I believe we saw a beautiful visitation this
morning.
But it's still today.
Today, if you will hear his voice, harden
not your hearts.
We do want to look back to past
blessings, even if it is a few hours
ago, unless it be in thanksgiving and praise
for what he did and in hope and
anticipation that it's just the foretaste of what
God's going to do.
For those who weren't here, we believe there
is a great work of cleansing in the
hearts of people and a great work of
reconciliation between brothers and sisters and fathers and
mothers, which I believe is a prelude to
any real revival.
That God would turn the hearts of the
fathers to the children and the hearts of
the children to the fathers.
God said if that didn't happen, he'd have
to smite the earth with a curse.
And I remember way back in the early
days of the revival of the 50s.
I remember this man, Brother Hunt, saying the
next revival is going to begin in the
home.
And it doesn't look like it when homes
are devastated, torn asunder, children ripped apart from
parents.
It's beyond our ability to solve and the
church is swamped with that.
So what do they do?
Hire counselors, educated counselors to give them the
theories of men to remedy family life when
God's answer is in coming to Jesus, letting
the Lord Jesus be Lord of our lives
and of our homes.
So we're encouraged because I know God is
arising in the earth for when darkness covers
the earth and grows darkness to people, we
have his promise of light shall arise upon
thee.
His glory shall be seen upon thee.
The darkness that surrounds us is God's promise
that there's going to be a light shining
forth from his people.
So we thank the Lord for what we
feel he's, we know he's doing.
I don't mean just here.
I mean, that's his intention.
All over the earth where darkness covers the
earth, God's promise that the light is going
to shine forth.
Where?
Out of the darkness.
Where did it shine in the beginning?
Darkness covered the earth and the spirit of
God moved upon the face of the waters
and God commanded the light to shine out
of darkness.
He said, let there be light and there
was light.
And the apostle says, God commanded the light
to shine out of darkness.
People say it's so dark, there's so much
evil.
God has promised there's grace.
There's greater grace.
If there's greater sin, if there's greater evil,
there's greater grace.
Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.
Oh, we thank the Lord that he's on
the scene.
Our Lord Jesus stands at the throne of
God.
You say he's sitting there, I know, but
in times of special occasions, he'd stand and
John saw him, or rather, who was it?
The man that was stoned to death, Stephen
saw him standing.
He's rising to take care of his church
first.
I've not been greatly enthused about missionary programs.
God bless everyone whom God sends.
But God wants to get his church ready.
Out from the church, so go forth the
light that was in Jesus, the same light,
not another, not a lesser, but the same
light that was in Jesus.
God wants that to be in his people,
that it will radiate from his church.
That's God's burden.
That's the desire of God's heart, his passion.
For Zion's sake, I will not hold my
peace.
For Jerusalem's sake, I will not rest until
the righteousness there goes forth, the brightness and
the salvation of his lamp that burneth.
Not enough to send the gospel, send out
tapes and books and get on TV that
the gospel might go forth.
God wants all nations to see the salvation
of our God.
They can only see it when they see
it in his people.
God's concerned about his people.
He's going to have a glorious church.
He's going to have a bride without spot,
without wrinkle.
Clean, pure, holy, and clean as Jesus is
clean.
Because there's nothing cleaner in heaven or in
earth than that sinner defiled and unclean that's
washed in the blood of Jesus.
I didn't intend to say that, but that's
the Lord for the star.
I felt this evening would be an evening
of thanks, great thanksgiving.
God, we see you coming.
We know you're coming.
I'm not talking about coming in clouds and
great glory.
I'm talking about him coming to take up
his habitation in his church and cleanse the
temple of God, that the Levites, the priests
of the Lord might offer unto God a
sacrifice of righteousness.
He might purge his house from all the
uncleanness, all the defilement, which has been brought
in by the entertainers.
I mean, if we knew God well enough,
we'd weep on our faces when we see
what's brought into the house of God.
Ezekiel saw it in his days, all kinds
of four-footed beasts and creeping things in
the temple of God.
