29th May 2022 Celebration Service - Clem Ferris - Increasing your capacity

Who's going to be sharing with us? Play, I will give you know, one another too long. Are you stop having a husband and a good long time? Friend gives his input and brings input input devices at church. You didn't travel too far this weekend. He came from somewhere else. In the UK. I'll let him tell you about that. But let me pray and then plugs going to come and stay with us. Thank you for your words. Thank you for your word loader, is prepared and ready to be. Thank you for your seven claim. He's going to come and share. Let us pray that you bless. It. Would even as he spends his lost weekend in the UK before, he travels back to the US and back to him for the rushing of your spirit with the restoration and provision. Even Supernatural, solo beats that are age would be open to be ready, it we'd hear from you and see will be pressed down and take roots and Bedford in Jesus name. Amen. Morning, everybody is everybody good. Beautiful day. It's always like this in England, right back in the middle of my to her. So, I was up in Sheffield the beginning of the month and then went home to do a three-day conference food back again, Wales for a week, with our good friends, Julia and Sarah, Richards, and new wine. Wales, just up and heriford, where I work for the whole network called freedom of their planting churches, all over the world that could find someone in Raleigh, North Carolina, Gary son. You're his nose up at least the whole movement. His son Josh planted in Raleigh few years ago in our backyard and then tomorrow being London, just meeting up with Mike Bollinger. Some, you know, Mike is great to reconnect in our, I guess, we can officially say it's supposed to covid season. I hope it stays that way. And so yeah, this morning I'm going to just kind of stress off and talk about this idea of increasing your capacity. I think coming out of a lockdown coming down of a season where we were kind of limited. I feel like the spirit of the Lord is stirring us. Like this is a good season though to season. I think they're going to be Harvest fresh Harvest some of us were thinking like what I was up to during the lockdown, we haven't even fully perceived yet. Cuz God didn't rest. He neither sleeps nor Slumbers. So God wasn't locked down and God wasn't taking a break. I feel one of the things God was doing was ripening. The Harvest Revelation talks about the Harvest of the earth ripening and I think there was a massive ripening of Souls and people are more ready to receive Jesus. We have to, we have to do our job. We have to get out there and show the gospel. And so we're going to start going to start and finish. In second Kings chapter 3, 2nd Kings 3, so the scripture, if you can keep up with me. I miss you and introduced the story will get into person. I will start but it's amazing story. It's a story where you have three kings that come together around a common Enemy enemy. So we have Jehoshaphat the king of Judah. I'm looking to purchase one. Do you want to just go there for a minute? Yeah. She stoled, it says, the first two, he still did was what was evil in the sight of the Lord. Do not like his father and mother, that was Ahab and Jezebel. That's a bad family tree right there. But anyway, but he, he did, provide the pillar bail. Nevertheless. 43 says, he clung to the sin of jeroboam the son of nebat, which he made Israel to send, and you did not depart from it. Now, the others king of Moab who's coming against these guys, and so, they form of up a military Alliance. So you have Jehoshaphat King Judith, you have Johor Amanda son named King. They call him, just the king of eat them. So they come together to form an alliance and look at the right on top of it. So we will pick it back up in 47. They said, were to junk. Jehoshaphat. The king of Poland, has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to battle against Moab? He said, I'll go. I'm As You Are My People, your people. My horse is your horses. Then he said, by which way, should we March? You said, by the way, of the Wilderness of Edom and so they hook up now with the king of Edom, and here, we are a nine. The king of your soul, went with the kings of Judah, and the king of Edom, and when they had made a circuitous March of seven days. There's no water. No water for the Army. No water. For the Army or the animals that follow them, no water. There been marching for 7 days. And they're out of water and I don't know. These armies were not small. So there's literally probably thousands of men and lots of animals and there's no water. What's that mean? If they don't find a water source, they're going to die. They have to find water. So I'm going to keep reading go back. So So the king of Israel, says, a last resort is called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab. I guess what? A defeatist attitude, you know, sometimes you come and gets an impossibility. You run out of something. They ran out of water and said, I guess we're just going to die. All three of us are going to put it in the hands of the king of Moab but Jehoshaphat Jehoshaphat, he's the good. King. Trent said, is there no prophet of the Lord here through whom, we may inquire of the Lord. Sometimes people are so focused on God. The other kids like we're going to die the king of boys, going to kill us, you know, the devil's going to take us out. And excuse me. Is there not a prophet at least inquire of the Lord in this situation. So what are the king of Israel? Servants said, well. Elijah, the son of shape at is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, and Jehoshaphat said the word of the Lord is with him. You have a good track record with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Edom went down to him. And what have I to do with you? I feel like saying that sometimes when people say, can you see it? Because Elijah knows, he said it to the king of Israel. There's history there with Elijah and Elisha and a half and Jezebel. And so, he's like, what am I to do? They have had his own prophecy of 400 prophets that basically were for hire and he basically we get them to prophesy what he wanted to hear nationalism and it's all about me. What are the problems with your father and mother but the king of Israel said, him know it is the Lord who is called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab and licensed as well as the Lord of hosts lives before. Whom I stand watch work. Not that I had regard for