Brad started us last Sunday down a vein, and that thing showed up numerous times this week. Same vein.
Especially Friday and Saturday night dealing with prayer.
Very, very powerful. If you did not catch Friday and Saturday night and what that man had to say,
please go online and check it.
It was... and the thing I loved was the difference in the gifts.
Man, the difference in the gifts.
You know, Brad is just solid and steady and easy as she goes.
Brian's much like that until the anointing comes on him. That was Monday night.
And then he gets all excited.
Jennifer and Amanda hold a different world.
I mean, if Amanda don't get in your face, nobody's going to get in your face.
Over the top, man. It was awesome. It was great.
And then Vito, just solid and steady.
But boy, he had some good things to say. Good things to say.
And Brad's the same way. Same yesterday, day and forever.
You're right in with Farmer Tom. I keep telling him that because his looks never change.
He's looked like that for the last 95 years.
Just the same yesterday, day and forever.
I said, what are you doing, man? God is just really sustaining you.
But privilege to have our pastor start it and end it.
So Brad, come and give us what you feel the Lord has for us.
Praise the Lord.
Thank you, pastor.
Hallelujah.
Well, it's good to be back.
We watched most everything.
No offense to the worship team, but sometimes I didn't watch all of the worship.
And by the way, we watched the meetings.
Obviously, we couldn't be here the whole time.
And now I'm really disappointed that I didn't get to see the rest of last night.
But I will look. I will look.
All right, well, I want to pray this morning.
Last time I was here, I kind of just got into talking.
But I want us to get in agreement this morning.
And let's really just trust God for understanding revelation.
The Spirit is the one that's the great teacher.
And we want to receive spiritual understanding and revelation.
Supernatural revelation of the Word of God and God's plans and so forth.
So let's set our self in agreement with that.
Father, I thank you for the opportunity to be here.
And I thank you for each one that's within the sound of my voice.
And Lord, I trust that you'll minister on to us by your spirit.
That you'll make known to us the mysteries of the kingdom.
That we'll gain understanding and revelation concerning the Word of God.
And so that, Lord, we can be fully equipped to fulfill all that you have for us to do in this last day.
And so I trust you, Lord.
I trust that you would even use me as a vessel to speak on to these.
And as always, I give you all the glory and the honor.
Amen. In Jesus' name. Amen.
Amen.
And it was interesting that Pastor Verne had sent me this text before just leading up to the meetings.
And he made some comment. I don't have the text in front of me right now, but some comment about the Laodicean church.
And then, you know, what does a church in America need today and so forth and so on.
And when I read that text, to me it was very interesting because it just like instantly a couple of things came to me.
Now, originally when I told Pastor Verne, because when I was here last Sunday and we talked about prayer,
I said, well, just instantly I got this thing about prayer.
But what I did tell him was that there was two things that came to me.
And it came like this. Now, again, you kind of need to understand me because I've been walking with the Lord for a long time,
but I've never had Jesus appear to me. I haven't really, you know, had voices like way out here,
like God speaking, you know, thunder, lightning, things like that.
Now, I believe there was a reason for that because the Lord told me when I was very young in my walk with him
and I was a student at a Bible school and the Lord very, I mean, in a very strong way,
he told me, he says, the primary way that I will lead you in your ministry is by the inward witness.
And so I've just relied on that through the years.
And so a lot of times I say, well, you know, God said, well, now I didn't really hear anything.
But it's so real that, yes, he did say that, that it's just this inward witness that's so strong.
And so when I read that text there that Pastor Vernon sent to me, that was it.
It was like, okay, God said, I know this is what we need.
And he said, there was two things.
Now, the first is what I shared on when I was here last Sunday, and that was prayer.
If the church is going to fulfill what God has for us in this day and hour,
and we are the church that's responsible for this time,
because we're the ones that are alive now.
I like to read about others.
I like to read about great men and women of God that have lived in times past
and see the things that happened back in their day.
But that was their time.
This is our time.
And so now we do have the responsibility to fulfill what God's got for us to do in this day, in this hour,
because we are the church that's alive today.
And I really think it's a great honor to be the church during this time.
I really do.
And I have kind of, you know, somewhat jokingly said that just maybe when we all get together in heaven,
there might be some guys like Paul and Peter and some of these that want to come up and talk to us
and say, what was it like to be alive during that time?
And I hope we have a better response than, well, I was kind of depressed and discouraged.
I hope we have a better response than that, amen?
Because this is a good time to be alive.
It really is.
So anyway, two things that the Lord said.
And one is, is that the church must learn how to press into that deeper realm of prayer
where the Holy Spirit takes hold together with us.
It's going to take that kind of praying if we're going to be able to accomplish
what we need to accomplish in this day and hour.
Amen.
But the other thing that he told me was this.
He said it's going to take these two things.
It's not only going to take people learning how to work with God in that deeper realm of prayer,
but he said it's also going to take the corporate anointing.
Now, if you look at history, because there's been revivals that have taken place,
great revivals in which many people came into the kingdom of God,
great miracles took place, healings, amazing things have happened.
But you can look at all those revivals that have taken place in history,
and you will see those two things working there.
They stand out.
There was great times of prayer leading up to and during the times of those revivals.
And there was great corporate anointing.
Because the corporate anointing is much, much stronger than an individual anointing.
Now, we all can be anointed to do something, and we all have these individual anointings,
but the corporate anointing is much stronger than that.
And that's what's needed in this day and hour.
Now, to be honest, this is where it gets a little, for lack of a better word,
it gets a little tricky with this corporate anointing.
Because there's a lot of factors that come into play if we're going to have the corporate anointing.
Because a lot of times what we do is we think,
okay, corporate anointing, well, we're all going to come together,
and we're going to make sure that we all like one another, so we're not in strife.
And then we're going to worship God.
And we worship, we all come together, we're nice to one another, and we worship God.
And we're going to have the corporate anointing.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being nice to one another, we should be.
And there's nothing wrong with coming together and worshiping.
But that's not all there is to having the kind of corporate anointing that I'm talking about this morning,
where it impacts the world.
There's more to it than that.
And so it does get a little, a little, I guess, again, for lack of a better word,
it kind of gets a little tricky.
But that's the only way that we're going to really have
the genuine move of God
in this day and hour.
And so I want to look at some Old Testament Scriptures
and I want to point out some things to you
and keeping this thought in mind about the corporate anointing.
And so I'm going to go over to Numbers Chapter 20.
And we're going to look at some examples here
because it's going to be through this persistent prayer
and doing what's necessary
so we can have the corporate anointing.
That's what's going to produce this genuine move of God.
Now, we have an example here of the children of Israel
and it's probably one of the most well-known stories in the Bible.
But we have an example here of the children of Israel.
