Independence and liberty are two of the most important things to most nations, whether or not individually we realize it. Nations rise and fall all for the pursuit of independence and liberty. That is a desire that God gave us and rightly so, the only problem is that independence and liberty with out God is a perversion. We have to be solely dependent on God to gain independence, we have to stand under God's authority to gain liberty. All through the blood of Jesus! Praise God!
What is spurring this thought of liberty and independence is how we have compartmentalized ourselves as a Body, notice the word there, Body. We, together corporately are the Body, not individually. We have divided ourselves based on trivial things, you like contemporary music go here, you like hymnals go there, you believe this and I believe that, so instead of coming together on the thing that makes us the same, Christ, we separate. Look around you at all the little and big independent "churches," I'm not judging them or anything, I'm actively involved in a "church," I use the word church in this way because we are just a tiny part of His Church, we aren't by ourselves the Church only together in unity are we the Church.
Romans 12:4-6 (New International Version)
Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man's gift is prophesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith.
Let me reemphasize the fact that this is an unfolding revelation to me and not in judgement, I desire for us to come together in unity! The enemy is working very hard to keep us divided for one simple reason...
Matthew 12:25
Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, "Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.
Mark 3:25
If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
Luke 11:17
Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.
So what he is doing is telling us your better than them because your worship leader is "more anointed" or can sing better. Then we buy into it and divide ourselves to chase our own thing and we forget the word or the dream in the beginning! With all this happening we begin to look at one another with some sort of spiritual superiority, like we are bigger and better, just like the Pharisee's. Then comes the harsh judgement and the back biting and the slander, especially when something happens and some one "falls" or something.
The Church corporately is a joke to most Americans. We think that it is because all these people have made mistakes and made us look bad. We are sadly mistaken, just read the Bible, read about David, Solomon. Division is what is made us a joke. That one that "fell," were we praying for them and lifting them up with blessings before the "fall?" We can't come together on anything but attacking our brother whenever they do make a mistake. Let's begin to come together! You have a dream and lack the resources? I know I do. But if we come together and share our dreams, visions, and resources think about how much more we can accomplish! No longer will we be crushed by the weight of trying to carry it all by ourselves, when we weren't created for that. We will be able to do greater things, bigger things, if run together.
God has given me a huge dream and a bigger vision! It is exciting and exhilarating. At the same time, I have some great restrictions, I have an 80,000 dollar debt for a mistake I made, I can't find a full time job, everything I have is either given or loaned to me and the list goes on. Looking at all this it is a bit overwhelming sometimes, but I know that I serve the God of the universe, the One who spoke it all into existence and nothing is outside of His control and He is a good Father, who desires to give us good gifts. Do I really think that He is going to pour money from heaven on me and let me try to run this thing alone? No. The fact of the matter is that when God first called His people Israel, they were one clan, one people. God was their king and ruler, but they wanted a man to rule over them and He gave them the desire of their heart, even though it wasn't His will and look what happened.... Division! Then when Christ came and gave the great commission and the first apostles went out they again began to bring the Body together in unity, every one bringing all they own together to care for one another, no one was without, all needs were met. That is how He designed it...Ecclesia- an assembly of citizens, this is the Greek word for church working together in koinonia- fellowship, actually sharing their lives in a covenant relationship, a brotherhood.
Acts 2:42 (New International Version)
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Beloved, I pray that this might pierce our stony hearts and move us towards one another, let's cut covenant and run together. Let's see what God can do when His people move together as one people!
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the LORD had surrendered them?
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Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Psalm 103 "A Prayer"
Abba,
I will bless and honor Your name with all that I have and all that I am. I will never forget all of Your goodness and the benefits of being Your favorite one. You are the one who forgives all of my sins, You're the one who covers me with grace and mercy by the blood of The Lamb. You're my healer and redeemer, the lifter of my head. You lay upon me crowns of tender mercies and loving kindness. You satisfy my mouth with good things, so that my strength is renewed like the eagle's.
