After This | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | Dark Places and Desert Spaces |

it's preaching time and um there is certainly a word from the lord concerning you last week we began a brand new teach preach series called after this if you're watching this i'd like you to just type that as the prophetic decree over your life if you're in this room i'd like you to write that down if you're taking notes because my job prophetically prophet marcus is to remind the body of christ that there is and after this sometimes it's easier to get stuck in and distracted by what is now and it takes a prophetic word to understand and be sensitized to what is next and so the lord has opened up my eyes to see and to perceive what's next there is a next for you say yes type yes there is a next for your family say yes type yes there is a next for every area of your life and it was never the intent of god dr ross for god's people to be trapped by now whatever that now looks like we were supposed to steward it but use the now to uh retrieve seed for the next so in the mind of god in the philosophy of the godhead there is always going to be a next and we know that because he reveals himself as alpha but also omega and as beginning but also in so that means if you're going to have perspective which is the key to peace if you're going to have focus you cannot allow what's going on now to distract you from your next i don't want to cause a riot but last week the lord spoke through me that there were things tyree that he spoke to his people at the close of 2019 that through discouragement and hopelessness very many people have dropped i just want to remind you as the mailman he's still going to do everything he said he was going to do do not be offended at how it manifests but if god is god i tell you to say if god is god that he's going to manifest his word so this message today the lord put in my mouth some time ago but it is extraordinarily cairo's for right now because we need to be knowing what to do and we need to be knowing where our energy should be going because here's another warning from the lord you know at all costs whether it's relationships whether it's endeavors the wrong thing to do right now is to invest your energy into the wrong thing you don't want to be because energy is an investment you put energy into something in hopes that it's going to bring a harvest and a return to you and right now there is confusion around the world because people don't know exactly what to do with their energy but right now in order to fashion yourself and in order to stabilize yourself you've got to know what god is doing that sounds simple elder ivy but there's a lot of people around the world who knows what the enemy is doing they know what politicians are doing but they're confused as it were about what god is doing and so i'm staying true to my historic ancient obligation which is to remind the people of god everywhere that god is up to something and religious people love darrell to say the devil is busy but he ain't ever doing more than god adonai has plans that have yet to hit the earth so we're going today and we're journeying to luke's gospel the fourth chapter we're going to luke's gospel the fourth chapter this is a very key message from a very critical passage of scripture and i have preached this passage of scripture several times with different meaning and intent but today i'm going to give it to you in this way for you uh in your hearing luke's gospel the fourth chapter and i'm going to read verses one and two and then i'm going to jump to verse 14. and then for corroboration purposes we're going to go to john's gospel but we start in luke chapter 4 verse 1. and jesus being full of the holy ghost is there anybody that still believes that it's imperative to be full of the holy ghost i the internet won't talk back to me i said is there anybody in here that believes that it is important to be full of the holy ghost and the reason that so is because the devil will take advantage of your emptiness i'll get back there jesus being full of the holy ghost returned from jordan because sometimes i want you to hear this very clearly sometimes the way forward is to return many of you in your next assignment are about to minister to people who did what you did and looked how you look and came from how you came from and that's going to be next for you scream yes if you're in here and he was led bo though by the spirit because that's what full men do they follow the leadership of the holy ghost he was led by the spirit into the wilderness being 40 days tempted of the devil and in those days he did eat nothing and when they were ended and afterward he hungered we're going down to verse 14. just go ahead and go all the way there and we're going to make sure we integrally weave this together in verse 14 it says and jesus returned there's that word again in the power of the spirit into galilee and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about let's hurry up because i don't have that long but i'm going to take as much time as i want go to john chapter 7. go to john the seventh chapter and i'm going to read verse 15 in the living bible and then we're going to do some theoretical work john 7 15. in the living bible it says then midway through the festival jesus went up to the temple and preached openly the jewish leaders were surprised when they heard him how can he know so much when he's never been to our schools they asked father your word is blessed help me to preach this in jesus name i'm going to title this again and maybe i need to name it 2.0 but we're going to call this dark places and desert spaces dark places and desert species this is important uh prophet jimmy that people understand that there is an academic