We empty ourselves, fill us with fresh oil, fresh fire, fresh focus, reveal, reveal, reveal, revelatory in Jesus' name.
Amen. We're just going to go right into the sermon.
So if I could get the podium. Hallelujah.
We don't want to miss a beat here when it comes to following the Spirit.
Thank you, sir.
You can turn your Bible size to Isaiah 54. It is a chapter, one of the chapters that's been assigned to the church.
But before we jump into that in the revelation of it, it's been gone over before.
You can find it in the Covenant Partner Series and different things like that.
But I want to address the first, the most important thing for those of you watching online or are here today.
If you are now becoming aware of your need for a relationship with Jesus Christ, for a relationship with Him, not a religion.
You know, you can't sing that song, can't be in the anointing that's here, and then be so excited about a religion.
Religion's man made. Part of the meaning to the word means to go back to bondage. We don't need that.
We've been there already. We don't need that. We need to be set free. Salvation power is everything.
And that was provided on the cross. 2000 years ago Jesus didn't die just to die.
He took back everything that was stolen from us. And He's handing to us right now.
And He does it through relationship. He doesn't do it by joining a religion.
Anybody can make that stuff up. And so I just want to put out to you to pay attention.
Because yes, we'll be talking about revelation, just revelatory stuff, revealing stuff in the spirit regarding the vision of this church.
But this church is under the Lord Jesus Christ. And without relationship with Him, who cares about the church?
Right? You are the church. And in order to build the church, we develop relationships with Him, not religion.
I just want to challenge you in this way. If you don't understand how we're applying this to the church and you haven't been here and all of that stuff.
Okay, the whole time I'd be asking in my heart, God, I want to get to know you. God, I need you.
Reveal to me who you are. Reveal to me. Oh, it'll count even better than if I preach in your face.
If you're listening online, if you're here this morning, it's when He reveals Himself to you,
I need God. I got to quit playing games. I need God. I need to get to know the one who created me and the one who will take my breath at the very end.
He'll take it back. He is the life. He's the way. He's the truth. That is the biggest revelation of all time.
Amen. So I couldn't go on without addressing that. If you want to know further about that, I will hang around after service.
There's people here you can talk to regarding it. I don't even... I don't know. It's presented as a prayer.
Many times you're going to say that prayer, you know? And I do, I lead people into prayer, but to start a relationship,
really I'm starting an introduction of saying, do you want to meet Christ? Right? And you start that introduction by bringing Him and you together.
That's how you start the relationship. It's not, I said a little prayer, so now I'll go to heaven. There's deception in that.
Anybody can do a little deed. It's the heart changed by His love. That means everything.
All right, we're going to talk about Isaiah 54 this morning. The Lord had brought this up in many different ways.
I preached a conference in October with Jennifer Cannon and her crew up in Duluth.
And one of the things that... there was a prophet there. One of the things that she said over me was...
And it will be like, she was including all kinds of other things, she said, but it will be like Isaiah 54.
And just like I said in prayer this morning, it's a phrase, right? It's a phrase, no way she could have known that that's one of the chapters that's assigned to this church.
Right? So my listening ears were wide open. And she was talking about intercessory prayer and some different things that I have been assigned to.
And she said something over me that I'm aware of, but it just sealed the deal. And she said, you are the hammer.
And you'd have to be there to understand everything that she preached on. And I don't have time for that this morning.
But basically, if you're driving a stake peg in, up in the north especially or wherever I travel,
to be the hammer means you're being used by God to split the earth open, to split something open, to make a mark, to make a difference, to do that.
And so I've been researching that. And then I just kept going back to Isaiah 54. And because we're coming up on open heavens, it's...
Like I said in prayer this morning, we always go back and visit everything that's already been said.
And then you lay yourself next to that as a measurement. And you go, where are we at in that?
Because God's not the one who's like, and let me tell you some more. And then I'll give you a couple other things you can do.
And that's like telling your kid five instructions. Go upstairs, get your clothes, do this, blah, blah, blah.
And they come down, they're like, huh? It's the same thing with us.
He's not just going to keep dumping stuff out until we do the thing that he's already asked us to do.
Which means part of growing in maturity, just like your child, is you have to learn how to remember more than one thing.
And concentrate on more than one thing. And that takes focus.
Bringing the brain into a spot, bringing the heart to a spot that says, I'm going to focus on something.
And I will take my time about it. I will dissect it. I will look up every word that it has to do with anything.
Because you're hungry for revelation. Amen?
Kind of like, you already know certain restaurants like McDonald's or whatever.
You just go Big Mac, blah, blah, blah. You kind of got what it's going to taste like. You eat it.
It's no big deal. You go on. But you've got the people who know how to cook.
They go, what is in this?
Our son-in-law, Braden, is like that. He can figure it out just by...
And he knows what spice goes in or whatever. It's like taking the meat of what he's given us and taking it apart deeper.
And we don't want to overthink things, but I don't think we're near doing that.
I think we have to be reminded to really push in on certain things and pay attention.
And use that as a measurement. So I'm actually going to read the whole chapter.
And because the whole chapter fits, and because I have this morning to deal with it.
Sing, oh, bear in one. You who did not bear. Break forth into singing and cry aloud.
You who did not travail with child. For the spiritual children, I'm reading out the amplified.
Of the desolate, one will be more than the children of the married wife, says the Lord.
Now, I have to stop and say this. You can't just grab anything out of the Old Testament and go, that's for me.
People do that. They're like, well, the Bible says in Ezekiel, and you're like, yep.
But did the Lord say that was for you? There's certain things he did in covenant that's for us all.
But he specifically said chapter 54 of Isaiah is for this church.
And so we know what it's like to be in a barren spot and doing everything we can to break forth and nothing happening.
And yet he promises us for the spiritual children of the desolate, one will be more than the children of the married wife, says the Lord.
Enlarge the place of your tent. I think we're in process of doing that again.
And let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out.
Spare not. Lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
For you will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left.
And your offspring will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Now, one of the first times we read this, we were putting packets together to go door to door in Colorado.
We had like three people in our church, you know, and it was like, but the command was that.
That's how prophecy works. Many times you'll get prophesied something that's way beyond where you're presently at.
And you're like, so, okay, we're just going to enlarge our tent right now with our three people or whatever.
Yeah, you push in on it. And so that's what we did. We went out and we spread the good news, started witnessing.
We needed to let people know that we were there. And that's where it started.
For you will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left.
And your offspring will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Fear not, for you shall not be ashamed, neither be confounded and depressed.
For you shall not be put to shame, for you shall forget the shame of your youth. Yes, and amen.
And you shall not seriously remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.
For your maker is your husband, and the Lord of hosts is his name.
And the Holy One of Israel is your redeemer, the God of the whole earth, he is called.
For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit and heart sore.
Even a wife wooed and won in the youth, but when she is later refused and scorned, says your God.
For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion and mercy I will gather you to me again.
