Dr. Mensah Otabil - Lead Me Lord (Pt -1)

I'm speaking today on a subject that I have titled lead me Lord lead me Lord everybody say that together with me oh are you here for graduation why are you talking as if you are here for lesser works let's speak like we're here for greater works see lead me Lord that sounds better that sounds better now if if there is any factor that I can point to or if if I'm supposed to just give you one factor and and there is no longer there's not only one factor there many factors that create something but if you say single the most important factor in your life that has helped you in your Christian walk to be where you are this is the factor is the ability to follow God to follow his leading to hear from God to know that as a Christian God is guiding you because everybody has to make decisions everybody you're making decisions all the time for yourself for your children for your partners for your business for your co-workers we're always making decisions and the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your decisions if your life is not doing well it means your decisions are not doing well you are not making good choices you're not making good decisions and no human being can make good decisions 100 percent of the time but we should desire that our decisions are as accurate as possible and one of the ways to do that is to be led by God every leader needs to be led you must learn to follow God's leading so I'm going to start by reading a few passages from the Bible and then I would do my teaching some five verse eight some fibers ages lead me O Lord in your righteousness because of my enemies make your way straight before my face some twenty-five three some 25 verse five lead me in your truth and teach me for you are the God of my salvation on you I wait all the day some twenty seven verse eleven teach me your way O Lord and lead me in a smooth path because of my enemies some 61 verse one and two hear my cry O God attend to my prayer from the end of the earth I will cry to you when my heart is overwhelmed lead me to the rock that is higher than I all these are psalms of david when you study the sums you find the theme throughout the sounds lead me Lord lead me Lord guide me Lord show me the way teach me your way constantly throughout the sounds the prayers of David is for God to lead him if we are what we want to find the secret of David's success it was the leading of God if you want to know the secret to your own success it is going to be the leading of God the extent to which you are sensitive to God's leading will determine the extent of your success your success factor it's a critical success factor for you to make the right choice and the way to do that is to be led by God so David had a great desire to be led by God one of my favorite hymns was penned by some well Wesley a grandson of Charles Wesley and as you know Charles Wesley and his brother John found that the Methodist Church and the grandson I some will also a songwriter and the Wesley's were good some writers he penned the words of this him most of you may be familiar with it it says lead me Lord lead me in thy righteousness make that way plain before my face for it is thou Lord thou Lord only that make us me dwell in safety it's a prayer for God to lead us every leader must learn to be led by God as a leader David was a great warrior he was a great fighter he could beat big people tall people giant pull them down but we're going to find very soon that almost every time when David was going into a battle he had to seek God's leading he was skilled he was talented but he had to be sure that every decision he was making was the right decision so let's see generally the pattern that God uses to lead us the pattern and the pattern I'm going to pick it from the Old Testament in Exodus chapter 13 verses 21 to 22 exodus of the 13 verses 21 to 22 now this is talking about when the children of Israel left Egypt going into the Promised Land so they're going into the Promised Land a line they have never seen before and this is how God was going to take them there exodus chapter 13 verse 21 to - and the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light so that by day and by night he did not take away the pillar of cloud by day not a pillar of fire by night from before the people now I want you to note the phrase the Lord went before them that phrase means that God went ahead of them he did not just go with them he did not just follow them and guide them from behind but he went before them he went ahead of them and the the passage did not say a cloud went before them it says the Lord went before them in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire so really when they saw the pillar of cloud and the and the pillar of fire they were not just looking at cloud and fire they were looking at the law because the Lord went before them in the pillar of cloud in the pillar of fire it's very important that when we are following a sign we remember we are not following the sign we are following the Lord because sometimes we forget and put our confidence in a sign rather than in the Lord the Lord went before them in the pillar of fire by day by night and a pillar of cloud by day now if you look at this passage God was leading them on in two ways by day and by night everybody said by day and by night now how did he leave them by day he led them by day through a pillar of cloud a pillar of cloud in the night he led them through a pillar of fire now why did he leave them through a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of cloud a fire by night the daytime represents the time when you see clearly when it's daytime you don't not normally put on light i know in britain sometime when it's daytime is dark because you have the craziest weather pattern in the whole world so very moody weather but all things being equal in the daytime you don't turn on the light because in the daytime you see clearly in the daytime everything is clear I mean the daytime when there's a football match those are going to turn on floodlights in the daytime it doesn't make sense because everything is clear so God says when everything is clear I will lead you by the cloud now