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The Mystery of War (A Key To Inheritance)

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

  2. this message from Justin Carpenter. But Goliath, Deanna Heisman did Goliath for me,

  3. and and she did the fruit. And as you all know, this

  4. year is a year that we said we're declaring war in twenty twenty four on

  5. doubt and unbelief, because I believe with all of my heart the greatest giant

  6. in the land is unbelief. Period. If it wasn't the Old Covenant,

  7. it's in the New Covenant. If the Disciples had all authority and power to

  8. cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead, and then they

  9. came up to a young man they couldn't get rid of the demon, and

  10. he said, it's because of your unbelief. When we are going and pressing

  11. in and looking for breakthrough, the issue is not God. He is for

  12. us. Are you with me? Are you with me? And so I

  13. just I had Deana do this weeks ago because I've had this so many times

  14. when we talk about scripture and we talk about oh, okay, so Caitlin,

  15. Caitlyn's what's Caitlyn Bowen? She's pregnant and her blood pressure just just went

  16. dangerously high, and they yeah, and they just took her to the emergency

  17. room. So let's pray real quick. So Father, right now, in

  18. the name of Jesus, we just speak healing and wholeness, Lord against this

  19. attack. Father, we rebuke a spirit of death right now that's coming against

  20. this child, and we speak peace over her body. Lord, and we

  21. asked that you'd release your angels to bring healing and deliverance. Right now,

  22. Father, we just cancel the in agreement right now, all of us.

  23. We cancel the enemy's assignment of stealing and destroying life right now, and we

  24. speak life, and we declare that that baby will declare the works of the

  25. Lord and the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. So I want to talk

  26. to you, man, I got as much time as I did this morning

  27. was going on. I want to talk to you about the mystery of war,

  28. because it's a key to your inheritance, and you're not going to receive

  29. the fullness of your inheritance without war. Are you with me? Joshua?

  30. Are sorry? Judges two six to ten. When Joshua dismissed the people,

  31. the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land,

  32. and the people serve the Lord all the days of Joshua, all the

  33. days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work

  34. that the Lord had done for Israel. And Joshua, the son of Nune,

  35. the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and

  36. ten. Ah, hey, we can get to one twenty people. And

  37. they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath Harris in the hill

  38. country of Kerrville, I mean Ephrium, north of the Mountain of Gosh.

  39. And all that generation also, I'm sorry, and all that generation also were

  40. gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them who did not

  41. know the Lord are the work that he had done for Israel. In many

  42. ways, we find ourselves in a similar situation today in America. We're no

  43. longer just a backslidden nation. We are on the cuffs of the last statistics

  44. I saw gen x is at like forty six percent where they're agnostic or atheist,

  45. they're non religious affiliated. By election time there'll be at fifty percent.

  46. We with the breakdown of the home, the destruction of the family. We

  47. have one of the most fatherless generations we've ever had. We're literally living in

  48. a time where we see the fruit of the curse from MELOCHI too, and

  49. it's time that the hearts of the fathers are turned back to the sons,

  50. and the hearts of the sons are turned back to the fathers. The enemy

  51. knew when he broke the home up that that that's the nucleus did. In

  52. the Old Covenant, Gods called the angels his sons, so family was on

  53. his mind and a part of what he did from the very beginning. And

  54. you, as sons and daughters of God in this life to come, will

  55. actually join the Divine Council and rule and reign with his other angelic sons.

  56. So you, right now, we can get stuck in these patterns of blowing

  57. off our responsibility over the earth. And what you don't realize is what you're

  58. doing on this earth right now is actually setting you up for the life to

  59. come and preparing you for future promotion of responsibility for eternal consequences. And every

  60. day you wake up, you're in a battlefield. The day you were born,

  61. you and you literally breathe your first breath. You were born in a

  62. battle, whether you like it or not. And nothing is free. Salvation

  63. is free, intimacy is costly. And we're in a battle. We're in

  64. a battle right now. And I said this in first service. Do not,

  65. I repeat, do not be overcome by a political spirit this this election

  66. season. We've already seen what happens to the prophets when they're overcome by a

  67. political spirit. Your hope is not in the White House, It's in Jesus.

