Turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 26.
I just want to go over something that we're going to go over today, Lord willing.
I say that because I just felt so, like,
inside, just wrestling with where you want this thing to go.
Whenever that happens, then there's just something about that
where I just know back off and just let God do whatever He wants to do, for sure.
Sometimes, I mean, we always do that, but many times we'll say this is what I want you to do.
If He ain't saying nothing, you just leave it alone and let Him do what He wants to do.
We talked about wells, and years ago, Jim Isaacson had brought up that we're digging a well,
and he said, I see it here at the altar, we're digging a well.
And that's when we moved from the modular to here, and it was psychologically, that's a weird transfer.
Hopefully it even goes smoother when we move from here over into the new sanctuary,
because you have that oddity of change and all of that kind of stuff.
And then it gets frustrating because people, they want God to be moving,
but their brain is so distracted from all the new stuff, and it takes a bit to kick that in.
But once we got in sync with the spirit, we definitely were digging a well.
And that's still going on, and it's still stirring the waters to keep everything fresh.
You can't do that in the natural, that has to be done in the supernatural, without getting weird.
I always have to put that clause on the end.
And so some people would say we're weird already, but if it's word, it's word.
But if it's outside of word, then that's weird.
So we want to make sure that we do that.
When we talked about the wells, where Isaac was blessed,
then Isaac planted seed, this is verse 12 of 26 in Genesis.
Then Isaac planted seed in the land that was given to him as a farmer
and reaped in the same year a hundred times as much as he had planted,
and the Lord blessed and favored him.
We are in, believe it or not, doesn't matter how many attacks, what's going on in America, Israel,
all of those different things, we are in seed time and harvest.
And not only have we been in seed time and harvest since forever,
since Genesis, when it says seed time and harvest will continue.
I mean, it's not that it ended, it will always be, right?
Until the Lord sets up a different system, but he operates as a farmer,
he operates on seed time and harvest.
And so what we're in right now, I find interesting as a prayer group,
we have to pay attention to when God highlights a subject,
you go through all the growth around that subject,
or you're in denial to the subject.
These are your options.
Like, I don't want to hear about it, I'll wait till this is done.
We'll skip this or whatever.
Well, this is a part of the church growing and Pastor's been talking a little bit.
He had a little chance to talk on tithing,
but that's not only the tithe and it's not just settling an argument.
Yes, we want to know that that's in the Word,
but we also want to know just the attitude of giving.
And part of it that got highlighted was in open heavens, right?
And what did he say in open heavens?
What did the Lord say through several different people?
What kind of giving is going to happen here?
Extravagant.
That means in order to be...
You know, anytime you have the end result spoken over you,
you're like, yes, let's do it,
but you don't know the middle.
You don't know how this thing's kind of work, you know?
But we usually like to just kind of jump into the harvest
and I'll be talking to some about that this morning.
You can't, as a farmer, you can't just jump into the harvest.
It's a progressive thing, right?
So you hear about the harvest and you're like,
that's what I want. I want to be a part of that.
I not only want to learn how to tithe,
but I want to learn how to do offerings properly with the right heart.
And I want to learn how to do alms,
which most people don't understand.
How many of you heard tons of sermons on alms?
Hands are flying up everywhere
because nobody really talks about it.
So, you know, and so then when it's not talked about,
then there's no structure for it.
If there's no structure, then there's nothing we can take
ourself and measure to
because there's no structure laying there.
There's no measurement that we can lay down next to
and be like, how am I doing?
There's no structure for that.
So that means even if you're doing alms,
are you doing it right?
Even if we're participating in doing offerings,
do we have the right heart
and what's our heart supposed to be like?
All of those different things.
And so the blessing was spoke over Isaac.
We saw this and it was around also the opening of the wells.
So when God, and I'll say this,
when God highlights something
that we're supposed to go after
and we say, yes, and amen,
we kick into obedience.
And it's the doers who get that reward, right?
You get the benefit of actually harvesting.
It's the doers.
It's not that I just heard about it
and I thought about it.
It's you actually have to get up and do it.
The doers carry the blessing,
produce the blessing around them
and in them by just by being obedient.
So Isaac's trying to be obedient here.
The favor of God is on him.
The blessing is there.
He goes ahead and he plants
and he reaps in the same year
a hundred times as much as he had planted.
Ooh, that is a good harvest.
That's a farmer's dream.
And the Lord blessed and favored him.
Grace to him is another word for favor.
Or the word favor actually means favorite.
Favorite.
Like, hey, let me make you my favorite.
Not choosing you out of everyone else.
