All right. Well, this morning... Oh, it wasn't this morning. It was yesterday.
The Lord had brought the word intent to me. And so we're going to take a look at that word.
And I think part of it is the series pastor is about to go
into the series we just came out of. Because intent comes out of the heart.
And when the Bible talks about heart, that can mean your spirit in certain spots.
It can be talking about your soul, which is your mind, your will and your emotions
in other spots, or like a combination of who you are in your thought processes.
When God says that he checks the intent of our heart. I think that, you know, if we
start talking about tithing or giving, we start talking about obedience. We start
talking about the structure that the Word lays out to help keep us safe, to be able to
prosper, to add to our lives. When we talk about those things, they can just
sound just like, and there's the rules, right? This is what we got to do. And make
sure you get this done. And don't do that. And, you know, it kind of hits us like that.
When really God sets things up for us to be able to go after being obedient,
but on the way to that, it checks the intent of our heart. Because you can do
physically all the right things. You can say all the right things with the wrong
intent of the heart. And so, part of us dying to ourselves and the series that we've
gone through, even way before that, is the sifting process and getting the
chaff off of us. And, I mean, there's so many things like, you know,
Pastor Tanya, she talked about it last week, just kind of mapping, just in the
last few things that we've been through here at Word of Life, it's where
we're headed towards something. See, if you're in a church or a Bible study,
or even your own family, and God gives you something, and then you feel like,
and then there's something else, and then you're here, and you're there,
and you're everywhere, that's almost like an ADHD way of thinking. And in the end,
you end up having principles, but where are we going? We don't even,
like, we don't know where we're going. And so, mapping things in life,
God will give you the next step to do. And as you step into that next step,
the whole process that goes on, you just think, yes, I'm saying yes to it,
and I'm headed that way, the whole time it's checking the intent of your heart.
Right? It's not just seeing whether or not you did it. What was the intention
you had when you did it? Was it godly? You know, you can have that checked by,
you know, someone says something really rude to you, which happens. And I've had it happen
many times. And so I still want to minister the person or whatever. That's a guiding point
of why I don't smack back. Right? Because I'm like, I'm after your heart. My heart,
the intention of my heart, is after their heart for Christ. If I didn't have that intention,
and then it would be a rule in my head that says, ooh, don't say something back,
as that's not going to go well. Yep. But that still isn't the same as if you have the right
intention of the heart to minister to them. That's when you're positioning yourself
where God can use you. That affects your giving.
That affects believing people, believing God for healing for people. It affects every area.
I've been with a person who, and who knows, I don't know if my intentions of my heart
were right all the time. They have to be checked on a daily basis anyway.
But praying for the sick, I've watched it over the years. People getting so excited
to work a prayer line or whatever. And they thought their intention of their heart
was to help the person. Like, yep, I want to, I want to get involved in that.
But by the time you saw the operation of what they were doing,
what was oozing out of their heart was pride. You know, that they were the spiritual ones.
They were coming down. And see, so the, they're very nice thing, the very good thing, the very
godly thing by the intent of the heart goes wrong. And the spirit that ends up coming off of us,
that, that influencer, that fluid that comes off of us ends up being wrong.
Not because our actions aren't taking the right actions, it's because the intent of our
heart was wrong to begin with. Serving. What happens if you have the wrong intention
in your heart to serve? Well, most people don't, don't go into something
where they want to serve, whether it's working in the nursery or hospitality or whatever.
And, and, you know, they might just commit. There's nothing going on that's really wrong.
But when you go to serve, serve and hood test the intent of your heart.
You know, like the third Sunday and you're in the nursery,
but then pretty sure your heart's been tested. You know, it was a great idea.
We're going to do this. I mean, Pastor and I used to teach at certain settings. I especially
taught at certain settings when it came to foster homes, because we had 12 kids for a long
time and, you know, three of biological and then the rest were fosters. And we toted
them around the United States and took them on vacations and did all that kind of stuff.
