Embracing God As Your Father (The Lord’s Prayer Part 3)

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

we helped you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter. So

I want to give a big shout out to Reprographics

Hill Country Reprographics with John and Betty Joe. We got

our stamped plans printed Friday and I picked them up

and we got two sets for each building and it

should have been seven and forty for those sets, and

they would not let us pay for them. That was

a that was a huge blessing. Tomorrow morning at nine am,

I'm meeting with Marshall from c Tech in Fredericksburg and

we're going to start moving forward with getting electricity out

on the lane and the water system is already approved

and so we're going to be on a waiting list

for that. So we're going to be starting the utilities

and we're moving forward believing the Lord that we're gonna

be able to build Phase one debt free. So that's

a huge, a huge deal. The plans that are actually

on the wall inside here and in the four yer

are still the same. We were just waiting for that

famous engineering stamp. So we are also in the process

of hard bidding out the buildings. So Lord Willing, and

by his grace and mercy, we will be breaking ground,

Lord Willing, sometime towards the end of summer, and so

it'll be roughly ten to twelve months once we break

ground before we can get into the first building. But

that'll be awesome. And y'all have to understand that warfare

increases as you take your promised land. And you also

have to realize that there are giants in the land

that you cannot take out on your own. And as

long as you try to take them out, can you

bring the lights up for me, bud, as long as

you just take that scan it or slide it up,

and there has all the way up. Thank you. There.

There has been a significant uptick in resistance in recent months.

In the last couple of months, anybody felt like they've

been being tested and tried in very unique ways. And

and anybody going, is this gonna like chill took three

naps yesterday. I'm not kidding. I was like, all my

family went to mo Ranch to swim, and I said,

I love you, but I got to take a break.

I've got to recharge. And so I started praying. I

fell asleep praying. I woke back up praying, fell back

a sleep, praying, woke back up, praying, fell back a sleep, praying.

But I really really really needed it. And Troy mentioned

to me in the fact that there was a theme

to his words this morning, and he goes, what are

you teaching on? And I told him, And it's pretty

much the same themes as we land this series on

the Lord's Prayer, we're going to finish up with and

do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from

the evil one for years is the Kingdom, the Power,

and the glory forever. If you recall just a quick recap,

Luke eleven one to four is the Lord's Prayer and

the only other gospel that has the Lord's prayers Matthew

six five to fifteen. And we have been dissecting this

part by part over the last three weeks, I believe,

and I believe this is the fourth and final at

least for second service. For service still has one section behind.

But I bought y'all. But has anybody noticed, just since

in the last three weeks, has anybody noticed when you

pray this prayer that it means more to you, know, Like,

are you taking your time opening this up? Are you

thinking about the issue of God being bred? I mean

asked y'all. We talked about last week how Bethlehem means

house of bread and the number values for ninety, which

is the same exact number of times Jesus had to

was told to forgive Nativity. In Hebrew, the number of

value is for ninety, So the bread of Heaven came

to the House of Bread for forgiveness. And this is

why this is tied together even to be complete or full.

That number value from the Hebrew word tamim is for ninety.

You know, I jokingly said last week, I'm pretty sure

when Jesus said how many times? I mean, when Peter

said to Jesus, how many times do I got to

forgive my brother? I am pretty sure that he was

looking for a legalistic answer, because if Jesus would have said, oh,

eight times, Peter, oh, trigger finger over here on his sword,

go ahead, one more? Wouldn't have been crazy. If he

actually would have took his head off instead of his ear. Oh,

hold on, I know a few people that need a

head transplant. They're called politicians. Was that illegal? Okay? I

will stop, I can get in trouble. So, but I

want to talk to you about temptation this morning. If

you have your bibles, go to Genesis three. Now the

serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field

which the Lord God had made. And he said to

the woman has God indeed said you shall not eat

of every tree in the garden. Now number one, I

have no idea what they were thinking talking to a serpent.

And before it was cursed, it apparently was walking upright,

which would really freak me out. I don't know about y'all.

And they're interacting with this. By the way, Adam is

there the entire time, and it's called the silence of Adam.