  68. And I might add that God said very clearly he gives the king the

  69. nation deserves. And in the other hand, he says that the heart of

  70. the king is in his hand and he can turn it any direction he pleases.

  71. If you believe that we're not under God's correction judgment as a nation,

  72. then you need to read your Bible again. You are not just at war

  73. for your life. You're at war for your bloodline. You're at war for

  74. the future generation. It says, raise up a child, and the way

  75. he should go when he's old, he will not depart. Your children are

  76. not being taught about God in the education system in case he hadn't figured that

  77. out. But they are being discipled and I might add, it's not the

  78. youth pastor's job to raise your kids. The youth pastor is a supplement to

  79. you parents, training up your children in the ways of God. Are you

  80. with me, Judges three? Now, these are the nations that the Lord

  81. left to test Israel by them, that is all in Israel, who had

  82. not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the

  83. generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those

  84. who had not known it before. Anybody ever read that? Anybody ever catch

  85. that in there when you've read that before? Like, why in the world

  86. would the Lord literally leave their enemies in place and then intentionally take them into

  87. battle because they didn't know battle and they needed to know battle? Well,

  88. I want to tell you something, because of the generational breakdown in the family,

  89. we have lost something from the men in this nation from War War two

  90. to today, because literal war and spiritual war teaches you something. Now,

  91. before anybody thinks I'm gonna create a militia and start a physical war, hold

  92. onto your hands or your butt. Uh. That's not that's not my uh,

  93. that's not my intention. The point is is We're in a spiritual battle.

  94. Our battle's not against flesh and blood. And do we have a battle

  95. plan? Because the enemy has a battle plan that he's executing on your children

  96. and on your children's children, and on this nation. And you may be

  97. in a mountaintop experience in this moment. You may be everything might be peachy

  98. for you. But you know that Jesus said he came to give you life

  99. and give it more abundantly. So right on the horizon is a valley,

  100. because your character is forged in the wilderness, not the mountaintop. So what

  101. is it that he wants to teach you in this hour by preparing your hands

  102. for war? Do you actually know your weapons of righteousness in your right hand

  103. and then your left? Do you actually know what weapons you need in the

  104. moment of conflict? Or are you scrambling to figure out, Oh, what

  105. do I need? Peace? Or love? Or or whoa, whoa?

  106. What do I do? What do I need? Interestingly, in numbers one,

  107. the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of

  108. meeting on the first day of the second month and the second year, after

  109. they'd come out of the land of Egypt, saying, take a census of

  110. all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by father's houses,

  111. according to the number of names every male head by head for twenty years

  112. old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war.

  113. So when we were reading Judges two and Judges three, it was on the

  114. cuffs of them already getting into a place of having an inheritance. Because remember

  115. Joshua and Caleb, they went out for forty days, and they spied out

  116. the land. They spied out the land, and it says, it says

  117. in numbers eleven. Then the Lord said to Moses, gather for me seventy

  118. men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of

  119. the people, and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of

  120. meeting, and let them take their stand there with you, and I will

  121. come down and talk with you there, and I will take some of the

  122. spirit that is on you and put it on them. And they show bear

  123. the burden of the people with you, so that it may not you may

  124. not bear it alone. And he goes on to say, at the end

  125. of forty days, they returned from spying out the land. So they sent

  126. them out, and they said, be encouraged and bring some of the fruit

  127. of the land. This actually is not as big as what was what they

  128. were carrying, because scripture says that when they came back from spying out the

  129. land, two men each on the end of a pole, were carrying the

  130. grapes. But this isn't too far off. Literally a cluster of grapes so

  131. big it took two men to carry it. Says it was flowing with milk

  132. and honey. So your promised land, your inheritance, what God's called you

  133. to individually and as a bloodline, is actually flowing with milk and honey and