what does that mean the cloud does not give light the cloud only gives direction so when God says when everything is clear you just do what I've told you to do now what what time is everything clear when God has already given us his word or given us light on a situation he will not give you more light so for example there are some actions that are clearly spelled out in the Bible thou shalt not commit adultery God has already given light to it now when you you're going to love you don't jungle say lord please lead me please Lord Holy Ghost really should I commit adultery she's I not know it's it's daytime why because the Word of God or is clear thus are not still you don't pray about it just don't steal those are not like you don't seek the Holy Ghost inspiration you don't speak a prophetic way about should I lie on that land thou shalt not live it's daytime and all that God is you is the pillar of cloud follow it when I give you life already follow and book B now the problem with a lot of believers is that in the daytime they want pillar of fire in the date and when God says don't do you know the Word of God is clear you have to read your Bible you don't pray God should I read my Bible today or should I not the Bible says study to show yourself approved unto God pray without ceasing you don't pray about whether you pray you don't pray about whether is you fast I say you don't pray about whether you fast I know some of you were praying about whether you should fast and you prayed about it and you didn't fast now you want greater works without fasting why Jesus says when you pray not if you pray when it means you have to fast you have to pray you have to study your Bible you don't have to commit adultery you don't have to lie you don't have to have any other God besides him these matters are delight and you don't go to God for further instruction and clarity so when it is day when God's Word is light it's clear what we do is we obey what we know God says even if it pages our flesh we obey God all right then there's a night situation the night situation is when you cannot see clearly this is when you are in the dark the will of God is not clearly known this refers to instances in your life where there is no direct Word of God for example you are going to marry and you have seen two sisters since the a is the B and they all seem to be nice girls and they all seem to be manageable but you can marry the two of them you have to marry one so there's no scripture verse you are going to go into the Bible and read ends and says I am the Lord your God thou shall Mary Agnes or - a married Mary or - a marriage - Dora no abuse in any such scripture so in such a situation you are in the dark you are in the dark or you're going to make a business decision should I invest I'm not invested I put ten thousand pounds into that investment or should I know should I buy a house should I not buy a house you're not going to find a scripture verse that says buy a house in this location there's no scripture verse so there is no light on it you are in the dark and when we encounter situations where there's no direct scriptural provision God gives us the pillar of fire are you following me so the pillar of fire is for the time when there is no clarity the pillar of cloud is when there is clarity below fire when there is no clarity but if you watch what the Bible says about the children of Israel is by day and by night they were constantly moving so when they knew what to do they moved when it was unclear they still move so you're not going to say well this thing I want to do I want to marry I see since that a I see sister B I both of them they are nice they are the same height the same weight they the end the same group they are in the choir so now your choice is becoming difficult now you cannot say well because I don't know what to do I will marry again you can say that you still have to marry one of them one of them and you have to really find out which one is best suited to you how is God going to do that how I would teach all of that don't worry I'll teach all of them I'm just going step by step so the two main patterns when it is there you obey when it is night you seek for light when it is dead you obey when it is nice you seek for light and as God to give you light now I'm going to show you an example of something like that in the Bible first some well chapter well before we go to the first somewhere we'll go to Joshua chapter 1 verse 7 to 9 Joshua 1 7 to 9 6 well I would read verse 8 this book of the law shall not depart from a map you shall meditate in a day and night that you may observe to do according to all that is written native for that you make your way prosperous and then you have good success now God is telling Joshua the book of the law is there it's clear this is God's Word it tells you what to do what not to do what to eat what not to eat all of that it's clear is dead like he didn't say seek for my wisdom or my guidance whether you should obey the book of the law or not he says you meditate on it you speak about it and you obsess to doings or that is written in it when God's word is clear you do but let me show an example of when God's Word is not clear first um well chapter xxxi so much of the 30 from verse 6 to 8 this is David he is in trouble because he goes out comes back and his face has been ransacked and his family and property or taking and his team wants to stone him first so much of the thirty verse six to is it's now David was greatly distressed for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his sons and his daughters but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God now you know one thing about the Jews when they say they want to stone you you have to take it seriously because they are very experienced stoners these guys know how to stone I mean they've been practicing it for a long time so when they told David we want to stone you he knew this is serious these guys know how to stone people so they want to stone him why because he is their leader and when there's trouble everybody blames a leader so they distress because not only has David lost his family but everybody has lost his family but the Bible says David strengthened