All of us have been blessed with some gifts. Some of us find out early what giftings are and some of us find out later. Some of us have been blessed with beauty, finances, hospitality to mention a few. Some of our gifts are inward some are outward there are many combinations of gifts, talents that are natural or supernatural.
Heart
If our heart is not ready or mature enough and even then it does come down to free will, our gifts, talents can be a hindrance or a stone that trips us up if we are not careful. What do I mean? Let’s say you are a beautiful woman/man. The temptation may be “well I have to use what I got right?” “ I have to use what my Momma blessed me with”. So this worldly thinking can lead to a life of porn, prostitution to mention a few. This is not what God intended you for. Or it could be finances. Suppose you accumulate a lot of money. The temptation here could be “ I earned it, therefore it’s all mine”. Another example we could use is voice. A lot of talented singers start out in the church and then they go secular and the enemy ends up using their voice instead of God. See how what should be and is a blessing can trip us up if we are not a good steward of it.
It happened before
In the beginning there were 4 kingdoms.
God
Angels
Animals
Plants
Lucifer was created as the most beautiful Angel. His job was to release revelation and to lead worship. He had instruments built into him.
Note: The enemy was in the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden. God was in the garden of Eden. Everyone partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Satan did it, Adam did it, Eve did it and God did it. But the difference is God is the only one to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and STILL CHOOSE GOOD! God was trying to be a filter for Adam and Eve. He did not want them to know about evil. He wanted to protect them. We do the same to our children to this day! Do we not! We teach our children good, not bad and this was on the heart of God to be their filter for Adam and Eve.
Note: Lucifer was so beautiful, I see him as a spoiled brat. We see here he had instruments built into him. Tabrets. This is alluding to him creating/leading heavenly worship. And if he’s leading then that makes him an Archangel. Now scripture never states this outright but scripture also never mentions the word “Trinity” but yet we know today God is a Trinity.
Note: Lucifer was made perfect. So he can’t blame God for what happened to him. Also no one was there to tempt Lucifer, think about it. He made the choice himself and it was the wrong choice of course. You see angels get one chance to get it right. They don’t get repentance, Only we do! Don’t you feel special! You should!
Now going back to the kingdoms, there were 4 kingdoms and one day Lucifer noticed the lights of men that were inside God. Which was us! We existed inside God before the foundation of the earth. I always say women before you were pregnant, God was pregnant, where do you think it came from! Remember spiritually, we were spirits.
Note: You can’t conquer what you don’t understand, amen! We were those lights of men/women.
James 1:17
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”
In this, Lucifer could not handle and refused to handle this situation just like a spoiled brat. He didn’t want to play second fiddle to us. He now had knowledge of the 5 kingdoms and he would not accept it.
The 5 kingdoms are
God
Man
Angels
Animals
Plant
Note: There are no aliens out there but fallen angels. Another name for that would be demons.
Note: There it is. His beauty, which was a blessing, tripped him up. And it corrupted his wisdom.
Take note
We can laugh and think about how stupid Lucifer is but we are faced with the same thing today! Will beauty cause your heart to be lifted up, or money, will it be friends? There’s so many things we can allow to get to us if we are not careful.
Guard
We must guard ourselves and use wisdom. We must stay humble yet confident in our Lord Jesus Christ. The corporate world , people backstab each other, gossip about each other, step on toes to climb the corporate ladder.
God’s kingdom is different. The way up is the way down. Meaning we are to serve. It’s by serving we get promoted. It keeps the condition of our heart from becoming proud and lifted up.
Note: I said hospitality earlier. Don’t fix someone something to eat or drink and say “Here!” with a grudge. You are erasing your blessing! Don’t pray for someone to be free from alcohol and then you get on the phone and you say “Well Bobby is still an alcoholic” You just erased your prayers!
Don’t do it. Call it like you don’t see it, or don’t say anything at all. I would rather you say nothing than to say something negative. Good stewards take care of the gifts they have and they use them for the kingdom of God and not for darkness.
Alright saints let’s go out there and be good stewards amen. And if you just realized that you have been using your gifts for the enemy, to further the enemies agenda, repent right now. That’s the power of repentance is you can repent right now this very second.
Father God
Forgive me for using any words over myself or against others that did not bring you glory. Forgive me for not using the gifts you put inside me or using them in an unworthy manner. Wash me clean with the blood of Jesus Christ and this day forward I will use my gifts for your glory Father God. May I shine just as you have intended for me to shine in every way, in Jesus name I pray amen.
