The Heart of A Warrior

You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week, we hope you enjoy

this message from Justin Carpenter. Jim Baker said, how much is too much

money? Not the one that went to prison, which he repented and he's

doing awesome now. No, the other Jim Baker, the young guy said

how much is too much money? He said the exact dollar amount that you

stopped trusting God. So it's different for everybody. Some people can handle millions

and their trust is in the Lord. Some people get a thousand bucks and

they lose it. That was free, So I would be so excited.

You know. I avoided talking about finances for years because of all the abuses

in the church and the clowns that flock the sheep and manipulated offerings and everything.

But like most of the church, when I adjusted, I went to

the other pendulum, which was I just never even talked about it, which

is an injustice as a shepherd. And so I am trying to break out

of that timidity that I had in that area. So please hear my heart.

The beautiful thing about God's will is he will always do what he wants

to do. It's a privilege for us to partner with him, so you

don't have to join, but you'll miss out. Yep, that was also

free. Everybody's getting so excited? Now should I keep going? A Wayne?

So on Tuesday morning in our staff meeting, we were praying and all

of a sudden, I just got hit with this urgency in my spirit.

Didn't see anything nothing. I mean, it wasn't like some and I just

started praying about the issue of war. Well big, I mean, hello,

it's already all. It's already prophesied, war's rumors of wars for those

of you that have been asleep the last twenty four hours. For the first

time in history, Iran unmasked and actually attacked Israel, and thankfully other countries

like the United States and a couple other countries joined in and shot down the

missiles and the rockets that were coming over from Iran. Years ago, John

Paul Jackson saw a brief nuclear exchange between Iran and Israel. Now, I

don't know this is the moment where we're coming upon that escalation or not,

but y'all we need to understand the times and seasons we're in. Things are

accelerating, birth pains are getting closer together, and our current administration just told

Israel not to respond. And there's no other nation on this earth that if

we were attacked like that, any other nation, that they would just not

respond. I've already I've already been praying, Lord forgive our administration for spirit

is stupid, and have mercy on our country. We need, we need

to be praying because no matter what your eschatology is, all eyes are on

Jerusalem in the end and where we split hairs, which I'm going to be

teaching on the end time soon because I can't get away from it. I'm

not going to tell you what to believe. I'm gonna actually teach all the

major perspectives pre millennial, a'm millennial, and post millennial. But Jesus will

come back one day. We don't know the hour, we don't know the

day, but he is literally coming back in physical form, and the shakings

are getting closer. And you know, he said over and over for us

to watch, stay awake, watch and pray. And I'm afraid much of

the churches still sound asleep. We last Wednesday, we were at an event.

Uh the news reporter Lower Logan did this event downtown and one of the

disturbing things. Was there was a lady there who's got a nonprofit where they

rescue kids out of trafficking. And I think it was, uh, Shepherd's

Heart, Shepherd's Watch, Shepherd's Watch. And I don't know if she has

an app? How she she had as an app that will tell you how

many active escorts escort services are in the area Wednesday night, last Wednesday night,

Kerrville, Texas. Take a guess how many active escorts were within so

many miles of Club Charles four. Try forty one. See, it's easy

for us to put our heads in the sand and think that the culture is

going to hell all around us. But we're fine, No, y'all,

we just lat what was a year ago. We're fighting these clowns with all

the crap in the library, with the child the books that were literally child

grooming books. Yeah, there's a war right now. And I want to

say something to you parents. If you don't disciple your children, the enemy

will. And I don't care how uncomfortable you get on subjects, even of

a sexual nature, if you don't talk to them way sooner than you feel

comfortable to it's gonna be too late. This is not how it was when

I was a kid. I just turned forty seven years old three days ago,

and I remember growing up we had to work to find stuff we shouldn't

be looking at. You know what I'm saying, Yeah, School, Library,

this isn't what I'm teaching on. I just want to address this.

You're the answer. Every one of you are the answer. Stop looking in

the mirror and allowing the enemy to tell you that your voice doesn't matter.

