Set Apart For Glory Pt 6 - Joe Sweet

this is message number six i'm calling this series set apart for glory and it's based on this verse there's many verses that support this but in second thessalonians chapter 2 verses 13 and 14 paul writes but we are bound to give thanks to god always for you brethren beloved by the lord everyone say i am loved by the lord because god from the beginning chose you for salvation you were chosen before you did or didn't do anything god chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the spirit that means sanctification means to be set apart from what's unclean unto the lord unto holiness unto his will separation from what's defiled or impure or unclean unto the lord we have been chosen by god to be sanctified by the spirit and believing in the truth it's the truth that makes us free john 17 17 jesus prayed father sanctify them by the truth your word is truth ephesians chapter 5 verse 26 27-28 christ loved the church gave himself for her that he might wash her with water by the word and sanctify her the the living word of god heard in our spirit changes us it breaks off bondages it breaks the power of sin it separates us unto him so he said god chose you to be sanctified by the spirit and believing in the truth to which he called you by our gospel this process of sanctification by the spirit as we believe the truth the spirit sanctifies us it takes both we can read the word and believe it but we're still not sanctified until the holy spirit does it and if we the holy spirit cannot sanctify us unless his word is in us it takes the spirit and the word for sanctification why he called you by our gospel for the obtaining of the glory of the lord jesus christ yes that's in the bible yes it's part of our inheritance we are intended by god to obtain the glory of god that's right that's the manifest presence love power and splendor of the lord in a people and it's progressive as we allow and we cooperate with god in the process of sanctification his glory increases now if you're walking with god proverbs 4 says the light for the righteous if we're staying on the path the light for the righteous gets brighter and brighter until the perfect day so we should be experiencing every year more peace more of his love more of his joy more of his righteousness more of his presence that's the increase of the glory of god but we're to be intentional about pursuing holiness so it's sanctification it's holiness so we're gonna we're talking about being set apart unto glory the prophetic utterance that came through sharon god said now is the time to rise and shine how many heard that god's not waiting we're not waiting on him he's waiting for us to respond let's respond when you read isaiah 60 it's a command arise shine it didn't say wait wait said rise shine so we want to lean into the process of sanctification we're going to pursue holiness we want to pursue love i'm going to believe if we pursue it we're more likely to get it than if we sit and wait now when we're being sanctified unto holiness here's a verse that gives us understanding first thessalonians chapter 3 verse 12 and 13 may the lord make you increase in a bounded love that verse encourages me to no end god is the one that imparts the love into our heart jesus said in john chapter 15 without me you can do nothing but aren't you glad we're not without him we need this why we need to be in the word and if you missed the series i did recently called living from christ within we talk each week about what christ did for us who christ is in us who we are as a new creation god will make us increase and abound in love because ephesians chapter 1 verse 3 says he has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places second peter chapter one he has already given us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him we are new creations in christ colossians tells us that we're complete in him so god is the one that makes us increase and abound in love to one another and to all men i mean no that's a process it's a trial and error process but if we go after love we study love we pursue love we're gonna get there a lot faster if we don't know what god's trying to do in us and and god's allowing these processes to come that are sometimes difficult and challenging then all we want to do is get over the process but if we understand what god's after to cultivate love in us then we can lean into it say okay god help me help me learn what i need to learn help me die to my pride and let love rise up in me that's what we need to do so he said when god will make us increase and abound in love to one another to all men so that he may establish our hearts blameless in holiness so here's a good bible definition of holiness and i got this from john wesley the great saint who walked with god in glory and power and his life was used by god to change nations john wesley said that a perfect christian is someone who every motion of our heart every motion of your heart springs from love love for god love for people that is a perfect christian he said a perfect believer is not someone who never makes a mistake in judgment he said to never make a mistake we would have to have all knowledge and only god has all knowledge but we can have every motive of our heart spring from love that is perfection first john 4 16 god is love and he that abides in love abides in god and god remains in him so perfection is being filled with his spirit and his spirit permeating and manifesting through us perfection is really the life of christ filling us because he's the perfect one so our quest is to lean into to allow the process of sanctification so that we can obtain the glory of god the glory realm is what we need let me know what i'm talking about when i say the glory realm where you just say a word and they come out it's not come out come out come out come out now i do that because that's where i'm at it may take me three hours but your life will be changed i did it i've done it i spent with other people in this church we spent 25 hours five five hour sessions but god someone delivered from about 45 demons and they got they were insane and got their mind back and you say well how come it how come jesus did it