Well, people would look and say other foster homes would look into that and say, you know,
how are they doing that? How are they not going crazy? Right? Well, there were days that the,
as we were serving, it was like, I love these kids. And as you went to take care of them,
the intent of your heart would show up. It's like, I love these kids, you know.
And there was stuff going on in there that wasn't a purified love. It wasn't a purified
thing. And you'd have to check yourself. You'd have to, I mean, we did stuff where we would,
if it got intense in the home, people going through issues because of trauma or whatever,
where we'd tag out like, I'm out. And then he'd take over, right? And you got to go check
yourself because stuff starts coming up out of your heart you did not know was there.
And that comes by pressure. So, Genesis six five says, the Lord saw that the wickedness or
poverty of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination or intent of the thoughts of
his heart were only evil continually. That's a bad day for sure. At the same time,
what makes us think that we were without Christ? And then we came to Christ
and all the intents of our heart just changed. We were wonderful, right? No, even salvation gets in.
Salvation comes into the heart. That power starts to put a pressure that says, now Jesus is Lord,
I'm no longer Lord, right? So that means there's a King to follow by the Holy Spirit.
And the Holy Spirit's there to help guide us because when the wrong intents of our heart
come up, we're even shocked. We're like, I did not know I had that in me. I can't believe I said that
or whatever it is. And Holy Spirit will work there. But because righteousness showed up,
anything, any principle in the word that is like, this is righteous, you go, yes, that's wonderful,
let's add toward it. The intent of your heart will show up. We want that kind of thing to
show up because that's what helps to purify us. It's what we do with the intent of the heart
after it shows up. So let's say you're working in the nursery. It's the third week and you feel
like the toddler is about to eat you. And you know, there's this stuff, they're screaming,
you were up late last night, you know, what am I doing in here? I probably miss God.
Well, you're either missing it now or you missed it on the front end when you decided to do this.
So you have to pick one and be like, whoa, I so missed it. I was in my flesh. I had the
wrong intent in my heart when I signed up for the nursery. Or you have the wrong intent showing up
now. Does that make sense? Either way, you have to check the heart and go, ah,
this is not how we want to roll, right? And so that's why we need Holy Spirit. That's why
we definitely have to have Holy Spirit. But it's not a, I would say like a wrong process.
It's not something you condemn yourself because all the wrong intensives of our heart when we
head toward righteousness will show up. That's why he, he makes it like, for instance, this first.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God. Kingdom is the sphere of his rule, his ways he does things.
That means I'm over here. I had my own rules and my ways of doing things and I was used to
that. And then he said, seek his kingdom. And I said, all right, I'm going to go
head for that. Well, this kingdom here has to die in order for me to head toward his kingdom.
But if I seek it, that means I'm constantly looking for like, how do you do this again,
God? Show me, could you change my heart? Because it's not lining up. My emotions don't
even want to do this, right? And, and, and so I thought it was going to be a happy thing to
do the right thing. Isn't that the equation? Two plus two should equal four. Right things and
happy things should equal. Wonderful. But most of the time as we head toward righteousness, it will
cleanse us first. So anything that's there, it's like, oh, here we go. About to get purified.
Here we go. About to die again to myself. Here we go. I didn't even know that was in there.
How many of you have had something come up in your heart that it shocked you? You were like,
some people will shock so much that you're literally like, I don't even feel saved right
now. Like, I thought I was a Christian. Do I got to get born again, again, again, then again?
Yeah. So there's something, there's something about him checking the intent of our heart.
And what's interesting is finances, he's particularly says in our giving, it checks the
intent of our heart. Right? It can go so many variations. It can be like, I only have this
much money, I don't see where we should have to give. Okay, fine. Or it's, yeah, I got all kinds
of bucks laying around. I wonder how I can press. You know, they're going to know I'm behind this
project. You can have the wrong intent of the heart, 15 different ways for sure when it comes
to finances. But when it comes down to it, is it a money issue? No. It's a wrong intent
that God is trying to cleanse out of us. It's like, like tithing, for instance, that belongs to the Lord.