Because if we don't rise up in this hour, stand up, and each

of us individually begin to advance the kingdom within our responsibility, We're gonna jus

this country. All eyes are on Jerusalem. In the end, it says

nothing of the United States. I'm sick and tired of hearing Western theology that

makes us in there when we're not. Do you understand, we don't know

when Jesus comes back of the United States will even be intact. I'm not

trying to scare us, but I'm trying to say the church better wake up

and actually start speaking up and stop worrying about persecution. Get over it.

The only thing that can happen is they kill your meat sack and you get

a new body. So on that note, though, I want to talk

to you about the heart of a warrior, because whether you view yourself as

a warrior or not, are you've been drafted by the king. You don't

get to vote because the king is a king, the king of heaven.

The kingdom is not a democracy. We don't vote. Oh I'm gonna be

obedient here, but I'm out of here on this one. Twenty ten.

Rich Hairs prophesied, don't be surprised when the Lord calls you to plant a

church said, I love you, Rich, but you missed it. Never

happening. I didn't get to vote, did I. You know, if

you don't get here's the truth. If you actually don't get offended with me

from time to time, I don't know that I'm doing my job. And

I mean that. I mean that in the nicest way possible, because the

truth is a sword, and it cuts, and it pierces between soul and

spirit, joint and borrow, and is the discerner of the intense and thoughts

of your heart. And if you're living in an area of your life that's

not aligned with the Lord with his word, and I come and I bring

his sword, It says in Jeremiah's word is my word not like a fire?

Is it not like a hammer? When I had in twenty December of

twenty eleven, the night before we moved back here, I had an angelic

visitation. I was completely outside of my body in front of the angel.

And in that encounter, I had a hammer next to me in my room

and he had a hammer. We're called to be builders. You're building something.

You're either building your empire or you're building the kingdom. There's no either

or there isn't what you feel. I don't care if you feel like being

obedient. You think I feel like pastoring all the time, don't take that

so personally. I love you all, but we're all human. Right.

There's days we wake up we don't feel like it, we don't feel like

doing it. There's days we don't feel like exercising. You think I like

getting on that You should? You see what I look if I didn't get

on the treadmill. People rounds of shape, right, My bubble's in the

middle. But I'm telling you we need to know the times and seasons we're

in. And this is not a time to be asleep. This is not

a time to stick your head in the sand and just say, oh,

we have peace in our day like Hezekiah. But don't you know at least

will be peace right now. We don't know how long this piece is gonna

last. Do you understand we have one major oil company right now. The

Petro dollar could collapse at any moment, and that's not a joke. That

isn't conspiracy theory. And the Chinese government, which will probably get my video

whatever, they've already infiltrated that company. Y'all. You know the government lost

track of eighty five thousand kids last year. I'll give you two guesses where

they're at if they're alive. We got to wake up. Stop sitting and

neutral and expecting someone else to have an effect on this life. It says

the heavens, even the heavens are the lords. But He's given the earth

to the sons of men. It's our responsibility to advance the Kingdom of Heaven.

Nobody else's Are you with me? You've got to wake up. You

are going to give an account for your life before the King of Kings.

Jeremiah t. I almost got hit good Jeremiah twenty eleven. But the Lord

is with me as a dread warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble,

they will not overcome, They will be greatly shamed, for they will not

succeed their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten. Don't you think we need some

dread warriors in this hour? Don't you think we need some men and women

to rise up in the political sphere the mountain and actually not give in to

corruption, not give in to payoffs, not give into selling our future down

the road for a quick buck. Y'all. If you think there's a huge

difference between the two parties right now, you are totally deceived. Hang in

there with me. For Samuel twenty two to two, and everyone who was

in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter

and soul gathered to him, and he became commander over them, and there

were with him about four hundred men. Anybody want to sign up for leading

that army? You do? Do you understand that was David and that was

David's mighty men before a transformation? See if we only view each other in

the light of where we are in the moment, but if we actually have

a revelatory vision, which it says without prophetic vision, my people cast off

restraint. Without vision, you can't build because what are you building? Because