You, Daddy, bring justice and righteousness for all that are oppressed. You showed Yourself to Moses and Israel, You showed Yourself merciful and gracious, slow to anger and overflowing with mercy. You don't continually nag me nor do You hold grudges, for You are the ultimate gentleman, You will never force anything on me. You haven't dealt with me according to my sins, nor have You punished me according to my transgressions. Like the vastness of space, so are Your mercies toward all that fear You.
You have cast my transgressions as far as the east is from the west. The way parents feel for their children pails in comparison to the way you feel towards me. You know my frame, You know that I am dust and in You mercy You forgive me Your kindness never ends. As the flowers fade away with the season, so is my life in eternity, a vapor; but Your love is forever and Your righteousness from generation to generation. Your kingdom is eternal and above all others. Let everything under the sound of Your voice bless Your name, Jehovah! From the hosts in the heavens to those on earth below, let us all bless You Lord!
I will bless and honor Your name with all that I have and all that I am. I will never forget all of Your goodness and the benefits of being Your favorite one. You are the one who forgives all of my sins, You're the one who covers me with grace and mercy by the blood of The Lamb. You're my healer and redeemer, the lifter of my head. You lay upon me crowns of tender mercies and loving kindness. You satisfy my mouth with good things, so that my strength is renewed like the eagle's.
You, Daddy, bring justice and righteousness for all that are oppressed. You showed Yourself to Moses and Israel, You showed Yourself merciful and gracious, slow to anger and overflowing with mercy. You don't continually nag me nor do You hold grudges, for You are the ultimate gentleman, You will never force anything on me. You haven't dealt with me according to my sins, nor have You punished me according to my transgressions. Like the vastness of space, so are Your mercies toward all that fear You.
You have cast my transgressions as far as the east is from the west. The way parents feel for their children pails in comparison to the way you feel towards me. You know my frame, You know that I am dust and in You mercy You forgive me Your kindness never ends. As the flowers fade away with the season, so is my life in eternity, a vapor; but Your love is forever and Your righteousness from generation to generation. Your kingdom is eternal and above all others. Let everything under the sound of Your voice bless Your name, Jehovah! From the hosts in the heavens to those on earth below, let us all bless You Lord!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Possessing The Gates Of The Enemy
Genesis 22:17-18 (New King James Version)
1. 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
I. Possessing the gates through intercession
5 Key Points Of Unity Of Prayer Intercessors:
1. No one ministry has all the revelation necessary to break thru to all nations
2. It would take His Body coming together for the battle plans to be revealed.
3. When the ministers came together and each contributed his or her piece of the strategy, God would reveal His plan to us all.
4. The meetings would tear down barriers between ministries and we would have a united
front to wage war.
5. Those asked to be generals would be those Christians on staff with major ministries as
prayer coordinators.
The Basic Assignments For The Prayer Meetings Are As Follows:
1. We were to pray for the sins of our nation from its inception. These were sins of slavery,
our treatment of the Indians, strife and division during the Civil War, the internment of
Japanese during WWII and other like sins.
2. We were to use John 20:23 as a pattern: “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven
them: if you retain the sins of any they are retained.” Some of the sins we were to deal
with were prejudice, materialism, mammon, murder and idolatry.
3. After we repent of these sins, God would show us which rulers of Satan’s kingdom needed
to be called down from their high places and whose right to reign should be broken. By
doing this we would tear apart Satan’s stronghold.
4. We were to pattern ourselves after Jeremiah 1:10: “See, I have this day set you over the
nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to tear down,
but to build and to plant.” The next step was to pray that the United States would return to
it’s godly heritage. The planting would be that the “hearts of the children would return to
their fore fathers.”
5. God would adapt us and use this pattern for the various nations to which we would go.
II. The Call To Intercession
Isaiah 56:6-7
6 “ Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants— Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
God calls us, everyone in covenant relationship with Him a house of prayer for all nations. We need to seek and pray Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” We must ask Him to come in and to make us clean, that is His desire but we must seek for ourselves and invite Him in. The Holy Spirit is a gentleman, He won’t enter unless invited. “Before He (The Savior) can lead a chosen vessel into such a life of intercession, He first has to deal to the bottom with all that is natural.”-Rees Howells. We need to give all of ourselves in exchange for all of the Holy Spirit.
