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Father, I thank you for your wonderful presence
as you continue to minister to our hearts
and to our lives on a regular basis.
Lord, you're so faithful to us.
You're so good.
God is good.
You're always good to us.
And Lord, this afternoon is no different.
You're good.
You're good and your mercy endures forever.
Hallelujah.
Thank you, Lord.
Thank you for your goodness to our hearts
and to our lives.
Lord, prove yourself faithful one more time to
us this afternoon.
Minister to each one of us your heart
through your word, I pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Wonderful to have Pastor David back with us.
I don't know, Pastor David.
Pastor David was gone for like 45 days,
but it seemed like a whole year, Brother
David.
It's good to have you back with us.
I was so excited to see him today.
I gave him a big bear hug and
I just prayed I wouldn't break his back
or do something really dumb.
But we get so excited to see our
pastors when they come back.
We love them so deeply.
This afternoon, I want to speak to you
and the message that I've entitled this afternoon
is the insignificant person is important to God.
How many of you could say today that
there have been so many times I feel
so insignificant, I don't even think that, don't
put your hands up, we'll save it for
the altar call.
But there are definite times that we feel
so insignificant.
But I want to speak to you today
about the person who feels insignificant.
You are important to God and we'll see
that in the scriptures this afternoon.
In Deuteronomy, there is a wonderful promise.
God gave a promise this morning through the
ministry of the word.
Here's another promise for you in Deuteronomy.
It's in chapter 4, verse 29, and it
says, Now, Deuteronomy
is, the title of Deuteronomy is like a
second rendering or a second writing of, and
actually it's a compilation of thoughts that came
from Exodus and Leviticus and Numbers, and now
Moses is reiterating some of the most powerful
truths to the people of God.
And right in the very beginning of this
awesome book, God knows, and God has spoken
to Moses and has said to him, he
knows that the heart of God's people are
going to go through trying times, they're going
to turn from God, they're going to sin,
and then God's going to sell them into
the hand of the enemy, they're going to
go to great places all over the earth,
and this is the context of this verse
29 of chapter 4 of Deuteronomy, that God
is saying to his people, this is the
love of God that he's saying to his
people.
He says, He says, regardless where you go,
from thence, the word thence means the farthest
place on the earth.
God is saying, it doesn't matter how far
you've gone, how deep you've gone, it doesn't
matter how bad the situation has become in
your life.
What God is saying is that everything, no
matter how deep you've gone, to the very
gutter itself, you've failed, you've stumbled, you've fallen,
you've come short of everything that God intended
for your life.
But the promise of God is this, that
from thence, in that place, if you recognize,
like the prodigal son in the very pig
pen itself, if from that place you seek
the Lord, or you turn your heart to
the Lord, he says, thy God, thou shalt
find him.
Powerful promise, it doesn't matter where you go,
how far you've gone, that the soul that
turns to the Lord, you'll find him.
See, that's God's heart to us.
He wants you to know that I will
go after you, I will find you wherever
you are at, to the lowest part, that's
where I'll find you.
You turn to me, you will find me
again, the insignificant person.
See, it's in those times when we're so
low, so far, so deep, that we feel
so insignificant, but you're still important to the
heart of God.
Let me tell you a story.
It's a true story of a husband and
a wife, and I want to spend some
time on this husband and wife, just telling
you their testimony about this woman.
She felt so insignificant, very insignificant, and yet
God finds this person.
The husband of this particular woman declared that
he's the head of the household one day.
He marches in and he declares, I'm the
head of the household.
He makes a baronial decision, and he says,
I've taken an offer, which means relocating.
We're going to another part of the country,
and you're all going with me.
So this husband took his family, they relocated
to another part of the country.
But see, the problem was, is that this
man relocated, not because it was a better
offer necessarily.
It was because he was tired of the
conflict or the pressure of being sold out
to God meant.
And he knew that if he could get
his family away from these circumstances, that he
could live a duplicitous life.
And so he does.
He moves them away from where they are.
They go to another part of the country,
and really what he has done, he has
partnered with the world, and he wants to
partner with God.
He wants to have it both ways.
So he's taken the family and they've moved.
Unfortunately, the family being dragged along, they are
dragged along with his mediocrity, his lukewarmness, his
duplicity.
You see, the wife, the wife in this
situation, she goes with her husband.
She's a dutiful wife.
She loves her husband.
She packs the things up, they move, they
go to another part of the country, and
when they land up in this place, she
tries to make some semblance of a godly
home for the family.
Unfortunately, it ends up nagging.
And she begins to say, well, if you
didn't watch so much TV, why don't you
spend some time with the kids?
Why don't you pray and read?
So instead of encouraging the family, she's struggling.
This woman is feeling insignificant right now.
Her husband's moved.
He's living two worlds.
This life is topsy-turvy.
She's lonely, and basically she gives up.
In time, she embraces this life of mediocrity.
The family devotions have ceased long ago.
There's no prayer anymore in the house.
Bible reading has stopped.
Ritual trips to worship are made, enough times
just to appease the conscience.
