Unstoppable Power Encounter Pt 2 Bruce Allen 15 Oct 2017

how many of you believe God is good you got to be careful what you say we always you know we used to say in our church God is good and the people would respond which means you could never complain again because if he's good all the time there's no room for complaint anywhere careful what you say well it's good to be back for the second service today and you know one thing I don't teach the same message twice so this will be different I'm going to share with you a principle from the Word of God that the Lord taught me about 18 years ago that radically revolutionized my walk with the Lord you know growing up I got saved when I was 14 filled with the Holy Spirit when I was 17 and then started pastoring youth and when we first got saved my dad had been brought up as a Catholic he was an altar boy all the days of his growing up and went on to Catholic seminary to become a priest and it just was not filling the god-sized hole in his heart so he left that and met my mother and got married and 17 years he got saved changed all of our lives that was in 1973 October that's when I was born again also because I saw the glory of God on him and so we would the first thing he did the only thing he knew is after he got saved he took us back to the Catholic Church which didn't quite fit the passion of my heart I was hungry for God and I wasn't hungry for religion and I love the people don't misconstrue that but that just was not a fit I got so bored after two you know two months I said look dad why are we going here I I can do exactly what he's doing it's I mean it spelled out for 20 years well it took about a year before my dad decided we maybe should look for something else and so we went to a church a little non-denominational charismatic church with pastor al Hammond wonderful man of God and that's when I really began to delve into Scripture and study the word and throughout the years everywhere I would go I would you know my focus was the Gospels of Jesus because Jesus said what he did we could do right John 14:12 and so I would study the Gospels and see how Jesus would do things and then I would go to church and I would see how the church did things and you know what they were diametrically opposed sometimes it was so different I couldn't even recognize what was happening and I would dialogue with the Lord and say Lord why did he why is it you did things this way and the church does things this way I don't understand why is this so different one day he told me he said children always act like children I said what do you mean you ever seen a little little child that one day gets it into their head that they're gonna dress up like Mommy and Daddy and so they go into the parents room and they start taking down their clothes and they they're gonna dress up like mommy and daddy and you come into the room and here's this mound of clothes and two little eyes looking out well that's a start scripture says to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof that's what put on that's the picture to put on the Lord Jesus Christ to be in do yo to be smeared or covered or lost inside of Jesus so the only thing we could see is your eyes but then the other thing is is to walk as he walks and here's where it got hazy to me Jesus would speak a word the church would speak of volume Jesus would command we would fight for hours once in a while Jesus would lay hands on people all the time it was mandatory to lay hands on people when you pray well again back to the picture of the child the child when they're trying to emulate an adult comes up with step 1 step 2 step 3 step 4 we have this formulaic approach to getting to the end of the situation to where we want to be and we look at the life of Jesus and he already is and you can see the parallel in in natural life with a child that grow up until eventually they come to the place of maturity they don't have to do all the little things that they had to learn to do because now it's so ingrained in them they walk in that and so that was the disparity I would see and witness and it always bothered me because we're called to be overcomers and we barely goodbye we're called a he says we're victorious he's given us everything we need for life and godliness and yet we seem to be struggling consistently and so this question kept going through my heart in my mind Lord there's I know it's in your word I need a bridge to get from this childlikeness not childlike faith you keep that to the place of mature son ladies that includes you guys you can be a bride ladies you can be a son and so he started teaching me one year every year I pray in the new year and say father what is the theme what are you speaking to me for this year and back in the year 2001 he said I want you to study one word this whole year one word in Scripture which is very unusual because I love digging into scripture in the original languages and I thought wow this is going to be a vacation year I only have to study one word little did I know I've been studying it for 17 years the word was name now in every instance but two in the Old Testament the word name means character honor and authority in every instance but one in the New Covenant excuse me the word name means character and authority it changed everything in John 1 verse 12 scripture teaches us as many as received him that's salvation as many and who is so we could read it this way as many who have accepted the sacrifice of the cross and have received Jesus as Lord to them he gave the right to become children of God or the authority or the privilege or the ability to become children of God another version says sons of God so here's number 1 here's a misnomer that we've carried in the church for many generations if you're born again your son of God but this scripture doesn't say that it says if you've accepted him if you're born again you have the right to become something that you're not well that caused me to study again Hebrew culture was this unto us a child is born you're all familiar with this especially in the Christmas season and then unto us a son is given but from the time of birth to the time when a son is given sometimes his years of instruction and development of character because there was a an appointed time that every father would expect something from their son some level of maturity something that the father alone would understand that he was looking for in that child that when he finally reached that age this is what the father would do he would take that child to the gate of the city where all of the the concourse of business the rabbi's would sit and in judgment all of this took place in the gate of the city and he would say and declare at the top of his voice today I adopt you as my son and joint heir now that's his child that was born to him but on that day he adopts him as his son and now he's the heir of the family so there was a process of growing up into the place of maturity the standard by which the father said that for him before he entered into sonship privilege this scripture alludes to that very thing if you're born again if you've accepted him received him you have the right to become but there's a process you notice in the natural you don't see a mommy have a baby today and that baby comes out of the womb with a PhD