Holy Fire!

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week.

We hope you enjoyed this message from Justin Carpenter.

Oh well, oh, so, as I was saying, I'm thankful

to be up and about at least, I got sick

with the flu last Friday, and uh, unfortunately I got

hit Monday. And I'll tell you what, y'all, I rarely

ever get sick ever, and I felt like crap.

I mean just it was bad.

And somebody said, well, did you go get tested? Like

why I'm sick. I don't need them to tell me

I'm sick. I know how I feel and I'm not.

I'm not adding to the uh the c game.

That was free.

So so I will sound a little bit like Charles

Bronson as I teach. And because I'm getting over my

last little bit of drainage and cough, you know, I

I've been asking the Lord this week. I had had

a lot of time to sit home, obviously sleep a bunch,

and I was like, Lord, what is it specifically about

Charlie Kirk? Because we have Martyredom happen every day in

this earth. It's just we have been hedged in in

the United States from it. But he wasn't just assassinated.

He literally just lost two million dollars a year in

support because he wouldn't back off talking about Jesus everywhere

he goes.

And so he was martyred, period. And uh. And you know,

I know all.

Sorts of zillions of conspiracies are flying around, but I

will tell you that.

It intrigues me. There's I don't.

Ask the Lord for revelation on a lot of things,

like I could care less about always talking about like

the political prophets drive me nuts.

I'm sorry.

And because our primary job is not about politics, It's

it's about the equipping of the saints. So that means

if I'm a prophet, then I better be equipping you

to hear the voice of the Lord for yourself, not

to follow me. And but I've been I was asking

the Lord. I said, Lord, I don't ask you a

lot about political stuff. And I'm like, but what is

it about Charlie that you that you've chosen to move

Because what's happening right now in the United States, in

this moment and even around the globe is way bigger

than Charlie Kirk. And you know, the scripture says unless

the seed dies and goes into the ground. You've heard

that scripture before, and revival is built on the blood

of the martyrs. It is, And I keep asking him.

I haven't gotten a real clear answer, but I do

know this, and I don't mean to sound cheesy or cliche,

but I do believe that there is a prophetic word

to this nation in the name of His organization, and

that is turning point for the United States. And I

believe that wholeheartedly God speaks. He speaks in one way

or in another, and we don't always get it. Sometimes

he speaks with a big chief coloring book, and I

think this is one of those moments where the Lord

is speaking to us. I believe that it is imperative

that we respond as a nation to this invitation of

the Lord of repentance, because if we don't, we will

end up in civil unrest, and that's exactly what the

enemy would love. And as the body of Christ, we

need to be bold, like so many people that are

waking up in this hour and saying they're going to

be bold for their faith, because the only way we

have a true turning.

Point back to the Lord Jesus Christ is if.

The Church stands up and becomes bold as a lion

and speaks the truth and love and takes back our

schools and takes back these government positions, and we actually

be the light and salt that He's called us to

be and stop giving a flip about the fear of man.

But the only way that this invitation that I believe

is a sovereign invitation in this moment of the Lord.

The only way we don't pass this by is if we.

Actually take our relationship individual relationship with Jesus serious, and

that we allow his fire to come and purge us,

that we would be set on fire and stewart that

first love. The world is sick and tired of seeing

people talk about God but then not show God in

their life.

And we all fall short, we all stumble.

We all have moments where a spirit of stupid comes

over us and we repent from it and move forward.

But the days of playing games are over.

Like the Church has got to wake up, stay awake

and watch and pray and understand the moment that we're in.

Understand that the shakings, the birth pains. Whether you think

you're leaving on Tuesday or not, the birth pains are

getting intense, are they not? I mean, you got to

be a special kind of dole to not recognize that

everything that can be shaken is being shaken right now.

I want to encourage you in these birth pains. And

it says, don't think it's strange that these fiery trials

come on your life. But why is it we always

seem so surprised that we're in another trial?

Are we not?

I'm like, lately here, I've been like, Lord, can I

just get a little break? I mean, just, you know,

can can we take a break from shaking bake for

like a week or something. I just need to get

a little recovery time. And next thing, you know, it's

like something else crazy happens, y'all. And he says, count

it all, joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of

various kinds. I love that word because the Greek word

is poikilos and it means multicolored. So count it all, joy,

my brothers, when you meet trials of multi colored kinds.

