Whatever we ask and then Jesus says what do you want me to do?
They replied let one of us sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory. Here is a case where
where Jason and John are asking without having faith
the Christ for asking
Elisha on the other hand is as bold as he is asking
What is Elisha asking Elijah? Basically when Elisha is asking for a double portion of what he is saying is
Can I inherit the full authority of you my spiritual father to carry forward all the God's plan to you?
Elijah is asking can I inherit
the full authority that you have so that I can take forward what you have planned?
That's what Elijah is asking. I know some of us heard it before right from 2009 onwards
But first borns are defined by pursuit
First borns are defined by pursuit
first borns are defined by pursuit
First borns are defined by pursuit
And God always annoys
God always annoys
First borns with the power
With the power
To finish
What their fathers
Initiated
It's a principle
You see this with Jesus too where Jesus in John chapter 14 verse 12 turns to his disciples and says
It is good for you if I go away
But if I go away the Holy Spirit will come and you will do greater things than I have done
I mean is that the ultimate statement of pursuit? You have pursued me great. I need to leave
Because if I don't leave the Spirit of God can't come and once the Spirit of God annoys you
I want you to know that he will do greater things than I have done
And so that's the principle here right? First borns are defined by pursuit
another pursuit of
human beings though sometimes the easiest way to learn something is to run after someone who's
Learning when I was running before you but pursuit as in the things of God
It's not often true human beings but the things of God then God always annoys first borns with the power to finish what was initiated through their fathers
This is not where we go here. I'm just setting the stage for you
Okay, one of the things I strongly felt almost to the point of it
breaking my heart in a nice way is this
This notion that God has been
Unpacking saying hey, can I be amongst you like I used to be amongst the Israelites?
Can you be obedient so that I can show the world what it is when people are in relationship with God?
Please hold on to the words I'm saying
God is asking
Can I come and dwell in your midst?
so that
You can show the world what it is for people to be in relationship with God under all kinds of circumstances
And what it looks like when God dwells in the midst of people can I do that through you?
Can I can I pull you about Acts 29?
Can I pull you about people that are walking with Acts 29?
Can I become this along to do this just as I did to Israel?
It is the reason why I established the church, but can I use you as a sample?
can I use you as a
Taste like at Costco before COVID but they used to have those things where you go and taste and then decide
But you want to buy can I use you as a taste? Can I use you as a sample?
So that others can see what it is for man to be relationship with God for people to be in relationship with God
I forgot to be dwelling in the midst so that he can say this is what it looks like and I'm saying
We're trembling that our shucks power
acts
crazy if you want to do that because
To take them you want to do that
Us this right that much
I
Know that was more but right here the person could be
Not to last question is this this GV softness and I'm saying you can please our was not
Spawning what was given to you here is all the light that I saw pattern for the fault in the pattern
so the detectives
once a
people begin to
pursue this way that God says one I
Complete the work that Elijah's that started that I initiated to Elijah just like a little bit disciples and Jesus
Anointed them and to
Once you walk this way guys God what you're at God will invite you to ask
And when he invites you to ask even for the question before you all you have to do is pick up the question and we
need to ask
Just like in some tumors
It just like
Mark the mountain mark then just like the second things to nine where Elijah says
Can I have a portion moment you're asking that you're asking for something ridiculous so ridiculous
They're like anything man. I want to give it
You're saying could I have a full authority so that I can complete what you are up to?
It's a big thing to ask for stuff like that the strange thing is sometimes when you ask God for these things
God will say to you go and ask that person and that person will give it to you
What you give it to you directly but because he works through humans God always
releases things to us
From himself through people and that requires a degree of humility. I don't think that's a problem
For us, but I'm just saying that is a process
But you know what God wants to give you and you go to a person and you say this is what God wants to give me
Can you release it?
It's in the by the way, this is the scriptural patterns are not telling anything that is unscriptural
So in the years past guys
In the years past God was claiming our allegiance
I mean, it's literally like the scene in first Kings 19 verse 19 and 21
When Elijah goes into the field where Elijah is plowing with twelve oxen
Elijah is plowing with twelve oxen and Elijah takes up his mantle and he throws it upon Elijah
Elijah does not yet own the mantle but he is throwing the mantle on to Elijah
Elijah is on behalf of God claiming Elijah as the one who should succeed
And I will say to you in the years past
God has been claiming our allegiance
And I'm saying to you, and I said this in the prophetic message
So I'm trusting that what I've received is from God
What I'm delivering to you is again from God without mixture or without me trying to put my spin on it
I'm saying to you in the years past God was claiming our allegiance
And I think he's found us quite responsible in terms of claiming our allegiance to him
But this is now a commissioning where it's not that he's throwing the mantle over
It's that he's saying I'm passing the mantle to you so that you carry it
So what I wanted to do today is look at the signs that Elijah performed
In the inheritance verses given to us from 2 Kings 2 to 2 Kings 13
To briefly look at the signs Elijah performed
And draw out of that, discern out of that, decipher out of that
What God has for us as a people in the year ahead
So the first sign is in 2 Kings 2, 14
First sign is in 2 Kings 2, 14
2 Kings 2, 14
And so I'll start at 13
He picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah and went back
And still on the back of Jordan
Then he took the cloak that had fallen from him and struck the water with it
Where now is the Lord the God of Elijah, he asked
When he struck the water, he divided it to the right and to the left and he crossed over
So the first sign that Elijah performed after having received the mantle
Is to take the cloak that was thrown over by Elijah and it would be caught up in a whirlwind
And striking the very river that he had crossed just a little while ago
And so the first thing God wants us to know is that we have to take
What people like Eddie, people like Roland, people like Mike Scandalberry
People like Jacob, people like Chad
Have given us already
And in the year that is coming, we have to show an increasing propensity
In pioneering
In the prophetic
In being church centered
In multiplying missionarily
In multiplying
Not just like we're doing with the host church
Multiplying missionarily
In nation impacting work
In rest filled worship
