Until He Comes | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

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Hello? There we go, Thank you. Let's stand prayer for the word.

I think I sound funny, something's wrong with the EQ. Father.

We thank you for this morning. Thank you for your word. Thank you

for the way you move in our lives and the way you lead us to

draw us, bring us into the fullness of victory. We bless you for

it. We bless you for your word today, and we welcome your leading

us even deeper. Give you the praise for it in Jesus name. And

everybody said, Amen, Amen, Amen. I want to start in John

seventeen and John seventeen. A bunch of us in this a bunch of us

in the room today are married. Those of us that aren't maybe want to

be, or a bunch of us that aren't were and it didn't go well,

right, But marriage is marriage is very much about unity. You know,

where there's disunity, there's disharmony. Right where there's disunity, there's right,

strife, anxiety, conflict. Where there's disunity, there's usually a division.

Right division is connected to disunity more than one vision. That's a division

and part of you know, part of the calling on our lives. I

still sound funny, but I don't know what we can do about it.

That soundthhingy to you, that's some funny to me. Part of the the

microphone's not supposed to bring attention to the speaker, you know. Part of

the calling on our lives and the calling of this ongoing season is to continue

to leverage Heaven on earth. Right, we're want to continue to leverage forward

Heaven on earth. That's what that's what we want, that's what we desire,

and it you know, so much of that flows out of unity with

the Lord, right as in a marriage, because we're married to the Lord.

He's the groom, he's the husband of our spiritual relationship. And I

think you know so much of you know, so much of what he did

when he was on the earth is because of his unity with Father. So

rather than going to John seventeen, just for a second, let me go

to John twelve. And you don't have it, I'll just read it John

twelve forty nine. I don't speak on my own authority. The Father who

sent me has commanded me what to say and how to say it. Think

about that for a moment. Would you allow the Holy Spirit to micromanage your

mouth that much? Would you allow the Holy Spirit to micromanage? Well,

if it resulted in victory and exaltation and triumph over all your enemies, maybe

it'd be worth it, right, So I think this is pretty cool,

Matthew, this is I'm sorry, this is John twelve forty nine. I

don't speak on my own authority. The Father who sent me has commanded me

what to say and how to say it, and I know his commands lead

to eternal life. So I say whatever the Father tells me to say.

Oh, that Dwayne would be so cooperative, right, Oh, that we

would be so cooperative. And then you know there's another passage here. I

wanted to bring it to you. This is John as well, John five,

and I think it's verse nineteen. Let me look real, God,

yeah, verse nineteen. Jesus gave them this answer. I tell you the

truth. The son can do nothing by himself. He can only do what

he sees the father doing. Because whatever the Father does, the son does

also. So what we're hearing about when we look at those passages, we're

hearing about complete unity, no division, complete unity, and that's where that's

where the blessings are going to flow, and that's where the annoying thing is

going to be present. And we're going to see the Church, the body

of Christ, the believer leveraging heaven forward not only in their own lives,

but also in the world. And it comes out of unity. So even

as he was, even if he was unified with the Father, that we

are called to be unified with them as well. John seventeen, we're called

to be unified with them as well. My prayer John seventeen, verse twenty

is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in

me through their message, that all of them may be one Father, just

as you are in me and I am in you, May they also be

in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

May they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you

have sent me. I have given them the authority that you gave me,

that they may be one as we are one, I in them and you

in me, so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the

world will know that you sent me and have loved them as you have loved

me. Not crazy. So this is part of why we fast, part

of why fasting is commonplace, normal. Everybody say normal, common is common

and normal, and it's part of our lifestyle. Is because fasting is ordained

to bring us near and though we we know biblically that we're one with him,

we know biblically and legalistically, legalistically from scripture, we know that we're

born of the spirit. We know the Holy Spirit dwells within. We know

all of these things that often we don't experience because there is the lins and

the impairment that blocks us from that connection that is truly ours. We have

this divine privilege, and fasting is meant to remove, even to remove the

you know, Paul says. For Strengthians, Paul says that though we prophesy,

we prophesy through a darkened lens. We only see through a darkened lens,

remember that passage. So we don't see fully, we don't see clearly,

we don't see completely. And then actually he says something. He says,

you know, this is the end of chapter thirteen. He says,

but when the perfect comes, Oh who's the perfect, by the way,

Jesus is the perfect. When the perfect comes, then we will see him

face to face, and we will know as we are fully known. That's

interesting. In other words, whenever you're in the presence of Jesus, it's

totally different than not being in the presence. And when you're in the presence,

everything that you could ever imagine is available to you. But when you're

not in his presence, then you and I are called upon to remove whatever

encumbers the hearing and the seeing so that you can be in his presence.

