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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.
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I'm Philip Bus.
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Welcome to the podcast today.
Philip and I are going to talk about something
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Amen.
So the subject today that the Lord put on my heart,
and I've preached a message about this
kind of a long time ago, but it just came up
in my spirit again today.
And it's about, it only takes one
and it only takes one to goof things up.
You know?
Like there's a tremendous picture in the Bible
about the disobedience of one
in the story of the fall of Jericho.
Jericho in Joshua chapter six,
God tells Joshua all of the things
that they're supposed to do
and he makes it very clear in chapter six of Joshua verse 18,
he says, keep yourselves from the accursed thing.
That's what it says in the King James.
Another way to say it would be the devoted things.
And I think really what was in God's heart,
I haven't seen it spelled out in scripture directly,
but the principle of the first fruits belonging to God,
I think is what we see here in the battle of Jericho,
because Jericho was the first city that they conquered
when the children of Israel were coming
into the promised land.
And so you see the principle of first fruits,
that the first thing belongs to God.
So this first whole city was to be dedicated
and devoted to God, that they weren't to touch anything.
They weren't to take any of the spoils.
Now after that, all of the other cities,
they could take spoils, but not this one, but Achan.
Achan saw something and he coveted it.
He wanted it.
He was greedy and he couldn't keep himself obedient.
And so he took.
What did he take?
A couple of Babylonian garments, I guess.
Where did he think they were gonna wear him at?
I don't know, but he thought it must have been
really, really beautiful.
He took a Babylonian garment and silver and gold,
and he hid them in his tent.
That must have been a very wealthy place,
wherever he went into.
Sure.
Cause you read about the walls of Jericho,
and we've been to Jericho a number of times,
and the walls didn't fall down.
Like we heard the walls came tumbling down,
cause they found the walls.
It's like the angels just pushed them down.
Straight down.
And the whole army, cause even Rahab and her family
was in the wall.
So think about that.
If the walls all came tumbling down,
everybody would have died for sure.
Anybody that lived on the wall.
And maybe the section of wall Rahab and her family was in
didn't go down all the way.
I don't know, but a lot of the walls are intact,
and they say it's just like the walls went straight down.
Pushed down.
They didn't just fall over,
cause that made it real easy for the army
and the people just to come right across.
So what does it say in your?
Well, I've got an interesting note here in my Bible
that I made at some point.
Do you remember Roland Buck?
Oh yeah.
The man who talked with angels?
Talked with angels, yes.
The angels told him that they pushed the wall
straight down.
Pushed it straight down.
Which is what the archeology shows.
The walls are there, they're intact.
Wow.
That's very interesting.
That is amazing.
And imagine what that did to the army.
All of a sudden the walls are down
and here they're all coming in.
Yeah.
And what kind of weaponry did they have?
The children of Israel.
I don't know.
They didn't have all the modern,
or the stuff of the day.
I mean, they just came out of the wilderness
with what was on their back.
Well, they had already had a few battles.
They had battled Amalek
and they had battled up on the Golan Heights.
So they probably had gotten some kind of weapons
from the enemy.
But you know, God was fighting for them.
So every battle they got into,
they would have won and part of the spoils
would have been weapons.
Yeah, there's stories we won't know
till we get to the other side of eternity.
That's very true.
But what happened, because Aachen took these things
and they were all forbidden to take anything,
when the next battle came along,
the battle of Ai, or AI,
different people pronounce it different ways.
And...
Yeah, it's a bad...
Yeah, it's a, what is that?
The initials for artificial intelligence today.
And that's a battle too.
Yeah, there's some battles with AI now.
So anyway, they thought,
okay, so this little town of Ai, or AI,
it's just so small, we don't need to trouble everybody.
Let's just take 3,000 men and go after them.
And the people came out and the children of Israel,
the soldiers of Israel fled before them.
They turned tail and ran and 36 men died.
Well, that wasn't what they were expecting.
