It’s Time To Move | Jentezen Franklin

1:48 Woo! Hallelujah. How many of you are glad to be in church this morning? You can feel the faith. You can feel the victory. You can feel the expectation. You can feel the gratitude. The absolute love for Jesus that is fresh and real and new. Our hearts are on fire again, and our lips are filled with praise again, and our faith is seen with vision and dreams again because when you seek Him, you find Him. And when you come after Him, He comes running. He's running to His people today. So just give Him praise all over at every campus.

2:44 Wherever you're watching this around the world, give Him praise one more time. Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. Hallelujah to the risen one. Praise the mighty name of Jesus. There is nothing he can't do. There is nothing with him that is impossible. And we mean it. It's not just a song. This is a house of miracles. You can leave here with one today. In the mighty name of Jesus. Do you believe that? Take a moment and welcome everybody in your neighborhood. Welcome Gwinnett and Brazelton and Spartanburg and Midtown and Alpharetta and Orange County, Metro, Hayes, Whitworth, Hall County, Phillips State and Hall County Jail. We welcome all of you to church and all of you online around the world.

3:43 We appreciate you so much. And I know that there are literally tens of thousands of you that are fasting with us in nations all over the world. and we rejoice with you today. And I'm excited about this service. In just a few moments, we will begin to lay hands on every person and anoint you with oil. David said that the shepherd anoints the sheep with oil. And this is a service we look forward to. It's a highlight. I love to get to touch and anoint with oil. every person who desires it today will be anointed. You will leave here with a little fingerprint of oil on your head. And I hope because wherever the oil is applied, the Holy Spirit is attracted.

4:40 This is a biblical thing. James 5 said, Let the elders of the church call for the elders and let them anoint with oil and lay hands on people that are sick, that are feeble, that are failing in some area of their life, and the Lord will raise them up. And the Lord will heal the sick. And I love that all I have to do is do it. And he backs it up. And I have faith for this. I really do. I believe in miracles because I believe in Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Do you believe it? So we're praying with you. We're believing with you. And so I want you to open your Bibles with me, and while you're turning there, I got to give a little shout-out to my granddaughter and Sharice's granddaughter.

5:42 By the way, pray for Sharice. She is not. she's been sick for the last three days and she sounded terrible I called her in between services and I noticed that she sounded rough last night and I'm not waiting on nobody to build a wall I'll build a wall in that bed I put I took pillows I built up two pillows I didn't want nothing coming over the wall I pray for her behind the wall and I did a drive-by blessing and but she's Whatever she's got, I don't want. Amen. And I'm praying for her sincerely, and she's probably watching. But Sharice, we love you, and we're praying for you to be healed this morning. A lot of congestion and all of that. And may the Lord touch her and everybody else who needs it today in Jesus' name. But I want you to go with me to the book of Exodus chapter 12.

6:42 I want to go to Exodus chapter 12, and I'll begin reading with verse 8, and then we're going to go to the book of Acts chapter 12, and again, we will read from verse 8. Exodus chapter 12 and verse 8, I'm going to preach 20 minutes starting now, and then I'm going to walk over there, and those of you who are online, if you have a prayer request, get it in. You can go even under the messages and sign and put, you know, your prayer requests, praying for this, do it in a word or two. And all of these are prayer requests that have come in during the fast through our television audience and online audience. And so we're really going to take time to pray for them. Then we will anoint every person here. And if you've never been in one of these services, just go with the flow. Just go with the flow. It's beautiful. It's powerful. It's amazing. It's moving to me. I love it. I don't get tired of it. We prayed for thousands of people the last service, literally at this campus and at every campus, that there are people that are being anointed by our pastors.

7:56 And it is a joy to do that because I know God is going to do miracles in people's lives. Exodus chapter 12 and verse 8, and they shall eat the flesh on that night, this is Passover night, roasted in fire, talking about the lamb, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw or broiled at all with water, but roasted in the fire, its head with its legs and entrails.

8:33 And you shall let none of it remain till morning. What remains until morning you shall burn with fire. Verse 11 now. And thus you shall eat it. Listen to these strange instructions. With a belt on your waist. That was because they had robes and long garments, all of the people of that day. And if they were going to go fast, they would have to gird up their robe and link it to their belt. It would come up to their knees so their knees were free to move fast. And then he says, you are to, with a belt on your waist, with shoes or sandals on your feet, you're to eat this meal. And with a staff in your hand so that you can make haste and eat it in haste so that you can make haste. It is the Lord's Passover.

