Unclaimed Anointings
by Troy Wickett
February 22, 2026 · Centerpointe Apostolic Church (Murfreesboro, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Exodus 3, Exodus 3:1-5

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I want to read from Exodus chapter 3 today. Exodus chapter 3 and verse number one says, "And now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God, even to Orb." And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame out of the fire in the midst of a bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And and Moses said, "I will now turn aside and see the great sight why the bush was not burnt." And when the Lord saw that, he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither. Put off thy shoes from thy feet, for the place whereupon thou standest is holy ground. I want to preach a little while this morning on this simple subject. Unclaimed anointings. Unclaimed anointings. Lord Jesus, I pray that you would help me one more time. Help me to do what you called me to do. Speak to us today. Move upon somebody's heart and somebody's life in this mission service. Let there be a burden born, Lord God. Let your spirit move upon somebody's heart that your purpose and your plan, amen, will be fulfilled in Jesus name we pray.

Everyone shout, "Amen." >> Amen. >> Amen. I'm thankful today for the anointing of the Holy Ghost. Anybody in here thankful for the power of the Holy Ghost? The anointing power of the spirit of God. Amen. There's something about the power of God. Amen. the the sometimes as God begins to pos move in our life and move in our scenarios and in our dynamics, our social dynamics, he often times has to position us in a place where he can move the way that he wants to move in our life. Amen. I I want you to notice in this scripture first and foremost that before Moses ever noticed it. The fire was already burning. He noticed it. He turned aside. God didn't start it while he was looking at the bush. The He Moses became aware and it drew his attention that the bush was already on fire. There was a burning bush that caught his attention. I'm here to tell somebody that the spirit of God, the Holy Ghost is already working. >> Amen. THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS already moving. AMEN. I READ THOSE STAT the statistics today to kind OF GIVE YOU AN IDEA THAT GOD is moving. The spirit of the Lord is sweeping across our world. AMEN. SO I IT'S AMAZING. THE WHOLE PENTECOST IS HAPPENING NOT, you know, every day in the world. AMEN. SOMETIMES WE'RE LIKE, I WANT TO GO BACK TO THE book of Acts.

WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE'RE having literally the number totals of the book of Acts every day in THE WORLD. AMEN. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE are living a book of acts experience every day. >> The spirit is moving. Amen. In each and every one of your lives. You may not even be aware of it right now. Amen. But God has been moving. Amen. The spirit of the Lord has been a has been orchestrating a purpose and a plan for YOUR LIFE. I FELT LIKE THIS morning that there that I would be speaking to some Moses types in this congregation, in this mission service, in this pledge service that God has been moving and positioning you to help fulfill his will and his purpose in your life. Amen. There's something about when you turn aside to see when God gets you in a position. I'd like to talk tell you about a guy that was one of my Bible school students. His name was Brother Peta. Brother Peta was a soccer player in Fiji. He was very a very good soccer player. He played on on the Fiji team. He had played professionally. soccer probably could have been his ticket. maybe to a first world country or a ticket to get to other places that somewhere along the line brother Peta's mom was part of our church in Venulevu in the north islands of Fiji and she was a praying lady and she had prayed for her son and prayed for her son and prayed for her son and Peter was had been had been playing and had been doing well.

But God got a hold of his heart and God got a hold of his spirit. And God began to talk to him and begin to minister to him to the POINT WHERE HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT GOD WANTED HIM TO DO. But he decided he was going to step out of soccer and leave that that life and that world behind to do what he didn't even really know that God wanted him to do just yet. Peter was go a good church member. He had started going to church and there was some situations that took place and co came along and so Peter had to leave where he was and journey and to the capital city of Soua where our headquarters was so that he could he was staying with his mother-in-law in a very small little house. him and his two kids were there at that house during that COVID season and his wife was taking care of his mom and he was sitting there and he said, "God, I don't know what to do. I I KNOW YOU TALK to me and I know I felt your your spirit tugging me, but I just don't have that direction. I don't know what to do." And so the Lord spoke to him and said, "You need to go to Bible school. Suva is where the Bible school is. And so Peter said, "But Pat, but God, I can't afford to go to Bible school.

