Well, good morning. Go ahead and turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 21.
We're going to go over just a little section of what I had preached or prophesied, starting at verse 22.
I don't know if you can feel it. I know prayer people feel it quicker than anybody else
because you're in your presence more often than we just have to say that, right?
When you're a person who communicates with God, you get to know his heart.
But he also knows the intent of your heart.
I think it's interesting that it's not just that he knows us.
He knows even the intent of our heart.
Like whatever we do, what was our intention when we did it?
He knows that part.
Sometimes we don't know. We'll say we did a certain thing or acted a certain way,
but we didn't pay attention to what was the true intent of our heart.
Were we trying to protect ourselves? Were we trying to get our own way?
What was the intent of our heart?
Or the intent can actually come out good where it's like I just intended to bring safety to the situation.
I intended to bring a person up out of something. That was my intention.
I'm so sorry that you got upset, but my intention was to.
She didn't, but I'm just saying.
The intent of your heart was what was coming out of that deep part when we say something or do something.
So the Lord mentioned to me about intention again.
He's done this over the years. He'll bring it back to what are you doing now?
I feel like you've told me to do this. Yeah.
And then what's your intentions?
And then it's interesting when you have to answer that question.
You think you got all this good stuff to say.
Well, I just want to serve you and it gets a little more jumpy.
Because the fear of the Lord comes because you have to name not,
not what your idea of what he said was, was what your heart is saying.
That's a different evaluation of who you are.
And so the beginning part of this story with Abraham and Isaac,
that we, that the Lord pointed out to go after this church has been doing.
But let's just read it on verse 22 of Genesis chapter one.
Now at that time of Bemalek and Phil Cole, the commander of his army said to Abraham,
God is with you in everything you do.
So the first part is people can clearly see that the blessing is here.
They can see that.
They can see it on your life if you're operating in Christ at all,
which is the anointed one and his anointed.
If you're operating in the blessing at all, it just hangs itself out there.
You can try to tuck it in, but it's like...
It just hangs itself out there. There's the blessing.
And the word blessed means empowered to prosper, to have success down the road.
Even when things get hard, somehow you have success down the road.
It just hangs itself out there.
And so they were recognizing this.
Bemalek, remember we said, is a name for kings.
I thought it was the dude's name, but I guess if you were a king,
a lot of times they would say the Abemalek.
Phil Cole was the commander of the army, and they're both recognizing this.
So here's the king and here's those who could war against you.
And they're recognizing, hey, the blessing's on this guy.
Right? Everything you do.
What is up, you know?
And so now swear to me here by God that you will not deal unfairly with me
by breaking any agreements we have.
So they already had some agreements according to the amplified.
Or with my son, he's going to protect the next generation too.
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 you have sojourned or temporarily lived.
So he recognized the blessing, but the blessing has power.
The blessing inside of it has rulership.
The blessing has a business mind.
The blessing sees how to add more to what's already been added.
You know what I'm saying? It's like he could see that.
And that's very threatening to somebody who's in charge of an army.
And that's very threatening to the king.
Let's just make sure we're all living at peace here.
Because if you have the blessing, it doesn't matter how many people I have in my army.
Right? Is what he's saying. He's talking to Abraham.
But these people have a whole bunch of people in their army. It doesn't matter.
I see that no matter what you do, you have the blessing.
So that's the part as Christians we can rejoice about.
Some Christians don't even know we have the blessing.
And they act like we're still in the curse.
And they love the part of the song that says,
For such a worm am I.
You know the old song, For such a worm am I.
And my cabin in glory.
And we're just crawling along.
That's a false humbleness.
When you rejoice in the blessing, it doesn't mean that I'm great.
It means that he's so great and I recognize it.
Which causes me to humble myself.
Right?
These are all attitudes.
The reason I'm bringing this up is we're going to walk through this thing
and the Sundays that I'm here and we can follow it out.
And the Lord leads to make sure that the prophetic
that he showed us gets walked through
and we're closing all doors and opening the ones that we need to open.
