By Apostle Aje Pelser, Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town

Base Scripture

Isa 44:24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself;

Isa 44:25 Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;

Isa 44:26 Who confirms the word of His servant, And performs the counsel of His messengers; Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’ To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’ And I will raise up her waste places;

Isa 44:27 Who says to the deep, ‘Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers’;

Isa 44:28 Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd, And he shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,” And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ‘

6 Restorations that build and restore the church.

1. ‘I AM’ is revealed

When God speaks about our being formed in the womb – it speaks of the initiative that He had to bring our church and ministry into existence. His word was the seed that impregnated a generation to birth a new kind of church that is built on Jesus Christ the Chief cornerstone with the foundational doctrine of apostles and prophets according to Ephesians 2:20.

Eph 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Eph 2:20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone,

Eph 2:21 in whom the whole building, being fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord,

Eph 2:22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

God makes all things – Jesus is the One building His church and when this happens, the gates of hell will not prevail.

God showed me we are slaying 5 giants – I preached about this. The key to slaying all the giants in the land is discipleship – David slayed Goliath, his brothers and disciples – his mighty men carried on with the mission and finished it till God raised up Israel as the dominant force in the region. I see this for this church and I see God raising up such mighty men and women of the faith that function with anointing and grace through faith and the giants are being delivered into our hands by the Lord!

I am loving the process and I am no longer worried about the giants, because God has raised up my brothers and sisters and dimples to fight with us until the battle it won. What are the giants? Anything that lifts itself up against Christ in you. Bring it down like David and conquer and then pursue till there is no trace left of your spiritual enemy.

The amazing thing about God stretching out the heavens is that in astro-physics scientists still have not figured out how space is expanding at such a rate without another force in between, They are still figuring out dark matter and do not know what it is, so God in his wisdom helps us to exist in this expanding cosmos and keeps it together with forces beyond our comprehension.

2. Enemies are frustrated

When God raises you and your friends up, the enemy is frustrated!

Isa 44:25 Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness;

‘Diviners’ are those who do not speak form the counsel and oracles of God, but from their own opinion and further from a spirit of divination. That spirit works with fear and condemnation versus faith and it brings about calamity for those who practice it. If you need to repent of trusting in fortune telling spirits, do so quickly and God will set you free. He will give you the Spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, who will comfort you and lead and guide you into all truth.

In the book of Acts Apostle Paul dealt with a sp