9:34 He didn't just say eat the Passover meal. But he said, I want you to be ready to move because when I move, I move quick. When I move, I will make it happen suddenly. And you won't have time to prepare. I want you to be dressed for your deliverance. I want you to be ready to move from bondage to freedom. I want you to move from sickness to health. I want you to be expecting to go. So while you're eating with one hand, you get your staff, you get your shoes on, You get your robe pulled up and everything hitched up so that you can move quick when I tell you. Because I don't want you to miss this move. There's something that is about to shift, and I want you to be ready for it. Then in Acts chapter 12 and verse 8, it says this. Peter is in prison.

10:29 This is New Testament. And here's the angel, and he's saying the exactly same thing. Gird yourself. Get your legs free. Get ready for movement. Get ready for change. Get ready to come out of this prison and this addiction and these chains. Get ready for it. Get positioned for it. And then he said, put your shoes on. Because you need to be ready to go when God says go. And he said to him, put your garment on and follow me. And so today what I'm preaching is, in other words, something's changing. Something is shifting. And it's time to move. You need to be ready to move and you need to expect God to lead you out of the past into the new season. and a new level and a new beginning and a new miracle that he has promised that he would do in our lives.

11:36 You see, people can become so used to being in a certain place that you just accept it. The scenes in your story are about to change. don't get so stuck in the scene you're in that when God says let's go that you're not ready to go and you're not prepared to go and you are caught unexpected and you are you are in a place where you have to search for your shoes which Murphy's law is if you're ever in a quick movement that you need to really get going one of those shoes is going to be missing and you're not going be able to. It's been so long since you've had any movement in what you've been praying about that you put your staff up and your stick up and it's in the calls that somewhere out there in the garage somewhere and you don't have it ready. And God said, you don't even have a belt that you can gird up and move. I need you to expect that when you fast and you pray and you believe that I am able to move you from one place to another place turn to somebody and say it's time to move Get ready to travel.

12:58 Get ready for change. There's an address change coming. Hallelujah. We're getting out of Egypt. We're getting out of poverty. We're getting out of weakness. We're getting out of bondage. We're getting out of debt. We're getting out of the enemy's camp. Hallelujah. We're getting out of change. Let's get ready for it. Let's put our shoes on and get our staff in our hand. I'm bringing my family with me. Hallelujah. I'm bringing my joy with me. I'm bringing it all with me. Hell can't have any of my babies. Glory.

13:36 We're not staying here as a church. There's a new season coming. Praise God. Aren't you satisfied? No. There is a new level coming. Hallelujah. Oh, yes, it is. Tell somebody you stayed here long enough. You need to put your shoes on, and you need to get your staff in your hand, and you need to pull your little garment up and show your knees because it's time to move. It's time to run with the vision. Hallelujah.

14:11 Glory to God. Cast off your burdens of your last season. Cast off your grievances of your last season. You know, in the South, we have certain sayings that people in the other parts of the country don't understand. I really have to shift things and change even sermons a little bit when I go out to our church in California. Because they don't understand southern slang. They don't understand. Some of them come just to hear me talk. I know they do. They've told me that. They said, your southern drawl gives me peace. and one of the southern things that you won't understand if you ever come to the south, God's promised land, if you ever come and you've never been here from the north or from the west coast or wherever and you'll hear this little saying, sometimes you just walk in somebody's house and they'll say something crazy, they'll say something funny, they'll say, hey, take your shoes off and stay a little while.

15:25 And if you don't understand that saying, you won't know what in the world is going on. It's just like some, you know, when we say in the South, bless your heart. They'll say out on the West Coast, thank you. No, you don't understand. That means something's not quite right with you. Bless your heart. Bless your little heart. That really means something. bad. But when I think sometimes as believers, we just accept so much less than what God wants and intends for us to have. And if we're not careful, we take our shoes off and we stop expecting a change and expecting a breakthrough and expecting God to do a new thing. And now It will spring forth, and we just take our shoes off, and we just get comfortable, and we just let our toes wiggle there and realize, well, nothing's ever going to change.

