow, all he could do was weep. Weep. So when Jesus died, how do you think Peter felt? I mean, I know how I feel when dreams have gotten dashed.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

I know when we were going for the adoption of a child, well, first the dream, the dashed dream with the miscarriage of our first child. But then we we were trying for adoption and the adoption fell through. And I mean, it was after the birth of the child. The parents decided to keep the child. Our dreams were totally dashed. We had, I mean, we were playing the nursery. We were ready. We were set up. We had everything ready. It was a dashed dream. And so the grief and the sorrow and the pain. I can only imagine, though, what Peter was feeling after denying Jesus and after hearing that cockrow. And he went off and he wept bitterly. But you see, the other disciples too, everyone was so bewildered because they weren't remembering that Jesus said, I'm going to rise again on the third day. Yep. But they were so bewildered because the man for whom they had given up everything was now gone. They were following him and he was gone. And then remember the story of there were two men on the road to Emmaus. And they were walking from Jerusalem and they were on the road and Jesus comes up and joins them. I love this story. Jesus just joins them, but they don't recognize him yet. And so Jesus is just walking along and he's going, hey fellas, how's it going? And they go, Well, haven't you heard? Well, heard what? You know, Jesus just like we would say he played dumb. You know, oh, yeah, how they crucified the Messiah that we thought was going to save us, and oh, and they go through the whole story. And so Jesus just walked along with them. And uh, so then when they got to their their house, Jesus was just gonna go on and they go, oh no, please stay with us. And so he did. And so when they got inside and they were began to eat, Jesus took the bread and he broke it. And when he broke that bread and began to bless it, their eyes were opened. Their eyes weren't opened up until that time. Yep. Okay, this is what can happen. The the disciples didn't spiritually recognize what was really going to be happening with Jesus. So when he died, their lives shattered. Even in the book of John, they said, Hey, let's just go back to fishing. That's all they knew to do, because they had no hope. They weren't recognizing what had been told to them, and they were spiritually dull. I just pray, I just pray that any spiritual dullness come off of our eyes, that we could literally see the time and the season that we're living in right now, and that we can literally see where is our spiritual life? Where are we with God? Are we really walking with God as we should be? Let us not be spiritually dull, as you said earlier, but let us be alive in the spirit. We must be alive in the spirit because I'm telling you, death can seem so final. Dashed hopes can seem so final, but we have the literal hope of the resurrection. Jesus was seen after his resurrection. He was seen by Mary Magdalene. One account says he was seen by Peter. He was seen by the two men on the road to Emmaus in Luke 24. In Luke 24, he also appears in the room with his disciples and he shows them. He said, Here, look, look at my hands and feet. Look at the scars. You can even put your finger through my hand. You know, then he appeared to 500. And frankly, I sometimes wonder why he didn't go knock on Pontius Pilate's door and say, Hey, here I am. You know, he could have blown him away, couldn't he have? It's like, you were just crucified. But Jesus didn't do that. Why? Because it wasn't the time. You know, it just wasn't the time. He's gonna come back and everybody's gonna see him in his glory. But I've just kind of thought about that. What if he, you know, I guess maybe a sarcastic side of me or something said, yeah, go knock on Pontus Pilate doors, you know, just to rub it on his face that, hey, you didn't beat me. I have power over death. So anyway. So Jesus was seen by his disciples and everything, but the enemy guards were also, they knew he was resurrected. They did. Because if they would have fallen asleep on their watch, they would have lost their lives. That's just the way it was in the Roman Empire, they would have lost their lives. But his body really was not there. The stone really was rolled away. So they went and they told their their rabbis what had happened. He's not there, and so they bribed the guards with money and they fabricated a story. And then you tell the people that his disciples came and they stole the body. And so when Matthew wrote this, 30 years later, it said, he wrote this 30 years later. It's he said, and that story is still believed to this day. 30 years later, some were still believing that story that the disciples stole the body. But yet, where'd the body go? Nobody ever found it, you know.

