1 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:10,680 We welcome you to the We Are Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:13,560 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,080 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:20,760 be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,240 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:27,840 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:33,640 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,200 our promise. We are celebrating all that God 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,520 has done and has promised to do over the next few weeks. 10 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:44,400 Every word that God has spoken will come to pass. 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,840 Everything that you have sown into will begin to reap its 12 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,640 fruit. The harvest is here and it's 13 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,200 plentiful. Can we lean into the Lord of the 14 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,240 harvest and hear what He has to say to us? 15 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,200 Yes, Church, we're so happy that we get to do this new series on 16 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:06,200 the harvest, right? And last week we saw how, you 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,240 know, the seed which is sown becomes grain. 18 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,960 They look distinctly different. They have different purposes. 19 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:15,080 The seed is full of life. When it is sown is when it gives 20 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:16,440 rise to. Grain. 21 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:18,960 And this week we're going to be looking at the process of 22 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,280 threshing. And I believe a lot of us are in 23 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:24,560 that season spiritually where God is threshing us for a 24 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,120 certain reason. It might feel like you know, it 25 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:29,880 might feel a little rough. It may feel a little unjust 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:31,360 even. But God is at. 27 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:32,600 Work. I just want to encourage you 28 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,440 about that. And the title of my sermon is 29 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:39,320 threshed but not crushed, because many times the the act 30 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:42,360 of threshing actually feels quite violent. 31 00:01:42,480 --> 00:01:46,560 I have just a few stalks of wheat here to illustrate the 32 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,720 point. So when wheat is born as the 33 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,440 seed of the wheat seed, when sown becomes the grain. 34 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:57,520 But this is the entire grain. The wholesome part of the grain 35 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,440 is hidden deep within and farmers have a very specific 36 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:02,240 way. Of. 37 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:04,640 Threshing wheat. If it's Paddy, they have a 38 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,320 different way of threshing it. If it's barley, it's different. 39 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:12,320 They have a different way, but all of it requires mechanical 40 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:15,320 pressure. No threshing mechanism works 41 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,320 without pressure. So either it's beaten on the 42 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:20,840 ground, or they use a threshing sledge, they hammer it, or they 43 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,200 use animals to tread it, But whatever it is, friction is 44 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,040 necessary. Force is necessary in order to 45 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:30,400 get the useful part of the grain out and the rest is just thrown 46 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:32,000 away. And what is thrown away is 47 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,320 usually just burnt up or the shaft is just let you know, 48 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,280 allowed into the wind and it's carried away. 49 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:39,840 And what is remaining is what is useful. 50 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,680 And like last week, Pastor Geshom was teaching us on how 51 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,360 there is this requirement on our lives that we would sow the 52 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,280 grain that we have tasted. And he also mentioned how we 53 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:54,680 need to stay the course because what is sown has to be watered, 54 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:57,840 has to be tended to, and then ultimately you reap with 55 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:01,000 Thanksgiving. Many times we sow certain things 56 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:03,200 and we expect a certain kind of harvest. 57 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:07,200 But if you didn't sow it right to begin with, what you reap is 58 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:10,160 what you actually sowed. You don't get a mango tree if 59 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,120 you sowed apples, apple seeds, right? 60 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:14,920 So there is this direct correlation between the seed you 61 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:18,040 sow and the grain that you reap. And this week we're going to be 62 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:21,920 focusing on Isaiah chapter 28, where there's this beautiful 63 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:25,480 scripture on how. God gives wisdom to the farmer. 64 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,960 On how to actually, you know, sow his seed and how he has to 65 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,960 thresh it. So Isaiah chapter 28 verses 23 66 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:39,240 to 29, listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I 67 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,280 say. When a farmer plows for 68 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:43,320 planting, does he plow continually? 