And yet, deep down in this woman's soul,
she feels like nothing.
She feels like, what is life?
Is my life wrapped up?
She's embraced this mediocre lifestyle.
He goes to the job.
He's one thing on the job.
He's one thing at church, in worship.
And she's living in between this.
She tries to hold the family together, and
things just begin to break down.
And soon, this woman is embracing everything that
her husband's embraced.
She just, she gives up.
She gives up.
She's tired of nagging about the TV always
being on.
She's always, she's tired of arguing.
She's tired of these things, the pressure.
And she just, basically, as time goes on,
she gives up.
How many are like that?
How many have experienced that?
How many have traveled with family and gone
to different places, and suddenly the struggle is
so hard, it's so difficult.
And so we end up giving up.
We appease the conscience with going to a
service now and then, but the fire of
God is gone.
There's no longer that pulsating burn and desire
and depth, I want to serve God with
all of my soul.
What's happened to the fire?
It's gone.
There's no longer that deep-seated yearning, and
it's okay, they sit, life goes on.
And it's not that he doesn't provide.
It's not that he doesn't get a good
salary and give the money to the family
and supply for their college and home and
everything.
It's not that he's a bad man.
It's not that he's a terrible husband.
He's not an abuser.
It's just that he prefers to live a
life of compromise.
But what does it do to the family?
Here is this family who is now feeling
insignificant, defeated, inferior.
I know couples today that are working through
adultery in the relationship, and because of the
hurt and the pain, and for some couples
today that you might even be in the
house, the pain is still so real.
It's such a deep-seated hurt and pain,
and the wife or the husband is just
in such turmoil because of the difficulties, the
difficulty that's coming to the home and the
pain.
And I speak to these people, and what's
the significance of life?
I feel so insignificant.
Does God even know me?
Does he know my name?
Does he know where we live?
Does he know my phone number?
Insignificance.
You see, duplicity or neutrality.
Neutrality cannot satisfy.
It doesn't matter how you code it, how
you taint it.
It doesn't matter how you present it.
But neutrality or duplicity, a double lifestyle, it
doesn't satisfy.
John the Revelator says it like this.
He says, He says, You
see, John the Revelator knew and understood about
the lukewarm person or the person who has
entered into this place of neutrality, neither hot
nor cold.
It doesn't satisfy.
He goes on to say, Your values are
lost, thinking yourself rich, but in actual fact,
you're poor.
So it doesn't matter how much money you're
making or how well you're doing on the
job.
If it's a duplicitous lifestyle, it doesn't satisfy.
He says, He says, There's no
protection.
How do you fight against sin when you
don't have the impetus to rise up and
seek the Lord?
How do you fight against the enemy when
he comes into the home and you see
destruction all around about you?
Where does the impetus come from?
How do you stand up against the enemy
when he comes in like a flood?
God's given us promises.
He'll raise up the standard.
But when you're living a double life, you
don't believe it.
Your discernment has failed, thinking you see, but
actually you're blind.
You see, the duplicity of the double life,
beloved, leaves people lonely.
I've spoken to some of these folks, like
I mentioned.
Some people are so struggling because they're out
of work and they feel insignificant.
Some of them are feeling so lonely and
they don't know.
Well, if you're living a double life, how
do you fit in with people at work?
How do you say, yep, I want to
go to the bar with you and drink
and carouse and talk about the things?
How do you fit in when your conscience
is smiting you on the one hand?
But then you go home and you just
don't want to read the Bible.
You'd rather turn the television on.
You see, you end up being the most
lonely person.
Well, I don't want to go to that
church anymore.
That church, they're too fanatical for me.
But you see, it's the double life that's
causing you to feel lonely.
You don't fit in with the church.
You don't fit in with the people at
work.
It's just a case of going on and
around.
And there's this loneliness that creeps in.
And this is what happened to this wife.
She becomes tremendously lonely and feeling insignificant.
Duplicity leaves you powerless, like I've mentioned.
You don't have the power to fight against
the enemy.
It leaves you with hopelessness.
You don't see the light at the end
of the tunnel.
But yet, the Bible says that from thence,
you see the heart of God.
He says, even from that place, if you
will turn and you seek me, you'll find
me.
The heart of God says, you will find
me.
For every single person in the house today
that you might have lived a double life
for too long now, God says, I'm speaking
to you this afternoon.
Maybe you feel insignificant with God, but God
is saying to you this afternoon, if you
turn your heart to me, I'll be found
of you.
I know where you've been.
I know what you've been doing.
I know what's been going on in your
life.
But I will be found of you if
you turn to me with your whole heart.
Now, turn with me to Judges chapter 4,
because this husband and wife story actually is
a biblical one.
And I want to share this.
I didn't want to read the Scripture to
you because it's such a common verse of
Scripture, a portion of Scripture, that the moment
I read it to you, you would go
into your own thinking process on it.
But I wanted to share with you, from
studying the Word, what this is all about.
In Judges chapter 4, you see, it's about
a wife by the name of Jael, and
her husband is Heber.
