WEBVTT 00:00:01.260 --> 00:00:06.919 Welcome to NECF sermons. Each message here is 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:09.900 designed to uplift and strengthen you in your 00:00:09.900 --> 00:00:14.140 walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:18.160 the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:25.440 right in. I'll just briefly introduce what we're 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:32.180 going to be going on for to Wednesday. Please 00:00:32.180 --> 00:00:36.640 just continue with that sound. Please I want 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:41.640 you to posture your heart to receive. I very 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.820 much sensed and I'm sensing very strongly the 00:00:44.820 --> 00:00:47.219 things that's going to be happening in this meeting. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:51.679 You are just enjoying what we have been enjoying 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.920 all week. And I know, I know, I know it like 00:00:55.920 --> 00:00:58.500 I know my name. That there are people that showed 00:00:58.500 --> 00:01:02.390 up in this service with one thing or the other 00:01:02.390 --> 00:01:05.530 especially especially for those that believe 00:01:05.530 --> 00:01:08.370 in God for healing for themselves and healing 00:01:08.370 --> 00:01:12.829 for family members I want you if not for anything 00:01:12.829 --> 00:01:16.049 but for the sake of that loved one that needs 00:01:16.049 --> 00:01:19.189 to experience what God has in store for them 00:01:19.189 --> 00:01:22.989 please don't let them miss out on this please 00:01:22.989 --> 00:01:27.629 don't let them miss out on this Micah 4 1 to 00:01:27.629 --> 00:01:35.459 5 Micah 4 1 to 5 Micah 4 1 to 5 if you're writing 00:01:35.459 --> 00:01:38.620 the topic is what comes next after the believers 00:01:38.620 --> 00:01:42.000 conference What comes next after the believers 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:45.640 conference and our focus for today will be why 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:48.599 we gather We're gonna be pointing out the important 00:01:48.599 --> 00:01:51.219 things and this is for this part This part and 00:01:51.219 --> 00:01:54.140 then subsequently on the Wednesday service will 00:01:54.140 --> 00:01:56.640 build up on it build up much more So I don't 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.959 have much time. We'll just establish ground We're 00:01:59.959 --> 00:02:03.400 going to be praying for people. We're going to 00:02:03.400 --> 00:02:08.340 spend more time doing this service. Please give 00:02:08.340 --> 00:02:13.759 me King James. He says, now it shall come to 00:02:13.759 --> 00:02:16.379 pass. I want someone to say, now is that time. 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:22.319 Now it has come to pass. In the latter days, 00:02:22.979 --> 00:02:26.520 in these days, that the mountain of the Lord 00:02:27.689 --> 00:02:32.030 that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be 00:02:32.030 --> 00:02:35.229 established. The mountain of the Lord's house 00:02:35.229 --> 00:02:40.009 is established on the top of the mountains. It 00:02:40.009 --> 00:02:44.930 says, and shall be exalted, and is exalted above 00:02:44.930 --> 00:02:48.229 the hills. It said, and people shall flow to 00:02:48.229 --> 00:02:52.310 it. Say, people are flowing to it. People are 00:02:52.310 --> 00:02:55.830 flowing to it. Many nations are coming to it. 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:00.900 say many nations shall come and say Come and 00:03:00.900 --> 00:03:04.300 let us go up to the mountain of the Lord says 00:03:04.300 --> 00:03:08.639 to the house of the God of Jacob He will teach 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:14.620 us his ways Emphasis teach us his ways and we 00:03:14.620 --> 00:03:18.900 shall walk in his parts see for out of Zion the 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:23.219 law shall go forth out of Zion the law shall 00:03:23.219 --> 00:03:27.439 go forth and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:29.960 and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:33.280 judge between many peoples and rebuke strong 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:38.680 nations afar off. They shall beat their swords 00:03:38.680 --> 00:03:41.599 into plowshares and their stares into pruning 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:46.400 hooks. Nations shall not lift up swords against 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:52.020 nations. Neither shall they lend more anymore. 00:03:52.599 --> 00:03:57.889 Four, it says, but every one shall sit upon his 00:03:57.889 --> 00:04:01.069 vine and under his fig tree and no one shall 00:04:01.069 --> 00:04:04.810 take them no one shall make them afraid they 00:04:04.810 --> 00:04:07.110 say for the mountain of the lord of hosts for 00:04:07.110 --> 00:04:09.750 the mount of the lord of hosts has spoken five 00:04:09.750 --> 00:04:13.490 and the last say for all people walk each you 00:04:13.490 --> 00:04:16.490 say for all people walk each in the name of his 00:04:16.490 --> 00:04:20.629 gods see but we shall walk in the name of the 00:04:20.629 --> 00:04:24.089 lord our god forever and ever i want us to pay 00:04:24.089 --> 00:04:26.829 attention to this this part you see for all people 00:04:26.829 --> 00:04:29.709 that like the way the the nlt words that part 00:04:29.709 --> 00:04:33.589 of the verse the verse five it says he says that 00:04:33.589 --> 00:04:36.910 five though the nations around us follow their 00:04:36.910 --> 00:04:39.870 idols though the nations around us follow their 00:04:39.870 --> 00:04:43.269 idols so we will follow the lord our god forever 00:04:43.269 --> 00:04:45.689 and ever say though the nations around follow 00:04:45.689 --> 00:04:47.709 their