In a little burst of wrath I hid my face from you for a moment, but with age-enduring love and kindness I will have compassion and mercy on you.
Says the Lord, your redeemer.
For this is like the days of Noah to me, as I swore that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth.
So have I sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
For though the mountains should depart and the hills be shaken or removed, yet my love and kindness shall not depart from you.
Nor shall my covenant of peace and completeness be removed.
Says the Lord, who has compassion on you, which we've just talked about.
O you afflicted city, stormed, tossed, and not comforted.
Behold, I will set your stones in fair colors and antinomy to enhance their brillanites and lay your foundations with sapphires.
And I will make your windows and pinnacles of sparkling agates and rubies and your gates of shining carbuncles and all your walls or your enclosures of precious stones.
We go for going any further, the Lord showed us as a type to us. That is the people that he gives to us.
I remember the day that Dean called. I think you were still in Utah and you said, I have just had a revelation.
I am one of the precious stones in the wall. I'm selling everything and moving to where you are.
That's when you get revelation, right? That's when it's like, there's nothing else I can do.
He has shown me this. I can't do anything else, but the thing he has showed me.
And all your spiritual children shall be disciples taught by the Lord and obedient to his will.
And great shall be the peace and undisturbed composure of your children.
So, before going any further on that, just to say, if you're new to the church or whatever and this is spoken over us,
that means you come under this, right? And so for your children, all your spiritual children shall be disciples taught by the Lord and obedient to his will.
And those include your children because I hope you're discipling them.
And great shall be the peace and undisturbed composure of your children.
You shall establish yourself in righteousness, rightness, and conformity with God's will and order.
And you shall be far from even the thought of oppression.
Far from even the thought of oppression or destruction.
For you shall not fear and from terror, for it shall not come near you.
It shall not come... See, some of this is war, but he already announced to us that it's the Lord Jehovah Soboeth, the God of war in the appointed time.
So, hoo-hoo!
Behold, they may gather together and stir up strife, but it's not for me.
Whoever stirs up strife against you shall fall and surrender to you.
I announce that to the spirit realm right now.
Behold, I have created the Smith who blows on the fire of coals and who produces a weapon for its purpose.
And I have created the Devastator to destroy, but no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper.
And every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment shall show to be in the wrong.
This peace, this righteousness, this security, triumphant over opposition is the heritage of the servants of the Lord.
Those in whom the ideal servant of the Lord is produced, this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from me.
This is that which I impart to them as their justification, says the Lord.
I didn't say any of these things because it kept saying, says the Lord, right?
So this came from the throne of God for in this time, but the Lord said,
I'm saying the same thing to you as a church many years ago.
We've been here over 20 years, but word of life started in Colorado.
And we carried with the vision, right?
I felt like we were traveling with the vision in all of our entourage.
When we came up, we literally had a train of cars and trailers and coming up.
And it was like we were carrying, the biggest thing we were carrying was the vision.
The vision that he started there and the vision that he will finish here.
So it's not by accident you are here.
It's not by, you know, just happenstance where you liked our foyer or our nursery department or something like that.
Some people choose churches like that.
If you've been drawn here and there's a conviction in your heart,
there's a sensation in your heart that's just like, I know I have to be a part of this.
Even when it annoys you, I just got to be a part of this.
Right? Right, right, right.
And so you know that when you're part of something,
once again, mature Christians know when you join something, you build an alliance.
We talked about this in prayer last Sunday, you can look it up online.
So you become an ally with it. It's an ally to you and you're an ally to it.
Which means you just don't go do that just out of a whim.
You don't just become a covenant partner here just because it sounds like a great idea.
Or your friend goes here.
Because you're harnessing up, you're yoking up with us in a bigger picture in a call.
And that call is for this region first, but it's going to spread to the nation.
That's been spoken.
And so when we read this, I find it interesting that every time we go through church growth,
every time we go through a shift or a change, it's like we go through parts of this all over again.
So you're always in a spot where you know maybe you feel like you arrived in a certain area,
but all these other areas, you're shifting into it and you're going through some of these things.
So some of these things are attitude, you know, things that would cause us fear,
or things that are passed to say, well, you can't minister, you can't do this, or whatever, shame.
It deals with a big portion of, hey, you're not going to be ashamed.
Don't worry about your youth.
Quit toiling about what happened or what has been.
So you come under the authority structure of word of life.
You're actually coming under this chapter and other chapters
that basically put in order spiritually can help to put your life in order spiritually, those types of things.
That's why we're a how-to church.
You know, I'm not just telling you, hey, go do this.
The Bible says go do this.
I'll show you how to do this. Let's break it apart.
Let's look at it. What do you think?
And we go back and forth and we grow into it as a how-to church.
Nobody wants to be talked at. We like to be talked to.
And when you're being talked to, there's a given, a take, and there's a reasoning together.
Even Jesus said, come, let us reason together.
He didn't just talk at us.
And so as he's going through these different verses, as he's taken us through this,
we know we're coming through another round of this whole thing
where carbuncles and sparkling agates and rubies are going to be added to us.
Those who are in the wall already got to make room for them.
Right?
And don't get yourself misplaced.
You hold the line on what God's asked you to do, because you count here too, right?
But we know that that's coming.
When he said, sing, O baron one.
When the Lord tells you to sing, what are you going to do? The dirge?
Are you going to do a song that's just like, it's been so hard.
You know, bust out the country music.
And do the, no, you sing because you're rejoicing,
knowing that nothing's been produced like you thought it was going to,
whether it be in your life, in the ministry that you have, whatever's going on.
It's like, I've been barren on this one.
But you sing, O baron one, you did not bear.
You break forth into singing and cry aloud,
you who did not travail with child, you didn't produce.
We sing before things happen.
We sing knowing he's making promises to us that say,
people are coming, child's coming, change is coming.
We sing, that's done by faith.
Faith is sure about something you haven't seen yet.
And he's telling us to go ahead and sing.
Go ahead and sing because what's going to happen
is for spiritual children of the desolate,
one will be more than the children of the married wife.
Now, sometimes religion can do, you know,
like, I don't have a background
and I've just been perfect all my life.
And I don't know people like this,
but there are people who assume that position.
I don't know that that's anyone's actual story,
but they'll assume that position.
And it'll, it'll seem like, you know,
in times religious stuff will kick you while you're down.
And it'll always remind you of your past.
Where'd you come from? What, what you made of?
What were your parents like?
You can't do this. You can't do that.
And yet he's telling us to rejoice and sing.
Sing because there's going to be a production,
a producing of more souls,
of more things bringing about change.
And yet we come from backgrounds.
And yet we come from stuff that's like,
well, I don't know if I can produce that.
No, we can't. God's going to do this.
This is what causes us to sing.
Then he says enlarge the place of your tent.
He didn't say, so wait till they show up.
And then we'll go ahead and enlarge the tent.
