WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.760 All right. The Lord, this morning when I woke up, he said to deal with this and take authority over some things, so that's what we're going to do, right? 00:10.600 --> 00:21.880 So, chapter 26 of Proverbs, like snow in summer and like rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a short-sighted fool. 00:21.880 --> 00:32.360 Like the sparrow in her wandering, like the swallow in her flying, so the curse without cause does not come and a light on the undeserving. 00:33.840 --> 00:38.400 I think the King James says a curse cannot rest where the blessing is. 00:40.940 --> 00:50.840 And so, we've had just different warnings in the spirit of, you know, churches are always being cursed or talked against. 00:50.840 --> 00:57.240 And a curse can sound like cussing, and it can sound like just like they're never going to make it kind of thing. 00:58.260 --> 01:05.280 Those can be simple ways. And then there's the prophetic. People who know what they're doing can curse a place. 01:06.280 --> 01:16.440 And we had a really awesome service when we first started Word of Life in Colorado, and there were people getting saved and things like that. 01:16.440 --> 01:25.600 And the man that was ministering, later he had a word and he said, ickabod is on your door. 01:27.400 --> 01:36.960 And he went on and proceeded to bring a curse. We were like, no, no, you missed it by a little bit there. 01:37.800 --> 01:47.380 So he ended up getting corrected. And, you know, so our words have the weight of the spirit. Amen? 01:47.880 --> 01:53.140 Our words have the weight of the spirit, whether you're in the wrong spirit or the right spirit. 01:53.300 --> 01:58.540 There's weightiness to your words. They're capsules of faith. And so we have to watch what we say. 01:58.840 --> 02:02.800 At the same time, a curse will not rest where the blessing is. 02:02.800 --> 02:08.140 And so this place, Word of Life, believes in the blessing. 02:08.860 --> 02:16.180 Someone just said recently to me, they said, well, I don't know if I believe in that prosperity message. 02:16.600 --> 02:21.300 Well, or they call it the prosperity gospel. Well, gospel is good news. 02:21.620 --> 02:24.500 And the good news is that Jesus brought us the blessing. 02:26.460 --> 02:32.260 So if you don't believe in the prosperity gospel, you're not going to prosper. 02:32.440 --> 02:35.980 And you can't have what you speak against, right? 02:36.560 --> 02:41.420 So whether someone contorted something or somebody, you know, twisted something or whatever, 02:41.480 --> 02:45.000 that's a whole different issue. That's a man's problem, a woman's problem. 02:45.260 --> 02:50.820 But the Bible itself is true. And the blessing is ours. It belongs to us. 02:50.820 --> 02:54.740 This place is blessed, highly favored of God. 02:55.880 --> 03:01.200 We have the blessing. We're blessed in the city and in the country and in our going in and our coming out. 03:01.660 --> 03:07.380 Anything we set our hand to do will prosper in the mighty name of Jesus. 03:07.960 --> 03:14.260 And he just told me to, you know, just speak that out because there has been cursing, there has been things. 03:14.340 --> 03:19.680 And I think it's just increased right now because just even the fact that just we're online a lot. 03:19.680 --> 03:26.020 And so that gives exposure and people talk smack about things they're not even participating in. 03:27.120 --> 03:28.740 Be careful, you don't do that. 03:30.040 --> 03:34.420 Don't watch something online and be like, that ministry, you don't know, you've never been there. 03:35.320 --> 03:37.600 Right? Same thing with other people. 03:37.760 --> 03:40.720 But the curse can't rest where the blessing is. 03:40.860 --> 03:46.460 So the word curse has the idea of picture to it to subtract from you. 03:47.580 --> 03:51.600 Did you know that a form of cursing can be a crusty look? 03:54.840 --> 03:59.280 Like if I had my head down and I was getting ready and Kevin said, go ahead and start. 03:59.640 --> 04:01.820 And I look up and I look at you in the front row. 04:06.150 --> 04:10.730 If you allow me to, if you don't know that you're blessed, I just subtracted from him. 04:12.030 --> 04:15.030 Just by a crusty look. Now I just move on like nothing happened. 04:16.330 --> 04:17.790 Right? Chicks are good at this. 04:17.790 --> 04:21.390 Women. The whole roll-eye, whatever. 04:21.810 --> 04:24.970 It's a form of like, I'm going to subtract from you. 04:25.230 --> 04:29.370 You're not all right. This is, this, I'm not approving of what's going on. 04:29.850 --> 04:35.670 And so curses can just go and hold a valley of array of levels, 04:36.330 --> 04:38.390 but it can't rest where the blessing is. 04:38.870 --> 04:43.830 The only time, if someone was to come up and just curse me to my face or whatever, 04:43.830 --> 04:48.770 the only time I'd be porous to that is if I was out of faith when it came to the blessing. 04:52.390 --> 04:55.770 If I sat there and was having a bad day and it was like somebody's just like, 04:55.830 --> 04:58.930 you'll never and all this kind of stuff. And it'd be like, yeah, I know. 04:59.350 --> 05:01.250 Well, you're just, you're porous to it now. 05:02.010 --> 05:05.230 It can rest there. A curse can rest there. 05:05.490 --> 05:09.630 So as a whole, as a prayer group, as a unified body, 05:09.710 --> 05:13.330 we have to be unified on the fact that we are blessed. 05:13.790 --> 05:17.650 We are empowered to prosper, to have success down the road. 05:20.470 --> 05:21.830 Highly favored of God. 05:22.590 --> 05:25.010 Where His children are under the blood of Jesus. 05:26.190 --> 05:29.610 And so when you look at that, it's like, well, that just refutes. 