Delivered by Bishop Joseph W. Walker, III

Sermon Synopsis 5/19/24

Ephesians 3:20 NKJV
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

Prerequisite: Before reading this, take a piece of paper and write down something that you want God to do for you that is supernatural and outside the box. Something that only He can do. Then place it inside the envelope.  

I.            INTRODUCTION 

1. What you will discover about God is that He will always amaze us. If you walk with Him any length of time, you will realize that there is always something that He will do that wows you. It causes you to live in a moment of expectation.
2. God is never stagnant concerning relationships. He takes us from glory to glory! We have to recognize that whatever happens, He did it! As you grow in your relationship with God, you mark moments where you say, “God did that!”. You see how God was always at work in your life, even when you thought He wasn’t.
3. We should never put limitations on our expectations with God. Often, we envision what we ask God for, but it is limited by our exposure and our comprehension.
   1. If we do this, what about those things that you haven’t been exposed to or comprehended? Do you think God needs to downsize our blessings to meet our expectations or our comprehension? Or do you think God should upgrade our blessings according to His ability?
4. Pentecost occurred 50 days after Jesus had risen from the grave. Jesus had appeared to them and ascended into heaven. Afterwards they went into an upper room, where they were staying. Jesus promised that they would receive the power after His death.
5. On the day of Pentecost, everyone was in one place on one accord. Jesus died to bring us all together. There were all kind of people, both Jew and Gentile, gathered together in one place.
6. If it is about being together, you have to remember that the Holy Spirit is a uniter. He brings us all together. When the Holy Spirit is involved, He brings us together for a move of God.
7. In this atmosphere, we are all gathered together on one accord. We expect God do what we’ve never seen before. Many of you have an envelope that has things written down inside of it. It is things that we want God to do. They are outside of the box blessings. They are things we probably never shared with anyone else.
8. Know that today, God is about to do something you never seen before!
9. In today’s text, Paul says “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think”.

II.            REMEMBER TO RELEASE IT TO HIS ABILITY 

• When God does something in our lives, it comes down to our willingness to trust Him. It’s all about what we are willing to let go of. There have been many events where God had to remind us that we have to release it.
• It’s about time, intuition, and instinct. Anybody moving in the Spirit has learned how to move instinctively at the right time.
  • If you will remember God told Joshua that His servant Moses had died and he directed Joshua to take the people over to the Promised Land. Hebrews 11:1 NKJV 11 Now faith is the [a]substance of things hoped for, the [b]evidence of things not seen. Often we leave the most important word out of this scripture. That word is Now. Now faith is the substance…. God wanted Joshua to lead the people now! This means we need to move now. This is the moment that God is going to do it! Now!
  • Now! God is about to remove tumors and break generational curses! Now, God is going to fix your job situation! Now, God is about to turn things around for you!

A.   Your Extremity Is God’s Opportunity 

1. When I recognize I can’t do it, I have to trust the one that can.
2. We try to hold on to it and say we got it. God is ready for us to release it and turn it over to Him.

B.   He’s Proven He Can Get It Done 

1. Why not trust the one that can get it done? We won’t let someone work on our house, unless we know that they can get it done. We won’t let anyone cut our hair unless we are sure they can really do it. God can get it done!
2. He was wounded for my transgressions and bruised for my iniquities. He can get done!
3. Even if we can’t keep going, God can get it done. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
4. How do we know God is able? Because the scripture says, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think” …

III.            RIGHT TO RECEIVE ABUNDANCE 

• This is about scale. It is the assurance that God can get something done that has never been done before.

A.   Don’t Settle For Just Enough 

1. This is about becoming comfortable with settling and saying “just enough” is your destiny. Jesus didn’t die for you to be satisfied with just enough.
   1. John 10:10 NKJV says The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. – Abundantly is more than just enough!
2. It is about a mindset. Your mind has to shift.You have to begin to believe you have a right to an abundant life. For example, we don’t just pray for a car, we pray to own the dealership. We don’t just pray to be able to pay our bills. We pray to have money left to put away.
3. You ought to scare folk by the way you pray and talk!

B.   Declare The Benediction On Your Struggle 

1. You got to stop your struggle from talking to you. If exceeding and abundance is what we want, then we don’t sign up for the struggle!
2. This is about understanding:
   1. Divine Devotion – I know what God’s word has told me.
   1. Discipline In Your Decisions – How I live my life and who I choose to hang with, has everything to do with what God has promised me.
   1. Determination To Achieve Destiny – It doesn’t matter what comes in my life, I can declare the benediction on my struggle.

