Speaker 1: I want to talk today a little bit about the
Speaker 1: Spirit of Elijah, and it ties into kind of our theme.
Speaker 1: Our theme through the Daniel Fast and our theme through
Speaker 1: the conference is embracing the Spirit of Elijah. And what
Speaker 1: is the spirit of Elijah? I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about that today. What does that mean. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean like channeling some spirit. It doesn't mean like
Speaker 1: some angel named Elijah will come and rest upon you.
Speaker 1: It just means that God did amazing things through his
Speaker 1: servant Elijah. And I'll talk a little bit about that,
Speaker 1: and he's doing it again. And so it's really just
Speaker 1: cooperating or partnering with the Holy Spirit in what He's
Speaker 1: up to at this time and being in sync with
Speaker 1: this season. So when I say the sphirit of Elijah,
Speaker 1: it just means an aspect of what God's doing, an
Speaker 1: aspect of what Holy Spirit's up to that he wants
Speaker 1: to do with us in this season that he did
Speaker 1: with Elijah, and he did with John the Baptist, and
Speaker 1: he addressed in Revelation three also as one of the
Speaker 1: churches had yielded to the spirit of or the influence
Speaker 1: of Jezebel or Satan manifesting himself through Jezebel. So we'll
Speaker 1: dive into this a little bit. I want to start
Speaker 1: with some scripture out of First King sixteen. This is
Speaker 1: where Elijah comes on the scene. And just to give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of understanding, after King Solomon, Israel
Speaker 1: split into two kingdoms.
Speaker 2: So we'll just do it this way.
Speaker 1: So Israel split into two kingdoms after Solomon Uh and
Speaker 1: we had Jereboam in the north. Everybody say Jerry, So
Speaker 1: Jereboham was in the north end ray ray ray boham
Speaker 1: Ah within the south. We'll just go with that because
Speaker 1: we know my spelling is lacking. So this is this
Speaker 1: is the kingdom, and this is the time that Elijah
Speaker 1: comes on the scene. And what it says, it says that,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just so much like our time,
Speaker 1: this so much like our so much like our time
Speaker 1: in our season.
Speaker 2: And it says that.
Speaker 1: During this time Jereboam and we know, you know a
Speaker 1: lot of these kings that served were apostate kings and
Speaker 1: they got engaged in idolatry, and Jereboam did that right away.
Speaker 1: And part of the reason he did that is because
Speaker 1: he was jealous. Jerusalem was in the southern kingdom, so
Speaker 1: Jerusalem was down in Judah and that's where the temple was.
Speaker 1: So he didn't want the people going down into Judah
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem and worshiping there or taking tithes and offerings there.
Speaker 1: So he erected his own temple in the capital city,
Speaker 1: which was Samaria. He erected his own temple, and he's like, guys,
Speaker 1: we're gonna worship here, but it won't be Jehovah. We're
Speaker 1: going to be worshiping, and so he institutes idolatry. But
Speaker 1: the idolatry was to keep the people from going to
Speaker 1: Jerusalem and worshiping Jehovah and honoring him. So he right
Speaker 1: away he leads them into garbage. And so it's deer
Speaker 1: during this time that Elijah comes on the scene, and
Speaker 1: so Elijah's you know, he grows up observing this debauchery
Speaker 1: and idolatry.
Speaker 2: And it was debauchery.
Speaker 1: It was not only idolatry, but it was sexual immorality,
Speaker 1: because sexual immorality was tied to the idolatry, and so
Speaker 1: it was it was just a time of total uncleanness.