with one word and it took you 25 hours because i'm not jesus but we're getting there but the glory realm is when you say come out and it's done then you go to lunch and when you're where i'm at you have to keep you have to stay there till late but it is what it is that we need to keep going farther in god you understand that we need the glory realm the glory realm is when you just share one word with somebody and they fall under conviction the glory realm is when we're in here worshiping god and people walk through the door and as soon as they do they drop to their knees and get saved the glory realm is when where people are worshiping god in a home meeting and their neighbor comes who you invited and as soon as they walk in the door their cancer disappears the demon comes off their mind that's what we are called to live in this when you look at the book of acts the reason people gathered seven days a week it said they meant daily was not because their pastors were good at manipulating them to come seven days a week by the way that's an oxymoron you're not good at manipulating that's bad you just can't get people to go there's nothing you can do you might get them to come one week seven days a week but it's over after that they met every single day because every time they got together god was in the midst do you understand that so we all ought to say i'm not satisfied we should never be content with where we are there is more rise shine amen and it's it's by by this process of sanctification and faith there's what jesus said i don't want to repreach all last week i want to go on to this week but i want to remind us in john 17 a very respected man of god who's now with the lord in heaven but i was blessed to meet him a few times and talk with him on the phone and be in some of his meetings one time he was taken to heaven the lord spoke to him face to face in heaven and taught him from john 17 22 and 23 and told him that my love is my glory and he gave him a verse for it john 17 22 the glory which you've given me i've given them john 17 23 and have loved them as you've loved me he said my glory and my love are interchangeable he said so the glory realm of the presence the power deliverance everything holiness is found in love so as you and i grow in love as we become good at loving each other it doesn't mean getting good at loving each other doesn't mean you're perfect now and nothing about you bothers me that's not it it's you're imperfect i'm imperfect but our love has grown and we're patient and give each other grace we love each other instead instead of tearing each other down we pray for each other support each other build each other up forgive each other long suffering with each other help each other if we get good at that first john 4 12. if we love one another god dwells among us so for the glory realm love is the goal and we're all capital a capital l capital l we're all in process so that gives us all lots of opportunity to practice long suffering kindness gentleness forgiveness patience and the better we get at it the more the glory of god rises in us because god is love listen god is love if he's going to dwell among the people he wants us to agree with him so the glory realm now if you can understand this if we get this down the glory realm is love the love is the glory realm all right let's go for it love does no harm to a neighbor therefore love is the fulfillment of the law romans 13 10. now we talked last week about obedience anybody remember that first peter 1 22 peter's writing to the saints he said you have purified your souls now we want pure hearts that's your soul because blessed are the pure in heart they shall see god god will manifest to them where pure in heart how did they purify their souls are you ready now would you say purify your souls is the same as sanctification yes it is so you have purified your souls in here it is obeying the truth through the spirit in sincere love of the brethren so as we get better at walking in love and it starts with the person next to us we can all have these romantic ideas of laying down our life for christ and going on a mission trip and all that stuff sometimes that's a lot easier than loving the person next to you that puts the toilet paper on the wrong way we all agree it doesn't go under it goes over and when we grow in love it doesn't matter does it matter no it doesn't matter it doesn't matter if you do this or this but we do know the right way is over [Laughter] all the fine hotels do it that way see jesus became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him so how many want to go into the glory realm now you're not going to go there if you think it's if there's something in you a stronghold of doctrines of man that says that's not possible that's not available we're not going to walk in that other people don't where is it i don't see other people glo if you think that that's going to keep you from going for it i've seen i've seen people shine i've seen heidi baker shine there's been times i've seen brother seduce shiny well i saw they had seen the glory on his face i saw years ago arthur blessed walk into a and i kid you not his there was light coming from his head full of the holy spirit we're called to have that why not so we can feel so good because god wants his kingdom to come out of you into other people it's not this is not so we can have better meetings it's so that god wants to to fill us to bless others that's the purpose it's why he separated the jews unto himself god separated abraham and his people unto himself for the purpose and he gave him covenant to keep with him for the purpose that that nation would then be a light to the other nations god doesn't love the jews more than any other people some people think that god's not a respecter of persons he just picked him that's all just like he picked you he doesn't love you and me more than the person then the person that's suicidal right now or shooting up drugs or lost he doesn't love us more than them he just called us so that we would yield to him and get full of the holy spirit so when the light starts shining out of all the believers those in darkness will see a great light that's why we have to go after this