Jehoshaphat the king of Judah. I wouldn't even look at you or see you. So, I'm going to Steven some thoughts. I went to the Carrie today. This is what we call the power of one. The Power of One Man. Jehoshaphat suede. The prophet to minister into this impossible situation and notice what he says if it were not that I had regard for Jehovah, that's favor, favor with one that I wouldn't even look at you. And then he says, now bring me a musician and when the position play the hand of the Lord came upon him and he said, that's that's the Lord. I will make this dry stream Bed, full of pools or Alexis translations. Thank you. Dave. Make this Valley full of digits, dig some ditches. For that says, the Lord, you will not see wind or rain, but that streambed will be filled with water so that you shall drink, you your livestock and your animals. This is a light thing in the hand of the Lord. This amazing story. God Is Creative Gods. Put the story on here. I think to help us understand some things about God that I want to introduce the idea of atmosphere. That was the whole idea to Greek words, one of us and you put, it really means to fear of a person who said, the atmosphere is like this ball of vapor of the world and God set the boundaries of it. There's a certain boundary to the atmosphere. It's also known in the end up in the mental or moral idea of the environment. We can we can create mentally, you can create a mental atmosphere. Joy, peace worry. Stress are all. Atmospheres that we can be affected by. And When God, I just going back when God said, make this Valley full of ditches, or I want to go dig some ditches. What's he saying? I want you to create space. I want you to create a different atmosphere because I want to come and fill it. See if we create space for God, he'll fill it. Because God is what we call a gap filler. He fills the Gap. He likes to cause us to seek him and say God. I got a problem here and God laughs and says, well create space for me. If we don't create space for God, he can't feel it. Sometimes I want more of God YouTube but something's got to go. You got to be less of you more of him. So here's this interesting situation where these things are coming together. They have a common enemy. It's good to come together for a common. Enemy. We have one on me and one only, it's not friends to stop people's, not politicians. Not anybody else. We have one common enemy. And I think it's also a time where God is causing people to come together. Working with streams, working networks, that I work with this great to see people working together because we have a common enemy. We should have so much division in the body of Christ. Doesn't mean we all do the same thing all the time, but we can come together against a common enemy. And so they had to get in position. You got to get the right position to take out the enemy so they had to March. They're Marching for 7 days. And in this time frame, they run out of water. And when they shot the word is because they were thirsty. Notice, I think one identified one guy out of them all said, you know what our problem is. We're thirsty. That's the real problem. It wasn't, it wasn't Moab yet. It wasn't the king of Moab. The problem was there Thursday. They had no water there, should drive you to God. It only one guy picked up on that hoop. Thank God for Joseph Medical. You know what? There's one place we can go to take care of this problem of thirst. And their thirst drove them to the Prophet. Elijah. Interesting. They broke protocol. Typically. The Kings would come to the prophet. Army. The Profit. We come to the king and say I have a word for the king king. I pawn an audience with the king. I have work for you. In the process. Would come to the king with a granted audience. That would give me the word of the Lord, like, David, the prophet. I think that should be more normal. I think, heads of state and Leadership and prime ministers and presidents and Mayors and governors. They should be seeking out. Prophetic words from God. Does God have a word about this week that we're running out of water. We got an impossible situation here. So I think the the good thing to know if you're thirsty enough, you'll even break protocol. If you're thirsty enough, you'll go find a word from the Lord. Okay, just just because you run out of water. It doesn't mean you won't get there, but you won't get there without. Somebody might be trying to get somewhere right now. I want to get there just because you run out of money, doesn't mean you're going to get there. That's just because you run out of Health, doesn't mean you can't get there just because you get discouraged or some of these deserted. You doesn't mean you can't get there inside. You got to keep saying, I got to get there. We win our battle, and we can't do, without. You can't get there without God. Because sometimes even God allows the moabites to come into our life, right? Yep. I allowed the moabites to come swim at you drive. You back to me. When you're thirsty. You don't need a pacifier. Some Christians look for pacifiers would like our kids while he's whining again, but I just fed him. So here you call it over here with dummy, right? I think that's kind of interesting and that would give him a dummy with a really thirsty. They need the genuine milk of the word of God. So they came to the prophet thirsty and not all the, all the kings were ready. All the king's believe, there's one believed her amongst. The bunch of that was Jehoshaphat once I get the power of one. One guy had a connection. It only takes one person with a connection to God, to see the miracle come to God, and have somebody out there that needs your connection. We have to be connected people. This is great wheel of Sunday. What is where we get filled up? We get filled up, we connect with God, and then we go out and help connect God to other people, the power of one person. Single that one person. You found one guy to build a boat name is Noah. Then get a committee. Let's form a boat committee. Let's do some research on. What? What kind of boats are downloaded a pattern, to build something. Never been built before it to one guy. You'll bathe. Saved civilization. Abraham was chosen. As one guy said, you are going to be the father of a great nation and he didn't even have kids. He couldn't have kids but one guy and one guy. Died for our sins, the power of one only took one perfect man to save you. so, Here's this one guy came to me. So this is very annoying. The good news is