unknown 40:21

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 40:22

See, so the disciples didn't even believe that he was going to be resurrected because they didn't remember what he said. So why would they steal the body? The disciples had no reason to go back to that tomb because they didn't think Jesus was gonna raise from the dead. Why would they go back and steal his body so that they could say he was resurrected? They didn't believe in the resurrection, they didn't believe and remember what Jesus had said. So it's so important for us, as I'm closing, that we recognize our season of resurrection. Oftentimes, God speaks to us through seasons. Yep, maybe not how we thought. Think about this. Think about when the prophet Elijah was by the brook, and God took him to that brook, and he said, Go, you go sit by the brook, and I'm gonna feed you. The ravens are going to bring you food and you're gonna have water. And so Elijah was by that brook for three years. All through that time of drought in the land of Israel, Elijah was taken care of with meat and water. But one day the brook dried up. One day Elijah's season had changed. Do we recognize when our seasons are changing? Has any brook dried up? Is there a lot of frustration? These are things that you when you begin to experience these, I think you really have to look at them and say, Holy Spirit, what are you saying? What are you trying to say to me here? Things aren't moving along. Is a season changing? Holy Spirit, I want to be open to that. So lastly, I'd say, let this be our prayer. God, let my mind be open to understand the scriptures and to understand the season. Understand the scriptures and to understand the season. We must understand that the world has shifted into a different time. And just look at the rise of AI, but also look at the dangers of AI. And I'm telling you all, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we have to know this Bible for ourselves. Because there is so much out on the internet and everything else that is just not truth. I came across it again last night. I was looking for some Easter worship songs, and this song came on, and actually, I forget the artist that it was supposed to be by Brandon Lake and one other or something. And so I'm listening to the song, and and and the words sound great, and everything sounds great. And there's a picture of these artists, supposedly, one looked like Brandon, but the other one did not look like that person. And I and I'm listening, and I'm like, the music's just it just sounds too right. You know what I'm saying? It was too, I might not be describing. That's right. But I opened up the phone and it talked about how it was created. And I said, Oh, this is a created song. It wasn't a song recorded by the artist, it was a created by AI song. And then if we're searching the internet for some truths on the word of God, like I tested Chat GBT this week. I said, What is Passover? So he gave me what Passover was to a point. And I said, Yes, I said, that's true. But I said, you didn't tell me about the blood of the lamb being put on the doorpost and the lentils, and that when the death angel came, the death angel passed over that household. That's the meaning of where we get the term Passover. We must be very, very sensitive and know the voice of the Holy Spirit because He will lead and guide us into all truth. He will show us what is real. He will show us what is not real. But if we don't have His discernment, we could be like the disciples after Jesus died. They didn't recognize the season. They had no hope. But Jesus was there to give them hope because he did resurrect. He is alive again. So here we are on resurrection day, the season of hope and the season, the times of dead things coming back to life. It's the season of fresh starts. It's a season of new beginnings. It's the season of flesh being put back onto dry bones. So I just want to, as we end, let's just pray together. Pray for anybody listening. And, you know, I just want to encourage people because it's time to begin to prophesy to your life. It's time to not look at your mistakes, but it's time to look up. If you keep looking at your mistakes, you're never going to move past them. It is time to look up. And it's time to begin to prophesy and say, Come, O breath from the four winds. Breathe into these dead bones. Breathe into these mistakes. Breathe into me so that I may live again. Because it's our season of resurrection. And I don't want us to miss it. God doesn't want us to miss it. That's the season we're in right now. It is a season of hope. So I encourage us to step into it. Leave unbelief behind. Leave fears behind. Leave I'm not ready for change behind. Leave the listening to the lies of the enemy behind. Amen. So let's pray together. And if you have anything to pray, go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 46:53

I'll close.

SPEAKER_01 46:54

Father God, we just thank you right now. We just thank you, Lord, for all of those within the sound of our voices. Father, we just speak and declare and prophesy to the four winds. And we say, Oh, breath, come from the four winds and breathe into dead dreams, Father. Breathe fresh life into dead dreams. Father God, breathe fresh life and fresh hope into dashed hopes. Father, now is a new day. It is a new day. We recognize it. We see it. And Father God, we just pray that people's eyes be opened to the truth of the Spirit, to the truth of the Word of God. I command lies to fall off. I command generational curses to fall off lives right now in Jesus' name. I command hopelessness to fall off and to be put aside and to be put under your feet by the power of the blood of Jesus. We just, come on, let's just pray together, church. We just pray for life. We pray for fresh life, fresh vision, fresh hope. We pray for turnarounds and marriages. We pray for turnarounds and prodigals to come back to God. We pray for turnarounds and bodies who are sick and needing healing. We thank you, Lord God, that you're bringing healing right now in the name of Jesus. Father, we pray for Jeffrey, somebody who is called into the church to pray for. We pray for Jerry, Lord God. They need physical healings in their bodies from tumors and from lung issues. Father, these are serious issues. We we speak the healing power of the blood of Jesus over their lives right now. And Lord, we thank you for miracles. We thank you for miracles. For Lord Jesus, by your stripes, we are healed. Father, we just claim healing from marriages. We claim turnaround and relationships. We pray that the father's hearts be turned to the children and the children's hearts be turned back to the fathers. We call prodigals home. Father, those mothers and dads who haven't heard from the children, we pray that they hear from them this season. We pray that they hear from them this week, Father God, of Easter week of Resurrection Week. Father, we thank you for returning our nation back to you, Father, that your spirit would would quicken us and make us alive to you, and that hearts would begin to burn and pulpits would begin to burn with the fire of God. Father, we speak life and we speak hope over dry bones and dead dreams, and we call them to life in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

Amen. This morning, if you're listening to this and you're at that point where you are stuck, you don't know exactly which way to turn. You you've tried everything, you've done everything, you're in the valley of decision. I want to encourage you to be with me this morning as we as we pray for you this morning. The first step is surrender. And this morning, I want to pray with you. If you if you're in that place right now and you say, Pastor, I need I need help. I need to know. I need to know where I'm going and what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

I want you to pray this with me. Heavenly Father, this morning, this morning, I surrender my life to you. I ask you this morning to come into my heart, to fill my heart with your spirit. I ask you to be my Lord, to give me strength. I ask you this morning, Holy Spirit, to forgive me of all my sins and lead me into your glory. And Father, we thank you this morning for your grace. Yes. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.

SPEAKER_01 50:42

Amen. Well, we wish you a blessed resurrection day. Thank you for listening to the message of the week from the Father's House. And we look forward to seeing you or hearing from you. All the information's in the show notes. Thank you so much and have a great week.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

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