Am I making sense? Mark two? Let me read it to you Mark

two out of the King James, No, no, no, I can

read this out of the nivy Mark two, verse eighteen. Now John's disciples

and the Pharisees were fasting. Everybody say fasting. John's disciples and the Pharisees

were fasting. And so some people came and asked Jesus, how is it

John's disciples and the disciples are fasting, but yours are not. Jesus answered,

how can the guest of the bride room fast while he is with them?

They cannot so as long as they so, They cannot so as so

long as they have him with them. But the time will come when the

bridegroom will be taken from them, and on that day they will fast.

The thing about that. You know, they're comparing. They're comparing relationships and

their comparing lifestyle between John and the Pharisees, who are not in the presence

of the King of Kings, they're not in the presence of Yeshua. They're

observing on the outside, and they're still yearning for something more. But the

Disciples of Jesus were dwelling with something more. They were literally with him,

so they had no yearning that was not being fulfilled because they're literally with him.

So during the whole period that he walked with them, there was no

reason for them to fast, because the fasting, even Old Testament fasting,

was a fasting to humble the soul and to be drawn closer so that the

veil would be removed, the ear would be opened, and the colored lens

that blocked the vision would be removed. So the Disciples of Jesus, they're

in the midst of that. And he says this is much like a groom

with the bridal party or a groom with the bride, that when he is

away, they yearn for him, they desire him. They don't know what's

going on. There's distance, they're impeded from communication. But when he's present,

then there's fulfillment, and this is how we move ourselves. And it

shouldn't be you know, it shouldn't be once a year. Fasting has been

the practice of the Church throughout history. Once He ascended, then the church

used fasting historically once a week. The church used fasting often frequently, to

draw near and to get into the place where His presence was real and deep

and abiding, and they could hear what he was saying. Because we aren't

supposed to say what we want to say. We aren't supposed to do what

we want to do. We're supposed to say what he's saying and do what

he's doing five twelve. We have the same call on us. We have

the same exact call on us that he had on him that we would,

but we can't do that unlessener's unity. And this is one of the purposes

of fasting, is to bring us into divine unity. And if you haven't,

if you haven't, you know, it's amazing. Sometimes I could confess

to you sometimes I've needed to hear something and I was going to go into

a big fast, right and maybe I was going to fast a day or

two or three. I've had every kind of fasting experience you could imagine.

But the Lord was so good. I got my answer maybe after skipping meal

number two. So praise the Lord. That was the shortest fast ever.

I'm done with that one. You ever done that? Oh? Yeah,

well, thank you Jesus. We're back to stake tonight. God is good.

Wow. I don't think he's upset with that. I think this is

fun. This is fun. It's it's it's the kingly who desire to look

in the mysteries and desire to know. That's the that's the yearning of the

royalty within us, that we would yearn to look into mysteries, that we

would love to know him, that we would love his heart, that we

would love to flow with him. This a little confession there for him,

a little confession. So this is one of the this is one of the

until things that that we get to walk in and fulfillment of. Is that

until the groom comes, say that with me until the groom comes? Are

you with me until the groom comes? This is what the bridal party does.

This is what the bride does. This is what the bridal party does

until the groom. As the groom come, he hasn't come back yet.

He hasn't come back yet. So this is just what we do. Come

on, this is what we do. And the reward in it, the

delight in it, the joy in it, the revelation in it. It

will always bless you because Father or Dane, that we do this. Now,

just a couple of thoughts, and I know we're moving on time,

but just a couple of thoughts. The Daniel Fast is interesting, right,

It's interesting the Daniel Fast. God honors the Daniel Fast. God honored the

dan teenagers. God honors the Daniel fast children. God honors the Daniel fest

seniors, framers, ironworkers, electricians. Where am I going to get my

protein? You'll figure it out. But maybe you'll fall short a little bit,

maybe you'll burn up. Maybe you'll burn up a little bit. See,

the power of fasting is not only suffering, but the power of fasting

is to declare that whatever you are setting aside, and these are legal things,

by the way, it's not a sin for you to mean, not

a sin for you to eat sweets, sweetbreads. Talking about imbalance, and

for most of us, it's not a sin for us to drink wine unless

the Holy spirit's quickened you to leave it alone for you. So Daniel was

not leaving off things that he shouldn't. You know, they were sinning.