himself in the Lord his God verse seven I want you to notice then David said to a biasa the priests a hymn alleged son bring the effort here to me and at the other broader effort to David so David inquired of the Lord saying shall I pursue this true shall i overtake them and he answered him pursue for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all now David comes upon this crisis he cannot go to any scripture to find out whether he should fight or not there's there's no scripture verses go after the Philistines or they go after Amalekites or go going you can find that you can find it so now he has to be sure of what to do so he does something very interesting and I will teach a little bit on that later he doesn't have a clear word from God so he needs to hear from God under the Old Testament there were two major ways that people were to hear from God through the priests and through the Prophet to the priests and through the Prophet when they went to the priest the priest used the effort the effort was a garment that the priest used the high priests use in the front of the effort there were all kinds of Jewell's here but there were two particular symbols in the effort of the priests called the Urim and the Thummim the Urim and the to me strange names but we can challenge God urine and to me now the urine and to him were used by the priests to design the will of God and normally the Urim and the Thummim will answer yes or no should I do it yes should I not do it know that it just yes or no yes or no so you asked yes or no yes or no yes or no until you get a right answer so the priest is the one who is entitled to use the effort and the Urim and the to me and then the second is the Prophet I'm not going to touch that today so David speak to abhyasa the priest what what he's doing he doesn't tell a beocca consult God for me he tells abierta bring me the effort and the priest hands over the effort to David David is not a priest but David is now operating at a higher level not just as an ordinary congregation member David said I'm going to use the same system the produces to be Zen the will of God I want to control that process because I need to know the will of God for myself so he asked for the Urim and the Thummim the effort and the abhyasa hands over the effort to daily now one thing about David David was in the Old Testament but he operated in the New Testament you remember when he went to to eat the bread that only priests are supposed to eat yes he added and he didn't die David knew how to access the future in the present he knew how to enter into the presence of God by a new and living way although he was in the Old Testament the problem is a lot of us in the New Testament are trying to seek God by the Old Testament method when David in the Old Testament is seeking God by the New Testament method so they bring him the urine and the to me and he begins to question should I go after the Stroop the people who came to steal my property should I go after them and if I go will I win two very important questions should I go will I win now they are not wondering the same question should I go is not the same as will I win now there are many people who seek God and never seek clarity for his will so they hear a word they pray and if it Oh God says I should go did he say you we did he say you way so you're going to get beaten and then you said God has failed we got at the supper he said I would I should go I win but he said you should go did you ask will I win David is a man of detail and clarity should I go will I win God says go pursue overtake and you will recover everything I remember the story and this is the true story in Ghana this happened in the 70s some time and this is a bunch of Scripture Union Christians young student Christians trained you're going to take the old level a level advanced level and they're praying praying praying praying that you know go for prayer meetings go for evangelism as Christians normally do as sometimes at the expense of learning so just winning souls and and and and and so on so one one one of those times when they were praying they received a prophecy a prophecy that they would all go to the University now these are sixth formers getting to universal all go to Universal so they go to sit for the a-level and some of them passed and some failed and the ones who fail says God has disappointed us he said we will pass but he didn't say you will pass he said you will go to the University and he didn't say this year and he did he so so the moment ahead they'll got invested they assumed they will pass their exams and they assumed it will happen this year I know the people because all of them eventually sat for the a level twice three times four times but they managed to go to the University as God's Word being fulfilled yet now they would have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they are done what David did should I go will I win will I go to university this year don't assume that your will is the will of God don't assume that your wishes are the will of God don't assume that just because something is important to you it's important to God don't assume that God sees things the way you see it because sometimes God leads us in ways that do not make sense it takes time if you study the Bible you see so many examples I mean you take somebody like Daniel Daniel was taking as a captive from Judah to Babylon do you think he was praying when the Babylonians Nebuchadnezzar attached this country was he praying that his nation will win the battle I'm sure he was praying God please deliver us God please deliver us God did serve us good and quoting all the brahmic promises and yet Judah lost the battle Daniel is taken into captivity where he is big into captivity the King Nebuchadnezzar decides that he should be an eunuch and I'm sure Daniel is praying against I don't want to be a eunuch I want to have a child I do whatever you know I don't want to God do something god save me God save me he's made a eunuch so you said what's happening the guy is praying and it's not happening you see many times we think God responds to our prayer God doesn't respond to your prayer he responds to his will he responds to his will though