The Eyes That See Harvest | Bro. Alex Mason

Can we give him a shout of praise tonight?

Every time I lean on the Lord, I know I can trust that he's going

to see me through. Hallelujah, I lean on you, Lord.

Amen. Sometimes we need to be

reminded. We lean on our own understanding

at times, and that doesn't get us very far.

And we have to be reminded to lean on the Lord trust in the

Lord, Amen, Amen, Amen. Thank you for your faithfulness

to the House of God tonight and I'm so thankful to be here.

I'll have to remember if I know how to do this after being a

dad. I'm joking.

I have had some funny moments. My wife and I have had it is it

has been a great privilege and blessing and just love it so

much. And the the the quick joke, I'll

tell you is that I had AI had a brain fog moment one day.

We were driving home and I was trying to we were talking about

some TV shows and stuff. And I was like, I cannot think

of this actor's name. And it was Tom Hanks.

And I said the guy that plays Woody.

And she was like, you mean Tom Hanks?

And I was like, yeah, that guy. And she said what is fatherhood

done to you? No, I'm joking.

But love and appreciate my wife so very much.

She is a trooper. She is amazing.

She is the wonderful mother of my child, our child.

And she is just, I can't say enough of how how amazing she

has been and just accolades, the accolades go to her.

And I love, love and appreciate her.

We just just remembered on Friday that we had been you

should always be dating. And those of you that aren't

married yet, you should always be dating your spouse.

We have been dating for 10 years, 10 years, whole decade.

So love that and love and appreciate them love and

appreciate my parents and everything that they have done

for us and and their support, endless support and love.

And I want to thank not only them but they they took care of

a whole week of meals for us and was it.

I know they're my parents, but I have to brag it just I love and

appreciate that soul bunch. It is.

It was a blessing. But not only did they do that,

then we had we had some of you church people come in and take

care of a week. Just you know, we, we had Reese,

we had Erica, we had Jen and Tyler, we had Zach and Malin

throughout the week. My parents picked up another day

too, but throughout the week blessed us and I am so thankful.

Thank you so much for loving and appreciating.

I, I, I could not appreciate more what you have done that you

took care of us in that time. You didn't have to.

We could have made it work, but you did that out of your, your

good old hearts. And I just love and appreciate

that. Can we give them a hand?

I'm so thankful for that. And that that is just the body.

That is just the body and I really appreciate that so very

much. If you will turn this afternoon,

evening, midnight, if you look outside to Judges 6 and verse 3.

Love and appreciate our pastor and his wife and so thankful for

them. Glad that they are, they're

going to go and, and have a trip and so glad that they are going

to be able to get away and, and have a little bit of sabbatical

and celebrate 2028 years. Amazing 28 years.

Love and appreciate them so very much In your Bibles.

Judges 3 six verse 3, it says. And so it was when Israel had

sown that the Midianites came up and the Amalekites and the

children of the East. Even they came up against them,

and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of

the earth. Till thou come unto Gaza, and

left no substance for Israel, neither sheep nor ox, nor ass.

For they came up with their cattle and their tents, and they

came as grasshoppers for the multitude, for both they and

their camels were without number, and they entered into

the land to destroy it. And Israel was greatly

impoverished because of the Midianites.

And the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, one more, one

more scripture would be familiar to you is John 4 and 35.

It says, say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh

harvest Jesus speaking here it says, Behold, I say unto you,

lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white

ready to harvest, ready to harvest.

I come tonight hoping for this to be more of a warning than a

than anything. We do not want to lose sight.

We do not want to lose sight. And so I'm going to speak

tonight on the eyes that see harvest, The eyes that see

harvest. Could you set your Bibles down?

Help me pray tonight, Lord, I ask you just to move in this

place, Lord, Your presence is already here.

You are already amongst us, Lord.

I ask you just to move, minister Lord to your people tonight,

Lord, touch your servant, Lord, that that I may speak what needs

to be spoken, Lord. It is your will, not mine, Lord.

Anything, Lord, that comes from my lips, Lord, would be of your

word, Lord, and the of your volition, God, I ask you just to

move and touch hearts and minds tonight, Lord.