Speaker 1: And we learn about Elijah that Elijah is grieved over it. Right,
Speaker 1: and he's a prayer warrior and he's a prophet, and
Speaker 1: so God is raising up Elijah. We don't know a
Speaker 1: lot about him, but we know, like from James chapter
Speaker 1: five fourteen through sixteen, we know that his prayer life
Speaker 1: is a homemark and it's the prayer life that then
Speaker 1: jumps out into action in the First King chapter seventeen
Speaker 1: where he confronts we're going to read some of this
Speaker 1: where he confronts Ahaven Jezebel. And there in James chapter
Speaker 1: five fourteen through sixteen, even though he was not supernatural,
Speaker 1: he was a man with a nature like ours. He
Speaker 1: prayed fervent prayers, and it says that he prayed a
Speaker 1: prayer of faith. And this is the first instance where
Speaker 1: we kind of hear about a prayer of faith and
Speaker 1: we hear the prayer of faith defined and it says
Speaker 1: that he prayed this prayer of faith and that it
Speaker 1: caused a drought for three and a half years. Fact is,
Speaker 1: during that time, not only did it not reign for
Speaker 1: three and a half years, there was no dew on
Speaker 1: the ground, so like the skies were completely shut off,
Speaker 1: the atmosphere over all of Sameria, where now Ahab was king,
Speaker 1: so no longer Jeroboam but Ahab. The atmosphere over the
Speaker 1: land was so dry there was no dew on the
Speaker 1: ground for three and a half years. And it says
Speaker 1: that likewise with you, that the prayer, the fervent prayer
Speaker 1: of a righteous man, the fervent prayer of a righteous woman,
Speaker 1: will be powerful and effective. It will move mountains, it
Speaker 1: will cause things to shake, it will alter circumstances.
Speaker 2: It will shift cultures.
Speaker 1: It will even dry up the skies of our region.
Speaker 1: And the exhortation is that we that we pray prayers
Speaker 1: of faith, that we pray faith prayers. And a faith
Speaker 1: prayer isn't to say, Father, I bring this to you
Speaker 1: in faith. A faith prayer is actually a prayer out
Speaker 1: of the heavenly is. Like we talked about last week.
Speaker 1: It's a prayer out of knowledge. It's a prayer out
Speaker 1: of revelation. It's a prayer out of rama. And so
Speaker 1: out of the rama we make prayers of declaration or
Speaker 1: releases of decoration over the region, or over the powers,
Speaker 1: or over the enemy, and those prayers are called prayers
Speaker 1: of faith. It's the other instance of a prayer of
Speaker 1: faith is Mark eleven two through twenty four where Jesus
Speaker 1: cursed the fig tree. Remember that Jesus cursed the fig tree.
Speaker 1: And then they came back by, and they saw that
Speaker 1: the fig tree was dried up from the roots. He
Speaker 1: was dried up from the roots. And he says that
Speaker 1: it was the prayer of faith that was prayed. And
Speaker 1: he says, have faith in God. If any of you
Speaker 1: should say to this mountain, he didn't say, if any
Speaker 1: of you should beg God about the mountain. He didn't
Speaker 1: say if any of you should address the problem of
Speaker 1: the mountain. He says, if any of you should say
Speaker 1: to the mountain be removed, then it shall be moved
Speaker 1: from here to there.
Speaker 2: You remember that.
Speaker 1: I'm already preaching better than your amening. I'm going to
Speaker 1: have some decafe. That's a cow without legs a decaf.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That's ground beef. That's ground beef.
Speaker 1: The cow without legs is ground beef. You'll get it later,
Speaker 1: you'll get it. You'll get it. I might need a water, even,
Speaker 1: can you give me a water? Water?
Speaker 2: Mean? Are you with me so far?
Speaker 1: So Elijah comes on the scene with all of this debauchery.
Speaker 1: Now the debaschery is weird because the debastery that he
Speaker 1: comes on the scene the sea is debauchery with the
Speaker 1: people of God. So it's a parallel to the Church,
Speaker 1: the ministry of even the ministry of deliverance. Where Elijah
Speaker 1: is confronting the demonic realm. He's not gonna front of
Speaker 1: the demonic realm in Babylon, in Egypt, in Phoenicia, in
Speaker 1: some odd place. He's confronting the demonic realm that is
Speaker 1: weighing over the people of God. Elijah's concern is for
Speaker 1: the people of God. Elijah is burdened for the people
Speaker 1: of God. And so you know, this is the scene
Speaker 1: that he comes on because he's seeing that these ten
Speaker 1: tribes up here, there's ten tribes here, there's two tribes here,
Speaker 1: two and ten. He's seeing these ten tribes of the
Speaker 1: Northern Kingdom have been drawn into complete sin, evil, no
Speaker 1: fear of God, idolatry, immorality, immorality is totally only unclean.
Speaker 1: And what he sees is it's not just the king,
Speaker 1: and that's the king is Ahab.
Speaker 2: Listen to it.
Speaker 1: Ahab is yielded to and submitted to the dear Uh.
Speaker 2: What was her name?
