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us sit back and listen as the servant
of God brings forth the Word of Life.
We are going to cry to God to
take us further.
He has put our hands on the plow.
We will not look back again.
We are going to be reading to take
our burden of prayer from the book of
Georges, chapter 7.
Georges, chapter 7, we are reading from verse
12 to 23.
Now the Midianites and Amalekites, or the people
of the East, were lying in a valley
as numerous as locusts, and their camels were
without number as the sand by the seashore
in multitude.
And when Midian had come, there was a
man telling a dream to his companion.
He said, I have had a dream.
To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread
tumbled into the camp of Midian.
It came to a tent and struck it
so that it fell and overturned and the
tent collapsed.
Then his companion answered and said, This is
nothing else but the sword of Gideon and
the son of Joash, a man of Israel,
into his hand God has delivered Midian and
the whole camp.
And so it was when Gideon had the
telling of the dream and its interpretation that
he watched it, he returned to the camp
of Israel and said, Arise, for the Lord
has delivered the camp of Midian into your
hand.
Then he divided the three hundred men into
three companies, and he put a trumpet in
every man's hand with empty pitchers and torches
inside the pitchers.
And he said to them, Look at me.
Do likewise.
Watch.
When I come to the edge of the
camp, you shall do as I do.
When I blow the trumpet, I and all
who are with me, then you also blow
the trumpet every side of the whole camp,
and say, The sword of the Lord's hand
of Gideon.
So Gideon and the hundred men who were
with him came to the outpost of the
camp at the beginning of the middle watch,
just as they posted the watch, and they
blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that
were in their hands.
Then the three companies blew the trumpets and
broke the pitchers they held the torches in
their hands and their trumpets in their right
hands for blowing, and they cried, The sword
of the Lord's hand of Gideon.
And every man stood in his place all
around the camp, and the whole army ran
and cried out and fled.
When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the
Lord sent every man's sword against his companion
throughout the whole camp, and the army fled
to Beth-Akashia, towards Zererah, as far as
the border of Ebe-Mehuda by Taba.
And the men of Israel gathered together from
Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh, and pursued the
Midianites.
May the Lord give us a burden to
pray this morning in the name of Jesus
Christ.
God has been speaking to us about what
to sow.
What to sow in our lives to become
the good seed that the Son of Man
will in turn sow upon the face of
the earth, sow in the nations, sow in
every profession, sow in every home.
God has been speaking to us and we
cannot take what God has been saying for
granted.
And this morning again He came to us
to show us the way into these things.
The way into Rehoboth, which is the way
of discipleship.
That is the road to take to arrive
at our Rehoboth.
Now, from the story we have read and
from what we heard yesterday, there is no
Rehoboth without contention, without facing a battle.
There is no Rehoboth.
You will not be able to arrive at
Rehoboth and the Pharisees will be looking at
you like that.
And the Midianites, they will just look at
you and allow you to pass easily.
There is no Rehoboth without contention.
But from this scripture you discover that God
has gone ahead of us.
The Lord went ahead of Gideon.
After he had selected the 300 for him,
God helped him to be able to believe
and to plunge into this journey into his
own Rehoboth, into this battle against the Midianites
so that they would take possession of their
possessions.
The Midianites would no longer ravage their land.
God helped him.
In verses 13 and 14, you will see
what God told him to do.
He went nearby, he went near the camp
of the Midianites and as he listened, somebody
was telling a dream to his companions.
He said, I have had a dream.
To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread
tumbled into the camp of Midian.
It came to a tent and struck it
so that it fell and overturned and the
tent collapsed.
I wonder what kind of bread is that
one.
What kind of bread?
It must be a mysterious bread.
This must be a wonderful bread.
A bread of barley loaf tumbled into the
camp of the Midian.
And you are that bread.
I am that bread.
God is going to send into the camps
of the Midianites and their tent will be
struck so hard that it will fall, it
will be overturned and it will collapse.
The tent of the Midianites will collapse in
our time.
The camp of the enemy will be overturned
in our time.
We are going to take possession of our
possession.
What the enemy has thrown in, he will
vomit it.
He will not live to enjoy it.
This loaf of barley bread, and you know,
as Brother Sisu was speaking, I just saw
that this loaf of barley bread has been
properly baked.
It has been properly cooked.
It has been tossed by the Almighty God.
It looks like ordinary bread and the enemy
may say to you, are you coming to
me as if I am a dog?
You are coming with sticks and stones.
It looks like an ordinary piece of bread.
We will finish this one before you will
even arrive at us.
No, don't worry.
A cake of barley bread, properly baked, will
break down the tent of the Midianites that
it will collapse.
