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Saturday Message - Pastor Danny Bonilla (September 24, 2011) | Life Bible Church

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  1. What a great moment in God. And what a great

  2. moment in God for this local church. This wonderful

  3. 10 -year marker. A real prophetic moment in God.

  4. The moment that God intends to propel you into

  5. a whole other decade of blessing and prosperity

  6. and the fulfillment of what he has designed for

  7. your church. And I love the way you love God.

  8. I love that you love his presence and that you

  9. can spend time in his presence. I love the pastor

  10. for opening up the altars during the time of

  11. worship and letting people just get lost with

  12. God. It is the altar, the place where the lost

  13. get found and the found get lost. The place where

  14. we can just spend time in his presence and be

  15. transformed, change in a moment. You can walk

  16. in here all weary and tired and hopeless. one

  17. moment in the presence of God and it's all changed.

  18. Can you give the Lord a big clap offering for

  19. His presence? It's awesome. Hallelujah. Thank

  20. you, Lord. Throughout the church, the history

  21. of the church, there have been those who were

  22. lovers of God's presence. Today we enjoy what

  23. we know is worship that came to us via King David

  24. who established for us, the Vedic worship and

  25. principles of coming into the presence of God

  26. and entering into His presence and spending time

  27. in the presence of God. David distinguished himself

  28. different in Saul because he loved the presence

  29. of God. Saul reigned over Israel, never was concerned

  30. about restoring God's presence back. The first

  31. thing David did first order of business was restoring

  32. God's ark back to the house of the Lord and restoring

  33. worship back and putting musicians back in their

  34. place. And I believe David did all that because

  35. of a mentor that God put in his life. It was

  36. the prophet Samuel who trained David who was

  37. a lover of God's presence. Judge prophet of the

  38. Old Testament who stood among the judges who

  39. initiated the years of the king Yet this man

  40. was a man who loved the presence of God and I'd

  41. like to talk to you a little bit about Samuel

  42. because I believe this house has a Samuel touch

  43. on it has a prophetic touch on this house to

  44. raise prophetic people and people who will love

  45. the presence of God Anyone who comes into this

  46. house in proximity of this house is going to

  47. know that God dwells in this place. Amen It's

  48. a worshiping house. It's a house full of praise

  49. great musicianship Can you give the Lord a hand

  50. for the music of the house the musicians singers?

  51. What an anointing on the house? I believe God

  52. has anointed you in a special way, and I think

  53. there is a divine heritage for the house of the

  54. Lord among the prophets. Go with me to Acts chapter

  55. three as we just lay the foundation. I wanna

  56. talk to you about Samuel, but let's go to Acts

  57. chapter three. In Acts chapter three, verse 24

  58. and 25. Acts chapter 3 verse 24 and 25 Here's

    Acts 3:24

  59. what the scripture says yes all the prophets

  60. From Samuel and those who follow as many as have

  61. spoken have also foretold these days You are

  62. the sons of the prophets Would you turn to somebody

  63. and say you're a son of a prophet? I've been

  64. called the son of many things, but the scripture

  65. says I'm a son of the prophet and so are you

  66. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant

  67. which God made with our fathers Saying to Abraham

  68. in your seat all the families of the earth shall

  69. be blessed what a great thing to know that We

  70. have a divine heritage in God among the prophets

  71. that God considers the church as that instrument

  72. that will inherit not only an inheritance among

  73. the prophets, but also part of the great covenant

  74. that gives us the authority to bless the families

  75. of the earth. I want you to look at somebody

  76. and say you have the authority to become a blessing

  77. to somebody else. That's right, I believe that

  78. God has saved us, transformed us, changed us.

  79. so that we can be the carrier of someone else's

  80. miracle. You are carrying a blessing of somebody

  81. else. Somebody's waiting for your arrival. Somebody

  82. is waiting for you to show up in their life and

  83. bring them you're gonna be the answer to somebody

  84. praying Even around the world. I believe this

  85. house is going to answer the prayers that have

  86. ascended unto the throne room of God You are

  87. the instrument of God and you are a part of Abraham

  88. the seed part of that great Covenant that God

  89. said that in his seed all the families of the

  90. earth shall be blessed everybody say all And

  91. that means all doesn't matter who they are what?

  92. Nationality what culture they're from what religious

  93. background we can bless all the families of the

  94. earth And I'm not intending to say that we are

  95. going to be the sponsors of an ecumenical movement

  96. I'm just saying we can infiltrate every stronghold

  97. of the enemy and become a blessing anywhere.