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness,

and let steadfastness have its full effect, and that you

may be perfect, in complete, and lacking nothing. So when

we act surprised and go into intercessory whining because we're

being tested again. We're telling the Lord that we do

not want to be complete and we want.

To be in lack. You're like, last night what I said,

But that's what.

You're saying when you don't yield to that scripture and

take joy in your testings. My wife's looking at me

like are you listening? Yes, I'm not always joyous in

my testings. I got a phone call Friday night from

the Kerrville I mean the Kirk County Sheriff's Department.

Y'all, we've gone through enough. I'm a little shell shocked

right now. I pick up the phone.

They're like, yes, this is the Kirk County Sheriff's Department.

I'm like, Lord, Jesus have mercy. Is this mister Justin Carpenter.

I was like, yes it is. Are you the owner

of a two thousand and four Chevy trail Blazer. I'm

like yes, And they're like, well, your vehicle's been hit

and it's in the parking lot at Ingram And I'm like, well,

my son Micah was driving it is he?

How's he?

And she goes, could I have Micah's cell phone number.

That was her response to me, not like I don't

know or he wasn't driving or anything like that. So

I may have overreacted emotionally a little bit, and that

not to her. But when I got off the phone

and I hear my wife in the background, you know,

kind of like the Holy Spirit, Well that was an overreaction.

I'm like, yes, I know, my nerves are un end

Then I get down there only to find out some

sweet young teenage girl in a big pickup truck with

a grill guard didn't know how to park. Then she

smoked the back of the trailblazer and crunched the metal.

I was like, I would have thought she'd back off

a little bit after she heard the you know, the

plastic and glass break, but giving her all, she's got captain,

And so I was not joyful in that moment. Lord,

thank you for.

This phone call. Thank you.

I went down there and my wife's like, you'd be

nice to that little she's a teenager, and I'm like, huh,

I'm not gonna get upset. I already had my moment

and got down there, and then the Ingram police officer

proceeds to tell me he can't do anything as is

on private property, which is not exactly the correct legal

information of my understanding. Correct, that's not true, right, or

that is true? Okay, I thought he was trying to

blow smoke up my shorts or something. You know, you

thought I was gonna say, skirt. That stuff don't work

in this house. You know what I'm saying. I'm gonna

keep going. I'm already in a ditch now, all right, folks.

So anyways, but.

We're not supposed to believe or we're not supposed to

think that it's strange that our.

Faith is being tested.

The Lord is way more interested in your transformation and

your holiness than he is you being comfortable. And we

have taught a gospel that doesn't have a whole lot

of cost in the Western Church, and now we're beginning

to see a faith.

That actually cost us something.

Now we're beginning to see a little bit of pushback.

Which I've said for years, persecution was coming to the us,

and that you better be ready, and that you better

understand the sufferings of Christ because the enemy is not

going to roll over. Remember, in the Last Days it

says gross darkness will cover the people. It's going to

cover the people. Are we seeing gross darkness in our

faith right now? But the glory of the knowledge of

the Lord will cover the earth, or the knowledge of

the glory.

Of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters

cover the sea. So it's bittersweet, But what's going to guarantee.

Your longevity is what side of coin you decide to

stay focused on, Because if you, as a believer, decide

to stay focused on the side of gross darkness covering

the people, then you will be a casualty of war

because you will allow the lawlessness of men to become

your teacher in these last days, and you will get

offended with God and forget his goodness, And that is

exactly what the enemy would love to happen. And the

reality is, we've got to become unoffendable in this hour.

And the only way we're going to become unoffendable in

this hour is to allow his fire to burn, for

his purifying fire to come over us, and not resist it,

yield to his transformational fiery love. Our God is a

jealous God and he is an all consuming fire, and

we need to know the difference between holy fire and

strange fire, because there's a lot of counterfeit fires out

there in this hour. There's a lot of counterfeit, y'all.

When Jesus started talking about doctrines of demons seducing spirits,

and that there would be false prophets and false teachers,

we're living in that day that he was talking about

wolf's and sheep's clothing, and when they smile, you see

wolf teeth and not sheep teeth. In fact, I think

I got a couple of puncture wounds in the backside.