There's so much creeping stuff in their church,
God's going to cleanse it.
Creeping things.
They bring in magicians and entertainers and they
bring all kinds of innovative ways to worship
God with their banners and ribbons and all
the clatter tinsel to worship God, to adorn
the worship of God.
God wants worship where a man falls on
his face before God.
I've fallen on my back and other people
fall on their back, but God wants the
people so struck with the awesomeness of God's
presence that they're going to fall on their
face and worship before him.
Crying unto God for the desolation of his
temple, instead of entertaining the people to try
to keep them coming.
I pray God will put that spirit of
mourning upon the church of Jesus Christ that
they will mourn for the desolation of Zion.
Instead of saying it's time to laugh and
think it's wonderful if a person can laugh,
God give us holy mourning in the church
of Jesus Christ.
Blessed are they that mourn because God is
going to comfort Zion with the joy of
the Holy Ghost.
God's weeping over his church.
He's grieved over his people.
God was grieved for 40 years when he
led the children of Israel out of Egypt.
He was grieved.
He sent manna every day to get them
water out of the rock.
He healed them when they were sick.
His cloud of his holy presence hovered over
their tabernacle by night to give them light
and warmth.
Hovered over their tabernacle every day as a
pillar of cloud.
There was fresh manna every morning for them
to go and gather.
He healed them.
He looked after them.
He led them by his spirit.
Wherefore, I was grieved with this generation, says
the Lord, and they have not my ways.
I swear my wrath, I shall not enter
into my wrath.
But you say he blessed them and healed
them, poured out his spirit upon them, blessings
upon them beyond anything he's ever done for
any nation before or since.
God says I was grieved with them 40
years in the wilderness because they have not
known my ways.
If you don't know God's ways, you don't
know God very well.
But Jesus said I am the way, the
truth, and the life.
Oh, I want life.
I want a service that's lively.
I do too if it's alive with the
life of Jesus.
We don't know God until we begin to
walk in his ways and his ways take
us through a wilderness, through drought and famine
and pestilence.
God leads us in the wilderness ways, and
yet God's hand is over us in the
midst of it all.
I fear for the church to think they're
going to go laughing their way into the
kingdom of heaven.
I'm telling you, there's going to be a
people who are going to be awfully disillusioned
when God's judgements begin to fall on this
earth, thinking that they're going to escape it
an easy way.
The only way we're going to find safety
in that I don't mean just physical safety
because the disciple is not a survivalist.
The only security we're going to have then
or now is in the secret place of
the Most High and under the shadow of
the Almighty.
And I'd sooner be there on earth and
that secret place of the Most High than
any place in heaven.
Because there's no safer place in this world
or in heaven than under the secret place
of the Most High.
God says put on the whole armor.
There's a battle at hand.
God says because the day of the Lord
is at hand, put on the helmet of
salvation.
Put on the girdle of truth.
Put on the breastplate of righteousness.
What for?
Because the forces of evil have been let
loose in this earth and manner that has
not been, I don't think, from the foundation
of the world.
The church is resting under the false delusion.
Don't worry about it.
God will take us out of here before
that happens.
And he's given us the armor that with
this holy armor of God upon us, covering
the whole being, the helmet of salvation, the
breastplate of righteousness, the girdle of truth, the
shoes of the preparation of the gospel of
peace, the sword of the Spirit, we can
face any enemy that will come against the
people of God here on this earth.
And he did all these things.
In the Old Testament, they ordained trumpets for
various reasons.
And there was a feast of trumpets where
it became pronounced preceding the Feast of Tabernacles.
Feast of trumpets.
Feast of atonement before the Feast of Tabernacles.
A lot of Christians are excited about the
Feast of Tabernacles, especially in a month from
now.
I hope God moves then by his Spirit.
I hope he moves tonight.