You know, if they show up, we'll do that.
No, no, no enlarge the place of your tent
and let your curtains of your habitations be stretched out.
So there is a stretching that it's going to take
for us to get that new building.
And it's all about the lost.
It's all about those that need to be produced.
It's all about those that he's promised us.
That's why we're singing.
We're rejoicing because we're always coming.
It's coming.
There's some times...
I don't know if it's just the operation of evangelism or what.
I was with my husband one time just going to
get some drums for Ari when she was first learning
how to play drums.
And we pulled into the person's yard.
I turned to my husband with, you know,
the crazy look I get sometimes.
You know, and he said,
what's going on?
I said, somebody's getting saved today.
I could feel it.
So we get out and he's doing the, you know,
pay for the drums, do that whole thing or whatever.
And I could feel it.
It was just like, so I just started poking around
and asking questions and, oh, you're moving soon?
And, you know, that's why you're getting rid of the drums.
Okay, or whatever.
And just all of a sudden, oh, she just says her whole story.
Divorce is what happened.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
Right.
And so there's a rejoicing, though,
before I didn't even know who was in the house.
There's a rejoice.
It's like when you know something from God,
when he's promised you souls,
when he's promised you different things,
you know it before you can see it.
And you should be excited about it.
If I burst out in song right then,
that would have been fitting.
And so ended up leading her to Christ.
And the picture that we have at TBO,
that is the bridge,
that's right as you come in the front door,
there's a little foyer area.
There's a big picture there.
And before I left, she just turned to me
and she said, I think this belongs to you.
And gave it to me as we walked out the door.
And it was like, whoo, whoo.
That's how, when the Spirit of God is moving,
how simple evangelism can be.
I'm telling you.
When the Spirit of God comes on this church,
more than it is now,
I mean, it's here to produce now,
but we have not seen anything yet.
I know because I got saved in revival.
When I got saved in revival,
my form of witnessing was so low level.
You heard me say this.
I mean, literally, I would go to my friends and say,
hey, you want to go to a church?
Like people cry and stuff.
They raise their hands.
I don't know all about that,
but you want to go?
And they're like, sure.
Over a hundred people got saved
in the three month period of time.
Out of that, we counted 25 ministers.
I was one of them.
My brother, Joe, was another.
And you could go back and be like,
what was the sermon that did that?
What was it?
No, it was the Spirit of God.
It was people who had prayed,
people who cried out, people who worshiped
on behalf of knowing this is coming.
Mm-hmm.
Enlarge the place of your tent
and let the curtains of your habitations
be stretched out.
So what I want to say in warning to that
and the rest of the verses says,
spare not, lengthen your cords
and strengthen your stakes.
Nobody likes change.
It's probably the most stressful thing
that our body experiences,
even if it's good.
We just don't like it, right?
Where our neurons grow in such a way.
It's like, that's my pattern.
Leave it alone.
And yet you can't have patterns
of always staying the same
when you go to grow a church.
When you minister.
If you think about it,
religion does what it's best
to open the doors
and then get some people in
and teach them the pattern
we need to stay in there
and now stay in that.
There you go.
Now we got church.
We stayed in a pattern.
Whatever.
Where revival is,
it's like, I don't know what's going to happen.
I mean, we got ushers and stuff trained,
but, you know,
we don't know what's going to happen here.
He's taking us to that.
Hallelujah.
And we're to enlarge the place of our tent
and let the curtains of your habitation
be stretched out.
Spare not.
So even it's dealing with attitudes, too.
Lengthen your cords
and strengthen your sticks.
Where's the people?
I don't know.
We're just going to do it.
We're getting ready.
Just like I said to him,
somebody's getting saved today.
You know it.
And so part of
revelatory knowledge
is the knowing.
You've seen something
that's not here in the physical.
It's like too late.
I saw it.
I remember Friday night freedom
when we first started it.
The Lord said,
take the group of people here
and go walk outside
to the back area here.
That was the fence.
And we had asked for that land,
nothing.
And we asked again,
nothing.
And we took group of people.
This was years ago.
And we just laid our hands on the fence.
I called it ours.
And that God would work it out in time.
And was refused again.
And God would work it out in time.
Where's the building going?
Where God worked it out in time.
Right?
We're not in the position
as Christians,
we can't posture ourselves
as we'll wait and see
what happens to Christians.
No, we say,
we call things that are not
as though they were.
And we get up and do something about it.
That's faith.
So he wants us to be in that position.
I like how made some of you
nervous when it says,
spare not.
What are they gonna spend on this thing?
Spare not.
Whatever he tells us to do,
that's what we're gonna do.
So that worries you.
You might want to read this
and get settled with God.
Spare not.
For you will spread
abroad to the right hand
and to the left
and your offspring
will possess the nations
and make the desolate cities
to be inhabited.
We're seeing just little bits of that.
Like in the natural
we're moving into little places
in the north
as far as influence
and there is change coming to pass.
But you will spread
abroad to the right hand
and to the left.
Now,
you have to catch that
in the spirit too.
Because for some of us
just to
say where we're gonna have a second service
is like,
oh my goodness,
that's a lot of change.
See, but when you're used to,
like flowing in the spirit,
you're always changing.
You just shift to wherever he wants to go.
Now it needs to be established,
whatever it is that we do,
it needs to be established,
but we have to get into a place
where we're movable.
We have to stay in a place
where we're always movable.
And there is no place in the spirit
where we arrive.
This is what happened
when we moved from the modular.
I mean, revival meetings,
stuff's happening,
people getting saved,
crazy stuff.
I'll just tell you one thing,
we were running a preschool,
Bonnie and I,
and Kristen was a part of it
and a few other people.
And we ran a preschool
in that modular on our property.
Then we'd clean it all up
and then we'd have services,
whatever.
Well, we had the little tent
that's out back
sitting in our yard
and I came out early,
it's like six o'clock in the morning,
you've got to get there
before the parents
and get everything ready.
And there's a man
sitting underneath the tent
with a cane,
sitting on a random chair.
And I was like,
okay,
because this is our yard.
And I'm like,
what are we doing?
You know, it didn't have anything
to do with the daker
or anything like that.
But where I went over
and I talked to him
and he said the hospital sent him.
They dropped him off by bus.
And he gave me the piece of paper.
Now, he was African
and so he had a really strong broke
and he said,
they've sent me to you.
And I was like,
okay, you know,
so he gives me this piece of paper.
Sure enough, a line of hospitals.
And it says,
demonization,
recommendation,
word of life.
I was like,
ah, ah,
so I remember going out
telling the girls,
you got to take this
or I got it,
where were we going to do?
Right?
And so I'm looking for verdict.
So we ended up taking him to the house
and doing deliverance.
He had,
like literally his flesh
was rotting on his legs
from the knees down.
And we ended up doing deliverance
with him.
And then I found out later
that cleared up.
Interesting enough.
Right?
That's revival.