Didn't mean to give you that visualization, But John three

to eight. This week, i'd been reading again and listening

to Artie Kendall's book on Holy Fire that came out

about at least ten years ago.

It was actually written.

In response to John MacArthur's Strange Fire Book if you

remember the clashes of the fires back then. But one

of the chapters starts out with John three to eight,

and it says, the wind blows where it wishes, and

you hear it sound, but you do not know where

it comes from or where it goes. So it is

with everyone who's born of the spirit. And this is

obviously Jesus talking to Nicodemus in context and he's addressing

the issue of the Holy Spirit, and it says, the

wind blows where it pleases.

Do you understand that.

You can't make the wind blow in the direction that

you want. No matter how much desire you have in

your heart for something in this planet, you cannot make

it God's will.

If it's not.

You can't direct the wind. You can't direct the direction

of the Holy Spirit. It blows where it pleases. He

shows up in his sovereignty when he decides, and when

he moves sovereignly, nothing can stop it. When he shows

up with moves of God, revivals of the past, it

was holy fire. People got uncomfortable because in the midst

of that holy fire, their unholiness got exposed. But make

no mistake, as God draws closer, you begin to feel

the heat turning up. You begin to recognize the things

that you thought you were getting away with in your

past that now it's in your face, and He, as

a loving father, is asking for you to deal with it.

We can lie to ourselves, we can fool our spouses,

we can fool our kids, or fool our friends, but

you're never going to fool the Lord. Aw Tozer said,

if the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today,

ninety five percent of what we do would go on

and no one would know the difference. The question for

you this morning is how much in your life is

actually of the Holy Spirit? And if He stopped hovering

over your life and moving through you, how much of

your activity would cease versus just continue on as it

always has, and it's got Jesus sprinkles on it.

How much of Oh Lord, your will not mine is truly.

Reality when it comes down to us living the rest

of the one hundred and sixty some hours a week.

How much of Jesus do you actually need to show

up in your life each day? How dangerous are you living?

And when I say dangerous, I mean dangerous to the enemy.

There was a season of my life my wife did

not like going out in public with me. She does now,

but I think, but I wouldn't. I just I I was.

I had my spiritual gun loaded, and I was I

was ready.

I was always looking, and.

I'd grab a hold of people in the street and

start praying for them, and and and Lisa is like, hun,

we're on a date night. Can you can you just

like focus on me a little bit?

Right now.

And you know, you look back on your life as

as your history with the Lord, and and you see

moments where you were on fire, an unquenchable fire in

your life. But then you see moments where you felt

like you were just trying to get through. One of

the dangers that we face in this local region in

this moment is that if we don't take care of

our emotional spiritual health in this season, many of us

will find ourselves shipwrecked trying to deal with trauma that

we weren't willing to deal with upfront. Y'all, this whole

area has been affected horribly by things, and we must

understand that. Whether you think it has affected you or not,

it has affected you. And I want to encourage you

to get a tune up, get a tune up, get

some prayer ministry, whether it's with us or we've partnered

with another ministry, and for inner healing. And I mean,

don't blow off that damning up that can happen. You

may not recognize it in this moment, but I promise

you anything you don't deal with, you'll begin to see

symptoms of In numbers twenty six sixty one, it says,

but Nadab and a buy who died when they offered

unauthorized fire before the Lord. We want to stay away

from strange fire. John Wesley said, I set myself on

fire and people come and watch me burn. Is there

enough evidence in your life right now that if people

get around.

You, they actually see Jesus.

You know it can't help, but you sit there and

you really begin to think about legacy when in moments

like this and when you it's it's interesting as people pass,

you know, the different levels of influence that people have

on this earth.

I don't know about you, but.

I want to leave the greatest impact for Jesus I

possibly can. Charlie and his wife they had a saying

they wanted to pop overpopulate Heaven. That was their goal,

to overpopulate, right. I'm sorry, make Keaven crowded. I knew

I was close, but make Heaven crowded. That that was

their family motto, make Heaven crowded. The only way you

make Heaven crowded is if you have a boldness and

you're actually speaking the gospel, which is the power under salvation.

So here's another challenge. When was the last time you

shared the gospel with somebody in your life.

Think about it.

When was the last time you shared Jesus with somebody?

Y'all?