We all know the story how God had spoke to Moses
and he was to lead the people out of that place of bondage in Egypt
and then lead them into what was called the promised land,
that land that flowed with milk and honey and so forth.
The promised land.
Well, we do have to realize, if I can say it this way,
that there is a, you could say, spiritual promised land
that we need to enter into.
Now, in this case, of course, with them it was a natural land
but there is such a thing as a spiritual promised land.
In other words, something that God has promised to us.
You can have this. This is my plan.
This is my will for your life and for your church, your nation
and so forth and so on.
And so it's a promised land. It's something that we can walk into.
Alright? So, let's look at this.
This is in Romans, or excuse me, yeah, Romans.
Numbers 20. Numbers 20 verse 2.
Let's begin there. Numbers 20 verse 2.
It says, now there was no water for the congregation
so they gathered together against Moses and Aaron.
Alright, we're going to point some things out as we go along here.
And I hope you'll still love me when it's all over.
And Moses and Aaron were called, appointed, anointed
to leave the children of Israel into this promised land.
And so we, like I said, we kind of know the story.
We get to this place where now they're out of place
where it says there's no water.
And so the people start to gather.
And here it says together against their leadership.
Huh?
Verse 3.
And the people contended with Moses and spoke saying,
if only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord.
Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord
into this wilderness that we and our animals should die here?
And why have you made us come up out of Egypt
to bring us to this evil place?
That's kind of interesting.
Why have you brought us to this evil place?
Is it not a place?
It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates.
Nor is there any water to drink.
Alright.
God places leaders.
He works through order.
He's still placing leaders today to lead His people.
Now, God had placed Moses and Aaron too
to be in this place of leadership
and they led the people so far in some very miraculous things
that are already taking place
to get to the place where they are right now.
But yet they were not seeing the fulfillment
of everything that they thought they should have.
And so when they didn't see everything immediately,
their response is,
why did you as a leader take us to this evil place?
Yeah.
In other words, it would have been comfortable
just for us to stay where we were.
See, and God could put something in a leader's heart today.
For instance, build a building.
Yep.
And so we're excited we start out.
Things are going well.
But then things don't always go as good
as you think they should go.
Now you've got to guard against
when you're at that place that you don't say,
why did you lead us faster to this evil place?
All right.
So they're starting to come against Moses and Aaron.
Verse 6.
So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly
to the door of the tabernacle of meeting
and they fell on their faces.
And so the leaders begin to seek the Lord.
It says,
in the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
take the rod.
You and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together.
Speak to the rock before their eyes
and it will yield its water.
Thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock
and give drink to the congregation and to their animals.
So Moses took the rod from before the Lord
as he commanded him.
Verse 10.
And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together
before the rock
and he said to them,
hear now you rebels.
I like that.
He says, hear now you rebels.
Must we bring water for you out of this rock?
Then Moses lifted his hand
and struck the rock twice with his rod.
And water came out abundantly
and the congregation and the animals drank.
But then look at this in verse 12.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron.
Because you did not believe me
to hallow me
in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Therefore you shall not
bring this assembly into the land
which I've given them.
Now that's kind of interesting.
Because this was just one instance.
One mistake.
See, I certainly agree
that God is His love
and He loves us no matter what.
I mean, I could be totally rebellious
and God's still going to love me.
But what we have to realize is that
His love is like a good father.
That He will love us no matter what.
But He also will correct us,
discipline us.
The Bible says it's a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the living God.
There is still this sight of God
that we see under the Old Testament.
He's not changed.
Now thank God for the blood of Jesus
and what Jesus did for us
that we now have this grace,
but God has not changed.
And so He says,
because you did not believe me to hallow me,
He says, then you're not going to bring
this assembly into the land.
So there's two things that He mentions here.
It says, first you didn't believe me.
It's important that leaders,
and we'll see as we go along here,
but it's important that leaders
believe what God has said.
And then second, He says,
you didn't hallow me.
In other words, that where it says
you didn't hallow me, it really means
you didn't treat it as holy.
You did not honor me.
You didn't treat me as sacred
in the eyes of the congregation.
Leaders must
believe the direction of the Lord,
and then those that they lead
must see that the leading
of the Holy Spirit is treated as sacred.
In other words, it isn't just about
someone leading a congregation
or a ministry, whatever you might look at.
It isn't just about them saying,
well, you know, we're doing our best
to get people saved,
and we want to preach the gospel
and lay hands on the sick and so forth and so forth.
No, what it's about is, what has God said?
And are you as a leader going to treat that as sacred?
So that the people that would follow you
that you're endeavoring to lead that they can actually see
that when you have this direction from God
that it is something sacred.
And God took that very serious.
Because he failed to do that in this case.
Moses and Aaron, actually both of them.
When they failed to do that,
then God said, sorry,
you didn't treat what I said sacred.
And you're not going to lead these people in.
Interesting.
See,
their disobedience
stopped them from being able to lead them into that promised land.
Did not matter how anointed they were
or what position they held.
I mean Aaron, he was the high priest of Israel.
And Moses was the prophet and leader of all of Israel.
But they would have to die
before the children of Israel could go into the promised land.
Because they disobeyed.
And they didn't treat what God said as being sacred.
Okay?
All right, hang with me.
So, we're going someplace.
So, Romans, excuse me, why do I keep saying Romans?
Numbers.
Numbers again.
Chapter 20.
But now jumping over to verse 22.
Verse 22.
Numbers 20, verse 22.
It says, now the children of Israel,
the whole congregation,
journeying from Kedish and came to Mount Hor.
Now, I'm not real good at pronouncing all these names.
I should really get together with some of my Jewish friends
and they can tell me how to pronounce these things right.
But I'm not very good at it.
But anyway, so I drew the best I can.
But anyway, verse 23.
It says,
Aaron shall be gathered to his people.
In other words, Aaron's going to die.
Aaron shall be gathered to his people,
for he shall not enter the land
which I've given to the children of Israel.
Because you rebelled against my word
at the water of whatever that word is.
So he says in verse 25.
Take Aaron and Eleazar, his son,
and bring them up to Mount Hor
and strip Aaron of his garments.
And put them on Eleazar, his son,
for Aaron shall be gathered to his people
and die there.
So Moses did just as the Lord commanded.
And they went up to Mount Hor
in the sight of all the congregation.
Moses stripped Aaron of his garments,
put them on Eleazar, his son,
and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain.
Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
Now when all the congregation
saw that Aaron was dead,
all the house of Israel mourned
for Aaron 30 days.
Now I read that because I want you to see
how serious God takes things.
When He appoints people
into leadership positions
and then gives them direction.
We sometimes, we use this word vision.
He gives them a vision.
This is what I want you to do,
so forth and so on.
When He does that, it's a very holy,
it's a very sacred thing.