05:29.870 --> 05:33.050 It just pushes it back and rebukes that. 05:33.710 --> 05:37.670 Without even saying a word, it just emanates from you when you know you have the blessing. 05:38.870 --> 05:42.010 You know, when you have, you know, you have the blessing, you also have authority. 05:45.050 --> 05:48.650 People who are downtrodden, oh my soul. 05:49.130 --> 05:54.030 You know, when they're in that spot or they're crushed, it's a dangerous spot from them 05:54.030 --> 05:56.850 because they've lost sight that they're blessed. 05:57.690 --> 05:58.870 They've lost sight of that. 05:59.350 --> 06:02.290 And that's the point of sin is to get you to lose sight of that. 06:02.610 --> 06:06.790 So that, you know, the devil can't do all kinds of certain things to us. 06:06.790 --> 06:10.170 He can only set it up where you can open up to him. 06:11.430 --> 06:17.690 That's why he then enters and does his work or bidding of that whole kingdom. 06:18.150 --> 06:20.770 And so we can't open ourselves up to it. 06:20.850 --> 06:22.310 That's why we have to stay in faith. 06:23.550 --> 06:27.730 We've been in spots where it's like, I don't know, we're going to pay for groceries. 06:28.130 --> 06:30.850 We're just going to have to do without this or whatever, but we're still blessed. 06:32.690 --> 06:35.090 That's just stuff moving around here on the earth. 06:35.090 --> 06:38.130 You're just waiting for something to manifest from the heavenlies. 06:38.250 --> 06:41.150 There's a change about to take place, but I'm blessed. 06:42.110 --> 06:48.010 You don't measure it like the world because it will open you up to the demonic realm. 06:49.490 --> 06:52.450 Same thing with curses regarding health. 06:55.330 --> 07:01.710 I mean, I love the fact that many times hospitals save people, but it is a house of cursing. 07:04.960 --> 07:08.080 And most of the time it's just, the doctor doesn't have it. 07:08.100 --> 07:10.700 He just said, this is what I saw on the x-ray, and then we start up. 07:11.420 --> 07:12.660 We start cursing ourselves. 07:13.040 --> 07:17.320 We start, you know, letting someone else, oh, it's too bad what Bill went through. 07:18.040 --> 07:21.080 You know, and it's probably going to die that way at all the stuff. 07:21.240 --> 07:24.560 And now the curses come, and all you had was a diagnosis. 07:25.140 --> 07:28.200 What you do with the diagnosis is according to your faith 07:28.200 --> 07:32.880 and how you feel about the blessing and the benefits of God. 07:33.540 --> 07:37.720 So I'm saying this before we ever go get into what we were going to talk about this morning, 07:37.720 --> 07:44.480 because I'd like you to stand and we're going to retract some things here 07:44.480 --> 07:46.740 and take authority over some things. 07:46.880 --> 07:52.030 So that's, I have fun doing this. 07:52.430 --> 07:55.170 By the way, I do, because I'm blessed. 07:56.290 --> 08:01.510 And so Father, as a church and as the lead church to the other churches 08:02.250 --> 08:06.650 that we are involved in and the other ministries, Lord, we retract anything. 08:06.950 --> 08:08.250 We pull back anything. 08:08.450 --> 08:13.470 We cast out anything that would have come out of our mouth that aligned us with the curse. 08:15.710 --> 08:18.750 We are not subtractors from the blessing. 08:19.270 --> 08:23.350 We have the blessing and can add to the blessing as he empowers us. 08:24.810 --> 08:27.370 Thank you, Lord God, that you're doing this work in us. 08:27.370 --> 08:31.610 We cut off anything or any alignment that we made with the curse. 08:32.010 --> 08:36.570 Anyone watching online, you can cut off that in the name of Jesus. 08:37.050 --> 08:41.770 Those words that you said retract them, take them back, throw them under a train. 08:42.110 --> 08:44.610 However you want to look at it, just get gone. 08:45.210 --> 08:47.090 We're not going to participate. 08:47.310 --> 08:50.090 We're not covenanting with that kind of talk. 08:51.270 --> 08:54.930 And so we are in covenant with a God who is good. 08:54.930 --> 08:57.990 A covenant with a God who is there. 08:58.270 --> 09:00.690 He's with us. He's always with us. 09:00.750 --> 09:03.150 He never leaves us nor forsakes us. 09:05.110 --> 09:11.810 So we thank you, Lord God, that you're cleansing this place from all forms of curse in Jesus' name. 09:11.970 --> 09:16.250 So if anyone says something, you know, it's just going to fall off. 09:16.570 --> 09:22.590 Just because we set that standard, it falls off because we don't receive that. 09:22.590 --> 09:23.630 Amen? 09:27.350 --> 09:31.670 You know, witches are people who are in low level acting. 09:31.750 --> 09:33.770 You can go ahead and sit down acting like they're a witch. 09:35.890 --> 09:41.730 Which is manipulation, domination, control, taking over, speaking into people's lives. 09:42.290 --> 09:47.190 That's many times how they'll just say something to you very pointed. 09:48.530 --> 09:50.070 Like you're not going to make it. 09:51.670 --> 09:53.410 I'll see that happening for you. 09:53.410 --> 09:59.030 And we picture it more like, you know, the cauldron and they're mixing something. 09:59.490 --> 10:01.530 I have newton, all this stuff, you know. 10:01.890 --> 10:06.430 And then they say something, rattle the bones and say something to your whatever. 10:06.790 --> 10:08.470 Now, most curses are not like that. 10:08.730 --> 10:09.650 They're very subtle. 10:11.030 --> 10:11.670 Very subtle. 10:13.070 --> 10:13.790 Not here. 10:14.790 --> 10:15.530 Not on you. 10:16.190 --> 10:16.630 Not on me. 10:16.970 --> 10:19.050 We're not porous to it in Jesus' name. 10:19.810 --> 10:22.250 Alright, let's get back to being a watchman. 