The Groan and Release of Messengers| Corey Russell

and we honor brother Danny Russel and let's continue standing for his son one of God's heroes on this land amen amen grab a seat yeah it's been a great honor I turned 43 today and so Wow I told you I spend every birthday with you guys so he's gonna keep getting older and older together but this was one of my favorites I got to bring my hero my dad with me this year he just retired after 40 years of working and I said come with me I wouldn't meet some family that I have in London and it's been amazing time we love you guys and so grateful for just the love and I just knew him being around you guys would do what it does and he gets to feel what I feel every year so love it love it and so amen good thank you Jesus all right turn to Exodus 3 or Exodus to Exodus 2 23 Lord we love you so much I'm just so emotional today I don't know the deal is crying so much I was crying today ramas worship there in the youth encounter just wrecked me I don't know where rain is at she's out doing whatever but uh got wrecked yeah I feel I felt like the Lord told me at the start of the year for you guys who don't know and we spent me my family spent 18 years in Kansas City with the International House of Prayer and recently we just come up on a year of spending a year in Dallas Texas at the Upper Room Church and it's been an amazing time and I was feeling at the start of this year I heard the Lord say it it's time to run and I could feel it my bones I'm feeling clarity and there's one verse that's kind of rested over the last seven years it's been Psalm 2 verse a ask of me I'll give Nations as your inheritance that has been over the Amen over the last several years that's been the verse I feel like inheritance is a word for the hour for many of the saints who have weathered many storms and who have pressed in what did you see in Psalm 2 is that the places of greatest warfare are to become the places of greatest inheritance the nations surrounding Jerusalem seeking to destroy the father's inheritance for the Son and the son looks at the father and he says I will declare three the Lord has said to me you are my son ask of me I'll give nations as your inheritance the very places that are raging are to become Jesus's inheritance the Lord told me of the last seven years Corey the greatest places of your warfare are to become the places of your greatest inheritance I feel like it's time to run I feel like he's saying and he's turning the water and wine some things that I feel like he's doing there's been a lot of tears over the last decade but I feel like he's turning water into wine and there is coming great joy there's coming great harvest in this next decade I believe we're going to see great harvest as a psalm 126 I've been preaching on the gift of Tears and it's something that I believe that it's still going on but I do believe in that Psalm 126 those who sow in tears will reap and joy he who continually goes forth weeping shall doubtless come again rejoicing carrying his sheaves with him and I believe that we're gonna move into global harvest we're gonna move into the global joy we're gonna see a move of the Holy Spirit like no other time in history and it's a great time to be alive it's a great time to be here it's a great time to let go of yesterday and to move into the next season so I just feel that we're just throwing that off and I feel like and I just want to try to talk into some of this stuff that I also feel like we're we're in one of these similar seas as of Exodus 2:23 and a shift for 430 years for 430 years the children of Israel had been slaves in Egypt you know the story of Moses this Hebrew male child that was born he was born and there was a decree to kill all the male children but he supernaturally survived and was raised in Pharaoh's house grew up in Pharaoh's house and around 40 years old he gets awakened to his calling he gets awakened to his calling to be a deliverer and to set Hebrews free from Egyptians but what is it like God that he first awakens the calling and Moses steps out it ends up killing the Egyptian comes next day trying to resolve another matter and they go why are you even speaking to us we saw what you did to that Egyptian yesterday and the Bible says that Moses ran off into the into the desert and he spent the first 40 years of his life getting educated becoming articulate the most refined the most polished the most articulate person and then he gets awakened to his calling just to fail miserably and then God sends him to the desert to Midian where he marries he marries this girl and the Bible says that he was content to live in the wilderness what is it like what is it about God because this is what I feel like God's doing I feel like there's a great groan we're gonna get to in a second but I feel like there has been a groan that's been growing in the UK there's been a groan growing in the nations and I believe God's answer to the groan is gonna be the release of messengers who have been formed in the deserts of prayer fasting mundaneness and have been prepared in hiddenness for such a time as this that's what I feel like we're getting to but what is it about God that first awakens you to your calling and then pretty much shows you how you'll never be able to fulfill your calling in your own strength wisdom and ability but he