Let's turn our Bibles here this morning to Second Timothy.
And we're going to go over something that I spoke probably two years ago.
Might have been in 2020. I don't know, I lose track of time, but...
because we were dealing with fear.
And we've been talking about climbing the tower,
getting on the wall for the references as an intercessor.
You have to be able to be up higher to see the things that are higher
and to see farther out when we're like the saying,
you're too close to the woods to see the trees.
It's like you can't see past those things.
You have to climb to higher ground.
And it's very important that we know how to do that.
True, right?
And that's the move of God right now.
Very much prophetic.
And it's been that way for a few years.
The wave of the prophetic has come in a stronger way.
Because it seemed like it was almost forgotten there for a bit.
And then it came back around like a wave.
But spiritual growth still has to happen
when you look at the spectrum of how God is moving.
Just even in our spiritual growth, you can say,
I am a believer, we've talked about that,
which can mean that you just know there is a God.
That's the lowest level of belief.
It doesn't mean you're even born again,
but you can say, I believe there is a God.
And then way over here, you have such intimacy with him.
You're like throne room happening type of things are happening.
And there's a whole spectrum in between.
So we're to go from a believer to a follower.
We believe enough that we start following what he indicates to us,
what the word brings alive.
And then we go from a follower in order to follow in any consistency.
It's going to require discipline, which is the disciplined one is a disciple.
That's what that means, a disciplined one.
And so what are we disciplined to?
We're disciplined to the word of God and to the spirit moving.
And so spiritual growth works like that all the way up to,
and you've heard this many times,
the martyr who was seen and heard at all cost.
You know, they're way over here and they're like,
I'll die today if I have to.
I will not deny Christ.
I will do what he asked me to do.
I'll be where he asked me to be and if I die, I die.
It's so sold out. It's so...
I'd like to think I'm there,
but I never had a sword to my neck.
I'm just saying, right?
All of us are like, yeah, I'm headed toward martyr state.
But if you've never had a bullet, you know,
someone pointing at you with a gun, telling you to deny Christ,
you first find out what your flesh, you know, would say.
And so there is a finding out of who we are and the follow.
You are that believer and you start to find out where he wants you to go
and you start following and it brings your flesh out.
We like to look at it more like,
when I start to follow, I just get so blessed.
Everything's wonderful. There is that part to it.
It's like, whoa, the heavenlies have opened.
I have rainbow words. I'm following all this stuff.
But your flesh is then going to really show itself.
That's what makes it a narrow way.
We don't get the wide way and it's just so fun.
And then on certain subjects, it's a narrow way.
It's the narrow way all the way.
Right? And so to follow, we have to be able to...
And I'm just repeating some of the things that I've said.
You know, to go the narrow way, I can't fit into just any narrow thing.
You know? And that means something has to fall off of me.
I can't just squish through something that's narrow.
And that's the dying to self.
And then we can't hold on to the things that he's asking us to let go of
and think that we can pull them into the narrow way.
We have to be willing to be so dead that we'll just drop anything
at any time he asks us to.
Now, we can make up our mind to do that.
Have you ever done the mind thing where it's like,
I make up my mind.
And Roman said, set your mind.
He tells you, well, I set my mind on doing this.
Well, your mind you've set, right?
Doesn't mean your body and everything is going to want to follow.
So the war becomes in the mind.
It becomes any strongholds that you have in the mind.
And now this word stronghold,
one of the bigger meanings for it is a way of thinking.
A fortress of a way of thinking.
It's the way you problem solve.
It's the way you approach things.
It's a way of thinking.
And many times we think we're coming up against the demonic or whatever.
Well, if there's something demonic there,
it's built on or has permission to be there,
built on the stronghold of our mind.
That's what causes us to be open to it or whatever.
But he's the mighty fortress and we get under him.
We're in his high tower.
I love that.
And he's our refuge and our high tower
and our strength and all of those different things.
But when we get under him, we realize we don't match.
And so then we have to be changed.
That's all basic gospel.
So what happens when we live on the mainland, right?
You get born again and you're in the spectrum of over here believing.
And you're still in the mainland.
You haven't really climbed the tower.
You saw something that you didn't see before.
You saw your need for Christ.
You saw that you need a life change
when you got in his presence as he's moving on the mainland.
