Where Are You Headed?

Good evening, Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don

Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today

with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. I have a very

strong message tonight.

It's really in my spirit and.

So this is not going to be like a gentle, loving,

sweet little message. No, I'm talking to you very clearly tonight.

And the question, the title of this message is where

are you headed? I want you to ask yourself as

you're sitting and listening, or maybe you're in your car listening,

I want you to ask yourself this question, where are

you headed spiritually?

Are you hot?

Cold, or lukewarm? The world that we live in is

not a playground. It's a battleground. It's time to get

the right perspective. Listen up, soldier. Yes you're a soldier

in the army of God. If you know Jesus, we

have a mandate from heaven to have a militant attitude.

Oh yes, a militant attitude. Why because we have a

very very wicked adversary. We have an enemy that the

Bible says wants to steal from us, kill us, and

destroy us. So if you're sitting around just playing Christian

and you don't have the right perspective about what you're

up against, you're going to be taken out. Well, you're

going to fail as a soldier in the army of Christ.

You see, every day, I'm talking Christians here. I'm not

talking about unbelievers, although though what I'm going to say

does refer to unbelievers. But I'm talking to believers in Christ.

Every day, people are overdosing. They're absorbing lots of Internet

pornography on a daily basis, drinking themselves into oblivion, doing

deeds of wickedness in dark places. Hey, I happen to

know some of these, so I know that I'm not

just saying words to get your attention, and I know

that you know them too.

In fact, you may be one of them.

So come out, come out from among them. I heard

the most awesome testimony recently. I don't think I've ever

heard of testimony quite like this. This woman, an African

American woman, was born again. She was born again in

her younger years, and she just got off, she got

off the wrong track and her life just began to

spiral down to the point that she was a crack addict.

Yes, living in a crack house.

When one day, she high on cracks, said to herself,

I don't want to live this life anymore. She said, God,

I don't want to do this anymore. I need your help.

I need your help. Now, how she found this Bible school,

I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.

But she called this Bible school in Florida, and she

wanted to enroll in the Bible School. So high on crack,

she's talking on her cell phone and they're taking down

all her information and they enrolled her. Now, there are

some Bible schools that may not have taken that risk,

but they did. And she started the Bible School and

came off of crack, just like clicking my fingers. That

woman graduated a three year Bible school. She is an

awesome evangelist. Her testimony, I mean, it's just in fact,

it was kind of funny. When she was telling the

testimony and she was on the on her cell phone

talked to the Bible School. She told all the people

in the crack room to be quiet. So you may

not be high on crack, but you maybe sinking and

sinking fast. And so what I would say to you

is call out to Jesus. Maybe you know someone who

is sinking, and my question to you is what are

you doing.

To pull them out of the fire.

Listen carefully to what I'm about to say. You, you

who are listening to me this evening, or if you

listen at a later time, you can no longer live

a compromised life, cannot I want you to get out

of your lukewarm state, or maybe you're in a very

cold state, and I want you to run to Jesus.

The disciples asked Jesus how to pray, and in Matthew

six verses nineteen through thirteen, this is what Jesus said.

He said, pray therefore like this our Father, who is

in heaven, hallowood kept. Holy be your name, your kingdom. Come,

Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread, And forgive us

our debts, as we have also forgiven, remitted, and let

go of the debts, and have given up resentment against

our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver

us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom

and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.

So I want you to just pray this with me.

I know probably most of you are born again, but

I want you to pray this with me. Just say,

my Father in Heaven, holy is your name, your Kingdom. Come,

and your will be done on earth, in my life

as it is in heaven, as it is in heaven.

Give me this day.

My daily bread.

And forgive me my sins, my trespasses, as I also

forgive those who have trespassed and sinned against me. Lead

me not into temptation, but deliver me from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the

glory for ever.

Amen.

So it's time to stop living for the devil and

living like the devil.

We want the Lord's will in our life.

That's what you just prayed. If you prayed that with me.

We want the Lord's will. We want his will to

be done on earth, on earth, in your life, just

like it's in heaven. And resolve today. Just resolve today.

No more sin, no more compromise, no more giving Satan

a foothold, no more agreeing with the devil's lives.

Just say this with me.

I believe in Jesus, I believe in his word. I

want to do the will of God in my life.

I want my life to be a sweet aroma to

the Master. And I thank you for praying that and

meaning it from the bottom of your.

Heart, because you're a soldier.

So, guys, gals, you've got to stop living a life

of defeat and live the victorious life. Let a promise

of victory arise in your heart. First, John five, verse

four says this, for whatever is born of God, if

you know Jesus, you've been born of God. So for

whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this

this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith, Yes,

faith in God's Word, faith in Jesus Christ, and faith

in the power of His shed blood and his resurrection.

