Test Drive His Promises Part 3

Good morning, church. How are you doing. Let's stand. We've been

standing, but we'll stand and just prayer for the Word. That's all right,

poly Spirit. We're so grateful for you, so grateful for your presence

and your ministry, testimony of Jesus and our testimony of his glorious victory and

his redemptive proclamation over us. We just say yes to your word this morning.

I'm and be rich right on our hearts. Right on our hearts.

We'll give you the thanks for it Jesus name, everybody said, and then

you may be seated. So fun. Look at you, my goodness,

good to see all of you. Yeah, Heilue, your wife is back.

I see your beautiful wife is back. From Ethiopia. Helu had a

trumans. Yes, thank you, so good to see you. That he

had a tremendous testimony, and he came by the church and shared with me

a tithing testimony and task a testimony of God's goodness. They had both gone

to Ethiopia. He applied for a new job and it would be it's going

to be a miracle to get it. And he presented it before the Lord,

and they contacted him in Ethiopia and said come back for your interviews.

So he flew back early and was awarded this amazing job. So it's I

know, it's one of many testimonies that have been coming in and just so

thankful for the two of you, and and just your trust in the Lord.

When I loved your humility as you came in, and just like,

ah, God has done this. You know God has done this and this.

You know God to do miraculous things in our lives. We are remember

remember the Hebrews says that the New Covenant has greater benefits, greater blessings than

the old. And in the Old he said, you are the head and

not the tail, above only and not beneath that you're blessed coming out,

and you're blessed coming in. You're blessed in the city, you're blessed in

the country. You're and you know, one of the things when we think

about the throw up those ten promises, maybe if you would I identified only

ten promises of a faithful tithing. There's there's a there's a ton more than

ten, but I only identified ten. But one of the one of the

words that I felt was important. Last week we shared a little bit on

it was that if you're not experiencing these benefits and your tithing, it's not

that God is the problem. It could be that you're the problem. It

could be that the devil's the problem. It could be that there's a window

for you to press into something deeper in risk taking or education or relationship building.

It could be that remember James One says that when you're facing a trial,

a trial means that you have a promise, but you're not experiencing it,

so your experience falls below your promise. And it says, if you're

facing a trial, you're going through a trial, then ask of God,

who gives joyfully and liberally wisdom to you. He will give you wisdom and

you'll come to know. And so you know, sometimes sometimes even just a

one day fast or a one meal fast and getting before the Lord will literally

open up the windows of wisdom over you, and you'll know what's holding up

your promises. You'll know what's hindering your promises. All at once. You'll

have illumination and you'll know what to do to press in, or you'll know

what enemy to subdue to press in. You'll know, but it's not God,

that it's not And The thing is is that you know, we we

touched on this because Jeff had talked about Malachi three. You know, Malachi

three eight through ten says I'll open the windows of heaven for you. But

then Malachi like verse twelve, I think it says, you know, God

says I have this against you. Remember me talking about that. He said,

I have this against you, And they said, you've got something else

against us? What is it? You know? And he says, your

words, your words have been saying it's in vain that I serve the Lord.

Your words have been against my blood. I want to bless you,

but you're saying it's it's in vain that we serve the Lord. There's and

actually the King James says there's no profit in serving the Lord, and so

we don't want to get in that spot. And I think if any of

us are tithing and just you know, bringing that sacrifice of love and that

sacrifice of finance to the Lord and we're running into stuff. He just wants

you to know this this morning, it's not him that's causing the stuff.

That there is a breakthrough for you, and that if you'll press in a

little bit believing he'll meet you with wisdom. Then he'll pour out wisdom upon

you and you'll see what you haven't seen, and you'll have the insight to

overcome what's trying to overcome you. So let's just pray on that right now.

Let's just agree on that right now. Okay, can you do that

if that's you even a teensy bit, just like do this, just like

then. We don't want everybody to know that shoe. But just this got

just okay. You want to go big, Roman wants to go big?

All right, Holy Spirit, we just agree right now that you have ordained

blessing. You're not trying to get money from us. You're trying to get

money to us. You've called us the head and not the tail above and

not beneath, Blessed going out and blessed coming in, and Lord, we

just agree that whatever we're going through, whatever is harming, oppressing, holding

up the blessing and the promises you yourself. We didn't beg for these promises.