That's just what I'm calling it.
So you know that it's not up on the tower.
It's just on the mainland.
And you can be saved and die and go to heaven.
Having lived on the mainland your whole life,
you know, you won't experience all these other things
and you still go to heaven.
It's a rough life.
Because the victory he's promised us comes when we climb the tower.
It comes by learning how to navigate the mainland
and then going higher than the very situation that it is.
So the main thing, someone had asked a question.
I spoke in Anoka last night
and then quickly ran back to watch the last part of
a Brisfinatus testimony at TBO.
But one of the questions that was there
is, so then in the mainland, what is your main enemy?
Well, if it's between our ears,
it's strongholds that are based in unbelief and fear.
Unbelief in any area causes fear.
When we have faith you can face something really tragic
and your body will tremble,
but your heart and your spirit,
your soul is like, I am secure in who he is in me.
Right?
You might have a physical reaction,
you might cry tears or whatever,
but you know who you believe in and that he's able.
You just know it.
It's faith.
And so to be in unbelief in any area,
there's fear.
I don't really believe that I'm going to be taken care of.
I don't really believe that I'll be loved in the end.
I don't really believe that I'm heard.
I don't really believe that I count.
I don't really believe that I have anything together
and I'm kind of a loser.
I mean, you can go down that type of thing.
It's not just I don't believe that his word is true.
It's like, I don't believe in any of his love toward me
and what he could do through me.
I don't really feel like I believe in that.
Then when a battle comes
on the mainland,
which is mostly between your ears to begin with, right?
It's your way of thinking.
And it's the things around us,
like we live in this wicked world
that are the things set up around us
to trigger the strongholds in our mind.
That's how the demonic works.
You know, sometimes we think they're just really, you know,
interesting and so powerful or whatever.
And it's like, they're just working off of what we believe
or our unbelief.
That's what they work off of.
Because Jesus rendered them powerless.
He made an open spectacle of them.
And so our brain says,
well, if he did that, then why do I suffer this?
Because the strongholds and ways of thinking
we have to change.
So we've gone over this before.
Second, Timothy says this in chapter one, verse six.
That is why I would remind you to stir up,
rekindle the embers of,
fan the flame of,
and keep burning the gracious gift of God,
the inner fire that is in you
by means of laying on my hands
with those of the elders from your ordination.
He's talking to them specifically
that a fire was given to them.
And here, you're on the mainland.
How do you keep in a victorious mode
before you ever climb a tower?
It's like, I gotta fan the flame of what he already gave me.
What do you have that you didn't have before you knew Christ?
We fan that flame, right?
And we go back to the basics of the gospel
and we fan that flame.
And then they laid hands on the people.
That's what he's referring to.
And that extra fire was there for sure.
So how many of us have ever had that happen?
Leaders of the church, each other,
you pray for each other,
and there's a fire that comes on you.
Pretty much all of us have had that happen one time.
So we come up against a new problem
and we're like, well, give me some new fire.
And he's like, go back and rekindle
what you already have.
You have enough right there to burn down the house.
Like, go get it.
Stir it up inside of you. Remind yourself.
And so there's something interesting about people of prayer,
especially when you're moving into intercessory prayer,
you remind the Lord of what he said,
and you remind yourself.
It's just a trait you're like, Lord, you told me.
And this is what happened on December 19th
in that prayer line.
And I got lit.
And I just rekindled that fire right now.
And I speak the word that was prophesied over me.
Seeing that you go back, you already have the tools.
We're not asking for something new
as much as we're like, let's rekindle it.
So we forget to do that though sometimes.
But you'll know if you hang around with intercessors,
they do it all the time.
They go back into that.
And I like to remind the Lord what he said,
both in the Word and what he personally told me.
And then he goes on and says,
for God did not give us a spirit of timidity.
Now the Amplified breaks that down.
Of cowardice, of craving, and cringing and fawning fear.
So some of you remember this from when we went over it
in 2020, 2021.
So let's take those words apart.
The spirit of timidity or fear.
Or of cowardice.
The word cowardice means lack of purpose or courage.
You forgot your purpose.
So then courage goes right out the window.
See, when I stood against cancer, a big thing wasn't like,
oh, please Lord, let me live.
You know, I got grandchildren or whatever.