16:27 This is how it's been for many years, and that's what God was saying to Israel. They had been in bondage so long for so many generations that they had just basically given up, and he said, I know how y'all are now. You're real settled and you've accepted this mess. You've accepted and got comfortable with this addiction and comfortable with this sin and comfortable with this discouragement and comfortable with depression and fear and hopelessness. But I want you to get your shoes on and I want you to get your staff in your hand and I want you to get your garment fixed so you can move. Because when I do it, I'm going to do it quick. I'm going to send it suddenly. If you're not ready, you're going to get left behind because I'm ready to move. There's a transition coming. You don't have your shoes on yet, and the Lord sent me to tell you to get your shoes on right here, right now in this service.

17:30 Transition has to be prepared for. Some of you keep tripping over your garments of heaviness. You just keep living in the past and you can't move because you keep tripping over where you've been and all you've been through and all the mess you've been through. But there comes a transition time. There comes a time to move. There's a shift on the way. There's direction on the way. There's a turning of the corner that we're at as a people and as a church and as a ministry. and even in the body of Christ and even in the nation. Something is coming and it's bigger and it's better and it's greater and we need to get our shoes on and we need to say, I'm done with this.

18:22 I'm done with all of this mess. I'm moving forward in Jesus' mighty name. Tell somebody it's a new day. There are divine moments of change. There are divine moments of transition and deliverance. The judgment has lifted. The trial is terminated. The valley has come to an end. Here's what I'm trying to tell you today, and you need to receive it. There is victory in your future. that's why he said get your shoes on and get your staff and get your garments right because I'm taking you out of this land and I'm taking you to a land that is flowing with milk and honey there is victory in your future the curse is broken hallelujah the addiction is broken shame is over. The drought is over. I hear the sound of an abundance of rain.

19:32 And anybody can sing and shout when you're crossing over and you look back and see the enemy being swallowed up by the Red Sea. But I want you to begin to praise me before it ever happens, the Lord would say. Sing and shout in praise before it happens. Put your shoes on in expectation. Get your garment in your hand. Isaiah 51 and 11 says, therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return and come singing into Zion. They're not waiting until they get there when God says, go, I'm returning, I'm restoring, I'm turning you free from the chains and the oppression that you've been under.

20:26 He says, I want you to start singing and have your outfits on so that you're ready to go and sing before you even get into it. I love this. And he said, you'll return unto Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon them and they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning and grieving shall flee away. Let's throw it all off this morning. Let's take that old garment off of heaviness that keeps tripping you up and put on the garment of praise. and say, I'm moving. It's time to move. When you get there, you ought already be singing. Hallelujah.

21:20 Miriam, anybody can praise the Lord when the water's parting. And anybody can praise the Lord when Pharaoh and his army is drowning. But I want to see you break your tremble out and your timbles out and your tambourine out and your cymbals. I want to see you break it out when the devil's nipping on your heels. I want to see you break it out. I want you to break out into a praise when it looks like you don't have anywhere to go yet, but you know that you got your staff in your hand and the God of Moses is your God. So help me, God. I went yesterday and I was walking and I want my staff. I don't know where you are. I want it. I went walking and I found this in the woods. I can't make this up.

22:14 I threw it in the back of my pickup truck because I got a pickup truck. And I love it. I love every inch of it. Hallelujah. It's got big old tires because I'm a big old boy. Amen. Hallelujah. And I threw it in the back of my truck and I forgot about it yesterday. And when I got to preaching this morning, I thought I got one of these yesterday. It never hit me until I was preaching. And you know what? This means I'm going somewhere.

22:45 And I believe that, I believe the Lord has given us the rod of God, the rod of authority to say to every Red Sea, you can't stop me no more. to say to every devil, to every Jericho wall, you're coming down in the name of Jesus. Get your shoes back on. I'm trying to preach somebody into faith. Get your staff in your hand. Get on the seat of expectation. Say, I'm expecting an exodus. Glory. I said glory. Quit saying, I don't know when my babies. Get your staff in your hand. Get your shoes on your feet. You're coming out and your family's coming out too. You receive that?

23:37 Do you receive that? See, you thought a season was a story. But the season was not the story. The season was just a chapter. There's more to your story. So getting your shoes on and getting your staff in your hand and pulling up the robe so that you have mobility and you're not tripping up is really about your really in expectation, expecting to travel, to move. I'm headed to a new place. There are too many people who are barefooted people.