It's a measurement, remember.
So if you see that people know that you're a Christian
and they're a little bothered about how the blessing is hanging itself out on you
and or they're bothered in rulership,
you know, like, well, what if you take over the company?
I don't know if I want you here now
because you seem like you're... I mean, that kind of stuff happens
just because they can sense the blessing on you.
So it is important that we recognize the spirit realm works that way
and it's important that we're in a spot of always wanting peace.
Peace is shalom, nothing lacking, nothing wanting, nothing's broken.
So I don't have to get in a wad over something.
Right?
I can just be that level-headed person.
When we're not level-headed and nobody here has ever had that problem,
you know, it's like when we have those moments where all of a sudden you're like,
here was level and you just went poof and you're like, oh, what happened?
And all of a sudden you come back down and you're like, sorry about that,
you know, or you just slink away because you don't know how to say sorry about that.
There's something to that where God wants to know the intention is of our heart
and he wants to heal us in this hour especially so that we can walk in peace.
And peace means nothing's lacking, so I don't have to get upset about anything.
Nothing's lacking.
I can make peace with the ungodly and I can make peace with the godly.
And it's something he's asking us to make sure that we're in motion of
or that we're closing different deals we've already been working on for the last year.
You know, when we're dealing with offense and things like that.
And it comes before the other testing.
The other testing is where you take the promise he's given you.
You take your name, the promise of fulfillment, and you head up the mountain
ready to give it all up to him.
Before he tests that part of your heart, he was already in a test here.
This is the pre-test.
You know, for those of you who have gray hair under your color like I do,
you remember the beep.
This is a test of the emergency broadcasting system.
This is only a test.
Well, there's a test before the test.
And this was the test before the test.
I'm sure there were many other tests he had to pass.
But here he could have said, don't tell me what to do.
I'll do whatever I want to do.
Yeah, I have the blessing.
You know, he could have had that attitude.
But that was not the intent of his heart.
His heart was being tested in that so that this just happens to come up
before he goes into the other test, the big test,
the test of his whole destiny.
Right?
So we'll look at things sometimes about, you know,
maybe we smacked off to somebody and just, you know,
talk smack to him or whatever.
And we're like, ah, sorry, and it's no big deal.
And the intent of our heart was totally wrong.
But now we're going to go to the big test.
Out of God's mercy, he will set up the timing to deal with
something in your family, in your friendships,
at your Bible study, at your workplace,
that you close that out the right way.
Because a bigger test is coming.
We're looking for the ram in the end of everything.
But before we can lift our head up and go look for that ram,
there is a process of the heart.
And so here he is.
First test is like, are you going to deal?
He even said, you will not deal unfairly with me.
Swear this.
Make an oath with me that you're not going to deal unfairly with me.
Because he didn't know the intent of his heart.
And, you know, so then verse 24, Abraham said,
and it doesn't say there was a lot of conversation in between.
Maybe there was.
I don't know.
We didn't see the movie, but here's the thing.
He just said, I will swear.
Simple answer.
Yeah, I'll do that.
So when the intent of your heart's wrong,
there's a lot of hymn-ha talking between.
Well, I don't know what do you mean by that?
What are you trying to say?
What if your son later on, you know,
it's that argument of intent of the heart,
where he's walking in the blessing.
He fully knows who God is.
And he knows that God is with him and everything he does.
So the prophecy that Esther Burden had,
God was talking to us and kind of like,
did you get deja vu, or not deja vu, did you get,
what do you call it, amnesia?
Did you forget who I am kind of thing?
Because in this first test, we have to be so at peace.
We just know who God is.
So that's what brings the peace.
It's knowing who he is and how he is
and what his character is and how he handles you.
It fixes the intent of your heart.
When the intent is wrong, it's because you fully believe
you have to protect yourself.
God's not going to protect me.
My family never protected me.
I have an orphan spirit, an orphan way of thinking.
I'm already in defense before you say anything.