eloquent can run can drive can fly now there's a process of growing up and we set standards within our culture's that say when that particular child can get their drivers license get a specific job become an airline we always got reflux the same thing in the next role and so if we want to progress in the fullness of the promise of God at the end of the age we've got to understand some basic things another thing is this I was taught growing up in the church you're all the Bride of Christ one day Holy Spirit asked me the question who's the Bride of Christ then I went oh oh because any time he asked me a question I know I've got to learn something new that I thought I knew I said well Lord my professors have said was off the hook that it's the church he said go back to the book of Genesis in the book of Genesis God created man man worked God had a problem in Destiny for Adam he had a job he's created now he has a job but at some point now second Peter 3:8 says a day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day Adam was created on the sixth day somewhere on the sixth day we don't know exactly when so how long was he there Toyland doing what God had called him to it until the Lord finally said you know it's not good that you're alone so he put him into a deep sleep and what did he do he took a rib out of Adam side the rabbi's believe it was the rib that was closest to his heart and he created Eve holy spirit said did you notice we didn't clone Adam and the whole body became his bride no sir I never saw that before he said let's go to Genesis 24 in Genesis 24 Abraham who's a type of God the Father where do you get that because Abraham just a few chapters earlier had offered up Isaac which is a type of Jesus sends for his eldest servant you have to go to Genesis 15 to find out the name of the eldest servant which is a liaison and his name means helper or comforter well that's pretty prophetic so we have God the Father a type of a type of God the Son and a type of the Holy Spirit all in one chapter Genesis 24 and he says to the eldest servant I want you to go back to my family and from my family bring forth a bride for my son Isaac he didn't say bring the whole family but from the family you'll find a bride in the same way the whole church is not the Bride of Christ there are qualifications revelations 19 verse 7 and 8 I'm not going to read that to you you can look that up later be students of the word and so jesus said as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in his name hmm what's in the name proverbs 18:10 says this the name of the Lord is a strong tower the righteous run to it and are safe you ever wondered what that meant how could you run to the name while you're running to the person not really the name of the Lord is a strong tower how do you get a name that's a strong tower let me give you the meaning and the definition the character of the Lord as a bastion of strength this is the translation the righteous are conformed to it and they're safe that's accurate according to the Hebrew does that make sense are you still awake okay so when John 1:12 says as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of God to those who believed in his character and authority his name those who believed in his character and authority jesus said father I've come in your name I've come in your character I've manifested your character to those you gave me out of the world what does that mean for us jesus said the works I do you do also you are called to manifest the character of the Lord we always take John 14:12 to mean the spectacular miraculous who are wow moment but the supernatural is manifesting the character of God every day everywhere you are that's what Jesus did and he lived a supernatural life and it's because he walked in that that he had grace without measure and he also had extraordinary signs wonders and miracles that followed him I said followed him he didn't chase signs wonders and miracles they followed him because he was manifesting the character of the Father there is the bedrock of the supernatural lifestyle right there romans 8:28 29 says that Jesus Christ is the firstborn among many the highest calling of a believer is to become like Jesus the greatest gift we can return to the Lord is to submit to the process of the development of christ-like character so that when people look at you they see him that is the supernatural lifestyle you are called to in Acts chapter 4 Peter and John were at the gate beautiful they healed the lame man and the the pharisees sadducees and the lawyer were angry we thought we got rid of this problem when we crucified that man named Jesus of Nazareth now here you are again they locked him in prison because the hour was late and the next day they brought him before the council that said we can see you are ignorant and unlearned people but we could tell you've been with Jesus when's the last time somebody could tell you have been with Jesus or do we blend in we become exceptional chameleons in our life or does the character of the Father quantify who you are at the end of the age mature sons and daughters of God will be revealed those who have allowed themselves to go through the process that God requires to bring forth mature sons a mentor or no now it's interesting all throughout scripture we see examples of this in Genesis 17 verse 5 the Lord speaking to Abraham you know the promise that Abraham had he's gonna have descendants as the sand of the sea and the star as a heaven it says no longer shall your name be called Abram this is a communication with the father he's saying Abram you have a destiny my hand is upon you my promise is upon you but I have to do something about your character before I can release your destiny so no longer is your character Abram I'm changing your character today to Abraham the ha is a derivative of the name of God God gave him a facet of the character that he has your name will from this day forward be Abraham I've changed your character you went from being an exalted father to a father of multi of multitude that's the difference so before Abraham could fulfill his destiny there had to be something worked out in him to position him with the character that the father needed to release the destiny and the promise that the father had for his life then he said this as for Sarai your wife her character will no longer be Sarai verse 15 but Sarah another derivative of the name of the father she went from being princess - princess of a multitude every one of us has the privilege to grow up into him and see our character our name changed to become like him so that we manifest the character of the father so I was sharing in one of the other services when I went to Bible College I was 20 years old when I finally went to Bible College not that I was a late bloomer I was working but I went to Bible College okay and at the same time I was working at tibi and Christian television and at the same time I was taking Rhema correspondence course with Kenneth Hagin and at the same time I was studying the Berean course to say I love the Word of God in the god of word as it doesn't I mean I can't get enough even today you ask my wife she gets distraught sometimes I'll have my desk with books I mean I got 84 different versions of the Bible word study books yeah I can do it on the