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July 19, 2020Default Setting
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Sunday, July 19, 2020
John 14:6-17 TPT 6 Jesus explained, “I am the Way, I am the Truth,[a] and I am the Life. No one comes next to the Father except through union with me. To know me is to know my Father too.7 And from now on you will realize that you have seen him and experienced him.”8 Philip spoke up, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be all that we need!”9 Jesus replied, “Philip, I’ve been with you all this time and you still don’t know who I am? How could you ask me to show you the Father, for anyone who has looked at me has seen the Father. 10 Don’t you believe that the Father is living in me and that I am living in the Father? Even my words are not my own but come from my Father, for he lives in me and performs his miracles of power through me. 11 Believe that I live as one with my Father and that my Father lives as one with me—or at least, believe because of the mighty miracles I have done.12 “I tell you this timeless truth: The person who follows me in faith, believing in me, will do the same mighty miracles that I do—even greater miracles than these because I go to be with my Father! 13 For I will do whatever you ask me to do when you ask me in my name. And that is how the Son will show what the Father is really like and bring glory to him. 14 Ask me anything in my name, and I will do it for you!” 15 “Loving me empowers you to obey my commands. 16–17 And I will ask the Father and he will give you another Savior, the Holy Spirit of Truth, who will be to you a friend just like me—and he will never leave you. The world won’t receive him because they can’t see him or know him. But you will know him intimately, because he will make his home in you and will live inside you.
“Seek God’s face, not His hand”. “Signs and wonders should follow you. You shouldn’t follow them.” “Seek The Fruit of The Spirit more than The Gifts of The Spirit”.
These are all things I have heard either directly to me or pertaining to me and those like me. People whose default setting is signs wonders and miracles! Who can not be satisfied with normal Christianity when what they see in the words and life of Jesus are not what they are seeing in their own lives!
“I believe revival will be sparked and marked by healing, but Not just God supernaturally healing everyone.
Believers growing in and learning to receive their healing by the finished work of Jesus and in turn flowing in the power that is available to them to from the finished work to heal others. This will spark revival and lead to true awakening.
When I say healing in this sense I’m talking about healing, deliverance, miracles, etc... The signs that Jesus said would follow believers who... well believed. “
The power of God and the Love of God are not separate, but synonymous. In fact, they are expression of the same thing... the character and nature of God. The power of God was and is used to demonstrate the Love of God.

The Gifts of The Spirit and The Fruit of The Spirit are not mutually exclusive... They are manifestations of the same Spirit!

The most important part of any miracle, more important than the miracle itself, is the revelation of God’s love and glory that comes through the miracle.

Great intimacy should lead to great power! If power is not resulting from intimacy its is because there is a lack of expectation!
Jesus Healed Them All!
Matthew 14:35-36 TPT 35 the people living there quickly recognized who he was. They were quick to spread the news throughout the surrounding region that Jesus had come to them. 36 So they brought him all their sick, begging him to let them touch the fringe of his robe. And everyone who touched it was instantly healed!

Mark 6:56 TPT 56 Wherever he went, in the countryside, villages, or towns, they placed the sick on mats in the streets or in public places and begged him, saying, “Just let us touch the tassel of your prayer shawl!” And all who touched him were instantly healed!

Luke 6:19 TPT 19 The entire crowd eagerly tried to come near Jesus so they could touch him and be healed, because a tangible supernatural power emanated from him, healing all who came close to him.
Jesus was motivated by love!
Matthew 9:35-36 TPT 35 Jesus walked throughout the region with the joyful message of God’s kingdom realm. He taught in their meeting houses, and wherever he went he demonstrated God’s power by healing every kind of disease and illness. 36 When he saw the vast crowds of people, Jesus’ heart was deeply moved with compassion, because they seemed weary and helpless, like wandering sheep without a shepherd.

Matthew 14:14 TPT 14 So when Jesus landed he had a huge crowd waiting for him. Seeing so many people, his heart was deeply moved with compassion toward them, so he healed all the sick who were in the crowd.

The great motivation behind the miracles of Jesus was his love and compassion. God’s love was what motivated Jesus to walk in God’s power. He healed the sick because he had compassion on them. He multiplied the fish and loaves because he had compassion on people. That was the main point of his miracles!
Perspective: a particular attitude toward or way of regarding/seeing something. Our point of view.

Comes from a Latin root meaning “look through” or “perceive”. An integrated set of attitudes of beliefs. Belief system.

You will never experience life on a higher level than your belief system.

Perspective determines reality.

If we have a “natural” perspective we will live in a “natural” reality which will produce a natural result.

If we desire a supernatural result we need a supernatural perspective. In other words, we must view things from God’s perspective to experience His reality!

God has given us an appetite for the supernatural. We must feed that appetite. We must allow that hunger to take us to the word so that the word can change our perspective which will intern change our reality.

Reality is determined by the lens you look through.

Jesus is the will of god expressed on the earth! Then and now!
Faith begins where the will of God is known. There is NO FAITH without knowing His will.

Matthew 6:9-10 Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.10 Your kingdom come.Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

TPT ‘Our Father, dwelling in the heavenly realms, may the glory of your name be the center on which our lives turn. 10 Manifest your kingdom realm, and cause your every purpose to be fulfilled on earth, just as it is fulfilled in heaven.

God’s will is not that big of a mystery. “On earth as it is in heaven”!

Whatever is free to operate in heaven: joy, peace, wisdom, health, wholeness, and all the promises we find in the word; should be free to operate here on earth.

Whatever is not free to operate in heaven: sickness, disease, spiritual bondage, sin; should not be free to operate here.

God’s will is for The atmosphere of heaven to invade and change the atmosphere of every situation in my life and those I come into contact with.

John 8:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

Jesus is the revelation of God’s will. He showed us what Heaven looks like on earth.
John 14:9 He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Col 1:15 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Hebrews 1:1-3 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Jesus’ purpose was to do/demonstrate/proclaim the will of God:
Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

TPT “Jesus of Nazareth was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with great power. He did wonderful things for others and divinely healed all who were under the tyranny of the devil, for God had anointed him.

