Is the Lord. I want to read a few scriptures for you this morning
as we start. Good to see all. You're an awesome congregation. I'll
bless you so fun. You having fun. Great to be in the presence
of the Lord and in the presence of God's people. Yeah, Isaiah forty
three through five, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the
way of the Lord. Mix straight in the desert, a highway for our
God. You ever get scrunched up on highway? Jev and Ryan went out
to Tennessee, did a vacation, took the kiddos, and we wish we
could have gone with him, but it didn't work. But they said the
little spot from like I'm not going to get this right totally, but maybe
Gainesville, the Pigeon Ford or something like that. They were going into the
Smoky Mountain Park like little highway, terrible traffic, tons of attractions, takes
forever to go just a few miles. You guys been there. You guys
went back there. Then near Knoxville. This near Knoxville too, isn't it.
So they went to Dollywood, So you guys went to Dollywood? Did
you go to Dollywood? So little bitting narrow roads. You know what it's
like. We want to make the road wide open, right, we wanted
we want we want the road to be opened. We don't want a traffic
jam. We don't want all of this stuff in the way we want.
We want the If the Lord's coming in a greater major, do we want
to hold him back? So you know, all of these passages about the
Lord coming, be it his first advent or coming in a greater measure.
A lot of the equation of the openness is us. A lot of it.
A lot of it's us. We have a role in preparing the way
of the Lord, a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted,
every mountain and hill brought low, crooked places made strength, rough places
made smooth, and then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. This
stuff is a lot of its first advent focused strength. So I'm using that
as a context simply because I really believe that this whole season is a prep
season for a greater manifestation of Him in our midst and in the earth.
And as we see darkness, this is the promise, right Isaiah sixty.
Darkness covers the earth, but the Lord will arise on you. We can
focus on the darkness, and we can get all clogged up on the darkness,
and you know it, it'll do. It'll make our highway crooked,
It'll throw bumps all over the road. We'll have valleys and we'll have hills,
and the glory of the Lord won't appear on us if we get all
clogged up focusing on the darkness. He wants us to focus on His glory
and the increase of his glory in the midst of darkness. MELOCHI was the
last prophet to write, and then we had a four hundred year silence,
and then John the Baptist came. John the Baptist was the Elijah who was
the preparer. So Elijah was an Old Testament prophet. He prepared the way
for what was known as a double portion anointing. The anointing was an outpouring
of the Holy Spirit, and that outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Elijah.
Elisha was dispensed to overthrow Jezebel's stronghold on Israel. And there's a similar thing
that God's doing in our day and right now I believe in Elijah call that
we would draw near to God like never before. And I'm just believing that.
I mean, I'm all in on it, and I'm believing that you're
in on this, and it's a preparatory thing. It's like, Okay,
well I'm not seeing the glory right now. Well I'm not seeing much more
glory in right now, feeling much more glory right But if we would believe
the word of the Lord, a greater glory is coming. And as the
enemy is raised up, a standard of God's glory and God's people is raised
up against it. And again, every scripture just keeps bringing us back to
that. We keep our focus on him, We keep our focus on him,
we keep our focus on him, we keep making him supreme and superior
in our lives. So Malachi the last prophet to write in the Old Testament,
then we have four hundred years of silence, and then John the bapt
this shows up to prepare the way for Jesus. And John the Baptist was
the Elijah or the metaphor of Elijah who prepared the way for Elisha. And
here's what Malachi says, same thing, same thing we see Isaiah talking about,
Behold, I send my messenger. Now they had the wait four hundred
years for this to be fulfilled, and he will prepare the way before me.
And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple, even
the Messenger of the Covenant in whom you delight behold, he is coming,
says the Lord of Host. But who can endure the day of his coming?
And who can stand when he appears where he's like a refiner's fire and
like launder's soap, And he will set as a refiner and a purifier of
silver, and he will purify and it it goes on to say, he's
going to purify our hearts. And in that day he came to purify their
hearts. And in that day on the launch of the church, as the
word was spoken, three thousand came in that day and were refined and washed
and delivered out of a dead religion into a living one. Now that message,
what was that message of John the Baptist? Is there a similar message
right now that the Holy Spirit is saying as he draws us near? Is
there a similar message? If there's a prepare the way of the Lord message,
could that message have a similar overtone to the message of John the Baptist?