Speaker 1: The one you shouldn't have married what is it, Jezebell. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's it, that's the one, okay. So a Ahab is
Speaker 1: totally yielded to and complicit with this the seducing which
Speaker 1: draft of the bone. So let's give you a little context. First,
Speaker 1: first King sixteen twenty nine and the thirty eighth year
Speaker 1: of Asa, king of Ahab's son of Umri became Did
Speaker 1: you give me that water? What happened to? Oh? There
Speaker 1: is Ahab son of Amri did more evil? Ay a
Speaker 1: have become king of Israel the rain Samaria Ariel pointy
Speaker 1: two years and Ahab did a set of amory than
Speaker 1: evil in the eyes of the Lord, than any of
Speaker 1: those before if there were a few king before him,
Speaker 1: back to the lineage of Jerobom. He not only considered
Speaker 1: it trivial to commit sin the sins of jerobm son
Speaker 1: of me, but he also married to Jezebel, daughter of
Speaker 1: Eth by a king of Sidonians. So Stin was a
Speaker 1: region where the capital was tired. Do you remember Terrer
Speaker 1: And if you remember Tire, I think it's Ezekiel sixteen
Speaker 1: or twenty eight. Commember we'll do with a perfect memory
Speaker 1: with help me. But Fire is the king of Tires.
Speaker 1: The one is Zeel, compares to Satan. So the king
Speaker 1: of Tire is is Uh like filled with pride, right
Speaker 1: filled ing, and this is her lineage Uh. He marries
Speaker 1: this daughter of Bail, king of the Cities, and began
Speaker 1: to serve Bail and worship him. Set up an altar
Speaker 1: for Bail in the timble of Bail where he that
Speaker 1: he built in Samaria Ab also mean ash Shoppel, and
Speaker 1: did more to arouse the anger of the Lord, the
Speaker 1: God of Israel, and all the kings of Israel before him.
Speaker 1: So this is you know this, This is this atmosphere
Speaker 1: that Elijah comes into.
Speaker 2: Phrings sixteen thirty four.
Speaker 1: The next verse says that even in a time of
Speaker 1: Ahab that they read Jericha. So Jericha had been torn
Speaker 1: down through a miracle of God. You remember the first
Speaker 1: city to be torn down a miracle of God.
Speaker 2: The walls fell flat.
Speaker 1: This is the first city that they lamped over as
Speaker 1: they came into the land, five hundred years before Ahab,
Speaker 1: five hundred years before Elijah. But there's near the Lord
Speaker 1: them a band like And this is with the people
Speaker 1: of God. So think of the Church, think of the
Speaker 1: church and the church and maybe you can relate to this.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm trying to expand our line. Because the
Speaker 1: spirit of Elijah comes to renore and restoration comes through repentance.
Speaker 1: Let me see again the spirit of Elijah, the hallmark
Speaker 1: of under more utter to Elijah, the lifestyle of Elijah
Speaker 1: the ministery On the Baptist, because John the Baptist was
Speaker 1: the elijahm and John the Baptist had to proceed the
Speaker 1: Alisha to come, and Jesus was the Elisha to come.
Speaker 1: And so you see that there's a real fulfillment and
Speaker 1: Elisha and Elisha, and then there's another fulfillment, and it's
Speaker 1: the ministry of Elijah that prepares away for Elisha, the
Speaker 1: ministry of repentance, which brings restoration, prepares away for Elisha come,
Speaker 1: which brings a triumph over Jezebel and revival to the land.
Speaker 1: There's always this reoccurring theme.
Speaker 2: And so John the.
Speaker 1: Baptist it was prophesied that Elijah must come again. So
Speaker 1: this is Malachi three, Malachi four, Elijah to come again.
Speaker 1: And so Elijah comes as John the Baptist and On
Speaker 1: the Baptist comes in the spirit and the ministry of Elijah,
Speaker 1: and he comes to restore the hearts of fathers to
Speaker 1: their children. And he comes preaching repentance. He comes with
Speaker 1: a message of repentance, with a heart of repentance, and
Speaker 1: its repentance that restores it. He comes with heart to restore,
Speaker 1: but restoration comes through repentance. But his message is not
Speaker 1: to the world. Neither one of these is their message
Speaker 1: to the world. Their message is to the people of God.
