The Keys to Your Pain | Jeremiah Johnson

hey it's jeremiah johnson i'm so excited to come to you today and invite you to join me on a brand new e-course that we've just launched called end time messengers arise you know i'll admit that the greatest passion in my heart even in the midst of covet 19 is that god would raise up bold unashamed end-time messengers that would prepare the bride of christ to meet the bridegroom king i have an urgency in my heart as the anti-christ spirit is raging in the nations of the earth that god is seeking a remnant people who will not run away from the coming battle but will engage the enemy on the front lines of the battle and call the church back to her first love on this e-course you're going to learn practical tools on how to get invested in the bride of christ and god is going to challenge you at the deepest levels of your heart that now is the time to prepare i want to encourage you sign up today it's going to be powerful and we will all be marked for eternity check it out [Music] welcome to the watchmen's corner this is your host jeremiah johnson i'm excited today to bring to you a message broadcast live from around our nation you know in the midst of covet 19 god is seeking a radical remnant calling us to the front lines of the battle i know that you'll be blessed by today's message and i encourage you to hang in there after this message for a special time of prayer check it out [Music] let's take a look at the global pandemic numbers now stay away from crowds stay home as much as you can the cdc has confirmed this is the first case in the country houses of worship essentially remnant is rising [Music] god is looking for a remnant in america who's going to build arts of his presence all over america your family might think you're crazy your friends might have never heard of that revelation before [Music] [Music] how many of you were able to be here last night with us great great pray that the holy spirit was ministering things to our hearts i have just taken some extra time today just to pray and seek the lord about where he would like us to go tonight typically i really prepare well in advance for what the lord wants to do and as i mentioned last night we were redirected here from alaska and so i just felt like i was supposed to come and sit in the atmosphere and listen to the lord and just sort of shoot from the hip blindly when you think of prophets at times you think they like that i'm not that kind of prophet um i really like to be prepared i have a reoccurring nightmare of showing up somewhere to preach and i can't find my notes and so i want to share tonight on transition i want to share tonight on the need to throw down a shovel that the lord has been talking to me about this afternoon in my hotel room i have actually went and bought a shovel this afternoon and have brought it here tonight and i believe that the lord would like us to participate in a type of prophetic act where we will throw down a shovel meaning that we will stop trying to dig up what god has already buried that we would stop trying to dig other people's graves that some that have fallen behind we would stop trying to get them to move forward with us in transition because they're not coming how my heart has grieved in so many seasons the very people that you thought were going with you in transition did not choose to go so many times we waste so many years and months trying to convince people to come with us into destiny that we end up missing it for ourselves so i want to preach and prophesy into transition tonight whether you're here visiting or you are a part of this church i deeply sense that this is a season of transition i want to speak once again as i did last night being prompted by the lord regarding human relationships that we would all be obedient to what god is telling us to do regardless of what he's telling friends or family members to do how many of you know it's hard to follow the voice of god into that next season when people you love aren't on the same page oh again i'm in no way for some cuckoo bird who thinks i just gave you permission to divorce your spouse that's not what i just said but it's very difficult to follow the voice of god in the midst of transition knowing that there are friends that there are relationships the bible says beware of false prophets i've often said beware of well-intending family members we might get to it tonight but i've learned over the years that they're questioning and their criticisms and their misunderstandings if we can hear them rightly or really i love you and i don't want to see you go they fight you so hard they question the word of the lord they put daggers in your heart and really it's a mom or a dad it's a family member it's someone that really loves you that doesn't know how to communicate it to you in a healthy way because they fear for you i pray that when those words cut your heart i pray that when there's division that arises in your family and friendships on your way to transition that you will learn how to bow your heart and just hear it all as i love you let's go to the lord in prayer tonight i have a feeling we'll need his help father we love you to know you is to trust you father we trust you we entrust you with our destiny tonight we say that there's no destiny found outside of you lord i come tonight before your people on behalf of the destiny of this church the destiny of south carolina the destiny of every person represented here father we're asking for help along the way lord if we've turned down an alley where you're not present god we ask that you would help us to lord get back on track lord i pray tonight that tonight would be a back on track moment for those gathered lord i pray that you would sound an alarm that you would warn us lord you warn us because you desire to protect us lord if there are relationships and friendships that we're engaged in that you don't want us to be engaged in lord i ask lord that you would speak tonight father i thank you for the new friendships the new connections lord the new scouts along the way along our journey that we haven't even met yet lord i ask that you would divinely connect us to them we pray in your name amen on january of this year the 22nd to be exact i released a prophetic word i don't know how many you have read it it is documented online but at the beginning of every year i release a prophetic word about what god is showing me he's going to do that year and in the year 2020 i released a word in january about this being the