Amen.

I want to share a few things from Bobby Connor's

book on This is the Shepherd's Rod. I've been mentioning

that the last couple of weeks twenty twenty five and

the subtitle of which is Embracing the Awe of God.

Awe the Awe of God.

He says, when we have a clear revelation of who

God is, we will truly know who we are. We

are made in the likeness and in the image of God.

The whole of creation, all of creation is waiting for

the manifestation of the sons and daughters of God.

That's you and I.

All creation groans waiting for our transformation. That's in Romans

eight nineteen. Think about that for a minute. All of creation,

all of the trees of the earth, the mountains of

the earth, the rivers and seas, of all creation is groaning,

and they're waiting for you and I. We are sons

and daughters of God waiting for the manifestation. In other words,

for us to get it going, get it right, Let's go.

We can't compromise. You can't be lukewarm any longer. People,

he says, we can be divinely confident of this. Every

demon and all dark forces shall bow when the sons

and daughters of God appear.

Hallelujah.

This emerging kingdom company of overcomers will strike terror in

the hearts of God's enemies, just as it was in

the day of Jesus. Read up on Mark chapter one,

verse twenty four. The absolute dominion that God gave Adam

was once lost. But listen up, but it shall now

be fully restored. As the children of God walk in

authority and power. Ruling heavenly places and the earth from

a foundation of true love.

Start believing what God.

Has declared over your life. When faith grows exceedingly in

your heart, for second Thessalonians one three, you will have

this strong inner knowing and conviction that God God has

planned for me to be utterly invincible to Satan's attack.

Huh, come on, you gotta get this.

You gotta get this so that you can be utterly

invincible to Satan's attack. God has by no means planned

any defeat for you. Say this about yourself, Say I'm unconquerable.

Say I'm clothed in His righteousness and covered by His love.

The same immeasurable, unlimited power of Almighty God that raised

Christ from the dead is at work within me to

overcome every evil. First John three, eight and four, four

Ephesians one, nineteen and So you are a part of

the Lord's army, kingdom, company of people who are called

and commissioned to function as kings and priests. Yes you

may have never been taught that. Sorry, but go read

Revelation chapter one, five, verses five and six. In the

New King James version, it says, and from Jesus Christ

the faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and

the ruler over the kings of the earth. To him Jesus,

who loved us and washed us from our sins in

his own blood, and has made us kings. He has

made us kings and priests to his.

God and Father.

To him be glory and dominion forever and ever.

Amen.

So this is not some unfounded assertion. The person who's

making the promise is Jesus Christ. He wrote those words.

He's the faithful witness. He's the one who washes from

our sins in his own precious, powerful blood.

Amen.

And without question. The Spirit of God is releasing kingdom

concepts that will reveal the pathway to overwhelming victory. And

God's prophets are crying out to prepare the way of

the King. And that's what I'm doing on this radio program.

That's what I'm doing.

That's why this program's called Voice in the Wilderness Isaiah forty,

verses three through five, The voice of one crying in

the wilderness, Prepare the way.

Of the Lord.

Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every vow shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill

brought low the crooked places shall be made straight and

the rough places smooth. The glory of the Lord shall

be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. For

the mouth of the Lord has spoken. I have been

doing this for all the years that I've been on

the radio. I've been crying out to make a straight

highway for the Lord, and bringing all the crooked places

and trying to make them straight and all the rough

places smooth. And to be honest, the crooked places are

is are the places where people walk in in indifference

to the Lord, compromise to the Lord. They run, run

to the left, they run to the right.

They fall on.

The ditch here, they fall on the ditch there, And

they are not on the right road. They're not on

the narrow road. So here are some life lessons. I

just call them life lessons from Jesus. This is Matthew

chapter six. I'm reading out of the Amplified Bible pretty

much here this evening.

And this is.

Verses nineteen through thirty four Jesus' words. Jesus says, do

not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves

treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume

and destroy, And where thieves break through and steal, but

gather and heap up, and store for yourselves treasures in

heaven wear neither moth nor rust nor worm, consume and destroy,

And where thieves do not break through and steal.

For where your treasure is there, your heart will be. Also.

The eye is the lamp of the body. So if

your eye is sound, your entire body will be full

of light. But if your eye is unsound, your whole

body will be full of darkness.

And if then the.

Very light in you, your conscience is darkened, how dense

is that darkness? And I'll stop there to say this.