And it's been the silence of man, the silence of

the husband and the home that's helped lead to the

moral cultural decay in our country. And so as men

realize they're men and they stop allowing the assignment of

neutering them and they actually stand up, You men, stand

up and actually be the men of God that God's

called you to be. You take your home back. There

is no revival without restoration of the family. Period. We

are fooling ourselves if we think we're in revival and

the home is broken, A fatherless generation is only going

to continue to reproduce orphans. And we have way too

many men that deep down inside they still feel like

teenagers trying to figure out what it means to be

a man, to be initiated into manhood. And that's one

of the things I'm super excited about that we are

pushing forward with men's ministry and even the current study

with The Dragon Slayer with Danny Soak, which I think

is one of the best books he's done. I mean,

I would, uh, I would put that book up right

there with John Eldridge's Wild at Heart. I know, don't,

I know, don't. Ben's over here is starting to shake

when I said that. But but I think I think

for you men, if you read Wild at Heart and

read and even if you're not able to attend on Tuesdays, God,

God is on the move. With Restoration Acts three says

that we're living in the days of the restoration of

all things. You don't need a prophetic word, because you

have the word. It's just like the prophet Daniel, who,

according to the scriptures, understood that the time of captivity

of seventy years was coming to an end. But all

of this captivity took place because they could not or

they chose not to conquer their souls. They chose not

to deal, and they gave it with sin, and they

gave in to sin. You understand that temptation to sin

is not wrong. Everybody's been tempted. Jesus was tempted in

every way as a man, and yet without sin. And

one of the things is the enemy loves to come

bring temptation into our lives and then convince us that

we're already condemned because of our temptation. And so many

times we take that bait of Satan and we go, well,

I was already tempted already, blew it. No, you didn't.

If you think about throat punching somebody and you throat

punch them, there's a massive difference in that, right. So

the serpent's in there, and the woman says to the serpent,

we may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,

But of the fruit of the tree which is in

the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall

not eat it, nor shall you touch it lest you die.

Eve is already in deception because he never said anything

about touching the fruit. Touching the fruit is temptation. Eating

the fruit is sin. All the Lord said was in

the day that you eat of it, in that day

you will die. And that's exactly why no one ever

hit a thousand years. Methuselah was the oldest person on

earth nine hundred and sixty nine years. And as sin

decayed humanity and sin increased in humanity, our length of

life shrunk. And now you're lucky to hit one hundred

years old, right, And I mean, I know there's an

adjustment happening, but good night. Think about being nine hundred

years old. I mean, and that dude never had a

hip replaced. You know what I'm saying. I'll give that

to you. A piper that was good, not anymore. The

Orange Man fixed that. So this this tree is there,

she says, you can't. You can't even touch it, for

God knows that the servent side of the woman, you'll

not surely die. For God knows that in the day

you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and

you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Do

you understand? The Church and Revelation was actually commended for

not knowing the deep things of Satan. The deep things

of Satan were actually tied directly to Jezebel and her

witchcraft and sexual immorality directly tied to her, and they

were commended for not knowing the deeper things of Satan.

You know, I tell people all the time, I wish

I didn't know half of what I know about darkness,

but I didn't have a choice because I was volent

told twenty years ago for interhaling and Deliverance ministry, and

so I've learned a whole lot more than I ever

would have tried to go learn about the enemy had

I not been called to doing that. Does that make sense? Like, y'all,

we live in a fallen world, and you there is defilement,

and you can if you're not careful hearing twenty thousand

hours of what humanity is capable of doing, unregenerated and

sometimes and saved. If you're not careful, you get jaded.

You become so focused on the dirt that it can

affect you. By the way, it's not prophetic to be

able to see dirt in people's lives. Look in the mirror,

you'll find dirt. We're in process. If you want to

be prophetic, then you actually look at the gold of

that person, no matter where they're at, who they are,

ask the Lord to show you the way he sees them,

and then you begin to prophesy their destiny and prophesy

their gold right. Because every single person, no matter what race, color, denomination,

we have all been made in the image of God,

and that very thing alone should be enough to cause

each of us to have honor for each other, because

when we start tearing each other down and we give

into that nonsense, we're actually attacking the very image of God.

