Sunday Tent Meeting
08.14.2022
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The Walk Ministries
Pastor Jeno Shaw
2085 LYNNHAVEN PKWY
STE. 106 #514
VIRGINIA BEACH, VA 23456
Take a Stand
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 beside 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!
Let’s go to 1Kings 17:6
1 Kings 17:6
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And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
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!
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And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
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.
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And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying,
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Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
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!
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So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
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And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand.
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And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
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!”
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And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
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!
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For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
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And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days.
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!
I truly love you all,
Pastor/Coach Jeno