We didn't submit a list of promises like a demand. You better promises.

This is your idea. Father, You have ordained all this, so

you came up with all of this, and you want us to press in

and believe, and so whatever is hindering, Holy Spirit, we ask you

now turn on the wisdom. Turn on the wisdom, lose wisdom over your

kids right now, to see what's missing, to see what's lacking, to

see what needs to be subdued, to see what needs to be done was

to see what needs to be advanced against even the identity. Just shift at

royalty within us and over us, Holy Spirit, and subdue doctrines of demons.

Where we've we've blamed you for bad stuff, we just dismiss the doctrine

of doctrines of demons. You've ordained good stuff. You're the author of good

things, and we come into agreement with that right now. Every good and

perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no

variation or shifting of shadow. You don't change your mind. You don't change

your mind. You're the Father of goodness, and we turn our hearts toward

you in every way. This morning in Jesus name, everybody said, amen,

Wow, I want to I want to talk to you specifically this morning.

Oh, it's gonna do it. I think it's it might yeah,

I don't know. We might have to send this into the to the factory

for rebuilding in the first service. I can't take the Lord. I can

go somewhere, all right, okay, we oh here we go? Where

about that? Oh? Yeah? I want to talk to you today,

especially about being planted in the House of the Lord and how important it is

and in fact is I want to I want to start with that scripture.

If we've got it. I don't know. Did we get it. We

might have got it. Look for Psalm's ninety two Psalm ninety two. Because

there's so much blessing that flows in the House of the Lord. There is

God has ordained to bless abundantly with wisdom and grace and the outpouring of his

spirit. There is a dispensation of so much revelatory gifts and so much that

He wants to bring in and through our being planted in the House of the

Lord. And this is it's like super contrary to American thinking or because Americans

we pride ourselves on End Dependence Day right and our nation, our nation is

a democracy that means actually we're in charge were it's a democracy. But what

we don't get sometimes is the kingdom is a theocracy and the Kingdom is a

family, and it's a family under authority, and so this is tough for

us as American Christians. Many times it's tough for us to understand the power

and the grace of being planted in the house of the Lord. And we're

also we are the number one nation not only of independence and democracy, but

we're the number one nation of consumer ism. We are consumers. We know

the power of voting with our dollar, and how we can manipulate or move

things with our dollar, and how that things must please us. Things have

to please me, and if they don't please me, they don't get my

dollar. We're consumers, and all of this is trying to make its impression

subtly on all of us as we think about church, as we think about

God. It's it's trying to And so we have a tendency we have to

break out of even to serve, even to give, even to to be

apart, even to knit ourselves to something. We have to break out of

so much American thinking. And many churches and many Christians never break out of

it. Never, they never break out of it. And so everything's done

by a vote, and they let the church be a democracy and and everything.

We gotta be seekers sensitive, we gotta we gotta figure out exactly what

the consumer wants. And then we've got to provide exactly what the consumer desires

or they won't come. And if they don't come, we don't grow.

And if they don't grow, we can't brag about growing. And so there's

this whole minds said that is actually it's counter Bible. It's contrary to the

word. It's contrary to theocracy, and it's contrary to family. It's contrary

to Christ is king. What does king sound to you like? I mean,

maybe if we were in Britain, this would be easier for us.

I don't know. But but Christ is king. We didn't vote him in

and we can't vote him out. Verse twelve. The righteous will flourish like

a palm tree. They will grow like a cedar of Lebanon, planted in

the house of the Lord. They will flourish in the courts of our God,

planted in the house of the Lord. They will flourish in the courts

of our God. Planted. That's putting down roots. That's finding where you're

called and who you're called. Two. This is another distortion we've made church

about the nominations. We've made church about buildings. We've made church about marketing,

We've made church about signage. We've made church about every kind of thing

that it's not about. It's actually about who am I called to, where

am I called? And who am I called too? And Biblically, we're

more likely it's more likely that we're called to a leader and a leadership team

church leader than we are called to a building or a denomination. Fourteen was

fourteen. Soon they will still bear fruit in old age. Will come on,

somebody, let's have the fruitful youngsters and the fruitful ulsters so they will

still bear fruit in old age. They will stay fresh and green. Wow.

I was playing football last night. I even caught a pass proclaiming.

