1 00:00:08,530 --> 00:00:12,130 Living Seed Media brings to you God's Word, 2 00:00:12,690 --> 00:00:16,130 which is his comprehensive equipment for changing lives. 3 00:00:16,830 --> 00:00:18,990 May the Lord impact your heart as you 4 00:00:18,990 --> 00:00:20,110 encounter his Word. 5 00:00:20,670 --> 00:00:25,130 For further enquiry or counsel, contact Peace House, 6 00:00:25,610 --> 00:00:29,670 PO Box 971, Boko, Benue State, Nigeria. 7 00:00:29,670 --> 00:00:39,230 Telephone numbers 0703 03636 59 0703 76811 8 00:00:39,230 --> 00:00:46,290 98 Email address lsmediaatlivingseed.org Or visit our 9 00:00:46,290 --> 00:00:53,110 website at www.livingseed.org Let us sit 10 00:00:53,110 --> 00:00:55,710 back and listen as the servant of God 11 00:00:55,710 --> 00:00:57,810 brings forth the Word of Life. 12 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:07,720 Thank you, Brajato. 13 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,960 Let us pray together. 14 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:18,120 Our Father, we cannot express the gratitude in 15 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:18,860 our hearts. 16 00:01:19,460 --> 00:01:21,580 It is beyond words. 17 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,420 You are so good to us. 18 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:32,860 We can testify that your mercies, they endure 19 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:33,440 forever. 20 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,760 They've endured with all the time that we 21 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:42,460 have pursued after you, as they have endured 22 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:44,520 over all the ages past. 23 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:51,680 This day again, we lean on these mercies 24 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:58,560 that are our assurance, the assurance that we 25 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,200 will again receive grace as we obtain mercy. 26 00:02:03,940 --> 00:02:09,100 We pray, O God, that again you will 27 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:11,440 make a way for us. 28 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,800 Cause, O Rock of Ages, that we hide 29 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:18,040 our life in you. 30 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:25,280 We confess again that nothing in my hand 31 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,460 I bring simply to your cross I cling 32 00:02:30,460 --> 00:02:31,320 even now. 33 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,100 I request that in the nakedness in which 34 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:39,900 I'm coming, you be the clothing that will 35 00:02:39,900 --> 00:02:42,380 be presented unto your people. 36 00:02:43,260 --> 00:02:49,820 It is in our most low state of 37 00:02:49,820 --> 00:02:56,900 weakness, of infirmity, that you make your grace 38 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:01,140 much more abundant, sufficient, and your strength much 39 00:03:01,140 --> 00:03:02,000 more effective. 40 00:03:02,620 --> 00:03:06,320 Even so, Lord, all through today, we ask 41 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,740 that you will reveal yourself unto us in 42 00:03:09,740 --> 00:03:10,300 your mercy. 43 00:03:10,300 --> 00:03:13,780 Be exalted and magnified forevermore. 44 00:03:14,020 --> 00:03:17,200 Thank you for answering us, for it is 45 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,580 in Jesus' name that we have prayed. 46 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:21,620 Amen. 47 00:03:22,620 --> 00:03:29,260 I'd like to note again with us that 48 00:03:29,260 --> 00:03:35,920 the Lord is speaking to each of us 49 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:38,700 personally, individually. 50 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,500 Of course, the message God is bringing to 51 00:03:43,500 --> 00:03:48,960 us is also an announcement of his visitation 52 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,120 to his people and to our generation. 53 00:03:53,120 --> 00:04:01,740 The message that hereafter, you and I will 54 00:04:01,740 --> 00:04:09,200 see heaven open and we will see the 55 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:16,279 messengers of heaven bearing our requests expressly. 56 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:24,740 In all security, mounting up to the Almighty, 57 00:04:25,780 --> 00:04:32,460 and we'll be bringing down expressly the responses 58 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:37,180 of our gracious Father, the Almighty God. 59 00:04:37,180 --> 00:04:42,960 And doing this as Jesus is our own 60 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:48,920 ladder, rather than the ordinary one that Jacob 61 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:55,540 saw, bearing all that we have to cry 62 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:59,500 to the Father to heaven by Christ, and 63 00:04:59,500 --> 00:05:04,040 bringing also down to us by him, according 64 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:09,020 to the limitless favor that our Savior has 65 00:05:09,020 --> 00:05:14,380 with the Father, to answer us speedily and 66 00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:17,120 to do great and mighty things which we 67 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:18,820 will be seeing in the course of time. 68 00:05:18,820 --> 00:05:23,880 Please don't forget that when God came to 69 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:29,760 us yesterday, it was very, very particular, that 70 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:34,460 yes, we are concerned about all the needs 71 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:39,340 of the many, many Syrophoenician women around about 72 00:05:39,340 --> 00:05:39,800 us. 73 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,980 We are worried about the degradation, the corruption, 74 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:46,140 the wickedness, the wars. 75 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,220 We are worried about even the famine of 76 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:55,900 the Word of God, the inversion of the 77 00:05:55,900 --> 00:06:00,600 powers of darkness that are even encroaching on 78 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:01,700 the body of Christ. 79 00:06:01,700 --> 00:06:05,280 We are worried about the needs all around 80 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:05,740 us. 81 00:06:06,420 --> 00:06:14,140 We are deeply concerned that unrighteousness seems to 82 00:06:14,140 --> 00:06:20,800 have taken righteousness hostage, seems to have kidnapped 83 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:27,080 godliness, and is now seeming to be the 84 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:30,980 one reigning over all our lands, our countries, 85 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:35,940 our various tribes and tongues. 86 00:06:37,540 --> 00:06:45,040 They seem to be an audacious display of 87 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,100 darkness in our generation. 88 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:53,340 It's almost becoming so intimidating that if you 89 00:06:53,340 --> 00:06:56,200 don't join darkness, you can't make it. 90 00:06:56,200 --> 00:07:01,620 If you don't agree with unrighteousness, with corruption, 91 00:07:02,580 --> 00:07:09,720 with daylight unrighteousness and wickedness, that you have 92 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,320 no place in our generation. 93 00:07:13,540 --> 00:07:16,980 Yet all of this will be resolved with 94 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:17,440 crumbs. 