computer but they're not books books are better so I was going to Bible College but I was also working at the studio and as I shared I would see the character how people carried themselves that were walking in tremendous anointings I remember meeting dr. Richard EB he wrote the book caught up into paradise he had died and Jesus just oozed out of every pore I mean you looked at him and you look like a little bug it was this little gentleman of love manifested it was amazing you could tell he had an encounter with God genuine why because he was transformed Betty Maltz my glimpse of eternity she wrote that book she had died and was brought back and just Jesus would ooze out of her and you can tell she had a transformative experience with God but then you'd also meet these others that would study and could give you profound insight from the word but their character didn't match the gift I learned that you can have authority and a gift without character but she will never listen to me you will never see a man or a woman of christ-like character who does not have the full range of christ-like Authority they were walking in a little bit they had perfected the gift that was in him but if you want the authority of Jesus in the manner that Jesus walked you've got to have the character of Christ and that is one of the reasons why we have such great difficulty praying through in certain areas because we have not cultivated the character of Christ we have pursued the giftings of Christ Jesus himself divested himself of heaven glory the eternal realm and he came and humbled himself he came as a servant he submitted himself for tutors you know for thirty years even though at the age of twelve he had more insight and understanding that all the elders of Israel all the teachers of Israel he had more understanding but he went and submitted himself until the time appointed of the Father and at thirty years of age when he was released to go be baptized by John in the Jordan when he came up out of the water that was a voice that spoke this is my beloved son he was released then into his destiny 30 years of character development for three and a half years of ministry we think four years of Bible College prepares us for 35 40 years of ministry we are wrong we've got it backwards in the Western world God's looking for men and women that will submit to a process of becoming like him you know have you ever read the book got books God's General's awesome stories and testimonies and biographies of men and women that have been anointed of God throughout the years that started out in tremendously but the vast majority of majority of them didn't end well they ended up in error or falling into some type of sin why because they were motivated and they were promoted because of a gift not because of the fruit of character are you hearing me don't follow gifting look at the fruit and the character because the devil has more gifting in his little finger than you can imagine and he's willing to share that with you to lead you astray follow the fruit follow the character and stay in the place of discerning and safety look for character that's what you look for then we have the story of Jacob in Genesis 32 one of my favorite stories Jacob's name Jacob means he'll catcher supplanter and deceiver I call him a used camel salesman ever bought a used car in America all those used car salesmen are liars you know they tell you how wonderful the car is and you pull it off the lot and it falls it falls apart right outside the driveway there so he's just a deceptive individual and you look at his life he deceived his brother Esau so and who sold his birthright for a bottle full of partage his mother helped him to deceive their father when he already had a prophetic word that said they yell at the elder will serve the younger but they're gonna help God see we've all done this I have a prophetic word on my life God come on let's go I'm gonna show you how this is done Lord we got to do this this and this for years I was told you do your part God will do his part in other words if you've got a word get out there and do something know if you've got a word this is your part father how we gonna do this well brother use common sense no you keep your common sense I want supernatural sense I've got the mind of Christ stop being snared by the world system by the opinions of the world to stop we've got to stop copying the world and bringing that into the church the church should be influenced by though I mean the world should be influenced by the church but we've had it backwards so we have Madison Avenue marketing techniques in the church we have corporate structure go back to the word and see what kind of structure Jesus initiate a little bit different I'm picking on all of us not I'm picking on me too because where one of us goes all of us goes we're a body so Jesus calls Jacob I mean Jacob has this destiny on his life and at the birth of his son something shifts in his heart he's going you know what this is the continuation of this prophetic promise something shifts she's got to get his heart right with the Lord so he's gonna go back to Esau even though he doesn't know if he sounds gonna receive him he thinks he might go back and die so he's you know brings all these gifts his vibes and his whole family and he says look he comes to the dark night of his soul he sends him across the for Jabbok and he stays at the forum Jabbok and he wrestles all night with God the dark night of the soul this is what Jabbok means to be poured forth and become transparently empty that's what the meaning of that name is that's the character of that name so as the dark night of his soul he's wrestling being poured forth emptying himself of who he thinks he is and becoming transparently empty so that it becomes evident who he is and so this angel many believe it was the pre-incarnate christ I have that belief he's wrestling and he says let me the the Lord says let me go the day is dawning he says no Lord not till you bless me fine knocks his hip out what kind of blessing is that careful what you ask for God's ways are not your ways well God would never me no he bless you though why is that a blessing because this man named Jacob had been headstrong stubborn and did whatever he thought he needed to do all of his life don't fulfill the destiny of God and now God says let me help you no longer can you rely upon your own strength to get you where you want to go hmm he said okay not good enough I'm still not gonna let you go to you bless me so the Lord says okay what's your character what's your name and for the first time in scripture do you find he's honest well he just gave his name yeah I'm heel catcher supplanter deceiver I'm just not a nice guy and the Lord says no longer I'm changing your character to Israel one who rules as God or Prince of God in that dark night of brokenness his character was changed so now he walks in the character and you studied the scriptures you find from that point on the life of Jacob and the way he communicated was vastly different he doesn't say much after that but when he speaks he speaks as an Oracle of God character our character must change amen brother thank you I'm reminded of the praying prodigal remember in Luke chapter 15 the prodigal son good story these are parables of the kingdom first