69 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,160 Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil? 70 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:48,280 When he has levelled the surface? 71 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,120 Does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? 72 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:54,800 Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and 73 00:03:54,800 --> 00:03:58,200 spelt in its field? His God instructs him and 74 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:01,280 teaches him the right way. Caraway is not threshed with a 75 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,480 sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin. 76 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,880 Caraway is beaten out with a rod and cumin with a stick. 77 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,160 Grain must be ground to make bread, so. 78 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,600 One does not go on threshing it forever. 79 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:18,839 The wheels of a threshing cart may be rolled over it, but one 80 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,640 does not use horses to grind grain. 81 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,800 All this also comes from the Lord Almighty. 82 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:29,320 Whose plan is wonderful? Whose wisdom is magnificent. 83 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:35,160 It's amazing because God gives the farmer such intricate wisdom 84 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,440 as to how to deal with each of his seals and the grain that is 85 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:41,960 produced from each of the seeds is different, has different 86 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,960 needs. So the threshing mechanism is 87 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,520 also different. I want you to quickly watch this 88 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,800 video, this YouTube short on what threshing actually looks 89 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,320 like for you to better understand this process. 90 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,200 It's just a quick video if you can just watch it. 91 00:05:06,420 --> 00:05:09,660 So as you noticed, there was a mechanical force. 92 00:05:09,660 --> 00:05:12,380 There was a moment when the farmer was actually. 93 00:05:12,380 --> 00:05:15,360 Hitting. The grain in order to free up 94 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,960 the grain in itself in its nutritious form, leaving behind 95 00:05:18,960 --> 00:05:23,240 on the floor that which was not useful, whatever flew away was 96 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:24,720 the shaft which actually protected it. 97 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:27,200 But the grain is what is left behind. 98 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,480 So sometimes, you know, you've it the, the whole process of 99 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:33,320 threshing requires a stick, requires a rod, requires 100 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:37,040 sometimes a threshing mechanism which rolls over the grain. 101 00:05:37,280 --> 00:05:40,400 I was watching a couple of these agricultural videos from North 102 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:44,120 India where this these two oxen are, you know, treading out the 103 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:46,080 grain as as a threshing mechanism. 104 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:50,200 And the farmer is seated behind on this small little ledge that 105 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:53,200 has wheels. And so not only are the oxen 106 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,720 threshing the grain. The ledge that he's sitting on 107 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,200 and being pulled on is also doing an additional threshing 108 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,200 work. But the beautiful thing in this 109 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,520 passage is that threshing is not a forever process. 110 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,040 Even the season of sewing is not a forever thing. 111 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,560 These are seasonal. They happen for a time. 112 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,640 And thresh threshing is such a pivotal part of this process. 113 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,840 If it is not there, you don't get the product that you're 114 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:19,080 looking for. So you can be assured of this. 115 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,120 Threshing is not forever. Maybe you feel like you're in a 116 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,040 season of of you know, just the harvest is about to come. 117 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:27,840 You feel like the things you have sown in past seasons are 118 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:30,760 going to come full circuit. But you feel like this is 119 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,640 unusual pleasure. You feel like God is doing 120 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:35,440 something. He's shaking things that felt 121 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,640 normal to you. You feel like there's this 122 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:40,960 rumbling beneath the surface and you feel like God, I'm feeling 123 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:42,640 unsettled. I thought this was a season of 124 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:44,200 plenty. I thought this was a season of 125 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,600 reaping. But I want to encourage you and 126 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,440 and bless you today with this word that the threshing means 127 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,280 that the harvest is in full swing. 128 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:55,680 It means that you're closer than ever to your miracle. 129 00:06:55,680 --> 00:06:57,680 You're closer than ever to your reaping. 