The Holy Spirit spoke to me. When you take your son/daughter hunting in the woods, what is it that you want to see?
You want to see your son/daughter STAND and SHOOT and kill that bear. And that’s what you want to see and would make you feel so proud. Now God loves you no matter what but bravery for Godly reasons is always rewarded.
Here you see your son as a baby and you raise him into a man and you want to see him make that STAND.
What you don’t want to see is you don’t want to see him coward down or hide or run. But look at these last couple of years, this is what the body of Christ has been doing.
The government has no business telling the body of Christ what to do, when to do it and how to do it. When to gather, when not to gather and how to gather but that’s exactly what happened.
Separation of Church and State…………I’ll get back to this one.
God doesn’t want to see us complain. God why did this happen, God why did that happen? Complaining and disobedience is what got the Hebrews to wander in the desert for 40 years.
What does God want to see? He wants us to grow from babies to men/women warriors of God and make a stand, he wants to see us stand for once. The LGBQ stands! All these people stand, the enemy stands, what about the body of Christ? When will the body of Christ stand?
God wants to see us stand, he wants us to shoot, he wants us to use our mighty spiritual weapons that we have been given.
You might say well I’m an old man, how can I fight? It says in Ephesians our weapons are not carnal…..
Listen saints, i’m not saying pick up your gun and shoot the first crazy person you see. No. we fight first on our knees in prayer. While that might not make sense to some of you, it’s just we are living in a supernatural world that’s been dressed up in the physical. Kinda like when Bill Gates took MS DOS and made it pretty and called it WINDOWS. This earth is the same type of thing, the supernatural supersedes the natural, that’s why Jesus walked on water and walked through people and many more miracles. The supernatural laws supersede the natural laws that we see with our fleshly eyes.
Goals
Biblically Stand (means to bend your knees and pray the promises of God)
Don’t shrink back Hebrews 10:39
Hebrews 10:39
“But we are not of them who draw(or shrink) back unto perdition(to their own destruction); but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”(whose souls will be saved)
Believe ( all of this does no good if you don’t believe or if you waver in faith)
Widow
Look at the widow Zarepheth. But before we do let’s look at the background on how this story unfolds.
Elijah the prophet took A STAND and declared that there is only one God, Yahweh, of Israel. At times WE have to take a stand for and with God. Elijah was standing up against the wickedness that was being released and allowed by King Ahab and Jezebel. You see there are people in the bible that had the trust, the confidence of God’s power and authority. Prophet Elijah was one and David, King David was another one.
Where is our Prophet for today? You might say “ oh prophets were for back then, we don’t need them now”
Let me tell you something. When a prophet comes around you it means there’s something wrong, something off and God is using them to re-align the situation.
Have you noticed since we are in this big mess, all these prophets are popping up. Prophets come around when there is a problem.
Since it is even true when I look at when God called me out of California, everywhere we went there was a problem, there was a correction that was made. And I’m telling you I don’t look forward to giving out corrections. I’m not the type of person to get all in your business but sometimes the Lord has me do it. The Lord has shown me private situations going on with people. And I don’t go putting them on blast and shout to the whole world about it. I discuss the matter the Lord has shown me with people but I use discretion. I protect their dignity. But that’s not always possible. If you’re not going to listen privately then the Lord can call you out publicly.
The other thing I noticed that’s hard on people is pride. I can give a message from the Lord but your pride won’t allow you to receive it. If I come to your house and give you a message from the Lord, a person with pride will think, “ Well who are you to tell me this message, I hear from God myself!” That’s pride! And you did not discern the Lord’s visitation!
I mean I don’t show up with fancy suits or a booming voice. In fact I came here with only 2 or 3 shirts and a pair of pants and a pair of shoes. That’s why you probably see me wear the same thing over and over. I’m not complaining, there’s bigger stuff out there, besides, the bible says don’t worry about clothing right? Mathew 6:25.
Matthew 6:25
“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?”
My family and I are living by faith and we still are to this day! Do I have good days and bad days? Yes just like the prophet Elijah I have strong days where I’m like cmon God bring anything in my way because I know WE can do this together!!! And I do have days where I do worry but in the end I cast my cares upon him, I repent.
We can criticize the prophet Elijah and say “ dude you just killed 400 prophets of baal, you guys know the story, I’m not going to go deep into that. And the next thing you know the prophet Elijah is running away from the enemy!” But we do the same thing! We can tell a coworker, “girl you need to do this or that in your situation” and then when it happens to us sometimes we are like” Lord where are you , why is this happening?” Do you know why that happens? Because God only shows us so much, only a step at a time.
