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Elisha-portion

Acts 29 Vancouver

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  1. Whatever we ask and then Jesus says what do you want me to do?

  2. They replied let one of us sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory. Here is a case where

  3. where Jason and John are asking without having faith

  4. the Christ for asking

  5. Elisha on the other hand is as bold as he is asking

  6. What is Elisha asking Elijah? Basically when Elisha is asking for a double portion of what he is saying is

  7. Can I inherit the full authority of you my spiritual father to carry forward all the God's plan to you?

  8. Elijah is asking can I inherit

  9. the full authority that you have so that I can take forward what you have planned?

  10. That's what Elijah is asking. I know some of us heard it before right from 2009 onwards

  11. But first borns are defined by pursuit

  12. First borns are defined by pursuit

  13. first borns are defined by pursuit

  14. First borns are defined by pursuit

  15. And God always annoys

  16. God always annoys

  17. God always annoys

  18. First borns with the power

  19. With the power

  20. To finish

  21. What their fathers

  22. Initiated

  23. It's a principle

  24. It's a principle

  25. You see this with Jesus too where Jesus in John chapter 14 verse 12 turns to his disciples and says

    John 14:12

  26. It is good for you if I go away

  27. But if I go away the Holy Spirit will come and you will do greater things than I have done

  28. I mean is that the ultimate statement of pursuit? You have pursued me great. I need to leave

  29. Because if I don't leave the Spirit of God can't come and once the Spirit of God annoys you

  30. I want you to know that he will do greater things than I have done

  31. And so that's the principle here right? First borns are defined by pursuit

  32. another pursuit of

  33. human beings though sometimes the easiest way to learn something is to run after someone who's

  34. Learning when I was running before you but pursuit as in the things of God

  35. It's not often true human beings but the things of God then God always annoys first borns with the power to finish what was initiated through their fathers