But you must be properly baked.
Don't forget that.
You must be properly baked so that you
will become that cake of barley bread that
will be so effective in its action that
everybody will say this is nothing but the
hand of God.
This is not an ordinary bread.
You must be properly baked.
So, as we saw, you know, Gideon had
the dream that they were telling him, and
it's amazing that the interpretation that that man's
companion gave was, I don't know, how somebody
would prophesy against himself.
That's the kind of confusion that God normally
sets into the camp of the enemy when
he stands with his people, when he goes
before his people.
And his companion answered and said, this is
nothing else but the sword of Gideon, the
son of Jehoash, a man of Israel, into
his hands.
God has delivered Midianites and the whole camp.
Hey, God has delivered the Midianites, the enemies
of God in our camp, that has been
ravaging our camps and our cities, that has
been ravaging our nation.
God has delivered them into our hands.
It is not when the battle is over
that you will know that God has delivered
them.
Even before it begins, God is saying, I
have delivered the Midianites into your hands.
You need God to now help you to
cry to God and say, Father, let me
arise in faith.
Don't allow me to sit down again.
As soon as Gideon had that dream, he
could not sit again.
He rose up in fact.
It did not only affect him.
It affected him so much that he in
turn affected the army.
He went into the camp and he went
to say to his people, arise, that's verse
15.
Arise, for the Lord has delivered the camp
of Midian into your hands.
He did not say the Lord will deliver.
The Lord has.
I'm happy to announce to you that the
Lord has delivered the camp of Midian into
our hands.
All the Philistines that were pouring sand into
the way of Isaac, the Lord has delivered
them into our hands.
Let nothing make you to sit down again.
He rose and he told the people, look,
the Lord has delivered the camp of Midian
into our hands.
And so shall it be.
In the name of Jesus Christ, we are
going into our rehoboth.
You see, this battle was a battle for
possessing their possession.
It wasn't for passage anymore.
It's a battle to possess your possession wherever
God has located you.
You will possess it because the Lord has
delivered the camp of Midian into your hands.
Now, as he spoke to the people, there
was something that he did to them.
I would like you to see in verse
16, God helps Gideon.
He knew that the Lord has delivered the
camp of Midian into our hands.
But it was God with the correct equipment.
And the weapons of Herod were not cannot.
But they are mighty through God to the
pulling down of strongholds.
What did Gideon do?
Then he divided 300 men into three companies.
And he put a trumpet into every man's
hand with empty pitchers and torches inside the
pitchers.
He put in each man's hand a trumpet
with empty pitchers and torches inside the pitchers.
Look at their equipment.
Don't worry.
Don't worry about what God has put in
your hand.
Your own equipment may even be your possession.
Your own equipment may be the pulpit where
you are preaching.
Whatever is the equipment, physical and spiritual, you
will be equipped.
And you will need to pray that you
will not go from here unequipped in the
name of Jesus Christ.
Look at the equipment.
A trumpet.
A message.
And we have been told time and time
and time again that we have a message
for this move of God.
You are not just going to be preaching
anyhow.
When you are preaching and told this story
and that story, the message is Christ and
Him crucified.
Or say, I determined not to know anything
among you except Christ and Him crucified.
That is our message.
That is the message that will conquer the
Midianites and move us into the land of
ruthfulness.
We will no longer be hiding our calm
from the Midianites.
It is this message that will move us
into abundance.
Don't go again telling the stories of Caterpillar
and the lizards.
The message is clear.
Christ and Him crucified.
This message is the sword of God's deliverance.
It is the sword of the deliverance of
the Lord from the hands of the Midianites.
So that we can enter into our new
homeworld, a land of ruthfulness.
You must preach Christ, nothing else.
No more, no less.
Christ and Him crucified.
Whether you are a researcher, your message is
Christ and Him crucified.
You are a king.
The message is Christ and Him crucified.
In every profession, Christ and Him crucified.
People are a puppet.
That is the message.
And you are going to be praying, Lord,
don't allow me to deviate from this message.
Because you won't get anything.
You won't get the victory if you go
into any other thing.
Do you know for every generation, God sets
the goal.
He sets the focus.
He finds you.
He gives the message that will conquer the
particular Midianites for that generation.
This is the sword of the deliverance of
the Lord for this home of God.
Please pray.
We are tempted to go and be preaching
all kinds of topics.
God has not called us to just be
preaching topics.
He is a person.
The person of Christ.
You need to pray for yourself because there
is a temptation to that day.
There is always a temptation.
To pray that you know much more than
that.
Christ is the message.
The inexhaustible message.
Christ, you can't preach Him enough all your
lifetime.
Christ is the message.