10:22.250 --> 10:25.490 See, part of a watchman is what I just did. 10:25.690 --> 10:27.190 It can be as simple as that. 10:27.330 --> 10:31.170 It's like, as I was climbing up the tower, I saw something. 10:31.550 --> 10:32.930 And the Lord said, deal with that. 10:33.310 --> 10:38.250 And we read that, you know, in the scripture last week. 10:38.330 --> 10:40.150 And we'll go over a little bit of it again today. 10:42.910 --> 10:45.330 Isaiah 111, in the Amplified I'm reading. 10:46.210 --> 10:48.530 Come now and let us reason together. 10:48.530 --> 10:51.790 This is what happens when we climb the tower. 10:52.590 --> 10:53.470 Come now. 10:53.830 --> 10:55.210 Let us reason together. 10:55.690 --> 10:58.630 The word reason there is have communion. 10:59.290 --> 11:00.670 Have a deep talk. 11:01.370 --> 11:03.810 Have covenant type conversation. 11:04.990 --> 11:06.030 It isn't chit chat. 11:07.350 --> 11:10.830 You know, when you got chit chat going, everybody pops a joke. 11:11.010 --> 11:12.370 And there's, you know, it's just chit chat. 11:12.490 --> 11:13.270 It's kind of fun talk. 11:13.610 --> 11:18.030 But when something is a reasoning, it's like everybody goes quiet 11:18.030 --> 11:20.050 and you bring your best thought forward. 11:20.950 --> 11:21.710 That's a reasoning. 11:22.250 --> 11:24.910 Come, let us reason together, says the Lord. 11:25.370 --> 11:28.250 Though your sins are like scarlet, they should be as white as snow. 11:28.770 --> 11:32.610 Though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool. 11:33.250 --> 11:38.570 And if you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the best of the land. 11:38.910 --> 11:42.830 But if you refuse and rebel and you shall then you shall be devoured 11:42.830 --> 11:45.070 by the sword for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. 11:45.670 --> 11:50.430 Now, he's speaking into and can apply to us, 11:50.490 --> 11:53.650 but he is speaking into a situation, right? 11:53.830 --> 11:55.410 He's back in the day. 11:55.530 --> 11:58.170 But these things prophetically move forward many times. 11:58.490 --> 12:01.530 And a lot of times people will quote that verse once again. 12:01.910 --> 12:05.390 Any of the famous verses, it's usually just a little bit we quote. 12:05.810 --> 12:07.150 Come, let us reason together. 12:08.570 --> 12:12.050 And we don't, we never get to the part where we're really quoting like, 12:12.050 --> 12:15.570 though your sins, like start, let's start dealing with the sin part. 12:16.650 --> 12:19.730 Though they are red like crimson, they should be like wool. 12:20.170 --> 12:24.130 And the one here that it says I think in the King James, 12:24.270 --> 12:26.330 it'll say you shall eat the good of the land. 12:27.590 --> 12:31.390 But if you are willing and obedient, you should eat the best of the land, 12:31.410 --> 12:33.150 which is really the good of the land. 12:33.610 --> 12:36.210 Amplified breaks that down into this. 12:36.210 --> 12:41.670 And as watchmen, we are looking to be willing and obedient. 12:42.710 --> 12:45.410 How many times have we been obedient without being willing? 12:47.670 --> 12:49.970 We see it in the training of obedience. 12:50.750 --> 12:52.810 You know, if you tell your child to take the garbage out. 12:54.530 --> 12:57.290 You know, they're, they're, they're obedient. 12:57.550 --> 12:58.150 They'll pull it off. 12:58.350 --> 12:59.870 I mean, you're like, all right, it's a garbage out. 12:59.990 --> 13:01.250 The whole time they were not willing. 13:02.250 --> 13:05.230 There's something different that changes in our heart 13:05.230 --> 13:09.690 as we go in, in the basic land that we were talking about, 13:09.830 --> 13:11.170 the basic area we live on, 13:11.270 --> 13:13.910 climbing the tower is higher than our basic area. 13:14.810 --> 13:17.330 That's why the church needs to know how to do that. 13:17.810 --> 13:19.130 Climbing the tower in prayer, 13:19.450 --> 13:22.390 coming up to higher things that, that are holy, 13:22.610 --> 13:24.710 that are beyond how the world operates. 13:25.090 --> 13:27.750 Otherwise we're just living in how the world operates, 13:27.870 --> 13:28.930 and that's our big battle. 13:29.550 --> 13:31.490 And the Lord wants us to master that. 13:32.470 --> 13:35.630 I mean, we should be able to tire on shoes, eventually, right? 13:36.630 --> 13:39.670 But he also wants us to come up to, to holy things. 13:39.770 --> 13:41.970 So there's a whole maturity in that. 13:42.210 --> 13:45.110 But he wants us to learn willing and obedience. 13:45.610 --> 13:47.270 And, and when we read in Ezekiel, 13:47.390 --> 13:49.230 we read in Habakkuk last, 13:49.770 --> 13:50.830 Habakkuk last week, 13:51.510 --> 13:53.990 when it talked about the job of the watchman, 13:54.210 --> 13:55.850 I'm going to climb the tower 13:55.850 --> 13:59.170 so that I can hear what you would say to me. 13:59.830 --> 14:01.710 Well, what's the point of hearing it, 14:01.830 --> 14:03.350 if we're not going to do it? 14:04.030 --> 14:06.310 First, we have to be willing to climb the tower 14:07.150 --> 14:08.570 to get to that spot. 14:08.710 --> 14:09.810 Then we hear him, 14:10.070 --> 14:12.390 then we have to be willing to do whatever it is 14:12.390 --> 14:13.870 that he told us to do. 14:15.750 --> 14:16.150 Amen? 14:18.030 --> 14:19.490 Ah, I mean, 14:20.690 --> 14:22.150 you think of Jonah, 14:22.410 --> 14:24.170 you think of some of the different, you know, 14:24.270 --> 14:25.330 characters in the Bible, 14:25.770 --> 14:28.550 you think of yourself at the times where it's like, 14:28.550 --> 14:29.710 alright, I'll do it. 14:30.170 --> 14:32.650 But there wasn't really a willingness to there. 14:32.710 --> 14:34.350 And there's a lot of suffering that goes in 14:34.350 --> 14:36.570 to the part of the willingness. 