That stuff happening now.
Now, should we be doing stuff on purpose?
Yes.
I try to witness to people
wherever I go on purpose.
Because that's the go into all the world.
That's my job.
That's your job, too.
And you just do it
because you do it
because you care about people.
You're looking for that hurting person
or the one who's open to the gospel.
But these are like,
what are you doing here?
You know,
that's the kind of stuff
that happens in revival.
Like, how, what?
I've never heard of a hospital doing that.
But he had the paperwork.
And so,
and they sent him by bus
out to our property
and he walked
and just was way...
I don't know how long he was there.
He just waited underneath,
you know, the tent.
For us.
I know, crazy stuff happens.
I could name story after story
that have bits and pieces of revival.
And many of them,
we never shared with you.
And some of them were you.
And that's why you're here now.
But if you look,
the illusion is like,
oh my goodness,
the church is filling up.
Huh.
It might have got saved at TBO.
Might have got saved over here.
Somebody else in the body.
But it just looks like we just fill up.
Revival is just people will hear about it
from all over the place.
You don't know who's going to show up
and we best be ready for it.
So we have to stretch
and strengthen the stakes.
We got to make sure this thing is strong
in order to house revival.
Now revival for us
does come in waves.
It's just a pattern that the Lord uses us at.
We are not...
We're not the like,
you know, here it is,
shebang it's over
and we never see it again.
We're also not.
Every day is revival
and we're just going to do this
for years.
No God will bring it in waves
and then he expects us
to take care of what happened.
Then it'll come another wave
and then he expects us.
But just like the blessing
that Revelations talks about
I mean if the blessing truck
runs you over
then you're in a spot
you're so overly blessed
you can't see straight.
It's the same thing
can happen in revival.
You're just like,
I don't even know
there's so many people.
We have to be ready
for all those things
but the waves
we need to recognize
you can feel it.
I could feel
just a strength
of the spirit in here
this morning when I walked in.
It was just like
he's poising us.
You can feel it's like
it's like surfer
I don't know how many of you
have surfed here in Minnesota
but I've watched him in California
you know they just wait
they're on the board
and they're just like
doing the thing
they're waiting to catch the wave
they'll see it
and they're like,
okay that's one
I got to get out there.
That's how it works with revival.
So the basics though
of the physical part
is you always have to
have the base foundation there
no matter what
you have to have a building
we have to have workers
we have to have people in place
we have to have the gems
in the wall
placed exactly where they need
to be ready to shine
you have to have that
and that should always be there
but that's not just
what church is
that's a foundation
that you house the rest on
and so for you
You will spread abroad to the right hand and to the left. That's a promise he gave us. And that is exactly what's going to happen.
We are pushing in and your offspring will possess the nations and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Now for
Mission 61 for core programs for some of the stuff that I've done. I've watched God
do revival type stuff and
We're not going about it the right way. See the right way was I'd get online and I'd be advertising this all the time
Make sure I'm on this program and that and we'd get the name out. He's spreading, you know all kinds of stuff
But it's crazy to me. I can go up to Pine City and run into somebody like you're Mary Peltz, aren't you?
I'm not doing that. I'm not advertising all over the place. Well, I had a friend who told me about blah blah blah
She said you were connected to
Where's your church at?
See there's some things where he's doing that supernatural not just with me
But with all kinds of people pushing into this that's spreading into the region and it seems like it's so far out there
Like how are we gonna reach it? He already is
He's already reaching the region through this church
He already is
It's so exciting and and yet then all of a sudden the fruit of that will show up and
People will come from far and near now. They might not come from far and join the church as a covenant partner
They might because we have far away covenant partners right now, Colorado
But they might not
You know be here every Sunday or whatever, but they'll be traveling through what was called the corridors of victory
Which was a prophecy that talked about them getting to us safely and us getting to them safe
We are going to take the region
Label me is crazy, but we're gonna take the region
And then
The same way that church building is going to come to pass
It's a thing. It's a thing now when we first started in ministry
It was like if you if you had to believe God for a thing. It was like a big deal when you got it
It was like look we got our first podium. I mean remember that love is like
Don't let the kids mess with it. This is the podium. We now have I mean it was like that and
And everything was just really it was like, you know, like we're accomplishing this big thing because we now have a new drum set or whatever
it is and
It's kind of can be the same thing if you look at the church building you can look at it like oh
It's it's so big or what I I'm in my spirit. I'm to the point of like it's a thing we need to do
It's nothing to be worshiped. It's not just get it up like we don't got time for this
Every time, you know, the news comes on or whatever. We don't got time for playing around with sticks and mortar
Because we have no place to house the loss. I just want to get the loss in something
See he'll change it. He'll change the attitude and when you grow into that where you're like
Let's just make this sucker strong and we're not gonna spare
We're gonna make sure we got a spot for everybody and every type of ministry that we could possibly do
Man, we've been gonna go in over that building looking at it like yeah, but where are we gonna have for this group of people?
It all has to fit
Then it just needs to get up
Be built
We're after the lost
We're after the law. I want to clarify that because sometimes people will
Be watching online or whatever and like they're just after people's money to get a building and where are we going to put the people?
Right, it's a no-brainer. We have to have something to put them in
Right, so it's just sticks and mortar cement. I mean, it's just that's what it is
But it's going to be made in such a way that we can house
The most people for the type of anointing that God is going to use this church for
So we're a protector of the anointing first
Because we can't let down on the anointing then go over to
Sticks and mortar and be like and he's just going to show up
No, we have to make sure we protect the well that's here that we're we have the right attitudes about this
So we're looking for the lost
I'm so stinking excited right now. I could go get somebody saved. I'm not even kidding
Sorry anybody in the house who needs to I mean I could feel it. It's like
And so where you will spread abroad to the right handed to the left and your offspring will possess the nations and make the
Dessalus cities to be inhabited fear not for you shall not be ashamed. So every time
I don't care if it's these verses or God tells you something personally. I want you to do such and such
Well, then these are steps
You really could go step number one two three as far as spiritual growth down this chapter and how it would work
It's like whatever he's told you you don't you're not already equipped for
Whatever he's told you to do you don't know how you're going to get it done
We'll start singing. Oh baron one
Right that's step number one start singing
Start singing rejoice and believe that he's going to add to you
In these promises right and so then and then start enlarging the place of your tent and let the curtains of your
Habitations be stretched out spare not lengthen your cords and strengthen your say you go do that in whatever it is
He's asked you to do a business, you know expanding your family whatever it is sing
And then go get ready
That's what that's we're in that stage again and he promises us
That it's just going to spread out. It's just going to happen
But then he deals with what everyone deals with after they get an assignment fear
Because when you're in the anointing it's like whoo-hoo. Yeah in the praise group. Yeah on with jim on friday night
But then all sudden you're sitting at home and you're like, I don't know how we're going to pay for this
Huh
Yeah fear not for you shall not be ashamed. He's not going to put you in a spot
You can put yourself in a spot to be shame by the way
Fearing fearing shame itself you can put yourself in a spot
To be ashamed
But when it comes to him fear not for you shall not be ashamed neither be confounded like confused and depressed
I don't know how i'm gonna pay for college. I don't know how i'm gonna. Whatever it is
It's the very thing. He told you to sing about and settle
And then go start making it happen
Detail the details the only way you're going to get to big picture crying about anything
It's not going to get us there, right?
