Standing In Victory & Expanding Our Tent Pegs!

All right, Happy New Year, y'all. It's good to be back.

Are y'all happy? Who's Who's glad that twenty twenty five

is gone? We'll see this time next year? Just joking. Yeah,

Well we were. We got a little R and R

as a family. We were in Pagosa Springs for a

few days this past week and had a thirteen hour

trek back home Friday night, got in about ten thirty,

got to sleep in and recover a bit, and I

will be back on the road Tuesday for a twenty

one hour drive with my oldest son to take him

to a new university he's going to graduate from after

this semester. So what's that? Oh, Franciscan University. So, but

lots of travel here lately, and so let me start

out by we were watching a movie last night, House

said David. Anybody watched that House of David just finished?

I won't ruin anything but second season, last episode, Samuel's

on the Mountain with David? And you ever you ever

have the Lord speak to you through a movie? Yeah,

And I was trying to get Lisa wrote some notes down,

but didn't bring her notebook this morning, so but I

got one of the quotes Samuel's talking to David. This

is right on the cusp of him fixing to flee

from Saul and David's You know, of course with this series,

they it's entertainment, so they add a little bit. But

one of the things he said is that your uncommon

suffering is the cost of your uncommon life of significance.

That your uncommon suffering is the cost of your uncommon

life of significance. And when he said this, you know,

we we we tend to want to have little battles

but massive victories. We want to be great champions of

the faith without testing. It's called the Western Church. But

the reality is there is a cost, and and the

greater the Lord puts his hand upon your life many times,

that counterbalance is a greater measure of the sufferings of Christ.

This last year has been extremely difficult for all of us,

for some way more difficult. I was processing this last week,

over the last year and spending some time with the Lord.

And you don't always recognize the depth of how things

affect you until you get a ways out and you

keep getting hit with grief. And I found myself in

my mind back in the emergency room with Kinley, and

then I thought of the flood are friends that have

lost their siblings and processing through all of this. And

you know, I told you all before I was honestly

didn't want to ask the Lord for a theme for

twenty twenty six. I was hoping that he's going to

say vacation. Everybody gets a vacation for twelve months. And

and I, you know, i'd heard the Lord say stand right.

I'm like, well, Lord, that's a great one word, but

that can mean a whole lot of things. And yesterday

or the day before, I heard standing in victory and

I was like, yeah, no, I don't know about that, Like,

is that really you, Lord? After all these months of

feeling like we've been in a dark room getting beat

up at times, and over the last few years, the

Lord's given us prophetic themes, not so much of like

a bunch of details. And you know, I'm not one

to try to figure out who's going to be president

and all that stuff like that. You got a fifty

to fifty chance on that. That's not that prophetic, right,

And I'm being honest, and nor am I one to

want to give just generalized words that you can't judge

does that make sense. There's too many words out there

that you can't judge it. And they go on and

on and on about with all this fluff, and it's

difficult to judge. And I would say twenty twenty obviously

looking back as twenty twenty vision, but the UH in

twenty twenty. A couple of the things that we had

was reconciliation, which I do think we saw a lot

of a lot of families restored during that time, but

you also saw the opposite, the paradox and clearing the

word of the Lord who I think which was mercy Lord.

By the time March hit, I remember sitting there and

we were in actually we're in Pagosa Springs. We'd stopped

in Santa Fe and at this point everybody was losing

their mind. And this was when they had the toilet

paper run. Like everybody thought COVID was gonna make you

poop your pants, and so everyone was buying all the

toilet paper up right, and literally they're losing it. In

Santa Fe, there's no and next thing you know, we

get there, we get a week pass for the hot springs,

and within like twenty four hours, stuff starts shutting down

within forty eight hours. You can't go into a restaurant.

I looked at least, I said, we're not this good.

This was planned seriously. And then I remember sitting every

day like how many sean you were a part of

the leadership then even then, and how many how many

calls do we have trying to figure out what we're

gonna do? You know, do we meet in person?

Do we not?

Because you don't, you know, you got to hear from

the Lord. If the Lord says you meet, you meet.

I don't give a flip if it hair lips the pope.

But you got to get as you got to get

the word of the Lord. And obviously everybody we got

through twenty twenty and they eventually got away from all.

