Ouch, That Hurts | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | Altars

if you're going to have the future God wants you've got to lay some patterns and relay some patterns around the subject of family and for every bound a family is not always an easy issue for some people that is an amazing issue for other people that is a very painful thing to touch but we have got to be willing to look at it because I believe in every man there is the potential to be a husband and I believe in every woman there is the potential to be a wife and if you are going to be families founders you've got to establish biblical integrity to what God intended those roles to achieve say man and there's probably a lot I could probably write a book on all of the things that should flow from a father and one of them is the ability to break curses and to transfer blessings and the mother is also a powerful powerful role how many of you know you need a cultivator and you need somebody to speak to your uniqueness I listed so much and then one o'clock at the service where the Spirit of God came in it was on the oddest subject in the world you would have thought I was preaching on Azusa or revival or the gifts I preached on sibling rivalry the world does the cloud come on sibling rivalry I started I tried to grab that sucker of competition about a throat and strangle the life out of it in this place and it's almost dead but I will kill it a little bit more further before the rest of the year and then the glory of God came in and it was a very powerful thing to experience so we do this every Thanksgiving week we gather and we put pictures of our loved ones on the altar our mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and grandbabies and cousins we put all of them on the altar and we leave them there until the new year through the holidays we pray for them and we believed off with them how many of you know leaving your family on the altar is a healthy thing for you to do and it is unhealthy for you to hold them and not leave them on the altar it is so important that you learn how to do that and I imagine how difficult it must be as a parent to have children that are either not walking with the Lord or in diverse kinds of bondages or what it must feel like to be a son or daughter whose parents are struggling with salvation or deliverance or even the people that need healing relationships that need healing I have learned that if you put those things on the altar and that's step one step two is then take your hands off it allows God to do what he needs to do sometimes the altar activity is restricted because your hand is still on it you can't put it on the altar it still you got to put him/her then that on the altar and then refuse to mess with it again let your hands I'll receive that that's instructions for some of you you can't tamper with it if it's on the altar leave it there amen and so I'm gonna talk to you really really really quick before we pray because I want to talk to you about this how many of you are intercessors wave at May please wave at me okay those of you who had your hand up look at the person next to you who didn't have their hand up and say you need to be rebuked i'ma show more time how many you are in assessor's wave at me thank you if you are saved come on church if you have the Holy Ghost if you know the precious sound if you have been washed with the blood you are an intercessor so let me ask you again how many of you are an intercessor praise God because if you're not an intercessor I don't know why you want me to be one for you Amen my prayers are not more powerful than yours you have got to become your own priest Amen so you have to learn how to pray and that is a very important thing that you realize well one of the things that intercessors do but if we're going to stay historically accurate one of the biblical rose of manhood was building altars way before it started being about cutting hair or naming sons or leaving insurance policies to people in the Bible not in America in the Bible men built altars and and and it was a it was almost like altar building was such a priority to men that they did not trust their Charmy without an erect an altar and that's a that's a term that kind of gets abused in and out of charismatic circles and circuits but I want to give you some rich history on what that is first of all every most of the main Bible characters at you and I would consider heroes were altar builders he Elijah built an altar remember when there was a closed heaven and he went to war and went to confront the prophets of Jezebel and first I think it's uh first Kings 18 was that key thinking one of them he built an altar before the Lord and he built an altar before the Lord so that God could have access to that story in that situation Joshua built an altar before the Lord Moses built an altar before the Lord I mean the list goes on and on and on about man who built altars and in the Bible altars represented several things first of all you could erect one to any any God you could erect one that's how the Old Testament world saw worship was the demarcation of an altar you could not authentically worship where you couldn't sacrifice so and you didn't just sacrifice on the grass you couldn't just take an oxen and say can't blood that's enough no in their mind and the first inch in the Old Testament world they believed that the gods lowercase G OD wouldn't look for altars dedicated to them to decide where they should intervene so what would happen was when you would cross over into a territory or when you would have an experience with God