What will they proclaim? The Lord is upright? Oh, that means he's

faithful to his word, He's faithful to his promise. This is the opposite

of what they were saying in Malachi three versus twelve and following they proclaimed,

the Lord is upright, he is my rock and there is no wickedness in

him. Isn't that good? Oh? My gonna say. I want to

start with that, because when we think about tithing, that one might work.

Yeah, that when we think about tithing, we race up here to

the Christ right, and he is the fulfillment of the seed of Abraham.

Right, So Isaac was only a picture of the fulfillment Jesus. Oh,

look at that. I do hope my pants are zipped. This could be

an embarrassing morning right here. Alrighty then, okay, so we're we're we're

trying to get well over on the fringes. We acknowledged last week the fringes

couldn't see. And then this week this church leadership team who's highly anointed.

They were supposed to get doodle working for me and they didn't. So we're

doodling on the boards more so over here, here's here's Abraham. All right,

Uh, we're gonna we're gonna go. We're gonna go Abraham and we're

just gonna go like that. Is that all right? And then we got

this, we got the mosaic period here, we got done, okay,

And so the law was added four hundred and thirty years later, and the

law gave us all sorts of insights on tithing, but the law gave us

all sorts of other insights. The law gave us a bunch of insights also

on the priesthood and the priesthood over here, it started with mel Kezedek,

So Holy Spirit, forgive me for all these abbreviations. It started with Melkzedek

over here as the priest. And Melkesedek was the forerunner of the fulfillment of

Christ. And so when Jesus comes, he actually comes as the fulfillment of

the Malkesic priesthood. Right, let's go to Hebrews chapter seven. Let's read

it real quick. How much time do we have Hebrews chapter seven. Just

think how great he was is talking about Melkesedick. Even the patriarch Abraham gave

him a tenth of the plunder. Now the law, the law was added

later four hundred and thirty years later. This is the law over here under

Moses. And under Moses we had a priesthood of Aaron, the high priest,

and then we had the es as the priesthood. And so the law

requires the descendants of Levi who become priest to collect a tenth from the people,

that is, from their fellow Israelites, even though they are descendant from

Abraham. This man, however, did not trace his descent from Levi,

Yet he collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.

And without doubt, the lesser is blessed by the greater. So in underwords,

Malkezdick was greater than Abraham because he was the blesser. In this case,

if you're the blesser, then you're greater than the one who's getting blessed.

In one case, the tenth is collected by the people who die,

the Levites during this period, these Levites, they would all die. In

one case it's collected by people who die, but in the other case by

him who is declared to be living. So Malkezidek continued to live. One

might even say that Levi, who did the tithe or the tenth, paid

the tenth through Abraham, because when Mkazadick met Abraham, Levi was still in

the body of his ancestor. Right, if perfection could have been attained through

the leavitical priesthood, and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood,

then why was there still the need for another priest to come, One

in the order of malk Kesaedick, not in the order of Erin so this

is interesting. The levitical priesthood was added with the law until the fulfillment came

and the fulfiller came, but after that we revert to the malk Kaesadic priesthood.

But what we see is that there's still valid principles throughout in the Mala,

in the Lavitical priesthood that relate to the malk Kasadic priesthood. So when

people say, for instance, you'll hear Christians say, yeah, you know,

this doesn't apply. That doesn't apply, the other thing doesn't apply.

And they might even say tithing doesn't apply because we're not under law, we're

under gray. What they don't understand, though, is that there has been

a transfer of priesthood. We're still under a priesthood, and the priesthood of

Melksedek carries with it parallel principles to the priesthood of Aaron or Leo Levite.

And so you know, people don't realize that, and so and what my

job is to get us under the spout where the goodies come out. And

if you have missed, if you have missed, you know, if somehow

you have missed the truths of tithing and how it relates to being planted in

a church and under the theocracy of Christ and the authority of Christ, that

it could be you're missing out on so much that it would blow your mind.

What would happen if you would bring yourself under that place where you're in

this theocracy and partnering with God by coming under the covering of authority, the

authority that still does exist in a priesthood, because it's a Malkaic prieston we

Okay, Paul talked about this some more for Strinthians chapter nine. He actually

says that those who serve in the Gospel, the mel Keesitic priesthood, the

priesthood of Jesus, those who serve in that ministry actually have a right to

receive tithe from those who they serve, just exactly like the Levites had a

right to receive from those who came to the altar. Now he uses the

word right. I only bring it up, not to be harsh, not

to be weird, not so we can take a second offering, not for

guilt or condemnation, not for any that. I only bring it up because

He brought it up. He uses the word that we have a right.