Speaker 1: Their message is to the House of God. Their message
Speaker 1: is to the people that know Him, that those people
Speaker 1: would repent, Because when the people of God repent, then
Speaker 1: it releases revible, and it releases the empowerment.
Speaker 2: Of the prophetic realm to tear down the.
Speaker 1: Darkness, not only the darkness over the people of ups,
Speaker 1: but then the darkness in culture. The darkness in culture
Speaker 1: is torn down, and the people of God come out
Speaker 1: from under that darkness themselves.
Speaker 2: So the spirit of eledge of the ministry loge the
Speaker 2: colon of a logic.
Speaker 1: There's something that the Holy Spirit knows in this dimension
Speaker 1: of ministry is that when we are purified, then we
Speaker 1: riot in our authority. When we rise in our authority,
Speaker 1: we shake the blankets the wet, blanket sedepation of us.
Speaker 1: Then we're empowered. And not only are we empowered, but
Speaker 1: grace just begins to break out. Grace begins to break out.
Speaker 1: We will find that.
Speaker 2: Our need for uh some like you're you.
Speaker 1: Know, we're thinking of what fancy the evangelism thing we
Speaker 1: can do, and then we're concerned about what we say
Speaker 1: to the lost, and then we're you know, we're frustrated evangelism,
Speaker 1: uh frustrated meaning you know, we try and it doesn't work.
Speaker 2: You know where we're going to find that all of
Speaker 2: that is taken care of.
Speaker 1: When this is taken care of, that the glory of
Speaker 1: the Lord in the temple and on the people of
Speaker 1: God because they become a purified, alert people, the stage
Speaker 1: for the global awakening. And it happens with grace, with ease,
Speaker 1: not with frustration and with work and hardness. It's not
Speaker 1: going to be a heart and the coming revival, the
Speaker 1: coming looking glory, the coming awakening, I should say, is
Speaker 1: not going to be hard things. Why because it's bursting
Speaker 1: out onto the world.
Speaker 2: Of Holy Spirit through us who've become a refined, delivered people.
Speaker 1: I make sense. I'm gonna un I'm gonna run over
Speaker 1: here decafs could maybe the cafe thattter. So in Ahab's
Speaker 1: time they have and Ahab's time they read it. Jericho,
Speaker 1: this guy highlib laid its foundation at the cost of
Speaker 1: this morning's on, because that was prophesied of such. And
Speaker 1: then he said at the gates of the cost, edition
Speaker 1: was on in accordance with the word the Lord has
Speaker 1: spoken through Joshua. And what the water and the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit is trying to show us is that during this time,
Speaker 1: there's no fear of the Lord. We're not concerned about
Speaker 1: the world. There's no fear of the Lord in the Church,
Speaker 1: in the people of God, with the ten Tribes, with
Speaker 1: the people called of God, the people birthed of God,
Speaker 1: people who who are to give glory to God, walk
Speaker 1: with God. There's no fear of the Lord in their midst.
Speaker 1: And so they gather themselves together and they rebuilt at Jericho.
Speaker 1: And this was not like a small thing to rebuild Jericho.
Speaker 1: This was like a giant community effort, financial effort. Because
Speaker 1: the people of the Northern Kingdom come bliss with idolatry
Speaker 1: and the reverence or God. And I'm appeeling to you,
Speaker 1: you know, part of what I'm playing to you about
Speaker 1: today is that we God wants to use us in
Speaker 1: the serration of the church. God wants to use the
Speaker 1: instoration of the Church. And it's not just Europe. It's
Speaker 1: not just all the empty cathedrals. It's not just all
Speaker 1: the empty churches. It's just not it's not all of
Speaker 1: the dead churches. It's not the lifeless churches. Uh in Europe.
Speaker 1: It's here. It's here, and it's all over our nation.