a man would make a memorial that memorial would not be a sticky pan or note to self it would be an altar so for example if I crossed over a bloody battle a bloody war and I believe that the Lord delivered me out of this I was outnumbered and this army was coming for me and out of nowhere I got miraculously deliver than what I did and gratitude to whatever God I believe delivered me was erect and altar now God the God of Israel when men built altars to him he revealed another dimension of himself in the Old Testament everywhere you see another name of God you see an altar when men were built an altar they were called the place peace it was where they learned that dynamic of the character of God so the pattern is in every place where a war was one or another dimension of God was experienced an altar was built now altars became monuments you really need to learn this a divine contract when you would build an altar it was you coming into a contractual arrangement with whatever God was over that land whatever God was over there territory he was bringing you into divine contracts a divine contract say divine contract because again in the invisible world they didn't believe that God's just interacted with people altars became like satellites for whatever deity was served in that region so they would look out or so they thought to see where the altars were and who claimed them so if you were a a pagan worshipper you would erect an altar to the fertility God and you would do things around that altar - in folk the involvement of that deity and whatever you need it so Berenice was a very big Old Testament issue so if a woman was not able to bear children she was considered cursed or punished by the gods she or her husband or whoever was the mama patriarch of her family would erect an altar and offer things fruit sex acts bloods animals sometimes incense on that altar in hopes that they could persuade that deity to respond or intervene or bring them in devine contract for fertility the same is true with harmon ship if you were a business owner then chances are a large part of your business's success would be based upon what you could grow or not so they would bring things on the altar to appease whatever they worshiped so that whatever they were they they worship with water what they had sold so in the Old Testament altars were a pivotal point of supernatural activity I could go through any region in Israel see the altar and the name of the god on the altar and know what God had claimed that matter and know what people dedicated them what what what drive or what people believed was over that land so an altar was how you knew what what what deity ruled in that area who was worshiped who was in charge of molesting it was called invoking if you study prayer invoke is a really important term for you to know I in the okay II invoke it means to grab the attention of in an emergency to grab the attention of to invoke not just to evoke but invoke so they would use altars as an attention-getter because God listen never responded to empty altars if an off if an altar has no offering it's just a rock they would build altars put offerings there and God would consume or receive that and it had to be something that God liked because of the Old Testament Tabernacle he gave them directions for what he wanted on altars build him there leave them there part of what he liked on there was peace offerings grain offerings sin offerings drink offerings you had several categories of offerings that could be put on altars the challenge is you're not going to ever get that we are using this heritage as our basis for our interaction with God you're never going to get God's attention with an empty altar if nothing is there there is nothing to be consumed many of us are too infrequent at altars even much more dramatic of a crisis and I say it all time all the time candidly but I must say to you seriously today one of the reasons why most marriages are defeated before they begin it's cuz they make one trip to the altar you invoke whatever god you're believing to seal this covenant and then you leave him for it throughout the rest of the marriage until you need to heal from the destructive things that have happened in the duration of it no family has a chance at survival without an active ulti oh yeah and no man has a chance at man who if somebody does not teach that boy altar building we see that with Abram he taught his son to build altars most of you think that Isaac only became alert when it was his time to get on the altar but he if he was like my son or any of your kids was watching Abram as he built an altar to the Lord so he learned altar building your kids know nothing about prayer except what they hear people at church say part of good parenting is intercession [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] and nobody ever walked in to bring that altar now it is the erecting of high places the pulling down of grooves and smooth stones dedicated unto destructive powers wherever you see cycles of consistent activity sickness death disease davai disaster somebody built something to somebody you don't receive the Spirit of God to walk pass altars that have been erected in the name of demons and they're not there oh that's really nice I'm gonna give you biblical instructions the Bible said when God told them when I give you grace to cross over into Canaan before you go get carpet before you go get blinds before you go buy a condo before you go get into your designer I want you to pull down the altars that are in Canaan cuz you're not gonna be able to enjoy my promise with