  36. This is not where we go here. I'm just setting the stage for you

  37. Okay, one of the things I strongly felt almost to the point of it

  38. breaking my heart in a nice way is this

  39. This notion that God has been

  40. Unpacking saying hey, can I be amongst you like I used to be amongst the Israelites?

  41. Can you be obedient so that I can show the world what it is when people are in relationship with God?

  42. Please hold on to the words I'm saying

  43. God is asking

  44. Can I come and dwell in your midst?

  45. so that

  46. You can show the world what it is for people to be in relationship with God under all kinds of circumstances

  47. And what it looks like when God dwells in the midst of people can I do that through you?

  48. Can I can I pull you about Acts 29?

  49. Can I pull you about people that are walking with Acts 29?

  50. Can I become this along to do this just as I did to Israel?

  51. It is the reason why I established the church, but can I use you as a sample?

  52. can I use you as a

  53. Taste like at Costco before COVID but they used to have those things where you go and taste and then decide

  54. But you want to buy can I use you as a taste? Can I use you as a sample?

  55. So that others can see what it is for man to be relationship with God for people to be in relationship with God

  56. I forgot to be dwelling in the midst so that he can say this is what it looks like and I'm saying

  57. We're trembling that our shucks power

  58. acts

  59. crazy if you want to do that because

  60. To take them you want to do that

  61. Us this right that much

  62. I

  63. Know that was more but right here the person could be

  64. Not to last question is this this GV softness and I'm saying you can please our was not

  65. Spawning what was given to you here is all the light that I saw pattern for the fault in the pattern

  66. so the detectives

  67. once a

  68. people begin to

  69. pursue this way that God says one I

  70. Complete the work that Elijah's that started that I initiated to Elijah just like a little bit disciples and Jesus

  71. Anointed them and to

  72. Once you walk this way guys God what you're at God will invite you to ask

  73. And when he invites you to ask even for the question before you all you have to do is pick up the question and we

  74. need to ask

  75. Just like in some tumors

  76. It just like

  77. Mark the mountain mark then just like the second things to nine where Elijah says

  78. Can I have a portion moment you're asking that you're asking for something ridiculous so ridiculous

  79. They're like anything man. I want to give it

  80. You're saying could I have a full authority so that I can complete what you are up to?

  81. It's a big thing to ask for stuff like that the strange thing is sometimes when you ask God for these things

  82. God will say to you go and ask that person and that person will give it to you

  83. What you give it to you directly but because he works through humans God always

  84. releases things to us

  85. From himself through people and that requires a degree of humility. I don't think that's a problem

  86. For us, but I'm just saying that is a process

  87. But you know what God wants to give you and you go to a person and you say this is what God wants to give me

  88. Can you release it?

  89. It's in the by the way, this is the scriptural patterns are not telling anything that is unscriptural

  90. So in the years past guys

  91. In the years past God was claiming our allegiance

  92. I mean, it's literally like the scene in first Kings 19 verse 19 and 21

    1 Kings 19:19

  93. When Elijah goes into the field where Elijah is plowing with twelve oxen

  94. Elijah is plowing with twelve oxen and Elijah takes up his mantle and he throws it upon Elijah

  95. Elijah does not yet own the mantle but he is throwing the mantle on to Elijah

  96. Elijah is on behalf of God claiming Elijah as the one who should succeed

  97. And I will say to you in the years past

  98. God has been claiming our allegiance

  99. And I'm saying to you, and I said this in the prophetic message

  100. So I'm trusting that what I've received is from God

  101. What I'm delivering to you is again from God without mixture or without me trying to put my spin on it

  102. I'm saying to you in the years past God was claiming our allegiance

  103. And I think he's found us quite responsible in terms of claiming our allegiance to him

  104. But this is now a commissioning where it's not that he's throwing the mantle over

  105. It's that he's saying I'm passing the mantle to you so that you carry it

  106. So what I wanted to do today is look at the signs that Elijah performed

  107. In the inheritance verses given to us from 2 Kings 2 to 2 Kings 13

  108. To briefly look at the signs Elijah performed

  109. And draw out of that, discern out of that, decipher out of that

  110. What God has for us as a people in the year ahead

  111. So the first sign is in 2 Kings 2, 14

  112. First sign is in 2 Kings 2, 14

  113. 2 Kings 2, 14

  114. And so I'll start at 13

  115. He picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back

  116. And still on the back of Jordan

  117. Then he took the cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water with it

  118. Where now is the Lord the God of Elijah, he asked

  119. When he struck the water, he divided it to the right and to the left and he crossed over

  120. So the first sign that Elijah performed after having received the mantle

  121. Is to take the cloak that was thrown over by Elijah and it would be caught up in a whirlwind

  122. And striking the very river that he had crossed just a little while ago

  123. And so the first thing God wants us to know is that we have to take

  124. What people like Eddie, people like Roland, people like Mike Scandalberry

  125. People like Jacob, people like Chad

  126. Have given us already

  127. And in the year that is coming, we have to show an increasing propensity

  128. In pioneering

  129. In the prophetic

  130. In being church centered

  131. In multiplying missionarily

  132. In multiplying

  133. Not just like we're doing with the host church

  134. Multiplying missionarily

  135. In nation impacting work

  136. In rest filled worship

  137. In rest filled worship

  138. These are some of the things we've already inherited from the Elijah's that I've gone by

  139. Elijah's like Eddie, Elijah like Roland who many of you haven't met

  140. In healing

  141. One of the first prophetic words spoken by somebody who did not know us

  142. From any other church in the world

  143. One of the first prophetic words that was spoken was

  144. In this church there are wells of healing

  145. When Elijah strikes and divides the Jordan across the wide

  146. The sons of the prophets knew that here is a man who now carries the mantle of Elijah

  147. We need to carry these things that have already been established by Eddie, Roland, Mike, me and Chad

  148. But there must be an increasing potency

  149. It can't be the same, there has to be an increasing potency

  150. Every successive use of yeast would make the dough even more potent

  151. Because you would never throw all the yeast away, you would keep some back

  152. And the next time you used yeast you would pluck it off what you had kept

  153. And the yeast would ferment further and it would be more potent

  154. The purpose they take me in healing, in pioneering, in the prophetic

  155. In being church centered, in multiplying missionarily, in impacting nations

  156. And in rest filled worship that has the aroma of freedom

  157. It is one of the priceless things in this church

  158. The freedom we have in our relationship with God

  159. That absolutely buries human traditions

  160. These are gifts given to us by Elijah's that have gone before

  161. I am including myself in them because I know that Elijah is coming

  162. And it has to increase potency

  163. This was the first sign

  164. The second sign

  165. The second sign is in chapter 2 verse 16

  166. So I'll start with verse 15

  167. I don't know if you can see this, but Elijah is saying

  168. I'm going to meet him and bow to the ground before him

  169. Look they said, we are servants of fifty people men

  170. Let him go and look for a master

  171. Perhaps the spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down

  172. On some mountain or in some valley

  173. No Elijah, I do not send him

  174. But they persisted until he was too ashamed to refuse

  175. And what they are doing is showing a

  176. Seeming rejection or a refusal of Elijah

  177. Saying basically that no no no no

  178. Elijah hasn't gone, he is still around

  179. You are not yet bona fide

  180. And so Elijah says no because he knows what just happened

  181. But he is embarrassed because it looks like he is trying to grab the throne

  182. And so because they exist, are embarrassed because he is ashamed

  183. He tells them to go ahead and search

  184. No, it's full well that they will not find him

  185. When Moses passed on, Israel didn't say to Joshua

  186. Let's give it a few days, let's go look for Moses

  187. Maybe he will still be around on that mountain and then we decide

  188. No, this was almost a deliberate rejection or refusal

  189. And so I want to say to you, the year ahead

  190. That there will be a seeming rejection or refusal by people

  191. To accept our new position or a new form

  192. If this is a prophetic word and I know it is

  193. And we were to change

  194. Then know that there will be a seeming rejection or a refusal

  195. To recognize or acknowledge or accept a new form

  196. Or new position, a new shape

  197. I pray God that it not be internal as it not be within the house

  198. That would be a shame

  199. If you are part of the house and you are not able to embrace this

  200. Or you begin to resist it

  201. Then I feel bad for you because you will miss out

  202. The thing with resisting anything that is God

  203. And I realize you will have to bear this

  204. Just because I actually find that so

  205. I think I have got to go in waves

  206. I think half of them because we don't want to accept things

  207. We want to figure out whether we want to accept it or not

  208. Very few when they say wave actually go over and pour over scriptures

  209. For two, three hours comparing things to figure out

  210. Whether it is God or not