A planting ground for your word Lord that would would be

flourishing. God minister Jesus in this place

that would see harvest in Jesus mighty name that we pray and

everyone said Amen, Amen. You may be seated tonight.

Look at your neighbor and say the eyes that see harvest maybe,

maybe bug eye a little bit at him or something.

In 2016, National Geographic explorer Mark Sonat, not snot

Sonat, boarded a Canadian icebreaker by the name of

academic Sergei Vavlov, and you'll have to forgive me for

that pronunciation to retrace one of history's strangest

disappearance. It was called the Franklin

Expedition through the Northwest Passage. 2 British ships HMS

Erebus and HMS Terror had set sail in 1845 to map out the

Northwest Passage and never returned. 129 men vanished into

the ice. For nearly two centuries, the

Arctic had kept its secret. Sanat's major modern crew of

today in 2016 carried every advantage, every advantage that

Franklin could have dreamed of. Radar, GPS, sonar, satellite

maps, ice forecasts. They had the power, they had

knowledge and communication to do this mission and find this

vanished ship. And when the wind shifted in the

Northwest Passage, within hours the sea hardened into a sheet of

ice. Their engines kept humming, but

the ship had stopped dead. They were dead in their tracks.

Sanaa even said it was like being alive inside a photograph.

No horizon, no sky, no sea. Just white in every direction.

For days they drifted nowhere, the ice creaking against the

hull of the ship, and the crew stood on the deck listening to

the sound of the pressure. And it it is, it is groaning

against the hull of the ship through the cracks of the ice,

though they conceive movement, you know, fish were flashing on

by, colors were going on by. You could see the fish.

And the strangest thing he said was realizing the world beneath

us was alive while everything else on the surface was locked

solid. They were not sinking, but they

were stuck. And then Snot said so.

Not said. That's when it hit me.

We weren't in danger of sinking. We were fine, but we were in

danger of staying. And I don't know if you know

anything about the Arctic. The more you stay, the more

danger you become. All right.

And so two weeks, two weeks went by and the wind actually turned

the ice and it loosened and the ship finally broke free.

And as they crept forward, sonar revealed a shape beneath the

surface and it was rectangular and it was wooden and it was

preserved and they had found the HMS Terror, Franklin's lost

ship, intact. Sanat had said.

What was lost wasn't gone. It was just buried under ice and

under the time, the time it just took time to find it.

And it was not lost. It was, it was just the vision

of not being able to see it until the ice broke.

It was just buried. And so when we get to Judges,

I'm going to come back to it. But when we get to Judges 6

here, we have 7 years of oppression that are going on.

You know, Israel's problem necessarily wasn't that nothing

was growing, wasn't growing. The text begins literally with

when Israel had sown, they had seed in the ground and the land

was producing once again. They were not in a famine.

They were in fruitfulness after years of struggle.

And their issue was timing. Every time a harvest stirred,

the enemy would show up. And it wasn't just random bad

luck, it was a pattern. And Israel had fallen into the

same cycle before. It may seem pretty familiar to

you. God blesses Israel.

Israel grows uncomfortable. Comfort becomes their

compromise. Their compromise turns into

rebellion and the rebellion turns into oppression.

And then what does Israel do but get on their knees and say,

Lord, we need you. They cry once again out to the

Lord that had taken them throughout time up to that

point. And we know throughout

Scripture, I've talked to students before here and at at

school, I've talked and joked about how whiny Israel has been

throughout time and how ironic that it is that they're whiny

because of how much they disobey God.

But then I also turn that joke into a lesson for the students

and that is us, that Israel is just a great representation of

humanity. That is all that they were

humans. We are human.

And we have to understand as much as we, when we're doing our

yearly Bible reading, we may be even getting tired of Israel.

You have to think, think of what God thinks of us sometimes,

right? We have to understand Israel is

just a good reflection mirror for us to look at.

The book of Judges repeats this cycle like a rhythm of a drum

beat. The children of Israel did evil

in the sight of the Lord, and then the Lord delivered them

into the hand of their enemies. And then after the pain and

after the suffering, the children of Israel cried out

unto the Lord. They were a nation that was

caught in a spiritual short term memory.