  98. God takes us Can you say man wherever God sends

  99. the sons and daughters of this house? You're

  100. going to take the blessing that's on this house

  101. and become a carrier of the anointing of this

  102. house. You're going to import that which God

  103. has brought into this house, export the very

  104. glory of the Lord that is in this place. And

  105. God will show up on your behalf wherever you

  106. stand, whether it's the couple that just moved

  107. to Texas to plant a church or whether it's God

  108. taking you to the mission fields, even into the

  109. countries of the Middle East. a Muslim population,

  110. God will bless the families of the earth. Not

  111. too long ago my wife and I had the privilege

  112. of spending a month in Asia and spent some weeks

  113. in Indonesia Traveling the islands of Indonesia

  114. and one of those islands we were invited to speak

  115. in an open -air Rally where the governor of that

  116. island opened the island up so that and opened

  117. the biggest stadium they had been hit by a tsunami

  118. and earthquakes and It had been ravished and

  119. they were ready the wife of the governor had

  120. been saved and filled with the Holy Ghost So

  121. she was making ready her husband for what would

  122. be the visitation of God. We got invited to continue

  123. from Singapore, and it was awesome as we brought

  124. musicians and singers into that island that had

  125. been ravished, who still had not restored all

  126. the light around the city. But it was amazing

  127. to see what God was about to do. And we gathered

  128. in a stadium that only had a few lights hanging,

  129. illuminating the first part of the crowd. But

  130. there were hundreds and thousands of people that

  131. gathered. Muslim people that came to hear the

  132. music and when they heard the music They just

  133. were sitting there kind of somber to what was

  134. happening But I knew God was about to do something

  135. great Because I believe in this verse that we

  136. have the power and the authority to bless the

  137. families of the earth Can you say amen? So I

  138. was determined we're going to see blessing unleashed

  139. in this place and people are going to get saved

  140. and we're going to infiltrate this Muslim community

  141. and see God save some people. The first night

  142. we had two nights to do it and three other nights,

  143. three other days to disciple whoever got saved.

  144. The first night we saw 500 Muslims run to Jesus

  145. and give their lives to Christ. The second night

  146. 1 ,500 came to the Lord. 2 ,000 Muslims got saved.

  147. Miracles began to happen and people got healed.

  148. and restored and we spent for the next three

  149. days discipling some people and blessing families

  150. and they came every day after that to be lay

  151. had the hands laid on them to receive the baptism

  152. of the Holy Spirit and establish them in foundational

  153. doctrine so it was a powerful time as we spent

  154. three solid days with them about eight to nine

  155. hours teaching them the Word of God praying for

  156. them and speaking of the future into their lives

  157. prophesying over their lives I believe that you

  158. and I are called to infiltrate this world We're

  159. called to step in to places where the devil would

  160. not have us show up but God has delivered us

  161. so that we and cleanse us and Changed us that

  162. we might have an authority to step into places

  163. that have been ruled by the enemy And I believe

  164. this church is called to take some ground that

  165. belongs to the kingdom of God. Can you say amen?

  166. So I'm standing among a prophetic people who

  167. have a great heritage in God. You indeed are

  168. the sons of a prophet. You have a pastor who

  169. has a prophetic mantle on him, has been a proven

  170. prophet, even among his mentor Bob Isabel, who's

  171. been a mentor to him and a father in the Lord

  172. to him as well. He has proven himself. And I

  173. believe God's raised this church while others

  174. were walking away from the supernatural presence

  175. of God and the manifested presence of God. Raising

  176. and preparing a place where he could make his

  177. self known God wanted to reveal his presence

  178. and he has raised you with that purpose I believe

  179. all in this region I know there gotta be other

  180. churches But you are an instrument of God with

  181. a great heritage from God and the prophetic voice

  182. of the Lord will trump it out of this house And

  183. everyone who will come into this place will have

  184. an encounter with God's presence an encounter

  185. with the Lord How many thank God that you came?

  186. Come on That you got touched by God. You're part

  187. of what God's doing in this place You're this

  188. house with a great heritage that has the power

  189. and the authority to bless other families So

  190. there is a great future lined up for this church

  191. And you're not ever going to become a quiet church

  192. So if that's in your mind forget about it You've

  193. arrived among some people that know how to worship

  194. God with all of their heart and are not ashamed

  195. To proclaim it. Oh, you're gonna do things with

  196. excellence and the touch of excellence is all

  197. over your ministry And I thank God for a people

  198. of excellence But you can have excellence and

  199. the anointing as well and the anointing is definitely

  200. in this house There is a God anointing that has

  201. marked you with a heritage among the prophets

  202. to stir up I believe that this house is going

  203. to be like a house of Samuel. You're going to

  204. be like a school of prophets. People who come

  205. in this place are going to be trained under the

  206. prophetic anointing and the mantle of the Lord.

  207. And before you know it they're going to find

  208. themselves prophesying and the word of the Lord

  209. will spring out of their mouth even before they're

  210. intending to do it. The Holy Spirit will overtake

  211. people's lives and God will do it. You know everywhere

  212. there was the presence of God, everywhere Samuel

  213. was there was this anointing that he dispensed

  214. on people. people's lives, changing moments and

  215. bringing and ushering in change into people's

  216. lives. He walked into the house of Jesse and

  217. anointed David and the least, the one who nobody

  218. thought had the potential to accomplish what

  219. God had intended. But when the prophet showed

  220. up with the anointing, everything changed in

  221. the house of Jesse. A king was announced that

  222. would come out of his house and God established

  223. his presence. The anointing that's on this house

  224. going to bring a divine identity to people. I

  225. said divine identity because people don't know

  226. who they are until they receive a revelation

  227. of their divine identity. You don't know who

  228. you are until God reveals who you are. He created

  229. you and just like Bob shared with us so tremendously

  230. yesterday from Psalm 139 He fashioned you in

  231. your mother's womb. He put into you everything

  232. you needed I believe that God packed you for

  233. the journey. He packed you right in your mother's

  234. womb with everything you needed you have were

  235. already equipped and Somebody had to wake up

  236. that potential inside of you speak to a secret

  237. inside of you I think you were born every one

  238. of us was born with a secret inside of us up.

