Prepare the Way of the Lord | Steven Francis

if you are excited to be in the presence of god you know one of the things about god is that god will never leave us empty did you believe that god will never leave us empty i i just if all of you are sitting like this just except for the last row don't turn around the front maybe the first half row look behind just quick look and come back look at that church is full 110 people today and more is coming and more is coming you see we are not building a crowd we want disciples i'm not running after a crowd we are running after disciples you got to keep this in mind dear people of god we are very used to crowd even a big boat requires only a small engine i mean relatively speaking an engine doesn't it's not the size of the size of the boat you know that right before god can even build something big he needs to work on the engine and the first groups that comes in are the engine that god can trust on working on the engine is greasy working on the engine is dirty not everybody likes those kind of work those guys who are working on the engine are always smelling but they are dedicated to the work some are very passionate about putting it up hard and putting it back very passionate they are not the pretty looking they put on overalls for them the morning they work it's work the moment they wake up it's work but that's what god is building and the thing is can we be trusted by god we are building him in a house not any place that the king of kings will walk in he can he can walk down the street whether it's prostitution that is sin he came for that purpose and i think jesus has done that but when he comes to his house we want to prepare him a sanctuary where the glory is shining we want to prepare him sanctuary where the fragrance of worship is rising up we want to prepare our hearts as a place where god can shine through amen and it requires hard work dear people of god amen and so i'm so thankful that the lord has brought us i'm pretty tired because from the time we came singapore is two days out flight flight flight america is just too big you know that right okay the lord gave me a couple of messages while i was away and some of you are we are following the uh uh broadcast live here live there it's just too bad that you got to hear that again but i believe that every time i'm in the home church fresh new truths from god's heart will always come and so that's what i'm looking forward you see if i don't preach out new truths will not give it will not come from the throne amen so i pray that god one of the revivals i want to see now church is that everybody's got a printed bible that's one the new revival we have to pray for okay not your your your other electronic bible printed bible maybe i should release a emp warfare here boom and everything stops and you'll go back to this come on smile you look pretty when you smile ah that's good yeah it's good that is joy in the house of god amen you know that right see when the outside world when you when you love unnecessarily they say you're crazy but in the house of god there is joy you need to be smiling away in the house of god what is the reason to smile no reason jesus is good amen we were talking about the word prepare the word prepare and we heard about the prepare of the lord he said one of my friends many years of being a pastor and they all want to very passionately grow the church and so a pastor friend of mine his son took over from 300 the church went to 500 across 700 they planted another compass so it's all about growing having a campus and it's all it's like the a trend that was set one hq one location three campus you you know that so it became a trend and it's all good and some of the people who attend the campuses have never seen the senior pastor in person before it's only true tv they've never touched the hand of the senior pastor or shaken hand and say hello and i'm your man but no one knows who is who and people don't mind because it's about the name which church they're attending but in a smaller country church people say the pastor didn't shake my hand so i'm not coming anymore what really are you are you listening so that's one other thing i wanted to keep in mind so i asked this pastor friend of mine okay we're going to give joshua joshua are doing a good job bro come on good job sound team video team audio team you're the guys who are presenting us a life and i wish i could take photos of these people who are telling us encourage your immediate team because of them we get the word of god it's because of them we are being encouraged and some people are living far away there are no near churches and so i'm thankful what god is doing through all the ministries and all the media team and i want to thank god for you guys amen and uh so i asked the pastor that this guy a young pastor now tell me why this church is growing and what you want to live that no we are growing the goal is to reach 500 okay tell me what happens after 500 oh 700 a thousand five campuses but you see the goal of the church is not just numerical growth that is not the purpose of why god call us to be the the the numbers must add to transformation of disciples and the discipleship is building up the kingdom the more is given the more is being done to touch people's life growth is an offshoot of our active fruitfulness growth by itself is not the goal what you are becoming out of that growth is the question our big fantastic bank balance is not the goal being a millionaire and all prospering and coming in the cadillac is not really the goal it's an offshoot blessing of obedience to god are you following okay five people say yes here the other one's still wondering is this guy for real are you are you following me you got to know what is the goal of growing why did god gather us here when jesus said now this commission of god the first commission has been given for centuries after centuries prepare your heart and we saw that and there is videos and please keep up to it and if you're not seeing it before it's the prepare your heart series when i had an encounter with god when i was in quarantine in singapore angeline and i and the lord spoke to me that morning see when i say an encounter it means an encounter i'm not talking about a still small voice of the holy spirit speaking somewhere in the heart and i got to drag him out and wonder are you the one please encounter means an encounter means you know it is god and you don't doubt it is god i doubt my words but i don't doubt god's word amen and you don't have a fancy time saying this is god this is god at the end of the day you wonder is this really god you got to tune yourself to you the voice of god to know that god is speaking to you and if that is one voice it is truth it is god's voice and let all men be the lie one if you want to doubt doubt the voice of man not the voice of god because he doesn't lie he's not a man to lie amen he's not a man and that's something you need to grow in the basics of understanding the voice of god you see it has to come to a point where it all will at the end of the day if the lord say turn right if you question that turning right you may die before you turn right god is training that level of obedience for us in this in days especially during these times where kovid and this and that and all the rubbish that is