Every time God restored them, they relaxed their guard.

And every time they relaxed their guard, what would you know

it, an enemy returns. That's how the adversary still

works today. He is not omniscient, but he is

observant. When God begins to stir the

ground, when faith starts to breakthrough, the enemy moves in

to trample the crop. And so you have to understand,

Satan is not worried about the seeds.

You can plant as many seeds as you would like, plant as many

seeds as you would like, but the moment there starts to be a

harvest, you can bet that there will be an attack in our

opening. Jesus told the disciples.

He said lift up your eyes and look to the fields, for they are

white ready, all ready to harvest.

The the understanding of the tints of that statement is

already the harvest wasn't this future hope, but it was a

present reality that they had been too busy and too tired and

too doubtful to notice. Ladies and gentlemen, the

harvest is already here. We have been experiencing this

for the past couple months. The harvest is already here and

we over the course of time we should not get too caught up

that we lose sight of that. And that is where Israel stood

in Judges harvest had started, but fear blurred their vision,

making blessing and a threat look like the same.

They ran for the caves, they they guarded their lives, but

they surrendered the harvest. I don't want it to ever be said

of me that I would surrender the harvest to guard my life.

We should put our lives on the line for the harvest, not the

other way around. Surrendering.

They were surrendering the harvest.

And you see, the devil doesn't need to uproot what is growing,

he just needs sometimes to make you believe it's not growing.

If he can distort your vision, then he will make you and he

will get you convinced that you will abandoned the field

yourself. It's almost like Pavlov's dog.

A good example description would be that there would be some sort

of tone for for a dog. And every time the tone goes

off, you give it a treat. Well, eventually the dog gets

used to that, right? And then whenever you do the

tone and you don't have the treat, but the, the dog's there

and it sits and it's ready for the treat.

That is exactly the same thing. It is almost as if sometimes we

get in this pattern. Israel was getting in this

pattern of getting oppressed and getting getting the enemy is

Satan Satan's forces coming up against them and they were not

going to the harvest because they were afraid.

They were associating it with the enemy.

We have to remember that harvest is not associated with the

enemy. Harvest just means that the

enemy is coming, so their field stands ready for harvest.

It is it is destroyed. It is they are coming in and

then the enemy is going to destroy it.

No one dares to gather it out of fear.

No one is daring to gather it. The the multitudes of Israel are

not daring to do that. That is where we are church.

We are in the trenches of revival and we can feel God

moving and opening doors and people walking through and faith

growing. But at the same time, the

pressure is going to intensify the conflict like the the

weariness, the second guessing will start to come in.

And that is the pattern we have to look at through Scripture and

understand that when the harvest of revival is coming, we have to

be warned of some things that are going to come down the

pipeline and be aware of it beforehand.

The enemy can't stop your revival from coming, so he he

fights to steal our sight of it instead.

Because once it's here, if he steals your sight of it, we just

have people sitting, not believing in the revival.

He wants the church to only see struggle.

He doesn't want you to see the significance of the harvest.

He just wants you to remember the shaking that comes with the

harvest. He wants you to associate

harvest with, If I do that, then Satan's going to come and it is

not going to be good for me. He wants you to remember that

and all. All you can associate the

harvest with is negative things because the enemy comes in and

then all you want to do is go to the caves.

You don't want to go to the harvest, you want to go to the

caves. And like in in, in Mark's snot

ship in the Arctic, the danger was that if they stayed stuck,

then they were going to die. If we stay hidden like they did

in the caves, then the harvest is going to die.

We do not want the harvest to die.

Israel was paralyzed, if you will.

They were blessed, but they were blind because the enemy was

stealing that site of the harvest that God had for them.

It was theirs for the taking. I fully believe that if they

went and they take, they stood their ground and they kept going

towards the harvest and they continued and they decided to

actually thresh it and actually do the work that the enemy would

have been turned away by God. But they were afraid, and they

associated that fear with the harvest and God.

God was about to dress that blindness that they had.

But before he could raise a Gideon to fight, he had to

expose the forces that were causing it.