idols but will follow the lord forever 00:04:47.709 --> 00:04:51.490 and ever and i want us to go back this is a key 00:04:51.490 --> 00:04:53.209 scripture for the church i think pastor fred 00:04:53.209 --> 00:04:55.329 has being walking. This is scripture that the 00:04:55.329 --> 00:04:58.670 church of NECF is very much founded. This is 00:04:58.670 --> 00:05:00.790 one thing that inspires and motivates us. And 00:05:00.790 --> 00:05:03.410 the key thing is in the verse two. The key thing 00:05:03.410 --> 00:05:06.810 is the verse two. It says, he will teach us his 00:05:06.810 --> 00:05:10.990 ways. He will teach us his ways. He will teach 00:05:10.990 --> 00:05:13.730 us his ways and we shall walk in his paths. He 00:05:13.730 --> 00:05:15.670 will teach us his ways and we shall walk in his 00:05:15.670 --> 00:05:18.990 path. I want us to notice that going up a mountain 00:05:18.990 --> 00:05:22.199 is not the easiest thing to do. Going up a mountain 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:25.339 requires sacrifice. Going up a mountain requires 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:28.620 commitment. Going up a mountain requires effort. 00:05:29.259 --> 00:05:32.779 Going up a mountain requires a lot of will to 00:05:32.779 --> 00:05:35.899 do so. Praise God. And we know that Jerusalem 00:05:35.899 --> 00:05:39.699 is on a mountain. Jerusalem is on a mountain. 00:05:39.860 --> 00:05:42.439 Jerusalem is on a mountain and one thing that 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:44.720 keeps us or one thing that will motivate them 00:05:44.720 --> 00:05:47.420 to go to that mountain is because of what they 00:05:47.420 --> 00:05:49.899 will learn, right? The teaching, what they're 00:05:49.899 --> 00:05:52.779 going to receive. is what will motivate you if 00:05:52.779 --> 00:05:57.759 something is painful you are less likely to continue 00:05:57.759 --> 00:06:00.220 in it because the pain itself will make you quick 00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:03.899 but when something there's a goal i'm going up 00:06:03.899 --> 00:06:07.100 that mountain to learn i'm going up that mountain 00:06:07.100 --> 00:06:09.459 to learn and and it's literal for the people 00:06:09.459 --> 00:06:11.519 of jerusalem because they have to walk up the 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:14.160 mountain we learned it in the week that there's 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.680 the geographical the geographical context of 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:18.879 these people is that they were placed on the 00:06:18.879 --> 00:06:21.420 mountain top They were placed on the mountaintop 00:06:21.420 --> 00:06:26.800 and in Psalms. In the book of Psalms, from Psalms 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.519 120 to Psalms 134. For Psalms 120 to 134, those 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:35.439 are the Psalms of ascent. Those are the Psalms, 00:06:35.480 --> 00:06:37.439 the songs that they sing when they are going 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:39.959 up to that mountain. When they are going up to 00:06:39.959 --> 00:06:42.300 the mountain, they will sing. They will sing, 00:06:42.399 --> 00:06:44.720 I look up to the hills. It makes more sense when 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:46.600 you think about it. But they are looking up, 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:48.660 they are going up, they are going up, they are 00:06:48.660 --> 00:06:51.620 going up. They're not going down. And there's 00:06:51.620 --> 00:06:53.660 a spiritual context to it. There's a supernatural 00:06:53.660 --> 00:06:56.180 context to it. The supernatural context to it 00:06:56.180 --> 00:06:59.939 is that people go to mountains to meet with God. 00:07:01.019 --> 00:07:03.279 People go to mountains to meet with God. Because 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:05.720 that was a place that symbolizes even the temple 00:07:05.720 --> 00:07:09.339 is on, the Jerusalem temple is still on the mountain. 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:11.759 It's on the mountaintop. So there's a supernatural 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:14.399 side to it. There's a thing that keeps them going. 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:17.019 It's not just the literal place. Because anything 00:07:17.019 --> 00:07:19.589 can be located in a place. But what? That thing, 00:07:19.870 --> 00:07:22.329 what that thing is, is what is going to motivate 00:07:22.329 --> 00:07:24.290 people to come up there. If you're not going 00:07:24.290 --> 00:07:26.129 to end something, and by the way, I was thinking 00:07:26.129 --> 00:07:27.769 about it, there was a time, or there had been 00:07:27.769 --> 00:07:29.949 times, someone of us has gone to St. Hilarion's 00:07:29.949 --> 00:07:31.990 and all of those places. When you're going up, 00:07:32.149 --> 00:07:36.889 it's painful, but the joy of looking at the beautiful 00:07:36.889 --> 00:07:40.250 array is what keeps you going. Just looking at 00:07:40.250 --> 00:07:42.189 the scenery, just from the top, because the view 00:07:42.189 --> 00:07:44.910 is better from the top. Praise God. The view 00:07:44.910 --> 00:07:49.000 is better from the top. We see the theme of mountains 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:53.139 scattered around Scripture. This has been shared 00:07:53.139 --> 00:07:55.379 a couple of times. Mountains are very special 00:07:55.379 --> 00:07:59.000 places because of the things that happen on mountains. 