Psalms 43, verse 5.
Why are you cast down, O my inner self?
And why should you moan and be disquieted within me?
Hope in God, and wait expectantly for Him.
For I shall yet praise Him, who is the help of my sad countenance, my God.
So I'm going to give a prophecy for those of you that don't understand that.
First Corinthians chapter 12.
And it's me endeavoring to speak what God would want us to hear this morning.
Have you forgotten?
Have you forgotten who I am?
I am the Alpha and the Omega.
I am the beginning.
I am the end, and I feel everything in between.
I am the one who calls it, and it appears.
I am the one who says, walk this way, and I make the way for you to walk on.
When there's none before you, I will make it for you.
I am the God who brought the Israelites out of Egypt.
Put them in a desert, put them in a situation where they would certainly die of starvation.
But I did something new.
I fed them with the manna, the angels of heaven's food.
Had never been done before, and it never has been done since on any mass scale.
Have you forgotten?
Why are you downcast?
Put your hope in me.
Put your hope in your God.
Is anything too hard for me?
Is anything too difficult for me?
Is your faith so weak?
That with a little bit of opposition, you turned from the Spirit to the flesh.
I used my servant Paul to rebuke the church of Galatia for doing the exact same thing.
When the pressure mounted in front of them, they turned from the Spirit back to the old,
soulish ways of thinking.
And my Spirit rebuked them for it.
Do not follow their path.
There's only one thing you need to understand and realize.
Who you're serving.
Who you're serving.
I am that I am.
I am that I am.
And there's nothing that happens on this planet that I am not aware of,
even to a hair falling out of a human being's head or a sparrow falling out of the sky.
I know it all.
Do not allow yourself to turn into
thinking natural soulish human thoughts
and allow yourself to become downcast.
Have you forgotten who you serve?
Have you forgotten who you are in covenant with?
Have you forgotten my names?
I am Yahweh.
The self and all sufficient one.
The self-existent one.
I need no help from no one or nothing
to remain eternally the Almighty.
I am Yahweh.
I am Adonai.
I am the God who watches over my people
in a bond slave relationship.
You are not responsible for what I ask you to do.
I am responsible.
Have you forgotten who I am?
The servant doesn't make the way.
The owner makes the way.
The servant just does what the owner says.
Have you forgotten who I am?
I am Yahweh.
I am the God of covenant.
I am the God who longs
to take care of and satisfy
and provide for the needs of my people.
Have you forgotten who I am?
I am Elohim.
I am the God who sits on the circle of this earth
like it is a stool to me.
I am the God who sat there
and looked at it when I recreated this earth
and brought it back into a life-giving habitable planet.
I am that God.
The God of creation.
The God of all power.
And I am El Shaddai.
The all-sufficient one.
I provide.
I dare one of you
to accuse me of not providing for you.
I provide the very breath you breathe.
I provide the strength you breathe it with.
I am El Shaddai, the all-sufficient one.
The one who, by my covenant name,
Jehovah Jireh, I am the one who sees and provides.
I say this to you now
not to try to make it seem like your pastor
is trying to sway your opinions.
I say this to you
because I am asking you,
between you and me,
your Almighty God
have you forgotten who I am.
If you will remember who I am
and believe it with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength,
every obstacle in your personal lives,
in your families, in this church,
every obstacle becomes extremely minute.
Not because the thing is not real and doesn't matter.
It becomes extremely minute because of who I am.
Do you remember who I am?
Because when you do,
your soul will no longer be downcast.
It will be replaced with the fruit of who I am.
And the hope and the joy and the confidence I carry
will rise up in you.
Remember who I am.
Interesting.
I spoke last night at TBO
and I mentioned why so downcast.
He would not have known that
because he was traveling back from Red Lake.
And I talked about what you can look it up.
What downcast looks like
is called the chin to the chest.
Like when a person is sad,
they are not with their head up.
They feel shame.
Their head is down.
It's downcast from the chin to the chest.
And he's asking us,
why are we downcast?
Look to the hills where does your help come from?
To look to the hills, they're higher.
I have to look up.
Where does your help come from?
It comes from the Lord.
And so there's something about him
also wanting to do that here today,
just through the word that's being taught
and the prophecy that came forward.
He's literally going to us
and wherever we're even a little bit downcast.
He's the lifter of our head.
He's the lifter.
Let him lift it.
Sometimes psychologically,
we hold on to things
and we're like, no, I want to feel sad right now.
I'm going to watch a sad movie even to add to it.
I mean, we do dumb things like that.
I'm just calling it what it is.
And the whole time he's like, just let me lift your head.
So you can see,
we have to yield to the spirit of God
so that he lifts our head.
When we look to the hills,
that's what this next prophetic part is going to be about.
What he's asking me to share.
We're literally looking to the hills.
So we're looking to see something higher
than where we're at right now.
And we won't have all the answers today.
But corporately, we're going to look into something
bigger.
I'm going to ask that we save the
tithes and offerings till the end.
And I'm going to ask everyone to take your seats
and thank you band.
You might be called back up here.
I don't know.
We're just following the spirit.
This makes
makes people really uncomfortable a lot of times,
especially if you're an introvert.
And you know...
Okay.
You have something?
When Vern was giving
the talk,
there was a stirring
in here.
I don't know what kind,
but there was a lot of activity.
Then when we started,
how does this go?
I saw
it was almost like a fear.
And I saw like a...
one of those
old huge ships,
those massive ones
that the pirates used to be on,
but the good guys too.
And there was a figure
at the front.
And it was a woman.
And she was the symbol of that ship.
And suddenly,
people were running
up to the ship.
And they were getting on the ship.
And then
they were making sure
that they were tied safely
to the ship.
To any part of the ship that could hold them
from the storm.
It was crazy.
But they were running.
And it was like a line of people.
When Pastor Vern just gave this prophecy,
during the...
about the middle of it,
I saw the ship.
All of the people were undone.
They were leaving the ship.
They weren't running.
They were walking
with a mission
off of the ship.
There was a shifting.
It just went on and on.
Hallelujah.
So she's sharing that.
And I can see some things in that
that I'm not going to talk about today.
But I'm going to have our secretary type that up.
Because when something prophetic comes forward,
we're the same thing with what Pastor just spoke.
That's all got to be typed up.
Because how do you hold things accountable
if we don't have something
to look at, right?
So,
I can see and maybe it'll...
maybe you'll see it,
what she's saying as we go through this.
I want to tell you something that happened to me
when we were up in Red Lake
for Woodstock.
I'm going to ask the kids go ahead
and leave and go to Children's Church
right now.
I was going to try to hold you in here,
but then I look at all the little ones
and I'm like, mercy.
Have mercy on their parents.
So let's turn our Bibles to Genesis chapter
21
and 22.
We're going to be going over.
Now in the future, I don't know
if I'll be doing this in prayer or what.
this came to me
like the Joseph's anointing
came to me years ago
and it's the anointing that moved us
up here and
we just kept harping on the Joseph's
story and God would show more
and more out of it and
you can't just grab a story in the Bible
and be like, we're going to make this work for me
in my situation.
But when it's revelatory, God will give you
different things and
that's what he did, one deep thought
at a time and then sometimes we'd have
he'd show us revelatory stuff
and that and we'd literally
stay on that thought
for weeks and you could feel it
going through the body and bringing about
change because he was moving us
as a unit to be looking
for the last days anointing.
We are in the Joseph's
anointing right now.
God is preparing
and making provisions
and things like that because
there are hard times coming. There's hard
times here right now, but we haven't seen
anything yet.
So, let's go ahead
Genesis chapter 21
as we're going through the story of
Abraham and Isaac.