imperative from heaven let's do some work luke's gospel affords us a very powerful and critical lesson about jesus and his journey in the issue of visibility uh his issue of being platformed and promotion then is the word for the hour paramount to preparation though for those streams are seasons of training god does not train you one time say yes but he trains you throughout your life and the training is directly connected to the seas and stay with me and one of the things that we've not brought to for is how much heaven is invested in their academic imperative and that's just a very sophisticated way of saying there are things that god wants you to know that you don't know right now the other thing is that there is also a platform attached to every purpose if god has a purpose for anything he will stage it he's going to decide who that purpose stands in front of what that purpose does and how that purpose reacts in the earth so uh the process then of education and preparation that anything comes from god has to be sure that it endures some darkness attract with me uh because the way god hides his purposes and the way god delivers his purposes and his plan is in men there is not a purpose of god on earth that's not inside of somebody he he doesn't give grass purpose and he doesn't give rock's purpose they exist to glorify god in the realm of praise but his purposes are concealed on the inside of you put your hand on your belly before i go further i speak to the purpose of god inside of you that even though the enemy would have it that during this time you forget and ignore and also reject the purpose of god i command the relationship between you and purpose to be reconciled that you and the relationship between the original intent of god for your life come into divine alignment and everything operating against the purpose for you be divorced from you in jesus name scream so it is it is my belief that the most expensive investment of heaven for things pertaining to rulership on earth is the subject of training i don't think god puts more energy into anything than training he trains us through trial hallelujah he trains us through tribulation he trains us through uncertainty he trains us watch this through rejection he trains us through abandonment he trains us through resistance and what they don't want to admit out here is that he also trains us through frustration now you don't want to tell the truth because you think it's unchristian to do so but thousands of people around the world right now are frustrated they're not just afraid they're frustrated they're trying to figure out what's now and who to trust and where to go and where to invest and that frustration is an opportunity of god to train if you are tracking with me so far i want you to put in the comments and i want you to stay in this room train me train me now listen to me no no no no no but everybody wants to say lord send me and nobody wants to say lord train me i want you to understand that the training precedes the sitting talk to me i said the training precedes the sunday and god has used and ordained 2020 to train some people he's training us and so this is a very uh expensive imperative because we see it contiguous through all 66 books he didn't just lead abram abraham he trained him he didn't just call elijah he trained him he didn't just raise isaac and ezekiel and amos he trained them and there are some complexities to training that may lean into us a bit differently if you're watching me or even if you're in the room because the trick of training is it's not the same it's going to change in every season it's going to be different from the people around you and many of you are in a relationship crisis because your friends don't understand how god is trying to train you many people are in churches watching me around the world that cannot perceive how god is trying to train you but here is how heaven works the lord only trusts who he can train and there's a lot of people that are claiming favor and claiming opportunity but they won't sit still enough i can't hear nobody in jerusalem they won't sit still enough to let the hard hand of god come on them not to just brutalize them and not to make them hurt and not to disrupt their plans but to train them the lord is a master trainer he knows what's in you and he knows how to train you and before i go to the meat of my text i want you to contrast the realities that we're coming into into the ones that we live this era pastor todd emphasizes reigning we love talking about winning and dominion and conquering and influence and we don't place the same emphasis on training but you cannot have dominion and authority beyond what you are willing to be trained in say yes so god's academic protocols are the pruning processes that the lord allows and does say allows and say does because here's how good god is pastor josh there are some things that satan is doing that the lord will turn into school i could back being right there there's some things that god is not necessarily doing but he's allowing it and the way he allows or the reason he allows satan to do to the stupid stuff he does in your life is because at some point it's going to become wisdom for you at some point it's going to become understanding for you why do you think god the father allowed jesus a son to sit there for 40 days in a conversation with his adversary it was because he knew it would not break him it would not ruin the purpose of god for him there was nothing he could do at that point but talk can i give you a word the only thing the enemy can do to you is talk i know i don't know if you got that the way that just hit me in my foot but he cannot do anything to you beyond talk so if you stop talking to him come on church and stop listening to him a