"Higher" - Lee Stoneking

and aloha Takeshi lava rocket retire and they lujah Jesus you can definitely feel resurrection power in this place today thank you Jesus I thank you Jesus there's like a spirit of rejoicing here so go ahead and just clap for a moment and continue in this vein this flow of the Spirit of God I want to commend you wonderful people for the apostolic powerful way as believers you ministered to each other last night this whole audience was an altar service the gift of faith was in this place and just some marvelous things happened I want to commend you for the way you respond this is one tremendous church this is a glorious church and I want to pay honor to the ministry here brother and sister Woodward in brother and sister Lehman you are in safe hands here you're in safe hands and in this hour that is the most important thing in life for you and your families but you're in safe hands here and I count them as great personal friends and I'm delighted to walk among you because in one sense watching you people listening to you praying with you helping you pray for others you help to rebuild and restore my confidence in humanity and if I could give you one thing and only one I would give you the ability with which to see yourself as others see you then you would know what a truly special person you are turn to your neighbor and say you are special say it again and then say you are special in Jesus yes amen today this is not a lengthy message but from the book of Isaiah chapter 55 I want to read to you in verse 6 and then verses 8 and 9 excuse me in the book of Isaiah chapter 55 verse 6 says seek II the Lord while he may be found call you up on him while he is near and then verse 8 says for my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways saith the lord for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts I want to just talk to you today from my heart and I've entitled this session higher would you lift your hands higher and would you lift your voice higher and would you just talk to Jesus for a moment that's it wonderful Jesus I give you praise I give you things blessed be the name of Jesus forever find us o God together here wrap your arms of love around us speak to our minds to our hearts to our very souls lift us into the realm of revelation and understanding we may take it with us day by day and share it with others and give to this present world Jesus there is no one like you there never has been there never will be again you are the ultimate you are the greatest you are the best Otto Korea Shania handle of arisia taka the choicest of God blessed be the name of Jesus forever go ahead and clap for the Lord as you are being seated in my own library at home I have a number of outstanding books and some of them are Jewish books I am a Gentile and as a Gentile I have access to commentaries which are Clarke's commentary Matthew Henry's commentary and these commentaries are comments upon each verse in the Bible to give it further explanation understanding etc in Judaism they also have commentaries but they're different from what we have they have the Talmud they have the Mishnah and they have the haftorah they also have books of legend among them and from Jewish legend I want you to understand or at least share with you their understanding of the verses that I just read from the Book of Isaiah and the legend begins like this in the days of Elijah one of Israel's greatest prophets you can still in the land of Israel in the Mount Carmel mountain range area you can go into one of the caves there are several caves there that they actually know Elijah lived in or slept in and stayed and so you can go there and walk through those caves and I can tell you that when you go there you can feel a presence of something powerful from ancient days there's no doubt about it in the days of Elijah there was a young man who heard about the power of God that Elijah was responsible for in his travels and in his preaching this young man came to Elijah and he said master Elijah I want to travel with you because I want to see this power of God that is taking place in your life and ministry Elijah looked at the young man he said son I cannot take you with me because the ways of a prophet are hard and the ways of his God are difficult to understand I cannot take you with me the young man went away in sorrow but he had a tremendous desire so he went again to Elijah and presented himself he said master Elijah I want to travel with you I want to see the power of God and Elijah looked at him and he said son I cannot take you with me the ways of a prophet are hard and the ways of his God are difficult to understand the boy went away but he came again after a period of time he said master Elijah please I want to travel with you Elijah looked at the young man he said right you may travel with me and you will see the demonstration of the Spirit of God in his power but on the day that you question anything you see or hear is the day I will send you home there men agree to it and he saw some mighty powerful things from that god of Elijah on one occasion late in the afternoon they were walking together in the countryside and they came upon a group of men that were finishing an aqueduct that brought water from the high places to the local village in town so Elijah walked up to these working men and they they were very near to completing this aqueduct they were finishing it Elijah walked up to them and he said I'm Elijah the Tishbite and my server that I have need of lodging and vittles for the night one of those men stepped forward and said so you are Elijah we want nothing to do with you