you can still be annoyed. And be anointed. Welcome to the ministry right date with them and still be anointed to minister to them. And so when you're annoyed with people, are you feel like I don't know if I really want to do this. I don't feel like it. What did Elijah do? Call for a Minstrel. Why? Change the atmosphere. You said, if I change the atmosphere and fill it out of gas? So if there's a vacuum here, I'm going to bring in a Minstrel and I'm going to fill the atmosphere with worship the presence of God, cuz I pin my natural. I don't really want to bring a word for these guys. So I'm going to change the atmosphere, create a space by creative space of worship. God will fill it when we came in and we created space for God, in us to interact and God came with his presence and filled, it music creates an atmosphere.

It's not like a song service. We're not just warming up for the sermon. It's not like a, a little background music when the people come in. You don't get all settled in its attempt to create space for God and God comes and fills it.

People often want to come and I do a lot of prophetic Ministry. I really want a word from God, but I can tell by the spirit of God. They don't have no space inside to. Help. Come and fill it. God knows our condition. God knows. Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is there any space for me? You say you want to work for me, but it's not like me. I'll take it, or leave it. This week, but I'll put it on the shelf and all these things. We have to always come hungry. God will always meet you at your place. I'm hungry when you're hungry. Come, meet you there. So God inhabits the Praises of his people. And so here comes the team. He played us as the hand of the Lord came upon him. And then he said, that's does the Lord make this Valley full of dishes. You're going to have to dig some ditches. That's the word of the Lord. God is telling these Kings and their armies. You want water. You got a problem. You got an enemy. You're out of water. And here's my solution. If you want to work for me, here's the word. Create some space. Go dig some ditches.