We can go months, if not years, without sharing the

Gospel and not even recognize it because we're so comfortable,

and we can get into our fellowship bubbles to where

Like for me, because of my calling, I'm always around believers,

like I gotta go look for unbelievers to get around

because I'm constantly surrounded by believers, recognizing that if I'm

not intentional in my life, then all I'm never around

lost people, like seven days a week. I mean, some

believers may be acting like they're lost, but they're still believers.

There's a there's a Hebrew word and it's uh salak,

and it means to rush, and the verb of this

rush it also means to cleave, penetrate, and then advance,

so or another definition breakout, come, mightily, go over, be

good to meet, and it comes from a primitive word

to be profitable. So when you see that word rush,

the Holy Spirit rushed upon Saul, or the whole Holy

Spirit rushed upon David, or the Holy Spirit rushed upon Sampson,

over and over and over, you see that terminology that

he rushed upon Sampson. It literally means to cleave, penetrate,

and then advance. So what needs to happen when you

have moments where the Holy Spirit comes upon you?

What is the goal there?

It's for him to get more a hold of you

so that he can advance through you. He wants to

cleave to you Judge Is fourteen six. Then the spirit

of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had

nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces,

as one tears a young goat. But he did not

tell his father or his mother what he had done. Judges,

fourteen six. I'll never forget the time I did that

at Lisa just could not believe her eyes.

The point of this is.

That anytime you see in scripture the Holy Spirit coming

upon someone, something supernatural happens.

That you can't make happen.

How much are we doing in our own strength and saying,

oh Jesus, would you bless this instead of putting ourselves

allowing him to put us into positions to where if

he does not move, nothing happens. Like where you're literally going, Lord,

if you don't show up, nothing is going to happen.

Right now? Is that scare anybody.

Guess what, that's where we're supposed to be. How does

he get glory if we're doing stuff that we can

do in and of our own strength. It's like him

talking to Israel and say, hey, the first three or

four enemies you can take out in your own strength,

but there are seven greater and mightier than you, and

you can't take them out without me. And this is

where people get stuck in their destiny. They get past

that third enemy of their life that they've been able

to take out in their strength with.

The Lord.

Because of the way the Lord wired them and gifted them.

But then when they come up against the last seven,

they stop. They stall because they don't want to fully

yield to the lordship of Jesus and then allow him

to take out those enemies that you can't take out.

And if you want to live in the abundant life,

and you want to live in the fullness of your inheritance,

then you have got to take out the enemies of

your inheritance that you can't do in your own strength.

But we have been and sold the bag of goods

with a theology in the United States that says us

first and Jesus helps.

I don't know about, y'all.

I'm sick and tired of not living exactly the way

Jesus said we're supposed to live, Like, when is the

reality of greater things than this?

You will do? Because I go to the Father.

Y'all, we're still trying to get back to acts, let

alone get past it.

Are we not?

When's the last time somebody walked by your shadow and

was healed? I mean, I cast a pretty decent sized

shadow for my five foot eight size. But so I

want you to find your anointing today. Are you wearing

a construction hat? It's rough out there, isn't it. What's

you say? I got a bit. Isaiah forty four to

three says, for I will pour water on him who

is thirsty? Are you thirsty? And floods on a dry ground.

I will pour my spirit on your descendants, and my

blessing on your offspring. Jesus said to them, peace be

with you, as the Father has sent me, even so

I'm sending you. And when he said this, he breathed

on them and said, received the Holy Spirit. John twenty, y'all,

I've just gotten to the point lately where I am

it says godliness with contentment is great gain. But I'm

getting back that holy hunger for more where i am

not satisfied with where I'm at in my life with

the Lord.

And that's.

It's our responsibility as priests to keep the wick trimmed

so we can burn bright.

And it's time, y'all like it. Playtime is over.

The seasons of us just being laxadative about things is

over like this. This is frontline battle line time. It is,

it really is, and you better understand the time we're

living in.

RT.

Kendall says, the hardest thing with discovering your anointing is

coming to terms with your limits.

How many people you know can't stay in their lane.

Do you know how much less arguments we would have

if people would just stay in their lanes, if you

would honor what God's given somebody's responsibility over in their

life and not try to go there uninvited and try

to tell them how to do everything because you know

how to do everything. That's not humility, that's arrogance. One

of the best ways to know of your call to

do something is by invitation, not by self promotion. And

I promise you you'll hold on to that principle that

when doors begin to open because of the favor of God,

you'll know the timing of God versus you becoming a

master social media marketer and presenting yourself to be some

sort of expert in something.

