Tipping Point | Pastor Loren Covarrubias

I want to open with the Scripture I ended with last week

and Isaiah 59. It says the Redeemer will come

to Zion and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,

says the Lord. As for me, says the Lord, this

is my covenant with them. My Spirit, who is upon you, and

my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from

your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from

the mouths of your descendants. Descendants, says the Lord, from

this time and forever more. This is a prophecy given by the

prophet Isaiah during a time in the history of the people of

God. They were called the children of

Israel in those days where God had done so much for them and

wanted them to kind of show that they appreciated it by obeying

His word and walking in His ways and letting the work that He had

performed in them demonstrate in their lives.

And he said to them, if you will listen to my word and keep it,

I'll be your Redeemer. Last week I shared with you what

a Redeemer is. In the Old Testament, they had a

term called the near kinsman Redeemer.

If someone in the family, through righteous living is what

the Bible calls it, lost their inheritance or their possession,

it was also possible for a near kinsman Redeemer.

Someone in the family could always have the opportunity to

buy that back because God had it set up that no one could in the

end lose their inheritance, whether it was for their tribe

or their position, if they were willing to turn to God and let

him become their Redeemer. That's what God speaks to us

today in the New Testament, if we will repent of our sins and

be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the

remission of our sins. The Bible says that we can be

filled with the Holy Spirit, and after the Holy Ghost has come

upon you, the Bible says you will receive divine power.

I'm glad for the covenant God has for us.

Amen. And he said to them, you have to

understand that it is a covenant of faith.

And so he says, when I put my word in your mouth, you have to

make sure you keep that word in your mouth.

And what he's talking about is in the book of Romans, chapter

Romans 10 · chapter mention

10, it says that with the heart man believes, but with the

mouth, confession is made unto salvation.

So after the Lord has done something for us, we need to

confess it. And then of course, as I

mentioned, act upon it. But always remember it is a

covenant of faith and we must, must be a people of faith.

Now he says if you're willing to do this, I'm not only going to

have it be in your mouth, but it's going to be in the mouth of

your descendants, your descendants descendants, and

your descendants of theirs. So he's talking about the fact

that God's blessing will come to even the third and 4th

generation of those that love him.

And this is a very important promise for us always to

understand that God is at work in our seed as we put our trust

in Him and our faith in Him. He says you need to know

something. It might not look possible to

you, but I'm going to put my word in their mouth.

You keep it in your mouth and you're going to see that I'm

going to put it in there, says the Lord.

And that's such an amazing thing that God is such a faithful God.

Now he talks about this being 1/3 generational blessing, and

there's something significant about that.

If you study in social sciences, they'll often tell you that the

third generation is the generation that loses it, so to

speak. For instance, if you have

somebody who is an entrepreneur and starts a business, they not

only understand they got to have a vision, but they have to work

hard. And if you want blessings in

life, you're going to have to make a sacrifice to get them.

And so that first generation will do that.

And often times the second generation, maybe they won't

appreciate the sacrifice their parents made because it

sometimes impacted them, but they'll understand how important

it is. And so they will usually in the

second generation follow on along long, maybe not in the

same specific work of the parent, but understand how the

principles work. But they say oftentimes in the

third generation, the second generation will not want to put

the responsibility part upon the third generation.

So that's often when the generation is lost.

That happens in churches, when churches are founded.

That's what happens in denominations.

There's a lot of amazing denominations in the world that

were founded by somebody who saw something in the Scriptures,

stood for the Word, preach the Word, and got a lot of people

excited, forgot. And yet after the 3rd

generation, you have people who have what the Bible calls a form

of godliness, but deny the power thereof.

And so when this talks about God doing something in the third

generation, it's very significant.

Today I'm going to talk about the history of Mountain Zion

because when we first started our church, God told me two

things that were very important to our journey.

Number 1, he said, if you'll go the way of spirit, you'll

possess things that others not have not possessed before, which

to me was that way that would walk by faith, which is what

we're talking about here. And of course, our first

challenge that we face is we were a small group of people

without very much money. We needed the building to

worship in, but by trusting and believing in God, God He met the

need and we were able to build. By your first building, which is

down on Clintonville Rd. We still own that building.

We actually made a couple of remodeling additions to it, if

you would. And the rest of the history we

have seen as we walked by the way of Spirit, how God has done

these very powerful things. But he also said he wanted our

church to be a symbol. And part of that is because we

have buildings and also because we have ministries of how the

walk of faith works, because we have to be a people that learn

about the principles to walk by faith.