Just know you go out and dig some ditches, make the valley, make the valley. We're water used to be a valley. Is a place where water used to be going to the place where you used to get resources to go back and dig some ditches. Why? Because God always responds to capacity if the Harvest of the earth is getting right, and God wants to give us more souls. We've got a great capacity. What would you do? I'm just being facetious. Look up. What would you do if another 30 people showed up here on a Sunday morning? And so I think it's a season where God saying, make some more room. Create some more space. Dog will only feel what you have capacity for. When God created Adam. The Breath of God came and got filled his lungs. God could have blown them up and they got to fill the whole universe. So what, why did he filled his lungs? What took their capacity? So otherwise I would have killed him. God always gives, according to your capacity to receive. My question this morning is What's Your Capacity right now? What's your current capacity? And don't think about anybody else. You can't be jealous of somebody else's capacity. You can't be a small churches, can't be jealous of big churches and you know it a bigger Ministries or ladies that have more influence that it's not ever wise biblically to compare yourself, but God will respond to your level of capacity. And he knows it's not all the same. What we can do. I thinking that this is what I want to encourage you with this one. I think we can pray. To increase our capacity. I think we have to seriously. Okay. I want I want you to increase my capacity. I want you to enlarge me now. Here's a warning, warning label. The answer to that prayer, will often come with skin on it.

God might put somebody in your life to increase your capacity. Another dangerous prayer for loving loving people around you.

Okay, I'm going to put you in possible situation, where faith is the only thing you're going to get out. Get out of it, right? Beyond normal, super coming out in a lot of people are saying, well, just can't wait till things, get back to normal. I don't want to go back to normal and I'm ready for more. I've never been more enthused about the kingdom. I've never been more excited about the Harvest and reaching the nation's. Yes, coming out of a pandemic war and economic crisis. Go to the valley and dig. There's valleys all around and that's amazing. How the proper said. I want you to go to this Valley and dig. Digging a belly of valleys a dried-up riverbed. That's where water used to be. But sometimes you got to go back into your valleys and dig a Little Deeper. Sometimes you got to go back and get a large and dig a ditch in the very hole. It took away your resources. Got to go back. I think of Elijah his mentor is Elijah once came to a widow. Basically, same thing. I'm all out of oil. I'm all out of everything. I'm going to die. I'm getting up and going to die. What is the prophecy? Increase your capacity to go borrow some vessels? And also, if she borrowed as many, she could. And guess what? Doctor tomorrow, if she the only borrowed more, he would have sold all them to, I mean, God only can feel what you have capacity for God, fills the space, we create.

Going back to that definition of atmosphere. It can be a mental atmosphere and I work with a lot of churches in all different kinds and sizes. And I love church planting. Where do I plant in Florida? Right now is brand new and I was down there for Easter Sunday. Who's the launch? We had 30 people in a house, wants a brand new church play. I love that. But already we're trying to create an atmosphere of growth and you got to start the talk and act. Like a bigger Church. Nothing wrong with the sides, are 75 people. What would be like if we doubled and treating people? That way, like in treating every Sunday, every Sunday, you have to treat people like a visitor. If you had a visitor been telling everybody comes in the door, you create an atmosphere will people like welcome to like these people are friendly other friendly to each other but I felt like nobody was talking to me that friendly to all these things have to work in Your Capacity developing your capacity. Naomi will try to shut you down and try to take things away. I mean he'll try to numb that thirst in that hunger. But that always meet us at our level of hunger. So. What is, what does it mean to increase? Your capacity? There are always opportunities to receive. It determined by an opportunity that God will create but you got to dig, you got a dig and start digging old things, old mentalities and cuts are digging deeper into the things of God. They got increase my capacity. I'm ready for New Opportunities. So right now if you if you had a phone and I looked at your contact list and said, this is your right now for all the people in your life. Men, women children, relatives, work Associates. They're all on a contact list. That's your current capacity for relationships and they're only different levels. There might be some people who would go off your contact list, right? And there might be some new ones. Are you ready to make new relationships? Nothing. I'd like to, but I really liked about covid-19 new relationships in my own church and go to church with him, but I had no system to develop new relation, cuz I traveling all the time. So we got locked down and, like, what I'm going to do, while I'm going to prayer meetings. I'm joining some small groups and water before, and now I've got new friends and we meet every week, either online or in person.

