(Music) (Music) (Music) Pastor Jim Staley: "Shabbat Shalom everyone" (Music) Latinos! Shabbat Shalom! Amen. First time ever broadcasting
live in the studio here at Passion for Truth I want to say Shabbat Shalom to everyone out there. This is more of a test than anything to let you
guys know what God's doing in the background. We've been working along here hard. I wanted to share
a couple things here, I've only got a few minutes here before I've got to be somewhere, but I wanted to share something with you guys, out of this week's Torah portion if I could do so.
Of Va'etchanan ("and He pleaded") Anybody out there feel like you plead every once in a while?
Do you feel like you're pleading with the Father? Well, I feel that every day of my life, I
feel like I am pleading with the Father to help me through my daily struggles. So, I want to dive in here real quickly and, if you could turn with me, you don't have to, you can
just listen along here but let's get into Va'etchanan. That is Deuteronomy Chapter 3, just want to
pull in a couple things for you real quick here, Hopefully it'll encourage you on your day. This is
what I look forward to doing every single day here at Passion for Truth. I can't wait, we're not quite
there but we are getting there so, bear with me. All right, so in Chapter 3 Verse 22 as they're
moving across into the promised land it says: "You
must not fear them, (do not fear them) (if you fear them) "You must not fear them
for the Lord your God himself fights for you" Do you ever feel like that the Lord God is not
fighting for you? Well, I want you to hear what I have to say this afternoon because I believe that
the Father is going to encourage you. That there's a reason why sometimes you don't feel
like God is fighting for you. And that's because of the resistance. You see, God could have easily
gone into the Promised Land, could have easily wiped out all of their enemies, but He chose
not to do that because He wants to partner with us. All of the blood, sweat and tears, and all the
difficulty of taking over Jericho or taking over the different cities. Is on us. We have to do our
part and then the end result is always His. Watch: it says: "You must not fear them for the Lord himself
fights for you" Listen, I don't care what you're going through right now, I don't care if it's
marriage problems, if you've got teenager problems, I've had a couple of those myself, I know what it
feels like right? But at the end of the day Yahweh fights for you. But there's a condition. So let's
cruise on down. Again, I told you this is going to be lightning fast and I apologize to all of
our hispanic friends out there, we're not quite there yet where we can do live streaming with
translation, but we're gonna get there with your help. Stay tuned. Some exciting things are
happening in that event. But watch this: in Verse 4 of Chapter 4, it says this: "But you
who held fast to the Lord your God are alive today" Every one of you, did you hear that? Let's back
up to Verse 3 it says: "Your eyes has seen what the Lord did at Baal Peor for the Lord your
God destroyed from among you all the men who followed Baal Peor but YOU! YOU! who held fast to
the Lord your God, are alive today." Every single one of you! Do you know what that means? That means
that those who hold fast, let's just dive into the Word real quickly in Hebrew. Okay. The
word here, let me see if I can pronounce that, It is: "dabeq" All right, so, "dabeq"
means to cleave, it means to join, it means to stick closer than you can possibly imagine, like
Super Glue all right? So, is as hard and as powerful as Super Glue is. Me and my daughters have
been talking last night, we had a fantastic Shabbat and we were joking around about doing
things to each other while we were sleeping, and one of the kids said: You know? I'm gonna take Super Glue and I'm gonna "Super Glue" it on dad's lips while he's
sleeping right? So probably a lot of people would want that to happen sometimes. But,
at the end of the day, that Super Glue on skin you can't pull it apart, it's not going to happen
right? So this is how close the Father wants us to be with Him, He wants us to be so close that we
are like Super Glue, we're adhering to Him. It's in the process of holding fast, it is in that process
when we hold fast to the Lord God. That's when we experience this Scripture which says that you are
alive today. If you don't feel like you're alive, then you're not holding fast. And I think it's
fascinating that the word english is "fast" and in the Hebrew it's "to adhere" but in
English we say: "to hold fast" I think it's almost hilarious in a way because we need to
not hold slow, we need to hold fast. So in English, it actually has a double meaning: "hold fast" to the
Lord. God is asking you to make sure that you hold fast to him because life is not slow, life is fast.