Psalms one twenty seven. Unless the Lord builds the house, those that labor

labor in vain. So you got to know you're building according to the blueprints

that He's given to you. That's why all this church growth stuff. We

violated every rule under the sun, and God's still moving. Do you understand

that what he's doing right here in Kerville, Texas, if we were to

pluck this up and go to another city, he would totally mess our plans

up because it's totally different. And we're constantly trying to formulate everything because it

puts us in control imaginary and we're formulated. You ever notice God doesn't do

formulas. Every single one of you right now was created by God to manifest

a unique part of God's nature. And if you're too busy trying to fit

in because of the fear of man and the fear of rejection, you're actually

robbing the world of an aspect of what God looks like, and you're a

horrible counterfeit. God doesn't want you acting like anybody else. He doesn't watch

you walking in anyone else's shoes. He made you for a purpose. None

of you are hereby happenstance. None of you are here by evolution. There

was a big bang. God spoke and bang it happened. First service,

I got through one point first Chronicles twelve eight. Some Gadites joined David at

the stronghold in the wilderness, Mighty men of valor, men trained for battle,

who could handle shield and spear, whose faces were like the faces of

lions, and were as swift as gazelle's on the mountains. Do you think

they looked timid? If they had faces like lions, do you even think

they looked pastoral? We wouldn't have them as the greeters at the front door

because they would drive everyone away. But you don't hire a pastor to run

a nation. You vote for a general patent. I'll leave that hang,

kind of like the hanging Chad's in Florida. You want to hear the best

battle plan ever. Actually it's the worst battle plan, but it's genius.

And if some of y'all will actually get a hold of this battle plan,

if you have a business, guess what will happen. Your business will flourish.

If you're looking for a promotion, and you get a hold of this

battle plan, you get a hold of the principle behind it, you'll flourish,

you'll prosper. You ready, Jonathan said to the young man who carried

his arm, or, come, let us go over to the garrison of

these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us. It

may be that he'll work for us. For nothing can hinder the Lord from

saving by many or by few. And his armor bearer said to him,

do all that's in your heart, do as you wish. Behold, I

am with you heart and soul. Then Jonathan said, behold, we will

cross over to the men, and we will show ourselves to them. If

they say to us, wait until we come to you, then we will

stand still in our place and we will not go up to them. But

if they say come up to us, then we will go up. For

the Lord's giving them into our hand, and this shall be the sign to

us. Huh. That is the worst military battle plan on planet Earth.

If they say stay down, we know we're toast. But if they say

scale this wall, we know we win. Huh. Don't these guys got

bow and arrows? And spears and rocks. I mean, how many people

were getting stoned. And I don't mean like Denver stoned, like the old

school stoned. You know what I'm saying, There ain't no cheating, strong

anointing. How's my driving mark? You're awful quiet? After I just said

all that, I thought for you're so witty, I thought for sure you'd

say something fast, buddy, what'd you say? Okay? And she's watching

through the live stream. Wait until we come to you. Then we'll stand

in our place and we'll not go up to them. But if they say

come up to us, then we'll go up. For the Lord has given

them into our hand, and this shall be the sign to us. So

both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. I can only

imagine kind of like Brave Heart, where they probably mooned them or something.

And the Philistines said, look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where

they have been hiding themselves. And the menace of the men of the garrison

hailed Jonathan and his armor bearer and said, come up to us, and

we'll show you a thing. And Jonathan said to his armor bearer, come

up after me. For the Lord has given them into the hand of Israel,

and so they scaled the wall, they kicked their butts, and the

rest is history. I have had the privilege of being a part of a

couple of different networks like Hunter Decks and things like that, and because I'm

just like a entrepreneur at heart, and Lisa and I have always been self

employed for the most part, even before ministry. And the one thing I

see thematically through all of those people, the ones that were the most successful,

I mean, with the craziest stories and testimonies are the men and women

like him. They got this crazy idea, this crazy battle plan from the

Lord, and they were crazy enough to implement it, and God breathed it.