00:07:59.579 --> 00:08:02.759 And even Jesus Christ himself gathered the people 00:08:02.759 --> 00:08:05.379 to the mountaintop. And yes, there's the practicality 00:08:05.379 --> 00:08:08.560 of it, where it is a lot easier for you to communicate 00:08:08.560 --> 00:08:11.160 to people when you are at an elevated ground 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:14.519 than for you when you are at a... Even the way 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:16.439 we design our... because it's a lot easier for 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:19.139 you to see me because I'm elevated, praise God, 00:08:19.339 --> 00:08:22.079 because I'm on somewhat higher plane. So there's 00:08:22.079 --> 00:08:24.519 a practicality, but there's a symbolism. There's 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:28.019 a symbolic side to it. The symbolic side to it 00:08:28.019 --> 00:08:31.899 is that, that this, when they hear of mountains, 00:08:32.340 --> 00:08:34.299 you know of Mount Sinai, we know of the different 00:08:34.299 --> 00:08:37.080 mountains, those people go there, remember he 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:38.820 told us that people go there to see God, people 00:08:38.820 --> 00:08:40.580 go there to learn, people go there to be taught, 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.120 praise God. And that is a symbolism and that 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.029 makes this Passage carry a lot more weights and 00:08:46.029 --> 00:08:48.370 we're gonna see more. We're gonna see more and 00:08:48.370 --> 00:08:52.629 God wants to do more Even in this season for 00:08:52.629 --> 00:08:55.230 many of us during the week the believers conference 00:08:55.230 --> 00:08:57.470 We're learning a lot of things. We're learning 00:08:57.470 --> 00:08:59.990 a lot of things. We took a lot of notes We were 00:08:59.990 --> 00:09:02.549 praying we prayed we spent hours and I want us 00:09:02.549 --> 00:09:04.590 to understand what it is for some of us that 00:09:04.590 --> 00:09:08.149 didn't attend What is the believers conference? 00:09:08.429 --> 00:09:10.169 What is the Believer's Conference? It's good 00:09:10.169 --> 00:09:11.950 that we established that. What is the Believer's 00:09:11.950 --> 00:09:13.870 Conference? And what happens in it, in case you 00:09:13.870 --> 00:09:15.929 are not... How many of us were there in the meeting? 00:09:16.070 --> 00:09:18.350 Let's wave so that we can see. Were there in 00:09:18.350 --> 00:09:20.289 the meeting? There are some persons that were 00:09:20.289 --> 00:09:22.990 not there in the meeting. I want us to know what 00:09:22.990 --> 00:09:27.129 that is. For every week, we have our Sunday services, 00:09:28.049 --> 00:09:30.610 midweek services, and then we have the cell meetings. 00:09:31.129 --> 00:09:34.830 So this is us breaking out from the norm, our 00:09:34.830 --> 00:09:37.250 weekly normal activities to something special. 00:09:37.399 --> 00:09:41.799 and this happens once every year this happens 00:09:41.799 --> 00:09:44.100 once everywhere and there's a special annual 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:47.320 meeting where we gather praise god where we gather 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:50.559 and when we gather in this meeting god does things 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:53.100 some things he does unusual things in a meeting 00:09:53.100 --> 00:09:56.299 he does unusual things in this meetings and we 00:09:56.299 --> 00:09:59.200 have long hours of teaching we have long hours 00:09:59.200 --> 00:10:02.279 of teaching long hours of prayer and we have 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:05.000 long hours of practice we have we take time to 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:07.399 practice There's teaching, there's time for teaching, 00:10:07.740 --> 00:10:09.799 there's a time for prayer, there's a time for 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:11.840 practice. Praise God. There's a time for teaching, 00:10:11.980 --> 00:10:14.200 time for prayer, time for practice. All of these 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:19.019 things are aimed at teaching, training, building, 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:22.620 and equipping us. All this is at teaching, training, 00:10:22.700 --> 00:10:26.720 and equipping us. And when we learn, we are creating, 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:29.399 we are learning all these things, building up 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:31.179 expectations, we're putting our hearts, positioning 00:10:31.179 --> 00:10:34.360 ourselves, creating an expectation, and maximizing 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:36.480 the opportunity that God has given us to grow. 00:10:37.299 --> 00:10:39.500 God has given us to grow. And what happens is 00:10:39.500 --> 00:10:42.700 that we see great and greater expressions of 00:10:42.700 --> 00:10:45.200 God's power in and through us. Great and greater 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:46.700 expression of God's power in and through us. 00:10:46.720 --> 00:10:48.960 And we see the purpose of this meeting is to 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:52.720 reinforce what the Word of God says, enforce 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.519 the Word of God. The Word of God hits us more. 00:10:55.820 --> 00:10:58.740 Some of us have not spent the long hours listening 00:10:58.740 --> 00:11:00.860 to teachings by ourselves. But when we gather 00:11:00.860 --> 00:11:03.460 like this, we spend that hour together and we're 00:11:03.460 --> 00:11:07.139 committed together. And there's time for practice. 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:08.720 Praise God. There's time for practice. Please, 00:11:08.980 --> 00:11:10.940 I want you to be praying, to be praying. Don't 00:11:10.940 --> 00:11:13.200 be distracted. Don't be distracted. There are 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.500 times of prayer. And then many people get directions. 