These are some of the things we've already inherited from the Elijah's that I've gone by
Elijah's like Eddie, Elijah like Roland who many of you haven't met
In healing
One of the first prophetic words spoken by somebody who did not know us
From any other church in the world
One of the first prophetic words that was spoken was
In this church there are wells of healing
When Elijah strikes and divides the Jordan across the wide
The sons of the prophets knew that here is a man who now carries the mantle of Elijah
We need to carry these things that have already been established by Eddie, Roland, Mike, me and Chad
But there must be an increasing potency
It can't be the same, there has to be an increasing potency
Every successive use of yeast would make the dough even more potent
Because you would never throw all the yeast away, you would keep some back
And the next time you used yeast you would pluck it off what you had kept
And the yeast would ferment further and it would be more potent
The purpose they take me in healing, in pioneering, in the prophetic
In being church centered, in multiplying missionarily, in impacting nations
And in rest filled worship that has the aroma of freedom
It is one of the priceless things in this church
The freedom we have in our relationship with God
That absolutely buries human traditions
These are gifts given to us by Elijah's that have gone before
I am including myself in them because I know that Elijah is coming
And it has to increase potency
This was the first sign
The second sign
The second sign is in chapter 2 verse 16
So I'll start with verse 15
I don't know if you can see this, but Elijah is saying
I'm going to meet him and bow to the ground before him
Look they said, we are servants of fifty people men
Let him go and look for a master
Perhaps the spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down
On some mountain or in some valley
No Elijah, I do not send him
But they persisted until he was too ashamed to refuse
And what they are doing is showing a
Seeming rejection or a refusal of Elijah
Saying basically that no no no no
Elijah hasn't gone, he is still around
You are not yet bona fide
And so Elijah says no because he knows what just happened
But he is embarrassed because it looks like he is trying to grab the throne
And so because they exist, are embarrassed because he is ashamed
He tells them to go ahead and search
No, it's full well that they will not find him
When Moses passed on, Israel didn't say to Joshua
Let's give it a few days, let's go look for Moses
Maybe he will still be around on that mountain and then we decide
No, this was almost a deliberate rejection or refusal
And so I want to say to you, the year ahead
That there will be a seeming rejection or refusal by people
To accept our new position or a new form
If this is a prophetic word and I know it is
And we were to change
Then know that there will be a seeming rejection or a refusal
To recognize or acknowledge or accept a new form
Or new position, a new shape
I pray God that it not be internal as it not be within the house
That would be a shame
If you are part of the house and you are not able to embrace this
Or you begin to resist it
Then I feel bad for you because you will miss out
The thing with resisting anything that is God
And I realize you will have to bear this
Just because I actually find that so
I think I have got to go in waves
I think half of them because we don't want to accept things
We want to figure out whether we want to accept it or not
Very few when they say wave actually go over and pour over scriptures
For two, three hours comparing things to figure out
Whether it is God or not
Very few spend two or three hours praying saying
Father, please show me this revelation is from your love
Basically it is kind of a pop-up
But we won't go to that here
All I am saying is there is the need to figure this out free free
But here is the thing
A seeming rejection or refusal by people to accept a new shape
A new position, a new form
If it is from the outside it is fine
Because the way to approach it like Elisha
Is to just wait until they run out of reasonable excuses
They exhaust excuses and turn to technologists
All they reject is outright
But there will be rejection when form changes
There will be rejection when shape changes
There will be rejection
There will be a refusal to acknowledge
So get ready for small skirmishes
But we do it with great patience and much embarrassment
But internally if you resist this
Then I feel bad for you
Because once we need to resist what is a God move
Then not only do you get left out
Every time truth is resisted a delusion comes in
First Thessalonians
Every time truth is resisted a delusion comes in
The third sign
The third sign is in 219
The man of the city said to Elisha
Look our Lord, this town is well situated
As you can see
But the water is bad and the land is unproductive
Bring me a new bowl he said
And put salt in it
So they brought it to him
Then he went out to the spring
And he threw salt into it saying
This is what the Lord says
I have deeped this water
Never again will it cause death
Or make the land unproductive
And the water has remained wholesome to this day
According to the word Elisha has spoken
So God will give us
God will give us in the year ahead
The permission and the power
Just before I continue with that
Guys, every time God speaks a prophetic word
He is telling you how He sees us right now
Our difficulty is being able to see us as God sees us
Until we see ourselves as God is telling us
Until then as He sees us
We will not walk in the permission that He has given
Therein lies the bathroom
To me that is the greatest bathroom
When God says something
I find it so hard
To actually see myself the way He sees me
Believing is easy
I believe, hallelujah
I have faith for it
How about not having faith
And knowing that you have become
That is difficult
If you have to exert faith for the prophetic
There is nothing wrong with it
But you must recognize that you have not become
And the intent of the prophetic is always
To bring you to a place where you have become
Once you become you don't need faith
With the prophetic you need faith
While you are wrestling with it
Like Paul says to Timothy
War with the prophetic world
As in wrestle with it, engage with it
Why? Because you need faith
To believe God for what He is saying
But how do I know
That a time has come where I have become
What God has prophesied in effect
It is when I no longer need faith
To walk in the things God said
I was going to do
I know it
So
The third side of Jericho
Where the waters were toxic
And brought about by barrenness
And then Elijah changed it
Basically saying to us
That God has given us the permission
And the power to end
These three things
One, bitter years
In the lives of people
Bitter years in lives
Two, unfruitfulness
Three, things stuck
In a cycle of aborging
Where everything you start
Never ceases completion
God is saying I am giving you power
And I am giving you permission
Church to end bitter years
In the lives of people
There might be people amongst us
Within our local bodies
Not outside
Who suffered bitter years
In the past
And it has left a mark
It has left a mark on your psyche
It has left a mark on your personality
If I were you, I would take God as His Word
This, when it is being released
To a people, some of these things
Can be done by anybody at Acts 29
Some of these things will need training
At least anybody at Acts 29
Can do it
Even the littlest amongst us
Can do it, why?