You know, thank god we had those footsteps in the

grocery stores. I would have gotten lost down the aisles

and gotten too close to somebody, and thank goodness, COVID

stayed away from you as long as you were six

feet from the other person. Little sarcasm. And then twenty

twenty twenty twenty one, twenty twenty one rolls around and

the prophetic thing for that year was waging kingdom warfare,

lots of warfare, lots of warfare. Twenty twenty two, that

wasn't too bad, right, I'm working on that. Twenty twenty twenty,

all right, I'm stopping. Twenty twenty two. The anchor still holds.

And we got towards the end of twenty twenty two,

and we had lots of loss within the community, and

that knock the wind out of us, and yet Jesus

remained faithful. Twenty twenty three rolled around, and the theme

for the year was perseverance as the key in twenty three,

and we press through twenty three persevering, believing that twenty

twenty four would be easier. And then we get a

prophetic theme of twenty twenty four. We declare war in

twenty four, take hold of the promises of God because

we do hard things. And we did a lot of

hard things in twenty twenty four. Fat Troy, I guess

he stepped out. Troy came up to me and goes,

I don't I don't want to. I don't know if

I want to hear one of your themes again. And

twenty twenty five was standing in the gap, fighting for

those who can't fight for themselves. And how true did

that theme become this year? This past year? How many

times did you find yourself standing in the gap for someone,

praying for someone, walking alongside of them, grieving with them,

trying to bring any amount of comfort, knowing that for

many there's no words that could be said that would

have changed anything, because they just wanted their loved ones back.

We have got to give the Lord our ashes from

twenty twenty five so that he can make all things

beautiful in his time. We've got to trust him that

he works all things together for the good for those

that are called according to his purpose. And so, in

all honesty, I came into this year having a difficult

time being excited, just wanting to catch my second breath

so we can forge forward. And just like David was

told to wait until we heard the marching in the

mulberry trees, prophetically, there's a march beginning to happen. The

justice of God is beginning to flow. And one of

the things I want to warn you about this year

is do not allow the enemy to pull you into

his sandbox of a political spirit. Things are going to

get very intense during this time, believe it or not,

Not everybody's excited about Venezuela being freed. They are. And

I won't even go into the issues of the motives

or any of that stuff. God says, the heart of

the King is in the hand of the Lord, and

he turns in any direction he pleases. And God is sovereign,

and Jesus is still the judge of all the earth,

and he's still the God of righteousness and justice, and

it's his very throne. And we are beginning to see

a reset in nations. I believe we're gonna continue to

see nations change that we never thought could change, just

like we're beginning to see people get saved that we

thought were beyond redemption. How about Snoop Dogg. Did y'all

see that? Now? He's smoking the Holy ghost Snoop Snoop

For those of you don't know who that is. He's

a rapper and he's smoked a lot of pot. He

may have three brain cells left at two were fighting,

I don't know. But and then the founder, when I

retire from pastoring, I'm gonna try to be a comedian,

so I test out my jokes on y'all. The founder,

the founder of Wikipedia just gave his life to Jesus.

You know, we're we're seeing people that we thought were

never going to get saved, and they're giving their lives

to the Lord. Why because it's harvest time. You have

to understand the times and seasons and which we're in

and if it was ever harvest time, it is harvest

time right now. And y'all, as we get ready to

pack up out of here and move out to the

campus in the revival tent, I want us to grow

because of the harvest. I don't look at transfers as

true kingdom's success. I'm not against people coming from other

places when they're led to come here, don't get me wrong,

But I want to see salvations. I want to see baptisms,

like we want to see the harvest. Y'all, are you

with me? And so this year there are two two

points at least, and let me say this that this

is two prophetic themes. Is not the only thing that

we're going to see, but just a peace. So twenty

twenty five, I'm sorry, twenty oh Lord, I don't want

to go back. Twenty twenty six, Standing in Victory, Second Chronicles,

twenty verse seventeen, Stand firm, Hold your position and see

the salvation of the Lord on your behalf. I believe

wholeheartedly we're gonna in the midst of the spiritual warfare

and the battles and advancing the Kingdom on the battlefield.

We're going to have many times where the Lord says, hey,

you just stand here, stand firm, stand, and I will

go handle this. Because this issue of the justice of God,

there's counterbalances with His justice, and when injustice gets too

far out, there's always an adjustment to the justice of God,

and he promises to bring us justice, and we're going

to see justice in this area. We're going to see

justice continue to grow throughout this nation, at least for

a period of time, a reprieve. But that means we

cannot get lazy. We've got to stay in firm, watch

and pray and understand our responsibility for seeing His Kingdom advance.