So this fits not only church but everything that goes on in our life
And when you come under isaiah 54 these steps will get you there
So you might be in a spot where you're like, I am doing those things. I am strengthening the stakes
I do think he's going to do this. We'll stop fearing
Fear not for you shall not be ashamed. You're not going to be confounded or depressed
You'll not be put to shame
For your you you shall forget the shame of your youth. What does that have to do with it?
Why are we bringing up when I was a kid?
Because your program is set by the time you're 30 years old the main foundational pathways in your brain
Grew to what they were going to grow to
Now the only thing that can happen to change things is change the renewing of the mind
But you are your information
And so he's literally telling us not to be afraid
But he's also saying and don't let the way you thought in your youth
Change what you're going to do right now. Well, I'm always left out of things and I
remember the time I got beat up. Oh, I can remember lots of things. I don't have time
for that stuff anymore. Trying to get some people saved, right? And so,
devil can try to bring up my past or someone else and it's like whatever it
is what it is. Anyways, moving right along, that's how we should treat that.
Moving right along, where you shall forget the shame of your youth. That is a
powerful thing he's promised us. So if you've gone through trauma, which we all
have, if we've been touched by sin and we have, if you've got stuff that keeps
repeating in your brain, this is a promise for the entire church. You come
under the anointing of this church, that's what's going to happen. You hang
out with the anointing and all here, it's going to do with your past, your
present, and your future. If you want everything to say the same, this is a
dangerous place to be in. This is a place that'll make you mad, sad, or glad.
This is a place where you'll find him. This is a place where the anointing will
break every yoke of bondage in your life and the stuff that was in your past
that is talking against your future will have to be settled in this house.
By the Spirit. By the Spirit, it'll take place. Hallelujah. So that's the
next step, you know, because when you go to do something it's always some
past thing like, I don't know if you can do, and that's why you don't have the
money, and remember the time, and mom loved my brother more. Okay. But we are in
the now. And now faith is the substance of things, hope for. The faith you have
right now, use that. Don't go back and try to use the stuff where things were
all jacked up. Amen. All right, for you shall forget the shame of your
youth, and you shall not seriously remember the reproach of your
widow head anymore. That's where things didn't produce. That's where things
failed. You're not even gonna remember that. For your maker is your husband. The
Lord of Hosts is his name. Now I like this because sometimes we'll think, well I
sang, I rejoiced, I've enlarged things, I'm moving to, I'm getting education, I'm
doing all these different things, I'm dealing with my past, and now it
just feels like war is breaking out. Every time we grow, the church will go
through this pattern. For your maker is your husband though. The Lord of Hosts
is his name. The Lord of Angel Armies is his name. Jehovah Seboeth, the God of
war in the appointed time, is his name. Right? You won't lock into that though
if you don't get the verses before, if you're just like under, if you're the
victim to your past, everything else is a bully. You have to be in the now
saying, okay, hold on a second now. I might not have the goods but my maker,
the Lord of Hosts does. My maker is bringing us forward. My maker will war
on my behalf. The Lord of Hosts is his name and the Holy One of Israel is
your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. So pretty sure he has
everything you need to go on your mission trip that you're freaking out
about. See when you when you lay it against who he is it just seems like
oh I forgot it was this little thing. But when it's far away from who he is
you're like I don't know how I'm gonna go and I promised him I'd raise
$500 and what am I gonna do and you see how it just gets huge and then
God's way in the distance. But when you start to recognize that I'm with the Lord
of Hosts. The angels are gonna do something about this. I'm gonna do
something about that. We're all we're all in the oak together. He's gonna work
it out and it shall come to pass and it shall come to pass. For the Lord has
called you like a woman forsaken grieved in spirit and hearts or
even a wife wooed and one in your youth when later refused and scorned.
So even if you're refused and scorned now and you thought you were something else
then or other people thought you were something else then. Hey, God's got you.
This is all past stuff. For a brief moment I forsook you. There were times
God had I mean he's there but he was backed up and we were backed away from
him. But with great compassion and mercy I will gather to you to to me
again. He's gonna take and gather us. That's the stage. That's the stage.
You're like this is gonna be good. In a little burst of wrath part for this day
verse 9 is like the days of Noah to me as I swore that the waters of Noah should
no more go over the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you
or rebuke you for though the mountain shall depart and the hills be shaken
or removed yet my love and kindness shall not depart from you nor shall my
covenant of peace and completeness be removed says the Lord who has
compassion on you. See I like that he put that in there who has compassion on you
because if you are stuck in those other verses where shame is eating your lunch
you don't believe he has compassion on you. So if you're going through the
steps and you're you're starting to see oh man I just my past and I don't
know how he's gonna do this because look at me and look what I've been
through and then he tells us don't worry about it. He's gonna take care
of this and he's the one who has compassion on you you'll be ready to
receive that but if you're not quite through four or five and six that stage
of it you're not really ready for compassion. You ever prayed for some
people and then they'll call you the next day as if you never prayed for
him and the next day and they're still complaining about the same things
like you never gave him advice. They're not ready to receive the
compassion that's coming out of you. They're still stuck in verses four, five, and
six. They're still fearing they're in their shame and you can't get through
because it's like a shield there. See God wants us to go when we go through
church growth and there's people coming in they're gonna go through this and
we have to recognize there's going to be a stage. We went through the
stages guess what buddy you get to go through the stages too. And this is
the victory that is ours though. He goes on and tells us what's
promised to us and oh you afflicted city storm tossed and not comforted
behold I will set your stones in fair colors. Oh and brilliance and lay your
foundations with sapphires and I will make your windows and pinnacles of
sparkling agates and rubies and your gates of shine and carbuncles. So you've
gone from shame not even sure how you're going to expand this tent to
that. These are all his promises and all your walls of your enclosures are
going to have precious stones. You just do that first part I'll put the precious
stones in I'll take care of it. He's promising this to us. We already had it
take place and then it went through and then we had to take place again and then
went through a season and then we had guess where we're at right now. Yeah
we're at that spot and if you understand that you've gone through it and
you understand the teachings and stuff that have been handed to you you
can turn around and help the next person and that's how revival is going to
work. It cannot be based on the pastors here. Amen. I ain't that amazing. I'd like
to be but I'm not. And I will make your windows and pinnacles of sparkling
agates and rubies and your gates of shining carbuncles and all your walls
all of the walls of your enclosure of precious stones and all your spiritual
children shall be disciples taught by the Lord and obedient to his will and
great shall be the peace and undisturbed composure of your children. Now something
that the Lord had asked me a while back I was preaching on something that we're
supposed to go and make disciples and the Lord said how do you make a disciple
and I was like well yeah there's stuff you do you know like making them into
it you just like tell them and then they got to learn to pray and you
know so all that what I found is what was coming out of me my first answers
were all pad answers Christians you have to love them show them Jesus what
does that mean how how what does it look like to be a disciple and because a
disciple is a disciplined one so as we learned you come from being a believer
like yeah I believe there's a God can be at the lowest form of belief right
even the demons believe that and tremble that's the lowest form of
You believe to our God. Then you move into believing, and the next thing you believe enough, you start to follow.