that when he answers your prayer when your prayer aligns with his will Jesus says thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven not our will be done on earth as we want so Daniel goes through all of that he seems as if all his prayers are not answered and then you look at the next trajectory of his life and he encounters Nebuchadnezzar the supreme power of the earth at that time and the book at neza eventually says God rules in the affairs of men and there is no God like a god of Daniel and and he begins to have profound influence over Nebuchadnezzar about salza over Darrius of a cyrus fucking's 70 years of influence see some of the most profound dishes anybody has ever seen he would never have been exposed to that level of political power and his visions were not all somebody is sitting here and you add beef before you came to church whatever value that says I don't know but Daniel is talking about kingdoms the unfolding of kingdoms we are actually now see some of his vision become a reality but when it started it seemed as if God never answered his prayer because many times we are praying self-interest God is looking at the big picture and he will guide your steps to the big picture even if you don't understand it he is going to bring you to the big picture sometimes you have to fail in order for you to succeed sometimes you have to fail he says to Abraham when Abraham is in a trance he says know of a certainty that the nation that will come after you will be slaves have the nation been born nor have they committed any sin no is that a punishment no he said just know they can you can reject it you can refuse it you can 500 days with they will be slaves they will be slaves there is a part of my plan for them that includes slavery then this is after one I will bring them out with great wealth so you have to understand when we are dealing with knowing the will of God is not know your will that is why it's so important it is knowing the will of not your wheel we all know your will I know my will if it was my will alone O God of mercy I'll be living in Buckingham Palace by this time isn't it nice I mean those Sheraton aizen's I didn't them is not bad at all but I wasn't born there no I mean I was just born III and and my mother was another Queen III understand I mean did I do anything wrong Charles woke up one day you realize ah my mother is a queen did he do anything right no it just happened you just woke up you realize who I'm born into money and then some people wake up and say who where I was born is a different story but there will be an afterwards somebody say there will be an asteroid after one now now so you don't say I'm Daniel afraid that I will not be captain and I became captain I pray I will be castrated I've been castrated so now God doesn't exist no wait because there is an after world there is an afterward there is an afterward and when you come into God afterward that is when you can see all things make sense all things went together for those who love God who are called according to his purpose his purpose is what makes all things work together for good so David understands that should I go does this yes will I overcome he says yes he tells the people let's go and they go and if it happens as it is but the part that I want you to note is how David received that direction he didn't get it by consulting the priest for direction he got it by taking hold of what the priest has for himself so that he can design the will of God himself if there's anything I want every Christian to do is to get to the point where you take the default from their man of God and you seek God's will yourself that is the New Testament way now how can we be sure or what what kind of environment should we create if we want to know the will of God so that we can be clear about a will o go there are a few things you have to get done Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 12 to 13 talking about how Israel was lady says so the Lord alone led him the Lord alone led him and there was no foreign god with him the Lord alone led him and there was no foreign god with him the Lord alone led him and there was no foreign God with him if you want to be led by God these are the two important things you must certify if you say I really want to know the will of God that you have to determine the Lord alone is going to lead me and there will be no foreign go you cannot be led by God when you are looking to something else to lead you you cannot be led by God when he is just a spare tire of leadership for you it's almost like you say even if I don't hear from God I will hear from hear the Lord alone led him and there was no foreign god with him complete separation from idolatry complete rejection of demonic divination now for people in Western societies not you you you are transplanted here but no people who have grown up in the European world ancestrally five six generations rooted in Europe they have inherited a Christian culture without even knowing they've inherited it it's a Christian culture that totally dealt with the traditional practices in this part of the world with the dreams and all kinds of magicians and and so on Christianity uprooted it so the average European thinks that he civilized but really it's a culture that was Christianized and because of that there are certain things that they went away from now they are embracing those things back they are welcoming them but for us Africans Christianity has been with us but it is not deep so the African Christian loves Jesus and loves other things let's face it if we are to go for inspection of what you are wearing underneath your clothes and some things you have in your home right in this country you'll be amazed the talismans the amulets all kinds of things that people are hiding in their pocket around their neck you know and their waist and and and they come to worship but they also believe that you know we have to take care of this one too because you know the world is a dangerous place and you know and you know you you have to do all it's like the average African politician they will come to church and say praise the Lord and go everywhere and say whatever they have to say they accept everything I