We're we we we can't work. We got all this stuff." And so he be he the Lord persisted and he came to Bible school. Peter came to Bible school. They didn't have the funds and and the Yeah, sorry. I have to be very careful here because his wife made samosis. I was preaching this one time and told the story and said his wife was making mimosas. And a lot of people's eyebrows went up when I said that she was not making mimosas. She was making samosas. And if you don't know what that is, they're like a little cooked patri pastry with some potato and some curry inside. They were She sold them for 80 cents a piece, about 40 cents American. And she would make them every day. People, I tell you what, I didn't even like samosas. And I just we bought more samosas. I we my wife bought so many of them that I like samosas now. And she paid when he finished Bible school. They had paid his entire way through Bible school by every day making samosas because there was a hunger. God had positioned him. He had went through some trials and he went through some troubles, but God was positioning him there. He went through two years of of Bible school and and and and Peter was standing there giving his he he was the his what a doc not doctoral his what is it >> validictorian man my brain is not working this morning his validictorian speech and the Lord spoke to me and we had we had put we had beun to build a church in a little place called Beteri.

Betieri was a a a a little small place but it had four large regions of of people around it of the Indian culture and we didn't have any churches in this area. And as a matter of fact, let me tell you about a little God thing here. We were about to lose the land and they said, "If you don't build a church here," he we had been a long time. He said, "We're going to give it to another denomination to build a church." So, I called back to America and I said, "I need $10,000 in in 7 days." And and and the pastor said, "Give me give me a couple days and I'll see what I can do." Amen. And guess what? About 3 days later, he called me and he said, "I've got your $10,000." Brother Wesley, I believe God's got your $10,000 and then some in this place right now. Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. As a matter of fact, he said, "I I I know that there's more than that in here, but my wife and I will do the first $1,000 to help you get to Boston." Amen. I believe in what you're doing. I believe that God has positioned you, that God has PLACED YOU, AND GOD IS GOING TO GO WITH you wherever that you go. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, GOD'S IN THE POSITION. AS HE WAS UP HERE TALKING, I THOUGHT, "MY LORD, HE'S JUST LIVING WHAT I'm preaching RIGHT NOW." HOW GOD WILL POSITION YOU.

I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, GOD'S ALREADY MOVING. GOD'S ALREADY BLESSING. THE THE BURNING BUSH IS ALREADY FLOWING. THE ANOINTING IS ALREADY THERE, BUT GOD'S JUST SAYING, "I GOT TO GET SOMEBODY IN POSITION SO GOD CAN USE THEM." >> HALLELUJAH. AMEN. AND SO HE SO WE BUILT THE CHURCH IN BETTER and and and IT WHILE HE WAS SPEAKING THEN WE HAD NO PASTOR. I I I WAS LIKE LORD this is the silliest thing FOR TWO YEARS I'VE GOT A building here. It's we got the building PRETTY MUCH DONE BUT I CAN'T GET A PASTOR in here. I CAN'T GET SOMEONE TO TAKE THIS CHURCH. I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY THAT CAN SPEAK Hindi or and begin to reach in this community and connect with this Indian community. And I sat on it and I thought, Lord, what is GOING ON? BUT SEE, GOD WAS POSITIONING Peter in a place where he was ready TO DO WHAT GOD HAD CALLED HIM to do. And as he was speaking, the Lord spoke to me and he said, "That's the pastor of Beteri." And as he was speaking, I went to him afterwards. I said, "Peter, the Lord just spoke to me and he wants you to pre to pastor the church in Biri." He said, "God," he said, "pastor, I feel it as well." HE SAID, "BUT I JUST FEEL A BURDEN." HE SAID, "I JUST HAD A DOOR OPEN IN RATUMA." Ratuma is another island to the north part of our of our country.