130 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:01,600 Right. And so you might ask me what is 131 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,480 the need for threshing? Why do I need this threshing, 132 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:06,880 right? Why does, why do I have to go 133 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,000 through this hard times? Haven't I already been through 134 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,680 enough? And I, I completely agree with 135 00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,680 you. Yes, you're probably probably 136 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:18,240 been through a lot, but the threshing is highly essential 137 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:22,000 for every believer in Christ. We need the threshing season 138 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,240 before the harvest is complete so that things that need to be 139 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,400 removed are removed and things that need to stay, stay. 140 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,760 When you look at this these verses in Isaiah 2028, if God 141 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:38,560 gave so much wisdom to a farmer as to thresh different seeds 142 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,240 different ways, God is very mindful of how he threshes each 143 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,000 of us in the seasons. Of our life. 144 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 The way he threshes me will not be the way he threshes you, 145 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,400 because he knows what my threshold is. 146 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:52,440 He knows exactly how much I can handle it. 147 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:54,320 He knows how much you can handle. 148 00:07:54,320 --> 00:07:57,720 So if he used, if the farmer has to use a sledge for something 149 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,760 and an oxen for something else, God knows how to thresh you and 150 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,320 me. We are being held by a very 151 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,240 mindful God. He knows what we are doing and 152 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:11,160 in order to see us mature and grow, He needs to do certain 153 00:08:11,160 --> 00:08:14,960 things in US to release us to our fullest potential. 154 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:18,160 There are two reasons why threshing is very important for 155 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,240 every every believer in Christ who is headed into the harvest. 156 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:24,240 If this is a harvest, a season when you're going to reap 157 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,600 bountifully for all that you have sown over the years, there 158 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:30,680 are two things that have to happen and that's why threshing 159 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,039 is done. The first thing it's removing. 160 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:36,280 Threshing is a removing what? What are we removing? 161 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,080 You're probably thinking, I've given up so much already to 162 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,760 follow Jesus. What more should I should be 163 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:44,520 removed? Well, there isn't the need to 164 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,440 remove baggage and attachment of the previous season before you 165 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:51,840 enter the new season. The new season will require you 166 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,880 to have fresh set of skills, fresh insight, fresh 167 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,160 experiences. But many times the baggage and 168 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,080 the attachments of the past season can be a deterrent. 169 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:05,520 It can hold you back. When the farmer hits that wheat, 170 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:10,400 hits that Paddy, when he threshes it, what happens is the 171 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,840 outer husk, what protected it in seed form. 172 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:16,240 The husk was very essential in the previous season. 173 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:18,720 When the seed grows, you'll find that the seed is very 174 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,680 susceptible to all kinds of infections. 175 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,960 So God has created this beautiful hardened outer 176 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,400 covering called the husk or the shaft, which protects it in seed 177 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:30,000 stage. But when the seed goes grows 178 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,080 into grain, the husk becomes immaterial. 179 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,200 It served its purpose in the last season many times for all 180 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:37,960 of us. There are certain things that we 181 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:40,920 developed as a protective mechanism in a previous season. 182 00:09:41,480 --> 00:09:44,520 We had a certain way of being maybe harsh and and maybe we 183 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,840 were a bit very, you know, prideful and egoistic because we 184 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:50,200 needed to protect ourselves. There were people who harmed us. 185 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,800 There were people who hurt us. There were people who tried to 186 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:54,600 tear us down. And so maybe there were certain 187 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,120 protective mechanisms you put in, you built in. 188 00:09:57,560 --> 00:10:00,560 But God is saying in the next season, I will be your shield, 189 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:03,920 like like Deshum taught us a couple of weeks back, but he is 190 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:06,200 our shield. Many of us have been trying to 191 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:07,760 put up our Shields and protect ourselves. 192 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:09,240 But he's saying I am your shield. 193 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:12,200 I am your great reward. And so there needs to be a 194 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:15,160 removing. There needs to be a removing of 195 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,680 certain things. There has to be a change of 196 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:20,000 things from the old season to the new season. 