was talking to a politician says pastor you have to accept everything because the world is strange so you have to receive all and they feel that the more of those things they have the more protected they are but if you want Yahweh to guide you then you have to make a decision here alone as my guide and there is no foreign God that is a ground rule there are people who are seeking for God's guidance there people who go to a prophet and the Prophet tell me what God is saying and the next day they'll go to an enchanter to seek the will of whatever because for them make use of everything that is available but if you want God to lead you the first quality decision you have to make that he is going to be the only one and there will be no in God and you're going to break with every practice that seek guidance now I'm going to walk you through some of the things that we have to break in other to guarantee that God alone is the source of our guidance deter knowledge of the 18 verse from verse 9 God says to the children of is Isis determining 18 verse 9 says when you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations they shall not be found among you anyone who makes the son or daughter to pass through the fire or one who practices witchcraft or it should say one who interprets omens a sorcerer one who can just spells or a medium or a Spiritist or one who cause of the death the dead I like how that this is from the New King James I like how the old King James renders that passage and this is how the old King James Version says it says there shall not be found among you anyone who maketh a son or his daughter to pass through the fire or use that divination or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch or a comma or a consort with familiar spirits or a wizard or a necromancer 7 of them is actually so I'll go through each one of them quickly the first is divination divination is consulting an Oracle to predict the future so you go to an Oracle one way or the other and it tells you what is going to happen that's definition observer of times observer of times is one who moves or letters lies based on lucky days and unlucky days so for example you're going to start a business and somebody comes in said well the 14th of July is not your lucky day you have to move it to 18th now if he says that and still says that says the Lord believe you mean it is called an observer of times because what has happened among Christians is there are people who do these things but camouflage it with the name of the Lord anyone who tells you that an activity of yours must fall on a lucky day is not of God it's not of God no matter what it cost no matter the accolade no matter how high he goes it's not of God it's called observer of times somebody tells you Wednesday is your lucky day or Fridays are your lucky days there are some of you on particular days Africans you were right because you believe it's your lucky day and you believe today when I go today I'll be lucky an observer of times observer of times goes into astrology some of you actually believe your character represents that of your horoscope I hear believers will say amazake Terios and we secretary is like a diary that is how we are I am a Capricorn and that this is how we are they look read it read it is this is exactly me this is higher it's called observer of times when you do that you are bringing yourself under demonic activity and that demonic activity is going to block the flow of God speaking to you and God leading you an observer of times when we follow Christ we don't observe times we don't observe New Moon's we don't we don't play those games there's no Christianity then enchanter enchanter is someone who predicts interpreter omens and tokens and these are people who tell you the future by reading cards reading your palm reading the flight of birds in ancient Roman Greece they had the augurs who interpret the best flight that's where they said so-and-so happened that will happen there are people now who read Tom's supposedly and read cards and read the intestines of animals and so on these are and Cantus if you want to be led by God you don't get close to these things if you get there you are contaminating that process that is why a lot of people prefer gospel to me he can't speak to you because he's not your source of Direction witchcraft now the witchcraft here is not the West African variety [Applause] another word for this witchcraft is sorcerer is somebody who does magical works this word is used in the in Exodus chapter 7 verse 11 to describe the magician's of Pharaoh's court there were sorceress they were practicing witchcraft now how were they operating they could change physical objects you remember when Moses can the Nile into blood they went to another part and also tended to the blood when Moses's staff tend to snakes they also created it was a real yes that that snake was not a hologram that was a proper snake proper snake was it physical yes so does it mean that there are people who can make physical things happen to you you go to somebody and he said I will pray there with money in your pocket sorcery magic I would collect your passport from the air magic that's magic now sometimes people see that is it but it's powerful I showed you my own two eyes yes that makes you do see with your own two eyes but one of God the other not of God in any case in the New Testament that doesn't happen and tomorrow I will show you how Jesus operated and how the Apostles operated and how we can truly be then the will of God we have to deal with magic get it out of your system if you saw the work of a sorcerer you may be tempted to call it a miracle you'll be tempted believe me there are prominent people masquerading as men of God who are just sorcerers do that thing do things happen yes how do you judge whether this is of God that is not of God Jesus gave us just one way by their fruits not by their miracles but they are character so the man is sleeping with everybody's wife in his group and is sleeping with all the girls by his still working miracles something is doing something it cannot be the same Yahweh and the same Jesus during it when he says though he cannot approve it he can't and some of these