And so it's important for us to review these things because

they're very important. So when I talk about the third

generation, my grandchildren are quite young.

I don't know how much I'll be able to see their life when they

get older. But in a local church setting

here, we can honestly say that we have seen 1/3 generational

success. Our newest staff members that

are part of our ministry here are literally a third generation

because that's how long we've been in ministry now, close to

50 years. And it's exciting because

they've been raised in the House of God.

They understand the vision, they understand the principles.

And so they're able to step up there having learned about the

things that we've been through and can actually apply them so

that as the third generation, they can even make a fourth

generation and a fifth generation that can continue the

blessing of prosperity that we have seen God perform here.

When you come to one of the buildings at Mount Zion, you can

just say, oh, that's Mount Zion, the church.

For those of us who were there in the beginning when we started

in the unfinished basement of my mom and dad's house, we can look

at every building and every ministry and say, wow, God is so

faithful. And when you walk by his word,

you'll see that God will give you the capacity to do something

that's above your human capacity.

And that's so important for us to understand.

That's what God wants to do. Now this next verse of Scripture

I've actually shared for a few weeks now from Ephesians chapter

two, it says for by grace you have been saved through faith,

that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works.

This anyone should boast, for we are his what workmanship created

in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand,

that we should walk in them. So important for us to know that

everything with God starts with grace.

God's unmerited favor. He chooses us.

When God chooses us and we're aware of the fact that we need

to be a Christian, we have to rejoice on the fact that, well,

that means God has chosen me. Sometimes it happens because

we're in a certain circumstance or situation that we need help.

But the fact that you know that you can get it from God, well,

that's just God at work behind the scenes so that you'll come

to Him. Now, His grace makes that

possible. And then with that, He gives us

faith. When faith comes, that's the

capacity that God gives to us to believe above the natural realm.

So you can believe a lot of things, but when you have faith,

how many know that amplifies what you can believe?

And so just like the scripture says, we can walk in the Word,

we can walk in the power of faith.

Now I use those scriptures to talk about something God wants

us all to experience and that is His rest.

Because when we understand what God has done and then that

second part says we understand that we were created by God and

that not only we were created by God, we were created by God for

a purpose in this life. It uses the terms good works,

which He has prepared ahead of time for us.

Well, that helps us rest because we're not struggling to make

life happening. It should be a matter of

struggling to find out, well, Lord, who am I in you?

And when I began to find out who I am in you, I can begin to look

at the path that you have prepared for me ahead of time.

And so walking with God is quite an amazing life.

It gives us the ability, again to live above the natural.

But when we understand how it works, it's not a hard way to

walk, but it is a way that requires us sometimes to make

some hard decisions to say I'm going to choose to go God's way

and not my own. It is a prepared life that God

has given to us. In first Peter chapter one verse

22, it says since you have purified your souls and obeying

the truth through the spirit and sincere love of the brother and

love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born

again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible through the

word of God, which lives and abides forever because all flesh

is as grass, all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.

The grass Withers and its flower falls away, but the word of the

Lord endures forever. Now if you notice I put over

here guarding the seed because this is such an important

concept for us to understand because when we receive the seed

of God by faith, the Bible says that when we obey that word

through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can have an

expectation of some powerful things happening in our life.

That's why the first step is repent of your sins, be baptized

in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you

shall receive the gift of, of the Holy Spirit.

And so whether it's in our initial experience that we have

to obey the gospel or whether it's as God is speaking to us

and he says something to us and we obey him, it's through that

obedience that we open the door for the opportunity that God has

for us. Now it is so important for us to

understand the power of the seed.

When we first started the church, I was graduating in 1978

from ministry candidate School at Bethesda Missionary Temple in

Detroit, and they'd asked me to be the speaker at the

graduation. So I was quite excited about

that, quite nervous about that as well, because it was a much

bigger church than I'd ever actually been a part of, let

alone speak in front of. And as I was preparing the word,

the Lord spoke to me. He said guard the sea and he was

speaking to me about a word to preach, but also he was telling

me something about the direction of my life.

We had started the Bible study in the base of my mom's house.

We have taken like 40 some people to Detroit to be water

baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.

And so it seemed obvious we should start a church so that

these people can grow in the Lord.

But I didn't want to do that just because it seemed like a

good idea. I wanted to follow the word, the

Lord and that's when the Lord spoke to me.

Guard the seed, for in the seed you will see the power of life.

And so Mount Zion is a local church, is a ministry.