00:11:17.080 --> 00:11:19.340 Many people get directions. Many of us in the 00:11:19.340 --> 00:11:21.360 meeting got direction. In fact, it's not just 00:11:21.360 --> 00:11:24.000 directions. People confirming the things that 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.919 people have said. That you didn't even, you were 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:29.230 not there. Some persons I see sadistic you said 00:11:29.230 --> 00:11:32.149 might somebody has given me this exact word confirming. 00:11:32.169 --> 00:11:34.370 It's not a coincidence It's not a coincident 00:11:34.370 --> 00:11:37.529 and this to this even makes the whole and by 00:11:37.529 --> 00:11:39.490 the way the passage we read in Micah Let me just 00:11:39.490 --> 00:11:41.769 say this well while it came to mind the passage 00:11:41.769 --> 00:11:45.909 we read in Micah is also in Isaiah 2 And I want 00:11:45.909 --> 00:11:48.509 you to understand that Isaiah the prophet came 00:11:48.509 --> 00:11:51.090 before Micah But both of them are saying the 00:11:51.090 --> 00:11:54.649 same exact thing of what God is going to do Meaning 00:11:54.649 --> 00:11:58.269 that God will confirm his word God confirms his 00:11:58.269 --> 00:12:01.070 word. I think I give a word to someone and it 00:12:01.070 --> 00:12:02.789 was when I give the word and I realized that 00:12:02.789 --> 00:12:06.850 this was the word that had given to them previously. 00:12:07.570 --> 00:12:11.230 Same and I mean, I did not even realize. It took 00:12:11.230 --> 00:12:13.029 me, I had to, I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, 00:12:13.029 --> 00:12:15.370 wait. It seems like because you don't plan these 00:12:15.370 --> 00:12:17.370 things. The Holy Spirit will bring and many of 00:12:17.370 --> 00:12:20.309 us got words that are so accurate that you know 00:12:20.309 --> 00:12:24.610 that it can only be God. Praise God. And I want 00:12:24.610 --> 00:12:26.860 you to understand that meetings like this are 00:12:26.860 --> 00:12:29.480 not coincidental you did not show up in this 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:31.559 meeting i shared a testimony yesterday and we 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:33.700 shared again just to encourage someone someone 00:12:33.700 --> 00:12:37.740 here just to stir you up to pray last sunday 00:12:37.740 --> 00:12:40.919 service someone because i met the guy in the 00:12:40.919 --> 00:12:42.720 week he normally comes to service i don't know 00:12:42.720 --> 00:12:43.779 whether he's here today he said he was going 00:12:43.779 --> 00:12:46.820 to be here he comes he comes to service he and 00:12:46.820 --> 00:12:48.799 another friend of his that happens to be my student 00:12:48.799 --> 00:12:51.279 from way back and then they came together on 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:53.889 a sunday and the moment he showed up while we 00:12:53.889 --> 00:12:55.350 were praying during the time of prayer as Pastor 00:12:55.350 --> 00:12:58.269 Emmanuel said was encouraging us during that 00:12:58.269 --> 00:13:02.590 time of prayer I got a word about his mom getting 00:13:02.590 --> 00:13:05.110 a word about he just showed up in fact he he 00:13:05.110 --> 00:13:07.210 wasn't the one I was talking to the friend of 00:13:07.210 --> 00:13:09.450 his but he followed his friend along for the 00:13:09.450 --> 00:13:12.590 meeting got a word for his mom that the mom was 00:13:12.590 --> 00:13:15.990 sick and I was like okay which I went to him 00:13:15.990 --> 00:13:17.649 I asked him when was the last time you heard 00:13:17.649 --> 00:13:19.610 from your mom is your mom okay he said oh the 00:13:19.610 --> 00:13:22.889 last time he heard from his mom the mom The last 00:13:22.889 --> 00:13:25.590 time was a Saturday before the Sunday. And then 00:13:25.590 --> 00:13:27.210 the mom was sick. They had stomach issue and 00:13:27.210 --> 00:13:31.049 leg issue. And then we prayed with him. We prayed 00:13:31.049 --> 00:13:33.149 with him. I prayed with so much intensity like 00:13:33.149 --> 00:13:36.009 it was my mom. Only for me to contact my mom 00:13:36.009 --> 00:13:38.210 in the week. And she said that same Sunday she 00:13:38.210 --> 00:13:44.389 was rushed to the hospital. And then when I checked 00:13:44.389 --> 00:13:47.210 up on him in the week, this other person that 00:13:47.210 --> 00:13:49.559 came to the service, I called them up. and then 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:52.679 I asked he said the mom is okay praise god the 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:55.659 mom is okay glory to god the god had intervened 00:13:55.659 --> 00:13:57.519 he showed up in a meeting randomly he even lives 00:13:57.519 --> 00:14:00.340 in magusa that was why he couldn't they couldn't 00:14:00.340 --> 00:14:03.559 he couldn't attend the meeting praise god and 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:06.980 then what we'll see is that you showed up in 00:14:06.980 --> 00:14:10.500 a meeting unknown to you there is a circumstance 00:14:10.500 --> 00:14:12.580 so i was praying for his mom not knowing that 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:15.580 my mom was in a situation and the situation my 00:14:15.580 --> 00:14:17.720 mom was in is a situation where I prayed long 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:20.039 time and we had gotten confirmation and the word 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:22.600 had come and she just simply took the drug and 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.100 then went back to the situation and I know I 00:14:26.100 --> 00:14:27.899 know with every fiber of my being she chatted 00:14:27.899 --> 00:14:30.419 me up in the morning I said you are it's done 00:14:30.419 --> 00:14:34.759 I move around knowing that it's done because 00:14:34.759 --> 00:14:37.879 it's done she had done tests months back and 00:14:37.879 --> 00:14:42.169 they didn't see anything praise God You want 00:14:42.169 --> 00:14:45.470 to hold on to the word, and this is to every 00:14:45.470 --> 00:14:49.570 one of us that have gotten a word. We have prayed 00:14:49.570 --> 00:14:51.950 for your family member. We have prayed for your 00:14:51.950 --> 00:14:55.190 dad, your mom, for healing. Hold on to the word 00:14:55.190 --> 00:14:57.690 of the Lord. Stand fast. Hold on to the word 00:14:57.690 --> 00:15:00.090 of the Lord. Praise God. And I want us to see 00:15:00.090 --> 00:15:02.330 that in this meeting, people will get direction. 