Let's go back and read Habakkuk 2, where it says in chapter 2,
I will stand at my guard post and station myself on the tower,
and I will keep watch to see what he will say to me.
And what answer I will give as his spokesman when I am reproved?
Then the Lord answered me and said, write the vision, which
we've talked about, because we're going back and talking about the watch tower.
There's a lot that's transpired in the in between here.
But, you know, a lot of people will just quote that, write the vision.
You know, businesses quote it, right? The vision and everything.
Well, to see the trueness of where God's wanting to take us, we have to be on the tower.
We have to be at a higher rate of thinking.
We have to be thinking spiritual things and not carnal things.
And it's great that the principle works, even in business, even for unsaved people,
the vision being written down so that you know your direction and you stay the course on your
direction. You know, but this is talking very spiritual.
How many of you had a dream and you thought you'd remember it?
You knew it was from God and you're like, yeah, I'll write that down.
It's three o'clock in the morning. You're like, when I get up, I'm going to be sure,
write that down. And it's the craziest feeling when you can't remember it.
It's just like, where did it go? And you're trying to grasp it or whatever.
There's something about being on the watch tower where we have to be that in-season
on prompt to get up, write it down now. Like, we can't play with what we've seen.
And sometimes he shows us things through dreams or like, you know,
pastors definitely, I always say a Zephaneppenea because he has those detailed dreams,
you know, like there was a green car that passed by in two miles and everything means
everything. Where God's pretty literal with me because he knows he probably has to be because
it's how I roll. But I am in between sleep and awake where I will see open visions and
things like that. And they're pretty plain. It's pretty much like this we have to do where
here is the warning. There's not a lot to interpret. It's just like, thank you.
Thank you for the info. But even in that, you can get up and question like, what was that?
I don't know if that was God. That just felt so weird. I was in between a sleep and awake
or whatever. Always still write it down because you've been on the tower. Always still write it down.
You'll find out if it's too much pizza before you went to bed. You'll figure that out. It'll
be like, you know, I don't think this was from God. Some things are really obvious that it's
not from God. But there's other things you're like, there could be something in this,
but I'm not quite sure. Still write it down. Still be faithful to what you've seen.
Now it says some key things here. It says, I will stand at my guard post. So it's a commitment
that he has that just goes, this is what I'm going to do. I'm committed to stand here at
my guard post. And he uses the word in the amplified guard post, which really means he's
standing there for the purpose of keeping guard over everything, watching so nothing gets in
or the right things do come in and the wrong things stay out, right? And that's what happens
when you're at a guard post. You're a watcher. You're a seer. You're an overseer. And
have you ever seen the movie The Eagle? I love movies like that. It's like a
old time war movie or whatever. And he just had a sense in the middle of the night to
we better get to the wall. And they kept looking and there was nothing there. But
there was something that just gave him this warning. Nothing, nothing. And they woke up
all the soldiers and they were ticked off because there's nothing going on. There's
not happening, right? And so they all come there and all of a sudden the attack is just
apparent. And it's right there. And later he gets thanked for being faithful to what he
was sensing and saved their fort. So there's something about saying I will stand at
my guard post. Which is also not, he told me to stand at my guard post. You know, I gotta
this morning God to get on the guard post. No, it's a commitment that says I've chosen to show up
because I already know I have an assignment. I've chosen to show up to see what he's going
to tell me and I'm choosing to be at the guard post and station myself on the tower.
So he's trying to figure out where there's the best place on the tower to be.
Right? He's going to station himself. That's his station. That's his area. That's his zone.
So in ministry or in business, the many times people will jump their station and come over
into somebody else's station or their zone and try to be into someone else's zone.
And you got to say get back in your zone because they're trying to operate in something
that's actually your station. So keep that in mind too. When we know where our station is,
we get in that zone and that's the area we work. That's what we're responsible for.
I'm not responsible for where Pastor Igor is at. I'm responsible for my zone.
I can peek into what you're doing over there. I can peek into it or whatever,
pray for him as he's in his zone. But a lot of times in immaturity, especially I see it
in prayer groups. I just see it in church in general and I see it in businesses where
people get excited about what somebody else is doing or where they're stationed.
And they just want to leave their station and get over to this station.
And then that's not as exciting after a while. And so they see somebody else's
station and they're like I'm going to bounce and I'm going to go over here.
And you just end up bouncing from thing to thing. Where is your station on the watch tower?
Where are you committed to that you have hang time, that you know that you know this
is where God put me. This is where I flow the best. This is can I help these other people?