is the lost sheep then the lost coin then the lost son the prodigal all about the kingdom so it says of the prodigal a certain man had two sons if it's parables of the kingdom pay attention to God saying God the Father has two sons Jew and Gentile the younger the Gentile says father give unto me my inheritance that's really rude that's immature but the father gives it to him because he knows what's gonna happen God the Father knows everything that's gonna happen in your life so the son gets his inheritance and decides he's not going to stay submitted to the father and submitted to the house he's going to take his gift his inheritance and he ran off into a far country and there he wasted what God had blessed him with on prodigal living riotous living he began to mix and mingle with the world he became so desolate so empty and dry I that he joined himself to some a man in the world see this is a perfect picture of the falling away of backsliding you don't do what the father says to do with your gift you go off and do your own thing to the point you've where you're your hollow your empty and then you're willing to compromise and and and commingle with the world and because you've lost that loving feeling I won't sing it then he gets so desperate that he is flailing to live in the Pigpen and feed the swine he's starving and it says he came to himself the light finally came on you know what in my father's house even the servants eat well I know what I must do I've got to go back to the Father and say father I repent forgive me make me a servant what he went from give me give me give me my name is Jimmy give me give me give me my name is Jimmy - father make me a servant so he's going back to his father he's still filthy but the father this type of God the Father sees that son returning and he runs and grabs him you got to know that's how the Lord does you he doesn't care if you're there with your filthy garments he runs and loves you and he begins to rehearse this thing father Ivan he said hey bring out the best robe the greatest mantle why bring the signet-ring now he can conduct himself as a mature son and put sandals on his feet because this my son who was lost it gimme gimme gimme I want the miracles has now said father make me is alive when he was dead I submit to you today the vast majority of the church is still dead because they're out there with gimme-gimme-gimme instead father make me character is more important than gifting character is more important than what you consider miraculous because if you have the foundation of christ-like character the miraculous is the norm not the exception don't shout me down that's good preaching and I'm not even a preacher and Exodus 916 it says but indeed for this purpose I have raised you up that I may show my power in you and that my name my character may be declared in all the earth there's your message the character of the father one of my favorite favorite story you know I you y'all have favorite scriptures right you know in the old days the scriptures didn't have numbers chapter breaks so my scripture begins in Genesis 1 and ends in revelations 22 I just got one the whole book one of my favorite heroes of the faith is Elijah I've studied the life of Elijah for a lot of years every book and every research thing I can find on him because I'm fascinated with this prophet that came out of nowhere first time you see Elijah is in first Kings 17 the first I better be careful I say that the first prophetic acts that he began to walk in that we recognize and he prophesized there's going to be no dune or rain these years until I speak again it's never been done before in the history of Israel and then the Lord after he prophesized says I want you to go camp by the brook Cherith and there I'm gonna have a carrion bird those things that good hebrew boys don't get near feed you in the morning in the evening carrion bird a dead animals really you're gonna have that thing feed me he doesn't argue he goes in camps by the brook Cherith and a raven in the morning and the evening brings him food and he drank of the brook now remember he's camping there after a season the brook dried up what he prophesied over here became his deliverance over here he didn't know that he's just following the leading of the Spirit but here's what careth means in the Hebrew the word the name means circumcision and cutting you see elijah had a profound destiny he doesn't know the extent of his destiny only the father did so the Lord began a process in his life of a deeper consecration circumcision and cutting of his heart that's the true Israel of God to prepare him for this destiny he said this is a temporary encampment you're gonna camp here then the brook dried up and the Lord spoke to him again he said I want you to go to Zarephath there I've provided or prepared a widow woman to take care of you Lord I'm a good Hebrew we take care of widows and orphans they don't take care of us he didn't argue he went to live the Lord said dwell in Zarephath that's where you're gonna live for the rest of your sojourn on this earth Zarephath means puring refining and a fusing together with purifying and refining it speaks of the fire that's that's kindled seven times hotter so that you come out as a vessel of Honor so now he just kept at careth deeper work of sanctification so he could live in the fiery furnace of purification where he becomes purified he becomes more like the Lord that speaks of a character after whatever season he's there and while he's there you see miracles you see the woman's provided for for the drought her sons raised from the dead all sorts of wonderful things that had never been seen before so this process of character development releases you to supernatural lifestyle through obedience then he says now go up to count Mount Carmel the place of my glory we always cry out Lord we want your glory we want your glory I'm showing you the roadmap this is how you get there by the way the glory of Mount Carmel was a place of confrontation when that glory came it consumed the flesh we keep crying out for a visitation of God's glory not even knowing what we're asking for why don't we just get it right say Lord come and kill us that's your flesh not your you you you understand when the glory comes flesh won't stand and by the way when you have so many people telling you they've had face-to-face encounters with God or you think it look you look for the fruit because if they speak one way and they live another way don't believe them get away from them amen I'll even throw this out at you if you have somebody coming in and having to tell you I'm prophet profound and I'm anointed here's my card here's my video just run get away from that garbage scripture says the man's gift will make room for them they don't have to say a word it'll be evident it's pride and arrogance that has to tout a title true men and women of God in this hour are gonna walk with Christ like humility they won't have to say I'm this I'm that it'll be evident what they are another good place for name in so he goes to Mount Carmel you know that story excuse me dry air in here like the desert so he goes to Mount Carmel and one-one profit against 850 false prophets four hundred of Bay off a 450 of Astaroth doesn't Psalm 91 said want to put a thousand to flight he still had