He takes it very seriously.
And when Aaron and Moses
did not do
exactly what the Lord told them to do,
it cost him.
Big time.
Aaron lost his position as the high priest.
He lost his anointing and he lost his life.
And later we know that Moses experiences
a similar thing.
And so let's read this out of Deuteronomy.
It's hanging with me.
It may sound like I'm just talking to leaders
at this point, but we're heading someplace.
And it all has to do with the corporate anointing.
Deuteronomy 32,
and I'll pick it up here in verse 48.
Deuteronomy 32 verse 48.
It says,
Then the Lord spoke to Moses the very same day, saying,
Go up to this mountain,
Mount Nebo, which is the land of Moab,
across from Jericho,
and view the land of Canaan,
which I give to the children of Israel
as a possession,
and die on that mountain which you ascend.
And be gathered to your people,
just as Aaron your brother died
on Mount Horan was gathered to his people,
because you trespassed against me
among the children of Israel.
Wow.
He takes these things pretty serious.
I even think it's interesting.
Just a little side thought.
But God actually showed Moses the land.
And said, There it is.
But you don't get to go in there.
He takes these things pretty serious.
And unless we start as the church,
and I can't speak for the whole world,
but I can speak for the church in America.
If we don't ask the church in America
to start taking things more seriously,
as far as the plans of God,
we're not going to enter into that spiritual promise land.
So he deals very harshly with Moses,
and with Aaron.
And we jump on down to verse 52 there,
of Deuteronomy.
It says, Yet you shall see the land before you,
though you shall not go there,
into the land which I am giving
to the children of Israel.
And then let's go to Deuteronomy 34.
Let's throw this one in there.
Deuteronomy 34.
And pick it up here in verse 5.
Deuteronomy 34 verse 5.
Then the Lord said to him,
This is the land of which I swore to give
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying,
I'll give it to your descendants.
I've caused you to see it with your eyes,
but you shall not cross over there.
So Moses, the servant of the Lord,
died in the land of Moab,
according to the word of the Lord.
Now, I believe there's principles
that are set forth in these scriptures
that are applicable today.
Now, one of the reasons I believe that
is right here, because I want to read this to you.
And coming on over to the New Testament,
1 Corinthians chapter 10.
And let's notice something that it says.
And 1 Corinthians chapter 10.
And you pick it up here in verse 1.
1 Corinthians 10 verse 1.
He says,
Moreover brethren,
I do not want you to be unaware
that all our fathers were under the cloud,
all passed through the sea,
all were baptized into Moses in the cloud
and in the sea,
and all ate the same spiritual food
and all drank the same spiritual drink.
For they drank of that spiritual rock
that followed them,
and that rock was Christ.
But with most of them,
God was not well pleased,
for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
Now these things became our examples
to the intent that we should not
lust after evil things
as they also lusted,
and do not become idolaters
as were some of them,
as it is written that people
sat down to eat and drink
and rose up to play,
nor let us commit sexual immorality
as some of them did,
and in one day 23,000 fell,
nor let us tempt Christ
as some of them also tempted,
and were destroyed by the serpents,
nor complain as some of them also complained,
and were destroyed by the destroyer.
Now all these things happened to them
as examples,
and they were written for our
admonition, catch this,
upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
So the things that happened to them,
they were written, recorded, you could say,
for our admonition.
For us, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
We need to walk this way in the end times.
We need to walk this way where we have
this sacred
honor
of what God has said to do.
Now we know, of course, and I talk mostly about Aaron
and Moses,
but the people also
had something to do with the fact
that they never got to enter in either.
You do realize that it was, you could say,
the next generation that went in.
I kind of like to say, well, it was their kids.
That really got to go into the Promised Land.
I mean, they wandered there for 40 years.
So a lot of things had happened.
Now, thank God for Joshua and Caleb,
because remember they had the good report,
they did get to enter in.
But the leaders
and the people
never entered in.
And so they had to have been doing something wrong.
Right?
Because that was never God's plan.
It was not God's plan for Aaron and Moses
to have to die out there.
The plan was, he had raised up Moses
to lead them into the Promised Land.
That was the plan.
And it was never the plan
for all those people to die in the wilderness
and never get to go into the Promised Land.
That was not the plan.
But something must have went wrong.
Huh?
And it did.
And it's recorded for us
for our admonition
and especially you can say for us
on whom the ends of the ages have come.
That we're going to have to walk this way
in this day, in this hour.
If we want to see
what God desires to do
in this last day.
Because he lists a whole bunch of things
what the people did.
And it's not my intent to preach about all that,
but he talks about how they lusted
and they were idolaters.
And it's interesting that when he says
that they had become idolaters
he talks about how they sat down to eat
and drink and rose up to play.
So it wasn't just that they were making
a bunch of idols, you know, and worshiping the idols.
Obviously they were worse than me
in just everyday life things.
And he talked about how
the sexual morality
and tempting the Lord
and complaining.
So they certainly had a part to play in it,
no question.
The leaders had a part to play.
The leaders had to be willing
to follow God precisely.
They had to treat what God said,
the plan of God, the vision of God.
They had to treat it as something that was sacred.
And they needed to make sure
that the people that were following them,
that they were endeavoring to lead,
saw that the leaders were treating it as sacred.
But then the people themselves
had to be willing to believe
in what God had said.
They couldn't just choose to complain
like those people did.
They started coming against Aaron and Moses.
Yeah, you took us all out here
and now look at where we're at.
We're stuck out here
and would have been better off
if we would have just stayed the same
and never ever acted this way.
Never ever started to do anything.
Just stayed back where we were.
Well, you see that a lot today.
So the people do have a part to play in it as too.
But what's always interesting to me is,
and you've probably thought about this too,
is that, see, they saw
so much of the powerful works of God.
Supernatural things.
I don't know about you,
but I haven't seen that yet.
I mean, I haven't seen any, you know,
scenes partying.
I haven't witnessed that.
I mean, I wouldn't complain if it happened.
I'd be all right.
But I haven't seen that.
I mean, it was pretty supernatural.
And so, again, to me,
what that tells me is, is that, see,
we can be a church
that witnesses
and even experiences the most powerful works of God
and still not enter into our promised land.
Man, Israel, they saw supernatural deliverance
and protection, provision.
But they never enter the promised land.
Their leaders passed away
and the people
failed to believe
and they died.
Now, we have an exhortation here,
and this is over in Hebrews chapter 3.
Hebrews chapter 3
starting in verse 7.
Hebrews chapter 3 verse 7 says this.
It says, therefore,
as the Holy Spirit says,
today, if you'll hear His voice,
and do not harden your hearts
as in the rebellion
in the day of trial in the wilderness.
So here we're coming back to this thing again.