The other thing is expanding our tent pegs. Interestingly enough,

and a Jen, you're double dipping'. I see their same

spot didn't move. Okay, So her and a few other

folks had gone to a conference, the head of the

year conference, I believe, with Chuck Pierce. They came back

and brought some tent pegs and we went and we

drove those stakes in the land at the campus to

contend for revival specifically, And then that was the only

thing I thought of that, But I kept I have

this tent peg still in my jeep. I keep looking

at it, not thinking much. At least it starts journaling

and the Lord starts speaking to her about expanding her

tent pegs. Now, there is a period of time where

I would break down the Hebrew year fifty seven eighty three,

fifty seven eight and go through every number, and it

was like a beautiful Christian horoscope to tell you everything

for the next year. But I've pulled away from that

because I don't think it's in balance. And some of

those years, when you look at that, you look at

the number values and the pictures and the pictograph meaning

sometimes it's accurate and sometimes it's not. So I don't

I don't look for that. She wasn't looking for that,

And all of a sudden we found out that this

is the year of the tent peg. Now, isn't it

interesting that the Lord chose in this season to move

us out to the campus in a tent was not

my number one choice if you were wondering, and yet

he chose to move us out with a tent and

the year of the tent peg refers to the Hebrew

year fifty seven eighty six. It aligns with the Gregorian

year of twenty twenty five to twenty six. A prophetic

theme for spiritual establishment, expansion, and staking claims inspired by

Biblical figures like ja Al and scriptures about enlarging tents

Isaiah fifty four to two and establishing secure places Isaiah

twenty two to twenty three. It signifies taking firm ground,

driving truth into lies, and preparing for greater influence. The

spiritual anchoring using the tent peg the Hebrew letter viove

to represent establishing a secure, firm foundation in God's presence.

Expansion of growth a call to lengthen your chords and

strengthen your stakes Isaiah fifty four to two for spiritual

and personal growth. Moving out of tight situations. We're moving

out of a smaller situation and into a larger place

to expand victory and claiming territory symbolizes driving down truth

to overcome enemies or lies, similar to ja Al driving

a tent peg into Cisera's temple judges for twenty one

and a divine appointment, a season for individuals to rise,

take their place and build what Heaven is established. Hey, Jonathan,

when I was on drums playing, I felt like the

Lord's put a business on your heart of wanting to

start a new business, and I believe the Lord's given

you the green light this year. Is that accurate? Awesome? Good?

It's good, good word, it was accurate. Thank you Jesus.

Hopefully that's confirmation. All right, cool, now I just want

to disclaim her. I'm not responsible for the level of success,

but it's gonna be brilliant. So I'm excited for this year.

I'm getting excited. I'm getting excited for the reality that

God is going to bring justice. He's gonna bring healing

to our region. He's gonna restore hope. We will recover,

and I believe the way the Lord works is we

will be stronger than ever. It takes time, it takes

a tribe, but we will get there. And I'm excited

for all of the victories that we're going to talk

about this time next year. And I'm not saying it's

gonna be rainbows and lollipops and a walk in the park.

But we're going to see God move in amazing ways

this year. Seven Chronicles twenty fifteen to twenty three says,

and he said, listen, all Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem,

and King Jehosaphat. Thus says the Lord to you, do

not be afraid, and do not be dismayed at this

great horde, for the battle is not yours, but God's. Tomorrow.

Go down against them. Behold, they will come up by

the ascent of Zizz. You will find them at the

end of the valley east of the wilderness of Jerule.

You will not not drool, But Jerule, you will not

need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position,

and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf. Oh,

Judah and Jerusalem, do not be afraid, do not be dismayed.

Tomorrow go out against him, and the Lord will be

with you. And Jehosephat bowed his head to Uh with

his face to the ground, and all Judah and the

inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.

I think the issue of standing in victory, you have

to understand they're in battle. It's not that they're not.

It's not like they're they're just standing around going twenty

twenty six, we're going to stand in victory. Oh that

was awesome. Oh wow, didn't see that coming. Oh man,

that's amazing. We're not gonna just sit and do nothing.

They were still on the battlefield. They were still taking ground.

It's the reality that while on the battlefield, the Lord says, hey,

just stand and I will go handle that. So as

we are moving forward this year standing in victory, we're

still gonna be on the battlefield. Because you were born

into a battle that never goes away, y'all. You were

born to be warriors. You were born to be like

Joel's army. And so don't don't don't be like you said.