nor the god you serve now leave so Elijah turned and they walked Elijah walked a little distance and found a high place and he took the mantle from his shoulders and he snapped it toward those working men and miraculously the aqueduct was completed and the water began to flow the young man looked at that he did not understand but he knew he could not question so they continued walking later toward the close of the day they came up a little hot in the countryside and there was a widow there and her son of he was frail looking and there was a cow Elijah walked up to this little widow and he said I'm Elijah the Tishbite and my servant I have need of lodging and we need food or vittles for the night that little widow opened her hands to the Prophet and she said master Elisha I don't have much but what we have is yours she took some grain and ground it made a cake and baked on the fire milk some milk from the cow and fed Elijah and his servant and then she said there's a little room at the back of my little Hut here and you and your servant may sleep there on the floor and so they thanked her and they slept on the floor that night in the morning when the young man awakened light was already coming to the little window a little hole-in-the-wall but he looked over and Elijah was already gone so the young man jumped to his feet ran outside little Hut and Elijah was thanking the widow for what she had done for them and saying goodbye so the young man did the same thing so they left the woman the widow the cow and the frail son standing there watching them as they walked away Elijah again walked and found little high place and elevation in the land the ground he reached up and took the mantle off his shoulders and he snapped it toward the widow that son and the cow and the cow dropped dead the young man said master Elijah I know this is the day you will send me home but I don't understand Elijah says and I told you the ways of a prophet are hard and the ways of his God are difficult to understand the boy said why when those men treated us so wickedly finishing that aqueduct you snapped your mantle and miraculously it was finished why and then this little lady treat us so good when those men treat us so evil why did you snap that mantle and the miracle took place the largest sis and I told you the ways of a prophet are hard and the ways of his God are difficult to understand son what you didn't know those men were digging very near to the largest vein of gold in the entire country had they been allowed to continue to dig they would have struck it and they would have lived in great wealth but because they reviled God and they mocked his prophet God performed a miracle and they will forever live in poverty their men said yes but why why when the widow tree does soak so well that you snap your mantle and the cow fell dead that was her sustenance Elijah says and I told you the ways of a prophet are hard and the ways of his God are difficult to understand while you were asleep last night my boy on the floor I wrestled with a death angel that came to take the life of the son I wrestled until daybreak with him and was able to convince him to take the life of the cow instead of the life of the son people I'm here today to tell you we cry and fuss over the dead cows in our lives when all the time God has given us our sons clap your hands and at the spirit of God come into your heart in life hustle of arak or sekai rivera ha ha ha Krrish attire Jesus I pray for revelation understanding that I've lived in this for 52 years I've known of people in churches Saints that were very near to some incredible walk with God as we could call it a vein of gold in the spirit but because they wickedly entreated the man of God and mocked God and turned their back on him they were forever left without the power and the glory of God that could have been theirs there are some things I don't understand there are things I do not understand but God didn't ask me to understand he asked me to just trust and believe so I trust and believe but there are things I don't understand years ago it was like a miracle happen for me I used to camp with a friend of mine upstate New York in the Adirondacks State Park it's very very difficult to get in there yeah it's it's just difficult to get in there because there aren't any human beings up there and it's a lake in the top of the mountains and you can drink the water over the side the canoe and the trail is difficult you have to stay about 2 days to recover from the trail and carrying the canoe and the backpacks and all of that so we were there on one of these trips I'd been there a number of times they're just not the worst for me there was no place like it because it was just total rest excuse me but one night sleeping in that sleeping bag I woke up somewhere in the night about 2:30 3 o'clock in the morning I mean it's so dark in that tent you can feel the darkness you can't see anything it's just dark and there's an old statement that says it's always darkest just before the dawn but in that darkness this bird began to sing over here and then one over here answered I thought what is a bird doing singing at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning and then I understood something in the breast of that tiny creature he sensed that the dawn was about to break so then I understood that faith is the bird that sings to greet the dawn while it is still dark so no matter how dark it is in your life find the grace to sing the light is coming people the light is coming just keep walking just keep walking just keep walking in the garden of gethsemane one of my favorite places in