1 John 3:8 “…For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.” TPT “…The reason the Son of God was revealed was to undo and destroy the works of the devil.”

If Jesus destroyed sickness, oppression, lack, sin then we have to conclude that these things are not the will of God.

Matthew 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”

TPT 19 I will give you the keys of heaven’s kingdom realm to forbid on earth that which is forbidden in heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.”

By healing the sick, freeing the oppressed, providing for those in need, etc… Jesus was PROVING the will of God. He was using the POWER of God by the Spirit of God to demonstrate and manifest the WILL of God!

Miracles prove the will of God. Miracles bring the atmosphere of Heaven to earth.
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July 12, 2020Posturing for Revival
Posturing for Revival
Sunday, July 12, 2020
Acts 2:1-4, 14-21 TPT “On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place. 2 Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of wind rushing into the house from out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear! 3 Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfed each one of them. 4 They were all filled and equipped with the Holy Spirit and were inspired to speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned!
14 Peter stood up with the eleven apostles and shouted to the crowd. “Listen carefully, my fellow Jews and residents of Jerusalem. You need to clearly understand what’s happening here. 15 These people are not drunk like you think they are, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning. 16 This is the fulfillment of what was prophesied through the prophet Joel, for God says: 17 ‘This is what I will do in the last days—I will pour out my Spirit on everybody and cause your sons and daughters to prophesy, and your young men will see visions, and your old men will experience dreams from God. 18 The Holy Spirit will come upon all my servants, men and women alike, and they will prophesy. 19 I will reveal startling signs and wonders in the sky above and mighty miracles on the earth below. Blood and fire and pillars of clouds will appear. 20 For the sun will be turned dark and the moon blood-red before that great and awesome appearance of the day of the Lord. 21 But everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”
The last couple of weeks we have been talking about posture and how just like correct or incorrect posture can affect your natural body, the same is true in the things of the Spirit. Last week we talked about posturing ourselves in response to a prophetic word. Last week we went over a few of the prophetic words The Lord has given us as a body. (You can review those by looking at the notes connected to the podcast on iTunes or on our site)
June 10, 2020 “I hear the rumbling of an underground movement of believers not swayed or influenced by the lies propagated by those who seek to control and dominate, but chose to walk in the live and power of The Spirit if God! Focused on demonstrating and manifesting the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, proving His Will in every situation!
I hear the rumbling of an underground movement of believers who refuse to bow their knee to public opinion, political pressure, or sacrifice their convictions and what they know to be true on the alter of complacently!
I hear the rumble of an underground revival ready to explode forth as yearning for His presence intensifies and the fire of His holiness burns within us bringing the remnant to a boiling point causing an explosive eruption of The Glory of God!”
July 20, 2020 “God is raising up a people who have been placed in a position of sonship. Their posture before Him will be one of expectation.
Their posture before the world (meaning unbelievers) will be one of love, compassion and empathy.
Their posture in the spirit will be one of absolute victory taking territory with no thought for selfish promotion but only Kingdom promotion.
They will be compassionate with people, but violent with the spirits driving people!”
Posture: 1. The position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting.
2. A particular way of dealing with or considering something; an approach or attitude.
As I closed last week I said, “I believe The Lord is realigning us with His original intent. He is posturing us to walk in the fullness of what Jesus has done! Its a finished work! Revival is not coming, revival has come! Revival is within each one of us.
In order for us to receive something correctly we must perceive it correctly!

Our posture, way of dealing with or considering revival; our approach or attitude toward revival may be THE determining factor if we experience revival or not!
Revival is not coming… Revival has already come!
We are still living in the outpouring of the day of pentecost!

Revival is not locked up in the heavens waiting for enough desperate cries and persistent prayers to pull it down. This sounds spiritual, but is theologically and fundamentally incorrect.

The truth is the church is not waiting on revival, revival is waiting on the Church! Revival is waiting for an intercessory voice who says, “Amen” to every promise that God has already said YES too!

Revival waits waits for the one who stops praying, “Lord, rend the Heavens,” and instead, starts praying and living as though He already has on the Day of Pentecost!

Revival waits for people whose hunger is greater than their history!

Revival is here! Revival is now! Revival is in ME! (say that with me)

We are not seeing the manifestation or outpouring as we say we desire because we are asking God to do something He has already done!

It’s not about asking God to send down more of the Holy Spirit; Its about posturing ourselves in such a way that the Spirit of God is granted permission to be released through us in a greater demonstration.

It’s not about more of God coming down from Heaven; it’s about more of God coming out of His people and being visibly manifested in the earth!

We must awaken to this truth: The rain of revival has already been poured out to us so that we can cry out for an even greater demonstration of God’s power and Presence to be poured out through us.
What is true revival?.
Revival is not… an event or extended services.

Revival is not… an event or extended services.

Revival, at its very core, is the dynamic demonstration of New Testament Christianity. Without hype. Without pollution. Without compromise.
Jesus Christ being unveiled and revealed in His people, through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Revival involves a divine visitation of God’s manifest Presence that produces a sustained habitation of His glory, both within and upon His people.

Revival confronts old wineskins, obsolete traditions, and outdated methods.

Revival is normal, supernatural Christianity in action and demonstration. Every Christ-follower walking in the fullness of the Holy Spirit’s power.

Revival involves entire households, cities and regions being shaken by an overwhelming awareness of the manifest Presence of God.

Revival is not God’s perfect will for His people; it’s the divine remedy to bring His people back to Heaven’s perfect will. A Kingdom people operating in power and purity!
The goal is not to have permanent revival but to live permanently revived!

Revival opens eyes to the supreme, limitless reality of “Your Kingdom come…on earth as it is in Heaven,”.
Jesus did not build comfortable perimeters or restrictive boundaries around The Lord’s Prayer.

Revival reminds Christ-followers of the keys of Kingdom authority that they already carry—to bind what has been already bound in Heaven and release what has already been released in Heaven.
From crisis to revival
Ofter crisis is a catalyst of revival.
We are experiencing a crisis. The crisis I am describing is that gaping divide that exist between visible reality and Scriptural reality, what we are presently seeing and what is biblically available.

