May I be seated?
It's a great honor to be here with you.
I had the honor of being here with you, Mending, also.
As we had the memorial, I called her my daughter.
Cindy and I are so old that everyone's our daughter and son.
Cindy and I are very old that everyone's our daughter and son.
I think I'm older than her parents.
Anyone know? Anyway.
Let me start tonight by saying this.
Cindy has a saying.
And it's this.
Don't preach past the anointing.
Don't preach beyond the anointing.
Don't say, you have to fill the time.
I'm not going to do that.
I believe the Lord has given me a specific message that I believe is anointed.
I don't know how long it's going to take for Jennifer and I to release it.
But we'll do it.
And it will give you something that I hope will have impact in your life.
As we have been walking together through this very challenging season,
I was asking, what do you say to a people who are in a challenging season?
And here's what he told me.
I want you to teach tonight about the revelation of why
and the revelation of where.
I want you to teach tonight about the revelation of why and the revelation of where.
Why, or why, and the revelation of where.
Very important for your life.
If you mess up these two revelations, you will get stuck in your life.
How many of you do not want to be stuck in your life?
Most of you.
We'll talk to the ones who like being stuck later.
I want to talk about why.
Even prophets don't always have the revelation that they would desire to have.
I'll give you an example of that in the Word.
In 2 Kings, the 4th chapter, and we'll not go to the specific verses at this time.
But I will tell you the story that is related to this.
The prophet Elisha had developed a relationship with a couple
and we know the woman was called a shunamite woman
and she had prepared, she entered the world,
and she had prepared, she and her husband had prepared a special room for the prophet.
So as he traveled, he would have a place to stay.
So in time, the prophet had a question.
What can I do to bless this woman?
And so what he found was she was bearing
and she wanted a child.
So Elisha saw the Lord
and the Lord allowed him to release a word
that in one year she would be holding a son in her arms.
Now this was almost beyond the belief of the woman.
And I don't know how this translates to Spanish, but she said,
don't mess with me
and she basically said, don't you play with me?
Because if this is going to happen,
you have to account for this child.
So within a year, the woman gave birth to a wonderful son.
And we know that as the child grew up,
there was a day when he went into the fields
and he had some kind of episode, I believe it may have been sunstroke,
but it was very serious,
and he died.
They took him into the house and he died.
Well, this really upset the woman.
This was a child of promise.
The prophet promised the child.
So how could this be happening?
Let me put it this way.
Why?
And so she went to see the prophet.
And it's really interesting what happens.
Elijah did not know about the death of the child
and he told his servant,
the Lord hath hid it from me
and hath not told me.
So sometimes even the prophets will not have the revelation of why.
And sometimes for us, I would say it this way,
it is not given for us to know why.
Not the side of heaven.
I believe there will be a day in heaven
where we have true clarity on everything that's happened
and all of our whys will be answered.
So even prophets don't have revelation about everything,
much less us.
In many cases,
things happen and we're just not given to know
or have revelation of why.
So that's the first point about the prophet.
And we're not given the reason or the revelation of why.
So that's the first point about why.
Now here's the second and most important point about why.
If you're not careful,
you will get stuck
if there's been a tragedy,
if there's been something that's happened,
if there's been something traumatic,
and you will get stuck in your why
and you will not be able to move forward in your life
and the Bible says you can become shipwrecked in your faith.
You have to be able to be mature enough
to say when you don't understand or you don't know why,
you have to be mature enough to move on.
God will someday give you the revelation,
but you cannot afford to get stuck on wondering why.
Two very simple things.
Even prophets don't understand everything.
You're not going to understand everything.
Don't get stuck.
Now the main thing I want to focus on tonight
is the revelation of where.
Let me unpack this.
In the 28th chapter of Genesis,
we find Jacob.
You know him. You have Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Abraham, the father of our faith,
was the grandfather of Jacob.
He was only the third generation into this walk.
And by the way, since I was last with you,
last October, I turned 75.
You may think that's old,
but that was the age
that Abraham began his journey.
You're never too old to begin something new.
But I have to tell you,
Cindy and I have been pretty busy through the years.
And I have found myself asking the Lord,
Am I getting ready to move into a new season of my life?
Is there a new journey that you're going to have me begin on?
That's going to take generations to complete.
I was sensing that he was saying, possibly,
we'll see.
So,
here we have Jacob, who's the grandson of Abraham.
And his father said, I want you to go to a distant place,
Paddan-er-ram, which is a number of hundreds of miles away.
And I want you to take a wife from our relatives.
So, Jacob, just like his father Isaac,
was a seed of Abraham,
his grandfather.
And Jacob was aware of the covenantal promises God had given him
in the beginning of his life.