No, it was like, you called me and you said I'm supposed to.
And that gave me courage to address the thing like,
I ain't going anywhere.
I am not done yet.
See, then I can announce that.
In such courage, you know, and you don't question like,
well, I don't know.
Is he wanting to take me home?
Then why did he tell me these other things?
He told me and revealed those other things to me.
And so therefore I come up into a courage.
But when you're cowardice, you lack the firmness of purpose.
That's what it means.
You lack the firmness of purpose.
And so then courage can't operate.
So all right.
So then rekindle the embers of.
And we go back and he's taken care of cowardice.
Of craven.
And craven means, it says craven and cringing and fawning fear.
Craven means lacking the least bit of courage or being faint hearted.
How can you tell when you're being brave,
the test of this when something comes against you
and you still keep going even though you're shaking inside?
That's courage.
Your body will always react a certain way.
But the thing is you keep heading in the direction that he told you.
Doesn't matter what it looks like.
Doesn't matter what you feel.
But the faint hearted will just go,
I have this craven fear.
I'm just, I'm out.
Done.
And we'll be faint hearted.
Cringing is a whole other kind of fear that it talks about.
And it means to shrink or to recoil and distaste.
Like, I don't want to participate in this.
I'm pulling back. That's too much.
What he's asking us to do, I mean,
you know, he asked me to go up to red.
Like, do you know that could be dangerous up there?
And then you cringe.
Anywhere can be dangerous, by the way.
But you cringe and you pull back from the very will of God.
That's fear also.
And then he says the last one,
which I enjoyed finding out because I've never heard of fawning fear
until I saw it in the Amplified.
Fawning fear means that you're literally in a spot
where you seek approval or favor by means of flattery.
To either get out of something or get into something.
That's fear-based.
Manipulation is fear-based.
If I have to pull those tactics to, you know,
start flattering a person, so don't hurt me.
You know, you're so wonderful.
You know, and I have to use compliments
and everything to address that situation.
I'm in fawning fear.
So these are the different types of fear that it named there.
But he has given us the spirit of power and of love
in a calm and well-balanced mind.
A calm and well-balanced mind.
A calm and well-balanced mind.
So calm is that stillness.
Well-balanced is you're not on all or nothing way of thinking.
If you battle something and you really find out
that your mind is out of balance, you're dysregulated.
And how you know is, before you went to bed,
you were way over in this stitch.
When you got up in the morning, your emotions were way over in this stitch.
You're either a superhero or a loser.
You either got to save the day or you're not going to do anything.
God is in the middle.
And anything that can upset us to the point that we're just, you know,
we're pendulum swinging is not of God.
So he calls us to a well-balanced mind
and discipline and self-control.
So let's say that we just took those two scriptures
and now whatever you're coming against right now,
and the mainland, just, the mainland has everyday problems
like, what am I going to do with my finances?
My child is rebelling.
You know, the car broke down.
That's the mainland.
That's where we practice our faith
so that we can house the anointing
when we get up closer on the tower
and we're climbing this thing
and we're seeing the deep things of God.
We have to have the capacity to operate in that,
to house that type of anointing.
And we can't skip practicing our faith in the mainland.
Coming up against certain things.
Because you'll find that if you skip,
you can just skip learning about giving and prosperity.
Let's take that one.
You're like, well, I'm not really into that or whatever.
I'm doing alright on the mainland.
But I'll go up and I'll see the things of God
and he'll start assigning me bigger things than where I'm at.
Well, guess what?
You got to have prosperity.
You have to understand that he is the blessing
in order to go to that higher thing
and to be able to house it.
So we still need all the areas of the gospel
to mature us so that we can, when we climb this thing,
it's like, now I have the capacity
to house this type of anointing.
So it's very important that we're not sucking up to people.
That's the fawning fear.
That we don't cringe back or recoil and distaste toward anything.
And we're not craving, lacking the least bit of courage
or faint hearted or cowardice,
which is really on a lack of firmness of purpose.
So when the enemy comes against you on the mainland,
maybe you've climbed some of the tower
and you've seen some things
where he's calling you to something higher,
then the first thing you have to do is make that firm.
Because it's like, you know, like they say,
all hell breaks loose when you go to do a new thing
that God's asked you to do.
Okay, well, probably held and break loose.