But as I said this morning, and I
must continue to repeat it, there's going to
be no Feast of Tabernacles for anybody whose
heart is not prepared, who hasn't heard the
sound of the trumpet, who hasn't found themselves
walking with God in the secret place, and
whose heart has not been cleansed from all
defilement.
That day can come and go, and you'll
never know the difference.
God help us to know you, help us
to prepare our hearts today.
And you've only got today to do that.
You don't know anything about tomorrow.
You don't know if you'll have it tomorrow.
Today if you hear his voice, harden not
your hearts.
God's going to begin to send forth a
clear trumpet sound to his people, because it's
a day of confusion.
It's a day of apostasy.
It's a day when people don't know what's
right and what's wrong in the church.
And that kind of a day, God sends
forth a clear sound from his heart.
He does that in the day of confusion,
day of darkness, day of apostasy.
He raises up an Isaiah, he raises up
a Jeremiah, gives them a clear word in
the midst of all the false prophets of
Baal.
And the priesthood became corrupt, unclean, defiled.
And God warned Eli he was going to
judge it.
And Eli didn't know what to do about
it.
Couldn't handle it or didn't care.
I don't know.
Even then, God was preparing a little boy,
the name of Samuel.
And when the days of Eli were over,
here was Samuel, a young man whom God
gave a clear, infallible word.
So clear that all Israel from Dan to
Beersheba knew that Samuel was the son of
the Lord with a clear prophetic voice.
God's faithful in hours of apostasy to cause
his people to know what he's saying.
And you know very well, we don't know
this day hardly from the various prophetic voices
that are coming forth.
You hardly know how to sort it all
out.
But if we have an ear to hear
what the Spirit is saying to the churches
individually, we can have that awareness of what
God is saying.
And I believe the time is coming when
all the church is going to know the
Word of God is to be found in
this anointed people.
An anointed, a corporate anointed people that the
world will know that in them there is
the light.
And that from that anointed people, there will
come forth a clear word.
That the nations will know that God is
with this people.
And that when they're in trouble and in
confusion and in danger or various troubles that
are coming upon the earth, they'll be able
to go to this people and say, we've
been in darkness.
Show us the light.
And the light will shine forth and they'll
know that God is with that people.
Not because of any special talents or anything
that they have, but because there's a people
who in this day and hour are seeking
God and seeking his cleansing within them.
That their hearts, their minds will be delivered
from all the agendas of men and will
be open to hear that clear word from
God from the throne.
As Jesus said to each of the seven
churches, he that has an ear, let him
hear what the Spirit is saying to the
churches.
He wants to quicken our ears that we
might hear what he's saying.
Oh, you say I read the Bible, I
hear good stuff.
I know, but that God might open the
ears of this people that he might hear
what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
God quicken our ears, quicken our understanding that
we might hear what the Spirit is saying
to the churches in this hour.
God is beginning to sound the trumpet that's
going to be clear.
Paul said, it seems to me that there
in Corinth, there's an uncertain sound.
And he says if the sound is uncertain,
nobody's going to prepare for the battle.
I don't hear that clear sound coming forth
from the churches that's causing God's people to
cry between the porch and the altar because
of the desolation that's coming upon Zion.
God's going to bring great judgments in the
earth, but he's going to start with his
church.
He said so.
Judgments will begin at the house of God,
not because he doesn't love them, but because
they're the apple of his eye.
And because he has designed that through his
church, he would reveal his own glory.
That's why he said, for Zion's sake, I
will not hold my peace and for Jerusalem's
sake, I will not rest till the righteousness
thereof goes forth as brightness and the salvation
thereof is the lamp that burneth, because that's
the way God's glory is revealed, that man
might know who the true God is and
what he's like.
Instead of saying he's like Muhammad or the
God of the Hindus or the God of
Confucius, they don't know the difference now.
That day they're going to know there's a
lamb reigning on the throne of glory, that
in him dwelleth all the fullness of God,
had a bleeding lamb, who conquered and triumphed
and is still seen in heaven as a
bleeding lamb.
You say you're looking to see the line
of the tribe of Judah.