Well, the message of John the Baptist, or the message that prepared
the way for the glory of the Lord Malachi Matthew three. In those days,
John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, repent
for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. I like that. He didn't
say repent for the kingdom of trouble is at hand. The kingdom of burdens
is at hand. The kingdom of woe is you? Is it hand?
The kingdom of heaven. The kingdom is an attractive kingdom. It's an attractive
kingdom. The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. But it was a message
of repentance. And Mark Mark records the same thing. This is the beginning
of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and it's written
this way the prophets. Behold, I send my messenger before your face,
who will prepare your way before you, the voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Prepare the way of the Lord, make his path straight. Yes,
it was John the Baptist. He appeared in the wilderness preaching a babtism
of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. I think there's a similar overtone today.
I think there's a similar call today. There's actually a calling right now
of repentance. Would you pray with me? I want to pray over the
word right now, just dive into this more fully holy spirit. We were
in your house, we're with your people. We're lively stones, and we
just pledge right now to open our hearts fully, to hear what you have
to say, to yield to your wooing, to let us draw you in
to what you have for us. We welcome you in Jesus' name. Everybody
said, So what's this message of repentance all about? And what in the
world do I have to repent of? You know, most of the time
we think of life in terms of the Ten Commandments. That's the way we're
wired to think, whether we've been highly religious or not, that's typically how
we think of things. And so a lot of times we check the box
of our own conviction of sin. We check that box by looking at the
Ten Commandments? Are we coveting? Not too much? Are we lying hardly?
Any slight exaggeration here or there? Are we committing adultery? Hopefully not?
Hello, somebody? And so we look at the Ten Commandments. In
a lot of time, we're measuring our sin quotient against the Ten Commandments,
and based on our sin quotient, then we determine whether or not we need
to repent of something. But I believe the Holy Spirit has something deeper in
mind for us and something different in mind for us as we think about is
there something to repent of? And is there something I can do that would
prepare the way of the Lord to come in a greater dimension in my life
and in the church. And first of all, I want to go to
just the idea of sin, and I want to touch on that for a
moment, because the idea of sin, you know, sin, the word
in the Greek is harmitia. And I won't smell it because I'm just going
to put an h here, hrm harmatia. I won't finish it up because
I probably don't know how. But the idea of sin the Greek is it's
not to transgress the law. It's to miss the mark. It's to make
a mistake, it's to be off course, it's to fail or falter.
So the idea is so much different, and when we think about our lives,
it just doesn't take much, maybe to set us in a direction that
actually fulfills this word sin and the word repent. By the way, the
word repent it means turn back to God. It carries the picture of turning
one hundred and eighty degrees from doing it your way or doing your thing,
or promoting your way or your thing higher than God. So repent is in
that context we just read turn back to God. He was calling the people
of Israel to turn back to God. But God is always calling us to
turn back to Him through the word repent. But it also it has to
do with the pent house. The pent house is the highest house. The
pent house is the top of the tower. The pent house is the highest
place. And when we think of repent, we want to think also,
it's not just turning back to God or turning away from our way or our
thoughts or our methodology, but it's also turning back to the highest thing.
It's recognizing God's thoughts. God's ways are the highest, and when we turn
to Him, he sets us again in the highest place. So to repent
is to return to the top, or return to your calling, or return
to your royalty, or return to your identity or turn return to what he's
called you to be. Like Ephesians four one, because of the great blessings
I told you about for three chapters. Because of this, I'm calling you
to walk worthy of your calling. This is how chapter four starts of Ephesians.
I'm calling you to walk worthy of your calling because I've spent three chapters
telling you that you belong in the highest place, that you've been raised up
already with Christ Jesus into the highest place. And so when we think of
repent, don't think of it as God putting his thumb on you or chasing
you with the spankings stick from heaven. Think of it as God calling you
back to the place that you really belong in. He's calling you away from
your lower thoughts into those higher thoughts so that you could re establish your dwelling
in the highest place. And when we think of sin, we have to
go outside of the the ten commandments. It's not just the ten commandments on
the stone, right. It's much higher than that. It's much deeper than
that. It's much broader than that. And I want to explain what I
mean by that. When we think about the heart of man, you know
the famous picture that we have around here, the heart of man. I
like to look at it this way, that the spirit is the inner man,
or the Holy of holies within us, and this is where the Holy
Spirit dwells and the witness of Christ dwells. But the soul, this is
our mind, will, emotions, and reasoning. The soul is that which
is from which we live out of. We live out of our soul.
And before we came to the Lord, we were dominated by our soul and
the thoughts and imaginations of the soul which were darkened before we came to Lord.