People come to a church that way, by the way,
if they have that kind of heart,
they'll come through their door and it's a place
that's probably not going to work for me.
No one said hi to me.
The pastor didn't even shake my hand.
You know, there's all this stuff.
Well, the intent of your heart is wrong
and it's wrong because you were wounded
and it's wrong in a way that you actually believe
God's not going to take care of you.
He's never going to give you a friend.
When he gave you a way to get a friend,
he said show yourself friendly.
I see where I should have to do that.
You know, if people really love me,
they'll come to me first.
Well, that's not how it rolls.
He didn't set it up that way.
Show yourself friendly and you'll have friends.
So the intent of the heart,
when the wounds are there,
we can give answer wrong.
Even when we're walking in the blessing,
we still have to remember,
who is this God that we serve?
What is his character?
And so looking back at the prophetic,
when Pastor, when that came through him,
it was like, it was almost like that.
I always describe it for me.
It's kind of like that.
Look at me.
And you're like, okay.
You know, it's that moment where you forgot
who he was to you.
His intentions are always good.
He doesn't have a poor intention of the heart.
He's never not at peace.
So we're the ones not at peace.
We're the ones who are trying to wrangle it.
You know, fake it till you make it.
I don't really believe in those statements.
I mean, try not to be harsh in a moment
till you deal with your heart or whatever.
But faking it till you make it,
you just keep faking it.
And nothing ever becomes real.
Real people have real success.
You've heard me say that before.
Should get the t-shirt.
So now swear to me here by God
that you will not deal unfairly with me.
So he's actually trying to pull the intent
of Abraham's heart out.
And don't break any agreements that we have
because I see the blessings on you.
And I've treated you with kindness.
He's making a deal almost like,
hey, look, I've treated you with kindness.
Don't do this to me or to my, you know,
my lineage.
And it was so short.
The conversation just said, yeah, I'll swear.
I will swear to that.
Sure. I'll make an oath with you.
Because he wasn't all in a wad.
Yet these are the guys with the army.
This is the king.
He still had to have been at peace enough
in the blessing knowing the promise
that he was like, sure, I'll swear.
So that's the point God is trying to bring us to.
You can't be on a school board.
You can't be at a BPOU meeting.
You can't be, you know, a school teacher.
Whatever your position is,
if the intent of your heart is I intended to do good,
but the true intent of my heart is to protect myself.
It's going to come out when the pressure comes on.
We're going to go sideways.
Have you noticed there's been more pressure?
You notice that?
No, you didn't notice?
You know, a little bit more pressure.
Just a couple of few things.
There's been pressure, intense pressure.
And that's when you crack is under pressure.
That's when the true intent of your heart comes up.
That's when you'll be questioning,
oh, my Lord, my job changed.
This happened or whatever.
Is God really going to be there for me?
I believe that, so I'm going to confess that
and I'll go over here,
but somebody says something or does something.
I'll rip their head off because I have to protect myself.
He wants that gone.
He wants that gone.
And he wants us in a way to just be,
sure, yeah, I'll swear that.
We could leave a piece together.
And Abraham said, I will swear, verse 24.
Then Abraham complained.
He brought up his complaint to a bemelec
about a well of water,
which the servants of a bemelec
had violently seized from him.
So that is a reason.
You know, like, oh, I didn't know that was yours.
I took that by accident.
It's a whole different thing.
Then let me violently see something that belongs to you.
So he's complaining about it.
He says, hey, this is, he's bringing up a complaint.
Now, if you say the word complaint,
it'll give a picture just like if I say the word bread.
You'll think of your favorite if it's sourdough or wheat.
I mean, it'll come to your mind.
So the word complaint can come to the mind.
And a complaint, you know, like file a complaint.
Hey, this didn't ever got fixed on my car.
Da, da, da, da, you hand that in.
It can be that simple.
But if you bring up a complaint with the wrong intention of the heart,
that sounds different.
You guys, I can't even trust when I come in here.
I want to speak to a manager.
Who do you think you are?