He
he showed me
some things out of here, but before I ever
looked into it, I was reading on a
different section of the Bible and
we were up in our camper
for Woodstock and you're up late
and you know
ministering during the day to people or whatever
you know was going on
and so I was in like a hardcore sleep
plus many times
if we get in a camper
people ask us sometimes when we go on vacation
they'll say what would you guys do
and like passed out
and then after that
we ate something and then we passed out
and I mean we'll do that two, three
days in a row so I had this moment
this night to really sleep
and I was in a very deep sleep
and I had some things
on my heart that I had brought to God
TBO and
Red Lake and all the different ministry stuff
and the portion of my life that I'm
in because I want to finish strong
I'm going to finish
and I'm going to finish strong right
and so this was personally about me or whatever
and
usually when the Lord
shows me something that's like a vision
or something like that I'm between a sleep and awake
and any of you
who have had that you know
You know, you're very aware of your surroundings, but you're still asleep. Does that make sense?
You're like, I can hear noises and whatever, but I'm still out of it.
And I was between sleep and awake, and the Lord said to me, are you okay?
And it was so strong in me. It sounds like, you know, it's not some big prophetic word.
He said, are you okay? And without, I can't because I'm between sleep and awake, right?
So I'm not talking, but I remember just saying inside of myself, no.
Things are unsettled, all of this. I'm not speaking that out, but it's there.
And then he said nothing. But I knew I was caught away with him, and I woke up out of that crying.
Like tears, you know, and I'm kind of out of it, and I'm like, what am I crying about?
I don't even know. And then you're aware that that took place.
Well, then the next night, deep sleep, very much the same thing.
He told me all kinds of different things I can't share with you.
But there were some things that I'm like, I'm not sure how this is going to finish out.
I mean, certain things I can't continue to do.
I'm talking to him in prayer and that type of stuff.
So I'm in between asleep and awake again. He had asked me the night before if I'm okay.
And then he says to me, go find the ram.
And I was like, what? I also had a picture before that.
The attitude that I had on certain things was like, okay, if it's done, if it's not going to work, it's just done.
You know, all right, let it die then.
Almost like I'm Abraham.
There were certain things bothering me enough that it was like, I'm tapping out.
Even though I knew I wasn't going to tap out.
You ever talk smack and then you're like, yeah, I'm not going anywhere.
Kind of like sometimes when people are mad at their spouse or whatever, like, I'm leaving yet, really you are.
Okay, you'll be back in about an hour.
But if you say something, it's like a release of emotion.
And so that's where I was at, like, I'm tapping out.
And that was me saying, if you want me to Isaac this thing, I will.
I'm not saying in a manipulative way, but in my emotional state, in my spirit.
And this is without me saying anything verbally.
When I'm caught away like this, it was, it was just the knowing that we're having this conversation without me speaking words.
And I can hear him.
And he's, he said, just go find the rem.
He had brought me to a point in certain areas.
And some of you sitting here have been brought to a point.
The church has come to a point where we have to make a decision on different things,
whether it's the building or what's happening in our personal lives,
or where we're going to stay planted, all those different things,
in a way that it's going to be sacrificial.
It's going to be like, no, I'm holding the line.
I'm not leaving this.
Well, can you keep going in your own power?
Some of you are in situations.
Can you keep going in your own power?
No, you cannot.
You better go find the rem.
So we're going to talk about...
I started getting into this a couple of mornings,
three o'clock in the morning.
He likes three o'clock.
I mean, Brian talked about this.
It's like, I don't know, three o'clock.
Wake up.
And here we go.
He gave me an outline.
Well, the Bible gives the outline,
but he gave me a way of seeing into the story
like I'm looking at this church.
At the same time, like I'm looking at my own life.
So we're going to just talk about some things.
And here's what, here's what will be the hard part.
There's only so much time.
Prophetic doesn't go, ah, I know the all of what was just said.
Like what pastor spoke this morning on behalf of God,
you can walk out and say, well, I know what that meant.
No, you don't.
What Sally just shared is like, oh, I kind of got an idea of that.
No, I know what that means.
No, you don't.
Prophetic is unfolding as you seek the truth about it.
Every time I go back to the story, more and more truth.
I can't just say, well, he told me to go find the ram
and I think I know how to do that.
No.
It could be a year from now
before I get the full revelation of what he wants me to get.
He wants us to stay in that seeking mode.
So in the story of Abraham in chapter 21, let's go to,
you know, I wrote everything down here.
Okay.
I was just writing it down for my own thing.
This is all off the cuff, whatever the cuff is.
Um, anyone uncomfortable for everything being changed this morning?
You're rolling with it.
Okay.
All right.
Good.
All right.
So in this story, we know that Abraham is the father of many nations.
That is the promise.
And what seals the promise and causes that to come to place is who?
Isaac.
We have things in our life that he has promised us.
And there's things that are there like Isaac
that tell us, well, he's given us this and he's promised us this.
This is covenant.
We've said yes to it.
He's looking for covenant.
He operates in covenant.
And even the Old Testament, they even make covenant.
There's covenants here like in chapter 21 verse 22.
He made a covenant with a bemelech.
Now bemelech, when I looked it up, I thought that was a dude's name.
But I guess they used to call kings a bemelech.
So if you were a king, you were a bemelech and so on.
So it just meant that that was a ruler.
And his commander of the army was Phil Cole.
Said to Abraham, God is with you in everything you do.
Like they were looking into Abraham's life and saw the blessing.
We might be hurting where we're at right now.
And people still look at us and we're like, wow, you got away better than I got it.
Man, you get the blessing.
And they don't even know how to interpret that.
That's a side thought.
But God is with you in everything you do.
And because he's so with you, I need you, verse 23,
to swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me
by breaking any agreements we have or with my son or with my descendants.
But as I have treated you with kindness, you shall do the same to me
and to the land in which have sojourned temporarily or temporarily lived.
And Abraham said, I will swear.
So he's making an oath like a covenant that says, I'm not going to harm you or whatever,
because he's got the blessing so on him.
So he is the right that he could do some stuff if he wanted to, if he got a bad attitude.
I want you to look at the fact that God has been dealing with attitudes
through sermons in us since COVID broke out.
It took a whole muscle, I don't know how long, on fear.
And then, you know, don't be offended. What does offense look like?
And how do you bring that to the... I mean, he's done these different things.
So before the Isaac story happens, I find it really interesting prophetically
that this is the start, this is the piece before it, to settle some affairs.
And God has had us doing some really hard things within our family,
within our businesses and things like that, where we have to go,
okay, I have to have the right attitude.
All Abraham would have to do is talk smack right there,
and it would have jackknifed all kinds of stuff.
But he didn't. He said, no, I swear that we're going to do that.
But he also then Abraham complained to Abamelech about a well of water,
which the servants of Abamelech had violently seized from him
is how the Anvil fight says that.
So he wasn't wanting to fight.
He's like, since we're settling things, let's settle some more.
That's the stage he's really had us in over and over in the last few years.
So let's settle some things.
There needs to be some restitution in areas.
There needs to be things fixed where we broke it, where we personally broke it,
or where our heart was broken because somebody did something to us.
He's just been on us like white on rice when it comes to that.
We need to see that.
And then Abraham complained to Abamelech about a well of water,
which the servants of Abamelech had violently seized from him.
Abamelech said, I do not know who did this thing.
Indeed, you did not tell me and I did not hear of it until today.
Like, I didn't even know.
The guy was like, sorry about that.
I didn't know my servants were out doing this kind of stuff.
So Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abamelech.
And the two men made a covenant or a binding agreement.
So now they don't just have an oath.
Now they're going to have a binding agreement.
Then Abraham set apart seven eulams of the flock.
And Abamelech said to Abraham,
what is the meaning of these seven eulams which you have set apart?