And when things come at you from a thousand miles an hour you know, your spouse says something that's
snarky to you or your employer or something happens at your job, or you just wake up on the
wrong side of the bed. I'm telling you, life happens fast. You need to hold on to Yahweh fast. And those
that hold on to Him by the way to adhere to Him, that not depart from Him, those are the ones that God
says are alive today. Every one of you, not every one of you, every one of you that are holding fast
to Him. So one of the quick messages that I believe the Father has for you today is to hold fast,
matter of fact, let me just go off in the prophetic right now because I've been sensing something
in the Spirit and you need to hear this: Every one of you out there: "There is days
that are coming, says the Lord, that you are going to be required to make a decision what
you're going to hold on to for your security." Did you hear what I said? You're going to have to
make a decision on what is your security blanket. For some of you, you're out there, maybe you know
somebody, if it's not you, or son or daughter or someone that's out there, but you're holding on to
something because your heart is broken. Your heart is broken, you're feeling a void inside of you
and maybe it's from your own sin, maybe it's from your own mistakes that you've made maybe it's not,
maybe it's from someone else's mistakes, but you're feeling this incredible void in your life. I can
assure you, if that is where you're coming from and you feel this void in your life, the Father says
to you that the days are coming right now where you need to choose what you're going to hold on to.
What is going to be your security blanket? What is going to be your Super Glue? Are you gonna hold on
to the blanket of Linus from the "Peanuts" gang? Charlie Brown. Are you gonna hold
on to that blanket? What's your security? Where do you go to for security when you feel insecurity, says
the Lord. Because that which you hold on to, that's not of Him. Will not bring you life, it will bring
you death and destruction and despair, but when you hold on to Him, it will bring you life every
single time. You want to be alive? Hold fast to the Lord. Let's cruise on down here, I got a couple
more verses then I gotta run. Chapter 4 Verse 29 "But from there you will seek the Lord your God
and when you find Him, if you seek him with all of your heart and with all of your soul, when you are
in distress, and all these things come upon you, when all these things come upon you He says,
in the latter days, when you turn the Lord your God and obey His voice for the Lord your
God, as a merciful God, He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant
of your fathers, which He swore to them. Ask now concerning the days that are
past, which were before you since the day that God created man on earth, ask from one end of
Heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has ever happened, or anything like it
has ever been heard, and then He says this: did any people ever hear the voice of God speaking
out to the midst of the fire as you have heard and lived? Or did God ever try to go and take for
Himself a nation from the midst of another nation by trials by signs by wonders by war by a mighty
hand and an outstretched arm..? and He goes on. All these things it's like Job Chapter 38 and 39
right? Do you realize, you people, what kind of God that you serve? So let me prophetically take that
voice that mantle right now from this scripture, and bring it into 2021 and tell you and ask you
this: Have you ever seen the power of God move like you are about to today? Like you have in your
life? For those of you that have relationship with the Lord, have you ever seen another God love His
people so much that He'd be willing to actually die Himself, manifest Himself in the form
of a human being, cloak Himself in humanity and lay on a cross, and let the very creatures
that He created crucify Him? What kind of God would do that? But the God of Yahweh, Jehovah, the
Creator of the universe. Listen to me: You serve a God that's so much bigger than whatever
you're going through. Whatever your circumstance is, whatever your financial status is, I don't care
what your mode of operating is right now. We serve a God, an Elohim, a Judge, a Magistrate that is so
far above all magistrates, and I should know that. I've been under human magistrates, I've been under
human judges, and I'm going to tell you right now, there's a bigger Judge with a bigger hammer behind
a bigger desk, in a bigger courtroom that has the ability to come down out of Heaven and change
the circumstance like that. But what He's looking for us to do is to hold fast, hold fast. Can you
hold fast? Hold fast to what the Father is doing right now because Abba is telling you right now. I
believe He's about to have a breakthrough, there is a revival that's coming in this land, I feel it,
it started on Shavuot of this year in my world. I don't know if it's globally, but I sense it in
the Spirit and when the Spirit allows me to sense things, you can bank on it, it's gonna happen. The
Spirit of God is reviving His people and the bones of Joseph are about to raise from the dead. There
is connections and generals that He's talking to right now, Kings. The father says this: "My Son is
the King of Kings, where are My kings? Says the lord, "Where are my kings? He's calling out to the lost
sheep of the House of Israel, first to the kings, first to the judges, first to the magistrates,
and when He calls them and they answer that call, there will be a move of God like you've never
seen in your lifetime, the greatest revivals, the faith revivals right? The Brownsville revivals,
the revival of faith and the revival of of all the revivals that have happened in the
last 100 years. I used to have them all memorized and I can't remember hardly any of them. But God
is doing so and that's because there's so much in the past, we are in need of revival right now.