00:15:02.450 --> 00:15:04.389 And this year's meeting has ended. It was powerful. 00:15:04.509 --> 00:15:07.350 We saw supernatural things, part of the things 00:15:07.350 --> 00:15:09.730 people on, and not just people in the meeting. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:15.559 people online. People online too. People online 00:15:15.559 --> 00:15:18.659 too got word. There was word. There was a lady. 00:15:18.940 --> 00:15:21.799 There was several persons got word for several 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:24.399 illnesses and God had addressed those issues. 00:15:25.019 --> 00:15:28.100 And hands were laid on individuals. A lot of 00:15:28.100 --> 00:15:30.100 words had come, confirmations and testimonies. 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.299 We had testimonies yesterday. And I want you 00:15:32.299 --> 00:15:34.139 to know the magnitude of the event. It spans. 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.659 It's people tuned in globally. People tuned in 00:15:37.659 --> 00:15:42.009 from all around. for this meeting. And if you 00:15:42.009 --> 00:15:47.110 are not part of it, I pray and I plead with you 00:15:47.110 --> 00:15:49.929 that the next that is coming in 2027 should not 00:15:49.929 --> 00:15:51.309 pass you by if you're going to be around for 00:15:51.309 --> 00:15:52.990 it. And even if you're not going to be here, 00:15:53.190 --> 00:15:55.690 we have a means by which you can follow. And 00:15:55.690 --> 00:15:57.669 you can follow because you don't have the means 00:15:57.669 --> 00:16:00.149 to be here. But if you are here and you can make 00:16:00.149 --> 00:16:02.350 it, and for some people, work and all of that 00:16:02.350 --> 00:16:05.350 did not allow you, you can still be committed 00:16:05.350 --> 00:16:07.990 and tune into it. There's nothing, there's no... 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:11.220 limitation to what God is able to do once you 00:16:11.220 --> 00:16:13.159 commit to the things that you are believing him 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:16.480 for and when we gather like this prayer happens 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.659 we hear from God for ourselves we hear from God 00:16:19.659 --> 00:16:22.899 for others and this is a break in the usual rhythm 00:16:22.899 --> 00:16:25.960 this is a break in the usual rhythm what is important 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.919 and it requires sacrifice it requires sacrifice 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.159 I will keep using the word sacrifice there was 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.279 a time when we came to the island there was no 00:16:35.279 --> 00:16:38.080 means of transport as we have these days and 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.360 then we needed to go to church for some of us 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:44.220 it will be you you you will have money but you 00:16:44.220 --> 00:16:47.220 say oh we can't afford to go to pay for a taxi 00:16:47.220 --> 00:16:49.820 to take us to the place for for us that time 00:16:49.820 --> 00:16:51.860 we didn't have the luxury of the fact you didn't 00:16:51.860 --> 00:16:55.960 have a taxi to call we will trek to service not 00:16:55.960 --> 00:16:58.879 minding out we'll trek to service we'll find 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:02.100 a place we'll ensure that because once you something 00:17:02.100 --> 00:17:05.869 is important to you make room for it You make 00:17:05.869 --> 00:17:07.869 room for it you make room for it you make room 00:17:07.869 --> 00:17:10.589 for it and if I'm saying this so that will resound 00:17:10.589 --> 00:17:13.690 to you that if Healing is important to you. You 00:17:13.690 --> 00:17:19.170 will posture yourself to receive To receive to 00:17:19.170 --> 00:17:23.269 receive to receive and I want to just drop this 00:17:23.269 --> 00:17:25.049 Looking at the time. I want to just drop this 00:17:25.049 --> 00:17:28.250 very quickly and I want us to see something it 00:17:28.250 --> 00:17:33.230 says They will hammer their swords into plowshares 00:17:33.480 --> 00:17:37.799 their spares into pruning hooks. Their spares 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:41.000 into pruning hooks. I want you to see that they 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.359 are changing the tool for warfare into implement 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:50.599 or tool for farming. Tool for warfare into implement 00:17:50.599 --> 00:17:54.720 or tool for farming. Tool for warfare into implement 00:17:54.720 --> 00:17:57.619 or tool for farming. I want you to see that that 00:17:57.619 --> 00:18:00.460 happened that we see we're seeing that in the 00:18:00.460 --> 00:18:03.690 same Isaiah. The Isaiah 2 verse 4. Isaiah 2 verse 00:18:03.690 --> 00:18:06.829 4 and then in Micah we're looking at that in 00:18:06.829 --> 00:18:12.809 Micah 4 verse 3 Micah 4 verse 3 Micah 4 verse 00:18:12.809 --> 00:18:19.269 3 and Isaiah 2 verse 4 Micah 4 verse 3 and this 00:18:19.269 --> 00:18:22.289 same incident happened in 1st Samuel 1st Samuel 00:18:22.289 --> 00:18:30.529 13 1st Samuel 13 19 to 22 the new King James 00:18:31.279 --> 00:18:34.799 He says, now there was no blacksmith to be found 00:18:34.799 --> 00:18:38.440 throughout all the land of Israel. For the Philistines 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:42.460 said, this the Hebrews will make swords or spears. 