Well, you're complaining,
but you're not filing a complaint.
You're not saying, here's the grievance.
And so what he was doing there,
what that means there is I'm bringing up a grievance.
Like, I want to live at peace with you,
but we have to deal with this issue.
Doesn't that sound like some things
that are posed in your family right now
that you have to deal with?
I'm going to live at peace with you.
I swear in oath, yeah, I want the best for you.
But I do want to file a complaint.
Living at peace doesn't mean you never bring anything up.
That doesn't mean you let people walk on you.
It doesn't mean that you're the rug in the room.
It doesn't mean that you never deal with these things.
You deal with them in peace.
And that's the part many times we don't know how to do,
so we don't deal with it at all.
And we carry it around.
And we carry it, and we carry it,
we carry it, then the pressure comes on
about something maybe totally different.
And that thing that we're carrying will come out sideways
and you'll be like, I don't even know who I was
when I said that.
Like, that's just...
I can't even believe I did that.
Where did that come from?
Well, it depends on how long you've been carrying
all this complaining inside.
All this, hey, God's not going to take care of me feeling.
It depends on how long that's been in there,
how hard it will be for you to identify
where did that come from?
Hmm?
I'll give you this little example.
You saw these really cute socks.
I know the guy thought to identify,
these are really cute socks and you buy them
for your daughter, but she already has socks
and your husband says to you,
why are we spending money on more socks
when she already has them?
Well, these ones are really cute.
They have flowers and whatnot.
Okay?
If he goes from bringing up a complaint
to weigh up here,
it's not the socks that are the issue.
I'm afraid we don't have enough money is the issue.
I'm afraid you're just going to go off half-cocked
and start buying all kinds of things.
And I have to know where this is.
I only make this.
All of that is behind those socks.
And then it's like,
we're arguing about these really stupid things.
I think it's so dumb.
No, the problem is we haven't peeled the onion
to get to what is the root of why we're mad to begin with.
So I'm giving you that as you can go online
and watch Anger Resolution
because it'll give you ways to peel the onion
in your heart to get to the stinky part.
The real issue.
In church, we need to learn how.
God wants this church to learn how to get to the real issue
and stay together.
This is the craziest concept.
Right?
But in order to do that,
we have to check our own intent.
Sometimes people want to bring peace by saying,
well, if she would just get it together,
then I'd feel peaceful coming here,
but she's always like that.
What's the intent of your heart?
Do you want this relationship healed?
Do you intend to ever bring up the complaint
and work through it?
No.
I just hate when she does that.
This is not a class on just how to get along better.
This is part of the prophetic that we have to realize
we have to get this.
To live at peace with the rulers in the land,
ungodly or godly.
We have to learn to live at peace.
And peace doesn't mean,
the way I even said it could trigger in your mind,
oh, that means we'll always get along.
No, that means I'll always be at peace.
If they go off half-cocked, I'm at peace.
I'm living at peace with them.
And the peace that I'm carrying
will affect their situation
if their intent is wrong.
I think I've shared this before.
I was teaching a class and somebody came in,
just you could tell by their body language,
body language is everything.
They're just like, just the way they walked in
and it's a plop down instead of a sit down and everything.
And I'm speaking and I'm thinking,
that's trouble waiting to happen.
And it did.
The question, you know, you don't raise the hand.
It's like, I must be heard now.
And then the question comes out.
And the question was not necessarily a bad question,
but it was said with the wrong intent.
In the wrong moment on purpose.
So just so you know, if someone asks something
with the wrong intent here, disruptive or whatever,
our leadership is not afraid of that
because we're at peace.
So you ask it in public, we will deal with it in public.
So I said, I would love to answer that question,
but I can't.
Because your intentions are wrong.
Well, what do you mean?
Yeah, I should be able to ask a question.
And I said, like what you're displaying right now,
shows me you have the wrong intentions here.
You are not here to learn.
You're trying to make a point and take over.
So if you want to see me and we can do the question later,
come see me.
But we're not dealing with that right now.