lot of the things that manifest in your life is because of bad conversation with a puny scorpion i dare you to throw your hands up say shut up come on come on crack i feel you say shut up devil [Applause] so we're looking at these contrasts in this scripture we unfortunately have bred a generation that does not understand the power and the principle in luke 4 because they want to succeed but they don't want to sit they want to win pastor kenny but they don't desire study they devalue they abort extensive seasons of trainings that god is committed to i submit to you that what luke 4 teaches us is that training and education are ancient heavenly priorities they are old they predate me you the planet god was teaching people in the garden he was when you look at the mystery of adam walking with god they weren't just holding hands to spend time god was teaching he was instructing he created him apostle bj teaching him you will rule over this you will do that so it is the nature listen of humanity to conform to whatever is sculpting it through education and sculpting it through teaching i know that you don't want to hear this but very many of you are the product of bad mentorship and you're suffering the consequences of sitting at the wrong feet i'll get back there but in training what god does is sin and highlight and reveal carriers of information to take you to the next level say i hear you i'm going to give this to you in addition to my text how many of you understand that the bible says train up a child now you may be grown but there is something in you that is still childlike nobody will help you're not as veteran in your career as you think you should be you're not as mature in business as you're going to be so even though you are a natural adult you are a child something whether that's a child father or a child wife or a child mother you are growing in your natural maturation process into the things that god has called you to be and so this principle jordan is wherever the child is just got to be training wherever there is a thing in you that needs to grow and needs to go to the next level it's got to undergo training how many of you understand what i'm saying that means that matriculation and development is something that god is using everything in your life to go through god is a god of cycles and he's a god of seasons that he never changes and his standards remain the same throughout eternity and so therefore when the son of god was sent on his assignment he could not escape his period of training now i don't understand how people are full of sin and full of bondage and full of iniquity and they think they're going to escape the thing that jesus had to endure if jesus who knew no sin if jesus who had no desire to disobey god had to be trained talk to me in zion he had to be trained then that means that no matter how annoying that you are i'm working in here i don't care how many tongues you speak how many riffs and runs you do you can understand greek you can understand hebrew you can even fast for 21 days you can sell prayer clubs you can have all of that but god is going to make sure that before he trusts you with the next level of authority before he trusts you with the next level of favor before he trusts you watch even with what he promised to you what he's going to do is test you to see how willing you are to be trained because if he does not train you even the things he wants for you will crush you so now we're going to look at some environments now because what i've learned about the lord in my life is that god likes to train elder candice in opposite environments from how our natural teachers do track with me the lord does not train when the lights are on he never prefers to train when you're clear on things when you're certain about things when you can see and distinguish things god starts training you want to know if god is training you look at how much ambiguity is around you god's next lesson to you is coming to the thing you are uncertain of it's coming through the thing you are unclear of don't reject that press into it hallelujah because it's going to be the the opening and the gateway for god's next wisdom to you so this is a consistent thing now this premier scholastic environment is god's preferable place for his kind of training and he loves for whatever reason pastor ej to train people in deserts i don't know what it is about god and deserts where he trains people for what's coming next i got several scriptural examples and exemplars of how god will even at times move you from a paradise environment and then move you into a desert environment so he can talk to you at a volume that you weren't hearing in comfort now you you don't want to admit this but when you're in routine i love your word when you're in normality when you're in daily when you're in what we call normal god told me the other day what i've done is i've taken down the idolatry of normal i crucified the idolatry of regular uh predictable and what i've done is i've launched my people into a spontaneity they have not had in this century and so when we look at luke chapter 4 as a human father i would not imagine bringing my son out of water to desert for me naturally speaking i would move my son from desert to water but god moved his son from water to desert after being baptized he was now getting ready to go to school are you listening to me and so he understood listen there are 18 years that are unaccounted for in the life of jesus 18 years of being invisible 18 years of debating with people 18 years of study 18 years of hiding glory to god 18 years of being concealed and then when he appears here he comes from water to the desert it's very interesting that what you think is orientation is 90 days in the life of jesus his orientation