those openings to them other powers so before you start going try to enjoy the riches and the money and the health and the milk and the honey find the altars and pull them that's an exodus don't marry their daughters don't intermingle with them but instead bring their altars down I don't want you going into divine contract with stuff that's going to bring you into mixture I don't want you going into divine agreement because they're not just in your life or in your family in your story because they're bored somebody signed the contract I'm scared of you they may be there is an endorsement on something of behavior and invite demons something that you've either ignored or overlooked or not confronted or not been willing to own up was an opportunity for divine cards and then they enter into litigation to bring certain stuff to pass and make it manifest in a life because we're praying and worshiping and tithing but nobody's pulling down altars and nobody's going to reverse and say prove it say prove it Moses this is not my tax went up to the mountain and whenever father's disappear all kind of perversion comes out he went up to the mountain the Bible say he ceased not to come down and so the people went to air and I make us some God that's what happens when demons take the opportunity to sneer the hearts of sons he stayed up on the mountain they like air and make us some gods whoever Moses is talking to is taking too long people always go into idolatry when they lose patience he was up there and apparently Moses and God was taking too long so they say come and make us some gods and so what if Aaron say because he was not the father he was the assistant to the Father you will always know when you're under a father or an assistant but how quickly they deal with your idolatry Aaron took their earrings and help them in their idolatry see a real father is not going to aid you or allows you to go and repair an object if you can be rebellious and comfortable you are not under the leader of a powerful patriarch but somebody who knows God you are under the leader of a teacher but not a father Aaron took them you've got to be willing to step into that's how you get generational blessings you step into a cursed thing or an iniquity live and you make it reverse if you can't make a curse reverse don't involve anybody in your life until you get Authority you don't get authority by proposing by dating by that you don't get authority by going to the courthouse you get authority by building altars that's how you get recognized in heaven heaven recognizes the labor of altar builders woman of God you love God you worship God you want God you need a man who knows how to build an altar I know you're working on your practical stuff but let me give you some other stuff if this man is not an altar builder then you have no guarantee and no assurance that whatever he is worshiping has your best interest at heart you may leave your future your money your health a tug monopoly in the heavenly places anybody can gamble over your future but when a priest makes the time to build altars on the behalf of himself that is and his future God has an inroad to involve himself in the affairs of that Genesis 12 and I'm done we're gonna pray I believe that's the problem with our homes jobless you can't go to God like America hates the black man it's just to make flower tea that community problem is every legitimate reason we have for our broken homes God sees as an excuse because as long as you got it is the divine access point of God to any territory he wants to mark a whole family he wants to mark an entire generation 12:1 now the Lord said unto Abraham Abram get out of that country come out of thy kindred and from thy father's house until the land I will show thee Abram had to leave his dad and you know why because of what his daddy worshipped had Abram stayed under the leadership of his daddy that the gods that his daddy worship had divine contract over Abram so God is like because chosen you and I know what I want to do with you I'm not going to be able to do it until you depart this I'm not trying to destroy your relationship I'm trying to reverse a divine contract your father is in contract with something else and as long as that is your gate keeper whatever he worships is what has rights to you so what I'm going to do is advise you to depart this you must depart this so that I can bring you into divine contract with something else listen to me when you are when you are invited by God to depart a dysfunction to depart a disaster to depart idolatry it is an opportunity for him to annul a demonic contract see when God is trying to make you leave a thing and vacate a thing it's not just because she wants you to be free it is a legal action if you leave now what I can do is uh no hey I can reverse I can break your covenant with Beth follow me and I've got power over your [Music] you do not have to participate in demonic worship for the sake of having people understand when he deploys up I gotta hurry through this first two of Genesis 12 please the promise is what God articulates depart I'll make you a great nation Oh bless t omit your name degree and I'll make you a blessing because of what I wanted to do in you there are things that will flow from I want Abram to do something in you say prove it the reason God changed his name is because he wanted to expand his nature the Spirit of God spoke to me today dr. Pam he said every time you correct every time you rebuke every time you counsel it is an opportunity for the person or the people on the recipient listen to receive listen to me he