Abraham said, you are to accept these seven eulams for me
as a witness for me that I dug this well.
So we're not doing this again.
Okay? I'm not going to harm your people.
And you're going to mark this spot with these seven euls
that we dug this well.
So don't go in there and mess with it.
We've been learning about boundaries
because you cannot deal with offenses
without figuring out where you have a lack of boundaries
or where you better draw a better one.
That's what's been happening with us.
And I find it just interesting.
So that's why I'm going through this real quick.
That there was a settling of things.
And so when his people,
I mean, these are Philistines that he's giving the ews to.
And so then when the people would look at that,
they go, hey, these aren't our lambs.
What's going on here?
They go, oh, he made a covenant with Abraham.
Now we can't be messing with his wells.
So that settled it, right? Good boundaries.
Abraham said, you are to accept these seven eulams
for me as well as a witness that I dug this well.
Therefore the place was called Bersheba,
the well of the oath or the well of the seven.
So they made a covenant at Bersheba.
And then Abraham even took it farther
and he planted a tamarisk tree.
And tamarisk, where did I look that up?
I found it interesting.
We do certain things as types
and sometimes we don't even know we're doing it,
but they planted a tamarisk tree
which just symbolizes hope and new beginnings.
Some of the things that we've settled,
we have to bring it all the way through and plant the tree.
We have to come all the way and then plant the tree.
Like, you know, not only did I make an oath with you,
not only did I give you something,
this is, he could have been an enemy status with these people.
They were Philistines on top of it.
And so they're the ones who dug up his well,
but yet he did the right thing
and he gave them those ills as a marking point.
So here's a good boundary area.
That's how we're going to operate from here on.
And not only that, I'm going to plant a tamarisk tree.
And when I do that, it's going to symbolize hope and new beginnings.
I want this to be the marking spot.
Now the prophetic is like a spectrum.
Some of you could be in this story right now,
in this part of the story in an area of your life,
but then as we go on you can be in another part of the story,
just like the Joseph's Anointing.
We can be dealing with family members at the same time.
We lost our coat of many colors,
someone's selling us down the river.
It doesn't follow exactly,
but the types that come out of it,
they'll speak and they speak deep things,
but you have to look for it.
You have to look for it.
So some of you are in the middle right now of debating,
you drew the boundary, but are you going to plant the tree?
Are you going to say from here on now,
I'm not going to be offended.
We're going to let this well thing go
where the boundaries are in place,
but I'm planning to treat a mark like it's going new from here.
Yeah, there you go.
There's going to be new beginnings.
All of this took place,
and then it says that Abraham
lived in that land with them for many days.
As is far before,
he had to take Isaac up to the mountain.
So he lived there in peace many days.
Some things that are going on
spiritually right now in our lives
is because we don't have that peace.
We haven't planted the tree
or we're not attempting to do the boundaries
and we're stuck in this thing where we're spinning.
And that'll make your head go down.
You'll be downcast.
Because it's too hard, it's too much,
it takes up too much space time and energy in your brain.
I'm just saying.
So prophetic shows you,
it's like you lay alongside of a ruler
and it measures you and you're like,
oh, that's where I'm at.
It's not a condemnatory thing.
It's not like, here, let's show you where you're wrong.
It's just like, yep, I'm in that stage right now.
You ever have that happen with the prophetic?
It said it and you're like, well, where is it?
But as it starts to walk out,
you realize there's stages to this
and it's unfolding.
If we can't really go on to the rest of the story,
if you're at a place where you're not willing to plant the tree.
I have to let all this go.
There's going to be new beginnings.
That's sacrificial. That's gut-wrenching.
In some situations, that's just like,
why didn't it just stab me?
It's that type of feeling.
But Abraham, he wasn't going to hold bitterness or any of that.
He understood. He has the blessing.
What does he have to worry about?
Just set some boundaries and he's going to plant a tree.
Which is another marking point
of the oath in the covenant.
It marked it.
So as people would walk by,
they're like, oh, yeah, that's Abraham's tree
and they knew what that meant.
It's a new beginning spot, so leave the well alone.
And here we go.
So, just this portion of the story
you can pray about and go over
and ask God to show how it measures you.
Show me when I lay my life at what stage am I in?
Did I close things out?
Sometimes we're out looking for the ram
and we haven't gone through the rest of the story.
We have to figure out closing things out
and having forgiveness just flow.
So now we're going to go on to the part
that he said, go find the ram.
It says in chapter 22.
Now, after these things, God tested
the faith and commitment of Abraham
and said to him, Abraham,
he answered, here I am.
Well, we'll think that's just a little bit of something,
but when you start looking at something
from a prophetic side to it,
that has meat in it.
That's just not just a part of the story
and we're waiting to get to the good stuff.
Now, after these things took place,
after he planted the tree and was willing to move on,
after he drew some boundaries,
after he made an oath,
now, after these things,
God tested the faith and commitment of Abraham.
Who did he test the faith of?
The father of many nations.
Pastor's been talking about identity
and Abraham's name was the father of many nations.
Your name means something too to God.
Now, sometimes they'll put some,
like, one version says Mary means bitter root.
Sometimes God uses me
and that puts something bitter in someone's mouth.
They had to taste it for a while.
Some other places give it, you know,
just a very loving kind of thing,
so I don't always trust looking up
at the meaning of the name,
but what your name means to God
when he calls your name
says who you are in your identity.
So when he says Mary Peltz,
it's like the whole atmosphere,
all the demonic realm knows, oh, that's that chick, right?
Oh, that's her, right?
So there's something to that
and there's meat in that.
The faith and commitment was being tested.
That's what he's been doing.
Some of us have planted the tree
and now he's testing
our faith and our commitment.
So it would be just like the demonic realm
to make you so downcast
and you allow them to do that
that you're not committed to anything anymore.
I'm just going to tap out.
You know what that means, tap out, right?
Wrestling families know what that means.
I used to wrestle my brothers
and I many times tapped out.
So they were bigger than I was.
So any case,
so the faith and commitment was tested
and he says to Abraham,
so he calls him by his identity
by the promise he spoke over.
Abraham.
And who answered?
He said, here I am.
Now the phrase, we say I am all the time,
like, you know, I am thirsty,
I am whatever.
But we're actually misusing that
by labeling different things.
Because if I say I am thirsty,
the true meaning to the word I am
is I am the complete of thirsty.
Like, there is no more thirst.
You can't add to how thirsty I am, right?
You know, because when he said I am sent,
he said to Moses, I am that I am.
What that means there
is I am the complete.
You cannot add to me, you cannot subtract away.
I am complete.
And then he makes us complete in him.
So he answers in this way.
He says, here I am
the complete of Abraham.
I'm over here.
He didn't say, well come on over here.
You know, right?
I'm on the mountain
or something like that.
He said, I am
here.
So all of him was present for God.
He's been teaching us to do that.
Plant the tree,
testing our faith and our commitment.
And then
when we answer him,
all of us needs to answer him.
I don't think we've arrived
on that for sure.
I don't think
we have our trees planted in a lot of areas.
He's trying to show us this
because he's getting us ready
for sacrificing our life
and the attitude of sacrificial giving.
Sacrificing
things that we want to hold on to.
All kinds of things with sacrifice.
That is going to be probably the theme
of open heavens.
Okay?
So whenever he gives us like a theme of something
we know we're headed towards, he's so gracious
he doesn't go and bam sacrifice.
You know, like we're in open heavens
and that's where we get our information.
It'll be weeks and months before
he'll be teaching you personally
in your quiet time with him.
And all of a sudden dots will start to connect
in sermons.
Right?
And it's a gathering of information.
That's how the prophetic works.
It's not dry word.