  134. has amazing fruit. I was gonna, I was gonna get a pole and

  135. hang it, But I have Goliath there for giants, because as they went

  136. out they found something. They came to the land in which he sent us

  137. that flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However,

  138. the people dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and

  139. very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of a knock. The

  140. Amalekites dwell on the land of the Negeb the hit sites, the Jebi sites,

  141. and the Amorites dwell in the hill country, and the Canaanites dwell by

  142. the sea and along the Jordan. But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and

  143. said, let us go up at once and occupy it, for we were

  144. well able to overcome it. Now keep in mind on the cuffs of this

  145. statement, they spied out the land for forty days. They come back with

  146. this godsill I mean that probably make I don't know, a couple hundred bottles

  147. of wine maybe, And they come back with all this fruit, and it's

  148. flowing milk and honey. And Joshua and Caleb they're there. They see the

  149. sons of a knock. By the way, this is nine foot seven.

  150. Of your wondering, this is the actual height of Goliath. But he was

  151. small. King Ogg's bedstead was fifteen feet and it was built of iron.

  152. In fact, an Amos, it says that the giants, the Nepheleine were

  153. so big they were as tall as cedar trees. And guess what happens every

  154. time these huge skeletons are unearthed. Guess who comes and gets them and stores

  155. them away in the basement the Smithsonian Institute. Goliath at ninety seven was no

  156. small man, but he had brothers, and we saw that they were killed.

  157. Two. Interestingly, none of the Nephelene bloodlines were offered mercy. They

  158. were completely annihilated. And you might say, well, man, that's pretty

  159. harsh. Lord, Well was it? Because they were a hybrid race.

  160. Genesis six is clear that the sons of God came down on Mount Hermon by

  161. the way and saw the daughters of men, and that Hebrew word for banio

  162. lhem is only used for angels, never human, and they made a pack

  163. and they took the daughters of men, and the offspring of that is the

  164. nepheline. And it says they were on the land or in the earth in

  165. those days and after meeting after the flood, and Jesus makes this crazy statement,

  166. he says, just like in the days of Noah, so shall it

  167. be when the Son of Man returns. And if you have eyes to see,

  168. you realize there's things happening behind the scenes right now and being pushed on

  169. the entire earth that actually has the capacity to change your DNA. I'll leave

  170. that there, because that's a whole nother teaching in fact, Daniel says that

  171. they will try to mix with man, but it will not take. In

  172. the Toes, Corinthians talks about having a head covering a symbol of authority over

  173. the woman, and Paul makes the statement, I say that because of the

  174. angels. See, Paul had a Genesis six worldview, and from Paul's perspective,

  175. he understood that that could happen again. And that goes right over so

  176. many people's heads because everybody wants to focus and argue on whether a woman should

  177. ever head covered. Today in church, when he drops this big bomb on

  178. everybody on Genesis six worldview, they had six toes and six fingers. Our

  179. military actually killed one, and there's eyewitness testimony from one of the guys involved

  180. in today. The problem is much of the church in America has a natural

  181. worldview rather than a biblical worldview. So we have to spend so much time

  182. rooting out unbelief so people will have a supernatural worldview, and then we wonder

  183. why we don't see the healings, miracle signs, and wonders and resurrections here

  184. the way we do around the world. When you don't have to convince them

  185. of a spiritual battle because they don't have that unbelief. They haven't had hundreds

  186. or thousands of denominations come in to bring division and actually create doctrines that build

  187. unbelief. The number one stronghold over this region is a religious spirit, and

  188. it will make you feel spiritual without transformation, and you will have no power,

  189. but you will be so full of pride you'll think you're rocking it.

  190. David looked at Goliath and had five smooth stones. Goliath had four brothers.

  191. Did you catch that? Yeah, he had five for a reason. He

  192. said, I'll take your head off and your brothers. He didn't literally say

  193. that in there, but there's a reason for five stones. And then we

  194. see later that his four brothers were killed. Now, just for a moment,

  195. can you imagine yourself. You know, David was probably about my height.