Now the Holy Spirit comes and he shines illumination on our soul, and
he begins to speak into every area of our lives. And then the famous
Dwayne hierarchy of needs, not Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but Dwayne's famous hierarchy
of needs is health. And I'll kind of zoom through these her finance,
vocation, and purpose. I'm cheating by looking at my paper. Family,
family relationships, sexual fulfillment and romantic fulfillment. Maturity, personal maturity. Even
as we grow physically, we want to grow mentally and emotionally spiritual fulfillment.
We want the God size whole filled within us ministry and serving. We all
long to have a place of value in others' lives by serving, recreation and
rest, influence and legacy. So those are Dwayne's hierarchy of needs. And
if you've been to every sword life, you've heard me talk about all that.
Now, if these are truly needs within you, does anybody have any
needs within them that parallel some of these? One person in the back,
two humans, one of them, I can't see them, but the hand
came up. Anything else, Okay, So so all of us, you
know, we have little things here. And I would say that kind of
what we could say is that the summary of the desire within you, or
the summary of the need within you, could be framed in the idea of
desire. Now, if you have a strong desire over something, the Bible
has a King James word for that. It's called lust. Now, lust
is not a sexual word. Lust means strong desire. Many times we move
it into the sexual category, and that's what our culture has done, or
our biblical culture has done. But luss just means a strong desire. And
so all of us have strong desires in these areas. And some of the
strong desires are different because we're wired different, right, So for me,
like, I've got this desire to be a real estate tycoon. Okay,
so I've got that one there. I just I know this is kind of
a secret, but I have a heterosexual desire here. And the other heterosexual
people in the building, Okay, a couple, that's good. Okay.
So I have a desire here to be growing in many areas of life in
terms of understanding and knowledge. And I have a desire not to be a
complete flop relationally or emotionally when I'm with humans. Uh And we could cannot,
you know, we could look at some of these. I have a
desire to uh go to Hawaii, and I had a desire to go to
Italy, and I want to go there again. Okay, So and I
could, you know, I could name several of these and all of us
could. I have a desire to look more like Arnold when he was young,
and to be able to lift weights without pulling muscles at sixty five,
God bless America, okay, and not to be and to be not too
embarrassed when you walk in the club see me straining over my tin ten pound
dumbell? All right, So I have some desires there, right. So
these desires are interesting because these desires actually create a vulnerability. These desires create
a target of vulnerability for the enemy. Okay, so and let me just
I'm going to read to you out of James chapter one, and then I
want to help you understand a little bit how the enemy uses desire. And
my thought today is that I believe the Holy Spirit is he's calling us back
into a little bit of balance. Is that all right? When we prepare
for somebody coming to the Wolf house, and you know, it depends the
greater and I don't mean this in a bad way, So just work with
me on the metaphor the greater these stature of the guest, maybe the greater
the preparation, or the greater the stature of the event. Maybe the greater
the preparation. And so Missus Wolf is like the Holy Spirit in my house.
Missus Wolf might together with me as I yield fully, help me draw
up a good Oh yeah, help me draw up a good list of all
the things we need to do for preparation. Now. I don't know if
any of your homes operate like this or not, but this is the way
ours can operate. And so she helps me come up with a good list
of what would be good preparatory things for the stature of this coming guest.
Right, and so, but I need to stay on task, and I
need to stay on focus, right, And it's easy to have a squirrel
show up in my inner man because possibly a peanut suddenly comes into my peripheral
vision. Have you ever had a peanut come into your perpheral vision? Yeah,
I mean it's possible. You can even be having a conversation with your
spouse over something important and suddenly you get a buzzing or a ding in your
back pocket, and suddenly a peanut has turned you into a squirrel. Right,
And you're like, and you know, you're trying to look at this
thing, and your spouse is like, honey, love, honey, honey
love. Were we having a conversation? Oh yeah, I'll be right with
you. Yeah, these little machines right here can be one of the most
powerful peanuts on the planet, turning you into a squirrel, drawing your attention
away from something of more importance into something of lesser importance. Right, And
so this can happen at our house too, And so I can be I
can get squirreled pretty easy, drawn away by various peanuts, and then we're
not getting accomplished what needs to get accomplished in the preparatory work for the coming
guest? Are you following me? And so I believe holy Spirit is,
and so oftentimes my wife acts as the Holy Spirit to re engage my focus,
bring me back into balance, pull me away from a peanut that I
found in the garage. Oh, that motorcycle needs started right now, and
I'm sure the dust needs polished off of that thing. You know, what
are you doing? Love? Nothing? Why are you out here in the
garage? Uh? Were you near the motorcycle? Only walking by it?