Yes, but I got to watch my zone. And I can only reach out to help other people without
forfeiting the zone that I'm supposed to be in. You know, I can help Bonnie do something
or someone else do something as long as I can still maintain my zone.
And a station myself on the tower, you know, is where he's supposed to be.
And I will keep watch. So there's commitment. There's commitment to
what you're doing is your your guarding. And there's commitment to being in the right station.
And there's commitment to and I will keep watch to see what he will say to me.
It's interesting how he wrote site regarding hearing. I'm going to keep watch
to see what he will say to me. And you know, it should say I will keep watch to see what I can
see or see what he's trying to show me. But God shows us things through hearing. So when we're
on the watch tower, part of it is we walk by faith and not by sight, but but words draw pictures.
So when God shows us something, many times it's because he told us something that drew
picture. And then I saw it. Right. And you see the clearest in your own station.
And so the corporate anointing, the Bible indicates nothing can stop the corporate anointing because
if I'm in my station, you're in your station, you're in your station. And all of a sudden
there's problem when we all get there. We've all seen different sides of the thing
in the station. Yes. Station is your place, your zone, your place of operation,
your place that you feel responsible for, your place that God has called you to on the tower.
You're watching. Some people are a specific watch guards to children. They don't notice much
what's going on, but they notice when a child is being ridiculed. It'll just stand out to
them. And so it's the same thing in ministry. You know, some people will gravitate more toward
evangelistic things or whatever, even though we're all on the tower, we're all praying, you're all
gifted differently. So your station will be like, we're not all praying from the same zone
and we're missing all these other spots. When you get a bunch of people on the tower and
we're all in our stations, everybody's seeing it, but they're seeing it from a different angle.
They're seeing it in a different way and they're seeing it according to their
gifting. You bring that together. It's explosive. And it's very protective to the church.
The five-fold has to be operating all the way down through the body
so that we're seeing things. You know, he'll show a prophet something totally different than he
will show someone that's mainly an evangelist. They're still seeing it though, but they're
seeing it from an evangelist point of view. They're seeing it from a prophet's point of
view. And he will speak to them in their gifting and it lights it up. But it all comes back to,
I will stand. So sometimes we got this idea, you know, God does call us, right? And then we
answer the call. But sometimes we have the idea like, I ain't getting on the tower unless he
calls me. I don't show up for prayer unless I feel led, right? Well, how often do you
feel led to prayer? Those are those moments where you're like, I'm either messing up
or I got to hear from him right now. But all the in-betweens, you're not as led as you are in
those two moments, right? So you make up your mind, I will stand at my guard. I know a guard
has to be there and has to be there consistently. You can't be guarding something for two days
and then I'm taking a week off and then I come back or whatever. Being in the presence
of God, being a watchman means you're always watching.
There's angels that have the job of always watching. That's what they do. They're not like,
yeah, I'm headed out to, you know, way out here to this other place we're not taking a break
from. They're created to watch. That's their job. They're detailed. They take notes. And,
you know, if you grew up where you weren't a detailed person, you know,
or your personality isn't a detailed person, then we have to work on writing down dreams, writing down
what he said, those kind of, we have to find a way to retain it. Now, I can retain things. Like,
if I study something on health, it messes me up if I write it all down. For some reason,
it's just there. It's like I got a computer in my brain that just goes registered. But
there's other things that when I go to recall them, I say, I should have wrote that down.
I should have paid attention. And so it's best always when you're at your guard and you're seeing
things, write them down. Write them down. Find a way to retain it. And we know this is so important.
That's why we write the vision. That's why we go over Word of Life's vision. If every cycle
of growth, then we got to go back and visit the vision. So everybody's on the same page.
But also to remind us where we came from and where he said, we're going.
Then we get to fill in the in-between according to that. That's why it's important to do that.
I will stand at my guard and station myself on the tower. So if you're at a station,
you're at a zone, and you're at a certain territory that you're responsible for.
Now you can take that in everyday prayer. You can also take that like,
we're responsible for the region. I'm sure there's many other churches that are out there
us too. I know Jennifer Cannon. They're responsible for portions of the region.
They know it. They can minister anywhere, but they know that's their station,
and they better get to it. So we show up. There was a minister that said,
how did he start a church? He said, and he's got a worldwide ministry now.
He said, I will put my suit on and then have a church. He would go in the living room
and he would have church, and it was just him or him and his wife.
And he would read stuff. He would preach stuff. He would do praise or whatever,
and he just kept culture in that because he's showing up for his station.