  196. I guess, probably wasn't as good looking as I am, but that's

  197. okay. And all all of Israel is scared to death of him, and

  198. he's running his mouth and said he's gonna feed David to the dogs. He

  199. was a champion, and truth be told, his shoulders at nine to seven

  200. were probably about like that. And then you fast forward and they're spying out

  201. the land, and they say they're giants. The sons of a knock are

  202. there. They give this horrible report. The land though which we've gone to

  203. spy out as a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that

  204. we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephelum,

  205. the sons of a Knak who came from the Nephelum. And we seemed

  206. to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them. My buddy Dan

  207. Gerroi went to be with the Lord about a year and a half ago.

  208. He called it grasshopper thinking. He called it grasshopper thinking. And yet Joshua

  209. and Caleb were of a different spirit, and something generationally broke down because you

  210. see Joshua staying in the tent with the Lord. As Moses would leave,

  211. he would always stay back because he was focused on the presence of God.

  212. The whole purpose of Israel going into the wilderness was so that they would actually

  213. get rid of the unbelief and God would gather them together. He is looking

  214. for a priesthood from day one. And they go no, no, no,

  215. no, Moses, you you go talk to God, we're out of

  216. here. We don't want to you go talk to God and fast forward.

  217. In today's culture, how many times would he'd rather have a prophet come and

  218. tell us everything we need to know, rather than spending the time in the

  219. prayer closet to hear from Jesus ourselves. One of the quickest ways of finding

  220. out a false prophet or a false teacher is how much they actually point people

  221. back to themselves. They want a following, they don't want to point people

  222. to Jesus. A mature prophet's actually going to be more focused on raising people

  223. up to hear God's voice for themselves, versus having a pez machine and throwing

  224. prophetic words at him, feeding the children candy, y'all with me, so

  225. he gives a bad report. God is dealing with our grasshopper thinking today.

  226. God is wanting us to face our goliath, and every one of you may

  227. have a different goliath in your life right now, but make no mistake about

  228. it, if you don't allow the kingdom to advance inside of you, it

  229. will not advance through you. Don't expect to go see somebody delivered from something

  230. that you are handling and loving God and your pet sin. You've named it,

  231. and you have a leash on it, and you're like, oh,

  232. Lord, don't don't touch this room. Don't mess with this sin. Lord,

  233. you can have everything, but this, Lord, you can't have this.

  234. Every time Israel went out to war, if they had sin in the

  235. camp, guess what, they could not stand before their enemy. And it's

  236. no different today. If you have sin in your life, you will not

  237. stand before your enemy. I've heard so many testimonies of men were doing deliverance

  238. ministry and they had sin in their lives, and the demon came all the

  239. way forward and laughed at him and talked to them, Oh, I know

  240. you. I hadn't seen you for a little while. And I might add,

  241. we will lose authority what we don't have love for the moment people become

  242. our enemy, we've lost because we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. The

  243. moment you pull out your sword and you identify the person in front of you

  244. and and you want to cut them, you've already lost. Paul said,

  245. I know no one by the flesh. Literally. Just a couple of days

  246. ago, Heidie Baker posted that they just had a whole bunch of pastors and

  247. villages and churches burned and lost pastors and their entire families to martyrdom, and

  248. they were standing. She was standing there in the video with two pastors and

  249. saying, pray. We've seen, we have videos and it's just horrible the

  250. loss. And then you have the American church, who if someone doesn't talk

  251. to you daily, are pamper your ego. You get ticked off and leave

  252. and go someplace else because you feel persecuted, y'all. Paul said, when

  253. I was a child, I acted like a child. But then when I

  254. grew up, I put childish ways behind me. It is time for us

  255. to grow up in him and get into a place where we become undefendable.

  256. I mean unoffendable. We are defendable. I mean you knew what I meant.

  257. There were ten giants that they faced, and I've talked about this in

  258. the past, and the Lord literally tells Israel, look, the first three

  259. giants, you're more than able to take out. You actually have the natural

  260. ability to take them out. Kind of like when thirty thousand people show up

  261. with Gideon and the Lord's like, yeah, there's too many of you.

  262. Let's cull the herd real quick, and what happened. You remember the story

  263. at the end of the day, the real warriors when they lap their water

  264. like this, because they never took their eyes off their enemy, and they

  265. were lapping their water looking for the enemy. There were three hundred of them.