  239. The secret of God, the wisdom of God hidden inside

  240. of us, hidden in our lives. Well, in second Corinthians,

  241. or first Corinthians chapter two, forgive me,

  242. first Corinthians chapter two, before I go on

  243. to Samuel, let me just establish this, that it

  244. is Paul, the infallible interpreter of scripture,

  245. that brings this to us. When he says in first

    1 Corinthians 2:6

  246. Corinthians chapter 2 verse 6 however we speak

  247. wisdom among those who are mature Yet not the

  248. wisdom of this age nor the rulers of this age

  249. who are coming to nothing But we speak the wisdom

  250. of God in a mystery the hidden wisdom somebody

  251. say the hidden wisdom Which God ordained before

  252. the ages for our glory? Now he's talking about

  253. this hidden wisdom God hid wisdom this secret

  254. wisdom God hit in It was ordained before the

  255. ages before time began for our glory Which none

  256. of the rulers of this age knew for had they known

  257. they would not have crucified the Lord of glory

  258. But as it is written I has not seen nor ear has

  259. heard Nor have entered into the heart of man

  260. the things which God has prepared for those who

  261. love him things prepared Preordain predestined

  262. as we heard yesterday Set into order by God.

  263. I believe secretly in every one of our lives

  264. I Believe that when the scripture speaks about

  265. the hidden wisdom of God not just hidden in heaven,

  266. but hidden in lives secrets in your life you

  267. have been carrying a secret all of your life

  268. and God's about to unclose or uncover the secret

  269. that contains the glory of your life. This scripture,

  270. if I read it correctly, it says it was ordained,

  271. that secret wisdom of God, that hidden wisdom

  272. of God was ordained before the ages for our glory.

  273. Somebody say for our glory. So there's glory

  274. hiding, and I believe it's right inside of you.

  275. I believe that's why God is causing a prophetic

  276. move upon the face of the earth to wake up some

  277. glory all over the earth. Everywhere we go, through

  278. His prophetic anointing, through the church that

  279. is on the church, God is about to unclose, to

  280. unlock the secrets that are in people's hearts.

  281. It has always been the intention of God to do

  282. so, that He might reveal the things that eyes

  283. have not seen. There are some things that God

  284. has planned about your life that no eye has seen.

  285. No eye has been able to see it. No ear has been

  286. able to hear it. They have not been birthed out

  287. of the heart of man, but they have been birthed

  288. in the heart of God. Can you say amen? But verse

  289. 10 says this, but God has revealed them to us

  290. through His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all

  291. things. Yes, the deep things of God. Somebody

  292. say the deep things. The deep things of God for

  293. what man knows the things of a man except the

  294. spirit of a man which is in him Even so no one

  295. knows the things of God except the spirit of

  296. God Now we have received not the spirit of the

  297. world But the spirit who is from God that we

  298. might know the things that have been freely given

  299. to us by God That we might know talking to somebody

  300. and say God wants you to know God wants to bring

  301. revelation knowledge to every person about what

  302. He has designed for your life, what He has already

  303. prepared for you. He wants you to know the secret

  304. that is in your life. And these things we also

  305. speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches,

  306. but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing

  307. spiritual things with spiritual. Spiritual things

  308. with spiritual things. Would you go with me to

  309. First Corinthians chapter 14, verse 25. Listen

    1 Corinthians 14:25

  310. to the worship service that Paul articulates

  311. and speaks about when the church gathers together.

  312. Verse 23 to verse 25 in chapter 14 of First Corinthians.

  313. First Corinthians, therefore if the whole church

  314. comes together in one place and all speak with

  315. tongues and there come in those who are. Uninformed

  316. and unbelievers will they not say that you are

  317. out of your mind? but if all prophesy if who

  318. prophesies all Come on if all prophesy and an

  319. unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in He

  320. is convinced by all and he is convicted by all

  321. and thus the secrets of his heart are revealed

  322. The secrets of his heart are revealed and so

  323. falling down on his face, he will worship God

  324. and report that God is truly among you. And I

  325. believe that's the anointing that's on this house.

  326. The anointing to reveal secrets. You are part

  327. of a people that God has raised up with an anointing

  328. to reveal the secret things of a heart. The secret

  329. things in people's lives. People are gonna walk

  330. in here and in one moment under the prophetic

  331. anointing, under the prophetic song, under the

  332. prophetic worship, under the life of a Holy Ghost

  333. that's moving in this church and the liberty

  334. that's created by leadership that understand

  335. that everything that is going to take place,

  336. that significant must take place. In that presence

  337. of God and in that holy moment of God today.

  338. We've experienced an incredible moment in God

  339. I believe the holy presence of God It's almost

  340. like we could have just sat there and just waited

  341. on the Lord. Wasn't it awesome? God shows up

  342. in these bits But there is also this anointing

  343. that prepares is preparing the church of the

  344. end times not to be quiet But to speak up with

  345. a Samuel anointing and uncover the secrets of

  346. people's hearts. Would you go with me? to 1 Samuel

    1 Samuel 9 chapter mention

  347. chapter 9, it tells the story of when Saul came

  348. looking for what he had lost, he goes to find

  349. a seer who might have information for him about

  350. what he has lost. Not looking for anything else

  351. but what he has lost. Yet God had already determined

  352. that this would be a prophetic moment in Saul's

  353. life. And I'm using Saul because it's probably

  354. the most clear example of what we just talked

  355. about, discovering the secrets of people's heart.

  356. Saul did not know where the animals were that

  357. he had lost and he was looking for. Convinced

  358. to go to the seer's house, God was already ahead

  359. of him, speaking to the seer. And in 1 Samuel

    1 Samuel 9:15

  360. chapter 9 verse 15, now the Lord had told Samuel

  361. in his ear. Somebody say in his ear. It's a wonderful

  362. thing when God can speak to you in your ear and

  363. you can hear the voice of the Lord. Now the Lord

  364. had told Samuel in his ear the day before Saul

  365. came saying, tomorrow about this time I will

  366. send you a man from the land of Benjamin and

  367. you shall anoint him commander over my people

  368. Israel that he may serve my people from the hand

  369. that he might save my people from the hand of

  370. the Philistines for I have looked upon my people

  371. because of their cry has come to me. So when

  372. Samuel saw Saul the Lord said to him, there he

  373. is. the man of whom I spoke to you. This one

  374. shall reign over my people." Then Saul drew near

  375. to Samuel in the gate and said, please tell me

  376. where is the seer's house? And Samuel answered

  377. Saul and said, I am the seer. Go up before me

  378. to the high place for you shall eat with me today

  379. and tomorrow I will let you go and will tell

  380. you all that is in your heart. Another translation

  381. says, and I will reveal the secret of your heart.