Because God is saying He will
And some other things
May require some training
Or God calling us into a place
To be with stuff
But things like this, anybody can do
I am excited about pouring over this
In the future
So we have the permission and the power
All across the earth
To end
Can you imagine the words I am saying
Either we are full of ourselves
And I am definitely full of myself
Or this is God
Because we are saying
God has given us permission and power
Anywhere in the earth
To end bitter years
To end unfruitfulness
And the cycle of aborted stars
Where others are prayed
To know a way
That in Jericho, many of these prophets
That accompanied Elijah
Elijah initially
It wasn't as if they hadn't been approached
To pray for Jericho
But they had prayed
And it had been of no avail
And similarly
There will be places that you go to
Where people who can pray better
Who are more faith than you
Have prayed and it is of no avail
And then you
Like the message version says
You, the littlest runt of the pack
Turn up
And you pray a very clumsy unsophisticated prayer
And God turns up
This is the permission and the power
He has given us across the earth
Now we see why
When Jericho is saying
Father we thank you that you have given us purpose
God just keeps giving us purpose man
What is he giving when he gives purpose?
He is giving his purpose
He is giving us a part in his purpose
These are things precious to him
He has always been someone who wants to end bitter years
The fourth sign
The fourth sign is in
Shatujoo verse 23 and 24
From there Elijah went up to Bethel
As he was walking along the road
Some youths or some young lads
Came out of the town and jailed at him
Go on up you baldy
They said go on up you baldy
He turned around and looked at them
And called on a curse
Elijah turned around and looked at them
And called on a curse on them
In the name of the Lord
The two bears came out of the woods
And mauled forty two of the youth
And he went to Mount Carmel
And from there returned to Samaria
This sounds like a terrible story
Especially when you think of it from a youth
That's my perspective
But if Elijah was the hairy one
Because the Bible talks about him as
In fact Ehad actually says
Was the prophet who met on the road the hairy one?
They said yeah
He said yeah that's Elijah
If Elijah was the hairy one
Elijah was the baldy one
So the same thing that Elijah is doing here
Elijah had done in 2 Kings 1,9-14
2 Kings 1,9-14
You see Elijah engaging in something like this
I'm reading from 2 Kings 1,9-14
Then he sent to Elijah
A captain with his company of fifty men
The captain went to Elijah
Who was sitting on the top of Elah and said
Man of God, the king says come down
Elijah answered the captain
The father of Man of God, by fire,
Come down from heaven and continue
Then fire from heaven continued
The captain and his men
And this is the king sent to Elijah
Another captain with his fifty men
The captain said to him
Man of God, this is what the king says
Come down at once
If I'm the man of God, Elijah replied
May fire come down from heaven
And consume you and your fifty men
Then the fire of God fell from heaven
And consumed him and his fifty men
Then a third captain came
And his attitude was different
Fire has fallen from heaven and consumed the first two
But now have respect for my life
The angel of the Lord said to Elijah
Go down with him and do not be afraid of him
Elijah got up and went down with the two kings
It's a similar situation that is happening here
What do we draw out of this
What is God asking us to draw out of this
God is saying decree
Divine
Judgments
Decree
Divine judgments
Against the king
Against powers
That
Come to
Dismantle
Or destroy
The church
Here the only place that the new testament of God says
If you destroy this temple
I will destroy you
It's not when he's talking about personal bonds
It's not personal bonds when he's talking about
The church
Sorry go ahead
Is this the future given for the video
Or is this already ours
The original and our work
It is already ours
Because this is how God sees us
And he's not waiting
Till December 31st
But
It might take us a little longer
Past December 31st
To wrap our heads around
So Elijah is doing here what Elijah has done
And
This is something that
We may have to learn
Some of us may know how to do it
Most of us don't
And God willing if we stick to God's plan
He teaches us how to come against powers
And sometimes these powers
Are powers that others may regale
Others may hold up high
And these powers need to be dismantled
Because they are under our control
And they are under our control
Because they are about destroying
The people of God
The thing is guys
Our battle is no longer against special blood
In Luke 9 55
If you read the New King James
Because it doesn't say so in the NIV
But in the New King James if you read Luke 9 55
John and James actually
Were pretty upset with the way a
Villager treated Jesus
And they said Jesus, Jesus he wanted us to call him on fire
They actually believed they could
And Jesus says
You are the wrong spirit
Because he knew that he would be rejected
He knew that he would be crucified
He did not come to judge
But he came to save
And so
Our battle is now against special blood
So we are not going against people
But powers must be decreed
Divine judgment on
One of the sisters that I mentioned
Is the one that I mentioned
One of the scriptures I learned
25 years ago was Psalm 149
And I have used it so often
Psalm 149
The saints lie down on their beds
And in their mouth are high praises
Psalm 149 verse 5
Let the saints rejoice in their honor
And sing for joy on their beds
May the praise of God be their blessing
May the praise of God be their mouth
And a double-edged sword in their hands
To inflict vengeance on the nations
Punishment of peoples
To bind their kings with fetters
Their nobles with shackles of iron
To carry out the sentence written against them
This is the glory of all its saints
Praise the Lord
So this is not supposed to be limited to a few
But it must be heard
Can you read out again?
Psalm 149
Verse 5 to 9
But I don't like it
The fifth sign
Is from chapter 3, verse 17
The fifth sign is from chapter 3
2nd chapter 3, verse 17
The fifth sign
And this is a story where
There was no water
It's fascinating how both Elijah and Elisha
Have something to do with
Water coming out of nowhere
One from above and one here from below
And so
The fifth sign is
3rd chapter 17
Reading
While the harpist was playing
The man of the Lord came upon Elisha
And he said
This is what the Lord says
Make this valley full of ditches
But this is what the Lord says
We will see neither wind nor rain
Yet this valley will be filled with water
And you and your cattle
And your other animals will drink
This is an easy thing in the eyes of the Lord
He will also hand Moam over to you
What I heard God saying about this
Is that he will provide us
Isaiah 30
Isaiah 32, verse 2
Kind of leaders in this church
And in the churches that
We are connected with
Who will cause streams to flow
In the desert
Well Isaiah 32
Isaiah 32
These are the kind of leaders that will be produced
Over the next one year
And beyond
I am reading from verse 1
See a king will reign in righteousness
If you are a leader in the church
If you are a leader in Acts 29
In any capacity
I want you to begin to think like this
This is the role that is required of you
Isaiah 32, verse 1
See a king will reign in righteousness
And rulers will rule with justice
Each man, I love this
Each leader, now bring out the albinoes
Each leader will be like a shelter from the wind
Refuge from the storm
Streams of water in the desert
And the shadow of a great rock
In a thirsty land
Then the eyes of those who sleep
Will no longer be closed
And the ears of those who hear
Will listen
The mind of the rational, no understanding
The stammering tongue will be fluid and clear
No longer will the fool be called noble
The scoundrel will be highly respected
The point is, it is not from teaching
That you are able to train your people
It is through modeling
What Christ did for us
Bring into places that were parched
Streams of living water
Isaiah 35
Isaiah 35 puts it so brilliantly
Isaiah 35
Let the crocus bloom
In the desert land
Isaiah 35, what?