We can never allow the visible reality to become our definition of Christianity when the visible reality is in opposition to the biblical reality. This produces status quo Christians at best; immoral and carnal Christians at worst.

The key to positioning yourself for an encounter with God and manifesting His Kingdom is being open to what the Holy Spirit is saying and doing. Allow Him to move in your heart without restraint.

Ask for rain!
Ofter crisis is a catalyst of revival.
We don’t need more God out of Heaven; we need more God out of us, the church. We need to see the outworking, the demonstration and the manifestation of what every believer carries—the power of the resurrected Christ.

Zechariah 10:1 “Ask the Lord for rain in the time of the latter rain.”

What is the appropriate respond to the rain of outpouring? Ask for more. When you cease pressing in to experience more of God, the very thing we labeled as “revival” in a former season can become religion in the next.

It’s the hunger for further exploration of God that keeps people postured to experience the increase of revival.

More often than not, revival is the byproduct of a man or woman who becomes discontent living in a previous level of “glory” with God.

The only thing God will do with an individual or community who truly desires to experience Him in a greater, deeper way, is increase the manifestation of His Presence.
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July 05, 2020Posture in Response to the Prophetic
Posture in response to the prophetic.
Sunday, July 5, 2020
1 Kings 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, present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the earth.”
2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab; and there was a severe famine in Samaria.
41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.” 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink.
And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.”
So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”
44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’”
45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
46 Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Acts 1:4-8 4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 2:1-2 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
We believe in the prophetic. We believe that God still speaks to His people, by (but not limited to) His logos or written word, but by the Rhema or spoken word of God as well. When I look back over the past couple of years at the things The Lord has prophetically declared over this body there are some things that they all have in common.
A prophetic word is a divine invitation by God to release your faith WITH corresponding action toward the fulfillment of that promise. They don’t just happen without your cooperation.
January 11, 2019 “I am stirring a hunger, a passion within the spirits of the people of Ignite. A passion that will ignite a relentless pursuit of My presence! Relentless, relentless, relentless! I have not relented in my pursuit of you and from this time forward you will not relent in your pursuit of Me! I reward those who relentlessly pursue Me. I reward them with unimaginable manifestations of my Glory! As you release your worship and pursue me relentlessly I will release waves of my Glory!
Waves of Glory that will be spoken of for miles around. My manifest Glory is what you will become known for! People will come from three states away seeking my Glory! People who are hungry and will not be satisfied with anything less than Glory! You purse me and and I will do the rest!”
May 31, 2020, Pentecost Sunday The Lord gave me prophetic message concerning the Rain (revival) and this word. “I have not called you to celebrate Pentecost annually, but to live in the power Pentecost daily!”. “I am moving you into a kairos marked by signs, wonders, and miracles and sustained by my presence!”
June 28, 2020 “God is raising up a people who have been placed in a position of sonship. Their posture before Him will be one of expectation.
Their posture before the world (meaning unbelievers) will be one of love, compassion and empathy.
Their posture in the spirit will be one of absolute victory taking territory with no thought for selfish promotion but only Kingdom promotion.
They will be compassionate with people, but violent with the spirits driving people!”
Relentless pursuit of His presence leads to manifestation of His Kingdom which releases His Power that demonstrates His love, carried out through His people which bring HIM Glory!
Many times God will give us a prosthetic word, an invitation, and then allow agitation in our life to move us to respond!

These two passages of scripture have something in common that I believe is for us today. Posture in response to the prophetic.
Posture and how it relates to the church.
Noun; The position in which someone holds their body when standing or sitting.
Mike mentioned 3 things that bad posture can lead too. One was Deformities of the spine. Everything in the body is affected by the spine.

A misaligned spline pulls on the surrounding muscles, over working some and underworking others. These imbalances causes injures.

One of the quickest ways to cause the spine to become misaligned is sitting too much. Not enough movement.

The body of Christ as a whole has become deformed, dysfunctional because there has been too much sitting and not enough doing! Some muscles (believers) have become overworked and burned out while others are have become underworked and weak!

Muscle when it’s not being used atrophy. It shrinks and looses strength! USE IT OR LOOSE IT!

Deformities lead to injuries. The portion of the body that is overworked becomes bitter and it causes division. They become hurt and eventually walk away from the church and in some cases The Lord!

Injuries lead to Dysfunction which leads to LOSS OF FUNCTION! The Church as a whole in dysfunctional and has moved away from its original function…

What is the original function: To prove the will of God in every situation by demonstrating the Kingdom through the power of God destroying the works of the devil!

Digestion issues. We have become obese on knowledge and spiritually malnourished.
Noun; A particular way of dealing with or considering something; an approach or attitude.
You could easily say it is a perspective.

Our posture must be one of The Kingdom of God!
Verb; Behave in a way that is intended to impress or mislead.
We have postured ourselves to impress the world which has robbed us of power to change the world thereby misleading them!

We should focus on impressing The Lord!

What determines our posture?
How we see a word from God will determine the posture we take.
Both Elijah and the 120 received a Prophetic word form The Lord.

“the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, “…I will send rain on the earth.”

“… He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father…” “And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. 8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…”

Faith in His word must supersede what we see in the natural!
Elijah had plenty of opportunities to give up on the word from the Lord.
“So he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” And seven times he said, “Go again.”

They were in the upper room for 10 days. Not knowing what the fulfillment of the word would look like.

The correct posture brings the desired result!
The posture of expectation brings the fulfillment of the Word!

There has to be a tenacity in us to grab ahold of His promise and not let go no matter what!

“…And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground…”
Up into His presence and bowed down in worship!

Worship will ALWAYS be the correct posture! (not matter what situation you find yourself in worship is always the correct posture!) Why? Because WORSHIP IS THE POSTUE OF OF FAITH!

What were they doing all that time in the upper room? I would imagine they were worshipping and praying with expectation of the fulfillment of a promise!

The enemy is after your worship!

He is trying to stop your worship and redirect it because he ultimately desires to be worshipped. (California mandate)

Anytime we focus on it out our trust in someone or something other than The Lord, we are redirecting our worship!