So if we have any wrong intentions around that where we thought it was ours,
oh, you're going to get tried, my friend. That's why whenever you just say the word money in
church, people get funky, they're like, oh, I don't know. You know, because there's something
there. It's not the money. It's the command that he tells us to do. And anytime there's something
that says, here's what righteousness looks like, and this is what I'm asking you to do. And most
of the time, if you go through different commands in the Bible, this is what he's telling us to do.
God doesn't go, you know, so if you got time there, you know, tiger, if you want to do
this, you go ahead. I mean, think about it. Pray about it for a while. Most of righteousness is this
is what's right and just do these things, right? And so, since he took over our heart, and now
he's the Lord and I'm not, do I have a choice? Yes, I have a choice the way the kingdom set up.
I can choose against it. But with the exchange I made with him, I promised to not choose
against it. I said, you will be Lord, and I will not. I am making this exchange with you.
And so, here's my life, God. Thank you for salvation power. Remember, one of the meanings
to the word salvation is to take the limits off by the finger of God. Damnation is to
put the limits on, right? So we're being delivered all the time from the wrong intent of the heart.
Amen. So sin affects us in this way. So the Lord saw that the wickedness or the depravity of
man was great on the earth, and every imagination or intent of the thoughts of his heart were only
evil continually. That's, you know, that's what it's like. Even on your nicest day,
you got all that lurking around in there, and yet the kingdom is taken over.
The kingdom of God's taken over in here, right? So why I'm bringing this up is if
things get funky as we move into this series, like they got funky when we moved into, let's,
let's talk about offense, right? People are like, sure. And then like, stop, you know,
and it's upcoming later because you're like, well, I didn't think it was talking about me.
I mean, I'm not really easily offended. Next thing you know, you're offended, or you realize
how offended you've been this whole time. So what I'm saying is in Christianity, there's some type
of religious thing that's produced where it's roses and fluffy clouds and everything's supposed
to be wonderful if you're doing the right thing. We're just always happy. Praise God,
we have that kind of life. When really the true Christianity is I'm actually trying to take all
of this into this narrow way. And I'm feeling it on the whole step of the way. Does it mean that
the joy of the Lord isn't my strength? That's what makes the joy of the Lord so supernatural.
Because when you're suffering like that, going through the narrow way, you can turn a
comedian on and laugh for a moment. You're like, right? It doesn't carry you. You can watch all the
sitcoms with the jokes and all that kind of stuff. It won't carry you through the narrow way. You have
to have the joy of the Lord. And after a while, the joy will actually say, wow, there's suffering.
Oh, this is good, right? And you'll actually have a smile about the suffering as the
certain points. When you go through that death process, because you have to let certain things
behind and take certain things on to be able to go there. And the whole time it's the intent of the
heart he's looking for. Proverbs says he judges the intent of the heart.
So he doesn't judge how much you put in the offering plate. He judges the intent of the heart.
Right? What's your intention on getting married? What's your intention on
raising a family? What is the true intent in you that you set it up? And this is this is
a thing that a lot of times as we're being purified, and we're going through some and we're
suffering, we will say, I never intended it for it to go this way. I never thought that's what
God meant when he said, right? Because we had our own intentions. The intent of our heart
says, sure, if you're going to ask me to go on the mission field, this is what it should
look like. So that's what I'm going to believe for. Praise God, it's going to be wonderful.
Right? Somehow you're on the mission field, and the funds didn't come in, and so you ain't
eating today. Was the intent of your heart that? No, you never intended it to be that way.
And God wants the best for us, but yet he's looking for those spots there
for us to keep going. Even though we're not eating today, we're going to keep going.
Because the intent of our heart is to accomplish the mission. This is why people perish with the
lack of knowledge, and they perish without a vision. Because it's the vision that holds the
line. So for Word of Life, if we didn't have the vision book, and we didn't have different
things that he told us, the prophecies, different things like that, to help map this thing
where it's going, think about how crazy that would be. Even the sermons being preached,
we'd be over here, over there, over here. You could jump all over the place,
because you're not really heading anywhere. But part of what happens is when he shows you
vision, you're like, ah man, I saw it. I saw it. I saw it. And so I gotta give you an example.