Then God would reveal to him, now go do this, now go do that. Now I'll show you this next
thing or whatever. Worldwide ministry comes out of that kind of start. And for us as a watchman
or people of prayer, guarding the church and everything, we don't wait for something big to
happen and then grab ahold of it. We're actually in the small things producing the big thing,
or getting ready for the big thing. Proper prior planning. God is all about that.
And I will keep watch to see what he will say to me. So when I'm hearing from him,
he's drawing a picture. Like I said before, if I say the word toast, I just drew a picture in your
head. Right? I said it to you, but I didn't show you a piece of toast that I... So it just appears
and you're like, yeah, toast. You might have seen yours with jelly and mine might have had honey on
it. I don't know, but however it came up, you know, and it draws a picture and what answer
I will give as his spokesman when I am reproved. Then the Lord answered me and said,
write the vision and engrave it plainly on clay tablets so that the one who reads it will run.
So we want to make sure the people coming up in this body, the new people that are coming in,
see the vision real clearly so they know what they're connecting into. So many people don't know.
You don't find a church according to their cool nursery or they got an awesome coffee shop.
You're coming there with your giftings with the thing he showed you. This is how it's
supposed to work. And you've been on the wall and he showed you different pictures and like,
is this the place I'm supposed to connect into? You might not even like their nursery
and the fact that they don't have a coffee shop. But you know that that's your assignment and you
got to show up. You heard it and you saw it and you're like, oh man, this is the place.
I don't even know if I like it here. It doesn't matter. You saw it. He spoke to you and
then you write that down. Dates are really important, especially later on when you get
into maybe interpreting dreams and things like that. When he told you a certain... I just had
that young person say, I was showing something through a dream and now it's exactly this many
days and in the dream it showed how many days there was in between. And it was like,
all those things just really made sense. So when we're opening up spiritual things,
it's not a carnal way of approaching it. If we approach it in a carnal way,
we right up front should say, this should make sense to me. Now it's carnal thinking.
He's about you seeking it until it makes sense. And it is, it's not the sense of your five
senses. It's your spiritual sense. He'll open that up to you. But you got to be at your
station to get that to happen. This is what's bothering my heart and has for years
that there are people who approach the church with word or they approach
with some kind of big supernatural thing and they haven't been on the tower.
They don't show up consistently in the small things, but they got this big thing from God.
That kind of seems upside down and backwards, doesn't it?
So God can tell anybody anything and he has. But his consistent character
is he wants us to show up. He wants us to be a part of something show up and be responsible
and find our zone and get in it. And it's our station and we're praying over it. And, you know,
if you're in this church, this is part of your station. So you're praying for the church
showing up to do that. And it flips from I'm a baby Christian and I come through the door
but I want to see, you know, maybe the pastors can amaze me or the worship just
gets so over the top. Thank you. I so needed that. I so needed that. Well, it flips as you grow to,
you know, whatever happens, happens. I'm coming with something. I'm bringing something. I was on
the tower and I'm just waiting to see where this fits in. Whether I ever say it to anybody,
it might be something that I pray right there in worship. And I release that anointing
in the place because I've heard from God. It might be something later you meet with
pastors and just say, this is what I saw. I don't know if it means anything or whatever.
But when I was at my station, I saw this. And I heard him say something and it drew a picture
and I am faithful to guard over that area and find out. That's how we're supposed to operate
in the body of Christ. So you can see how the church has slipped into secret sensitive user
friendly. It's all about my needs, right? And then there's only the few chosen ones
that hear from God. We're not in the Old Testament. We're not waiting for the prophet to show up
and then, you know, could be months. We don't know when Samuel's coming through, you know,
or we may have to travel, you know, hundreds of miles to get to this guy because he's the
prophet. We can't hear for ourselves. See, we look to who we connect into and that has to
do with our station. And then the thing that we work on because our flesh doesn't want to do this
is showing up to that station. Show up early in the morning when he wakes you. Be like, I'm
going to show up. I'm ready. You're not getting ready. You're not preparing to be ready. You
just are ready because you're in habit of being on the standby on that place where it's
like, if you ask me to pray right now, Lord, I will. But I will pray even if you don't ask
me to because that's my station. I get up and I tend to it. It's like a garden. You don't wait for
your garden to ask, you know, you to weed it. By the time it's at that point, it's screaming,
like, help me. The plants are dying. You can see the big tall weeds. You're like, yeah,
it's talking to you now, but that's not proper prior planning. That's you getting up and saying,
I'm going to tend to this before it starts crying out. I'm going to make sure it's taken
care of because that's my station. That's my stuff. That's why we practice on the mainland,
taking care of our family, who we are, what he's given us. Over the years, we've seen so many
people just be disgruntled with where they live, the house that they live in. And, you know,
it's like, I wish I had this and I wish I had that. First of all, Christians shouldn't wish.