It's word alive.
Amen?
So when we answer God
right now it's so important
with what's going on in the world
what's going on in your business
what's going on in what he's called you to do
that you say, here
I am
the all of me has
showed up.
I'm not leaving something at home
or something at a party somewhere.
The all of me is here.
God said take now your son
your only son of promise
whom you love, Isaac
and go to the region of Mariah.
Well, if we're taking
that apart
now God said take now
your son that's so important
he's got more than one son
but this is the son the promise is tied to.
This is the air.
This is what makes
this thing work.
This is what makes him Abraham.
Ishmael did not make
him Abraham the father of many nations.
Nations came out of
Ishmael
and the Lord blessed him like that
but the promise came
through Isaac.
And so take now your son
your promise
your promise
to whom you love
the thing you're wrapped around
the thing that God has called you to do
the thing that you might be presently questioning
whether or not you want to tap out on
and go to the region
of Mariah.
I think I wrote down here what Mariah means.
This was early.
Mariah means chosen by God
or Yahweh
or God sees
in a place of teaching.
So I think that's
interesting because he's telling him
to take his promise
and go to the region
the area of
a place of teaching
the area of Yahweh
the area where
these other things will take place
you go to that area, okay?
Even in that he has to follow
the whole time he has to follow
there's something so amazing about Abraham
even though his wife tried
to talk him out of things
and different things like that
the guy had stamina where it was like
I gotta go
I'm pretty
I think that's pretty cool
and when you take him to the place
you're gonna learn something because it's a place of teaching
when you take him to the place
that was chosen by God
you're gonna be in the right place at the right time
and offer there
as a burnt offering
on one of the mountains of which
I shall tell you.
So once again it's still him directing it.
This is key
that we show up with all of who we are
I am Mary
I am here
the all of me is here today
my heart is all here today
and I'm going to go ahead
to the place of teaching
I'm going ahead to this place of promise
the place where I'm going to be
in the exact spot where he wants me to be
and that's where I'm gonna offer him
and it's gonna be in a higher place
than what I'm at right now
that's what mountains stand for
there's gonna be a higher place
Which he's going to have to climb up. So that's part we don't like when we're going
through a lot and he gives us a new command. It's like, why do I got to climb the
mountain? I mean he's going to want that and he says it'll be the place of
which I tell you. Any of these little things did you think, well that's not a
big part of the story. All you'd have to do is go, I like that mountain over there
better. It changed the whole thing. The effect would be changed because he
wouldn't be being obedient to God. Now I'm not talking about perfectionism but I am
talking about covenant. In his part of the covenant it's like whatever you say God
I'm going to do it. So even if in the area where I was getting disgruntled if I
would have said, well I'm going to tap out, I don't have a right to. Not according to
covenant. I made a covenant with him in 1981. You can have the all of me.
Whatever you ask me to stand on my head in the corner Lord God for you and whatever.
I will do it. You can have the all of me. That's why I've had a clown ministry, a
children's ministry. I can keep... I mean whatever he asked me in the moment I'm
like I guess we're doing this. He tells you when, he tells you on what mountain
and he tells you. We have to switch totally tight into that. I'm not
going up just some random mountain. I'm going to the one he tells me. So
Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his
young men with him and his son Isaac. And I don't know if there's a significance to
that. He took two some places say servants with him and he's but I haven't
researched that part yet. And he split the wood for the burnt offering and
then he got up and went to the place of which God had told him. So he's
getting this whole thing ready carrying it up there. On the third day which
represents the same as Jesus rose on the third day, right? On the third day of
travel, Abraham, father of many nations, looked up and saw the place in the
distance. Sometimes a fruition of what we're going after, we're like well he
told me to go over here and all of a sudden it starts appearing. And that
can be such a funky feeling. Because if it's appearing for something so
great like there's a music park up there we can't wait to get up there
then it's exciting. But it's like I just figured out I'm really close to
where the sacrifice will take place. A lot of us are in that spot. We can see it
in the distance and we're like oh how do I get out of this? I mean the wrestling
that went on inside of his soul had to be there. He stayed faithful but he's
still a human. So on the way it's like you can see it in the distance
and it's like oh man you know this is what's coming. Some of you are in
that spot. On the third day of travel Abraham looked up and saw the place in
the distance. Abraham said do his servants settle down here or just stay here
with the donkey. Which some would say like in dream language the donkey would
be the mode of ministry. Stay here with the ministry. My servants are there
or whatever. I got to go do this thing. But the confidence was there
because this is what he also said. He said I will go over there and worship God
and we will come back to you. I'm gonna do what he said on the right mountain in
the right place at the right time with my son who is now they figure 20 years
old like he didn't know it was coming. And so but we will come back to you.
Why would he have that confidence? Part of why he had it is God doesn't break
covenant. He doesn't give you the promise and then give you where the
promise is gonna come through and then just take that away. Just kidding. So
there was a confidence that Abraham had to have because he's like no
actually this is a God who does not lie. And he said it was gonna come
through Isaac and I'm the father of many nations so you got to remind
yourself for who God is and who what your call is and you constantly are
reminding yourself of that. And so he's saying this and he's moving forward
knowing we're all coming back to you. Me and him we're coming back to you.
So ministry you just sit over here. Servants you stay here. I have to go
do this. That's many times what a head pastor has to do. What you saw in the
covenant partner meeting this morning talking about the building and stuff
like that. He's in that spot. I'm there with him. The leadership all the way
down. It just breaks down like we're about to build this building. There's
something to knowing. He made a promise to us and that's all we have to go
on. We can't even have money support like well yeah it's easy to believe
for that three millions in there already. You know and we can't we can't prop it
up. He's leaving us in the spot right now for a reason. It divides the heart.
It changes the heart and we have to say as leaders we have to separate
ourselves from the motive ministry the donkey and the servants and we got to
go somewhere to pray. Hallelujah. He'll ask you to do the same thing in
your business and with your family and with your covenant between you and
your husband or you and your wife. He'll set something aside. I got to cope be
with God. I see this. It's in the distance but I got it. We're gonna go up
there. Don't worry about it though. I have a covenant with him. I have a
covenant with him. So then Abraham this is verse 6 took the wood for the
burnt offering and laid it on the shoulders of Isaac his son. They break
that down in the amplified because that's typical or not typical. It's a
type of Jesus on the cross, right? Carrying the cross. And so that's
being put on him as a type. And here he's 20 years old and he's like, all right
I'll carry the wood over there and I'm seeing some stuff right now. And then
Abraham took his position and he took the fire or the fire pot that had coals in
it in his own hand and the sacrificial knife and the two of them walked
together. And supposedly it's not just any knife. You don't like reach for the
butcher knife or the filet knife in the drawer or whatever. They had a
certain knife they used. So Isaac would have looked at that and be like
sacrificial like where's the lamb, right? And I don't know because the
story doesn't tell. We don't know if he talked to Isaac all the way up there and
explain this is what he's asking to do but we're coming back. We don't know. It's
like I'd like to see that part of the movie. And Isaac said to Abraham, my
father and then the Bible has an exclamation point. So it was like, hey
dad, you know what's with the sacrificial knife? It's like my
father and he said, here I am my son. The all of me is right here for you. I am the
father of many nations and here, right here, I am for you. See, words mean
stuff. It's not just a location. He's so present for him and Isaac said, look
the fire and the wood but where is the lamb for the burnt offering like
what's up with that? And Abraham, father of many nations said, my son, God will
provide for himself a lamb for himself. He's gonna provide, he's taking care of
this for himself, this agreement, this part of his covenant, for himself a
lamb for the burnt offering. So the two walked on together. After explaining
that, you know, he had to be confident. My dad just said this, we're gonna walk on
together. Here they go, right? He's carrying the wood, he's got the fire.