Someone asked me, you know, so what motel are you staying at when you go up to
to Red Lake? You know, what are you doing? No? You know, Bonnie goes up there and she drives
three and a half hours or whatever it is from your place, and she comes back the same night.
That's not a bragatory thing. That's what it's going to take to get it done.
Right? Now, if the intent of my heart was this to be about me, and I'm going to be a
speaker up there, whatever you know, the motel rooms up there are almost $200 a night.
But I deserve that. See, there's times you'll ask us to not do certain things. So sometimes I'll
tell you, I sleep in my car because the very next day, you know, I'll pull over and I'll be at a
holiday gas station or something because I got to speak up brainered the next day. So I'll speak
in the morning the next day, right? Talk about test the intent of your heart. How bad do you
want this? How bad do you want the people of Red Lake to be saved? Now you can go into another
ditch and be like, I'm going to be the superhero, and I'll purposely put myself in
all these spots, and I want people to know how I'm suffering, and that's a wrong intent of the
heart. But sometimes he'll give you the vision, you got to head toward it,
and you do whatever it takes to get there. That is a forgotten art in our society now.
Like, it got really hard, Pastor. It's been like two weeks. Okay.
What are all the things you're doing to push through that? Because it's going to start getting
really narrow. There's a narrow way to get to the lost, and it's going to check every intent
of your heart, right? So I had to speak at Brainard Women's Teen Challenge at 7.30 in the
morning, and I thought, I'm going to just drive there and sleep in their parking lot.
Then when I got there, I was like, oh, that's right. They have security cameras.
It was like two o'clock in the morning, and I'm like, ah, I hope I don't get arrested.
So I tried to park behind their van, and sure enough, they saw, they saw out there the
women were like, I don't know. We were just the staff was like, we just kept looking,
who's out there? And I thought, man, if they had come out, I'm going to pass out like this.
Then I'd look like, you know, yeah, she needs to come in the clinic here.
So you do stuff. What I'm saying is if your intention is glory, this is going to be so
wonderful. And I'm going to come in because I'm Pastor Mary and people will listen to me.
You know what I'm saying? No, it's like, I'm going to put my hair back together,
because I've been all crunched up in this seat, and you go in and they don't know the
difference. Amen. It'll purify, it'll pull out any intent of the heart that you had that was wrong.
What's the intent of us getting this bigger building? Well, of course, it's for the lost
till we start heading that way.
What? It's going to require what? Well, I didn't think we were going to have...
What? Right? More prayer? Financial giving? Extravagant giving? What's told us?
Just put that word extravagant. God said it to us. The word extravagant. And we're like,
yeah, isn't that one praise God? Someone is going to give extravagantly. And he's like,
yeah, I'm looking at him. Do you see what I'm saying? There's something too...
It's a false belief in America that get with one of those churches where everything's happy
all the time. And we're wonderful. And just get in that setting. We'll take care of you.
After all, we're family. That's a dysfunctional family.
We got up and we dug our sewer lines because we didn't have the money to
to go and get all the stuff it took to dig them out. Our little kids were out there digging with us.
Right? Because that's how it had to be done. The family had to do it together. So
would we stop on everything? You can't stop on everything he asked you to do and be like,
too hard, too much. No, the attitude really is come hell or high water. That's the thing
we're doing. I don't know how we're going to swim through the high water. And we're going to walk
right through the gates of hell and take back what the enemy has stolen from the church.
That's our assignment. And it's not always going to be pretty.
