2023.11.26 - CRISIS - Breakthrough

2023.11.26 - Breakthrough (Cinder block wall, broken w/ hammer on stage)

Friday, November 24, 2023

9:50 PM

Something is about to be broken . . . 

 

 

James 5:17-18

17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.KJV

• James 5:17 -   Doesn’t that sound so wonderful and tidy,  so neat and ultra spiritual. But read the original account

 

 

1 Kings 18:41-46

41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,

43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.

44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.

46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. KJV

 

 

 

The real question to is to know, that you know, that you KNOW what it is that God has said, what He has promised is what He WILL DO . . . 1 Kings 18:1

18:1 And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.KJV

• Serve notice on planet earth - 1 Kings 18:8

8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here. KJV

• Rise up in faith - 1 Kings 18:41 

41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

KJV

 

 

Every prayer in faith and act of faith is a violent attack on the stronghold of the enemy.  Those walls may still be standing today  - BUT. THEY. WILL. COME.  DOWN!!

 

 

God wants to remind you again that you may not have been the first but you can be the last . . . 

• You may not have been the first in your family 
• To be hooked on drugs
• To have a failed marriage
• To have a horrible upbringing
• To struggle with secret sin
• To regret not getting saved sooner
• BUT  YOU CAN BE THE LAST!
• You may not be the last one in your family 
• To be gloriously saved by His Grace and Mercy
• To be filled w/ the Holy Ghost
• To Cast out demons
• To walk where angels alone have tread
• To call upon The Name Of The Lord
• BUT YOU MAY BE THE FIRST!!

 

 

It took longer to get it to rain than it did to get it to stop raining. 

 

 

 

2023.11.19 - Don’t Look Back

2023.11.19 - CRISIS - Don’t Look Back 

Tuesday, October 31, 2023

1:24 PM

RECAP

 

• We are not struggling to survive - we are struggling to be born again
• The gateway of struggling and suffering  is often the Door of Promotion
• You want to rebuild - God wants to rebirth
• We can have years to prepare and still not be ready when the time comes, 
• Frogs are born into one world and grow to live in another- whales can drown in the water and suffocate on land.
• If we fail to look past the past and even the present towards Heaven, we may fail to reach it
• Don’t get trapped in a moment - capture the moment but don’t let it capture you. 
• Memories of the past should set you free not hold you back
• God may not resurrect the thing that died, but He may well resurrect the part of you that died with the thing 
• Your world has not ended - just the world as you know it

Lot's wife was in no danger at all - as long as she did what she was told by God 

• Her entire world and all that she knew was literally burning to the ground, behind her.  BEHIND HER. God had made provision to deliver her, before the fire began to fall
• She was hurting, afraid, and suffering great loss in her life as a parent and citizen of a city and culture that was burning down around her - but in all that she was perfectly SAFE , though NOT perfectly COMFORTABLE
• Some miss their blessing because they can’t navigate through the people

• Everybody was touching Him but not everybody was being healed 

 

 

Make sure there is a crossing over time

 

 

“Remember Lot's wife.”

‭‭Luke‬ ‭17‬:‭32‬ ‭KJV‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/1/luk.17.32.KJV

 

 

We aren’t told her name because we already know it 

• Regret
• Fear
• Doubt
• Mediocrity
• Unrealized dreams and wants
• Pride
• Self

 

Hebrews 12:1-2

12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. KJV

 

Forgetting the things that are behind . . .

 

• Nothing would ever be the same so why look back
• We glorify the past as if it was all that but with time we can and do forget how bad things really were
• You spend years preparing and still not be "ready" to let go and go 
• It is easier to look behind in our "sight" and see what we are leaving behind instead of looking ahead by "faith" and see what we have  to gain

 

 

The world has changed - God has not

• Malachi 3:6

6 For I am the LORD, I change not; KJV

• Hebrews 13:8

8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. KJV

 

Lot's wife was in no danger at all - as long as she did what she was told by God 

• Her entire world and all that she knew was literally burning to the ground, behind her.  BEHIND HER. God had made provision to deliver her, before the fire began to fall
• She was hurting, afraid, and suffering great loss in her life as a parent and citizen of a city and culture that was burning down around her - but in all that she was perfectly SAFE , though NOT perfectly COMFORTABLE

 

Remember Lot's wife

 

Remember - NT:3421 mnemoneuo (mnay-mon-yoo'-o); from a derivative of NT:3420; to exercise memory, i.e. recollect; by implication to punish; also to rehearse:

KJV - make mention; be mindful, remember.