I shouldn't be doing those anyway, Shame on me. These were all things

that he had a legal entitlement to do. But in the fast, he

was saying, you are my sweet, you are my meat, you are

my wine. I would rather have the meat of heaven. I would rather

have the sweet of your presence. I would rather have the wine of your

anointing than to have these elements that satisfy my body. So this is why

it's powerful, This is why it's effective. This is why it opens you

up. This is why it opens up the heavens. This is why it

opens up Holy Spirit toward you because of this proclamation and this declaration and this

heart and this attitude that you're going to be manifesting toward him as you embrace

this. But it's challenging that Daniel. I find the Daniel fast is almost

more challenging than a total fast, because you got to mess with food.

You got to mess with food. You go in a regular fast, you

go in to full fast, and you can do that. You want to

go in a full fast, that's good. You can do that. They're

both effective, they're both revered in the spirit realm. You can go in

a full fast. But this is what we've chosen and we invite you to

be a part of it with us. But it's challenging because the enemy can

get in there and your flesh can get in there, and all it once.

It's all about the food and all it once. And we can take

a twenty one day Daniel fast and turn it into a twenty one day diet

if we don't keep the spirit realm first. This is not a twenty one

day diet for a slimmer trimmer you. This is a twenty one day fast

asked that will have physical benefits for you to leverage heaven forward and to put

the enemy under your feet. This is a spiritual This is a spiritual game

change or for your entire life and your family. This is meant to leverage

you and the kingdom forward. And so you want to be aggressive, you

want to be hounrey, you want to be you want to be serious,

and so just you know, I would just say don't let it be about

the food. So you know, some of us get really wild about the

food, trying to make the you know, the artificial meat tastes just like

meat. Why why why why why why why why you're going to Trader Jones

and looking for artificial meats that tastes just like meat. The power is in

the suffering, because what are you going to tell Father when you say when

you say, I'm not having meat because I'd rather have meat from you.

If you're saying this soy meat is really good, though, I mean,

I'd rather have meat from you, and and the soy meat. I'm you

know, I'm you know, just hear me out. You know, we

take care to not literally kill our palette at the wolf House during this.

We're not trying to kill ourselves just make it taste like garbage on purpose.

No, we're not. We're not doing that. But what I'm saying is

that the emphasis is the prayer. The emphasis is you in the spirit realm.

The emphasis is hearing better, hearing well, seeing better, partnering in

the unity of the spirit. That's the emphasis, right, And that's Daniel

chapter ten. He said I was in mourning. I'm I'm leveraging my prayer

life for the nation of Israel. This is this is Daniel chapter ten.

I'm leveraging my prayer life for the nation of Israel. And he goes into

twenty one days of mourning. It wasn't twenty one days of rejoicing. It

was twenty one days of the prophet Jeremiah has spoken over my nation. There's

been prophetic words over my nation. They're not coming to pass. I yearn

for them to come to pass. I yearn to know why they aren't coming

to pass, and why our people are still suffering. So he found a

cause, and he attached his heart to that cause. And yeah, we

still rejoice in the Lord, and we still rejoice that we're born of the

Spirit, and we still rejoice in worship. And you know, we have

different elements, but there's something about this twenty one day period where we are

continuding to shift things forward and to move things forward because we see the chaos

and the peril and the evil and the works of darkness. Anybody know it's

not God's will. There's a second thing I want to touch on that we

do until Luke chapter nineteen. Something else we do until until he comes.

Everybody say until he comes Luke nineteen twelve. He said, Therefore, a

certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to

return. And then he called ten of his servants and delivered them and said,

unto them, occupy until I come. Everybody say occupy until I come.

Now, now, what in the world does that mean? This is

the King James, and said, the King James doesn't give us enough clarity

on it. But he's telling them to do something until he comes back.

Now this same parable, it's a parable, and it's about the kingdom.