And Joshua was beside himself.
He said, wait a minute, wait a minute.
And he cried out to the Lord and he was weeping on his face
and the Lord said,
Get up.
Yeah, get up, Joshua, there's sin in the camp,
go deal with the sin.
And they found out that Achan was the one
that had done this.
So my whole point is, this one man disobeyed God.
And God said, Israel has sinned.
He held the whole nation responsible for one man's sin.
That's my point.
The whole nation suffered.
36 men lost their lives.
And it didn't look good for the soldiers.
Joshua was all worried that if our people have retreated,
if they've run away from the enemy,
the rest of the Canaanites are gonna hear about it
and we're sunk, we're sunk, we're done.
Yeah, well, I've got a question.
So Achan sinned, but was it the sin
that he just sinned what he did
or was it because he took of a curse stuff into the camp?
So it was probably a curse.
That was the sin.
The sin is the curse.
The sin is that he was greedy
and he stole something that belonged to God.
And it's gold, and it's silver, it's gold.
But it belonged to God.
He stole something from God.
Ooh, that's right because-
Because it belonged to God.
God said, this is mine, don't you touch it.
Oh, wow.
Robbing God.
And so I think that you could call it the cursed thing.
It was cursed because it didn't belong to anybody but God.
But I think we misunderstand it.
Other translations say it was devoted to God.
It belonged to him.
That gives a whole better explanation.
Yeah.
So the point is, if we touch something
that doesn't belong to us,
I mean, that's one of the 10 commandments.
Thou shalt not steal.
Okay, Achan stole, but he didn't just steal anything.
He stole something from God.
Yeah, and it doesn't matter, but look at that.
It's just laying there, those gold pieces.
Yeah.
But if God said, don't do it, don't do it.
So the point is, I mean, he paid for it with his life,
but not only he, but also his children.
His children and his family.
It's assumed because God took the family as well.
It's assumed that the family probably was in cahoots,
that they saw him bring it into the tent
because he didn't live by himself in the tent.
Yeah.
So, you know, they didn't fess up either.
So it was a picture of what it does to you
and what it does to your family when you disobey God.
It's not only something that affects you,
it affects your children.
Remember what it says in the 10 commandments
about idolatry in Exodus 20 verse five.
This is about the sin of idolatry.
You know, God is telling the children of Israel
not to make a graven image and not to worship it.
Don't bow down to it.
Don't bow down yourselves to them, to other gods,
nor serve them for I, Yehovah, your God,
am a jealous God, visiting, catch this,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.
So one of the rules that God gave the children of Israel
was love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, with all your mind,
with all your strength.
It's the number one.
I mean, it's not a part of the 10 commandments,
but it is the one that Jesus said
is the most important commandment of all.
And it's part of the Shema.
It's part of the-
Hero Israel.
Yeah, hero Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one,
and you shall love the Lord.
It has his name, okay?
Yehovah, you shall love Yehovah your God
with all your heart, with all your soul,
with all your mind, with all your strength.
If you bow yourself to other gods,
if you're serving other gods,
you're showing God you don't love him.
Okay?
And what happens when you turn away from God
and worship something else, something happens.
Sin gets into your DNA.
Remember, the wages of sin is death, okay?
So death comes because of sin.
Adam and Eve showed us that
and started the whole ball rolling.
And what happens is that it affects your DNA
and it affects the people around you, your family, okay?
So I pondered this third and fourth generation
for a long time, and then I felt like the Lord showed me
that the people that are around you,
you have an effect on your children.
So you're one generation.
Then your children would be the second generation.
Your grandchildren would be the third generation.
Most folks see their grandchildren.
And sometimes you get to see your great grandchildren.
Okay, so I knew two out of eight great grandparents.
So I was affected by third and fourth generation.
I knew my grandparents
and I knew some of my great grandparents.
And so, you know, here we are
and we have a child and we have grandchildren.