We were gonna stand at victory. And I've got a trial, duh,

the testing of your faith. What produces what? Yeah, you

don't get a get out a test uh free card? Right.

My wife has a unique anointing when it comes to

card playing. And we were on vacation and the woman

would not lose, and me and Kobe and Micah and

Cole didn't care, but the rest of us are very competitive.

And and then she's and then she's trash talking us

as we lose. Yes, my sweet little timid wife, that

has nothing to do with the prophetic word. I just

thought i'd share that. Mark three twenty four says if

a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.

Neither can a house when your wife is winning all

the card games. First at the in sixteen thirteen, Be watchful,

stand firm in the faith. Act like men, Be strong,

little caveat. If you're a woman, act like a woman.

If you're a man, act like a man. Be strong

in the faith. We still got a watch. We still

need watchmen on the wall, and that's why we have

the Sunday night Watch. And Jen is graciously officially accepted

to be over the watch on Sunday nights. So I

told her, don't worry. I'll still be there. It's just

our wh The schedule's getting wild, folks. But everything has

to be bathed in intercession and prayer. God's never done

anything of significance without agreement and without prayer. And we've

got to keep can keep standing, keep praying for a

move of God in this region. Listen, one of the

things that's happening right now is we're moving from pastoral

church to apostolic church. Do I need to expound like Antioch,

it's an Apostolic hub. God never designed his government for

a pastor to be ahead, says first apostle, then prophet,

then teacher. And yet for so long in the American

Church we see like a single pastor trying to fulfill

the entire fivefold, which is not This is why they

burn out. And the vision of having an Apostolic hub

or a modern day Antioch in this region. The Lord

began to speak to me about that fifteen years ago

at least. And it's our heart to have a full

functioning fivefold ministry in house that are actually each able

to raise up other fivefold leaders to send out in

and out Antioch in and out. You see them coming

in and out. And because guess what, we don't own anyone.

And if God puts a calling on someone's life and says, hey,

you're supposed to go to San Antonio or wherever and

do something, we're to celebrate with them. We're to champion them,

We're to lay hands on them and support them and

bless them and expand expand your tent Ephesian six says this, Therefore,

take up the whole armor of God, that you may

be able to withstand in the evil day. And having

done all to stand firm stand therefore, having fastened on

the belt of truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

and as shoes for your feet, having put on the

readiness given by the Gospel of Peace. I said this

first service. Anybody ever have a dream where your shoes

are you're barefoot in the dream and you're trying to

find your shoes, or you're wondering, what does anybody dream?

You know, by the time you're sixty a thirty, your

life has been asleep. Some of y'all may be asleep

right now. But when you have a dream where you

don't have your shoes on, it's because you're lacking peace.

And you'll notice that when you have those types of dreams,

that's always in a season where you're fighting off anxiousness

or anxiety or how about this, you're trying to get

dressed in your clothes don't fit. Yeah, all of these things.

Because we're so logical in our thought process, we don't

pay attention to these dreams. And the Lord is speaking.

He's speaking way more I've heard it said this. He's

saying way less than what we're saying. He's saying, but

he's speaking way more than we want to hear. Say. Law,

So in all circumstances, take up the shield of faith,

because sometimes it can extinguish some fiery darts. No, take

up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish

all the flaming darts of the evil. One. One of

the greatest dangers for us right now here locally is

to begin or is to number one, not grieve number two,

grieve without hope. If we grieve without hope, we will

be led into unbelief. Are you with me? You cannot

give up your hope? Says hope deferred makes the heart

sick against all hope, Abraham hoped. Many have noticed the

Book of Isaiah coming up a lot lately. Anybody noticed that.

It's like here in the last few weeks, I can't

believe how many like I'm in Isaiah in my reading plan.

And then everybody's talking about scriptures of Isaiah. And I

don't just mean like, you know, the because of Christmas.

I'm saying all different scriptures from Isaiah. For whatever reason,

the Lord is really breathing on Isaiah right now, and

there's lots of lots of revelation coming out of there.

But Isaiah forty verse eight says, the grass withers, the

flowers fade, but the word of our God will stand forever. Y'all,

when you are in a valley and you can't feel him,

you still have his word, You still have his word

to guide you. David said, I've hidden your word in

my heart that I might not sin against you. Well,

how do you know of you're sinning if you don't

know the word. Remember in the Old Covenant, they weren't

even reading the scriptures, they weren't even reading the Law,

and all of a sudden, it says that they pulled

the Book of the Law out and they begin to

read it, and everyone got convicted, struck, struck in their

heart by God's word. And that's what led to a revival.