95 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:24,540 God said all of the seeming, staggering need 96 00:07:24,540 --> 00:07:29,280 of our generation, God only needs crumbs to 97 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,260 meet them all. 98 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:36,200 But how will the crumbs come about when 99 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,900 the children are not yet filled? 100 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:43,100 When we have not yet eaten, all the 101 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:46,140 bread is waiting in heaven to be released. 102 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:49,580 And it is on account of this that 103 00:07:49,580 --> 00:07:53,920 hereafter we will see heaven open. 104 00:07:54,260 --> 00:07:58,180 It's opening to release the abundance of the 105 00:07:58,180 --> 00:08:01,400 divine supplies to fill the children. 106 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:05,000 The children must first be filled because it's 107 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:09,060 out of the abundance of the feeding of 108 00:08:09,060 --> 00:08:13,740 the children that the father is intending to 109 00:08:13,740 --> 00:08:19,460 serve the needs of our various peoples, people's 110 00:08:19,460 --> 00:08:24,660 groups, the needs of a particular generation in 111 00:08:24,660 --> 00:08:26,880 all areas and walks of life. 112 00:08:27,730 --> 00:08:32,620 In the issues of our various professions and 113 00:08:32,620 --> 00:08:38,200 careers, God intends to meet these needs but 114 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,120 is waiting on us to arise and to 115 00:08:41,120 --> 00:08:45,300 sit at table and begin to consume our 116 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:45,960 own portion. 117 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:50,580 So the greatest need that we are here 118 00:08:50,580 --> 00:08:53,800 to call on God for is that he 119 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:59,920 might release the abundance of his provisions that 120 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:03,040 are meant for us as the body of 121 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:07,500 Christ, so that the rest of the populations 122 00:09:07,500 --> 00:09:10,860 of our generation might stop starving. 123 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:19,100 This morning, further to this, I hear God 124 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:25,340 calling on us therefore to set about in 125 00:09:25,340 --> 00:09:31,600 anticipation of the open heavens that are already 126 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:33,340 imminent. 127 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:38,420 I hear God asking us to go and 128 00:09:38,420 --> 00:09:40,820 dig ditches. 129 00:09:40,820 --> 00:09:45,980 There is an abundance that heaven must send 130 00:09:45,980 --> 00:09:55,380 down and adequate reservoirs, adequate receptors, adequate containers, 131 00:09:56,300 --> 00:10:02,600 adequate space must be provided to receive what 132 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:06,680 heaven must send down in a very, very 133 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:07,940 short time to come. 134 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:15,900 I'd like to read the story, just a 135 00:10:15,900 --> 00:10:21,840 bit of it, that carries this message in 136 00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:23,700 2 Kings chapter 3. 137 00:10:24,660 --> 00:10:27,220 I will not dare to try to read 138 00:10:27,220 --> 00:10:28,080 the whole of it. 139 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,360 I will only read the portion that I 140 00:10:32,360 --> 00:10:36,440 would have us to particularly note as we 141 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:40,540 share further, because the story itself is not 142 00:10:40,540 --> 00:10:44,240 what is important for us at this point. 143 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:48,700 But it has to do with a great 144 00:10:48,700 --> 00:10:55,620 need, a moment of serious need that arose 145 00:10:55,620 --> 00:11:00,540 in the midst of the people of God 146 00:11:00,540 --> 00:11:04,280 at the time of the reign of Jehoram, 147 00:11:04,420 --> 00:11:08,280 the son of Ahab, and in the time 148 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,460 of the reign of Jehoshaphat, who was the 149 00:11:11,460 --> 00:11:12,760 king over Judah. 150 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,180 I'd like us to note that this story 151 00:11:18,180 --> 00:11:25,080 speaks about a tight corner in which not 152 00:11:25,080 --> 00:11:28,340 only the army of Israel, but also the 153 00:11:28,340 --> 00:11:34,760 army of Judah, and that of Edom, that 154 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:40,240 was confederate with Israel and Judah, in order 155 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:44,720 to go against Moab, that had rebelled against 156 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,060 Israel at the time. 157 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:50,220 I'd like you to note that they came 158 00:11:50,220 --> 00:11:53,460 to a point where there was a very, 159 00:11:53,620 --> 00:11:54,780 very dire need. 160 00:11:54,780 --> 00:12:00,540 A need that bordered on survival, and they 161 00:12:00,540 --> 00:12:04,220 needed for God to intervene, just like we 162 00:12:04,220 --> 00:12:09,760 are looking to heaven for a desperate supply 163 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:14,460 to attend to our dire need in this 164 00:12:14,460 --> 00:12:17,280 moment of our lives. 165 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:22,800 And I want to note that as they 166 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:30,820 went to confer with Elisha, Elisha would have 167 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:36,980 driven them away, except that he could respect 168 00:12:36,980 --> 00:12:43,440 the presence of Jehoshaphat, who was mindful of 169 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:45,620 the ways of the Lord in his day. 170 00:12:45,620 --> 00:12:51,080 And when he would speak, would you note 171 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:56,780 in verse 14 now, that he called for 172 00:12:56,780 --> 00:13:02,400 a musician, a minstrel, as we would read 173 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,200 in the Old King James. 174 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:11,700 In verse 15, the Bible says, but now 175 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:16,620 bring me a minstrel, a musician, and it 176 00:13:16,620 --> 00:13:21,500 came to pass when the musician played, that 177 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:25,080 the hand of the Lord came upon Elisha. 178 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:31,620 And Elisha said, Thou sayest the Lord, make 179 00:13:31,620 --> 00:13:36,800 this valley full of ditches, for thou sayest 180 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:41,660 the Lord, ye shall not see wind, neither 181 00:13:41,660 --> 00:13:49,140 shall ye see rain, yet that valley in 182 00:13:49,140 --> 00:13:52,260 which you have dug the ditches shall be 183 00:13:52,260 --> 00:13:53,820 filled with water. 184 00:13:54,780 --> 00:13:59,360 And this water will be sufficient that you 185 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:03,380 may drink, both you and your cattle and 186 00:14:03,380 --> 00:14:07,640 your beasts, and even this is a light 187 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:11,360 thing in the sight of the Lord, he 188 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:16,400 will deliver the Moabites also into your hand. 189 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,280 Now, would you like to come to verse 190 00:14:19,280 --> 00:14:23,060 20 to note that it came to pass. 191 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:27,020 It came to pass that in the morning, 192 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:31,940 when the meat offering was offered, that behold, 193 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,080 there came water by the way of Edom, 194 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:38,960 and the country was filled with water. 