Now, Heber in verse 11, chapter 4, verse
11, Now Heber the Kenite, which was of
the children of Hobab, the father-in-law
of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites,
and they were living in the south of
Israel at the time, and he pitched his
tent unto the plain of Zanim, which is
by Kadesh, which is in the north of
the country.
And so we see that they moved, so
he makes this move, he goes to the
north of the country, and he comes into
a place where he makes peace with the
people.
Look at this in verse 17.
This is probably one of the saddest verses
of Scripture of the person living a double
lifestyle.
Verse 17 says, Howbeit Sisera fled away on
his feet to the tent of Jael, the
wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was
peace between Jabin the king of Hazor, who
is a Canaanite, and the house of Heber
the Kenite.
And so here we have the story of
this man who does move, and the problem
is that he makes peace, and he's living
in a land.
Now, there was this oppression in the land
from Jabin, who was the king of Canaan
at the time, and Sisera was his general
with 900 chariots of iron, and there was
this great oppression.
But they make peace.
There's this peace, and the word peace is
shalom.
Beloved, it's so sad when you see children
of God who make peace with the enemy
and with the world, and in the end
they start saying, shalom to the world.
Peace with the world.
Let there be peace, and I'll walk with
you, and peace with me.
Just don't mess with my family life.
I want to serve God, but I want
peace.
I don't want it to be radical.
And so they come and they live in
this place where there is this compromise between
the two of them.
See, many households have made peace with things
that destroy.
The Canaanites should be absolute for destruction, devoted
to destruction.
God says, I want you to utterly destroy
them.
But it's amazing how many households today still
are saying shalom to things of the world,
knowing that they're going to destroy them.
We sit in our homes, and we maybe
turn on to different stations on the television.
We know that it's not good for the
family, but we say, shalom, peace.
And yet we're sitting under this which will
bring destruction to our lives.
So many people, tired of the struggle.
This is what happened to Jael.
Tired of the struggle.
Found it easier to compromise than to fight.
Tired of the arguments in the household, and
simply give up.
Finally the embrace of the world comes.
Like so many, she embraces the world.
And she invites...
You see the very fact that the scripture
says that Sisera...
Look what it says in the same verse.
Howbeit Sisera fled.
So here is the army of God.
Barak and Deborah have made war with them,
and they are fleeing.
Sisera is fleeing.
His army has been defeated.
Now this general has fled.
He's on the foot.
He's running.
But look what it says.
He goes directly to the tent of Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenad, for there
was peace.
So it's obvious that this general knew this
family.
It's like, well I know a tent that
I can go to.
I know a home that I can visit.
I know a place that they will open
the door to me.
We get so accustomed when we're living a
duplicitous lifestyle.
We get so accustomed to certain things in
the world.
We get so accustomed to the cussing.
We get so accustomed to what we're viewing.
That when the devil comes knocking on the
door, we open it.
And he feels comfortable to come into our
homes.
See, this is what exactly is taking place
here.
There should be a resistance, but there's no
resistance.
He comes knocking and she lets him come
in.
And Jael went out to meet Sisera.
In fact, in verse 18 says, she goes
out to meet him.
Turn in, my lord.
She says, fear not.
And when he had turned in into the
tent, she covered him with a mantle.
You see, the very fact that the Bible
talks about her going out to meet him
means that she became one with that compromise.
Given up.
And in the heart, she'd become one with
that particular compromise.
Beloved, you don't have to.
Young person today, let me speak to you.
There will be enough compromises in this world.
You don't have to make peace with not
one of them.
Don't allow your heart to ever make peace
with any kind of compromise.
When the devil comes knocking, send Jesus to
the door.
You don't have to open the door.
When the devil comes knocking, send Jesus.
Let him answer the door.
He'll know exactly what to do with the
devil.
If you're having a struggle, I believe, send
the Lord to the door.
God, you open this.
You deal with the situation.
That's all you have to do, beloved.
This is what the promise of God in
Deuteronomy.
He says, in your struggle, you call to
me.
You'll be found of me.
Let Jesus handle these things in our hearts
and lives.
But she covers, she conceals.
It's like covering sin.
It's covering these things of the heart.
Hiding them.
You can hide from people, but you cannot
hide from God.
He knows the struggle.
He knows what's going on.
You can hide from anybody else.
You can come in here smiling, raising your
hands, but God looks at the intents of
the heart.
And, beloved, you know what the greatest news
of this afternoon is, from this morning, this
afternoon?
You know what the greatest news is?
He's not condemning you.
There's no condemnation.
He's not mad at you.
He's saying, just turn to me.
I'll fight the battle for you.
The battle is not yours.
It belongs to the Lord.
See, the insignificant person is important to God,
even in the point of this compromise.
Now, the work of the Holy Spirit is
to bring conviction.
The Holy Spirit comes to minister to our
hearts and lives.
This is why the Word of God is
preached, because the Holy Spirit wants to come
and bring conviction in our heart.
Now, conviction is a strange thing.