The desert and the parched land will be glad
And the wilderness will rejoice
And bloom like a crocus
Crocus will burst into bloom
It will rejoice greatly and shout
Why?
Because God is bringing streams to the desert
Verse 6
Then the lake will leap back and the earth will come
And it will shout for joy
Water will rush forth in the wilderness
Streams of the desert
And how are the leaders going to achieve this?
They will achieve it by calling to us
Calling to us
By calling to us
Things that
Do not exist
Things that
One of the things the church will specialize in
Is the ability
To
To get God things
Not from the sea
But from the ocean
You will think to yourself
This is such a tall order
Exactly, this is why it's God
You will think to yourself
All this cannot be accomplished or achieved by us
Exactly
It will all have to be God
You could think to yourself
This is pretty good but he can't pull this off
Absolutely
It will have to be a God thing
So the fifth sign was
God will raise
A theater in which we want
For kind of shepherd leaders
In our midst
Who will bring strength to the desert
Who will call to us things of God
From the unseen into the seen
So that every
Everything that is parched
Will be glad
This is what Elijah does
For that sign
You just watch
By this time tomorrow
Enough water in this valley
Start digging ditches
But here's the thing guys
There will be no rain
But this valley will be full of water
What a beautiful thing to do
What are we setting
What is God setting us up for man
It must be a hallmark of
The churches
That are listening to this teaching
That we
Like God
That is how we bring to fast things
Because they then have
The quality of God
It has an aroma of Yadav
It won't be manly
The next sign is in Chapter 4, Verse 1
The second thing
This is the sixth sign
The sixth sign
Chapter 4, Verse 1
The second thing is Chapter 4, Verse 1
The wife of a man
From the company of the
Prophets
Cried out to Elijah
Your servant, my husband
Is dead
And you know that he revered the Lord
But now his creditors are coming
To take my two boys as his slaves
One of the things God uses partially
Throughout the year is to provide for ones
Who serve faithfully
But for various reasons
That fall upon our hands
Throughout the world
God will have us provide
For his servants
Who serve him faithfully
But for various reasons
Sometimes for the sake of the Lord
And for the sake of the Lord
Sometimes mistakes, sometimes not
But for various reasons
Have fallen upon our hands
And
We will provide for it
Across the earth
I just want to action this immediately
Because while I was preparing this
Teaching, I got a text message
From Jeevan, let me just go get my phone
In front of him
So the pastor stepped off the stage
And he went rummaging
In his bag
And finally he found his iPhone 12 Pro
And he walked back on stage
Then
He read Jeevan's
Message
Let's see
So this was something he wrote yesterday
My uncle passed away yesterday
He's a pastor
Videsh Adhra, 41 years old
A faithful servant
And a son of God
Two kids
Nine and 17
17 years of faithful ministry
In one of the toughest places in Adhra
Which is the province in India
One of his ties
Was weak since childhood
He only moved
In a three-wheeler vehicle
His lungs became weak
He has become heavy for the past few months
And he passed away yesterday
I was in the process of preparing these notes
And I thought to myself
That to answer Diana's questions
Is this something that awaits us in the year
Or starts now
So here's what I want you to do
Just
Almost in response
To God
As we agree with you
And we believe what you're saying
Just interact five dollars
To actually unite God's team
Just five dollars
It's an action
We're partaking in an action
Actually, we don't just
Need money from you
To send to this person
We have the money
We're not doing it because we are collecting money
We're doing it because we are responding
To something that God has called us to
And so
Five dollars seems like very little
And you'd probably pay a dollar fifty
For just the interact transfer
So here
Yeah
I guess
I'll have to wait for a couple of minutes
Oh shut, I can do it
If you don't want to interact
In the end
I just want you to catch the
Cigarette
Someone watching from UK
They did this to have
Let me know if I should send them to you
I will, please
Act20land.ca
This is just
A dawning obedience
I just sent
Five dollars with the message
To say, Elijah
If you want to
And just make me more confident
I think most people watching this
Should be horrible
I promise
Okay
Providing to ones
Who still have to fake sleep
But have for various reasons
All of them are happening
Very very often
The seventh sign
The seventh sign is from Chapter 4
It was 17 to 20
Some of us will be thinking
How many signs are there?
You should have read these chapters before
So seventh sign
Chapter 4 was 17 to 20
It's
Quite as many as Elijah
So if it was Elijah's portion
We could have ended by
What can we do?