195 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:43,920 Needless to go on to note that thereafter, 196 00:14:44,820 --> 00:14:49,280 God also arranged that they could pursue and 197 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:55,420 overtake Moab, and they recovered all, and they 198 00:14:55,420 --> 00:15:00,620 occupied where Moab had occupied before. 199 00:15:00,620 --> 00:15:03,760 There was a full restoration. 200 00:15:04,640 --> 00:15:09,380 There was a very clear deliverance, but also 201 00:15:09,380 --> 00:15:12,260 a complete restoration. 202 00:15:12,260 --> 00:15:16,820 The visitation of God for our lives in 203 00:15:16,820 --> 00:15:21,160 his opening the heavens in response to all 204 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:26,700 of the cries of his children, some have 205 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:30,420 even gone ahead of us into heaven, who 206 00:15:30,420 --> 00:15:37,100 have interceded, who have labored, who have waited 207 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:41,480 for this movement, this visitation of God. 208 00:15:42,260 --> 00:15:47,300 But it pleased God to respond to them 209 00:15:47,300 --> 00:15:50,320 and to us in our own day. 210 00:15:51,060 --> 00:15:54,940 Now, but God says we have a part 211 00:15:54,940 --> 00:15:55,660 to play. 212 00:15:56,460 --> 00:16:01,100 There is a necessary role that involves you 213 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:01,780 and I. 214 00:16:01,780 --> 00:16:07,960 Now, this role is about our preparing for 215 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:10,160 his coming, so that it's not wasted. 216 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:15,160 Now, God had come on this before, some 217 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:20,680 years back, and sent us by this word 218 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,860 to go and prepare vessels for the reviver. 219 00:16:24,860 --> 00:16:31,800 He came to mobilize us to go labor 220 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,800 in discipleship, so that the vessels that will 221 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:39,600 run with the fire that God will release 222 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:43,300 from above, with the help that will come 223 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:48,180 from heaven, with the anointing of heaven, the 224 00:16:48,180 --> 00:16:50,320 grace of God that will come upon our 225 00:16:50,320 --> 00:16:54,420 lives, will be made available for God to 226 00:16:54,420 --> 00:16:54,840 use. 227 00:16:55,860 --> 00:17:01,080 Today, I hear God saying, at the moment 228 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,140 that we are at the threshold of that 229 00:17:04,140 --> 00:17:10,240 visitation, this labor of digging ditches by raising 230 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,300 disciples, we must do it even much more 231 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:19,020 intensively, with a sense of urgency, with a 232 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:24,180 sense of purpose, having in mind the fact 233 00:17:24,180 --> 00:17:28,080 that the time now is really very short. 234 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:34,640 We must go dig ditches by providing more 235 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:38,980 and more vessels for the torrential rain of 236 00:17:38,980 --> 00:17:42,200 God's visitation that we are expecting, as the 237 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,280 heavens will open unto us beyond our imagination. 238 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,840 We need to provide the vessels that will 239 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,340 collect the visitation of God in their lives. 240 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,540 Now, but I want to note with us 241 00:17:56,540 --> 00:18:01,020 that God will have us first to go 242 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:04,720 to provide the space in our lives. 243 00:18:05,900 --> 00:18:11,300 Even in the area of our commitment to 244 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:16,720 discipleship, He wants the capacity of our lives 245 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:17,540 to increase. 246 00:18:18,060 --> 00:18:21,540 He wants to see more of our resemblance 247 00:18:21,540 --> 00:18:25,120 of Jesus, as it is the life of 248 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:26,620 Christ that He can use. 249 00:18:26,620 --> 00:18:31,480 God is asking that we should be particular 250 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:36,720 to ensure that our commitment to grow in 251 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:42,600 discipleship, our commitment to engage much more the 252 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,600 opportunities of learning at His feet, and of 253 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,500 following the lives that He may have already 254 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:54,260 introduced to each one of us much more 255 00:18:54,260 --> 00:18:58,720 closely, in order to miss nothing of the 256 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:02,160 provisions He's making for us to learn Jesus. 257 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:07,860 He wants first ourselves to dig deeper, to 258 00:19:07,860 --> 00:19:11,460 dig deeper into our lives and make provision 259 00:19:11,460 --> 00:19:14,920 for our growth in an accelerated manner. 260 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,840 It will be His joy when He arrives 261 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:23,560 that He's finding each of us carrying the 262 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:27,040 measure that is the measure of Christ. 263 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:32,240 With what measure we offer to Him, that's 264 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,960 the measure He can feel, and that's the 265 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,520 measure that He can also pour out to 266 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:38,280 other lives. 267 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,080 Are you all together already like Jesus? 268 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:46,680 Are there areas that do not carry the 269 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,720 life that God can feel and can use? 270 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:53,100 Would you like to commit yourself this morning, 271 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:57,280 particularly as we are pressing on, or whatever 272 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,800 time of day it is with you, would 273 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:03,620 you like to determine that you will dig 274 00:20:03,620 --> 00:20:05,100 ditches? 275 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:09,740 First the ditch of your commitment to learn 276 00:20:09,740 --> 00:20:10,280 Jesus. 277 00:20:10,740 --> 00:20:12,340 Go and dig more space. 278 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:16,420 You have not yet given God the space 279 00:20:16,420 --> 00:20:19,500 that He's looking for, as long as you 280 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:21,820 are not all together like Jesus. 