Probably the things that were already there,
especially in your own mind,
are going to challenge you now.
And so you have to, your job then
is to firm up what he told you to do.
So in the firming up of what he told you to do,
you've got to go back to his word.
And then like he just said,
how do you rekindle what he told us
and taught us to begin with?
The fire that's already there to begin with.
We have to go back and revisit those things.
But this is what fear does. Fear will go,
I need something new.
I got to go to a conference and hear some other word.
I've got to, you know, have someone speak over me.
I got to fall down at least five times
in the power of God before I can get this short up.
No, you go back to what he already told you
and what he's already given you.
And if you never had any of those experiences,
then go back to your experience with knowing him
and kindle that.
This is what I know about my God.
I am not going to fear.
Because salvation means to take the limits off.
So just because I can't see where I'm going
and there's limits in the way,
doesn't mean that I'm going to stay in that
because I have revelation that comes through the mind of Christ.
I have the ability to walk in the things
that he's asked me to do through salvation power.
See, that's so basic.
See how I'm fanning it.
Whoo, I could pray on that for an hour.
Sometimes we run out of things to say in prayer, you know,
and then sometimes we'll just randomly pray in tongues,
but it's kind of not the same power type
tongues that edify your spirit.
We're just rambling.
I don't know what to do.
I just feel faint hearted.
You know?
But we don't have an expectation that that same fire
that came on us to begin with
or the fire that we've never experienced
will come on us now and that we will rekindle that.
Like put another log on the fire, same fire.
Put another log there, take the Word of God,
put it on and stir up that gift within you.
But we forgot what we received already.
We used to go over this with Jim and my husband
when we'd come out of open heavens.
It'd take about two months and it's like,
did we already forget what we received?
There was intense stuff that happened.
You have to go back, watch the video, do the thing
or whatever, like, oh, that's right, that's right.
That's why we're into what's happening right now.
I have to stir up what we received then.
When you stir that up, he'll add to it.
That's when you get the newness.
That's when you get that new thing.
He's like, here, now that you stirred that up,
let me add this little bit of extra,
little something, something there for your thank you.
That's the next part of the story.
That's the next part of where I'm supposed to go.
But if we're experiencing fawning fear,
you know, or the inability to firm up our purpose.
Man, when your purpose is firm,
ain't nobody going to tell you you can't go there.
If I can talk to you out of it in two minutes,
it's not firm.
It's just not firm.
Like, you would try to talk me out of Red Lake
or different places that I'm called to
and I'd be like, I'm sorry, but I got all day.
I ain't moving.
I ain't moving, because it's so firm inside of me.
It has to be firm.
Whatever you're called to has to be firm,
or you will peter out.
You will stop doing what needs to be done.
And the enemy, the first attacks that will come against
in this mainland, we're still operating here.
In that, we'll talk you out of just about anything.
Everything will just get really hard and there's no hope.
And what is hope but the fuel to your faith?
It's like you ran out of gas.
I should prophesy over this church
that we'll always have a full gas tank.
That hope is a priority.
That the joyful, confident expectation of something good
according to what he already has promised us
dwells in this house.
It dwells in our temples.
It is there and we just fan it.
We just get the flame higher.
Let's go. Let's get it higher.
But if you came in this morning
and you had something happen in the mainland,
you're like, I can't believe they said that to me.
I can't believe that happened.
I can't believe I got a paycheck cut.
You know, all of these different things.
And you start dwelling on that.
You'll run out of gas.
And so then we'll come and we'll say,
hey, let's climb the tower.
Let's believe God that we're going to get up on the wall
and he's going to give us some real supernatural stuff.
Not if we petered out in the mainland.
Right?
I'm just giving you basics of how this works.
And so then the other one
that we have to watch out for
is first Thessalonians chapter five.
I've mentioned this before too,
but I'm bringing us back
so that we've got a good running start here.
Even for warfare,
we go into like say,
praise takes us into warfare this morning
or prayer takes us into warfare this morning.
It won't be based on like,
we just saw a new thing
as much as it'll be based on the fact like,
I'm standing for what I'm already called to.
I have stirred up the gift of God in me.
That whole thing, I'm not going to stand for fawning
for all of those different things.
And we're already in the belief moment.