The correct Posture brings increase!
44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, “There is a cloud, as small as a man’s hand, rising out of the sea!” So he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.’”
At the first indication of rain, Elijah responded as if it were flooding!

The response to the drop brings the flood! The response to the little brings that overflow!

45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain.
He responded before the sky became black…

The correct posture releases power!
46 Then the hand of the Lord came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

He was overcome by supernatural power and he outran a chariot!

8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you…
We have worked hard to preserve pentecostal theology of tongues and missed the power!

We promise tongues with the baptism of The Holy Spirit and and tongues is what we get, but in the Acts of the Apostles, power was promised and power is what they got!

5,000+ were saved!

Close: I believe The Lord is realigning us with His original intent. He is posturing us to walk in the fullness of what Jesus has done! Its a finished work! Revival is not coming, revival has come! Revival is within each one of us.
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June 28, 2020 The Posture of The Church
Mike Young talks about how God is posturing the church in this season.
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June 21, 2020Make Room!
Make Room (For the Kingdom to be manifest)
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Matthew 9:18 While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him, saying, “My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.” 19 So Jesus arose and followed him, and so did His disciples.
20 And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment. 21 For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” 22 But Jesus turned around, and when He saw her He said, “Be of good cheer, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And the woman was made well from that hour.23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, 24 He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.” And they ridiculed Him. 25 But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.
I sense a shift in…
In Matthew chapter 3 Jesus was baptized by John, The Holy Spirit came upon Him and The Father affirmed Him.
“This is my son in whom I am well pleased”.

Before He had done any miracles or ministry. The Father was pleased with Him because of their relationship not His works.

John acknowledged Him, The Holy Spirit empowered Him, The Father affirmed Him!

Immediately in chapter 4 He was then lead by The Holy Spirit into the wilderness, tempted and emerged victorious over the temptation of the enemy.
Matthew 4:17 NKJV [17] From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Luke 4:1 Then Jesus, being filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,

Luke 4:14 Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and news of Him went out through all the surrounding region.

From there in Matthew 5-7 Jesus gives whats known as “The Sermon on the mount” where He basically lays out what the life and characteristics of a Kingdom believer should look like.
Then in chapter 8 & 9, Jesus launches what I would describe as and all out assault on the kingdom of darkness! Lepers are cleansed, servants are healed by a spoken word, devils are cast out, paralytics walk, blind eyes open, the mute speaks! Miracle after miracle, healing after healing…
Let me ask you a question… Is this statement true? Jesus is our example and the standard.
If everything Jesus did was as The Son of God then His life is an amazing illustration of the love of God toward man demonstrated by the power of God.

If everything Jesus did was as The Son of man then His life is an illustration and example of how every son that comes after Him is to live and function.

Every believer was created to live a supernatural lifestyle empowered by the Holy Spirit to demonstrate The Kingdom.
Jesus taught it, demonstrated it, and assigned it!

He taught The Kingdom, demonstrated The Kingdom and assigned the expansion of The Kingdom!
Matthew 10:1, 7-8 TPT Jesus gathered his twelve disciples and imparted to them authority to cast out demons and to heal every sickness and every disease. …7 And as you go, preach this message: ‘Heaven’s kingdom realm is accessible, close enough to touch.’ 8 You must continually bring healing to lepers and to those who are sick, and make it your habit to break off the demonic presence from people, and raise the dead back to life. Freely you have received the power of the kingdom, so freely release it to others.

Our assignment is not to merely declare The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, the assignment is to declare that The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand and have the power of heaven back it up.

To say something that is in agreement with heaven and have heaven back it up and manifest it on earth. To give the atmosphere of heaven an opportunity to invade the atmosphere around you.

Matthew 16:18 I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.”
We’ve misquoted and misinterpreted this scripture… You can not bind something in time that is not bound in eternity nor loose something in time that is not loosed in eternity. The spirit realm or spirit reality is the dominate reality.

I can forbid in on earth because its forbidden in Heaven. Heaven is the model for earth.

The Fathers will is to empower believers who will see through the lens of The Kingdom and make themselves available for “His Kingdom to come, His will to be done on earth AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!”
This is the partnership between Father and son, Heaven and earth.

Jesus is the standard for how we are to function, Heaven is the standard for the atmosphere around us.

Jesus lived in the atmosphere of the natural, but carried and subsequently released the atmosphere of Heaven.

You are a citizen of Heaven called to release heaven into the earth.

We as kingdom citizens must make room for heaven’s reality to invade our reality.
We have to start living The Kingdom and not just talking about The Kingdom.

We make room by…
…Intentinionlaly making the renewing of or mind to a kingdom mindset a priority!
Matthew 9:16-17 16 No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse. 17 Nor do they put new wine into old wineskins, or else the wineskins break, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

We must get serous and aggressive about renewing the mind. Why?

Romans 8:5-7 TPT 5 Those who are motivated by the flesh only pursue what benefits themselves. But those who live by the impulses of the Holy Spirit are motivated to pursue spiritual realities. 6 For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set controlled by the Spirit finds life and peace.

7 In fact, the mind-set focused on the flesh fights God’s plan and refuses to submit to his direction, because it cannot!
NASB says it is HOSTILE toward

…By seeking his presence relentlessly!
18 While He spoke these things to them, behold, a ruler came and worshiped Him

…By bringing the impossible to Jesus with exception of results!
18 …“My daughter has just died, but come and lay Your hand on her and she will live.”
When the impossible is met with faith miracles happen!

God deals in impossibly.

Share conversation with Dale and stories of churches being built or paid off from unexpected sources.

Share our search for location…

… By no allowing delay to deter our faith or shit our focus.
20 And suddenly, a woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years came from behind and touched the hem of His garment.”
Delay does not mean denial!

… by hearing, believing and declaring!
21 For she said to herself, “If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.”

… by not letting our emotions dictate and determine our environment.
23 When Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd wailing, 24 He said to them, “Make room, for the girl is not dead, but sleeping.”
They were professional mourners. Paid to stir emotions.

It is ok to grieve.
We can not allow grief to open the door to a spirit of oppression.

We can not stay in grief to the point that it starts to shape our theology.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning! This is the process of The Kingdom.