Understand that there is no true revival without His word

and spirit. And this massive divorce that we've watched in

the American Church of people either all words, Cessatianists or

all spirit, and half of them wack adoodles because they

aren't grounded in the Word of God. It's not either

or it's it's both. Artie Kendall said years ago that

the church has had a silent divorce, and just like

with a real divorce, some kids go with the dad

and some kids go with the mother. Some of us

have gone with the word, and some of us have

gone with the spirit. But it needs to be both. Right,

You're welcome. So I'm twenty four. Who shall ascend the

hill of the Lord, and who shall stand in his

holy place, He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

who does not lift up his soul to what is false,

and does not swear deceitfully, He will receive blessing from

the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Such is the generation of those who seek him. To

understand that the current generation Generation Z and X, that

they're literally being called the revival generation because the young

people right now for church attendants in the United States,

the young people are the largest number of people back

in church right now. So you have a generation rising

up that despite previous generations inabilities to pass on certain things,

one of the greatest things that we are called to

do is leave a spiritual inheritance. We are called to

raise up spiritual fathers and mothers. And I might add

just because you call yourself a spiritual father or spiritual

mother does not mean you are. And I've seen people

that have false identity try to find themselves by calling

themselves a spiritual father a spiritual mother. But it goes

on to say who shall stand in his holy place

He who has clean hands in a pure heart, who

does not lift up his soul to what is false,

and does not swear deceitfully. Y'all, salvation is free, But

if you want the anointing on your life, it's costly.

There's a price, and it's called intimacy. It's called sanctification.

It's called being set apart. It's giving things up that

may not even be wrong, but they're things that are

in the way from you. Cultivating intimacy with the Lord.

Authority has grown in the secret place. You're given a

measure of it right to each man has been given

a measure of faith Romans twelve three. But what are

you gonna do with that? The anointing on your life

can eb and flow. Your gift will always work, but

it's not gonna break the yoke. You understand that the

only way you get bondage broke is because of the anointing.

That's why over the last twenty years I've watched different

prayer ministers, and some have an anointing to break yokes

and see massive deliverance, and some they know everything, but

there's just not a lot going on there. Just because

you have knowledge of something doesn't mean you know the Lord.

Knowledge puffs up. He will receive blessing from the Lord

and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is

the generation of those who seek him, who seek the

face of the God of Jacob. Saylah, lift up your heads,

o gates, and be lifted up, oh ancient doors, that

the King of Glory may come in. Who's this King

of glory? The Lord's strong and mighty in battle. Lift

up your heads, O gates, lift them up, oh ancient doors,

that the King of glory may come in. Who's this

King of glory? The Lord of hosts? He is the

King of glory. Some years ago Psalm twenty four three

to ten. Some years ago I was driving taking the

boys to uh school and Hunt Hunt Hunt Elementary School.

So this was a long time ago. Because Cole's gonna

be twenty one this month, believe it or not. And uh,

and my hair was much darker. But I'm driving and

I look over and I see these big hills and

and I felt like the lords say say that he

was gonna give me a mountain, not like a obviously

we don't have mountains here, but that we were gonna

have our own hill. And I didn't think much of

it until we got the twenty five acres and like

seven acres is a huge hill that we're going to

put a big cross on and have a and and

have a prayer area.

Up there, you know.

A back it says, rite down the vision. Though it tearies,

wait for it, it will surely come to pass. Back

in twenty thirteen when I launched Cross Kingdom Ministries, and

none of this was the church. Plant was not a

part of the original vision. What was interesting was everything

on my heart, none of it had none of it

changed when he said plant the church. The vision just

looked different than what I thought it was going to look.

And I tell people all the time, it doesn't matter

how much revelation you have about your future. He's never

going to give you so much that he's going to

remove your need for faith, because without faith. It's impossible

to please him. So we need to stop asking the

Lord to make it so clear that we don't need

faith because he will not violate his word. What we

need to be asking is for the Lord to strengthen

our faith so that we can look at the impossible

and say you're possible. We can look at the impossible

and say, you got to bow to Jesus. I look

back over the last few years, moments of what you

would perceive as defeat, whether it was praying for two

hours to raise the dead and they didn't come back.