God has set apart.

Each individual to function under the anointing in a unique way.

And and when we are under.

An identity crisis, we tend to try and clone the

other people's anointing. There's an authentic expression of the anointing

that each of you have been given, and it's released

when you live from your true identity in Christ. In

other words, don't try to walk in somebody else's shoes.

I said this first service.

Shawn's always got his shoes off right, and those are

some massive size nine and a half's right there. And

so if my son Micah, who's six foot two, got

up here and tried to put his feet in my shoes,

he blow him out. He looked like a hobbit. And

if I try to get in his boots, I'd go

water skiing. He can't walk in my shoes and I

can't walk in his. We've each been given our own

path to walk in. Do understand that if you're trying

to imitate somebody else, look like them, act like them,

walk like them, that means that you believe your inferior

and what God created you to do is not as

significant as this other person. And all of a sudden,

now the body is dysfunctional because the hand wants to

be afoot when it was designed to be a hand.

And then you wonder why there's no favor in movement

in your life, because the Lord's simply trying to get

you to get rid of the self rejection and start

loving yourself for who He created you to be, so

then he can breathe his anointing on your authenticity, because

you have been each created to express a unique part

of who God is his nature, to show to the

world who the Father is uniquely, and no one else

can do what He's called each of you individually to do,

as well as yourself. Each are given a measure of

faith Romans twelve three. What are you doing with the

measure of faith you've been given this morning? How are

you stuarding your measure of faith? What are you doing

with it? How are you making your faith grow today?

How are you flexing your faith muscles so that what

you have right now more will be given later, because

the principle of the kingdom is what you start, what

you stuart will grow. Are you willing to stewart with

the little things or do you think it should be

an overnight success, an intergalactic, international, apostolic prophetic whatever to

the world. Are you okay with small beginnings? My small

beginnings was literally doing prayer ministry in an inventory closet

of my wife's business, no exaggeration. She had a footwear

business and I was in the closet doing prayer ministry

with all these shoes on the shelves all around me.

And then I was promoted by getting kicked out of

the closet because somebody manifested a demon and her boss

freaked out and left. And so that was when I

got promoted and got my own little two hundred squarefoot office. Listen, y'all,

I didn't care when I was on Water Street and

a two hundred squarefoot office with Becky Bowen and doing

prayer ministry full time if nothing changed in that moment.

I knew I was doing what the Lord called me

to do, and I was totally content with it. When

you know you're doing what you're called to do. It

doesn't matter where you're at. You're not doing it for people.

Are you serving right now? Why are you serving? I

sure the heck cope, it's for Jesus. Don't serve for me,

Don't serve for somebody else in here. Do it because

it's a outpouring of the intimacy that you have with

the Lord. And you understand that he said, the Greatest

and the Kingdom are servants of all. And you want

to be about your father's business. I promise you, if

you serve to be seen, you've.

Had your reward.

And it'll take about fifteen minutes to get offended because

the moments you don't get patted on the back. Oh

we're so proud of you, you're going to get offended

and leave.

Are y all with me?

Are you all mad at me because I tell you

the truth. I haven't become your enemy because I tell

you the truth?

Have I ho, Piper? This is a tough crowd people.

Yeah, you better have thick skin and a soft heart

around here. Luke seventeen five to six. The apostles said

to the Lord, increase our faith. And the Lord said,

if you had faith like a grain of a mustard seed.

You could say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and

planted to the sea, and it would obey you. What

is he saying there? The size of your faith is

not nearly as important as the purity of it, because

unbelief is like kryptonite, and it will shut down.

The Lord's ability to move through you. You're like, well,

where's that all? Over? Scripture?

How about he couldn't do any mighty works, but only

lay his hands on a few of the sick, and

he marveled at their unbelief of their hometown. They were

offended with him because they knew him from years past.

How about this, Maybe you missed a breakthrough because you

were offended with the person praying in front of you

because you knew him five years ago, and you don't

have any faith that Jesus transformed them. You think they're pretending. Oh,

I know, no, that stuff ever happens in church, not here.