Love? I thought you were putting the trim up in bedroom number three?
I was, I was, and I've been getting right on that. I
was just collecting a couple of nails and I'll be right there, my love.
Oh yeah, well, what's that polish your egg and armor all doing
in your hand? What's that got to do with trim and bedroom number three?
What did you see? What armor? Role? My goodness, woman,
Now your vision's going out on you. It's easier for us, it's
easy for us to get distracted from our purpose and our purpose, ultimately our
purpose in our calling. It relates to several things the Lord has said over
us, Like he's said that my house shall be called a house of prayer.
And when he said that in Matthew twenty one, he was cleansing the
house. He was fulfilling what Isaiah saw in Isaiah fifty seven. He was
cleansing the house the temple. But it was metaphoric. There was a picture
toward our house as well, because we've become the house of God. So
he was also saying that about us. At my house, my temple where
I dwell, it's going to be known as a house of prayer. Oh
okay. So prayer is one of the dynamics of my identity. And it's
not just prayer, because if you look at the Greek word there in Matthew
twenty one, and I looked at it last night, I'm like, is
a prayer? Is a prayer? Only? What was the word? What
did the word mean? Here? It's also worship, which I love.
It's a word that infers both worship and prayer, which is a part of
who He's made us to be. Right, It's not a sum total,
but it's part. And so we get a picture of what He's created us
to be. Even as dinnis we're talking about this morning, that were created
to bring heaven to earth, because that's our mission. That's what the Kingdom
of Heaven on earth was all about. It was. And so we have
these higher level callings like in Two Corinthians five seventeen through twenty one. He
who knew new righteousness, or he who knew righteous he who nonetheless we have
become the righteousness of God in Christ. And he he has taken upon himself
our iniquity and then exchanged that and given us his righteousness right. But it
says and made us ministers of reconciliation. So then we learned something about us
there that, oh, I'm a minister of So these are like our higher
callings. Our higher calling is I'm a minister of reconciliation. I actually represent
Him wherever I go, I carry his glory. I'm dwelt in by the
Holy Spirit. I'm anointed by Holy Spirit. I carry his message. I
carry his glory. I carry his love. First John four seventeen and eighteen.
As he is, so also are we in this world. And the
context is love. We embody love, We felt his love here this morning.
We're we're gonna carry his love out of here. What happens, though,
sometimes, is that these desires and let me let me read it to
you. What happens is these desires. These are good desires, by the
way, These are good desires, Like like, I'm kind of excited about
real estate, but somebody else is excited about medical science, and somebody else
is excited about cookies. Can you think of anybody in the room cookie trucks?
And when we went to play Uno with him the other day, they
had somebody there who is excited about popcorn, and God has opened up a
financial window for them with popcorn. Crazy stuff, right, But what happens
is the enemy can use our desire to entice us away from our supreme purpose
James one, thirteen through fifteen. When tempted, no one should say God
is tempting me, for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he
tempt anyone. But each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their
own Now, the NIV says, dragged away by their own the verse you're
not staying up with me. You gotta go faster. There you go,
Thank you Oh what is that? That isn't the NIV. What he got
up there is that the King James. How do we get the King James.
I didn't load the King James. So I'm just trying to help me
preach. The NIV says each person is tempted when they are dragged away by
their own evil desire and enticed. But evil was added into the text by
the translators for the NIV. If you look at the King James, the
New American, and all the other translations, it just says that each person
is tempted when they are dragged away by their own lust and enticed. And
lust is just strong desire. So if I have strong desire for finance through
real estate, then somebody created something for me that is amazing. It is
like candy to a kid in a candy shop. It's called Zillow. It's
called Redfin. Oh yeah, it might as well be butterfingers and three musketeers
and stickers bars for Dwayne when he was eight. Okay, So then I
can get all wound up in this and and what happens is I have a
desire and it's a god given desire, and it's a desire God wants to
fulfill by the way, but I can get so wound up in it.
I no longer have time for God. I no longer have time to pray.
I no longer have time to be a minister of reconciliation. I no
longer have time to be a minister of worship. I no longer have time
because I'm getting all wound up in something. And so this is where if
we allow ourselves to get enticed by the peanut, Now here's what happens.