He says, don't harden your hearts as in the rebellion
in the day of trial in the wilderness,
where your fathers tested me,
he tried me, and saw my works 40 years.
Therefore, I was angry with that generation.
Oh, no, wait a minute. I thought God just...
He's just a God of love.
If you're a parent...
Now, you know, my children are all grown
and gone and whatever.
But if you're a parent,
I think you can someone understand that.
Because did you ever get angry with your children?
Why?
Why? Because you didn't love them?
No. You loved them.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
But they were doing something that was inappropriate.
It was not right.
And it caused you to get angry about that.
And you were correct.
And disciplined and so forth and so on.
Well, at least you did back in the day when I grew up.
I don't know where we're at in that place today anymore.
I don't know, but at least with me it was that way.
But anyway, it says so, verse 10.
Therefore, I was angry with that generation and they said...
And said, they always go astray in their heart.
And they've not known my ways.
We have to know his ways.
Amen.
So I swore in my wrath, they shall not enter my rest.
Beware, brethren, lest there be any of you
an evil heart of unbelief and departing from the living God.
But exhort one another daily while it's called today.
Lest any of you be heartened through the deceitfulness of sin.
For we have become partakers of Christ
if we hold the beginning of our confidence
steadfast to the end.
While it is said, today, if you will hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.
For who, having heard, rebelled.
Indeed, was it not who came out of Egypt led by Moses?
Now with whom was he angry 40 years?
Was it not with those who sinned,
whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
And to whom did he swear that they should not enter his rest?
But to those who did not obey.
So we see they could not enter in because of unbelief.
Now I know in a general sense,
I preach sermons this way, others preach sermons this way.
In a general sense, we could use this to say,
okay, well, you need to believe his word.
You need to have whatever he said in the Word of God.
You need to choose to believe it.
Don't have this unbelief in you. Choose to believe the Word of God.
Now, that's all true.
But in the very context of what he's saying here,
that's not what he's talking about.
Because when he talks about them that, you know,
they had heard, yet they didn't believe.
What were they hearing?
What they were hearing was, here's the vision.
What they were hearing was God's plan.
I'm going to take you into the promised land.
What they were hearing is from their leaders,
what God wanted to do, so forth and so on.
It had to do really with the plan of God.
Now, in a general sense, yes, all that's true as far as just the Word of God goes.
We do need to believe his word, so forth and so on.
And we do need to hear the Word.
But the specifics of what he's talking about here,
that those that were in that wilderness,
they failed to believe.
But what did they fail to believe?
They failed to believe what God had said.
Here's the plan.
And that made him angry.
So he goes on in Hebrews 4.
We read in chapter 3 there, but he goes on in Hebrews 4 and says,
in verse 11, Hebrews 4, 11 he says,
Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest
lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience.
We don't want to fall according to the same example of disobedience.
And the disobedience had to be that they did not believe.
But what did they not believe?
They did not believe God's plan.
I've given you this land.
Hallelujah.
All right, so.
But now we know how the story goes.
Moses now is dead.
Aaron's dead.
A great number of the original people that came out of Egypt.
They died in the wilderness.
But we do know that eventually,
they do go into this promised land.
But like I say, it's like the next generation,
their kids, so to speak,
that actually get to go into the promised land.
But what was different about them?
That they got to enter in.
And Moses' dent and Aaron's dent
and so many of those people that came out of Egypt
did not enter in.
But we know they eventually entered in.
But what was different?
Because that can tell us something.
So let's look at that.
Joshua chapter one.
And we can read the whole chapter.
It's all good.
But just for time's sake,
we're going to pick out a couple verses here.
But in Joshua chapter one, verse 10,
because remember, Moses is dead
and the Lord comes to Joshua
and he says, Moses, my servant's dead.
And so now you leave these people in.
And they sell some different things to him.
But we don't want to get into all that.
Let's go here.
Joshua chapter one, verse 10.
So Joshua's got the orders now.
He's the new leader.
Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people saying,
pass through the camp and command the people saying,
prepare provisions for yourselves
for within three days,
you will cross over this Jordan to go in to possess the land
which the Lord your God is giving you to possess.
All right.
Just the one thing I really wanted you to notice in there
is that Joshua now begins to command
the officers of the people.
So he takes charge.
And what is he saying?
We're going in.
Huh?
And he's really telling them what the Lord said
because the Lord told Joshua, he says,
Moses is dead.
Now you leave these people in.
And everywhere your foot goes, et cetera, et cetera,
I've given you that.
All the things that he said to him.
And so Joshua steps up to the plate
and says, okay, get ready.
We're going in.
So really what he's doing is, as a leader,
he's communicating vision.
He's communicating.
This is what God said.
This is what we're going to do.
We're going in.
It's kind of like we're going to build a building.
Okay.
So verse 16.
Joshua 1 verse 16.
So they answered Joshua
because we're looking at, say, what was different?
Because they went in.
But what was different?
So they answered Joshua saying,
all that you command us, we will do.
And wherever you send us, we will go.
Now it's interesting
because Moses never got that kind of response.
I mean, if he did, it's not recorded in the scriptures
because mostly the kind of response
Moses got was, complain,
we're going to die, all kinds of things.
He never got that kind of response.
But Joshua does.
He says, all that you command us, we will do.
And wherever you send us, we will go.
Just as we heated Moses in all things,
so we will heed you.
Oh, no, you have a wait a minute.
I know we laugh because we know
that previous generation didn't do that.
But the next one did.
See, they've been wandering out there for a while
and there's this whole another group coming up.
And that whole another group,
what they're doing, they're heeding Moses.
They believe we can do this.
Amen.
So it says, just as we heated Moses in all things,
so we will heed you.
Only the Lord your God be with you
as he was with Moses.
Whoever rebels against your command
and does not heed your words
and all that you command him
shall be put to death.
Only be strong
and of good courage.
Oh, that's pretty extreme.
And I'm certainly not endorsing that.
But I like their attitude.
They said, we're going in.
We believe the vision.
Man, we've believed it for a long time.
We've been heeding Moses for a long time already.
We believe it.
And now Joshua comes along
and begins to command the officers of the people.
He says, all right, get them ready, we're going in.
They believed it.
And they said, all right, we are going in
and if there's people that won't go with us,
we're just going to knock them off.
I mean, that's what they said.
Now, obviously, we're not going to do that today, obviously.
But there was something working here, see,
that I think we need to get.
If we're going to go into that spiritual promised land
and it all has to do with the corporate anointing.
Yes, yes.
See, they submitted to the one that was in authority.
They believed and they heeded all that Joshua commanded.
And their level of commitment and obedience was extreme.
See, submission and authority
is not just some kind of teaching
or idea or excuse
to try and govern people.
That's now what it is.
It's God ordained.