It's when the Holy Ghost begins to show
you in your heart that there are areas
that God is not comfortable with, and it's
bringing destruction to your heart.
It's an amazing thing.
It's like God can turn the light on
anything in your heart and life.
See, when the power of the Holy Ghost
comes into the house, when the presence of
the Lord here, and He begins to shine,
an amazing thing happens.
He begins to show you areas where you're
not living right.
You don't have to even talk about it.
You don't have to have me write out
a list of sins and try to shotgun
a whole bunch of sins, hoping that one
of the pellets is going to hit you.
See, I don't have to do that.
The Holy Spirit is already doing that.
He's already showing you these areas, and the
work of the Holy Spirit to bring that
kind of a conviction in our heart is
because right around the corner of conviction is
a miracle.
Right around the corner.
See, God, the moment He begins to convict
us, the very moment you sense the convicting
work of the Holy Spirit, it's because in
the heart and the mind of God, right
behind the conviction, there's a miracle waiting.
He wants to do a mighty work in
the heart, and so He's got to convict
first.
He's got to show you the area.
See, I like to take in absolute common
terms.
My feet are so solid on the ground.
People come and tell me, you know, God
spoke to me, like we heard this morning,
to leave my husband or leave my wife.
You see, those kind of things creep me
out.
I sit there, and I can hardly digest
them, because my feet are so on the
ground.
I live in the same city you live.
I face the same devils you face.
I face the same oppressions you face.
I've got to get up in the morning.
I've got to walk around.
I've got to pray.
I've got to read.
I do exactly the same things that you've
got to do, beloved.
And that's why my feet are solid on
the ground.
You see, I like to say it in
simple terms.
Conviction to me is simply this.
I can't.
God can.
That's simple conviction.
You see, condemnation from the devil is always
obscure.
When it's condemnation, when you feel it, condemnation
is always obscure.
You feel bad, but you don't know why.
But when it's the Holy Ghost, conviction is
always clear, concise, and to the point.
He just walks into that area of your
life, and he puts the light on.
And you see it.
And you understand at that point in time,
I can't.
I can't set myself free.
I can't walk away from this.
When the cicera knocks, I open the door.
God, I can't do it.
My life has been living a duplicitous life
for so long.
I can't.
See, that's conviction.
The very moment you come to terms within
your heart where you say, God, I can't,
that is the work of the Holy Spirit.
He's bringing you to a knowledge that you
can do it in your own strength.
You can set yourself free from anything, beloved.
But I want to tell you something.
If the Holy Ghost puts the light on
anything in your heart at any time, it
means right behind that there is a miracle
from God.
There is a power that God has to
set you free.
And we see it with this woman.
I just love it.
You see, this woman appears with her husband
in Judges chapter 4.
She appears and disappears.
That's all you have of her.
There's just the one time she appears and
disappears.
She's the most insignificant woman.
If it wasn't for this particular situation, you'd
never know there was a JL that lived
on the face of the earth.
That's how insignificant her life was.
You know, her whole being was, there was
nothing marvelous about this woman.
She's a wife.
She's living in this household with a compromiser
who's relocated because he doesn't like the pressure
that's down in the south, so he comes
to a place and he makes peace with
both his enemies and tries to make peace
with God.
And there she's living, insignificant, a nobody, nothing.
But yet insignificant people are important to God.
He knows the situation.
He knows the struggle.
And yet she's going to find herself in
the annals of the word of God that's
going to last forever and ever and ever.
Because in a moment of time, God convicted
her heart and spoke into her life.
And you see, the conviction of the Holy
Spirit, when he speaks into the heart, it's
amazing because the second thing that takes place
when conviction comes, comes the cause of God.
When you're blinded to the things of God
because of compromise in the world, you have
no significance.
Life is meaningless.
It's work.
It's going home.
Church is just another thing that you do
in your already busy week.
It's not a living relationship with God.
You just don't see this.
Is there a cause?
You see, David, he had a conviction in
his heart that there was a cause, that
God had a cause.
And you see, it was David, when he
goes out with these, his father sends him
to the battleground.
And for days on end, night and day,
night and day, there's the army of Israel
standing on one hill, and there's this big
old giant on the other hill.
And every morning, they'd all wake up, they'd
all get their uniform on, they'd put all
their weaponry on, and they'd go stand on
the edge of the hill, and Goliath would
wake up, he'd have his breakfast, and he'd
get his attendants to help put on his
armor.
He'd get up, he'd stand on the other
side of the hill, and he'd tell, he'd
say, now, if you fight me and beat
me, then we'll be your servants and slaves.
But if we beat you, then you're going
to be our slaves.
And so David comes into this situation.
It's nullified.
These people are paralyzed because of neutrality.
There's unbelief, there's doubt, there's nobody understanding that
this is the cause of God.
You see, when there comes conviction in the
heart, when the Holy Ghost speaks, He's going
to bring a miracle, folks.
There's a miracle right behind.
Every time the Holy Ghost convicts, there's a
miracle behind that conviction.
It's coming.
It's on the way.
But with that conviction is coming a cause.