Do you understand the Lord will intentionally lead you to do things that offend

you because he's poking at your control. He's poking at your stronghold. And

every place we have strongholds in our life, those are places unyielded to the

Holy Spirit. Those are places that don't get put on the cross when we

take up our cross daily, and He loves us too much. It says,

work out your salvation with fear and trembling, y'all, We are so

busy fighting over each other's empires that we haven't noticed that the enemy has discipled

a generation. Yeah, we are literally fighting to get back simp simple,

simple things like there's only male and female who would have and and listen,

if you're battling with gender confusion, I'm not making fun of you. You

are loved. We have amazing testimonies of people that have been totally healed,

radically set free and know who God created them to be. So don't take

that wrong. But the point is, with these issues, who would have

thought that we would come into a place in our nation? Do you know

you? Who was it? I think it was Susan. Weren't you telling

me about a young A young kid that had never even heard the gospel in

Curveville, didn't know what a cross was, living in Cerrville, Texas.

Y'all, if you feel called to the nations, have you talked to your

next door neighbors? If you feel called to be in an apostle or a

prophet, Lord have mercy on you. Last time I checked in the scriptures,

none of these guys wanted to do what they were doing. They surrendered

to the call. If you're frustrated that you got all this favor of the

Lord on your life, but man doesn't see it. It's because it's not

your time. So get over it. Because when the favor of God in

the favor of man meet, that's chiros. That means it's time. Don't

promote yourself self promotion, selfish ambition. That tells you what type of wisdom

that is. In James, we live in a generation where most people live

literally live not in reality, but they live online. They build a virtual

life to escape reality. And I want to say another thing to the revelatory

people and hear all you prophetic eagles. You can fall into the trap of

constantly trying to live in the future so you can avoid responsibility in the present.

Are you with me? We have to get into a place where we

are willing to speak the truth and love and let the cards fall. If

you lose relationships because you're living in the light and speaking the truth and saying

the truth, not like a mean butt head, but in love. You're

speaking the truth and love and somebody gets offended, that's fine, that's on

them. You know, the sinner's prayer is not in scripture. How many

people walk down the aisle in their life, said a prayer or preached a

different gospel without repentance, and told they didn't need to repent because they were

totally forgiven of everything, which is a greasy hyper grace, which is also

lawlessness disguised by spirituality, and their complete hope and trust is in a prayer

to Jesus. But they've not been transformed. I'm not saying like it's a

sin to do the sinner's prayer to ask Jesus into your heart. But what

I'm saying is we've gotten so far away from the purity of the Gospel of

the Kingdom. Many times we have a different gospel. I'm not moving that

fast. Daniel eleven thirty two to thirty five. Those who do wickedly against

the Covenant, he shall corrupt with flattery. But the people who know their

gods shall be strong and carry out great exploits. And those of the people

who understand shall instruct many. Y'all, it is time to rise up as

warriors. I in the last twelve hours I changed what I was going to

teach on six times, and I was sitting here in that second seat first

service, not with peace anymore. On what I thought I was going to

teach on, and all of a sudden, I end up teaching on something

that wasn't even on my radar. And I changed during worship, and Susan

brings this what she called Warrior Princess. So I would say, there's a

warrior thing this morning. That was intentional, because I had no idea she

was bringing that. I didn't know she was painting, and I was sure

in the world didn't know the name of that right. But Caleb quieted the

people before Moses shut up. I could imagine him saying that it doesn't say

that, But they're all grumbling and whining and complaining. They go, oh,

it's intercessory whining. Oh, let us go up at once and occupy

it, for we are well able to overcome it. Then the men who

had gone up with him said, who are not able to go up against

the people, For they are strong, stronger than we are. Their voices

got weaker and weaker as they talked. So they brought to the people of

Israel bad report of the land that they'd spied out, saying, the land

through which we've gone to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants,

and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.

They're as tall as Justin Carpenter were scared to death. And there we saw

the Nephelim, the sons of a knock who come from the Nephalum, and

we seemed to be ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.