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:46.880 But all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:52.799 to sharpen each man's plowshare, his macaque, 00:18:53.259 --> 00:18:58.319 his axe, and his sickle. And the charge for his 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:01.150 sharpening was AEP, man, this is like eight grams 00:19:01.150 --> 00:19:04.750 of silver, for the plowshare and the mattock, 00:19:04.950 --> 00:19:09.710 the forks, and the axes, and to set the points 00:19:09.710 --> 00:19:14.190 for the gods. I want us to look at that word, 00:19:14.190 --> 00:19:18.670 we'll come back to it in 22. So it came about 00:19:18.670 --> 00:19:24.109 that on the day of the battle, there was neither 00:19:24.109 --> 00:19:29.220 sword nor spear. found in the hand of any of 00:19:29.220 --> 00:19:33.000 the people who were with Saul and Jonathan. It 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.039 says, but they were found with Saul and Jonathan, 00:19:37.700 --> 00:19:41.019 his son. I want you to picture this. You're going 00:19:41.019 --> 00:19:44.900 to battle. What you have is famine implements 00:19:44.900 --> 00:19:48.380 as just sharpened. And this, I don't know whether 00:19:48.380 --> 00:19:50.200 you understand the magnitude of this. This is 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.559 a whole nation fighting against Philistines. 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:56.230 They are very much equipped than they are. Only 00:19:56.230 --> 00:20:00.990 the king Hanesun has the right tools for battle. 00:20:01.950 --> 00:20:05.269 Has the right tools for battle. And I want you 00:20:05.269 --> 00:20:10.890 to look at that gird. Just go back to, yeah. 00:20:11.849 --> 00:20:14.049 And the sharpen, and I don't know whether you 00:20:14.049 --> 00:20:16.670 are able to picture. The plowshare is, it's very 00:20:16.670 --> 00:20:18.529 funny when you think about it. The plowshare 00:20:18.529 --> 00:20:21.549 is that thing that you put on the back of a ox 00:20:21.549 --> 00:20:23.730 to plow the ground, to till the ground. That's 00:20:23.730 --> 00:20:26.769 a plowshare. and then you have forks, smart forks, 00:20:26.849 --> 00:20:29.690 that one is like it has a pick and then all of 00:20:29.690 --> 00:20:32.049 those things are farming, they are farming implements. 00:20:32.990 --> 00:20:35.789 They are farming implements. And this is what 00:20:35.789 --> 00:20:37.910 they are going to use, just sharpen and use to 00:20:37.910 --> 00:20:40.809 fight. The god there is another tool that they 00:20:40.809 --> 00:20:45.230 use to guard the ox. If they use that, it has 00:20:45.230 --> 00:20:48.390 a pointing head and then it's like this. And 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:50.289 then it's just attached, it's an eight meter 00:20:50.289 --> 00:20:54.119 stick with that metal attached at the top. And 00:20:54.119 --> 00:20:57.380 this is what they use to ensure that the ox stays 00:20:57.380 --> 00:20:59.559 in line. This is what they use to ensure that 00:20:59.559 --> 00:21:01.500 the ox stays in line. I want us to see something, 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:05.839 let me go a bit off to take us to Apostle Paul. 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:15.480 In Acts 26 verse 14. Acts 26 verse 14. And I 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:18.019 want us to see this metaphor was used by Jesus 00:21:18.019 --> 00:21:21.839 speaking to him in Acts 9, but he's recounting 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:29.269 this too. to King Agrippa. He says, and when 00:21:29.269 --> 00:21:33.650 we all had fallen to the ground, that's recounting 00:21:33.650 --> 00:21:36.930 what happened in Acts 9, I heard a voice saying 00:21:36.930 --> 00:21:41.109 to me, and saying in the Hebrew language, so 00:21:41.109 --> 00:21:45.710 -so, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for 00:21:45.710 --> 00:21:47.750 you to kick against the gods. And I want you 00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:50.309 to think, because this is a metaphor, I want 00:21:50.309 --> 00:21:52.490 you to think about this. The ox is trying to 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:55.019 go off and then, yeah, and then just imagine 00:21:55.019 --> 00:21:58.099 the ox is kicking against an object that is sharp. 00:21:58.539 --> 00:22:00.039 What do you think is gonna happen to the ox? 00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:04.160 What is gonna happen to the ox? It's gonna be 00:22:04.160 --> 00:22:06.380 injured, right? It's gonna be injured. And this 00:22:06.380 --> 00:22:09.380 is a metaphor, it's not saying that, it's not 00:22:09.380 --> 00:22:12.539 to be taken literally, right? I want you to put 00:22:12.539 --> 00:22:16.779 it up in NLT, NLT explains it. NLT explains it, 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:18.740 put it up, the same person NLT says, and when 00:22:18.740 --> 00:22:21.099 it fell to the ground, I heard a voice saying, 00:22:21.309 --> 00:22:24.529 to me in Aramaic. So Saul, why are you persecuting 00:22:24.529 --> 00:22:27.869 me? It is useless for you to fight against my 00:22:27.869 --> 00:22:30.950 will. It is useless for you to fight against 00:22:30.950 --> 00:22:34.710 my will. And I want you to picture this. Note 00:22:34.710 --> 00:22:38.589 that this man, at this point in time, is now 00:22:38.589 --> 00:22:42.369 converted. Praise God. At that point in time, 00:22:42.670 --> 00:22:45.529 what he was doing is that he was warring against 00:22:45.529 --> 00:22:48.309 the people of God. He was warring against the 00:22:48.309 --> 00:22:51.559 people of God. And that was him fighting against 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:54.200 God's will. God's will is for his people to