… by removing every avenue the enemy uses to bring doubt and unbelief.
25 But when the crowd was put outside, He went in and took her by the hand, and the girl arose.

Our response to anything that causes doubt or unbelief must be immediate and violent!

We are in charge of what we allow in, but what we allow in will determine what we release.
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June 14, 2020The shaking of The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of man!
The shaking of The Kingdom of God and the kingdom of man!
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Matthew 6:33 NKJV 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33 AMP 33 But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.
Looking back at my life and in particular my walk with The Lord, things began to shift for me when I discovered The gospel of The Kingdom. I realized that there was a difference between The Gospel that I had always heard preached and The Gospel that Jesus preached! The Gospel I has had been preached was the gospel of salvation, but Jesus preached The Gospel of The Kingdom. There is, quite literally, a world of difference!
I had been preached an individualistic approach to the Gospel that reduced it conceptually to deal only in terms of individual salvation, specifically forgiveness of sin so that I could go to heaven and not hell. There are a few of problems with this approach: 1) It is self-focused. 2) It is incomplete. 3) It is not what Jesus preached!
I made an interesting discovery this week. If you study American church history; the pre-Civil War church preached the Kingdom of God, but the post-war church moved away from it.

The Kingdom message influenced the pre-war church to deal with societal issues such as slavery, child labor laws, the dangers of alcohol, and more.

The post-war church started to focus merely on the Rapture, the last days, and escaping the earth instead of engaging it. This escapist mentality resulted in the church essentially abandoning culture, which opened the door to the secular humanists taking over every major institution of higher learning by the 1920s.

One generation later, in the 1960’s, this humanistic perspective birthed the sexual revolution, which then lead to legalization of abortion, re-definition of marriage, to now redefinition and classification of genders!
All can be contributed to the church abandoning the Gospel of The Kingdom that Jesus preached! We must get back to the what Jesus came to declare, The Kingdom of God is at hand!
We are preaching an incomplete gospel and wondering why we are getting incomplete results!

Right now there is a shaking taking place! We are seeing God make clear the dividing line between the church of man and the Church or God. More accurately, He’s separating the kingdom of man and The Kingdom of God!
“I hear the sound of kingdoms shaking! A sound that strikes fear in the heart of those who seek to build the kingdom of man under the banner of Christianity!
Fear of losing the grip of control over the people they have assembled.

Fear that programs and presentation will no longer be enough to keep the people coming, giving, and celebrating their charismatic personalities!

Fear of being exposed as a fraudulently kingdom void of power and presence.
I hear the sound of kingdoms shaking! A sound that causes faith to arise in the heats of those who seek to advance The Kingdom of God

Faith that the Kingdom of Heaven is not coming but has arrived and is within their grasp!

Faith that His Kingdom has been released within them and is being released through them with signs, wonders and miracles!

Faith that Kingdom manifestation includes His presence and power demonstrated right here and right now!

Faith that when His Kingdom is declared from the mouths of believers, His Spirit will follow that declaration with demonstration that will draw the masses, set ablaze revival in the church with corresponding awakening in the nation!
We are receiving and have received a Kingdom that can not be shaken and will stand when all other kingdoms fall!”

The priority of Jesus was declaring and demonstrating the kingdom of god.
Jesus told us to seek the Kingdom FIRST. He wanted that to be our priority because that was His priority. The priority of the NT is The Kingdom.

The first preacher and the first message that was ever preached was Matthew 3:2 "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”

Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Luke 4:43 43 but He said to them, "I must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent."

Not just declare but demonstrate!
Luke 11:20 “…if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”

TPT “…if I am casting out demons by God’s mighty power, God’s kingdom realm is now released upon you.”

Acts 10:38 “38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

TPT “Jesus of Nazareth was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with great power. He did wonderful things for others and divinely healed all who were under the tyranny of the devil, for God had anointed him.”

Jesus prayed yours is the Kingdom, the power and the glory.

Kingdom = Government of heaven.

Power = ability of heaven.

Glory = atmosphere of heaven.

Jesus had a kingdom mindset while most believers have a church mindset!
A Kingdom mindset focuses on the rule of God over the whole cosmos, every situation and circumstance, not just the happenings in the church.

Yet most preaching today has as its goal to persuade people to make a weekly two-hour commitment to come to a building on Sundays and to give tithes to support that building!

This is because a spirit of religion has captivated the church and blinded the minds of church leaders so that we now have a very limited church mindset instead of a Kingdom perspective.

Contrasting a Kingdom mindset with a church mindset
A Kingdom mindset applies a Spirit-empowered approach to the natural world. A church mindset involves a spirituality that separates from the natural world.

A Kingdom mindset speaks of the rule of God over the entire created order. A church mindset speaks of the rule of God only through deacons and elders in their congregation.

A Kingdom mindset trains people for all of life. A church mindset trains people only for church life.

A Kingdom mindset releases all saints as ministers in the marketplace. A church mindset merely trains people to serve in a church building on Sundays.

A Kingdom mindset creates wealth to transform a community and/or a nation. A church mindset motivates giving to build our own church programs.

A Kingdom mindset is a holistic approach that applies the Gospel to politics, economics, and public policy. A church mindset insulates the Gospel from politics and public policy.

A Kingdom mindset views the Bible as a blueprint to structure every aspect of society. A church mindset views the Bible merely as a book that enables us to escape the world, enter heaven, and be spiritual.

With a Kingdom mindset, churches embrace and love their surrounding unchurched communities. With a church mindset, churches only embrace converted individuals within their faith communities.

A Kingdom mindset nurtures leaders who are world changers who will prophetically declare articulate truth to society. A church mindset nurtures leaders who speak religious language relevant only to church people.