We apostles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ have a right to receive from you

exactly like they did under this discipline station. So yeah, we're not under

this dispensation. But there are parallel principles that are central to our victory,

are anointing and the revelation we flow in even Okay, so here it is

for strengthened. Chapter nine. Am I not free? Am I not an

apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the result

of my work in the Lord? Even though I may be an apostle to

others, surely I am to you, for you are the seal of my

apostleship and the Lord. So he's kind of establishing the groundwork for what he's

going to talk about. But he's actually going to talk about money, and

he goes on verse seven. Who serves as a soldier at their own expense,

who plants a vineyard, does not eat the grapes, who tends of

law, and does not drink the milk? Do I say this merely on

human authority? Doesn't the law say this? For it's written in the Law

of Moses. Do not muzzle ut. Now he's going to talk about something.

Then, in most of his writings. He says, has found its

fulfillment Christ, So why is he going to talk about it. He's going

to talk about it because Jesus showed him that the parallel. There's a parallel

in mel Kezedek. That's why he's going to talk about it. And so

he says that there's a parallel. So he says, doesn't the law say

do not muscle the ox while he's treading out the grain? Is it about

the oxen? God is concerned? Surely he says this for us, doesn't

he? Yet? This was written for us because whoever plows and threshes should

be able to do so in the hope of sharing in the harvest. If

we have sown spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap

a material harvest from you? If others have this right of support from you

other apostles, And he's talking about him because he hasn't exercised that right.

But because he hasn't exercised the right, now some have come along and said,

you're not an apostle. And he's saying, no, no, no,

Just because I haven't exercise the right doesn't mean that just doesn't mean I'm

not an apostle, nor does it does it mean that I don't have a

right to this even as others have this right. So I mean this was

very well known in the early Church. If others have this right from you,

shouldn't we have it all the more. But we did not use this

right. On the contrary, we put up with any anything rather than to

hinder the Gospel of Christ. Don't you know that those who serve in the

temple get their food from the temple, and those who serve at the altars

share what is offered at the altar in the same way, or by saying

in the same way. In the same way, the Lord has commanded that

those who preached the gospels should receive their living from the Gospel. Now what

did he just do? He just elevated gospel ministers, who we know from

effusions, for we're gonna talk about that in a moment. He just elevated

gospel ministers to the melchastic priesthood. He just infolded gospel ministers into the mal

Keztic priesthood. And he just showed us the correlation between gospel ministers and leolitical

ministers. And though we're not under Levi anymore, we're under the covering of

gospel ministers. And he says, these gospel ministers have actually been called by

Him. By the way, this is not talk you into going to New

Horizon. This is not I hope you stay at New Horizon. This is

not about any of that. By the way, this is about all of

us coming to grips with I need to be called to the house where I'm

going. I need to have some sense that the Holy Spirit wants me in

this house. I need to be knit to the covering over this house in

some manner, shape or form. I need to come with honor to the

house where God has called me. I need to see that the headship over

the house where God has called me has been called by Christ. And I

need to have that heart toward them so that I can partake from the anointing

that flows through them and into this house and over this house. And that

doesn't have to be New Horizon house. I mean, you could have been

here for six months and this is your morning, this is your last morning

because you're realizing, oh, I need to go. I need to go

find a place where I'm calling. Or you could have walked in this morning

and filled out a newcomer card on the back of the chair and turn that

in. And we don't possess you, and we're not demanding this should come

to this place, and we're not trying to talk to you into anything God.

We want God to be the one that talks you into something. If

the Holy Spirit niche you to a house, and the Holy Spirit niche you

to a leadership team, then you can't be ripped off. It can't be

stolen from you. You can't get offended in the four you're you're leaving next

week. You can't be popping around here and there in the other place and

getting planted. Once you know you are where God wants you under the leadership

God's called you to, you're gonna flourish, and you're gonna cause that place

to flourish, and everything is going to go better for you. And it

doesn't have to be here. It doesn't have to be here. Let's jump

over to Ephesians for and I want you to see, you know, just

some stuff. So the priesthood has some parallel principles that the functions are different.