We're actually falling into the place in Corinthians where it

says that you've not been properly observing the body. The

least that you've done to them you've done to me, says,

not even a cup of water will be forgiven or forgiven.

Not even a cup of water will be forgotten if

it's in my name. That means the most minute, minor

thing that you do when no one's looking, you're actually

building jewels for your crown to lay at his feet

when no one sees. Jesus intentionally tried not to be

seen it. Multiple times you see him saying, don't tell anybody,

because he knew his time was short, and his fame

grew to such a degree that he couldn't even go

into some places because of it. And he cared more

about the transformation of people's hearts than his fame. So

when the woman saw that the tree was good for food,

and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree

desirable to make one wise, lust of the eyes, lust

of the flesh, and pride of life, we see all

three right there. She took of its fruit and ate.

She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and

they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig

leaves together and made themselves coverings. The very first thing

that happened when they ate of that fruit. Everybody talks

about an apple, it doesn't tell us what it was.

But when they partook of it, everything changed. And the

first thing they did was they hid from shame. The

Lord shows up and they're literally hiding. But everything comes

through those three gates. In your life, y'all says that

we have been forgiven, we have been set free from

the power of sin, and yet somehow we keep giving

into temptation and areas of our lives and embrace a

victim mindset. The moment we say I can't get free

of this, you're already under a victim mindset, a victim

spirit influence the moment you say, well, I wouldn't be

living like this had this not happened to me. You're

blame shifting, just like Adam and Eve did in the beginning. Well,

the woman you gave me right, We got the comments

flying this morning. But you understand, many of us are

eating from that tree right now, and we're deceived because

we're partaking of the good and it's not the tree

of life. We're taking from the tree of knowledge of

good and evil, and we're calling it spirituality, and it

keeps us earthly. It keeps us bound, earthly in our

thinking and even earthly wisdom. You must discover the difference

between partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and

evil and actually the tree of life, because you can

partake of that tree of good and evil and go

straight to hell, and many people will. So when he says,

it says, and do not lead us in to temptation,

but deliver us from the evil one. When we're tempted,

it's because we are led away by our own passions.

It says, let no one say when he is tempted,

I am tempted by God. For God cannot be tempted

by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone. Let me

stop there. God cannot be tempted by evil. So why

is it every time the enemy comes into our life

to bring destruction, to steal, kill, and destroy, do we

blame God for that evil? Well, it's his fault. He

didn't show up, he didn't do this. And the hardest,

one of the greatest hurdles for us and our healing

process is to understand that there are things that happen

on planet Earth when it comes to steel, kill, destroy,

that he had nothing to do with and that and

that is very difficult in our thought our thought process.

But what happens is, and I said this first service,

as long as we have misplaced debt, as long as

we have misplaced unforgiveness, you can never be free of unforgiveness.

So if I say it's all this person's fault, then

guess what I can never get free. If I take

their sin against me and I say it's God's fault

he should have done something, then I've just taken their

sin and put that blame on God, and then I

can never forgive them totally because it's misplaced debt. So

then you end up living the rest of your life

in a cycle of defeat and demonic influence over your

life because of the unforgiveness. And you're stuck in that

cycle because you've taken the bait of Satan and you

believe the lie that God can be tempted with evil

and that he tempts others with evil. That's why it's

very we have to be very careful with our theology.

If you take a high view of God's sovereignty, you

will end up blaming God for sin. Y'all haven't fun yet?

Isn't this such an easy subject? I just oh, James

one point thirteen says this, Let no one say when

he's tempted, I'm tempted by God. For God cannot be

tempted by evil, nor does he himself tempt anyone. But

each one is tempted when he's drawn away by his

own desires and enticed. Then when desire has conceived, it

gives birth to sin, and sin, when it's full grown,

brings forth death. So the process it all starts with

a desire, and you have to understand when you've got

a desire in your soul. Is this my soul? Or

is this the Lord? Is this coming from the tree

of good? Or is this coming from the tree of life?

Because it says there's a way that seems right on

to man, but in the end it leads to death.