24:24 You made yourself comfortable in your hurt. You've made yourself comfortable in your bitterness and your unforgiveness and your resentment. You've made yourself uncomfortable in your misery and in your depression and in your addiction. You don't expect anything to change. That's why you don't put your shoes on. You're comfortable in it. But we're getting ready for a scenery change. We're getting ready for the Lord to move us out to the new place. We're not staying here. We're not living here. We're not raising our kids here. We're not staying in the house of bondage anymore. Hallelujah. You see, when you understand what I'm preaching. you'll find your staff and you'll find your shoes.

25:21 And we're going to make a statement this morning that says concerning the land of bondage, I'm done with this place. And I love that he said, eat the meal. Listen to what he said. He said, eat your last meal in Egypt and eat the lamb and eat the bread and eat it with bitter herbs. This is the last bitter meal from this land and all these problems and all the things you've been dealing with with this situation. It is your last meal. Get your shoes on. Get your staff in your hand. Pull your garment up and hem it up on your belt so you can move because we are done with this place. Anybody feel that way? Anybody just feel like it's moving time? He's saying it's the end of something and it's the beginning of something.

26:25 And it's the beginning of bigger things. And it's the beginning of better things. It's the beginning of a new level, of a new season. It's the beginning of a new thing. And it's going to happen suddenly. I don't know where we're going to end up. but I got my shoes on this year. I got my staff in my hand. I'm going places. I'm going to do some traveling this year. And wherever I go, his angel goes before me. Oh, I believe that it's time for us to get expectation. I told the first service that I felt like the Lord wanted us concerning all of our family members that are not saved, that he wants us to give heaven praise breaks because the Bible said that the angels in heaven rejoice over one soul that is saved on earth.

27:26 So this year we're going to light heaven up. We're going to give heaven praise breaks right in our families. Hallelujah. And I believe we're going to see a worldwide revival and they're going to have to employ angels all day long to do nothing but shout and rejoice that the lost have come home. The blind can see. The dead are alive again. Your sons and your daughters. Get your shoes on. It's time to move. Get anything out of the way that's prohibiting you. See, some of you, you get going, and you keep tripping. You keep tripping. You keep tripping out over stuff in the past.

28:22 But throw away the old grievances and let it go. It's time to move. we're headed home. Hallelujah. Cast it away. Joy is the outward expression of an inward expectation. It's an outward expression, I'm going somewhere, of an inward expectation. This is not all there is. It's time for breakthroughs. It's time to move. So get your shoes on spiritually. Get your staff in your hand. glory.

29:08 Get your garment fixed because we're moving on. We used to sing an old hymn in the church that said, I feel like traveling on. Yes, I feel like traveling on. My heavenly home is bright and fair. I feel like traveling on. Turn to somebody and say, I feel like traveling. You feel it?

29:40 You feel it? You believe it? You got your shoes on? I don't care if you got holes in your socks or whatever. Just get your shoes on. Come on, get your shoes on. Aren't you tired of bondage? Aren't you tired of the dreary, drearies, heaviness, grieving, sorrow, tears? I'm putting on gladness. Glory to God. I'm putting on praise. So in the name of Jesus, Lord, I speak deliverance over all the people. Come on, stretch your hand this way. Stand up on your feet, everybody. Stretch your hand this way. And Lord, in your mighty name, we proclaim deliverance. We proclaim healing. We proclaim breakthroughs. Put their shoes on, God. Move them from defeat to victory, from bondage to freedom, from addiction to holiness and purity.

30:38 Thank you, Lord, that we're moving out of the land of bondage. I claim victory. I claim healings from sickness to health. Restore health. Lord, make every business represented prosper. Lay your hand on dreams and visions and bless families and marriages in the mighty name of Jesus.

31:03 Raise those hands and begin to praise Him all over this house. Just begin to magnify Him all over this house. Come on, singers, let's go. Hallelujah. Lift your voice all over this house. Praise ye the Lord. I want you to get in that posture that they were returning in. Begin to sing before it happens. Begin to worship before it happens. Begin to celebrate before you see it. Put on your garment. Get your feet ready. Get your staff ready. We're moving. We're moving to a higher place in Jesus' mighty name. I really want to say thank you for joining us this week. If you haven't already, make sure you click on the subscription button and leave us a review. It helps this podcast reach even more people when you comment, when you give us your feedback.

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