We're moving along like, I will follow no matter what.
It's getting pretty narrow.
I don't care. I'm going to squish my way through there.
He'll make me fit.
Right?
And so then it's different.
It's a different approach than help is Jesus
in our hour need.
And we get stuck there
waiting on Him to help us.
And if He just would help us,
we could get up and do something.
You can get up and do something about anything right now.
Just by going back to what He already gave you
and remind the devil of that
and remind yourself of that.
I was born for such a time as this.
That's what you announced, right?
Prayer will start coming out.
I was born for such a time as this.
Greater is He that is in me
than He that is in the world.
Therefore, Lord, I remember the day that You told me.
See, now we're entering intercessory prayer.
You can go there right now.
You can start addressing things right now.
Unless you're waiting for the thing
that's in front of you to change.
And it's just not changing.
And I'm about to run out of gas.
I have no fuel for my car.
If that's how we look at it,
then there's no way to refuel.
Because you'll be in such doubt in your lack of hope
you won't see the new thing if it was right in front of you.
He could reveal something so supernatural
and you'd be like, meh.
It'd go right over your head.
We're able to see it because we're standing there for
in the fire that He's already given us.
That's what opened our eyes to begin with, right?
And so, there's 1 Thess chapter 5.
He talks about in verse 16,
be happy in your faith and rejoice
and be glad-hearted continually.
Always. Be happy in what?
In your faith.
It isn't just be happy.
It's be happy in your faith.
What is it that you believe?
Anything that you're trying to overcome,
anything you're trying to help someone else overcome,
always comes down to, hey,
what is it that you believe?
When we go to hospital calls
and we show up, I don't want to show up
and just be like, I have faith.
I want to know what that person believes.
I'm not there to overtake them.
I'm not there to...
I'm so powerful in my faith.
I'll just run you right up.
Hey, if they don't believe,
then that's where we need to start.
Right?
So we determine that, right?
So we're happy in our faith
and we rejoice and be glad-hearted
continually, always.
Yeah, but I'm going through something.
I know, but I rejoice in the Lord.
See, you had joy before, so rejoice.
Rejoining takes faith.
You're like, I'm just going to step out
and rejoice right now.
I don't care what this looks like.
I'm going to rejoice in the Lord always.
And again, I say rejoice.
All right, be happy in your faith.
Verse 17 says,
Be unceasing in prayer.
Praying perseveringly.
You will not do that
without being happy in your faith.
That just sounds like a chore.
Okay, fine.
I guess we got to pray constant.
I barely make it past five minutes
and I'm just like, help Lord.
And then we'll just stay quiet
because we have nothing else to say.
You start praying in what he's already told you
and what he's already done for your life.
You haven't even moved on to the problem yet.
An hour will pass and you're like,
oh, yeah, there's this thing.
Let me get back to this.
This is originally why I came to you, Lord.
But there's a whole thing you can say
before you ever get to that.
Thank God in everything,
no matter what the circumstance is.
Remember the word circumstance?
I've taken it apart.
I don't know if the dictionary allows me to do this.
But what are you succumbing to?
What stance are you succumbing to
right now in the mainland?
What's coming against you
that you're going to succumb?
It has a stance that's coming against you.
Are you going to succumb to that?
That's why when we say,
there's some circumstances going on.
Well, don't succumb to the stance of it.
Surr up the gift within you.
Surr this up again, right?
And so what the circumstance may be,
be thankful and give thanks.
Don't thank him for, you know,
like I've brought up before, don't thank him for the cancer.
He doesn't need the cancer to teach us anything.
He doesn't need these different things.
He doesn't borrow from the devil's kingdom.
But you thank him for what he's done.
There's the fact and then there's what he does about the fact.
There's the truth about the fact and that comes from him.
For this is the will of God for you.
Oh, I didn't know that.
I didn't know what the will of God was for me.
He just told us.
The other thing that is the will of God for you
is to get to know him.
So you don't really have to search like,
I'm just praying for his will.
God just told me open up the heavens
so that I can get into this big thing.
Am I a missionary?
Hey, just do these things
and get to know him
and it will be revealed to you.
All right, we're going,
we're trying to climb the wall
when we have to take this ground
in the mainland.
All right, so thank God and everything
no matter what the circumstances may be.