Whoosh.
What was that?
That was the peace of God coming out of me.
Right, because I wasn't like,
she's in a watch, she's coming in.
What if she says something?
No, I'm at peace.
So you can do something big and bold,
but then I'm going to meet you with my peace.
Right, security team?
With the peace.
The peace.
No, I'm not just a different kind of peace.
So...
I just came out.
You first try the peace and then the peace, okay?
So...
But you're coming even with that,
you know, just even that example,
if you're carrying a gun, you know,
concealed to carry in case you want to protect somebody,
I don't want you around me if you're not at peace.
Put your gun away.
You're going to hurt somebody, probably yourself.
Like the one guy who shot himself
as he's pulling it out.
Because he's not at peace.
I'm not saying your body wouldn't tremble,
but I am saying you are clear thinking
because you know whom you believe in
and he is able.
That's the peace of God that passes all understand.
That don't even make sense.
It passes your understanding.
You're just like, I don't know why I was at peace.
I've been in situations where I've had to address people
and they were dangerous people or whatever,
Mother Street went and saying whatever.
And it's just a peace of God, supernatural,
good eye contact, the whole thing.
And about two hours later,
I was sitting somewhere and all of a sudden I was like,
whoa, that happened.
And then I realized, oh, you know.
But when you're under the peace of God,
it's a total different thing.
Amen?
He's trying to get us with the right intention.
And he's trying to get us to close things out
in making that oath.
Means if I say I swear that I'm making this oath,
I'm agreeing to this.
And oh, man, I messed up.
I guess the oath is done.
Not necessarily.
You go back to the person and say,
I know I promised you I wasn't going to do that.
And I just did, how can I make it up to you?
Because your intent is right.
If you're looking for a way out,
you'll do something subconsciously
to sabotage the situation.
And we go, well, I messed up.
But man, I guess it's over.
Well, you were waiting for it to be over to begin with.
Your intent was wrong.
So this is all in here.
Before we ever climbed the mountain with our promise,
we have to clear this verse so that when we go
through the test,
chapter 22 verse 1 says,
now after these things,
now after these things is a good verse.
Now after this all took place.
Now after I happened to go through this,
God tested the faith and commitment of Abraham.
Abraham is the promise.
Abraham is the father of many nations.
He tested him after the...
after these things.
Thank God he tested him after these things.
What if he wouldn't have passed the first test?
And the intent of his heart would be wrong.
And he's like, all right, I'll take my son up the mountain.
You know, totally different attitude.
Stupid Abemilech. He's always on my back.
I didn't want to be there to begin with.
Now what are you asking me to do?
Take my promise up. Okay, all right, I'll do.
That's unholy.
He's trying to get us to the point,
not that we're perfect,
but that the intent of our heart,
we're holding the line to say,
I will choose love.
I will choose forgiveness.
I will choose repentance if I have to.
I will choose it so that as I head up that mountain,
it'll be so clear when he tests
the faith and commitment of my heart,
I will pass that test.
That's the devil's kingdom knows this.
That's why he's like, ooh, there's some wrong intentions here.
Let's put a little more pressure.
If we can get them to go sideways,
they'll be distracted by what comes out of them
and what they've created with their mouth
and how they came in unbelief.
And we can just get them distracted
and the timing of going up the mountain will still be there.
But you'll be in the wrong spot.
That is how holy this is.
This wasn't a nice little story.
This wasn't a, oh, that's a good thought, you know.
No, when the prophetic comes,
it's a reason you pay attention.
I think sometimes we've sat under too much prophecies.
Too much have I seen this
and there was a waterfall and they're, you know,
we're like, okay, okay.
We never figure out what they really mean.
So you become dull to the prophetic.
I'm so thankful.
Now, Pastor prophesied what God was saying.
So we will go and we'll take that apart.
But this is what the word says.
So I'm a little safer.
I feel good by, I'm tucked under the word.
This is good.
This is good.
I mean, it was Lord speaking and it's confirming
exactly what we needed to know.