It's Elijah's portion
Chapter 4 was 17 to 20
The boy sat on her lap
On the roof and then he died
She went to her bed on the bed of the man of God
Then shut the door and went out
She called her husband and said
Please send me one of the servants and a donkey
So I can go to the man of God
Quickly and return
The seventh sign
Here's how we need to hear this
Will you contend for what God has ordained
So that the son who was born
Will not meet an untimely death
Will you contend for what God has ordained
So that the son who was born
Will not meet an untimely death
This is something
I haven't learned
Enough and you haven't learned enough
That is the ability to
Persist despite
Everything looking wrong
Not just for your own individual life
But for bigger things
For things that affect other people
Whenever it happens to us
We persist a little longer
And then just hold him and say
Well, maybe I heard wrong
Or maybe God has some other plans
Or maybe I messed up
We persist with ourselves
When it comes to others
Things aren't going according to how we thought
We give up too soon
Here is a son that
Responds to a woman who has not had a child
And it is given as a promise
The child grows up
And the child dies
The woman knew how to persist
She had some kind of audacity
In her, the same kind of audacity
That the Syrophilician woman had
Then I am going to take his boy
And I am going to lay him down on the prophet's bed
And then after that
Neither Gehazi
Nor Elisha's staff were enough
To heal and revive this boy
And she wouldn't settle for it
So she wants a donkey
And she wants a servant and she wants to go
It is not enough
This is like the story of Mark 5.24
Where Jairus goes
To Jesus and says
My daughter is sick, will you come
And Jesus doesn't send a word
Jesus doesn't say go your son will be healed
Jesus says I will come
He is delayed on the way
But Jairus doesn't give up either
And then those beautiful words
Janika kumi and little girl
Arises and she arises
So
We are being called to contend
For what God has obeyed
So that the son who was born
Will not meet an unfaithful death
But contending
Here is a catch Jairus
Contending will require a stretching
Of your life for the boy
Mouth to mouth, hand to hand
Feet to feet, stretched out on the boy
To revive him
Neither Elisha's staff nor Gehazi
Will do
But an actual pouring out of your life
Is the only way to revive some really
Dead situations
And I say father in humility
But sounding proud
Bring it on above
Not because we are capable
But because we want to know what it is
To be able to stretch out our lives
To give life
I will read the rest father
It says there
That
Elisha reads the house
1.32
There was a boy lying dead on his couch
He went and shut the door on the two of them
And prayed to the Lord
Then he got on the bed and lay upon the boy
Mouth to mouth, hands to hand
And as he stretched himself out
Out upon him the boy's body grew warm
Elisha turned away and walked back and fall in the room
Man do you see it hasn't happened
The bones have just come together
The bones are yet in the valley
And they have they've come together
And Elisha is now walking to and fro
Not knowing what to do next
Remembering that Elisha had done something like this
Actually most
And at 1.35
Elisha turned away and walked back and fall in the room
Got on the bed, stretched out upon him much more
The boy sneezed seven times
And opened his eyes
I pray this happens to quite a few of us here
Reviving dead situations
A theme that runs through Elisha's life
And through Acts 29
And the churches that walk with us
A theme that runs through her life next year
Is reviving things that are dead
Of decaying
Or almost gone
There's no way to get it back
8th sign
Chapter 4, verse 39 to 41
8th sign, chapter 4, verse 39 to 41
The child said, get some flour
He put it into the pot and said, serve it to the people to eat
And there was nothing harmful in the pot
The 8th sign is
I love this
I want to see how it works
We will see
The preserving power
Have we not seen it already this year?
Hasn't God watched over water
And guarded this little family?
Hasn't he just covered it with a blanket?
Hasn't he just covered it with this canopy of glory?
Hasn't he prevented the enemy from exacting a price out of him?
Hasn't he kept affliction at bay?
We will see the preserving power
Of God
Like in
Mark 16
Like in Mark 16
18A
Where it says
And these are the signs that should follow believers
They shall pick up snakes
And bring poison and no harm shall
Come to them
Psalm 91, verse 6
That even though there be
Arrows that fly by day
Pestilence by night
Even though a thousand follow their right
And ten thousand on their left
No harm shall come to you
And no plague shall
Befall your tent
Acts 28, verse 5
And while the forgotten
Were with a snake, wrath is over our
Balls arm and bitter
And they expected all to fall down
And die, instead
Balls shook up the snake
And continued to
We will see the preserving power of God
Remind me of this
When things happen and I don't know how to respond
When things happen and you don't know how to respond
Just remind each other
Of these
Ridiculous
Generous
Gracious
I can't understand why promises
From God to us
Remind ourselves, tell each other
This is something that you need to
Do
You go to
Malachi or Malachi?
I'll tell you in a second
Okay, go to Malachi
B-16
What?
B-16
Yeah
Chapter 3, verse 16
Then those who feared the Lord
Talked with each other
And the Lord listened and heard
A scroll of remembrance was written in its presence
Concerning those who feared the Lord
And honored his name
They will be mine, says the Lord Almighty
In the day when I make up my treasured possessions
I will spare them just as a compassionate man
Spares a son who serves him
And you will again see
The distinction between the righteous and the wicked
Between those who serve God and those who do not
And how did God arrive at a point
In deciding
Who were honoring him, who were revering him
He listened
He listened to what they said
And how did they honor and revere him
They repeated what they had heard
From him
Guys, like I said at the beginning
God is saying, hey can you become a
People in whose midst I can dwell
So I can show people what it is
When I dwell amongst the people
And can you be among people who can show others
What it is to be in relationship with God
And do this
One of the ways to do this is to talk about the things
We have said, sure talk about the word
But the beautiful thing about this prophetic message
Is that it is being extracted
Straight out of scriptures
Are these prophetic signs going to
Progress from one to the other for actually
No
It's like the rain
It will be a thousand drops on your head
At the same time
Every time the stick of your tongue
One drop will hit it
You have to taste it and decide which drop it is
Is there a border or are they going to happen
At the same time
You will see the preserving power
At work
I look forward to it, they remind ourselves of it
Remind each other of us
To preserve the power of God
Next one, ninth sign
Is from chapter 4 verse 42
Chapter 4 verse 42
If you want to know how many signs there are
Twice as many as Elijah
So you can start reading
Elijah later on and then
What if Elijah had 15 signs
You know what that means right
He will be here for a while
Thank God he decided to leave early
And God took him away
Otherwise he would be here for a while
So if you read chapter 4 verse 42
Second page chapter 4 verse 42
A man from Baal, Silesia
He was a Christian
A man came from Baal, Silesia
Brought to the man about 20 loaves of barley bread
Baked from the first ripe grape
Long with some heads of new grape
Give it to the people to eat, Elijah said
How can I accept this before 100 men?
His servant asked
And Elijah answered, give it to the people to eat
But this is what the Lord says
They will eat and have some left over
Then he said it before them
And they ate and had some left over
According to the word of the Lord
Guys
Guys, the last time I spoke about this
I thought this was the 2010
And 2010
And I haven't touched it since
And I feel that since
This is something God wants us to do
I need to speak about it
Release first fruits
People who were here in the early years of Acts 29
Practiced this principle all these years
Release first fruits
Part of it you can find
In Proverbs 26
In Proverbs 3 verse 6 also it talks about it
And so the idea of first fruits
Release first fruits
Why?