The entire kingdom of God works under submission and authority.
Jesus is in submission to his Father.
The Holy Spirit in submission to Jesus.
We can see it throughout the scriptures.
The whole kingdom works that way.
But see, one of the things that we have
working against us in America.
Like I said, I can't speak for the rest of the world.
But the one thing we got working against us in America
is something called freedom.
No, that sounds strange.
And freedom is wonderful.
But see, if we're not careful,
the whole concept of freedom says,
you know what, I'm free to do whatever I want to do.
And I'm not going to submit to anybody.
I'm not going to have anybody tell me anything.
And I've run into this all the time.
I mean, I've been in ministry for quite a while now.
And I've run into people that said,
you know what, I don't need a pastor.
I mean, I can read the Word on my own.
I mean, I can pray, I can hear from God.
I don't need anybody else speaking into my life.
That's not how it works in the kingdom of God.
That's called rebellion.
And it prevented the children of Israel
from getting into the Promised Land.
But see, there's this whole idea of,
well, we're just free, free, free, free.
Well, we are.
Thank God for it.
I'm glad that I live in a country in which
I'm free to even be in a place like this
on a Sunday morning preaching the Word to you.
That's wonderful.
And you can always see how the enemy works.
The enemy wants to take away freedom.
He wants to just keep people in places of bondage.
And he works through governments and other things to do that.
He even works through religion.
Amen.
Because there are, you know,
if you really get into the strict religious circles,
there's a lot of bondage.
So yes, we have freedom.
And even in Christ, He set us free.
Set us free from sin and so forth and so on
and free from all the evil that the enemy
can bring against us. We can walk in victory.
So freedom is good,
but not good if it overrides
obedience to God.
And I could be wrong,
but I mean, I have done a lot of work with marriages
in my ministry, but I see this as one of the major problems
in marriages.
Because God actually set it up.
Now, y'all still love me after this.
But God actually set it up with submission and authority.
And He actually said now,
you're the guy. You're the head of this union.
Some don't like that.
I'm not going to submit to any guy.
There's no man going to tell me what to do.
Well, there's a lot we can say about that.
Now, can you abuse authority?
Yes, you can.
You can.
But that's not what we're talking about.
We're talking about this godly submission and authority.
The whole kingdom functions that way.
And when we choose to be that way,
where we are submitted to the leaders that God has
connected us with and we believe the vision
and we're committed to it, to the extreme.
It says we will do whatever to see this come to pass
because we recognize it as sacred.
And then when the leaders are willing to compromise
in what God has said,
they're not willing to compromise on the vision
and they treated us sacred,
now all of a sudden we have something working
called the corporate anointing.
And we can see this play out with Joshua.
Because remember their attitude was,
hey, man, whatever you command us to do,
we're just going to do it, we're with you,
we're going in, let's possess this land.
And they were so committed that they said,
well, even if they're not with us,
well, we're just going to eliminate them.
But we're going in.
Now, look what happens.
What's the first place they run into?
Jericho.
Oh, great story.
But here's this group.
Man, the corporate anointing is flowing.
They pass on over into the promised land
and they're doing exactly what God tells them to do.
And he says, you do this,
you march around so many times, so many days,
you shout, blah, blah, blah.
You do all that.
And the walls fell down.
Great power.
They were operating in this corporate anointing.
It wasn't just an anointing that was on Joshua.
It was the corporate anointing.
Because they now are in a place of unity.
Now, we know as we continue to watch them,
is that they do come up with a little bit of a challenge later.
Because God had told them to go out and fight against these people
and he had told them not to take anything from them.
And remember the story?
They did, they took stuff.
Well, here we are again.
Now, you're not treating what God said as sacred.
See? And it cost them.
See, people needed to follow Moses.
There is a divine order.
Paul had even told people under the New Testament,
he said, follow me as I follow the Lord.
There is this corporate anointing that's far greater than any individual anointing.
And the Lord wants that manifested in the earth today.
We need the fullness of the glory.
And every revival that's ever taken place has seen this.
They've seen the prayer and they've seen the corporate anointing.
And the fullness of the glory was manifested.
Could it be?
I'm not saying it is, but I'm just going to throw a question out to you.
Could it be that we've only come as far as we are,
because it's as far as the Lord can go under the present circumstances?
Could it be?
Because I don't know about you.
I'm really long for those days.
Amen.
Man, I read some about these past revivals,
and I believe this revival that we're in,
I think we're in the beginning stages of it,
it's going to be greater than any of those that we've yet to see.
But I long for those times.
Man, I read about some of those stuff.
I remember, and I think I probably shared this with you one other time,
but I had the opportunity to meet someone,
an older gentleman that had actually been in meetings with A.A. Allen.
Now, A.A. Allen, he kind of messed up at the end and cost him a lot.
But he had a tremendous healing anointing.
And this gentleman that I got to meet, he was in his meetings.
And he was sharing with me, he said, we watched.
He said, people would get brought into the meetings
with, they'd be missing a limb.
They'd be missing an arm or a leg.
And he said, we just watch it come back on their body.
Man, I long for those days.
I saw some of that in the early days of what became known as the word movement,
the faith movement or whatever, that revival that took place.
I can remember going to some meetings in those early days.
And, I mean, they'd have people on the side of the platform over here.
And the platform was big because it was in a big convention center.
And, you know, 20,000 people there, whatever.
I don't know how many they see.
But they'd have this, people in wheelchairs just sitting all up and down.
And all of a sudden, people in those wheelchairs would just start getting up and walking off.
I was in a meeting one time.
They brought this lady in on a stretcher.
It was that same big meeting, you know, and lots of people there.
And they brought her in on a stretcher, you know, had the IV thing going.
And she's on this hospital stretcher, rolled her down the aisle.
And the preacher ministers to her and she gets up and walks off, totally healed.
She looked the picture of death.
I mean, you would have thought, I don't even know if you're going to make it down to the front.
Because you look like you're going to die any minute.
And she just supernaturally healed.
I long for those days.
But maybe, maybe we haven't got there yet because of the present circumstances.
Maybe we need to change something.
Maybe we need to treat things a little bit more sacred.
Maybe we need to learn how to work in this deeper realm of prayer.
And believe the vision that God's imparted to us.
And follow our leaders in which they're sharing the vision with us.
And we're saying, man, this is what God's got for us to do.
And let's just do it. Let's go for it.
And be committed to it to the extreme.
Now we do see a thing with Joshua.
And I thought it was interesting.
Because the Lord had told Joshua several times as this leader
that what he needed to do is he needed to be strong and courageous.
He needed to be strong and courageous.
Leaders need to be strong and courageous.
This is what God said.
So I don't know.
I was trying to give you something to think about.
I just think we've only gotten as far as we've gotten because of where we're at.