Not always going to be pretty. So I think that we're going to be as we're going into this
series and we have to take last series and keep it attached. You never lose the foundation as he's
building the foundation. Everything has to stay intact. And you'll always glean from the foundation
of the things that have been spoken for like the last year and the vision book in completeness,
right? You go back because that's your base when you're going through the narrow where you're
like, ah, you're like, oh, let's go back and see now. What was that he said again? Are you
sure you said that? Yeah, he said that. You get re-excited about what he said because you see the
long term, amen? But he'll give you big vision. And then here's the detail to detail that you're
going to have to walk out, right? And the detail is what tests the intent of the heart.
It's a test. You know, like the this is a test to the emergency broadcasting system.
This is only a test. And sometimes I'll say that out loud just to joke with myself because the joy of
the Lord works like that. Like you're in the middle of suffering and you can crack a joke.
My mama does that when she's been in the hospital and different things like that.
She's the one that's making the nurses laugh and halfway taking care of them. And they're
like, who is this woman? She'll be, she's cracking jokes. She could be suffering, but
she's just like, hey, you know, because there's something about that joy because she knows
where she's going when she, when she's going to die, right? I mean, she, she knows that. And so
it's like, she's just happy about life. You can get that joy of the Lord, but when the joy of the
Lord doesn't erase the narrow way. It's a false belief. Few there are that find it. And it's
a harder way. Amen. It's a false belief to think the wide way that anyone can step into
and do pretty much whatever you want is going to apply to the narrow way. It doesn't.
So part of us dying to ourself is getting rid of that thought pattern.
Now that's not confessing that to get up, get to the building over there. It's going to be hard.
It doesn't have to be. All depends on where your joy meter is at.
So the joy of the Lord is our strength that makes us strong enough to head
through something that's hard. That's what carries us. That's what makes it our strength.
But if you're looking for the feeling of happy, this doesn't make me happy.
This isn't, you know, happy goes away real quick. Amen.
I had something. I felt like it was, it was spiritual. I was over my oldest son. Our oldest
son does adult foster care. And it was one of their guy's birthday. And I stayed at the
house. So I think it was so Eric and Ari could come to the CPR class. And it was his birthday.
And so he just had cake and stuff. And I don't know. He was watching something. He started
laughing. And I started laughing. Then we couldn't stop laughing. I can't say the
spirit of God came in or whatever. But it was so funny that if I think about it,
now I can start laughing. It was a very spiritual moment. And they had thought, well, when he,
when they come home, he's probably going to be sad, you know, because it didn't go the way that he
thought and everything. And they walked in and we were both like just rolling. And, and Ari says,
what's so funny? I'm like, I don't know. It was, it was just one of those moments.
The joy of the Lord can take you through things just like that. Amen.
And I think part of what it's how we read the word or how we've been taught the word,
we many times have been taught that back in the day they used to do it this way,
that's when it was hard, right? They went to prison for this. They did it. All that stuff
is still here. We've just been comfortable. But somehow it translates in the brain. The
don't have to suffer like that. We've come a long way. We're not going to have to suffer like they
suffered back in the day when Paul threw people in the lion's den. People are dying in this moment
being beheaded, skin to live, burned in this moment. It's just, we're comfortable.
So when we head towards something great, it takes the joy of the Lord to carry us,
but know that it's going to get uncomfortable. Why does it have to get uncomfortable? It only
gets uncomfortable if the intent of our heart is wrong. And for me to say, no, we're not going
to suffer anything because all of our intents are just perfect right now. We have all the
right intentions. We just, we just know now he's set it up for us. Here's the command,
line upon line, precept upon precept. Precept means command upon command
that I'm asking you and I'm commanding you to follow. And you're going to have to go through
that narrow way to get it. And we're all like, praise God, it's going to be so wonderful.
It's for the lost. And as we start waltzing that way, ow, it starts happening. Frustrations.
And many times it'll be a frustration. You won't connect to like say a project that God's asking
you to. You'll, you'll be like, my family's the one that's just irritating me right now.
Oh, it's connected to the project. Everything that has something going on will suddenly,
when God moves, everything moves. So that they've got wrong intentions or you have
wrong intentions about them. Now's the time. A cleansing is about to take place.