Be thankful and give thanks
for this is the will of God for you
who are in Christ Jesus.
Well, I'm in Christ Jesus.
I'm in the anointed one
in his anointing with salvation power,
the revealer and the mediator of that will.
Then it says, do not quench,
suppress, or subdue the Holy Spirit.
We've talked about this before.
The word quench is to withhold
from circulation or expression
to cut off the voice of or the breath of.
Now, my brother and I,
my brother Joe and I had this really weird game
that we would do,
mostly in the barn,
would chase each other
and throw water at each other
from the cow tanks and all this stuff.
But we had a choking game that we'd do.
I know.
But you could only use one arm.
And if you got a hold of the person
or whatever you could choke him,
I just happen to have a longer arm than him.
But he was stronger than me, right?
But I remember standing there.
We'd chase each other.
We'd be choking each other.
It's a weird game.
Okay, we did weird stuff.
We did punching games, all kinds of stuff.
But, you know,
we had energy apparently and no supervision.
So as we, as we were choking each other,
I remember he,
I just put my head back like this,
but he still, he still had a hold on me.
And what it's like to start losing your breath.
If you ever wrestle and somebody takes you,
puts their arm around and all of a sudden,
you can pass out like that.
Well, to withhold from circulation or expression
to cut off the voice or the breath of the Holy Spirit,
we have to make some choices in that.
Which means we would probably go opposite
of what the gifts of the Spirit would say
because it goes on and it says also,
do not spurn the gifts and utterances of the prophets.
Do not depreciate prophetic revelations
nor despise inspired instructions
or exhortations or warnings.
Now we're going to test and prove all things,
but how do we do that?
How do we come against like prophetic things
and all that?
You have an experience with God here,
then life in the mainland gets hard
and you totally disregard that he already gave you something.
You just take the breath right out of it.
That's not going to circulate into my now.
I need a new thing.
I need Jim to pray for me.
I need this person.
Has any already told you something?
Has any already gifted you with something?
What does the Word,
even if you never had a prophet speak over you,
this Word prophesies over you.
So we go back to the same thing.
Stir it up.
Stir it up.
Stir it up.
Hallelujah.
So we're not going to quench or suppress
or subdue the Holy Spirit.
So once again, quench or stifle
is another way, another word for it,
to withhold from circulation or expression.
You know how a church can do that?
It's been 15 minutes of praise already.
They just went 12, 10 already.
I might just die of starvation.
Oh, you're about to choke that thing out.
Right?
He wants to move.
He might be just gearing up to say,
I want to see who's going to follow me.
And we just start choking it out.
No, I don't really want that much circulation.
Just enough to keep the heart rate going.
But I don't want that much circulation
of the Holy Spirit.
See how this works?
These are keys in the mainland
before we ever get the big instructions
from the Lord, where I saw over this city
and I saw governmentally.
Because that's what happens to the higher climate.
You see governments of the world.
Here we're supposed to govern ourselves
and our family.
Then it goes out more influence and more influence.
And you start peeking over the tower
and it's still operating here.
You're taking land.
It's very important that we know that in prayer.
So what am I saying by saying all this?
When we stir up the gift,
if you, all of a sudden,
your breath just ends
because we're more looking to see something
than we practice the prayer of something,
then we have to go back to the main thing
and do the main thing.
Like for instance, sometimes
Pastor will say, let's just pray in the Spirit.
Well, pretty much everybody does that.
Never used to be that way.
So we have had growth.
But let's just pray spiritually.
Now that doesn't mean you're praying in tongues.
But we're going to deal with this subject.
And all of a sudden I want this side to deal with this,
this people to deal with this,
and they'll usually be one or two people in the group
who just pray.
I'm just being honest.
And then there's a whole bunch of people
that you run out within a minute
or all that comes to you as a phrase.
I'm just maturing the saints, okay?
Is that okay?
I have to do it either way.
But anyways,
there's something about
when Holy Spirit starts circulating
and you allow him
to speak through you
on yourself first.
You practice on yourself first.
A lot of times churches taught, prophetic churches,
especially we're taught like,
we don't say anything about ourselves
and we really don't speak over our family.
But I have a word over the government.
I was like, well, you didn't practice
on the main ground.
I wouldn't be going and taking that on right now.