  211. Very few spend two or three hours praying saying

  212. Father, please show me this revelation is from your love

  213. Basically it is kind of a pop-up

  214. But we won't go to that here

  215. All I am saying is there is the need to figure this out free free

  216. But here is the thing

  217. A seeming rejection or refusal by people to accept a new shape

  218. A new position, a new form

  219. If it is from the outside it is fine

  220. Because the way to approach it like Elisha

  221. Is to just wait until they run out of reasonable excuses

  222. They exhaust excuses and turn to technologists

  223. All they reject is outright

  224. But there will be rejection when form changes

  225. There will be rejection when shape changes

  226. There will be rejection

  227. There will be a refusal to acknowledge

  228. So get ready for small skirmishes

  229. But we do it with great patience and much embarrassment

  230. But internally if you resist this

  231. Then I feel bad for you

  232. Because once we need to resist what is a God move

  233. Then not only do you get left out

  234. Every time truth is resisted a delusion comes in

  235. First Thessalonians

  236. Every time truth is resisted a delusion comes in

  237. The third sign

  238. The third sign is in 219

  239. The third sign is in 219

  240. The man of the city said to Elisha

  241. Look our Lord, this town is well situated

  242. As you can see

  243. But the water is bad and the land is unproductive

  244. Bring me a new bowl he said

  245. And put salt in it

  246. So they brought it to him

  247. Then he went out to the spring

  248. And he threw salt into it saying

  249. This is what the Lord says

  250. I have deeped this water

  251. Never again will it cause death

  252. Or make the land unproductive

  253. And the water has remained wholesome to this day

  254. According to the word Elisha has spoken

  255. So God will give us

  256. God will give us in the year ahead

  257. The permission and the power

  258. Just before I continue with that

  259. Guys, every time God speaks a prophetic word

  260. He is telling you how He sees us right now

  261. Our difficulty is being able to see us as God sees us

  262. Until we see ourselves as God is telling us

  263. Until then as He sees us

  264. We will not walk in the permission that He has given

  265. Therein lies the bathroom

  266. To me that is the greatest bathroom

  267. When God says something

  268. I find it so hard

  269. To actually see myself the way He sees me

  270. Believing is easy

  271. I believe, hallelujah

  272. I have faith for it

  273. How about not having faith

  274. And knowing that you have become

  275. That is difficult

  276. If you have to exert faith for the prophetic

  277. There is nothing wrong with it

  278. But you must recognize that you have not become

  279. And the intent of the prophetic is always

  280. To bring you to a place where you have become

  281. Once you become you don't need faith

  282. Once you become you don't need faith

  283. With the prophetic you need faith

  284. While you are wrestling with it

  285. Like Paul says to Timothy

  286. War with the prophetic world

  287. As in wrestle with it, engage with it

  288. Why? Because you need faith

  289. To believe God for what He is saying

  290. But how do I know

  291. That a time has come where I have become

  292. What God has prophesied in effect

  293. It is when I no longer need faith

  294. To walk in the things God said

  295. I was going to do

  296. I know it

  297. So

  298. The third side of Jericho

  299. Where the waters were toxic

  300. And brought about by barrenness

  301. And then Elijah changed it

  302. Basically saying to us

  303. That God has given us the permission

  304. And the power to end

  305. These three things

  306. One, bitter years

  307. In the lives of people

  308. Bitter years in lives

  309. Two, unfruitfulness

  310. Three, things stuck

  311. In a cycle of aborging

  312. Where everything you start

  313. Never ceases completion

  314. God is saying I am giving you power

  315. And I am giving you permission

  316. Church to end bitter years

  317. In the lives of people

  318. There might be people amongst us

  319. Within our local bodies

  320. Not outside

  321. Who suffered bitter years

  322. In the past

  323. And it has left a mark

  324. It has left a mark on your psyche

  325. It has left a mark on your personality

  326. If I were you, I would take God as His Word

  327. This, when it is being released

  328. To a people, some of these things

  329. Can be done by anybody at Acts 29

  330. Some of these things will need training

  331. At least anybody at Acts 29

  332. Can do it

  333. Even the littlest amongst us

  334. Can do it, why?

  335. Because God is saying He will

  336. And some other things

  337. May require some training

  338. Or God calling us into a place

  339. To be with stuff

  340. But things like this, anybody can do

  341. I am excited about pouring over this

  342. In the future

  343. So we have the permission and the power

  344. All across the earth

  345. To end

  346. Can you imagine the words I am saying

  347. Either we are full of ourselves

  348. And I am definitely full of myself

  349. Or this is God

  350. Because we are saying

  351. God has given us permission and power

  352. Anywhere in the earth

  353. To end bitter years

  354. To end unfruitfulness

  355. And the cycle of aborted stars

  356. Where others are prayed

  357. To know a way

  358. That in Jericho, many of these prophets

  359. That accompanied Elijah

  360. Elijah initially

  361. It wasn't as if they hadn't been approached

  362. To pray for Jericho

  363. But they had prayed

  364. And it had been of no avail

  365. And similarly

  366. There will be places that you go to

  367. Where people who can pray better

  368. Who are more faith than you

  369. Have prayed and it is of no avail

  370. And then you

  371. Like the message version says

  372. You, the littlest runt of the pack

  373. Turn up

  374. And you pray a very clumsy unsophisticated prayer

  375. And God turns up

  376. This is the permission and the power

  377. He has given us across the earth

  378. Now we see why

  379. When Jericho is saying

  380. Father we thank you that you have given us purpose

  381. God just keeps giving us purpose man

  382. What is he giving when he gives purpose?

  383. He is giving his purpose

  384. He is giving us a part in his purpose

  385. These are things precious to him

  386. He has always been someone who wants to end bitter years

  387. The fourth sign

  388. The fourth sign is in

  389. Shatujoo verse 23 and 24

  390. From there Elijah went up to Bethel

  391. As he was walking along the road

  392. Some youths or some young lads

  393. Came out of the town and jailed at him

  394. Go on up you baldy

  395. They said go on up you baldy

  396. He turned around and looked at them

  397. And called on a curse

  398. Elijah turned around and looked at them

  399. And called on a curse on them

  400. In the name of the Lord

  401. The two bears came out of the woods

  402. And mauled forty two of the youth

  403. And he went to Mount Carmel

  404. And from there returned to Samaria

  405. This sounds like a terrible story

  406. Especially when you think of it from a youth

  407. That's my perspective

  408. But if Elijah was the hairy one

  409. Because the Bible talks about him as

  410. In fact Ehad actually says

  411. Was the prophet who met on the road the hairy one?

  412. They said yeah

  413. He said yeah that's Elijah

  414. If Elijah was the hairy one

  415. Elijah was the baldy one

  416. So the same thing that Elijah is doing here

  417. Elijah had done in 2 Kings 1,9-14

  418. 2 Kings 1,9-14

  419. You see Elijah engaging in something like this

  420. I'm reading from 2 Kings 1,9-14

  421. Then he sent to Elijah

  422. A captain with his company of fifty men

  423. The captain went to Elijah

  424. Who was sitting on the top of Elah and said

  425. Man of God, the king says come down

  426. Elijah answered the captain

  427. The father of Man of God, by fire,

  428. Come down from heaven and continue

  429. Then fire from heaven continued

  430. The captain and his men

  431. And this is the king sent to Elijah

  432. Another captain with his fifty men

  433. The captain said to him

  434. Man of God, this is what the king says

  435. Come down at once

  436. If I'm the man of God, Elijah replied

  437. May fire come down from heaven

  438. And consume you and your fifty men

  439. Then the fire of God fell from heaven

  440. And consumed him and his fifty men

  441. Then a third captain came

  442. And his attitude was different

  443. Fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two

  444. But now have respect for my life

  445. The angel of the Lord said to Elijah

  446. Go down with him and do not be afraid of him

  447. Elijah got up and went down with the two kings

  448. It's a similar situation that is happening here

  449. What do we draw out of this

  450. What is God asking us to draw out of this

  451. God is saying decree

  452. Divine

  453. Judgments

  454. Decree

  455. Divine judgments

  456. Against the king

  457. Against powers

  458. That

  459. Come to

  460. Dismantle

  461. Or destroy

  462. The church

  463. Here the only place that the new testament of God says

  464. If you destroy this temple

  465. I will destroy you

  466. It's not when he's talking about personal bonds

  467. It's not personal bonds when he's talking about

  468. The church

  469. Sorry go ahead

  470. Is this the future given for the video

  471. Or is this already ours

  472. The original and our work

  473. It is already ours

  474. Because this is how God sees us

  475. And he's not waiting

  476. Till December 31st

  477. But

  478. It might take us a little longer

  479. Past December 31st

  480. To wrap our heads around

  481. So Elijah is doing here what Elijah has done

  482. And

  483. This is something that

  484. We may have to learn

  485. Some of us may know how to do it

  486. Most of us don't

  487. And God willing if we stick to God's plan

  488. He teaches us how to come against powers

  489. And sometimes these powers

  490. Are powers that others may regale

  491. Others may hold up high