actually takes you through the disqualification process so that he can qualify you and His grace I'm like God why don't you give it on the front end why don't you just give it all to us when you're commissioning us what is it about receiving the word that sustains you through the process and God takes Moses who gets awakened to his calling and then God sends him to the desert for 40 years and now the Lord says I've got to bankrupt everything you learned for 40 years and I'll show back up in 40 years so I can use you and I believe that we're in an exodus 223 moment look at this it says now it happened in the process of time everybody say process of time there's something about the process we hate process God's into process we hate it God won't you just do it and God didn't do the process he doesn't think it'll waste of time to send Moses back to the desert for forty years because that means the children of Israel be enslaved 40 more years now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage that word groaned I feel like it's a word in the spirit grown because of the bondage and they cried out and look at this phrase and they and their cry came up to God why because of the bondage the bondage the pressure of slavery actually produced a groan that penetrated to the ears of God that the deeper the bondage the deeper the cry and the greater the cry and God used that reality to begin to awaken the people of God to cry out and I believe that there's been a bit of groan that's been arising in the depths of his people over the last decades and I believe it's growing and it's growing and it's growing and we're about to see a mass deliverance a mass liberation that's gonna come to our nations do you know what awakens are grown it's when the revelation of what you're made for collides with the revelation of where you're at a groan is awakened when you realize who you are and what God's made you for and then you see where you're currently at and in that vortex a groan is awakened because you don't groan for freedom if you think you're just a slave these the children of Israel begin to connect we are the children of Abraham Isaac and Jacob we are the children of promise we are the children of covenant we weren't made to be slaves we'd been slaves for 430 years and it's time for it to be broken off of us and for us to enter into our destiny the cry came up to God because of the bondage verse 24 look at this so God heard their groaning and God remembered when the groan awakens God's nostalgia when you get God remembering covenants when you get God stirred up about old relationships when God remembered his covenant with Abraham Isaac and with Jacob verse 25 and God looked upon the children of Israel and God acknowledged them that groan that had been growing for centuries penetrated to the heaven stirred the heartstrings of God stirred the attention of God stirred the heart of God and it's now going to stir the arm of God again I want to say it I believe of groans been growing I believe of groans been growing the the groan as religion has sought to stifle the prophetic spirit as religion has sought to silence the voice of the prophets as Jezebel to stifle the voice of the prophets as though as the smothering Euler humanism has sought to smother the voice of the prophets as materialism has sought to smother the voice of the prophets I believe there's been a groan that's been growing in his people our believers are grown for deliverance a groan saying God we want to be liberated we don't want forms we want reality and I believe there's a groan that's been growing in God's into the process the grown growing well you would think by the end of Exodus - it's this climactic moment they're grown and God stirred what's it gonna look like dah dah dah look at Exodus 3 verse 1 it's a climactic moment and then look at Exodus 3 verse 1 it's almost like now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the back of the desert and he came to Horeb the mountain of God you got the heights of the groan and God stirred he's about to break in he's about to break in and where is God going to break in he's going to break in upon the one that's been being trained in the school of the mundane for the last 40 years he's about to show up to the one that was on the back of the desert the backside of the desert one that had grandiose visions of his destiny and is calling 40 years earlier but now was content to live in the wilderness going through the school of the mundane tending his father-in-law's flock and just going about business as usual and I believe that that he's about to visit those that have been trained in the school of the mundane there's something about the routine mundane not sexy not really appealing work of the plowing of a life and saying God did you really speak to me God did you really say you're gonna use me and that you were gonna really do these things God and there's something that happens over over years in some cases decades where you're like God did you say what you said and there's something about the faithful tending of the flock of a father law and yet God's going to use this to be good to be Moses's training to tend God's flock Israel out of Egypt he's going to use tending his father-in-law's flock to be trained to lead God's flock out of Egypt I love that everybody say the back of the desert I believe