So that it may multiply
To feed others
So that it may multiply
To feed others
So that it may multiply
To feed others
I love that principle
About two and a half years ago or three years ago
Eric had pointed out this story
That first fruits were not necessarily
To be collected and kept
For one's own benefit
But first fruits
Could be brought and multiplied
And given to others to be fed
So the principle of first fruits is very simple
A farmer
Who had sown his crops
Would see the first sheaf appearing
And he would collect the grain
And not knowing what awaited him in the future
Not knowing whether the locusts would come
And eat the rest of the crop
Not knowing whether the rains would fade
Not knowing whether there would be a
Dry windstorm that would destroy the crop
Not knowing whether the water would run out
Not knowing whether the winter would be so cold
That the ice wine grapes
Would just rot
Not knowing any of these
They would bring the first sheaf
And present it
To the temple or to the priest
Or to whoever was in the vicinity
That they wanted to give the first fruits to
And here's what they were saying
They were saying, oh God, here is the first and the last
We don't know what will happen
To the rest of the crop
But we want to honor you first
And so they would come to them and say
Hey, you could have kept this for yourself
If you were smart, you would have kept it aside
Because you don't know what's going to happen tomorrow
But instead of going about it that way
You have brought me the first
So here's what I'm going to do
Because you brought me the first, I will bless the rest
And this is why all users in Roman Chapter 9
Where it says, if the first is holy
Then the rest is holy
And so
Long ago in 2009 and 2010
When this was taught, people began to
At the beginning of the year, decide
Even though I don't know what I'm going to be doing in 2021
Even though I don't know what will happen
To my job, my company
Here, oh God, is a portion of the first
That I received
And I give it to you
And what is that portion? Completely up to you
There are people who have given the first hour
Of their work, the first day of their work
The first week of their work
The first month of their work
That scared me
And who do you give it to? You give it to people
You give it to people who have broken bread and wine into your lives
And I would say
To those that receive these
First fruits
Multiply them and
Feed others with it
This is not so that one becomes rich with
First fruits, this is so that we practice
What Baal Shaleesh
The man from Baal Shaleesh did
He bought the first fruit, basically for Elisha
Elisha is supporting it, multiplies it
And multiplies it in such a way
That it was impossible to feed a hundred
And so that's one of the things I'm going to do
So the first fruits I receive
I multiply it, as in I add to it
And then supply it to more
And I also know how to give
And it's up to each person how one gives
The principle is, honor the Lord
With something that you have in your hand
Even though you don't know what the rest will look like
So I decide already
I'm going to give it to you
And I'm going to give it to you
So I decide already in the year
Given how God blessed me in 2020
And given how he loves blessing
This is what I believe
To be my increase in 2021
So here is a portion of Father
And I send it to different methods next in my life
People who have broken bread and wine into my life
Some of them local, some of them outside
And here's what God says in Proverbs 3
He says, honor me with your first fruits
And I will bless you
And the ones that have practices in Acts 3 now
For the last 10 years
And others from outside of Acts 3
And practices
Their lives have only increased
It has not decreased
Some of them are sitting here
So this is a principle that God for one of the reasons
Wants us to be in 2021
It is not
It is not something that can be legislated
You cannot be coerced
All giving should be fearful
Without compulsion, without emotional blackmail
It should be freely given, hilariously
So the 9th sign was
Release first fruits and multiply to feed others
One of the things God wants to bring to pass
In Acts 29
Is Acts 4, verse 34
Acts 4, verse 34
And it will happen
But God will bring this to pass
A working model
Of Acts 4, verse 34
Why? Because God wants to use this
As a people in his whose midst he dwells
And he can show people
What a people amongst who might well look like
And that is a complicated sentence
Acts 4, verse 34
There were no needy persons among them
For from time to time
Those who owned land or houses
Sold them, brought the money from the sage
And put it in their possum speak
And it was distributed to everyone
As he had need
Churches should end poverty
In their midst
We have to practice this
And show this
Acts 29 already does
It does it as a church
It does it as individuals amongst themselves
When I hear of what you have done for each other
It always puts the past to the shame
And I hear how nobody prompts you
You don't tell anybody
I hear it from the person who is received
It blows my mind
And that is why Acts 29
As a church gives
Gives generously
As soon as it fears of the need
The money is there
But we should become a church like that
Where poverty is not
A condition
That people in the church suffer
So when I ask you how you are doing financially
I am not asking you that
Because there is no other topic to talk about
There is always rain
And the clouds, starting January 13
But
It is because
It is a question that must be asked
10th time
Chapter 5
Verse 8 and 17
I am going to finish by 4
So not too many signs there
Acts 5
Verse 8 and 17
Acts 5
Verse 8 and 17
Oh sorry
2 Kings 5
Verse 8 and 17
When Elijah the man of God heard
That the king of Israel had told his rules
He sent him this message
Why have you told me your rules
Have the man come to me
And he will know that there is a prophet
In Israel
So Naaman went with horses and chariots
And stopped at the door of Elijah's house
Verse 17
Naaman initially was arrogant
He didn't want to do what Elijah said
Finally he does it and then verse 17
It says, if you will not say Naaman
Please let me your servant be given as much
Health as a pair of mules
The servant will never again make burnt offerings
And sacrifices to any other god
But the lord
But may the lord forgive your servant for this one thing
When the master enters the temple of Rimo
To bow down
And he is leaning on my arm and I bow there also
When I bow down in the temple of Rimo
May the lord forgive your servant for this
Go in peace Elijah said
The death sign altering the future of
Rulers and nations
Altering the future
Of rulers and nations
Altering the future
Of rulers and nations
Really take it absolutely
This thing is easy
Easy because none of us have connections
None of us know how to do this
This is so God
It's like raising the dead
Whenever you're good at something
You rely less on God
When you're absolutely zero
Then God turns up
Piktah
The future of rulers and nations
The initial reticence that some of the pagan rulers
We will come in touch with
Will soon change
To a recognition of Christ as God
And they will also recognize you
As his mouthpiece as a leader
Guys I've seen this
I've had audiences with rulers
With ministers, with kings
That there was no way a guy like me
Could have access
I didn't even have the clothes to wear before
I wore a half sleeve shirt
And a tie that I borrowed
And I thought to myself, my God
You look foolish
But it doesn't matter because what came out of my mouth
Was enough
And then
There are two things that happen
One, they recognize Christ as God
And they swear off
That I am God's
And two, they recognize you
As a mouthpiece of your God
And if what we have tasted in the past
Was just a test run
Then now is the real thing
Where depending on your pursuit
Of God
God will place you in positions
Where you will be able to touch
And affect the destiny of rulers
And nations
This has always been something
Actually that has happened
So it's a test run
And it's a test run
So it doesn't surprise me at all
I'd be surprised if it wasn't
So let COVID lift
Let the flights begin
Yeah
Yeah, Father if you want us to do this
I don't think email would work
Because we have no access to their emails
But we have access to nations
So I pray Father
And would you now cause
Flights to resume
Borders to open
Not because we are at sea or we have the travel bus
I lost it
But so, O God
That
Your people, your power, your glory
May be known in the nations
According to this word as we do
11th Psalm
Chapter 6, verse 1
11th Psalm, Chapter 6, verse 1
The company of the prophets said to Elijah
Look the place where we meet with you is too small for us
Let us go to the job
Where each person can get a phone
And let us build a place there for us to live
So here's what God said
Others will come and ask for patents and permission to build
Others will come
And ask for patents
And permission to build
They will ask us for
Our help
They will come and say can you help us build
When they lose their way, they'll come and say
We will help them to retreat the accident
We will help them to recover direction
We will help them regain momentum
I would say to you who are listening
When people come to you
And talk to you about building
About church and ask you about your church
Anything
Open
Open your
Mouths and lives and begin to tell them
About what God is building in our midst
We can't take credit for it
This did come out of the great spasalizing
This came out of sheer lot of people
That were sent to us at the right time
And we didn't know better
In the year I had known
That many will come to us
Asking for patents and for permission
And ask for castmanship
From you saying could you
And they won't come to me
They'll come to you
You'll have to tell them what you know
And then some will come and fill in another part
By the time five people work together
The building is built
I'll tell you this to you guys in Bahrain
In Sydney, in Brisbane
In Vernon
In Bogolia
In Lithuania
In the UK
Guys if this is already happened
What do you think God is going to do now?