That's numbers chapter thirteen. Most of the people that spied out the land,

they couldn't see the blessing of the Lord. They couldn't see the land.

They couldn't see grapes the size of a human being, a cluster of grapes

that they had to carry between two a pole part of me. They couldn't

see the land flowing with milk and honey. All they could see was the

giants. And metaphorically speaking, the reason why you haven't taken your land is

you're afraid of your giants until you get a heart like Caleb or Joshua.

And that heart doesn't come from self help books and secular humanism pretending to be

spirituality. It comes from spending time with the God of the universe, seeing

him and allowing him to permeate every fiber of your being and transforming you from

the inside out, allowing his kingdom to advance inside of you so that it

will advance through you. It's not the gospel of me, it's the gospel

of Jesus. And to the degree in this hour that you choose to take

up your cross and feel the splinters is gonna determine how much of your life

you find. Some of us have halfheartedly picked up our crosses, and then

we don't understand why we're not finding life. We don't understand why we're still

battling fear and depression and hopelessness and despair because we're trying to drag the old

man into eternity. Part of the violence of the king kingdom is allowing God

to kill you, your way of doing life, your way of thinking.

You preserving your life, and we allow the whispers of the enemy through fear

to tell us that he isn't that good, that he is withholding stuff from

us, that if we'll just grab a hold of our lives a little bit

tighter, somehow, some way, we keep going back to this memorial that

we've created in our minds, that somehow we're going to see what we missed

and we're going to become what we want to become, and we'll be in

control of our lives. To understand, every time you revisit something in your

past without Jesus, it's torment. But if you'll go back to that place

with him, it becomes a testimony and then a place under the cross.

The first thing you gotta do to be a warrior is you gotta kill fear

first and foremost. You gotta reconcile that you're dead. You're dead to fear.

Fear can't have a voice. If you allow fear to have a voice,

you'll never fulfill what God's called you to. God didn't give you a

spirit of fear, but of love, power, and a sound mind.

No man shall be able to stand before you all days of your life,

just as I was with Moses. So I'll be with you. I'll not

leave you nor forsake you. Some of this terminology kind of sounds like Jesus,

I won't leave you as an orphan. I won't forsake you. It's

to your benefit that I leave. I'm telling you there is something on that

scripture in this hour. It's to your benefit that I leave. Until we

are convinced that it was actually better that he goes will never grab a hold

of the fullness of the Holy Spirit inside of us. Every one of us

in this room is living a life way under what he died for. Every

one of us are I don't know about y'all. I may cast a big

shadow on some days, maybe after Thanksgiving, but I've never had anybody walk

by my shadow and go, oh, I'm healed. Yeah, anybody content

with the level like of our intimacy and where we're walking as a whole in

the American Church, I know I'm not. Here's the key. Are you

ready for it? Salvation is free, Intimacy cost you everything. Blessed are

those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. They'll be filled. If we will

seek God and ways that we've never sought him before, If we will seek

Him in ways that others aren't willing to, then we we will have a

life in Him that others only dreamed of. You know, we're supposed to

be provoking the jew to jealousy right now, No, we are. Well.

You know how you get their attention? I can tell you one way

you get a Jewish person's attention. It's when they actually see the promises of

God. Manifesting in your life. Oh man, I got okay. Gideon,

most fearful guy in the world, says, I'm from the least tribe,

I'm from the least family, and I'm the least of the family.

You think he needed a little upgrade in his identity. He's in a wine

press threshing wheat because he's scared to death. Right, you're supposed to be

crushing grapes in a wine press, people, not threshing wheat. Angel the

Lord comes, he tells him, go in this might of yours, oh

man of valor. And Gideon's like, looking around in the wine press.

Somebody else with me in here. No, when you look in the mirror

and you don't see what God sees, you're partnering with the enemy. God

was not looking for Gideon's perfection in that moment. He was looking for his.

Yes, he knew where he was, he knew how fearful he was.

In fact, he fleeced and fleeced and fleeced, and he fleeced some

more and goes, all right, Gideon, if that's not enough, go

down to the enemy's camp and listen. And the enemy had a dream.