He said, "AND I FEEL LIKE GOD WANTS ME TO START AMEN. The church in Ratuma," and so HE SAID, "BY THE TIME we begin to build a pastor's house there, and some churches in Indiana helped us build a pastor's house." HE SAID, "I BELIEVE THAT BY THE TIME THAT I FINISHED GETTING THE CHURCH IN Ratuma established that the house will be done." He went to Ratuma by himself and began to THERE WAS NOBODY THAT HAD THE HOLY GHOST in in Ratuma. But guess what? He went in there and 6 months later there was a church established in the island on that island of Ratuma. I'M JUST HERE TO TELL YOU THAT HE WAS A GREAT SOCCER PLAYER. BUT GOD SAID, "I'M GOING TO POSITION YOU AND I'M GOING TO MOVE YOU." WHY? BECAUSE THERE'S PEOPLE IN RATUMA THAT NEED TO hear this message, BUT LET ME BRING YOU BACK TO BETI. SO, in January 1, Peta went to Betieri. And I think I got some picture pictures up here. Amen. This is the church and there's the house that that is built. I know by our standards it may not look like very much, but let me just tell you, Amen. to them. That's just like this building right here. Amen. It's in an area. You can see it over there. There there's there's It looks very lush. It's very close to the ocean, but it's strategically placed around four Indo-agian places with a Fijian, a native Fijian boy that grew up, listen to this, grew up in an Indian community playing soccer, which is the Indian sport that they the native Fijians love rugby and the Indo-agians love soccer.

And and he was he was so notably known that when his f his his first week on the job that the Indian PEOPLE GOT SO EXCITED THAT THEY BEGAN TO GO AROUND ALL OVER THE PLACE TELLING THEM THAT PETA THE SOCCER PLAYER IS OUR NEW PASTOR. THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH HERE is Peta. AND THEY CAME TO SEE PETER WHO WAS THE PASTOR BECAUSE GOD PLACED HIM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN INDO-AGIAN STRONGHOLD BECAUSE GOD SAID THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS MOVING. THE BUSH WAS ALREADY BURNING. THE CHURCH WAS ALREADY ESTABLISHED. BUT GOD SAID, "I'VE GOT TO GET HIM IN THE POSITION TO do what I want him to do." Go to the next picture. This is one of their first services. There's just a few. They've now got about 25 or 30 people there now. But this is brother Peter down on the right. You can see him preaching. God is using him. They're reaching into the community. And this was just about a week ago. the next picture there, you can see these were the first two couple that was baptized in Jesus' NAME AND GOD FILLED THEM WITH THE HOLY GHOST. AMEN. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT WHEN GOD BEGINS TO MOVE, AMEN. THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN WITHOUT CHURCHES LIKE YOU WHO ARE SAYING, "I'VE GOT A BURDEN TO INVEST IN A CHURCH THAT I'LL PROBABLY NEVER GO TO, IN A PASTOR THAT I'LL PROBABLY NEVER SEE, BUT because of your giving." There's guys like Peter that plant churches in Beter and we see places in Ratuma.

Amen. Why? Because of your faithful giving. I feel like today, this is what I feel. I feel like God has been moving. And listen, this church, I can tell just simply by what God has established here that the spirit of the Lord has been moving here for a long time. I'll tell you what, the burning bush, you know what this service is? It's a burning bush that's trying to He gets up and shares burden and we put these flags up here and we do all this stuff. Why? It's it's it's a burning bush to catch your attention to say, "God, are you going will you will you allow God to position you in a place where God can move in your life in a mighty way?" BECAUSE IT'S AT THE BUSH. IT'S IN SERVICES LIKE THIS WHEN YOU TURN ASIDE and when YOU TAKE THAT THAT THAT that pledge card that that was handed out and you begin to look at it, you know, and you begin to FILL IT OUT. GUESS WHAT'S HAPPENING? THAT'S A BURNING BUSH EXPERIENCE. YOU'RE SAYING, "GOD, I'M GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO TO POSITION THE BLESSINGS THAT I HAVE." WHEN YOU GET INTO THESE PLACES, WHEN YOU TURN ASIDE AND WHEN YOU OPEN YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN MOSES GOT TO THE BURNING BUSH? GOD BEGAN TO SPEAK OUT OF THAT BURNING BUSH. AMEN.