year of the wheat and the tares and god began to show me that one of the greatest gifts that would be needed in his body would be called discernment that it would become increasingly difficult for the people of god to discern evil and good to discern godliness and that which is evil now i say this with a heartbreak because the truth is that god wants to raise up a people who can easily discern that was the role of the priesthood in the book of ezekiel they were mandated to teach the people the difference between the holy and the profane but it's hard to teach people the difference between the two when you yourself are compromised we don't have more leaders than the body of christ i dare say we don't have more parents teaching their children the difference between right or wrong because we can't stop looking at the computer screen and so now more than ever if ever there was a need to discern the true word of the lord if ever there was a need to discern what is god really saying to this nation why has the body of christ operated in such low levels of discernment that we have built people's ministries all the way to the white house who have been cheating on their wife and no one seemed to know we want to go after leaders in their sin people ask me when will false prophets stop prophesying well they'll stop prophesying when you stop paying their bills when you see leaders in the body of christ fall i encourage you not to focus on their fall but rather how you helped them fall hello true discernment in 2020 god is separating the wheat from the tares the only time it's possible to discern the difference between a wheat and a tear is during harvest time could you turn to your neighbor and say harvest time how many of you believe that we're in a season of harvest in the earth i didn't hear you now more than ever god is bringing in a harvest of souls in this nation and in the nations of the earth you hear people talk a lot about evangelism and a harvest not recognizing though that as a harvest comes in what happens then is we begin to be able to discern the difference between wheat and tares and in the time of harvest i do believe it is a spiritual metaphor the difference between a tear in a wheat is that a terror will stand straight up but a piece of wheat will bow down god wants to raise up a humble people in the earth that will bow down and humble themselves underneath his corrective hand god is also going to expose leaders and people who refuse correction they refuse the rebuke and the admonition of the lord how can you discern the difference between the wheat and the tear not when someone is applauded but rather when someone is corrected one more time don't look and don't try to discern when the spotlight's on them and everything is going great rather discern the difference between the wheat and the tear when the hand of god begins to correct and adjust will they humble themselves will they take the low road will they die to their need to be right or will they stand up and be proud god resists the proud and the greek that literally means he is dressed in full battle array how many people want to make god your enemy how many people like the vision of god almighty being in full battle array and you are who's what's standing in front of him that's what pride looks like in the sight of god he resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble i'm asking god in 2020 that he would raise up a humble people that would know how to respond well to correction the bible says that god disciplines those that he loves how we do and when god wants to bring increase he prunes john 15. he's actually going to cut you back in order to help you grow but often times in seasons of correction and adjustment we cry out what have i done wrong and what i would like to point out to you tonight is that orphans receive correction as rejection the reason why so many in the church cannot receive the correction of god is because they believe he is rejecting them rather than understanding as a son and a daughter to the father that when you're corrected it actually means he really really loves you no he really really loves you enough to not leave you the way that he found you he really really means that come as you are doesn't mean stay as you are see the seeker friendly church they got the first part right come as you are drug addict tattoo i mean whatever come one come all but how many of you know the love of the father is transformational you can't be in his presence you cannot be abiding in his person and something in someone totally other than begin to challenge you to the deepest degree of your heart there is more so when you hear repentance and you hear holiness and you hear there is more the orphan looks at it like a bar and they walk out and say i can never measure up i'll never be good enough says the orphan but the son or daughter when they hear repentance when they hear holiness there's something that rises up in them a supernatural joy that says father thank you that you love me saints if this kind of reality would come into the church when repentance and holiness is preached people wouldn't run out the door they'd run down to the altar and they wouldn't be under some religious condemnation they would actually be experiencing deeper encounters with the father's affection than they'd ever known it's counseling a young lady some years ago presenting the gospel she comes into my office and says well that's great but is he going to tell me what to do does god want to tell you what to do or have you believed a gospel where you tell him what you're going to do i'm just looking for a relationship with god where he's a salt and pepper shaker that adds flavor to my life i'm just looking for a gospel that's like an item at a buffet that i can just kind of fit god into my schedule in my life i'm just looking for a savior i can do it what i want and then when crisis comes he's an atm jesus christ is not a crisis atm jesus christ died for more than three songs and a couple of bucks on sunday jesus christ isn't a salt and pepper shaker that adds flavor to your life because he is the life he is the way he is the truth there's no other god like him but see this generation that we have in the church there's so much more that god wants to reveal to us there's such a deeper place i speak of transition into the deeper places of god's heart but when he calls out and he begins to prune and he begins to correct if we have an orphan spirit operating in our lives we'll never get where father desires to