we're not going after this for self-improvement we're going after this so we can carry the kingdom to the dark and love is it it's love he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him and we're told in philippians chapter 2 verse 12 and 13 therefore my beloved as you have always obeyed not only in my presence but now much more in my absence work out your own salvation with fear and trembling that's now the working out of our salvation is our obedience to feed on the word to do what his word says it says work it out with fear and trembling for it is god who works in you both to willing to do god transforms god empowers god changes us but we have to obey his word and as we eat it and believe it and step out in it god works in us amen amen so we have to do that we have to work out our salvation we have to go after we have to pursue we're told in first corinthians chapter 14 verse 1 pursue love it says go after it now last week we talked about deuteronomy chapter 8 how god brought them out of the wilderness to test them why did god test them here's why he said so i can bring you into the land the testings is the sanctification process god said i brought you out to test you to see if you'll obey me so i can bring you into the land the land is a type of christ that's where he said this land is flowing with springs out of your innermost being will flow springs it is every kind of produce fruitfulness he said there'd be orchards there'd be all this wheat so that's the fruitfulness the springs of the holy spirit he said there'd be in the hills would be precious metals it's the riches of christ all the treasures of knowledge and wisdom are hidden in him and he's in us so the promised land is a figure it's a type of shadow of us pursuing love and by faith slaying every giant of selfishness self-centeredness anger lust bitterness vindictiveness dishonesty those giants come down and we come into union with christ and then we're then we're in a land that he gave us it says i'll give you houses you didn't build vineyards you didn't plant so now we're resting in christ it's no longer i who live but christ is living in me it's not my work it's christ in me now he's doing the loving he's releasing the power he's setting the captives free he's encouraging people through my lips but i'm resting in him now because we came into union with him that's the promised land okay now if we're going to pursue love matthew 22 36 teacher they asked jesus which is the greatest commandment in the law jesus replied love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind this is the first and greatest commandment the second is like it love your neighbor as yourself all the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments someone will say well that's the law but listen in the new covenant in romans chapter 8 the bible tells us the righteous requirement of the law should be fulfilled in us who walk according to the spirit and then romans 13 10 says love does no harm therefore love is the fulfillment of the law so wrong so because we're in christ and his spirit is in us we can now fulfill the reque not the mosaic law not the every jot and tittle not all that but we can fulfill the righteous requirement of the law which is love we can fulfill that's the new covenant new covenant commandment is love he said i give you a new command love one another right that's a fulfillment so if we're going to go after sanctification we have to go after love first timothy 1 5. the goal of the commandment is love from a pure heart now let's try to break this down first commandment is love god with all your heart soul mind and strength agree second commandment love your neighbor as yourself what i want to say this is is this if we don't obey the first commandment we'll not have the power to do the second commandment with the first commandment has to stay first place and that it as we pursue obedience to the first commandment we get empowered to do the second commandment but if we just try to do the second commandment and we don't do the first commandment we're not able to so let me let's talk about what the first commandment is it's loving the person of the lord jesus christ first and foremost loving him that includes taking time to thank him taking time to sit at his feet taking time to be in his presence there's no quicker way to get full of the holy spirit well there is more than one way but one of the quickest ways is to sit at his feet and thank him and worship him and acknowledge him and you'll start getting full of the holy spirit then you'll be empowered to do the second commandment the first commandment must be first place now how do we love him in john 14 verse 21 jesus said he who has my commandments and keeps them it is he who loves me he loves me will be loved by my father and i will love him and manifest myself to him obedience to the commandments of jesus results in him manifesting himself to you now that you may or may not have an open vision of him what it means is his spirit will make himself real to you there will be communication god won't be a million miles away from you you'll have an experience of his presence if you it's contingent she said if you keep my commandments anybody that complains god's far away you know i've tried all that i can't seek the law he doesn't talk oh i'm sorry but if you'll start obeying him he'll manifest to you it's not god's fault then judas said not to scare it he said lord how is it you're going to manifest yourself to us and not to the world and jesus said if anyone loves me he'll keep my word now commandments and word my word are interchangeable first he said if you keep my commandments oh man i'll love you and i'll manifest myself to you now i said if you keep my word my father will love him we will come to him and make our abode our dwelling place with him so that means we get full of the holy spirit now how many think that god making his abode with you means being full of the holy spirit all right so we get full of the holy spirit through what obedience reading the book of acts peter's preaching he said god gives the holy spirit to those who obey him people come up to me many times over the years say pastor i want to be filled with