  492. And these powers need to be dismantled

  493. Because they are under our control

  494. And they are under our control

  495. Because they are about destroying

  496. The people of God

  497. The thing is guys

  498. Our battle is no longer against special blood

  499. In Luke 9 55

  500. If you read the New King James

  501. Because it doesn't say so in the NIV

  502. But in the New King James if you read Luke 9 55

  503. John and James actually

  504. Were pretty upset with the way a

  505. Villager treated Jesus

  506. And they said Jesus, Jesus he wanted us to call him on fire

  507. They actually believed they could

  508. And Jesus says

  509. You are the wrong spirit

  510. Because he knew that he would be rejected

  511. He knew that he would be crucified

  512. He did not come to judge

  513. But he came to save

  514. And so

  515. Our battle is now against special blood

  516. So we are not going against people

  517. But powers must be decreed

  518. Divine judgment on

  519. One of the sisters that I mentioned

  520. Is the one that I mentioned

  521. One of the scriptures I learned

  522. 25 years ago was Psalm 149

  523. And I have used it so often

  524. Psalm 149

  525. The saints lie down on their beds

  526. And in their mouth are high praises

  527. Psalm 149 verse 5

    Psalms 149:5

  528. Let the saints rejoice in their honor

  529. And sing for joy on their beds

  530. May the praise of God be their blessing

  531. May the praise of God be their mouth

  532. And a double-edged sword in their hands

  533. To inflict vengeance on the nations

  534. Punishment of peoples

  535. To bind their kings with fetters

  536. Their nobles with shackles of iron

  537. To carry out the sentence written against them

  538. This is the glory of all its saints

  539. Praise the Lord

  540. So this is not supposed to be limited to a few

  541. But it must be heard

  542. Can you read out again?

  543. Psalm 149

    Psalms 149:5–9

  544. Verse 5 to 9

  545. But I don't like it

  546. The fifth sign

  547. Is from chapter 3, verse 17

  548. The fifth sign is from chapter 3

  549. 2nd chapter 3, verse 17

  550. The fifth sign

  551. And this is a story where

  552. There was no water

  553. It's fascinating how both Elijah and Elisha

  554. Have something to do with

  555. Water coming out of nowhere

  556. One from above and one here from below

  557. And so

  558. The fifth sign is

  559. 3rd chapter 17

  560. Reading

  561. While the harpist was playing

  562. The man of the Lord came upon Elisha

  563. And he said

  564. This is what the Lord says

  565. Make this valley full of ditches

  566. But this is what the Lord says

  567. We will see neither wind nor rain

  568. Yet this valley will be filled with water

  569. And you and your cattle

  570. And your other animals will drink

  571. This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord

  572. He will also hand Moam over to you

  573. He will also hand Moam over to you

  574. What I heard God saying about this

  575. Is that he will provide us

  576. Isaiah 30

  577. Isaiah 32, verse 2

    Isaiah 32:2

  578. Kind of leaders in this church

  579. Kind of leaders in this church

  580. And in the churches that

  581. We are connected with

  582. Who will cause streams to flow

  583. Who will cause streams to flow

  584. In the desert

  585. Well Isaiah 32

  586. Isaiah 32

  587. These are the kind of leaders that will be produced

  588. Over the next one year

  589. And beyond

  590. I am reading from verse 1

  591. See a king will reign in righteousness

  592. If you are a leader in the church

  593. If you are a leader in Acts 29

  594. In any capacity

  595. I want you to begin to think like this

  596. This is the role that is required of you

  597. Isaiah 32, verse 1

    Isaiah 32:1

  598. See a king will reign in righteousness

  599. And rulers will rule with justice

  600. Each man, I love this

  601. Each leader, now bring out the albinoes

  602. Each leader will be like a shelter from the wind

  603. Each leader will be like a shelter from the wind

  604. Refuge from the storm

  605. Streams of water in the desert

  606. And the shadow of a great rock

  607. In a thirsty land

  608. Then the eyes of those who sleep

  609. Will no longer be closed

  610. And the ears of those who hear

  611. Will listen

  612. The mind of the rational, no understanding

  613. The stammering tongue will be fluid and clear

  614. No longer will the fool be called noble

  615. No longer will the fool be called noble

  616. The scoundrel will be highly respected

  617. The point is, it is not from teaching

  618. That you are able to train your people

  619. It is through modeling

  620. What Christ did for us

  621. Bring into places that were parched

  622. Bring into places that were parched

  623. Streams of living water

  624. Isaiah 35

  625. Isaiah 35 puts it so brilliantly

  626. Isaiah 35

  627. Isaiah 35

  628. Let the crocus bloom

  629. Let the crocus bloom

  630. In the desert land

  631. Isaiah 35, what?

  632. The desert and the parched land will be glad

  633. And the wilderness will rejoice

  634. And bloom like a crocus

  635. Crocus will burst into bloom

  636. It will rejoice greatly and shout

  637. Why?

  638. Because God is bringing streams to the desert

  639. Verse 6

  640. Then the lake will leap back and the earth will come

  641. And it will shout for joy

  642. Water will rush forth in the wilderness

  643. Streams of the desert

  644. And how are the leaders going to achieve this?

  645. They will achieve it by calling to us

  646. Calling to us

  647. By calling to us

  648. Things that

  649. Do not exist

  650. Things that

  651. One of the things the church will specialize in

  652. One of the things the church will specialize in

  653. Is the ability

  654. To

  655. To get God things

  656. To get God things

  657. Not from the sea

  658. But from the ocean

  659. But from the ocean

  660. But from the ocean

  661. But from the ocean

  662. But from the ocean

  663. You will think to yourself

  664. You will think to yourself

  665. This is such a tall order

  666. Exactly, this is why it's God

  667. You will think to yourself

  668. All this cannot be accomplished or achieved by us

  669. Exactly

  670. It will all have to be God

  671. You could think to yourself

  672. This is pretty good but he can't pull this off

  673. Absolutely

  674. It will have to be a God thing

  675. So the fifth sign was

  676. God will raise

  677. A theater in which we want

  678. For kind of shepherd leaders

  679. In our midst

  680. Who will bring strength to the desert

  681. Who will call to us things of God

  682. From the unseen into the seen

  683. So that every

  684. Everything that is parched

  685. Will be glad

  686. This is what Elijah does

  687. For that sign

  688. You just watch

  689. By this time tomorrow

  690. Enough water in this valley

  691. Start digging ditches

  692. But here's the thing guys

  693. There will be no rain

  694. But this valley will be full of water

  695. What a beautiful thing to do

  696. What are we setting

  697. What is God setting us up for man

  698. It must be a hallmark of

  699. The churches

  700. That are listening to this teaching

  701. That we

  702. Like God

  703. That is how we bring to fast things

  704. Because they then have

  705. The quality of God

  706. It has an aroma of Yadav

  707. It won't be manly

  708. The next sign is in Chapter 4, Verse 1

  709. The second thing

  710. This is the sixth sign

  711. The sixth sign

  712. The sixth sign

  713. The sixth sign

  714. Chapter 4, Verse 1

  715. The second thing is Chapter 4, Verse 1

    Isaiah 4:1

  716. The wife of a man

  717. From the company of the

  718. Prophets

  719. Cried out to Elijah

  720. Your servant, my husband

  721. Is dead

  722. And you know that he revered the Lord

  723. But now his creditors are coming

  724. To take my two boys as his slaves

  725. One of the things God uses partially

  726. Throughout the year is to provide for ones

  727. Who serve faithfully

  728. But for various reasons

  729. That fall upon our hands

  730. Throughout the world

  731. God will have us provide

  732. For his servants

  733. Who serve him faithfully

  734. But for various reasons

  735. Sometimes for the sake of the Lord

  736. And for the sake of the Lord

  737. And for the sake of the Lord

  738. And for the sake of the Lord

  739. Sometimes mistakes, sometimes not

  740. But for various reasons

  741. Have fallen upon our hands

  742. And

  743. We will provide for it

  744. Across the earth

  745. I just want to action this immediately

  746. Because while I was preparing this

  747. Teaching, I got a text message

  748. From Jeevan, let me just go get my phone

  749. In front of him

  750. So the pastor stepped off the stage

  751. And he went rummaging

  752. In his bag

  753. And finally he found his iPhone 12 Pro

  754. And he walked back on stage

  755. Then

  756. He read Jeevan's

  757. Message

  758. Let's see

  759. So this was something he wrote yesterday

  760. My uncle passed away yesterday

  761. He's a pastor

  762. Videsh Adhra, 41 years old

  763. A faithful servant

  764. And a son of God

  765. Two kids

  766. Nine and 17

  767. 17 years of faithful ministry

  768. In one of the toughest places in Adhra

  769. Which is the province in India

  770. One of his ties

  771. Was weak since childhood

  772. He only moved

  773. In a three-wheeler vehicle

  774. His lungs became weak

  775. He has become heavy for the past few months

  776. And he passed away yesterday

  777. I was in the process of preparing these notes

  778. And I thought to myself

  779. That to answer Diana's questions

  780. Is this something that awaits us in the year

  781. Or starts now

  782. So here's what I want you to do

  783. Just

  784. Almost in response

  785. To God

  786. As we agree with you

  787. And we believe what you're saying

  788. Just interact five dollars

  789. To actually unite God's team

  790. Just five dollars

  791. It's an action

  792. We're partaking in an action

  793. Actually, we don't just

  794. Need money from you

  795. To send to this person

  796. We have the money

  797. We're not doing it because we are collecting money

  798. We're doing it because we are responding