said I don't want you to ever again because the person they've not realized I'm using that wisdom to make it able to carry more they are a pint and I'm trying to make them opponent of talent but they are okay with carrying a little repeat will expand you corruption will stretching counsel he wanted to change his name tena koe leave and an Ivorian answer because abram could not have did what Abraham was called to do same person different capacity same person different capacity same daddy different capacity same complexion different capacity nothing changed about Abram but his capacity and God had to name his capacities they prove it his new name was father of many nations why his obedience to God stretched him how you ain't listening to me in here God is trying to stretch you out to cause something in your you like this real quick just stretch out Williams he's stretching you in your giftings he's stretching you in your biz enough he's stretching you in your ability huh he's stretching you up in your focus up he's stretching you are in your prosperity being stretched you need to be able to handle the future capacities [Music] hold many toasts but if I he's trying to move out I'll bless your mention name great you will be a blessing verse 3 Abram Abram if you were Abram if I were April I would have been worried about my family context God knows that look especially God knows that look at three so God is looking Kenya Abraham's creep over his family and he says this while he's looking at him first regards yeah I'm gonna bless you [Music] I'll fix you for families you departed as a down payment you don't want to have Church you are a first fruit of the future I'm doing something in you that I want you to do in other people I'm making you an accelerator put the power in you that will be something that opens it up and other people I want you to put a down payment to your families expand your perception [Music] it's always dangerous because this is grown-up Christianity I'm not just gonna give you favor and anointing and glory I'm going to require of you at the next level and the degree of your pleasing me is something that is not a let me give you a prophetic word right now God is about to take you to another realm of pleasure he is moving you to such a degree of pleasing him that you're not going to want to do anything but appease the heart of the man and settle the desire of the man and quench the appetite of the men come on you've been called to please him I know you want to go to nations and you want to be a financial distributor huh but is anybody in here 173 59 that says a part of my purpose is to please him my life's priority is to please him I'll do a lot of stuff along the way but the thing that I've been called to do mosa is to call pleasure to the heart of God [Music] [Music] after they came the land of Canaan into the plane of Mora and became that was in the land this is the part of the story that we never really hear you're so different know you had an appearance people that still can't see him are trying to figure out what's changing what's causing you to grow like this Moses when an appearance with God and his complexion change his pigment was different because men don't see God and live so whoever you are before you see him is not going to be to you seen him your brother's problem is that he needs to see God your daddy's problem is that he needs to see God your Grandmama's problem is that they need to see God nobody changes before they see God but God told Moses if you're gonna look at me huh prepare to die now he didn't say I won't make you live again huh I'm just saying whoever you are and how you are when you see me you won't be that way no more cousin nobody looks at my face Jesus come to says blessed are the pure in heart for pay we are the generation that seeks him that seek nine pesos a cuppa I'm not scared to the face of God because God is raising a generation that's not afraid to look at him in the face God is raising a people that's not afraid to go face to face with him there are people that want his hand there people that want his side for the blood but we are those that have been called to see his face and we are not afraid of Bible said we behold him we behold him we behold him it does not yet appear what we shall become but we know this that when he appears we will be like him for we have seen double help me preach but we have seen him for we have seen him be encouraged I know life is hard I know this year was hard but it does not yet appear what you're going to be because somebody say it does not get up here come on say it does not get up here say no this is not all it does not get up here what God's gonna do with you huh but when he becomes when he appears when he appears I promise I am God's about to show up in your family he's about to appear in your dreams he's about to appear in you this is the day of the appearance of dawn he had been hiding his face to see if you would seek him he has been hiding his face to see if you can run enough faster huh he has been hiding his face to see if you only wanted his hand up but blessed are those that seek for ye shall time let's not those who run like the deer after the water like a thirsty maniac up the face of God up and breaking into your family and it's going to change you your money will change your body will change your limits will change your ideas will change your conversation will change get ready for the divine appearance it's what happened swiftly in a moment in the twinkling of an eye we shall be changed ready to look at him so look at here to look at here but my