the holy spirit here's and i ask him you see this i said okay we pray for him i said all right uh what tell me what you're doing for the lord do you are you witnessing to your neighbors are you teaching in the sunday school do you pass out tracks and evangelize or what's your ministry so nothing i'm not doing anything because i'm a christian i said why should god fill you with the holy spirit he said wait and you'll be endued with power so you can go be my witnesses god fills us so we can go manifest his kingdom now if you're if you came up and said pastor i'm serving in there with marisa will you pray for me to be filled with the holy spirit i said i sure will and you are going to have i'll pray with you now but you got to pray yourself every day and ask god to fill you and fill you every day so that when you go in there you can spill out on the kids that's why we need to be filled with the holy spirit so keeping god's word is equated to loving him according to jesus in fact in john 14 24 he says whoever does not love me does not keep my words and i'm not being critical or making fun of anybody when i say this but have you ever met people if you if you're out in the marketplace and you're trying to share talk to people i do it when i i don't get out that often most of the time i just see believers but when i'm in a secular store somewhere i try to strike up conversations and talk with people about the lord try to give them a gospel tract or offer to pray for him have you ever talked with someone and they they're living in sin they they're of course when you're lost you don't know you're lost or they're backslidden uh they don't go to church they're not serving god or anything and they'll say oh i love the lord oh yeah i love the lord i received him when i was 12 years old i love the lord well here's the deception jesus said the one that does not love me doesn't keep my word it's a deception to think we love god if we're not pursuing obedience to his word amen and i don't fault those people for that because that's how i was when i was lost i used to think i was a christian before i was saved i didn't know i was lost so we're talking about pursuing love if we're going to pursue love the first commandment is love god with all our heart the second is love each other the the way we love god is one of the primary ways that we love god first is we have a devotional life in the word and prayer if that is not consistent our sanctification is inconsistent if that's not consistent we're not keeping oil in our lamps we get oil in our lamp we get it from spending time in the word and in the presence of god in prayer when jesus defined in john chapter 15 1-8 in john chapter 8 verses 31-32 he defined first what a disciple is he said if you continue in my word you're my disciples then you'll know the truth and the truth will make you free in john chapter 15 verse one through eight he said if my word abides in you you abide in my word he said you can ask what you will be done for you so he's so he's saying two things a disciple and then he said and you'll bear fruit my father will be glorified and you'll be my disciple so disciples someone who spends time in the word they pray and get answers the answers the word and their prayer life brings fruit that fruit glorifies the father and god calls him because of that a disciple amen now if we're gonna we're gonna go into the glory realm where love increases in love abounds we have to start with loving god in other words and loving god means i have a devotional life the highest priority every day if god says love him first with all your heart all your soul all your mind all your strength then that doesn't mean fitting it in when it when i can that's not loving god first and if we establish art and we guard and protect our time with god in his word and in prayer above all things that connection with him in the word causes sanctification and the flow of the spirit that's what empowers us to grow in loving each other now here's the folly how many agree here's what the word does paul wrote to timothy ii timothy 3 16 all scripture is given by the inspiration of god is profitable for doctrine reproof correction instruction and righteousness that the man or the woman of god may be complete and thoroughly equipped for every good work so before i can do good works that's the second commandment all good works all ministry falls under the second commandment before i can do that i got to get equipped by loving god supremely and feeding on his word his word now instructs corrects trains and equips me for every good work so the first commandment has to be first place come on somebody. it's it's by being in the word that we discover god loves me amen it's by being in the word that we discover there's a heaven and a hell by being in the word we discover and the word is like to us amen now matthew 25 hang with me how many can give me two more hours i got you on that one i promise not to do that unless the lord changes his plans watch this read this with me we're talking about pursuing love i want to move into the glory realm don't you how many believe that if we grow in love we grow in glory that's it that's it it's the shortest distance between two points it's a straight line and love is it right all right now read with me matthew 25 1-13 then the kingdom of heaven will be like in the ten virgins who took their lamps that went out to meet the bridegroom five of them were wise five were foolish those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps but while the bridegroom was delayed they all slumbered and slept at midnight a cry was heard behold the bridegroom is coming go out to meet him then all those virgins arose and trim their lamps and the foolish said to the wise give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out but the wise answered and said no lester should not be enough for us and you but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves and while they went to buy the bridegroom came and those who went in were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut afterward the other virgins came also saying lord lord open to us but he answered and said assuredly i say to you i do not know you watch therefore