Everyone can put themselves in that spot
where favor and grace has come upon us
and we just feel like his favorite.
Like, thanks, God.
I know I'm your favorite kid.
You take care of me so well
because favor feels that way.
Because you don't really deserve it.
Neither do I.
But favor is grace.
And we already know we don't deserve that.
And yet he freely gives it to us.
Isn't that awesome?
And so the thing I'm trying to draw
is the picture of we talked about the wells
and the wells that Abraham
had built under the direction of God or Doug
and then how they got covered over.
And then here, Isaac's doing what God told him to do
and it ticks off the Philippines.
You know, the Philippians.
Like she said, the Philistines.
So here I'm in a different country.
And so then Isaac planted seed in that land
as a farmer and reaped in the same year
a hundred times as much as he had planted
and the Lord blessed and favored him.
And the man Isaac became great
and gained more and more until he became very wealthy
and extremely distinguished.
He owned flocks and herds and great households
with a number of servants,
and the Philistines envied him.
So when God highlights something in our life,
he could highlight healing.
Like we're going to go through a series on healing.
Now is the time to do that.
Well, when you speak on healing, healings come forward.
It's like, you know, it's like prophetic
to like, here's what we're dealing with.
So here's what's going to come to pass.
So if we're dealing with tithing, if we're dealing
with offering, if we're dealing with the hearts
that surrounds around alms,
all of those heart issues are going to be dealt with.
We're also prophetically speaking
that we're going to be in the go-motion of it.
The go-motion? That's my term.
If you're in the go-motion of something,
that means you're in process,
like you're headed that way.
And the blessing works like that
because the word bless means empowered to prosper
to have success down the road.
So you have to be heading down the road of obedience
in the go-motion
for this thing to even take place.
And this is where people can get critical
and we become experts on something we've never done.
And we're not in the go-motion.
We hear just enough to be dangerous,
but not enough to know.
And we'll be like, I don't know if I believe that.
We're not even in the go-motion.
So you don't really have to comment.
You don't really have a right to speak into it.
You don't really have a right to have an opinion
because you're not a part of it
to let it prove itself.
Right?
So be careful of that
because something that stuck out to me
what Pastor said last time he preached
was tithing is holy.
All giving is holy.
And anything that is holy
and supposed to be held in that
will challenge the heart
and anything that's unholy
will stick its little head up.
Which is good because then you can cut it off.
If you don't know if it's there,
you can't see what's in your heart.
Anytime you're in the go-motion,
you find out stuff about yourself
you did not know before.
If you're sitting still, you already know
you're fine, everything's great.
I just don't believe in that.
You start applying the word in any area.
It doesn't have to just be giving.
It's in any principle of the kingdom of God.
And the kingdom of God is connected to the place,
the kingdom of heaven, right?
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth
as it already is in heaven.
We're lining up with the heavenlies
when we do the things he's asked us to do.
And if we don't do the things he's asked us to do,
who are we lining up with?
So we like to think there's a gray area
that we just hang out in, you know?
No, it's pretty black and white.
There's only two sides.
There's only light, darkness.
There's only life or death.
Choose life that you might live.
So here, I'm just pointing out this fact.
So he's highlighting this.
And instead of being like wrestling with it,
we should be excited about it.
Like God's about to do something in my heart
I've never experienced before.
And then when you start to go in the go motion,
what happens is that grave I talked about,
a seed and you're planted.
I'm gonna die to myself and I'm gonna learn about this.
You're in that grave, that grief area,
where you actually don't want to let go of certain things,
but you know you're gonna do it.
And there's a little bit of pain involved.
So as we move toward that and we're in the go motion,
the surroundings around us go where you think you're going.
There's just like this agitation in the spirit realm.
So we're headed towards something that God has highlighted.
It's been there, right?
He showed you Old Testament, New Testament.
Just the giving heart.
I'm not even gonna say tithing.
I'm just gonna say the heart of giving.
Jesus laid down his life,
which is the ultimate heart of giving, right?
And we're all worried about little money.
And he laid down his life, right?
And so he requires that of the planting.
And then the favor, he'll just put favor on it.
It's like, I got you, I got you.
You're gonna get through this.
It looks crazy, but I'm gonna take you through it.
And you're in the go motion.
And the surroundings start swirling
with this enviable feeling
like, where do you think you're going?
You are not going to better yourself,
your heart, your mind.
Who do you think you are?
This is a scripture, you know, where it says,
may you be in health even as your soul prospers.
Well, to be in the go motion regarding the giving heart,
your soul's gonna prosper.