Jerusalem I've been there a number of times but on the morning after the crucifixion and Beryl of Jesus in that tomb Mary the women were coming to the tomb to bring spices in oil to care for the body as was their tradition and they were walking along in the soft light of dawn as a long fingers of dawn crawled over those mountaintops and illumined the recesses of the darkness in the valleys these women were walking along and they were talking how do I know they were talking because women like to talk and I think they were saying things like this how can you believe a week ago we hailed him as the Messiah he came riding into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey and now we are going to his tomb how can this thing be and I think they continue to talk like this like I don't understand we hailed him as the Messiah there was such rejoicing and then all of a sudden the big question was asked when we get to the tomb who will roll away the stone we can't roll it away the Romans will not roll it away for us there's no way we can move that stone in other words the obstacle was unsurmountable to them but the glory of it was in spite of the unsurmountable obstacle they did not turn around and go back they kept on walking it may have been a bit more slowly but they continued to walk and that's the key that's the key right there no matter how big the obstacle is just keep walking even if you walk more slowly just keep walking don't turn around and go back and when they came out from underneath the bowels of those olive trees and looked the stone had already been rolled away and there was an angel seated on the stone what does that mean for you and me God can take the obstacles of your life and make them seats for angels clap for just a moment get your voice out to God this was a point of rocket retire oh so I have come to believe that faith is just blindly trusting that God will always do that which is right by me I've come to believe that I love him I serve him I walk with him I endeavor to keep his laws I'm not perfect I'm going to be some day but I keep walking people just keep walking just keep walking don't turn around and go back no matter what the problem is just keep walking I just trust that whatever happens to me that God will do that which is right by me I have prayed for years I'm still praying God use me help me to see the glory of God help me not to just occupy space on planet Earth don't let my living be in vain I've prayed that I still pray it but I asked him when I said God use me I had visions your mental pictures of preaching the crowds of people and helping people get out of wheelchairs that's what I had in mind I did not see myself lying dead on the airport floor for 45 minutes naked from the waist up and strangers giving me resuscitation CPR electric shock treatments that's not exactly what I had in mind but I said God used me be very careful when you say God use me because you may end up feeling like you've been used but that's exactly what you asked for but what has happened since then hundreds thousands of people have been healed I've done healing sessions in mass hundreds of people of a healed of cancer all kinds of things someone walked up to me after all of this so they said well the strong King you're preaching is different you're different everything is different about you I said yes I said but there's been some suffering in it I went through some things he said what a price to pay brother stonking I reach my hand to him and I said but behold the purchase of such a price it's not the price it's the purchase of such a price so God may be asking of some of you to do some things that you've never done before it doesn't make any sense to you but there's something about to be purchased in the kingdom of God because of your effort because he's not coming back and angels cannot tell it it's in your hands do you understand that you're the generation that has come to the kingdom for such a time as this and that we are the generation upon whom the ends of the world have come and there is nothing that we can do about it we've got to do everything we possibly can do and I want to encourage you again this morning if they can live the way they live out there we should never make an apology for how we live in here I don't apologize to those people we've got it and I know that we've got it and everybody needs it and I'm going to shout it and I'm going to preach it and I'm going to sing it and I'm going to clap it and I'm going to jump it and I'm going to run it because there is no thrill like this it's like a fire shut up in your bones it's a strength it's an energy he is my bread when I am hungry he is my drink when I am thirsty he is shade from the heat of the day he is the cleft in Iraq for me he loved me more than a brother or sister a father ahahahahahaha kaya if God is moving on you right now let the Holy Ghost speak through you for just a moment you may feel like running you may feel like shouting you may feel like jumping up and down but the Holy Ghost is in this place and because he is here you can walk out of here healed you can walk out of here deliver it you can walk out of here set free the darkness that you came in with can be turned into light strength can come into your body the pain can be eradicated he that he's worth clapping for his worth shouting about his worth worshiping the way we worship Him so just in your own way for a moment once again just clap your hands all ye people and just shout unto the Lord with a voice chime years ago we'll be back in about 1963 somewhere in those years and up to about 70 my parents lived in the farmhouse in the