  266. He goes, yeah, I can do that. So why do you

  267. think it's strange when God gives you a battle plan that sounds completely outrageous and

  268. the natural, and then all of a sudden you have all this fear rise

  269. up in you because now you don't have the ability and your own strength,

  270. wisdom, or understanding to actually accomplish what he just called you to do.

  271. And if you dare move forward, then that just guarantees the victory with him.

  272. But you got to lay it all out on the altar, and the

  273. temptation to pick Ishmael back up will never be greater than in that moment,

  274. because that's when you've gone from the dark knight of the soul into the dark

  275. spirit, the dark knight of the spirit, which means when Jesus was like,

  276. Father, I commit my spirit to you. You've done everything you can,

  277. and either he shows up or he doesn't. And that's the temptation to

  278. hop back off of that altar and then go grab what you created with Jesus

  279. sprinkles. Jesus said, the son of Man did not come to be ministered

  280. to, but to minister and offer his life a ransom. In the American

  281. church, how many times do we show up to a place and everything is

  282. determined by what we can get rather than what we can give. And then

  283. we call that maturity? Y'all with me? Yes, we have got to

  284. step into. Don't worry. He's not offended. He's been on the worship

  285. team through two services and oh you're offended. Good, he's defended. Yep.

  286. Seven seven giants were greater. Seven Israel couldn't take out in that moment

  287. of looking at that seven feeling like a grasshopper, what you focus on is

  288. going to determine the success. Joshua and Caleb were way more focused on what

  289. they carried back than what they had to conquer. And there are giants in

  290. your land, but the grapes are worth it. There are giants in your

  291. bloodline, but the grapes are worth it. There's a religious spirit that needs

  292. to be crushed and pulled down over this region. But the grapes are worth

  293. it. There's a poverty spirit that tells you you don't have enough, and

  294. you got to gather everything for yourself over this region. But the grapes are

  295. worth it. The disciples were butt hurt one day and went to Jesus and

  296. said, what about us. We've given everything up? What about us,

  297. Lord, We've laid it all down, We've given it all up. And

  298. he gave them a promise, and he goes through the list of houses and

  299. families and brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers, and he says, you

  300. will get all of that back in this life and the life to come.

  301. With persecution. I want to say something, maybe, just maybe we haven't

  302. been experiencing the level of persecution that we should because we actually haven't lived a

  303. life threatening enough to the enemy to bring it. Paul said he was filling

  304. up in his flesh what was lacking in the sufferings of Christ. In other

  305. words, he was like, you should be living on this level that demands

  306. persecution because the enemy is scared to death. But since you're not, I'm

  307. gonna fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the body of Christ?

  308. For the sufferings of Christ. He's got a word. Okay, they're they're

  309. sword fighting in the room's next door, raising him up. Don't worry,

  310. moms, that was a joke. There's not literal swords next door. Be

  311. at peace. So I'm gonna land the plane gently. Interestingly enough, these

  312. these seven giants actually have meaning to them, and as I go through them,

  313. I wanna. I want to encourage you to take in and tory of

  314. your heart right now, you with me, and don't lie to yourself.

  315. Who knows. We're really good at lying to ourselves. We have guardian lies

  316. all the time to put distance between the pain that we've gone through, the

  317. traumas. Like y'all have heard my story a bunch. But when Lisa and

  318. I first met, I told her, Hey, I said, I came

  319. from a divorced home. My grandparents raised me. I was molested for seven

  320. years, but don't worry, none of that affected me. I'm fine.

  321. And Lisa was like, well, I guess he's fine. And then we

  322. separated, I mean not separated. We stopped dating. We're away for a

  323. couple of years, came back, got married, and everything that I thought

  324. I was cool with isn't it, y'all. When you first get married,

  325. all of a sudden you find where your easy buttons are? You ever see

  326. a spam? And all of a sudden, whoa, Yes, there were

  327. some giants that had to be pulled down for us to have a good marriage.