281 00:20:22,670 --> 00:20:24,660 Don't rest on your oars. 282 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:31,080 Don't begin to congratulate yourself when the time 283 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,340 is almost at hand and it is Jesus 284 00:20:34,340 --> 00:20:37,500 God we'll be looking for to use when 285 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:41,640 He descends in abundance upon our lives as 286 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,760 the heavens open unto us. 287 00:20:44,540 --> 00:20:47,980 Also, I hear God asking that you should 288 00:20:47,980 --> 00:20:51,640 dig ditches in your life of your hunger 289 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,220 for God, your hunger to be used of 290 00:20:55,220 --> 00:20:59,160 God, your hunger to spend and be spent 291 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,220 for the purpose of God. 292 00:21:01,220 --> 00:21:04,040 Also, you may have surrendered to God. 293 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:06,180 Did you really surrender all? 294 00:21:06,840 --> 00:21:10,140 Go and check and confirm that you are 295 00:21:10,140 --> 00:21:14,800 all together a living sacrifice unto the Father. 296 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:18,620 You've offered your life and you are already 297 00:21:18,620 --> 00:21:19,780 dead to death. 298 00:21:19,780 --> 00:21:24,920 You are already completely dead to whatever could 299 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:29,240 be a personal convenience, a personal interest, a 300 00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:30,760 personal profit. 301 00:21:31,420 --> 00:21:34,940 You are living only for Jesus, for He 302 00:21:34,940 --> 00:21:38,200 died for all, so that those who live 303 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:42,000 should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto 304 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,240 those for whom He died and rose again. 305 00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,260 You should check again. 306 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,360 The point is, it is critical time now. 307 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:54,300 We are in injury time of our preparation, 308 00:21:55,060 --> 00:21:58,600 and so you must confirm that your ditches 309 00:21:58,600 --> 00:21:59,140 are ready. 310 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:02,720 Confirm that they are not small. 311 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,480 When the widow woman in chapter 4 of 312 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,820 the 2 Kings that we have read, when 313 00:22:10,820 --> 00:22:13,540 she was asked to gather vessels, gather not 314 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:17,100 a few, and I think she must have 315 00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:20,200 tried, and she gathered the vessels. 316 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,880 But as she shot in with the sons 317 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,840 and began to pour the oil when God 318 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:29,100 came down, when the miracle began to flow, 319 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,400 I imagine she must have regretted when she 320 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,740 asked the sons to bring yet another vessel, 321 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:39,620 and the sons said, sorry ma, there is 322 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:40,300 no more. 323 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,200 The vessels are finished. 324 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,500 And of course, that's how far the oil 325 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:47,360 could go, the oil stayed. 326 00:22:48,380 --> 00:22:52,580 I would request that we be mindful of 327 00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:54,960 the fact that the release from heaven will 328 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:55,660 be unlimited. 329 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:01,880 Let's prepare our lives in our seeking to 330 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:07,000 serving to be in such measure that whatever 331 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,720 assignment it puts upon our shoulders, there will 332 00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:12,380 be capacity to bear it. 333 00:23:12,820 --> 00:23:14,920 There will be room to contain it. 334 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,720 We will not be like that widow of 335 00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,700 the prophet that had reason to regret that 336 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:25,760 our vessels were finished. 337 00:23:26,220 --> 00:23:29,300 I imagine if she understood what was going 338 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:32,380 to happen, she will have used the little 339 00:23:32,380 --> 00:23:35,880 resources left in her hand to take a 340 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:40,440 flight abroad, mobilizing for more vessels, until she 341 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:43,880 would need to have had to hire perhaps 342 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,160 some stores to keep empty vessels for the 343 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:49,540 process of filling them. 344 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:53,560 She would have actually become the richest person 345 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:58,120 in all of history if her vision, her 346 00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,740 perspective, her understanding was enlarged. 347 00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:05,880 God wants us to enlarge our hearts, to 348 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:11,840 enlarge our vision, to enlarge our expectation, as 349 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,740 he told us yesterday, to dig the ditches 350 00:24:15,740 --> 00:24:20,640 for the visitation of God, for the grace, 351 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,460 for the provisions, for the help that God 352 00:24:24,460 --> 00:24:28,460 is bringing to find adequate space to do 353 00:24:28,460 --> 00:24:33,300 not just a little and stay, and yet 354 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:37,420 unrighteousness will still be roaming around, but to 355 00:24:37,420 --> 00:24:42,420 be able to overpower and overcome all that 356 00:24:42,420 --> 00:24:46,200 we need to overcome in order to take 357 00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,180 over and to rule for the Lord. 358 00:24:48,180 --> 00:24:53,100 Now, dig ditches in your life, dig ditches 359 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:57,200 of prayer, dig ditches of prayer. 360 00:24:57,580 --> 00:25:03,260 Now, this is requiring for us to deliberately 361 00:25:03,260 --> 00:25:09,920 exercise our hearts in praying, not superficially as 362 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:13,040 we may have been praying before, but to 363 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:17,280 gain depth in prayer, to pray deeply. 364 00:25:18,180 --> 00:25:23,660 To be able to pray and touch the 365 00:25:23,660 --> 00:25:28,600 heavens, to pray your life into communion with 366 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:32,040 God in the secret place, into communion with 367 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,720 God, even in the council room of heaven, 368 00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:39,260 to pray until you are standing before God. 369 00:25:40,180 --> 00:25:45,820 Pray your heart into an intimate communion with 370 00:25:45,820 --> 00:25:46,280 the Father. 371 00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:50,100 Pray until you begin to really pray. 372 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,780 We need exercise in prayer. 373 00:25:53,020 --> 00:25:57,100 You know, digging is a laborious exercise. 374 00:25:57,780 --> 00:25:59,560 When you are digging, you sweat. 375 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,360 When you are digging, you exert yourself. 