IV.            REMAIN RECEPTIVE BEYOND YOUR APPREHENSION 

• If God is able to do beyond what I can ask or think, it means I have to be open to a different level of thinking.
• God is able to do above what we ask or think. Just because you hadn’t experienced it, doesn’t mean it isn’t possible.
• You got to be so receptive that God is going to do it, you pray beyond the facts.

A.   Pray Beyond The Facts 

1. Pray like it’s already done! Don’t pray for stuff and then act surprised when it happens.
2. Story: There was a church in the country, experiencing a drought. They decided to come together and pray for rain, for their crops. They planned to do this for 40 days. For 38 days, they all marched to the church. They wanted it to be a group effort. Mr George didn’t participate. He just sat on the porch and watched every night when they would go down to the church to pray.
   1. They began to get mad at Mr George, because he didn’t participate in the group prayer. They were blaming him for their prayers not being answered. They thought maybe their prayers weren’t being answered, because they didn’t have 100% participation from the community. They decided to confront Mr. George. Mr. George told them that the reason he didn’t join in was because out of 38 days of them marching down to the church to pray, no one took an umbrella. If you pray for rain, atleast look like you believe its going to happen.
3. How should we pray?
   1. Pray For What I’ve Never Seen – You will be the first in your generation to believe God for something you’ve never seen before.
   1. Pray Expanding My Scale – Can you ask God to show you a scale for praying. God will put you into rooms to show you your future! God is not showing you your floor, He is showing you your ceiling! What He gives you will exceed what He showed you.
   1. Pray For It In Your Season – Please don’t let it happen out of season.

B.   Expect God To Blow Your Mind 

1. When He answers, know that He will do something you’ve never seen before. Believe God for the miracle and the intangible.
2. God would not have you reading this today, if this wasn’t a divine appointment for your life. God is about to blow your mind!!
3. You have to posture yourself to:

V.            REAP THE RESULTS OF THE ANOINTING 

A.   His Power Is At Work In You 

1. It will happen because of what God placed inside of you.
2. The fullness of the Holy Spirit means less of me and more of Him.
3. All spirits are not the Holy Sprit. The Holy Spirit is intelligent. For example: He won’t let you break your leg shouting.
4. The Holy Spirit can’t be minimized to a shout! And know that every shout is not of the Holy Spirit.
5. The Holy Spirit gives us access to the gifts of God. He also gives us access to the God language.
6. In the Old Testament, God was always seen above on the mountain. Lots of interactions with God was done on the mountain, like when God gave Moses the Ten Commandments. This was God above us. Jesus was born of a woman and became God with us. Jesus left us with a comforter, the Holy Spirit. On the day of Pentecost, God came down and got inside of us.
7. The Holy Spirit in us says we have authority over everything in us.
8. His power is at work in our lives. Therefore:
   1. You Acknowledge The Source Of It – You don’t take credit for it.
   1. You Are A Good Steward Of It – You don’t misuse it.
   1. You Share It – You are generous with it.
9. Instead of being haters, you need to be a saucer and catch someone’s overflow. When God blesses someone else, you want to be the one that catches the overflow.

B.   Can God Trust You To Testify? 

1. When God brings you from bottom to the top, can he count on you to testify. When something happens, the news wants to talk to someone that was on the scene.
2. SYNERGY – This deals with togetherness. Paul writes that the Jews and Gentiles and tells them that God wants them to be together.
   1. They were together on one accord, and suddenly God showed up.
3. SHOWING – When we are together, you can expect God to show up. God doesn’t show up without showing out!
4. SPEAKING – In the book of Acts, when the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost, the Disciples spoke in other tongues like fire They were speaking in languages they had never been taught. People of every nationality understood what they were saying in their own language. When you release something into the atmosphere, you are speaking something the Holy Spirit is doing in your life.
5. SEEING – 3000 souls were added to the church on the day of Pentecost. We are speaking it and in Spirit, people understand, and as a result, we start seeing what God is about to do!

Take your envelopes out and raise them up to God and wave them into the air. Call out the things you wrote inside the envelope and ask God to do it for you. Speak it into the atmosphere, with belief that it is already done!

God is about to do it for you Now! Now watch God deliver on your requests!

We will be waiting for your testimonies!