We just came out of the closet. When finding the

limits of your anointing, you might say you're discovering the

measure of faith in which you abide. There are two

parts to your gifting and anointing. That which you were

born with and that which comes as a result of conversion.

So there are things that the Lord has gifted you

with from birth. I was a seer since I was

remember I would not have called that a gift because

it was tormenting to me. I didn't like seeing things,

and my grandparents, specifically my grandmother, thought I had a

vivid imagination because the enemy will use your gifting against

you when you don't know what it is. And when

it comes to the anointing, it's the anointing that breaks

the yoke. It's the anointing that breaks people out of bondage.

Y'all. It is not your gift.

You can have the greatest administrative gift in the world,

but that's not going to break the yoke.

And are you cultivating oil in your life? Are you?

Are you really truly seeking Jesus privately when no one's around,

and ministering unto the Lord and not doing it to

be accepted, not performing for his love, but truly in

relationship with him.

It's the simplicity of the gospel.

I don't know about you, but in the last however many months,

couple of years, man, everything's getting stripped down and at

the end of the day, it's the reality of the

simplicity of the gospel.

It's love God and love others.

Jesus said, the entire law hung on it, and we

don't have to complicate this thing.

You know. We went to work right away on July fourth,

no angelic visitation.

We knew there's a massive need, and two point thirty

in the afternoon, we hit the.

Doors or hit the ground running.

And all we did was try to be the hands

and feet of Jesus and love and take care of

the people in front of us. And there's been an

amazing testimony of Jesus released through this house because of it,

because so many people laid their lives down and started

serving other people. That's the simplicity of the gospel. You know,

all the signs and wonders, it happens when you're moving

forward in obedience. You understand that right the Book of Acts,

Hello people, it means acts like you're moving. You're doing something.

You're spiritually moving forward. You're in motion. You're not sitting

back waiting for the Lord to knock this big godzilla

supernatural door open and be like okay, then I will

do it. No get out there. I've talked about this previously,

but from Exodus thirty, the cinnamon, calmus, casia, and the

olive oil. And because the anointing oil you couldn't read

in enacts Exodus thirty the natural representation of the spiritual

anointing oil. It had five ingredients and the do you

know mirror is good for painkiller, and it's symbolic of

love and suffering, compassion and passion. Cinnamon is highly flam

highly flammable spice, believe it or not, and this is

symbolic for spiritual fire revival. The calmus is also called

sweet flag, a cane type plant that grows among water lilies,

and it's known for its aromatic properties when it is

bruised or crushed, and this is symbolic of forgiveness from

betrayals and woundings. Casia is bark scraped from a tree,

and this is a symbolic of sacrifice, worship, brokenness. It

is the purity element of the anointing oil, since this

must be scraped off the tree. It also represents the

purging element of the Holy Spirit, anybody feeling the purge.

And then there's olive oil. It's the last ingredient added

by which the aroma of the anointing oil is enhanced,

made pungent to the nose. This is symbolic of the

power of the Holy Spirit and the manifestation of His

presence to mankind.

It is also what holds the mixture together.

Your personal anointing is what ascends up from your spirit

man and out to the people. This is what we

are anointed to be an appointment. This is our relation

with Christ that is brought about by the Holy Spirit.

The Greek word for this is chrisma. This is not

chrisma and ministeral minister ministerial anointing, sorry, y'all, is what

we're anointed to do. It's a proclamation, a special touch

for a special task. This type of anointing is provisional

and you will feel it come upon you for the

task at hand, and it lifts off after the ministry

is complete. Remember Isaiah ten twenty seven. The anointing breaks

the yoke of bondage, the weights off the people and

fresh oil. You ever hear us talk about fresh oil.

Fresh oil is needed at different times to break through

the strongholds and resist and resistance that can face in

our daily walk fresh oil usually comes after difficult battles

or to usher in a new season in our life.

It brings a well needed refreshing.

To our souls, just at the right time, Psalm ninety

two to ten. Most kings, priests, and prophets were only

anointed with the sacred oil once in their entire life,

but David and Jesus were anointed three times. David was

anointed as a teenager in First Samuel six thirteen, he

was anointed as King of Judah Second Samuel two four,

and David was anointed as King of Israel second Samuel

two five. I'm sorry, saying Samuel five to three. Jesus

was anointed at his baptism John one thirty two, he

was anointed by Mary and John twelve three, and he

was anointed by Nicodemus and John nineteen thirty nine to

forty one. Interestingly, in Ecclesiastes ten to one, it says,

just like dead flies spoil.