Every revival has some 2 familiar enemies, strife and

weariness. They are not new.

They may wear new disguises, but they are not new.

In in Israel's story they wore the names of the Midianites and

the Amalekites. The word minion means literally

strife or contention or judgment.

It's not just a tribe, it is a spirit of constant conflict.

Wherever God tries to bring unity, you can guarantee Midian

is going to show up to try to bring and sow suspicion.

Midian is the unsaid tension in the room that you can't quite

put your finger on. Midian whispers they don't

really care about you whenever they truly do.

Midian is turning minor on misunderstandings into major

offenses. Midian is going to convince you

that every correction not only for God but from the man of God

is criticism and an attack. Midian.

When the spirit of Midian comes in, you are going to start

taking note of who raises their hands and who doesn't raise

their hands, who recognize, who is recognized and who is

overlooked. Midian is bringing comparison,

suspicion and complaint. The spirit of Midian works to

turn worshippers into spectators and then turn those spectators

into critics. The spirit of Midian is there to

create discourse, and he will show up whenever the harvest is

there. Whenever you try to grab the

harvest there, you can guarantee Midian.

The spirit of Midian is around the corner, looking, seeing who

could be impacted by him. And then there's him, Amalek.

His name traces back to roots meaning toil or vexation or

doubt. Amalek is finding the weary.

He is finding the ones who have fought the longest, prayed the

hardest and stayed the latest. He is not hitting head on.

But in Exodus 17 we can see that he comes in from behind.

Exodus 17 even shows us that when Amalek struck, it was the

tail of the Israelites line. Amalek is waiting till revival

feels like routine and then he comes in.

You've been doing this long enough, you're tired.

Just just go home. Just stay home.

They'll have church without you. It's fine.

He doesn't need you to backslide, he just needs you to

back off. And between the two, Midian is

going to divide and Amalek is going to drain the Saints.

And so together they form a nice perfect ambush. 1 is distracting

you with noise and issues that arise, and the other is wearing

you down with fatigue. And by the time you have

noticed, the field has already left unguarded because you've

got people hiding in a cave. They have lost sight of the

harvest. I am telling you that as things

continue to go through the revival fire, burning of

harvest, that these spirits are going to show up.

I can tell you and and I can tell you since Pastor Wilkes has

been here, I cannot tell you the amount of exhaustion I have had.

I can't explain it. I, I have you might, you can ask

my wife. I have taken naps.

It is not because of our daughter.

My our daughter is an Angel. She's fine.

I have taken naps like crazy. I've been exhausted.

I cannot describe it. It is not because of the time of

year for me. It is not because of the time of

year. It I have realized that it is

Amalek. Amalek has been.

The spirit of Amalek has been trying to wear me down.

You have to pinpoint these things and pray against these

things because we do not want it to be a hindrance to the

harvest. You got to.

You got to understand that these things are bigger than us.

We have to understand that we have power in our prayer and if

we allow it, we allow Satan to go unchecked.

He is going to get the best of us.

He is going to make us try to go back to the caves and lose sight

of that harvest. So I'm putting, I'm putting the

spirit of Midian Amalek on notice tonight that there is a

warning going towards the Saints that the harvest will not be

lost sight of. Revival dies the moment enough

people replace those expectations.

When Minnie and Amalek come creeping in.

We have to understand that that harvest is close.

If there is a trying in your life, if there are things coming

up and where did this come from and oh, the sickness and I know

it's the time of year, but there is a difference.

When there are things that start to come up and it's just out of

nowhere, you can bet that probably revival is still, it is

here. And we have to, we have to pray

against that. That is, Gideon's generation

forgot. Gideon's generation forgot that

the harvest was close whenever the enemy came closer, and so

they let Midian's division and Amalek's exhaustion chase them

off of their own property. Instead of standing in their

fields, they hid in those caves. But in the middle of that

hiding, God was looking for a thresher that had not lost sight

of God's blessing, someone whose vision was still intact.

He didn't come to a soldier in armor.

He came to a farmer, so to speak, of clutching a handful of

grain, if you will. Getting was trying to protect

what was left. Judges 6 and 11 says.