And we need to change something.
I personally think, and some of you might not like me for this,
but I think social media has been a real hindrance.
I'm not against social media, but I mean, I'm a Facebook guy.
I'm one of the old guys that took over Facebook.
And that's the big joke.
All the kids they originally had Facebook and then they all left
because all the old people took it over.
So I'm not opposed to that, but you know what?
Social media has been a hindrance because it's pushed people into just
visual things and the physical realm and emotional things and all this sort of stuff.
And it's really kind of drawn away from the spiritual side of things.
And so it was very interesting to me.
Like I said, I watched most of the meetings and they were so much good.
So much good that took place.
And I'm excited to hear that, you know, Pastor said,
well, we're going to look at things and review and say, OK, you know,
what can we pick out of here that the Lord really said
and so that we can make the adjustments and go with what he's got for us?
That's awesome.
But I guess just, you know, for my part,
and I really enjoyed, what was his name, Vito?
I really enjoyed Vito. I mean, I just got to be honest.
I mean, they were all good.
None were, you know, better or worse or whatever,
but I really enjoyed Vito. I really did.
There just seemed to be a real maturity there and heart for God.
And I really enjoyed that.
But I guess for my part,
what I would leave for you as we start now moving into this new year
and what I believe really is going to be us advancing farther into this revival.
And would be, man, let's press into places of prayer.
And let's learn how to work with them in this deeper realm of prayer.
And let's be more determined than ever to follow the vision.
Let's not let little things get us off.
Let's believe, treat it sacred.
This is what God said, this is sacred.
Let me be honest with you.
I've been coming here a little bit now, getting to know your pastors better,
which I really appreciate.
But it seems like every time I prepare and come in here to minister,
there's always this one thing that just sticks out in my heart and its vision.
Every time I come here and say,
something just starts to get excited within my spirit about vision.
I believe that God's put something in front of you guys that's just incredible.
And it's His plan.
And it shall come to pass.
Hallelujah.
But it's going to be up to you to be like those children of Israel under Joshua.
That says, man, we're going for this thing. We're committed to this thing.
Don't be like that bunch that died in the wilderness.
Amen.
And I mean, I would encourage...
I encourage your pastors.
Man, just be bold.
I know you are, but just be bold and never draw back.
Because what God's given to you, it's sacred.
And one of the things that I sense so much when I come here,
like I said, it's just this vision, vision, vision.
But right along with it is, it just must come to pass.
This just has to happen.
And I believe it shall.
I got this, Mary.
I don't know if it's going to mean anything to you or not, but...
I just got this about prayer.
Is that...
Okay.
You're the primary one that's going to have to lead these people in prayer.
You are.
And you have an anointing to do it.
You can teach them.
And you can lead them into that place, that deeper realm of prayer.
Amen.
Because it's there and you can do it.
And it...
If people will gather
and treat it sacred,
it'll revolutionize things.
Things will change.
Hallelujah.
Man, there's just like a...
There's like a holy...
Yeah, yeah.
It's not always just joy unspeakable and full of glory.
There is a serious side
to our walk with God.
I don't want to live my life in which He's not pleased with me.
He loves me.
But I don't want to live a life where He's not pleased with me.
I don't want to live a life where He gets angry with me.
Because I don't believe Him.
And don't follow what He's told me to do.
And I'm not saying I was perfect in everything, but I know one thing.
Man, I've endeavored in my ministry.
I'm going to do what God told me to do
and only what God has told me to do.
And I've done that.
And people sometimes don't understand it.
They don't. They ridicule you for it.
They try and convince you you should go a different way.
And I said, no, I'm going with what God said.
And I'm sticking with that
until He says something different.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Hallelujah.
So I know about you, but I mean I want to see these things happen.
I want the harvest to be reaped.
I do. I want to see just millions and millions and millions of people come in.
And I try and, you know, I don't know, really, Lord?
I try not to ever lose sight of that.
You know, there's a lot of political stuff going on right now.
And it's getting all everybody's attention
and they're all drawn to this
and they all got opinions about it and all this sort of stuff.
Man, I try the best of my ability.
Even with people that, I mean, they're just not right.
I mean, they're evil. They really are.
I am not going to take a position that says,
well, God just send them to hell.
I'm not going to follow them.
I'm not going to agree with them.
But they need to get saved.
He's not willing that any should perish.
They need to get saved.
And so they can make heaven and miss hell.
I want to see the harvest come in
and that harvest includes everybody.
See, I came into the faith movement kind of at the end of it.
It has been going pretty strong for a few years.
Well, maybe I kind of come in more towards the middle in the end.
And so I saw so many things.
When I, for the first church I passed,
and you understand, I passed into my first church,
I was still in my 20s.
I mean, I was just, you know,
I was just a little farm boy
that went into partnership in a business with my brother
and we fixed air conditioning and radiators
and things like that.
And then all of a sudden get saved
and God sends me off to Bible school.
And so, I mean...
And so I get thrust in the middle of this whole thing
and passed into my first church
when I'm just in my late 20s.
And we started seeing things happen in our church
that we'd never seen anywhere else.
I mean, I seen someone one time,
I stepped off the platform to pray for someone
and I mean, I got about this far away
between me and Vern.
And the power of God hit him, picked him up
and just threw him all the way across the church.
We saw people getting healed.
People with broken arms.
Go home, take their cast off.
Go back to the doctor, everything's just perfectly normal.
We started seeing people getting drunk in the Holy Ghost.
Laughing. We'd never seen it.
We didn't even know what it was.
But we just wanted God.
And we're just going to obey him.
And we even got to the point, some of us, you know,
that were real prayer warriors and we did pray.
We used to have, back in those early days
when I was a pastor and just as this young person,
we'd have all night prayer meetings.
We'd come and we'd pray all night long.
But we saw things happen.
And we built a core of prayers.
And people started hooking up with the vision
and what we saw God wanted to do.
And the more we got into that place,
the more we saw this corporate anointing just begin to flow.
Things happen.
People come in, conviction would just hit them.
The presence of God would just hit them and they'd get saved.
Amazing things.
I want that again.
Amen.
Because as I walked, I saw some of those things begin to wane.
I want them back.
And then some.
Amen.
Will y'all still love me?
Yes.
Because I still love you.
Amen.
And it is an honor for me to be connected with this church.
It really is.
I've said it this way and it's still true.
It hasn't changed.
But the anointing that God has put in my life
flows just so...
I don't even know how to say it.
Probably the easiest of anything I do in ministry
it flows here.
And so I appreciate that.
I appreciate your pastors for receiving me.
I appreciate you all for allowing me to talk to you.
And, man, let's get this thing done.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
Well, I don't know where to go from here, Pastor.
It's Sunday morning.
You've had a long week.
I don't know.