take us how do you receive correction can i give you a real seeker-friendly passage of scripture those who spurn correction are stupid stupid people hate correction but that doesn't make me feel good because the gospel is all about my feelings god exists to make me feel good when a preacher preaches something and it doesn't make me feel good it's not the truth folks welcome to 2020 welcome to blm welcome to antifa welcome to domestic terror organizations who are not going to be told what to do welcome to a generation who sits in the church every sunday and you're not going to tell them what to do stupid people hate correction but i'm telling you it's our view of correction connected to the father that causes us to not love it how many of you know that we serve a good father how many of you know that we serve a good father okay but how are you doing with correction you know for us men it's great because his correction most often comes through our wives god the father [Laughter] god the son holy spirit my wife i mean i i i get it the correction and the law and the order and the boundaries and all of those things if you do not trust the person giving the commands you will never bow even when my ability to understand what's happening runs out as a son i still have to bow my knee to the father and say father you know best sometimes most often times y is an invalid question that leaves us as an invalid how we do in god is calling his body into a season of transition we're going somewhere this church is going somewhere but when the father says come with me and the journey is more about our character than the destination right he could take them out of egypt but only the wilderness could take egypt out of them well brother i served my saul yes you served your saul to get the saul out of you [Music] god actually was in that season [Music] praise the lord trying to gauge if anybody's awake here tonight he loves us he's more concerned with our character than how we feel he's a father but he's holy so i love in john 17 he says holy father meaning god is not a sugar daddy the father is loving he's caring he's tender i believe in changing babies diapers anybody changing diapers right now we my wife and i we have a two-year-old a four-year-old a six-year-old and an eight-year-old i like to say two four six eight who do we appreciate mom finally just getting out of that changing diaper i i believe when men and women are born into the kingdom of god and they're young in the faith they need coddling they need comfort they need patience they need nurturing they need slowed down but one of the primary issues in the body of christ is people that have been saved 30 years who still want their diaper changed they still want to be coddled they still want to be told every single service god loves you it's having a conversation with the lord one day about what is this generation's obsession with the love of god it's like every sermon is on the love of god every song is on the love of god it's like this sense of like people have to be reassured 24 7 that god loves them and i was asking the father why do people constantly have to hear that you say that you love them publicly and he said because they've never heard my whisper privately it's like you're okay with the couple making out in public but you're just not really sure are they trying to do that for attention publicly trying to cover up a life of intimacy that's bankrupt privately like they're trying too hard man it's awkward in here tonight paul says what can separate me from the love of god and then he says height depth present future demons angels he covers the spectrum and then he concludes nothing can separate me from the love of god what would your life look like if you never questioned whether god loved you again what if it was settled have you ever seen the flower girls it's how i view a lot of christianity we walk down the aisle on our journey he loves me he loves me not he loves me he loves me not and meanwhile he's trying to take us on a journey he's trying to transition us deeper into our destiny and the truth is you'll never fulfill your destiny unless you know your identity [Applause] because i've been around the prophetic all my life people come to meetings and they want big words of destiny and it's almost like you ensure that they will never fulfill their destiny by telling them when they don't know their identity it's not having a prophetic word that's going to cause it to come to pass it's actually you being rooted and grounded in your beloved identity as a son or daughter to the father that's going to keep you walking when times get hard i don't want to be just holding on to a prophetic word in the midst of a trial i want to be in christ in the midst of a trial not sure who i'm talking to tonight he loves you no he really loves you he really really loves you not every preacher that preaches repentance is angry these emails we get are hilarious preach unholiness at churches and people write in and ask me if i beat my wife and kids what but if we haven't been taught if we haven't been introduced to the side of the father that corrects us because he loves us i mean what parent if you were just watching your child walk out into a highway and you saw an 18 wheel mack truck what parent would just stand there in silence and watch your child be run over you would be screaming you would be i asked the lord one time what are what are you going to do about a sleeping church in america he said jeremiah the deeper they sleep the louder i'm going to yell i believe we're in an era in the body of christ where prophets are going to come with a mandate not to stroke you but provoke you no more tickle me elmo prophecies [Applause] we spoke of high places earlier many times god would call prophets to confront kings to tear down the high places i was asking god what are the high places in the american church he said your feelings i believe one of the greatest high places in the american church is our feelings because one it doesn't make us feel good we say it can't be god when the bible would say truth has nothing to do with how it makes me feel you remember the story of jesus and the rich young ruler guy comes and you know hears a little bit of jesus's sermon and says yeah i took care of that some of us here tonight we're good been serving the lord been tithing faithfully going to church being a good christian the father says tonight yeah that's great but you're in the kiddie pool there's more we oh god what i do wrong oh god he loves you