If you knew ahead of time what you were going to go through, many of us would choose a different path. A path of less resistance. But the path God has for us provides growth and it’s never the way we think it should be.
Now back to the prophet Elijah. So now he is on the run from jezebel. God tells Elijah to go to Zarephath and live there because a certain widow will feed him.
Now look at God. He is using the most unlikely circumstances. He is not using a rich couple. He is not even using a married couple, he is using a widow that doesn’t have food , to feed the prophet!
Note: Interesting here that God is using an unclean bird, the raven. So an unclean bird is FEEDING Elijah! See how God moves! It’s not in ways that we could not have predicted, it’s in ways that go against our natural mind. I encourage you to get your mind out of the box! Because God our Father is outside of the box! I want to be like him, outside the box amen!
Note: God sent Elijah here and yet provision dried up. But God had another plan of provision! Again it doesn’t make sense for God to send you somewhere that has dried up provision. I think this was God setting up the timing between Elijah and the widow.
Note: Notice this widow is so important yet she doesn’t even have a name! She’s just a widow! Yet she plays an important role in Elijah’s life! What does this mean? You don’t have to have a big name to make a difference in this world! Sally, Jeff, whomever your name is, you can play an important role, YOU JUST HAVE TO SAY YES!
Note: So the widow is just going to eat her last meal and die. Is this the first time she mentions this? I’m sure she cried out in prayer, “ God I need food!”
Note: She’s in extreme need but what happens, she gives! Miracles happen when you give in to obedience! Oh I’ll give when I have money! No, don’t fall into that trap. Give while you’re still in need ,it brings a bigger harvest amen!
Note: it wasn’t so much her crying about not having food, it was her OBEDIENCE that released her miracle, it was her OBEDIENCE that took her from a season of lack to a season of PLENTY.
That’s a word for someone!
So we also see here that the widows’ fear was replaced by faith and trust. I would say in today’s times TRUST is the hardest commodity to come by. How many friends and family have let you down due to trust. Probably a lot of them if not every single one of them. So we must still use trust but we must discern WHO to trust.
What if the widow didn’t trust the prophet Elijah? We would be reading a different story of how a man of God came by but due to mistrust the widow and her son died of starvation. And her complaint would have been God where were you when I was hungry? And God would have said I sent my prophet to bless you but you didn’t have faith nor trust.
Standing
This widow took a stand, Elijah took a stand. In the bible it says to stand.
Philippians 1:27
“Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;”
This is the Church’s biggest and glaring weakness. We need to stand today and be in one spirit and one mind striving together!
Costco
Not to give them free advertising but I do go to Costco from time to time. And what gives Costco a lot of power is their membership program. They can sit back and say hey we have 2 million in memberships now what can you do for us. And companies will give discounts to Costco, this enables Costco to provide benefits that other stores can not.
Even today, governments are afraid of this membership power, even in the early days of America.
Separation of Church and State
When we make a stand we first have got to know what is it exactly we are standing on.
What it is not:
The separation of church and state does not mean we shouldn’t talk about political issues.
It’s pretty apparent by now the enemy has infiltrated every level of politics because the church has turned its back on it. We need to take this back. Me too I normally don’t get involved in politics until in 2016 for the first time I heard a different frequency coming out of a politician that I haven’t paid attention to before.
The government shouldn’t force you into a religion nor punish you if you are a certain religion, that we can agree on.
We the People
Did you know?
The separation of church and state is NOT in the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence! It’s not in state or local laws. Wow!
So why is it so important then? Because over the years the government has twisted this to their advantage and the Church hasn’t called them on it.
Now why is that you may ask? Because of 501c3!!! Churches have been muffled by taxes or the threat of taxes.
I want my free speech. This ministry is not a 501c3! This ministry will speak the word of God as long as I have the support of the people. As long as I have the internet, a place to stay and the basic necessities I can proclaim the gospel throughout the world. But I’m relying on the goodness that God has put in your heart to continue to preach the Gospel. By the way can we stop arguing about the gospel that’s just a distraction! We need to come together powerfully, like Costco, with one voice, this is what the government is afraid of. The government is afraid of giving the power back to “We the people” And that starts in the Church!!!!!!
This all started when Thomas Jefferson wrote to a group of Baptists. This group of baptists were afraid of governmental powers being used against them, against the church.
Paraphrasing Thomas Jefferson wrote, Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, the first Amendment has built a wall of separation between church and state.