some room he could have taken on a few more after that victory where God proves himself by his presence in fire he goes up to the top of the mountain now he's tired but he's he's sitting he said with his head between his legs that's a that's a posturing of worship in the Old Covenant and he sends his say he said I hear the sound of the abundance away and go look the servant does that seven times like we've been to Mount Carmel a few times leave I wouldn't want to run up that mountain ever you know no seven times I wouldn't even make it one used to make it seven back in the day we all have those back in the day things finally the service says I see a cloud about the size of a man's hand I could hear the desperation well police tell me this is it and Elijah said that's it it's the only a prophet could say yep that's the abundance of rain that little cloud now go tell they have to run this servant better be you know trusting because if you tell they have to run because the abundance of rain and and it happens just as Hill I just said and Elijah gets up and out runs the chariot how'd you like to do that at 58 years old I see we got no volunteers okay then the next day Jezebel because they have went and tattled killed all my profits she said oh really give that man a message see if I don't do YouTube tomorrow about this time what you did to my profits first Kings 19 it says when Elijah saw that he ran saw what the skinny little messenger he just killed 850 and we got this little guy that runs all the the scroll know pay attention to this when that message was spoken to him see if I don't do to you about this time tomorrow what you've done to my prophets he saw 850 heads being cut off and what he saw became his reality and he ran that's why Jesus says in Matthew if a man looks at a woman to lust he's already committed adultery because your imagination becomes your reality pay attention make a covenant with your spiritual eyes your inner eyes not to look at anything that would defile you that means don't ponder on things that you shouldn't be thinking about or imagining or seeing that's what gets you in trouble that's what got him in trouble he runs he hides under a terabits tree and he says I just kill me I want to go home I've had enough I can't take anymore sounds like a lot of Christians I know even Paul did that by the way they despaired of life that's normal in your Christian experience it's normal so God sends an angel said Elijah what are you doing here just leave me alone I want to die he gives them some food to eat this so he's he's got a waiter from heaven serving them food the next day he said he comes back what are you doing here I just want to die he said eat this this will strengthen you for the journey ahead and he went in the strength of that meal for 40 days and 40 nights 40 speaks of testing now you got to know Elijah is one of the first renowned prophets I mean Moses and those had signs and wonders of power but Elijah was known as the prophet of power he runs to the mountain of God Mount Horeb what's horrible it means desolation and despair that's the mountain of God of course it is where do you think you find him and your seasons of brokenness your eyes are open to know him even better so he's in mountain the amount of Mount Horeb the desolation of despair Mount Sinai the same place the tablets of stone came and all of a sudden there's an earthquake but God wasn't in the earthquake then there's a great wind that pulverizes even the boulders but God wasn't in the sea he's showing him the spectacular and then fire comes and he's not in the fire but in this place of brokenness where his identity had been a prophet of power he hears a still small voice the voice of intimacy a voice he's not heard before and God says come up here come higher I'm gonna teach you how to walk above despair and desolation all this is a process of reaching his destiny all of these are signposts stopping points for every believer in the progression in the development of christ-like character so then he says go find your your sidekick you're gonna mentor somebody to take over for you he finds Elijah the next thing we see in this colorful life of Elijah is a chariot of fire comes down now he wasn't looking for that I guarantee you at careth he had no idea about a chariot of fire he never would have reached that if he hadn't gone through a process of conformity to the character of the father and he's taken up into heaven he doesn't taste death Oh see his destiny still isn't over John the Baptist came in the spirit and the power of Elijah the Saints at the end of the age are coming in the spirit and the power of Elijah we look in mark chapter 9 he's face to face with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration he's still carrying on his ministry even in heaven from heaven and it says at the end of the age he's going to return - so you don't know your destiny God has planned for you exceeding abundantly above all you could ask think or imagine but if you don't submit to a process you'll never see it and that's the most important thing in the Christian life if you want to walk in the supernatural is to submit to the process because there are very few men and women of christ-like character in the earth I'm telling you more coming forth now than ever before but the church has been devoid of that much of the time you still with me we're still friends okay in Leviticus 22:32 it says this you shall not profane my Holy Name you shall not profane my holy character but I will be revered among the children of Israel I am the lord who sanctifies you you know priests were called to be priests and kings priests were to be separated from all ungodly customs they were to live pure and blameless lives that honored God and followed his plans failure to do so would profane the name of God to profane means to stain dishonor or treat the Lord's character is something that's not holy it's no different for those of us that are called to be kings and priests in this hour God expects his people to live in a way that honors him he commands them to show evidence of holiness by living lives that are pure and separated from evil we are in the world but not of the world we can no longer blend in and do what the world does it must be evident that we're different not superior different the difference we'll start with a true christ-like humility not an arrogance arrogance and haughtiness are not of God humility and God begins to do something it's interesting to note the some of the greatest men and women of God used throughout the ages were men and women of humility brokenness and character walked in extraordinary Authority saw extravagant miracles from the throne we failed to recognize the pattern again it's human nature all of us do this everyone we gravitate towards the spectacular Wow did you see that miracle wow that person's really anointed we dis pointed in the wrong direction if a miracle points you to a man or a woman you're looking in the wrong direction you should point you to Jesus always it's time we entered into God's secret service where they see Jesus but not us where they recognize his voice but not yours well we don't receive the accolades of men we point to him let's look at some New Testament passages in this manner therefore pray our Father who art in heaven