And you know, there's the potential
that we'll have great grandchildren at some point.
So the stories that we tell, the lifestyle that we have,
the way that we deal with our children
and our grandchildren affects their lives.
I mean, think about the stories
that you know from your grandparents, right?
You know lots of stories from your grandparents
and that has affected your life.
So I think this is where
that third and fourth generation comes from.
So if you're a big sinner,
that's going to affect your children
and your children's children
and your children's children's children.
And as DNA goes, like an alcoholic, right?
There's a tendency.
There's a tendency for the children
to follow in the parents' footsteps.
And the grandchildren, each generation has the opportunity
to say yes or no to the sins of the fathers.
Yeah.
So you're really responsible for your own sins,
but the bent to sin is available in your DNA
from your parents or grandparents or great-grandparents.
It's affecting those generations.
So Aiken and his family,
we don't know how many family members there were.
We don't know if there were children and grandchildren.
We don't know who all they were.
But my point is that when we make a conscious choice
to walk in sin and do things that we should not be doing,
it doesn't just affect me.
It doesn't just affect you, listener.
It doesn't just affect you.
It affects others around you.
So you're making a choice that is affecting
more than just you.
So pay attention.
It's really important.
Yeah, it's really important hearing the voice of the Lord.
It reminds me of a story of a missionary that was in India
and he was scheduled to come home.
And I think the Lord spoke to him,
your time is up, time to go.
Yeah, I think he was even supposed to go home early.
Yeah, and he stayed.
I don't know if it was more invitations or something.
He stayed, came back,
and someone showed us a picture of him.
And behind him, behind his head a little ways back
was this demonic looking thing
that followed him all the way from India.
I mean, because he broke what God said,
so he gave a legal right to lose protection.
I mean, that may sound like,
well, I've never heard that before,
but you're seeing it here, the children of Israel.
It's not just New Testament we're in.
I mean, the New Testament fulfills the old.
I mean, God's protection was here on Israel
as long as they obeyed.
I mean, when you go through Chronicles,
first and second kings and Chronicles,
and you look at the story of all the kings,
and I have a Thompson chain Bible,
and in the back it has a graph,
up and down, up and down.
Whenever you had a good king, Josiah, Asa,
things prospered and did well.
And then when you got a bad king like Manasseh,
or, and all of a sudden it go down,
and it was Israel went into captivity first, wasn't it?
Yes, the 10 Northern Treasures.
They had like three bad kings in a row.
They only had bad kings.
Only had bad kings.
They never had any captives, not one.
Oh my.
Remember the first one?
The first one brought the golden calf.
Yeah, okay.
Put two golden calves, one in the North, one in the South,
so nobody has any reason to go to Jerusalem.
That was Rehoboam, wasn't it?
Jeroboam.
Jeroboam, Jeroboam, okay.
Yeah, so right from the get-go, they're idolatrous.
And they were the first ones to go into captivity.
Right.
Right, from idolatry.
But God would always give a space to repent.
Oh yeah, it was hundreds of years.
It wasn't like God slammed them immediately.
It was, every generation has an opportunity to obey.
Yeah, it's like the Lord God, He's slow to anger.
I can't quote right where that is off the top of my head,
but He's slow to anger.
He's slow to anger, but when He's very patient, you know.
Long suffering.
But when His time is up with you, it's up.
Yes, yes, He gives you chance after chance after chance.
And that's why I think one of the reasons why we get kind of,
I don't know that upset is the right word,
but we bewildered maybe at why it's taking God so long
to judge sin.
But it's because He's giving chance after chance
after opportunity after opportunity.
You know, how many people do you know
that are running from God and they've gotten into
car accidents or situations where they've gotten
really, really deathly ill and somehow they recover
or somehow their life is spared.
It's because God keeps giving them a chance
because He wants them to come to Him.
It's the mercy of God.
Mercy, mercy, mercy.
And He's not willing that any should perish,
but that all should come to the knowledge of Christ.