I told Randy Clark in November. I was like, yeah,

I don't know if you want me on the dead

raising team. I'm like, oh, for seven right now, And

Randy goes, doesn't matter. You're praying for the dead, and

if you keep doing it, you'll see it, and by

God's grace, we will see the dead raised. I'm not

okay with living a life under what Jesus said we're

supposed to live and if he said these things you're

gonna do. If Mark sixteen says these things, then he's

the truth, he's the life, he's the way, and then

I need to look in the mirror and say, Lord,

what am I missing? What needs? What do you need

to change in me so that I can have the

level of faith I need, so that you can flow

through me and not be quenched by the kryptonite called unbelief.

Because every time we pray for something and it doesn't

work out the way it should or the way we

perceive it should, in that moment we have a choice.

Are we going to go into unbelief and pacify our souls?

Are we going to hit our knees and say, Lord,

speak to me, Lord, touch me, Lord, change me, Lord,

pull down the stronghold, Lord, remove the lies. Proverbs twenty

five six and seven says this, do not put yourself

forward in the king's presence or stand in the place

of the great, For it is better to be told

come up here than to be put lower in the

presence of a noble. Wait on the Lord. He is

your promotion. You are not. There's never been a time

in our modern culture where it is easier to promote

yourself all the way into a place of destruction. The

worst thing in the world is for you to show

up into your future ahead of time, because two things

will happen if you show up early because of self promotion.

Number One, you will not have the character to sustain

staying there. Number two, the people that God preordained before

the foundations of the earth for you to have influence

with probably won't even be there. Because your destiny is

not in buildings or in businesses or in materialistic stuff.

Your destiny is in people, because it's all about relationship.

And if you think you're a leader, here's the test.

Turn around who's following. Because there's all sorts of people

on social media that say all sorts of stuff and

claiming to be all sorts of stuff. And because they

know how to manipulate algorithms, you think that somehow there's

some gigantic spiritual superman. And the reality is people are

getting exposed left and right in the church right now.

Leaders are being exposed left and right because God is

cleaning house. Because who can ascend the hill of the

Lord but he who has clean hands, pure heart, And

he is after his bride to have clean hands in

a pure heart, because he wants to place an anointing

on our lives in these last days that break the yokes,

that pull the treasures of darkness out. He's after the people.

He's not after all this other stuff, and we need

to have blinders on in this hour that we're literally

laser focused on the author and finisher of our faith.

We need to wake up in the morning and be

more concerned and have a greater desire to just simply

be with him than to be seen by others. For

Samuel twelve sixteen, now therefore stand still and see this

great thing that the Lord will do before your eyes.

Now in context, this is where Israel asked for a

king and God wanted to be their king, and Samuel said, look,

stand still, because you need to know the evil that

you do. And he calls on the Lord and it's

thundering and lightning and it's just dark and dreary, and

they all realized, oh man, this was really bad, but

let's have a king. Anyways, when Jesus wanted to be

their king, God wanted to be their king. But in

this context, prophetically, I'm saying, now, therefore stand still and

see this great thing that the Lord will do before

our eyes this year, unless you don't want to see

anything good. Psalm seventy six seven says this, but you

you are to be feared. Who can stand before you.

When once your anger is roused, listen. One of the

things that we have a tendency to do is when

we see something happen in real time to something, we

always assume, oh, well, what did they do in the moment,

when it could have been something's happening right now because

of decades ago. You understand, when Israel was in drought,

David inquires of the Lord, Lord, why are we in drought?

And he said, because Saul broke the covenant with the Gibeonites.

And the issue with that is that that covenant was

broke fifty years previous. So what does that tell you

fifty years later they're in drought. You reap what you sow. Right,

you sow to the flesh of the flesh, you reap corruption.

If you sow the spirit of the spirit, you reap life.

But some of these harvests take time to play out.

So don't judge with your natural eyes when things happen.

Say Lord, why is this happening? Because it very well

could have been something that happened decades before. And now.

The invitation on your life is to stand into identificational

prayer and repent on behalf of that previous issue. Years ago,

I was with was we were in Wharton's Dock, We

were at the entry, we were at the spiritual gate

of that whole area, and I was with Linda Claussen,

Bill Stegemuler and some other folks and we're up there

praying and we asked for forgiveness for that region for

letting I believe it was the Mormons, Jehovah's witnesses or

Mormons for letting them in. And we stood there and

the lake was almost bone dry. A supernatural wind began

to blow around us as we were praying, and within

a couple of months, within just a few days time,

that that lake filled up forty percent forty to fifty.