floating and it will come again seven years before all this i was brought into the visions and i saw contagious diseases will come i prophesied two years ago it's going to come in japan and it's going to come in south korea and no one would even if you have been to japan and south korea you won't even believe such things could happen because in japan in south korea being clean or cleanliness is next to religion for them it's number one to be clean and to be orderly everything is spotless you know it's for them it's like a religion nothing contagious but it is happening now and every country in every culture will pride themselves that their food is the most hygienic organic and all the unique food god is making the nations of the world look foolish when he moves and shakes the earth do you get what i'm saying hey those of you who love organic food you know even people who eat organic food will die you know that right maybe you'll die slower that's all i wanted to know this and all those people that jesus resurrected from the dead they died later the bible doesn't tell us that because somehow our everything becomes a religion and we forgot who god is he's talking about prepare your heart why is god grinding the grain because before he judges the earth he judges the house of god first and he doesn't want his people to be in the way when he's going to walk through and judge the earth he wants his people to become the place of refuge he loves us just too much to be crossing the path when the angels will come to judge we all the time people you know these prophetic fellows are all the time causing fear oh they cause fear they may be how the world is causing fear why don't you fly away to another planet ah come on oh this church caused fear i go to the other church the other church the other church now the world is causing fear the devil is causing fear why don't you buy a house in moon ma somewhere else can you your company causes fear yet you're working there that's all okay pray for the supervisor lord change his heart why don't you pray for your church now are you following come on one tongue cannot speak two ways and that's what the book of james says with the same tongue we praise god with the same thing we praise pray and then with the same thing we are cursing we've got to synchronize ourselves who we are before god and i believe in the name of jesus say the word i believe so now you believe me okay you just said it okay the second commission is being given before jesus is coming back the first commission was prepare your heart and it required the whole church to do this the second commission god is given as we mentioned in the book of mark gospel of mark and then we will build through as it's written in isaiah 1 chapter 2 sorry chapter 1 verse 2 and 3. the gospel of mark chapter 1 verse 2 and 3 as it is written as it is displayed then oh okay as it is written in isaiah the prophet can you all read together aloud with me behold i sent my messenger before your face who will prepare okay before your face why is the greek statement comes that way before your face tell me what it means when someone speaks you know he was speaking right in front of my face explain what was he doing do you think you'd like someone to stand right in front of your face and talk to you like that now that's the statement being made now i wanted to understand god is going to grind us it's going to be forceful it's going to be strong because he loves us let's take it are you with me let's take it because when god loves you he discipline us now all these are scriptures which are here in the bible but sometimes we have selective preaching and no one wants to quote jesus who he really is we have a sugar-coated statement about god he looks a lot more like santa claus than god everybody when they are selling a cake they make it so beautiful they make a thousands of habit of hours beautifying the cream and these and that and that then you have another group you eat this you'll die and the third group i know i will die i want to die happy it's so funny man when you think about the world everything the whole world knows if you eat this more if you eat less more and everything that you're going to eat at the end of the day we will die but you're not going to be afraid and become a fruitcake and then you become secluded god is working through you the only difference of mankind is that now we are sweating less and so the energy is not burning out if i'm i'm in in singapore man you don't even get to walk in the sun the whole country is covered in a walkway setting from the amtrak to the houses to the apartments the whole country has walkway systems you know what is happening to the local children they are not exposed to the natural elements of getting wet when you get wet fever comes and it immunizes your system right and then sunlight is vitamin d the doctor told me once you are lacking in vitamin d i said okay give me some pills and the doctor was laughing he says just walk in the sun god gave vitamin d what really so i make it an issue why it is in singapore because there is covered walkway everywhere so when the boys go to the military for two years they have a little bit more sunlight they collapse and some die because they grow up not being exposed to the sun and we are in the air condition all the time we uncovered houses all the time instead of running we are sitting in front the computer all the time the the body is not even bending it is just one position the moment ah just stand one time oh last time it's not like that we never had this problem now everybody walking like mechanic robots you know we used to call it break dance is almost becoming everyday dance really everything is jammed up you know it's all jammed up and they can't walk the second charge which god is giving now to the body of christ are you ready and you see not everybody can take this charge not everybody can take this assignment even though it is given to everyone look at that in verse 3 of that scripture ben come on put it up for me and the voice of one crying in the wilderness who is crying who is crying who is crying three people say that who is crying is it stephen michael michael they are both michael's michael there is one more michael in church i know that's the fourth one who's where michael howard michael howard all the michaels come for altagal we decided no more michaels will be admitted in church there's already four no it doesn't say michael it doesn't say jack he doesn't say stephen he doesn't say elliot he doesn't say anything else god wants us just to become the voice without the attention without the fame we are not branding the church we are branding jesus we are not branding and anointing we want to be jesus we'll forget don't get branded that this is a prophetic church this is that church let us be simply jesus if we feel in that process we fail in everything some of us are here because the church that we attended have failed it has closed it started nice and it became ugly it started in the spirit and it ended up in the flesh we are all in one way or another you either contributed to it or you became a victim out of it and yet instead of growing up we are carrying the same foolishness you start something wrong we will end up wrong isn't it it's just simple common sense you see when i pastored the church when i