you don't know neither you know neither the day nor the hour in which the son of man is coming now this does not apply only to the second coming we are being evaluated by the lord over and over during our life on earth there are comings of the lord and in the sense the holy spirit inspects us let me give you an understanding of this the principle of the wise and foolish virgins is repeated over and over in our life in jeremiah 17 10 god says i the lord search the heart i test the minds to give every man according to his ways according to the fruit of his doings that happens to us over and over in our walk so we're not just thinking about yeah no oil in my lamp and all of a sudden i die of a heart attack or i have a car accident or the second coming yeah that applies but it applies all the time in my walk because we're being evaluated revelation 2 23 jesus said all the churches will know that i am he who searches the minds and hearts i'll give to each one of you according to your works so here's what it is a virgin is not an unbeliever that's someone who's been born again okay that's believers among believers we can be either wise or foolish a lamp represents our ministry the oil represents our rel the first commandment the lamp is the second commandment the oil is the first commandment where do we get oil where do we get oil to make our light shine we get it from keeping the first commandment when we spend time in private worship private meditation on the word kneeling down and repenting before the lord for our sins see lord help me lord lord i blew it wash me and he washes us and he he cleanses us and we read his word we get up from that place and we go through the day holding the word in our heart that's where the oil is and the only when we have oil do we shine we all have lamps lamps is our ministry it's our assignment it's the people we're supposed to touch around us so the foolish virgins focused on their ministry but not on the they focus on the second commandment well we'll just love everybody that's a good that's noble but if you don't focus on oil you're not going to be able to do the second commandment help me somebody this is the word that sharon exhorted arise shine be ready god's waiting for us oil now listen oil has to be purchased we all have 168 hours a week we've all been given the same checkbook we all have the same amount of time it has to be purchased with time nobody can nobody can give you their oil nobody can buy it and give it to you every person has to buy their own oil and if we don't buy it i'm not calling you a fool jesus is if we don't make sure that above all things every day every day every day every day that we don't go out the door unless we've had time alone with jesus otherwise we're going out with no oil or running on the fumes of yesterday so this is we're going to pursue the glory realm we've got to keep the first commandment first place and the second commandment has to be second place jesus was not driven by the needs of people please hear this see this runs counter clock we don't know counterclockwise it runs cross grain to our thinking sometimes jesus lived the first commandment first place he was the embodiment of perfect love but he didn't love he did not neglect his first commandment and try to meet all the needs example lazarus his friend was sick and they told him lazarus is sick guess what he did he stayed right where he was he did not go and heal him why he was obeying the command of the father jesus said the father never leaves me because i always do what pleases him so i can tell you this he had a command to stay right where he was he was obedient to the father days later after lazarus had been dead three or four days jesus said okay the father said now you could go so jesus was not needs driven he was led by the father then he went and of course the human accusations start coming they're accusing that jesus is the embodiment of love and accusing him of not loving if you were here my brother wouldn't have died that's an accusation isn't it they were judging jesus she said where is he roll the stone away said she said it's you can read this in john chapter 11. he said your brother will rise he said and his sister said well lord i know he will rise on the last he'll have resurrection on the last day and jesus said i am the resurrection that's what he said isn't that awesome he said i am the resurrection now if he didn't say lazarus come forth if he just said come forth a whole bunch of dead people would come forth but he just said lazarus come forth and he said come forth no not you go back go back just lazarus well i don't know if it really happened like that but i just so this is where this is where we are we are in a season of being ready we're in a season of keeping oil in our lamps we're in that season right now this is the exhortation god confirmed it that's why i was so excited when sharon began to exhort all things are possible with god speak life be ready rise don't wait on god we rise lean into this let me try to i'm trying to close now but i hope we get this down because the best thing that we could ever do for our own life is be uh absolutely unbending about protecting our time with god don't let anything steal that from you because they're stealing your oil we aren't any good for anybody if we don't have oil we might think we are we do all kinds of good things for people but they probably have no eternal value unless we're full of oil it's true i can do good works and people can like my good works they can feel edified and blessed but it may have no eternal value unless there's oil in it remember that keith green song so i said you love the lord and it seems that he's been leading you've asked him to bless all your plans but are you so sure you're not just doing what you want to building your house on the sand for wood hay and stubble will all burn up in the fire but to love the lord with all your heart should be your one desire unless the lord builds the house they labor in vain who work at all building anything not according to his call unless the lord builds the house they labor in vain who work at all building anything not according to his call the first commandment has to be first place