You got anything in your heart?
I do.
Good.
Okay.
I'm trying. Hang on.
I could just stand here and weep.
I'm not fully sure what it's about.
He won't tell me.
There's only one phrase running through my head.
And it goes along with what Brad was speaking.
Does God...
I'll put it in my words because I don't have the exact
phrasing of the scripture.
Does God only speak to Moses?
That became a huge problem
with the Israelites.
And it was one of the reasons they didn't go in.
Because of the issue of
God works from the top down.
And they didn't like that.
Folks, I know that leadership can be bad.
And if leadership goes bad, the whole thing
goes rotten.
And I know that is absolutely true.
And when we get to Heaven and Judgment Day,
if any of those leaders are standing near me
who went bad, I'm going to step back a few steps.
Because it's probably going to go bad for them.
When someone affects hundreds
or thousands of people and destroys
something that God was trying to do.
God does not laugh at that.
It's a wholly serious thing.
And I know leadership can go bad.
And one of the reasons leadership goes bad
is because they don't have authority over them.
They're freelancers.
And there's churches out there who are not under authority
to anyone or anything.
And I totally disagree with it.
Because there's nobody who can check them
and say, you know, you're headed down a direction that's wrong.
And it's going to bite you if you don't change it.
You have to be under authority.
That's why I said Brad's going to review
some of these things.
He's going to look at what happened last night
and he's going to weigh in.
Not because he wants to,
but because I need him to.
We need him to.
And God has asked us to take,
you know, for this size congregation,
God has asked us to take on a huge project
in the physical.
Huge project.
And we know why.
And, you know, we've had meetings about it
and there wasn't one person in the covenant partnership
who disagreed and said, we shouldn't do this.
Everybody is 100% there.
And as far as I can tell, everybody is still 100% there.
But I understand the magnitude of what we're taking on.
We're talking multi-million dollar project.
We're not that big a congregation.
This is a big undertaking.
For God, it's nothing.
And he's just going to pull out some pocket change
and throw it at a few people and say,
there you go, there's a few million dollars.
Give it to them, they need it.
I mean, that's how God works.
But from our side, it's like,
whoa, we're going to stretch our faith a bit.
But I want you to understand why I am insistent
that this will happen debt-free.
And if it doesn't happen debt-free, we're not building.
I'm insistent on it.
When we were in Colorado, there was, of course,
property and everything's really expensive out there
and we never got to the point
where we purchased our own building.
It just was, we couldn't make that leap.
But we rented.
We rented.
That doesn't make any difference.
It's the old man and me who likes details.
We rented a fairly expensive place
because everything's expensive.
And we went through a few-year period of time
financially that was absolutely horrid.
Horrid.
We were borrowing money off of our second mortgage to live.
It was horrid financially in the church.
We had big rental payments, big payments,
and they weren't being made.
Well, we made all the payments,
but there wasn't enough coming in
to make the payments and to pay us.
And once that lease came to an end
and we stepped out of it,
I asked God, I said,
why did we go through that?
That was the worst.
I still get sick to my stomach when I think about it.
It's like, oh, God, that was horrible.
And he made one statement to me
that is directing what we're doing right now.
He said, the day is coming.
You're going to be tempted to get in
over your head financially
and you'll lose the church if you go there.
I wanted you to know what it feels like.
This is that day.
We could get all excited
and jump out and borrow a couple million dollars
and throw that thing up and woohoo.
And then something goes wrong.
And we lose the whole thing.
And I refuse.
This happened in
1997, he told me that.
So here we are.
We're almost 30 years later.
And now we're at the day
he gave me that lesson for.
And I will not borrow
to make this happen.
I know what it's like
to have overwhelming payments
that you're just scraping
the paint off the walls
to make the payments.
We're not going there.
We're not doing that.
But God's still going to set that building up.
It's still going to happen.
So there's always a reason
why leaders make decisions they make
and I know leaders can make bad decisions
and I don't want to be one of them.
And sometimes obedience
is the hardest thing
to do.
In the end it's the right thing.
It's the best thing for us.
But it's the hardest thing to do.
I had one of the board members
tell me this morning
and I thought that's really good.
I needed to hear that.
I had one of the board
because it starts with me and Mary.
And then it works down
to the board.
And through the board
they're the next level of authority.
And then it goes down to the pastors under them.
Then it goes down to the workers and the leaders
and then the covenant partners.
And it flows down.
And one of the board members mentioned
they said last night
God asked me to do something
in that wild and crazy service
that I didn't want to do.
And I just kind of like
yeah, I don't think so.
I don't think I'm going to do that.
Evert and get all wild, but I ain't going to do that.
I've always heard that Russians have a wild, crazy side.
But you know what?
That was exactly what was needed last night.
Exactly.
That was God.
Anyway, back to the board member's story.
He said so I sat there saying
yeah, I don't think I'm going to do that.
And he said all of a sudden
I felt the anointing start to lift.
Exactly what Brad said.
You cannot
say no to God
and walk in the fullness
he wants you to walk in.
You can't do it.
He just won't honor disobedience
or rebellion. He'll just lift from it.
And he said I felt the anointing start to lift.
He said so I got up and did what he told me to do.
You know what?
That board member could have messed up last night
because
of the realm
of authority they hold
over this body.
They're not the top
but they're definitely not the bottom.
And when a board gets stubborn
God doesn't move.
He lifts.
It's just that important.
So I want us to do something
here this morning
because this is a holy moment again.
You can just feel it in the place.
I'll have Mary join me.
I'll have Pastor Igor.
I don't know if you made it this morning.
If you could go get her.
I want us here.
I want the board to
surround us
and the pastoral staff
that is available.
They're probably not all available
but the ones that are available
you come and surround
the board.
Let's just make a huddle here.
And then I want
the covenant partners next
and the congregation
and I want our pastor to pray for us.
And my hearts cry
right now.
And I pray it's your heart's cry.
God don't let us
mess this up.
God don't let us mess this up.
There have been other
spirit filled full gospel type of churches
in this area and they get to
about this size
and they blow up.
Some a little bigger
and they blow up.
We're no better
than anybody else.
And what worked on them
he's going to try to use on us could have worked before.
God don't let us
mess this up.
And I'm asking for our covering
to pray over us.
And I wouldn't be surprised
if what he spoke about last Sunday
won't come on some people
and there's a cry
of the Holy Spirit
that goes before the Father
on our behalf
not knowing what we should pray for.
He does.
And I just say that I'm not trying to work
something up.
But I also want freedom for if it comes on
you go there.
Because he knows what to pray.
We don't always know what we should pray.
But he will intercede.
He knows.
So Mary would you come
Pastor Egrantanya would you come
board members you come there.
Thank you Jesus.
You know
before we do anything else
this really went off.