things are becoming so polished that a lot of believers are being led astray out of desperation because we don't know how to design the will of God we're going to all kinds of places for help for prayer this one says that that one say that this one is powerful ooh that one is powerful this one is powerful a hmm I'm telling you that thing's my eyes have seen in other way Africans with me the way Haley that is my eyes have seen hey hey hey my own eyes my own eyes I saw it let the snake you will see it with your own eyes it was sorcery if you read the Bible Simon the sorcerer was working miracle who's working miracle be careful what you call a miracle witchcraft number five a charmer a chalmers one who casts spells or binds elements to people it is a kind of practice where somebody finds things to you he cast a spell he blows on something and something hits you as a work of a chama now listen to me if you go to any man of God supposedly it's a pastor prophet man of God apostle bishop sinner bishop for it this is my problem I love that man I want to marry him and the man loves me also ansible but sister Connie too likes the man so I won't kick him do work on her for me and then the man says don't worry I will pray and will literally say that prayer it is a champ because what the person is going to do is going to deploy spiritual forces to disable another person so that you and get along that's not how God operates all somebody says I'm going to pray that somebody's business goes down so you also go up that's not high up its chance it's chance and if you are seeking God's guidance through any of these things you can't hear from God a charmer sometimes makes people fall in love with people they don't love when I was growing up they used to call something for girls I don't know whether it worked or not you know because every African child had you know you double in these things we used to play soccer as kids and when we're going to play soccer we'll catch a grasshopper and then stick some brooms into the grass apartheid a grasshopper if you stick three broomsticks then you're going to score three goes high and when put it in a go post of your opponent if that's that's what they are talking about it and it's kid stuff but because the adults who are doing it so we're doing the kid variety of it but that is charming that is charming somebody gives you a potion and say drink this drink this and when you go for the interview everybody you see they will like you that's a charm Thatcher you see Christianity is not about tokens and objects Christianity is about faith in God through Christ nothing else you don't put a leaf on your tongue to go and talk to people you don't have a height handkerchief that you you wipe your face with so you charm people who are interviewing for a job that's not Christianity consulta with familiar spirits this one is the big one consultant with familiar spirits is contacting imitating spirit what is a familiar spirit a familiar spirit is a spirit that knows the person and can mimic him or her in appearance thoughts and language a familiar spirit by the name is a demon that is familiar with you know she studies you studies the way you dress that is the way you talk and manifest so that familiar spirit can enter somebody you know sometimes these days I hear things that happen in Christendom I get amazed people go for meetings and they said your grandmother is talking well grandma they is talking as entered somebody is talking and people believe is God it's familiar spirit something else be familiar spirit is familiar with you can tell you things that nobody else knows except you can reveal your secrets now if you go to someone who operates with a familiar spirit that demon is going to give you information about you to that person and the person would tell you accurate things about you is it accurate yes what spirit check it how do I check the character I got another power the character the guy's still in everybody's money he's beating his wife unfaithful to his wife sleeping with all the choir and still giving word of knowledge what kind of Holy Ghost is that and the walking only goes ahead then a wizard with that is an expert in spiritual operations I don't want to talk too much about it necromancer one who deals with dead people pretending to raise goals through various incantations magical ceremonies most people resort to these kinds of guidance when they are in a crisis when they enter crisis I'm going to show you quickly first Samwell chapter 28 verse from verse 3 it says now someone had died and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Rama in his own City saw had put the mediums and spirituals out of the line the philistines gathered together and Kim and encompass unum who saw God that all Israel together they encountered Gilboa when saul saw the army of the Philistines he was afraid and his heart trembled greatly and when saul inquired of the Lord the Lord did not answer him either by dreams or by urine or by the prophets I'll talk about that that's tomorrow before we pray tomorrow then Saul said to his seventh find me a woman who needs a medium that I may go to her and involve her and his seven searching him in fact there is a woman who is a medium at end o I I like what the old condemned says he says then saul said unto his seven sidney a woman that had a familiar spirit that I may go to her and inquire of her and a seven said to him behold there is a woman that has a familiar spirit at end o and so these guys have put on other Raymond he went two men with him and they came to the woman by night and he said I pray thee divine unto me by the familiar spirit and bring me him up whom I shall name unto thee be careful the advices you have around you saw has put away all the mediums the familiar spirit people out of Israel now he talked to his chief of staff and say listen I'm in a crisis God is not speaking to me I need a witch somebody with a familiar spirit and this si we know exactly where one is is that endo so how did they know how did how could they come with such a quick answer I mean the college they should have said all SAP you've killed all of them inside all of them so we have to go and research and see if there's