And there came an Angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which

was in Ephora, that pertained to Joash the Abizarite and his son.

Gideon threshed wheat by the wine press to hide it from the

Midianites. We come up on Gideon.

He is threshing wheat in. He is threshing wheat by the

wine press to hide it. He is doing harvest work and

hiding. I want you to understand harvest

work is not a hiding work. Gideon was doing the best he

could, but that it was not what God intended.

Harvest work as a whole with grain, it is supposed to be done

in the fields, out in the open at this time, open on a hill

where where the wind can separate the chaff from the

grain. But here we have Gideon, and he

has no freedom for that. And he is doing sacred work

underground because the enemy has now turned the field into a

war zone and because the people had fled to the caves.

Gideon is not lazy, but he is traumatized.

He is not, but he is fearful. And Gideon is not idle.

He is trying to salvage. He is trying to keep some

remnant of what God gave Israel before it is all gone.

And it is there that the Angel of the Lord appears and says in

verse 12 that the Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valor.

It wasn't because Gideon was fearless.

It wasn't because he was a man of valor in the sense of what we

think of where war, but it is this a sense that he was still

having the vision of the harvest through all of the ups and downs

of what Israel was going through currently.

He still had that grain and he was threshing.

He might have been looking over his shoulder, making sure that

that whenever you know, not knowing how deep he is in The

Cave, not knowing if the Midianites were going to come in

further and the Malachites, he was threshing because revival

does not begin with perfect people.

It begins with people who refuse to stop working even when they

are scared. We have to understand that there

are going to be times we are scared, but we have to keep

working. We have to keep going to the

harvest. Sanat said that he was in

danger. They were in danger of sinking.

They weren't in danger of sinking, but they were in danger

of staying. When we reveal that and then

look at that, that is a church's warning because we're not

sinking. There is not a sinking.

We're not dying. But if we stay where it's safe,

if we thresh our wheat underground while the fields are

full, then we will miss the harvest that is happening above

ground. God did not call Gideon to

survive. He did not call just the church

to just survive. He called them to see again, to

see the vision again. And so when we get to Judges 7,

Gideon has rallied an army of 32,000 men.

They camp beside the spring of Harad.

Harad. The spring of Harad means to

tremble or quake. Even a Hebrew phrase in Harad

translates to the eye of trembling.

They are camped at the place where fear and faith are going

to collide, trembling at the spring.

That spring, God says tell the fearful to go home and 22,000

leave. Now we're left with 10,000 and

they look like a loss to you. But that was clarity.

That was clarity. God wasn't downsizing.

He was purifying because you cannot conquer an enemy while

you're still negotiating with fear.

You fear is going to show us what we've been leaning on.

And then God has a second test for the rest at the water,

watching how they drink. I didn't have it up there, but

it's Judges 7 and five it says. So he brought down the people

into the water. And the Lord said unto Gideon,

Everyone that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog

lappeth him, shalt thou set by himself.

Likewise everyone that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to

the mouth, there were 300 men. But all the rest of the people

bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

And the Lord said to Gideon, By the 300 men that lapped, I will

save you and deliver the Midianites unto thy hand, and

let all other people go, every man to his place.

What on earth is this significance?

God, what does this mean when you read this lapping like a dog

and he's taking it to his hands, What's the difference between

take cupping it into his hands and then being on his knees?

The men that scooped the water up to their mouths, they stayed

alert. They they kept their eyes up,

they were watching their surroundings.

The others, they are in a more compromised and vulnerable

position. They are more relaxed when

they're on their knees. They are unaware of their

surroundings. God was after the ones who were

disciplined and watchful. Those that were ready for the

battle. Even in the small moments like

this, we're just drinking water. Why is that important?

Well, they still needed to be aware that there was an enemy

that was going to be a around the corner and it could come at

any moment. And so God is saying I can do

more with a few focused people and faithful people than with a

crowd of careless, unfocused people.

And so there were those 300 that the Lord said would use to help

Gideon win the victory. When we get to Judges 7 and

verse 20, it says the three companies blew the trumpets, and

they break the pictures and held the lamps in their left hands

and the trumpets in their right hands to blow with all.