hallowed be your character funny I thought I just read that yeah it's character it's holy it's to be revered how about this many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied with christ-like character in your name for $100 of course stay away from that I just started getting that holy anger again cast out demons with christ-like character in your name only took us 12 hours to get that brother free and done many wonders in your name with christ-like character and he's gonna say depart from me I never knew you there's no similarity between you and me you did it for your own reasons for your own acclaim and without asking me you know the mercy of God on my life I didn't start with a capacity to see in the realm of the Spirit of to see the Lord and that's for a different message but what I did start seeing was demons so many people have come up to me said oh I only see demons I don't want it I said are you out of your mind if you can see demons they can't sneak up on you but they're so ugly yeah aren't they now you know where Hollywood gets some other influence so I started out that way I remember once was wind up with a friend on the freeway in Los Angeles going down the road and she's driving also an owl and I went and I'm looking out I said what well I had this pain and I turned and looked she said I had this pain in my shoulder yesterday and they prayed and it left but its back and I went oh is it right here she said my god how did you know that that's exactly and I said oh she driving 80 miles an hour I'm not gonna tell her there's a demon sitting there I said all the Lord showed me I said be gone in the name of Jesus and this demon flew out the window hit the slipstream want food she goes oh it's gone okay once we stopped I told her I didn't want to anyway but before I even commanded it to go I asked the Lord what should I do he said get rid of it did you hear me just because I see doesn't mean I have authority while the Bible says you have authority to tread on serpents in school I'm under authority so are you just because you have the authority doesn't mean you have the authority or you've been released to use that authority you only do what he tells you to do you'll save yourself years of trouble years of trouble that was his brother member in the 80s they were doing the spiritual mapping and taking your cities for God and you know they would plan out a strategy and then get together in March and command and cast down and do all these wonderful things and I'm not against that I but I've always said show me that in the Bible again we're doing the forty seven step process instead of one Lord what are you saying so that was so I I'm watching this and one day this brother in Los Angeles they had just come from this conference and he's all pumped like wow and he decides he's going to command the principality over Los Angeles to get out so he's driving down the freeway again those are dangerous roads demons all over anyway he starts commanding this thing gone and all of a sudden the demon manifests in the car with him it starts shredding him I mean just he's got the marks on his body and his clothes are torn and he goes he starts screaming and almost Christ Jesus and he pulls over to the side of the road and he's terrified he should finally said God well what happened what was that the Lord said I did not give you permission to command that thing to come down that is not your a purview or sphere of influence or as we would say today that's well above your pray grade you do what you're told to do and nothing more he learned a hard lesson and so that's how the Lord would teach me I would see these things I mean some big some small and I say Lord what are you saying that's my language with God does that mean I should bind this thing can I take a sword and cut his head off what do you want me to do sometimes he'd say I just want you to be aware sometimes you say you intercede tell the individuals command it to go at you under Authority so why do we do things with a knee-jerk reaction because we think we're something when truth says we're really nothing that's what the word says we're under authority if you just begin to dialogue with God you'll never fail let me say that again if you dialogue with God and hear what he says and then you do that you will never fail and that's character because Jesus said in John 5:19 of my own self I can do nothing Wow Jesus couldn't do anything no he only did what he saw the father doing and Lord I came to manifest your character and this is the character that you have me walking in so I don't do anything without you telling me first whole different realm of existence to be led of the Spirit not of a program not of an intellectual assent but to so be in love with Jesus that you know his very heartbeat that you can say Lord what do you want to do in this situation and he tells you let me give you a example in my life we were ministering in Singapore and we were in a particular church the lady who had invited us we got to minister to the youth that day we found out she had brain cancer and they had been trying everything they could nothing was working but so she's there and and she came up for prayer she told us what she had and I went okay father what are you saying he said take a step back now close your eyes and pull out the sword of the Spirit I gave you and pierce her with it pierce her heart so I step back close my eyes pulled out this order that you know the sword of the word of God is sheathed in your heart pull up the sword and I just went why am didn't touch her my eyes are closed but I saw it pierced her heart I opened my eyes and she dropped she was down for about two minutes got up that was on a Sunday on Tuesday she went to the doctor there was no brain cancer now that's not look at me that's look at him I did what he said if I had just laid hands on her like everybody else had been doing without inquiring of the Lord what to do I would have put another band-aid on a symptom when God wanted to get to the root that's the point I'm making you do what God tells you to do and you will see the results God wants that's a hard lesson to learn because I was programmed through my upbringing in the Church of what to do this is how you do it this is how you do it this is how you do it back in the 70s you know it was always get out the oil got a anoint with oil well there's a place for that of course it's scriptural but you call for the elders of the church who will anoint with oil a little problem there we pick people to be elders that had no character no foundation of Scripture but they were wealthy so we're gonna put them in leadership positions oops scripturally elders had to be at least 60 years of age of good reputation and well taught in Scripture and the smearing of oil in the Hebrew culture has a metaphor that really means they would smear you or they would impress into you the very word of God and then they would pray and you'd be healed so that's the principle that's the metaphor so it just became common we're gonna have a healing line and get the oil get the oil we're gonna anoint everybody with all sometimes they get exuberant and pour it over you and wreck your clothes but that's okay cuz it's ix it I'm being funny now I'll tell you the truth one time I got a brand-new pair of Gator skin boots