one left then immediately and so all we know one be careful people would give you instant answers of where to go oh I'm in trouble I need somebody to help oh I know somebody I know somebody is there be careful they knew a witch in endo not even somewhere we went in endo this did so means they've been going there may be exact we are customers clients now remember what has happened Saul is not in fellowship with God his lost access to some well he is facing a crucial battle and he is looking for any help and the woman calls for a forum and the Bible says and the King said do not be afraid what do you see in the woman said - so I saw a spirit are sending out of the earth and he said to have what is his form and she said an old man is coming up and he's covered with a mantle and so perceived that it was somewhere and he's cooked in his face with his face LeGrande and bother this has been one of the most troubling scriptures was this some well the depth which call for Sam well how could she call for some well for her to call for someone she has to evade paradise go to Abraham's bosom claim somewhere and bring in the story of Lazarus and the rich man Jesus says that the distance you can cross it so cushy cross no that wasn't someone so how do you know it wasn't some well because he was in a mantle someone had died he had been buried if you die you a very a very naked your clothes will perish with you when you are coming up you shouldn't have anything around you if it's somewhere you don't have anything around is a mantle what is happen is a familiar spirit a mimicking spirit is a mimicking spirit it is mimicking it is doing everything as some well it looks like somewhat of like someone and given speaks as someone who speak and he gives information that supposes somewhere and says so you will die at the battle Saul died well see accurate yes well that spirit accurate yet they come from God no so accuracy is not a guarantee that what you are hearing is of God it's accurate it's a clear word you somebody you know if it was one some of us is a person I'm telling you hey goose pimples look a pastor look at me as I'm talking to you there goose pimples all over now goose me goose bumps haven't seen anything like them and it's accurate method which in and of a witch in endo have which a wizard so it's not someone that information is accurate just like the magicians work some things that are quite real the source is not of God if you want to hear from God you have to take away all the foreign gods and you have to say you alone it is when you make that quality decision come high water come deep water no matter what I mean the biggest crisis of my life I'm about to die but I'm going to seek God alone I am sick I need a miracle I need healing this thing can kill me but I will seek God alone until you made that quality decision God will not show for his arm in your life and you cannot see him clearly so all you do is depend on other people to hear him for you tonight we want to make that commitment to God alone no games trust Ilion that he knows the future he knows how to speak to me and listen tomorrow I'm going to touch on this if you are child of God in the New Testament God will not bypass you to go and tell your business to somebody for the person to come and tell you you are his child you are a child of God and I'm going to show you that in the New Testament tomorrow I'm going to show that you but let me end with David again and then we close the reasons saw when to the which is because in a crisis but look at how David also responds when he's in a crisis first summer chapter 23 verse 1 and 2 then the toe David say look the Philistines are fighting against Kela and they are robbing the threshing floor there for David and part of the law saying shall I go and I tell these Philistines the Lord said to David go and I try the Philistines and save Kela first so much of the thirty what we read we read that already we spoke to her the other first second so much of the tubers want it happened after this is a dividend called the lost angel I go up to any of the cities of Judah and a lot said to him go up and then he said where shall I go up and he said to Hebrew now this is after Saul is dead everybody wants David to be King David doesn't get up to say I'm going to go in at every Junction he's seeking the Lord he's seeking the law second summit of the five verse 17 to 20 and when the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel all the Philistines went up to search for David and David head of it and went up to the stronghold the Philistines also went up and deployed themselves in the valley of rephaim so David inquired of the law saying shall I go up against the Philistines will you deliver them into my hand and Allah said they will go up for our doubtless deliver the Philistines in your and now you find in all these instances he has two questions should I go will I succeed should I go will I succeed always follow-up question David didn't presume for God and in every crisis whether he had to ascend to the throne whether he had to go and fight a battle whether the enemy was come against him he always sought the Lord when solace in trouble he's seeking widgets David is in trouble he's seeking the Lord no wonder God says I have found in David a man after my heart now when God says I found in David a man after my heart doesn't in David is perfect he says I've found it indeed the man who seeks my heart a man who seeks my heart a man who wants to know what I am looking for what my will is and he's not going to outsource that to the priest he takes charge of it to seek the Lord if you want to hear from God don't out solve the voice of God to anybody not to me sometimes people comes into the path of what is God saying about me - you are you are you God laughs you are using affinity how come he can speak to me I not cannot speak to you are you his child is your father jesus is my sheep know my voice it is they he says a stranger's voice they will not hear but we are going to strangers my sheep hear my voice and the reason why it's been difficult for a lot of believers to hear from God is because first the worshipping God but they have so many other things they are seeking