I'm just saying, that's how it works
in the spectrum of things.
So, let's stand this morning.
This is why when
when they said Jesus, you know,
did Jesus teach us to pray?
He gave a format
to help us out.
Right? We've prayed this here before.
Our Father who art in heaven.
Well, address yourself first.
We're not going to have time to do all this this morning,
but I want you to practice this at home
in the secret place where you're addressing yourself first.
Father, and I'll just give you an example.
Father, in the name of Jesus, I just thank you
that you have rented my heart for you.
That I claim that over myself
and I ask forgiveness for anything
I've participated in
or that I have thought that's outside of your kingdom.
See, I'm going to keep going.
I can keep going, right?
I'm not climbing the wall for anything just yet.
I am talking to myself.
My flesh will follow where the Spirit goes.
And so, line me up, Holy Spirit.
Line me up so that I'm regulated with you.
I have the DNA of Christ.
I have the mind of Christ.
I am fully armored and the weaponry is on me.
See, and I could go on for a long time on that.
If you have not practiced praying
that type of prayer for yourself,
it will feel so odd
and you'll run out of things to say.
I could take a whole session of time
just to pray over me.
I need it.
I need it.
I'm not going before God and begging him for stuff.
I'm addressing my heart.
And Lord, I just ask that you
stir up the gift of God in me.
Those gifts that were put into me
in my mother's womb.
Lord, that you would stir over those gifts
right now, causing them to come forward.
More and more sanctified by you.
And Lord God, as I am justified in you,
those gifts will take place
and I will be following your Spirit.
See, I'm prophesying to myself
and making announcements about myself
and to where myself is going.
I say, intercessory prayer.
Well, I haven't gotten to the people
or the nation or anything.
I know. We have to practice
getting the mainland and then moving in.
Right?
And then you first address your family.
Then you first address your job
and your surroundings or whatever.
Because none of those things will matter
if our heart is not right.
If our heart isn't in there.
And then if we're really out of place,
we're like, I'm about out of fuel, Lord God.
My car of faith just about to run out of hope.
I got to stop.
I got to pull over
before we're going to try to do something big.
We're going to pull over and refuel.
So then you speak to yourself.
Hope.
You confess things like, I do.
I have a joyful, confident expectation.
Something good is going to happen.
I disregard the feeling of my soul
and I come up into the things of the Spirit.
And this is where praying in tongues.
Then what does it do?
It edifies your spirit and makes you strong.
How does it do that?
It brings spiritual things forward
and where you lost hope in your soul
that goes in the background.
And your body just has to shut its pie hole.
Like body, you're just coming with
where the spirit's going, so get back there.
See, we're putting things in order.
So let's pray in the spirit here just a little bit.
I'll have the band come.
You see, I'm fired up already.
Just praying that little bit as an example.
Wherever Lord God, we have missed the mark.
Lord, get us back on to the target.
We are asking for that in our hearts right now.
Wherever unbelief has spoken loudly to us.
Silence.
Be quiet.
We hear the voice of the Lord only.
And I've renounced that over ourselves.
As we go into worship,
we will not quench
or cause the circulation
of the move of the spirit
to be stopped by limits.
I resist that.
I cast that down
within myself.
That's flesh. Flash, you listen to me.
We're going into the things
of the spirit this morning.
You will not be
participating and coming
against the circulation of the Holy Spirit.
Father, if we yield it
to our flesh in any way
before we ever got here, forgive us.
I have a high expectation
that people come through the doors.
They're going to be cut to the heart
and changed.
I have a high expectation, Lord.
God, I'm speaking to my soul.
Listen up. No strongholds.
No strongholds will speak louder
than the Word of God.
The same spirit
that raised Christ from the dead
dwells in me, and it's
quickening my mortal body right now.
Body come alive
in the spirit.
Soul come alive to the
spiritual things. We set our mind
on the spiritual things.
We set our mind on the truth of your Word.
We set it. We set it.
We set it.
I remember that.
Wherever we've lowered
the standard, we raise it
and set it high.
Our expectation is high.
Our expectation is high.
Those that are suffering things in your body
reset your expectation.
Don't set it for just making it.
Set it for being healed.
Set it for it's done.
Set it for it's over.
Set it high, high.
Climb up into that thing.
And speak the Word.