Because last night I was laying in bed
and I actually replayed
both sermons
by Vito.
Just laying in bed last night.
And
and I guess I missed the end of it now.
I'm kind of sad I missed that.
But I'll go back and watch it.
But anyway
as I was doing that
something just really stirred in my heart
and had to do with finances.
And I saw myself last night
all of us actually together
not just me but I saw us
really
getting our faith together.
There is something about coming together
in a place of faith
that makes tremendous power
to work for us.
Because it's these finances
need to come in.
They do.
And so
we're going to declare as a group together
like we're doing right now.
We're going to declare in faith
in a place of unity
in agreement you would say
that every single need is met
for this project.
Hallelujah.
And it's going to come to pass.
Hallelujah.
Yeah.
So Lord, we join together this day.
We come together
as Word of Life
Church.
And we first of all Lord
we join our faith together this day.
We declare
that there be no lack
to accomplish what you
plan to accomplish.
This vision shall come
to pass in the name of Jesus.
And we declare that
every financial need
shall be met.
In the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Huh.
We ask you for an abundance.
We ask you
Huh.
For millions of dollars
to be able to do what you've
asked us to do long.
We trust you.
And we declare it done
in the name of Jesus.
Yes.
And now Lord, as you brought
this group of people together
and you placed
Vernon and Mary over them as
their pastors, their leaders.
And you've raised up others
around them to stand with them.
To hold up their hands.
And you've given all of them
Lord, plans,
purposes,
anointings.
Huh.
You brought this together.
We remind you of this, Lord.
We remind you that you did this.
You brought this together
and you didn't bring it this far
so that somehow now
it won't reach the fullness
of what you have planned.
Huh.
It'll not be like the children of Israel
where they'll fall short.
It'll not be that.
It'll be that we will walk into
that promised land.
And it shall be fulfilled
in the name of Jesus.
Yeah.
And we won't accept anything else.
We will not accept
anything else.
We declare
that it shall come
to pass
in the name of Jesus.
Yeah.
And Lord, this day,
I just pray for a special
strengthening
to come to the people.
A strengthening.
We see, Lord, within the scriptures
that the apostle Paul prayed
that those believers would be strengthened
with might by the Spirit
in the inner man.
This is a day and hour
when we need your strength.
And so, Lord, I pray that
this day
that even if we're standing right here,
that there's just a spirit of might
that's coming on this congregation
in the name of Jesus.
And they'll run.
They'll run and they'll not be weary.
But I'll so courage
and they'll not allow the enemy
to get in
and disrupt the plan.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with courage.
They'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
but they'll run with boldness.
But I'll so courage
It's beyond, it's beyond the ordinary, beyond the ordinary, but extra-ordinary, super-natural.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Yes, it's shell. It's shell, Lord. I see it. I see it, Lord. It's shell. It's shell reach beyond the region.
Beyond the region.
Yeah, people go out. People go out.
And lives have changed.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Yes,
Yeah, that's what I pray for. That's got to come to pass. It does. Yeah, it's got to change. Yes, it does.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yep, yep, yep, yep. That's what I see.
I see.
Pastor Verne in Mary that you've run and you've given. You've given of your all. You've wore yourself thin at times.
With all the strength, all the anointing that he placed upon you.
But in order to move to this next place, then there's going to have to be more that are willing to step into that place and hold up your hands.
That's what the Lord started having me pray about. I begin to see it. It's got to happen. And it will happen.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. It shall come to pass. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I declare it, Lord. It's going to happen.
It's going to happen.
I don't know.
Yes, hallelujah, hallelujah.
Hallelujah. Now, let me say something.
Yes.
That is what is called.
This is what is called...
This is what is called.
The book says,
This is what is called.
There is no one
Yipp yipp
Yeah. yep, yep, yep
Go round, round, round, round...
Go round...
Rock...
Go round, round, round...
Rock...
You're laughing!
No, no, no...
Thank you.
Come, sit down now.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know what to say.
I'm going to cry.
But I have to say, I'm not going to cry.
But I have to say I'm not going to cry.
Yeah, yep.
I don't know what to say.
I'm going to cry.
Thank you.
Now, you and your wife, your role here is much more a spiritual role than it is a natural role.
In other words, it's not just about you coming and giving some natural support to what's going on.
It's a spiritual side.
A spiritual side to hook up with your pastors, hook up with the vision, to pray.
That way.
And so that things can begin to happen.
So that the enemy can't deter them.
It's a supportive role.
Hallelujah.
But make sure that it stays spiritual.
Now, yes, there's things we all do in the natural and there's things we do to help.
But make sure it stays spiritual.
But does that make any kind of sense?
That goes for you too.
Not about Shaky Shaky.
Amen.
Brett, can I ask you to pray for us as pastoral staff and as board and as leadership
that we don't go awry?
Yeah.
Get off.
Yeah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Yeah.
Yeah, I hear the Spirit of God saying this.
Yes, the road.
The road is filled.
It's filled with potholes.
Obstacles along the way.
Things that you could easily step into that would not be good.
But there is.
There is a work of the Spirit that if we trust Him,
and stay sensitive on to Him, that He will lead us around those potholes,
will not step into those things and will jump over the obstacles.
They'll not stop us.
So there is an anointing.
There is a power.
There is a help from the Holy Ghost that will keep us on the straight and narrow.
Glory to God.
And so, Lord, I thank you for that.
Working in pastors and the leaders here in this church,
those that you've raised up and brought together.
I declare that they shall not go to the left or the right.
But they'll stay right on course with what you've got for them.
In the name of Jesus.
It shall be so.
Hallelujah.
I just saw this.
There are... things are much more in place than what you know.
Yeah, they're much more in place.
Brassocorodon.
So we just keep walking out by faith.
Things will be revealed.
We'll see it clear as we go along.
Things that need to be.
They'll be.
Hallelujah.
But there's so many things that are said in place already.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Thank you, Jesus.
Well, praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
We're just going to close out with the prayer of thanksgiving.
So, Father, we thank...
Yeah.
Yes.
Thank you, Father.
We thank you, Lord.
Thank you, Jesus.
Our hearts are full of gratitude in what you are doing.
In what you are doing and what you had promised that you would do.
And we know, Lord, that you were faithful to send the early rain.
And we know that you will be faithful to send the latter rain.
Yes.
Lord, you were faithful to send the early rain.
And you shall be faithful to send the latter rain.
So we thank you for that.
Amen.
Holy Spirit, light us up.
Burn us up.
That our hearts remain on fire.
That this house...
That this house walks in first love today, tomorrow, and forevermore.
Amen.
Let me say that again.
Amen.
Let this house walk in first love today, tomorrow, and forevermore.
In Jesus' name.
If you agree with that, say amen.
Amen.