That's why it's so important that what you look at,

whether it's a filthy magazine, filthy stuff on the internet,

filthy movies, anything, anything that's anything that you're not supposed

to be looking at, that enters through your eyes. And

when that comes through your eyes, exactly what happens is

what the word says here, Your whole body becomes full

of darkness, your whole body, because it is come right

in through the eyegate into your soul. And now your

whole body is full of darkness, and your conscience is

dark Verse twenty four No one can serve two masters,

for either he will hate the one and love the other,

or he will stand by and be devoted to the one,

and despise and be against the other. You cannot serve

God and Mammon, deceitful riches, money, possessions, or whatever is

trusted in. Therefore, I tell you stop being perpetually uneasy,

anxious and worried about your life. What you shall eat

or what you shall drink, or about your body or

what you shall put on. Is not life greater in

quality than food, and the body far above and more

excellent than clothing.

Look at the birds of the air.

They neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, And

yet your heavenly Father keeps feeding them. Are you not

worth much more than they? And who of you by

worrying and being anxious, can add one unit of measure

a cubit to his stature or to the span of

his life? And why should you be anxious clothes? Consider

the lilies of the field and learn thoroughly how they grow.

Oh, they neither toil or spin.

Yet I tell you, even Solomon, in all his magnificence,

his excellence, his dignity and grace was not a rayed

like one of these. But if God so close the

grass of the field, which today is alive and green,

and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will he not

much more surely clothe you, oh you of little faith. Therefore,

do not worry and be anxious, saying what are we

going to have to eat? Or what are we going

to have to drink? Or what are we going to

have to wear? For the gentiles, the heathens wish for

and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your

heavenly Father knows well that you.

Need them all.

But here's the key, folks, But seek aim and strive after,

first of all his kingdom and his righteousness, his way

of doing and being right. And then and then all

these things, taken together, will be given you. Besides, so

do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow

we'll have worries and anxieties of its own, sufficient, for

each day is its own trouble. And that, my friends,

is the truth. So maybe your picture of Jesus and

the Father may be somewhat distorted. I think it's time

to understand that we have a good father. We have

a very good father, Jesus said in Matthew seven seven

through twelve. He said, he says, keep on asking and

it will be given to you. Keep on seeking and

you will find. Keep on knocking reverently, and the door

will be open to you. For everyone who keeps on

asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds. And

to him who keeps on knocking, the door will be open.

Or what manner or what man is there of you?

If his son asks him for a loaf of bread, will.

Hand him a stone?

Or if he asks for a fish, will he hand

him a serpent? If you, then, even as you are,

know how to give good and advantageous gives to your children,

how much more will your father, who is in heaven,

perfect as he is, give good and advivantageous things to

those who keep on asking him. So, then whatever you

desire that others would do, do to and for you,

even so do also to and for them. For this

is and sums up the law and the prophets. So

our heavenly father is a good, good, good good father,

trying desperately to get us to walk on a righteous path.

But some of you are still messing around. You're just

messing around with the world. You don't want to give

up part of your worldly ways. Some of you are

not married and you're out there fornicating, You're having sex

outside of marriage. You're calling yourself a believer. You tell

people you're a Christian. Stop it now, stop it. You

can't do that, or just stop telling your Stop telling

people you're Christian. Some of you are in adulterous affairs

and you think it's okay.

No, no, no, no no.

It's called deception, it's called sin.

Stop it.

Get out of this adulterous relationship. I told you this

was going to be a strong message. So you know

it's like, folks, what are you doing? You think God

is winking at your sin? Well, if you do, you're

totally deceived. Now here's what Jesus said. Listen carefully. These

are Jesus' words Matthew seven thirteen and fourteen. He says,

enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate,

and spacious and broad is the way that leads to destruction.

And many are those who entering, who are entering through it.

But the gate is narrow, contracted by pressure, and the

way is straightened and compressed. That leads to life, and

few are those who find it. So if you're on

the broad road to destruction, I would I would think again,

because if you continue on the broad road to destruction

and you call yourself a born again believer, I don't

know if I don't know if you're gonna make it

to heaven. I mean, you can't keep sinning and sinning

and sinning and living, you know, a sinful lifestyle, compromise

lifestyle and think this is like gonna work. So I

don't have time. But it did make me think of

the parable of the Ten Virgins, and I'm out of time,

so I can't get into that today. But I'm just trying.

I'm just trying to be square with you. I'm just

trying to get you out of the fire. I'm trying

to pull you out. I'm trying to help you get

where you need to be.

Again.

We're on the battlefield, folks. This is not playground. This

is not playtime. You can't keep sinning and doing what

you want if you truly believe in Jesus Christ. You

are a soldier of Christ and you're in his army.

So let's start acting like it. Amen, Well, this is

Don Noble. You can go to www dot pure heart

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This is Don Nevil saying Shalom shalom, Peace be unto you.