So one of the dangers that we're facing right now

is that because of science, you have weather modification, right,

and people argue over how much it can modify the weather,

but we do know they're messing with it daily. You

see the trails in the sky and it's it's not

conspiracy theory, it's like it's legit. There's there's cloud seating programs.

One of the dangers is for you to look with

natural eyes and if because the Lord said I will

cause it to rain, on one land, and I will

withhold it from another. And then in the last days,

we know that weather is going to go crazy. It's

not global warming, sorry to tell you, it's the earth groaning.

And I also want to tell you that it's also

because of the wickedness of the people in the land.

And scripture says that if you get so wicked, the

land itself will stew you out. So that's what I

think about global warming. You all seem excited about that.

I'm gonna I'm gonna start landing the plane safely. Let

all the earth fear the Lord, Let all the inhabitants

of the world stand in awe of him, Psalm thirty

three eight. I don't know about y'all, but the reality

of leaders being more accountable is a reality we're seeing

come to pass. You have if you're if you're called

to any level of leadership and significance on your life,

you're gonna find yourself on a very short leash. And

the reality is you may be frustrated that you can't

get away with anything. I had never been able to

get away with anything. Lisa has laughed at how quick

I get spanked when I do something stupid. I mean,

it's like I'm like, oh my goodness. I remember leaving

the house one Sunday morning. We were still going to

Impact church back then, and Lisa was trying to tell

me something about speeding and I was like, hon you

can go five over. They're not going to pull you over. Well,

one Sunday morning, we pull out of the driveway on

Junction Highway and we're headed to church. I get pulled over.

I'm going five over. We get we you know, I'll

pull off to the side, and he's like, where are

you all headed? I said to church. Actually I think

it was Fredericksburg. We're headed to Fredericksburg. At Sunday House,

I said, we're headed to church, and Lisa, my helper,

my little helper, says, officer, would you please tell my

husband that he will get pulled over for going five over.

I was like, you're not helping me right now. And

then that that little giggle like when you everybody's button

the card game, and it just tickled you so much.

What's the whole point of this not just to laugh.

The point is thank God that he's correcting you. It says,

if you be without chastening, then you don't belong to him.

If you can sin and get away with it and

not feel bad, you better check your birth certificate. Spiritually, yeah,

Proverbs nineteen twenty one. Many of the plans in the

mind of a man, but it's the purpose of the

Lord that will stand. There's this whole theme. So when

the Lord speaks to me about a theme, whether it's

standing or fighting or whatever it is, I will do

an entire word search of every scripture for that word,

throughout Genesis to Revelation, because I want to know that

I have a well balanced understanding of what he's saying

to me, and I'm not just cherry picking a couple

of verses to prove a point and taking them out

of context. That's why we have all of these doctrines

of demons re emerging again, like gnosticism and annihilationism and

universalism and all of these things. Are you with me?

Guard your hearts because in the last days meant they

will listen to tickling ears. They will not hold on

to solemn doctrine, but give in to seducing spirits of

doctrines of demons. You understand, the words seduced doesn't always

mean a sexual seducing. It can literally mean a fleshly

seducing of knowledge. There's different types of seduction. Okay, almost

perfect timing, Almost done, Isaiah eight ten. Take counsel together,

but it will come to nothing. Speak a word, but

it will not stand. For God is with us so

many things that we've been battling in this last season.

You understand the enemy was out to take us out

in this last season, Make no mistake about it. I

had a spiritual attack the other night and I came

to It was pitch black, and I was bound up

and there's demon was next to me, and I heard

him pull out a knife audibly sh and I was like,

in the name of Jesus, and I came against that

and I woke up. It was on vacation. Now you

know you want you want the fluffy, nice, amazing dreams

and visions, and I'm over here getting attacked hallelujah. But

the reality is the Lord will protect us, and I

know it doesn't feel like he's protected us to some

And we don't always know why certain things happen, and

we live in attention of mystery. But you're here, everyone

in this room is here today and breathing because the

Lord is not done with you. That means your calling

is not done. And I don't know about y'all, but

I want the blood of the enemy on my sword,

and I want to go out with my sword drenched

with the blood of the enemy. And I would rather

go out on the battlefield than be on the sidelines

with cheap accusations from a cheap seat. All right, last

two Romans Romans five to two. Through him, we have

also obtained access by faith into this grace in which

we stand, and we rejoice and hope of the glory

of God, y'all. I believe wholeheartedly we're going to literally,

tangibly with our natural eyes see the glory of the

Lord in that tent. I've seen a glory cloud one time,

wide awake in my backyard with my wife, and I

shared that with y'all. Was about a year ago when

we saw that, and I was like, do you see this?