with all my heart and work about to find out God there's something about God as it relates to the preparation of a messenger the preparation work of God is that he wants to disqualify you so he can qualify you he wants to bankrupt your piggy bank so he could tap you into an Alaskan pipeline a lot of us just think if I could just get a little bit of Jesus in me we can overtake the world you got to understand it's not you and Jesus overtaking the world it's a dead you and a resurrected Jesus through you that's gonna overtake the world Jesus isn't a stepladder into your destiny he wants to kill your destiny and he wants to resurrect his through you if you don't get that straight you'll get really messed up and mad at him and you'll get offended at his process because this is God's ways this is his ways as it relates to the preparation of prophets the preparation of revivalists and delivers the very thing he tried to move in 40 years earlier he failed miserably and he was content to live in the wilderness he's on the backside of the desert I believe completely just going about business as usual look at verse 2 now the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush so he looked and behold the bush was burning with fire but the bush was not consumed verse 3 oh this is amazing verse three is what we need to keep us in this hour Moses said I will now turn aside to see this great sight why the bush does not burn so you're gonna see this Moses are going to now turn the side to pay attention to what's happening verse 4 so when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look that's when God called to him from the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses he said Here I am what was it Moses is turning aside to look that provoked God to speak I think this turning aside is the responsiveness that got it produced in him and he's turning the side and now he's going to lock in with God I just think that's so interesting just for fun can you put revelation 112 up here just cause we're having fun tonight he likes to have fun in the Bible two of you good then I turned to see the voice and having turned I saw you don't see till you turn John didn't see till he turned there's something about moving from just being a conference goer there's something about being just somebody that dances around the fire and you hearing all the latest prophetic words and the latest this and the latest that it's one thing to hear a voice it's one thing to stand around push but it's another thing to turn to encounter that poise for yourself it's a sense of responsiveness and intentionality and focus saying God I don't want to dance around someone else's fire god I don't want to just I don't want to just listen to the latest prophetic word God I want to get into the encounter lord I want to break through into a living encounter lord don't send me any more messengers is what John of the Cross said I want a living encounter with him I'm grateful for every prophetic word but God may our prophetic words lead them to the source instead of leading them to us maybe we have a whole generation that would turn to not just be satisfied but would encounter it for themselves I believe with all my heart that he's showing up in the midst of burning bushes which means this there's gonna be in the middle of normal life he's gonna start whispering to you he's gonna start showing up in normal mundane stuff and start whispering to you about dreams he gave you 20 years ago about things he spoke 15 years ago things he spoke 10 years ago you're gonna start hearing the whispers of God increase Bible verses are gonna start popping you're just going to start getting faith for things that you haven't seen in years how sad is breaking the silence is breaking the silence is breaking over your life the prophetic spirit is stirring over your life he's calling you to turn aside it's not just business as usual it's not just going about the way it's always been [Applause] it's a season to get responsive it's a season to get prepared to move into what he has you can go back to exodus 3 verse whatever 5 Thank You Holy Spirit you Holy Spirit you got a mark up there or something there we go he says do not draw near this place take your sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is holy ground a mundane place becomes holy he says I'm the God of your father Abraham Isaac Jacob Moses hid his face he was afraid to look upon God verse 7 the Lord says I have certainly seen the oppression of my people I've heard their cries because and I know their sorrows first say I've come down to deliver them look at verse 9 now therefore behold the cry of the children of Israel has come to me and I've also seen the oppression for which the Egyptians oppress them note with all of this it's God saying it's touching me now Moses saw it 40 years earlier tried to fix it and was unable to fix it just because you see something that needs to be fixed that doesn't give you means or justification to try to fix it I believe there's a sovereign timing when God gets stirred and when we move with God in his timing it's going to be able to bring forth the fruit of God look at verse 10 come now therefore I will send you to Pharaoh verse 11 and he says Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt that's what a man looks like when it's done with him there's not