  799. To something that God has called us to

  800. And so

  801. Five dollars seems like very little

  802. And you'd probably pay a dollar fifty

  803. For just the interact transfer

  804. So here

  805. Yeah

  806. I guess

  807. I'll have to wait for a couple of minutes

  808. Oh shut, I can do it

  809. If you don't want to interact

  810. In the end

  811. I just want you to catch the

  812. Cigarette

  813. Someone watching from UK

  814. They did this to have

  815. Let me know if I should send them to you

  816. I will, please

  817. Act20land.ca

  818. Act20land.ca

  819. Act20land.ca

  820. Act20land.ca

  821. Act20land.ca

  822. This is just

  823. A dawning obedience

  824. I just sent

  825. Five dollars with the message

  826. To say, Elijah

  827. If you want to

  828. If you want to

  829. And just make me more confident

  830. I think most people watching this

  831. Should be horrible

  832. I promise

  833. Okay

  834. Providing to ones

  835. Who still have to fake sleep

  836. But have for various reasons

  837. All of them are happening

  838. Very very often

  839. The seventh sign

  840. The seventh sign

  841. The seventh sign is from Chapter 4

  842. It was 17 to 20

  843. Some of us will be thinking

  844. How many signs are there?

  845. You should have read these chapters before

  846. So seventh sign

  847. Chapter 4 was 17 to 20

  848. It's

  849. Quite as many as Elijah

  850. So if it was Elijah's portion

  851. We could have ended by

  852. What can we do?

  853. It's Elijah's portion

  854. Chapter 4 was 17 to 20

  855. The boy sat on her lap

  856. On the roof and then he died

  857. She went to her bed on the bed of the man of God

  858. Then shut the door and went out

  859. She called her husband and said

  860. Please send me one of the servants and a donkey

  861. So I can go to the man of God

  862. Quickly and return

  863. The seventh sign

  864. Here's how we need to hear this

  865. Will you contend for what God has ordained

  866. Will you contend for what God has ordained

  867. So that the son who was born

  868. Will not meet an untimely death

  869. Will you contend for what God has ordained

  870. Will you contend for what God has ordained

  871. So that the son who was born

  872. Will not meet an untimely death

  873. This is something

  874. I haven't learned

  875. Enough and you haven't learned enough

  876. That is the ability to

  877. Persist despite

  878. Everything looking wrong

  879. Not just for your own individual life

  880. But for bigger things

  881. For things that affect other people

  882. Whenever it happens to us

  883. We persist a little longer

  884. And then just hold him and say

  885. Well, maybe I heard wrong

  886. Or maybe God has some other plans

  887. Or maybe I messed up

  888. We persist with ourselves

  889. When it comes to others

  890. Things aren't going according to how we thought

  891. We give up too soon

  892. Here is a son that

  893. Responds to a woman who has not had a child

  894. And it is given as a promise

  895. The child grows up

  896. And the child dies

  897. The woman knew how to persist

  898. She had some kind of audacity

  899. In her, the same kind of audacity

  900. That the Syrophilician woman had

  901. Then I am going to take his boy

  902. And I am going to lay him down on the prophet's bed

  903. And then after that

  904. Neither Gehazi

  905. Nor Elisha's staff were enough

  906. To heal and revive this boy

  907. And she wouldn't settle for it

  908. So she wants a donkey

  909. And she wants a servant and she wants to go

  910. It is not enough

  911. This is like the story of Mark 5.24

  912. Where Jairus goes

  913. To Jesus and says

  914. My daughter is sick, will you come

  915. And Jesus doesn't send a word

  916. Jesus doesn't say go your son will be healed

  917. Jesus says I will come

  918. He is delayed on the way

  919. But Jairus doesn't give up either

  920. And then those beautiful words

  921. Janika kumi and little girl

  922. Arises and she arises

  923. So

  924. We are being called to contend

  925. For what God has obeyed

  926. So that the son who was born

  927. Will not meet an unfaithful death

  928. But contending

  929. Here is a catch Jairus

  930. Contending will require a stretching

  931. Of your life for the boy

  932. Mouth to mouth, hand to hand

  933. Feet to feet, stretched out on the boy

  934. To revive him

  935. Neither Elisha's staff nor Gehazi

  936. Will do

  937. But an actual pouring out of your life

  938. Is the only way to revive some really

  939. Dead situations

  940. And I say father in humility

  941. But sounding proud

  942. Bring it on above

  943. Not because we are capable

  944. But because we want to know what it is

  945. To be able to stretch out our lives

  946. To give life

  947. I will read the rest father

  948. It says there

  949. That

  950. Elisha reads the house

  951. 1.32

  952. There was a boy lying dead on his couch

  953. He went and shut the door on the two of them

  954. And prayed to the Lord

  955. Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy

  956. Mouth to mouth, hands to hand

  957. And as he stretched himself out

  958. Out upon him the boy's body grew warm

  959. Elisha turned away and walked back and fall in the room

  960. Man do you see it hasn't happened

  961. The bones have just come together

  962. The bones are yet in the valley

  963. And they have they've come together

  964. And Elisha is now walking to and fro

  965. Not knowing what to do next

  966. Remembering that Elisha had done something like this

  967. Actually most

  968. And at 1.35

  969. Elisha turned away and walked back and fall in the room

  970. Got on the bed, stretched out upon him much more

  971. The boy sneezed seven times

  972. And opened his eyes

  973. I pray this happens to quite a few of us here

  974. Reviving dead situations

  975. A theme that runs through Elisha's life

  976. And through Acts 29

  977. And the churches that walk with us

  978. A theme that runs through her life next year

  979. Is reviving things that are dead

  980. Of decaying

  981. Or almost gone

  982. There's no way to get it back

  983. 8th sign

  984. Chapter 4, verse 39 to 41

  985. 8th sign, chapter 4, verse 39 to 41

  986. The child said, get some flour

  987. He put it into the pot and said, serve it to the people to eat

  988. And there was nothing harmful in the pot

  989. The 8th sign is

  990. I love this

  991. I want to see how it works

  992. We will see

  993. We will see

  994. The preserving power

  995. Have we not seen it already this year?

  996. Hasn't God watched over water

  997. And guarded this little family?

  998. Hasn't he just covered it with a blanket?

  999. Hasn't he just covered it with this canopy of glory?

  1000. Hasn't he prevented the enemy from exacting a price out of him?

  1001. Hasn't he kept affliction at bay?

  1002. We will see the preserving power

  1003. Of God

  1004. Like in

  1005. Mark 16

  1006. Like in Mark 16

  1007. 18A

  1008. Where it says

  1009. And these are the signs that should follow believers

  1010. They shall pick up snakes

  1011. And bring poison and no harm shall

  1012. Come to them

  1013. Psalm 91, verse 6

    Psalms 91:6

  1014. That even though there be

  1015. Arrows that fly by day

  1016. Pestilence by night

  1017. Even though a thousand follow their right

  1018. And ten thousand on their left

  1019. No harm shall come to you

  1020. And no plague shall

  1021. Befall your tent

  1022. Acts 28, verse 5

    Acts 28:5

  1023. And while the forgotten

  1024. Were with a snake, wrath is over our

  1025. Balls arm and bitter

  1026. And they expected all to fall down

  1027. And die, instead

  1028. Balls shook up the snake

  1029. And continued to

  1030. We will see the preserving power of God

  1031. Remind me of this

  1032. When things happen and I don't know how to respond

  1033. When things happen and you don't know how to respond

  1034. Just remind each other

  1035. Of these

  1036. Ridiculous

  1037. Generous

  1038. Gracious

  1039. I can't understand why promises

  1040. From God to us

  1041. Remind ourselves, tell each other

  1042. This is something that you need to

  1043. Do

  1044. You go to

  1045. Malachi or Malachi?

  1046. I'll tell you in a second

  1047. Okay, go to Malachi

  1048. B-16

  1049. What?

  1050. B-16

  1051. Yeah

  1052. Chapter 3, verse 16

  1053. Then those who feared the Lord

  1054. Talked with each other

  1055. And the Lord listened and heard

  1056. A scroll of remembrance was written in its presence

  1057. Concerning those who feared the Lord

  1058. And honored his name

  1059. They will be mine, says the Lord Almighty

  1060. In the day when I make up my treasured possessions

  1061. I will spare them just as a compassionate man

  1062. Spares a son who serves him

  1063. And you will again see

  1064. The distinction between the righteous and the wicked

  1065. Between those who serve God and those who do not

  1066. And how did God arrive at a point

  1067. In deciding

  1068. Who were honoring him, who were revering him

  1069. He listened

  1070. He listened to what they said

  1071. And how did they honor and revere him

  1072. They repeated what they had heard

  1073. From him

  1074. Guys, like I said at the beginning

  1075. God is saying, hey can you become a

  1076. People in whose midst I can dwell

  1077. So I can show people what it is

  1078. When I dwell amongst the people

  1079. And can you be among people who can show others

  1080. What it is to be in relationship with God

  1081. And do this

  1082. One of the ways to do this is to talk about the things

  1083. We have said, sure talk about the word

  1084. But the beautiful thing about this prophetic message

  1085. Is that it is being extracted

  1086. Straight out of scriptures

  1087. Are these prophetic signs going to

  1088. Progress from one to the other for actually

  1089. No

  1090. It's like the rain

  1091. It will be a thousand drops on your head

  1092. At the same time

  1093. Every time the stick of your tongue

  1094. One drop will hit it

  1095. You have to taste it and decide which drop it is

  1096. Is there a border or are they going to happen

  1097. At the same time

  1098. You will see the preserving power

  1099. At work