That's why Proverbs three five and six says trust in

the Lord with all your heart. Do not lean on

your own understanding, but in all of your ways, acknowledge Him,

and he will make your path straight. Trust him. Brennan

Manning wrote a book called Ruthless Trust. It should be

in the library of every I think is a book

that should be in everybody's library, Ruthless Trust, because at

the end of the day, that's what he's calling us to.

And if we don't have ruthless trust, we will never

live our lives in the impossible. Y'all. You don't get

to see the names of God manifest if you're not

in an impossible situation. We're constantly saying, Lord, let there

be miracle, signs and wonders, but I don't want any testing.

It doesn't work that way, y'all. If you need his

names to manifest. That means you're in the middle of it.

You need Jehovah Rafha. That means there's something you need

healing for. God's not gonna manifest healing when there's no

need for healing. And all of his names address everything

we need in this life. It shows you his very dna,

his very nature of who he is, not just what

he chooses to do for us. And when we don't

give into temptation, we give him. We give him our yes.

It says that he is actively working on the behalf

of those that wait for him. How about the temptation

of not waiting for your destiny? The result of that

is ishmael. So when you think about desire, what are

you desiring? When you think about your heart, where your

treasure is there your heart's going to be? What are

you treasure? What are you feeding? Do you understand the

difference between holy desire and unholy desire? Too many times

we are actually being led by our soul, thinking that

our spirit's ruling price Corithians ten thirteen. No temptation has

overtaken you accept such as is common to man. But

God is faithful who will not allow you to be

tempted beyond what you're able? Isn't that good news? Are

y'all with me? So guess what? You don't have to

get crushed by a temptation, Ladies, there's a whole lot

of girls now and mercygate, right. I mean, surely nothing

can happen with eleven women in a house right when

you're tempted and you feel like you're being tempted beyond anything,

because you know y'all have an off day every once

in a while, you don't have to give into that temptation. Right.

Some of y'all are smiling, some of y'all look like

you want to throat punch me, But no temptation has

ever overtaken you. Accept Such is as common to man.

But God is faithful who will not allow you to

be tempted beyond what you're able. But with the temptation

will also make the way of escape that you may

be able to bear it. Some of the best thing, sometimes,

the best thing you can do in the moment of

stimulus is to literally just take a deep breath and

remove yourself from a situation, come back to peace, and

then begin to address it. I tell people all the time,

the worst thing you can do is make a life

changing decision in the height of emotion. How many stupid

things have we done in life in that moment where

we're triggered, we're fired up, and then blah, we just

let it all out and then guess what, Then it's

clean up time because the moment we calm back down.

And by the way, if you want to know if

you have a stronghold, when you have a one ton

issue and you respond with ten tons, you have a stronghold.

Are you with me? When something very small causes you

to lose your stuff, that's a stronghold and you're not

aware of that stronghold because you're prideful, and your pride

blinds you from the stronghold. And before any now there's life.

I just love this morning. You got laughter and calm.

I mean this, y'all are awake. We all have strongholds.

Every one of us have had the pride of life.

God is dealing with those strongholds. You don't have the

ability to pull your stronghold down because you don't even

know where it's at, unless unless you have people in

your life that you actually trust enough to speak into

your life. And guess what, right, there is the first

step for that stronghold coming down, because that actually takes humility.

How about this, You actually bring your temptation into the light,

and then it diffuses the strength of it. Anything you

hide and try to manage in your soul strength, you're

actually fueling the enemy and fueling that potential assignment to

take you out. That's why he constantly says a house

divided can't stand. He's only got a few tricks, y'all,

and he uses the same things over and over, over

and over. And we have temptation because we don't want

to have perseverance in our destiny. We don't want to

have to wait for things. So the enemy offers up

a faster solution to get you what you want. The

problem is, you don't get what you want, and you're

not happy with what you get. Now, not only does

the Lord guarantee that he's not going to allow us

to ever be tempted to what we can above what

we can handle. Matthew twenty six forty one says, watch

and pray lest you enter into temptation. The spirit, indeed

is willing, but the flesh is weak. Jesus is in

the garden and he tells him, watch and pray. He

goes off and he watches and prays for an hour.