 

Lot - veil, covering, cast, wrap

 

Wife - 

 

 

She was torn between what she was leaving and where she was going

• Sometimes when you leave something, even a season, it becomes hard to separate the good from the bad.  She must have had some good memories there, she certainly had family and friends and a home to be loved there but still Sodom was a horrible place of wickedness and evil
• We can become attached to seasons and feelings just as we can become attached to people and places

 

It is important to note that she was following Lot - her body was moving in one direction while the rest of her remained in a burning down city.  We can say we are following The Lord but our heart may not be in it

 

 

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. KJV

 

You can be the first . . . Or the last in your family to do something

 

You can be the first to break free from addiction, bondage, pain, fear or mediocrity.

 

You can be the last person in your family to face this generational curse, this addiction, this mentality.

 

 

We don’t get the results we want when we want so we stop trying - we succumb to the past because that is all w know

 

Being a follower of Jesus means that we follow Him, all the way, to where He is, to where He is calling.  I don’t just get to where I want me to be then sit down and wait for the trumpet to sound, I follow Him to where He is, and to where He wants me to be

 

MAKE SURE THERE IS A CROSSING OVER TIME

2023.11.15 - CRISIS - The Press

She passed through the crowd. 

 

Some miss their blessing because they can’t navigate through the people

 

Everybody was touching Him but not everybody was being healed 

 

She was able to push past what others had done to her and reach out with faith to lay hold of her healing

 

 

Mark 5:22-34

22 And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

23 And besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live.

24 And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him.

25 And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

27 When she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment.

28 For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

29 And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

30 And Jesus, immediately knowing in himself that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

31 And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me ?

32 And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

33 But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

34 And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

KJV

 

 

He that will take, get possession of the kingdom of righteousness, peace, and spiritual joy, must be in earnest: all hell will oppose him in every step he takes; and if a man be not absolutely determined in give up his sins and evil companions, and have his soul saved at all hazards, and at every expense, he will surely perish everlastingly. This requires a violent earnestness.

(from Adam Clarke's Commentary, 

 

Romans 8:38-39

38 For I am persuaded , that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

KJV

2023.11.08 - CRISIS - The Great In Between

Deuteronomy 34 

• we know that Moses was dead, and that God had buried him
• We know Israel mourned for thirty days
• In their time of mourning there was no time of moving

 

Joshua 1:1-2

1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. KJV

 

Joshua 2:1

2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. KJV

 

Joshua 3:1-4

3:1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;

3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.

4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore. KJV

 

MINDSET

The children of Israel were out of Egypt - but there heart was still there

• They were still slaves in their minds and mindsets
• They made the past seem better than it actually was
• Often what we need is a renewing of our minds, we have been set free physically and spiritually but our minds are still in the past, stuck in the old way of thinking and doing
• They saw themselves not as bold children of God but as grasshoppers - and grasshoppers is what they acted like

 

If we are not careful we will become spiritual transients when it comes to spiritual things 

• Transient means momentary, temporary, no lasting only a short time
• If we fail to look past the past and even the present towards Heaven, we may fail to reach it

 

TIME TO MOVE

Moses is dead - it is time to move on

• God wants us to have a time of mourning - but He also wants that time to be limited and He tells us when it is time to move past that moment.  (rlware - we may never get OVER somethings but we need to get PAST them)
• Ecclesiastes teaches us that there is a time for everything - sometimes it is just time to move on
• Don’t get trapped in a moment - capture the moment but don’t let it capture you. 

Your pain cannot and should not be the only thing that ties you to the past.

• There should be great memories, stones from the middle of the Jordan - to mark where we have come from but those places and memories are only markers, not prisons or idols.  
• Memories of the past should set you free not hold you back

Jacob/Joseph

• Jacob noted that he would mourn the loss of Joseph until he died
• It isn't that God can't heal the past, sometimes it is that we will not let him
• Our holding on will not keep that thing or person alive, but it will allow US to remain in the past and even die there - if we do not get free we will become like zombies - we are moving around like we are alive but we are really dead inside 

 

RESURRECTION AND CHANGE

God may not resurrect the thing that died, but He may well resurrect the part of you that died with the thing - but remember, resurrection always brings change - you cannot just go back to life like it was before, old coping mechanisms, allowing old triggers, you cannot just go back and live and die like you did but live like you haven't .

