Touré Roberts - How to Discover God's Voice - Part 1

Oh, hallelujah! I’m so excited; I got a word from God for you today, and I want to jump right into it. I want to draw your attention to Matthew chapter 16. In Matthew chapter 16, we’re going to read verses 13 through 20. It is not an unfamiliar passage of Scripture; you’ve seen it before and you’ve heard it preached a gazillion times. But I believe there’s something minute that we’re going to pull out, and I think it’s going to bless you, make you better, make you stronger, make you wiser, make you clearer, and make you more confident. It says, «When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, 'Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am? '» So they said, «Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.» And Jesus said to them, «But who do you say that I am?» And Simon Peter answered and said, «You, Sir, are the Christ, the Son of the Living God.» And Jesus answered and said to him, «Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I also say to you that you are Peter.» Wait, I thought you just called him Simon; now you call him by a different name. The Lord, I feel the Spirit of God! I’m trying not to preach while reading. I’ve been trying to be a little more disciplined than that, but there’s a lot of preaching in here. «Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you.» Some things flesh and blood and religion can’t teach you. Don’t make me… I’m looking at you! Don’t—don’t—don’t make me… you didn’t get this from religion; not this. You didn’t get this from church; you had an encounter! Do I have any people here who have had an encounter with God? Yeah, you’re not here because… they’re not going to do it; I’m not going to do it. He says, «And I also say to you that here’s your real name: you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.» And then verse 20 says, «Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.» What is this all about? The thought for today is based upon a rhetorical question: what’s in a name? What’s in the name? Father, we thank you so much; we feel Your presence in this house. And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there’s liberty—there’s liberty, there’s freedom, God, in this house for Your sons and daughters to be awakened to the reality of who they are; for Your sons and daughters to come into a new consciousness of who You have created them to be and a faith attached to that consciousness that will allow them to walk in something greater, something more powerful. I thank You, Lord; I sense this is much like a moment when the walls of Jericho had fallen down flat, and everything that You had ordained, predestined, and predetermined for Your children to have was up for grabs—it was up for the taking. So, God, I thank You right now, Lord God; it’s like this is a moment of Jubilee, even like this is a moment of great favor, and I open heaven. I thank You, God, that Your sons and daughters, Your children, are going to run into the enemy’s camp and start taking things back that belong to them! So God, have Your way! I thank You for the spirit of wisdom and revelation; I thank You that there’s no ceiling in the Spirit right now. You will allow rich heavenly treasures to descend upon Your servant and to flow through me, and to rest in the best way on everyone under the sound of my voice. And God, when we come out of this service today, our eyes are going to be different! Hallelujah! The eyes of our understanding are going to be enlightened. Some whose fire had somehow been drowned out—God, their fire had been drenched! I thank You, God, that the fire is going to be quenched like never before, and they’re going to lay hold of everything that You have for them! They’re going to forget what’s behind them and reach forward to those things that are ahead. I thank You, God, that every devil and demon and yoke have been broken in this house. I feel it; it is ours for the taking! It is ours for the grabbing, and if you believe that, I dare you, before you say Amen, take eight seconds and give God a bigger hallelujah! Come on, give God a big shout! This is your moment; this is your time! Fill it! Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on! I see you; come on! Lift up a praise right now; this is your moment! This is the moment you’ve been waiting for! It’s coming; it’s coming in Jesus’ name! Amen! Oh, something is happening! Can’t you feel it? Can’t you feel it? See, faith people have received it already. You received it already; you just got to get into the atmosphere. Faith people understand that all I got to do is get in the room, and what’s for me is mine! Oh, Jesus!