The second step in asking God to create a clean heart in us is letting Him deal with what is there that needs changing. We must be willful to be sheared and let go of all that isn’t righteous and that He doesn’t have for us, at whatever cost. If we aren’t willing to undergo this change, it will take us to a place that God never intended for us to be and it can and will eventually if unchecked pull us into sin. This process is a process and not instantaneous. We have to learn to be sensitive and willful to the convictions of the holy Spirit when we sin. This will soften our heart and make it more pliable. Remember when we sin and we will, we aren’t yet perfect, we need to repent and just get right back up and continue in the battle!
III. Personal Points
I must get over the idea of “spiritual superiority,” God has called all to intercession, I am not extra special because He breaks my heart over things and furthermore I still have a long way to go to true spiritual maturity! When God trusts us to pray, He must first cleanse our hearts to the point that the report we give in prayer are not biased or tainted by personal “stuff.” He wants to teach us to pray, His will and not ours. Because of His Fathe’s heart He works at stripping us of “our anointing,” selfish desires, seeds of bitterness, rejections, doctrines, and biased opinions. One of the most difficult lessons of young intercessors is: God is not in a hurry. He takes the time He needs to build character in us. Most of us want it to happen immediately, but God loves to marinade us, grow us in maturity! He wants tender hearts in His living sacrifices. The problem with living sacrifices is that they want to jump off the alter. After some time they begin to realize it is sometimes painful to be conformed to the image of Jesus. This is the point at which some decide that the price is too high to serve Christ in prayer.
When we begin to have some measure of “success,” it is easy to fall into the trap that says God has placed us above our brothers and sisters in Christ because of our ability to pray with more authority or to hear Him mor clearly. We must continuously hold to the Father’s hand in this case that we not become puffed up and arrogant or prideful. We must seek diligently to do as Matthew 6:5-13
5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
We must do these things in secret and not for our own glory, if God gives us a word for someone we must first have that word confirmed and present it to someone in authority over us. In closing we must also not only allow Him to clean up the sins of our heart, but also the wounds of the heart, we must allow Him to heal our hearts too. “See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble or defile many.” Hebrews 12:15
IV. Key Scriptures:
Isaiah 14:12-14 (New King James Version)
1. The Fall of Lucifer
12 “ How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer,[a] son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘ I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
Footnotes:
1.
Isaiah 14:12 Literally Day Star
Jeremiah 1:10 (New King James Version)
2. 10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”
Ezekiel 22:30 (New King James Version)
1. 30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
Ezekiel 28:11-19 (New King James Version)
2. Lamentation for the King of Tyre
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“ You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “ You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
16 “ By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.
17 “ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
18 “ You defiled your sanctuaries
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth
In the sight of all who saw you.
19 All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you;
You have become a horror,
And shall be no more forever.”’”
Daniel 10:12-13 (New King James Version)
1. 12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.
Matthew 11:12 (New King James Version)
1. 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 16:18 (New King James Version)
1. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Luke 11:17-22 (New King James Version)
1. 17 But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. 18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub. 19 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. 22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
2 Corinthians 2:10-11 (New King James Version)
1. 10 Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one[a] for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Footnotes:
1.
2 Corinthians 2:10 NU-Text reads For indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (New King James Version)
1. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Ephesians 1:15-21 (New King James Version)
1. Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom
15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding[a] being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
Footnotes:
1.
Ephesians 1:18 NU-Text and M-Text read hearts.
Ephesians 3:8-10 (New King James Version)
1. Purpose of the Mystery
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to make all see what is the fellowship[a] of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;[b] 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
Footnotes:
1.
Ephesians 3:9 NU-Text and M-Text read stewardship (dispensation).
2.