he loves you that's why there's more because he loves you jesus says to him sell everything i love the translation in mark it says jesus looked upon him in love and said was jesus loving in that parable do you know this type of love of god that not only comes after your sin stuff he comes after the good stuff he loves you the deeper we go in him the less we can take with us when jesus returns he's not coming to crash your party he's coming to start the real one there are pleasures forever more in the presence of god it's like god is wanting to offer his bride a steak like an expensive juicy anybody like steak i'm getting hungry but we don't really have an appetite for that because we're stuffed on ice cream and brownies we we've already settled for far less a different deal well what's the most of the world i can have and still get into heaven what's the see orphans are always seeking to negotiate deals and their best interest because orphans are carnivores but that's for another time but sons and daughters aren't trying to figure out how much of the world they can have and get into heaven sons and daughters are trying to figure out how much of heaven they can have still on earth god we're asking tonight that you would break our walls down even right now that you would expose areas in our lives where we really don't trust you god come and revisit seasons in our lives that we've long forgotten where there's valuable lessons to get us to destiny so god is taking this church i believe prophetically into a season of transition deeper into your journey but it's not so much about the journey it's about the character if you don't attend here here's what i'm saying to you you're here tonight because you are on a journey you're in the midst of transition and stop crying out about the specifics of where you're going and start staring into the mirror and asking god what has to change inside of you he loves you just put your hands out like this nothing weird is going to happen hopefully father we receive your love a different kind of love than we've ever experienced upon this earth it's perfect love your motives are pure your intentions are pure father come and wrap your arms around us lord release a divine exchange in the house tonight let all the skeletons come out of the closet let all the things that are hiding come to the surface let all the shame and guilt and condemnation be confronted and confessed and let us then take hold of the precious blood of your son his blood speaks a better word father come love us tonight god we welcome your correction in our life in this year of the wheat and the tares god we're welcoming your correction god as a fellow knucklehead help the knucklehead husbands tonight who are not listening to their wife god help us when you're speaking through our children trying to correct us and we don't have time for them if you're trying to use a husband to correct a wife we receive that too father however and whenever you want to shift and change our spiritual furniture we welcome you come and have your way your kingdom come your will be done father not my will but yours be done lord it's not about me it's all about you god and the devil are both after the same thing they want us dead stuff doesn't preach very good amen brother not do you think that the father loved his son jesus do you think that the father loved his son jesus i hope you do three primary instruments that even the father used to perfect his own son trials temptations and testings three t's three t's that the father used in the life of his own son trials and temptations and testings in order to prepare him as the spotless lamb of god jesus christ came and picked up his cross not so that you and i don't have to he came and picked up his cross to show us how to pick up ours but have you ever swallowed false grace [Music] if the love of the father manifested through the sun he embraced suffering why do we think we get a free pass it's like christians walk around and if anything bad happens in their life god doesn't love me i dare say if you feel that way we might need to get you saved for real tonight and i say that with all of the compassion in my heart i truly believe that so many american christians have believed a false prosperity gospel where we somehow have in our minds this idea come to jesus and you'll never have a problem again oh wait i didn't make that up that was on tbn the other night come to jesus and you'll so with every head bowed and i close isn't it interesting we try to convert people in secret when they live for the devil openly wouldn't get to the club till midnight and left at 4 but church has to be an hour no i just think a lot of people serve the devil way better than they've ever served god because all they're doing is outward behavior modification there's never been any inward transformation i don't know if you're an older person in this room but this is my true heart cry for my generation i meet so many older folks in the body of christ who are sad that a young generation is emerging that doesn't have any grit i mean could you believe if god asked me to work a job that can't be god i mean brother people are cursing there i've got a call in my life brother it's like we want to live in this bubble this non-biblical bubble he sends us out as lambs amongst wolves the only way you're ever going to make it is knowing that the lion is right by your side people are getting divorced today like why i wasn't feeling it where has covenant gone where has perseverance gone where has all men will hate you because of me but he who stands firm to the end shall be saved i keep getting in trouble talking about the rapture like i guess it better come tomorrow have we taken up the offering yet you don't do this and preach for money trust me maybe in a generation ready to go up god is saying grow up oh boy i'll stop no there's a difference between preaching and meddling and one is good and one you get in trouble for he loves you it's going to get hard things are not going to turn out the way that you thought you will pray in faith for someone and they'll probably die now it's real awkward you will be disappointed see i just i don't want people a generation set up for failure i don't want people to be lied to i would rather offend you right now than you spend eternity in hell that's called love like i i would i would rather warn you and admonish you and lay out the real deal for you i'd i'd rather do that and you walk out than for fear of offending you and needing money in buckets and