Be Still Pt. 2

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.

Tonight is part two of Be Still and Know That I Am God. This

is a prophetic word that the Lord gave me for twenty twenty four. And

as I mentioned last week, sometimes it's the simplicity of a scripture that has

the most profound effect on us spiritually, and this scripture Psalm forty six ten

be Still and Know that I Am God is one of those scriptures. I

said last week. I've never had so many confirmations about a prophetic word ever.

And this word is for the entire body of Christ for twenty twenty four

and beyond. It's important and to understand what a prophetic word is. It's

something the Lord speaks to his servants that he once shared with his body of

believers. I mentioned last week this scripture. If you didn't get it,

this scripture is carrying the weightiness of the Lord's glory. And what do I

mean by weighty this new year of twenty twenty four, this scripture is going

to carry you into the most profound peace and glory you have ever experienced.

It's weighty because of its importance pertaining to circumstances that will unfold this year and

beyond. And it's not a scary word. I said last week, this

is not a scary word. And you shouldn't fear what's coming because the weightiness

of this word will carry you and keep you. I have to say that

again. You shouldn't fear what's coming because the weightiness of this word will carry

you and keep you. And not only that, it will cause you to

experience an unprecedented moment of God's glory. That's if Okay, it's predicated on

this. All that that I said is predicated on this. If you meditate

on this scripture and you inquire the Lord to show you exactly how he wants

you to be still, what it is you know that he's asking you,

asking of you, and how it is that you can experience His presence like

never before. I guarantee you you will begin to experience His glory. So

this is part two. Tonight and be still and know that I am God

will cause you to walk in God's glory. So today I want to focus

on putting away worldly attractions, humbling ourselves that we may receive spiritual blessings.

King David wrote the most famous psalm, Psalm twenty three. There isn't a

Christian alive least I hope not. That's not familiar with Psalm twenty three.

David writes in verses two and three, he says this, he meaning the

Lord. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul, and

he leads me in passive righteousness for his name's sake. You see, we

as believers where the sh sheep of the Lord, and sheep will not drink

water from a flowing creek or a small river. That water has to be

still, and water is a mandatory life giving source for the sheep. So

a good shepherd will make sure his sheep have calm water. That's why our

great shepherd of the sheep, Jesus leads us to a quiet place where our

soul can be restored. Our soul encompasses our mind, will and emotions.

So Jesus is leading us to a quiet place to be still, so that

our mind can be restored. Some of you, you have been bombarded in

your mind with thoughts of confusion, depression, possibly taking your life, anxiety,

fear. I mean, look, Jesus wants your mind to be calm

and still. He wants your mind to be whole. He wants your thoughts,

what you're thinking, to come into alignment with his word. So he

is trying to get you this year to have your mind restored. He wants

your will restored. Some of you have a very strong will and you don't

want to submit to the Holy Ghost. Ah, I'll probably say this.

Till Jesus comes, there has to be a surrendering of you your will to

the Holy Ghost. And some of you are rebellious. You're arrogant, you're

prideful. You do not want to submit your will and your plans to the

Holy Ghost. And as long as you keep up that kind of attitude,

you're going nowhere and I mean nowhere, and life is not going to be

pleasant for you. So I would it would behoove you to just say,

Lord, I want my will to align with your will period. I want

the perfect will of God in my life. So yes, Jesus is leading

us to that still water, that's quiet place, because he wants us to

get our will in alignment with his will. If you refuse to go to

the quiet place. If you refuse to be still, then you suffer the

consequences. And lastly, our emotions. You know, some of you have

emotions that are like a roller coaster. One day you're happy, one day

you're sad. The next day you're ambivalent, anxious, fearful, you know,

all kinds of emotions are just rolling around. Those emotions have to come

under the control of the Holy Ghost. There has to be a place and

a time where we walk in the peace of God, where we trust God

and stop letting our emotions dictate how our life is going. Amen. Now,

when those things are restored in the quiet place, then we can hear

his voice clearly, and I mean clearly, to walk in the path of

righteousness. As long as all that craziness is going on in your thought,

life, your will, your emotions, you will not, I emphasize,

will not walk in the path of righteousness. You will not. So this

year twenty twenty four is like no other, Make no joke, this is

like Noah. You will not be able to compare twenty twenty four to any

other year you've ever experienced in your life. And you're going to have to

step up to the plate. Listen to me carefully. You're gonna have to

step up to the plate. You do not have much time to get things

in order in your life. It's time to stop procrastinating, stop delaying,

and start walking a straight path. You don't have time to fall in the

ditch again and again and again. Put away worldly desires, worldly attractions.