go 00:22:54.200 --> 00:22:57.920 and, the Great Commission, right, to go and make 00:22:57.920 --> 00:23:00.440 disciples of all nations. And this was him disrupting 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:03.480 that, killing some of them. We have in Act 7, 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:07.220 killing these people. And then we see him in 00:23:07.220 --> 00:23:09.779 this place making a defense. We learned this 00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:11.099 during the course of the week, Pastor Emmanuel 00:23:11.099 --> 00:23:12.900 taught us during the course of the week. It was 00:23:12.900 --> 00:23:15.400 him making a defense for why he believes what 00:23:15.400 --> 00:23:18.099 he believes. And brothers and sisters, you have 00:23:18.099 --> 00:23:19.980 to make a defense for why you believe what you 00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:23.180 believe. No matter what we say is an apology. 00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:25.880 You're not apologetic. We say it's not to give 00:23:25.880 --> 00:23:27.559 an apology for why you believe what you believe. 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:30.460 You are making a defense for that. And he was 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:32.920 defending himself in front of King Agrippa and 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.420 then the governor of Festos. I want us to see 00:23:35.420 --> 00:23:41.559 25, 16. Let's go back 25 verse 16. 25 verse 16. 00:23:45.990 --> 00:23:50.289 So 25 or 16 it says I say I pointed to you that 00:23:50.289 --> 00:23:53.569 the Roman law does not conduct Does not does 00:23:53.569 --> 00:23:56.730 not does not convict people without a trial says 00:23:56.730 --> 00:24:00.309 they must be given an opportunity to confront 00:24:00.309 --> 00:24:03.269 the accusers and defend themselves and defend 00:24:03.269 --> 00:24:05.630 themselves in the King James you see that the 00:24:05.630 --> 00:24:09.509 defense go to go to the King James Say defend 00:24:09.509 --> 00:24:11.869 themselves go to the King James says and the 00:24:11.869 --> 00:24:13.960 King James he says I said an answer to them, 00:24:14.140 --> 00:24:16.700 the accuser that the word there is, he says to 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:22.359 put a charge, he says to deliver to any man for 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:25.819 destruction before his accuser meets face to 00:24:25.819 --> 00:24:29.019 face and has the opportunity to answer for himself 00:24:29.019 --> 00:24:31.579 concerning the charge against him. Answer for 00:24:31.579 --> 00:24:33.359 himself concerning the charge against him. And 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:38.200 he says he has the opportunity, him having the 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:40.869 opportunity to make that difference. He says 00:24:40.869 --> 00:24:42.509 having the opportunity to make that difference 00:24:42.509 --> 00:24:45.730 is him taking the opportunity, is him making 00:24:45.730 --> 00:24:48.849 that stand, because he says had, right? He uses 00:24:48.849 --> 00:24:52.650 the word had. He uses the word had, meaning that 00:24:52.650 --> 00:24:57.009 the apostle Paul seizes the opportunity to make 00:24:57.009 --> 00:24:59.890 the defense for God and the gospel. Seizes the 00:24:59.890 --> 00:25:01.250 opportunity to make the defense for God and the 00:25:01.250 --> 00:25:03.529 gospel. And look at this, look at what happened. 00:25:04.630 --> 00:25:07.829 I want us to note that in what had happened in 00:25:07.829 --> 00:25:11.250 first Samuel, with the tools that the children 00:25:11.250 --> 00:25:14.490 of Israel had to fight. I want you to know, in 00:25:14.490 --> 00:25:16.329 this next chapter, you see that they still won 00:25:16.329 --> 00:25:19.509 that battle. They still won that battle. And 00:25:19.509 --> 00:25:21.390 you can be here and you feel that you don't have 00:25:21.390 --> 00:25:24.430 the right tools to fight. I want you to be reminded 00:25:24.430 --> 00:25:26.869 that the tools or the weapons of our warfare, 00:25:26.970 --> 00:25:29.589 as Crypto says, they are not carnal, right? They 00:25:29.589 --> 00:25:32.569 are not carnal. But there's something about the 00:25:32.569 --> 00:25:35.230 tools that we use to fight that beats any other 00:25:35.230 --> 00:25:40.240 tool. Because the person that is with us is greater 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:42.099 than the people or the persons that are against 00:25:42.099 --> 00:25:45.420 us. And we say that this battle is not a physical 00:25:45.420 --> 00:25:47.599 battle. This battle is spiritual and that is 00:25:47.599 --> 00:25:50.460 what we explain why they had the victory that 00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:53.359 they had. Praise God. And even when you take 00:25:53.359 --> 00:25:56.799 your mind back to the case of Saul, Saul for 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:00.579 himself, not the shift, he was fighting the people 00:26:00.579 --> 00:26:04.319 of God. Now what he is doing is making the defense. 00:26:04.619 --> 00:26:06.500 And Apostle Paul we know and we have seen through 00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:10.420 scripture is a co -laborer. Praise God. It's 00:26:10.420 --> 00:26:13.460 only God that can change, and by the way, this 00:26:13.460 --> 00:26:15.980 whole idea of plowshare, beating your swords 00:26:15.980 --> 00:26:18.539 to plowshare, makes very perfect sense when you 00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:20.680 superimpose it on the actions of Apostle Paul. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:24.119 Apostle Paul was a man that was fighting the 00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:26.220 church. Now we see him defending the church. 