was 16 man i was like i accepted christ yesterday today i was the missionary the love and the passion of god took over it didn't say it was it was never human engineered i wish i could help us to how to become so strong it was boom i was involved but all that i saw tamil churches is broken in debt flimsy culturally possessed people are more interested into getting their issues settled rather than honor christ everybody was walking like this you know why afraid to step on another person's store isn't that why god gave us the spirit of love come on tell me oh do you know why the spread of love was given do you know why to walk in love simple as that god knows what humans animal doing the spirit of love is the very heart and the component of the church so i saw the church broke i saw this i saw that i saw people struggling and i said god is this the church you are coming for but then when i look at the book of uh the all the epistles and and the book of revelation i see a charge which is triumphant i see a church that is strong see a church that is walking in god's love and in his power amen i see a church is very real not mask holiness you see if i have to be very careful to talk to you or you must be too careful to talk to me it is no longer love anymore love must become so original and when we make a mistake let's apologize full stop that's so easy the moment even in a husband-wife relationships you must be thinking 10 times before you construct a sentence you know what it means that means offenses is in the air and that spirit must be cast out are you with me it cannot be man we must enjoy entering the house of god and so now god is saying the first part is prepare your heart and we have done that we have grown into that and the second commission that god is now giving to us prepare the way of the lord and make his parts straight now that commissioning is given to us and i believe it with all my heart you know god won't come and come and tell me that to prepare the way of the lord and i believe this is the very reason god sent us to shelby it was king's mountain it always is it's an extension i'm on borrowed time now in shelby somebody say amen and i don't think so god brought you by mistake god brought you by choice do you believe that yes do you believe that yes until you settle these things you won't be able to lock into the anointing that god has for your life i want to think about this prepare the way of the lord and make his part straight early in the book of isaiah tells that god will go before us and make all the crooked parts straight that i can walk into it do you remember those scriptures now he's saying as you have grown up you have mature you have become a son and daughter who has grown and i can trust you now this time you go ahead of me and prepare the path so now the king can walk in the first part of growing up he does it for us now he's asking us will you do it for me the first part required only one man john the baptist you can't find him being addressed as john the baptist prophet john the baptist reverend john the baptist the right reverend john the baptist the archbishop he was just the voice people wanted to identify him tell me john the baptist uh are you one of the prophets no okay you sound like elijah like as though they have seen him before you know are you elijah no okay are you like christ the one who is to come no what are you he didn't even say i'm john the baptist he said i'm the voice because god did not give me any other title to carry he just said you will be the voice and he said it you'll be the voice my brother and sister remember this if god did not call you to be anything else or with any titles or offices please don't call yourself anything else be what god has always called you but they see the world is different you see we don't carry a title think we are not important enough when they see christ in us and they see our discipleship and our love they must be thinking is this a guy a pastor or who the grace is manifesting out of his life somebody say amen you cannot call yourself something and when they look at you he he sounds like a baby christian what's wrong with the title that's not what we are here if god has called us to be the voice and shall be so let it be for the glory of god if god has choice us to be choose us to be what he wants us to be here let it be for the glory of god prepare the way of the lord and why the trouble of all this preparation isaiah chapter 40 verse 3 4 and 5. but i want to just nail it first with the verse verse 5 isaiah chapter 40 verse 5 and the glory of the lord shall be revealed some of your prayers that i've been praying for 25 years 30 years is going to happen now some of the things that you have been always asking god what type of church why is that i can't see a church that is flowing with god one of the reasons because you are part of the contributor we all the time point at someone what about you didn't you contribute something until and unless we take burden about the house of god then we won't want to build it right too much is available and so we go surfing and we go shopping but god is looking for builders but he can trust builders will not run away when the tide is going to come fighters will not quit when the demons will show up in fact we are waiting for the demons to show up you know that right hello we have to please give a name card to some demon that passes by this is the church this is the location this is the time please come we will show you what it is to enter a place where the glory of god is shining we show you how you will be bashed up oops it's only me maybe i'll send your address [Laughter] you got to come through that if not we have all the self-interpretation of what the church should be and we all do and we should because we're all reading the bible we all we will have a part of what god has given but then if you don't carry the fightful office and the god is not going to give you that grace do you understand what i'm saying is that okay to say that way yes i mean this is my my teeth but when you go into the dentist you know he he looks like god you know god please help me that dentist be gentle when you are helpless open your mouth and you are frightened that the dentist is doing the right job because the dentist is the only guy who does surgery looking at a mirror everything is the other way have you ever thought about that and he uses the mini tiny smallest tools and he was still frightened that's nothing to be frightened about but then it's scary there's some [Laughter] can he treat you like a little baby i'm going to put injection now don't worry about it i'm gonna do this now don't worry about it i'm going to give a little jello just to put the other injection needle inside oh it's cute man because i just came back from the dentist every time i can fight the devil see the door i've got a lot of illustration to tell you today are you ready you miss me that's good a voice of one carrying a crying in the wilderness uh go back to verse 3 isaiah chapter 40 a voice cries in the wilderness prepare the way of the lord make straight in the desert a highway of our god now this prophecy was given to isaiah but really not complete that same prophecy same tax was given as a mission to uh john the baptist it's as though that you know sometimes god can give an anointing