Someone says I will make this dry stream Bed, full of pools. Okay. Go ahead, make it in the Hebrew translation. You going to make you go dig, you do the digging? I'll do the feeling and so part of digging. Now. Let me go to the concept of digging. How you, how you make them belly full of you. So we have to dig. But what are we using? Why don't you dig into the word of God? Every time you get up and get the morning, have you devotions days, digging your digging to increase Christ in you, you increase your capacity by loving people. I think God fill me with your love. You have to dig your own dishes because that's when you get vulnerable, you dig your own dishes dishes because it is really, in the kingdom is always a relationship is relational capacity. You make room for what's coming next and the water is behind the work, understand that. What do I really need? We need, they needed water, but the water was behind the work. The water wasn't going to come until they went out and started digging. So they went out and dig and pick out a word for the prophet and some people think if I can just get a prophetic word. My life will be better. You know, what profits, give the word they don't do the digging. You can get a prophetic word. And if you don't dig with that word, it's not going to happen. We turn it into Christian fortune-telling. Just tell me my fortune. Snap your finger Abracadabra poof. I just going to fulfill prophecy. No, it doesn't work. That way. You get a prophetic word. You're going to go to work. If you're going to go to Warfare, going to go to war first 47118 and you're going to start digging digging into your own inner man woman and see God is it what what is it? You want to remove? You know, when you did your removing dirt. Is there any dirt in here? You want to remove and create what more capacity for you? So that's the process. So I think let's have a posture in this hour. And it starts with prayer, I think starts to break.

Help me make room for what's next. My real challenge to you RC F is what's next? We're coming out of covid-19 in 2010. Yeah, even in the natural to Summertime, you can have more opportunity to interact with people. You've got a car today, and other stuff happening is like God, what's next for us? Increase our capacity. Because others can't dig for you. I can preach. Dave can preach prophesied prophesied. But only you can dig only you can dig. So we finish with this. 417. You're seriously going to use that very interesting part. The close of the story is amazing. Watch for 17. Says. The Lord is a continuation of what the prophet says. You shall not see wind or rain. But that streambed will be filled with water. How much water do water so that you shall drink all the Army and your life and your animals? When God wants to increase our capacity.

You won't necessarily have any outward signs and wonders. And we love our signs and wonders. Don't we, we're all fine Seekers thrill-seekers. I just want to have a 1 service. We're having comes down and we're all laying on the floor and the glory Cloud comes in but that's fine. But you know it when you get up, I don't mind going down but the whole idea is when he's settled as he goes God's going to do it in such a way.

It's going to come from underneath and snot up here cuz I think it's just going to rain. It's all going to come from here and goggles know. It's going to come from down there. You won't see rain. You want seawind, it'll be a supernatural. God would do a super naturally because it's not to grow its a light thing, but we have to make capacity. God will fill according to How much we did? You want me to dig into some new relationships? Are you going to dig into things of the Kingdom, really? Dig into your own personal life Faith Works when you dig? Giving is digging. That's an example. Just giving. I'm going to dig into the kingdom. I'm going to uproot some things. I'm going to go to the core of what I believe, and dig. and if we do that, Godzilla's super naturally come from. You know, how did that happen? How does expecting rain water? Come out of the ground. Here Comes God's going to Supernatural. You feel The capacity to create. So remember. The rest a 18. This is a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will also give them up more bites into your hands. I think, sovereignty. Think the Book of Job think God is in control of everything that was in control the ball b, and sometimes the enemy comes. He's just a messenger. It says I have something I want to do in your life and he uses the enemy is a messenger. That's all your lease moabites in. The goal was not just a defeated Army.