  382. The hidden, that which is hidden in your heart.

  383. And that's the anointing that I believe that

  384. it was on Samuel to reveal things that were in

  385. people's heart. And I believe that this church

  386. I'm not talking about the sin being revealed

  387. when people think about if you all prophesy Those

  388. that are an informed come in and those secret

  389. things the sins of people will be revealed God's

  390. not into shaming people but God's into bringing

  391. of revelation of their destiny Revelation of

  392. who they really are see you don't know who you

  393. are until there is a Divine identity revealer

  394. until the secrets of your heart Saul did not

  395. understand who he was He thought he was just

  396. laboring to find something that was lost But

  397. he was actually walking into a prophetic moment

  398. where God would reveal the very secret of his

  399. heart He wasn't even looking up till he had no

  400. knowledge that there was something hidden inside

  401. of him Some of you don't even know that there's

  402. something great hidden inside of you, but you've

  403. been walking with a secret Something that are

  404. that has your glory attached to it. It has been

  405. ordained to bring glory to your house To your

  406. family to your children to cause you to stand

  407. out in your generation And to bring you into

  408. a place of fulfillment it has your identity and

  409. your identity has Your heritage and God When

  410. you know who you are then you know what you're

  411. an heir of and that is the reality David didn't

  412. even know Jesse didn't know who he was his own

  413. father David didn't know who he was Growing up

  414. in the house of Jesse But when Samuel showed

  415. up Samuel again revealed the divine identity

  416. Samuel revealed that which was hidden of God

  417. and I believe this church has got a call of God

  418. to reveal the hidden things There is an anointing

  419. to reveal destiny in this place, and I believe

  420. it's not just gonna happen here But it's gonna

  421. happen around the world as you send ambassadors

  422. and teams of this house to minister different

  423. places of the world. I believe it's what's going

  424. to give you entrance to different locations that

  425. God's going to take you to in the next few years.

  426. I believe that as you seek to multiply what God

  427. is doing in this house, it's going to happen

  428. in the same way it happened here. There's going

  429. to be destinies affirmed, and God's going to

  430. use not just a few, not just one man and his

  431. wife, but he's going to use an army. of people

  432. that he's preparing under that anointing. Come

  433. on, there's a presence of God sitting in this

  434. place. It's just like what Samuel experienced.

  435. You know that Samuel, and reality is that David

  436. learned from Samuel. Jesse wasn't the mentor

  437. of David. It was Samuel the prophet who brought

  438. an impartation to him and revealed who he was

  439. that caused David to attach himself to Samuel.

  440. Actually, when he ran from Saul later in his

  441. life, where did he run to? for cover where Samuel

  442. was and told Samuel everything that had happened

  443. to him he was running into the presence of the

  444. scripture says in first Samuel 19 that Samuel

  445. was presiding over a prophetic meeting over a

  446. prophetic meeting that was full of people prophesying

  447. it was the school of the prophets and David came

  448. there and everyone that Saul sinned to arrest

  449. him when he found out he was there started prophesying

  450. under that anointing They could not fulfill the

  451. will of man, but God fulfilled his will I believe

  452. that God's going to do that in this house I believe

  453. that the anointing of God's going to increase

  454. in this church and people are going to fall out

  455. when they walk into this place under the anointing

  456. of the Lord and begin to get touched by the Spirit

  457. of God I've watched people get saved filled with

  458. the Holy Ghost and prophesy all at once Do you

  459. know anything do it all at once what took some

  460. people months to achieve and God it happened

  461. in a moment for some people I watched it a move

  462. in a great revival where I was birthed in the

  463. out of Puerto Rico as a police officer walked

  464. into our Presbyterian church that was so refined

  465. and quiet and the services would end at 9 p .m

  466. They'd turn off the lights and throw you out

  467. if you weren't out of the place but that day

  468. the service carried on till 3 in the morning

  469. because God showed up and Nobody could leave

  470. and there was crying and wailing in the presence

  471. of God and people falling out of the anointing

  472. the police officer of the town square showed

  473. up curious to hear the cries of the people walks

  474. him to the place he's not saved but in the moment

  475. I watched him with my own eyes I was 17 years

  476. old watching the manifested presence of God arrest

  477. people with purpose and that I saw him that officer

  478. and one of his officers fall to their knees get

  479. saved and all in one moment get filled with the

  480. Holy Ghost so God can do it In a moment he can

  481. change lives he can change the course of people

  482. and people can find who they are And I saw young

  483. people begin to prophesy to that police officer

  484. He has he wept on his knees and couldn't get

  485. up kind of just nailed to the floor by the presence

  486. of God And the Spirit of the Lord came on him

  487. and next few things that we heard about him was

  488. that he would he was the officer in charge of

  489. the morning lineup and giving instructions to

  490. The people who guarded our city the other police

  491. officers But now he was giving a Holy Ghost Instruction

  492. and the word of knowledge was flowing through

  493. him And he was causing police officers to get

  494. saved because he would speak to them about Secret

  495. things in their lives and only they knew and

  496. they would fall and worship God in the church

  497. got filled with a harvest of police officers.