When they came to the place of which God had told him, does it have to be
that technical? Yeah. The bigger the covenant's built on, the bigger the
thing, the cause and effect, the more detailed God will get with you. What
kind of ice cream you're gonna go and eat? You know, you might miss it.
Oops, I missed it. Went Dairy Queen instead of Culver's. You know, you're not gonna die
from that. But when he calls you to something that's going to affect people
and affect nations, you best listen to his every detail. And so, can you see where
on your journey, on my journey, we can mess up at any point. Just, you know,
everything's going good. You just pick the wrong mountain, or you can pick
the wrong place, or you can say, I want to do this my way, or I don't
really feel like doing this. Can you give me a couple days? No. The building that's
coming forward, we had a prophet just say to me and we're gonna go meet with him.
He said, I don't know what you're doing over there, because I haven't paid
attention, because he's way down in the cities. And he said, but I saw a
building. It looked like it could sit anywhere from, like, I don't know. He
said, my gist when just viewing it in the vision was 700 to a thousand
people. Are you doing anything like that? Because that's what I saw. We need to be
detailed if we're helping five people. The fear of the Lord is on that part for
me. I don't know if you can feel it, but it's like, yeah, I better get some
things in order. We better make sure we're in the right spot at the right
time. Not out of perfectionism, but out of what he told us to do. We're obedient. So
then you're like, oh, I don't know. That kind of scares me. I don't know what
I'm obedient to. Go back and look at the vision. Go back and do what Pastor
did this morning. Listen to the sermon. See where we come through. Map this
thing out. Am I in the right spot with him right now? It's not our job to
be in the right spot only. It's the congregation that moves as a unity,
moves together. You cannot stop the corporate anointing when we're bonded
together. Can't stop it. We all have to determine that between us and him. So
Abraham said, my son, God will provide for himself as verse eight, a lamb for
the burnt offering. So the two walked on together. Makes it sound pretty
peaceful. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham
builds an altar. When you come to the place, that next thing that you need to
do, I don't care how many other altars you've built, stop and build an altar
of prayer. We learned that last year, right? We've known it before that, but
it got intense last year when it came to altars. Remember when Amanda Hill
said about communion? Communions taken in that place of an altar. We got to go
back and remind ourselves of what was said last year to make sure we're walking
in that before we know where the next thing is, right? And so my son, God
will provide. Then he says, when they came to the place of which God had
told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. That was a
long array. If that be me, I'll be like, just give me a second. I want this
to be just, I'll be taking my time. I don't really want to have to do
this, but yeah, you know, you're debating stuff. And who knows? He
probably just laid it there. He's a bigger man spiritually, maybe, than I
am as myself. Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood and bound
Isaac, his son. I haven't gotten, like where I'd say, I have a full
revelation on the binding. I have to research some things. Because if you
look at it in the story, he was just binding him, so you'd hold still and
you put him on the thing. And if you bound him with something that was
burnable, that would help, right? After the sacrifice, the burning. I can tell
just by talking about it, this is not a language of Americans. You know, it's
like, you know, anything talking about sacrifice or anything like that. But he
bound Isaac, his son, and placed him on the altar. So you're, for me, this
is how I would see it for me. The thing that maybe I was tempted to tap out
of, I just gather the whole thing, every little nook and cranny, and bind it
together. Because it's really like, I'm sacrificing this. Like, it's done. Like,
I'm not leaving any little thing or I'll sort of do this. Like, if we're
going to do this, it's going to be the whole meal deal. I'm putting it on
the altar and killing the whole thing. I don't know if that's what it
means, but that's how I take it for me. And so here he is. He placed him on
the altar on top of the wood. Abraham reached out his hand and took the
knife to kill his son. I don't know how long a pause that was, but it was
an intense moment. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven
and said, Abraham, Abraham exclamation point and said it twice. That counts for
something. Now I have the definition, like in the dream book, that what would
you say two means? You said it to me this morning. Okay, so he didn't, he
said that it means like to be settled from God's side, you know. And so
here we are. And he says his name twice. Father of many nations, father of
many nations. See, he's speaking his destiny. He's saying his name, which
means the all of who he is and the whole purpose he was created was for
that. And he says it twice so that it's settled. Why? Because he has this
covenant with him. He gave him Isaac. Isaac's a promise.
Hmm. Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son. He said
Abraham, Abraham he answered. What did he say again? Here I am. The all of me,
the complete of me in this moment stands before you. Here I am. You have
settled this Lord God. And the Lord said do not reach out with the knife in
your hand against the boy and do nothing to harm him. For now I know
that you fear God. Now I know that you fear God. Sometimes God will bring us
to a certain point. Maybe we don't have an altar with our son on it, but he'll
bring us to a certain point of that test to test our heart. And we'll say
the devil's coming against me right now. I mean he's hardcore. His cohorts
are after me. And I take authority over the demon of the west and the
south. And we're throwing up signs and doing all kinds of stuff. And
actually God's just testing you. How he's testing you is he's like I want you
to do this. And then what it does is it draws out the dross in your heart if
there's anything in there. And it draws out the best of who you are that
says I still remain. I will stand right here. You ask me to sacrifice them.
I'll do it. I'm not tapping out. The tap out would have to be on your side
God. And you're not a man that you can lie. So I know you're providing away.
You're going to provide away. I know it says here the Lord says do not reach out
against him. And it says for I know that you fear God and the amplified breaks
it down in verse 12 with reverence and profound respect. It isn't just
playing like a little respect. It's profound. It's like hanging out all
over the place. How much he respects God in that moment. Since you have not
withheld from me your son your promise. You're not withholding. You're not
keeping it to yourself. You're not thinking it centers around you. You're
not thinking you have to produce it. You're the one. You're the hero. You're
this you know Superman superwoman. This is my thing. God gave me my thing. I
don't want anybody else helping with that. All of those attitudes it's like
he wants us dead to that. Because it's his promise and it's actually his kid. He
just chose to make that happen through Abraham. What an honor and what a
sacrifice. Wherever you're honored like we get excited especially you know
sometimes we'll have prayer lines and you'll see different prophets here or
going other places you've experienced this and and as moms
especially we're like they're gonna prophesy over my son. It's so exciting.
Oh he's gonna be called to ministry. He's gonna be worldwide known and some
people speak that over people. I'm always like oh man you are asking for it.
Because that son that daughter that standing up here should know that
they're called to ministry because God called them. I don't need a prophet
to tell me. You can confirm something but then also when it becomes this extra not
I can feel the call of God on you you know that's that's like something you
just notice. Feel the call of God on you. Do you know that you're called in
this way? Oh yeah they know. Okay that's cool. But when we add the extra and
we're like and you're just gonna go to nations and you're gonna be all
over the place and you're and the devil's like just write all that
down because we're gonna nail this kid right now. Because we don't know how
this thing is gonna take place. And suddenly the person the young person
this is a side thought but the young person is standing there like I have to
produce this. Because prophet so-and-so said this over me rather than like thank
you for recognizing the call. I'm trying to figure out that too and I'm
gonna get with God. I don't know where it's gonna go. He might have me
working you know in plumbing somewhere and that's where he uses me
but I'm operating in my call. Plumbing's not your call. Loving God is your call.
You see it? And so it's interesting God's breaking all of these types of attitudes
and things off of us and whenever he asks us to do something big there's big
requirements. That's why years ago I had a lady tell me I'm not coming on a
missionary Sunday. I said why? I'll probably get a call to Africa. So if
I don't go then I'll be okay. I'm like well if you're seeking God he'll tell you
that in your secret place. You don't need the missionary to tell you that.