countryside nearest little creek or stream and I would go home on that farm to just spend the weekend from the city where I worked all the time at that point and there was a pasture right there across from the drive there was a fence in the pasture and you could walk along this little creek or stream whatever you call it it was just a small body of water running a little bit and there was a pasture there and I used to like to crawl over the fence and walk along that little creek and there's a lot of trees and things but I get in this pasture because at the back of that pasture there was they had done strip mining there which is they found coal near the surface of the earth and they would peel away the crust and dig the coal out well they had done that and then of course they left they never filled in the holes and they were filled with water so there were little ponds back there and there were some fish in them and some frogs and whatever and they used to like to walk back there and just walk through those places but there was a bull in that pasture with some of those cattle so had to always be careful where he was and to keep him in a distance from me but I was walking along the day this Creek and I don't know I just came up on this huge anthill and I'm all we have always been the kind of individual I want answers I want answers and I have some questions or had them anyway I walked up this Ann Hill and I just stood there and I was looking at them ants are very industrious little people you know they they build their house they've got rooms inside of it and they take their garbage out and that's more than some people do they empty all the garbage out and they've got little thoroughfares cut through the grass and whatever and they get look what looks to me like major thoroughfares they got little arteries too and I'm just watching these ants and all of a sudden this one ant came out of the hill he was on some kind of an important mission because he was trucking it right down that little road of his and I had this stick about this long and I just put the stick right down in the middle of his highway closed and he couldn't get away he was going too fat he crawled over into the stick I might've did the stick up in the air he didn't know how he got there I knew how he got there he was going round and around an end of that stick and I was just watching him for several seconds and I felt sorry for him so I put the stick right back down exactly why I'd picked him up he ran into the stick I don't know what Commission he was on but he he cancelled it he went back into the anthill he went back and I think what I get in there he said you're never going to believe what happened to me I was caught up I could see a long distance I could see thin I don't think they ever booked me if did it what I'm saying is this people sometimes I feel like I'm on the end of the stick crawling around and around I don't know exactly how I got there I knew where that ant was but he didn't know how where he was I knew God knows where you are whether you know where you are or not so just keep crawling around don't give up mmm and I got to thinking I thought you know these ants don't understand there's a 6-foot two-inch human being standing here that get with one swift kick demolish that entire anthill they don't know that they don't realize that and then I thought they don't know about Empire State Building they don't know about the Brooklyn Bridge they don't know about moon walks they don't know about surf crashing on the shores of our continent they don't know about algebra geometry trigonometry they don't know about science they don't know any of these things and the reason I got to thinking like that is because when I came into this they said God has no beginning and he has no ending he's just always been and always will be that makes no logical sense to my brain how is it that he never had a beginning he never ever had a beginning he always was he always is and he always will be and I would think like that what does that mean as I began to think about these things these ants didn't understand I realized how much higher my knowledge was than theirs and God came to me and he said in my eyes you're like one of those ants my knowledge and my wisdom is so much higher than yours from that point on I never asked another question I just trust that he will do that which is right by me how many of you want to join me in that position today and just say Jesus I trust you no matter what comes down the road of my life for just a moment let your voice out and tell him so no shorter Cory petitioner valleca Honda levitation of our Akash attire the spirit knows how to pray so if you have the Holy Ghost that the Holy Ghost just pray through you there's revelation here today there's strength here today oh ha ha ha ah take a shot ah blessed be the name of Jesus forever where the TW Barnes told me a wonderful story it was a true story he caught me one day and he said boy you know something happened and I want you to know this I said okay he said at one point a few years several years ago he said Billy Graham came to Shreveport Louisiana for a crusade he said so one night he said I walked in and said to his sister Barnes get ready we're going to go here Billy tonight in Shreveport and he said the Lord told me we'd have two seats on the front row so she could dressed ready they both went to Shreveport got out and they went into the auditorium it was packed I mean it was packed there were just no seats anywhere well finally an usher came and he said by the band said there are two of us and he said well down this aisle here about halfway