With a Kingdom mindset, pastors release their people to their vocational callings in the marketplace. A church mindset can (unintentionally) control people by marginalizing their marketplace callings and emphasizing only their Sunday ministries.
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June 07, 2020 A Kingdom Response To Racism
Racism can be described as noting other than evil! A Kingdom mindset requires that we judge men acording to the spirit and not the flesh.
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May 24, 2020Silent Killers Pt.3 Bitterness
Silent Killers Pt.3 Bitterness
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Ruth 1:1, 3, 5-7, 19-21; 19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?”
20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

We are going to continue in the series I’m calling Silent Killers. Silent killers are the things that wound your soul, your heart, and if left unaddressed silently kill you from the inside out. The bible says “Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life”! Why is this important?
Because internal conflicts will affect external realities!
Bitterness is one of those things that if you do not identify and deal with will completely consume and destroy your life. Bitter people are very difficult to be around. They are toxic and the environment around them is toxic.
As I was studying for this message it took a turn and went in a direction I wasn’t expecting, but I believe its The Lord so we are going to just go with it. If left unchecked, bitterness will affect your anointing and derail your Destiney.
Anointing is a biblical word that is often misunderstood. In the modern church it is rarely if ever used. “That was an anointed song”, “That was an anointed word”, etc…

The word anointing simply means divine enablement. If you are anointed that means God takes your natural ability and put His supernatural ability on it and causes you to be better than you really are.

The anointing makes the difficult look easy.

There is a difference between a gift and anointing. A gift is something that God puts within a person, the anointing is something He puts on a person.

The anointing is the difference between good and supernatural! Acts 10:38 “God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

Every one of you have gifts, but not all are using those gifts under an anointing.

There is a process to the anointing. Thats why prayer for someone else’s anointing doesn’t work!

The anointing is a multiplier and an accelerator!
The book of Ruth is a powerful picture of Redemption. In the midst of a famine left Bethlehem Judah and went to Moab (Bethlehem=Word or your devotional life and Judah = Praise) and everything starts dying.
When you leave the environment you were intended to dwell in things start dying. When you leave the word and praise and go to the flesh what was intended to live die and what needs to die lives!

They were gone for 10 years and in v6 that “heard in the country of Moab that The Lord had visited His people by giving them bread.” So she decided to return to where she was from.

V19-21 19 Now the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. And it happened, when they had come to Bethlehem, that all the city was excited because of them; and the women said, “Is this Naomi?” 20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Mara means BITTER! Not I feel bitter, I am bitter.

Whenever you start to feel something that is contrary to what the word says about you, you have to have a violent reaction to it!

Naomi means pleasant and delightful! God called her pleasant and delightful, but she calls herself bitter!

There is a big difference between going through a bitter season and becoming bitter.
A bitter season will work for your good, but becoming bitter will destroy you.

A bitter season will help you develop in your anointing, but becoming bitter will stop the anointing. You can’t be bitter and anointed at the same time.

God had just taken then out of Egypt and the first thing He tells them to do is build a tabernacle for worship? Why? Because if your worship isn’t right, noting else will be right!

Exodus 30:22 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 23 “Also take for yourself quality spices—five hundred shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much sweet-smelling cinnamon (two hundred and fifty shekels), two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet-smelling cane, 24 five hundred shekels of cassia, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, and a hint of olive oil. 25 And you shall make from these a holy anointing oil, an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer. It shall be a holy anointing oil.

Naomi was so consumed with bitterness over the things of the past and her current condition that she can not see her future.

In the end she will be breastfeeding a child that isn’t hers. God was about to bring a new thing out of an old thing! God brings life out of a dead situation!

The first ingredient in the anointing oil was myrrh. Myrrh means bitter.

The perfumer would take the myrrh, the bitter and the sweet spices and mix them all together and what came out of it was a mixture that was so powerful the whatever it touched it changed!

Some things that were natural in the old testament are spiritual in the New Testament. The OT is a type and shadow of the NT

What was an ingredient in the OT is a season in the NT.

Because we have not been taught how God develops divine enablement, we don’t know how to respond to difficult times.

The anointing is a change agent. When an anointed person walked into an environment they have the ability to change it. The problem is that most Christians are not walking in an anointing so they don't change the environment, the environment changes them!

David was anointed to be King, but on his way to the throne the journey took him through the Cave of Adullam. Adullam means hiding place, but it also means place of the squeeze! Sometimes God will hide you in the place of the squeeze in order to squeeze everything of you thats not like him out…

David changed the men around him instead of allowing them to change him!

Jesus on His journey to the right hand of God had to go through the Garden of Gethsemane. Gethsemane means olive press! With every new level of anointing there has to be a squeezing!

We’ve been taught anything good is God and anything bad is the devil… This is true, but sometimes we have difficulty discerning good from bad.
Everything good comes from God and everything bad comes from the enemy. But we have to be careful that we discern a situation before we label a situation.

A promotion that takes you away from your family and recks your marriage is not good and a betrayal that pushes you into your destiny is not bad!
➡Jesus needed Judas to do his part. Judas propelled Jesus into fulfillment of His Destiney!

Myrrh comes from a tree. Myrrh is not a fruit but a sap that flows from the trunk. The thing that makes the myrrh tree strange to scientists and biologists is that it has no particular season of bloom. No one knows when the sap is going to run.

You can come by day and the tree if fine and the next it be dripping with sap!

Have you ever been walking through life, everything going great and the next day all hell brake loose!

A bitter season will hit all of a sudden! But you can that every time a bitter season hits, your anointing is about to go to another level!

Every individual tree has its own process. I can’t give you my anointing because I can’t give you my process. “I want a double portion of your anointing”… (You want me to pray for God to give you my anointing, ok. God, let every mentor that comes in their life betray or let them down. Cause people who declared to love them and be called to serve with them leave them and break their hearts… )

They agent of your bitter time does not know the agenda of The Lord.

You can not allow the bitter season to distort your perspective.
20 But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me. 21 I went out full, and the Lord has brought me home again empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

Don't call me by my position, call me by condition!

She was bitter with God!

Stop blaming God for the condition your decisions put you in!