for school was 18 years his orientation what i'm trying to tell you is you have not gotten started wherever you are right now in life it's not the beginning you're still an orientation god is still trying to articulate and express and get you to see all of the things your life is supposed to do in the now and in the next it's just orientation and he chooses a dark space for that a dark place first of all is a private environment that's crafted for destiny education development and instruction and the reason this is so is because most human beings prefer to be trained lights on it's easier to see it's easier to be confident it's easier to understand but god prefers to do it with the lights off this is why we walk by faith and not by sight the harsh truth is you don't have to use faith when the lights are on you don't have to use the decree when the lights are on you don't have to use warfare and binding and loosing when the lights are on but let the lights go out in your life in your relationship in your career everything you know i heard in worship as pastor todd was leading us that god was getting ready to revive the reservoir there are things in you that have come from years of history with god you don't even remember it's there but what happens is in moments of testing you start to reach for stuff songs hymns verses that you don't even remember that you know because god has stored them academically in your intestine and what happened is when the devil walks up on you to try you the history of god i said your history with god i'm talking about the stuff you said when you first got saved i'm talking about the you that came out the water talking and talk i'm talking about that you not the advance you but the you that still had a fresh yes it comes out that's the thing that the enemy cannot fight and that stuff is born in a dark place say yes but then a desert space which is where jesus was was a place where there was not much traffic i want to give you a word from the lord specifically concerning your relationships you want to use this time in this year to really evaluate what is around you it's quiet on the world wide web and it's quiet on chapel you want to discern intently what's around you i have also taught you that everybody in the room is not in your corner and you've got to have the understanding that the way the enemy revives anything in your life is through a bad relationship if he wants to reinvigorate an old you and wants to resuscitate a bondage in your life he's going to put it in the body of somebody and what the lord is doing in a desert space in a desert space is sensitizing you to what you need in your relationship scream the word yes now we're going to build relationship to our st texts i think the significance of of jesus being groomed in the desert was the lack of traffic the fact that there was nothing to look at and nothing to see and as a matter of fact one of the versions of the synoptic gospel says the only thing there was him some beasts and an angel i can't i don't have the time because what the lord will allow in a desert space is for you to fight wild beasts he will allow for you to engage beast you know if you look at the bible through systemic theology you will find out that jesus very frequently used animal terms to talk about people you know he called herod a fox he calls certain demon snakes and so he was acquainted with different uh levels of zoology talk to me and the reason he was acquainted with serpents and scorpions is because he was trained where the wild things were his very first ministry introduction was not hermeneutics or homiletics it was how to stand in front of wild animals this is why when the pigs walked up to him and said can we go there when the devil walked up to him and said go he was like yeah fine because i studied the nature a beast before i got before you i want you to know god is not leaving you alone but he's letting you look at some scary stuff he's letting you experience some scary stuff because he's trying to toughen you up through your training he's trying to make sure that you are tough enough to handle the assignment the rigors of peter judas he wants to make sure you ready for all of this can i give you a word and i could dance right there but i'm not going to god pastor josh keith alexander is not going to send you where he ain't prepared you come on and shout with me if you're going oh i'm sorry if you're going there he's going to get you ready for i'm telling you he has never danielle allowed his people to go into a place they were unprepared for you're ready whether you know it or not so he's preparing you he's preparing you he's preparing you training now has to be done in places of low visibility if people are studying you and staring you and if you are aggressively looking for the camera and looking to be seen and looking for opportunity and looking to do all of that if you have idolatry of microphones if you have idolatry of stage if you think you're entitled to microphone stage and space you've rejected a very necessary season of training because what's going to show up on the stage is not the real you cause of mahadande is that's not you i said that's not you i said that's not you i said that's not you that's gift that that surrender that's cultivation but the real you i can't hear you the re i can't the real you is the things you think not just in your mind but in your subconscious mind the things you crave in moments of discomfort the things you're willing to go back to if the future looks uncertain to you and you can only tap that in the dark there is a you that we don't know they don't want to help me and there is a you that we've not seen and there is a nature that you won't let out that god has to take you to a desert space to reach