SOMETIMES YOU DON'T HEAR GOD BECAUSE YOU'RE UNWILLING TO TURN ASIDE AND SEE. BUT WHEN YOU TURN ASIDE, AMEN, TO WHERE GOD IS MOVING. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, WHEN YOU SHOW UP TO THE BURNING BUSH, GOD BEGINS TO SPEAK IN YOUR HEART, GOD BEGINS TO SPEAK IN YOUR LIFE. THAT'S MY PRAYER RIGHT NOW. GOD SPEAK TO CENTER POINT THIS MORNING. GOD SPEAK TO HIS PEOPLE THIS MORNING. >> There's more Petas. There's more Petas that need Amen. more Petas that need invested in. But as you position yourself, God begins to speak. I need you to know something today. God looks God's watching. Every Sunday, not just mission Sunday, but every Sunday, God's looking for someone to turn aside and say, "You know, it'd be easier to stay here. It' be easier to do this." But no, I'm going to turn aside. I'm I'm here to tell you that God has a desire to move in your life. He speaks when you're ready to hear. Does that make sense? >> Amen. Sometimes, Amen. We can become a little bit hardened heart, but he speaks when we're ready to hear. But when we surrender ourself like brother Peter did and put ourselves in God's plan and God's purpose, God begins to open up doors. God begins to minister. He text me the other day and he said, "Pastor, we found five or six young girls in our community that can't afford to go to school and don't have enough money to go to eat lunch." So he said, "We've kind of adopted them into our church and every day we take them to school.

We paid their enrollment from Look, look at they got like five families and they're paying for five girls to go to school every day. He showed me that the girls come to their house at that parsonage that I just showed and pick up their lunch that his wife made for him, made for those six girls. And he and he sent me a video as those girls that didn't go to church before stand in a circle in his in his living room and they pray and ask God's blessings upon them and pray over them young girls and then they go off to school. WHY? BECAUSE SOMEONE ALLOWED THEMSELVES TO BE POSITIONED. SOMETIMES people go overseas and I'M THANKFUL THAT I WAS WILLING TO GO. BUT SOMETIMES IT'S NOT JUST IT'S ALMOST HARDER SOMETIMES to separate ourselves and say, "God, I'm willing to position myself to do what you want me to do." It's what happened to Moses. Moses got there. God spoke to him. He said, "Moses, take your shoes off." That was where the text read. He took his shoes off. Why? Because sometimes it's the insignificant things that if we're unwilling to do that keep us from doing the big things that God wants us to do. Moses, take your shoes off. Moses said, "Well, I don't want to take my shoes off." If he's like me, he's got a bubble in the middle and it's hard to get down there and take your shoes off.

I just I was I I fly a lot and I think the the curse of mankind is shoes with laces. I I hate taking off the shoes with laces, but I figure it's the easiest way to learn to touch my toes all the time. Little exercise. But Moses, take off your shoes. Why? Because I want to see if you're willing to do the minimal things. I want to see if you're willing to do the little things. You know, I I Why? Because I'm checking your spirit, Moses. I You've heeded. You've heard me. You know this is a supernatural thing. You've experienced the power of God, but now I want to see if you're willing to do the little things before I can trust you with the big things. You see, it's uncomfortable. You talked about it. It's uncomfortable. You know, you take off your shoes. Guess what? You become very acutely aware of where you're walking. When I when I'm walking, I I don't I don't pay much attention. And in Fiji, my kids would they wouldn't have shoes on all the time. I kept telling them, "Put your shoes on all the time." But they would just run with all the village kids and they just never had no shoes on ever. I took my shoes off and began to walk with them and I felt every little pebble. [panting] And I, you know, I become very acutely aware of where I was standing.

See, that's what happens when you get into the spirit of God and you begin to release the little things. You become acutely aware of where you're walking with God. I don't just stomp my way through anymore. But guess what? I I'm careful about where I walk. The steps of a righteous man are ordered of God. God, I'm really aware of I want to step where you want me to step. Why? because there's rocks and glass and nails and all kinds of junk here I don't want to step on. But sometimes when I got my shoes on, I don't really care about where I step. But when I have no when the shoes are missing, I become acutely aware of where I'm stepping. I'm here to tell somebody God is leading you and GOD IS GUIDING YOU. AND SOMETIMES WE CAN BECOME VERY haphazard about where we're going and what we're doing. But God is saying, if you'll just take your shoes off and humble yourself AND BE AND GO WHERE I WANT YOU TO GO AND DO WHAT I WANT YOU to do. Hey, you got TAKE THOSE SHOES OFF. YOU BECOME very sensitive to the environment that you're walking into. He told them, and I don't have time to preach all this, but he told them then he put your hand in your coat later and he took it out and it was lepous and he put it back in.