Well, this is nothing less than the arm of Gideon, and Gideon's like,

huh after he fleeces three times? Y'all, what is the point?

God is more concerned with you surrendered, moving forward in process than he is

your perfection in the moment, because the blood is taking care of it.

He's looking for you to start moving forward. He's not looking for perfection from

you. If he was looking for perfection from you, we'd all be jack.

That's why Jesus came. So stop trying to be perfect and be his

son or daughter and walk with him. Feel the delight of the Father on

your life. Feel his unconditional love because it's his goodness that draws us the

repentance, not you wailing and lah, I don't know what that was.

That was partly flesh and that could whatever. We don't need to do that

again, all right, hear me. Fear is the substance of things negative

and the evidence of unbelief. Faith is the substance of things hoped for,

the evidence of things not seen. Fear is the currency of hell. Faith

is the currency of Heaven. Without fear, It's impossible to please Satan what

without fear. It is impossible to please Satan without faith. It is impossible

to please God. Fear is faith in the wrong God. And when I

say God, I mean Elohem, not Yahweh. Elohem is not distinct to

Yeah. Elohem is a word that's used for all gods. Now messing with

you, Irene, the word elohem is not distinct to Yahweh Eloheim. Like

Psalms eighty two, that he that he joined and brings judgment on the Eloheim,

he comes into the congregation, he judges the gods. It's the divine

counsel. The principalities that at the Tower of Babel did not stay obedient to

treat or to lean nations towards righteousness, but they actually did unrighteousness. A

principality's job is to help govern the collective thought process of a nation, to

influence them. And when you have principalities that are good, they're they're trying

to influence a culture towards righteousness. Whereas if you have a fallen principality over

a nation, they're there legally. You can't take them out. You don't

have the authority because they're by legal right in that place because of the lawlessness

of the land. It's a whole other teaching don't worry. We'll do that

again. Nothing Satan accomplishes in man is without fear. Fear will always be

present. God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power

and love and a sound mind. Second, that's alone, I mean sewo

Timothy one to seven. Perfect love cast out all fear. Fear always fails.

Love never fails. God is love first John four eight. So what

motivates your heart for the decisions that you make in life? Fear can masquerade

as wisdom when you put your battle plans together, if you are more focused

on the nameative than what could you lose and what will go bad. When

it says count the cost, it's not saying focus on all the negativity and

what could could potentially go bad, and then make your decision. He's saying,

count the cost. When you put your hand to the plow, don't

look back. Make the decision a one time decision. Yes, Jesus your

Lord. Yes, I'm repenting. Yes, I'm all in come hell or

high water. I am yours. If I lose this life, I gain

it. If they kill me, I'm martyred, and my blood will cry

out for justice and it will come. The three people got it we all,

I got two minutes, y'all give me grace here, Warriors strengthen themselves

in the Lord. There there's gonna be times in your life in the battle

that you're facing that no one's gonna be around. And I don't care how

many spiritual fathers and mothers you have. If those spiritual fathers and mothers aren't

pointing you back to Jesus, then they have false identity too, and you're

actually looking to an orphan that says they're a father, because true spiritual fathers

and mothers always point back to the Father. Because there's gonna be times in

your life they're not there. And if your identity is not solely in Jesus

looking to Papa as your father, you're gonna feel orphaned by them in that

moment. But guess what David knew how to strengthen himself in the Lord.

David was that ziglag He loses everything. It says there is four hundred men.

We know that there was more than one husband. I mean more than

one wife. Sorry, there was more than one wife back then, right,

So at minimum there were four hundred wife taken back then they had massive

family, So who knows how many kids. Everything was plundered, y'all,

everything was his own. Men wanted to stone them, and it said,

he strengthened himself and the Lord, and then he said, give me the

ephod. You understand that back then, the urim and the thumum, the

stones would light up when you would inquire of the Lord, almost like guess

or no, and he would inquire the Lord. You know, by the

way casting of lots came into the New Covenant, and they cast lots to

replace Judas. But once the Holy Spirit fell, you never saw lots being

casted after that. And he strengthened himself and the Lord. He said,

will I overcome, and he goes go, You'll overcome, and he got

everything back. Y'all. There's going to be times in your life that no

one, no one is going to be there for you except Jesus. And

if he is not enough, you are in deep trouble. Christ in you

is the hope of glory. One more point, I'm landing warriors cultivate an

overcoming life. They don't stay stuck in the ditch. And I might add

when David was strengthening himself and the Lord, he was remembering his history in

God. He was remembering when he killed the bear and no one was around.