197 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:24,080 I remember when we just got our puppy five years back, she was 198 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:26,360 just a few months old. And when we had to discipline 199 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,160 one of our children, if we, you know, took our took that, you 200 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,520 know, the plastics, we have a plastic spoon to correct our 201 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,760 kids when we take it out, the dog would get so alert and 202 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:38,080 whichever child we were going to discipline, she would come and 203 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:41,120 stand in front of them like a guard dog. 204 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,320 And she would prevent us from going near the child. 205 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:47,400 She was so protective of them. And that was for the 1st 1 1/2 206 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:50,320 years of being at home with us. In the last three years, she 207 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:52,600 couldn't be bothered. Like if we were correcting or, 208 00:10:52,640 --> 00:10:56,720 or talking loudly to one of the kids in, in correction, she 209 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,560 would just lazily be lying in a corner and, and literally 210 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:02,960 smiling at the kid getting it. And I realized that there's each 211 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,960 season has a different kind of protection that is afforded to 212 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,560 us. In some seasons, you need to 213 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:11,120 protect yourself. You feel even even though in 214 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:14,040 that season God was your protector, but God is saying in 215 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,960 this new season, what nourished you in the previous, what helped 216 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,160 you in the previous season will not do it. 217 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,440 You need something fresh. And so the threshing process 218 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:26,640 actually removes those attachments, those dependencies, 219 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,160 and creates room for fresh dependency. 220 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,600 Maybe in the previous season you depended on this one 221 00:11:31,600 --> 00:11:34,880 relationship or you depended on this one discipline you had 222 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,160 inculcated and that you rely on for your very sustenance. 223 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:41,000 But God is saying in this new season you're going to depend on 224 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,560 me for everything. Maybe in the old season you had 225 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:47,440 a certain dependency on on exercise or on a particular or 226 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:50,640 meditation technique or whatever it looked like to preserve your 227 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:52,600 mental health, your peace, your stability. 228 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,240 But God is saying in this season, I'm going to remove that 229 00:11:55,360 --> 00:11:58,480 so that the fresh thing that I want to do in you comes through. 230 00:11:58,960 --> 00:12:03,760 What are the old baggages? What is the old attachments that 231 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,600 need to be removed? What do you feel God is 232 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:10,600 unsettling you on so that you look to Him for this new season? 233 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,440 Threshing, when it happens, will dislocate from your life. 234 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:20,600 Pride, anger, heat, unforgiveness, things that tend 235 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:25,560 to cling, that tend to stay. We have found we've had to the 236 00:12:25,560 --> 00:12:28,640 seasons when you think you're done and dusted with something 237 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:32,400 or someone, but then these old remnant feelings creep up and 238 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,760 you have to deal with that old anger. 239 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:35,400 You have to deal with that old unforgiveness. 240 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:38,000 You have to keep addressing the fact that there are some areas 241 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,920 in your life you're still bitter about and you allow God to 242 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:43,680 thresh it out of you. God take it away because I don't 243 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:46,560 want it. Paul instructs us to live 244 00:12:47,040 --> 00:12:50,480 without a hint of impurity and sometimes this threshing season 245 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,760 is so important because it removes the hint of impurity 246 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,720 before it becomes a full-fledged stronghold. 247 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,600 So don't resist the threshing, the removing of these things is 248 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,040 very important. I was reading the other day in 249 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:07,720 in Ecclesiastes. It says a little folly outweighs 250 00:13:08,200 --> 00:13:12,400 honour, a little folly. So you may live an honourable 251 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,040 life, but a little foolishness in you could disrupt that, could 252 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,720 degrade that. And it's so important for God in 253 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,840 the threshing season to say to actually shake off that folly, 254 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:25,040 to shake off that that foolishness. 255 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,360 So would you bring it to him and say, Lord, whatever in me needs 256 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:30,200 to be removed in the season, remove it. 257 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,960 Let me address it. Let me call it like it is. 258 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:35,760 Remove it from me. That's the first reason we need 259 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,200 to go through threshing. The second reason we need to go 260 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,760 through threshing as believers, it's 100% required is because 261 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:46,080 it's preparing. So while we remove this, the 262 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,520 husk mechanically from the wheat, there's a second thing 263 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,280 where we have to prepare. And that happens because 264 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:54,320 whatever is unnecessary has been removed. 