Everybody say different. The Levites and the priest you know, the majority

of their time was spent around the sacrificial system, and the majority of their

time was spent helping the people bring sacrifice and then presenting that sacrifice either in

the Inner Court or the Holy of Holies. And so their role was different,

Their ministry was different. Our ministry role those who are called the churchly

ship. And I'm going to put Jesus in the clouds Galatians Force says that

he is leading us from heavenly Jerusalem, and then I'm going to put church

leadership here. And most of us know that our role here is different.

And Ephesians For kind of defines a little bit of that. But there's otter

places too where it talks about that. We'll read a couple of those.

And here's what Ephesians For says. Ephesians Force says, So Christ himself gave

the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors, and the teachers

to equip his people for works of service. Now, service is the niv.

Doma is the word. Doma is the word in the Greek, and

it means equip his people for the works of ministry ministry, and that ministry

is broad, it's expansive. We could we could define all sorts of ways

that now we're called as people into we're all called into the ministry. Every

Christian is called into the ministry. Yes, and so the leadership folks over

the church, and he defines a bunch of them here, five of them.

Here. We call this the fivefold ministry. Apostles, prophets, evangelists,

pastors, and teachers. They are to equip the people, to equip

these people for the works of ministry, so that the body of Christ may

be built up. Oh, they're also to build up the body of Christ

until we all reach unity and the faith and the knowledge of the Son of

God. So they bring more knowledge to the Body of Christ, and it

says, to the and become mature. Oh, they bring maturity part of

the blessing until we all obtain the fullness of the stature of the faith of

Jesus. So part of part of what church leadership is called to do is

that they are called to bring the body into maturity. They are called to

equip, they are called to build up. They are called to teach,

terrain, correct, and reprove. They so there's this calling on them.

It's different, but it's still a function that's parallel to the levitical function in

that I'm serving, or church leadership is serving under Jesus, who is the

fulfillment of the malkastic priesthood. Yes, I want to read another one till

you, because I think this is really a cool one, and it is

first pet or five. And you guys know there's more about these. You

know a lot of these an adjustment first Peter or five. Though, to

the elders among you, I appeal as a feller elder and a witness of

Christ suffering who also will share in the glory to be revealed. Be shepherds

of God's flock that is under your care. So this is one of the

callings on church leadership, and it's mentioned several times in scripture. Be shepherds,

Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, watching over them,

not because you must, but because you're willing, as God wants you

to be. Not pursuing this honest gain right. So they have a right,

they had a right to receive financially from those are caring for. But

there's also an obligation to not manipulate, not deceive, not trick, not

not have schemes that bring finance in so so being careful, not pursuing dishonest

gain, but eager to serve, not lording it over those entrusted to you.

Okay, well, this is an authoritarian model. This is a theocracy.

But now we're given instruction church leaders that begin being they're giving instruction here

that they aren't to lord it over those It's like, you know, church

leaders are supposed to be like the prime minister, right, and the prime

minister the word minister doma we saw it here just a moment ago, as

servant. You know, a prime minister is it means first servant. That's

what it means. Prime minister means first servant. It goes back to what

the Lord's declared in Matthew twenty. He that wants to be the greatest must

be the servant of all, right, and so not lording it over those

entrusted to you, but being an example to the flock. And when the

chief shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade

away. Jesus is the chief shepherd, there are shepherds under him. And

then like in our structure, we have an eldership team, right, And

this eldership team help us care for the flock and help us care for the

atmosphere of the flock, and the teaching of the flock, the instruction of

the flock, the people of the flock. And then under in our situation,

then we have some staff, right, we have staff, and and

right there equal to staff, we have department leaders, right, and so

you know, we have all of these utters. And then under you know

some of that, you know, we have connect leaders, right, and

connect leaders have a role that's under authority as well. But it's kind of

knit up here as well, because we call the connect leaders lay passers and

they are to help us shepherd and care for the flock. But then you

know, here we are. And I think the question is, you know,

a question is you know, are we finding ourselves in this family?