And they cried, the sword of the Lord and of Gideon Gideon's 300

men, surrounding the enemy with clay jars and torches and

trumpets. I don't know about you, but that

does not sound like weaponry to me.

And at the signal they break the pitchers and the light lifted,

and those jars that once possibly stored grain, they now

hold a flame. God took the same vessels that

once preserved the wheat, the harvest if you will, and filled

them with fire. God is taking those ordinary

tools of Labor and turning them into instruments of revival and

revelation and victory. The jars were not special, the

soldiers were not elite, and the plan did not make a lick of

sense. But the moment that the vessels

broke, victory began and the enemy turned on itself.

Whenever you walk in faithfulness, even in the plan

that does not make sense, but it is from God, just trust that the

enemy is going to turn on itself.

It is not going to be you. There's going to be victory.

Even when it doesn't look right, even when it doesn't make sense.

We can't, we can't afford to, to nitpick at God's plan.

We have to allow it to move in the way He planned it. 2nd

Corinthians 4 and 7 even says, but we have this treasure in

earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be

of God and not of us. We have to put ourselves in

check. Sometimes God allows things to

crack in so the light can escape, so to speak.

And so revival is always going to demand a breaking again.

The pressure is going to intensify.

Pride is going to break. Schedules are going to break.

Habits are going to break. The sound of shout uttering is

preceding the shine of glory. That's even how the ice broke

around in Sanat's ship. The same noise that terrified

them actually became their sound of freedom.

When that ice fractured or when the jar burst, the light escaped

and the enemy panics and their freedom is restored.

Gideon's army never swung a sword.

That doesn't even say that they even had any swords on them.

They shouted the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, and they

stood still with those jars and broke them.

God turned that enemy on itself. We win not by volume, but by

vision. They won because they were

aligned in the same godly vision.

Philippians 4 and seven says in the peace of God with path.

So path is all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds

through Christ Jesus. If you need to have an

understanding and and focusing on something, you need to have

the peace of God. Pray for the peace of God

because it'll give you understanding and it will keep

your heart and your mind through those times that Minion and

Amalek want to try to come up and destroy you.

It is going to keep you. When the church keeps its eyes

on Jesus, that peace is going to guard your perception.

It is going to guard that noise of Minion Amalek outside.

It cannot blind you anymore. But the faith inside, that's

what's going to keep you. That is what's going to keep

you. And so we get to Judges 8 and

verse 28. And it says thus was Midian

subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up

their heads no more. And the country was in quietness

40 years in the days of Gideon. That's the thaw, if you will.

The ice finally is melting. The fields are breathing again,

the people of God, and in rest and harvest they are.

They have rest, but they have harvest.

When you have victory over the spirits of Midian and of of of

Amalek, there's going to be rest, but there's still going to

be that harvest. There's still going to be that

victory that is going to bring substantial harvest.

And we cannot allow that enemy to come in and take what has

been promised. Gideon's first altar is named

Jehovah. Shalom, which is the Lord is

peace. Peace doesn't mean quiet, it

means wholeness, alignment, as we saw everything in its

rightful place. When revival matures, it is

going to produce peace, Not the abundance of sound, but the

presence of order. Thinking again of Mark Sinat

after weeks of that frozen stillness that they were in, his

team found life beneath that ice.

They saw. They saw the fish and they saw

everything and they saw the truth behind the beneath the

myth, because that there was a myth that they couldn't find

that ship. And then they found it and it

was what was once lost. It wasn't gone.

It was just buried under ice and time.

The revival that we are seeing and we are going to go into

maturity with has not been gone and has not been lost to us.

It was just waiting under ice and time, if you will.

And we are at the point of time and season and we have to

understand that when those things that the enemy comes in,

we still have a right to that harvest.

We still have a right to that field that the enemy is trying

to make us lose sight of. That's what God was saying to

the church. Is that what you feared was

finished is still alive beneath the service.

What you thought you had lost in the cold of compromise, in the

silence of spiritual fatigue, if you will, is right beneath your

feet. You're standing in it.

The devil can't up, up, root, and outpour the spirit.