Whereas ministry leaders, our goal is to guard the seed that

God has put inside of you and then to nurture that seed and

help develop that seed and so that you can go on to the

maturity and the place that God has for you.

Guarding the seed is an essential thing for us to

understand. As we began to walk with God, we

began to see the potential that God has as we walk in the power

of the seed. Now this is a very interesting

scripture because it says for the earth yields crops by

itself. First the blade, then the head

and after that the full grain in the head.

But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the

sickle because what, the harvest has come.

And this is just showing us the power of the seed, that if you

put a seed in the ground, it's gonna begin to grow.

I remember and I put a pure bean sprouts because as part of that

first sermon I shared when I was in fifth grade, we had a

experiment in our class where the teacher was trying to teach

us about seeds. And she gave each and everyone

of us a bean seed. And we put it on a green piece

of felt, put some water on it, covered it with a glass so we

could watch it grow. And it became a bean sprout.

If you would. Well, bean sprouts can be used

in a salad, but it can actually, if you plant in the ground, grow

into a plant and provide all kinds of beans.

And so we were encouraged after that to take the seed home,

planted in the ground so they could bring forth more fruit.

And that's what God has been speaking to us from the very

beginning. Make sure that seed doesn't just

come alive. Make sure it's planted.

And if it's planted in good ground, all the better is going

to be the fruit of the ground, a seed, If you put in the ground,

it'll just grow. But if it's a cultivated seed,

it's going to bring forth something even better than that.

And I put up here wild grapes. Because if you'll notice in the

reference that I had in the opening, the prophet Isaiah

said, and he was speaking as God to his people, I've done

everything I possibly can for you.

And then he uses the analogy of a garden, in this particular

case a vineyard. He says, I took my piece of

land, cultivated it, put the plants in the ground, Then I put

a fence around it to protect it. I even built a tower in the

middle of it so that I could keep my eye open to protect from

any attackers who might come because I was a comet.

In those days, anytime you had anything worth stealing,

somebody was going to steal it, so you had to protect it.

And he talks about all the effort he put into it.

And he says, when I look out at what has been produced by this,

all I get is wild grapes. Now, This is why it's important

to understand that every seed planted in the earth can grow,

but if it's cultivated, then it can produce proper fruit.

That's very helpful and has a lot of potential.

When I grew up in this area, we moved here when in the 50s when

I was just a small boy and this was mostly country then.

And before that, in earlier days of the area, there were a lot of

farms around here, apple orchards and such.

Most of them have become dormant.

And so all we had is a bunch of fields to play in mostly.

But when you go into the woods, there would be old apple trees.

And we used to love riding our bikes and going out there and

picking the apples off the trees and eating them.

They were no longer well cultivated or tended to trees.

And so the apples would always be a little bit sour and you had

to eat them real quick because you had to compete with the

worms in order to get to them in time.

So they were very tired. And yet we like them as kids

because we just need to be able to find an apple tree that had

apples on it. And then there would also be

different kinds of berries that you'd go out there, There'd be

wild strawberries, there were wild blackberries, just about

every kind of plant you could think of because in the old days

when people had planted them, they just let them go and they

were still growing. Now next to us was a man by the

name of Mr. Hamilton. He had a well tended garden.

He had well kept fruit trees and everything.

So I always looked at what he did and I'm like, wow, I want to

be able to do that. And I've always shared the story

that I thought I wanted to be a farmer and I really only wanted

to be a harvester because being a farmer takes a lot of work.

And I found that out. And so you had a choice.

You could go out and get the wild things that would be tart

and you'd be glad you had something to eat because it was

kind of a fun and interesting thing.

Or you could have a well cultivated garden where not only

would there be something to eat, but actually tastes good, be

nutritional. You could get seeds for the next

year. And so there was a whole process

that's different here. And that's basically what God's

saying. I just got a bunch of wild

grapes. I cultivated this garden.

I put a lot of effort into it and what am I getting out of it?

Just wild grapes. Now if you notice, he said when

the true harvest has come, that's when the harvester is

going to cast in his sickle and perform the harvest.

Now this is important for us to understand.

Right now on my call from the Mountain website, I'm sharing

about eschatology or study the last days.

And a lot of people don't understand the last days because

they don't understand what God's plan is.

So oftentimes when people talk about the last days, they talk

about the Antichrist, they talk about the beast, they talk about

the darkness. Hardly anybody talks about what

God's looking for. And God's looking for a harvest.