We live in a world where we are bombarded by all kinds of worldly distractions

that want to pull us. I mean they literally pull on us. You

get it from TV, social media. People in general go to a mall.

It's like eye candy. There's every store pulling you and attracting you because

they want your business. Not all worldly desires are sinful, but they do

pull you from the things of God, and they will pull you away from

spiritual things. I'm just telling you that's how it works. So if you

keep being drawn into worldly, fleshly things, they may not be sinful,

but they will draw you out of the will of the Lord, or they'll

draw you away from the Lord, and before you know it, you're not

even walking with the Lord. Want to talk to you out of Hebrews Chapter

twelve tonight, Verse twelve says, therefore, strengthen the hands which hang down

and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that

what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. I'll stop

there. Some of you. Your hands are weak, your knees are feeble.

You don't know which way to go, you don't know which way to

turn. You're unstable in all your ways. Well, here's what Hebrews says.

This is the word of God to you. Make straight pass for your

feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated. You're lame.

You're lame in your spiritual walk. It's lame, and you need to be

healed. Because you're walking to the left or you're walking to the right,

but you are not walking the narrow way. Jesus talks about the narrow way.

He says, broad is the road to destruction, but the way of

the Lord is difficult and narrow, and few find it. Verse fourteen.

Pursue peace with all people. I can tell you that's not always easy,

but have that as a goal. Tell the Holy Spirit, I want to

pursue peace with all people. I don't want to have drama. I don't

want to have fights. Arguments with anyone. Then he says, pursue holiness.

What is holiness. Holiness is simple. It's separation from the world.

It's consecrating yourself to the Lord and saying I'm going to walk. I'm going

to walk with you. I Am not going to walk with the things of

the world any longer. I'm putting away the worldly attractions, the worldly desires.

I'm putting that away. I don't want that. I want the spiritual

things of the Lord. I want to walk in a place where it's pleasing

to the Lord. And it says, it says this. It says,

without which no one will see the Lord. See without holiness, without as

setting yourself apart for the things of the Lord, you will not see the

Lord. You cannot live one foot in the world and one foot foot in

the church and think you're gonna make heaven. You're not. You're gonna go

to hell. You're gonna go to hell. And I know what you're thinking,

Oh, Dawn, that's rough. No, it's truth. Yeah,

there's grace, but you can't keep abusing grace. There comes a time where

you have to draw a line in the sand and stop it. And if

you think the Lord. Oh he's long suffering. But then there comes a

time, so I wouldn't play games with the Lord. If you got one

foot in the world and one foot in the church, you better make up

your mind which it's going to be, Because without holiness, with outsetting yourself

apart from the world and consecrating your life to Christ, you're going to hell

Verse fifteen. Looking carefully lest anyone falls short of the grace of God,

Lest any root of bitterness bringing up cause trouble, and by this many become

defouled. You hear what the writer says, looking carefully, You better be

careful lest you fall short of the grace of God. Aha, did you

know? Did you know that you could fall short of the grace of God?

Says it right here, looking carefully, paying attention to your life,

paying attention to decisions you make, carefully lest you fall short of the grace

of God. Ooh, that's not a place you want to be. That

is not good. Lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and

by this many become defiled. I'll tell you what I have said this so

many times, but I am telling you as sure as I'm sitting here.

If you continue in unforgiveness, it will become bitterness, and you will go

to Hell. You will not see heaven if you refuse to forgive, because

Jesus said, if you can't forgive, I can't forgive. You. Read

your bible, folks, time to read your bible. In twenty twenty four,

this is Ephesians chapter four, verse seventeen. This I say, therefore

and testify in the Lord Paul's writing to that church in Ephesus, he says

that you should no longer walk as the rest of the gentiles walk in the

futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life

of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness

of their heart, who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to

lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you, he says,

but you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and

have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus, that you

put off concerning your former conduct, the old man, which grows corrupt according

to deceitful luss, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that

you put on the new Man, which was created according to God in true

righteousness and holiness. Hey, he's not talking to unbelievers here, folks,

this is written to the church. So guess what. You have a group

that are walking. You have a group of Christians that are walking like the

gentiles, walk in the futility of their mind. Their understanding is darkened,

they're alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them, and

their heart is blinded. Oh my gosh, can you imagine? Well I

can imagine because I know of two specific situations right now of two women who

call themselves Christians, born again Christians, and they fall right into that category.