much confidence in Moses so much so God spends the rest of the chapter arguing with him angry at him because he's so gripped with fear and inability to ever be used by God he goes I don't know anything I don't even know how to talk I don't even know what I'm doing and God says good now I can use you yo y'all hearing me God is going to rid us of any confidence not I mean there's good confidence there's confidence there's all of those kind of realities but any sense of any abilities we have it in ourself he will take you through that place and the word he's begun in you he will complete can you go to Isaiah 40 verse 3 I believe we're about to see a mass deliverance in the UK I believe we're gonna see deliver deliverers and revivalist prophets arise and the voice that's been borne out of silence will crack through all the noise of the culture the voice that has been born in the silence will crack through all the noise I believe he's releasing the forerunner spirit the prophetic anointing the forerunner spirit in the same way he anointed John the Baptist before his first coming so I believe that God is anointing and releasing the Spirit and the power of Elijah upon hundreds of thousands all across the earth who are going to prepare for the second coming of Jesus to the planet they're gonna operate in that deliverance anointing they're gonna operate in that healing anointing they're gonna operate in that preaching anointing and they're going to make straight paths the King of glory Oh voices are arising voices are arising the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God a message born in the head will only reach the head but a message born in the heart will reach the heart he's delivering us from McDonald's drive-through theologies he's delivering us from plastic theologies he's delivering us from Hamburger Helper theologies and he's taking us to the school of the wilderness full of prayer and fasting and the Word of God where God begins to take the names of the best out of our mouths and we begin to know him as our husband that he begins to cause us to know that man does not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God where he begins to rewire our emotional chemistry he rewires our thought processes he tears down strong hopes and arguments and high things and he builds highways on the inside of us because he's first got to do it to you before he does it through you voices in the midst of a noisy culture we need something of eternity to crack for the noise something that cracks and resonates at a deeper level there's no new ways there's no anointed hands you got to go get that from I want everybody to pray for everybody now receive everybody's prayers but at the end of the day all I can do is pray over you to knock a funk off you for you to go to the wilderness and encounter him that's what my anointing is gonna do it's gonna break a funk off you for you to go then you pray for me and knock it off of me there's no new ways there's no easier called ancient paths Jeremiah 6:16 stand and ask for the old paths where the good way is and you will find rest for your souls the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord this is specifically to Jerusalem comfort comfort my people says your God will come back to that in a little bit prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God we are highway builders we are highway builders and the Lord's calling us to build highways and jungles he's causing us to build highways in the midst of mountains which means we're gonna need a lot of TNT and detonation we're gonna need swords to break through jungles forerunners build highways where there's never been anything it's not a real appealing reality it's called foreheads of flint saying the same thing over and over again and going again praying again it's building highways I love it what are we on high road 3/16 high road I love that 3/16 high road our lives were forever melded together on 3/16 before there was ever this building it we we got connected forever on 3:16 and the Lord put him on 3/16 high road and I believe that Capstone's to be a highway builder here in East London into the city this is a gift to the city verse four look at this every Valley shall be exalted God wants to first do it to you I believe that we are about to see messages songs some of you will release it over cups of coffee and tea and one-on-ones and discipleship of our kids but we are about to see such revelation of the love of God that we are going to see the valleys of shame raised in a generation we are about to see the valleys of self-hatred raised up in the midst of a generation the valleys of depression the valleys of hopelessness the valleys of despair broken by the revelation of hope the revelation of his calling valleys are going to be raised up mountains are going to be brought low pride is coming down arrogance self-sufficiency independence the preaching and songs on the majesty of God it's going to release a trembling back in the church we're gonna see people going low I'll tell you what I feel this time more than ever before there's such a spirit of humility in the house I know when around that because I want to get on my knees oh it's time for the church to go low oh we need to go low friends it's not an hour for us to boast with our new ideas about how we're going to change the world it's