14:36.850 --> 14:37.990 We'll think there's a suffering 14:38.380 --> 14:39.570 having to do with the obedience. 14:39.790 --> 14:42.190 It's like, it's so hard to be obedient. 14:42.430 --> 14:43.730 No, it's hard to be willing. 14:44.710 --> 14:46.430 If we get the first part 14:46.430 --> 14:47.830 changed in our heart, 14:48.070 --> 14:49.790 then whatever he says, I'll do it. 14:50.550 --> 14:52.150 Whatever he says, I'll just go do it. 14:52.710 --> 14:53.990 Oh, it's gut-wrenching. 14:54.050 --> 14:56.350 And then the obedience really should follow 14:56.350 --> 14:57.330 in a simpler form. 14:57.690 --> 14:58.610 Because you're already willing. 15:00.150 --> 15:02.030 See, so if you're wrestling with obedience 15:02.030 --> 15:04.350 in an area, the area you have to 15:04.350 --> 15:06.190 think of is not the obedience, 15:06.450 --> 15:07.290 it's the willing heart. 15:08.290 --> 15:10.030 So it's the willing and the obedient 15:10.030 --> 15:12.450 that will eat the good of the land 15:12.450 --> 15:14.230 or the best of the land. 15:16.490 --> 15:18.130 The land that we take can be 15:18.130 --> 15:19.710 emotionally, spiritually, mentally, 15:20.650 --> 15:21.170 physically. 15:21.690 --> 15:22.650 We have to take land. 15:22.650 --> 15:24.850 And there's the best of it 15:24.850 --> 15:26.030 in each area. 15:26.250 --> 15:28.050 But it's only brought by the word 15:28.050 --> 15:30.310 and the spirit. Those two together, 15:30.570 --> 15:32.330 it's the word and the spirit that brings that 15:32.330 --> 15:34.470 for us to be able to be in a spot 15:34.470 --> 15:36.690 where we can eat the best of the land. 15:37.950 --> 15:38.410 Amen. 15:39.430 --> 15:40.570 So, the next 15:40.570 --> 15:42.490 subject then I guess this morning 15:42.490 --> 15:44.450 is really simple. It's 15:44.450 --> 15:45.830 how do you get a willing heart? 15:48.980 --> 15:49.800 And you know, 15:49.920 --> 15:52.200 if I think about me and my 15:52.200 --> 15:54.240 childhood and what made me willing, it was 15:54.240 --> 15:55.640 a switch. And I really 15:56.220 --> 15:57.900 don't want to have to do that every time 15:57.900 --> 16:00.080 to get to a spot where I'm just willing. 16:00.700 --> 16:01.380 You know what I mean? 16:01.960 --> 16:03.940 You can remember that in your flash, you're like 16:03.940 --> 16:06.040 I don't want to do it or whatever. The willing was 16:06.040 --> 16:08.180 the problem. I'm not willing to listen 16:08.180 --> 16:09.940 to you. I don't see where I should 16:09.940 --> 16:12.140 have to. I don't think this is fair. 16:12.580 --> 16:13.920 I'm not going to do it. I'm not 16:13.920 --> 16:16.260 willing. So therefore the fruit 16:16.260 --> 16:17.740 of that is not going to be obedience. 16:19.120 --> 16:20.160 So, if you got 16:20.160 --> 16:22.400 the switch, if you got whatever you got, 16:22.540 --> 16:24.060 I don't care if it's time out to whatever 16:24.060 --> 16:25.720 your thing you do, 16:26.520 --> 16:28.200 it's there should be something 16:28.200 --> 16:29.620 where you feel it in your flesh. 16:32.860 --> 16:33.800 Like fasting. 16:34.740 --> 16:35.900 You'll feel it in your 16:35.900 --> 16:36.220 flesh. 16:37.900 --> 16:39.960 That's why he chooses fasting 16:39.960 --> 16:41.780 because fasting makes 16:41.780 --> 16:42.560 you willing. 16:43.380 --> 16:45.580 But then you first have to be willing to fast. 16:47.600 --> 16:49.300 So there's a hard issue. 16:49.300 --> 16:51.200 The hardest issue is, you know, 16:51.280 --> 16:53.020 he's told us to fast and pray. 16:53.400 --> 16:55.360 Most of the church across America doesn't 16:55.360 --> 16:56.100 fast and pray. 16:56.640 --> 16:58.620 Except for a religious holiday or something, 16:58.720 --> 17:00.640 and they almost feel like their legs are falling off 17:00.640 --> 17:02.080 and they're dying over. 17:02.540 --> 17:03.540 I went without pop. 17:04.200 --> 17:06.900 I remember we had a Daniel 17:06.900 --> 17:08.680 fast and there was a young person 17:08.680 --> 17:10.320 who chose, there were a couple of them that chose 17:10.320 --> 17:11.520 to just do without pop. 17:12.240 --> 17:14.600 And we just went a week without 17:14.600 --> 17:15.000 pop. 17:15.880 --> 17:17.480 And when they came off of it 17:17.480 --> 17:18.100 they were crying. 17:19.000 --> 17:20.920 They were so broken because it just 17:21.600 --> 17:23.000 I'm not making fun of it. 17:23.040 --> 17:24.640 I'm just saying that's pretty 17:24.640 --> 17:25.440 pitiful. 17:26.900 --> 17:29.320 That's not going to go well in a concentration camp 17:29.320 --> 17:31.120 or any form of suffering 17:31.120 --> 17:33.040 that we would have to do at any point 17:33.040 --> 17:34.760 in our life. You ain't going to make it 17:34.760 --> 17:36.820 because we don't have pop. That's just one thing. 17:37.300 --> 17:39.280 And so to deny yourself 17:39.280 --> 17:40.780 TV, to deny yourself 17:40.780 --> 17:42.840 different things, it isn't a rule. 17:42.840 --> 17:43.560 It isn't 17:44.620 --> 17:45.120 behavioral 17:46.620 --> 17:47.120 modification. 17:48.200 --> 17:50.100 We just modify all these things 17:50.100 --> 17:51.160 and our heart will be right. 17:51.640 --> 17:53.760 No, your heart has to be right to even be willing 17:53.760 --> 17:56.580 to participate in any of those things. 17:57.300 --> 17:58.580 It's the willing heart. 18:00.740 --> 18:02.380 And a big part 18:02.380 --> 18:04.260 of prayer is the willing. 18:04.500 --> 18:06.500 Now I think, and I wasn't there 18:06.500 --> 18:08.240 the disciples 18:08.240 --> 18:10.080 that were in the garden with Jesus 18:10.080 --> 18:10.820 and he was like, 18:11.820 --> 18:13.340 can you pray with me for an hour? 18:16.300 --> 18:17.300 There's a difference 18:17.300 --> 18:19.040 between willing and obedience 18:19.040 --> 18:21.140 and maybe they were trying to be obedient. 