He comes back their sleep, he goes can you can

you not watch and pray for one hour? He tells

him this. But the key in this is watch and

pray lest you enter into a temptation. So there's a

direct link or key of watching and praying that strengthens

your spirit where you're not even tempted in that place.

So what is the answer to temptation. It's intimacy with

the Lord. Because you feed your spirit and you take

up your cross, and you bear your cross, you deny

your flesh, and now you're strengthening your spirit. Y'all understand

that as you mature in Jesus, as we grow in Him,

your spirit grows, and it literally grows, and your spirit

will grow bigger than your physical body. This is why

when people get close to the Lord and they are

walking in deep intimacy with the Father, which is directly

connected to authority. When you walk close to him, you

walk in a greater measure of authority because it's proximity based,

and your spirit will grow. These spiritual disciplines grow your spirit.

And guess what the Holy Spirit is insight of your spirit.

And this is why you can feel some people fifteen

feet away because of the strength of their spirit. The

enemy's not afraid of power. He fears authority, and it

takes authority to drive demons out. If you try to

have a power, match your power against their power. You screaming.

You can scream as loud as you want at them.

You get your veins pumping out. Try to be all intimidating.

They're not worried about that. But over and over and

over wherever Jesus went, they knew who he was, and

they feared him, and over and over it talked about

the authority that he taught with, talked about the authority

that he walked in. There's a difference between exusia, which

is authority, and dounamus, which is power, which we get

our word dynamite. So watch and pray. James one twelve says,

blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he

has been approved, he will receive the crown of life,

which the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Every day we wake up, we have a choice. Are

we going to walk in the spirit or are we

going to walk in our flesh. What's it take to

get you into your flesh? How big of a stinker

can you handle before you get into your flesh? Or

how about this, what does it take for you to

submit your authority to the enemy? Because the moment you

go into your flesh, you give up your authority. I

want to submit to you that we're entering into a

season and an era where if you think you can

be lukewarm, you will not stand. If you think you

can have one foot in the world and one foot

in the kingdom, you're going to lose a foot. We

haven't even begun to see the resistance. There is something

right now, even as we speak underneath the spiritual water table,

things are not as we think. And I can't really

go beyond that because I'm still connecting some dots right now.

But there's a reason why Jesus says, will I find

faith and the love of many will grow cold? What's

it take for you to grow cold? What's it take

for you to turn your love off? Everybody's different, We're

all in different places. Some of you all just got saved.

So there's grace there, which, by the way, for you

people that have been walking with the Lord for a

long time. People that first get saved seem to get

all of their prayers answered whatever they ask, like the

first six months. It's amazing they just so. I suggest

that if you're having a hard time getting a prayer answer,

go find a new believer and say, hey, come into

agreement with me on this. But the moment they hit

six months, they're in the same boat as you. Then

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of

temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the

day of judgment Galatians five point sixteen. I say, then

walk in the spirit, and you shall not fulfill the

lust of the flesh. It is mind boggling to me

how we as human beings, can taste freedom, walk with

the Lord, and then so easily go back and entangle

ourselves at times, thinking somehow that it's going to work

out differently this time. You know what I mean. Anybody

ever go back to something that brought destruction in their life,

and you go back because somehow you think maybe you

miss something. Final peace for years is the kingdom and

the power and the glory forever. God does not share

his glory with any man. Tewod Corinthians ten seventeen says,

but he who glories, let him glory in the Lord.

Now there is a glory of man. Even Nebicanzer said

that my glory was restored. There's different glories, but God's

glory he doesn't share with anybody. And nebecan Zar puffed up,

ran his mouth and then spent a few years living

like an animal. I bet you he looked gnarly out

there with the hair like feathers and then nail. I

mean that could not have been fun Philippians fourth, or

I'm sorry Philippians four nineteen. And my God shall supply

all your need according to his riches in glory by

Christ Jesus. Y'all, this whole Lord's prayer, it all ties

back together if you establish that he is your father,

and that he is good, and that he is a

good father, and that he's not looking to punish you.

He chastens us, he disciplines us, but he's not punishing

us where his kids, it says, fear has to do

with punishment. Every place of your life, where there's a stronghold,

where there's a lie, where there's a wound, it is

all love deficits. It is a lack of love tied

to true and you're viewing life in that area skewed.

