Good morning.
We're gonna get going. How about that? Should we get going?
I'm excited about the day, of course. We live in resurrection power all the time, right?
When you have Jesus in you, he is the resurrection in life.
And we're gonna talk about that a little bit this morning during service.
Yes, but I woke up two nights in a row several times with the same phrase going through my mind,
but it was coming up from here. You know, you can have a thought, but then you have this like,
ugh, that's totally different. When you connect this to your brain, it connects in a different way.
And it's just, I hear the word miracles besides the thing that he shared with me.
Last week, if we map where God has been bringing us, last week we spoke into three churches and into the region.
Bigger than the churches is the region, right? So we messed around in there.
And it was a good time, too. For those of you who went up, you understand that this...
It was intense. It was intense at Red Lake. It was intense over at TBO.
But, you know, it's not a done deal. You speak into it and then you stay on it like white on rice, right?
And so that's what we're gonna be doing. The humor moved huge things.
And the confirmation of that, it has been one telephone call after the next from people who weren't a part of any of that.
Or like, I finally see what you're saying. I finally heard such and such.
I've just had a breakthrough. Did you know my aunt that we were praying for is healed of cancer?
And just, it's like, right? So cool. Parent fasting works.
But it works on our heart first. You know, Isaiah 52 talks about that.
Fasting is for us to change us. And then as we change as a conduit to the anointing, everything flows differently.
You see into things you, you know, are able to move in this common land like we've been talking about.
And that's probably what I'll call it. Just the lower land, the common land that we think is a big old deal, right?
You're born into this earth and it seems like it's so huge. You get older and you start traveling like my son does.
Everything shrinks. You're like, I'm just going to California.
Or I'm just, you know, it starts to shrink if you're, if you're in that.
But when you're a kid, everything is so huge and so untouchable.
And if only I could go there and all of these things.
When you realize it's not that big of a place and God has a plan for this place and the plan is big.
And we're a part of it.
So there was some mighty testimonies at a couple of places I minister to that we've been believing God for for quite some time.
And all of a sudden, boom, there they are. And I believe that's happening here.
But he wants us to not settle just for, you know, okay, those were the old prayers that brought something in.
But he's causing us to speak forward as watchmen.
We're speaking forward into things.
The bigger things are ahead and miracles, miracles, miracles.
The miraculous is beyond our thought pattern.
It doesn't make sense in how we do things. It doesn't make sense in our normal living on the lower land, right?
But once you step up into the tower like we've been talking about, once you step up and you see the things of God,
once you see it, it's like once you know you can't not know, you saw into something.
And many times it's something that no one else saw, like it's an aha moment for you.
It's an aha moment where it comes alive and you're like, I felt that, that was for me.
And then we live out of that. We live out of that.
And then, like we prayed last week that we would have a capacity to house the very thing we stepped into.
You have to be able to house that thing, right?
And so we can't just come in, let's say we have open heavens meetings and we grab something.
We're like, I'm so excited about it. Well, the next thing it's going to do, whatever you saw forward,
is going to cause you to grow into that thing by the going forward to where it's at.
I saw it. It was promises to me. It was prophesied over me.
I got this out of the word, whatever it is. And it propels you toward the big picture.
And the big picture has to have the detail to detail to get there.
The detail to detail is what matures us.
If we just jump there, it'll hurt us.
But if we grow there, it'll change us permanently.
Yeah? So, I think it was last week I said, so if the things have been funky the last couple weeks,
if you thought they were funky, it's because they were.
You weren't the only ones. I mean, it was funky. People were calling.
This person is upset about something, you know, just out of the blue.
It's like, you know, and Pastor and I are used to that because it's almost like kind of taken
talked about the waves of anointing, the waves of revival.
That happens every wave. There's a crashing.
You know, here it comes. Oh, here it comes. It's a wave.
And it's like, and then it crashes on the shore and it has an effect.
Right? And it'll suck out of you just like waves.
They'll come to shore, but then there's this back draft that happens.
Right? It'll go in and out like that. It'll suck right out of you.
All the things that don't belong. There's a washing. That'll take place.
And we have to learn how to embrace that.
How to see that as like, yeah, it's pretty normal. I'm not shocked.