The demonic realm doesn't like that.
Sin itself hates that.
Because it's a subtractor.
And God's saying, no, I want to add to you.
And it's saying, no, I'm here to subtract from you.
That's the math I do.
The curse does that math and that math alone.
Even anything the demonic realm will bring to you,
whether it be wealth or something like that,
if they can use it to subtract from your heart,
it's still the winning goal.
It's not about how much you have,
it's about the heart issue.
Right? So I'm bringing this up because I feel
like we need to understand
count the cost before you go to war.
There's a clashing in the heavenlies right now.
There's a destructive force that's happening
around all the issues that are out there
that God's asking us to go to and toward
and be in the motion of.
And so we have to understand outside
there's distractions and they're swirling.
Look at this. This is so horrible.
Inside, as you get closer, it's like
it tries to make you feel a certain way,
think a certain way.
And there's a wrestling that goes on.
And inside the heart there's this whole
I need to die to myself
and be in the motion.
And so you know if the distraction can get you,
you stop being in the go motion.
You just stop because you're going through a storm.
We have to wait because we're going through something.
We'll have to just, you know, put the brakes on
because this is a lot.
I mean, there's just a lot going on.
There's always a lot going on.
But this is how you'll sound.
You'll sound like I'm in the go motion.
Praise God.
And no, I just got to stop.
This is coming at me too quick.
I mean, I need to take a break.
I need to take a sabbatical from life.
When God calls you to something,
that's where He wants you to go.
Come hell or high water.
Right?
He wants you to go there.
He'll give you breaks and be still and know that He is God
and He'll give you peace and He'll reward you
with that grace that you're like, this is amazing.
I didn't even feel like going this morning.
And yet I'm in the go motion
and I can feel His presence.
It's not something you earn
by pushing yourself around,
but it's something that happens in the attitude of the heart.
It's not what you mentally ascend and say,
you know, I'm going to make myself do all these works.
It's more of like you called my heart to something
and I'm going to show up.
I'm going to show up for that thing you call my heart too.
So, the Philistines envy Him.
Now all the wells which His Father,
servant said, dug in the days of Abraham,
His Father, the Philistines stopped up
by filling them with dirt.
Thank you very much.
So when you're on the go motion,
here's the thing that it's the little dreamer part inside of us
that still thinks like we're in heaven
when we're in this earthly realm
passing through this wicked place.
We think that He gives us an assignment,
a big call or something like that
and we're like, yes, let's do it.
Let's get there.
And then it should just be roses and fluffy clouds on our way
because we serve God.
Amen?
There's that part of us where we're like,
oh, we don't think like that,
but we act like we think like that.
We posture ourselves like we think like that
and that's why we get so frustrated
when something, you know, doesn't look right
when somebody covers up a well
and we're like, hey, what are you doing with my well?
You can't be doing that.
You have every opportunity to get offended,
irritated, and stop the go motion.
It's all just distractions.
Right? Well, I guess we're digging this one back out.
Right? I mean, it can come down to that matter of fact
like, wow, the atmosphere is ticked about where I'm headed
and we just dug a well
and now this one got covered over.
Well, we're just going to dig another one
and we're going to go back and dig that one out too
if you read the story.
It's all impostering of attitude
and you can go to an attitude that is the woe is me
and you might not think
you're just going through a tough time
and I'm not being merciless.
I mean, everybody goes through tough times
but we're in a war.
Now, if I had to go to war,
I would not want to go to a war with a team of people
that were winers.
Would you?
Vernon and I had talked about
if we're ever stuck in a concentration camp
like, who would we want in there with us?
You know, what would be the perfect thing, right?
I was like, I don't really want to be in there
with a bunch of winers or complainers
or people are like, it's so hard.
It's so hard.
Yeah.
I know. I'm going through it too.
I know but you don't understand what I'm going through.
So, it isn't that you desensitize
and you never feel suffering.
You need to feel what you feel.
Your emotions feel what they feel.
It's what you tell them to do next.
And what you hold it to is,
I'm not leaving the go motion.
I don't care if I'm in a concentration camp where I am.
I'm on the go. I'm on the go.
This thing is moving in my heart.
I will find something to give,
something to do in the worst situations
that will be like, hey, this is time to plant a seed
right now in this concentration camp.
I'm going to break off my little piece of bread
and give it to this person over here.
I mean, you can plant seed that way
or you can stop everything and make it about me.
This is hard. This is so hard.
I've been a whiner, so I know.
I know what that's like.
We've all whined at times.