You won't see him, because when John turned
to see the line of the tribe of
Judah, he saw a lamb as it had
been slain, because that's how he conquered.
You and I think victory consists of success
in this world.
Victory comes to us when we know what
it is to be defeated in a terrible
yet beautiful confrontation with our God, as it
was with Jacob when he crossed the brook
of Jabbok and was confronted with the Most
High God.
And there was a wrestling that took place
all through the night.
And Jacob didn't know what strength was, the
strength of the Lord was, until God crippled
him with a blow in his thigh.
Only then did he discover the strength of
the mighty God of Israel when God had
crippled him and put him out of commission,
causing him to be totally helpless and clinging
to the angel, so that the angel was
able to say, your name is no more
Israel, the deceiver, the conniver, the trickster.
Your name shall be Israel, Prince of God.
He came out of his defeat.
Oh, how the church, like the world, is
crying out for more and more power, more
and more power, more and more power.
Don't we need the power of God?
Yes, if we understand that the first need
we have for the power of God is
that we might be changed into His image
and likeness and partake of, according as His
divine power hath given unto us all things
that pertain to life and godliness, through the
virtues of Him who called us, I can't
quote it exactly, out of darkness to partake
of His marvelous light, whereby are given to
us exceeding great and precious promises, that by
these we might be made partakers of divine
nature.
His power is given to the church to
become partakers of divine nature, and we think
it's given to us to do great things
so the world can see how wonderful we
are.
The power is given that we might have
faith and add to our faith virtue, knowledge,
temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and Paul goes,
Peter goes so far as to say, if
you don't have that, you're blind.
Thank the Lord for the gifts of the
Spirit, presence of His Spirit, for the gifts
of the Spirit, for every spiritual blessing He
pours upon us.
But if that spiritual gift and that spiritual
blessing does not produce the fruit of the
Spirit, it's of no avail.
But you say people get healed, there's miracles,
there's signs and wonders, wonderful things happen, good.
But I say again, if the blessing that
God sends from heaven falls upon you and
I and does not bring forth the fruit
that God intended, it is in harvest time,
it is all in vain.
For in springtime, the gardener comes into your
garden to water it.
There's seed there, either you planted it then
or it was there from the year before,
and we like the refreshing rains in springtime.
And I know God's going to send rain
in His heritage.
He's faithful to send rain upon the good
seed that was planted.
He's going to do it for a short
season before He comes.
We had a great portion of it in
the middle of this century, but there's a
new generation.
But in harvest time, God doesn't want to
send rain.
He comes to see if there's fruit.
That's all He wants in harvest time.
And so two, three, four months, the thing
is growing, wheat, tomatoes, brings forth flowers, blossoms,
beautiful.
Fruit tree looks beautiful.
Springtime, it's wonderful.
God caused it.
God sent the rain to cause it.
But if He comes a month later in
harvest time and there's no apples, there's a
whole season totally, totally wasted.
Is that right?
But you say it had flowers, had leaves.
It received the blessing of God, but that
blessing of God did not bring forth the
fruit that God wanted.
And Jesus saw the fig tree and cursed
it because there was no fruit on it.
That was an old tree.
So there should have been a little fruit
from the previous season.
The new season wasn't there yet.
It should have been a little from the
year before.
According to what I understand, a fig tree,
there should be fruit on it from the
year before.
God is just saying to you and I,
if there isn't fruit, when He comes looking
for fruit, I don't care how much He
has blessed us.
It means that all that blessing has produced
leaves, flowers, maybe growth of some kind or
another.
God says there's nothing there in harvest time.
Now that's pretty awesome, but you know it's
true.
And you know that that grain of wheat
that grows, comes up as a sprout, receives
the rain, it grows and grows and begins
to send out a few leaves.
And in the prairies there where some of
come from, I've seen wheat fields, you know,
like that, at least three feet.
Green, it's wonderful, beautiful to see it waving
there in the breeze, but not ripe yet.