He was remembering when he killed the lion and no one was around.

He was remembering when he is on the battlefield and his own brothers are mocking

him a cue, using him of pride and everything else that he says,

who's this uncircumcised philistine? The greatest level of humility is agreeing with God.

Moses said he was the humblest man on earth. That's scripture. He wrote

that seem pretty arrogant, except for God told them to so get over it

because it was true. So get over yourselves when God says, no,

this is who you are. Who knew this, knew me? I've got

false humility. It's it's actually pride. Masquer reading is humility. Sorry,

I'm into impersonations today, I guess. Sorry for those of you that are

tired of my impersonations. I'm almost done. So warriors cultivate an overcoming life.

What do they do? They discipline their disappointments. Any anybody had stuff

not work out the way you thought they should. Can we put both arms

up for those of you in full time ministry? Anybody misapply the revelation you

had. You thought it was gonna look one way, and it doesn't.

Hallelujah, join the club. We see in part we prophesy. In part

he Bacchic tried to discipline his disappointment. Oh Lord, how long shall I

cry for help? And you will not hear? This is professional intercessory whining.

Our cry to you violence, and you'll not save. Why do you

make me see iniquity? Why do you idly look it wrong? Destruction and

violence are before me, Strife and contention arise, so the law is paralyzed,

and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous. So

justice goes forth perverted. Look among the nations and see wonder and be astounded.

For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe

if I told you. And that is the word of the Lord. Right

now, in this moment, we see justice late in the streets. We

see wickedness everywhere around us, And God says, Hey, if I told

you what I'm doing right now in this moment, you wouldn't believe me because

you've allowed the lawlessness of others to callous your soul, kill your love,

and take out your vision. Shoe h that was okay, man, that

was higher. I'm gonna have instant abs now. One more point. Warriors

cultivate, Warriors cultivate and overcoming life. Watch and pray. I'm gonna leave

you all with this. Watch and pray. That was Habaccic one, Habacic

two. I will take my stand at my watch post and station myself on

the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me.

We need watchmen now more than ever. Not watchmen of their accounts, not

watchmen of their finances, not watchmen of their social media, not watchmen of

how many followers they got, but watchmen of the Lord, that will stand

in the council of God, that will get revelation from God and then run

with the revelation no matter what. I'll take my stand at my watch post

and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he'll say

to me. And I will answer concerning and what I will answer concerning my

complaint. And the Lord answered me. Write the vision, make it plain

on tablets so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits

its appointed time. It hastens to the end. It will not lie.

This is why you have to fight the good fight. You, just like

Paul told Timothy, remember the prophetic words that were spoken over you, so

that you can fight the good fight. Because it says that if you if

you throw aside the prophetic words that have been spoken over your life, that

you're in danger of shipwrecking your faith. That is the power of even New

Covenant prophecy. Don't throw the words away their invitations to become something. It's

an invitation for intimacy, it's an invitation for an upgrade. If it seems

slow, wait for it. It will surely come. It will not delay.

Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright within him.