  328. And now over twenty four years later, we're just getting started, all

  329. right, seven giants that are mightier and greaterer greater than you, which means

  330. this takes a complete surrender and ruthless trust in your life to get the fullness

  331. of your promised land. See, we're contending for this region, and we're

  332. not the first place to be offered to it, but we will get it

  333. as long as I'm on the watch. And like I said before, if

  334. I got to put a crash helmet down and run through a wall, I'm

  335. going I'll never forget that dream I had when Bill Johnson came. He comes

  336. out of this house and there's all these houses on each side of them,

  337. and there's these young people around them, and I go, Bill, when

  338. did you get here? And he looks at me and goes, oh,

  339. I've been here for a while. And I woke up from that dream,

  340. and I knew the way the Kingdom was advancing and read in California. God

  341. wanted to advance the kingdom. He wanted a movement here and he'd been waiting.

  342. Oh I've been here for a while. And I actually got to share

  343. that with Bill just recently. Like in real life, it's our responsibility for

  344. the waiting to be over, and it's going to take a group of people

  345. m H that knows. They understand what it means to take up their cross,

  346. They understand what it means to serve, to actually have humility, to

  347. have a love that becomes unoffendable h and to have character that can carry weight

  348. carry the responsibility in the kingdom because just like God lit the lit, the

  349. lit the candle in the beginning, the priest would have to trim the wick.

  350. The hit Tites mean sons of terror, subliminal torments, phobia's terror,

  351. depression. That would be a son of terror in real life. The Gergoshites

  352. mean stranger feeling out of place, like you don't fit in. Anybody ever

  353. feel like that, Oh I don't belong here, I don't fit in,

  354. I have no business being here. And then you don't take authority over those

  355. thoughts and you allow the enemy to run you out of your inheritance, because

  356. in that place you've not yet conquered that giant. The means sayer or to

  357. speak, it's to boast. It's pride. What does God do with pride?

  358. He opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble, and he

  359. also likes crushing idols. The Canaanites means zealous or premature opportunity. How many

  360. of you showed up too early to something and then got frustrated that it didn't

  361. happen. It's kind of like when you've got God's approval but you don't have

  362. favor with man, and you're irritated with everybody around you because you don't have

  363. that favor. But when you have favor with God and favor with man,

  364. then you know the timing of God is correct. But we've gotten really good

  365. in our culture of marketing ourselves, of self promotion. The Parazites mean squatter,

  366. lazy or low self esteem. You know they're squatter rights now like in

  367. the natural you literally can get squatters in your rent house and they're like,

  368. if you like, I won't do that again. And the Raphaeim are the

  369. Hivites. It means giants vision limited to enjoying earthly and hair purridence or hedonism.

  370. I like this statement, how much is too much money? The moment

  371. you stop trusting God and you trust your money. I didn't come up with

  372. that, I think Bill. I heard Bill say that, and I was

  373. like, Oh, that's good. Another amazing quote from Baker. He said

  374. he said kingdom wealth is having, not you, not having to ask your

  375. money permission to obey God. And the last one, jebusites means downtrodden or

  376. depressed or a victim mentality. You think we got a problem with a victim

  377. spirit in our culture today. It's not my Hey, we've all been there,

  378. y'all. The moment you say you make me you're the victim. You

  379. didn't take any responsibility for your life or your actions in that moment. You

  380. blamed everything on the person in front in front of you, and I got

  381. knows I can't. There's spot ram bakha. I'll just start speaking in tongues

  382. and finish up. Now, where was I I gotta move over? Okay,

  383. Yes, victim spirit. If you don't take responsibility for your life,

  384. you're never going to go anywhere. If you don't allow yourself to feel and

  385. actually own your feelings. You're actually not taking responsibility for what you believe because

  386. your emotion is the bridge back to your belief. You can't have a feeling

  387. without a belief behind it. And guess what, no matter what's happened to

  388. you in life, you may have been Trust me, I was victimized for

  389. seven years. There's plenty of people that were victimized, and that was true