It's about the Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of

Heaven. These are synonymous terms. And it's about leveraging the Kingdom of Heaven

forward, leveraging the Kingdom of God forward in culture, in life, in

manifestation. And I want to pick it up in the New International the NIV

at verse eleven and give you the context. While they were listening to this,

he went on to tell them a parable. And again he's telling them

parables. The Kingdom of Heaven is like, the Kingdom of Heaven is like,

the Kingdom of God is like. He goes on to tell them a

parable. Because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the Kingdom of

God was going to appear at once. Now, imagine you're living in his

day. You know, you're yearning for the Kingdom of Heaven to come,

and you just you were, you know, Matthew twelve. You're with him

when he's driving out demons and he says that if I drive out demons by

that finger of God, then the Kingdom of Heaven has come under you,

right, And you're around him and you're seeing all this stuff, and you're

like, you want the Kingdom of Heaven to come, and you're thinking,

Oh, the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, it's coming.

Now, this is the Messiah. He's going to bring the kingdom. But

now they're walking with him a few days and like, the Kingdom's not coming.

So they're asking and they're perplexed, and they're like, what in the

world's going on because the people thought that the Kingdom of God was going to

appear at once. But then he tells him this parable. He said,

a man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king

and then return. So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten

minas. Put this money to work, he said, until I come back

but his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him. We don't want

this man to be our king. No, this is a parable about Israel

and about the Jewish community, and it's about him. He was made king,

however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom

he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained

with it. The first one came and said, Sir, yur Minna has

earned ten more. Well done, my servant, said the master, because

you've been trustworthy in a small matter, take charge of ten cities. The

second came and said, Sir, your mina or minna has earned five more,

and his master answered, you take charge of five cities. So you

remember this story In Matthew twenty five, it is called the Story of the

Talents. Matthew tells it. Luke tells it a little different spin on it.

But Luke uses the word occupied till I come Matthew doesn't. The New

International translates it, put this money to work until I come back. Now.

Is it all about money? No, it can't be about money,

because the question that they brought to him was when is the kingdom coming?

We thought that the kingdom was coming. Now, how is it? When

is it? When kingdom coming? When are you bringing the kingdom? He

doesn't answer them, He answers them with a story. Here's how the Kingdom's

going to come. I'm going to pour my treasures into others. I'm going

to pour my treasures and they're going to invest the treasury of heaven with their

life, in culture, in family, in work, everywhere they go.

They're going to be investing the treasure of heaven that I give them authority with.

And that's how the kingdom's going to come. That's how the kingdom's going

to come. That's how the Kingdom's going to come. That's how the kingdom's

going to come. That's how the kingdom's going to come. Here's what occupy

uh, here's what occupy it. Till I come means the word occupy.

It's the word from which we get pragmatism, practice, put it into practice.

Pragmatism. The Greek actually says practice till I come, or practice till

I am coming. Be pragmatic with what I've given you, Put the treasure

I've given you into practice, take over and dismiss the influence of darkness until

I come back, invest all I've given you fully on my behalf until the

last moment of my return some of us. Some of us we got all

excited about the rapture, and so we got so excited about the rapture that

we thought, well, he's coming back anyway. I'm going to take what

he's given me and just stop investing it because he's coming back so soon.

It seems silly for me to invest what he's given me in the marketplace or

in the world around me. I mean, he's coming back any minute.

He's coming back so fast that I think I'm just gonna hang on to this

for now. But that isn't the word. No matter how smart you are

prophetically about the end times, he said, be pragmatic, put into investment,

run with do something with what I've given you until I go. This

man in Ezekiel chapter thirty seven, a lot of you know the story Ezekiel

thirty seven. Ezekiel goes into a vision and he sees a giant valley of

dry bones, and the bones are separated from each other. They're dismembered,

and they are dismembered from their head. And then this revelation comes to him

God says that that valley of dry bones is the whole house of Israel,

and the whole house of Israel, they are dismembered, They are disunified because

they say their hope has perished. So what about us as a church,

what about us in our own lives, in our cultural situation, in what

we see around us? What is our perspective? Is our perspective? Our

hope is perished, our hope is perished? Mind, the set separates us,

and no longer are we unified with the victor, but we're separated from

him. And now we're just a dry bone out here. But that isn't

what God has in mind. God wants us unified together, and he once

us unified under the heart of Holy Spirit, and his hope hasn't perished for

the world. And so then he tells him to do something. He says,

can these bones live? This is Exequel thirty seven three through eight.