And then he took it back out again and it was it was it was just perfect again. I'm here to tell you, Amen. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's bad. But you trust the Lord in every aspect of your life. But the la but where I want to focus and as I hopefully land the plane here in just a minute, the last thing he said was throw down your staff. Throw down that staff. What do you got in your hand, Moses? Throw down your He said, "I got this staff." You said, "Throw it down. Are you willing to give that to me? Are you willing to give that livelihood? You're willing to give what you use, that physical thing." He said, "Can you throw it down?" And Moses threw it down and it turned into a snake. What happened when you give God [panting] that tangible thing it there's a supernatural transition that takes place there's a multiplication that takes place when you give God what you got in your hand [panting and sighs] I have never seen God fill closed full hands but I have seen God fill empty hands with supernatural provision when I released it from it. He sometimes we're praying God for more blessings and we're praying like this. But when you release what you got in your hand and God replaces it. Amen. Not, you know, let me just say this.

That staff that he put back in Moses' hand was the same staff. It had the same knots on it. It had the same rough parts on it. It had everything was the same. Nothing had changed from a you know a natural perspective. Nothing had changed from that. But when it was put in God's hands, there was a supernatural transformation that took place that enabled that staff that was just a staff that was just what he used to work. It was just what he used to make a living. It was just part of the trade that he worked in with the sheep. And it was what he used. But when he gave that livelihood to God, when he gave that tool of THE TRADE TO GOD, THERE was a supernatural TRANSITION THAT TOOK PLACE. AMEN. In that life, and it turned into A SNAKE BEFORE HIM, MY LORD. AMEN. HOW CRAZY IS THAT? AMEN. THAT THAT SUPERNATURAL THING. I KNOW THAT'S I I YOU KNOW WHAT? I'LL be honest. I wish God hadn't done a snake because I'm afraid of snakes. But when is it okay if I come down here? I don't want to mess with your video people and all that stuff. But when he threw that down, I was preaching on this story one time and I had an actual stick and I walked by some people in the front and I got to that part and I threw it on the floor right in front of them and those girls just jumped right up cuz I don't know if they thought it was going to turn into a snake or what.

>> >> But then God said something very interesting. He positioned him. This is what I feel like for this morning. I haven't been able to get away from it. God is positioning you and you are at a burning bush experience. >> And God is going to ask you, are you willing to release what you have in your hand? Amen. And let God do something supernatural with it. It could have been STILL USED FOR MOSES TO DO EVERYTHING THAT MOSES needed to do every day. But God said, "I WANT TO re release A SUPERNATURAL DEMONSTRATION of my power with what you thought was just a simple stick. I feel in my spirit, I feel a prophetic WORD TODAY THAT GOD is wanting to release a supernatural DEMONSTRATION IN THIS CHURCH LIKE YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE. I'M NOT HERE I'M NOT HERE TO SAY THAT THE SUPERNATURAL HASN'T BEEN MOVING. I KNOW THAT IT HAS. LIKE I'VE ALREADY SAID, THE BUSH HAS BEEN BURNING FOR A LONG LONG TIME HERE IN MURPHY'S PEARL. BUT GOD HAS BROUGHT YOU HERE THIS MORNING FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. AND HE HAS POSITIONED YOU AND HE HAS SPOKE TO YOU. I FEEL LIKE HE'S SPOKE TO YOU AND SOME ARE STRUGGLING WITH THAT THIS MORNING. BUT GOD IS SAYING, IF YOU'LL RELEASE, IF YOU'LL RELEASE IT, I'LL TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE NATURAL AND I'LL CREATE A SUPERNATURAL DEMONSTRATION AND BLESSING WITH THAT.