And so, Isaac knew enough
because of his relationship with God
and the relationship he saw his father have with God.
And Abraham was blessed, right,
and chosen for covenant
because he commanded his children.
So, when you're commanded by the Lord
or by your father and you get in the habit of like,
I will respond to that, yes and amen.
I'm going to do that because that's the command.
I'm in the go motion.
Then when God asks you to do something,
it is far easier to get up and go do that thing.
But if you just been out there willy-nilly
and you didn't have that structure, it's hard.
It's hard to get up and show up for the battle, right?
So, here's where full gospel Christians especially,
but I peak at all kinds of churches
and I hear all kinds of stuff.
We get what we call grandiose ideas.
And the grandiose ideas,
I can just flow in the anointing enough
that's going to stop all this persecution
and all these things
and I will just jedi this whole thing.
Right?
And then we have to do the pray harder
where you're like, you know,
cry longer, stuff like that.
I'm not picking on anybody.
I'm just saying we got to make sure our attitudes are right
and our approach is right before God.
He said, come boldly before his throne of grace
in your hour of need.
Well, that's what I'm going to do.
That still puts me in the go motion.
If he promised me something,
his promise is true and I still got ahead there.
Oof.
Drag your body with you.
It doesn't want to go there.
I end up dragging mine all over the place.
You're like, get up.
What are you thinking?
Get up.
We got to go.
And so there is something about that.
Notice that the Philistines in there
is opposite of the covenant that was had.
I don't care.
There probably was some nice people involved.
But they were opposite of the covenant
and this is what caused them
to be enviable.
They were like, you ain't getting this.
No, no, no.
You can't have all the wells and all the stuff here.
You're getting too big, too fast.
I will tell you that to begin with,
when you start a church, people are like,
well, it's that little cult.
You know, especially people getting healed
and stuff like that.
I don't know.
They got this little thing.
Then it grows to a certain size
and there's a different criticism.
Each level, there's a different criticism.
I mean, what do you think is going to happen
when we go from here to the new building?
What do they think they're taking over?
There's far bigger churches than when we go
to the new building.
But in this area, it'll be the end
when they think, you know, it's kind of a cult.
People are dust.
That's that enviable thing that will be there
that we just count the cost before we go to war.
It's not like, I can't even believe this is happening.
Pastor Igor, this is happening all over again.
And it's just so hard.
Now when you're in war, you kind of expect
like, yeah, there's some stuff.
But I have the go-motion going on
and he told me, so I'm under the directive
as an ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'm well decorated.
He has gifted me.
And anything he hasn't given me yet,
he'll cover it.
I'm going this way.
Right?
That's the general I would want to follow in war.
That's the leader that I'd be like,
okay, even if I die today, I'll die with honor.
I won't die in a group of whiny babies.
Amen?
That's kind of almost a slap, right?
To all of us.
But it's that, like, hey, wake up.
In case he's got you so in the spirit of heaviness.
We've talked about that,
where the spirit of heaviness comes on.
Well, what breaks that is what?
The garment of praise breaks the spirit of heaviness.
And he also told us a couple of Sundays ago
that the song about Zion
is going to bring that deliverance
in the year of Jubilee.
Well, I'm in the go motion.
He's been giving us clues and directions
and things that are happening.
But because of the stir that's going on around,
we're like, why isn't it happening yet?
Oh, what's happening?
You've, you went to war and the Lord said,
I want you to take this city.
Just like they did David or whatever.
And then I promise you the victory.
Right?
When the Lord would say, go do this,
there was already going to be victory.
So he wasn't like, see you later.
You might not make it out of this one.
Right?
Because he put the highest standards.
So we come up to the highest thought,
the highest way of thinking
and align ourselves with him and get in the go motion.
And then they would take the city.
But you're not going to take the city
if the distractions get to you
and you're like, just wait, this is hard.
I don't know.
We can't do...
I know you can't.
It has to be by the power of God.
And right now there's such a stirring.
I was telling Pastor Igor that
seven people in one week
were calling me ready to attempt suicide.
Something's up.
The storms are clashing.
The things that are going up.
But in the middle of that,
people are getting saved left and right.
Spent so much fun.
Yeah?
But if you're just focused on that,
I can and it's too hard.
You're not even going to see that.
You don't even care about that.
You're like, well, good for them.
I'm suffering.
But usually,
the battle is around rescue.
The battle is around taking a certain area
so people can get set free.
And if you're in the go-motion of that,
woo-hoo!
Amen?
There might be some fatigue at times.
Then you got to take that little break
just to let him, you know,
reboot you and then you go.