I'm not shocked. You kind of just go, alright, this was really good.
So where's the wave? Where's the thing that we're riding out?
And where's the thing that's going to cause change?
I think if we embrace the main meat of the Gospel
and always hold on to the main meat of the Gospel,
we can talk about all kinds of different prophetic things and all of that,
but everything has to be based in the meat of the Gospel.
Right? That's what keeps us on target. That's what keeps us on the right road.
That's also what brings us deliverance.
So when these waves of revival come, we get excited.
And revival just means be brought to life. Right?
So it's the thing about it is something inside of you is being brought to life.
You're seeing the God that we serve.
And it becomes an aha moment and it revives you. Right?
The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us
and he quickens even our mortal body.
There's a revival that goes on just because he's there.
Amen? Changes the mind, changes the heart.
So when we look at it like that, we can practice concepts.
We can practice traditions. We can practice all those things.
But as we begin to do that, if we look to that as the thing that holds us
and we're in trouble, it has to be the truth
and the revelation of his truth and the word that we hold on to.
It's the base. It's the base.
So when a storm comes, it's the anchor.
Like put down the main gospel right there.
And when Jesus is going to return, how this is all going to work, you know.
What it said in Ezekiel, all that doesn't matter at this point.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God
unto the saving, unto the salvation of whatever it is you're going through.
Salvation, one of the meanings is to take the limits off.
It's that saving grace for us.
So anything that's coming against or anything that already has us damned.
See, a dam is that blocker, which means it's a limit.
Salvation takes the limits off.
So we can be saved and still have dams in our life.
He can't take our soul unless we play around in those areas and get sucked back in.
But he also has those are just blockers of things of us moving ahead.
And when you look at that, it's like we want all limits off.
All limits off. Get off of us. Get off of us.
Right? Salvation power gives us the ability to do that.
But we have to push into the gospel.
So if something's going wrong in your household, financially, emotionally, spiritually,
relationship-wise, any of that kind of stuff.
The thing is sometimes we'll go out and start taking authority over some demon
or bind this, you know, whatever.
And if you could just come back to the basics of the gospel.
Wait a second. I have been saved from this.
My name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
I am an ambassador of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I am well decorated. See how that sounds totally different.
Then I bind the spirit that made you say that to me, you know, or whatever it is.
And you could chase that all over the place.
And then because of the salvation power, I can look at it and say,
Also, I have a repentive heart.
So God, if you want to show me anything, you know, right here right now,
I will repent. I will own behaviors right here right now.
So that's power. Right.
But if you want to get it off of you, just put it on some demon.
There might be a demon there messing with things.
But if you want to get off, you know, get it off of you
so you don't have to own behaviors, you just chase demons.
I take authority over the spirit of this or whatever.
It's like maybe the authority needs to be taken here through the gospel.
Amen. These other things are true.
But they're not the truth that makes you solid.
So we have to remember to come back to that.
So even in our prayers, sometimes we get caught up, you know,
in prayers and can reroute you even in intercession.
Fear, we talked about fear will reroute you and you'll start praying differently.
And then as you pray differently, there has to be an enemy that we have to get at.
And so we just know they're coming for us.
And so we're the ones praying against this.
Oh, Father, in the name of Jesus, you know, and we can get like that
rather than Lord, shore me up.
Your salvation power, the same spirit that raised Jesus, the Christ,
the anointed one and his anointing from the dead actually dwells in me.
Correct me, convince me, change me, cause me to come up.
That's what you do when things get funky.
So not many nodding heads of like, yeah, it was funky.
And the craziest thoughts.
As we got closer, people were sharing with me the craziest thoughts.
Just it was like, I don't know where this is coming from.
And everyone thinking it only is happening to them.
It's like, no, when you go after something like speaking into the region,
to me, I used to get all worried about crazy thoughts and stuff like that.
Now I laugh and just be like, thank you for confirming that we're doing the right thing.
You know, crazier it gets.
It's like, thanks for another confirmation.
We see that you're on the run, you know, it's that.
So when we're up in Red Lake, the people there just said,
it just felt such a peace come over the place by the time we left.
And I've gotten reports of just peace coming.
And that's what we prayed, right?