God wants you to know that the battle
belongs to Him.
And see, the cause of God is that
He has made war on sin.
He's made war on compromise.
See, God has come and said, I am
a God who is, He's the God of
war.
He's a man of war, the Bible tells
us.
And so we see David, he comes and
he says, he looks at these brothers and
he says, is there not a cause?
This battle doesn't belong to us.
This is God's battle.
This man is standing against Almighty God.
See, the battle belongs to the Lord.
Beloved, it doesn't matter.
I hope I'm conveying this clearly to you.
The promise of God is from thence, from
thence, wherever you've gone, wherever you've landed up,
whatever life has dealt you, whatever choices you've
made, and has left you at the bottom
of the barrel, finished, at the bottom, neutral,
duplicity in life, just right at the very
bottom.
But God says, it's there that if you
call to me, that I'm going to, there's
a cause.
Because you are cold in heart doesn't change
the cause of God.
Because you've walked away doesn't change the cause
of heaven.
Because we've walked away doesn't change the cause
that God has in His heart towards sin,
towards the enemy, towards bondage, towards everything the
devil throws at you.
God has fought the battle and He's won
it.
There is a cause.
You see, it's the heart that gets convicted.
The heart that gets convicted comes back to
understanding there is a cause.
That's why Pastor David and Gary and Pastor
Carter and ourselves and now David O'Neill
is going out.
Are they going out because we just set
up meetings all over the world?
No, there's a cause.
You see, they are moving and there's a
mandate, there is a cause from heaven.
And when you walk in that cause, so
this is what happens with J.L., she
comes to the place.
And it's an amazing thing.
Look at this in chapter 5.
I want to share this with you real
quick.
In chapter 5, to understand the conviction and
the cause, you've got to take a look
at this one verse.
In verse 27, this is the song of
Deborah.
This is a prose, it's a song that
she's now singing.
And verse 27 says, singing about Sisera as
he came into the tent.
At her feet he bowed, he fell, he
lay down.
At her feet he bowed, he fell.
Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
So this is part of the song.
Now, she uses this word bowed three times.
In the original language, this word literally means,
in the Hebrew it's kara, and it means
to bend the knee in worship, it means
to bow in reverence.
But it also means the doubling up or
the pain of a woman in childbirth.
The Hafel translation says it this way, it
is to bring one low, to bring one
down.
So, depending on the context, so this is
one of those words that is best illustrated
by the context.
And so when you take this particular word
and you put it in different contexts, and
so if you take this word kara in
the house of God this afternoon, and we
found someone just bending over and worshiping the
Lord, it's in the right context.
That's bowing to worship the Lord.
But if you take this word in the
context of, say for instance, compromise or sin,
then it's the same word that's causing you
to be brought low, it's causing you to
be bowed over by the weight of sin.
And see, that's what God is speaking.
So when this man comes in, it's an
illustration to this woman that the very peace
that you've made with your compromise is causing
you to bow in pain.
She sees it.
She sees the conviction that this is what
this is doing.
See, if it wasn't wrong, why hide it?
If it wasn't wrong, why put it under
a covering?
If it was okay to be in the
open, why hide it?
And because this person is dedicated to destruction,
you've got to understand the timing of what's
going on.
Here's a battle going over, just a couple
of miles away, over the hill.
She doesn't even know the battle and the
way the war is going on.
But here comes this person and she's in.
If it wasn't that bad, why hide it?
If I come to your house and take
a look at all of your CDs and
DVDs, would you have to hide any of
them?
If they're not that bad, don't hide it.
If you're not ashamed of R and all
those kind of things that you've got on
those titles, don't worry about it.
But why does she hide it?
Because there's something that she knows that the
presence of this brings down.
And it's at that point that conviction comes
in.
You see, nobody, I read all the commentators,
nobody can explain what happens next with this
woman.
Nobody can explain.
But I think that God is saying that
when you come to the realization that this
thing is bringing you down, it's not giving
you joy, it's not really giving you peace,
you've made peace with it, but it doesn't
give you any joy.
It's not bringing satisfaction in the home, it's
bringing you down.
That's when God begins to convict you and
bring into your soul that there is a
cause.
There's something greater in life.
There is significance in life.
And for the person who rises up and
says, God, I want everything you have, nobody
can explain what takes place next with this
woman.
But I can explain it.
It's God.
God.
You don't need to explain God.
You don't have to try and explain how
God works supernaturally, miraculously in the heart.
You don't have to try and explain what
the transformation that takes place in this woman's
heart.
Here comes Barak.
I am telling you, if she keeps this
man hidden in the tent alive and Barak
comes over the hill and finds, she's going
to die with that Sisera.
Because that thing is going to destroy her.
It was dedicated to destruction.
She would have died with it.
But see, God doesn't delight in the death
of the wicked.
He doesn't delight in the death of Baxter.
He doesn't like the death that's going on
in people's lives away from Him.
So He starts speaking.
Barak is coming over the hill.
You've got to see the timing of this
whole thing.
I got so thrilled in my room.
I was reading this.