Get out the way. Now I'm a follower. And then when you go from a follower, you're going to go through some things that will lead you into...
And I got to discipline myself to even do this.
Snap. I don't even want to do this. Like it's 5.30 in the morning. Why do you want me to get up right now?
And you go through that wrestling. At the same time, Isaiah 54 is taking place in you.
He's making you into a disciple. Because we can't take people where we haven't gone and we can't give them what we don't have.
We can't make a disciple if we're not made a disciple ourselves.
Amen.
We ain't got it.
We can talk schmoozy. That means stupid talk. You know, we're like, you know what you need to do?
And I kind of give them some instructions. We're not doing it.
But when the anointing is there and the people that are in the chute of discipleship headed to martyr,
the anointing increase because of faithfulness and obedience,
the people coming in that are choosing to follow, they'll just get sucked right into that vacuum and be changed.
But if we don't have it, then they're not going to have it.
So he's taking us through these different things.
And even the storms we go through, they are storms, but when we go through them, they hurt.
And it causes us, God doesn't have to cause a storm.
Storms in this life happen.
Like he didn't cause cancer in my body, but it happened.
I learned some things.
I'm a different warrior now than I was before.
And so I'm thankful.
I don't want to have to go through that again, but I tell you what, the end result is valuable to me.
Because now it's given me an ability to see in the two things that I could not see before.
And how is an anointing that I didn't have before?
See trials would do that if you use them the right way.
You push into God.
Oh, and I will make your windows and he talks about who's going to add to us and go down to verse 14.
You shall establish yourself in righteousness, rightness and conformity with God's will and order.
So this is another reason why we know here we can't do those sermons where it's like,
I understand what you're going through.
And I know you have to drink before you go to sleep at night to relax.
And it's okay if you're sleeping around and it's all right.
Because God's grace is here for you.
I don't know why, but usually their voices are like that.
So that's why I have to, because I don't have that voice.
I have to pretend that it's just, he loves you no matter what.
Can you receive his love right now?
Well, if I receive his love right now, I'm not in that condition.
I'm getting corrected.
Because that's love too.
I don't know why it works only for me.
I start looking like, how'd you get out of that?
That's not what happens when I get in his presence.
But it's a way of hoaxing people into church.
That church so understands me. They understand my emotions.
God cares about your emotions, but it's way down here.
He wants you to grow into faith.
He knows your emotions can take you to places that will kill you.
Amen.
And so, bucking up, buttercup, we have to get up and move on.
And so he's telling us that he's going to establish us.
But how is he doing it in righteousness?
That means we have to change in conformity with God's will and order.
So what pastor said a little bit ago during the praise and worship,
that might seem harsh to some people.
Like, oh, why does he have to talk that way?
Because the Bible says it first of all.
And secondly, we have to hold to our mandate.
Our mandate is to conform to his will.
The word will is his ways of doing things.
Yeah?
That's what the word will means, his ways of doing things.
And so, here we are.
Behold, they may gather together and stir up stripes.
So then he starts talking about people coming against us.
Haven't we been through enough in this chapter already?
Del with the shame of our youth.
That took like four weeks of crying.
And, you know, I've gone through some of this,
where he'll take you through and it's almost like you're going through a filter
and you're like, this again, what?
And he's just filtering out more stuff.
And then he gets you to a place of faith that you address some things.
And then you decide, I'm going to be a disciple on this.
I'm doing this no matter what.
I like to say, come hell or high water.
It's kind of a bigger announcement.
Come hell or high water.
I can't even swim.
I'm that person that floats to the bottom of the pool.
I can sit on the bottom of the pool. No problem.
But I can't swim.
So you needed to know that somehow.
But anyways, so now here we are.
We're going through all of this stuff.
He's telling us he wants us disciples.
And then that will be far from verse 14.
Even the thought of oppression.
What is oppression, but the spirit of heaviness?
Where does the spirit of heaviness come from?
Go back around to verse four.
Fear.
Fear brings with it the thought of torment
or the thought of punishment.
It's opposite of faith.
And so if that's what's happening
and yet he's telling us
that we're going to be
far from even the thought of oppression.
Don't even try to weigh me down with stupid thoughts.
I don't care.
I mean you can get to that point.
Huh?
See, way over here in our world system
they just called it triggered now
before we had different names for it.
But over here if you're triggered, what does trigger mean?
Oh my goodness, you brought up the very thing
that I've been stuffing and I've been in denial
and trying to disassociate from.
And now there it is. It's so real I'm reliving it
because I never brought closure to it. Ah!
Why did you do that to me?
That's what we do, right?
Oppression does that.
That's how it works.
And it releases the ability like you're freaking out.
Here comes the spirit of oppression.
It goes, let me make this really weighty and heavy on you.
Let me push your shoulders down.
Push you down so far you can't even lift your head up
and see where your help comes from.
That's what it does.
Anybody been through that?
Yeah.
That's all part of going through the spiritual growth.
It's like, I would like to give a list
that Lord would give us
and be like, oh here's the chapter where it's like
and then you come to word of life and we rejoice.
And then after that you're put in a position of ministry
and everything goes wonderful.
All of the people praise you.
There are no chapters like this is the chapter
that it's like, okay that hurt.
All right, okay, yeah, I got to adjust myself.
Oh, that hurt again.
All right, but here's the promise.
This will walk you through
what you're going through right now.
Yeah.
By you adjusting,
you might have to just go back to verse one
and start singing, oh Baron one.
Can't seem to produce
is start singing what he said over you.
Start singing
and rejoicing.
Anyways, he's going to establish this
in righteousness and right after that verse 15
Behold, they may gather together
and stir up stride. People are going to try to come
against you and talk to Shemaak.
They do it.
It's been going on for years.
I had someone again tell me, did you know so and so said?
And I'm like,
yeah, add them to the pile.
I don't have time
for this. It's
supposed to suck you out. It's supposed to be
like you're supposed to run off and go, I have to solve
this major thing. They hurt my feelings.
Well, now you're not working on the thing you're
supposed to be working on.
I got to work on the tent.
Whatever my assignment is, this thing's got to get big.
I actually don't have time.
Now, if he signs me to go
settle something, I'll settle something, but he's going to be short.