18:22.980 --> 18:23.720 Willing has 18:23.720 --> 18:24.340 hang time. 18:27.060 --> 18:28.000 It has hang time. 18:28.200 --> 18:30.500 You're just like, I'm fighting 18:30.500 --> 18:31.880 for my right to stay. I'm not 18:31.880 --> 18:34.240 falling asleep. I'm committed to this 18:34.240 --> 18:35.660 because I said I will. 18:36.600 --> 18:38.100 And to a choice 18:38.100 --> 18:39.980 of your will is a choice 18:39.980 --> 18:41.840 like your whole soul said 18:41.840 --> 18:44.300 we're doing this. Your spirit said we're doing this. 18:44.460 --> 18:46.020 Your body then just has to 18:46.020 --> 18:47.820 follow. And so it 18:47.820 --> 18:50.000 comes across different. You don't crash 18:50.000 --> 18:50.740 out right away. 18:51.740 --> 18:53.180 It's not something that 18:53.180 --> 18:55.560 I didn't make it on everything. Well, 18:55.620 --> 18:57.700 I made it twice to janitor 18:57.700 --> 18:59.840 of the church, but it's 18:59.840 --> 19:00.300 hard. 19:02.520 --> 19:03.900 It's just really hard. 19:05.140 --> 19:06.100 Well, is that 19:06.100 --> 19:08.080 an obedient problem because God told you to 19:08.080 --> 19:10.060 do that? No, that's a willing problem. 19:11.180 --> 19:12.260 So to get 19:12.260 --> 19:13.800 in that spot 19:13.800 --> 19:15.940 the first place I would say 19:15.940 --> 19:18.040 to have a willing heart is a prayer and 19:18.040 --> 19:18.360 fasting. 19:20.380 --> 19:22.020 You're not going to climb the 19:22.020 --> 19:23.760 tower just because you 19:24.520 --> 19:25.720 babbled tongues for 19:25.720 --> 19:26.980 five minutes. Whoo! 19:27.840 --> 19:29.960 There we go. Now God, download 19:29.960 --> 19:31.760 it to me, you know. 19:32.000 --> 19:33.800 On the other hand, you don't want to get into works 19:33.800 --> 19:35.780 like I have to pray two hours before he 19:35.780 --> 19:37.920 talks to me. That's, no, that's 19:37.920 --> 19:39.760 that whole thing of performance 19:39.760 --> 19:41.920 mentality, but there 19:41.920 --> 19:43.800 is a thing that to 19:43.800 --> 19:45.880 climb this tower is going to take effort. 19:46.820 --> 19:47.620 It's going to take 19:47.620 --> 19:49.700 servanthood. It's going to have to have 19:49.700 --> 19:52.020 that willing heart. The whole 19:52.580 --> 19:53.620 you know, thing with 19:53.620 --> 19:55.800 80% of people, which I don't think that's 19:55.800 --> 19:57.840 that way anymore. I think it's actually kind 19:57.840 --> 19:59.800 of worse. We got a good thing going on 19:59.800 --> 20:01.720 here where 80% of the 20:01.720 --> 20:03.680 people do nothing and 20% in 20:03.680 --> 20:05.780 the church do the ministry. I think we 20:05.780 --> 20:06.760 have a pretty good thing. 20:07.560 --> 20:09.680 Lot of you are ministering inside the church 20:09.680 --> 20:11.880 outside the church. It's like, whoo-whoo! 20:12.480 --> 20:13.440 That's awesome. 20:14.160 --> 20:15.360 Um, but 20:15.360 --> 20:17.620 I think that's 20:17.620 --> 20:19.980 that also why we're willing 20:19.980 --> 20:21.760 there's something here that 20:21.760 --> 20:23.280 has to be willing enough already 20:23.280 --> 20:25.660 to show up for open heavens and know 20:25.660 --> 20:27.680 that it could go to two in the morning if we need to. 20:28.140 --> 20:29.340 You have to be willing 20:29.340 --> 20:31.420 to do that. And so revival 20:31.420 --> 20:33.460 in itself, you know, we can pray 20:33.460 --> 20:34.700 Lord, send revival. 20:35.300 --> 20:37.080 Right? Do all the work. 20:37.360 --> 20:39.220 Come on. We'll just wait and be surprised 20:39.220 --> 20:41.380 for him. And then we'll step up and do 20:41.380 --> 20:43.380 some. No, he's not going to send 20:43.380 --> 20:45.200 revival until we have a willing heart 20:45.200 --> 20:47.260 because then he knows when we're willing, we're also 20:47.260 --> 20:49.320 obedient and we're doing the things that it takes 20:49.320 --> 20:50.400 to receive revival. 20:51.260 --> 20:52.460 Then revival comes. 20:55.080 --> 20:56.940 Amen? He's not sloppy agape. 20:56.940 --> 20:58.820 He's just, he's our God. 20:59.160 --> 21:00.980 And he has a way 21:00.980 --> 21:03.100 of doing things that's absolutely 21:03.100 --> 21:03.820 mature. 21:04.780 --> 21:07.060 And since I'm not absolutely mature 21:07.060 --> 21:09.200 I always have to be challenged 21:09.960 --> 21:11.080 in the area 21:11.080 --> 21:13.060 of obedience. And when he tells me 21:13.060 --> 21:15.160 to do something, then I'm not 21:15.160 --> 21:16.900 looking at should I be obedient 21:16.900 --> 21:18.880 to that. The first thing you're really 21:18.880 --> 21:20.260 looking at is am I willing? 21:22.320 --> 21:24.180 And I got saved in 1981 21:26.940 --> 21:28.920 it was a radical thing 21:28.920 --> 21:30.880 from coming out of the life that I lived 21:31.480 --> 21:32.880 and the demonic problems 21:32.880 --> 21:34.940 I had and all the stuff that was 21:34.940 --> 21:37.040 wrapped up in bondage when I came out 21:37.040 --> 21:39.020 of that. I remember 21:39.020 --> 21:40.840 being at the altar just a baby 21:40.840 --> 21:42.440 Christian and just I told him 21:42.440 --> 21:45.060 whatever you want. You can 21:45.060 --> 21:46.980 ask me to stand in my head in the corner if that'll 21:46.980 --> 21:48.760 get people saved, I'll do that. 21:49.640 --> 21:50.340 I'm willing. 21:50.920 --> 21:52.900 You know, so over the years he took me up 21:52.900 --> 21:53.200 at that. 21:55.200 --> 21:55.920 I've ministered 21:55.920 --> 21:56.720 in the weirdest places 21:57.840 --> 21:59.260 doing the wildest things. 22:00.340 --> 22:01.480 I had a clown ministry 22:01.480 --> 22:02.120 for a while. 