So we really want to see people get saved.
And that's why we intercede for them.
Remember what Dean Braxton said, it's almost impossible
for someone to go to hell if someone is praying for them.
So it's important that we pray for people who,
you know, we might even think,
that one is so sinful.
God, get them, just take them to hell.
You know, I mean, you might just get that offended sometimes,
but that's not our Father's heart.
He wants us to be interceding for them and praying for them
because it's the obedience of one that turns things around
because of the disobedience of one.
I mean, look at Romans 5 verse 17.
What does it say in the passion?
I think maybe even more than 17.
What was that one that you were reading earlier?
Romans 5, it's at least 17.
Yeah, it was 17.
Okay.
Death once held us in its grip,
and by the blunder of one man,
death reigned as king over humanity.
But now, how much more are we held in the grip of grace
and continue reigning as kings in life,
enjoying our regal freedom
through the gift of perfect righteousness
and the one and only Jesus, the Messiah.
Amen.
I like how the King James puts it.
It says, for if by one man's offense,
and we know that one man is Adam,
and Adam and Eve together are one,
remember when you're married, you're one.
So, for if by one man's offense, death reigned by one,
much more they which receive abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.
In other words, Jesus' obedience
canceled out the disobedience.
Yeah.
So obedience transforms the world
in amazing ways as well.
So, let's just look at one individual people
that have made a difference in the world by their obedience.
So we know that God spoke to Noah to build an ark
because he was getting ready to destroy the world
because of the terrible disobedience that was going on
and horrific, it was just horrific.
Kind of like what's going on today,
but without the technology.
Yeah, but we don't know what technology they had.
Some of this technology comes straight from the pit.
So I think we've got some of that kind of technology
going on too.
So anyway, Noah was obedient.
God said, build an ark and Noah built the ark.
In other words, Noah had a walk with God
and his walk with God caused him to obey.
I just heard a story recently of somebody we know,
she heard an audible voice to put something away
that would be dangerous, hide it, hide this thing.
And she didn't understand why,
but she had heard the voice of God enough
that she knew to obey.
And she did what the voice told her to do with that thing.
And then this person attacked her.
And if she hadn't put that thing away,
she might not be alive now,
but she obeyed because she heard the voice.
It saved her life.
And so-
How did it save her life?
Because the person couldn't find that thing
that she had put away.
Oh, okay.
That he would have used.
He would have used it on her.
Okay, he knew it was there.
He knew there was something somewhere
and he wasn't able to find it.
Wow.
Because she had obeyed the voice of the Lord.
So my point is, listen to the voice of the Lord.
Your walk with God can save your life.
Your intimacy with God can save your life
and save the life of others.
Noah heard, build an ark.
And he built an ark.
It took him a while.
Yeah.
He and his sons.
Maybe they hired the local guys to do it
and they preached to them and the local guys went,
ha ha ha, ha ha.
But you're paying us, so I guess we'll do it.
I mean, it may have been that way.
We don't know.
I mean, the crazy man's given us money to do this.
Yeah, what a nut.
What a nutcase.
Till.
So, you know, the obedience of one saved the human race.
The righteousness, yeah.
Yeah, Noah's obedience.
God brought the animals.
Saved not only mankind,
because every single human being,
everybody with a belly button is related to Noah
through one of his sons
and maybe more than one of his sons.
Yeah.
Okay?
And all of the animals that are on the planet now
are on the planet because God brought those kinds of animals
to the ark.
They came in the ark.
Noah took care of them.
And we have animals today because of the obedience of one.
Yeah.
Okay?
Now let's look at Abraham.
Abraham, God told him,
get up out of your country from your father's house
to a land that I will show you.
He gets there and God promises this land to him
and his descendants.
And one thing after another thing after another thing,
God tells him what to do and he does it.
He does it, yeah.
He did some other things that God didn't tell him to do.