00:26:26.259 --> 00:26:30.119 Now we see him planting churches. We see him 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:32.519 laboring in the lives of people. We see him raising 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:35.339 men. See him raising men. See him raising disciples. 00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:38.700 See him raising, all of this was a function of 00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:42.890 him God intervening or coming into the situation, 00:26:42.990 --> 00:26:46.509 praise God. And there is nothing that is impossible 00:26:46.509 --> 00:26:48.970 with God. There is nothing that is impossible 00:26:48.970 --> 00:26:53.250 with God. And I want us to see this, just to 00:26:53.250 --> 00:26:56.069 stare us up, in Matthew. Let's go to Mark, because 00:26:56.069 --> 00:27:00.670 there's Matthew 9, 1 to 8. There's Mark 2, 1 00:27:00.670 --> 00:27:06.890 to 12. Matthew 9, 1 to 8. Mark 2, 1 to 12. And 00:27:06.890 --> 00:27:13.589 there's Luke. 5 17 to 26 just write that down 00:27:13.589 --> 00:27:19.390 is all the same account Let's look at let's look 00:27:19.390 --> 00:27:25.410 at look let's just look at looks account Let's 00:27:25.410 --> 00:27:36.910 look at looks at looks account Look 5 17 to 26 00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:41.819 very quickly he says okay we're familiar with 00:27:41.819 --> 00:27:45.900 the story the story is this man needed healing 00:27:45.900 --> 00:27:49.940 he was lame and was paralyzed note that his friends 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:53.619 took the effort to go and ensure that this man 00:27:53.619 --> 00:27:57.140 meets with the solution for to his problem and 00:27:57.140 --> 00:27:59.839 this is the posture this is the mindset that 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:01.400 when you come into a meeting by the way there 00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.140 were a group of people that were criticizing 00:28:03.140 --> 00:28:05.559 what was happening but there's a group of people 00:28:05.579 --> 00:28:09.279 that needed their friend to get healing needed 00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.660 their friend to be healed of because they know 00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:14.079 that there's solution when they arrive praise 00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:16.279 god and i want you to know that there's solution 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:20.240 in this house and the solution is going to come 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:22.960 to you when you post yourself to receive not 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:25.359 when you post yourself to criticize or pursue 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:28.799 yourself to say i don't know i don't know i don't 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:32.660 know but you know because you have heard what 00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:35.319 are you hearing What are you seeing? What are 00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:37.900 you believing God for? There's a posture and 00:28:37.900 --> 00:28:41.599 these friends did not see any limitation He opened 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:44.500 up the roof and they knew that once he landed 00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:47.140 in front of Jesus it would change because there 00:28:47.140 --> 00:28:49.900 was no sickness that came across the Lord that 00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:52.880 there was no that it didn't turn around and Because 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:55.319 we have that same God is the same God yesterday 00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:57.940 today and forever He's the same God today. Praise 00:28:57.940 --> 00:29:01.000 God is the same God today is the same God even 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.500 right now and it will come and that situation 00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:05.500 will pass in the name of Jesus that situation 00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:07.920 will pass in the name of Jesus. I want us to 00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:11.779 be praying because when you entertain entertain 00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:15.319 any form of critical mind any form of thinking 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:19.019 contrary to what God wants you to do you are 00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:21.900 the one that is putting yourself putting the 00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:23.559 barrier you're the one that's putting the barrier 00:29:23.559 --> 00:29:27.519 because for God is done already for God it is 00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:30.000 done already and for many of us we know this 00:29:30.190 --> 00:29:33.250 We know this to be true because we have seen 00:29:33.250 --> 00:29:37.289 family members get healed. We have seen people's 00:29:37.289 --> 00:29:39.910 situation turn around in a split. We have seen 00:29:39.910 --> 00:29:42.710 circumstances and situations turn. Praise God. 00:29:42.910 --> 00:29:47.269 I want us to rise to our feet. We appreciate 00:29:47.269 --> 00:29:49.910 you being here today. We hope you carried this 00:29:49.910 --> 00:29:52.890 word with you throughout your week. Don't forget 00:29:52.890 --> 00:29:55.190 to check the show notes for additional insights. 00:29:55.829 --> 00:29:58.309 Stay connected with us through our website or 00:29:58.309 --> 00:30:01.789 follow us on social media. If you were encouraged, 00:30:02.369 --> 00:30:04.509 share this message with someone you care about. 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:07.069 Until next time, stay blessed.