And he's not just looking for a big harvest, he's looking for a

well cultivated harvest. In other words, he doesn't want

just wild grapes, he wants cultivated grapes.

He wants that which has taken a little bit of work.

And so we're oftentimes people talk about harvest as getting as

many people as saved as possible.

Very few people understand that from God's perspective, a

harvest is not just a lot, but it's something that's good.

It's not the volume, it's the quality that God is looking for.

Obviously volume is nice too, but sometimes we as Christians

forget about what God's plan is and don't realize what is it

he's looking for in our life. He's looking for us to allow him

to cult fade our lives so that we can bring forth good things.

And I just wanted to show that because this is basically what

they're describing. If you don't understand wheat, I

want you to see what that's like because he said when you plant

the wheat, the first thing it does is it grows a stem.

Then at the top it gets these heads.

It's called, but ultimately it gets grain in the head.

So if you cut that down before there's grain in the heads,

you're just going to have a bunch of empty heads if you

would with nothing good for making into bread.

And so you have to understand the purposes of God and how they

work. And so you have to visualize he

wants a fruitful people, but he who who received seed on the

good ground is he who hears the word and what understands it,

who indeed bears fruit and produces some a hundredfold,

some 60 and some 30. Now, I've quoted this Scripture

often through the years. And because I'm a person who

wants the best that the world has to offer.

If I'm going to do something, I want to do it well.

If I'm going to be a Christian, I want to do it well because

that's just the personality God has given me.

So I've often said over the years, I don't want just a 30

fold blessing. I don't just want a 60.

How many of us say I want a hundredfold blessing?

Amen. I want the whole thing.

Well, I'm in this special time of the presence of the Lord

these days, and God's just communicating with me, trying to

prepare me for this next season that we're moving into.

And yesterday I was thinking about this scripture and

thinking about the hundredfold blessing.

And I thought about the fact that I've often taught there's a

whole chapter that talks about this in the discipleship book,

and that is, if you want to have good fruit, you have to have a

good ground. Now in the Bible, the ground

that the seed is sown in is our heart.

And so if we want to allow that seed to have its best

opportunity in us, we have to cultivate our heart.

That's why Mount Zion, we have all their calls and respond to

the word and the Lord's Supper, etcetera, because we're giving

God our heart. We're dealing with some areas so

that we can say, OK, God, I want the best that you have to offer.

And so it's necessary that we would have a good ground.

But yesterday the Lord kind of changed my thinking more than

kind of quite a bit as I was thinking about that because he

said, now remember I told you to tell people when you first

started basically that Mount Simon was going to be an

example, visible example for people to see how the walk of

faith would work. And he said, yes, we want a

hundredfold return, but look at how I've LED Mount Zion and we

started in 1978 on our location on Clintonville Rd.

In 1990 is when we purchased 52 acres here and build our first

building over there. We call now Auditory May and

then building this building in 2010.

But he said now watch and see how it's worked.

So for the 1st 12 years I would say yes, that was our thirty

fold blessing. Then we came over here in 1990

and built the building here and we began to experience a whole

different level in God. And I would say those years were

the 60 fold blessing. When we first moved here, the

Township was resisting us getting this land because they

thought it was too valuable for a church and so they limited the

size of our building. So we actually had to hold on to

our old church. On Wednesday nights we would

have our children's ministry down at the other location so

people would drop their kids off, come here for church, then

go pick up their kids. And I see now and looking back

that really God wanted us to keep that building so we could

remember the pattern and the process that we would go

through. So anyway, as we got here, we

began to experience the blessing of God, went to two services

within the first year. Second year we built a balcony

over there. Third year we were building a

addition on. And so we've seen the blessing

of God. And I would say that the 60 fold

blessing lasted from 1990 to the year 2020.

Now why do I say that? Well in 2020 in March, I

preached a message and I quoted the scripture where Jesus said

it is the time, it is the acceptable time says the Lord.

And as I read that to the congregation, I actually

preached on it. The word time there means in the

original Greek Kairos moment or a time of opportunity.

And God said, now this is our time of change.

This is a time when we're going to see everything go into a

whole new level, a whole new dimension.

And so I said this is our time of opportunity.

The next week we didn't even have church because that's when

they locked down the churches for Covad.

I'd never dreamed I'd see a day when the government say you

can't have church. And I have to admit that I was

not quite sure I was going to do what they said at first because

I know the Bible says it's better to obey God rather than

man. But as I prayed, as is typical

throughout the journey we've had at a church, he says, you know,

government's very good. Just submit and see how I can

make all things work together for good to those who love me.