and needing to say i saved 1500 this year i'd rather just save the stats and go for broke he's a good father he's invited us on this journey of learning what it means to be christ-like to look like and act like and talk like his son jesus elizabeth was pregnant with john the baptist and mary shows up pregnant with jesus and as those two fireballs got together it says that the baby in elizabeth's womb left are you hanging around people on your journey who make your baby jump see there's a deposit of god himself that he's put inside of you there's a hunger and there's there's destiny but how many of you know that bad company corrupts good character it's like i love to preach the pure gospel and get people fired up and and then it's like i wish i could lie to them that everybody will be happy for your decision but the truth is for many of us when we start walking down this journey of transition going deeper in god we begin to catch so much fire that the fire actually exposes the dryness in the people around us and then people get jealous and they get insecure and if we're not focused on the journey and the love of god and the destination we give in to the spirit of offense and hurt in fact i believe one of the number one enemies of spiritual hunger is offense this is why william seymour is one of my heroes on his journey to the baptism of the holy spirit racism is raging around him stories are told differing accounts of him wanting to sit in a class to hear about the baptism of the holy ghost but he's not allowed in because he's black rather than get offended over the racism he's so hungry he says that's okay i'll sit outside and listen sort of sounds like a woman who jesus by inference calls a dog and rather than get offended she says that's okay i'll take the scraps from the table i'm going to wager that many of you in this room are on a journey to go deeper into the heart of god and one of the primary hindrances that you're facing moving forward is the friendships and the relationships around you that we have to determine what's really worth it i have decided to follow jesus no turning back though none go with me still i will follow can we get so gripped by the love of the father and his commitment toward us as his sons and daughters that we are unwavering and we are unwilling to question whether he is good or not death disease divorce disaster was never intended to cause you to question whether he's good or not see some of us tonight need to understand that there is a difference between questioning god and asking god questions how we doing talk a lot about abortion in this generation the shedding of innocent blood but maybe we should start talking about spiritual abortion why we're hanging around people that are killing the spiritual baby inside of us but they're good people no sincerely you have friends you have family they're they're not going to hell we're not questioning whether they love god or not but we are questioning whether they're keeping you from your destiny because when we stand before him on that great day no one will be holding our hand i have to do what god has called me to do i have a loyalty i have an allegiance that surpasses temporary i'm bound to eternity let me read to you what i wrote on january 23rd and we'll try to land this bumpy plane god said to me my body is entering into an era where the ability to discern the difference between the true and the false will become increasingly difficult the next decade will be marked by harvest yet my people must understand that with harvesting comes an exposing of the tares deception and a love for the truth the wheat like never before at times that which is manufactured in counterfeit will be passed off as genuine and trustworthy just as that which is anointed and appointed will seek to be passed off as null and void there is a satanic assault being loosed upon my body to confuse and bring great disillusionment to saints concerning those leaders in whom they can trust a bearing of false witness against the brethren shall rise in 2020. remember i hate a false witness that speaks lies and the one who sows discord among my people proverbs 6. you must take great pains in these days to become lovers of the truth buy it and do not sell it proverbs 23 those who love the truth in the last days shall be the most hated for lies and falsehood will abound be very careful in your discerning that you do not become hasty in your judgments nor should you judge by outward appearance for i the lord look at the heart even now there are individuals that you should be in relationship with that you are not because you have been given a false witness report about them just as there are people that you are connected to that must be cut off if you are to love the truth more than your personal preference because of this intense season of harvesting in 2020 i'm calling my people to an ascended lifestyle anybody ever heard of ascent school of ministry it's time to come before my throne only i know the motivations intentions and thoughts of the human heart without spending time in my presence you will never be able to discern the true and the false the wheat from the tares without the father's guidance along our journey how will we know which voices to listen to and which voices to disregard without his guidance how will you know which business deal to lock in and know which business deal is a trap do we even pray about any of this anymore do we even pray concerning who we should be friend do we even consider the voices that we're listening to could be taking us deeper and further into our compromise because they're just making us feel good in our pain because where i would like to close tonight is just to touch a minute on the jezebel spirit because this spirit has a phd in transition the snake could lie dormant in the grass but it loves to rear its head when you are about to transition into your inheritance transition is painful it hurts to follow god love is the most painful experience i've ever had god says it's time to move on from said church god says it's time to move on from said job god says it's time to pick up your family and move to another state god says there's pain that you have in your heart at times that you don't even have words for one of the only ways that we navigate this transition is being connected to the right voices and the right friendships no you didn't hear me you will not get to your destiny without being connected to the right voices and the right friendships you cannot do it on your own orphans