And Jacob was aware of the covenantal promises God had given him,
and that these promises would flow down through the generations,
that is, to him.
So, Jennifer read Genesis 28 verses 3 and 4.
Now, as Jacob begins his German journey, and that evening,
he reaches a place where he lays down to sleep,
and he begins to have a revelatory dream.
So, Jacob, in his journey,
he reaches a place where he lays down to sleep,
and he begins to have a revelatory dream.
Now, read verses 12 through 15 for them.
Now, I want you to notice that in verse 13 of that,
he looks up into heaven,
and he sees the Lord.
In the Hebrew, it says, he saw Yahweh.
At the top of the stairs, in heaven.
And so then let's look at the fact that this dream shocks Jacob awake,
and he realizes, and this is important,
he realizes where he is.
Now, read verses 16 and 17.
Note that the dream shocks Jacob awake,
and he realizes where he is,
and also note that he says he had not had the revelation of where he was.
He had been stuck in an earthly understanding,
even though he was a child of promise.
Even though Abraham had encounters with God,
and promises were released to God,
and he had the revelation of where he was.
Now, let's look at the fact that in verse 13,
he realizes where he is,
and he realizes where he is,
and he has the revelation of where he was.
Abraham had encounters with God,
and promises were released to him.
Here we have only a couple of generations later,
and rather than grow in revelation,
his grandson, Jacob,
was stuck in an earthly understanding.
He did not know where he was until he had the dream.
You'll understand the importance of this in a few minutes.
Note that in verse 17,
he receives the revelation that his where is a gate,
or a portal of heaven.
Or you could say a portal of revelation.
We're beginning to see a pattern by this far in the Bible.
And it's this.
When you're in a covenant relationship with God,
you have by virtue of that covenant,
access to a heavenly revelation all the time.
And the Lord is trying to get you to understand
that you need a consciousness of your where,
that revelatory position that you have been given on earth,
that allows you to look up to heaven
and know that the Lord himself is there,
and he is going to speak to you how you fit in the covenant.
This is very important.
Most people never achieve a consistent consciousness
of their where.
Most people never achieve a consistent consciousness
of their where.
And I just want you to know that there's a continuity in the Bible
as it relates to having this where consciousness.
I want you to understand something.
Walking in the revelation of your covenant promises,
unlocks a heavenly gate
that releases an atmosphere of heaven,
an atmosphere of the miraculous power of God.
By virtue of your covenant, by virtue of being seed of Abraham,
this is yours.
You are to walk in it.
Let's bring this a little closer to home.
Let's talk about the power of God.
The power of God is the power of God.
Let's bring this a little closer to home.
Let's talk about Jesus.
Now we know from Galatians 3.16,
and you can read that.
You can read Galatians 3.16.
This is an important scripture passage.
In fact, we'll circle back around to this in a few minutes.
We have just shifted from the Old Testament to the New Testament.
And this is a critical scripture for you to understand.
Jesus was the seed of Abraham.
Not as if there were many.
Jesus was the promise that God gave to Abraham that he would have a seed.
And Jesus walked in that revelation.
He knew where ever he was.
There existed a gate of heaven.
He knew where ever he was.
There existed a gate of heaven
that released the miraculous atmosphere of heaven.
Now you know this if you read the New Testament.
He walked exhibiting signs and wonders.
He walked performing miracles.
He was feeding thousands with five loaves and two fishes.
Whether it was raising the dead.
He exhibited being totally conscious of his where.
He was our example.
It didn't stop there.
The disciples of Jesus were trained to walk in that revelation of where.
Where they were.
There existed a miraculous gate of heaven.
We see that manifested in Luke 9.
Verse 2 verse 2 verse 3.
We see that manifested in Luke 9.
Verse 2 verse 2 verses.
Which Jennifer is going to read to you.
Luke 9 verses 1 through 2.
He gave power and authority to all demons and to cure diseases.
He gave his 12 disciples power and authority over devils.
Power and authority to cure diseases.
Power to preach the kingdom of God.
Power to heal the sick.
Now let me tell you something.
In the first example, Jacob was in a place
and had the revelation of covenant people living in the kingdom of God.
Jacob was in a place.
And had the revelation of covenant people living in a portal of heaven.
By the time you get to Jesus, Jesus was a mobile gate of heaven.
The disciples were mobile gates of heaven.
Wherever they walked, they had been trained.
You need to understand your where.
Because where you are, where you go, where you walk,
you will create an atmosphere.
If you are conscious of what I have for you,
wherever you go, you will create an atmosphere of heaven.
And you will see a manifestation of heaven on earth.
Wherever you go.
Thank you for listening to our podcast.