The very Constitution protects the Church from the state NOT the state from the church!
It was so the government couldn’t interfere with the way we lived and practiced our faith and worship.
But this is exactly what is going on now. The government is telling us to be so many feet apart, they are telling us NOT to gather and worship. Gathering is the fundamental part of being a church!
This is an all out assault on the body of Christ and we didn’t even see it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But Church, I’m not trying to scare you, that’s not my thing. But I Am the watchman on the wall. I’m a Paul Revere type “ the British are coming the British are coming!”
I Am telling you the strategies of the enemy. I Am telling you powerful truths that will set you free, just like last week I spoke about adoption and all my electricity went out.
Oh Pastor Jeno, that was just a coincidence. No it wasn’t!
The government is disappointed in this last scenario. You know this last scenario of 2 years.
There’s people that want to bring America to her knees through fake shortages and high prices.
That’s treason if you ask me. Yes I Am patriotic but there’s people sitting in jail right now over what marijuana. If you get caught with marijuana I mean it’s against the law then yes you goto jail and we have thousands of people locked up because of it. I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have a problem is when America wants to do a prisoner swap with Russia over a basketball player having marijuana!!
What message does this say to all the people locked up in America. Oh hey if you play basketball we will bail you out! Is that Justice!!! Noooo. And it sends the wrong message.
America was founded and built upon Christian beliefs. In school everyday we sang the pledge of Allegiance. How does it go?
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for ALL”
This gets taken out of the schools, political correctness takes over feminism takes over and now and now we are asking where are all the men are! Our newly appointed Supreme Court justice can’t even define what a woman is!!!
We need help and we need help fast. But don’t worry, saints help is on its way and it may not come the way YOU THINK IT SHOULD. Remember to think outside the box.
I mean right now what is blatantly bad is being celebrated as good. And what may appear as bad is not what you may think it is. These are strange times we live in but get ready for celebration I’m telling you. It’s in my spirit I’ve been saying it for over a year now to get ready for celebration. Coast to Coast celebrations.! By Faith we need to celebrate what we don’t see and bring it into the natural realm, amen. If that sounds crazy to you then you need to stay tuned in this channel more often, amen or go read the bible.
Ok Saints, let’s take a stand, let’s help each other, let us be known for our love and not for our arguments. Amen!
You ever hear Christians say they are currently struggling with alcohol or porn or they won’t say what it is and they might say something like I’m struggling right now.
For one it takes a lot of strength to admit you are struggling. That’s a good sign. But sometimes we can misplace or miscalculate our battles. Especially when we think the battle we just went through is over.
The highlight of the career of an up and coming David was when he fought Goliath. But even before that he had smaller battles prior with what, a lion. It says in 1 Samuel 17:32-37
Note: Saul is talking about natural experience, that David is just a boy and this Goliath man has been fighting since he was a boy.
You ever notice in boxing they try to match up seasoned fighters against other seasoned fights. In boxing it’s very dangerous to put someone who has let’s say 20 fights under his belt vs someone who only has 1 or 2 fights. Someone can get hurt and that someone would be the boxer who has less experience. But what Saul doesn’t know is that the Spirit of God is on David. And we are about to read that David is starting to realize that the Spirit of God is upon him as well and we see his confidence grow.
Note: can I just say, did you guys catch that? David chased a lion, for one you never hear that before, someone chasing a lion and two David says that when the lion turns on him he catches the lion by the beard, some translations say he catches the lion by the mouth. Um you know how hard that
is? First of all a lion has much quicker reflexes than we do, how are you going to catch a lion by the mouth? Exactly you can’t UNLESS the spirit of the Lord is upon you.
Note: okay Lather, rinse and repeat. What David did to the lion he also did to the bear. I don’t have to remind you how ferocious a bear is. A bear is stronger, faster than man but when again you have the spirit of the Lord upon you, you can do these things.
You know who else had the spirit of the Lord upon them? Samson. He took a jawbone from a donkey and killed a thousand men. You already know that it is supernatural. The hand of God was upon him.
Note: verse 37 you can just feel the confidence in David is rising up as he’s talking to Saul. And even Saul starts to believe!
So I bring up this battle David had with Goliath to show you we must discern and be ready for the real battle. What Goliath wasn’t the real battle? No.
David’s real battle came when he had to deal with Saul, running and dodging Saul all those years! What 12-13 years of that! David had to go up against:
His brothers
1 Samuel 17:28
“And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.”