I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, GOD'S WANTING TO RELEASE HIS POWER. >> HALLELUJAH. Just let me. But then he said this, it's easy to preach this part, but it's really difficult in the next part. Because then God said to Moses, what did he say? Pick it up. Not just pick it up. He There's another detail in there that he did. What's the other detail? Pick it up by the tail. Now, I'm not a snake person. But I'm here to tell you if I I am smart enough to know that if I had to, I am not picking it up by the tail. I'd probably use a shovel with a sharp edge first and then pick it up. Sorry for if you love snakes. Sorry about that. But he said, "Moses, pick it up. Pick it up." He said, "What is supernatural, I want you to pick it up because it's not until you pick it back up that something supernatural starts happening." Cuz you see, could I just look at the feeding of the 5000? Everyone know that story, feeding of the 5,000. That little boy brought his five loaves and two fishes and and they he gave it they gave it to Jesus. They gave that little meal to Jesus and and he took the five loaves and two fish. The scripture says that he took it and what did he do? He blessed it.

He broke it or multiplied it and gave it back to them. Now, I believe that they had them put them in 50s, groups of 50, and then I believe that he gave and I think I can prove it, but you might disagree, but if you do, it's okay. You can be wrong. But he he put the HE I BELIEVE THAT HE PUT THOSE back into the hands of the disciples and they began to hand out the food to the discip to the people in the groups of 50. He didn't KEEP IT. LISTEN, GOD DOESN'T WHATEVER YOU'RE FEEL LIKE GOD'S talking to you about this morning, God doesn't need it. You need it. AMEN. BUT WHEN YOU GIVE IT TO GOD, GOD DOESN'T NEED IT. He doesn't keep it and fill his pockets WITH IT. HE DIDN'T GO take that five loaves and two fishes and go eat. YOU KNOW WHAT HE DID? HE BLESSED IT. >> HE BROKE IT AND MULTIPLIED IT. AND THEN HE GAVE IT. AND I BELIEVE AS THOSE DISCIPLES, HE'S PUT IT IN THEIR HAND, PASTOR, and said, "Go feed them." How am I supposed to feed this whole section with one loaf of bread? And in my mind, this is just my imagination. Forgive my imagination. I can just see him very timidly the first time breaking off a piece. Here you go. breaking off another piece and he's looking at the piece in his hand that's still the same size.

He breaks this guy off a little bit bigger piece and then he breaks and it's still there. I believe that the miracle actually took place in the hands of the disciples. >> And man, he is I believe that when it came down to it, the first five guys got a little bit. But after that, he's just like boom boom boom boom boom boom. Wow. You need some more? Double portion. Double portion. AND THEY'RE GOING BACK. WELL, YOU SAY, WHY DOES THAT REAL? YEAH, BECAUSE THEY ATE TILL THEY WERE FULL AND THERE WAS 12 BASKETS FULL LEFT OVER. BUT THE MIRACLE TOOK PLACE IN THE HAND OF THE DISCIPLES WHEN THEY WERE WILLING TO PUT IT IN GOD'S HANDS. GOD BLESSES IT. GOD MULTIPLIES IT AND THEN GIVES IT BACK TO YOU TO BE A BLESSING. THE DISCIPLES DIDN'T USE IT TO FILL THEIR POCKETS, BUT HE USED IT TO BE A BLESSING TO THE MASSES. I BELIEVE CHURCHES LIKE THIS THAT GOD IS USING YOU TO BE A BLESSING TO THE MASSES THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN AND GOD HAS BLESSED IT AND GOD HAS MULTIPLIED IT AND NOW HE'S PUT IT BACK IN YOUR HANDS TO BE A BLESSING TO THE WORLD. That's where I feel like we're at today. But I my the title of my message is unclaimed anointings because sometimes it's hard to pick the staff back up again. It's hard to pick up that snake again.