that carries a few generations to complete are you with me some anointings and the words that god gives over a nation is not dependent on one church it depends it's dependent on a collective of churches sometimes god can make a covenant in a place like this when human enterprise fails god brings another one when that enterprise fails god brings another one because he has made a covenant in that location somebody say amen and when you can see those covenants that god has made then you need to work on it some of our lives have those kind of covenants that is why no matter how far we go god pulls us back god draws his attention back into his our lives again and such is that word that was given to isaiah now you're talking about thousands of years apart and here john the baptist carried the same anointing what isaiah said they have not met each other yet in the scroll it was written now the lord said now you are the one who is going to carry this scroll and become the actual voice in the wilderness pay attention to these statements make straight in the desert a highway for our god verse 4 says every valley shall be lifted up that means valley lifted up every mountain meet low the uneven ground shall become level and the rough places a plane i preach about this message many times never seen the light the way god showed me only a construction guy can understand what they are saying here only an engineer can understand what they are saying because there's a lot of work man somebody say a lot of work it doesn't sound easy anymore can you imagine this let me say that again make straight up a highway for my god in the desert you know how much of work that is right every valley shall be lifted up that means you gotta pour some sand and boop and anything that looks like a mountain bring it down amount of construction work think about that now in any uneven ground make it level how many of you are following what i'm saying you are okay so we had an interesting challenge in our house in the couple of let's say two weeks in a row the neighbor's dog went into the crawling space and tore open the vent the you know vent all the pipes so the air condition was not coming through even though it was blowing and we were so sweating and it's so hot and find out it was the neighbor's dog and i'm being a good neighbor i said it's okay don't worry about it we'll get it fixed and we got that fixed then as we the guys crawled in they found there was a pipe that was leaking that was causing a hole and then now we got to fix the pipe now we fix the pipe and then now they found out that the water is not coming out from the tap in the kitchen sink simply because the well water when it's pumping up it was also pumping up sand probably there is no filter there or the filter is repaired whatever it is we got to look into that then the plumber said look your pipe is now outside when winter comes it will be frozen you gotta push it in man how many things must i do can you please tell me i can't really enjoy my house it's like construction all the time i know you guys enjoy doing this man you're living this how you grow in this life but i'm from singapore right everything is new to me huh that means if you want to live a quality of life you need to work hard for it isn't it now tell me to produce a quality church do you think we can just sip in and sip out but yet that is what we like to do we comment on quality we are not part of that process quality is not achieved by buying it in fact some people who when i say all these things singaporeans because this is what we do in america we fix things that diy industry isn't it it's a very second nature for you to do things what is then a church he's giving us a very powerful work to be done now if you are in the working industry and interesting when we were on the flight to cincinnati interestingly about cincinnati is that in 1985 some of you may know sister gwen shaw end time handmaidens in cincinnati in 1992 when i wrote my first book she wrote a forward for me from cincinnati somehow that's words got stuck in me only years after in this year god is giving me an invitation to go to the actual location cincinnati you see some of these things when god does has certain meanings to it while the plane was about to land right at the announce it's now descending i saw an angel just beside the plane coming down i was looking out why is this angel here and the lord said this is the angel of prayer that has made a covenant over cincinnati and then the lord gave me all the outlines i wrote and the morning when i woke up and they they placed us in a good room so we we had an uh kind of a living room living space we came out and then the angel was sitting there and i quickly jumped back inside the room i closed the door boop hello what are you doing here man waiting for you okay can i can i see you later i'll take a shower first okay i'll come back and i literally say that close the door and i didn't want to see up again you know how scary it is and we think god's assignments are like a joke it is not can god trust us we are praying for angelic manifestations we are praying for the glory of god we are praying that god let the worship touch my heart and build up but it all requires a hard word no one can become a a praying church by buying coupons from ingles we cannot become a united church by walking with what think about that for a minute you know when i look at this scripture that this is what the lord showed me you know when you think about this entire thing that god said bringing down the valley and and bringing down the mountain and bringing up the valley uneven ground all of that sounds to me number one it is team work it's not a one-man's job amen it requires different types of attitudes and level now how many of you have been seen a construction work going on you have been in a construction i'm sure you have at least you have seen one tell me are there lovey-dovey people they are commanding they are screaming they are shouting because the job has to be done it is teamwork but yet in the church when god has commissioned us in a powerful strength that is going to come the unleash of the darkness that is going to come save souls bring the disciples so that my army will be ready we all want to be loving you you get offended i do get offended you know i wanted to understand this but i choose to walk in love i do get offended i bring my offenses before god don't think the pastor has got the pinnacle of the love no no i'm not i'm a human try me i'll punch you but i choose to walk in love are you listening tell your neighbor pastor is talking about you it requires teamwork it requires unity we can't stand alone we need to stand together oh brother brother but i'm very used to doing things alone then it takes five years for you to do something when god gave you a timeline to finish it i wanted you to understand the way it says it look at listen listen i wanted to look at the scripture the way the lord showed me so come into my mind and read this the un even ground shall become level and the rough places will be made plain and the glory of the lord shall be revealed that means there is a reason for this construction work once you complete it and the glory of the lord shall be revealed that means there is a timeline that is written about this scripture it has a completion date