22:04.380 --> 22:05.880 I mean, it's like how do I get the kids? 22:06.120 --> 22:07.260 How do I get the kids in my neighborhood? 22:08.320 --> 22:09.280 I'm stuck here 22:09.280 --> 22:11.140 doing daycare and working in the house. 22:11.380 --> 22:13.080 Well, you don't just go, well, I told 22:13.080 --> 22:14.800 the Lord I was willing to evangelize 22:14.800 --> 22:16.840 children, but I'm stuck in the house. 22:16.920 --> 22:18.920 So I guess this is my little evangelism. 22:19.400 --> 22:20.600 No, God will make a way, 22:20.600 --> 22:21.760 but you have to be willing. 22:22.660 --> 22:24.540 And this is he laid out a whole plan of how 22:24.540 --> 22:26.360 we were going to do this. And we had big parties 22:26.360 --> 22:28.740 at the house and kids from all over the neighborhood 22:28.740 --> 22:29.520 would come over 22:30.240 --> 22:32.480 and they were getting saved. Then I would take them back 22:32.480 --> 22:34.400 to the house and I would say, hey, I'm so 22:34.400 --> 22:35.940 glad that you let them come over. 22:36.160 --> 22:38.200 I just wanted to share what we shared with them. 22:38.320 --> 22:40.560 Have you ever heard this? And I share the gospel. 22:41.800 --> 22:42.580 And people get 22:42.580 --> 22:42.960 saved. 22:44.820 --> 22:45.900 But I had to be willing. 22:48.760 --> 22:49.240 Amen. 22:50.720 --> 22:51.200 So, 22:51.500 --> 22:52.740 if the church, 22:53.140 --> 22:54.300 the body of Christ 22:55.380 --> 22:56.820 would come into a spot 22:56.820 --> 22:58.620 where we're ruling this land here 22:58.620 --> 22:59.520 in the lower land, 23:00.040 --> 23:02.180 the lower land where you can live your whole life 23:02.180 --> 23:03.160 and still go to heaven, 23:04.140 --> 23:06.080 the lower land that's actually 23:06.080 --> 23:08.180 we think is the hardest thing, but it's the easiest. 23:08.960 --> 23:10.360 Because once you see things 23:10.360 --> 23:12.780 on the tower, more responsibility comes. 23:13.500 --> 23:14.920 That's why people really don't want to climb 23:14.920 --> 23:16.740 the tower. Somehow inside of them, they're like, 23:16.920 --> 23:18.900 I don't really want to see any more than what 23:18.900 --> 23:20.880 I'm seeing. That's a lot 23:20.880 --> 23:22.900 of responsibility. Then I'd have to respond 23:22.900 --> 23:24.980 with my ability and I don't 23:24.980 --> 23:25.840 feel like I have much. 23:26.940 --> 23:28.760 Yet God will change 23:28.760 --> 23:31.160 this. He'll stir on the low land 23:31.680 --> 23:32.960 and then also bring 23:32.960 --> 23:35.020 you up, but we have to be willing. 23:35.260 --> 23:36.660 So the prayer this morning 23:37.240 --> 23:39.060 is a prayer to create 23:39.060 --> 23:41.000 in us a willing heart. 23:43.760 --> 23:44.200 I 23:44.200 --> 23:46.340 don't want to suffer so I 23:46.340 --> 23:47.080 have a willing heart. 23:47.940 --> 23:50.380 I don't want the switch so I could get 23:50.380 --> 23:52.140 a will. Suddenly you're willing. 23:52.300 --> 23:53.820 You're like, okay, now I'll do that. 23:54.340 --> 23:56.000 Suddenly there are hard changes 23:56.000 --> 23:56.940 and you're willing. 23:59.400 --> 24:00.560 Then you go be obedient. 24:01.240 --> 24:02.100 I don't want 24:02.100 --> 24:03.960 us as a church to waste 24:03.960 --> 24:06.340 time. We're supposed to buy 24:06.340 --> 24:08.220 up every moment for the days are wicked. 24:09.320 --> 24:10.760 I want to buy up every moment. 24:10.900 --> 24:11.960 I don't want my 24:11.960 --> 24:13.340 unwilling heart 24:13.940 --> 24:14.820 to interrupt 24:15.680 --> 24:17.180 where God's taking us. 24:19.120 --> 24:19.600 So 24:20.400 --> 24:22.200 you beat your body into submission. 24:22.440 --> 24:23.800 Well, how are you going to do that? You got a stick 24:23.800 --> 24:26.020 and you're hitting it. I need you to be willing. 24:26.320 --> 24:27.200 I mean, what are you doing? 24:28.000 --> 24:29.680 The best thing you can do is take away 24:29.680 --> 24:31.500 its source and that's fasting. 24:33.320 --> 24:34.060 Take away 24:34.060 --> 24:34.600 its source. 24:36.440 --> 24:37.780 And then if it's 24:37.780 --> 24:38.800 fasting food, 24:38.800 --> 24:40.800 your flesh is 24:40.800 --> 24:42.700 like, it feels like, what? Where do you know 24:42.700 --> 24:44.840 where'd you go? You know, I mean all 24:44.840 --> 24:46.680 of that starts happening. And then 24:46.680 --> 24:48.540 the heart begins to soften 24:49.160 --> 24:50.600 if you're doing it with the right 24:50.600 --> 24:52.580 intention. God, I need to be 24:52.580 --> 24:54.480 different. I need to know how to be willing. 24:55.620 --> 24:56.680 I need to 24:56.680 --> 24:58.980 be in that realm where if you say go do 24:58.980 --> 24:59.880 this, I say yes, sir. 25:02.020 --> 25:02.460 See 25:03.140 --> 25:04.660 the disciple or the 25:04.660 --> 25:06.960 one who ended up taking 25:06.960 --> 25:08.000 care of Mother Mary. 25:09.520 --> 25:11.120 Jesus was on the cross and said 25:11.120 --> 25:12.480 to do that, right? 25:13.020 --> 25:14.620 The reason he had the honor 25:14.620 --> 25:16.200 of doing that. That wasn't a burden. 25:16.900 --> 25:18.880 I mean, he's the son of God. 25:19.100 --> 25:19.800 This is his mother. 25:21.240 --> 25:22.560 Right? And 25:22.560 --> 25:24.440 for him to be able to take care of you, you know what? 25:24.580 --> 25:26.060 It said it, he was on standby. 25:27.040 --> 25:28.180 And the word standby 25:28.960 --> 25:30.820 is that he was ready. 25:31.480 --> 25:32.920 If you're on standby, you're not getting 25:32.920 --> 25:35.020 ready. Your heart is already 25:35.020 --> 25:36.060 like what do you want me to do, Lord? 25:37.220 --> 25:39.160 He says it, I do it. He says it, I do it. 25:39.240 --> 25:41.020 He says it, I do it. You don't 25:41.020 --> 25:42.940 take a lot of time in the willing heart 25:42.940 --> 25:44.600 to debate whether or not you can. 25:47.240 --> 25:47.600 Right? 