Just like those disciples with that one piece of bread or that one piece of fish, it's a little it's a little hard sometimes to trust God to start giving of that little. But until but until you do what everybody else says is crazy, you you are unable to see the greatness of God on display. Moses reluctantly picked up I before I get there that's why I believe sometimes sometimes we're missing we're a lot of people are now I'm going to tell you something. And I hope this doesn't sound creepy, especially not into snake handling and any of that weird stuff. Who cares if that's not me? But I was in a church one time and I was praying and I I opened my eyes and I and it was like there was a bunch of a bunch of snakes on the on the floor. And I I don't mean that creepy, but I just a vision of that God showed me and I was like, "Whoa." And I thought it was demonic and I thought, "Oh gosh, this is great. I'm going to cast out devils and stuff. Oh Lord, I don't want to be doing this. The Lord, it's on deputation. Should be I don't want have to do this on deputation. You know, the Lord spoke to me and he said, "No, that's not what that is. Those are unclaimed anointings." He said, 'Those are things, those are prayers that people have came and laid them down and threw down the staff and the altar.

But when I asked them to do the supernatural and I asked them to pick it back up and use it for my will and my purpose, they were unwilling to reach down and pick it back up again because it was beyond them. And he told me this that day. He said, "I have not forgotten." He said, "The blessing that I have put upon people and I am waiting for somebody to pick up that anointing." Amen. When Moses picked up that anointing and he took that rod, yes, he went back to his old job. And yes, he still kind of worked a little bit, but he had A PURPOSE AND GOD had a plan for his life. HE SAID, "MOSES, I HAVEN'T COME DOWN HERE TO JUST HANG OUT WITH you and to play with you and have a fellowship with you." HE SAID, "BUT MOSES, I HAVE COME DOWN TO DELIVER MY PEOPLE, AND I NEED YOU TO HELP ME DELIVER MY PEOPLE. AND SO, I NEED YOU TO TAKE WHAT I HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWER THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU, AND I NEED YOU TO START USING IT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD." AMEN. I'M HERE TO TELL YOU THAT'S WHY. AMEN. HE HELD IT UP AND THE RED SEA SPLIT WIDE OPEN. THAT'S THE SAME STAFF THAT HE USED TO SMITE THE ROCK AND WATER FLOWED OUT OF IT. WHY? BECAUSE GOD TOOK THE NATURAL AND DID something supernatural with it.

I'm here to tell you today that there's an anointing as we stand together in this place. There's an anointing in this place. God has a purpose and God has a plan for each and every one. And I'll end with here that God wants you to pick it back up. Say, "God, that's too much." Let me just tell you a really cool thing that happened to me. My wife and I were at a general conference and we were asking I I could tell you a few of the but we were at general conference and my and my and the music can come back and stuff but they were preaching and the and the preacher said I want you TO BE THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO GIVE TO MISSIONS. And I was like, "Okay, Lord." And me and my wife were standing there. And so I had a number and and I so I always check with my wife because usually her number and my number usually jive or her number is higher than mine. So it makes me nervous when I ask her, "What's your number?" And we had a number and we felt good about that number. God spoke to us about the number. And the preacher, I some of you might have been there and you remember this. HE SAYS, 'THE LORD JUST SPOKE TO ME AND HE SAID, I WHATEVER NUMBER YOU HAVE, I WANT YOU TO DOUBLE IT.

NOW, I'm not here to say that today. I don't feel the Lord tell me to say that. You all can relax. But he said, I WANT YOU TO DOUBLE IT. And the number we had before WAS A VERY HIGH NUMBER THAT WE really hadn't gave before. And the Lord, he said, "Double it." And I looked at my wife and her eyes were big and my eyes were big. And I was like, "Oh man, what are we going to do?" And I told her, I said, "God said to give it. If I go home, I can talk myself out of anything." And you know, that's why I'm this big. I talk myself out of diets all the time. I can talk myself out of anything. And so I said, "We need to do it right now." And so we we just paid it by faith. And we left General Conference and we were in missions. We're on deputation. And I said to my wife, "I don't know how this is going to work out, but I just know God told us and we're just going to do what God called us told us to do. >> >> We're driving down the road. Pastor, we hadn't even got to the next place and my phone rang and there was an old an elder on the phone and he's was they're very concerned about us and our missions and they're very proud of us and so they were talking to us about missions and he said, "Oh, I forgot this is the reason I called." And I said, "What's that?" He said, "I just got back from my accountant's place today and they told me that I they mixed up my taxes on my retirement and the government's about to take this much money from me and to tax." He said, "But the but my accountant said that I can give it to a charity or mission and instead of giving it to the government." And he said, "As soon as he told me that, I thought of you." And so he said, 'This is how much money that I'm going to send you.