But last Sunday you might have heard like,
yeah, I might be out of faith
and I forgot that God loves me
and, you know, some things like that.
But put it with this prophetic story.
We have to be in the right place
at the right time doing the right thing.
In the right intention.
Immaturity always has the wrong intention.
Just like when my boys used to run to the car
on a Sunday morning.
It really wasn't, they were excited to go to church.
They're like, oh, praise God.
They're excited to go to church.
They're trying to see who's going to get shotgun.
The intent is something, it looks like, excited.
But they're looking to see like,
oh, come on you.
And then you push some or whatever.
Because the intent was to get there first.
Only God is going to be able to reveal to us
what the true intentions of our heart are.
It could be as simple as,
why do we go up to Red Lake
so we can say there's a third church we have
that we're helping with?
Oh, no.
We love the people, do we?
See, he'll check all those intentions.
You put on a party.
Well, I'm just trying to love people.
Is that the real intention of your heart?
Or are you wanting people over
so you can feel like you're popular too?
I mean, we don't know sometimes.
We'll start out with the right thing
and really at the base, there's a wrong thing going on.
He wants that out of us
because the bigger test is coming.
Now, we're in all these stages
at the same time in some area of our life.
We're going to go over like as if
we're all in this right now.
Because when he tests the faith
and commitment of the father of many nations,
he's going to test the faith
and commitment of Katie when he says her name.
Remember we talked about when he calls her,
when he called Abraham, he said,
here I am.
That means the all of me is here.
If you have a wrong intention,
only part of you is here.
You're physically is here. I'm here.
But there's a wrong intention.
That means part of you is reserved to protect yourself.
Part of you is on the backside
just in case you need to be God.
Just in case he doesn't come through,
your family doesn't come through.
I have to have that in reserve.
Well, then just say I am here.
Remember, I am means you can't add anything to it.
You can't subtract away. God is the I am.
And when I say I am Mary Peltz,
that means the fullness of the destiny
I am carrying with the promise is here.
And I got my physical body with me.
It's really the least of everything.
I just happen to bring it with.
And I'm standing here.
So that's why, you know, like,
I'm blunt about these things.
I've observed a lot of stuff over the years
and I've done some really stupid stuff.
So I can be a part of all this.
Where they have those missionary calls to the altar
who wants to go to the mission field
and they'll pop the song.
You know, you can use my hands and my feet
and people are crying and they're all coming up.
Yeah, I want to go to the mission field.
And there's 40 people here and two go.
Or maybe no one goes.
What happened?
What was the intent of the heart when you got it?
Like, what?
Well, it's just going to work out.
No, it doesn't work that way.
If your intent is to go, you will show up and follow through.
If it takes you five years to get on the mission field,
you will be there.
Even if it's a mission trip, you're like,
I did it, I went to Guatemala.
God, what would you have for me to do next?
See it?
But the intent blocks us from the true thing.
That's why this test has to be passed first.
So then, when change comes,
I will tell you this psychologically.
I see it in the families all the time.
When I'm counseling, I see it in myself.
When something shifts, I don't care if you, like,
redo the foyer.
It's like, oh, that's wonderful, that's great.
But it does in the brain, it says,
now I have to adapt to a whole new thing.
Like, we had a program growing here.
Well, thank God something broke it.
Because we don't want to be stuck in the same thing
for years.
It gives us permission to move on.
But it also makes the subconscious flutter
in a way where it goes through.
They're changing that. What are they doing?
Where's this money coming from?
Whose idea was it? Who did this?
We can't just go,
thank you.
See, because the intent that's there,
that orphan part of us wants to protect ourselves.
So we see things in the negative first,
not the positive.
We see where it's going to go wrong.
All right, so he asks you to go up the mountain
and take your promise.
What's going to happen
when you've been planning
for this promise
to bring things to fruition
and now you're supposed to take Isaac out?
That's going to flutter.
That's going to change.
The word sacrifice
at any level
causes us to go,
we like the same.