376 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:07,160 Let's exert ourselves in all the areas of 377 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:07,900 our digging. 378 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:10,240 Don't be scratching. 379 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:11,460 They say dig. 380 00:26:12,100 --> 00:26:13,840 Let's dig ditches. 381 00:26:14,180 --> 00:26:16,020 Let's dig ditches in prayer. 382 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,020 Pray asking for the nations, asking for distant 383 00:26:22,020 --> 00:26:22,540 lands. 384 00:26:22,540 --> 00:26:24,320 Are you a professional? 385 00:26:25,140 --> 00:26:29,100 Don't be afraid of praying to request for 386 00:26:29,100 --> 00:26:32,740 God to give you the entire profession in 387 00:26:32,740 --> 00:26:33,740 the whole world. 388 00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:36,920 You will soon be flying to go and 389 00:26:36,920 --> 00:26:40,760 instruct lecturers if you are in the tertiary 390 00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:42,600 academic profession. 391 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:47,040 To be instructing lecturers in the Bahamas, to 392 00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:50,820 be instructing lecturers in Fiji Islands, to be 393 00:26:50,820 --> 00:26:53,680 instructing lecturers in Malaysia. 394 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,700 But pray, receive the ends of the earth, 395 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,100 and he will give them to you for 396 00:27:01,100 --> 00:27:01,680 a possession. 397 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:06,400 We need to intercede for God to visit 398 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:07,280 the whole earth. 399 00:27:08,580 --> 00:27:12,560 Prayer is one particular area in which we 400 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,740 need to dig the ditches. 401 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,140 God definitely is committed. 402 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,340 He said, assure readily, I say unto you. 403 00:27:21,340 --> 00:27:25,000 I say unto you with all assurance that 404 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,600 year after you will see heaven open and 405 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:33,200 there will be an unlimited opportunity for us 406 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,800 to send into heaven and to receive out 407 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,700 of heaven upon the Son of Man. 408 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:42,260 Now, but how prepared are you? 409 00:27:43,020 --> 00:27:46,060 If he has committed himself to doing it, 410 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,680 we must be committed to receiving it, and 411 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,540 we must be prepared for what we will 412 00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:52,980 receive. 413 00:27:53,500 --> 00:27:57,160 For this, we need to dig ditches also 414 00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:58,500 in asking. 415 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:03,880 We prayed for revival, but now much more. 416 00:28:04,380 --> 00:28:06,840 We need to enlarge the scope of our 417 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:07,980 prayers in revival. 418 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,000 We need to deepen our expectation. 419 00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,640 Pray for revival not only to affect the 420 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,840 preparation of hearts for heaven, not only to 421 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:26,560 affect the deliverance of people from sin, not 422 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,180 only to affect their deliverance from the oppression 423 00:28:30,180 --> 00:28:34,160 of demons, not only to affect the breaking 424 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,860 of every yoke of all addictions, not only 425 00:28:37,860 --> 00:28:42,140 to affect their personal walk with God and 426 00:28:42,140 --> 00:28:45,740 the restoration of all backsliders never to backslide 427 00:28:45,740 --> 00:28:46,260 again. 428 00:28:46,260 --> 00:28:50,920 Pray that the visitation of God will change 429 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,700 the politics of the world, that we will 430 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,520 go from democracy to what God himself will 431 00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,440 determine where the rule of the earth will 432 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:06,320 no longer be deliberate rebellion against God. 433 00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:10,740 Pray that the whole earth will come under 434 00:29:10,740 --> 00:29:12,260 the rule of God. 435 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:17,000 Pray that the economics of the world will 436 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,500 no longer be driven by self, be driven 437 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:30,300 by personal ego, be driven by selfish aggrandizement. 438 00:29:30,300 --> 00:29:32,640 There will be an economy of the world 439 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:37,960 that is after the principles of sacrifice, of 440 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:43,820 love, and of Christ, that is sponsoring peace. 441 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,040 Here is the economy in which we presently 442 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,640 are that is encouraging wars. 443 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,080 It's an economy of strife. 444 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,800 Pray for an economy that will be all 445 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:01,020 -embracing and that will be much more interested 446 00:30:01,020 --> 00:30:03,400 in sharing than gathering. 447 00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:07,500 Would you like to pray that revival will 448 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:09,380 change our politics? 449 00:30:09,380 --> 00:30:16,200 Revival will change even the educational spectrum of 450 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,920 the world, that revival will bring an end 451 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:25,440 to every form of way of life, that 452 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:29,280 the revival will change our legal systems, will 453 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,740 change the kind of judiciary we have in 454 00:30:32,740 --> 00:30:33,560 every country. 455 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:37,180 In fact, that revival will change man in 456 00:30:37,180 --> 00:30:37,820 and out. 457 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:40,900 We change man in all his undertakings. 458 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,280 We change man in agriculture. 459 00:30:44,060 --> 00:30:45,600 We change man in medicine. 460 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,320 We change man in the arts and crafts. 461 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,760 We change man in our drive of technology. 462 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,820 I would like us to actually set our 463 00:30:57,820 --> 00:31:00,440 heart to dig ditches. 464 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,360 What you don't ask from heaven, you cannot 465 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:05,200 receive. 466 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:08,380 And it is the measure to which you 467 00:31:08,380 --> 00:31:12,300 ask, believing that will determine the measure that 468 00:31:12,300 --> 00:31:13,540 you can also collect. 