that and to get you to be honest about a scream yes i often wonder what jesus was doing in the silent years and and how he was traveling and how he was handling his social responsibility and how he was navigating through knowing knowing knowing where god was taking him and not being there yet how he was managing listen because a lot of you watching me and a lot of you in the room your problem is not lack of prophecy your problem is you despise your process you've heard what god said you know what's coming you just don't like the route and the way to get there the other thing i'm sensing in my belly is god is taking us through the scenic route there are no shortcuts in god i know i'm not gonna get no amens there because when we say favor we think shortcut but god will take you the long way if it's going to make you train better he took israel the long route not for the view but for the wisdom so that the heart could be tested so that the belly could be confronted and so they could know how to manage where they were going scream yes and so jesus of course being our ancient predecessor shows us a template of how god trains and then when we move into examining his season of obscurity and what the lord allowed him to embrace then we got paul who was in arabia according to galatians 1 17 for three years and god uses a desert space to download the majority of what you and i refer to as the new testament now he could have gotten that at defeat of gamaliel he could have got that at any one of the jewish scholars but he got that because god didn't want it tampered with it was not isolation what it was was seclusion from what was happening now to be introduced to what god wanted to do next so what that means is that in god's next move they're going to be more moments than not i know you won't shout here where you're going to feel lonely it's a hard truth but god will ordain for periods of loneliness because he doesn't want what's around you to temper with the lesson one of the reasons why you may not be where you should be now is because you risked the lessons before because you were unwilling to endure just a season of loneliness you know you can't be mad for people misunderstanding you the truth is you don't always understand yourself i don't abandon relationships because i feel misunderstood what the immaturity is that you know you're going to always have misunderstandings but misunderstandings don't necessarily mean that you depart it means that you manage what the bible calls a necessary place so that you can retrieve the lessons for the next level scream i hear you and then we got moses who received his commission in the desert again dude is running as a criminal and in exodus 3 1. thank you holy ghost here we go a burning bush here we go a burning bush and god starts talking out of a burning bush to describe an assignment to moses that he wouldn't have said yes to in the palace don't you think god could have went to moses bedroom and said hey moses pharaoh not your real daddy and i want to use you but he didn't he chose the desert say he chose the desert i want you to write he chose the desert he chose the desert because the desert was where he was undistracted the desert is where he was aside from and apart from the culture can i prophesy to you what god is doing in you is opposite of the culture [Applause] there are people watching me that want me to turn my plow and i'm not gonna do it you can't change it if you're too ingrained in it you can't impact it if you are a product of it god wants you to study it and not be conformed to it so what he will do is extract you you're not looking at somebody that's a byproduct of american culture i was resurrected from the dead and sent to study a thing that i was called to impact and so in desert spaces god listen detox is a man detox is a people from the toxicity of a culture the rhythm of a culture the pattern of a culture or a norm around them does that make sense god took 40 000 people into a desert the children of israel he took them there men women boys and girls and he allowed them to study him and the name of the textbook was cloud by day fire by night he wanted him to understand the moving god the fact that god is a god of movement and moment and so he allowed israel to watch him as he moved he started moving how many of you know even if you don't know what god is saying i show you a mystery you've got to pay attention to how he's moving they've been moments in my life when i haven't had the word of the lord but i've seen the way of the lord and i knew that he was doing some things that were too powerful to be the devil and you're going to go into a season some of you are there right now where god ain't talking he's just moving he's doing stuff he's adding he's subtracting he's multiplying and i know you don't like this but in genesis he said he will divide i know you don't understand that but the lord is he will separate a thing he will cause a thing to move so that you can move with him say yes i love the psalmist david because i think he was a good note taker and i think that when he writes things out like that i may inquire in your temple i don't think god was just talking to him and he was abandoning the notes lift your hands may a brand new anointing for note taking come upon you may you never again mismanage an instruction from god a directive of god a dream of god i know this seems elementary but you're going to walk in what you're willing to write down the note-taking anointing the ability to record the instructions of god but even the questions from your heart to the lord god wants to do something new with your questions he wants to do something new with that say i receive that so the new notion that luke 4 teaches us jordy training is private but promotion is public