There is this thing of momentum in God
And it is not multiplication
It is exponential
It's like God said
You reach critical mass
12 signs
Chapter 6, verse 12
This enraged the king of Aaron
He summoned the three officers
And demanded a bed
Will you not tell me which of us
Is not the son of the king of Israel?
None of us might know the king's and mother's offices
But Elijah the prophet who is in his bed
Tells the king of Israel
To very well you speak in your bedroom
The destiny of nations
Goes with what we said earlier
The destiny of nations will be shaped
On this handle
Called Acts 20, Daniel
The churches that we walk in
Where God will let us in
On the destruction
On the destructive plans of the enemy
Where God will let us in
On the destruction that the enemy is planning
And God will have us strategized
With counter attacks from heaven
So let me give you a simple example
Five years ago
I had a dream
And in the dream is the ruler of a certain nation
That we had meet you
And in the dream the ruler is calling together
Some people and telling them
To practice a certain ritual
Against certain people and certain pastors
In the nation
And I wake up, I make a mental note of it
And I call up a pastor
Who can spread the word around
So that as this man begins
To practice this ritual
The pastor and his team
Can begin to nullify the ritual
This was the five nights
The only reason I'm not
Telling you more is because
This is a recorded message
But God will begin to wake up
Those that are willing
To be trained for battle
Every finger to the wall
God will begin to help us see
The destructive plans of the enemy
And help us strategize
And see this, I've never
Telled this ruler before
And it's so clear
It's like a phone call
Of an invasion kind of thing
And he's organizing this ritual
Calling people
Planning how to do harm to the nation
And he thinks it's not harm
He thinks it's good but it's not
A few years
Will learn to commandeer
The chariots and horses of Israel
A few
So that
You will learn how to fight the
Prince of Persia and the Prince of Greece by Ketania
A few will do that this year
Some others will have
Their eyes open so that like Elijah's servant
They begin to recognize
Spiritual realities and then in the years
Ahead will probably step into this
Place where you need to commandeer the chariots
And the horses of Israel
Jacob, you're saying that all this is going to happen to us
Hey, what can I do if God
Is God
I have no say in this
I can't make it happen
You think I don't think this
Is a lot, you think I don't think it is
Heavy
But do you think I don't
Do you think I'm not excited
This is what we live for man
No man
Let heaven come
This is what it will look like
Let heaven come
Yours is the kingdom, yours is the power
Yours is the glory forever amen
Let heaven come
And when it comes we'll take you up
No, this is what it will look like
On a 24-7 basis
So now let me give you the videos
Three more slides
The 13th sign
Chapter 8 verse 1
13th sign
Chapter 8 verse 1
I truly believe
I've never seen this
And I wish someone had
Done this for Covid
I truly believe that from among us will rise
Elisha and Agabas
Agabas was a prophet in Acts 11
28 who during the
Raining of one of the Caesar's
Predicted that there would be a family to land
And so the church was able to prepare for it
Acts 11 verse 28
During the time
Some prophets came down from Jerusalem to
One of them made Agabas
And through the spirit
Predicted that a similar family would spread
Over the entire Roman world
This happened during the reign of Claudius
The disciples, each according to his ability
Decided to provide help for the brothers
Living in Judea
This they did by sending their gift
To the elders by barmahams and so on
I pray god that in this church will begin
To rise seers who are
Able to see events
Sometimes calamitous
Able to see situations
That are foretold
And then able to decree wisdom
So that the Shulamite can be preserved
By the spoken word
Both had to happen
These are good things guys
Why is it that these stories are in the
Old Testament
Why is it that these stories are in the
Book of Acts
Why is it that there are no such stories now
Why is it that it doesn't happen in the
West
But praise god because he is faithful
He is true, he is powerful
And he alone can do it
Amen, let it be for lord
In our midst
May it see us rise
He has laid claim to our allegiance
He has taught us
He has made it normal for us to
Listen to the voice of god
He has made it normal to see prophetic
As a part of everything
We do when we meet together
Now let it be for the benefit
Of the world
Not just for our benefit
We've received enough prophetic
Words to last us a lifetime
Any more prophetic words and I won't act
I'll have to live to 120 before I conquer them
Have you noticed
How at the heart of almost
Everything we've said
Lies the need to speak
And this will be a problem
The mask has given us even
A greater ability not to speak
Because at least your expressions will tell me
That you wanted to speak
Now even that is gone
But at the heart of the Elisha cycle
Is the need to speak
And I would
Say this very very strongly
Those who won't speak
Will not inherit or participate in the motion
Those who don't speak
Will not inherit or participate in the motion
You cannot speak mediocrity
Or complacency as it
Neither this nor that
Neither yes nor no
No! As 29
If you do not speak
You will not participate or inherit this motion
It is the only
Caution or
Rebuke in this whole teaching
You must speak
And you can't choose neutrality
Yeah, kind of
No, also
Hmm, eh
These gestures and sounds
Are not allowed
You know any son
And I've shared this with Salvi
Any son, the one who gave me a father
The father was young
He had a very strong
Stomach
He had a middle name
I forgot what his middle name is
But his parents
Loved his middle name so they would call him his middle name
Paul didn't speak for the first
Two or three years
But God had very clearly told him he didn't want
To call him Paul
But they loved his middle name
So for the first two or three years of his life