Can these bones live? And like any good church member is equal's likings.

I don't know, Lord, only you know if these bones can live.

The Lord's like, of course these bones can live. Shut up, boy,

stand up here and get the microphone. Speak to these bones. Command

these bones to live, command life to come into these bones. This is

nothing more than decree. This is nothing more than decree. When we're unified

with him, then we get revelation from him, then we say what he's

saying, that's to issue a royal decree. When we issue royal decrees,

things begin to happen, and so Is steps up to the microphone and he

commands the bones to live, and all at once the bones start living.

Now, most Christians, all they want to do is assess the bad bones

and to pray about the bad bones. Oh Holy, give you the microphone.

Yeah, okay, we'll come up in the prayer. Oh Lord,

you see the broken bones, you see the scattered bones. Lord. And

then we start asking him, Lord, can these bones live? He's asking

you, because they can. He just needs a prophet. He just needs

a prophet. He just needs a prophetic church. He just needs a prophetic

word. He just needs agreement with Heaven. That's why we're gonna spend twenty

one days in decrees. Right, We're gonna spend twenty one days in his

presence in a deeper way, but twenty one days in doing what his Ekiel

was told to do. Thank grabs the microphone pretty soon as the bones are

living, and then he starts to command life. The Lord says, command

life to come on those bones alone, life and muscles and sinews. Pretty

soon, pretty soon it was a whole army raised up. Pretty soon,

the whole army was raised up because the Ezduel had a John twelve moment.

He's submitted to I'm only gonna say what he's saying. I'm only command what

he's commanding. But I'm definitely gonna do that. I'm definitely gonna do that.

I'm not gonna leave it to him. I'm gonna do that. I'm

gonna do that. I'm gonna partner with him. I'm gonna be his mouthpiece.

And as I'm his mouthpiece, then he'll he'll lose that which needs to

be loosed and he'll cause things to begin to shift. That's what we're gonna

do. I'm gonna ask the prayer team to come this morning. I'm gonna

close in this way this morning for the whole prayer team would come, those

of you that serve in the prayer team. And I want to I just

I see it's coming up and just getting a hand put on us. And

just as an impartation for this season and my prayer, my desire is that

if you're if you're in any way hesitant or you just don't know how it's

gonna work or how it's gonna happen, or you know, how's you know,

what are the elements of it? The natural, the physical, the

spiritual elements of all this, and is this even something you want to do.

I'm just believing that we're going to release a impartation over you and you're

gonna be quickened, You're gonna be you're gonna be empowered to embrace his season,

and you're gonna have the grace on you to enter into things you've never

entered in before, and walking in things you've never walked before, and just

taste of him and the ways you've never tasted of him before. Yeah,

thank you Lord. Byron spread out a little bit. There aren't too many

of us here, so I'm seeing we're low on prayer team. Yeah,

Ron, you come up and help, And yeah, Todd, that's good.

Some of you come up and help. Yeah, Nate, if you'd

come up, Nate and Gale just come up and help, if you would.

Oh, that's good Edie, how beautiful. So I'm not looking for

long prayers. All I'm looking for is there going to release over you a

grace for this season. Just literally shout an impartation grace over you, and

we're gonna believe. Holy Spirit's gonna meet you, and there's gonna be a

shift. Amen, Holy Spirit's gonna meet you, and there's gonna be a

shift. And I just you know, you don't have to do nothing,

but I'd love it if you'd just come up and you know, just give

them thirty seconds just to let God do something. Holy Spirit, we thank

you this morning for a shift inwardly in our own hearts yearn for your presence

like the bride for the groom, and where we take on a heart to

leverage the Kingdom forward, Heaven forward, until you come scrapping, throwing away

every excuse, every mindset, every rationalization that would hinder that Holy Spirit,

we welcome right now in impartation to flow right now through the hands of these

prayer warriors, and impartation of grace flow through these prayer warriors to enable to

enable us as a body to rise into this and apprehend spiritual things and breakthroughs

we've never apprehended before. We thank you for it in Jesus' name, and

everybody said Amen, Amen, God bless your church. Yeah, just come

forward as we worship gay