And that got him in trouble
and we're still having trouble because of it.
But because Abraham was God's friend,
again, Abraham's walking with God.
He's obeying God and his obedience is creating a nation,
actually creating many nations.
God said, you're gonna be the father of many nations.
So there's lots of nations
that are the result of Abraham's obedience.
So he obeyed.
And here's another one, take your son,
your only son that you love
and take him up to the mountains of Moriah
and do what I tell you.
So that created the opportunity on earth as it is in heaven
because of Abraham's obedience
to be willing to sacrifice his son,
expecting resurrection in that very same place
on Mount Moriah is where our father was able
to sacrifice his own son and resurrect him.
I just think that's so amazing.
But it was because of obedience
and obedience because of a walk with God,
a love walk with God.
A love walk.
A love walk, okay.
So now let's look at Moses.
Here's one man, very special man,
special from the moment he was born, okay.
They could see that he was a very special child
and they hid him even though Pharaoh had ordered
all the babies to be thrown in the Nile.
The crocodiles had a feast.
Nile crocodile, yeah.
Yeah, they had a feast.
And so Jacobet, Moses' mother, did what she was told.
She put him in the river, but she put him in a basket
and Pharaoh's daughter found him and raised him as her own.
And I won't take time for the whole story.
It's a very, very long story.
It's in the book.
Go and read the book of Exodus.
It's an amazing story.
But Moses was selected by God
and he went through a whole lot of stuff to learn obedience,
but he obeyed when God said,
go and tell Pharaoh, let my people go.
Well, he had some excuses and he had to overcome his fear
of going back to Egypt.
That wasn't an easy thing.
He was a wanted man, but he obeyed.
And God used him in a powerful way
to save an entire nation.
So the obedience of one, this is an amazing thing,
the obedience of one.
Then we have the intercession of one.
So Moses was an intercessor.
When the children of Israel, immediately after
they get the 10 commandments and the one commandment
that at the very beginning is, have no gods before me,
and they get impatient.
Moses is up there in Mount Sinai with this fire
and who knows if he's been burnt to a crisp?
Come on, Aaron, make us some gods so that we can,
we can live by these things.
And so Aaron, his excuse was he just threw the gold
into the fire.
Out came this calf.
Yeah, all by itself, right?
Right, yeah.
So Moses interceded for the children of Israel
and the intercession of one because of his walk.
He had a walk with God that he could say,
but Father, this isn't gonna look good for you
if you kill everybody like you wanna kill.
You know, he was angry.
The wrath of God is ready to be poured out on these people
that broke the covenant just days after they said,
oh yes, oh yes, we will do exactly what you say.
After they saw everything, all the miracles of Egypt,
to get them out.
Yeah, all that stuff they saw.
That just shows how deep embedded sin is.
When someone turns their life to Jesus,
there's times you get instant deliverance.
Right.
But there's other times, there's things you have to,
it's just like you're cleansed of your sins,
but your walk, it's gonna take a while to stay above
all that stuff that used to pull you down.
You have to unlearn some things.
You have to unlearn stuff.
It's like it was my rock records,
I had to destroy them all.
Instead of saving them and selling them.
So they were not in my position anymore, I destroyed them.
Yes.
And it was like a cut, clean cut.
Yes, and there are things that the Lord will show you to do
in obedience if you'll obey.
It might be very difficult, but it will be worth it all.
And it can save your family and it can save your nation.
It can save all the nations.
It can save people groups.
Your obedience, your walk with the Lord,
you, you, one person can make a difference.
That's the whole point here.
Yeah, I don't know right where the scripture is,
but what comes in me, it's where if you are willing
and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land.
Exactly.
If you're willing and obedient.
If you look, take your time, it's Deuteronomy 28,
I believe, isn't it?
The blessings and cursings.
Right.
And I don't know if you're going there, but you read through,
we'll do another podcast.
I think that would be an excellent thing to do.
Let's do that.