And I believe that the breakthrough that you're looking for in your marriage is coming. I'm telling
you. But the answer is right here, it says: "When you are in distress and all these things come upon
you" What things? I don't care if it's Covid 19 20 or 21 there's more things to come that
the antichrist system is bringing. Again, I'm gonna have a lot to say about that
in the future, but I can tell you one thing: the Father says I don't care if it's that, I don't care
if it's Covid 19, I don't care if it's Covid 1900. I don't care if it's the marriage problems you
have, I don't care whatever kind of whatever distress that you have in your life, He says. When
all these things come upon you in the latter days, when you turn to the Lord and obey His voice,
the Lord God is merciful and He will not forsake you, destroy you, or forget the Covenant of
your fathers. Do you hear that? This is conditional. "When." He doesn't say "if." When all these things
happen, when all these things come to you, when your life begins to fall apart, when things
don't go your way, stop acting like a child. Stop acting like an israelite in the wilderness and
remember that the Lord God met you at Mount Sinai. Remember the miraculous amazing display of colors,
and thunder and lightning, and the voice of the Creator of the universe talking to ants on a speck
of dust in the middle of the solar system. Remember that He opened up the Red Sea, remember that He
allowed you to know who He is. Look at your spouse if you're having marriage problems, look at your
spouse and say: I remember how much I loved you when I first met you, and remember the great times.
Begin to talk about it. Hold fast to that which God gave you in the beginning. He says: when you
have the distress, do not forget about me because those who call upon My Name, those who adhere to
Me like Super Glue, those who don't quit, 10/12th of the Tribes of Israel quit, ladies and gentlemen.
At the brink of the most amazing point in history they were right at their destiny, right at
their destiny, you know what happened? They quit. And 10/12th of them had to live in the desert. Don't
be ten twelfths ladies and gentlemen. Va'etchanan and He pleaded, I plead with you today
the Lord God pleads with you today, do not quit, I don't care how bad it is, I don't care
how hard it is, stop complaining and make it simple black and white. Either I believe in the Lord
God I'm gonna hold fast to Him or I'm not gonna believe in the Lord God and hold fast to Him. It
is completely and 100% up to you, may the Lord God bless you and keep you this day, may His face shine
upon you, may His countenance be lifted up over you. And listen, may He give you peace, may He give you
shalom, may everything that the Creator has to offer you may you receive it. Take your hands right
now put them in the air right now, every one of you. Except if you're driving, if you're
driving don't do this, but if you aren't raise your hands before the Lord God. And say: Father I receive, I receive from you Father God breakthrough
by faith. I refuse to look at my circumstances when my life is overwhelming, when
it's falling apart I give you my life, my trust, my faith and
all things are possible with you my King Say: Father, I receive the breakthrough, I reject
disbelief, I reject doubt, I reject my past. Yes, like the song says: I know that You are good, I know that
You are kind, so Father God, we just come before You and we praise You, and we thank You, and we give
You glory because You are worthy to be praised! You're bigger than our circumstances,
You're bigger than our situation, You're bigger than all things and You are in all
things, every storm that comes upon us you are the lightnings, You are the thunder, You are the
rain, You're the fire, You're the air we breathe, [Music]. You are good Father...Hallelujah [Music] I know that you are good... [Music] I remember what it
felt like to be in the hole for 84 days in a six by nine foot cell with another man and
I remember crying out to the Lord God saying: Lord though You may crush me, I will praise Your name, Amen and Amen We'll see you on the other side ladies and
gentlemen next time, have a great Shabbat! Shabbat Shalom.