Pray, Lord, don't let me preach any other
message.
Not myself.
Not another.
But Christ and Him crucified.
He gave them a trumpet.
And then He gave them an empty pitcher.
Empty pitcher.
It is only empty pitcher that can enter
into the Lord.
You will call on God.
Then God will empty you of yourself.
Empty pitcher.
It was an empty bowl that Jesus entered
to preach to the multitudes in Luke chapter
5.
A pot in which the fishermen have gone
out.
You must go out.
Go out and let Jesus in.
It is only an empty pitcher that God
will use and you will pray to Him.
Many of us are full of matter.
We are full of many things.
You will call on God.
Empty me.
Whatever instrument you will use to empty me
of myself.
Empty me of everything.
Empty me, O God, that I may become
the pitcher that you are going to use
to move us into our level 1 in
this generation.
To move us into truthfulness.
You will see that these 300 men, actually
they have been emptied.
That is why they could preach and shout
the sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
You won't hear somebody saying the sword of
David.
The sword of Josiah.
The sword of Deborah.
No.
The sword of the Lord and of Gideon.
All of them behind their different names.
But no.
They are not preaching themselves.
You will call on God.
Empty me of myself.
Empty me of everything.
Empty me.
Don't let me be a stumbling block in
this move of God.
In this move into the land of truthfulness
that God is showing us His people in
this century.
And He gave them a torch.
A lamp.
And the lamp is to be put in
the empty pitcher.
If the pitcher is not empty, it will
not be able to contain this light.
This lamp.
And you know when He gave them that
lamp, it is the pitcher that signifies Christ
in you.
Christ in the empty pitcher.
And the Bible says Christ in you is
the hope of glory.
If we will experience this lamp of God,
it must be Christ in you.
You will be called on God.
Father.
Let nothing.
Nothing else be located in me except Christ.
Let it be Christ walking inside of me.
Empty pitcher.
Empty me oh Lord.
And pour into me the very life of
God.
The life that is light.
Not the life that is shouting.
Many of us today, we don't like shouting.
We don't find people in the church, they
will put a loud speaker to be disturbing
the entire community.
The light that will conquer the media night
doesn't shout.
This light shines.
You will be called on God.
Pour into me this light that is light
that will conquer the media night.
Apart from the good place, there were instructions
to obey.
We were told in the morning, if you
obey my instructions, my commandments, then you will
be comforted.
There were instructions that God gave these people
also to obey.
Look at verse 17.
And he said to them, look at me
and do likewise.
Watch.
And when I come to the edge of
the camp, you shall do as I do.
That's the first instruction.
Watch.
Those of you that don't know how to
follow people.
You are the follower of yourself.
You are the leader of yourself.
You will not succeed in this kind of
warfare.
God is saying watch.
There is a leader for watch.
If you are no leader, you are out
of this matter.
Watch.
Of course, our own Gideon primarily is the
Lord Jesus Christ.
He is the commander or the host of
the Lord.
He is the commander.
And he says to you, watch me.
Watch.
You are going to pray, Lord, make me
sensitive in the spirit.
Open the eyes of my mind.
Help me to see as you see.
Don't let me be blind in this day
of Leopold.
Don't let me be blind, my God.
Help me to see as you see.
He said to watch.
Watch.
Verse 20.
Okay, verse 18, 19 and 20.
When I blow the trumpet and all who
are with me, then you also blow the
trumpet on every side of the whole camp
and say, the Son of the Lord and
of Gideon.
So Gideon and his hundred men who were
with him came to the outpost of the
camp at the beginning of the meeting.
Watch.
Just as they have posted the watch.
And they blew the trumpet and brought the
pictures that were in their hands.
Then the three companions blew the trumpet and
brought the pictures.
They held the subjects in their hands and
their trumpets in their right hands for blowing.
And they cried, the Son of the Lord
and of Gideon.
And one thing touched me.
The light inside the picture was not meant
to remain inside the picture.
But for the light to shine, the picture
had to be broken.
And each of them broke the picture.
It was that action that made the light
to shine.
There is need for brokenness.
There is need for us to be flexible
in the hands of God.
There is need for the Lord to break
us and make us people of a broken
and a contrite spirit.
Adjustable, flexible, amiable, humble, contrite before the Lord.
You will beg God, Father, any stiffness inside
of me, break it.
Break this picture, oh Lord, don't let me
remain intact.
Don't let me remain intact in this day
of my hope.
The light will not shine except the picture
is broken.
And this is the crucified life that God
is calling us into.
The life that has been crucified with Christ
so that Christ may shine forth from within
us.
Lord, break me.
Break this picture.
Let me not remain intact.