  498. So, listen, God can do that and He can do it

  499. now. He's been doing it ever since and He did

  500. it with Samuel of old. Samuel heard God so clearly

  501. and I believe a spirit of God is in this place

  502. Opening up plowing the ear of this house. Not

  503. just a few not just five percent But this is

  504. a prophetic church with a Samuel call amen and

  505. up You all have been basing in the presence of

  506. God. There is just an awesome presence of the

  507. Lord It's not in every place of worship what

  508. your understanding what you're experiencing here

  509. is a real unique move You are in a day of the

  510. favor of the Lord that is on you. God is defining

  511. you and your call. His anointing is bringing

  512. you this church, corporate church, a divine identity.

  513. There is a Samuel house that will raise prophets

  514. and raise men and women who will link themselves

  515. to the covenant of Abraham and have the authority

  516. to bless people when they speak. Come on. Are

  517. you ready to change your world? I'm talking about

  518. people your sons and daughters will have will

  519. gain in this house the wisdom and the authority

  520. to change people's lives When God sends you you're

  521. not going to go into fields of harvest and into

  522. the fields that he sends you with with an intimidation

  523. You're going to go with somebody that knows that

  524. you've got you're carrying somebody's blessing

  525. You're the carrier of somebody's miracle and

  526. that when you are sent out from this house You

  527. will be sent out to perform It's a miracle that

  528. somebody has been expecting. Look at somebody

  529. again and say somebody's waiting for you. That's

  530. right, somebody is praying, somebody's waiting

  531. for you to show up, for your house to show up.

  532. Somebody will be waiting for your children, because

  533. God keeps covenant with a thousand generations

  534. with those who love him. Can you give God a clap

  535. offering that your kids are gonna serve God?

  536. I don't care what the devil's doing in this house.

  537. God keeps covenant. He'll go after your kids.

  538. He'll save them. He'll rescue them and he'll

  539. bring them into the place God has a anointing

  540. on this house Samuel is a particular man as we

  541. look at Samuel's life He's the son of Hannah.

  542. Remember Hannah couldn't have children But somehow

  543. her husband had so much faith that every time

  544. they went up to sacrifice and to worship the

  545. Lord He would give her a double portion as scripture

  546. says If you read first Samuel, the first chapter,

  547. there was another woman who just mocked her,

  548. who had children. Hannah went before the Lord

  549. and her husband somehow had enough faith to say,

  550. I'm sowing into you because I believe that God's

  551. not through with you and that you're going to

  552. bear a child. And he would sow double an offering

  553. over Hannah. He would sow into all of his children,

  554. but to Hannah he gave a double portion. And I

  555. believe because he was sowing into a miracle.

  556. Something was about to happen a day where the

  557. priesthood was corrupt. And were Eli's sons were

  558. committing the sin all over the place and priests

  559. that had abandoned the presence of God and were

  560. Looking at their own comfort and gain. That was

  561. what Eli's sons were into and Eli I was not correcting

  562. them or adjusting them Eli was his eyes were

  563. growing dim and could not see but God Had something

  564. that he was going to do. He was going to raise

  565. a prophet and I believe that's why the book of

  566. Acts says from Samuel and it marks, marks our

  567. heritage. From Samuel on and everyone after him

  568. they prophesied about these moments. They spoke

  569. about the church There is an anointing that God

  570. wants to mark in our lives that started with

  571. Samuel that is our heritage and so we need to

  572. go back and That took me back to want to know

  573. how did Samuel grow up in the presence of God?

  574. Well, I read that Samuel spent time. He was taken

  575. by Hannah as as you know, it was The word from

  576. the priest, as she cried out to the Lord, God

  577. gives her this son and in 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel

  578. it tells the story of this man and I want to

  579. briefly go through some things that I believe

  580. are prophetic for this house at this moment in

  581. the life of Samuel because I believe that's what

  582. you're experiencing and that's what's going to

  583. set you up to fulfill the word of the Lord and

  584. have the capabilities to open up the secret things.

  585. to disclose the secrets of people's hearts. I

  586. believe God is going to change your perspective,

  587. change what you're looking at. You're no longer

  588. going to look at the outward man, but you're

  589. going to learn what Samuel learned, how to look

  590. at the inward man, and see them for what God

  591. sees them. Well, listen to the story, just a

  592. few things that are told about spoken about this

  593. Samuel it says that having known a little bit

  594. and know that you're a word church we're going

  595. to go right to this chapter 2 at the at the very

  596. verse 11 when they bring the child over to be

  597. given to the Lord verse 11 says then I'll kind

  598. of went to the house of Ramoth But the child

  599. ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

  600. Because the mother had committed that that child

  601. that would be born, she would lend them to the

  602. Lord. And so they kept their promise and brought

  603. the child very young. And it says the child ministered

  604. to the Lord before Eli the priest. Then it says

  605. in verse 18, but Samuel ministered before the

  606. Lord even as a child. Somebody say even as a

  607. child. Wearing a linen ephod. Moreover his mother

  608. used to make him a little robe somebody say a

  609. little robe and Bring it to him year by year

  610. when she came up with her husband to offer the

  611. yearly sacrifice and Eli would bless Alcana and

  612. his wife and say the Lord give you descendants

  613. from this woman for the Lord for the loan that

  614. was given to the Lord Then they would go to their

  615. own home and the Lord visited Hannah so that

  616. she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters

  617. Meanwhile everybody saying meanwhile the child

  618. Samuel grew before the Lord verse 26 again affirms

  619. and the child Samuel grew in stature in favor

  620. both with the Lord and with men The same words

  621. are used to describe Jesus growth growing in

  622. the presence of God Same exact words It is said

  623. in chapter 3 listen to chapter 3 Now the boy

  624. Samuel ministered to the Lord and now it's not

  625. a child but a boy Now the boy Samuel ministered

  626. to the Lord before Eli and the word of the Lord

  627. was rare in those days There was no widespread

  628. revelation and it came to pass at that time while

  629. Eli was lying down in his place When his eyes

  630. had begun to grow so dim that he could not see

  631. And before the lamp of God went out in the tabernacle

  632. of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and while

  633. Samuel was lying down, that the Lord called Samuel,

  634. and he answered, here am I. And you know what

  635. happens in that story. Samuel gets called by

  636. God, and the Lord wakes him up, but it's important

  637. to know the details of this story, that it happens

  638. in the very dawning of a new day. It's the light

  639. of the tabernacle, the lamp of the tabernacle.