They would always call him by his middle name
And the boy would not respond
And the boy would not talk
One day Paul's elder brother Edward
Turned to them and
Everyone was trying to get Paul to talk
And it's three or three and a half
Or so now and he hasn't said a word
And at some point
Edward and his older brother by two or three years
Turns to Paul and he says
For God's sake man, talk
After all your name is Paul
And the boy would answer
It is important
That we
Learn in the year ahead
To speak
God's words
Not your own words
Not your neutral stance so that you don't get into trouble
Not the traditions of men that keep us silent
Not our culture
Because we are this world
We must
Because we not much
We belong to that kingdom
14th Psalm
Chapter 8 verse 7 to 15
14th Psalm
Chapter 8
Chapter 8 verse 7 to 15
Elijah went to the masochist
And then he had the king
Of Aram of Ziln
And the king was told
The man of God has come all the way up here
He said to Haze take a gift with you
And go and meet the man of God
He asked him will I recover from this illness
Haze went to meet Elijah
Taking him with him
As a gift
Forty camels of all the finest wares of the masses
He went to the stoop before him and said
Your son Ben Hada king of Aram
Has sent me to ask will I recover from this illness
Elijah answered go and say to him
You will certainly recover
But the Lord has revealed to me that he will in fact die
He stared at him with a fixed gaze
Until Haze felt ashamed
That the man of God began to meet
Why shall I not meet me? asked Haze
Because I know the harm you will do to these delights
You will set fire to their fortified palaces
Kill their young men with the sword
Dash their little children to the ground
Rip open their pregnant women
Haze said how could your servant Amir and dog
Accomplish such a feat
The Lord has shown me that he will become king of Aram
Answered Elijah
Then Haze left Elijah and returned to his master
When Ben Hada asked him what did Elijah say to you
Haze replied he told me that you would certainly recover
But the next day he took a thick cloth
And soaked it in water
Spread it over the king's face when he died
Then Haze succeeded in arresting him
Why read this long story
It was on 1 Kings 1915
On 1 Kings 1915
Elijah had said
That it was one of the things
That needed to be done
Haze had to become the king
And it is something that Elijah
Did not do that is now being completed by Elijah
On 1 Kings 1915
Then the Lord said to him
Go back where you came from
Go to the desert of Damascus
When you get there anointed Haze king of Aram
And Elijah did not
He decided
To resign and be captured
Rather than finish what he was called to
The 14th sign is this
We who finished what Elijah's
That started
But were unable for this to be complete
We who finished
What Elijah's had started
But were unable
But were unable or are unable
To finish for different reasons
Maybe some of them are old
Maybe some of them are trying
Maybe some of them haven't grown
Different reasons why Elijah
Do not finish what they
Are supposed to finish
Maybe some of them are frightened
Maybe some of them are lacking in faith
I pray God that you will not
Have to say that about me
That we have to finish what Jacob had started
Because Jacob for reasons of age
And lack of faith for not having grown
Was not able to complete
What God gave so we have to complete it
May not be center of you
Or of me
But we will have to finish something that Elijah
Has started
And that's so sad sometimes
When it has to be done
I remember when we first finished
Our first time at the Shalom
Went to the Daqa Bishan
And realized what we were supposed to do in Shalom
So I went to meet this man
Whose name was
Skinner, Pastor Skinner
And he was the one who
Sparsed the mission work in Shalom
And I knew that it hadn't been completed
And when I went to meet him
He was paralyzed, he could not speak
And I knew that
I had to meet him
And tell him
Listen, my name is Jacob
You do not know me
But we have been sent specifically to Shalom
And I am here to say to you
That I will complete what God has asked me to complete
And then I asked him to
Pray for me
I honored him with
Money
And asked him to
Give me the permission to finish
What he had begun in Shalom
Because he was not taking the work
A little later than I did
Sometimes, Elijah's do not finish
I sorrow over that
Last night
15th night
The 13th was 21
Second day, 13th was 21
Elijah died on the cross-border
And the war-bite-right raiders
Used to enter the country every spring
Once, whites of his life were burying the man
Suddenly, they saw battle rages
So they threw the man's body
Into Elijah's tomb
When the body touched Elijah's bones
The man came to life
And stood up on his feet
Crazy, right?
Even a dead man can't stop
I mean, here is the 15th fight
That happens after he is dead
Isn't that cool?
I want to say a thing that will affect
Anybody who comes near us
With resurrection life
Acts 5-15
The shadow
People start lighting up their sticks
They hope that the shadow
That Peter cast
The shadow that Peter cast
Would heal his sin
The point being
That it is
It is given to us in the year ahead
To revive dead legacies
To revive dead institutions
That now
Are built over the bones
Of some famous
Man of color died
50 years ago
In nominations to revive dead legacies
Desolate heritages as excessive
As they have fallen as
Prostitutes like Mary
Fearful soldiers like Gideon
Valleys full of bones
Nations
To be able to revive their
Spirit so that
They get infected when they come
In touch with us
I know that is such a boost
Such a large thing
I don't even know how it will play out
But all I know is
I can trust God for his patience
So I am going to ask
The music team to come back
And sing that song
The last song they sang
And after that we advance
As soon as the song is done
I am going to sing this song in response to what we have heard
Because I think
Placing ourselves on the partners team
Is critical
Because the thing that we want to shape
Man, no human on earth can do
It will have to be God