down there are two seats on the aisle I could put you there but the barn said fine and so they walked down there and she got in first and sit down and he stood down in the aisle and then when they got seated and the usher walked away she turned him she said Tom I thought you said we'd have two seats on the front row he said well that's what Jesus said and so the conversation was closed about maybe 10 or 15 minutes later that was an usher way down there that they did not know he did not know them but the usher was walking back and forth and he stopped and he walked right down the aisle to brother/sister barnes and he said i have two seats on the front row would you like those seats they had never seen him he had never seen them but the bunch said yes yes we would they get up and walk down and set in two seats right in front of the pulpit area where Billy Graham would be speaking from and when they got seated and the usher walked away but the barn said Jesus why did you do it this way and the Holy Ghost answered him and said so you will remember I always know where you are God knows where you are god knows where I am he has not forsaken one of us people that ought to encourage you no matter who you are what you are where you came from to keep walking with God shouting the victory in other words people preach it tell it like you've never told it before I have some friends and I'm sure that brother Woodward knows them brother sister Shepherd they passed her in Southern California well before that they were in Los Angeles for a while and melody is a preacher and so she was conducting these sessions in the local women's prison she went there and she had permission to come and preach and pray with his woman and they baptized several them in Jesus name one day as she was preaching to these ladies that had come to hear her there was a woman which in that prison and that which had heard about this and she came up to melody and she said who are you and melody said why do you ask she said because I have stopped every Christian group that has come into this but I have no power over you melody said when you fight us what do you see and the witch said every time I go to fight you all I see is blood when the devil comes to fight you all he sees is blood because we are covered by the blood of Jesus and he has no power over that blood if we could ever get this in our minds ever get this in our hearts we would become bold we would absolutely become bold and we would take our cities our communities everything or just clap for a moment just flutter cachaca handle a very shil of the raucous attire Oh brother Ric Gonzales told me in Chicago he works in the jail preaches there and to these men and he's had some great success in converting some of them whatever but he said to me brother stone King he said in that prison there was a warlock which and he said in it would it would appear to me from what I've worked with him people there seems to build while which and every one of these prisons somehow or other and this man was a warlock and he came up to brother Rick and solace while he was preaching and interrupted and he said who are you so brother Gonzales told him who he was and this warlock male witch said to brother Gonzalez he said I have closed down every Christian group that's coming to this prison but I have no power over you I cannot cannot stop you who are you where the Gonzalez told him who he was and what he believed that warlock which looked at brother Gonzalez and said you have the power of the one true God what I'm saying is this people if warlocks are making those kinds of expressions and confessions what should you and I be doing if witches know what's going on we need to get with the program here people and do everything we possibly can to thought all of that and I'm ending with this Shirley Cole Billy Cole they were missionaries to Thailand Billy Cole made such an impression with his ministry on Thailand that he was told if he'd come to Thailand ten years before he did the Thailand today would not be a Buddhist nation with their Christian nation they prayed thousands of people through in fact the king of Thailand summoned a likkle to the palace in Bangkok and so Billy calls two before the king of Thailand and the king of Thailand is worshipped as God by the Thai people and Billy stood there and gave an account of what he was doing in Brenda their daughter sang and entertained the King's children in the palace so they were very very involved with everything there and Billy told me he said Lea he said those Thai people they have so little so once a year we would have this big dinner we would cook rice and put chicken in it and things he said because they might have one little chicken drumstick and they chopped it in small pieces had been a bowl of rice this big they just was so poor they didn't have that much he said so we were fixing this meal in the afternoon they came in the evening and dignitaries and people they had leaders and whatever and people local people would come so he said we set up big tables and we strung electric lights up so that when it got dark we could still see to eat in fellowship etc he said in the course of that Shirley was working with the tables and he said she was stringing these lights and she got to the end of it at this table and the electrical cord went over there was a fence there but there was a hole in that fence and she had to reach through the other side to get the connecting wire and plugged them together when she reached through that hole in that fence there was a Cobra lying there and she didn't know it because she couldn't see it the fence was solid