that god has given to us would you like to start something in your house where the contractor says yeah it'd be next week next month uh following year would you like that because that's what is happening in kobe everybody takes your money but nobody wants to finish it and all the guys are telling me the same thing the parts are delayed i told them i will order an amazon prime in two days i'll give it to you it seems to me that you are rolling the money rather than ordering the parts my brothers and sisters some of us don't know how to work with god's times and seasons and timelines we all talk about cairo's which is god's time but we operate in chronos your time and you don't know which clock you are wearing now which one are you looking at there is a time which god has appointed for all of us the question is can god entrust the time to you we are prayed for shall we churches have failed come and go demons came and visited us threatening us that this place will close again just before in the uh uh in the room before even we bought this place when we were praying i saw men in whitehoods walking down the street and the news was hanging i wonder why is that in this street is being shown then later on only i realized that this place was a little bit more active during the ku klux klan time that means the spirit of death has made a covenant into it that means we are not working a church or building a church in a playground dear ladies and gentlemen we are building the glory of god in a war zone and requires us to have some discipline it requires us to have attention to what the master commander is saying and god choose you and me who have gone through the walls and the fires on the battlefield to assemble a team that we can build the house for the glory of god that these very places where demons have been walking around will be filled with the angels of god that jesus my king will become a prophetic harp for north carolina as many other sons and daughters have made their church as a prophetic her it is not one church that must be everyone carrying the torch everybody will share the hovers there's going to have a harvest listen carefully there's going to come and hovers where churches will not be enough that house will not be hey jesus i love you they are so frightened of what god is doing they will come to the church and say i want to receive jesus fear is going to propel many people to come the problem we don't agree because you don't read the bible you want me to show you i'll show you three scriptures you want to see let's go man isaiah chapter 2 you know when the lord showed me this 20 years ago when i was taken up into heaven the lord said you see there were many things god was doing in my heart preparing me ahead of time i didn't know why i have to go through these hardships i didn't know why i was not allowed to do things like everybody else is doing when my pastor friends were flying and growing the lord said no pray pray and i got so frustrated why am i still in the cave then the lord said because i'm not preparing you for today i'm preparing you for the days that is to come you can't be revealed before the time you know my ladies and gentlemen brothers and sisters elizabeth was much more older than mary you know that right but yet she remained barren why you see john the baptist must be born exactly six months before jesus while elizabeth was already mature mary was still a baby so god has to wait for mary to mature and come to the point where she can conceive i mean she could have conceived 12 years old but remember god honors cultural issues and respect do you understand what i'm saying exactly six months before then she was pregnant and right after six months with a miraculous work mary became conceived of the holy spirit god's timings are very different that we cannot understand you need to give in to the timings of god yes about more than 10 years ago i was i had a dream in this dream i'm wearing a watch and that watch was taken away and i was given another watch in that watch all the hebrew calendars were written the numbers were there but i'm very close to 12 o'clock as though it's midnight it's going to pass and i was asking god why did you give me a different watch and he said because now i wanted to walk in my time your seasons are changing put away your calendars your plans the way you think put on my time and i say now it means now but some of us don't like those things because you don't like to be pushed you don't like to be sad tell me how can you achieve anything in your life without being pushed beyond your ability and some of us are telling our children's coach that's what i'm paying for push him so they can perform you're proud of the coach that teaches your children how to excel they are not our children don't excel by giving them strawberry cakes you know you know that right now why are you getting upset when we push for the glory of jesus think about that for a minute get used to it if you are getting stuck into this indian guy from singapore wrong church praise god you are here i already sign you out from heaven now you belong to me because our warfare is real and the lord said to me that this location is going to become a prophetic hub it's going to become a spiritual education center and i'm not talking about an average bible school i'm not saying that i'm not saying the word average we've been a impolite there is a purpose why we are going to do it a spiritual purpose the demonic spirits that has made a covenant in this road in this area will no longer have the power these areas have been kind of put a spell of death that churches that starts in the spirit will end up in the flesh and eventually they will die and our job is to make sure the fire keeps burning now brothers and sisters are you following me the bible says if this is what god is going to give us then we got to work in our team work we got to work in our unity we got to work in our togetherness and the way the bible says the glory of the lord shall come it means there is a quality to the house of god the house of god shouldn't smell and look like the house of men hello it cannot be invested with demons it cannot be invested with the soul of men it must be filled with the angels of god where the fragrance of god comes and it requires hard work no one pays attention every time you walk into a restroom it smells so nice so good because someone is cleaning it someone is working hard in doing that isn't it yes what about the house of god and i pray that responsibility will come through every one of us will know if you don't do this this will fail if you don't do that the building will collapse if you don't change the tyre it will skid if we don't do this we all know this yet in the church we know what we need to build the house of god yet we ignore you see because we think it's not my job but that's the leadership job what is leadership are we not all called to become fellow laborers in the vineyard of god are we not all are we not all looking for that purpose that god has called us the greatest joy of any parent will be our sons and daughters of building the house of god the chance that you never had it is being given to us my brothers and sisters when we planted our singapore church one day we had a visitation during the times of worship my eyes were open and i saw three angels coming