You can not be bitter with God and anointed by God!
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May 17, 2020Silent Killers Pt.2 Overcoming Rejection
Silent Killers pt.2 Overcoming Rejection
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Hebrews 4:12-16 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. 14 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
A couple of weeks ago we started a series called Silent Killers. A simple explanation of an infection is when something from the outside gets on the inside and begins to slowly kill you from the inside out.
Long before symptoms manifest outwardly, the damage is being done internally. Much like a natural infection, there are things that can get down in your soul and infect every area of your life. Things that happen to you externally can affect you internally long before the symptoms ever manifest. There are many things that can destroy your life from the inside, but we started with Rejection.
This morning I want to continue to deal with this subject because I believe there are a large number of people in the body of Christ who have been so wounded by rejection that they can not move forward with their life.
Review
The word rejection comes from the Latin and means to throw backwards. The enemy wants to use rejection to take you backward and keep you from moving forward in what God has for you.
Rejection can cause a soul wounds. Your soul is your mind, will and emotions. “As a man thinks, so is he..”. Prov 23:7 “For as he thinks within himself, so is he…”

How you see yourself will determine who you become.

If we are not careful we will dismiss symptoms of a soul wound as personality traits. “That’s just who I am”, when the truth is, that may be who you are BEING, but It isn’t who you were created to BE! A rejection wound will keep you focused on your condition rather than you position!

The enemy wants to use rejection to take you backward and stop you from fulfilling the divine destiny God has for your life, But God wants to heal you and transform you from the inside out so that you can move forward in what He has for you!

Rejection will affect movement.
Rejection will keep you stuck in the past when God is trying to move you into your future!

Rejection affect your vision! When you not seeing clearly you revert back to the last thing God did and how He did it. (Throw backward). You go back to “how it used to be” or “who I used to be”.
Not seeing clearly affects our decision making.

Rejection will cause you to Reject others. project your pain on to others!
Rejected people will often reject others to make themselves feel better about the perception they have of themselves.

Many times when we have rejection issues we protect ourselves by rejecting others before they can reject us.

Rejection will cause you to project your pain on to others!
Jonny didn’t cheat on you, James did…

The progression of rejection left unattended with.
Rejection
People will reject you for who you are or who you are not.

Fear of Rejection.
Being afraid of being rejected turns into approval addiction. Approval addiction locks us in a performance mentality. This leads to a cycle of pain!

If you live by of people's approval, you will die by their rejection!

Rejection of self.
You start hating yourself because you seem to always be failing to meet the standards.

Rejection of God.
Eventually you start blaming God for all the pain and rejection.

You can not hold God accountable for mans actions. He didn’t reject you!

The target of rejection?
The target of rejection is IDENTITY!

When we experience rejection we come face to with the reality of where we find our identity.

Rejection is where revelation and knowledge separate. It’s where emotion and faith are distinguished.

Rejection is not a reflection of WHO YOU ARE. Rejection does not define who you are, but if you allow it to, it will shape who you become.

How do we respond correctly to rejection?
Jesus was the most rejected person in the history of the world. From birth to death He was rejected.

Although He was constantly rejected, it never affected His decision making, His attitude toward others, or stop Him form fulfilling His Destiney. The key to responding correctly to rejection is Perspective. How you see yourself and how you see rejection.

How you see yourself will determine how you see rejection.
Jesus knew who He was and what He was called to do.

When you know who your are, you focus on your PURPOSE instead of peoples PERCEPTION. They reject you because of how they perceive you, but their perception can not stop you from fulfilling your purpose!

How you see rejection will determine how you respond to rejection.
If you see it as God’s protection, rejection can be a catalyst to propel you forward.

If you see it as an inditement on who you are, it will be a catalyst to throw you backward!

How do we heal from the wounds caused by rejection?
Jesus was despised and rejected so you could be loved and accepted!
It is God’s will that you are healed Spirit, soul and body!

The story of redemption is that Jesus got what he didn’t deserve so that you wouldn’t get what you deserved.
Acknowledge the wound!
God can’t heal what you ignore!

Jesus has experienced it all!
Hebrews 4:4 Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Acknowledge The Word.
Hebrews 4:12 12 For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The Word has to become the true foundation of your belief system!
Solidify who your Identity!
You are a son, not a servant! Serving is what I DO, but son is who I AM!

We have not just know we are born again, but who we truly are IN HIM and how we became who we are in HIM.

You have to see yourself as The Father sees you. The Father sees you as blessed, chosen, accepted, redeemed! Eph 1.
V3 He calls you Blessed!

V4 He calls you chosen. He calls you blameless!

V6 He calls you ACCEPTED!

V7 He calls you redeemed, forgiven, and rich in grace!

2 Corinthians 5:14-21
Forgive those who have rejected you.
Notice I left forgiveness until the end. Why? Because you can’t truly forgive those who have hurt you until you allow God to heal you.

Forgiveness is only possible through Him.

When you perspective of You changes, your perspective of them will change. When you begin to see them as He sees them, then you can truly forgive.

Jesus was despised and rejected so you could be loved and accepted!
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May 03, 2020Silent Killers Pt.1 REJECTION
Silent Killers Pt.1 REJECTION
Sunday, May 3, 2020
1 Samuel 16:1, 6-12
Infection occurs when viruses, bacteria, or other microbes enter your body and begin to multiply. Disease occurs when the cells in your body are damaged as a result of infection, and signs and symptoms of an illness appear. An infection is when something from the outside gets on the inside and starts to destroy your body from the inside out. The infection is silently killing you before the symptoms appear.
Example/illustration; Building barbed wire fence as a kid, I was always getting cut. Eventually it would scab over and then go away. Sometimes, if the wound was deep enough and it went unaddressed, it could get infected. It may scab over and look ok on the outside (for a time) while still doing damage on the inside. Eventually, symptoms would start too manifest on the outside eluding to what was going on on the inside. Redness, swelling, pus, etc... If still left untreated, this small wound could eventually set up gangrene and cause me to loose a limb or die! The danger of unaddressed wound is it becomes subject to infection! The cut might not kill you, but the infection will!
Today I want to talk about a silent killer called rejection! Rejection is something that everybody has to deal with. No mater who you are, your educational background, your cultural background, socioeconomic background, you either have or will experience rejection on some level.
Jesus’ life was full of rejection!
Rejected by the inn keeper, “No room for you here, sleep in the barn.”

Rejected by the religious scholars, “can anything good come from Nazareth.”

Rejected by the ones He came to save, “Give us Barabus”!

Rejected by Peter, “I do not know Him!”.