But the righteous shall live by his faith. There's a threefold cord that

we need in our lifestyle as believers. We've always needed it, but I

think we need it now more than ever. And that's fasting, his word

and prayer. Period when the Disciples of John were all fired up that they

were fasting, and the Disciples of Jesus were not fasting, Jesus said,

Hey, how can the bride fast when the bridegroom's here? He says,

but they will fast. Fasting doesn't twist God's arm, but it brings us

into a place of humility. We humble ourselves through fasting. We take authority

over our soul through fasting. Mahesh Bonnie's husband, there was a time in

his life where he was doing two forty day water fasts a year and two

twenty one day water fast a year. He was literally water fasting six months

out of the year. I'm not telling you to do that. I would

tell you not to do that unless you know that. You know that,

you know that the Lord said to because you won't have the grace on your

life, and it will hurt your body. But I can tell you this,

your sensitivity to him, your spiritual senses will increase. It'll knock the

callouses off your eyes, pull the wax out of your ears, and you

will be way more sensitive to his whisper to his invitations. Because remember it

says as many are led by the spirit of God or the sons of God,

not led by our soul, not led by a good plan, not

led by a good retirement, but led by the Spirit of God. We

are absolutely living in unprecedented times. In many ways, we're beginning to see

that we are literally living in the days that were prophesied thousands of years ago.

Will respond, and they will respond like the lion they are, and

we need to pray that the dominoes do not go. I don't care if

you agree with that. I'm saying. They will respond. They've already said

they will respond. There are so many things hanging in the balance right now,

y'all. Lisa and I walked away from that meeting last Wednesday night and

I said, could you imagine if you didn't know Jesus all the stuff we

just heard? Understand. I don't know if I said this in this service

or not. I know I did the first service. I I already said

this to you. Pretend like I didn't. Our government lost track of eighty

five thousand children last year. They have no idea where they're at. Let

that sink in eighty five thousand kids. Kids, the kids that are in

here. If you think your parents are helicopter parents, they may be,

but they love you. They want to protect you. If they ask to

see your cell phones, get over it because it's out of love. Because

guess what that cell phone is the first way you get groomed by predators.

And they are experts at what they do. We're living in a day that

we It's just it's in so many ways, it's crazy. We are primed

for a move of God, and I believe we're on the cuffs of a

revival that will awaken a nation. But we we right now today, Today's

the only day you have. Today's the day that if you've laid down your

sword, pick it back up, pick it back up. I love the

quote the frost makes the blade stick Gladiator, But what did he say,

hold the line? They have their shields, and he said, no matter

what comes out that gate, stay together. And that's exactly what we need

to do, is the body of Christ right now in this hour. No

matter what comes out of the gates of Hell, the gates of Hell cannot

prevail period. All right, Father, I just asked that the prayer teams

would come forward. I was not asking the Father to bring them forward.

Sorry, the prayer teams will come forward, all right. Hey, Caitlin

is going home. Kyllie's daughter Kylie, and I'll share one other quick testimony.

We have a family member very close to my brother and I that last

Sunday I got a text that they were going in for a biopsy for prostate

that they might have cancer. And Mahesh, on one of his pre recorded

teachings, gave a word of knowledge about the prostate and being healed. And

I just got a text from a family member yesterday that all twelve tests came

back negative. And that was my father. That was my dad, y'all.

I used to tell Becky, release your spirit, release your spirit.

She's like, how do I release my spirit? Is it like Superman?

Do I just go? Come on Jesus and she do that? Listen,

Jesus is let him loose. He like, listen. He is inside of

you. For you, that's your personal anointing, first John, but he's

upon you for others, that's your corporate anointing. Keep getting closer to him.

We're here to see the works of the evil One destroyed. Every gift

that God's put inside of you destroys the work of the evil One in one

way or another. So go out this week and charge hell with a water

pistol. So, Father, I just thank you for your love. I

thank you Lord that you're calling us up in this hour. Lord, you're

calling your bride up. You're calling us deeper. Lord, You're calling us

away to the mountain. Lord, can we hear the trumpet. When you

hear the trumpet, blow long, come to the mountain of the Lord.

Lord make us so sensitive. We hear the winds from the garden and a

call to intimacy. Lord, would you continue to just shake us awake?

Lord, prune us, draw us, convict us, power us, and

expand our spirit's capacity for yours. Ask all of these things in Jesus Mighty

name. Amen. If you all need prayer, we got our prayer teams

up here. Otherwise, don't forget your kids. You're loved. Thank you

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