love independence they that separate themselves seek their own desires in a season of transition isolating yourself is not helpful it takes humility however to ask for help can't you just thank god for a minute when you thought you heard something and you ran it by a spiritual mentor and they said not see i was this wild-eyed kid dreams of the nations and all these kinds of things and my dad is like the most practical person you've ever met in your life i'd be telling them about dad i'm gonna go to india and africa and win souls and he said yeah get a w-2 for those of you who don't know what that is [Laughter] just kidding i do real well at youth conferences young adults love me being connected to the right voices but again folks what kind of voices are you connected to those that just agree with everything you say see i know a lot of people they have accountability but it's not really accountability it's just yes people like i have friendships where they call me because they know i'm going to say no you know any of those people they're just sort of checking in like maybe you won't tell me no i've had this idea brother and i could make this amount of money and you know we're great negotiators with god aren't we you and i are the some of the best bargainers around we love to bargain we love to negotiate and then we love to kind of run it by god alignment brings assignment i i i cannot emphasize enough what being in alignment with fathers who have faithfully rebuked me and corrected me has done for my life i remember six years ago walking off the national stage preaching to ten thousand people the power and the fire of god fell i get into my hotel room i crossed the thresh floor and the the and the phone rings i'm like oh is it the front desk i pick up the phone and it's a familiar voice of a father who says you better not being be you better not be getting prideful huh you better not start believing your own press jeremiah i'm sounding the alarm in your life right now that as the applause grows and as the influence grows so does the anticipation for your downfall i mean i give me a break did anybody else want a break like honey give me a break i just came in the door and there you didn't take out the trash you didn't sorry i'm trying to be funny i mean i just got in the hotel room ring ring ring do we have those kind of voices in our lives well brother no one's calling me folks a lot of the true authentic spiritual fathering you're going to have to go find i remember reading a an article in charisma magazine 2008 by a man who i thought wow this is like identical to what i believe i shot him an email i said hey do you take appointments where do you live and he mentioned the place and it was like 1500 miles away so i got on a plane and got a rental car with the last dollar i had and i drove to his church and knocked on the front door and on the plane right there i had written the 10 best questions i thought if i could get an hour with this person i want to be ready and what began to blossom over the years was a fathering relationship that required me doing something about it he wasn't there to serve me i was there to serve him i wasn't doing this opportunistic fathering thing these days where we just want a father who will give us their platform i remember being hungry to learn about the prophetic i heard about a conference in mechanicsburg pennsylvania called the voice of the prophets problem was i didn't have any money so you know what i hitched hiked there from florida i hitchhiked over a thousand miles and sat on the side of the road with a poster board that said looking for a ride to the prophet's conference you could imagine the interactions i had hunger looks like something [Applause] i was trying to get close to a man named james gaul been a young follower sat in the back row at 18 and i mean literally just as poor as you could get that was like the days of automatic fasting because he didn't have any money i got a phd in those but obviously not anymore and just two weekends ago james gall was on day star television and guess who they bring out to surprise him to meet him for the very first time jeremiah johnson 12 years later who you're connected with matters who you posture your ear to hear from matters who you marry matters if you are not married in here i want to tell you outside of jesus christ the greatest decision you will ever make in your life is who you marry and the goal is not happiness the goal is holiness because true happiness is a byproduct of holiness you're looking for a woman who causes your flesh to say yuck i've got to be one of the worst pre-marital counselors ever oh my gosh i'm like encouraging fights we're in love have you ever seen them get livid have you ever seen them fight with their parents have you ever seen how they acted beyond their little were in love how we doing some of us just skipped that part we got married and now yeah well where we give our money to is important people ask me all the time where do i sow my money give to people that make you mad i me and my wife sow money into ministries who convict us of our sins like we specifically target and seek out fathers and bless their ministries who we know love us enough that if they see blind spots they're not going to disregard them where you give your finances who you listen to who you're friends with matters i pray for godly friends for you tonight i pray for a godly spouse for you tonight if you don't have one i pray if you're a knucklehead and married you'll wake up i pray for repentance tonight i pray that you would feel convicted by the holy spirit for so and so who you blew off who actually loved you enough to tell you the truth i pray for relationships with your parents who when you look back really they just tried to love you and do the right thing but you were rebellious chad can you bring me that shovel security will you tase this guy please [Laughter] [Music] so this afternoon in my hotel room i was met by this question from the lord that propelled our time together tonight which i pray was more than me rambling and i was contemplating in the hotel room the journey of their of the israelites on their journey to the promised land and i was thinking about all the friendships and all the voices and all of the madness and exodus and deuteronomy and and i heard the spirit of god say jeremiah how many funerals do you think joshua and caleb attended everybody know the sunday school story 12 spies go in ten spies come back with a bad report joshua and caleb they don't