So every time he asks us to go to the new land, the new level, the next thing he's going to
give us, we are going to go through deliverance. So if he asked us to be extravagant givers,
what are we being delivered up? Poverty. Oh, I didn't, I thought he wants this to be
extravagant givers. Yeah, but you can't go to one thing unless you conquer the other.
And that one thing coming on us will conquer the other. You have to be in motion of it
for this to die. And that applies to every other area. That's how it works.
So I'm just giving a reality check and we're going to pray here regarding the intent of our hearts.
I had about five other scriptures I wanted to read, but I'm not going to because I think we,
I think we got it. Do we got it? That there's, let's be honest, in the last six months of us
going through the different series that we've gone through, did the intent of your heart get checked?
Yeah, the aha moments where you're just like, I did not see that coming. And our training
for us in this world sin, when it gets on you or in you, whether someone did it to you,
where you participated in yourself, causes a victim mentality where it'll be, you know,
I'm the victim that makes everyone else the bully. That means it's everyone else's fault.
And then when he starts leading us and we choose to go the way that he's asked us,
we start to have to own us. They might have done stuff, but we have to own. Oh, man,
I had a wrong attitude. Oh, this is not, I don't know why I'm getting so angry with it,
because he's working on you. It's not a victim mentality. It's for us to own our own behaviors,
repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. Now check this out. The kingdom of God is right here.
I've said this before, so you're, when you studied it, when it means at hand,
the word picture is it's no farther out than I can reach is right here. So when you get
born again, you invite the kingdom in his domain, his rule. He comes in and all of a sudden you're
just like, oh, yeah, he's Lord. I'm not. And the whole thing switches. That's when we start
dying to ourself. The day we got born again, woohoo, every day after that, dying to self.
Amen. So I just want to deal with this before we pray.
I've had several people say, just trying to process the whole dying to self or whatever,
doesn't that ever get over dying to self? And or are we in a spot where isn't that
a lot of negative where you're constantly working on dying to yourself? Oh, you don't even have to
think about it. Just head toward the narrow way. It's not us going like, I got to die.
I'm holding on. Something here's got to be, I don't know what it is yet, but I'm, oh,
just go serve. Just go serve. Just go ahead toward the narrow way. Just be obedient and say,
yes, Lord, what would you have me to do today? And you start heading that way. Oh, you'll end
up dying to yourself. You don't even know what to die to unless you head the way of righteousness.
Amen? So I'm bringing that up because I think people, sometimes people will translate that
like we're just in a sin consciousness. We've got to concentrate on all the bad
that's in our life. Oh, you don't have to concentrate on it. You just be moving along,
having a good day. Someone says something to you and the intent of your heart comes up
evil and you're like, oh, snap. What was that? That's the thing you need to die to.
See, it's a mindset. It's not about you trying to find your evil. It's about you
trying to find what God's asking you to do and head that way. And whatever is there,
it'll come up. And then rejoice in that. Rejoice that it came up. It's not hidden anymore.
How many of you have that? So you have the joy of the Lord as our strength. Rejoice is like you
rejoice. Like, I wasn't operating in the joy. So now I need to get with God so I can
rejoice over this thing. And it comes out like, who I'm going to reset the whole thing to
think about it differently. And I'm going to rejoice. So I rejoice. Amen. Let's stand.
I'm just getting you ready for the great things that are coming. Because many times it's approach.
It's approach that, you know, same problem, same bad channel, right? But as you're headed toward it,
it's your approach. And if we all kind of get on the same page, that's what's happening. I don't
need to condemn myself because I had an evil thought or something dumb came out my mouth.
That's just the intent of my heart talking. And then we got to go after it now. And
that's the thing I need to die to. It can be that simple. Amen. So Father, we just come before you.
We thank you. I'm going to have the band come. We thank you for who you are and what you've
been doing this whole time, Lord God. You have mapped out inside of us such a gentle way. It
seems intense at times, but you didn't just blast us with everything in the last couple
years. You've brought us through one step at a time, just like hiking up a mountain. You're like,
come follow me. And it's one rock at a time we step on, one trail at a time. We're taking it
like that. You're not the kind of God that is, you're just pushy. You've invited us along
with where you're already at. Come with me. Follow me. And discipleship will come on you.