when you see a promoted man i wish i had the time don't envy someone who's training you don't understand you have no right to be jealous of somebody who was being trained before you knew them somebody who was being groomed before the lights come on just because it looks like there's been a sudden promotion does not mean that there have not been decades of training so training is private say yes promotion is public ask me how type hi because the bible say the father watch this that sith in secret will reward you openly all of your most powerful schools are going to be secrets your raw thoughts your raw feelings your raw appetites your raw frustrations it's going to be the secret thing that causes you that now you may say well if this is true what's my first day of class if i'm still in orientation when did my first day start your birthday your birthday is your first day of school from the time you said why god was arranging teachers hallelujah lessons wisdoms even people they're not going like this that cause you pain listen can be used as professors in a desert place even people that misrepresent the script misappropriate the story can be used as academic coaches if you handle it well what i'm proving to you is that one of the goals of desert spaces and dark places is the power of right reaction and right response and i could prophesy to all of you in here about how much you've lost out on because you did not respond well and so the right reaction and the right response is a part of what god is trying to get through desert spaces does that make sense to you now what is your curriculum design if god uses desert spaces and dark places to train you it has to be romans 8 28 say all things that's the name of your degree that's the name of your certification to me and if you receive this it'll bless you and if you've got the holy ghost you'll shout what the lord is doing is trying to make you prosper in the city prosper in the field prosper in your going prosper in your coming prosper on land prosper in water prosper in air he doesn't want you to have a preferred environment where you can win and grow he wants you to be able to conquer no matter where you are i don't know about you but i can conquer in canaan or egypt there is an ambidextrousness there is a flexibility there is a lot of different dimensions that god is trying to get you out of a comfort zone many people i poured into lost access to who they were because they were unwilling to be uncomfortable and you cannot have comfort in the desert space you cannot have comfort in a dark place it's uncomfortable you must be willing to be uncomfortable okay i'll say it two more times you must be willing to be uncomfortable you must be willing to be uncomfortable here's why there's going to be some good things some positive things some forward things that happen in your life that you're going to be uncomfortable with they're going to be some people you've got to meet that you're going to be uncomfortable with they're going to be some rooms that you've got to go into some assignments you're going to have that you're going to have to be uncomfortable therefore discomfort is a feeling god wants you used to he doesn't want you to use discomfort as your sign to dismiss yourself discomfort is something you've got to get used to being get used to being uncomfortable does this make sense to you now the stewardship how you handle a dark place or a desert space is going to show up and what you can do easily that other people struggle to do for example because jesus trained the twelve in a desert space in a dark place he could tell them what i tell you in secret shout on the mountain time he told him what i coach you and in secret be willing to say where everybody can you are a city on a hill because of how i trained you and groomed you and catechized you and matured you before people knew exactly who you were so i've given you the bo their boldness was not a not a a matter of natural personality i don't think the 12 came to jesus just bold and brave i think they were scared as hades but what happened is because they got some hardcore belly to belly lessons between them and their teacher and some hardcore rebukes and some hardcore corrections in desert spaces they wasn't scared of people in no synagogue no rabbi was going to intimidate them i was trained by a man who wrestled with beasts i'm not scared of you this is why jesus could tell them they're going to drag you through their synagogues they're going to revile you and say all manner of evil against you this is coming from a man who not only knew sociology but zoology i've groomed the 12 to handle the hardest of reactions to people to who they're going to be because here is the rough word people in your future say in my future they're not just going to be mad at your marriage and your relationship and what you wearing your money they're going to be some people that just don't like who you are they have a problem hear the word of the lord with your identity what you don't realize is that you live in a nation where people are scrambling like eggs to find out who they are and still don't know and so whenever you grab a hold of who you really are after a desert season then those that still see themselves star 67 when you look like you know when you speak like you know when you decide like you know when you act like you know who you are and where you're going it is offensive that is not something that's celebrated everywhere it is something that is untreated with very much human hostility because people have been looking listen to me people have been looking for generations to find the recipe for identity do i go to marriage to find out who i am do i go to sex to find out who i am do i go to college to find out who i am but there are