We take things by faith. We're not wishers, right? That's the magical realm. And,
but they'll be disgruntled with their house, believing God. That's what they say. I'm believing
God for a bigger, better, and it's going to have this and this. And that's really exciting. But
you're not taking care of the one you're in. You're not thankful for the one you're in.
But we're expecting him to give us something bigger. The same thing is true about prayer.
Show me more revelation. Show me I'm going to go and I'm just going to get all this revelation.
He's going to download all this stuff to me, but we're not taking care of what he's already shown us.
So, everyday responsibility as a Christian is very much how we operate in the watchtower.
Guards are well trained, aren't they? They're well trained. Those ones in England,
is it England where they stand there and they won't smile? That takes training to do that.
I would not be good at that. It would take me a long time because I'd be cracking up at
everybody looking at me. I would just not be that hurt. I'm like, sorry, I cannot guard this place.
So, and I think about that, but they are well trained to stand there, stand at attention, stand,
deny their emotions. I am in my spot. I am in that station. This is my zone I'm operating in.
See it? This is our goal in the watchtower. I just recently had someone come and they gave
me a big old long word. And God said, and God said, and God said, I haven't been in church for like
forever. I'm not part of any prayer groups. And after questioning, they're not in the word half
the time. So, I just take that and go, shh, end of garbage. Don't count. Doesn't count. You don't
get to bypass the very thing he's asked us to do. You're not the special one who gets to
bypass. Like, I skipped all that because I'm special to God. I'm so loved.
You know, be like our kids saying, you know, I'm the favorite in the family. That's why I don't
have to do the dishes. They're waiting in there for you. Yeah, better get in there.
So, so there's an immaturity that's gone across the body of Christ when it comes to full gospel
things. And we're wanting things easy when the training of our five senses is how well can we
hear when we're on the watch tower? First, there's the climbing of it, showing up to your station,
choosing, I am here in my station to watch this. And then how long do I have hang time to be able
to do that? Can I put my flesh under? Am I listening, listening, listening? It's hard to
climb the tower to guard. And I'm just begging him for all my needs to be met.
I ain't gonna hear nothing about what's going on or what's coming against, because I'm really just in the
mode of begging for my needs. And there's this. And if you could please do that for me. And you
could play, a guard looks at this different. It's like, I got needs and everything. Yeah.
But I'm here to be a watchman. I'm checking this. I know he'll meet my needs according to
his riches and glory. And so right now, God's very aware of my needs. I'm watching to see
how to guard this. I am in a place of guarding. I'm getting information. And he's going to give
me sight into it. Amen? And then we'll go into later on. You know, as you know, I'm kind of a
military person. Never been in the military, but I was raised by a military man. And there
is something, you know, when you're on a tower at war, whether it been the old school
wars where they're flipping rocks out and trying to aim at different people or whatever,
or sighting in your gun, you have to know how far away and what's the trajectory of this whole
thing. And so to find that there's something coming against, we don't just start shooting
everywhere. We still have to hear from him. And he's still got to show us. Then we know,
then it takes less. And there's more power. Sometimes you just, you know,
cap off the leader of whatever's happening with one bullet. And it's like, wow, somehow
they're turning around and going the other way. Or you can get up there and just black,
I saw something and just shoot all over the place. See, there's so much training the body
of Christ needs. And training is really, I heard what I'm supposed to do. Now the training is,
did you do it? Come on, get up and do it. It's very repetition without religion. It's very
much I'm showing up. So let's stand. We're showing up here today. You know, those of you and God's
adding people to the prayer group. But what I see is a lot of people who are consistently here.
Because you're Watchman. You're like, no, I can't miss that part. I need to be at prayer.
I need, because I saw something. I heard something. I want to see something. I want to hear
something. I want the practice of what it looks like to guard. Because we take these things seriously.
Amen? So I commend you for being here. Let's just begin to pray in the spirit. And
in a few minutes, the band can come up and just get in their spot.
See, we're just climbing the tower right now, as we're doing.
You don't even have to feel any big emotion. It's just something you know you need to do. So you climb
the tower. We climb even higher in praise and worship because we're putting ourselves to the side
and we're lifting him up and he's drawing us to him. Then as we lift Jesus up, he draws all
men and women to him. So I'm going to ask you the questions. You're going to ask yourself.
Where's your station? Well, it's right here in the group. Yes, this is the corporate anointing.