Speaker 1: And part of the cry of God in this a
Speaker 1: liedeous season is that we are that we that we
Speaker 1: are moved with those who have lost their fire, that
Speaker 1: we are moved with those who are still lickering in
Speaker 1: or we are moved with those who are not walking
Speaker 1: with God. We're we're moved with every denomination, group, with
Speaker 1: every network, with every with every that we grieved when
Speaker 1: we when a Mike Bickle is exposed, when when anything
Speaker 1: comes to the front, that we are agreed to heart,
Speaker 1: we are reab the soul, that we that we that
Speaker 1: we begin to pray, that we that we take up
Speaker 1: the cause of restoring the church. Even as we're called
Speaker 1: as one, even though you're one with the Methodist, how
Speaker 1: may have you know you're one with the Episcopalians. How
Speaker 1: many of you know you're one with the Catholics. How
Speaker 1: many of you know your one with the Nazarenes. How
Speaker 1: may you know you're one with the Church of Christ
Speaker 1: and with the Southern Baptist How many of you know
Speaker 1: your one with every every one of these denominational groups,
Speaker 1: no matter what they name, If they named Jesus, you're
Speaker 1: one with them. First Corinthian Chapter twelve, Romans chapter twelve.
Speaker 1: Though we being many members with differing given us, we
Speaker 1: are one body. He wasn't just talking about a local assembly.
Speaker 1: He was talking about the teality of those name Jesus.
Speaker 1: We are one body. We are one body. And when
Speaker 1: he says in Ephesian chapter four that the gifts of Minagy,
Speaker 1: the gifts of Jesus true, the body of Christ would
Speaker 1: exist to equip us into mystery until we all come
Speaker 1: into the fullness of the stature of the Sun, he
Speaker 1: doesn't mean until we all in this church, that church,
Speaker 1: or the other church come into the full statue. He
Speaker 1: means until we all who name the name of Jesus
Speaker 1: come into the full stature.
Speaker 2: This is the will of.
Speaker 1: God, and He partners with us in prayer. He partners
Speaker 1: with us in understanding for the church to be restored,
Speaker 1: because what church is restored. We're preparing the weather Lord Mary,
Speaker 1: for the Lord to come in a greater glory in
Speaker 1: his temple, in his house, in his houses, in his
Speaker 1: corporate temple. You we all, with the Epiccipalans, with Trians,
Speaker 1: all of them, we all are one body that he
Speaker 1: inhabits and that he desires to come into a fullness.
Speaker 1: And so there has to be a purifying allergiing with
Speaker 1: a purifying ministry. And Elijah came with a deliverance ministry,
Speaker 1: not deliverance to the side Alians, deliverance the house of Israel,
Speaker 1: setting them free from every complicit thing that they allowed, tolerated,
Speaker 1: yielded to partner death in and everything that was keeping
Speaker 1: them from a fullness of walking with God. Oh that's
Speaker 1: good for pastor demand some of the finest. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. I'm that it's a good word.
Speaker 1: First kings seven. So Eliah comes and Bayelle was central,
Speaker 1: Astraat was was secondary, bail was Jezabel had killed all
Speaker 1: of the prophets of God, and except for a few,
Speaker 1: Obadiah was hiding like one hundred and sixty of minute
Speaker 1: caves or and she didn't know it, and she'd kill
Speaker 1: all the prophets. Odd to her knowledge, she had raised
Speaker 1: up eight hundred pfty full profits four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: bayl four hundred astat part of this part of this
Speaker 1: word in First Kings seventeen with judgment, a judgment on
Speaker 1: the demonic realm, and he we can to know that best.
Speaker 1: We kind of know that about the First King seventeen,
Speaker 1: First Kings eighteen. Kind of we think of that the
Speaker 1: most is that, Yeah, he confronted the Bayl and then
Speaker 1: they all got killed and they was glorious, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know they poured daughter all over the altar
Speaker 1: and the sacrifice and it's still you know, he called
Speaker 1: down fire and it was amazing, And that's kind of
Speaker 1: our reprinted by the Elijah. But I'm wanting you to
Speaker 1: see that the people were under the spell. So he
Speaker 1: also came with a purification ministry. Verse seventeen. He's infronting
Speaker 1: the Rain and he's confroning the Ross with drought and
Speaker 1: with famine, because Bael is the fertility god, proofless.
Speaker 2: Flourishing fertility crops. Rain.
Speaker 1: This is who they prayed to. This is who they worshiped,
Speaker 1: This is who they need sacrifice too for everything to
Speaker 1: do with rain crops provision. Right, So chapter seventeen, verse one,
Speaker 1: now we're eligend spit from Tishby, and Gilead said to
Speaker 1: Ahab As the Lord lives and God of Israel lives,
Speaker 1: who I serve, there will be neither do nor rain
Speaker 1: in the next few years except at my word. So
Speaker 1: he announces this. It's a prophetic judgment. It's a prophetic
Speaker 1: judgment because God wants to deliver the people out of
Speaker 1: their seduction and not from under the amonic entity. And
Speaker 1: so through this ministry. And it's interesting he didn't let
Speaker 1: to die. You know why after and a half years
Speaker 1: did God say to it, Okay, you're done, call for
Speaker 1: rain rifssing. Isn't it interesting how merciful asius God is.