We're not dragging this thing out
for weeks.
If the heart is right in the person,
the things will go a certain way.
And if they're wrong, it goes another way.
Boundaries are definitely there.
And so then we
we know that he's going to take care of it,
but it's all a part of it.
Don't think it's not going to happen to you.
I don't care if it's your grandma
suddenly trying to stir up strife.
Because the spirit of strife,
the word says,
where there is strife, there dwelleth
every evil and wicked thing.
That's the whole purpose for it.
Like, let's get it going.
Let's rock this thing. Let's take this person off.
Let's bring up their past or whatever.
But behold, verse 16,
I have created the smith who blows on the fire
and the coals and who produces
a weapon for its purpose.
And I have created the devastator to destroy.
But no weapon that is formed against you
shall prosper and every tongue
that shall rise against you in judgment.
You shall show to be in the wrong.
This peace, righteousness, security,
triumph over opposition
is the heritage of the servants of the Lord.
Those in whom the ideal
servant of the Lord is reproduced.
This is the righteousness
and vindication which they obtain
from me. This is that
which I impart to them as their justification,
says the Lord. Justification
is justify, which means
just as if you've never sent.
It will move you to a spot
or just as if you've never sent.
Now, this is one of those verses, verse 17.
How many times is a Christian
or in groups, per groups or whatever we hear
but no weapon formed against us
is going to prosper. It is one of those verses
we pull out.
But in the conversation of this,
have you gone through all the first verses
before you claim that verse?
Did you deal
with the fact, do you feel barren?
Did you deal with the fact of your past
shaming you
and oppression trying to get on you
and all those, did you go through the war
it took
to get to the point that you can say
you know what, no weapon formed against me is going to prosper.
You can't just pull verses
and blab and grab it.
You have to come to a point
where you are looking like, well what did they have to do
to get to this, but no weapon
that is formed against you shall prosper
and every tongue that shall rise against you
in judgment you shall
show to be in the wrong. Now, here is the thing
you can be
onto that part of the scripture
while you are still cleaning up the other stuff.
Anybody know what I am talking about?
You are like, is this end here?
I am trying to deal with this
and now grandma wants to fight and there is this over here
and so and so accuse me of that.
I am just trying to get to the point
where the no weapon thing happens.
Well, he will protect you
if he sees you are going through these steps.
But if we are not
going through the steps and you come here for prayer
I am just going to be blunt about it.
You come here and you say, Pastor Mary pray for me
I got stuff going on and this is horrible
what I am going through and it is horrible.
You tell me and I say, yeah, okay.
And then I am like, but suddenly I am just going to pull you into
no weapon formed against you
and you will show prosper.
No.
You have to spiritually grow.
Now he might get you to a safe place
like if you are drowning he might pull you out
and just put you here and be like, okay, breathe.
Now you got to grow.
Now you have to grow.
Amen.
It is weird in this world
if you get an operation and you are cut open
or whatever they put you back together
you think, I will just be able to go home.
No, now you first have to heal.
There is always a thing
that you go through
to get to that next thing.
Yeah.
That is the anointing we carry.
Yeah.
So why it is important that we know this
is that you will go through it in waves
as the church grows.
People will be coming in and putting a demand on the body
and you are right in verse 7
and you are like, my own personal life
I am in verse 7, you know
and you are going through it
but we have to find a way in maturity
to go through that
and still do this.
So it does not break us.
So it is better to just yield
to all of this
as quickly as we can knowing
there is a bigger thing coming.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Thank you Lord Jesus.
Thank you Lord God.
So there is something
about making disciples
I want to go back and say
if you hang
with chapter 54
it will make you into a disciple.
If you allow yourself
to hold on to what he said
see when we claim a Scripture
it is not just that
we are saying something in the atmosphere now
go get it, go get it Scripture
make a way for me. No, we are actually
pulling on the things
from the heavenly realm
and getting them to manifest in our life.
We are also
headed to where they are.
We are headed to what
that Scripture says that you are standing on
which means we have to go low.
We have to conform
to his word. We have to be changed.
We have to become disciples.
And to make a disciple
you are going to go through all of this.
Now I hope
you are not mad at me because
I didn't come with something pretty.
That is how you make a disciple.
Have fun guys.
Yay, another discipleship class.
Let's go do that.
They have classes for that.
There is a difference between going through a class
and actually living it.
You can go study how the disciples did
different things or whatever
but then when you go to do it
that is when it is first happening to you.
Amen?
We are making disciples.
I would have to say
in ancient days
when they had their swords and everything
they made disciples
but some of those stories were
all of you getting in the caravion
you are going to be Christians now.
And they made them.
Or you got killed.
That is not what he is talking about.
That was an interpretation.
That happened.
So what to be made a disciple
I actually can't make you
do much of anything you don't want to do.
So there has to be
a desire in the person's heart
to be like, here is what he said
here is the verse he gave me
here is the prophecy he gave me
here is what he said for us to stand up
I am way over here. How do I get there?
Well on your way
you are going to become a disciple
just so you know.
Because I am going to teach you how to follow
and following will turn you into a disciple.
God wants us to follow
first before he brings in
a whole bunch of babies.
Let's stand.
I think that is why he has gotten
us
you know if you just look at 2020
was the year of the scene
right? We all began to
see stuff that was there the whole time
that we weren't aware it was
as big as what it was.
By the time we got to 2022
there was the great divide. Families
divided over stupid stuff.
And some families
divided over righteousness and
unrighteousness. And then there was
the great shaking. That is what they
call it right? And the sifting
and now we have moved
into the shift. Well I drive
motorcycle and I do a lot of it by
sound. I relate to vehicles
and stuff by sound like it is a song.
So if it is winding out
you better shift. You know
there you can hear when you are
getting. I don't even have to look at this
phenomenon. I can hear. It is time for
me now to shift. Well
the body of Christ
is in a shift. But
we are not only a shift now. See what
happens when you do finally shift
it gives you the ability to go
faster. Doesn't
it? You
can't sit and grind the gears
or waste the, you know. You
have to shift when it is time. And you are
like that means I am going to have to do this at a whole other level. Yes!
That is what he is doing with
our body right now. He is shifting
us. Which means we are going to get more
accomplished in a shorter period of time
which requires more of us.
The motor is running higher.
Hallelujah.
Father we just come before you
and I ask you Lord
God once again like we did in prayer
if we have had prophecy spoke over us
if we have had direction
that you have given to us and we
haven't done that thing
Lord we are either missing it
on the front end of the whole thing
or we are definitely missing it now
and I ask that you forgive us
those watching online and those
that are at the other churches
and hear that you forgive us
if we are missing it now.
Bring us back around to the very
thing you told us to do so that
we will be obedient to that first.
Bring it back around Lord God
remind us, convict us
bring about change.