It's like if I had a bunch of dots on

my glasses and I'm trying to see a picture clearly,

but all my vision is blurred because of the pain.

Temptation wouldn't be the same strength if we're firm in

our identity as God, as our Father, and if we

knew deep down inside of our hearts that if he

hasn't answered a prayer, it's because of his love that

he's at work inside of us, that he is forging

our character to look like Jesus. He's creating something in

you that can handle responsibility in his kingdom. He didn't

take Jesus in the wilderness to take him out. Satan

tempted Jesus in the wilderness. God tested Jesus in the wilderness.

He went in in the power of the Holy Spirit,

or he went in full of the Holy Spirit. And

at the end of that testing, he came out in

the power of the Holy Spirit. So understanding that every

time the Father tests you as his kid, he's actually

wanting to promote you. If you'll actually trust him in

the process, you'll not give into temptation to take a

cheap way out because you're going to live your life

at the expense of other people and then get bitter

towards them when they don't like that you're living your

life at their expense. It really is the simplicity of

the Gospel. We die, he lives, and to the degree

that we lose our life, we actually find it. And

it's that simple, y'all. If you want to live an

abundant life, Number One, honor your mother and father, because

it's the one commandment that comes with a promise. If

you honor your mother and father, it will go well

with you and you will live a long life. Sounds

pretty good to me, right. Honor has nothing to do

with the way they live, So even if they're stinkers,

you honor them as the one God chose to bring

you into the planet earth. David honored the anointing on

Saul when he spent fifteen years trying to kill his butt.

But we're too busy trying to climb the spiritual ladder

of success in the church, and unfortunately we will climb

over each other at times to make that happen. There

are things I do in my life where I intentionally,

intentionally try to kill reputation. Jesus made himself of no reputation.

But it's hard, isn't it, Because that pride of life

when we try to humble ourselves, that pride of life

will come up when we're not getting our way we deserve.

This shouldn't be this way. If you'll live your life

with open hands and give away everything you've been freely given,

then you'll see a massive increase of the flow of

the Kingdom in you and through you, Because the moment

you grab a hold of something and tighten your grip,

you've just showed the Father that you're not trustworthy in

that area to handle more. That's why it says don't

despise small beginnings. We're to trust him with vindication. Every

one of us have had injustice happen in our lives

where people chose to live at our expense, and it's

a huge temptation to want to vindicate your name in

those moments. But vengeance is the lord. I think if

we're honest with ourself at times, we don't want God

to vindicate us because we know they're gonna bless that

person and try to get them redeemed, and we want

to chop their head off. There's a difference between vindication

and vengeance, like when God's vengeance is that they're delivered

from the evil one. God's vengeance, his justice is that

the person that was wounded and wounding other people all

of a sudden give their life to Jesus. And you

pray for your enemies, and you bless your enemies, and

if they say you're going a mile, you go, hey,

let's go two miles. This is the way of the Kingdom.

It's absolute CRUCIFIXI to your flesh. It is always opposite

day in the Kingdom, opposite of what we naturally would

want to do. And when we're tempted, instead of looking

how we can get away with that temptation, we should

be looking for the exit door so that we don't

buckle under that temptation. You don't stay there and flirt

with it. And in that moment, in that temptation, what's

going to strengthen you and actually get you to look

for that exit door is the strength of your intimacy

with Jesus. Is your love for intimacy and to walk

with your father, greater than this little shortcut that's offered

in front of you by the enemy. Y'all. He doesn't

come like that. If I can't do that again, he

doesn't do that, Like if he doesn't, he normally doesn't.

I can't do it again. But if he did that,

you would never You would never be like, oh, yeah,

that's a great idea, I'll take that. No, he comes

to you in a luring way, an angel of light

that means you think it's the tree of life that's

being presented to you, and it's actually good, from the

tree of knowledge of good and evil, and he knows

the moment you partake of that it's gonna bring death.

Just because it has glitter doesn't mean it's gold. Just

because it shines doesn't mean it's the light of the Lord.