Now, even though it didn't look like we were moving into a time

of opportunity, especially that year, and you look at what

happened to the world, the conflict in our nation began to

intensify. Everybody had opinions,

everybody was angry. There were all kinds of

problems. So when you look at it from a

natural perspective, it wasn't all good for sure, but I knew

what God had spoken, so I looked for undercurrents of what God

was speaking. And so whenever I look and

research what's happening, I can see some undercurrents, if you

would. And there has been a tremendous

change for the good in just these five years since that

time. I've talked about a little bit,

but one of the reports they came out with about a month ago is

Gallup polling. They do surveys of the country

on a regular basis about many different issues, and they do

one on alcohol consumption in our country.

What percentage of the people drink alcohol?

Which part don't? Now during COVID, it actually

went up because people were at home and didn't have anything to

do, getting very depressed I guess.

But literally since that time, they said now it's the lowest

percentage of people than all their history since they've been

keeping track. And they said that one of the

big reasons is because among the younger generation, there's a

choice for a more healthy lifestyle.

And even though Hollywood promotes on a regular basis what

they call coming of age stories that often center around wild

parties, etcetera, that there is a generation that's saying, wait

a minute, this isn't what we want to do.

And there was a funny part to it because they said, we've also

noticed there's a 20% turned down among Republican border

voters, literally 20% less drinks than they used to, which

maybe it's because they were happy with the turn out of the

election. I don't know.

But they were even asking the same question, like what's going

on here? Well, they knew Trump didn't

drink because he always said he wanted to have a clear mind in

his business decisions or whatever.

But it was an indicator that people are taking life more

seriously. And it was one of the first

things, a sign that I would say that there's something happening

that God's moving among the you. Then since that time, there's

been all kinds of reports that, wow, the younger generation's

not turning away from God as we used to hear so often time in

the media, Religion is losing its importance.

People are turned away from church.

No, the younger generation, there's an increase in interest

in the church and there's a big turn around.

And even when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, that brought to

light something very important because then people start taking

a closer look at even what he did on college campuses.

Now, the politicians all recognize what he was doing

because they were all at his funeral.

But research began to make people understand there's

something happening there. And that was just a part of it,

certainly not the whole thing that God is moving in college

campuses with God's moving among young people.

Because guess what? People are taking things

seriously now in a level they never were before.

Church. God is on the move right now.

This is the new day, says the mighty God.

Amen. This is that third dimension.

And again, sometimes to really see what's happening, you can't

just read the news and nor can you even say, oh, I go to social

media for mine. Because when you go to social

media, you're usually looking for people who share your

opinion. Sometimes it's good to just say,

well, what's people that doesn't have an agenda saying, well,

they're all saying the same thing.

This is a time of big change. There's an awakening happening

in our country today. Church and people are looking at

their lives and saying we got to do things differently.

Therefore hear the parable, the sower.

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and does not

understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what

was sown as the heart. This is he who received the seed

by the wayside. Phase one is you got to be

willing to receive the seed. Again, it has to do with the

ground of your heart, and it says if you don't understand,

then the enemy, the wicked one, can come and snatch away that

word. Now I put up your understanding

heart because that scripture does not say you got to get

smart so you can fight against the devil.

It says you got to prepare your heart because you are still

going to go through things that you won't be able to figure out.

Sometimes you'll look at the world and not know what's

happening and you'll hear all these different opinions and

everybody have something to say. And the Lord says, all you have

to do is recognize. You got to say, well, stop it

everybody, because I'm going to make sure I just keep my heart

open to God. I'm going to guard and cultivate

what the Lord has done inside of me.

And then in the appropriate time, He will give me the

understanding heart now. So I teach people, you can hear

the voice of God and you can know there's a change going

before the world recognizes there's a change.

And I want you to know something.

The world hasn't seen anything yet.

The best is yet to come. Amen, Church.

So the second phase is But he who received the seed on Stony

places. This is he who hears the word

and immediately receives it with joy.

Yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while.

When tribulation or persecution arises because of the Word

immediately he stumbles. Now our phase two at least I can

share this is a big part of those sermons I preached in the

90s is God began to show me how that when you walk by the way of

Spirit because God is your Father.

Sometimes he's working on your character.

He actually is working on yourself improvement.

We always talk about self help and there's a whole section in

the bookstore on self help, but you have to understand

something. You have a heavenly Father who's

always at work. Amen.