The ointment, so does a little sin to the believer.

You understand, they would rub oil fresh oil on the sheep.

Rub it on their head, and rub it on their nose.

Why because it keeps the flies from landing and actually

putting eggs on their nose, they would lay their eggs

on them, and so fresh oil keeps the flies away.

Are you all thinking symbolically metaphorically right now? Just like

the flies spoil the oil, flies will ruin the anointing

on your life. I've never seen a man of God

in the past who bit the dust. Even when they

came back and restored, they were never walking at the

level of anointing. They were the first time ever, none

of them. Because there's a price, there's a price to

pay when you're walking at that level, and there's a

level of responsibility that if you don't stewart that well,

you never get back to where you were, at least

with the anointing. It doesn't seem like it all right,

I'm landing the plane, I promise. In the time of

the Jewish Temple, there were four major pressings of the

olive harvest. The first pressing was used for the temple's minora,

or for the oil of anointing. The second press was oil,

used for oil lamps to give light in the homes.

The third pressing was used for cooking purposes, and the

fourth pressing was for medical purposes as prophetic ministers, we

must be able to discern between a person's gift and

their anointing. A gift can function in a person's life

regardless of their character. If a person is living in

sin and moving in their gift, it's common to mistake

it for the believer to think that God's stamp of

approval is on that person's life and therefore assume that

that minister is living a godly lifestyle. We must never

fall into the trap of depending on our gifts instead

of having character and intimacy with God. The anointing flows from.

The secret place.

Mike, if I can have you come up here by

I have the prayer teams come up. If you are

on the prayer team.

Please come forward. Bueler h remember uh. Just a reminder.

After this is the we're gonna set up for the

new members luncheon. So h.

H. Father.

We know.

That you said in the.

Last days difficult times would come upon Earth.

Lord.

We recognize the winds of change. Things are shifting, Lord,

but we also see your hand making all things beautiful.

We see your hand working all things together for the good.

Lord. We see a spark.

That could turn into a fire Lord, that could turn

into revival that could turn into an awakening. And Lord,

we pray, just like when Elijah saw the cloud the

size of a hand, he said, go down and tell

him it's gonna rain.

Lord, we're believing.

This spark that we're seeing right now in the last

couple of weeks. Lord, it's identical to that hand. Lord,

rain's coming. Go down and tell him it's gonna rain.

And if he doesn't get off the mountain, he won't

be able to because of the abundance of rain that's coming.

So Lord, we just declare that that spark turns into

a bonfire, that it turns into a holy fire, that

the revival that we've been waiting and tearying and believing

for over this land is here. So Lord, let the

revival fire start. Lord, let the fire burn. Lord, set

people on fire. That there would be a boldness that

comes over your church. Lord, that there would be a

I don't care if your servant tables like Stephen and

Axe was, but that there would be a company of

people moving in power, because you said, Paul said that

that the kingdom wasn't just in word, but it was

in power. And Lord, we say, use us. You said,

who will go how are they going to get saved

or they can't hear? Lord, we say send us, Lord,

we say send us. And just like in Isaiah, that

little ember of fire touched Isaiah's lips and purified his mouth. Lord,

purify our language, purify the words we speak.

Lord, May there be word words of life, of blessing

of honor that we would speak. Lord.

Father, we asked that you would be with our nation today, Lord,

that you would draw us back, that we would be

turning back to you. We asked Lord, that you would

be with the country as it mourns and Kerville, as

it continues to mourn the loss of so many people

lost in the flood. Lord, you said, blessed are those

who mourn, because they will be comforted.

So Lord, I thank you for your comfort.

But Lord, I'm asking that you would look upon these firebrands, Lord,

and just blow on the ember. Lord, blow on the ember.

That we would be set on fire. Lord, that we

would be set on fire. Lord, that it wouldn't that

it wouldn't it wouldn't be mad made, it wouldn't come

out of desire the soul, But that there would be

a holy fire that consumes us. Lord, a zeal, a

love for our first love, Lord that could not be quenched.

I asked that you would do this, Lord, for your

namesake in Jesus Mighty name.

Amen. Thank you for listening.

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