not our new ideas for our unique anointing we need to go low and get histories of corporate prayer and fasting majesty of God mountains and hills brought low crooked places shall be made straight the Lord's are restoring the honor of his word the honor of the truths of the word of God that's going to make perversion and make straight crooked it's gonna iron out heresies and false teachings we need a we need an exultation of the Word of God again that tears down false teaching that exalts the divinity of Christ the humanity of Christ the death of Christ the resurrection the literal bodily resurrection his ascension and his literal second coming there's false teachings we need crooked places to get made straight and he's gonna make the rough places smooth I'm here to tell you right now he's going to release the spirit of a revelation and it's gonna tenderize the church again he's gonna remove the harsh plank field I of the church he's gonna brake harshness off the church and we're gonna get tender again tears are going to start flowing in the eyes of our preachers we're gonna cry tender hearts tender responses love that covers and fights for people to come out of darkness rough places will be made smooth verse five look at this the glory of the Lord shall be revealed all flesh shall see it together hallelujah the mouth of the Lord has spoken verse six I love this what's my message he said cry out what's my message God's racing up a whole new generation of people that are going to come out of encounters with eternity and who is going to expose the fleeting beauty and fading loveliness of this age we need people to walk out of another realm all flesh is grass all its loveliness is like the flower of the field everybody say loveliness its fading beauty its fading beauty it's fleeting beauty thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus the grass withers in the flower fades because the breath of the Lord blows upon it the people are grass the grass withers the flower fades look at this but the word of our God Evan but the word of next part the word of our God stands forever I want to just take a brief second here before I bring it back to us the ultimate context for Isaiah 40 is still in the future John the Baptist was a snapshot was a was a forerunner of this reality it's ultimately set as we see that great hour come when Jerusalem's back is against the wall and all nations are seeking to destroy her and God's gonna raise up a voice to the nations a voice from the nations that are gonna speak comfort comfort to his people and what we will declare because we've experienced it firsthand every promise that God has made to you he is going to fulfill every promise made to Abraham every promise made to Isaac and Jacob every promise is going to be fulfilled how do I know it because I've seen him do it in my life I've seen him break through at darkest hours I've seen him break through at last second when everything around me was completely devastated and I saw the power God break-in this isn't going to be a cheap theology it's not gonna be bumper sticker Christianity it's gonna be something that's been fleshed out in our lives the word will be made flesh in us and we believe in the God who upholds his promises grass withers flower fades the word of our God stands forever and in verses 12 through 26 it's just a stinking prophetic explosion about the beauty of God God's gonna raise up holiness preachers just like those holiness creatures they're you know that kind of rhymes we got holy preach we got holiness creatures around the throne do you know that what are they saying say a friend that's what they say holiness creatures they've been in the same room with the same person here's the throne they've been in the same room with the same person singing the same word forever holy holy holy Lord God Almighty was is is to come his eternity his power and his transcendent holiness they are declaring day and night the majesty of God the beauty of God the awesomeness of God that's their message and when they preach crowns get thrown down when the creatures preach crowns get thrown down God's gonna raise up preaching that gets crowns down again that get crowns down where people are dropping their accolades and we worship Him we're worshipping Him there's crowns that are coming down in the same way in the same way those burning creatures say holy holy holy God's going to raise up Proclamation he's early songs he's gonna release deep revelation look at verse 12 come on come on who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand measured heaven with the span calculated the dust of the earth in a measure weighed the mountains and scales and the hills in a balance verse 13 let's go I call this going off who is directed the Spirit of the Lord or who has his counselor taught God verse 14 with whom did God take counsel who instructed him who taught justice who taught him knowledge who showed him the way of understanding behold the nations are as a drop in a bucket they are counted as a small dust on the scales he lifts up the aisles as a very little thing hallelujah goes verse 17 for him are as nothing they are counted by him less than nothing and worthless verse 80 come on come on to whom then will you like in God what likeness will you compared to him verse 19 he talks about idolatry verse 20 he keeps going