In order to be in a powerful spot, you're not in a powerful yelling, you know,
taking authority over everything. You just have peace.
You're just walking through a situation, you're at peace.
And we prayed that and that's what was left there.
I believe there are probably...
There's five pastors that I know of right now
when we talked about the things we were taking authority over
and what pastors shared that one Sunday morning that we didn't stream.
They're all saying, that's happening to us.
One of them said, we have two witches in the house.
And we're trying to figure out how to get them saved or get them out.
But they're not going to tolerate it.
And I don't think that's just coincidence.
That is what's happening right now. There's an uprising.
But we have resurrection power, right?
But we have to operate in wisdom.
And wisdom, the base of wisdom is not what you see out here.
It's what you've allowed God to speak into here.
Salvation power, where you're just like, alright, I know who he is.
Wisdom will come out of that.
Where sometimes we'll grab a book and there's a new one out on such and such,
a demon or whatever, and we're reading all this stuff or whatever.
But we're not at peace in here.
So we're not really operating in the power.
We're getting more knowledge about different things.
But the application won't work for us if we don't have us settled.
Amen. Settle.
I've taught this and maybe I taught it here.
I don't know. I teach it all over the place.
But I found out that one of the reasons that we settle the heart of a baby
when they're fussing, you know, well, we think we're burping them.
Sometimes we are.
But right between their shoulder blades are right here on the front of their chest.
You're actually, when they're upset, resetting their heart.
It's all right.
And they feel that. Tapping. They feel that.
Now you don't want to do this on them.
Because then that sets it up to whatever they're already pumped up about.
Now you're just going with it.
But you're bringing it down to a level like,
no, actually respond to the peace I have as a mother.
As a father.
That's what we do when people come through these doors.
There's a comfort by the Holy Spirit that resets their heart.
We can't be all ramped up.
I thought I'd do that.
There has to be a comfort.
So the peace of God is everything.
I'm going to be dealing with, at least I think,
I'm going to be dealing with John chapter 10,
9 and 10 this morning during service.
But I wanted to point something out.
The scripture here is talking also about the Watchman.
It's really kind of crazy.
I never saw it until really early this morning.
And that is John chapter 10.
The way it says it in the amplified verse 3.
It's talking about you can't just go in the door to get to Christ.
You can't jump the gate.
You can't go around it.
You can't climb the walls to get into salvation.
You have to go through the door and the door is who? Jesus.
But it says,
But he who enters is verse 2.
By the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
But the Watchman opens the door for this man.
I saw that this morning and I was like,
literally by our prayers,
by our watching over what's going on,
we're opening the door for this to take place.
And I hadn't seen that before.
So the Watchman has many jobs.
But leaving in the mainland,
we have to overcome and master sin.
That's what it says in Genesis.
Now Jesus already took care of that business.
And so we go, well, he already did that.
Yes, but then we have to do it as he does.
So we had to figure out how does sin work?
How does this come against us or whatever?
That's what we're really doing in the mainland
is applying childlike faith to cause deliverance
to happen in our own lives and the lives of our family.
That's our practice to come up into the bigger things of God.
Just like we've said before, you don't give keys
to a two-year-old and say, go drive my car.
Is he fully capable of driving the car?
Not knowledge-wise and all that.
But it's built into him. He can grow into that.
He has every right to as he gets old enough to do it.
But at that time, he ain't got it, right?
A lot of times, even when I think I got it, I ain't got it.
And I have to go to God.
And I have to wait that period of time to grow.
And so here's what's happened.
A lot of people are conquering things in the mainland
before they climb the tower.
And they'll never climb the tower
because they're afraid they're never enough
because I'm always working on a project
and I'll never get up there.
So then there was a big pendulum swing
because that's kind of how it had been years ago
of, like, there's even hierarchies in churches
once you, and somebody determines this,
once you get to a certain place in faith,
then you're allowed to do this or that.
And so a lot of people were stifled
or that's only for the ministers or whatever.
There was all kinds of rules about it.
Then a pendulum swung to everyone.
Just go here, have prophecy.
Here, have this.
Yeah, well, here's the keys to the car.
And you're three years old.
Right? You still have to grow.
So there's always ditches that are happening
and God is bringing people to a place now
where it's like, wow, we can really move over into this.