Ephesians 3:9 NU-Text omits through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:11-12 (New King James Version)
1. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[a] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Footnotes:
1.
Ephesians 6:12 NU-Text reads rulers of this darkness.
Colossians 2:11-15 (New King James Version)
1. Not Legalism but Christ
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins[a] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Footnotes:
1.
Colossians 2:11 NU-Text omits of the sins.
1. 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
I. Possessing the gates through intercession
5 Key Points Of Unity Of Prayer Intercessors:
1. No one ministry has all the revelation necessary to break thru to all nations
2. It would take His Body coming together for the battle plans to be revealed.
3. When the ministers came together and each contributed his or her piece of the strategy, God would reveal His plan to us all.
4. The meetings would tear down barriers between ministries and we would have a united
front to wage war.
5. Those asked to be generals would be those Christians on staff with major ministries as
prayer coordinators.
The Basic Assignments For The Prayer Meetings Are As Follows:
1. We were to pray for the sins of our nation from its inception. These were sins of slavery,
our treatment of the Indians, strife and division during the Civil War, the internment of
Japanese during WWII and other like sins.
2. We were to use John 20:23 as a pattern: “If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven
them: if you retain the sins of any they are retained.” Some of the sins we were to deal
with were prejudice, materialism, mammon, murder and idolatry.
3. After we repent of these sins, God would show us which rulers of Satan’s kingdom needed
to be called down from their high places and whose right to reign should be broken. By
doing this we would tear apart Satan’s stronghold.
4. We were to pattern ourselves after Jeremiah 1:10: “See, I have this day set you over the
nations and over the kingdoms, to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to tear down,
but to build and to plant.” The next step was to pray that the United States would return to
it’s godly heritage. The planting would be that the “hearts of the children would return to
their fore fathers.”
5. God would adapt us and use this pattern for the various nations to which we would go.
II. The Call To Intercession
Isaiah 56:6-7
6 “ Also the sons of the foreigner
Who join themselves to the LORD, to serve Him,
And to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants— Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath,
And holds fast My covenant—
7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain,
And make them joyful in My house of prayer.
Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices
Will be accepted on My altar;
For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.”
God calls us, everyone in covenant relationship with Him a house of prayer for all nations. We need to seek and pray Psalm 51:10: “Create in me a clean heart, O God.” We must ask Him to come in and to make us clean, that is His desire but we must seek for ourselves and invite Him in. The Holy Spirit is a gentleman, He won’t enter unless invited. “Before He (The Savior) can lead a chosen vessel into such a life of intercession, He first has to deal to the bottom with all that is natural.”-Rees Howells. We need to give all of ourselves in exchange for all of the Holy Spirit.
The second step in asking God to create a clean heart in us is letting Him deal with what is there that needs changing. We must be willful to be sheared and let go of all that isn’t righteous and that He doesn’t have for us, at whatever cost. If we aren’t willing to undergo this change, it will take us to a place that God never intended for us to be and it can and will eventually if unchecked pull us into sin. This process is a process and not instantaneous. We have to learn to be sensitive and willful to the convictions of the holy Spirit when we sin. This will soften our heart and make it more pliable. Remember when we sin and we will, we aren’t yet perfect, we need to repent and just get right back up and continue in the battle!
III. Personal Points
I must get over the idea of “spiritual superiority,” God has called all to intercession, I am not extra special because He breaks my heart over things and furthermore I still have a long way to go to true spiritual maturity! When God trusts us to pray, He must first cleanse our hearts to the point that the report we give in prayer are not biased or tainted by personal “stuff.” He wants to teach us to pray, His will and not ours. Because of His Fathe’s heart He works at stripping us of “our anointing,” selfish desires, seeds of bitterness, rejections, doctrines, and biased opinions. One of the most difficult lessons of young intercessors is: God is not in a hurry. He takes the time He needs to build character in us. Most of us want it to happen immediately, but God loves to marinade us, grow us in maturity! He wants tender hearts in His living sacrifices. The problem with living sacrifices is that they want to jump off the alter. After some time they begin to realize it is sometimes painful to be conformed to the image of Jesus. This is the point at which some decide that the price is too high to serve Christ in prayer.