He cannot unpour the spirit. It has already been done.

He cannot unheal the sick. He cannot unsave the soul.

His only move now is to try to make us blind to what is

happening. Isaiah 4319 I behold, I will do

a new thing, and it shall spring forth.

Shall ye not know it? The challenge is, shall ye not

know it? In other words, can you not see

what I am doing? We can live in revival and still

miss it if our eyes are focused on Midian and Amalek

complaining, comparing, critiquing, exhaustion.

The miracle isn't always loud, but sometimes it is a quiet,

steady beneath the surface, something that is moving

underneath the surface. The church has to guard it's

sight, the ways those sailors guarded their hall, checking for

cracks, listening for the pressure, staying alert.

Just like those men at the eye of trembling.

They have to. They have to have their eyes up

and focus. We do not have time to get

sidetracked with other things and the enemy trying to make us

lose sight of what is right in front of us that we are standing

in. Because in that story with Marks

and not the same wind that freezed is also the same wind

that freed. Depending on where your eyes are

fixed, that'll change your perception.

Music can start to come. Church, we are standing at the

eye of trembling. We are at a crossroads where we

if we want revival to mature, we have to understand that the eye

of trembling is not there to scare us, but is there to

stabilize. He is teaching us we need to see

clearly while everything else shakes, while while while Midian

an Amalek, the enemy comes in when when we start to when

revival starts to mature, we have to understand that we need

to see clearly. We have to have eyes that see

harvest Marks and not said that. His greatest fear wasn't

sinking, it was staying. We have to have that, that

healthy fear as well. We cannot, we cannot stay frozen

and get caught up in the lives of the enemy trying to make us

lose sight of revival. Revival has already thawed the

waters, but if we let fear freeze it again, we will drift

right back into patterns, the patterns that Israel even fell

into, and we will hide from the revival that we prayed for, hide

from the revival that we fasted for, that we've been promised.

Do not allow many in an amalek to creep in and hinder the

revival that is at hand. If we could stand, these altars

are open. Please take this as a warning

tonight. The revival that is maturing

into something beautiful in order to see it.

We cannot allow the enemy to try to take our sight.

We cannot allow the enemy to come in.

We don't let a fence harden your heart.

Don't let exhaustion close your eyes.

It is not an external battle that is ruining the harvest, but

it is the internal blindness of the Saints that would do it.

It is the blindness of the Saints that lets the field sit

there because we have allowed our sight to be tainted by the

whispers of the enemy. The Eye of Trembling was not the

place where harvest died. It was actually where it was

defined. Church, I am telling you, God is

calling you to have eyes that see the harvest, that see

revival. Not blinded by fear or strife

when the enemy comes in, not being frozen by fatigue, but

allowing allowing God to show you the truth.

When the enemy is going to come in and show you lies and try to

get get disunity in the church and try to wear you down, you

have got to speak and pray against that.

You have power in your prayer that you could speak against

those things and speak against the enemy coming against the

church. That we would see the matured

revival that we have been promised moving forward.

The harvest is at hand. We are standing in it, but we

have to go and pick it. We have to go and not allow the

enemy to come into our camp and take it.

We cannot allow the enemy to destroy it and destroy Troy, our

sign church, come tonight if we want that matured revival.

We cannot allow our vision to be distorted.

When our vision gets distorted, things that have been promised

get delayed or get swallowed up. And when that happens, then

we'll go cry and Lord, Lord, just like the Israelites did.

But we have to fix our eyes steadfastly on Him, steady in

peace and steady in what he would have for First Apostolic

Church, for the revival that has been promised many a years by

many of ministers. We have to take this warning and

understand when the enemy is going to come in and hit it.

They will. Those spirits will.

Satan will come in. When we understand that that is

going to happen, we have to focus up and look up towards the

harvest. Don't focus on anything else

around you. Don't focus on the the undertow

of of Midian and Amalek trying to create things and issues in

the church and hinder revival. Focus on the harvest.

The harvest been promised to you.

The harvest has been promised and you're standing in it.

All you have to do is pick by faith.

We have to have that clarity at the eye of trembling that we

would see the harvest. Hallelujah.