and the Cobra struck her in her wrist with his fangs and she cried out and when they came running and saw what had happened Billy said by the strong King I was shaking so badly I went behind that fence I could not even pick up a club to kill it he said a Thai man had to kill the Cobra he said I was shaking so badly because he said we know what happens when you're struck with a Cobra he said in 30 seconds your convulsions and in three minutes you are dead surely Kol never stopped working on those stables she just kept moving among those tables the risk never swelled there was no pain there was no after-effects people when the Bible says will take up serpents we are believers you and I are believers we are believers we are real Bible believers these things didn't happen just 2,000 years ago they have happened in my lifetime they're happening in your lifetime I've read it while I was here if you if believers if you drink it add editing or so to hurt you I've been through that I was preaching upstate New York several years ago and they had a glass of water in under the pulpit on a shelf there and it wasn't a clear glass like this one it was an opaque glass you couldn't see through it and right in the middle of my preaching I needed a drink and so I just assumed it was fresh water I reached in and grabbed that glass and turned it upside down it was filled with slime and I had to swallow some of it but I never stopped preaching I just kept going at it I never stopped I never got sick there was no upset stomach everything was alright because you know why I am a believer I am a believer I am a believer I am a Bible believer you are a Bible believer if something a Hacha takashimaya LaRocca Jesus the Holy Ghost wants to fall on several people right now and empower you with something called demonstration of his spirit I believe if we will lift our hands and worship Him for those of you that he has signaled out that thing will fall up on you right now in the name of Jesus this area needs it you've got to have this in this area that's it that's it let your voice out in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ there's something moving right through here and there's something reaching for the young people right here I can feel it Pocoyo Satya Dada rocket Akasha taka there are some adults here you've lived in for years and years in this but the anointing is going to use you in the end result some of you have a knowledge a great knowledge and God wants you to impart that in the name of Jesus of Nazareth so right now if we will let our voices out and just welcome that which is coming in the Holy Ghost just welcome that which is coming in the Holy Ghost to you that's it that's it look keep Rebecca Otto cachaça keep receiving in the name of Jesus I don't know exactly who the students are here but if you're a Bible School student here locally I want you to get a hold of each year right now because I want something to happen for you as students that when you get out of this school you will be Apostolic totally apostolic with signs wonders and miracles follow you there's no point in just studying you've got to get into the demonstration you've got to absolutely demonstrate this thing you've got to do it don't just be another preacher just don't be another sermon Iser but that the Holy Ghost get ahold of you right here in the name of Jesus ha ha ha Turkish a toccata otaku raka Shaka that's it that's it ha Turkish Attica in the name of Jesus of Nazareth such as I have in the name of Jesus receive it by the authority of the word of God by the power of the name of the Lord Jesus I think this whole audience ought to be clapping and you ought to be worshiping because of what God is doing in this place you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this I don't know how you feel today but I can tell you how I feel there's something in here today that is pulling at me something pulling at me I've been to the altar many times but there's something in me I just want to run to this altar all over again and say Jesus I will do it I will do what you want done just flow through me help me to be Ataka help me to get involved with the Spirit of God like I've never been involved before because people hear me please hear me before Jesus comes someone is going to be mightily used by God at the end time it might as well be me it might as well be you and I volunteer I want to be involved I've got to be involved I cannot live without this is there anyone that would join me in that request here at the altar it is a matter of your man woman young or old but something something has got ahold of you here today in this place and once again we present our bodies as a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God give him your mind give him your heart give him your flesh give him your intellect give him everything about you here today yes yes yes yes yeah that's it let your voice out let your voice out and seek him well he may be found in this moment in time in your life no ha kodesh attire handle of erotica shutter the act of those are left Jesus some of you are ministering powerfully to others that is your right as a believer that is your position as a believer there's an anointing upon you today transmit that anointing impart that anointing to someone near you even people in the audience that can't find a place here at the front to get a hold of each other back in the audience and just lay your hands on and begin to pray because there's an impartation here again today there's a powerful importation among us you places

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Published: Mon Sep 12 2016