And discipleship will come on you.
See, he's trying to make us disciples because he told us to go and make disciples. And why
that's not happening in the church of Jesus Christ is because we're not yet disciples ourselves.
You have to be a disciple to understand how important it is to make
disciples. And that comes through the follow, that comes through the narrow way,
that comes through us pushing in.
So we speak to the atmosphere, we speak to what we've been carrying and walking,
and we speak to our soul that has certain pathways that are lined up with wrong intent.
And they've been trained in poverty thinking. They've been trained in different things
where we're not able to walk in the goodness of God. Break now. The power over you, break.
We are going after the promises of God. His promises are yes in amen, they are true.
We're going after how his intent is, not our intent. We're going after the bigger picture
that he sees and we do not. And we do this by faith in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name
of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Test and see that the Lord is good.
Do not let us forget where you've brought us from, Lord, and all the words that were spoken,
and all the scripture that came forth that divides out things in our heart. Oh, Lord,
God, let that be welded inside of us as a foundation that we're going to jump off of
into the next things that you have for us. Discipleship. Disciplined ones. Discipleship. Come upon this
church. Come upon TBO. Come upon all the ministries that we're a part of and those watching online
who submit themselves. Lord God, discipleship. That the intent of our heart would change from
just believing to following and then being disciples. Let's pray in the spirit for a little bit
because you can feel in the atmosphere we're about to move into something different and it feels like
we don't know where we're stepping. You can turn the lights so we can get ready for worship.
Do you know how to pray in the spirit with fervor?
You just step into it. You don't wait for God to get on you. You step into it.
We are looking for the things that we pray in the spirit for the interpretation to start this
morning as we're speaking holy things. Holy spirit is speaking out into the atmosphere
and the interpretations will come through dreams and visions and insight and wisdom.
That we might rightfully divide the word.
That we might look at our suffering differently. We might be suffering of things that are not
sufferable. That the joy of the Lord just wants to take over that area. It just wants to take over
that area. We give those things to you Lord God. Let the joy of the Lord be our strength.
We choose to receive your principles, your ways of doing things. We say yes in amen to change of the heart.
Interesting that if your heart is offended, it's very difficult to hold on to the blessing.
It's very difficult when it's offended to receive the blessing. The word bless means
empowered to prosper, to have success down the road. When the intent of our heart is being
messed with by offense, this is how important it was that we went through this, it will block
your ability to receive anything from God. Because your focus is it's taken up too much
time, energy in your brain, in your soul, and we're not in a receiving mode. The word receive
means to take. To take. Like the building that's going to appear out there, we already took it.
Well, where is it? Well, it took it. It's in process. It's in prize ours. It belongs to us. We took
it because we can say the same thing, I receive it Lord. I receive a heart change. Well, how
do you receive a heart change? You take it. The intent of your heart is I took it. It
belongs to me. I will walk it out. It's childlike thinking to think you pray something, and then
I don't know why God's just not doing it. Now get up. Get up. Get up into that righteous spot and take
it in the name of Jesus. Let's pray one more time in the wave of the Spirit. He birthed
something in us because those who pray in unknown tongues, it edifies your spirit.
It makes your spirit strong. It brings your spirit forward, and the soul has to come in order underneath
it, and the flesh has to come in order underneath it. We're going where God goes, and the rest of
me is coming with. We pray for fire in this house. Fire in this house, Lord God. The fire
of God. The dunamis. Fire of God. Dynamite in this house. Dynamite in our hearts where the kingdom is.
The sphere of your rule. Your domain. Take dominion.
Let every intent be weighed. Let us see it clear so we can own our behaviors.
So repentance can come, so the limits come off, and all forms of putting the limits on,
like damnation, have to leave. Oh, now we're first in the spot of receiving the anointing.
Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.