more people even in this quarantine i'm waxing prophetic that have gone into an identity crisis than you know they're trying to hurry up and find a way to find stability and an assignment and something to do because of the lack of inactivity don't you allow the enemy's power to bring you out of who god made you to be the original design the uniqueness because the authority is not in who you pretend to be the authority isn't who you actually are you can get up and yell and scream and fool all of us but if you don't know who you are you have no real power no real authority favor therefore is not just money and doors and windows and gates and relationships favor is the wind of god on a man or a woman or dare i say movement that handled the desert moses walked into incredible favor joshua subsequently walked into incredible favor jesus walked in incredible favor not just because of current obedience but because of his willingness to discern when the lord or when god the father was moving him into a dark place the devil loves to take credit for all dark moments but i find that conflictual because the bible say around the throne of god there is smoke there are dark moments in mountains with god sometimes the darkness is not a sign that you're at your lowest sometimes it's a sign that you're at an apex there are darkness at certain heights of things and so whenever you're getting ready to leave one level in one dimension it's going to be dark everything begins in the dark i did a study several years ago and i'm going to start to prophesy on the uterus the womb that world and what i learned was when a woman becomes pregnant it is the darkest environment that the any that that that that seed is going to ever experience but that darkness scientifically speaking is a part of how the retina is trained the sensitivity to light to know how to see if you can't handle the darkness you'll never perceive the light if you don't allow the lord watch me to leave you in the desert just for a little while and to start to challenge your scholastic self and if you're like me my lessons have not been advanced not this year it ain't been the third heaven it ain't been beasts it ain't been you know greek philosophy my lessons have been simple to patience understanding i know y'all are out there like you know hebrew and communion no i've been in places called forgiveness it's the simplest lessons that are the hardest it's easy for me to understand septuagints but it's difficult for me to understand you and so the lord will leave you in the desert just a little while because no deliverer is made without a desert moses was a deliverer because he didn't leave the desert prematurely so the word of the lord is sure to you today you're in a luke 4 moment you've been baptized which is your sign of redemption we're not asking you if you're saved we're asking you if you're submitted we're not asking if your salvation is intact we're asking where your study life is and i'm not just talking about times in the bible i'm talking about how well are you studying what god is doing in your life if you don't take heed when after this comes you're not going to have the body of information you need to man up under the pressure to warm it up under the pressure to stand under the new assignments i believe the spirit of god is saying right now he's about to focus you on the next assignment if you're in the room or if you're watching me i'm going to pray but i want you to begin to 101 with god just kind of repent for being distracted by now and and your contentment with now your comfort your complacency if you will allow the spirit of god he will reveal to you areas of complacency hallelujah [Music] yeah areas of complacency in the heart and the mind in the will and the emotions in the intellect [Music] mm-hmm [Music] yeah show us show us show us show us show us show us show us you promised that you would show us you said that you would show us your covenant that you would show us and i'm asking this morning on the behalf of all nations worship assembly and on the behalf of everyone watching me around the world that you would open our eyes again lord this has been like a desert year this has been like a dark place the whole year has just felt like we have been in the company of beasts even in deserts but we know that your word declares you've not left us that you will not leave us so lord help us even as of this very moment to lean in into what you're saying father turn our eyes away from the whisperings hallelujah from the murmurings from the accusations of the adversary and move us into the posture of being a student help us to perceive what you're saying even in a different way in the strong name of jesus father you've been trying to teach us all year and many of us have not responded well to how you've been using things around us to groom us but we're asking this morning in the name of jesus that you would hide your word in our hearts your word declares that it's a light lord to our feet and a lamp unto our path and i'm asking right now that in this year we would no longer make dark steps or dark choices or take options that are not accurately illumined by the power of the holy ghost but help us even from this moment forward to walk in prophetic illumination in the name of jesus your word declares that the seeing eye and the hearing ear you have made both of them so right now as an intercessor i make intercession for every person watching me and every person under the sound of my voice whose eyelids have been held captive i make intercession this morning for every person under the sound of my voice whose ears have been enslaved whose hearts have been in panic because of what's going on around them now father satellite hey streamline broadcast the wisdom that you destined