I mean saved a lot of money save money to get these things they're beautiful tan loved them this brother said the Lord told me to anoint you with oil I'm thinking okay no he puts it all over hands gets down and touched my boots left a handprint on my boots and I'm like uh uh needless to say it was hard to receive anything anyway it's okay I got some nice oil and fix them but anyway I learned how to fix them it's so let me tell you a true story back in the Midwest of America there's this old farmer bib overalls you know just kind of has some cows and different things and one day one of his cows gets he's a believer his cow gets sick and he's read the Bible he says lay hands on the sick and they'll recover but he also read James he got a night with oil but he's out in the field I don't have oil so he went put his hand on his cow and prayed and the cow was healed he started getting a reputation other farmers would say would you come over I got some sick cows and he'd pray and they get healed I love that kind of faith so they have them at they almost of God Church never mind that's a denomination that and so he gives this testimony in the pastor says okay we're gonna have a healing line now those that want Farmer Brown you go over there and he'll pray for you and I need the elders are stand here so they get their oil there's a line here and a line here and so pastor brown they drop get up totally healed and the pastors the eldest over there going nothing's happening here and these people walk over here and get healed so what's going on far beyond worship they had a formula he had a heart attitude they learned do what the Lord says not the formula you still with me so we'll be praying for people no now I'm ready or Jesus would spit in the dirt make mud if you want your eyes prayed for we can do that too so he who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a Prophet's reward makes a little more sense now everybody's going what's the reward of a prophet well you know they lay on one side for 365 days naked they're thrown in pits there never mind no he who receives the prophet in the character of her prophet or who receives the character of that prophet the character in which he comes is going to receive that reward now pay attention that's why it's so imperative you judge fruit and character because if you're receiving a character that is not like Jesus that's the reward you're gonna receive ouch not good he who receives a righteous man with the character of a righteous man shall receive that reward so now you know the reward is God will impart a measure of that righteous character into you I like that that's Matthew 1041 Matthew 12 21 says and in his name Gentiles will trust in the character of Christ Gentiles will trust you know what here's what we've done in the church now hear my heart not just the words because I'm not coming against anybody in anything I'm saying if anything I'm revealing me because the Lord taught me this and showed me what I was walking in but here's the thing we take the banner the name of Jesus and think it's a magic wand do you know there are apostate movements in the world today churches where ichabod is written over them there's no no spirit yet they wave that banner where Christians would come together in the name of Jesus but he's nowhere to be found it's not a magic wand the principle is the foundation that we must focus on so where two or more of you are gathered together with christ-like character he's in that midst not just a banner that woo woo because you could have a rancid heart filled with all sorts of vileness and still wave that flag and think Jesus is there we have been misled I'm not against praying in the name of Jesus if you understand what that really means I'm praying with the character of Christ and investing that so you receive that reward not the reward of magic wand are you understanding that please understand that I'm not against praying in the name of Jesus especially now that you understand what he's communicating christ-like character receives christ-like reward vastly different I I wish you know it's the fullness of God's time but I wished I had learned this years ago it would have saved me years of stumbling through dark places trying to connect with the reality of the Word of God in the God of the word that's Matthew 18:20 where two or three are gathered together with christ-like character my name I am there in the midst of them therefore go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name in the character and the authority now listen that means you must be a carrier of that character and that authority to baptize them and release to them a measure a starting place of that character and authority progressing in their life you know here's here's a challenge to every one of you when you lead somebody to the Lord again where I was brought up you have the multiple steps they get saved they come to new believers class I believe they should they should not we have a foundation they're not against that then we talk about the baptism in the Holy Spirit or the baptism in water and then the baptism in the Holy Spirit then we talk about maybe going to Bible College and then maybe ministry hmm when I went to Bible College I was in school I was in there one month was praying for my friends ever getting healed and and filled with the Holy Ghost and I was abruptly told you stop that you have no authority to do that I was shocked at what uh what Bible do you read I thought I wasn't occult I was going Jesus said to go do this and you say I don't have what do you mean you haven't been through our Bible College yet you have no authority to preach or lay hands on D people did Peter get that memo what about James I bet you James got it no James didn't get it in other words the tradition of man usurped the place of the position of the Word of God that says go ye into all the world and preach saying and doing see how dangerous religion can be should be have a foundation of the word sure that comes but I'm not stopping anybody for praying for somebody in the name of the Lord I might come alongside in coach and say you're doing great let's keep going buddy let me show you some things that's crazy I was told for years you can't you won't it's never gonna happen I can I've done and it always happens now don't ask me to repeat that so you lead them to the Lord with this when I pray for you and you accept Jesus you're gonna be filled with the Holy Ghost you're gonna begin to speak in tongues your spiritual eyes be open and you'll be able to see in the realm of the Spirit and you'll see Jesus you're gonna have an ability to discern I mean you start giving him what took us years to get to and you build that into them from the start and when you bleed them to the Lord immediately they're walking in that we've watched it one time here in the Malaysia we were invited to a an individual's home and they said oh well our maid you know she got saved we gave her a Bible but we've left it there and she's been reading through the Bible and now she wants to be baptized would you mind doing that and I'm you know we're on the way why didn't you tell me before we started that's what I was thinking he said but we don't have a pool I said well he said we don't even have a bathtub also we got as a shower I said that's crazy