265 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,800 And the grain which is useful to make flour remains, you know, 266 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,720 the flour that we use for for our Atta flour, the the oats 267 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,040 that is made into. Our oat grain oatmeal. 268 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 All of that happens because of threshing. 269 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,080 If threshing has not happened, the grain is not prepared. 270 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,280 And I want to ask you, have you sometimes felt that during the 271 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:21,080 threshing season you feel a bit exposed, you feel a bit 272 00:14:21,600 --> 00:14:25,600 unsteady, unsure. It's because God is preparing 273 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,880 you for your destiny purpose, for the destiny purpose of your 274 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:30,960 life. Certain relationships have to be 275 00:14:30,960 --> 00:14:34,800 moved out for your destiny purpose to be revealed and for 276 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:37,400 you to step into it. Certain habits have to go, 277 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,600 certain attitudes, mindsets have to go. 278 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,520 So that removal happens. It leaves you feeling 279 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:44,760 unfamiliar. You're an unfamiliar territory. 280 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,280 God, my old anger is gone. That protected me. 281 00:14:47,440 --> 00:14:49,880 Lord, my ego seems to be completely dead. 282 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:52,200 What's going on? How will I survive? 283 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:55,800 But the new season needs you to be ready for your destiny 284 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,080 purpose. The very reason you were created 285 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:00,840 for is what is going to be revealed in the season. 286 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,080 The wheat seed that was sown was not the end of it. 287 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,760 It was just the starting. The grain is where destiny lies. 288 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,560 Because it's going to be crushed into flower, it's going to be 289 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:14,640 crushed into different things and its uses are multivarius. 290 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,840 So it is so essential to understand that when God allows 291 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,320 a threshing season in our life, it is because he's preparing us 292 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:25,280 for our destiny purpose. It usually will feel a very like 293 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,760 a very exposed season where you are doubting yourself, you feel 294 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:31,760 like your character is changing. You feel like certain things 295 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,160 that you thrived or knowing about yourself are now changing. 296 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:38,560 But it's beautiful because God is shifting it so that your 297 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:42,280 identity is rooted in Him. And your God-given purpose, the 298 00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:45,800 reason for which you were created, will start to unfold in 299 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,560 the season, so the preparation is very important. 300 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,440 When the burdens are dropped, when the attachments are 301 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:56,120 dropped, when he removes the things that are not of him, 302 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,360 which maybe served you well in a previous season but don't serve 303 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,640 you now. When He starts allowing you to 304 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,640 rest in the new, he's preparing you for what's coming. 305 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:09,520 And it's so important for you to remember this, that it is 306 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,080 important that you undergo the threshing so that in the Kingdom 307 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,520 you become a thresher. You undergo the threshing so 308 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:20,560 that you become a thresher. What does that look like? 309 00:16:20,920 --> 00:16:24,440 What does that look like? A thresher is basically someone 310 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,320 who takes their position in the Kingdom of God and knows who 311 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,920 they are and knows what their purpose is. 312 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:33,680 The larger purpose. Now the individual purposes of 313 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,640 our life are very tailor made to who we are. 314 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:38,120 The the you know our backgrounds, the skills and 315 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,800 talents we have, how God has wired us uniquely. 316 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:45,240 But the larger purpose is this. We are called to be threshers in 317 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,560 the Kingdom. And this is twofold. 318 00:16:47,880 --> 00:16:51,440 How do you and I become threshers in the Kingdom Once we 319 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:54,000 have received our threshing, threshing season itself? 320 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,960 The first thing is you need to thresh the enemy. 321 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:02,320 You need to thresh the enemy and take back all that he stole. 322 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:05,520 I'm going to read from Micah chapter 4 verse 13. 