So I find that interesting. So anyway then Abraham looked up here's the next
key part. There was reverence and there was profound respect in verse 12.
Since you have not withheld from me your son, your promise, your only
promise. Without the call of God on your life what are you going to do? What are
you doing? Who are you? Well I'm a plumber. I'm an electrician. Now that's
something that's something you're doing to live here on the earth.
Who are you? This is who he is. He's the promise that's going to usher
in the stars of the sky kind of generations. It's going to come out
of him. Oh my lanta. Anyways me, your son, your only son of promise.
The eight and then Abraham looked up and glanced around and behold behind him
was a ram. First thing when when the father was speaking through pastor
this morning. He said why so downcast all your
soul? Come right so downcast his chin to the
chest. Here's Abraham. He's like this. His
chin is to his chest. Right? You're gonna...
You're coming down. You're looking down at the end. This is your son.
We don't know if he's trying to make him comfortable with one hand and stab him
with the other. I don't know. I wasn't there.
But at the same time he's down. We know he's down because he says
I can feel the anointing.
I know that you fear God. We were in verse 13.
The Abraham looked up. That's how we know
his head was down. He had to look up and glanced around.
That's that seek part. Like where is it? I don't see nothing.
I don't see nothing. And behold behind him the amplify says behind him
was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. Some of you have reached the
point where you're you're like I'm gonna tap out.
You're gonna have this whole thing. I'll sacrifice. That's what you want God.
Is that what you're trying to tell me? You want this or what? I'll just tap
out. I'll do this thing. Right? And then he calls your name.
What he's doing is calling your destiny. Mary and suddenly here.
Ah, Mary is kind of attached to evangelism and all kinds of other things
when he calls that. Then I got to look up.
I got a glance around. I got to check out what else are you providing?
And it's not in front of you. It wasn't in front of him.
So he had no point to be like oh there it is right there. I'll just go through
this till he tells me to stop. It's in the thicket behind him.
He had to glance to find it. So what the Lord told me when I was between
asleep and awake. Go find the ram. He's saying the same thing to you today.
Because he said pick up your head. Some of you are at the point of sacrifice and he's
called your name which is your destiny. You know what you're supposed to be doing.
Don't give up on it. Don't forget what he's told you.
Pick your head up and start looking for the ram.
Look for it. Glance around. I don't see nothing. I don't see. And here there it is.
There it is. He provided. He kept his promise. He is the god of covenant.
That is what is going to happen financially when it comes to the new church.
It isn't about you know like come on we all got to get together and give so much each.
And you know making all the math plans and doing all that kind of stuff.
He's going to provide.
He's going to provide. Amen. So he looked up and he glanced around.
You might be in that spot where you need to look up and glance around.
And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering ascending.
It's an ascending sacrifice instead of his son.
Find what God has for you and sacrifice that.
Instead of taking your ministry your family or whatever and tapping out.
Don't do that.
Well you know do you know that lots of people leave churches when there's a building project.
And you know it's so fickle about that. Statistic show.
They also come back two years later once it's built.
They're like oh well we were just called out for a bit.
You know.
Just roaming around. God had me doing some missionary stuff or whatever.
And then when it's all nice and you get to use all the amenities and things like that you're like
I'm committed here.
Just letting that one soak. That was for free. Had nothing to do with this.
So he does this and then 14 says in Abraham name that place the Lord will provide.
This church is going to look up and we're going to keep glancing around until we find the ram.
And then it's going to be guess what? We're going to name this place the Lord has provided.
Not too rich guys in the congregation. Not some guy out and wherever.
The Lord has provided. We will call it that place.
And make it harder for Natty because she's having a hard time with finding letters for
different areas. So that'll be a phrase you'll have in other letters. You might as well look
now. So the Lord has provided. So you go all the way back through and look at the steps. There's
so much more in here but I'm not going to go through it because you know eat too much meat at once you
you can throw up. And then you won't you'll you'll miss it.
You're going to have to listen to this. You're going to have to go through the story.
You're going to have to look up the types yourself. You're going to have to do that
in order to see. It's like a mapping. Like am I in the right place? Did I already plant the tree of
new beginnings? Did word of life plant a tree of new beginnings yet? Or are we still working on the
project of forgiving, having good boundaries? I mean I'm sure that'll be there all the time.
But I'm talking about in the now. Have we just brought things to closure? And how you
know it's closure as you plant the tree? This is over. If that's behind us, new beginnings.
Let's do the new beginnings. God has something special for us. We're going to go new beginnings.
I'm not going to have aught against my brother or my sister or hate myself.
Which many times is the person that you have aught against the most is you.
You're the most mad at you. You might need to plant a tree regarding yourself.
Prophetic does that. It causes quietness.
So Abraham named the place the Lord will provide and it said on this day,
on the mountain of the Lord it will be seen and provided. We have to be in the place,
that high place that he told us to go. We have to come up to the highest thought,
to the place he said to go where he said the sacrifice would be, where he said to build an altar
and he will provide. You don't take off in the middle of it. The angel of the Lord called
to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, by myself on the basis of who I am
and the completeness is who he is. I have sworn an oath declares the Lord that since you
have done this, since you have done this thing, since you followed through, since you stuck with it,
since you didn't tap out, since you didn't make excuses, since you looked, you glanced around,
you tried to find where the ram is, since you're that guy, since you're that woman.
Since you've done this thing and have not withheld from me your son,
your only son of promise, indeed I will greatly bless you. Indeed I will greatly
bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants. I just happen to be one of those,
you know, Father Abraham. I don't even know how the song goes anymore. Indeed I will greatly
bless you and I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens.
So what he's saying to him is not, I can't take who he is as Abraham and say, well that's
what he's going to do for me. I'm going to have a lot of descendants. No, his call was that,
but he's going to greatly bless me and greatly multiply what I'm doing. Mary,
he's called my name twice, said don't sacrifice it. Look around for the ram. I got this. Look around
for the ram. I will greatly multiply your descendants like the stars of the heaven,
like the sands of the seashore and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
I like that part. I'm a warrior, so that just speaks to me.
Through your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. That just happens to be us too,
because you have heard and obeyed my voice. That's why you'll hear Pastor Igor talk about it,
Pastor Brown, all the leadership, Pastor Verne has talked about it, and it'll seem like maybe
from your side it's like, why are they always harping on obedience and harping on,
got to give your life down, you got to do, because of that.
Because of this, because none of this stuff we've been called to we can do without him.
You had something, lover? Yeah, yeah, Alicia.
I just want to point one thing out, and this is a principle that applies in every area of life.
The place God tells you to go is the place he will provide for.
Had he chosen a different mountain, the ram would not have been stuck in the thicket on a
different mountain. He said, this is the mountain, why? Because that's where the provision was
being held. Number one, so we have to go where he tells us to go. In other words, do what he
tells us to do if we want him to provide. And number two, the place you go to to beginning
is not the place of victory. You're going to a place of sacrifice first, where you lay it
all down, before it resurrects into victory. They came down the mountain on victory. They went
up the mountain to make the biggest sacrifice Abraham had ever made in his life. Everything,
his whole life was about to be killed. Oh, they came down excited and rejoicing.
I'm sure Abraham didn't go up that way. He went up in faith. It's going to turn out good.
I want to apply that, you know, you can apply it to anything, but I want to apply it to our
nine o'clock meeting this morning for those of you that were there. What he tells us to do
for the building. If we go to that place, he will provide for it. If we go to a different place
and say, well, I don't know if we can... I don't know. Let's do this instead. And then we struggle
because there's no provision. And then in our human mind, we say, oh, thank God, we didn't go
where he originally told us to go, because that would have never worked. No, actually,
that's what would have worked. The reason this isn't working is we didn't go to the place where he said,
I'll provide for this. You can figure that one out on your own. This is huge application here.