There is so much counterfeit spirituality in the church today,

so much humanism that has come into the church where

science is the boss. I hope at the end of

the day that we all realize that he doesn't want

us to go into temptation, because he's good. When I

when when you're little and your parents say don't go

in the street, they're not trying to keep you from

having fun. But the enemy tells you go into the street,

that's where all the fun is. Oh, don't listen to them.

They're stupid, they're old. You know, culture is different, you

know more. Now, go to the street, that's where the

fun is. And then you get hit by a car.

We were in England, and because they don't drive right

and drive on the wrong side of the road and

on the wrong side of the vehicle. It's one of

the that area is one of the most like tourists

get hit by cars there because you know, Americans, we

drive on the right side of the road because we

do everything right because we're Americans. Oh and but no,

but you always because we drive on the right side

of the road. Which way do you look when you

go across the sidewalk right? I mean yes, laughs, but

there you got to look right. And so people will

go out into the road and they won't look right,

and that's where traffic is coming. I did it once,

and these jokers, when I say they don't mind hitting you,

I think they'd blast you and just keep going. I

mean they didn't even slow down. I was like, holy cow,

there's a way that seems right on de manned, but

in the end it leads to death. When the Lord

says look left, you look left, Harvey says, look right,

you look right. None of this was designed for just

a bunch of rules for behavior modification, you know, like

the school systems with kids that are hyperactive, they'll, you know,

we'll just drug the snot out of all the kids

to modify their behavior. The Lord doesn't do that with us.

He's after your heart, he's not after behavior modification. You know,

there's plenty of people that on the outside appearance they

seem great, right, but in the inside they're full of

dead man's bones. That's your Pharisees and your Sadducees putting

weights on people that they themselves aren't willing to carry.

You know, we have prophetic words over this house that

God has destined us to be a movement. We're not

a movement yet. We're a small company of people. But

that's over the house. All of these different words, words

about worship albums coming out of here, all of these

different prophetic words that have been spoken over the house

over the last eight and a half years. The enemy

is not just going to lay down and be like, oh,

you guys are awesome. I'll go down the street and

just mess with them. No, we're fighting for inheritance, y'all.

Right now in this moment, we're fighting for an in

arridance from the Lord where we're and we're not just

fighting for ourselves. We're fighting for this region and to

go even further, when it comes to legacy, you're fighting

for your children. What will it be like? Not what

could it be like? What will it be like when

we begin to walk in the fullness of what He's

called us to, and we are a movement, a river

of God in this region, and that spiritual inheritance is

given to our children, and Lord willing our children, our

children's children. You only become a movement by actually stewarding

revival and keeping it going so that it actually becomes

a cultural thing, because your culture is what brings acceleration.

And so we begin to steward these things that God's

called us to. But that means the Kingdom has to

advance inside of us before it advances through us. And

if you hadn't figured it out, the Lord in this

hour is pulling down strongholds. He is cutting branches that

don't produce fruit and I think everyone has felt some

measure of that in recent months. Don't fall into the

lie that it's all the enemy when you're challenged in

areas of your life. Don't blame the enemy for everything.

Don't give him that much credit. A part of it

is actually the Lord resisting you to wake you up

so that you can produce more fruit. One of the

things I felt today I want to release is that

I really do believe that that the Lord is releasing

a greater measure of angelic reinforcements the there there is

a measure of the enemy uh and his intensity of

attack in recent months. And God's response is that you're

going to begin to see more angelic activity on the

good side. So reinforcements are on the way. And I know,

I know, we don't talk much about the angelic roman

the church, and you don't worship angels, but I can

tell you this, we need them. I was in a

session this week and I had I had a angel

who's assigned to me. In my mind's eye, I saw

him show up. And when I saw him show in

an internal vision, not external, I didn't see him outside

next to me, and the moment he did, the other

person what was on them cut their eyes so exactly

where I felt it show up. We need angelic reinforcement, right,

angels answer the Lord. You don't command angels, so please

don't try to, because that would be dumb. You don't

want a spirit a stupid angels answer. They hearken to

the word of the Lord, not man. So all right,

if I can get some keys, Thank you for listening.

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