And the last thing was what I saw.
When they did as the Lord commanded, you
know the end of the story.
The Lord went, they were not the ones
that were shooting any gun.
It was the Lord who went and turned
the media night.
Having their own equipment and swords and guns,
they turned to each other and started killing
each other.
That was the battle of the Lord.
They turned to each other.
God is going to set the media night
against each other.
And we are going to enter into our
removal in the name of Jesus Christ.
And one thing that touched me was the
men of Israel in verse 23.
And the men of Israel gathered together from
Naphtali, Asher, and all Manasseh and pursued the
media night.
Can you see that disciples multiplied?
The army multiplied.
When those who are on the stage or
at the battle front, when they did what
the Lord said and obeyed Him, disciples multiplied.
Look, people are waiting on the wings to
follow the Lord.
But you that the Lord has captured and
captivated, you must obey Him.
Then you will see the disciples multiplying.
The army of the Lord will multiply.
You won't say, oh, we are too few.
No!
God knows those here, He is keeping at
the wings.
He is only waiting for you to obey.
We are going to pray, Lord, help me
that I will obey you.
I will obey you.
And you see, each of these army of
Gideon, they were located in different parts of
the camp of the media night by Gideon.
That's the other matter.
They were properly located.
Gideon located them.
In fact, the Bible says something in verse
21.
And every man stood in his place all
around the camp and the whole army ran
and cried and prayed.
All the army of Gideon, every man stood
in his place.
You are going to pray, Lord, where is
my place?
You have a place, we have been told.
You have a place in this Rehoboth.
To experience Rehoboth, there is a particular location.
Whether geographical, whether professional or spiritual, whatever.
You have a location where God wants to
locate you.
Isaac was properly located where God located him.
You are going to pray that in this
day of plenty, in this day of goodfulness,
in this day of Rehoboth, Father, locate me.
Locate me in the right place.
Don't let me be mislocated.
So, as of now, they are still mislocated.
You are supposed to be, maybe on the
poopy, you are a lawyer as Paul was,
but you are supposed to be on the
poopy.
You must not be mislocated.
Or, maybe you are preaching, but you think
God wants to give you a congregation bigger
than what you have now, at our Royal
Majesty.
This yesterday, he said to us yesterday, he
was a professor, but he wanted you, he
called you, to a better and larger congregation,
to the traditional school.
You are going to pray, in this day
of Rehoboth, Lord, locate me.
Locate me properly.
Put me in the correct location where I
will experience Rehoboth.
Don't let me be mislocated.
And by my action, Lord, let disciples multiply.
Let disciples multiply.
You will move us toward Rehoboth.
Even though there are concessions in our time,
you will move us toward Rehoboth.
But Lord, help me to do what you
are telling me to do.
There is an instruction to obey.
There are equipments to collect.
But God has surely given us the victory.
You will rise up and pray, and cry
to God, and plead to the Lord and
say, Lord, put faith in me.
Whatever you need to give me, that makes
me to arise in that contrary situation.
Lord, put faith in me, to arise, do
something in my life.
I need the divine mobilization.
I need something in power.
A divine push.
I need the specializing power of the Almighty
God.
Put something in me.
You are going to pray, Lord, He is
with me.
He is with me.
Put a message, the right message in my
mouth.
Christ and Him crucified.
And if there is anything in my picture,
remove it.
Lord, excavate it.
Lord, take it out of the way.
I have seen this picture.
And you will pray, Lord, put the life
of Christ.
Pour it into me.
Don't let me go with my own life.
It avails nothing.
Lord, pour the life of Christ in me.
And please, Lord, break this picture, that the
life may flow.
Let the life flow.
That is what conquers the medium life.
That life, that is life.
That is the life that God is portraying
for us.
Give me that life.
That life.
And you will pray, Lord, please locate me
properly.
I have a space.
I have a place.
A particular location.
Geographical, professional, spiritual location.
Immortal.
A place to occupy.
Lord, please locate me.
Don't let me be mislocated.
If there is another time you are mislocated,
not today.
Don't allow me to be mislocated because I
see my other colleagues being located here and
there.
Help me to stay where you have put
me.
Help me to be located where you want
me to be.
And Lord, by this action, may you defeat
the medium life.
May you multiply disciples in the land.
Would you please rise up and let us
pray.
Pray.
Please pray.
Let's go into prayer right now.
Stand on your feet, everybody.
Come on, God.
It is not in this day of Leopold
that we will be lazy.
And we will be lazy about.
It is time for us to arise and
to go confront whatever Philistines, whatever Midianites will
not let us in time for our revival.
Come on, God, for your life.
Call upon the Lord.
Let us pray.