And then it begins to turn brown and
they say, yes, it's ripe, now we can
reap the harvest.
And you know as well as I, that
all that farmer wants is the wheat, not
the straw.
Although nowadays I think they might save it,
they used to for bedding for animals, but
it's chaff.
When harvest time comes, all the blessing that
produced the stock, all that blessing that was
necessary to produce the stock and the head,
God only wants the grain in the head
and the rest is chaff.
That's pretty solemn.
When we think we've got a great ministry,
we can prophesy, we can lay hands on
people and we can heal them and we
can do all sorts of things by the
Spirit.
But if the fruit does not come forth
when God says it's harvest time, I'm looking
for fruit and it does not come forth,
all that's in vain.
I'll leave you with that, because I don't
want you to forget that.
And to know that, dear Heavenly Father, we
believe we're in harvest time.
We believe the time is at hand when
you're coming into your fields, coming into your
orchards, looking for one thing, the fruit.
And you've said of your people, as you
said to Ephraim of old, Ephraim is an
empty vine.
He brings forth fruit unto himself.
Empty, because he brings forth fruit unto himself.
But Lord, you've shown us that you long
for that fruit coming forth in your people,
which we know, according to your own word,
that the fruit is nothing less than the
reproduction of the life of Jesus within us.
Nothing less than that.
Not the gifts you give, not the blessings
you pour upon us, the blessings we need
in the time of growth, but in the
time of harvest, you say, I come to
receive the fruit.
Cause us to know, Lord, that now is
the time when you're pouring out your Spirit
in many places and in many ways and
blessing your people.
May that word come to them.
Listen, I'm sending you this blessing because you
need it, because I want fruit, and I
want that fruit to appear in your life,
or the blessing I send is in vain.
Because Lord, we don't want to stand before
you without the fruit.
To testify that we've seen signs, we've seen
wonders, we've cast out devils, we've seen miracles
perform in your name, and hear him say,
I don't really know you.
Therefore, by their fruits you shall know them,
Jesus.
We want that blessed fruit to come forth
in our lives, which we know to be
the character and the image of Jesus implanted
upon us.
Not something that we can receive as a
free gift from heaven, but something that must
grow forth out of the branch that we
are in the tree, out of the branch
that we are in the vine.
Not by our own doing either, but by
the root, because of the root, because of
the seed that you would bring forth fruit,
and these which are called the branches.
And that's what you're looking for, for you've
declared the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit
of the earth and hath long patience over
it, so that he can receive the early
and the latter rain.
Be ye therefore also patient.
Establish your hearts for the coming of the
Lord draweth nigh.
Establish your hearts.
Get your hearts fixed on God.
Get your hearts changed if you're blessed.
Pray God, O God, you said in your
word that if you're good to your people,
your goodness is intended to bring us to
repentance.
So though we thank you for your goodness,
we pray Lord, bring us to repentance in
the midst of it.
Knowing you're not good to us because we're
so good, but you're good to us because
of your great grace and mercy, and because
you want to bring a vessel fashioned after
your image and likeness, not for our glory
but for yours.
That we might be the example of Christ,
the living representation of Christ in the earth,
the people to whom the world will come
if they want to find God.
That others will say, I know where you
can find God, there's a people there, they
call it the anointing, there's something different about
them, they're different than the world, they don't
have any use for the world it seems,
they're exclusive, they're odd and all that, but
somehow they seem to know that God's in
their midst.
Restore that holy fear of God to your
church, O Lord.
It seems that the fear of God has
pretty well gone out the doors and out
the windows.
The people feel they can do anything they
want to do because they've got gifts to
do it with.
Cause us to know that if you give
us a gift, if you give us a
ministry, that ministry is yours, not ours, and
you want to keep that gift, that ministry
in your hand, even as it functions before
the people.
That in the expression of that gift, there'll
be such a revelation of the Christ that
your people will be compelled to fall on
their faces and say God is in the
midst of you, the truth.