Here's how the peanut shows up. I have this desire. Oh my goodness,
I'm going to be a real estate cacoon. I can't wait to be
a real estate cacoon. And I'm going through Facebook and suddenly I come across
it. Oh my word, tomorrow webinar. Oh my goodness, is amazing.
Webinar learn how to buy a thousand apartment buildings with no money down.
Oh, I can't wait register now click. Oh this is going to be
amazing. And so then I go to the webinar and I'm all excited about
that. And then from that webinar, I can purchase for only sixty nine
to ninety five, I can purchase ten other audio messages on how to figure
out how to buy things with no money down. By the way, if
it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. But these peanuts
keep appearing, and these peanuts are squirreling me away from my primary relationship with
God. And it's a desire God put in me. But what's happening is
I'm allowing myself through the peanuts of enticement. Now, an enticement says,
look over here, this is how you're going to get there. This is
how an enticement can be a work of the enemy if we aren't discerning,
if it pulls us away from our full trust in Jesus, our devotion to
Him, our communion with Him, our primary purposes of worship, prayer,
not just prayer, but pray, prayer for the nations. You're an agent
of Psalm too. By the way, did you know you're an agent of
PSALMTU Psalm too. Ask me, this is a word, this is the
son. Ask me for the nations as your inheritance, and I will give
them to you. Who is he going to ask through? This is a
prophetic word that was revealed in the Tent of Zion under the anointing of worship,
that there would be a worshiping company who would ask Father for the nations
for the son, and those nations would be given. I feel a squirrel
of dry throat and I need a peanut of water. Are you still here?
Mm hmm, I want spirit help us. Let's rate it. Let's
read it in his context. Again. God cannot be tempted by evil,
nor does he tempt anyone. But each person is tempted, tempted when they're
drawn away by their own desire and enticed. Then after desire has conceived through
enticement, is the context. It gives birth the sin. Now it is
sin. Oh wait a minute, Wait a minute. I am not dragged
away and involved in sin. I have checked the box of the ten commandments
lately. I have not committed a dultry. I have not lied. I
didn't even exaggerate. I have not stolen from anyone. What in the world
are you talking about? Preacher? Drawn away out of desire into something that
could have been healthy. But I was enticed into something that wasn't of God.
It was something presented by the unclean realm to distract me. And now
what was meant to be a good desire and a good focus has become sin
for me. I'm going to miss the I'm going to miss the fullness of
God's intention. I'm going to miss the bullseye to I'm going to fall short
of something that was perfect in God and land on something moderate in God at
best, because I allowed myself to get enticed away from my primary purpose,
which is I'm a house of prayer. I'm a house of worship. I'm
a minister of reconciliation. I'm created in the image of Heaven and I bring
it to earth. I'm a glory bringer and a glory carrier. I'm a
people restorer Glatian six one and two. He who is spiritual restores. And
I don't have time for that anymore. I just don't have time for that
anymore because I'm doing all these webinars and I'm doing this, I'm doing that
thing. Anybody hearing me in the room, anybody relate in the room besides
me Zillow and the red Fin guy shopping for homes, expanding my real estate
tycoon ism. Maybe wasting time. Yeah, then you hang out with somebody
that like, Wow, how'd you get that house? Well, I was
just praying in the spirit. One day, I was just praying in the
spirit or just the Holy ghostot and I was just spent a little bit of
time in the spirit and just meditating on him. I just before and then
the Holy Spirit just said, go make an offer on such and such,
and so I did and I got that. And that's all you did one
hundred for five hundred hours to buy the one I got. We'll have that
work out for you. Well, it's not been a blessing, it's been
a burden. This is actually the way it works, is the way it
actually works. I'm going to prove it to you. Matthew six. Well,
oh what time is it? Oh? My word, I honestly hadn't
looked at the clock. I'm in trouble. Matthew six thirty one through thirty
four. Do not worry saying what shall we eat? What shall we drink?
Do not worry, Do not be anxious, Do not do not do
not be anxious. Do not worry. We need the band to come and
say what should we eat, what shall we drink? What shall we wear?
For the pagans, those who don't have a father, those who don't
have a father, the pagans run, chase, spend their time, spend
every moment running after those things. But you're heavenly fither knows you need them
now, Heavenly Father, he knows, he knows the way to bless me.