469 00:31:13,540 --> 00:31:18,240 So it's important for us to be committed 470 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:23,920 to preparing the ground for the abundance of 471 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:28,000 rain that the open heavens will release upon 472 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:33,300 the earth, for the limitless flow of divine 473 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:37,720 favors that we will be collecting upon the 474 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:38,420 Son of Man. 475 00:31:38,420 --> 00:31:43,640 Would you like to commit yourself to digging 476 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:44,380 ditches? 477 00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:49,920 Digging big, wide, deep ditches. 478 00:31:50,540 --> 00:31:53,040 Ditches that if you dug before, you go 479 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,340 back to increase in every area of your 480 00:31:56,340 --> 00:31:59,560 expectation of the visitation of God. 481 00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,640 There's a need to mobilize our hearts to 482 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,400 pray and to mobilize ourselves, even together in 483 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:12,880 prayer, to ask God to send us the 484 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,920 rain that will cover everywhere. 485 00:32:16,780 --> 00:32:20,040 We are dwelling in very dry valleys in 486 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,200 our experiences upon the earth. 487 00:32:22,890 --> 00:32:28,280 And first, our hunger, spiritually first of all, 488 00:32:28,860 --> 00:32:30,820 are overrunning the world. 489 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:36,160 Not to talk of the wickedness, the killings, 490 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:39,140 the wars, the hatred. 491 00:32:40,340 --> 00:32:44,700 The peoples of this world are worried about 492 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:45,240 hate. 493 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,500 But the hate is part of the life 494 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:49,580 that they have adopted. 495 00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:53,360 The life of sin, the life of rebellion 496 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:57,740 against God, the life of disobedience to his 497 00:32:57,740 --> 00:33:00,520 set pattern and his set standards. 498 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:05,500 The only solution against all manner of hate 499 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:09,220 can only come by revival, when it is 500 00:33:09,220 --> 00:33:12,340 the Prince of Peace who breaks down all 501 00:33:12,340 --> 00:33:16,300 the walls of partition, when he becomes the 502 00:33:16,300 --> 00:33:17,540 ruler of every heart. 503 00:33:17,540 --> 00:33:21,460 Would you like to ask God, as we'll 504 00:33:21,460 --> 00:33:24,100 be pleading with him, that he will show 505 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:24,740 us mercy? 506 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,740 He will show us mercy to be prepared. 507 00:33:28,740 --> 00:33:32,640 Don't forget, as I want to begin to 508 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,400 bring you to the issues we are talking 509 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:41,040 about, in conclusion, that we need to prepare 510 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:45,160 first our own lives, much more than we 511 00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:47,020 may have prepared ourselves before. 512 00:33:47,540 --> 00:33:52,140 We need to dig ditches that will contain 513 00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:56,120 what heaven is at the point of releasing. 514 00:33:57,420 --> 00:34:06,620 Ditches by intensifying our availability to gain from 515 00:34:06,620 --> 00:34:13,060 discipleship, intensifying our commitment to pursue our becoming 516 00:34:13,060 --> 00:34:14,400 more and more like Jesus. 517 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,699 We need to dig the ditches of our 518 00:34:17,699 --> 00:34:21,760 hunger for God, the ditches of our yearning 519 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:26,600 to be with him, to commune more and 520 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:29,120 more with him, and to be much more 521 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:33,300 and more pleasing to him, to enjoy intimacy 522 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:34,179 with God. 523 00:34:34,739 --> 00:34:38,580 Ditches of hunger for intimacy with the Almighty. 524 00:34:38,580 --> 00:34:43,500 We need to dig ditches in prayer, ditches 525 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:48,880 that are growing our capacity to pray, and 526 00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,440 pray deeply, and pray effectively. 527 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:57,640 The praying that is not superficial, the praying 528 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,960 that is not casual, the praying that is 529 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,240 touching the heart of God, the praying that 530 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:09,040 is affecting the very care of the heart 531 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,260 of the Most High, is asking the things 532 00:35:12,260 --> 00:35:15,920 that the Father himself is seeking to accomplish. 533 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:19,100 We need to dig ditches in our own 534 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:26,700 lives, ditches of requesting all of the world, 535 00:35:27,180 --> 00:35:31,840 the nations, the nations of this world, all 536 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:36,440 the professional walks of life, all the areas 537 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,060 of human endeavour. 538 00:35:38,060 --> 00:35:42,180 We need to expand the ditches and dig 539 00:35:42,180 --> 00:35:46,480 deep, dig to collect all, dig to lose 540 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,960 nothing of what heaven will be releasing, if 541 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:53,620 we exercise ourselves more and more in prayer. 542 00:35:53,620 --> 00:35:55,600 Why are we doing this? 543 00:35:56,020 --> 00:35:59,060 We are doing this because it is the 544 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:02,380 measure of our eating that will determine the 545 00:36:02,380 --> 00:36:05,920 quantity of crumbs that the rest of the 546 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:06,960 world can endure. 547 00:36:07,620 --> 00:36:09,020 Why are we doing this? 548 00:36:09,020 --> 00:36:14,480 Because whatever we don't ourselves feed upon, whatever 549 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,900 we don't feast upon, will not be a 550 00:36:17,900 --> 00:36:21,900 feast available for the rest of our generation. 551 00:36:22,540 --> 00:36:25,060 And if God doesn't visit us to the 552 00:36:25,060 --> 00:36:29,880 measure as to bring transformation to our generation, 553 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,720 even what he has done in our lives 554 00:36:32,720 --> 00:36:35,920 will soon be overrun by our generation. 555 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,160 We have had revivers in the past, but 556 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:44,200 they are now only read as history. 557 00:36:44,820 --> 00:36:47,900 They are now only available in the archives. 558 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:49,220 Why? 559 00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:54,840 Because in places like Turkey, in places where 560 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:59,420 the word of God actually took over the 561 00:36:59,420 --> 00:37:02,480 lands, the word of God did not take 562 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,340 over the running of the life of the 563 00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:06,720 people. 