Are we planted in the house? Are we serving under authority? Are we

revering that Jesus has set this thing in place and that Jesus has called this

whole thing Because there was a promise over Aaron, there's a parallel promise now

over Melkaesedek. And I want to read it to you out of Psalm one

thirty three Psalm one thirty three, and you probably know the passage, but

I want what you've heard concerning the priesthood of Erin. I wanted to relate

to your thoughts about the priesthood of Melkaesedek, because there's a parallel truth.

Here. Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together

in unity and the sister and are welcome to It is like the precious oil

upon the head. Okay, so the oil. The oil isn't dumped down

here. This is kind of interesting. The oil isn't dumped down here.

The oil is dumped on the head. Are you with me? It is

like the precious oil upon the head, coming down upon the beard, even

aaron's beard, coming down upon the edge of his robes. It is like

the dew of herman coming down upon the mountains of Zion. For there the

Lord commanded the blessing even life evermore. What you know, what keeps you

know? The thing is, you still got like a peerid. You've still

got a very finite leader. Right, you got a finite leader, and

you've got a leader with imperfections. But that's the way it was with Erin

as well. That's the way it was with erin as well. But when

there's unity, When there's unity, and when we come together, and when

we plant ourselves in a house and we come under authority and we revere the

calling of God on a leadership team and we knit ourselves to that place all

at once, we get in a spot where these blessings are coming over our

lives. And it's the blessings aren't limited by the finite imperfection of whoever God

has called over the house. I'm not a kinked hose over the house,

right, and so the flow can't get through because because of my finite imperfections.

No, as long as I'm cooperating with Holy Spirit, and you're cooperating

with Holy Spirit, and we're cooperating together with Holy Spirit, then Holy Spirit

is being is pouring out these crazy blessings upon us, blessings of revelation and

blessings of help and hope and support and teamwork and success and breakthrough and prosperity

and kindness and healing. And this is all flowing in an imperfect environment,

like it's an imperfect environment. But because we esteem that this is how God

works, then God loses this upon us even in our imperfection. Now,

I would say that the American way, the American way, which is,

it's contrary to this, the American way, independent consumer, the American way,

it's set up to keep you from really joining yourself to a house.

It's set up to keep you in as long as you're not fully joined to

a house. Satan knows you have an excuse not to tie them. You

have a reason to not tie because we're just going here until we find the

right spot. We're just going here because they got a good kids ministry back

there and it works for us. We're just going here because you know,

we needed something that was a five minute drive and this one's five minutes away.

We're just going here because I mean, you know, they switched the

coffee beans last month over there. I hated him before, but they went

to that new coffee bean. And I don't know. It's a black rifle

being or something like that. I don't know, but it's like a conservative

being and like I don't it's wrapped in American flags. And then and then

they you know, and it's so good. So that's where we're going for

now. And we don't really serve, we don't get involved I'm not talking

about any of you. But we don't really throw ourselves into it. We

don't really lay our lives down, we don't bring the homage of our money.

We don't do those things because of the American influence, the American influence.

And I'm just saying that the American influence is not the Kingdom influence.

It's not what Gods are damed for your life. And through this little sneaky,

tricky stuff that Satan is playing upon your heart, it's keeping you from

tithing. And the keeping you from tithing is a part of keeping you from

unity and proper submission to authority. And so all of this is we're going

so you're not under a covering. It's twelve thirty seven. I've gone over.

I finally looked at the clock. Kay, I want to tell you

a story. Let's send I want to tell you a story. When we

were getting ready to start this church in nineteen eighty nine, nineteen eighty nine,

the word of the Lord came upon my heart. I heard very clearly,

not only the what the church was, the DNA of the church,

the picture of the church, but even the city. God called me to

this city. So we didn't. We didn't. We didn't call ourselves.