  640. Eli, it describes Eli as having dim eyes. He's

  641. old of age. His eyes have gone dim, I believe,

  642. spiritually. He doesn't have the eyes to see

  643. what God's doing. There's no widespread revelation.

  644. There's a lack of vision, a lack of revelation

  645. in the whole land. But God's about to bring change

  646. by birthing Samuel. And I just feel that God...

  647. has brought change to this entire area by birthing

  648. this church. And I don't say that lightly. I

  649. don't say this in every place, but I believe

  650. that God has put an anointing on this house,

  651. a Samuel kind of anointing on this church, a

  652. prophetic anointing that is going to end up revealing

  653. the secrets of people's hearts. And it happened

  654. that Samuel grew up in this presence of God.

  655. The Bible denotes and has the connotation that

  656. he slept by the ark of the covenant. That while

  657. Eli slept in his own place, that Samuel stayed

  658. in the temple. who made reference that Joshua

  659. would linger when Moses would return back. And

  660. God's into having people, grooming people in

  661. His presence. He was grooming out of all the

  662. young men of Israel. He was grooming Joshua in

  663. that lingering time. What a great thing that

  664. you know how to linger in God's presence. Because

  665. there's been a grooming of God. For 10 years,

  666. God has been grooming this house. And for 10

  667. years, like Samuel, who now turns into a boy

  668. who has grown in the presence of God, he was

  669. grooming sleep by the ark of the covenant that

  670. represented the presence of God but this morning

  671. everything was going to change the lamp was going

  672. out and the lamp announces that there was a that

  673. lamp was lit all night long in the morning it

  674. was a job of the priest to make sure and trim

  675. the lamp so it could keep burning because it

  676. was the only light in the tabernacle the light

  677. was going out because it was the dawning of a

  678. new day and I want to say that there is a dawning

  679. on this house of a new thing that God would do

  680. a new Day is dawning on this house and there

  681. is an awakening a voice of God coming to this

  682. church to awaken you to further Accomplish the

  683. will of God. So I'm here by divine appointment

  684. of God I believe that this is a prophetic moment

  685. And I thought thank God that the pastor had in

  686. his heart to prophesy over some people But it

  687. is a prophetic moment not just for a few but

  688. for the entire church I believe that God's gonna

  689. wake this church up to a sense of destiny like

  690. never before and the anointing is going to increase

  691. in your life and God's gonna reveal himself in

  692. a whole brand new way to like he did to Samuel

  693. Samuel ran to Eli and said did you call me and

  694. he said no I didn't call you and he ran twice

  695. but the third time Eli finally got it it's the

  696. Lord calling this boy something yeah God wants

  697. to get attend the attention up and you know that's

  698. the way God speaks to men men men don't get it

  699. the first time Women I want you to know that

  700. he has to speak to men two or three times himself

  701. So whenever you have to tell your husband something

  702. to be patient. That's the way God made men If

  703. it would have been a woman shooter known for

  704. the beginning But Samuel went back and laid back

  705. down and the Lord kept calling him Samuel Samuel

  706. finally Eli got it and answered when he's when

  707. he calls you next time answer the Lord and the

  708. Lord revealed himself to Samuel And Samuel starts

  709. out this awesome ministry. The end of that chapter

  710. three says that then the Lord showed up in Shiloh

  711. again. The Lord revealed himself in Shiloh, began

  712. to appear in Shiloh again by the word of the

  713. Lord through Samuel. And I believe that God is

  714. gonna show up all over this land by the word

  715. of the Lord of this house. There's a revelation

  716. of the. Presence of God that's going to hit people

  717. in the marketplace in the business place in the

  718. workplace in the educational Systems of this

  719. world as you begin to infiltrate every one of

  720. those areas that God's going to bring change

  721. to So I'm here to prophesy to you that you're

  722. an ambassador of that miracle Working power of

  723. God is going to be unleashed over a people and

  724. Eugene has not seen anything yet I believe that

  725. you yet have to see what God is about to do I

  726. believe that God sent leaders into this place

  727. and they walked away from what God had intended

  728. for them to do They turned their face and up

  729. chose the wisdom of man rather than the wisdom

  730. of God they chose to have People get comfortable

  731. rather than have people get transformed in the

  732. presence of God. And I just so thank God for

  733. your abandonment in your worship, for your abandonment

  734. at the altar, for your ability to respond. I

  735. can tell you've been well trained to respond

  736. to the voice of the Lord. And it's that kind

  737. of a people that God's going to use. You have

  738. been raised in spite of all the criticism, in

  739. spite of everything. You're the replacement of

  740. what used to be what God had chosen. chosen to

  741. use, but they turned her heart from the very