25:49.100 --> 25:50.960 That's the fear part that we're trained, but 25:50.960 --> 25:52.740 how? And then the money... and I don't know 25:52.740 --> 25:54.240 and I've never been a good speaker. 25:54.500 --> 25:55.460 And I... 25:56.860 --> 25:57.580 You know? 25:59.000 --> 26:00.740 The little puppet comes up in your head. 26:00.940 --> 26:01.240 You have to 26:03.760 --> 26:04.300 you have to 26:04.300 --> 26:05.300 you have to quiet that 26:06.180 --> 26:07.080 with fasting. 26:09.160 --> 26:11.180 And then sometimes people can go without 26:11.180 --> 26:12.620 food and then they watch a ton of TV. 26:13.220 --> 26:14.200 You know, have you noticed that we'll 26:14.200 --> 26:16.420 pendulum and we're like gravitating? I gotta 26:16.420 --> 26:18.560 feed this somehow. Take that away. 26:19.500 --> 26:21.120 How much can you get done just 26:21.120 --> 26:21.960 not watching TV? 26:23.640 --> 26:25.420 Oh my goodness, it takes 26:25.420 --> 26:26.620 a lot of time. 26:29.700 --> 26:30.180 Yeah? 26:30.760 --> 26:32.580 So, the things many 26:32.580 --> 26:34.200 times that we'll say we can't do 26:34.200 --> 26:36.200 and I never had a chance or whatever, well 26:36.200 --> 26:38.000 that a willing heart will 26:38.000 --> 26:39.200 shift your priorities. 26:40.440 --> 26:42.120 The church of Jesus Christ 26:42.660 --> 26:43.720 the Lord's church 26:43.720 --> 26:46.240 has to have this shift right now that's going on. 26:46.380 --> 26:47.840 It's a shift of priorities. 26:49.240 --> 26:50.040 It's a shift 26:50.040 --> 26:52.240 it's not about us. It's a shift that says 26:52.240 --> 26:54.540 we're looking higher. What is it? 26:54.720 --> 26:56.640 I want to see what you see, Lord. 26:57.160 --> 26:58.680 I don't want to have my own ideas. 26:58.680 --> 27:00.780 I want to see into what you see. 27:01.100 --> 27:01.980 So, let's stand. 27:04.880 --> 27:05.280 Hallelujah. 27:07.100 --> 27:08.300 Thank you, Lord God. 27:10.020 --> 27:10.420 Now, 27:10.560 --> 27:12.560 some of you I can feel it already 27:12.560 --> 27:13.920 you're like if I pray that 27:16.520 --> 27:17.880 somehow I'm going to get a whooping. 27:18.540 --> 27:20.440 You know, I mean that's kind of the feeling like 27:20.440 --> 27:22.280 something's going to happen that he's going to make me 27:22.280 --> 27:22.560 well, 27:24.280 --> 27:26.140 if you need a whooping to get willing 27:26.140 --> 27:28.680 then that's a real strong 27:28.680 --> 27:30.360 issue, right? 27:30.760 --> 27:32.840 Then we already know the heart's not obedient. 27:33.580 --> 27:34.620 Then this is a really 27:34.620 --> 27:35.740 strong problem. 27:36.300 --> 27:37.420 So it would be better 27:38.220 --> 27:39.660 preventative care is always better. 27:40.120 --> 27:42.700 Like we see into the like, let's deal with this over here 27:42.700 --> 27:44.420 before we get ourselves in trouble. 27:45.000 --> 27:45.740 You know what I'm saying? 27:46.520 --> 27:48.300 And so, that's 27:48.300 --> 27:50.660 the part that as we're asking 27:50.660 --> 27:52.320 he's going to begin to soften our hearts. 27:52.520 --> 27:54.560 Yes, he's going to want to deal with more issues. 27:55.400 --> 27:56.780 Anything that's blocking 27:56.780 --> 27:58.420 us from being willing has to 27:58.420 --> 28:00.400 we have to be willing to bring it up, 28:00.400 --> 28:02.480 willing to talk about it, willing to 28:02.480 --> 28:04.640 confront it, willing to say, hey, I have a fear 28:04.640 --> 28:06.440 in this area. I didn't realize 28:06.440 --> 28:08.680 that I'm willing to deal with it. 28:10.040 --> 28:10.860 No denial, 28:11.220 --> 28:12.760 no disassociation. 28:13.540 --> 28:14.780 To be a watchman 28:14.780 --> 28:15.460 on the wall 28:16.100 --> 28:18.460 is very difficult without a willing heart. 28:19.240 --> 28:20.380 Then we're all talk. 28:21.100 --> 28:22.640 I saw rainbow in the sky 28:22.640 --> 28:24.520 and he showed me this 28:24.520 --> 28:26.520 and all of this stuff starts coming out 28:26.520 --> 28:28.680 but we're not willing to wash 28:28.680 --> 28:30.380 a toilet when he told us to 28:30.980 --> 28:32.520 at the church. It's like 28:32.520 --> 28:34.180 that doesn't equal. 28:34.720 --> 28:36.460 You have to have a willing heart 28:36.460 --> 28:38.620 to serve. And so, Father 28:38.620 --> 28:40.180 we come before you right now. 28:40.780 --> 28:42.920 We're asking not just for ourselves 28:42.920 --> 28:44.440 but a cleansing for our families 28:44.440 --> 28:46.900 and for all of the churches. 28:47.320 --> 28:48.800 That there would be a great 28:48.800 --> 28:50.620 move of your spirit 28:50.620 --> 28:53.160 that would come through and soften us 28:53.160 --> 28:54.820 in a way, prayer and fasting 28:54.820 --> 28:56.860 is something we want to do. 28:57.480 --> 28:58.660 Lord God, you'll create 28:58.660 --> 29:00.700 in us a new heart, that heart 29:00.700 --> 29:02.900 that just craves after 29:02.900 --> 29:03.420 you. 29:05.260 --> 29:06.940 In those areas especially 29:06.940 --> 29:08.740 where we haven't been obedient 29:08.740 --> 29:10.600 where we've had to kind of put it 29:10.600 --> 29:12.480 to the side, where we've made excuses 29:12.480 --> 29:14.700 God, I'm asking right now 29:14.700 --> 29:16.840 that you would move upon us 29:17.740 --> 29:18.840 in this way 29:18.840 --> 29:20.260 that would bring about change. 29:27.030 --> 29:28.010 Your will 29:28.010 --> 29:29.810 is to do your will 29:30.410 --> 29:31.970 the will and testaments 29:31.970 --> 29:32.650 of the Bible. 