for every life in this room and every life watching me if you've got to send it from another state if you've got to send it from another industry we want wisdom we don't just want money we don't just want prosperity we don't even just want property we want the wisdom of god i'm asking this morning a bit like you did in the life of your son jesus hit us at the belly hit us at the stomach go into the gut of your people and i want you to reorientate what's going on in there in the name of jesus of nazareth the father very many people are watching me and around the world i have no sense of what you're doing they think that you're overlooking them and they think that you don't see them turn your eyes my god to the cry of the righteous your word declares that you're near you're nigh even to the brokenhearted and i'm praying for every person under the sound of my voice what is this i see that's come under attack from the spirit of depression let's go to warfare you spirit of heaviness you spirit of emotional chaos the saints of god come together now we divorce you we come out of agreement with you we come out of the cohesive bindings with you and we break your power all over this nation let the spirit of depression be broken in the name of jesus depression because of elongated grief depression that's tied to disappointment depression that's coming along the way because they don't know what's happening in the future we set fire and blood vapor and smoke to the empire of heaviness to the kingdom and the institution of depression we serve your cores we destroy your records we burn your writings we pull down your fortress in the strong name of jesus let the hand of god be heavy against the power of depression operating in preachers operating in husbands operating in wives operating in families in the name of jesus you spirit of depression are roaming around college campuses you spirit of depression attacking men and women that are midway in their degree the saints of god bind you the saints of god bind you the saints of god bang you are you lying lizard called heaviness we drown you out even with the water of the word of god father we know that the key to fighting depression is to remember the key to fighting depression is to rehearse the key to fighting depression is to open your mouth and make confession of the promises of god in the name of jesus father revive the tonsils of your people yes lord put your word down in their mouths in the name of jesus don't allow any more curses hey any more negativity any more judgments to come out of our mouths but only let the promise of god the decree of god the word of god the revelation of god the sayings of god the phrases of god the mysteries of god the mandates of god the assignments of god let that be what comes out of our mouth in the strong name of jesus i thank you for alignment thank you for alignment thank you for alignment for you've been like a chiropractor in this shifting us into right order so that we can walk right so that we can talk right so that we can love right so that we can live right to help us to embrace your order help us to embrace your way uh father we don't see what you're doing but we want to know how to obey we don't know exactly where canaan is but we know you're taking us there thank you jesus now for teaching us for being a master teacher for educating us through everything we face you're educating us and we say yes [Music] we say yes we say yes we say yes we say yes we say yes we say yes to you all over again and afresh the strongest yes comes in moments of solitude those are the real ones ah come on just take a minute and we're done but allow the lord to put a fresh yes there a fresh yes [Music] and this is the kind of yes that's necessary for the unknown for what you don't know for what's unclear you have to get to the place of trusting god where even if you don't know what it is you've been so good to me that i'll say yes to you lord there's not much we can ever give you we can't repay you but we say yes [Music] all nations the word of the lord to you there is an audience a crowd there is a type that we've not reached yet [Music] we've seen some we've ministered to many but there is a demographic coming after this that he's trying to train us to handle to groom to grow and these are not going to be peasants these are going to be princes kings rulers men and women of means and access and various areas of the world and what the lord has shown me is if we handle the desert well we're going to handle the dignitary with great wisdom the days have come and the lord told me these are prophesy days these are days of prophecy that these are days of things that was decreed and declared in prayer and he's bringing them into fulfillment for the sake of the saints lift your hands let me pray for you if you're watching and you want to join this church you can go to join nye.com i'd love to be your pastor this church would love to be your church if you're in the room right now what i'm declaring over you and i don't know why i'm sensing this but especially for this week i declare a new dimension of the peace of god and the type of peace that surpasses all understanding may you walk into the shalom of god the peace of god the full confidence that things are complete in and through him and i declared the korean prophesied stressless week for you so that you can have the time on monday hey the time on tuesday the time on wednesday before you go to bed the time on thursday right when you wake up the time friday afternoon that you're going to understand and have knowings from the spirit of god concerning what he did to you in the desert and what he was trying to do to you in what felt like a dark place now unto him

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