We like that structure.
There's going to be so much change
before open heavens even.
And the physical is only
a sign of what's happening in the spiritual.
There's a spiritual change going on.
It's going to manifest
in the physical.
Amen?
Let's stand.
Hallelujah.
I wish I could just preach on that.
We go, oh, sure, I'll check the intent to my heart.
We just do a little checklist,
move some things around and we're done.
Wouldn't it be sweet if life worked that way?
But to get a wrong intention out
could take you a year.
You could be working on something
for two years
and be like, I just keep trying to get this thing to go.
I am not going to live in that.
Well, to do that,
we have to go back to the prophecy that came through
Pastor Vern and that is
to remember who he is to us.
I'm not thinking about me.
I'm thinking about who he is to us.
Let's begin to pray in the Spirit.
See, when you pray in unknown tongues
and if you're not baptized in the Holy Spirit,
just pray to God.
And you can always ask for prayer for that too,
but just pray to God
and begin to worship him.
Thank you, Lord God.
What it does is edifies our spirit
and when he comes up on us,
he's in us, but then when he comes up on us,
we get ability, efficiency, and might.
That's what we have to see to see the true intent of our heart.
The altar is here for a reason.
We talked about this at
Intercessory Prayer.
It's to sacrifice some things
and the things that need to go on the altar
is the poor intents of our heart.
God, forgive us.
We pray in the Holy Spirit.
We pray in the Holy Spirit.
I don't know what the Bible is saying today.
Bring change, bring change, bring change, Lord.
So in peeling the onion,
we are going to peel that level that looks like insecurity.
It's going to look like fear.
It's going to look like selfishness
coming out of fear and insecurity.
It's going to look at protecting our self,
building a fort around.
Lord, do we have that
Do we have that in any area of our life?
Let's have the band come.
Do we have that in any area?
We're asking right now that you begin such a revelation, such a revealing in our heart
that we see what we couldn't see before, that we'll know what we didn't know before.
We'll hear what we couldn't hear before.
We're climbing the watch tower to be at the top as watchmen.
Let us climb to the place that we see above our insecurities, and when we look to them, they'll be so clear to us.
He who begins a good work always finishes it.
We're not half-finished projects. We will never be if we yield to him.
He's working on our heart. He's working on our intentions.
He's working on our mind. He's working on our intentions.
Get your affairs in order.
He's saying to bring your affairs in order, the things that are not right, the things that you've not dealt with, the things that are just you've ignored.
Bring them to him. That's the only way that you can get that to happen.
You cannot take care of it in yourself or you would have already.
It's only by the power of God these things get changed.
It's only by the power of God these things get changed.
I see this right now. I see this that even a simple prayer.
Now we don't do this in a manipulative way, but there are some of you sitting here that all of a sudden you take that thing that you feared.
You take that thing that you almost are tempted to just like control or manipulate or whatever because it's, ah, it's right there.
And I don't know if God's going to do anything about it.
You bring that to the altar and you let that burn.
Sudden change will come.
On some things for some people, sudden change like today.
You deal with it today. It's going to change. You'll be like, what happened?
Because in the intent of your heart was wrong and you just shifted.
That's all you did was just shift and let him take control.
We roll the cares, right? The things we worry about, the things we carry.
We roll them over onto you, Lord God, that are very thoughts.
I believe it's Proverbs 16, 16 that says, roll the cares over onto the Lord.
And our thoughts will line up with his will. His will means his ways of doing things.
So we take that and we roll it over to you right now. All the poor intentions.
We're doing it by faith, Lord God. We're doing it by faith.
Forgive us. Forgive us for not seeing how you take care of us.
Forgive us for forgetting who you are.
Or not digging into finding who you are to begin with. Forgive us.
Wash us in your blood. Wash us through the water of the Word.
All through this day. Wash us, Lord God.
Let us scrubbing of the heart go. Let it go. Let it go through us.
Oh God, we're going to climb that mountain with the right intentions.
In the mighty name of Jesus.