By the way, no pastor, no spiritual leader, no apostle should decide

this is what they want to do. Stupidest thing I've ever heard. Just

deciding you want to be in the ministry. You don't decide you want to

be in the ministry. He decides and he calls you. So the visitation

came upon my heart and we're praying into it. I prayed into it for

like a year and a half, and we're putting things in order, and

but we're just kind of, you know, behind the scenes, and we're

cautious and we're careful, and we're serving in another house at that time,

so supercautious and careful, but just praying into it and trusting God. God's

confirming it with you know, various signs and wonders and and uh. But

I really felt the unction. I really felt like the moving of the spirit,

that this was the time, like the time was upon me. And

so I spent a week in fastening in prayer, and that week of fastening

in prayer was all about show me the timing Father. I don't want to

I don't want to move till it's time to move the whole The whole week

was just getting before the Lord about the timing of launching the church. And

at the end of the week, I mean the correlation. I didn't know

all this was going to correlate like this. But at the end of the

week, I went to a ministry conference. And at the ministry conference,

I was invited. First day the ministry conference, I was invited to lunch

with a bunch of pastors. And so I'm kind of the young buck and

I didn't know these guys, and they all invite me to this law lunch

during the break, you know, like on day one or whatever. And

so I go to lunch. I'll go to this restaurant. And so then

the men separated from the women, all the ladies or somewhere else in the

restaurant. All the guys were sitting at these tables, you know, together,

and and so the conversation turned to something and it made me remember that

last night I had this crazy dream. So I'm sitting there and I'm remembering,

Wow, that reminds me of that dream. So, and what had

happened is I had woke up the morning of that ministry conference. I had

woke up from a crazy dream, and I didn't know the meaning of it.

I didn't think it wasn't meaning. I actually thought it was stupid.

I thought it was a stupid dream. And so that's how spirtual I was.

And so the conversation turned. I'm like, oh, yeah, so

I wanted to tell him about this dream. So I start telling these guys

about the stream that, Yeah, last night I had the dream I walked

into a barber shop and the barber put me up in the barber chair and

you know, kind of pumped it up a little bit, and then you

know, I had an apron on and it was just it was total barber

scene, right, It was just this total barber scene. And then he

said, what kind of you know, what do you want me to do?

And I said, yeah, just you know, trimmed the back up

a little bit. I had, you know, I had business in the

front and party on the back, and you know, I had a big

curly mullet back in those days. I had hair in those days and so

so, and you know, and then just trimmed the top. And he

said, well, I don't know how I'm gonna do that. Uh,

And he as he said that he spun my chair around to face the mirror,

and when I looked at myself in the mirror, the whole top of

my head with bald all I had with a little bit of hair going around

the side of me like this, and the whole top of me with bold

And that was the end of the dream. So I'm sharing this and the

guy across from me, what's the chances of this? The guy across from

me, he just likes, looks at me sober, and he says,

pastor divine, I had a name tag on. He said, that's not

a humors stream. That's a word from God for you. And God just

gave me the interpretation. You don't know it, but I interpret dreams.

He said, would you see me afterwards, I'll tell you what the Lord

just showed me. So I meet him after the lunch and you know,

we're talking and he says, here's what the Lord showed me. The Lord

said that you're about to leave where you're at and about to start something new.

And I said, yes, that's true. And the Lord showed me

you're moving from where you're at in ministry. It's going to be north of

where it's at, and it's going to be a ministry endeavor. And yes,

that's true. And he said, here's what the Lord was showing you

in that dream. The Lord was showing you because you've been asking him when

should I go. But the Lord was showing you that you'll know when to

go because you will have a covering. And the Lord was saying to you

to not launch this ministry before you have a covering, because the covering is

the symbol of your annoying and if you're not covered, you won't have the

anointing. And I think this is so relevant for American church. You know,

thinking about statistics, say that in the Puge Sound in Washington State Pugi

Sound that well over thirty percent up to thirty five percent of the Pugi Sound

region call themselves Christian. They declare they are Christians believers in Jesus. But

on any given Sunday or what we know in terms of actively involved in church

in the Washington State region, the Pugisund region, nine percent of the population

are actively involved in church, nine percent are involved in church. Well over

twenty to twenty five percent of our population are not involved or engaged in any

church at all. And I think what they don't realize, and what people

don't realize is that the covering over you has a lot to do with the

anointing that is upon your life. You're anointing for influence, your anointing for

breakthrough, your anointing for your calling, your anointing for what God's ordained for

you, your anointing as a marketplace apostle, or your anointing for whatever it

is that God has for you. It is so related to your covering.