I also ask Lord revelation
knowledge would come out of
Isaiah 54 and we would
be able to peg ourselves and know
oh that is where I am at and this is what I need to do.
This is what I need to do. You are not getting out of it
you are not, don't pray those prayers
where you try to get out of it.
A disciple is a disciple because
they are a disciplined one.
Go through it, don't try to go around it.
Whatever you got to do
to go through it, don't try
to go around it.
The church will be healthy, you will be
healthier for it and you will come to
a place of change where you
can house the anointing in a whole different way.
Hallelujah.
Thank you Lord God.
Thank you Lord
for the change that
we go home and suddenly
things begin to open up.
As we believe for open heavens
and what they are bringing in for information
we will already be ahead
of the game. You are going to share
things with us before we ever
get there and they will be coming
in with confirmation. Thank you
Lord that you are bringing us to that
place of Christianity
where we know ahead of time.
Draw us to your
spirit in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Amen. You may
be seated. We will get to the announcements
here in a couple of minutes. I just want to add a couple of things.
This chapter was given
to Word of Life in
1986. That is 39 years
ago. Coming up in 40 this coming year.
It is a pattern
of how this church grows
and expands.
You can't get away from it
because it wasn't our idea. It was God's idea.
Someone who had been sent
to the church said
the Lord said this is for the church
and you hear that kind of stuff
and you go meh whatever.
But I thought I better read it
and then when I read it, it came to life.
So
this is a pattern. So I want to point
something out. Verse 11
12. It starts verse 11
how he is going to create
this church with the stones.
The stones are people. We know
that from the book of Revelation
and the book of Peter. Living stones.
That is people.
And he lays out
all these beautiful stones. Starts
verse 11, verse 12.
I will make your windows and pinnacles
of sparkling, agates and rubies.
All expensive, beautiful stuff.
So the people will be made
into beautiful things
in this church.
That wasn't our idea. That was
his idea.
So
to come here is
your life is going to have to change
into something beautiful.
To get that to happen
always takes a lot of pain
and effort.
It just doesn't happen by itself.
Example
verse 12
in the Amplified it says this
and it's correct.
Let me recommend, make a recommendation.
This is number
message 3 and 4 in the Covenant
Partner Series. So before you become
a Covenant Partner you have to listen to these
two messages. Message 3
and 4 in that series because this is
core to our vision.
So I really recommend go
online.
Go to our messages full catalog page.
It'll say interested in becoming
Covenant Partner. Click here.
Click on that. It will take
you to a whole group of messages.
Number 3 and 4 are
Isaiah 54 because this is the foundation
of our vision.
It will explain all this word
by word because what the Lord had me do
is do a word study on it.
Take apart every word
every phrase.
So those two messages do that
but I want to point this out to you.
Verse 12
I'm going to make you out of all these beautiful
make you into all these beautiful
people in this church
agates, rubies
sparkling things and your
gates of shining carbuncles
and IV says sparkling jewels.
You know what a carbuncle is?
Carbuncle is a chunk of coal.
Chunks of coal don't sparkle.
Any of you know anything
about chunks of coal?
It don't sparkle.
I'm going to make you
to become shining
chunks of coal.
Okay, so now this might be
a revelation to some of you.
You might just be a reminder.
What are diamonds made out of?
And how does a chunk of coal
turn into a diamond?
Pressure
and heat.
You say I'm just a dirty filthy
mess. That's alright. God's going to
put pressure on you. He's going to
put heat on you.
You're going to say why in the
world every time I go to
that church they just grind
on me and it's like the Holy
Spirit's just poking at me.
Why is he doing this?
Because he's going to turn you into a diamond.
He's going to turn you
into a diamond.
All your spiritual, all your
children will be disciples
taught by the Lord and obedient.
How does that happen?
Through repentance.
You don't become a disciple
until you repent of some
things and let them put the pressure
and the heat on and change you
into something nice.
You will establish yourself in
righteousness. Verse 14.
Let me just say one thing here
in regard to that because my mind was
floating numerous different
directions as she was speaking
of things the Lord has said and done
over the years.
At the heart of this church
has always been repentance.
Always.
So if you're going to stick
with us, if you're going to watch us grow
if you're going to be part of this, he's going to lead
you into repenting of a lot of stuff.
Just the way it is.
Okay?
It was in Colorado. It was
the beginning of August. I think it was August
the first few days of August
there was a Sunday. My mind
says the fifth but I'm not sure it was the fifth
of two thousand
two thousand
one
maybe?
And the Lord gave me a prophecy
and I started prophesying and he
said the future of this church has not
been determined in this state, in this area
yet.
And I'm going what?
When you prophesy you hear it coming out
and you try to be obedient to that
but in the background your mind is kind of going
what the world is this about?
You know, because you're thinking
while your spirit's speaking.
It says the future of this church
has not been determined yet because
and he was speaking about the Denver
area.
He said I despise
what is in this area.
It is wicked. It is evil.
It is corrupt. It is filthy
spiritually.
And he said I'm going to prove it to you
and I'm going
I'm going
I'm saying this
and I'm going I have no idea
where this is going
and now he's going to prove it.
And then he goes on and talks about
how spiritually decrepit it is
and how full of
of demonology and witchcraft
and the high places
of the mountains from the planes going
into the mountains. How that has been made
a high place. Anton Leves
wrote his Bible just up a little bit from
Boulder. I mean
the whole place
and he just goes on describing maybe
15-20 minutes how
the whole area stinks
and he loathes
the spiritual
atmosphere of the area.
And he said in some of you
the question and I'm going
yeah that's me.
I'm saying it and I'm going
oh man he said I'm going to prove it
to you that this
place is decrepit and
everything spiritually.
I'm going to prove it to you and I'm going
what is he going to say?
And all of a sudden right there it was
he asked this question. He said here's
the proof.
Where is the repentance?
If we can't repent
we are loathsome
to God.
And he despises
what sin has done
when we can't repent.
So don't be surprised
when a lot of repentance kind of things
happen.
Because it's who we are.
It's just who we are.
So I don't know what's coming. I've got
some plans for the coming Sundays. We're going to talk
about prayer and fasting.
Sunday maybe too.
We're getting a run towards open heavens.
And we're going to encourage all of you
to pray and fast.
So we're going to talk about it. Explain it.
Describe it.
Teach on it and so forth.
So we'll just see how this all plays out
and go there.
But we're beginning to gear up
towards something that
I had someone come up to me this morning
and say, I don't know what's going on,
but open heavens this year is going to be
really important to where this church
is supposed to go.
So I'm kind of in the fear
of the Lord going, oh God, help us
get there.
So Father, we thank you
for the word that was spoken
this morning.
We pray it's a prime to the pump
in us.
And Lord, I call
that for the whole month
of December,
we don't live like we live November, October
and September.
But that there is a focus
that comes on us.
A hunger and a desire
to see you.
To see you in a greater way, to see you
in a different way.
Do that in us.
We pray in Jesus' name.