29:33.270 --> 29:36.030 The thing that you left here for us to do 29:36.030 --> 29:37.710 the thing that says go 29:37.710 --> 29:39.570 go into all the world 29:39.570 --> 29:41.090 the thing that says move 29:41.090 --> 29:43.390 that says faith in action 29:44.090 --> 29:45.170 thank you Lord 29:45.930 --> 29:47.890 we align with your will. 29:49.850 --> 29:51.570 Let's pray in the spirit a little bit. 29:56.340 --> 29:57.360 We say 29:57.360 --> 30:07.040 this is... 30:08.720 --> 30:10.120 ... 30:10.120 --> 30:23.300 We are back to our hearts, to the deep inner parts of our heart, where fear lies, that there 30:23.300 --> 30:37.620 be an uprooting. A cleansing. A redirection. Give a sight to ourselves. 30:39.020 --> 30:42.740 We cannot climb the tower without sight to ourselves. 30:45.880 --> 30:52.380 Like Roman says, to give a good estimate of where we're at. So we know if we're being disobedient, 30:52.520 --> 30:55.240 but Lord God, the worst is to be unwilling. 30:58.400 --> 31:02.680 I think you're doing this, Lord God, because we intend to eat the good of the land. 31:03.380 --> 31:08.860 We intend to eat the good of the land. That is our intention in the name of Jesus. 31:14.460 --> 31:16.780 Let's have the band come just so you're in position. 31:27.860 --> 31:31.760 An unwilling heart looks at what you don't have 31:31.760 --> 31:35.420 when it should be looking at what you're willing to do. 31:52.220 --> 31:58.080 Holy Spirit is just speaking into this. It's a very spiritual thing as he stirs on our heart. 31:58.080 --> 32:02.580 He stirs on us. It's super on the natural. Every person's at a different spot. 32:06.240 --> 32:10.960 Start with the little things that come to you first, if you were supposed to give a certain 32:10.960 --> 32:16.180 amount. If you were supposed to be a certain place. If you shore these things up 32:17.620 --> 32:19.800 and culture the willing heart. 32:23.020 --> 32:27.120 We cannot act like we're on the tower. Way up high on the tower. 32:27.120 --> 32:30.980 We're seeing so many things. He will not show us those things 32:32.300 --> 32:35.120 without a willing heart to do the small things. 32:48.760 --> 32:52.040 Just like in Habakkuk, the prophet said, 32:52.600 --> 32:57.680 I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the tower. 32:57.940 --> 33:02.400 I will keep watch to see what he will say to me and what answer I will give 33:02.400 --> 33:08.020 as his spokesman when I am reproved, when he comes to correct us. 33:08.340 --> 33:14.260 The correction starts on the mainland, on the ground that's level with us. 33:19.420 --> 33:25.120 Reprove, correct us so that we can climb that tower and hear even more 33:25.700 --> 33:28.020 so we can be changed in your likeness. 33:37.320 --> 33:46.860 Whenever you make an oath, a promise, a covenant statement, it usually starts 33:47.460 --> 33:52.900 with, Lord, I know this is what you're saying. And then you say, I will. 33:54.320 --> 34:00.040 I will evangelize for you, Lord, show me the people. I will. And whatever it is, 34:00.440 --> 34:08.040 usually I will, which means the will of I right here is choosing to line up with his will. 34:08.920 --> 34:16.380 And the word will for him is his precepts, his commands, his ways of doing things. 34:17.040 --> 34:24.540 I will. The eye of my will lines up with your will, the I am, the complete will. 34:25.100 --> 34:29.400 I don't have all the pictures. I don't see everything. You're going to call me to the tower. 34:29.560 --> 34:36.920 We're being called to the tower to speak into this region, to speak into our families, to speak 34:36.920 --> 34:42.260 if close up and all the way far out all across the world we're speaking into. 34:45.770 --> 34:54.710 On the mainland we have to have a willing heart to climb the tower the right way so we don't fall. 34:56.370 --> 35:02.190 He's so careful to protect us. He doesn't want anyone to fall. That's why he set up his will 35:02.850 --> 35:09.670 for us to be changed so we could handle the heavenly things because we're from an earthly realm. 35:11.590 --> 35:17.890 The willing heart changes and grows so we can house more and more of the anointing, 35:19.170 --> 35:25.510 more and more of the anointing that breaks every yoke of bondage. Then we not only hear from him 35:25.510 --> 35:29.490 at a higher level we see in two things that are discerning. 35:34.670 --> 35:38.390 He says that the secrets of the Lord are like hidden under a rock. 35:39.390 --> 35:44.990 You could be right now in your life walking. You've been walking on the same trail and the 35:44.990 --> 35:52.090 rock is right here. And you don't even know his secret for you is under the rock. 35:53.810 --> 35:55.690 The rock is the type of Jesus. 35:58.410 --> 36:03.790 The secrets of your life are hidden under the rock. And as we seek you Lord and we become 36:03.790 --> 36:08.890 willing because you're you're the one we're the servant to Jesus. And ultimately the Father 36:08.890 --> 36:16.090 the Holy Spirit's getting us ready not only as a bride but ready and for war and ready for 36:16.090 --> 36:21.250 all the other things you've assigned us to that we have to have the willing heart. 36:28.730 --> 36:33.850 You're willing your ways Lord. You're willing your ways we line up with. 36:46.890 --> 36:51.790 There's people watching online and there's people here that really the secret that's 36:51.790 --> 36:57.970 under the rock well that rock you can flip over you can look you can seek for it till you find it 36:57.970 --> 37:02.730 and you flip it over and there it is there it is the secret for your life. 37:03.510 --> 37:06.590 But he gives secrets to those first who are willing. 37:08.490 --> 37:11.850 The secret things of the of the kingdom are for the willing.