I was speaking in tongues going up and
down.
Man, I was flipping the page.
God, give me more, give me more.
Show me what's going on here.
It was so exciting in my heart to
see because it's the work of the supernatural
power of God that when a soul says,
Lord, I am sick and tired of being
sick and tired of living a compromised life.
This thing is killing me.
I've got to hide it every time somebody
comes to my house, knocks on my door.
I've got to hide this thing.
I'm sick of it.
God begins to speak and it's in that
moment of time.
You see, there's a faith that's called faith's
courage.
All the doubts and everything of the heart
could come into being at this point.
This woman could be doubting.
You see, here it is.
God's speaking to her heart.
He's convicted her.
This is not right.
There is a cause.
David said there's a cause.
Is there not a cause?
God wants to fight against all of our
enemies.
He wants to fight against all of our
giants.
God wants to bring down everything that oppresses.
Is that not the cause of heaven itself?
When the angels of heaven said, was there
not a cause?
Did not God get them out of heaven?
Is that not still the same cause of
God to take out of our homes everything
that brings to destruction?
Is there not a cause?
And this is what's in the heart.
So this woman, as she goes to sleep,
it's an amazing story as she goes up.
What transpires when she feeds him the milk
and walks outside?
She could be thinking, well, I've got to
kill this thing.
I'm so sick and tired of this thing
being hidden in my house, in my heart,
in my life.
Maybe if I, I hope he doesn't wake.
And you can see her just, I can
see the whole story.
She's wiggling that tent peg, getting it out
of the ground.
And she's lifting that thing up.
Well, I hope that the swaying of the
rope doesn't wake this guy up.
What happens if she wakes up?
She's probably thinking, what happens if I walk
in there and I'm about to do it
and he wakes up and sees me?
See, these are all the things.
But I want to tell you that when
you get on heaven's side, that there is
a courage that comes with faith, that there
is a supernatural working of the Holy Ghost,
that it doesn't matter.
Faith is now in charge.
Fear has been dismissed.
It doesn't matter.
I don't even think she's thinking if the
guy wakes up.
I think she is so charged by the
Holy Ghost that God is saying, I'm giving
you a moment right now by the power
of the Holy Ghost that you can put
an end to this thing just one time.
And then she takes that tent peg out
and she takes that mallet and the rest
is way too gruesome for the women in
the house this afternoon to even begin to
tell you what happens, but he dies.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
I tell you, when the Holy Ghost speaks,
you see this to me, the Holy Ghost
when he speaks and he puts the cause
of God back into the soul.
If you don't have a cause to live,
you'll always, always be feeling inferior.
You'll be always thinking insignificant.
You'll always be thinking, is there any hope
for me?
But the very second you respond to the
convicting work of the Holy Spirit, you can
know the next thing that's going to happen
is he's going to put back the fire,
the cause of God into the soul and
with that is going to come the courage
of faith.
It happens so quickly.
It's not like ten steps.
It doesn't have to be 15 weeks to
come out of this situation.
It happens all in the same day.
She goes out to meet Cicero one hour
and in an hour later the guy is
dead and the next meeting she's having is
Barak and his name means lightning.
Oh, I tell you, the work of God
is lightning fast.
She met with this guy one moment, the
next moment she's going out and now she's
identifying with the people of God.
A change takes place.
You see, God in the work of the
Holy Spirit is quick, it's powerful.
We don't have to have major programs to
ten steps this and get you through this
problem.
You just have to respond to the power
of the answer of the Holy Ghost.
He knows.
He knows how to speak to you.
He knows what he's doing in your heart
and life.
He can set you free just in a
moment of time.
Every bit of lethargy and passivity can be
instantly gone and the cause of heaven pulsating
one more time in your heart.
Hallelujah.
It is so awesome.
You see, beloved, I'm going to close with
this.
The Bible is about hearing, not about speaking.
Have you ever noticed that?
The whole Bible is about hearing.
God speaks, not you.
We can speak to him back, but he
likes to speak to us.
He's spoken.
He's given us this word.
See, God speaks.
He wants you to listen.
And if you've got a hearing ear, that's
why the Bible tells us, so then faith
cometh by hearing and hearing by the word
of God.
Sit down.
Let him speak to you.
This is why you're in the house today
is you want to hear a word from
God.
You don't want to hear from us.
Our words fall to the ground.
Our accents are strange, and they're funny, and
they fall to the ground.
But the accent of heaven lasts a lifetime.
See, the word of God comes in and
changes our heart.
And so the Bible is about hearing.
And when you hear the word of God,
wherefore the Holy Ghost said today if you
will hear his voice, harden not your hearts
as in the provocation the day of temptation
in the wilderness.
So when God is speaking, now she didn't
hear here in chapter 4 verses 9.
She didn't hear the prophetic word from Deborah
when Deborah said, for the Lord shall sell
Sisera into the hand of a woman.
Jael didn't hear what she was saying.
She didn't hear that, but she heard it
from God.
She didn't hear it from Deborah.
She heard it from God.