  1100. I look forward to it, they remind ourselves of it

  1101. Remind each other of us

  1102. To preserve the power of God

  1103. Next one, ninth sign

  1104. Is from chapter 4 verse 42

  1105. Chapter 4 verse 42

  1106. If you want to know how many signs there are

  1107. Twice as many as Elijah

  1108. So you can start reading

  1109. Elijah later on and then

  1110. What if Elijah had 15 signs

  1111. You know what that means right

  1112. He will be here for a while

  1113. Thank God he decided to leave early

  1114. And God took him away

  1115. Otherwise he would be here for a while

  1116. So if you read chapter 4 verse 42

  1117. Second page chapter 4 verse 42

  1118. Second page chapter 4 verse 42

  1119. A man from Baal, Silesia

  1120. He was a Christian

  1121. He was a Christian

  1122. A man came from Baal, Silesia

  1123. Brought to the man about 20 loaves of barley bread

  1124. Baked from the first ripe grape

  1125. Long with some heads of new grape

  1126. Give it to the people to eat, Elijah said

  1127. How can I accept this before 100 men?

  1128. His servant asked

  1129. And Elijah answered, give it to the people to eat

  1130. But this is what the Lord says

  1131. They will eat and have some left over

  1132. Then he said it before them

  1133. And they ate and had some left over

  1134. According to the word of the Lord

  1135. Guys

  1136. Guys, the last time I spoke about this

  1137. I thought this was the 2010

  1138. And 2010

  1139. And I haven't touched it since

  1140. And I feel that since

  1141. This is something God wants us to do

  1142. I need to speak about it

  1143. Release first fruits

  1144. Release first fruits

  1145. Release first fruits

  1146. Release first fruits

  1147. People who were here in the early years of Acts 29

  1148. Practiced this principle all these years

  1149. Release first fruits

  1150. Part of it you can find

  1151. In Proverbs 26

  1152. In Proverbs 3 verse 6 also it talks about it

    Proverbs 3:6

  1153. And so the idea of first fruits

  1154. Release first fruits

  1155. Why?

  1156. So that it may multiply

  1157. So that it may multiply

  1158. So that it may multiply

  1159. To feed others

  1160. So that it may multiply

  1161. To feed others

  1162. So that it may multiply

  1163. To feed others

  1164. I love that principle

  1165. About two and a half years ago or three years ago

  1166. Eric had pointed out this story

  1167. That first fruits were not necessarily

  1168. To be collected and kept

  1169. For one's own benefit

  1170. But first fruits

  1171. Could be brought and multiplied

  1172. And given to others to be fed

  1173. So the principle of first fruits is very simple

  1174. A farmer

  1175. Who had sown his crops

  1176. Who had sown his crops

  1177. Would see the first sheaf appearing

  1178. And he would collect the grain

  1179. And not knowing what awaited him in the future

  1180. Not knowing whether the locusts would come

  1181. And eat the rest of the crop

  1182. Not knowing whether the rains would fade

  1183. Not knowing whether there would be a

  1184. Dry windstorm that would destroy the crop

  1185. Not knowing whether the water would run out

  1186. Not knowing whether the water would run out

  1187. Not knowing whether the winter would be so cold

  1188. That the ice wine grapes

  1189. Would just rot

  1190. Not knowing any of these

  1191. They would bring the first sheaf

  1192. And present it

  1193. To the temple or to the priest

  1194. Or to whoever was in the vicinity

  1195. That they wanted to give the first fruits to

  1196. And here's what they were saying

  1197. They were saying, oh God, here is the first and the last

  1198. We don't know what will happen

  1199. To the rest of the crop

  1200. But we want to honor you first

  1201. And so they would come to them and say

  1202. Hey, you could have kept this for yourself

  1203. If you were smart, you would have kept it aside

  1204. Because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow

  1205. But instead of going about it that way

  1206. You have brought me the first

  1207. So here's what I'm going to do

  1208. Because you brought me the first, I will bless the rest

  1209. And this is why all users in Roman Chapter 9

  1210. Where it says, if the first is holy

  1211. Then the rest is holy

  1212. And so

  1213. Long ago in 2009 and 2010

  1214. When this was taught, people began to

  1215. At the beginning of the year, decide

  1216. Even though I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2021

  1217. Even though I don't know what will happen

  1218. To my job, my company

  1219. Here, oh God, is a portion of the first

  1220. That I received

  1221. And I give it to you

  1222. And what is that portion? Completely up to you

  1223. There are people who have given the first hour

  1224. Of their work, the first day of their work

  1225. The first week of their work

  1226. The first month of their work

  1227. That scared me

  1228. And who do you give it to? You give it to people

  1229. You give it to people who have broken bread and wine into your lives

  1230. And I would say

  1231. To those that receive these

  1232. First fruits

  1233. Multiply them and

  1234. Feed others with it

  1235. This is not so that one becomes rich with

  1236. First fruits, this is so that we practice

  1237. What Baal Shaleesh

  1238. The man from Baal Shaleesh did

  1239. He bought the first fruit, basically for Elisha

  1240. Elisha is supporting it, multiplies it

  1241. And multiplies it in such a way

  1242. That it was impossible to feed a hundred

  1243. And so that's one of the things I'm going to do

  1244. So the first fruits I receive

  1245. I multiply it, as in I add to it

  1246. And then supply it to more

  1247. And I also know how to give

  1248. And it's up to each person how one gives

  1249. The principle is, honor the Lord

  1250. With something that you have in your hand

  1251. Even though you don't know what the rest will look like

  1252. So I decide already

  1253. I'm going to give it to you

  1254. And I'm going to give it to you

  1255. And I'm going to give it to you

  1256. And I'm going to give it to you

  1257. So I decide already in the year

  1258. Given how God blessed me in 2020

  1259. And given how he loves blessing

  1260. This is what I believe

  1261. To be my increase in 2021

  1262. So here is a portion of Father

  1263. And I send it to different methods next in my life

  1264. People who have broken bread and wine into my life

  1265. Some of them local, some of them outside

  1266. And here's what God says in Proverbs 3

  1267. He says, honor me with your first fruits

  1268. And I will bless you

  1269. And the ones that have practices in Acts 3 now

  1270. For the last 10 years

  1271. And others from outside of Acts 3

  1272. And practices

  1273. Their lives have only increased

  1274. It has not decreased

  1275. Some of them are sitting here

  1276. So this is a principle that God for one of the reasons

  1277. Wants us to be in 2021

  1278. It is not

  1279. It is not something that can be legislated

  1280. You cannot be coerced

  1281. All giving should be fearful

  1282. Without compulsion, without emotional blackmail

  1283. It should be freely given, hilariously

  1284. So the 9th sign was

  1285. Release first fruits and multiply to feed others

  1286. One of the things God wants to bring to pass

  1287. In Acts 29

  1288. Is Acts 4, verse 34

    Acts 4:34

  1289. Acts 4, verse 34

    Acts 4:34

  1290. Acts 4, verse 34

    Acts 4:34

  1291. And it will happen

  1292. But God will bring this to pass

  1293. A working model

  1294. Of Acts 4, verse 34

    Acts 4:34

  1295. Why? Because God wants to use this

  1296. As a people in his whose midst he dwells

  1297. And he can show people

  1298. What a people amongst who might well look like

  1299. And that is a complicated sentence

  1300. Acts 4, verse 34

    Acts 4:34

  1301. There were no needy persons among them

  1302. For from time to time

  1303. Those who owned land or houses

  1304. Sold them, brought the money from the sage

  1305. And put it in their possum speak

  1306. And it was distributed to everyone

  1307. As he had need

  1308. Churches should end poverty

  1309. In their midst

  1310. We have to practice this

  1311. And show this

  1312. Acts 29 already does

  1313. It does it as a church

  1314. It does it as individuals amongst themselves

  1315. When I hear of what you have done for each other

  1316. It always puts the past to the shame

  1317. And I hear how nobody prompts you

  1318. You don't tell anybody

  1319. I hear it from the person who is received

  1320. It blows my mind

  1321. And that is why Acts 29

  1322. As a church gives

  1323. Gives generously

  1324. As soon as it fears of the need

  1325. The money is there

  1326. But we should become a church like that

  1327. Where poverty is not

  1328. A condition

  1329. That people in the church suffer

  1330. So when I ask you how you are doing financially

  1331. I am not asking you that

  1332. Because there is no other topic to talk about

  1333. There is always rain

  1334. And the clouds, starting January 13

  1335. But

  1336. It is because

  1337. It is a question that must be asked

  1338. 10th time

  1339. 10th time

  1340. 10th time

  1341. 10th time

  1342. 10th time

  1343. 10th time

  1344. Chapter 5

  1345. Verse 8 and 17

  1346. I am going to finish by 4

  1347. So not too many signs there

  1348. Acts 5

    Acts 5:8

  1349. Verse 8 and 17

  1350. Acts 5

    Acts 5:8

  1351. Verse 8 and 17

  1352. Oh sorry

  1353. 2 Kings 5

  1354. 2 Kings 5

    2 Kings 5:8

  1355. Verse 8 and 17

  1356. When Elijah the man of God heard

  1357. That the king of Israel had told his rules

  1358. He sent him this message

  1359. Why have you told me your rules

  1360. Have the man come to me

  1361. And he will know that there is a prophet

  1362. In Israel

  1363. So Naaman went with horses and chariots

  1364. And stopped at the door of Elijah's house

  1365. Verse 17

  1366. Naaman initially was arrogant

  1367. He didn't want to do what Elijah said

  1368. Finally he does it and then verse 17

  1369. It says, if you will not say Naaman

  1370. Please let me your servant be given as much

  1371. Health as a pair of mules