323 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,440 It says rise and thresh daughter Zion. 324 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:11,880 For I will give you horns of iron, I will give you hooves of 325 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:14,000 bronze, and you will break to pieces. 326 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:18,520 Many nations you will. Devote their I'll gotten gains 327 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:22,800 to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth. 328 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:25,800 So you know when I was thinking about this threshing, I thought 329 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:28,040 he's not talking about a threshing hammer. 330 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,000 He's in the original word actually means trample tread 331 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,960 under foot. And I got this boot of mine 332 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,040 which I hardly get a chance to wear in Chennai. 333 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:40,520 But this heel reminds me of what threshing something under foot 334 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:42,840 looks like. If you get smashed by this heel, 335 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,000 you will be hurt. Your toes will feel hurt and 336 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:50,840 many times we look at the enemy at face to face value. 337 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:53,600 We are talking to our enemy, we're engaging with Him, we're 338 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:56,120 flirting with him. We are intimidated by Him when 339 00:17:56,120 --> 00:18:00,400 he belongs under our heel. He's meant to be trampled on. 340 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,640 When you look at Luke chapter 10 verses 18 to 19, Jesus says he 341 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,080 replied, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 342 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:12,400 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions 343 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:14,240 and to overcome. All. 344 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,640 The power of the enemy. Nothing will hurt you. 345 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,640 This is the authority we have in Jesus name. 346 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:22,320 He is under our feet, the enemy is under our feet. 347 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:26,080 And yet too many of us are giving him way too much 348 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:27,880 credence. Too many of us are so 349 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:30,520 intimidated by him that we think, you know what? 350 00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:32,680 Let him stay in the corner. He's. 351 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,280 Not troubling me anyway. Doesn't matter. 352 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:37,120 The problem with the enemy is you give him a corner, he takes 353 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:40,880 over the room, you think that you've dealt with one area and 354 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,880 you're you're very complacent. He will bring in seven more and 355 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:45,280 make the place worse than it began. 356 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:49,520 And it's important that we don't give him so much credence that 357 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,400 he occupies a space near our ears, but that he remains under 358 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:57,280 our feet. In the book of Genesis we see 359 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,200 how when Adam and Eve were cursed, the serpent was said 360 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,400 that you will be on your belly, and the man's was said that you 361 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,440 will trample on him. And the beautiful thing is that 362 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,360 Jesus came once and for all. He was the heel that trampled 363 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:15,720 the serpent. He was the heel that did the job 364 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:17,920 for us. And so today, as you and I are 365 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:19,840 in Christ, He is under our feet too. 366 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:24,560 But too many believers are living in this place of 367 00:19:24,560 --> 00:19:27,480 completely being intimidated, and they are crouching in the 368 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:29,800 corner while the enemy reigns supreme. 369 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,680 And I want to bring you back to this place of saying, if you 370 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:35,520 have undergone the threshing, you know that you are a 371 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,120 thresher. And it says rise and thresh. 372 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:43,320 No more crouching in the corner, afraid by what the enemy could 373 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:45,240 do to you. Maybe he touched your family. 374 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:48,680 Maybe there was an open door. But it's time to rise up, shut 375 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:50,680 the door and thresh him under your feet. 376 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,320 He belongs under your feet. Maybe you've been intimidated by 377 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,000 the things your family went through. 378 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:00,400 Maybe you've seen finances just get completely annihilated. 379 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:02,920 Maybe you saw generations cut off in their prime. 380 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:05,560 Maybe you think, Oh my gosh, he might do that again. 381 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,080 To me, I want to just remind you that the enemy is a defeated 382 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:11,240 foe. He's still a serpent. 