Huge application in your own life. When he tells you to do something, don't cut it short,
don't make a different plan, don't go a different direction. Do what he said he told you to
do. And it will look impossible because he never tells us to do something that we can figure out.
Because then there's no faith in it. Well, I can see how I can do that. Well,
then it's all you and he gets no glory at all. It's always, yeah, good luck with that.
But I'm going there because he told me to, that's where the provision is waiting.
No matter what the situation is, that's where the provision is waiting.
You decide to go someplace else because it makes more sense to you.
The provision of God's not there. I just wanted to make sure we didn't miss that.
And when we go to where the provision is waiting, we don't see the provision going there. All we see
is, my God, this is going to cost me. We see the sacrifice. This is going to cost me.
How in the world? This is going to cost me. In Abraham's case, this is why I'm alive. This is
going to cost me the very reason I'm alive. So once I'm done killing my son, if this doesn't
work out right, I might as well kill myself too, because I have no purpose or destiny left.
Because he would no longer be father of many nations. I just wanted to make sure. You
said it. I just wanted to make sure. Let's stand. Sometimes we'll hear prophetic teaching.
I mean, this is a word of God, but prophetic to us right now. This is prophetic to us right now.
We could get the band up here and we could wind it all up and make you make decisions.
We're not those people. This is for you to go home and study. This is for you to look at
and let God wrench your heart regarding it. Some of you are in the last section of your life.
The last place of your life that you got to finish out and finish strong and you're ready to tap out.
Don't do it. Maybe we're not able to do certain things physically that we used to be able to do,
but you can so be a part of the same thing and finish out well. Amen.
Then we go back to the beginning before the story of the sacrifice.
I just, God has this on my heart. It's like, I know there's people here this morning that,
and those watching online, that you need to have a boundary about your wells.
You're just letting people run over you. Well, it's so wicked in this world and you know,
we talk like that. It's like, go address the thing. Hey, by the way, since I'm committed to
being kind to you and your generations or your business or whatever,
there are people violently digging up the well I dug. So let's talk about that.
Oh, I don't like confrontation. Then you'll sit in the thing till it makes you so bitter.
And then we'll say the devil's attacking us when really God's just like, just do the
thing so you can plant the tree. Just come on. The trees have already been ordered.
I want, I want to get them there. I'll have an angel help you plant it if need be.
Get some friends around you. They'll help you plant the tree. It's a new beginning.
And he's asking us to deal with heart issues before we get over there the same way
he asked us or he asked them in this scripture before he asked for the sacrifice so that he
could bless him. Do you see it? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I just want to see hands of anybody
who you're like, I'm about to tap out. I mean, you didn't tap maybe you did tap out, but
it's that like, I'm really tempted to tap out on something is getting really painful.
I just want to see if there's anyone here. Yeah, quit.
Yeah, it's just like, I'm, you get up and you try to reset yourself, but you're not quite reset on a
daily basis. I remember the feeling of, I was wrestling my brother because I was the only girl
for a bit for 10 years. My sister's 10 years younger than me and had put a move on me and
I put a move on him. So I was all proud of myself, but then all of a sudden he did
something that was putting a pressure on my neck and it was burning like crazy.
And that's that debating like, there's a pressure and it burns. I don't want to, I'm not going to let
him do, I'm not tapping out. And suddenly it becomes very convincing.
You're holding on as long as you can hold on, but it's right there and you're like,
hit the floor, right? You tap out and you quit.
It's not the same thing, but I'm just describing there's pain before you tap out.
Let me see those hands again of people. You're like, you know, I'm gonna tap out any minute
and raise them high so that we can have people come around and pray if you're okay with us
praying with you. It takes super on the natural. So let's look around. You see people back there.
There's one here. There's one here. There's one there. It could be that you're not tapping
out totally. You're not, you know, raising your hand. I'm suicidal or something like that.
If you are, we'll pray for you, but it's more of like there's an area in my life. I'm about to tap
out. So right here, right back there. Let's turn. And as you feel led, go pray for the people.
And I'll pray for them up here. Can we do that right now? Let's do that. Did you see the hands?
Get your hands in the air again just because I don't think everybody turned because they're
trying to be obedient and face the speaker. Oh father, we thank you that you jackknifed the
service this morning. We thank you for the prophetic. We thank you Lord God that you saw
our need right where we're at right now. There's no shame in it. There's pain in it.
And so we're asking right now Lord God that you would give us the ability to know what move
to make next, how to change our position, how to push through the pain when you ask us to,
or to get out of the wrestling match in a way where we're doing, we're approaching the whole
thing differently, but we're still in it to win it. Father, I'm asking for supernatural anointing
to come in this moment to help them reset. And I'm asking also Lord for all of us that
we would be able to see the areas we're still struggling bringing closure. We're still mad
about our wells. We're still threatening people around us and they're afraid that we're
going to attack them and their family. We're still in the wrong on certain things.
I'm asking God cleanse us from that. Cleanse us. Those are burdensome things that will
actually help us to tap out quicker. Cleanse us from all forms of unrighteousness.
From all forms of unrighteousness. Cleanse us. Cleanse us, oh God. Cleanse us.
In the mornings that I'll be here, I'm going to be speaking on
repentance during prayer and at different times. We're going to look into what does that really
mean and how do you actually know you're in the process of it? There's something so cleansing
that's going to come to this body and there's going to be a lot of trees planted.
New beginnings. New beginnings. New beginnings. Thank you, Lord God. Cleanse us. Cleanse us.
It's the washing of the water of the word. Let the prophetic word wash us today.
Measure us. Show us where we're at.
I don't know if it's for one of you that's tempted to tap out, but it's for all of us. There's something
about pride that shame will say, tap out. Just do it. Just do it. And then our pride will come out
and be like, I can't let anybody know this that I'm really wanting to tap out. I can't seek help.
I can't get to other places. I just got to hold this. I just got to bear up under it. That's not God.
Just letting you know that's not God. Ask somebody safe to pray with you. Ask somebody
who has different information. Sometimes we're trying to use the old information to
accomplish a new thing. And it didn't before, so why would we think it's going to do it now?
God, you're so good. You're so good.
Thank you for healing our hearts so that we can plant the tree
and know what mountain to be on. All of those different things we'll pray into. If anyone,
you know, the Lord reveals something to you prophetically regarding these scriptures that
we went over this morning, or what pastors said, or what Sally said. Just text me. It's
the best, you know, because I get between 40 or 50 texts a day and it's hard to... But if you text
me, that's the one I'm going to see for sure. And let me know what's going on because it's a corporate
thing we're going to go through. You go through it individually in your own houses, in your own
personal life, and then as a body, he's taking us through some things. Lover, did you have anything
else you wanted to add to it? Okay, that's it. All right. So, Pastor Igor, announcements? No?
You got it. He's got it. He has the con. All right.
I'm not getting released to just move on quite yet. Just wait here for a bit.
Pray with me in the spirit a bit here. For those of you that don't understand this,
if you have questions about it, please come up to me or Pastor Igor or one of the leaders afterwards
and we'll explain it to you. We won't take time right here, but those of you who understand,
it doesn't have to be loud, but pray with me in the spirit here a bit.
You know, the longer we pray in our spirit language, the more I'm sensing somebody
else says something God wants to use to speak into this service this morning.
And please make no mistake, this service is way bigger than,
you know, the building decisions we talked about at 9 o'clock. This is way bigger than that.
This covers all of life. I just feel like somebody else has got something to speak
into this. Before you just blurt out and start speaking, please come to me.