down into the sanctuary with big large baskets do you say bucket or baskets what do you say that biscuit what did you say okay you do you know what's basket right okay and so they brought oh bucket is the plastic one basket is like the oh good you're very good in your english very good very good yes yes okay they brought it down three of them two of them and i looked at them they're very happy but the third one was very sad and it was in a center location a group was sitting there our church was in three groups like this this is two that's three and i asked the angel why are you sad you see most of the things i'm saying these veterans are all sitting here so they know they have been with me long enough why you sad because we came to collect the fruits of righteousness the fruits of their service be to bring it before the father as a sacrifice but we found nothing in this group oh you know i tell you for that moment man sadness and anger just took over all at the same time i was blasting it like i was into the machine gun you know why we are living for the glory of god isn't it it cannot become a lip service lip service soldiers are the first one to run the battle is becoming too hot now the enemy is just playing too much of a front game and the church is still playing games i was taken up in the spirit in cincinnati just few days ago and the lord showed me look at the people what do you see and all that i see is masked people one of the signs of the every nation or every group of people from a bird's eye view when you see mask is almost like you have been commanded not to speak not to say do what you are told is the enemy shutting down your spirit is the enemy going i'm not saying when you wear my i'm not saying those things you understand right i'm talking about the spirit of the matter we are not judging anybody you wear much you have faith you don't have faith please don't do that baby games i don't have time for that we are talking about the heart of what the enemy is trying to drive at and people are all saying this is the new norm what what is the new norm you create a lie and you make it believe as a lie and i have to accept that as the new norm i will show you how to walk in faith in the power of the holy spirit are you with me look at isaiah chapter 2 i'll show you that scripture why are we so into what god is saying in this moment and all these are going to come to pass chapter 2 when the judgments of god are going to come and people some people don't even like the word judgment chapter 2 you'll find in the beginning part of this chapter 2 of isaiah come to the mountain of god come and spend time with god let us go up to the mountain of god and so that he can teach us look at verse 3 come come let us go up to the mountain of the lord to the house of the god of jacob that he may teach us his way that we may walk in his path come let us go up how many of you know even growing up is a lot of effort you know that right it's so easy when people say you know we hike up that mountain really let's go halfway you're going to die it's not fun man when you go halfway because your body is getting tired now and that's what happened to angeline and i we went to mount sinai or sinai c9 is right okay mount sinai i've got to pray for you guys man mount sinai we had this uh a christian service up there and brother sadhu had a service we went and then from there i could see the steps which is actually the steps where moses met god but this group no one went up so the service and i said to angeline i saw some people running up and i said good let's go before this group listen it took how many hours three hours to go up one way up on the mount four hours to go up four hours you know we trek up and some of them paid the camels until to a certain point when the camels cannot go that the shepherds will give their arm for five us dollars rent you can hold their arm and they'll bring you up what takes an average person of four hours they go up and down in 45 minutes because these fellows are born there and their system works very differently do you understand the altitude and all that doesn't work in their system they make money by just like that and people thought it's nice to go in the camel and you by the time the four engines are working on you your bones will be you know the moment they you step down from the camel they also walking like the camel because nothing is working properly anymore you're going to see all that mine was so funny when we were walking up and so now we were up you're all rested i thought i told angelique come on man let's do a dash and come down and i asked one of the guys who went up you see it's only 75 steps don't worry you can go in the flesh before sadhu and the team of about 600 people could come down you'll be down in a flesh i told angelina let's do it you know backpack water packing are you listening or not you got to show the interest when you're looking man you're you're looking like you're listening to a horror story show some excitement this adventure i'm telling you you gotta follow me for my mission trips [Laughter] okay are you following that okay i'm up the mountain i'm ready to go and i told angeline let's go samuel was there right so we were just about to dash and the steps were that large you got basically and do that you know it's not a small step and this there's no stackage nothing to hold no and the winds were that strong okay man that it's 75 come on how bad can it be i've done it so many times i've i've done my tracking in the army i've carried loads and walk through the jungle this is not a problem you know climbing up i crossed 75 steps but nothing came we are still climbing up hey hello did moses give the wrong address where are you bro we're still climbing up now i'm no more ha ha now i am moses i'm gonna kill you for choosing this kind of locations you know we kept coming and there were two chinese couples came down they were coming down i stopped halfway excuse me where are you from taiwan singapore blah blah blah blah blah praise the lord you know christians the first thing praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord okay tell me how many steps 75 no who lied to you what what do you mean who lied to you how many 750 i wanted to kill the guy who said that they know i'm one of the speakers so probably the guy played pranked on me you know man it's no longer fun i've already crossed about 100 steps it was that big winds were blowing hey 750 to go up 150 to come down four hours to walk down again finally when i reach the top i feel like choking moses man you know what angeline did when we went up taking photos and they say you want to take a photo yeah sure you got to see my photos i had a bank water bag full of water my mind was playing games with me when i was coming down i was sipping to quench the listen carefully i was sipping water to quench my thirst but i was not drinking enough to rehydrate my body and so when i was coming halfway man this orientation is already there i'm sipping my mind is not working well my son holds my back and he pushes me up in front of like playing joystick hey hello respect i'm your father i said that's what you did to me now it's not the time forgive me brother this we are up in the mountains oh man we came down finally up down so i was walking without thinking slipping away when