But your heart is always in the go-motion.
So he asked me to bring this up this morning
because of the stirring that's going on,
just because we have to keep reality real.
Because this swirling that goes on around
creates a different reality.
It's that outward like, oh, yeah,
that's what's happening.
That's what's happening.
What's going on in your heart
is the most important thing between you and God.
Right?
When you look to all this,
you pay attention to it,
but that's about it.
Amen?
Like the storms that were going on last night,
you could get caught up and like,
maybe this is the night I'm going to die.
It's come in for us.
We don't know.
What if we lose everything?
I mean, you could get caught in it
because it's swirling around you
or you could just remind yourself,
oh, yeah, I'm not done here yet.
He gave me too many assignments
to all of a sudden retract that.
And it could be that calm.
So we're not looking at that.
But many times the physical atmosphere
shows you also what's going on in the spiritual.
When there's a clash in the heaven,
these things are all around you.
And you start looking and you're like,
oh, don't take it personal.
Like it's only about you.
It only happens to you.
Nobody else understands your thing.
Hey, we're all going through this.
We're at war.
Amen?
So this morning, I want to switch here
and remember if you feel like there's a well
that got covered over,
well, we have the power to go back and dig it out.
Dig a new one.
Dig a better one.
It's all attitude.
At the same time, we carry the blessing.
We are blessed and highly favored of God.
Let's stand.
We're blessed and highly favored of God.
Can you confidently say that here this morning?
Above the problems, above the sickness,
above all the, hey, I'm blessed
and highly favored of God.
He is made a way where there seems to be no way.
He is the God of war and the appointed time.
He is the God who sees and meets the need.
He is El Shaddai, the all-sufficient God.
The God who is more than enough.
And so he shakes the church to get us up, up, up, up, up,
to get in the goal motion.
We're going to show up.
We're going to be there.
We're going to be in his power and in his might
and it will come to pass.
Oh, we invite you, Lord God.
We invite you, Lord, right now, right here, right now.
Come, come, come.
Oh, Lord, and we stir up the gifts that are within us,
those areas that kind of sit in the background
because we've been paying too much attention
to the swirling around us.
We look to the thing he's already given us.
Get up!
Stir up!
Stir up gifts of God.
Stir up discernment.
Stir up!
Oh, Father, thank you, the Holy Spirit.
You're like, shut up in our bones.
So you are inside and you are upon us
giving us ability, efficiency, and might.
If you want to bring change to something that looks negative,
you can't bring a negative thing
and change a negative thing.
You have to do completely opposite
of what's happening in your surroundings.
And that's what makes it feel a little crazy
because you're like so opposite,
so joyful when it's so ugly.
Whoo!
We wake up in the Spirit.
We wake up when it comes to our physical bodies.
We wake up, wake up, wake up,
wake up to your healing
that the Lord has provided for you already.
Body, wake up and receive.
Body, wake up and receive
for those who are suffering in their body.
We pray that right now.
Body, wake up and receive.
The word receive means to take.
Take it.
Take it.
It's yours.
Take it.
You're in the go motion.
Just keep taking it and taking it.
The seed that he has provided for us, Lord God.
We take it.
We take it.
And there's some things we just plain take by force.
We take it.
Ooh, even when our physical body is tired,
we go beyond that.
We're super on the natural.
We are definitely not operating
in the physical here this morning.
It's just to stand.
So we wake up right now to the things of the heavenly.
We wake up to what we're supposed to see
and couldn't see before.
We wake up in the Spirit.
We wake up in our hearing.
Lord, dig out our ears
so that we might hear you more clearly.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Let's have the band come.
When I'm in the go motion, I push back. When I'm in the go motion, I do the opposite.
I'm in the go motion toward the things of God. We do the opposite. We say the opposite.
We call things that are not as though they were. Healed. Healed. Change. Healed in the mind.
So many are suffering right now in their mind and their thoughts. We bind up the things that are coming against them.
We call healing right now in the name of Jesus. Take it. Just speak out loud and say, I take it.
If you're watching online, say, I take it. I receive it. In the name of Jesus.
Healed.
So forgive us, Lord, that we got too natural. Forgive us, Lord, God, that we got out of the space of where you're trying to take us.
We're actually excited about the things that you're highlighting. The things that you're taking us to.
The sifting that's going on. Prepare us. Ooh, it's going to be bigger and better.
And so sift the crud out of us, Lord God. Get that off of us right now.
Remove some stuff even here this morning.
We willingly lay ourselves down like you did. And you go ahead and shake us. You go ahead.