  742. things that God had spoken to them, so God raised

  743. the Samuel. Oh, listen, you can send this tape

  744. to whoever you think needs to hear it. God raised

  745. the Samuel in spite of. The Eli's who went blind

  746. And who would not perform the will of God men

  747. who went after their own comfort and their own

  748. gain And God's switch God does that God doesn't

  749. waste time If you're not it he'll raise another

  750. If you decide you're gonna waste God's time listen

  751. God has a bunch of other people that he can save

  752. He can save him out of the gutter clean him a

  753. matter of fact. He loves going To pig pants and

  754. saving people that's where God finds some of

  755. the great champions of the kingdom in the roughest

  756. places God I believe that has prepared you grown

  757. you I believe this house has been raised for

  758. ten years in the presence of God like Samuel

  759. Ministering to the Lord like a child like a little

  760. church That death was just coming to know their

  761. destiny and you spend ten years learning about

  762. the presence of God waking up by the ark, waking

  763. up by the presence of God. Now the voice of the

  764. Lord is coming again to awaken you and to bring

  765. you into a place. And listen, can I say that

  766. the Holy Spirit has been at work just like Hannah

  767. was at work for her son? If I read to you correctly,

  768. we read about how Hannah would visit him once

  769. a year. because she had loaned them to the Lord

  770. once a year. Now I want to say that Hannah represents

  771. the work of the Holy Spirit in the church today.

  772. In this church in particular, once a year Hannah

  773. would come and she had actually prepared a robe

  774. for him. Every year she made him a new robe.

  775. Now those of you who have children, you know

  776. that you're going to have to spend some time

  777. dressing your kids because when they start growing

  778. up they grow out of their clothes quickly. and

  779. you have got to continually bring change to them

  780. and you have got to invest in them so they don't

  781. look funny and are the laughing stock of the

  782. community. But there is something you have to

  783. do to keep them clothed. Well she knew her boy

  784. was growing in the presence of God and she was

  785. going to make him a robe. Every year she would

  786. show up with a robe. Now strategically I believe

  787. Hannah had to think about that as a seamstress.

  788. She had to think and anybody who knows about

  789. Sewing clothes and tailoring clothes to fit You

  790. know that if you're going to do something up

  791. for a child that he is gonna have to wear for

  792. a year You're going to have to make it fit for

  793. a whole year You got to take an account that

  794. you're not gonna stay the same, but they're growing

  795. and So every time she would come with the robe

  796. at the beginning it was too big But by the end

  797. of the year it was too small Did you hear me

  798. Because you've been experienced this for ten

  799. years At the beginning of the year the dream

  800. seemed big and the robe you were cloaked with

  801. as you ministered before the Lord seemed to drag

  802. and People look you look hilarious and people

  803. made fun at you and mocked you in the community

  804. in the city and even other Other priests of the

  805. city said that look at it looks so hilarious

  806. This he cows that that robe is too big for him.

  807. They couldn't see the future. They couldn't see

  808. you growing up But Hannah saw a boy that would

  809. grow up in the presence of God. She was preparing

  810. the next robe. She was already going home. I've

  811. seen him. I've measured his stature. He's grown

  812. so much this year. I know what I got to do for

  813. next year's robe. She was strategically preparing

  814. another robe for him. And every year, by the

  815. end of the year, can you see Samuel already?

  816. His sleeve's kind of short, tight, uncomfortable.

  817. Some of you have grown uncomfortable and tight

  818. and you don't even know what's happening in your

  819. ministry. It's not that God... It's chastising

  820. you it's that you all have outgrown a season

  821. in your life And now the Holy Spirit's gonna

  822. come to cloak you again So don't don't fret when

  823. God through his Holy Spirit comes on your pastor

  824. and he starts talking big talk And he starts

  825. talking a vision and it starts designing a robe

  826. that seemingly doesn't fit Then when you look

  827. at it and examine it with the natural mind because

  828. the natural mind can't understand the things

  829. of the spirit It looks big how we ever gonna

  830. fit that robe But the Holy Spirit will Cause

  831. growth to come to this house and every year you

  832. have matured You have grown in spite. You have

  833. outlived your critics You have outlived those

  834. who made fun of Your dragging robe And they watched

  835. you outgrow That which you had in the past season

  836. now they're understanding and now listen I believe

  837. there's a sense of that even in your spirit.

  838. You are tight and uncomfortable Because God has

  839. brought you to a close of a decade and there's

  840. a new fitting for you God's God's weaved another

  841. robe for you. And people of faith, don't you

  842. scare at the sight of it. Don't you look at it.