i was walking down and basically disorientation and by the time i after four hours down muscle spams you know because there's no water going through i thought my water bag no more water when i looked at the the the bag that was full my mind was playing with me you know sometimes that's what happens when we are serving god in the church when you get tired when you are worn out your mind plays with you you think everything is wrong when everything is okay people give wrong information about your commitment of discipleship someone lied to us that everything will be nice like a strawberry cake but it's not because we are not really building a love boat we are building a battleship how many of you remember the love boat series roughly we can get your age group but this is not a love board everybody who smiles on the love board the engine fellas are cursing everyone away inside because they are the industry fellas because you got to make it right even the unsinkable ship what was that it sank why because of one fool who was doing the wrong thing in singapore we had about 10 years ago we had the most serious disaster in the singapore navy they are the coast guards who are looking around they are supposed to be looking around watching out for the other shapes but in the night one of the person got so tired the left hand got so tired and they they all slept instead of watching out and an oil tanker was coming right at them and by the time the officer took that and that oil tanker sounds the alarm blows the horn by the time they make all the turn it was a direct impact and the whole coastal guard went down and people died one of my friend is a captain of an old tanker so i called him just for understanding how these things works you know i said brother tell me man how long does it take to make a u-turn in an oil tanker to make a u-turn it takes one and a half hours can you believe that when god has given us a church as an industry her heavy missionary filled with the anointing graces and gives multiple personalities that has to be mixed into one nature called jesus people from different walks of life to become one in christ our likes and our dislikes our experiences are all merged and buried in christ that i who live is no longer i but christ that lives in me it takes longer time to make a newton when god makes a decision and he requires a dedicated team to command the ship when god commands make a turn now because when god says now by the time it happens is two years from now and so that is why god says do not despise the days of small beginnings i pray you and i will come up to speed my brothers and sisters church is not about you and me some of you are ready to see jesus anytime if it's about our sons and daughters and i pray that you will lay down the right rules of discipleship what it takes to follow jesus don't lie to them don't bluff to them the days that we are living is dangerous demonically inspired god knows how to treat all of us heart words strong words love and relationship is part of the natures of god in isaiah chapter 2 and then you'll find in verse 16 look at verse 19. now and the people shall enter into the caves now why the people and ring verse 17 says the haughtiness of men isaiah chapter 2 verse 17 the haughtiness meanings pride of men shall be humble and the lofty pride of man shall be brought low and the lord alone shall be exalted in that day verse 18 and the idols shall utterly passed away number 19 and the people shall enter into the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground from from before the terror of the lord and from the splendor of his majesty when he rises to terrify the earth now can i ask you ladies and gentlemen is this the bible yes yes yes did you read it well the way i read it then it is there when he rises to judge the earth the world will have two displays of power the church will be seeing the glory of god healing the sick deliverance is taking place people getting saved and so on and so forth but the world the church is seeing this side of the coin but the world is seeing the terrifying power of god's judgments when that happens now that is one verse look at verse 21 they will still do the same thing they will see what god is doing but the idols are being broken silver and gold are losing its value and and which whatever they made to worship and then to enter into the caverns of the rocks to the clefts of the cleaves from before the terror of the lord and from the splendor of his majesty now if you go a few scriptures ahead of time and there you will find in verse 10. look at verse 9. so man is humble and each one is brought low do not forgive them this time and then verse 10 enter into the rock and hide in the dusk from before the terror of the lord from the splendor of his majesty now three times in one chapter it says the twofold things that is going to happen now who is the rock the church will become the rock they will hide themselves in the house of god they know the only way to escape the terrorists of god is to be in jesus christ now please do not give me a philosophical teaching that we cannot draw people by fear please don't waste your time we are past that time now you understand we passed the time it is time to scream and beg and people jesus said if i can't find people in the house then i'm going to get people down the street you're going to beg them to come into the house of god you're going to compel them like like the testimony which god would want to touch the woman in the car instead of the woman who's sick and god's anointing came on her isn't it only god knows what's happening for her today only god knows what was going on in her mind maybe she wanted to kill herself i'm not sure i remember i was speaking on the tv program and i was looking at the camera and while i was preaching i saw someone hanging themselves up you know and i the lord said now stop and look at the camera and say this there is a person who is going to commit yourself a suicide you already died the news and you're going to put your neck into it god says he's going to touch you and then two weeks later i received a letter and the young girl was about to lock my door it was in india shitai using a you know sari the indian clothing uh how do you say sorry i don't know right and she tied it onto a fan ceiling fan and she was just about to do that when a mom and dad was listening to the broadcast that i was speaking my brothers and sisters your voice can travel through spaces of time where you will have no idea but can god use you today our effective weakness is not within these walls but from monday to saturday we are going to live our lives outside it requires all of us to have that thinking processes i'm a counselor in singapore i had a clinic i remember one mother came to me and said are you guys okay behind twelve is that okay we got a little bit of time is that okay good meal cannot be served in a hurry as a counselor the mother told me my son received a letter of enlistment from the army i said okay but i know what the reason i'm just creating the suspense for you the moment he received the letter when she showed him you know all the male boys we receive enlistment letter when you're 17 you'll be barred from going out to countries outside every trip from 17 onwards must be approved by the military of defense ministry of defense