The way I'm wired is to bless me with the property. But he
knows the way to bless somebody else is with a cookie truck or somebody else
with a medical breakthrough. Where I met somebody the other day who has three
hundred patents in aeroscience, three hundred patents with Boeing. They're known throughout the
whole world. Spare filled minister in our region, pastor to church here for
thirty years, three hundred patents with Boeing, getting downloads all the time from
the Holy Spirit about aerospace. For the pagans run after all these things,
and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first the Kingdom
and his righteousness. But seek first his Kingdom and his righteousness, and all
these things will be added to you as well. Well. If I seek
first the Kingdom in his righteousness, I'm not again. I'm not again.
I'm not again at my arm body, I'm never going to get to Hawaii.
No no, no, no, no no. What he says is
that if we'll make and here's what I think is bring the Lord into your
sex life. Ah yeah, We pray at the wolf House and include the
Lord in our sexual expressions because we believe that it's the gift of God.
And you bring the Lord into your family life and into all of your family
inner workings, and you feel and surround and and brood over it with prayer,
and you bring the Lord into your purpose, and you bring the Lord
into your finance, and you bring the Lord into your health, and they'll
bring you Lord into your legacy. And all of these are centered around him,
and you acknowledge him as the fulfiller. And you know, if we
just prayed over the things that we desire, you could easily pray an hour
a day throughout the day or at one setting, easily if you just were
bringing your desires to him and asking for his leading and asking for his wisdom,
and asking for his partnership and yielding to his word. If you abide
in him and he abides in you, you shall ask what you will and
it shall be given you when you pray whatsoever you desire. Believe you receive
those things. I'm just quoting scripture to you. But this has a lot
to do. Like if we're excluding God from this stuff, then we don't
engage in prayer. We don't have this beautiful relationship of communion. We've been
learning about communion for ninety days. We don't have this beautiful communion going on.
But we've got a lot of independence and we go to church, and
that's not what we're made for. We're not made for a lot of independence
when we go to church. He's fashioned us and created us for this crazy,
loving relationship that brings us back up to the top of the house.
That's fun. I want to invite you to respond this morning. I do
believe the Holy Spirit's calling us in the deeper fellowship, renewed times of prayer,
potentially fasting a meal or fasting some stuff, putting away some distraction,
stuff that's been like a peanut to us. You know, there's things like
our phones. And I don't know if this happens to you, But I'm
just being honest, Like I can be in the middle of I can be
twenty minutes into prayer in my private time, just about ready to receive a
rama from above, and I can get a notification thing and it's that video.
You know, some new worship video was just released, or you know
a new stock price just was listed, or a new house just came up
for sale or something. I'm like, I'll get right back to your Holy
Spirit. What are we doing? What are we doing when there's something so
much more valuable, so much more precious, In knowing Him, in seeking
first Him, in seeking first his kingdom, seeking first the increase of His
kingdom, the kingdom of Heaven, and getting downloads from Him, and receiving
righteousness, not the gift of righteousness, but the right way of doing things.
He wants to show us the right way of doing things, because wherever
there's the right way of doing things, there will be peace and joy.
It's righteousness, peace and joy. It's not the gift of righteousness. We
already have that. It's the righteousness of His doing that's imparted to us through
communion, so then we have peace, and then it results in joy.
And this is what He desires for us. And all of this is preparing
for a greater glory in our own lives as well as in the corporate world
of the church, and in the Kingdom across the globe as he confronts darkness
with the standard that he raises up in you and me. He's confronting darkness
through the standard that he raises up in you and me. So just pray
with me, Holy Spirit, show us, show us, show me further,
Show me further, Show us today corporately an individually, show us.
Show us things that need to be removed, brought into balance, things that
need to be taken away and shaped, things that need to be set aside,
things where we just oh, we ask for discernment, even discernment today
that we won't be enticed, drawn away out of faith, wisdom, trust,
into folly and imbalance. The enemy wants to draw us away in the
imbalance. But Holy Spirit, we just say, the ministry of discernment is
loosed on this church, loosed on this church, loosed on this church,
loosed on this church. We discern the voice of the enemy. We discern
the enticement and the seduction of the enemy away from wisdom, away from trust,
away from primary purpose, primary focus. We thank you for it.
Today we allow this word to work. Come on, say it with me.
I allow your word to work, Holy Spirit, and to bring me
into the balance of the wisdom from above. Thank you for the way you've
wired me and the desires within me. And now I declare and agree.
I resist foolish enticement, and I receive discernment from you Holy Spirit, to
continue to trust, adhere, believe, and fulfill what You've called me to
be in Jesus' name. It's worship as we go Church