  843. I believe Samuel was excited. Mommy is here.

  844. Man, I'm finally going to get out of this robe.

  845. It's been so tight. I can hardly fit in this

  846. thing. I can't worship or minister at the altar

  847. the way I used to. But I wear it in spite of

  848. because it's what she made for me. And you've

  849. been wearing some tight robe in the house. But

  850. God's ready to bring a change into you and cloak

  851. you. over again it's the Holy Spirit I believe

  852. God is bringing you raising you like he raised

  853. Samuel in his presence from childhood to boyhood

  854. to manhood where it says that he was proven all

  855. over the land that he was a proven prophet and

  856. none of his words fell to the ground everything

  857. is spoke came to pass everything you set out

  858. to do God will perform it I believe there's gonna

  859. come an authority on you that you have not yet

  860. experienced in God That's going to cause this

  861. land to shake. It's gonna cause people Attention

  862. to be set on this house as you begin to speak

  863. what God gives you as you begin to tell people

  864. What God sees them like you're gonna open up

  865. the secrets of people's hearts There is an authority

  866. on this house that is dawning upon you now It's

  867. a new season, and that which was of old will

  868. not work for the new season. So there's a change

  869. of ropes coming to you. God's cloaking you all

  870. over again, but you're growing in stature. You're

  871. growing in favor with God and with man. Tell

  872. somebody the favor of God's on you. Come on,

  873. favor of God's on you all over again. Amen, and

  874. when you think you've you can't experience more

  875. of his goodness How many know that as a good

  876. father he out does himself again, and he brings

  877. it all over again on you Well listen, I believe

  878. I Believe that you are like Samuel been prepared

  879. crew To multiply yourself many times over and

  880. to unlock the secrets of people's hearts Your

  881. children will not have to open doors trying to

  882. guess what their destiny will be Because you're

  883. in a place where the anointing of Samuel is here

  884. Destinies will be established. You're not gonna

  885. let the educators of our day dictate the destiny

  886. of your children You're not going to look up

  887. or look to the world so that your kids can find

  888. their place in society a dear what they were

  889. created for. But it's in this house that identities

  890. will be established, heritage will be established.

  891. And I believe like even Manoah of old, remember

  892. Manoah? Judges chapter 13, the angel came to

    Judges 13 chapter mention

  893. his wife and said, a child's gonna be born to

  894. you. And when the child was born, Manoah made

  895. it his business. When he shows up again, I wanna

  896. talk to him. And when he showed up, he said,

  897. are you the one that talked to my wife? Ran to

  898. him. Are you the man that talked to my wife?

  899. He said, yes, I am. It was the I am. And he said,

  900. I want you to tell me. I want you to tell me.

  901. When the word of the Lord comes to pass, what

  902. will be the rule for this boy's life and the

  903. work of his life? He asked those two things.

  904. How do I measure him? How should I grow? What

  905. should I attain? What should my vision be for

  906. his growth? Every child you have has a different

  907. measure Ever you could have ten children in the

  908. same house with the same genes But they're all

  909. gonna measure up different anybody who has had

  910. children. You know, they're different They can

  911. be twins and they're different. Come on. There's

  912. a different measure for their life. Can you say

  913. amen? And they're gonna look like you but they're

  914. gonna be different they're gonna have a different

  915. measure and They're gonna have a different work

  916. every one of them. There is a work That God wants

  917. to reveal and I believe that anointing is going

  918. to be on this house your children are going to

  919. grow up with a sense of destiny a generation

  920. that has divine information and that know that

  921. they have been ordained that they are the sons

  922. of the prophets and that they have the authority

  923. to bless the families of the earth in closing

  924. if you have felt the robe tight, frustrated with

  925. what seemingly doesn't fit. You just stand to

  926. your feet in acknowledgement that there is a

  927. new season to dawn upon your life. And you receive,

  928. you're saying by standing, I receive what the

  929. Holy Spirit has for us as a church and for my

  930. life, individually for your family. I hope you

  931. get this. I hope you understand that the Holy

  932. Spirit's coming this weekend. to visit you and

  933. cloak you again. Oh, I just can't think about

  934. the excitement of Hannah showing up every year.

  935. I can't wait to see my little boy. The man that

  936. God's making him, he's wearing the ephod. He's

  937. ministering to the Lord continually. I've heard

  938. reports. She came to inspect him, brought him

  939. his new robe. preparing him for a new season

  940. of his life. This is a whole new season for this

  941. church. As you step out of the old and step into

  942. the new, this is a new day in God. Thank God

  943. for the 10 years that you have had. Can you say

  944. amen? But get excited about the new, the new

  945. cloaking of the Lord. There's a fresh anointing

  946. coming on this house. It will... Take you to

  947. greater places and God it will open doors that

  948. did not open in the last ten years All of a sudden

  949. doors will open unto this church that were shut

  950. and God kept shut until this season of maturity

  951. But now it is the time of God on your life and

  952. the doors that you try to open that didn't open

  953. will suddenly open and God will cause you to

  954. enter into a day of favor before man and before

  955. God So Lord, I pray now Let your Holy Ghost anointing

  956. rest on this church afresh. Pour out, oh God,

  957. your anointing. Your visitation has been here

  958. all through this week and you've visited with

  959. us. Oh God, there's a presence. You're coming

  960. to minister to every man individually, every

  961. household. I pray ears would be unplugged and

  962. opened. I pray eyes would be opened to see what

  963. they could not see before. I pray the level of

  964. faith would rise in them. I pray a new excitement

  965. would come into them as they experience the cloaking

  966. of something new and something that they're gonna

  967. have to grow into. Jesus, let an anticipation

  968. come to the families of this house, to the leadership

  969. of this church that has waited for you year after

  970. year, waiting on you to come. Oh God, let there

  971. be a new excitement Let their vision be expanded

  972. Lord and may you show up not only in their lives

  973. and in their homes But may like Shiloh Lord You

  974. show yourself all over this land Because there's

  975. a Samuel in the land because there is a prophetic

  976. people Lord And may you reveal yourself through

  977. the word that comes through this church. May

  978. you bring revelation knowledge to leaders and

  979. officials of this city. May you give them a voice

  980. as they grow into their place. Thank you, Lord,

  981. for a wonderful church. I bless them in the name

  982. of Jesus Christ. Would your hands raise up to

  983. him and say, Lord, I'm ready. Dress me again.

  984. I'm ready. I'm ready to look silly all over again.

  985. It's something that's a lot bigger than me. I'm

  986. ready to raise my level of faith. I'm not staying

  987. the same. I'm gonna grow again. I'm gonna change

  988. again. I'm gonna enter a new realm. And everyone

  989. will know that you are the God who has called

  990. me. anointed me to carry the miracle of somebody

  991. else. God bless you church. Hallelujah. Do you

  992. receive that? Why don't you just be seated for

  993. a little bit. If you are interested in hearing

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