  1372. The servant will never again make burnt offerings

  1373. And sacrifices to any other god

  1374. But the lord

  1375. But may the lord forgive your servant for this one thing

  1376. When the master enters the temple of Rimo

  1377. To bow down

  1378. And he is leaning on my arm and I bow there also

  1379. When I bow down in the temple of Rimo

  1380. May the lord forgive your servant for this

  1381. Go in peace Elijah said

  1382. The death sign altering the future of

  1383. Rulers and nations

  1384. Altering the future

  1385. Altering the future

  1386. Of rulers and nations

  1387. Altering the future

  1388. Of rulers and nations

  1389. Really take it absolutely

  1390. This thing is easy

  1391. Easy because none of us have connections

  1392. None of us know how to do this

  1393. This is so God

  1394. It's like raising the dead

  1395. Whenever you're good at something

  1396. You rely less on God

  1397. When you're absolutely zero

  1398. Then God turns up

  1399. Piktah

  1400. The future of rulers and nations

  1401. The initial reticence that some of the pagan rulers

  1402. We will come in touch with

  1403. Will soon change

  1404. To a recognition of Christ as God

  1405. And they will also recognize you

  1406. As his mouthpiece as a leader

  1407. Guys I've seen this

  1408. I've had audiences with rulers

  1409. With ministers, with kings

  1410. That there was no way a guy like me

  1411. Could have access

  1412. I didn't even have the clothes to wear before

  1413. I wore a half sleeve shirt

  1414. And a tie that I borrowed

  1415. And I thought to myself, my God

  1416. You look foolish

  1417. But it doesn't matter because what came out of my mouth

  1418. Was enough

  1419. And then

  1420. There are two things that happen

  1421. One, they recognize Christ as God

  1422. And they swear off

  1423. That I am God's

  1424. And two, they recognize you

  1425. As a mouthpiece of your God

  1426. And if what we have tasted in the past

  1427. Was just a test run

  1428. Then now is the real thing

  1429. Where depending on your pursuit

  1430. Of God

  1431. God will place you in positions

  1432. Where you will be able to touch

  1433. And affect the destiny of rulers

  1434. And nations

  1435. This has always been something

  1436. Actually that has happened

  1437. So it's a test run

  1438. And it's a test run

  1439. And it's a test run

  1440. So it doesn't surprise me at all

  1441. I'd be surprised if it wasn't

  1442. So let COVID lift

  1443. Let the flights begin

  1444. Yeah

  1445. Yeah, Father if you want us to do this

  1446. I don't think email would work

  1447. Because we have no access to their emails

  1448. But we have access to nations

  1449. So I pray Father

  1450. And would you now cause

  1451. Flights to resume

  1452. Borders to open

  1453. Not because we are at sea or we have the travel bus

  1454. I lost it

  1455. But so, O God

  1456. That

  1457. Your people, your power, your glory

  1458. May be known in the nations

  1459. According to this word as we do

  1460. 11th Psalm

    Psalms 6:1

  1461. Chapter 6, verse 1

  1462. 11th Psalm, Chapter 6, verse 1

    Psalms 6:1

  1463. The company of the prophets said to Elijah

  1464. Look the place where we meet with you is too small for us

  1465. Let us go to the job

  1466. Where each person can get a phone

  1467. And let us build a place there for us to live

  1468. So here's what God said

  1469. Others will come and ask for patents and permission to build

  1470. Others will come

  1471. And ask for patents

  1472. And permission to build

  1473. They will ask us for

  1474. Our help

  1475. They will come and say can you help us build

  1476. When they lose their way, they'll come and say

  1477. We will help them to retreat the accident

  1478. We will help them to recover direction

  1479. We will help them regain momentum

  1480. I would say to you who are listening

  1481. When people come to you

  1482. And talk to you about building

  1483. About church and ask you about your church

  1484. Anything

  1485. Open

  1486. Open your

  1487. Mouths and lives and begin to tell them

  1488. About what God is building in our midst

  1489. We can't take credit for it

  1490. This did come out of the great spasalizing

  1491. This came out of sheer lot of people

  1492. That were sent to us at the right time

  1493. And we didn't know better

  1494. In the year I had known

  1495. That many will come to us

  1496. Asking for patents and for permission

  1497. And ask for castmanship

  1498. From you saying could you

  1499. And they won't come to me

  1500. They'll come to you

  1501. You'll have to tell them what you know

  1502. And then some will come and fill in another part

  1503. By the time five people work together

  1504. The building is built

  1505. I'll tell you this to you guys in Bahrain

  1506. In Sydney, in Brisbane

  1507. In Vernon

  1508. In Bogolia

  1509. In Lithuania

  1510. In the UK

  1511. Guys if this is already happened

  1512. What do you think God is going to do now?

  1513. There is this thing of momentum in God

  1514. And it is not multiplication

  1515. It is exponential

  1516. It's like God said

  1517. You reach critical mass

  1518. 12 signs

  1519. Chapter 6, verse 12

  1520. This enraged the king of Aaron

  1521. He summoned the three officers

  1522. And demanded a bed

  1523. Will you not tell me which of us

  1524. Is not the son of the king of Israel?

  1525. None of us might know the king's and mother's offices

  1526. But Elijah the prophet who is in his bed

  1527. Tells the king of Israel

  1528. To very well you speak in your bedroom

  1529. The destiny of nations

  1530. Goes with what we said earlier

  1531. The destiny of nations will be shaped

  1532. On this handle

  1533. Called Acts 20, Daniel

  1534. The churches that we walk in

  1535. Where God will let us in

  1536. On the destruction

  1537. On the destructive plans of the enemy

  1538. Where God will let us in

  1539. Where God will let us in

  1540. On the destruction that the enemy is planning

  1541. And God will have us strategized

  1542. With counter attacks from heaven

  1543. So let me give you a simple example

  1544. Five years ago

  1545. I had a dream

  1546. And in the dream is the ruler of a certain nation

  1547. That we had meet you

  1548. And in the dream the ruler is calling together

  1549. Some people and telling them

  1550. To practice a certain ritual

  1551. Against certain people and certain pastors

  1552. In the nation

  1553. And I wake up, I make a mental note of it

  1554. And I call up a pastor

  1555. Who can spread the word around

  1556. So that as this man begins

  1557. To practice this ritual

  1558. The pastor and his team

  1559. Can begin to nullify the ritual

  1560. This was the five nights

  1561. The only reason I'm not

  1562. Telling you more is because

  1563. This is a recorded message

  1564. But God will begin to wake up

  1565. Those that are willing

  1566. To be trained for battle

  1567. Every finger to the wall

  1568. God will begin to help us see

  1569. The destructive plans of the enemy

  1570. And help us strategize

  1571. And see this, I've never

  1572. Telled this ruler before

  1573. And it's so clear

  1574. It's like a phone call

  1575. Of an invasion kind of thing

  1576. And he's organizing this ritual

  1577. Calling people

  1578. Planning how to do harm to the nation

  1579. And he thinks it's not harm

  1580. He thinks it's good but it's not

  1581. A few years

  1582. Will learn to commandeer

  1583. The chariots and horses of Israel

  1584. A few

  1585. So that

  1586. You will learn how to fight the

  1587. Prince of Persia and the Prince of Greece by Ketania

  1588. A few will do that this year

  1589. Some others will have

  1590. Their eyes open so that like Elijah's servant

  1591. They begin to recognize

  1592. Spiritual realities and then in the years

  1593. Ahead will probably step into this

  1594. Place where you need to commandeer the chariots

  1595. And the horses of Israel

  1596. Jacob, you're saying that all this is going to happen to us

  1597. Hey, what can I do if God

  1598. Is God

  1599. I have no say in this

  1600. I can't make it happen

  1601. You think I don't think this

  1602. Is a lot, you think I don't think it is

  1603. Heavy

  1604. But do you think I don't

  1605. Do you think I'm not excited

  1606. This is what we live for man

  1607. No man

  1608. Let heaven come

  1609. This is what it will look like

  1610. Let heaven come

  1611. Yours is the kingdom, yours is the power

  1612. Yours is the glory forever amen

  1613. Let heaven come

  1614. And when it comes we'll take you up

  1615. No, this is what it will look like

  1616. On a 24-7 basis

  1617. So now let me give you the videos

  1618. Three more slides

  1619. The 13th sign

  1620. Chapter 8 verse 1

  1621. 13th sign

  1622. Chapter 8 verse 1

  1623. I truly believe

  1624. I've never seen this

  1625. And I wish someone had

  1626. Done this for Covid

  1627. I truly believe that from among us will rise

  1628. Elisha and Agabas

  1629. Agabas was a prophet in Acts 11

  1630. 28 who during the

  1631. Raining of one of the Caesar's

  1632. Predicted that there would be a family to land

  1633. And so the church was able to prepare for it

  1634. Acts 11 verse 28

    Acts 11:28

  1635. During the time

  1636. Some prophets came down from Jerusalem to

  1637. One of them made Agabas

  1638. And through the spirit

  1639. Predicted that a similar family would spread

  1640. Over the entire Roman world

  1641. This happened during the reign of Claudius

  1642. The disciples, each according to his ability

  1643. Decided to provide help for the brothers

  1644. Living in Judea

  1645. This they did by sending their gift

  1646. To the elders by barmahams and so on

  1647. I pray god that in this church will begin

  1648. To rise seers who are

  1649. Able to see events

  1650. Sometimes calamitous

  1651. Able to see situations

  1652. That are foretold

  1653. And then able to decree wisdom

  1654. So that the Shulamite can be preserved

  1655. By the spoken word

  1656. Both had to happen

  1657. These are good things guys

  1658. Why is it that these stories are in the

  1659. Old Testament

  1660. Why is it that these stories are in the