Let me in on it before you go from there. You know, sometimes, you notice a couple of people
went back and sat down. And sometimes it is hard to distinguish. Is this for the church or is
this God speaking to me? And that's why I want to be able to filter that, because he'll let
me know as the pastor, is this for them or is this for all of us? And I think they all
definitely heard from God, but it wasn't necessarily for all of us. But there's a couple
three things here that are for all of us. Several years ago at a conference, I heard
something really valuable. And that was regarding this story. And it was that we
need to develop as we've been talking about here, a resting place for God every day in
our hearts, so we can hear Him. And the Holy Spirit is alive and we can hear Him.
Often we will set vision and we'll go on a retreat, set vision, and then we'll follow
that vision without hearing the rest of the thing. And the thing that I heard at
this conference was, Abraham heard three days before that he's going to go up and
sacrifice his son. And he also heard, because he was in constant communication
with God and the Holy Spirit, don't sacrifice your son. Had he been listening
from the Word of the Lord three days prior, Isaac would have died. But because he
was listening on a daily basis of Holy Spirit, what do we need to do? We need to
look up, we need to see, we need to be getting these pieces. And I just think
that that's so valuable for all of us to really, really develop that dwelling
place. And I work, I'm trying that in my heart to do that daily because there's
so many critical things that we're faced with so that we don't want to kill what
God wants, the promise. So in other words, Am I on? So in other words, what
she's, what the Lord is sharing there is, if you haven't heard the whole
thing yet, don't act. Because Abraham heard something, he knew he had to
sacrifice his son. He could have just said, this is too painful, I'm just
going to get it over with. While the kid's sleeping in his bed, I'll just
go and kill him. And Isaac would have been dead because that's not the way
God said to do it. So when God is leading us, if just because he says
something doesn't mean jump out and do it now, make sure you're hearing the
process and following the process of what, what he wants to happen.
Share what you shared with me. So before Sally shared her vision of the boat
as Pastor Burn was giving the prophetic word, I was seeing, I was seeing the
ship in waters and the stormy waters and the people inside were bound. And I
couldn't tell at first if it was negative or positive, but I think it was a
positive in the sense of we were tied to the boat in unity and the ship was
like just zigzagging through the stormy waters. And I heard the Lord say
that he was the one navigating it. It looked, it looked chaotic, but he
was the one navigating it because underneath the waters there were
things that we couldn't see. So we had to trust him and not try to
give free ourselves.
Matt is shy this morning. He wants me to read it. Oh, you don't, you won't get
through it.
11 48 a.m. God spoke this to you.
Take off the fear. That's in huge caps. Take, or huge lettering. Take off
the fear.
Going along with, have you forgotten who I am? Take off the fear.
And then he said, Sally ship, people bound in fear.
Isaac on the altar, bound in fear. Give your fear over as a sacrifice so
that God's blessing can be seen and felt and moved to
everyone that gets a part of it. Our identity is the fuel that's
needed to get beyond our fear. Boy, that's true. That last statement,
once we know who we are in Christ, once we know
I am this, then our total dependency goes into
into God and says, no, this is who I am.
And like Abraham, like Mary said Abraham, I am the father of many nations
and I am totally right here dealing with this.
It's the fact that God had made a promise that looked like now he was going
reverse on that gave Abraham's faith actually.
Because Abraham knew what God had said, who he was,
what was going to happen through him. And now God's asking him to do something
looks like totally the opposite. Abraham knew God doesn't,
that that's not God. God doesn't reverse, of course.
Very good. We have to know that. So I say,
Valerie's got something too, but I don't think it fits for this morning.
Um, same way Nancy has something, I don't think it's this morning. I think
hers is next Sunday. So we'll just wait and try to follow
how God wants this laid out.
It's one pastor, Mary and pastor, and we're talking. I mean, I can hardly stand up here.
All right. I had a vision and I saw a vision like
in a hotel or in a hospital in larger buildings, if you don't take the
elevator there's flights of stairs. And a lot of times
flights of stairs will go up and there'll be a platform.
Then you turn a little bit and it goes up this way and you go up to the next
platform. Then you go up to the next platform.
And I saw this when they were talking. It's like, whoa,
but then you went up and you guys went up all these platforms so far.
Oh, you made it to this platform. Then you went up another platform,
another flight of stairs to another platform.
And as you're going up, you're going up towards the Lord calling.
And right now, I think this is personally and corporately that
we're on a platform right now. We've gotten so far,
very far. And it wasn't easy. Each flight of stairs is hard and
there's sacrifices. And God is saying,
come closer to me. Come up to the next platform.
Sacrifice. You know what to do. I'll tell you what to do.
Come closer to me. Come closer to me. Come to the next platform.
In Jesus' name.
I totally agree with that.
Another flight of stairs, another level.
So Lord, I know you're working in us individually this morning.
You're talking to people as individuals.
You're probably talking to couples about decisions they have to make in their family.
I know you're talking to us as a church body
about decisions we have to make here in the next week or two.
I pray one thing here.
Every one of us
help us not in the
middle of all the things that get thrown at us
and decisions and choices and situations.
I pray by your spirit
keep one thing
thriving in us. And that is
don't forget who you are.
Don't let us forget who you really
are.
In the middle of it all, you are the answer to everyone.
And if we forget who you are, we'll start
rather than looking at Jesus, we'll start looking at the water and we'll start
sinking like Peter did. We can't forget who
you are and look around at
circumstances or situations. Whether it's an
answer for us personally, maybe it's a health problem.
Maybe it's something in our own personal life.
We cannot begin looking so at the circumstances,
the situation that we
forget who you are in this situation.
You are the almighty.
You are the all in all.
You are the I am.
Lord, help us not to forget
who you are.
And make all these things we're facing individually, facing in our families,
facing in our job situation, our business,
facing in this church. Make all of them come
and kneel before who you are first.
Not make you kneel before them.
You're greater than anything.
And we must, we must
make them kneel. Every knee will bow
and every tongue will confess who is in charge.
And it's not cancer.
It's not financial troubles. It's not marriage problems.
It's not depression. It's not discouragement.
It's not hormones that are off balance. It's not chemical imbalances.
Anything that can be named kneels
before our almighty father.
Anything that can be named.
It must kneel.
And we choose to take that posture
and everything in our lives.
Do not let us forget who you are in the middle of everything
we're facing in Jesus' name.
Oh my...
So here's a measurement.
Here's a measurement. He just gave you
make a note of this somehow.
He said, here's how you can tell who's kneeling to who.
The one you're talking about the most is the bigger of the two.
So no matter what we're facing
or the issue, maybe it's marriage trouble. Are you talking about
how big God is and who he is and how he is
able to change people's hearts, yours, your spouses
how he is able to come in and mend, how he is able to inspire forgiveness
how he can cause a future to be there
when it looks like the whole thing is wrecked. Are you talking more about God
in the situation or are you talking more
about how bad the situation is and you just throw
a sentence in about God after you've whined about the situation for
a half an hour. Wow, that's
a concept right there.
The one we talk about the most is the one that becomes the biggest.
Some people say it this way
the animal you feed is the one that grows.
So to know whether
you've forgotten who he is
you can tell by
are you talking more about the problem or are you talking more about God
as the solution to the problem. Which one are you talking about the most
because the one you're talking about the most is the one
you're making the biggest and you're forgetting about the other one. You're diminishing that one.
So don't forget about God
who he is. That means
he should be being talked about the most concerning the situation.
That's fresh off, that's fresh from the throne right there.
You want to take credit for that? Good.
Don't take credit for that. But you already said that in one of your
messages. What you're trying to say. So there's a theme going here
because he just said it to me.
He said if you don't want to forget who I am talk about me the most
not about the problem.
Wow.
That's good enough if you learn nothing else this morning. That one nugget right there
that'll change our lives.