Where do you want me to send it? And it was to the dollar what we had pledged less than 24 hours before. I'm just trying to tell somebody that God when you take that natural thing and give it to God, it becomes supernatural in the hands of God. It's when you give 29 supernaturally 290,000 people received the Holy Ghost in global missions last year partially because of the supernatural as it's not a mistake. It's God moving. I wish I had time, but let me just quickly, man, there's just so many stories. I could just tell you time and time again of God's provision and God's blessing when you give it to God. Anyone ever remember the story of the of the axe head that floated? Guy borrowed an axe. It wasn't even his, but God gave it to him. He borrowed it from a friend and he was he got careless with it and he didn't maintain it and he he was cutting wood and the axe head fell in the water. You see what we have in our finances, if you've been in the church long enough, you know it's it's not ours anyway. It's God's. He provided my job. He I could tell you stories about job provision, but sometimes I can get a little careless with what God gave me. Like that man got careless with the axe that someone else had gave him and he got a little careless with it and the axe had fell into the water.

But there was a man of God there with a word. And this is what I feel like God sent me here today with a word for somebody that maybe your axe head has sunk and you got a little careless with what God had given you and you haven't used it as efficiently as God had intended for you to do. But the man of God spoke and he said to Elijah and he said this verse number six says the man of God said where fell it and he showed him the place and he cut down a stick and he cast it therein and the iron did swim. Verse seven says this. Therefore said he, take it up to thee. And he put out his hand and took it. Could I just put it in a Troy Wicket translation? He looked at him and he said, "BUBBA, PICK IT UP. Pick it up." SEE, A MIRACLE TOOK PLACE. THE MIRACULOUS HAPPENED, BUT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST IF HE DIDN'T PICK IT UP. I'VE SEEN SERVICES WHERE AXE HEADS floated spirit supernaturally and people didn't pick them up and I've watched them fall and then the spirit would rise them up. I'm here to encourage somebody. The supernatural power of God. Maybe we haven't done it like we wanted to and we haven't given like we wanted to, but God said this is your moment. The the iron is floating.

The supernatural is floating. Pick it up and watch what God will do. Pastor's coming, but before he comes, I just want to pray cuz I feel like God is speaking to your heart and God is wanting to release supernatural demonstration in this place. That's it. Let's just open up our hearts, our minds, our spirit right now. Let's let God talk to you. Let God talk to you. Ah, that's it. The supernatural is flowing. The spirit of God is moving. God has positioned you. Lord God, I speak right now over this wonderful group of people here at Center Point. Lord God, I feel your spirit moving. I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost flowing. Lord God, I pray that you would begin to stir hearts right now. That you would begin to stir faith right now. Lord God, that even as they pray, they see pictures of Peter. Amen. THEY SEE PICTURES OF THOSE LORD THAT A FLAG MIGHT come before their eyes or that they feel that burden Lord that feel that burden for a young MAN THAT'S GOING TO BOSTON TO SEE Lord to fulfill your will and your purpose Lord God let supernatural demonstration begin to flow in THIS PLACE LORD GOD THAT AS PEOPLE TAKE WHAT THEY have given you and they BLESS IT AS YOU BLESS IT LORD GOD AND AS YOU MULTIPLY IT AND YOU PUT IT BACK INTO their hands LIKE YOU DID THE ROD OF MOSES, THAT SUPERNATURAL PROVISION WOULD FOLLOW THE CHILDREN OF GOD ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE.

LORD, I PRAY LET SUPERNATURAL DEMONSTRATION FLOW. LORD, LET THE PROPHETIC WORDS SPOKEN TODAY take root in their spirit that your will would be done, that your purpose would be accomplished. AND I THANK YOU LORD FOR what you have done and what you are going to DO IN THIS PLACE RIGHT NOW. THAT'S IT. LET A praise go forward right now. Let a praise and worship begin to flow from your spirit right now.