When we begin to have some measure of “success,” it is easy to fall into the trap that says God has placed us above our brothers and sisters in Christ because of our ability to pray with more authority or to hear Him mor clearly. We must continuously hold to the Father’s hand in this case that we not become puffed up and arrogant or prideful. We must seek diligently to do as Matthew 6:5-13
5 “And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 6 But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly 7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
11 Give us this day our daily bread.
12 And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
13 And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
We must do these things in secret and not for our own glory, if God gives us a word for someone we must first have that word confirmed and present it to someone in authority over us. In closing we must also not only allow Him to clean up the sins of our heart, but also the wounds of the heart, we must allow Him to heal our hearts too. “See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble or defile many.” Hebrews 12:15
IV. Key Scriptures:
Isaiah 14:12-14 (New King James Version)
1. The Fall of Lucifer
12 “ How you are fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer,[a] son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
13 For you have said in your heart:
‘ I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation
On the farthest sides of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
I will be like the Most High.’
Footnotes:
1.
Isaiah 14:12 Literally Day Star
Jeremiah 1:10 (New King James Version)
2. 10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,
To root out and to pull down,
To destroy and to throw down,
To build and to plant.”
Ezekiel 22:30 (New King James Version)
1. 30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.
Ezekiel 28:11-19 (New King James Version)
2. Lamentation for the King of Tyre
11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12 “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD:
“ You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The sardius, topaz, and diamond,
Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes
Was prepared for you on the day you were created.
14 “ You were the anointed cherub who covers;
I established you;
You were on the holy mountain of God;
You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created,
Till iniquity was found in you.
16 “ By the abundance of your trading
You became filled with violence within,
And you sinned;
Therefore I cast you as a profane thing
Out of the mountain of God;
And I destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the fiery stones.
17 “ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor;
I cast you to the ground,
I laid you before kings,
That they might gaze at you.
18 “ You defiled your sanctuaries
By the multitude of your iniquities,
By the iniquity of your trading;
Therefore I brought fire from your midst;
It devoured you,
And I turned you to ashes upon the earth
In the sight of all who saw you.
19 All who knew you among the peoples are astonished at you;
You have become a horror,
And shall be no more forever.”’”
Daniel 10:12-13 (New King James Version)
1. 12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia.
Matthew 11:12 (New King James Version)
1. 12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force.
Matthew 16:18 (New King James Version)
1. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Luke 11:17-22 (New King James Version)
1. 17 But He, knowing their thoughts, said to them: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and a house divided against a house falls. 18 If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? Because you say I cast out demons by Beelzebub. 19 And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. 20 But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. 22 But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.
2 Corinthians 2:10-11 (New King James Version)
1. 10 Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one[a] for your sakes in the presence of Christ, 11 lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.
Footnotes:
1.
2 Corinthians 2:10 NU-Text reads For indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it.
2 Corinthians 10:4-6 (New King James Version)
1. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Ephesians 1:15-21 (New King James Version)
1. Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom
15 Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, 16 do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding[a] being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
Footnotes:
1.
Ephesians 1:18 NU-Text and M-Text read hearts.
Ephesians 3:8-10 (New King James Version)
1. Purpose of the Mystery
8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to make all see what is the fellowship[a] of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;[b] 10 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,
Footnotes:
1.
Ephesians 3:9 NU-Text and M-Text read stewardship (dispensation).
2.
Ephesians 3:9 NU-Text omits through Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 6:11-12 (New King James Version)
1. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[a] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Footnotes:
1.
Ephesians 6:12 NU-Text reads rulers of this darkness.
Colossians 2:11-15 (New King James Version)
1. Not Legalism but Christ
11 In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins[a] of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15 Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Footnotes:
1.
Colossians 2:11 NU-Text omits of the sins.
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