Where's your station? What are you responsible for? Where's your spot on the wall? Are you in your spot
on the wall?
Some of you are governmental. Some of you, your spot is governmental. You will be praying
out of things. It will always come back to the governmental side of things. Thank you, Lord God.
Thank you, Lord God, that you're drawing people here that are governmental prayer warriors.
Thank you for that, Lord. Some of you are family-based, mostly family-based,
restoration of the family, change in the family, deliverance for family, generational line things,
being broken up. That's your station. That's your main station on the wall. You can tap into
these other things, but you know you always come back to it. But what about the family? Thank you,
Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you are leading us to our stations and we get in them with fire.
We get in them and there's a cost to that. We get in them because we know we're guarding
those areas as part of the body of Christ. Hallelujah. Some of us are very prophetic
and we have to hear. We have to hear in detail because we're speaking out what's happening
now, but we're calling for future things. We're speaking out what's happening now, but we're calling
for future things. That's our main zone that we operate in. That's our main thing that we see.
Lord, God, help it to be clear. You show us. It's not my job to show. It's the heart that
comes to the realization. This is my station on the tower. I could come into the corporate
anointing and pray for just about anything, but I always gravitate back to this thing
that you have assigned me to.
Some of you are aspecific to deliverance. You're very sensitive to deliverance type things. You're
looking for the working of miracles to set people free.
There's a dividing out within our hearts where we know that's my main zone. I
station and I put myself there to be on guard. I put myself there to guard for other people. I see
what's coming. I know what's leaving. I see it because you tell us, Lord God. We receive these
anointings. We receive it. Some of us are aspecific to healing. That's our zone. We notice
doesn't matter if we're at Walmart or where we are. We just see how that person's hurting in
their body. That person's leg is too short on that side. This is edgy and we're drawn to it
and immediately we pray. If an ambulance goes by, we pray. It's our assignment. It's part of
what we're seeing into and you're wanting us to learn how to do this ahead of time
so that when the people are in front of us, we're already in the knowing. We're already
in the knowing. I just want to share something. I've taken people with me, street witnessing or
doing different things and the Lord will give me different knowings. It looks like to the people
that come with me that I just get it right there on the spot. Like everything just happens
and God just speaks to me right as I'm going or whatever. Maybe some. Some things I'll recognize
right on the spot. But many times it's the thing we pray through that we get to walk through.
So it's important to know even though we can't see if we're praying through something this morning,
I don't know what that pertain to or whatever, but you'll know when you walk through it.
You'll have that aha like, oh yeah. And you'll be ready and seasoned. You'll know exactly what's
going to happen. An example of that is there were meetings that we went out to North Dakota
years ago with Jim and the Lord has spoke to me during an intercessory prayer time regarding
witchcraft and witches. And I thought, well, yeah, that happens everywhere, whatever. But then I saw
specific faces, people I did not know. When we got there, it was like two weeks later, we got there.
Sure enough, there were the people I did not know. It's a freaky feeling. You're just like,
all right, what are we doing? You know, that was God, right? But also then I thought,
well, if that's true, and it was, and I knew what to pray over them, then it was like, where's the
witchcraft? And I searched through the people and I started walking through the hotel that we're in
or whatever. Right next to us, they were having a conference and guess what it was about.
So I went into it, introduced myself and said, hey, we're ministering over here.
What are you guys into? And pretty much it was witchcraft. So see, that's praying through,
but if you don't show up on the wall consistently, you don't hear the future things. You don't see the
future things. Then when a person does that, everyone goes, she's so amazing. She just knew that.
No, we were on the wall. We just showed up. God said it. And then we followed the trail
of where he was leaving the crumbs. Follow this, come up to her. Aha, there it is. Thank you, Lord.
It's all about him. Amen. Let's have the band come.
So what I want you to do as they're coming is take this prayer to a little bit higher level
in asking the Lord to reveal to you what's your main zone. You can operate in these other
things, but let's ask him right now. And he says, if you ask me for wisdom, he'll give it to you.
If you ask him, if you seek, if you knock, he'll reveal things. You'll be in your most powerful
spot when you're in your station. Don't have to copy somebody else's station. You're in yours,
and you know how this thing works. Amen. So Father, we ask right now in the name of Jesus
that you bring us up to a place that yes, we can operate in all forms of prayer,
but we know our specific station. Reveal it to us, give us confidence that that's where we're
supposed to stand. And then we make the choice, I go to the tower waiting for you to speak.
I make that choice to be in the station. It will cause us to see our purpose and how divine
in this operation we're really operating. Lord, thank you. Thank you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.