She heard in her heart that God says,
I want to do this work in you.
I want to give a work, a divine
work in your heart.
And so she goes by divine impulse and
divine command, and this thing is ended in
just one day.
So when God speaks, he stands by his
word.
And he will give the impulse.
Now Jael, look at this in verse 22.
It says here in chapter 5 or chapter
4 verse 22.
It says, and behold, Barak pursued Sisera.
Jael came out to meet him and said
unto him, Come, I will show you.
I will show you.
Be the man whom thou seekest.
Now, it's so interesting when you come to
the close of this.
She has this woman goes out to meet
Barak and says, I'm going to show you.
Again, in the original language, it doesn't mean
I'm just going to show you Times Square.
If you come with me this afternoon, if
you're a visitor, I'll take you down to
Times Square.
We'll show you the sites and you'll be
able to see it.
See, that's not that word.
When she says, she uses this word, I
will show you, that word means it designates
the saving understanding and the believing and the
acceptance of God's word.
So this tells me that this woman heard
from God.
In that moment of time when she responded
to the convicting work of the Holy Spirit
and God put into her heart the cause
of heaven, it came because God spoke to
her.
If you seek me from thence, I will
be found of you.
So here is this woman who seeks God
and God speaks to her.
She wouldn't use this particular, they wouldn't use
this Hebrew word in this particular verse if
it didn't mean the very word from heaven.
So what she was saying, literally what she
said to Barak, she says, I want to
show you, I want to reveal to you
the change that took place by God's word.
When God's word was delivered, it empowered me
to walk away from that which held me
in captivity.
See, and so she's saying, I want to
show you the reason that this person is
dead.
This person isn't dead because I had the
might or the power or the strength to
put him to death.
It wasn't because I did this by my
own strength.
No, she's giving glory to God when she
says, I will show you.
There was a word, it was the same
as when Jesus, when John the Baptist was
in prison and John said to Jesus, you
know, are you the one that should come
or do we seek for another?
This is the word of Jesus that he
said to the disciples to go back to
John.
Jesus answered and said to them, go and
show John again those things which you do
here and see.
Now, were they to line up all the
people who got healed so that they could
go by the prison window and say, okay,
this person was deaf and now they're here
and this person was blind and now they
see and this person had the palsy and
now walks and this person had leprosy and
now is healed.
Is that what he's saying?
No, it's the same Greek word as the
Hebrew.
And this is the paraphrase.
This is what Jesus is saying.
This is my own paraphrase.
Go to John and declare one more time
God's eternal message.
That eternal message that is heard in the
heart, perceived by the spirit, which causes the
blind to see, the deaf to hear and
the dead to be raised.
It's the same word.
It's the same Greek word as it is
in the Hebrew.
That when you hear God's word and it
is spoken, this is what JL said, I
want to show you that when God's word
came to my heart and I embraced it
one more time, when God spoke into me,
I embraced it and this is the result
of me embracing God's eternal message.
This is the result of me embracing God's
word when he spoke it to my heart.
Look at this.
This very oppressor is now dead.
The very thing that held me captive is
now over.
The very thing that has kept us in
bondage for the last 20 years has now
come to a close.
All those iron chariots is because the word
of God was embraced.
This is what this woman is saying.
Now this afternoon, let me ask you a
couple of questions.
Have you relocated?
I don't mean physically, but have you relocated
spiritually?
You remember the days that you were on
fire with God and you were sold out
for him, but you're tired of the conflict
that it always brings.
It seems like, God, I'm always struggling.
Have you relocated?
God knows you have, if you have, but
this is his word to you.
I've got a word from heaven for you.
I want to put back into your bosom
this afternoon the very cause of heaven.
I want to put within you the very
thing why Jesus Christ came.
That those that are held captive, those that
are far from God, those who want to
live for God and see those things and
hold them captive can be walked from this
thing in a moment of time.
I want to give you a word this
afternoon that if you've heard it by the
Holy Spirit, see, this is what Jesus was
saying to go tell John.
This is what this woman is saying.
I caught something from heaven today.
It challenged where I lived.
I embraced it, and God gave the victory.
All in one day.
All in one time.
Not prolonged.
God, and go back to the promise.
If from thence where you are, you seek
the Lord your God, and if you seek
Him with all your heart, the Bible says,
He will.
He'll be found of you.
You'll find again God in His power, His
love, His grace, His mercy, His tenderness.
You'll suddenly find the reason for living.
You'll walk out of this house today saying,
I don't feel insignificant.
I feel very significant.
One person with God is a majority.
It doesn't matter, you can have a thousand
coming against you, but I want to tell
you, one person with God, you're in the
majority.
Because He says, I'll never leave you nor
forsake you.
Amen?
Let's stand together.
I've got a verse of scripture for you
this afternoon as you come to this altar.
I've got a verse for you that I'll
read to you at this altar.
Now, Lord Jesus, this has been, again, just
a simple message of a very insignificant person,
but not with you.
None of our lives are insignificant when we
attach ourselves to you.
Nobody is insignificant when we walk with the
King of kings and the Lord of lords.