enough I'm in so we got there she was in her you know short pants and a t-shirt I said this is what's gonna happen now this is what baptism is this is what it signifies but when you get under these waters of baptism when we turn this on you're going to immediately be filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues and have these experiences we turned that thing on and she immediately shunned honor how about a bacon I mean she didn't want to come out of the shower find anything I said look we got to eat you got to come out see you build that expectation that's where we should start people my dad taught me this for years he said this to me over and over and over and we taught this all over the world my ceiling the place I have grown up to in Christ at this point my ceiling is now your floor all that he's invested in me has become your starting point as I invested in you you don't have to go through years of struggle to receive what I've struggled for years to get to it becomes your floor you see this throughout history and in the history of the church every past move of God has built as built as until we come to the end of the age where the crescendo is a Great Awakening and the return of Messiah amen brother okay out a couple more minutes here's what Jesus said John 5:43 I have come in my father's name I've come in my father's character and you don't receive me but if another comes in his own character you'll receive him they manifestly rejected the character of the father that was in Christ because they had the character of the elders and the traditions of those elders that took a predominant position even over the Word of God as a matter of fact in Hebrew culture the rabbi's have said this and taught their people this for generations that it's the rabbis God entrusted with Torah and they're the only ones that can really interpret it so because they can interpret it their opinion is higher than the word tradition so whatever you ask the Father in my name that I will do that the father may be glorified in the son when you come before the father with christ-like character and you ask he will give it to you because you're not gonna ask amiss that you might consume it upon your own lusts because you have the character of Christ that's not even in the picture you ask according to character and you receive according to that character am I making sense so this was the end result of all of this study I began to do things a little bit differently in the church I would have healing lines and I would ask each individual what is your need they tell me how you gonna know you're healed by faith I said excellent what does faith look like what what is it that needs healing in your body well I need a new hip joint so what does faith look like a new hip joint I agree move instantly healed but you didn't pray in the name of Jesus no I'm practicing what he invested in me the character of Christ and I began to press man I begin to practice this how you gonna know you're healed no more pain I agree your faith has made you whole no more pain instantly healed it's almost funny sometimes because people are expecting something else right and they say okay pain go now move and they keep talking I said wait wait wait wait is there any pain no I guess you're healed then I still pray in the name of Jesus of course I do but I have an understanding of what that means he's talking about we have the privilege to become mature sons and daughters of God and in that place the supernatural becomes natural to you everybody says its second nature forgets second it's got to become first nature it's got to become our reality one last scripture well I've got to tell you to excuse me remember when Jesus came to the island of janessa at where the demonized man was scripture says that the name of the character of Jesus every knee bow and every tongue confess is he's Lord Jesus stepped out of the boat boom and that character of God so resonated in him the demoniac came and fell at his feet when you come in the character of Christ wherever you're at sickness boughs it's knee the demon dies bow their knee poverty boughs it's knee listen to me you become like Peter who would walk down the street and people would be healed because they came within the purview of that elegance that authority they say the shy that you're the shadow no get that out of your mind because it portrays a picture of the sons here there's the shadow you got to walk on top of them in the afternoon there no more no it's talks about the outward allegiance the outward shining of the person and the character of Christ so he just walked down the street and people were instantly healed why because it bowed its knee to the character of Christ in him that's how you walk in this so everywhere you go in a country where you're not supposed to evangelize you are the message because you walk down the street and spontaneous combustion takes place as people are healed delivered and set free instantly without a word being spoken get that in your heart this is the supernatural lifestyle and it's your portion all you have to do is ask God and he will say I've been waiting for you to ask now come and receive it's that simple this isn't rocket science unfortunately in our Western cultures we want rocket science too often this is simple simple religion makes something simple difficult to attain relationship with God keeps things simple you don't need 47 steps you need one passion for Jesus Lord I want to know you I just want to be like you that's it that's the equalizer no Steve stunning evangelists or prophet profound he says come as you are I qualify the called I don't call the qualified so the question is to you this day are you one of those who wants to walk like this and if you are then you just have to ask so let's stand I'm gonna pray this is between you and God I could sit here and try and convince you all day there's scripture after scripture after scripture when you read your Bible from now on and you see the word name underlined it or circle it and know what it really means now it will change your whole perspective and will change your walk with God to make it something vital something that is supernatural that affects atmospheres around you so we're gonna pray I'm gonna pray over you you pray you start dialogue you with the Lord and if you want to walk in this you just agree close your eyes father I have invested in them that message you gave me to share now father I'm asking for grace upon them to receive your engrafted word that it will spring forth with newness of life within them that they will make a decision to be conformed to the character of Christ the highest calling of any believer is to be like him in character so that they might walk in the authority of Christ in this last hour Father release it to them as they say yes Lord and it's not my might it's not my power it's only by your spirit and you have grace and mercy upon us now Lord that you will set in place within us and reveal those things in us that you need to deal with the issues that you have to be removed for our character to be changed thank you for that grace in this hour thank you for the what work you're doing release your people to this now father I pray in the mighty name of Jesus amen you

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