 

Your world has not ended - just the world as you know it

 

It did happen but God wants to lead us through it 

Psalms 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. KJV

 

It isn't what we think about our readiness for change and transition but rather what God thinks

 

 

No one is exempt from the Great In Between - we all face it. Look at the comments of Christ on the cross

• "why have You forsaken Me?"
• The Great Between is never an easy place
• Israel wandered because of mindsets 
• past chains still bound their thinking and in doing so bound also their movement forward into victory and promise
• Paul - 
• Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:

24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. KJV

• Samuel - 
• 1 Samuel 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons. KJV
• Married People 

When we move or get married we need to embrace those things, we cannot just pine for the past but must learn a new future. 

Marriage is not what we might have thought that it would be, some, instead of embracing the change and the reality of the new thing are stuck in the middle.  We can get stuck because we have been taught to go on our feelings and so often we don’t "feel" any different, we have not yet learned to walk in faith and we go by what we feel.

• Saved In Soul Only 

We can get saved under duress and once the "pain" has eased up forget that we have a new life to live and to learn, in that sense we go back to what we know and do what we have always done, not learning about our new life and ending up right back where we started from, this can be a cycle 

 

Life is about change

• Adam was alone, Adam had pets, Adam got married, Adam had kids who fought, and so on and so forth 
• Abraham went from one place to another but he was never lost.  In fact he was looking for a city

I still haven’t found _ u2

2023.11.05 - CRISIS - Alpha & Omega - The God That Doesn't Change

Jesus is Beginning And End

 

Revelation 1:8

8 I am Alpha and Omega , the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty KJV

 

 

Never leaves us nor forsakes us 

 

He changes not

 

Hebrews 6:17-19

17 God also bound himself with an oath, so that those he promised to help would be perfectly sure and never need to wonder whether he might change his plans. 

18 He has given us both his promise and his oath, two things we can completely count on, for it is impossible for God to tell a lie. Now all those who flee to him to save them can take new courage when they hear such assurances from God; now they can know without doubt that he will give them the salvation he has promised them. 

19 This certain hope of being saved is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our soulsTLB

 

 

• When we get saved all things change, we are in fact a totally new creation in Christ 

 

2 Corinthians 5:17

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new KJV

 

 

God does not change at all 

 

• When we get saved all things change, we are a new creation 

 

• Grown frogs can drown in they stay underwater - whales can drown in the water and can suffocate on land 
• Life is a process of our moving from one place to another 
• Tadpoles have (are born with) gills but still need lungs to breather in addition to their gills
• Studies show tiny tadpoles are not strong enough to break the surface tension on water to breathe
• If a tadpole doesn’t grow and mature it doesn’t mean he wasn’t a frog, it just means he is destined to live in a place he was meant to leave until he is a meal for something bigger.  The enemy is looking for who he may devour
• We tend to identify ourselves w/ our calling rather than our Christ.  Paul was an apostle but he knew his high calling was to be like Jesus 
• We can have years to prepare and still not be ready when the time comes, 
• We know from the moment they are born that one day they will leave but we are still not ready
• My sweet dog and how I felt when we got Kaya
• On 911 within just a few hours our world changed, we no longer felt safe in our own country- but God did not change

 

2023.11.01 - CRISIS - Are We Dying Or Being Born Again

John 3:1-12

3:1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?

5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.

12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? KJV

 

 

We are not struggling to survive - we are struggling to be born again

 

Till Christ be formed

 

The gateway of struggling and suffering  is often the Door of Promotion

• The fire of the three Hebrew children 
• The Red Sea during the Exodus
• The Valley of the Shadow of Death that we WILL walk through
• The Crucifixion

 

 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain .

22 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not.

23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: KJV

 

The baby is given nothing to take away the pain during birth - it simply has to endure until it is born lol

 

You want to rebuild - God wants to rebirth

 

John 16:33 I have overcome the world 

 

6-9 or more pound baby going through an opening that is roughly the size of a bagel 

 

Baby is soft and squishy to make it able to pass through  and be born 

• Soft spot so baby is not harmed, you will not be fully developed until you are born again, and again, and again

 

Baby gets air and food from the umbilical cord

• Once born he must breathe and eat from a totally different source
• John 4:31-34

31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?

34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

KJV

• In the womb a baby's lungs are filled w/ fluid, once born that would be known as drowning
• Baby's born via C-section sometimes find it harder to breathe- the contractions help to rid the lungs of the fluid

 

Baby is able to feel pain within the womb and after being born, so it is certain that baby feels pain during birth 

• Baby's pain and moms pain are different
• Christians should feel things "differently" than non Christians, should. 
• 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. KJV

 

I think sometimes God is more about telling us what He has done rather than what He is doing.  He wants us to walk by faith 

• We would be inclined to bring Hagar into the intimate place and what would be conceived would not be holy and would not be the promise