tell god how big the giants are they're ready to tell the giants how big their god is they never were supposed to go into the promised land to determine if they were going they were actually there to determine when lord says to me how many funerals do you think they attended scholars said there was somewhere around 1 million people that left egypt i'm positive that there were friends and there were voices that they left egypt with who they were sure were going to accompany them into the promised land not only how many funerals did they attend god said to me how many graves do you think they dug i don't know about you tonight but how many funerals have you attended how many have you watched fail or get sidetracked from fulfilling their destiny how many of you are here tonight and you thought that that couple and that friend would be with you on your pursuit going deeper in god if you're thinking of somebody raise your hand some of you are really spiritual you must be walking real slow the lord began to talk to me about this church the lord began to talk to me about those who would gather here tonight from surrounding areas and god wanted me to tell you to throw your shovel down and what i believe god meant by that is this stop trying to dig up friendships he ended. i mean i'm not kidding i saw graves in the spirit everywhere all over this property all over people that are here whoever you're connected to i mean i just saw graves and i saw so many of us with a shovel just trying to dig the dirt away from our friends and our family who refuse to go with us into the promised land i want to prophesy to you tonight i want to prophesy to this house i want to prophesy to every person attending here this is the command of the lord forward march [Applause] i appreciate the claps but for many of you you're going to let out a blood curling scream because you love them in some seasons it's easy to leave them back suckers but in other seasons you invested you've got equity can you let go tonight and let god is god more capable of resurrecting them than you are who's god the lord is releasing a spirit of freedom in the house and to his people tonight to leave those behind who will not come with us and finally god is also saying throw down the shovel he's saying throw down the shovel trying to dig up past relationships and friendships that just won't come stop doing that but god is also saying tonight stop digging up the dirt on your friends and family stop spending your time accusing and fault-finding and gossiping and slandering i promise you you're creating distance between you and them but you are creating distance between you and your father time to throw the shovel down some might say it's time to bury the hatchet will you bow your heads with me tonight just want to wait on the lord for two minutes uh you're not leaving them for dead you're just leaving them in the hands of the father let them go holy spirit we ask for your help tonight to throw down the shovel you have a prayer language i just want to ask you to begin to pray in the holy spirit because for some of us you literally cannot throw it down on your own because you have such an emotional tie to said person it's okay you can you can pray folks this is about destiny tonight this is about a major intersection in your journey with the father god help us to forgive if you know you need help tonight to get free i want you to stand the only thing it takes to stand is humility it's a very thing god wants humble people ask for help i know what you're saying is true but i i can't get there on my own let your dad go let that friendship go if you're s sitting around someone standing stretch out your hands and would you just pray for them like it was your own son or daughter your own spouse let's just be midwives tonight god we're just asking i need you to help me to pray tonight okay i do believe this is a pentecostal gathering if you if you're baptized in the holy spirit if you're a tongue talker would you begin to pray in the holy spirit the weapons of our warfare are not carnal they're mighty for the tearing down of strongholds the lord is freeing someone from sexual abuse there is power in this room from sexual abuse we speak freedom and wholeness and healing there is freedom from betrayal those knives are coming out of your back come on just step into it you're here tonight for a reason you're not here by coincidence or mistake who the son sets free is free indeed forward motion forward motion if you're sitting down just find it in your mind picture yourself moving forward in god lord i pray for the right alignments god i pray for the right voices in my life god i pray for the right friendships lord i ask that you would hedge this gathering in god lord i pray for every family and every marriage and every single person young and old god i ask in jesus name lord would you surround us with godly counsel let us be a people who love correction just two more minutes more lord more lord more lord we take captive every thought let them go let them go stop obsessing about what they think stop stalking them on facebook see wow sir can you stand up right here yeah father we thank you for the destiny on this son and god i just asked that you would clear out every obstacle that's along the path there's a fire brand anointing upon you a true john the baptist anointing and many would have thought that you would have made a a good relic for religion the lord says that you are not a robot you will not go through the motions for there's a different spirit that i've given you for you will never fit into the mainstream for i have called you to swim upstream and on your journey upstream you will rescue many who would have made a good fit for religion and rescued them the lord says you're on a journey upstream but you're also gonna rescue many swimming downstream lord i ask for a fresh baptism of the holy spirit and fire upon you i say let there be an increase of hunger in jesus name michael thornton will you stand stretch our hands out the lord says that even though you've known at times that there is great sin among the people i have given you a tender heart that rather than judge you have grabbed the horns of my altar and cried out for mercy and the lord says even now in this nation as the sin and the lawlessness abounds i'm inviting you once again to grab my horns and cry out for mercy for you will raise up a generation who knows that i desire mercy over judgment mercy over sacrifice for even around the mercy seat i will give you divine