And so many of us don't realize that we need to be under the right

covering, knit to that covering where God has called us, and honoring that

covering and that covering, that right relationship will release something in our lives we've

never had released before. Father, we even pray over this region right now,

would you just lift a hand with me, Lord, We just shout

right now that scales are lifted off of the eyes of the believers across this

region, that the tricks, the schemes, the doctrines of demons, the

influence of darkness, or the hearts of those who believe in Jesus and seek

to follow him, that those scales are lifted right now, right now,

that there is a coming back to the House of the Lord. There's a

coming back to the church. There's a coming back, and there's a mending

and a healing right now, and I want to speak to something with your

heads about your eyes closed, just for a moment. Is that every one

of us, the enemy wants so badly to keep us from being planted in

the House of the Lord. And so every one of us, every one

of us, it's not just these American schemes that I've talked about, but

it's injuries, it's offenses, it's even noting sin or problems and leadership.

And I just want to speak over all of you this morning that there would

just be a healing in our hearts that we would just allow. I want

to kneel before you, and I want to just ask right now on behalf

of church leaders. Would you forgive on behalf of church leaders? Would you

forgive us? Would you forgive us for manipulating your family? Would you forgive

us for continuing in sin when we knew it was wrong? Would you forgive

us for coming into the pulpit flagrantly not prepared, not seeking your game but

seeking our own? Would you forgive church leaders? Would you forgive church leaders

that brought harm to your family, brought harm to you, offended you.

Would you forgive church leaders today that struck you like Moses struck the Rock,

with a harsh attitude and negative attitude, a condemning attitude, a judgmental attitude.

They didn't shepherd your heart as they were called to do by Christ.

To the chief Shepherd, I'm asking this morning that she would allow the Holy

Spirit to bathe your heart right now with the water of Walsh. Whatever obstruction

has harmed you, it's kept you from planting, it's kept you from fully

giving your heart to a local body, an assembly of Zion and expression of

Melkasitic ministry. Whatever has harmed you and hindered you through the hands the voice

the ministry of church leadership, I'm asking that you would forgive them, that

you would turn them over to Father. You would no longer you would no

longer hold or withhold trust, withholding trust from church leaders, be angry,

being frustrated. Holy Spirit cleanse us today, make us a refreshed people who

us to the very core. Holy Spirit cause us here to model a theocracy,

causes heaven to come, causes the full stature of Jesus to be manifest

work, Holy Spirit in a powerful way, with mercy and grace and perfection.

Let all of it be present, so that we are able to receive

from finite and imperfect vessels and yet believed together for the fullness of Jesus to

come and the perfecting worth the Lord to be completed in us and through us.

Do a good work here, Holy Spirit. I'm asking also, Holy

Spirit, that you would lead each of us to the house where we belong.

Let there be just a witness of the spirit that is undeniable. Oh

nit is to the leadership team and knit us to the house where you've called

us, and let the calling be made clear. We thank you for it

today. Thank you for it today. Thank you for it today. Thank

you Laurd, Thank you Lord, Thanks your Lord, Thank you Laurd,

Thank you Laurd. People watching online, I've experienced the same thing. And

if we're still if we're still online, I don't know if we are just

you that are watching. Oh, the Lord wants to plant you in a

body. He covets that you are knit to a family. You've been wounded

through family, You've been wounded through dads and moms. My father wants to

plant you in a family. He wants to knit you to a family.

He wants you to become a valuable family member. We just lose the love

of the Lord, or for you that are watching you, that are going

to watch this stream, that you two find healing and that you're able to

migrate hand forsake independence and become adopted into a family, find that place where

you're called. This is how we overcome the enemy. We can't overcome the

enemy with unity. Unity, unity, unity, unity, Unity releases the

fullness of Jesus in our midst, Unity releases the anointing of Jesus in our

midst. Would you reach over and take a hand of the person beside you,

as sweaty as it might be, and let's just do this as we

close this morning, just symbolically, Holy Spirit, but more than symbolic,

lead to the core of our hearts, just asking, Holy Spirit, would

you make us swan? Would you make us swan? Would you make us

one with Jesus? Would you make us one with Jesus. If we'll become

one with Jesus, will become one with one another. We'll become one with

one another. Lose a unity with Jesus in this place, Holy Spirit,

lose a unity with Jesus in our lives. Lose a unity with Jesus,

and cause us to be those who hold on to one another and build up

one another and strengthen one another. Let the love of Christ be lose to

flow through us one to another. We come into agreement with that right now

in Jesus name. Everybody said, God, bless your church. We love

you, appreciate you as worship as we go this morning,