help does not come from me so beware of my help does not come up put the dough for the south but my help comes from the Lord the maker of heaven and earth I'm looking to the hills get your criticisms and your judgments up look up and he's going to show me his face if you believe it screaming here [Music] the Lord appeared with the Lord appeared Cyrus God had talked to Dave him about Abram but when God appeared but God said was I'm going to do something in your city [Music] it took for God to change Abram he wants to do with you so he's got to change you for what's coming out of you he's got to change you for what your life was meant to produce he's got to change you for the legacy that he's riding with your story he said I'm going to give this land to you to your seed and hey was a [Music] when you get tired you don't just need at rest you need revelation when God gave you a word at the beginning of this year at the beginning of this season and you've been running in the strength of that word what you need is another word and it's going to be the same word a different way why Isaiah said you wait in my ear morning by morning and you have given me the top of the learner that I should know how to speak a word in season two the one that is weary if you get tired of Nisan if you get wore out in your favor and walk around in your decree and wore out in your dream if you have nothing else nothing can teach you like the promise of God they confuse you huh like the Word of God huh like the thing you promised you and I believe God is moving you now where he's gonna make you pieced about his promises huh you've been eating the bread of bitterness and you been triggered the wall the water of regrets but get ready to eat at the table of the promise of God and when you consume that promise and when you did that promise would you go after that promise I want to hear you praise I want to [Music] bother [Music] [Music] come on itself come on ciao [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] this presence is here now this president is he [Music] his presence is here his presence is here his presence is here [Music] [Music] [Music] while here the Lord saying this is the hour of the overturning of altars and I'm getting the straight that you said gone until you bring down the grooves of the high places of your enemy and if you will build two altars up to me have you read new places of worship unto me I will begin to restore seven phone cookies our days of restoration surely these are days of my recompense and calm but I'm looking for altars in the earth and I found not raised and all turn to me here it's an all time to me and I will be your God I will be your God come on pitcher hands father we dedicate ourselves out to you again come on do that for minute in your old way come on before you ask right here right here [Music] [Music] come out shut up hold it nothing he's looking for shallow [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Natacha [Music] again but he [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is everywhere [Music] come on beginning bring those pictures to the object come on we're gonna bring those pictures to the article age so baby monster [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you can span out [Music] the Ghana regard to Cordova gonna call of the dollar Venice [Music] the heavens opening right now [Music] come on few minutes stand up for me let both those heads and forget to pray we won't be here long just come on anyone so many intercessors are some of the puppets the couple married stab them is all to be going to cry out to God [Music] [Music] oh c'mon away here you put what I want to hear you break of all their suits [Music] the profits gone into hands in 2003 caught on the Ghana denied that answers by fire in this place and we thank you tonight that you hear and answer prayer your word declares that this is the confidence that we have that when we pray [Music] so before we go into spirits orders and to play stone these device yes we are [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ha [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] people anima [Music] [Music] [Music] got me there Oh [Music] Jesus the light of the word of God huh expose him bring your plan to ruin [Music] oh it is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hasn't gone down and right now the and the name of Jesus up we see [Applause] in the [Music] the first to reverse [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the turtle the one who has all power the faithful God sister Gotham be off she's gone we all know ignore the one who [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it is [Music] [Music] [Music] the devil the devil I'm a person who is answered [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well nothing all right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] if you say it is so it is so it is so it is so on nation's we're learning about decrees I don't want you to say that like a compliment I'm telling you to go into divine contractor look at three people and tell them it is so come on do it like a judge [Music] so what - people say so so come on I'm talking to you it is so the catalyst come down we wanna have me the contractors in effect anthem right now [Music] your mouse head is [Music] I said pies heaven [Music] ha the fun [Music] [Music] well you are forgetting [Music] the wheel [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this happy one you are not sure you have been bought with a price [Music] [Applause]

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