It was reconnect God's people with God himself. So this is quite interesting to watch the end of this is a lightning in the sight of the Lord. He will also give them more bites into your hands because we have a common enemy. Now watch and you should have checked every fortified City. Every choice, City will fall every good trees and then stopped up all the Springs of water and ruin every good piece of land with stones. The next morning about that time. The water came from the direction of Edom. In the country was filled with water. You can read the rest of chapter, but they even thought with the way the sun came and hit the water, this out. It was blood. And they thought that the other three are shedding, blood was in the water. And they said, we could take these guys down. Was like, surprise fake you out. That's not true. So they struck the more bites when they came up and it doesn't make sense to us. But that's always concerned about reaching people. Are you are we really concerned about reaching people? We live in a credible time. Where? As I said, people are soft enough people are hungry people. Run. It really want to know. How can I connect with God? Who's going to, what's coming? Next is almost like this. Like, there's a sphere you here in October. I think, I taught on the power of a breakthrough and one of the first things we pray for is a breakthrough encouraged because it helps you avoid fear. So you have to continue to pray for breakthroughs and courage. Continue to pray for breakthroughs and come in in your heart that you didn't see the thing I taught on. What is really it was a precursor to the. How do we increase our capacity? You pray for internal breakthroughs, help me be committed to the process and then help me to make sure that I have a breakthrough in heart motive, and all these things are layers of what God is going to do. So I just I'm excited for you. I really am. This room is full today, but you can't have it won't hold what God wants to do. and I'm not just being like, I'm maybe I'm being a little prophetic but I think God has got another place for you to put your eyes on and pray about God. We want to increase our capacity to increase our reach. So but I pray for you to do some digging up there to in prayer. Now, because I want this to sink in and just say, Okay, God. Are you? My first question? I feel like there's an enemy out there. Yes. We have an enemy but he's a common enemy. We're not in this alone. Number two. Are you thirsty? Are you? If you get in position, you going to get thirsty, RCF in position to come against the enemies of a gum in this region so we can win the soles back out of the kingdom of darkness, but we have to get in position, but getting into position, you going to get thirsty. And so we can make me thirsty for other things. Like I said, but inside, inside got to be that phrase. I want to get there more. I want to get to where you want me to be. We want to get to that place where we're going to win the battle. So. We're hungry or thirsty. In God, we need a word from you. We need a word from you. The word today. Is it? If you'll dig ditches, if you'll dig God will fill. If we increase our capacity with him. God will fill. If we say God. What is it? You want to remove from my life? And what is it? You want to add to my life? God will fill the space. He is a gap-filler. God will create atmosphere. And he will fill it because that's who he does because a gap filler if we dig God will feel so. Father. I pray for everyone of us. Every one of us got is we leave today? May that be running through our minds and hearts. Do you want me to take God? Where do you want me to take? How do you want me to dig what things to be need to be dug in my life? What? Valleys, do I go back into a dig? God, show me, take me to introduce new people. In my life is going to stretch me, increase my capacity mental capacity. Talk to increase Us in this hour. The kingdom of God is all about increase. Yeah, all about multiplication to First Command was to be fruitful and multiply and I can just tell you from being with a couple of networks recently in the in America and wells in the Midlands. There's a great move of multiplication in the Earth. It's happening in the underground. Church is a massive movement of multiplication in Afghanistan and Iran in Asia. In the midst of great. Persecution in the midst of warfare. Is a great harvest in the Earth right now and you can't compare. So don't compare yourself to say, God, we want in, we want em to the Harvest. Pray, the Lord of the Harvest will send forth laborers into his Harvest is his Harvest. We just want to be available. What are shovels, right. So father, I pray over rc-f every every leader here, every attender God that you would increase their capacity, starting even today, so that you can feel it, super naturally, and we can defeat the enemy together. Pray this in Jesus name. Amen, God bless you.