Speaker 1: Like it was, it was chasing, but it wasn't destruction.
Speaker 1: God loved these people and want delivered. So it's a chastening,
Speaker 1: not a destruction. And so that's what happens, you know,
Speaker 1: in chapter eighteen. So the skies are shut up. But
Speaker 1: then chapter eighteen he's sent to Scott's back up chapter
Speaker 1: eighteen or sixteen Ovid I went out to meet Ahab,
Speaker 1: and Ahab was going to meet Elijah. And when he
Speaker 1: saw Elijah said to him, is that you, you troubler
Speaker 1: of Israel? I have not madeable for Israel? Elijah said,
Speaker 1: but you and your father's simbly had abandoned Lord's commandments
Speaker 1: and you followed the Bayels. Now some of the people
Speaker 1: from all Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel and
Speaker 1: bring the four hundred and fifty profits of belle in
Speaker 1: the four hundred pphits of Astraa who Etl's table, so
Speaker 1: a ten words throughout all of Israel, and assembled the
Speaker 1: prophets on Mount Carnell. Elijah what bore the people and said,
Speaker 1: how long will you waver between two opinions? Now it's interesting.
Speaker 1: This is like the largest UFC mash on the planet.
Speaker 1: Like every cable channel is there, like every camera is there.
Speaker 1: All Israel came to Mount Carmel. This is no small event.
Speaker 1: Eight hundred and fifty prophits came, all the royalty game,
Speaker 1: all of the you know, the throne room, royalty game,
Speaker 1: and the people came a thousands of people, hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of people came for this showdown right, And Elijah
Speaker 1: stands before people because the people are complicit. The people
Speaker 1: are partnering with thiss. You went before the people know
Speaker 1: how long will you waver between two opinions? The Lord
Speaker 1: God follow him. But if bails, God follow him. But
Speaker 1: the people said nothing.
Speaker 2: Did you hear that? But the people said nothing. This
Speaker 2: is why Elijah was distraught. This is why God was
Speaker 2: so distraught, because this is you know, the kids that
Speaker 2: God has birth. These are these are.
Speaker 1: The children of Abraham, and they're confronted with their idolatry,
Speaker 1: with their immorality, with their uncleanness, with their impurity, with
Speaker 1: their with their pride, their pride. Jesb Bell brought in
Speaker 1: the ministry of the King of Tire. It's pride, it's arrogance,
Speaker 1: it's self reliance, and they're so deceived by it that
Speaker 1: they aren't going to get a breakthrough until the demonic
Speaker 1: realm's broken down. And they just received three and a
Speaker 1: half years of chasing where God showed them, Jehovah showed them,
Speaker 1: I am in charge of the guys, rain and flourishing
Speaker 1: at crops, and lessons come from my hand and not
Speaker 1: from bail and So Elijah is in that kind of
Speaker 1: moment where he's confronting that unclean relm as well as
Speaker 1: confronting the impurity and the people, so that Elisha will come.
Speaker 1: Somebody think that Elijah blew it said necessary. He didn't
Speaker 1: finish his Uh, he didn't finish his calling. Boy, woe
Speaker 1: unto Elijah. We you know, we sometimes we have the
Speaker 1: spirit accounts about Elijah. Elisha had to come. Oh my
Speaker 1: goodness you Alisha had to come and fish all. But no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: this is the pattern of the Lord. This is actually
Speaker 1: the pattern of the Lord. The pattern of the Lord
Speaker 1: is that repentance and chastening and confrontation of darkness proceeds
Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord. We prepare for a greater glory.
Speaker 1: We're actually preparing our hearts for greater glory. And we
Speaker 1: have a heart right now that says we want the
Speaker 1: Presbyterians prepared for a greater glory. We want the Assembly
Speaker 1: of God. We want the four Square. We want the Baptist,
Speaker 1: we want a non denomination. We want the Catholic, we
Speaker 1: want the Methodists. We want the Episcopaling, we want the Apostolic.