jesus said in luke 12 let your waist be girded and your lamps be burning and you yourselves like men who wait for their master when he will return from the wedding that when he comes and knocks they may open to him immediately blessed are those servants whom the master when he comes will find watching there's what he said waste girded lamps burning this is an admonition from the lord he's counseling us he said you're blessed if you live this way if we if we seek to live seven days a week with our waist girded lamp burning what is waste garden they wore their tunics or their garment down to the ankle but when the men would and i don't know if women would do it but the men would work they would pick up the hem of their garment and tuck it into their waist so it'd be half length so they could run and work and move so that's having your waist girded in our day we would say roll up your sleeves he's roll up his sleeves and get to it so jesus is saying have your lamps burning and roll up your sleeves in other words be ready every day to serve god wherever you are because you have oil in your lamp but wherever you go whether it's winco or work or school there's oil in your lamp and your waste is girded you're ready at any time to help somebody love somebody bless somebody not going on fumes but having oil in your lamp that's the admonition that's work from jesus here's what he said blessed blessed are those whom the master when he comes shall find so watching i say to you he will gird himself have them sit down he will come and serve them that's just unthinkable that the king would do that and if he should come in the second watcher in the third watch and find them so blessed are those servants but know this that if the master of the house had known when the thief would come he would have washed and not allowed his house to be broken into therefore you also be ready for the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect so what jesus is saying is if the visitation of the spirit of god to our life the second coming or death or the the visitation of god there are seasons where god comes to inspect is he ready to visit us he said blessed are you when he comes if he finds so do you think that before the spirit of god was poured out in 1995 at john kilpatrick's church where over a five-year period 50 000 people a year dedicated their life to christ people came from 160 nations there was an outpouring do you think the lord went to any other churches to inspect to look where can i pour my spirit out i'm sure he did see but churches that are not watching there's no oil in their lamp they're not ready he's going to pass them right by probably they never knew he even came but he's going to find a place to pour his spirit out i know what john kilpatrick's church was doing they were praying praying praying praying his church had if i remember the details right reading his own testimony they had about 2500 members and he was preaching to them similar to what i'm preaching get ready pray live holy seek the lord god's going to pour his spirit out and he called prayer meetings after prayer meetings after prayer meetings and people got some people got tired of it over 18 months 18 months before the outpouring about a third of his church left about 600 people or maybe a quarter quarter of the church they left said we're tired of hearing all there's an outpouring and we should there's glory we're tired of that just dangling a carrot in front of us that's why we don't believe that they left and you know what it was god's will they left because god purges the church to bring a people into unity and the holy spirit was poured out the rest is history 250 000 people gave their life to christ that's right so so that's the admonition from the lord if we're going to pursu we can go farther but as about learning how to love each other but the more that we love the lord the more we're empowered to love each other do you believe that lord sanctify it i want everyone to bow their head for a moment right where you are nobody has to let anybody know anything just between you and god if you know in your heart that and it does happen it's it happens to us we get distracted by the cares of life we rationalize i don't have time for the word today i don't have time to pray today i'll try to fit it in if you've fallen into that deception now's a good time to repent and ask the lord to help you just tell the lord god i don't want to live on fumes anymore i want to love you first i want to have oil in my lamp lord i'm asking for myself and for this body everyone who's watching online god will you give us the grace to see through the distractions lord that we would be able to see with your eyes what is eternally important and what's not god would we want to be those handmaidens and servants of the lord whose wastes are girded and whose lamps are burning jesus said blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing truly i say to you he will make him ruler over all that he has god we want to be good stewards of the grace that you've given us we're humbly asking you for help lord we ask for your fire we ask for your grace we ask for your anointing to break bondages off of us lord break distractions off of us lord give us the grace in our inner man to delight in you to feed on your word lord help every one of us as we were admonished by the prophet that you sent here in october that we should be prepared by the end of this year lord help us as a body to end this month with the oil in our lamps god we're asking you for grace in our weakness lord let your strength come in our weakness lord help us to love you first to seek you first lord we want to be filled with your spirit so we can love each other better help us lord we don't want to go around the mountain again we don't want to wait longer and longer but god now again that prophetic utterance that came now is the time for us to rise and shine we believe it lord we ask for your help in the name of jesus and if you agree with that say amen let's give god [Applause] praise holy holy holy holy holy holy

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Length: 53min 40sec (3220 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 07 2020