David shows up on the battle lines where they were to face off with Goliath and David is like what’s wrong with you guys we have a covenant hellloooo! And David’s older brother is like get outta here you don’t belong, you just want to watch and you might get hurt.
The Lion
We just talked about this scenario
The Bear
We just talked about this scenario as well
Goliath
We all know what happened here. Although there is some more revelation here we’ll talk about this later.
Saul
After all these fights, the brother, the lion and bear, Goliath David could have relaxed and thought that okay now he has truly made it, think about it, the whole army was afraid to challenge Goliath and David steps in there I mean that takes some Bravado! I mean he had bragging rights after that! but good for him he discerned another battle was brewing between him and Saul.
Just because we get a victory here and there, we need to know our place and what God has called us to do. And then we are able to not only be able to carry out our mission but we’ll be ready for the next one.
Flesh
David’s biggest battle wounds did not come at the hands of Goliath, the lion or the bear but by his own flesh did him in. David had experienced success and he was now King.
For whatever reason King David chooses to stay home this time instead of going out to battle with his army which was customary for kings to do. Normally Kings go to fight with their army.This decision by King David opened a small door and in fact I like to call this door a “young lion” Lets goto Psalm 91.
Psalms 91:13
“Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.”
You see the young lion and dragon we are supposed to trample under our feet RIGHT AWAY!
This represents a sin we have in our lives that we deem is small and we CHOOSE to have it. It could be porn, TV programs were not supposed to watch and in this case it’s King David being at the wrong place at the wrong time because HE chose to stay back.
Now watch this play out. Did you guys know that a young lion grows up to be an adult lion? Which is easier to deal with? Young lion of course or even a cub lion is easier to deal with. But when we allow this little sin, this little lion into our lives, what happens is this little lion, this little cub that can’t hurt nobody turns into what an adult lion that is wreaking havoc in your life because you thought it was harmless at first.
Now let’s watch this train wreck take place.
So King David stays back. The door is open and the trap is set.
Enter the young lion.
King David is minding his own business when he catches a glimpse he wasn’t supposed to see. The beautiful Bathsheba bathing on the rooftop. David immediately sends for her to come over and David learns that she is the wife of one of his soldiers but he doesn’t care at this point and he sleeps with her.
Now enter the lion.
David is probably feeling guilty but glad he dodged a bullet until Bathsheba sends word that she’s pregnant! Things just got complicated!
Now David wants to cover up this sin so he calls for her husband to come home from the battlefield and David is hoping by the husband spending the night with his wife Bathsheba, this will cover up his adulterous affair.
But David’s plans backfire because Uriah Bathsheba’s husband refuses to sleep with her while his men are out fighting! What an honorable man!
So now what happens this causes David to become angry! So he sent a note with Uriah to go back out into battle but the note commanded the frontline soldiers to withdraw so that Uriah would be left alone and die on the battlefield.
You see how sin just takes you deeper than you intended to go? The sad part is that it’s not over. So now David and Bathsheba marry and they have a child and the child becomes ill and dies. What a price to pay!
This is how a young seemingly innocent lion, or cub grows up to be an adult lion if you don’t nip it in the bud in the very beginning. Do not ignore the young lions.
David abused his power. He found himself “above the law” so to speak. It happens a lot in governments right? The people that make the laws, break them.
And this is the Genius of Papa God is this. Papa God puts the Word of God even above himself! He will never break His Word and in doing so it keeps everything in check and in working order.
As soon as you think “you’ve arrived” after being promoted or whatever and you think the rules don’t apply to you is exactly when the wheels start falling off and even though David was a man after God’s own heart he made a huge mistake and paid for it as well.
Same thing goes for parents, right? If we tell our children don’t do this or don’t do that, we as parents need to follow that rule too.
I mean I was raised under the “ Do as I say NOT as I do” rule and that doesn’t really work and is not really fair to the kid.
In my house I made a rule “ Nobody eats upstairs”. Upstairs we have nice clean carpet and I don’t want any spills or food to get into the rug. And no matter how careful you are you know there’s gonna be a time where you knock a glass over or spill a plate of food on the rug so it’s better just don’t bring any food up there.
Now my daughter watches me and she makes sure I follow the rule because I guarantee you the minute she sees me eating upstairs oh it’s on she’s gonna start eating upstairs and then the carpet will get all dirty in no time. So I have to make sure I’m following the rules too.
Remember:
Matthew 24:35
“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.”
And how long is never? A long time! Amen! We’re gonna spend eternity with the Word of God, might as well get to know it now!
MATTHEW 16:18 "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