Speaker 1: We want every person that names him of Jesus preparing
Speaker 1: the way for the Lord to come. And if fullness
Speaker 1: in church, you want the whole church coming up into
Speaker 1: purity and coming up into freedom and coming up therefore
Speaker 1: in the glory, because it's that glory that leads us
Speaker 1: into the awakening that comes out of a glorified church.
Speaker 1: The awakening comes out of a glorified church.
Speaker 2: Do you believe it?
Speaker 1: First closing, go ahead and stand with If you stand
Speaker 1: with me, then I feel more obligated. In the first closing,
Speaker 1: I'm going to read to you a couple verses about
Speaker 1: the ministry of Joeneral waiting for the Anna. I can't
Speaker 1: do anything without that keyboard. Luke Lahan sixteen. He will
Speaker 1: bring back me of the people of Israel to the Lord,
Speaker 1: their God, and he will go on before the Lord
Speaker 1: in the sphere and the power of Elijah. This is
Speaker 1: John the Baptist. Baptists will bring back many of the
Speaker 1: people of Israel. It's interesting, have you thought about the
Speaker 1: church needs to come back. I'm not talking to the
Speaker 1: world today. We're praying about the world today. We're not
Speaker 1: we don't even have our mind on the world today.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the church. The church needs to come back.
Speaker 1: The church needs to come back. The Church needs to
Speaker 1: come back. Don't curse, aren't disparage those other ministries around community.
Speaker 1: Let's begin to pray for them. Let's begin to prophesy
Speaker 1: over him. All of our devotions every twenty one, all
Speaker 1: the twenty one devotions, they're meant to be kind of
Speaker 1: a framework for your prayer and for your faith ministry
Speaker 1: as you partner with us together and Elijah to see
Speaker 1: the church restored, the fear of the Lord restored in
Speaker 1: the church. Want the fear of the Lord restored in
Speaker 1: the church. He went before the Lord in his sphere,
Speaker 1: and the power of Elijah to turn the pans to
Speaker 1: their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous. Well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting, you know, to turn the parents to the
Speaker 1: children that we heard that out of Malachi for six.
Speaker 1: He will turn the fathers to the son, and the
Speaker 1: sons of the fathers will begin to think about children again.
Speaker 2: We'll begin to do. You know, part of this work
Speaker 2: in bore heart, the work of.
Speaker 1: The industry of Elijah in your heart, is you start
Speaker 1: thinking about children, is thinking about then coming up into
Speaker 1: the kingdom. But it's it's not just the children. It's
Speaker 1: restoring our hearts to the children and for the love
Speaker 1: of children, but.
Speaker 2: It's also.
Speaker 1: Turning the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous to
Speaker 1: make ready people prepared for the Lord. And there's an
Speaker 1: aspect here where there's a Bible aspect and I can't
Speaker 1: we're out of time. I'm already on my second clothing
Speaker 1: right now. But there's a bridal aspect that's taking place.
Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is working to prepare us as a bride,
Speaker 1: and we have the fullness of the groom until we're
Speaker 1: prepared as a bride. And there's an element of this
Speaker 1: where yes, he's washing us with the washing of the
Speaker 1: waterword he feeds us Chapter five, and all of that's
Speaker 1: taking Pleasure's no doubt he's working on us. But also
Speaker 1: an aspect where we recognize we need to prepare ourselves.
Speaker 2: I want you to I want you to hear this.
Speaker 1: This is because preparing the way of the Lord is
Speaker 1: really preparing the way of the Groom, preparing the way
Speaker 1: for our groom to come, for the marriage to come
Speaker 1: into a higher level of expression, consummation, fullness, and fulfilling.
Speaker 1: So I want you to listen to this out of
Speaker 1: Elation nineteen sixty through eight. Then I heard what sounded
Speaker 1: like a great multitude, like the roaring, the roar of
Speaker 1: a rushing water, like loud peals of thunder. Shell Hello ya,
Speaker 1: this is this is crazy. He's hearing the people of bud.
Speaker 1: He's hearing this great flaw of the people of God.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a great multitude. It's like the roar
Speaker 1: the rushing waters, loud peals of thunder, and the shouting Helloah,
Speaker 1: and they're shouting hallelujah for the Lord God all my rage.