  390. in that moment. But if I sat here today and said I am a

  391. victim, that is not true. You with me, you will be in

  392. a permanent state of imprisonment. With a victim mindset, you will never face

  393. any of your giants. You will never face anything because you're too busy blaming

  394. someone else for your problems. Okay, the next part we're going to talk

  395. about, not obviously right now, but characteristics of the leaders of the next

  396. move of God. And since I'm harping on this issue of being a victim,

  397. I want to say something. Anybody been hurt in church, raise your

  398. hand. It took me, well, the very first time my youth pastor

  399. to get hurt, and then I went to the next church after that,

  400. and oh that took about eight months and I vowed to God I would never

  401. do ministry again. I love you, Jesus. I will get as close

  402. to you as I possibly can. But I'm done with people and I'm done

  403. and i am done with ministry. That was That was twenty four years ago.

  404. That worked out well, didn't it. But I was wounded. I

  405. was hurt. I wasn't taking full responsibility of what I was feeling in my

  406. heart in that moment because it was so painful and I wanted to push it

  407. away and not deal with it. But I want to say something to you.

  408. God's governmental structure, what he says in his word didn't hurt you.

  409. His structure did not hurt you. Wounded people hurt you. So do not

  410. throw out the baby with the bathwater. Do not think that God's called you

  411. to create some brand news. There's nothing new under the sun. And I

  412. challenge you to look at this in the scriptures when he says that I make

  413. all things new over and over, he took something that was old and renewed

  414. it. I said this last week, we're watching a purification of the body

  415. of Christ. Right now, we're watching a purification of leaders in the Body

  416. of Christ. In this very moment, and these things are happening not because

  417. God's against us, but because He loves us. And He's coming back for

  418. a bride that does not have a victim mindset. He's coming back for a

  419. bride that is not stuck in sexual immorality. He's coming back for a bride

  420. that knows who they are, whose they are, and they're going to be

  421. without spot or wrinkle or blemish. He's coming back for a purified bride.

  422. And if he is trimming you right now, if he's dealing with an area

  423. of your heart right now, give it to him, because you are not

  424. your own. You've been bought with a price, So glorify him. It's

  425. his reward. We are his reward. We are the reason why he endured

  426. the sufferings on the cross. He said for the joy set before him.

  427. You are that joy, whether you think so or not. And there's something

  428. way bigger than us in this room that God wants to do in this region

  429. and beyond. And we have no idea the ripple effects that will take place

  430. for the next generation of what we're pioneering in this moment. So pick up

  431. your swords, pick up your hammers. Allow the Kingdom to advance inside of

  432. you and press on and recognize what your enemy really is. He is invisible.

  433. And let's love the hell out of people. Okay, if I can

  434. get the prayer teams to come up, that'd be the prayer teams Mueller old

  435. movie in case you hadn't seen that. Okay, I'm gonna close us in

  436. prayer. If you need prayer, please come up. Otherwise, bless you,

  437. we love you. Let's get connected. Let's watch this region be transformed.

  438. Yeah. So, Father Ice, thank you for another amazing morning.

  439. Jesus, I thank you that you are faithful to manifest yourself to us.

  440. Lord, have your way strengthen us to not fall prey to a victim's spirit,

  441. to a poverty mindset, to a negative mindset. Lord. And when

  442. we see the giants in the land, give us the grace to focus on

  443. the fruit, not the giant. And Lord, the battle is worth it.

  444. And I thank you Father that we are fighting from a place of victory,

  445. not for it. It's already finished. It's already done. When you

  446. said it's finished, you were not pretending, you were not playing. It

  447. was not a warm up. And so Lord, I asked that you would

  448. strengthen each and every one of us right now in our innermost beings, to

  449. know the truth. The truth is in you. You are the truth,

  450. and you are in us, and you have called us to be sons and

  451. daughters of light, walking in the light and ministering that light to others.

  452. So thank you, Lord for what you're doing in our midst And Lord,

  453. we asked that you would just double it. And when we start complaining and

  454. whining because you're pulling our strongholds down, please ignore us and just keep doing

  455. it. Lord in Jesus' name, Amen, thank you for listening. For

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