This is really great. I'm going to watch, learn,
and even apply in practice
so that I'm growing into this
while I'm maintaining the main ground.
It was almost like it was taught
like we can skip that part.
Just get on the tower.
Just get with Jesus.
And that's where the devil comes and eats your lunch.
Right? Because he'll let you climb the tower.
Like, get it. Go, go.
Run with some big dogs. Get up in there.
You know? And like, they saw this
and prophecy came forward for that
and we saw a person heal.
Those are all wonderful things.
And then, like, it'll seem like once the setup,
he'll let you sit there for so long
and then all of a sudden he'll set you up.
And then he comes and just kicks your feet
right out from underneath you.
And you just feel like, how can this be happening?
I don't know how this is happening.
I was on the tower. I saw a greater thing.
I was with Brother Hagin. I was with this person.
And you know, it's like, we'll feel
on the basis of other people too
that we've just climbed up into something
but we're actually riding their cross
and never learn to carry our own.
We have to learn how to carry our own.
There's a suffering in carrying a cross.
Right?
There's thought processes that go through
in that suffering.
And it'll bring out the dross.
It'll bring out the things inside of you
that just don't belong.
But you'll choose to keep following him
and grow right into this.
And then all the things that you learned,
all the things in classes that you saw online
or whatever, all of a sudden they'll make so much more sense.
And you'll have the capacity to house that anointing.
Now driving into our yard,
I used to sit my kids on my lap
and just let them drive.
They're not driving, I'm driving,
but they think they're driving.
You know, how many of you've done that?
You know, we're like, all right, it's all you.
It's not all them, but you're trying, you know,
and they're thinking they've got it.
And I drove into the yard, you know,
and parked or whatever.
And because you want them to see the potential of that,
but you're still not going to give them the keys.
Right?
And you give them a little speech,
no, you don't do this.
Don't get in here and drive this
unless mommy's with you or daddy.
You know, it's that.
So it's moving us forward as watchmen.
We're like little watchers on what's going on here.
We need to notice what's happening in the mainland.
We need to bring repentance to our family
and ready ourselves in the mainland.
We need to be able to do that,
but still stretching for the tower.
But there's this maturity that says,
I should know that, you know,
Romans says, give a good estimate of yourself.
There's some certain things.
If I give my an estimate of me
that I know for sure I have grown into
and I can operate in that right now.
But there's some other things that are still on the way.
Some things I'm a 10-year-old at,
so I might be able to pull it off.
Other things I'm still three.
And it's the same with you.
But what happens is if it's all outward motion,
it's all this is what we saw.
I don't know, some people turn into conference junkies
because they're going to see stuff.
And they call that spiritual growth.
That's actually that person was spiritually grown
and you were a part of that.
But if you walk out of that conference
and go try to do what they're doing,
it doesn't work.
Because you didn't grow into it, right?
So we either worship the person we went and saw
or we're just losers because it didn't work for me.
We have to give ourselves a reality check.
We all have to grow.
Now, to get to the building
that I can see right over there.
It's right over there.
I can see it when driving. I'm like, there it is.
We can't stay with the way we are now.
If we assume that, like, you know, we're very spiritual
and we have good services so we can cross over that.
Anytime the money comes, we'll just start building.
There's a pause here for a reason.
Huh?
It was a big enough deal that we moved into this little thing
because that's what it is. It's a little thing.
But compared to the modular, it's bigger.
Now, to make this leap as we have to grow into all these things.
We have to grow into owning behaviors.
We have to grow into seeing ourselves.
We have to grow... I already saw myself.
Yeah, that was in 72 when you gave your life to Christ.
Take another look and see yourself right now.
We have to see where we have settled.
We have to see where we put up with stuff we shouldn't.
We have to see where we still need healing.
We have to see all of that.
And it's like, oh, that's a lot of work.
I don't know if I want to do that.
To get from here to over there in a healthy way,
we have to do that.
Amen?
And the phrase he told me, I'll be talking about in service,
but I felt like last week we had stepped up into some things.
But now you could just, you know, look at it like,
well, Pastor presented it.
Some people fasted and chose to go up there.
Others chose to stay here and pray.