564 00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:11,240 The visitation of God did not transform the 565 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:15,980 government of the land, did not transform the 566 00:37:15,980 --> 00:37:19,780 economy of the land, did not transform the 567 00:37:19,780 --> 00:37:25,080 relationships of the various people and people's groups 568 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,400 on account of the grace of God that 569 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:28,980 came down. 570 00:37:28,980 --> 00:37:32,880 Let's ask beyond just preparing us for heaven. 571 00:37:33,540 --> 00:37:37,940 Let's ask beyond just making our lives to 572 00:37:37,940 --> 00:37:40,680 be available to serve God. 573 00:37:41,240 --> 00:37:45,060 Let's ask that there will also be a 574 00:37:45,060 --> 00:37:49,380 further impact that will influence the rest of 575 00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:50,080 our world. 576 00:37:50,620 --> 00:37:56,300 This moment, I perceive God saying, if you 577 00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:59,740 have accepted that he's saying you, you personally, 578 00:38:00,380 --> 00:38:04,840 that you will see heaven open and that 579 00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:09,260 you will see the angels ascending and descending 580 00:38:09,260 --> 00:38:13,140 upon the Son of Man, if you agree 581 00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:17,180 that it concerns you, that he's talking about 582 00:38:17,180 --> 00:38:22,180 you, you are that Nathaniel today, then there 583 00:38:22,180 --> 00:38:24,340 has to be a preparation for it. 584 00:38:24,460 --> 00:38:26,000 What are you doing about it? 585 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,480 If this is what you are expecting, then 586 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,020 where is the preparation? 587 00:38:31,460 --> 00:38:33,220 Where do you plan to keep it? 588 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,680 How do you plan to apply it? 589 00:38:37,300 --> 00:38:41,540 Is your life having the capacity to contain 590 00:38:41,540 --> 00:38:45,160 it, to hold it, and to operate with 591 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,080 what heaven is going to release? 592 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,900 We need to dig ditches. 593 00:38:51,060 --> 00:38:55,020 We mentioned yesterday the need for expectation. 594 00:38:55,020 --> 00:38:59,360 Now, this moment, we are talking about the 595 00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,140 need to be practical about this expectation by 596 00:39:03,140 --> 00:39:10,640 actually preparing in earnest for it, arranging what 597 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,180 is necessary to contain it. 598 00:39:13,180 --> 00:39:17,000 And part of it is that our prayer 599 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,020 for revival must intensify beyond what we may 600 00:39:22,020 --> 00:39:26,300 have been praying in asking for revival in 601 00:39:26,300 --> 00:39:26,860 the past. 602 00:39:27,420 --> 00:39:30,480 The reason being, we are now at the 603 00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,440 threshold of that experience. 604 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:37,920 And if it catches us unawares, if it 605 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,620 catches us unprepared, it would be unfortunate that 606 00:39:42,620 --> 00:39:47,900 what men prayed for several centuries before now, 607 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,900 and what we have been praying for, even 608 00:39:50,900 --> 00:39:54,500 we ourselves for decades, some of us began 609 00:39:54,500 --> 00:39:58,320 to pray for revival as very young kids, 610 00:39:58,820 --> 00:40:00,500 very young youth. 611 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:03,220 Decades have passed. 612 00:40:03,860 --> 00:40:07,640 It would be unfortunate that when the revival 613 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:09,560 now comes, we are not ready. 614 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,480 We are ill-prepared. 615 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,540 God is saying this is the time to 616 00:40:14,540 --> 00:40:17,460 go and dig ditches. 617 00:40:17,460 --> 00:40:20,580 And not to dig a few, and not 618 00:40:20,580 --> 00:40:24,040 to dig them miserly, but to dig them 619 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:30,960 abundantly, lavishly, because the visitation must be contained, 620 00:40:31,380 --> 00:40:34,660 must be correctly applied, and nothing of it 621 00:40:34,660 --> 00:40:35,620 must be wasted. 622 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:38,320 Heaven hates waste. 623 00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:44,580 Our Father will not that anything be lost. 624 00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:49,640 Let's pray that God will prepare us indeed 625 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,960 as we go on further. 626 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,380 Now it's clear that if this is the 627 00:40:55,380 --> 00:40:59,720 focus, it means no one who is expecting 628 00:40:59,720 --> 00:41:03,880 that he will be part of the Nathaniel 629 00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:09,520 Company, the diggers of ditches, will be alive, 630 00:41:09,940 --> 00:41:12,480 that himself is still doubting God. 631 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:16,780 Himself is yet to be committed to him, 632 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,020 has not come to Jesus. 633 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:23,740 Only those who have arrived can receive this 634 00:41:23,740 --> 00:41:25,240 instruction with us all. 635 00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:28,960 And so the first thing to be resolving 636 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:32,620 upon in this assembly is that you are 637 00:41:32,620 --> 00:41:37,440 personally prepared to join the company of those 638 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:42,360 awaiting the open heavens, looking to heaven for 639 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:43,900 these heavens to be opened. 640 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:47,920 The heavens will be opened only for those 641 00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:53,020 who are Nathaniel's, who have believed and have 642 00:41:53,020 --> 00:41:57,020 confessed Christ as the Lord and as the 643 00:41:57,020 --> 00:42:00,300 King that has been set in Zion over 644 00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:03,100 all the years, as the Prince that the 645 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:06,620 Father has elected to reign over all creation. 646 00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:09,340 I would like us to pray at this 647 00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:12,960 point as we commend ourselves to God in 648 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:17,060 the six minutes we have remaining on this 649 00:42:17,060 --> 00:42:20,960 lot, asking that he will show us mercy, 650 00:42:21,620 --> 00:42:25,820 he will mobilize us himself by his own 651 00:42:25,820 --> 00:42:29,280 spirit, so that we will not be left 652 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:32,620 out at this moment of the feasting of 653 00:42:32,620 --> 00:42:36,220 God's mercies that he has chosen to release 654 00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:38,200 upon the entire earth. 655 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,840 Would you like to bow your head as 656 00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,860 we pray and as we commend ourselves to 657 00:42:43,860 --> 00:42:47,240 the Lord, asking that, O God, please show 658 00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:48,680 me personally mercy. 