You know, on Deuteronomy.
Yes.
So we'll let you know when that happens.
Okay.
So think about Daniel.
Daniel was another intercessor.
The children of Israel had gone into the land.
They had taken over the land of Canaan immediately.
As soon as Joshua died and that generation died,
they fell into idolatry with their neighbors
because they didn't obey the Lord
who had told them to wipe out all the neighbors.
Deal with these people, wipe them out
because they came from the seed that Noah had cursed.
You remember the curse that Noah put on
because Ham had walked in on him when he was naked
and drunken and fallen asleep in his drunkenness
and something happened.
And he woke up and found out what his younger son had done.
And he cursed Canaan.
Yeah, cursed to be Canaan.
Right.
So the children of Canaan had inhabited this land
that God wanted to give to the descendants of Abraham.
And if you'll notice, it was somehow in that family line
that there were still giants.
Remember David had to deal with Goliath who was a giant.
And I've been meditating on this recently
and I don't have any scripture to back it up,
but I have a theory, okay?
This is just my theory, don't build a doctrine on it,
but I have a theory that in Ham's wife,
there must have been some seed of the Nephilim
in her family line.
And when you look at ancestry,
you'll find that even among siblings,
there will be different genes that come
from different ancestors.
Like the German gene might show up in one
and the Native American might show up in another
and not show up in all of the children,
even though they're children of the same parents,
because each parent gives one chromosome
and each parent has two chromosomes from their parents.
So my father's gene might come out in one child
and my mother's gene might come out in another child.
All these different possibilities of combinations.
So I feel like there must have been Nephilim seed
that came through Ham's wife that came into Canaan.
That it was expressed in Canaan
and it didn't go into the other children necessarily,
but it went into Canaan.
And that's why Noah's mouth spoke that word from the Lord
that Canaan would be cursed because this Nephilim seed,
this seed that God was trying to destroy in the flood
had survived in the line of Canaan.
Yeah.
So that's just a theory,
because here's these giants already in the land.
So I'm thinking that's how it happened.
Don't build a doctrine on it,
but I think that's what happened.
So anyway, the children of Israel took over
the land of Canaan.
They were supposed to follow these instructions
that God gave them, the 10 commandments
and the other commandments that God gave to Moses
in the Torah.
They were supposed to follow them.
They didn't.
Hundreds of years later, hundreds of years later,
like from Saul until the carrying away of captivity
was over 400 years.
Yeah.
Okay, so it wasn't a fast coming of the wrath of God.
He was very patient, but there came a time.
And according to Jeremiah, the prophecy of Jeremiah,
they were gonna be in Babylon for 70 years.
So when Daniel realized that 70 years had come,
he got on his knees and he began to intercede.
He pled for the children of Israel.
He asked for God to forgive them.
He confessed their sins and he fasted.
Fasted 21 days.
Yeah.
And so he was an intercessor.
And God uses intercessors.
And there's intercessors now that are making a difference.
And you think of the lion's den.
Oh yeah.
Daniel was thrown into the lion's den.
He had an angel of the Lord there.
He had protection.
Right, because of his walk.
Because of his walk.
His walk of obedience with God.
And it's not just about obeying on the outside.
It's obeying on the inside.
Because before I got saved and there was times,
yeah, I lived in Chicago's Southwest suburbs at the time
and I was gonna go visit some friends
up on the north side of the city.
And this happened more than once.
I was gonna get into the car.
I thought, you know, if I die out there on the highway
in a wreck, I know where I'm going.
And I didn't go.
And I really believe that was God protecting me.
Because he knew there was a plan for my life
that I had no idea about.
Wasn't in my vision, but it was in his.
Right.
But you really knew deep down what the right thing was.
You had just been going the wrong way.
I mean, I was a good, I didn't do drugs.
I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.
Right.
But I was backslidden.
Exactly.
So if you're backslidden, you know,
it's like a little sin is a big sin.
Exactly.