after tonight we're going to pray and you're going to denounce every other God every other source of guidance you have used you're going to separate yourself from it and you're going to make a promise with God tonight and the Lord it's you alone it's you alone and tomorrow night as we pray we're going to believe God that from tomorrow night that power of God was that operating in your life so clearly that the voice of God and his will will become so easy to discern because the path is clear for God to speak to you for God to make himself known to you he would he will show himself to you he revealed himself to me but for that to happen we have to say only God are you ready to say that are you ready to pray and say Allah girl let's rise up everybody oh thank you Jesus thank you Jesus lift up your hands to God and begin to dedicate yourself to him and and say Lord I'm all yours I'm Yours 100% you are my god you alone are my God there is no other God besides you just dedicate the Lord I dedicate myself to you my mind my spirit my thoughts my ideas I dedicate you begin to talk to God dedicate yourself will serve no foreign god no foreign god no enchantment no divination we pledge tonight that Jehovah the God of Abraham the god of our Lord Jesus Christ the God of the Bible is our God and he alone he alone he alone is our God if you really want to break free tonight you will be free some of you will have to go home tonight and discard things that you hold on to things that have been given to you things you have eaten things you hide things you keep things you make sacrifices to if you want God to be your God you have to denounce them say with me in the name of Jesus tonight I separate myself my spirit my soul my mind my thoughts from every foreign god from every demonic activity every satanic enterprise every divination enchantment sorcery I separate myself from it in the name of Jesus I am free I am free from every sorcery in my family in my bloodline I am free from every domination in my family in my bloodline from today I spit the blood of Jesus over my life set me free set me free set me free set me free set me free set me free set me free every fear of the enemy that has paralyzed you words that have been spoken against you fearful images you have seen that terrify you from today I break the power of Satan I break every demonic activity out of your life I command him out of your life I command him out of your business I command him out of your family in the name of Jesus sometimes we get caught because it's a legacy it's a legacy a family legacy and you may not even subscribe fully to it but you see that something about the legacy puts fear in you it puts fear in you and and you want one moment you trans got another moment you afraid fear has torment you cannot the Bible this perfect love casts of fear when we are totally in love with God there should be no fear of your family of your ancestors over every power over every commitment they have made tonight is the night of liberation and of deliverance and you are going to pray in the name of Jesus the Bible says you shall bind the strongman and you're going to say in the name of Jesus I bind every spirit every force every power that has operated in my family that interferes with the move of God in my life I break it now in the name of Jesus let's pray pray pray kaiba under a rebel sia Rustica bar and a rebel cheeky bar induce a pea coma under eboshit Arabic a scion de Amanda Abbas D theory and Arab OSHA you will not live in fear you will not live in fear you will not live in worry you will not live in any worry in the name of Jesus there will be no fear there will be no fear there will be no fear break the spirit of fear break the spirit of fear break the spirit of fear break it in the name of Jesus nothing from your family shall pursue you nothing from your past I pursue you nothing from your ancestry shall pursue you nothing in your bloodline suffer see you in the name of Jesus go Baba Arabic aah cachaça Baba if you've ever submitted yourself if you've ever submitted yourself to any of the things I spoke about you submitted yourself to some divination some sorcery whatever it is tonight you're going to name it call it by name and you are going to say in the name of Jesus I break your control over my life maybe somebody took you somewhere and now you know it was witchcraft or it was saucer or necromancy or familiar spirit you're going to say from today call it by name and speak the blood of Jesus and cancel it out of your life you have power to do that for yourself you have power now begin to speak set yourself free set yourself free if you've been reading the horoscope astrology palm reading watching a psychic network falling into psychics set yourself free from it deliver yourself from it claim the blood of Jesus over your life the correct covering of the blood over your life you are walking free from that thing in the name of Jesus no interruption no jamming of your frequency no other voice counteracting the voice of God you will hear no other voice that said the voice of God you will not hear the voice of familiar spirits you not hear the voice of demons you know yet a voice of devils you'll not hear the voice of spiritus you will hear only the voice of God no German of your frequency no interruption with God's processes just open my ears Lord open my eyes Lord open my ears Lord open my eyes Lord in the name of Jesus father I pray that from tonight your people have a sweet encounter with you from tonight sweet encounter visit them speak to them touch them let your voice be clear without interruption when you speak they would hear when you command they will obey concerning every decision your children are making I pray law that they'll find your voice they'll find your will they would know your will they will not depend on somebody else but you will speak to them by your Holy Spirit let tonight be the beginning of a deep encounter between you and your children of sweet fellowship with a Holy Spirit of your presence surrounding them wherever they are and let them know you in spirit and in truth in Jesus name Amen you [Applause]

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Published: Tue Jul 18 2017