Life takes on purpose.
There is a cause.
There is a meaning to life when we
walk with Jesus Christ.
And Lord, we can't do this.
This has to be a supernatural work like
you gave to JL.
Now, Lord, this afternoon I thank you that
you have spoken and that you will give
to every person that seeks you the miracle
that they've been longing for.
In Jesus' name.
Amen.
This altar call this afternoon is, I want
to move house one more time.
I want to come and relocate with Jesus.
I don't know what else to say.
I looked at several altar calls, and you
know what the Holy Ghost has said to
me?
I'll already have spoken.
Just let them come.
If God has spoken to you, if the
Holy Spirit has spoken to you, just make
your way to either side of the aisle.
You want to have the pulsating of the
presence of God leading you one more time.
This altar call is open for you this
afternoon.
For those in the annex, you can make
your way across right now.
Our ushers will just help you come to
this altar, show you how to get here.
The Holy Ghost is going to give you
the power to walk away from that which
has held you captive.
I believe it today.
Faith is going to give you a courage
that you never knew before.
In Jesus' name.
All to Thee, my blessed Savior I
surrender all God has just put on my
heart that there's some of you this afternoon
that He's actually, you're not in a place
of compromise, but He's called you, but you
haven't responded.
God has put within your heart the cause
of heaven, and you know what it is,
but you have been fearful.
It's that place where you know what is
right, what you have to do, but you're
at that point of going back into the
tent, but it's like you're at that point,
God, did you really speak to me?
I want to just tell you this afternoon,
yes, God did speak to you.
That's why this message is for you this
afternoon, and He's calling you.
He's saying, I'm putting my hand upon your
life.
You'll never be insignificant with me.
God has an absolute purpose and direction for
you.
You come this afternoon.
Let's sing it one more time, and then
we'll pray.
All to Jesus I surrender Humbly
and lowly I bow Worldly
pleasures all forsaken Save me, Jesus,
save me now I surrender
all I surrender
all All to Thee,
my blessed Savior I surrender
all Let me read this scripture to you,
also from the book of Deuteronomy.
Listen to these words that the Lord gave
me for you this afternoon.
Whether you responded or not, listen to this
word.
Deuteronomy chapter 30, verses 1 through 3, it
says, And it shall come to pass, when
all these things are come upon thee, the
blessing and the curse which I have set
before thee, and thou shalt call them to
mind among all the nations, whether the Lord
thy God hath driven thee, and thou shalt
return to the Lord thy God, and shalt
obey His voice according to all that I
command thee this day, thou and thy children,
with all thine heart and with all thy
soul.
In verse 3, listen to what it says.
That then, the Lord thy God, and when
he uses the word Lord, in this point
here, it's all capital L-O-R-D,
it means man of war, it means God
of heaven, it means avenger of all that
come against the people of God.
That's what it means, it means man of
war, it means the captain of the host
of the armies of heaven.
Then he says, then the host of the
armies of heaven, that's the Lord thy God,
will turn, will turn thy captivity, and have
compassion upon thee, and will return and gather
thee from all the nations, whether the Lord
thy God hath scattered thee.
He says this is the awesome promise of
God.
He says, I'm coming immediately to fight your
battles for you.
I'm going to turn your captivity around.
In a moment of time, that which was
holding you captive, he says, I'm going to
turn that thing around, and I'm going to
have compassion on you.
It's the love, it's the mercy, it's the
grace of God that says, I know you
went there, my child, I didn't want you
to go there, you went there, but I'm
still fighting for you.
And I'm going to turn your captivity, and
I'm going to have compassion and love and
mercy, I'm going to hold you in my
arms, I'm going to walk with you, I'm
going to love you.
This is God.
You're going to be walking out, sister.
You're going to walk out, and you're going
to feel the love of God.
He says, it's not only going to deliver
you, he says, I'm going to give compassion
to you.
You're going to feel and know the presence
and the love of God, the mercy of
God.
You're going to leave with just a knowledge
of God's love holding you, keeping you.
Amen?
Hallelujah.
You ready to give the battle to the
Lord?
It's not your battle, folks, it's God's.
That's the cause of heaven.
Give it to him, he'll do the work.
He'll fight the enemy for you, and he'll
turn it and set you free.
Let's pray.
Lord Jesus, I thank you today.
I have compromised.
I don't like it.
When the devil knocked, I opened, but no
more.
Today, I open my door to one and
only one, Jesus Christ, King of kings, Lord
of lords.
This day, I join heaven's cause.
I let you fight against all of my
enemies.
Lord Jesus, I lay at the cross all
those things that subdued my heart, my mind,
my passion, my fire, the zeal, all that
has zapped me.
I laid at the cross, and this afternoon,
I let you fight the enemy.
Turn my captivity into dancing and joy and
compassion and mercy and forgiveness.
Lord Jesus, I am not insignificant.
I am very significant, because one with God
is a majority.
I'm on the victory side.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God.
Hallelujah.
Glory to Jesus.
This is the conclusion of the message.