Woo, we really stepped up to it enough.
This stepping up into this moment was timed by God.
It started at least a year ago.
Dying to self, don't be offended, all those things.
And then as you get closer and you can feel the,
ugh, in the atmosphere, now you have to go back
and apply all those things.
Oh, I thought we did that series already.
Yeah, but did we apply it
to the depth he wants us to?
Because it has to be almost like weaponry in our back pocket
that we can pull out at any time.
Oh, this is that offense thing.
No, we ain't doing that.
Father, I just pray right now in the name of Jesus
so I just ask forgiveness and I choose to forgive.
Or I'm going to own my behavior.
I got to go say I'm sorry to somebody.
Or I've got to change.
Or the pride has got to go, I need to die to myself.
So these should all be weaponry by now
that we pull out when the thing that gets funky
comes against us because it's funky.
It's so out of character.
You ever have those days where you're just going along
and you're like, I'm doing pretty good
and then all of a sudden you just get out of character?
And you're like, that was actually not me.
I don't know what happened.
Well, that was you, but it was you
in that poison-toxin area
that God's just trying to draw that out.
Let it go. Let it go. Amen.
So I felt like taking this time
and just clarifying some of that
because sometimes we'll go through two
and we'll have victory.
Like we had victory last weekend.
There was victory.
It was like, whoa, this is victory.
And it was awesome.
I mean, there was a young man
that the pastor's wife up there,
Maynor's wife, had gone to pick up her son
and just went out quick and thought,
I got to go get my son.
And when she did that, she had left service.
We were already in the prayer time
and whatever, and she went and got him.
But there was a friend that came over,
a guy that was there,
and he just jumped in the vehicle
and she goes, oh, you want to come with?
And he did.
He came with.
And when he, this was the reason he came with.
He had attempted suicide.
And he gets in the vehicle
and she goes, why do you want to come with?
And he said, because I got demons.
And she was like, all right, well, let's go.
And that's who showed up
and we ended up ministering to him.
And he said, I think I could make this my church,
he said, by the time he left.
That's miraculous that took place.
So big things took place.
Amen. Let's stand.
Big things took place.
But we have not arrived.
And there's no condemnation in that.
It's just a fact.
If I say to my son,
no, you can't drive the car because you're three.
I'm not condemning him.
I'm just stating a fact, right?
And so we don't want to assume or presume anything.
We want to make sure that we are fully
in his resurrection power
to the degree of our understanding
and that we're always willing to grow.
So Father, we pray right now as a congregation
and the other churches and in this region
that you bring all of us to a place
that we become like a child.
And your word picture there is to be teachable.
That we've never left teachability.
I mean, we are right like always.
Oh, I learned this, but I'm still teachable.
What else you got, Lord?
What else you got?
And allow what he teaches us to convict us,
to convince us and to convey things over to us.
We're asking for that, Lord.
Right here right now.
I believe change is coming.
We will not be the same next year
at this time as we are right now.
We purpose it in our hearts.
We come before you even this day.
We're coming as a reminder of your resurrection power.
And we're just applying the blood all over again.
Every day.
Thank you for the blood of Jesus.
Let's begin to thank him for his blood.
Thank you for the blood of Jesus.
You make us whiter than snow, Lord God.
Because our righteousness is as filthy rags.
We just don't cut it.
We just don't have it.
We are so thankful that you made a way back to you.
And that you made a way where there seems to be no way.
Cause us, Lord God, to come up into you.
Cause change.
And what we called funky here today, Lord God.
Let us look at our hearts.
All of us.
Those that are missing from this prayer time even.
Let us look at our hearts.
Cause that to happen where we gave a good estimate of where we're at.
Where we're at, Lord God.
We're not looking at who wronged who.
We're looking at where am I at?
Where am I at?
Bring us to where you see us at, Lord God.
Even if it's painful.
Ready our hearts to house the anointing.
Ready our hearts, God.
We apply your blood.
And we apply your body.
And we apply the word.
And we ask for the spirit to hover and brood over us.
Cause the fear of the Lord to come.
Thank you, Lord.
We will rule and reign first in the mainland.
We will take ground in the mainland.
Even in our own heart.
In the mighty name of Jesus.
Amen.