659 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:50,920 Show me mercy. 660 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:55,340 If I have not properly come, Jesus said, 661 00:42:55,460 --> 00:42:58,440 come unto me, all you who labor and 662 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,820 are heavy laden, I will give you rest. 663 00:43:01,460 --> 00:43:04,480 You can't be digging ditches when your life 664 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,840 is still under the yoke of sin, the 665 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:10,900 yoke of all manner of oppressions of darkness. 666 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:13,940 When you are still living in rebellion against 667 00:43:13,940 --> 00:43:17,320 God, when your life is still heavy laden 668 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:20,340 with all manner of the burdens of the 669 00:43:20,340 --> 00:43:23,160 chaos of this life and the deceitfulness of 670 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,660 riches, those who are like Nathaniel, they have 671 00:43:27,660 --> 00:43:29,480 left all to follow Jesus. 672 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:33,220 They have come to all together be made 673 00:43:33,220 --> 00:43:37,400 like unto him, and their own pursuit is 674 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,380 to become instruments that will live to serve 675 00:43:41,380 --> 00:43:43,260 the purpose of God only. 676 00:43:43,900 --> 00:43:46,500 Would you like to commend yourself to God 677 00:43:46,500 --> 00:43:51,060 and say, Lord, help my life, therefore, to 678 00:43:51,060 --> 00:43:51,580 fit in. 679 00:43:51,580 --> 00:43:55,420 Help my life to become the kind of 680 00:43:55,420 --> 00:43:59,660 life that you can depend upon in this 681 00:43:59,660 --> 00:44:03,500 day of your power, in this day of 682 00:44:03,500 --> 00:44:04,460 your visitation. 683 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:08,280 Help me to be not only willing, but 684 00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,420 also available in this day of your power. 685 00:44:12,420 --> 00:44:14,600 Would you like to pray to God over 686 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:14,960 this? 687 00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:18,580 Bow your head, speak to God personally, unless 688 00:44:18,580 --> 00:44:20,660 you don't think you are part of those 689 00:44:20,660 --> 00:44:21,560 he's talking to. 690 00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,400 Unless you don't understand that in this day, 691 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:30,540 wherever he has located you, you are that 692 00:44:30,540 --> 00:44:34,920 Nathaniel that must be filled with his own 693 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:35,400 fullness. 694 00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,620 So that out of the crumbs of what 695 00:44:38,620 --> 00:44:41,720 drops in your filling your life with him, 696 00:44:42,180 --> 00:44:45,160 that others will much more than be satisfied. 697 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:48,240 But it has to start with your own 698 00:44:48,240 --> 00:44:48,600 life. 699 00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:53,240 It has to begin with you receiving of 700 00:44:53,240 --> 00:44:53,900 the fullness. 701 00:44:53,900 --> 00:45:01,100 This makes it mandatory that you personally must 702 00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:03,920 make space for what God is bringing. 703 00:45:04,460 --> 00:45:06,340 You must dig ditches. 704 00:45:06,860 --> 00:45:10,160 Brother, did you think you have already grown 705 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:10,700 enough? 706 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:13,100 You are already doing well? 707 00:45:13,780 --> 00:45:16,380 May I put it to you that you 708 00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:20,060 have only started and your time is remaining 709 00:45:20,060 --> 00:45:20,760 very short. 710 00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,360 The whole time has become very tight. 711 00:45:24,900 --> 00:45:26,740 It means you must double up now. 712 00:45:27,420 --> 00:45:31,840 It means you must arise and focus much 713 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:33,540 more than you may have done before. 714 00:45:33,540 --> 00:45:38,100 Sister, has God pointed out a life that 715 00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:43,120 should be your leader, your disciple, the hand 716 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,440 by which you will learn Jesus? 717 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:50,520 Were you very careless about throwing clothes? 718 00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:57,940 Careless about even standing the rebukes, the reproofs? 719 00:45:57,940 --> 00:46:01,740 You have often withdrawn, but time is running 720 00:46:01,740 --> 00:46:02,160 out. 721 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:06,600 When will you actually be prepared, a correct 722 00:46:06,600 --> 00:46:08,680 disciple that can raise others? 723 00:46:09,260 --> 00:46:14,000 And this level will double when the heavens 724 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:18,120 open and the release of God's mercy comes 725 00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:19,160 down in abundance. 726 00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:22,300 People will overrun us. 727 00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,980 The crowds will be pressing upon us. 728 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,960 But your life will not have been ready. 729 00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:30,960 How unfortunate it will be. 730 00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,580 Would you like to pray that, Lord, please 731 00:46:33,580 --> 00:46:37,100 help my life to be fully prepared, to 732 00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:41,280 be correctly made available, and to have the 733 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:44,260 capacity for what you plan to do? 734 00:46:45,020 --> 00:46:47,580 Lord, we want to thank you for each 735 00:46:47,580 --> 00:46:48,860 and every one of us. 736 00:46:49,260 --> 00:46:51,700 We just want to pray, O God, that 737 00:46:51,700 --> 00:46:56,480 wherever our position is, for those of us 738 00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,320 for whom even the coming is in doubt, 739 00:47:00,580 --> 00:47:03,080 you will sort that out in the course 740 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,680 of the moments we'll be passing together shortly. 741 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:11,400 For those of us that, yes, we can 742 00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,300 say we have rested from sin, we've rested 743 00:47:14,300 --> 00:47:16,500 from the love of the word, we've rested 744 00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:20,640 from the dominion of darkness, but God is 745 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:23,740 saying now is time to take that yoke 746 00:47:23,740 --> 00:47:25,680 of discipleship more earnestly. 747 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:29,420 For some of us, he's needing for us 748 00:47:29,420 --> 00:47:34,480 to prepare, prepare for the level of revival, 749 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:36,600 dig ditches. 750 00:47:37,100 --> 00:47:39,360 You will help each and every one of 751 00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,980 us at each of our levels, and cause 752 00:47:42,980 --> 00:47:46,220 that none of what you'll be releasing will 753 00:47:46,220 --> 00:47:48,800 be lost in any of our lives, to 754 00:47:48,800 --> 00:47:51,920 the praise of your glory, in the name 755 00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:52,680 of Jesus. 756 00:47:53,300 --> 00:47:53,780 Amen.