Speaker 1: Let us read this and be glad and give him glory,
Speaker 1: for we of the Lamb has come and his ride
Speaker 1: has made herself ready. Wow, we're quieted here. Wet blankets.
Speaker 1: The wet blankets from last week came back to this week.
Speaker 2: What happened? What happened? Listen, listen.
Speaker 1: The Lord comes because the ride has made herself ready.
Speaker 1: Fine linen brighton was given for her to wear. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's working on us. There's no doubt he's working on us,
Speaker 1: and he desires to wash us with water of his word.
Speaker 1: There's an aspect where we're working on too. We're recognizing, Oh,
Speaker 1: I want the fullness of the groom, the fullness of
Speaker 1: his presidence. I want the fullness of his glory. I
Speaker 1: want the fullness of his nearness. Oh, then I should
Speaker 1: make myself ready. I should make myself ready, and fine linen,
Speaker 1: bright and clean will be given.
Speaker 2: To me to wear.
Speaker 1: We know the ministry of Jezebel and Ahab and Yup
Speaker 1: can cut us out there. But could it be here?
Speaker 1: Could it be here? Could could we be under deception?
Speaker 1: Could we under wrong thinking? Could we be under any
Speaker 1: kind of sorcery or witchcraft?
Speaker 2: Could it?
Speaker 1: Could it be that we have any kind of idolatry
Speaker 1: in our lives? Could it be that we're tolering, we're
Speaker 1: tolerating something unclean in our lives instead of the Romans.
Speaker 1: So just get rid of it, get it off if
Speaker 1: you need to, get your phone, if you need to.
Speaker 1: Some people have gone to flip phones because they just
Speaker 1: know the Lord that if your eye, if you're rid
Speaker 1: of it. So there we're cleansed, and that we're pureiful
Speaker 1: because when we get purified and we can confront the
Speaker 1: the monk realm in our own mist, and when we
Speaker 1: confront the demonic realm here and we get liberty here,
Speaker 1: we will see the Lord do even more among things
Speaker 1: in culture, in culture, in the world. And it won't
Speaker 1: because we're working so hard. It's going to because there's
Speaker 1: so much grace that's oozing out of the church. It's
Speaker 1: oozing out of the bride. It's irresistible race, it's irresistible
Speaker 1: power oozing out like an anointing, Like an anointing. Hands
Speaker 1: up with you, Holy Spirit, we welcome this ground. Say
Speaker 1: it with me, Holy Spirit. I welcome this aspect of purification,
Speaker 1: this aspect of liberty, this partnership with you. And I
Speaker 1: ask you, Holy Spirit, show me a partner with you
Speaker 1: for the variation.
Speaker 2: Of the church.
Speaker 1: Lay on me the bird, Lay on me the burden
Speaker 1: of reservation, that the whole church, not just the remnant church,
Speaker 1: not just a portion of the church just to try
Speaker 1: down south, but the whole church be restored.
Speaker 2: I let go of.
Speaker 1: Cursing the church, hopeless server the church, frustration over the church,
Speaker 1: bring us over the church, contempt over the church, criticism,
Speaker 1: animosity toward aspects, elements, groups of the church. The more
Speaker 1: I receive an Elijah brace on my life to prophesy
Speaker 1: over the church, to partner with you, to see the
Speaker 1: church restored in Jesus name.
Speaker 2: Everybody said, give the Lord to thank golfering.
Speaker 1: Give the Lord the golfing. Hallelujah. Okay, So we want
Speaker 1: you to be friends with one another. We want you
Speaker 1: to meet somebody to prayer and have a very tasteless meal.
Speaker 1: Don't make your food, d Nancy right, because it's the
Speaker 1: meat and the wine and the sweet of the Lord.
Speaker 1: We're really after these twenty one days. But join up
Speaker 1: with one another. Ship ut out to one another, share
Speaker 1: a meal this evening even do it c B. And
Speaker 1: get you on Saturday and help.
Speaker 2: Us with the rich.
Speaker 1: Be part of an Isaiah fifty eight expression. And then
Speaker 1: get here to church some of the corporate gatherings every
Speaker 1: morning every morning six to seven am Tuesdays and Friudays
Speaker 1: at noon and other times.
Speaker 2: So look online. Be part of this.
Speaker 1: Let's run after the fullness of Jesus together Amen,