  1661. Book of Acts

  1662. Why is it that there are no such stories now

  1663. Why is it that it doesn't happen in the

  1664. West

  1665. But praise god because he is faithful

  1666. He is true, he is powerful

  1667. And he alone can do it

  1668. Amen, let it be for lord

  1669. In our midst

  1670. May it see us rise

  1671. He has laid claim to our allegiance

  1672. He has taught us

  1673. He has made it normal for us to

  1674. Listen to the voice of god

  1675. He has made it normal to see prophetic

  1676. As a part of everything

  1677. We do when we meet together

  1678. Now let it be for the benefit

  1679. Of the world

  1680. Not just for our benefit

  1681. We've received enough prophetic

  1682. Words to last us a lifetime

  1683. Any more prophetic words and I won't act

  1684. I'll have to live to 120 before I conquer them

  1685. Have you noticed

  1686. How at the heart of almost

  1687. Everything we've said

  1688. Lies the need to speak

  1689. And this will be a problem

  1690. The mask has given us even

  1691. A greater ability not to speak

  1692. Because at least your expressions will tell me

  1693. That you wanted to speak

  1694. Now even that is gone

  1695. But at the heart of the Elisha cycle

  1696. Is the need to speak

  1697. And I would

  1698. Say this very very strongly

  1699. Those who won't speak

  1700. Will not inherit or participate in the motion

  1701. Those who don't speak

  1702. Will not inherit or participate in the motion

  1703. You cannot speak mediocrity

  1704. Or complacency as it

  1705. Neither this nor that

  1706. Neither yes nor no

  1707. No! As 29

  1708. If you do not speak

  1709. You will not participate or inherit this motion

  1710. It is the only

  1711. Caution or

  1712. Rebuke in this whole teaching

  1713. You must speak

  1714. And you can't choose neutrality

  1715. Yeah, kind of

  1716. No, also

  1717. Hmm, eh

  1718. These gestures and sounds

  1719. Are not allowed

  1720. You know any son

  1721. And I've shared this with Salvi

  1722. Any son, the one who gave me a father

  1723. The father was young

  1724. He had a very strong

  1725. Stomach

  1726. He had a middle name

  1727. I forgot what his middle name is

  1728. But his parents

  1729. Loved his middle name so they would call him his middle name

  1730. Paul didn't speak for the first

  1731. Two or three years

  1732. But God had very clearly told him he didn't want

  1733. To call him Paul

  1734. But they loved his middle name

  1735. So for the first two or three years of his life

  1736. They would always call him by his middle name

  1737. And the boy would not respond

  1738. And the boy would not talk

  1739. One day Paul's elder brother Edward

  1740. Turned to them and

  1741. Everyone was trying to get Paul to talk

  1742. And it's three or three and a half

  1743. Or so now and he hasn't said a word

  1744. And at some point

  1745. Edward and his older brother by two or three years

  1746. Turns to Paul and he says

  1747. For God's sake man, talk

  1748. After all your name is Paul

  1749. And the boy would answer

  1750. It is important

  1751. That we

  1752. Learn in the year ahead

  1753. To speak

  1754. God's words

  1755. Not your own words

  1756. Not your neutral stance so that you don't get into trouble

  1757. Not the traditions of men that keep us silent

  1758. Not our culture

  1759. Because we are this world

  1760. We must

  1761. Because we not much

  1762. We belong to that kingdom

  1763. 14th Psalm

  1764. Chapter 8 verse 7 to 15

  1765. 14th Psalm

    Psalms 8 chapter mention

  1766. Chapter 8

  1767. Chapter 8 verse 7 to 15

  1768. Elijah went to the masochist

  1769. And then he had the king

  1770. Of Aram of Ziln

  1771. And the king was told

  1772. The man of God has come all the way up here

  1773. He said to Haze take a gift with you

  1774. And go and meet the man of God

  1775. He asked him will I recover from this illness

  1776. Haze went to meet Elijah

  1777. Taking him with him

  1778. As a gift

  1779. Forty camels of all the finest wares of the masses

  1780. He went to the stoop before him and said

  1781. Your son Ben Hada king of Aram

  1782. Has sent me to ask will I recover from this illness

  1783. Elijah answered go and say to him

  1784. You will certainly recover

  1785. But the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die

  1786. He stared at him with a fixed gaze

  1787. Until Haze felt ashamed

  1788. That the man of God began to meet

  1789. Why shall I not meet me? asked Haze

  1790. Because I know the harm you will do to these delights

  1791. You will set fire to their fortified palaces

  1792. Kill their young men with the sword

  1793. Dash their little children to the ground

  1794. Rip open their pregnant women

  1795. Haze said how could your servant Amir and dog

  1796. Accomplish such a feat

  1797. The Lord has shown me that he will become king of Aram

  1798. Answered Elijah

  1799. Then Haze left Elijah and returned to his master

  1800. When Ben Hada asked him what did Elijah say to you

  1801. Haze replied he told me that you would certainly recover

  1802. But the next day he took a thick cloth

  1803. And soaked it in water

  1804. Spread it over the king's face when he died

  1805. Then Haze succeeded in arresting him

  1806. Why read this long story

  1807. It was on 1 Kings 1915

  1808. On 1 Kings 1915

  1809. Elijah had said

  1810. That it was one of the things

  1811. That needed to be done

  1812. Haze had to become the king

  1813. And it is something that Elijah

  1814. Did not do that is now being completed by Elijah

  1815. On 1 Kings 1915

  1816. Then the Lord said to him

  1817. Go back where you came from

  1818. Go to the desert of Damascus

  1819. When you get there anointed Haze king of Aram

  1820. And Elijah did not

  1821. He decided

  1822. To resign and be captured

  1823. Rather than finish what he was called to

  1824. The 14th sign is this

  1825. We who finished what Elijah's

  1826. That started

  1827. But were unable for this to be complete

  1828. We who finished

  1829. What Elijah's had started

  1830. But were unable

  1831. But were unable or are unable

  1832. To finish for different reasons

  1833. Maybe some of them are old

  1834. Maybe some of them are trying

  1835. Maybe some of them haven't grown

  1836. Different reasons why Elijah

  1837. Do not finish what they

  1838. Are supposed to finish

  1839. Maybe some of them are frightened

  1840. Maybe some of them are lacking in faith

  1841. I pray God that you will not

  1842. Have to say that about me

  1843. That we have to finish what Jacob had started

  1844. Because Jacob for reasons of age

  1845. And lack of faith for not having grown

  1846. Was not able to complete

  1847. What God gave so we have to complete it

  1848. May not be center of you

  1849. Or of me

  1850. But we will have to finish something that Elijah

  1851. Has started

  1852. And that's so sad sometimes

  1853. When it has to be done

  1854. I remember when we first finished

  1855. Our first time at the Shalom

  1856. Went to the Daqa Bishan

  1857. And realized what we were supposed to do in Shalom

  1858. So I went to meet this man

  1859. Whose name was

  1860. Skinner, Pastor Skinner

  1861. And he was the one who

  1862. Sparsed the mission work in Shalom

  1863. And I knew that it hadn't been completed

  1864. And when I went to meet him

  1865. He was paralyzed, he could not speak

  1866. And I knew that

  1867. I had to meet him

  1868. And tell him

  1869. Listen, my name is Jacob

  1870. You do not know me

  1871. But we have been sent specifically to Shalom

  1872. And I am here to say to you

  1873. That I will complete what God has asked me to complete

  1874. And then I asked him to

  1875. Pray for me

  1876. I honored him with

  1877. Money

  1878. And asked him to

  1879. Give me the permission to finish

  1880. What he had begun in Shalom

  1881. Because he was not taking the work

  1882. A little later than I did

  1883. Sometimes, Elijah's do not finish

  1884. I sorrow over that

  1885. Last night

  1886. 15th night

  1887. The 13th was 21

  1888. Second day, 13th was 21

  1889. Elijah died on the cross-border

  1890. And the war-bite-right raiders

  1891. Used to enter the country every spring

  1892. Once, whites of his life were burying the man

  1893. Suddenly, they saw battle rages

  1894. So they threw the man's body

  1895. Into Elijah's tomb

  1896. When the body touched Elijah's bones

  1897. The man came to life

  1898. And stood up on his feet

  1899. Crazy, right?

  1900. Even a dead man can't stop

  1901. I mean, here is the 15th fight

  1902. That happens after he is dead

  1903. Isn't that cool?

  1904. I want to say a thing that will affect

  1905. Anybody who comes near us

  1906. With resurrection life

  1907. Acts 5-15

  1908. The shadow

  1909. People start lighting up their sticks

  1910. They hope that the shadow

  1911. That Peter cast

  1912. The shadow that Peter cast

  1913. Would heal his sin

  1914. The point being

  1915. That it is

  1916. It is given to us in the year ahead

  1917. To revive dead legacies

  1918. To revive dead institutions

  1919. That now

  1920. Are built over the bones

  1921. Of some famous

  1922. Man of color died

  1923. 50 years ago

  1924. In nominations to revive dead legacies

  1925. Desolate heritages as excessive

  1926. As they have fallen as

  1927. Prostitutes like Mary

  1928. Fearful soldiers like Gideon

  1929. Valleys full of bones

  1930. Nations

  1931. To be able to revive their

  1932. Spirit so that

  1933. They get infected when they come

  1934. In touch with us

  1935. I know that is such a boost

  1936. Such a large thing

  1937. I don't even know how it will play out

  1938. But all I know is

  1939. I can trust God for his patience

  1940. So I am going to ask

  1941. The music team to come back

  1942. And sing that song

  1943. The last song they sang

  1944. And after that we advance

  1945. As soon as the song is done

  1946. I am going to sing this song in response to what we have heard

  1947. Because I think

  1948. Placing ourselves on the partners team

  1949. Is critical

  1950. Because the thing that we want to shape

  1951. Man, no human on earth can do

  1952. It will have to be God

  1953. It will have to be God