blueprints for my prophets for the lord says that you will raise up young budding prophets who are full of my fire but must carry my tenderness and my heart if they will win an audience before me for it is not the fieriest that comes closest to my throne but it is the one who knows tenderness the one who knows mercy there's a malachi 3 thing with you too a fuller's field and the lord says that the front yard of this property will become the fuller's field this is more than a tent gathering god says that i have called you son to prepare a fuller's field in this generation [Applause] and it will not be popular do not be discouraged by the numbers nor the turnout for i am after quality just see a company of firebrands going all in lord we bless your son tonight in jesus name hallelujah nobody has any shovels right everybody threw down their shovel right you can do it at home tonight the father he's he's really good at taking care of his kids you believe that do you believe that some people have to hit rock bottom and by us not letting them hit rock bottom we're actually telling god we're doing a better job than him because for me this this shovel has cost me everything remember when i had to throw this down because i was propping my younger brother up who was living in rebellion and sin and i was bailing him out and i was enabling him maybe some parents in here you know when i gave my shovel to the lord concerning my younger brother you know what happened to him he got locked up he went to prison but guess who has a better plan than me remember going to visit my brother in prison the first year i i just i was uncontrollably weeping and he looks at me and is like what are you doing he says this is the best thing that ever happened to me i was going to hell and god loved me so much he locked me up and threw the keys away for 10 years but we're afraid to release our friends and our family to the lord because we like being god maybe we should try it again are you sure you threw your shovel down for some of you letting your child live in your basement till they're 35 isn't love just keep stringing them along keep helping them out folks i i remember one time i would i mean i just i'm a giver it's his money anyways and i went to give this poor woman money and i heard the lord say don't you dare the lord said to me if you give her money right now you will literally be getting in my way of what i'm doing in her life what he told me was she was a spoiled brat father wouldn't say that would he is it okay if we begin to check in with god about what we're actually supposed to get involved with or not is it okay if we check in with father about what kind of role we're supposed to play in someone's life is it okay if we check with father about what type of voice he wants us connected to before we go down the wrong path he loves us pray that you felt his love tonight i pray that you felt his love tonight his freeing power his ability to bring us into destiny trust him that he'll bring you the right friends trust him that he'll bring the right voices let's pray father thank you for this gathering tonight of your sons and daughters lord i pray if there's anyone here tonight that maybe is recognizing they don't really know you in fact if there's anyone here tonight under the sound of my voice that is actually feeling compelled to know god the father and his son jesus and the precious person of the holy spirit maybe you prayed a prayer one time but you know it's really not real there's anyone here tonight you sense that if you left this place and you died you aren't sure where you would spend eternity if there's anyone here tonight that feels this way i want to ask you to stand just for one minute is there anyone in the room tonight thank you anyone else anyone else tired of the cycles of religiosity of he loves me he loves me not if you're standing tonight i want to encourage you in your own words to confess your sins to the father i want you to know that he sent his son jesus to die on the cross for your sins and mine that there is freedom and there is liberty from all sin and condemnation and shame because of his blood and as you confess your sins i invite you now to ask him to come into your life to make him not just savior but lord i want you to know that you're now welcome into a family of believers of fellow sons and daughters who look forward to getting to hear your story and see you discipled in the ways of christ welcome to the family of god [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and finally father for those of us who know you and are walking with you we thank you for your love tonight your loving correction for exposing blind spots in our lives that i ask as a result of these meetings this weekend that this church would never be the same again lord i pray that a remnant would rise out of this congregation that would throw their shovels down and begin to march forward into destiny i pray that no one in this house would be a safe place for gossip and slander i pray that we would not have any ties or any friendships or align ourselves with any voices who love to accuse and criticize lord i decree by the power of your blood new friendships i decree by the power of your blood new voices in our lives that would help us on our journey to know you more god will give you the thanks and the praise tonight in your name i pray and everybody said let's give god a clap offering tonight thank you i want to thank you so much for joining us today on the watchmen's corner i pray that the message that just went forth was a blessing to you that you were strengthened and encouraged we're going to go into a time of prayer but before we do that i want to ask you to consider sowing into the watchmen's corner television program the ministry of jeremiah johnson ministries we are impacting lives on a daily basis we're witnessing salvation miracles and deliverance be the portion of this generation there's going to be a prompt that's going to pop up on your screen you can follow the directions be sure to check out our website jeremiah let's pray now father we just thank you for this opportunity today to gather and hear what you're saying to the churches we lift up every need to you those that are sowing financially into the program god we just ask lord for greater blessing to be ours today in the name of jesus christ amen thank you so much for joining us in the watchmen's corner we'll see you next time bye bye

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Published: Sun Sep 06 2020