And you have to know He's concerned about your personal

development, and when you begin to realize that, you'll go to

that 60%. But he received the seat among

the thorns as he who hears the word and the cares of this world

and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word.

And what happens again, you become unfruitful.

Now, this is important because the cares of this life literally

means distractions. And then it talks about

distractions you might have because you're anxious and

fearful about what's going on in the world and what's going to

happen in your life. Or on the other hand, it can

actually be riches and blessing. Whatever it is, if it's a

distraction keeping you from your course of action, how do

you know it becomes a bad thing? And so God says be careful of

distractions because when you're a person with a goal and you

have an expectation for that goal, you have to make sure you

maintain your focus. He said you did not choose me,

but I chose you and appointed you that what you would go and

bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, that whatever you

ask the Father in my name, he may give you.

And we have to understand that God wants us to have power in

our prayer. And we have to understand that

there's a prayer power we can have when we let God work in our

heart, bring forth our place of faith and our belief in the

power of God. I keep saying this because I

believe this with everything within me, that God's bringing

the church to a place of prayer power we haven't ever seen

before. And it's going to be possible

because we've become mature. Now, I also want to talk about

the tipping point. And what is a tipping point?

Well, that's when small changes make a big impact over time and

continuous commitment. And I know that term because

when Obama became president, they were talking about there

was a man who wrote books who was very influential with his

inner circle. His name was Malcolm Gladwell,

and he wrote several books that I have, and one of them was

Turning Point. And in Turning Point, he talks

about the fact that, well, you do small things if you want to

change your country, which is the way they were looking at it

from a political perspective. You just got to do something.

And then you keep pressing and you keep moving in the right

direction because if you keep in that right direction, eventually

there comes a tipping point where everything begins to turn

around. Now for me, when God was

speaking to me tipping point, he was telling me about the message

I shared with you today, which is the power of the seeds that

are sown in my heart. And I want to prophesize to you

today because I say thus saith the Lord.

God says this is a time, it's going to be a tipping point,

says the Lord. And there's going to be a great

evidence of change. It's not just going to be under

the undercurrent, if you would. It's not going to be just

reported here a little there. You're going to find out that

God's word is going to begin to come to pass because this is

tipping point time, says the mighty God.

Amen. And there's a lot of people that

have been trying to push our country in One Direction, and

everybody has their agendas. But I want you to know who's got

the highest agenda because that's God and his people are

going to see His word is going to come to pass.

And I believe this is tipping point time.

There's a lot of things that the world is doing that's also going

to be a tipping point, if you would, because bad behavior

produces A tipping point as well, and it's the fruit of the

bad behavior. I think that's going to cause

people to look in the other direction and say, what are we

going to do? Where are we going to turn?

How are we going to work this out?

Well, that's why I often speak the word from Isaiah chapter 2

Isaiah 2 · chapter mention

that says in the latter days of time, the mountain of the Lord's

house shall be established on top of the mountains.

It will be exalted above the hills.

What's going to happen is people are going to say, come and let

us go to the mountain of the Lord, to the House of the God of

Jacob. He will teach us of his ways,

and we will walk in his bath. For out of Mount Zion she'll go

the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Jesus said it this way in the Gospel of Matthew.

He said another parable he put forth, saying the Kingdom of

heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in

his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds from a

natural perspective. But when it is sown, it is

greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the

birds of the air come and nest on its branches.

Can we all bow our heads and close our eyes for just a

moment? Because we need to know It's

tipping point time. The changes are going to be more

rapid, more evident. The world is going to become

more confused, more disconcerted, if you would,

because God's preparing a season of twice.

And so we have to be all ready, knowing that we're in God's

hands and knowing that doesn't matter how small our seed may

seem, God says it becomes the biggest in the end, that even

the birds will come and land on the branches.

The worst enemy of a seed is the birds, because if they see a

seed, they're going to go eat it.

But when that seed is planted and becomes a tree, then they

rest on its branches. Some of the people that tried to

steal your seed are going to come and rest on your branches,

says the Lord, because you're going to see that God is

faithful and his word works and the power of his covenant shall

be established. So Father today, today in the

name of Jesus, we give you our hearts and ask, O Lord, that you

would cause our hearts to be ground for the good seed that

Lord we might bring forth not just 30, not just 60, but to be

that hundredfold blessing. Father, we ask it in Jesus

mighty name, Amen. This is Pastor Lauren Coburbius

from Mount Zion Church. We thank you for joining us

today and invite you to connect with our church family by

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God bless you.