And talking to Bonnie and Shabda they started out in

a tent and some other Roger Sykes and his wife,

they were actually during that they were there. Y'all don't

know him. He's Bobby Connor's on Bobby Connor's board. The

prophet Bobby Connor. Anyways, Roger a great guy, but he

was telling me a story. They literally had a glory

cloud show up inside the tent and you could see

everyone could see the lightning coming out of this cloud.

And he said that they missed the tent. I don't

know what it is with the Lord about tents, but

here we are. And it's interesting that this year is

the year of the tent peg and he specifically called

us to go into a tent and brought confirmation to that. Like,

I have zero doubt about that, And we are not

far off from starting to scrape some dirt and then

we're going to expand our tent pegs with the buildings.

So I don't know about y'all, but I think we

have a legitimate right to be excited. I think you

have permission to get excited about this year. Last scripture

about tents Exodus thirty three to nine. When Moses entered

the tent, the pillar of cloud would descend and stand

at the entrance of the tent, and the Lord would

speak with Moses. We want to be a community, a

tribe that is centered around his presence, not programs, not marketing,

none of that. We want Jesus, We want the presence

of the Lord, and we want to be a generation

that seeks his face, the God of Jacob. So quick

review twenty twenty Thank god it's over COVID. That's twenty

twenty reckon. So there were good things. God worked. I can't.

I mean, there were so many testimonies of family saying

because they were all locked up together, relationships were mended,

reconciliation happened. We were declaring the word of healing over

lots of people twenty twenty one. Waging kingdom warfare twenty

twenty two. The anchor still holds twenty twenty three. Perseverance

is a key in twenty three, twenty twenty four, we

declare war in twenty four taking hold of the promises

of God because we do hard things. Twenty twenty five

standing in the gap, fighting for those who can't fight

for themselves. And twenty twenty six the prophetic thing for

this year is standing in victory and expanding their tent pegs.

Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of

the Lord on your behalf. Let's stand. Father. I just

asked that you would just hit us with a B

twelve shot of your spirit, Lord, that you would give

us eyes to see, ears to hear, hearts that receive. Lord,

pull the scales off our eyes, the wax out of

our ears, the callouses off our souls, and expand our

spirits capacity for your spirit, that you would cause a

fresh baptism and fire to fall on us once again. Lord, Lord,

you filled the disciples over and over and over, and

sometimes there was prayer, intercession, earthquakes, and they were filled,

and they were filled, and they were filled. Lord, we

need to be filled more than once. So would you

fill us afresh this morning? Would you give us a

boldness of spirit, a confident expectation, and the God of Israel,

that we would know that you are a provider. You're

Jehovah Jiroh. You are the healer, Jehovah Raphah. You are

our righteousness, Jehovah sick Canoe. You are our peace, Jehovah Shalom. Lords,

You're our banner, You're the warrior. You're the Lord of Hosts.

You're the God that sees. You're our bread that came

down from heaven. You're the Sun, the Everlasting Father, the

Prince of Peace, the Mighty God, the counselor you're wonderful. Lord,

you're Jehovah Nissi, you're Jehovah Aurah, the God of light.

Or that we this week would manifest your names in

our life. Lord, I thank you that there is no

longer Jew, Gentile Greek, but we're one new man, and

that all the promises are yes and amen in Christ.

So Lord, would you release the resources the provision that's needed,

the abundance of provision for the good works that you've

called us to walk in. Lord Deuteronomy eight eighteen, you

are the one that gives us power to make wealth. Lord,

we want to see poverty eradicated in this region. Lord.

We want to see the religious spirit eradicated in this region. Lord,

we want to see an open heaven. We want to

see the fullness of a modern day Antioch.

What.

I thank you that you go before us and your

our rear guard. I thank you that you're making the

path straight as we trust in you. So, Father, with

open hands, we give you this year. We say not

our will, but your will be done. So Lord, we

yield and submit our wills to you this morning. You're

good and you only give good gifts. So thank you

in Jesus' name. Amen, the prayer team we come forward.

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