If you don't, don't do it.
That's true.
That's very true.
Daniel was an intercessor.
And his intercession broke through the bondage
that kept the children of Israel in Babylon.
His intercession broke through the bondage
that kept Israel in Babylon.
And so we see that Paul was an intercessor
in the New Testament.
And I'm thinking about a couple of intercessors
in more recent times.
Yeah.
In the 1800s, Charles Finney was an amazing evangelist.
Yeah.
And he has these fiery looking eyes.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Oh wow.
Yeah, the portrait of him is almost scary.
Scary.
It's like he's looking right through you.
Right, right.
And God had prepared him as an evangelist,
but it wasn't until he teamed up with a man
they called Father Nash.
Now he was father like as in daddy,
not as in a Catholic priest,
but he was an intercessor.
And Charles Finney stayed in his home at one time
and Charles Finney woke up in the night
and he found that Father Nash was up and praying.
And Father Nash told him,
well, I just take a nap every night.
And then I get up and I pray, I spend time with God.
And this man became Charles Finney's intercessor.
And he would go to places before Charles Finney got there.
And he would intercede and he would deal
with the strongholds in the spirit.
And he would pray through.
And when he prayed through,
he would send for Charles Finney.
And as soon as Charles Finney got within miles
of the city.
Holy Spirit was working.
Holy Spirit was working
and people were coming under conviction already
before he even got there.
The presence of God was there.
And we need more intercessors, beloved.
We need more intercessors.
Maybe you're called to be an evangelist,
but maybe you're called to be an intercessor.
Whatever it is that God has called you to be,
it's time for you to take up what God has planned for you.
Another one was Reese Howells.
Reese Howells, yes.
Even more recently in the time of World War II.
In a Bible school of Wales.
Yes.
And it was a day by day thing.
If you read his book, Reese Howells Intercessor,
it's a powerful book on his walk
and where he got to where he is.
But he talks about the war.
It was a day by day thing for the whole Bible school.
They would fast that day,
or they would have classes or they would pray.
And it was amazing.
And the Holy Spirit would give him things to pray
and Hitler would do them and it would backfire on them.
And that was amazing strategy.
Yeah, yeah.
Amazing strategy.
God had them pray strategies
and they would find out on the radio or the newspaper
in the next day or two that what they had prayed
was what took place on the battlefield.
And God gave victory after victory.
Yeah, it's amazing just being in obedience to God.
Especially in days like today,
where there's so much to distract you.
I mean, it's easy to get distracted.
I mean, you can get a post on your phone
on a Facebook post or something.
Oh yeah, so and so has a birthday today.
Yeah, and you wish him happy birthday,
then you school and all of a sudden you're caught.
And maybe it's not a bad thing,
but if it's robbing your time for something else.
You're supposed to be doing something else.
You're supposed to be.
I mean, if you do have a thing that gives you birthdays,
okay, you'll see it when it comes up.
But if you keep surfing the Facebook,
you're gonna find stuff that you wanna read and hear.
And an hour later, maybe you're.
Oops. Oops.
I should have done that in the meantime.
Yeah.
Obedience.
God is looking for obedience.
He's looking for those who are going to walk in love
with him that we love him and put our face in his book
rather than Facebook.
And it's something like, you know,
it's kind of been a challenge to me too.
It's like you can be sitting or waiting on somebody
or this or that, you know, get on your phone
and da da da da.
You know, pull up, we have like blue letter Bible
and you can just pull up the Bible in an app and read.
You know, just read the Bible.
That's what Smith Wigglesworth did.
Oh yeah.
Very frequently.
Every 20 minutes he was in the word.
Wow.
And that's what began to give him his power
in being in the word and he prayed in tongues a lot.
So, you know, it's about your walk with our father,
your walk with him, your obedience to him,
learning obedience and learning to do things
the way he wants it done, listening to his voice
and obeying obedience.