Come to your church, O Lord, with your
holy fire.
We've talked about the baptism and we talk
in tongues and we enjoy prophecy and gifts
of the Spirit.
But Lord, we remember the day, though we
haven't seen much of it even in that
day, it was not our generation, we remember
the day when older people in the church
would say, thank God for baptizing me with
the Holy Ghost and with fire.
For they knew what it was for the
fire of God to come in and cleanse
and purge and clean them up.
We pray for a restoration of that fire
of God in the midst of your church.
This Elijah ministry that you're sending forth will
do its work, Lord.
We realize one part of the Elijah ministry
is to bring a famine on the land,
that in their famine and their perishing condition,
they might turn to him who is the
living bread and cry out to him.
And we remember how your servant was called
out of hiding to build an altar of
God and karma and to call the false
prophets together to reveal who the living God
was.
And the test was to be this, the
God that answereth by fire, let him be
the God.
And I know, Lord, we're asking for solemn
things, serious things when we pray for the
fire of God, but we still pray it.
Oh Lord, God of heaven, send your holy
fire upon the altar of the Lord.
Help us therefore, Lord, to build that altar.
Sincerely to build an altar unto you, an
altar of repentance, an altar of contrition of
heart, an altar of whole stones, everything we
have, not chiseling off any of it, but
putting the whole stones together for an altar.
All that we have, not just the sacrifice
of the praise of our lips, which we
enjoy singing, which is good, but the sacrifice
of the heart, of the liver, of the
lungs, of the bones, of the feet, of
the head of the whole man.
That we hold back nothing.
That we ourselves might be laying on that
altar as a sacrifice, acceptable in your sight.
That that holy fire of God might come
down and consume the sacrifice.
That we might rise to walk in resurrection
life.
Oh God, we might rise to walk in
resurrection life.
Oh God, send the fire just now.
Send the fire, oh Lord.
God of Elijah, hear our cry.
Send the fire, send the fire, send the
fire.
Which will make us fit to live or
die.
Send the fire, send the fire.
Oh God, we pray in Jesus' name, bless
this people.
Open our ears, our hearts, our minds to
receive of your word, Lord.
For this is an awesome time, an awesome
hour.
That when your judgments fall, let us understand
it's for the sake of the church.
That you might have a holy church walking
in the fires of your judgment here on
earth, filled with your holy fire.
That will keep us immune to the fires
of judgment.
For the time has come when judgment must
begin at your house, saith the Lord.
God helps not to take this lightly, but
to realize you're going to judge us first.
The sins of the church.
For our sins, yes, individually.
For the sins of the church, you're going
to judge us.
We might be clean and holy in your
sight.
If so, be God might fill us with
his holy fire to take the gospel of
the kingdom to the nation.
We pray in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
Amen.
Felt these two or three days that we
just wanted to be sensitive to God.
We're so thankful for the way he has
moved so far.
We pray he'll continue to hover over us
and give us great and thankful hearts for
what he has done.
As we anticipate what he will yet do.
But there's a danger in God giving us
great blessings that we'll settle for that.
When God is just giving the first drops,
first fruits.
There's always a danger that it's so good,
so great.
That this is fine.
I'll accept this Lord.
I thank you.
It's wonderful.
We like it here in the eastern side
of the Jordan.
It's pasture land.
It's good for our flocks.
Let us stay here, Moses.
God wants to take them into the mountain
country and the hill country and to Hebron,
the choice part of Canaan.
So Paul said, I fear less the promise
being left us of entering into his rest.
Some of you might come short of it.
God doesn't want us to come short of
the full desire of his heart.
You're my heart's desire, you're my heart's desire,
and I love you
dearly, dearly, Lord.
You're my meditation and my
consolation, and I love you
dearly, dearly, Lord.
Glory to
the lamb.
I exalt the great I
love.
Glory to the lamb.
I exalt the great I love.
Oh, you're my consuming
fire Oh, you're my heart's
desire And I love you
dearly, dearly, oh