I am telling you, I've never seen anything like it. You know,

I wouldn't have believed it, but it's happening. These are people who

are alienated from the life of God and they've given themselves over to lewdness and

to work all uncleanness with greediness. Unbelievable. I'm not kidding you. These

two women, what they have done is just it's mind boggling. It's shocking

to me. And yet they'll talk to you about Jesus. Oh, they'll

tell you about having communion. If I told you their evil deeds, you

would think I was lying. But I'm not, unfortunately, and so here

here's what Paul says. He says, but you have not so learned Christ.

If you've heard him, you were taught by him, because the truth

is in Jesus. And that you got to put off your former conduct,

the old man who grows corrupt according to deceitful LUs see, and you've got

to come to this place where you're renewed in the spirit of your mind,

and that you put on the new man, which was created according to God,

in true righteousness and holiness. There's that word again, holiness. Hebrews

twelve. Going back to chapter twelve and Hebrews. Listen, the writer says,

see that you do not refuse him, Jesus who speaks. See that

you do not refuse Jesus who speaks. For if they didn't not escape who

refused him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we

turn away from him who speaks from heaven, whose voice then shook the earth.

But now he has promised, saying, yet once more, I shake

not only the earth but also Heaven. Now this yet once more, Yet

once more Jesus saying indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken,

as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may

remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken,

let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptively. Blee with reverence

and godly fear, for our God is a consuming fire. I'm telling you

these scriptures I'm reading to you out of Ephesians and Hebrews. These are are

you know, these are earth shaking, spiritual shaking scriptures. They're shaking me.

We're to serve God with reverence and godly fear. And yet there are

people out there like the two women I just mention out there. I mean,

I swear to you, if I put him in front of this microphone,

you would think that they were really, really Christians born again. And

yet I'm telling you they're going straight to Hell if they don't repent. If

they don't repent, repentance is important. Now let's take a moment. I

am not going to finish tonight, dagone talk about David. I wanted to

talk about people, real people in the Bible who understood this particular scripture and

saw what God did. Now, David was a man after God's heart.

Scripture says, Yet this same David committed adultery and he had his mistress's husband

killed. Well, that's a great resume for a godly leader. The good

news is David repentant. And I think how I'll end this. This message

is really talking about repentance because see God's judgment for David's acts of sin was

his firstborn son was died. And there comes a time when we have to

come to a place of repentance where we recognize our sin and we ask God's

forgiveness of that sin. He said, I'm faithful and just to forgive you

your sins. If you confess your faults, I'm faithful and just to forgive

your sins and wash them clean away. David understood that. It took him

nine months to figure it out, but it wasn't because he figured it out

on his own. The prophet had to come to him and tell him a

little parable and suddenly David still didn't get it until the prophet said, you're

the man. You're the man, and David's spiritual eyes opened and his spiritual

heart opened and he realized what he had done. Mind you, Vashiba got

pregnant immediately he had her husband killed. Pregnancy is nine months long, so

it isn't until the baby dies. The baby is born dead. Nine months

David hasn't recognized his sin, and then when he does, what does he

do? He falls on his face and he repents. And that's literally what

we have to do when we recognize the sin in our life, when we

recognize that we have walked away, we have walked far are away. Some

of you are far away, and you really need to draw close to the

Lord. He'll draw close to you, it says, draw near to me,

and I'll draw near to you. This is again, this is a

time where you just don't have You don't have the time and the opportunity to

fall on a ditch again. It's time to come up out of the ditch.

It's time to come up out of the myrie clay and let the Lord

set your feet upon the rock. And that only happens through repentance. There's

no other way around that. You have to come to the place of recognizing

your sin and being actually sorry for the sin, not worldly sorrow, but

really saddened by how you've disappointed the Lord and repent and then let him wash

that sin away and you move forward. You don't go into a place of

self condemnation. Da da da da da. So I'm not going to get

into David. We'll have to do David next week. This is probably going

to end up turning. I can tell you right now it's going to turn

into a four part series. But nevertheless, this is important for you to

understand and to get in your spirit. Amen. So I want this how

I want to close tonight. This is what I want you to say.

Say this. The spirit of the Lord is upon me. The Spirit of

the Lord has anointed me. I will go higher. Amen. Well,

this is Don Noble. You can go to www dot pure heart dot today

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to being with you next week. This is Don Noble saying, shall oam,

shall oam? Peace be unto you