You know, the thing that's beautiful
is that God has given each and every one of us
our own calling, our own election,
our own purpose in the earth.
And I love what it says in Psalm 139 and verse 16.
King James says it this way,
thine eyes did see my substance yet being un-perfect
and in thy book all my members were written
which in continuance were fashioned
when as yet there was none of them.
Other translation, here's New International.
Your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
What does it say in the passion, Philip?
Start a little earlier, start with verse 13.
You formed my innermost being,
shaping my delicate inside of my intricate outside
and wove them all together in my mother's womb.
I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex.
Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking.
It simply amazes me to think about it.
How thoroughly you know me, Lord.
You even formed every bone in my body
when you created me in the secret place.
Carefully, skillfully you shaped me
from nothing to something.
You saw who you created me to be before I became me,
before I've ever seen the light of day
the number of days you planned for me
were already recorded in your book.
Beautiful, beautiful.
And then the Hebrew of that expression,
before I became me, it could be translated as an embryo.
Isn't that amazing?
Yeah.
Wow.
And now you can see it.
In a microscope.
Microscope, yeah.
And then soon you'll see it on a, what's the scan?
Ultrasound.
Yeah.
You can see it in an ultrasound now.
It's remarkable, absolutely remarkable.
But the point is that you were formed specifically
by our Father using various parts
of your ancestry from your parents.
You were not a mistake.
You were not an accident.
You were created by our Heavenly Father
in conjunction with your parents,
working together to make you.
And maybe you have had a rough go of it.
Maybe you had parents that were abusive
or absentee father or a harsh father or mother,
or perhaps you've had wonderful parents.
The point is that our Father has a path for you.
He laid out all of your days, wrote them in his book
so that when the time came for you to be on the earth,
everything was prepared ahead of time
so that all things would work together
for good for you because he wanted you to love him.
He wanted you to walk with him.
He wanted you to have relationship with him
so that your obedience would make a difference
in the world right here, right now.
You have a sphere of influence that no one else has.
You are surrounded by people in a different way,
even from your siblings, even from your parents,
even from your offspring.
You alone have that path, that assignment,
that thing that God has called you to do.
I remember one time I thought I was gonna volunteer to God
for something that I thought that I could do.
And I said, I know how to do that.
I've got a burden for that.
And the Lord spoke to me very clearly.
He said, there are plenty of things
that you are capable of doing
that I've not called you to do.
Mm-hmm, yeah.
And so I stopped my volunteering to do that thing
because it wasn't what God had called me to do.
Focus.
Stay focused on what he called you to do.
And Dean Braxton sent me a thing today,
and I think we can maybe put a link to it in the show notes.
It's just a little short or a reel or whatever you call it
that a man is preaching and he's talking about,
I am on my path with God.
And I'm not jealous of anybody else
because if I was jealous of somebody else,
it would be saying to God,
I don't value what you made me to be.
Oh, wow.
Isn't that powerful?
That'll keep you focused.
Yeah, stay focused on what he made you to be
because he made somebody else to be something else.
Don't compare yourself to anybody else.
He made you, you.
That's very good.
And he made you to be in fellowship with him,
in communication with him.
He made you to co-operate with him in the spirit.
And that's why it's so important for you
to be filled with the Holy Spirit
and be speaking in tongues,
like we talked about in episode 194
that we did not too awfully long ago.
So go back to that one if you didn't hear it
about the importance of praying in tongues
and how God wants to use you.
He wants to use you.
You can make a difference in the earth.
In your sphere of influence,
your intercessions can drill through that darkness.
Your praise and your worship
can drill through the darkness
that is trying to keep heaven and earth separated.
You can make a difference.
And your worship and your intercession
and your walk with God
will impact the people around you.
It will impact the society around you.
You can change your neighborhood.
You can change your family.
You can change your city.
You can change your nation and the world
by your obedience to the Holy Spirit
by letting him work through you.
Yes, amen.
Amen.
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