verse 21 have you not known have you not heard has it not been told you from the beginning have you not understood from the foundations of the earth verse 22 he it is he who sits above the circle of the earth its inhabitants are like grasshoppers who stretches out the heavens like a curtain spreads them out like a tent to dwell in verse 23 he brings the princess heeding the judges to nothing 24 25 to whom then will you liken me or to whom shall I be equal says the holy one lift up your eyes on high set your eyes verse 27 now just keep it there for a second from verses 12 through 26 we see unparalleled proclamation of the majesty of God no matter is what is going on in your life I want you to know that is but a drop in the bucket before your God I believe we are going to see a people that get such exalted views of God once again there's going to be a such a restoration of the knowledge of God such a revelation of the beauty of Jesus he humbles himself to behold the things that are in the universe the fear of the Lord is gonna come back into the church we can just that's what forerunner preaching that I'm grateful the one that tells me my secrets I needed that word but I want you to know God's also raising up prophets that are gonna declare the secrets of God who are going to break blindness off a generation who are going to dethrone lies and arguments dethrone everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and we're gonna see profits of the beauty profits of the majesty of God profits that will speak to the core lies of the human heart the two great lies of Jacob why do you say Oh Jacob speak o Israel my way is hidden from the Lord and my just claim is passed over by my keep that there look at this the two great lies of the human experience is this I'm alone God's left me alone and God doesn't answer my prayers my way is hidden and he's not breaking in on my just claim look at God's answer to this reality verse 28 have you not known have you not heard the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth neither faints nor is weary here's one of my favorite phrases in the Bible his understanding is unsearchable his understanding is unsearchable verse 29 get your seatbelt on you know what I love about verse 29 it was 28 verses of house thinking powerful God is and he says there's one group of people that have direct access to my power here's one group of people did I give my power to he gives power to the weak and to those who have no might he increases strength how do you increase something that doesn't exist to those who have no might he increases strength I want you to know if you feel weak coming out of the last decade and you're barely here friend I want you to know that you're a perfect candidate for the power of God to touch your life the resource of heaven to come upon you quit worshiping your weakness and worship God quit qualifying or disqualifying about how you feel and bring who you are before God and say God I want your power I want your divine resource I want your divine grace I want divine activity to surround my life he gives power to the weak verse 30 even the youths shall faint and be free I love it in God I just feel the pleasure of God over all of you young people Jerry and Rachel and the team here all of you your labor you gave the best of your youth you gave the best of yourself to God and God loves to show up because when we find ourselves running on empty he loves to tap us into his divine resource it carry us into the next season I feel his pleasure over you guys he's so pleased your sacrifice your labor all the stuff before him but this isn't about how strong we can run or the strength of youth verse 31 he says this is how you access the realm of the power of God those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings like eagles I'm telling you the Eagles are coming we're gonna see an eagle generation of prophets begin to soar into that realm that is supernatural they shall run and not be weary there's supernatural grace coming with the ability to run and not wear out Lord told me in 2020 it's time to run Corre they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint learning how to wait on the Lord I believe he's bringing us back to this priestly place that word wanes to entwine oneself around we're in twining our self around God we're bringing our self around him and ministering to him and as we prioritize that that is going to release the divine power and resource of God into our lives I believe he wants to release a roar here in the UK he wants to release the voice that thunders sometimes the voice is from a pulpit sometimes it's over coffee sometimes it's in intercession you know what makes you a voice it's called reality it's not about how loud you say it it's about how real it is hallelujah this is highroad 3/16 high road we're gonna declare I feel faith in my four declaring of highways from East London into the city from East London through the eastern gate into the city from the eastern gate into the city what other Londoners would call the other side of London God chooses as his favorite places to release his glory he's gonna make all the sophisticated Londoners come out to East London to receive Krisha presses just open up your hand right now God [Music]

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Published: Sun May 10 2020