Rejected by the Father, “My God my God, why have you forsaken me!”.

Jesus was despised and rejected so you could be loved and accepted!

The word rejection comes from the Latin and means to throw backwards. The enemy wants to use rejection to take you backward and keep you from moving forward in what God has for you. Rejection is a soul wound.

A soul wound is a different kind of wound. It is not a physical wound, it is an internal wound. You can be wounded on the inside and look fine on the outside!

When we underestimate this type of wound we do not address this type of wound. And unaddressed wound will cause an infection Of the soul.

An infection caused by rejection does not manifest in pus, but personalities. This will cause us to mistake infection for identity.
That bad attitude… Thats not identity, that’s infection!

That hard heartedness, not allowing anyone to get close to you.. Unable to connect on anything more than surface level… That’s not identity, that’s infection!

That works mentality that says “if I want something done right I have to do it myself”, that’s infection!

That people pleasing tendency that sacrifices your purpose on the alter of some else’s pleasure… That’s infection!

That messiah complex that drives me to swoop in and save the day, help people who don’t even want to help themselves… That’s infection!

That timidity that will not allow your to use the gifts and talents God gave you because your afraid of failure… Thats not identity, That’s infection!

We cannot dismiss dysfunction as identity! Why? Because dismissed dysfunction will destroy destiny!

We don’t want to deal with dysfunction because it hurts!

No doubt God is the great healer, but sometimes I would prefer a little more anesthetic. An anesthetic is a substance that induces insensitivity to pain.

The Lord spoke to me and said; “There is power in pain. Pain will motivate you to change. When you are tired enough of the pain you will deal with the cause. I shielded you from experiencing much of the pain because you couldn’t handle it, but I allowed you to experience a certain amount of pain to persuade you of my faithfulness!”
Transition: Rejection is a silent killer! If left unaddressed, it is a wound that will destroy your life from the inside out. Our text and the overall story of our text is full of rejection and the corresponding manifestations. I can not find anyone in the Bible other than Jesus who experienced more rejection that David. But David was not the only one in our text to experience rejection.
“Now the Lord said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons.”
Samuel was partial to king Saul because God had used him to anoint him King. He was mourning over the rejection of Saul. Sometimes you have to stop looking at the dead things to see the living.

Samuel was taking Saul’s rejection personally and it was restricting his movement! Rejection will keep you locked in the past when God wants to move you into your future!

Rejection will keep you mourning dead things and cause you to miss new opportunities.

Rejection will affect movement.

6 So it was, when they came, that he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!” 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
Samuel was a seer yet he could not see that Eliab was not Gods chosen king. He was seeing through the eyes of disappointment and rejection.

Rejection can distort your vision!

When you not seeing clearly you revert back to the last thing God did and how He did it.
1 Samuel 9:2 NKJV [2] And he had a choice and handsome son whose name was Saul. There was not a more handsome person than he among the children of Israel. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.

Saul was the people’s choice based on the peoples criteria, But God said, No Samuel, we are doing it my way this time!

Don’t let the rejection of others distort your vision.

Some of you are looking at todays spouse through a 20 year old divorce!

Some of your are looking at your future calling though the eyes of your past failure!

Rejection will affect vision!

he looked at Eliab and said, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him!” 7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “…I have refused him.
Eliab was rejected for a position he wasn’t even seeking!

What if for Eliab, this wasn’t a test, but training? What if God was training Eliab to walk about from things he wants, but don’t belong to him?

Everything that looks like elevation isn’t my assignment.

Sometimes God will take something away from you in one season to teach you to walk away from something in another season!

Sometimes rejection is for your own good! Sometimes, God will use rejection to sharpen discernment!

1 Samuel 17:28 Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger was aroused against David, and he said, “Why did you come down here? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and the insolence of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”29 And David said, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” 30 Then he turned from him toward another and said the same thing
Rejection perceived wrong will be handled wrong!

Rejection will cause you to be angry with people who didn't even reject you!

Rejected people reject people will often reject others to make themselves feel better about the perception they have of themselves.

The hurt of rejection will manifest in your words. Because you question your value, you will use words to diminish the value of others.

Rejection will cause you to be dismissed. “What have I done now?” Is an indicator that this was not a new thing but an ongoing attitude from Eliab toward David.

10 Thus Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The Lord has not chosen these.” 11 And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all the young men here?” Then he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and there he is, keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him. For we will not sit down till he comes here.”
6 more sons passed by. I’m sure Samuel was confused by now. “Lord, I thought you told me to ….”

This is the first mention of David in the Bible. The first time we hear of David, we hear of rejection. David’s story begins with him being rejected by men, yet appointed by God!

He was relegated to the worst task in the family. Exiled to the fields to tend sheep!

His own family, the ones closest to him didn't even know there was a King in Him! Just because they see you often doesn’t mean they see you right!

He was isolated… Sometimes the isolation of rejection will open the door to the comfort of intimacy!

It might be that the people who rejected you in one season God will make stand for you in another season!

12 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with bright eyes, and good-looking. And the Lord said, “Arise, anoint him; for this is the one!” 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.
I can imagine how David must have felt when he shows up and see’s whats going on.
“Dad, you couldn’t even call me?” “You didn’t think enough of me to even include me.”

Rejected by his dad. The one who was supposed to protect him. The one charged with raising him. The one who was supposed to be there for him no matter what!

The rejection that hurts the most is from those closest to you!

You're going to choose addiction over me, your own son.

Most of the time rejection says more about them than it does about you!
Many scholars believe that David’s father rejected him because he was the child of another women. David said “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.”

It could be that David’s father rejected him because he reminded him of his own failures.

There stands David, picked by God to hold the highest position in the known world, yet rejected by his own father.

Oily yet injured! Anointed but broken. Talented yet tormented by rejection.

Don’t mistake anointing for healing!

Many people refuse to deal with the wound of rejection because they think they are good because their anointed.

Jesus was despised and rejected so you could be loved and accepted!
For some of you, the silent killer of rejection is killing you softly. You look good on the outside, but inside your dying.

Don't let the wound of rejection infected the rest of your life. Jesus paid the price, He took your place so that you could take His!
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