and then you can step out and come in they will know in and out story okay the moment he received the letter he went up to the top floor of his condominium and jumped down he couldn't accept that it's going to the you know what the mother was crying to me about all this time i trained my son to be a baby and did not groom him up to be a son you know how passionately i speak in our church so that we'll bring up sons ready for that day when the army guys won't be telling you please can he do this please can he do that and they will not be spinning hallelujah come on crawl they'll be using all kinds of vulgarities under the sun my brothers and sisters you want to bind the devil good ground spiritual warfare go there and do it you can bind till you will stop binding you know what god is doing god is training us to rise above the evil on the day that is going to happen and that is why i'm passionate we are not talking about us we have gone through the world but we have to present a real world to our sons and our daughters and i said that from the first day we had it in the house i said it on the first day we entered into this church and i'm telling you today again the same thing everywhere i go and that is why by september we're going to have the first youth school of prophets we have never done that before now we're going to do it the first youth school of prophets teaching our children how to prophesy how to bind the devil sometimes it's not about binding the devil but building an inner resilience from within how to deflect evil while evil is all around you jesus said i'm praying that he will not be away from the world but he'll be kept from evil what that does mean that means evil shouldn't enter your heart if we don't present the right gospel to our children jesus said in matthew chapter 10 count the cause of discipleship the moment you are a child of god there is a cost of value to it and this is that day today where we are being challenged you know you can lose your job for being a christian you can lose your job for being a child of god you can lose a job for saying praise god you can lose a job for praying you can lose a job and your banknotes are not approved you know one of the things that god showed me what's going to happen do you want to know what's going to happen i saw i was brought into a bank that was yesterday the day before in cincinnati remember i wrote in the prophecy i was brought into a bang and there was a balloon that was just becoming bigger and bigger and bigger and then explode and the lord said the financial system is going to go into a ballooning effect now if you're in the financial industry you know how it's all going to happen i don't know enough so i'm just saying the vision what i saw is going to create a ballooning effect of death depths being given out and then loans being given out and depths not paid it will become a balloon boom it will burst and i saw houses being tracked open again cries and distress that is why people of god if there is a time we need to get out of loans now is the time if you need to buy a small house and pay it off now is the time this is not to time to build your cinderella castles now is not the time it's a time to walk in wisdom you cannot put all your money in the bank and be so proud of the three cents incentives you are getting you might be wise what to keep in hand and what to park different banks do you understand what i'm saying god wants his people to walk in the wisdom of god the bible says the wealth of the wicked belongs to the wife so there is a transfer but what does the foolish wise people do they transfer the wealth back to the world again because the world advertises it so well to get the money out of you and i pray in the name of jesus let's build a church that will last for our children teach them the truth jesus when you read the bible i couldn't figure out you know when i was 15 and a half and i accepted christ when i read the bible the first thing carry my cross follow me do this do that people spit at you put you in prison i said god that's not the way to introduce yourself to a new child of god that's a kind of a not the right text to follow you know in fact it should be i'm your shepherd i will let you i will follow you on the first day of your discipleship god tells you to come the cost and i pray that we will become real in these days it is going to become a mature church let's give in ourselves to times of discipleship and i tell you why we are so passionate about it some of us we accepted christ halfway our life that means you don't know what it is to go through sunday school you don't know what it is to go through youth discipleship series because we accepted christ probably when you're 30 you didn't go through the process so you won't know what it is to be faithfully growing up like a vineyard in the vineyard of god you understand what i'm saying right but then our children grow up in church they must have those experiences you cannot send our children to the elementary school and they never teach you abc if you're wondering what are you learning then so a church has regular intervals of series of classes because it is the house of god and it takes a long time to build the foundations and jesus said there is a house that will build by the sand there will be a house that will be built by the rock but both houses will be tested by the waters where the rain and torrential rain will come down one stood and the other fell and so if i want to build deep i got to dig deep simple as that and it requires that consistency of time i want to if i want to lie to you then i'm not a man of god anymore because i've seen the demons just too many times recently i think it was in i can't remember sorry i got to look at my notes i was i think i could be in maryland at the time because you know from singapore texas texas maryland maryland cincinnati i'm back here again i was brought near to the fires of hell and i could hear the echo of jesus crying out like a war cry crying out from his soul he was saying the same way i'm saying to you souls souls three times souls and he said this present day of my church must cry out for souls it is so easy to be playing churchy man but if we have to cry out for souls our children must know what it is to have the passion for souls our children must be trained when someone is telling you about you are telling about jesus if they push you how to walk in love because that's will happen that's all it is are you with me i pray tonight this morning god will do something in our hearts so that we will stand now that this church which god called into being i'm not saying this church as jesus my king this property that two other churches have sown in tears that we will reap with joy but no one can replace our tears we have to build it bro you know when my house was going through a renovation and all of you guys have did it remember the only way to go through the renovation is to put a finished product in your mind it will finish it will be okay the house will be nice every day you're crying when will it finish oh god it will be okay it will be okay god please help me it will be okay because when you know the finished product and how beautiful is going to look you will endure the process can we all stand up together come on

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