383 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:14,800 He still bites, but his venom has been removed because Jesus 384 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,440 removed the sting of death and sin. 385 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,040 So when you believe in Jesus, you stand not in your authority 386 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:22,800 and power. You stand in the authority that 387 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:27,160 Jesus has given you. And he said all power you will 388 00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:29,800 overcome all the power of the enemy, not just one or two. 389 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:31,560 Bits of his. Power, but all of it. 390 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,320 It's all. Under a feet. 391 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,000 So being a thresher means you understand your spiritual 392 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,320 authority, you understand the dominion that has been restored 393 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:43,000 to you. And so you can boldly stand and 394 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:45,640 say, you know what, Yes, it looks like my health has been 395 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,320 overrun by the enemy. But today, Lord, I rise and I 396 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:52,280 thresh. I take claim over that which the 397 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,400 enemy has taken away. Maybe he's taken away your 398 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,240 peace. Today you are standing in the 399 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:57,920 gap. You are standing with this thing 400 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,760 of saying my I wear the boots of the gospel of peace. 401 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:02,360 I trample the enemy under my feet. 402 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:07,120 You are believing that the authority given to you actually 403 00:21:07,120 --> 00:21:10,080 works. Many of us are acting like as of 404 00:21:10,080 --> 00:21:12,200 the authority was just some sort of badge like thing. 405 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,120 You know, sometimes they give you a badge and tell you to 406 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:16,240 handle the security outside your school. 407 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:19,320 When in reality the police guys have the real authority with 408 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,120 their uniforms, with their sticks. 409 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,360 And we just feel like we're some sort of, you know, chota 410 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:28,240 authority. But the truth is in Jesus, in 411 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:31,000 Jesus we fed the full armour of God. 412 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:34,760 The enemy knows who we are and whose we are, and he doesn't get 413 00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:38,360 to mess around with us. Knowing your authority is very 414 00:21:38,360 --> 00:21:41,760 important, and when you know this authority, you know when 415 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,800 you have been threshed yourself, when all the attachments have 416 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:46,640 been removed, when you're prepared for your destiny 417 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:48,560 purpose. You are standing there, no 418 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:50,120 longer looking at him, eye and eye. 419 00:21:50,360 --> 00:21:53,360 But you have pulled him under your feet, and you walk into 420 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:55,280 that territory that belongs to you. 421 00:21:55,280 --> 00:22:00,600 Joy is your portion. Peace is your right love, 422 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,040 experiencing the love of the Father, no longer feeling 423 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,920 unloved, and often is your inheritance in Christ Jesus. 424 00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:10,920 Knowing this authority, knowing this authority changes 425 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,120 everything. It changes the game completely 426 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,680 and so important that when we look at people, we don't look at 427 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,720 them as their personalities are. The personality could be 428 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,440 triggering you, but there could be a principality working behind 429 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,320 them. And we don't trample people. 430 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,080 We fight against not flesh and blood, but against 431 00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,040 principalities and powers. So you bring that principality 432 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,040 under your feet. You say no more. 433 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,240 I will not live in intimidation to you. 434 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:41,200 I live under the fear of God. I live because of His 435 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,280 righteousness that covers me. And so you belong under my feet. 436 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:47,880 Too many of us are engaging in conversation with the enemy. 437 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,080 Jesus didn't engage in conversation with the enemy when 438 00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,680 he drove out demons, they would scream coming out, you are the 439 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:56,960 Son of God and he would silence them because he did not need the 440 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:01,200 validation of an of the enemy. He wanted his people who had 441 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,880 free will to say I believe that you are the Son of God. 442 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,720 He didn't. The demons knew who he was, but 443 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,000 he didn't need their attestation today. 444 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:13,680 Stop engaging with the enemy. Stop flirting with the enemy and 445 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,880 and making deals with him. I won't give all of myself to 446 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:19,880 this addiction, just a part. I'll try out this. 447 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,680 Don't give him room. He belongs under your feet. 448 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,960 How long are you going to give room for those thoughts that 449 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,160 overtake your mind and put you in a spiral? 450 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,680 Those depressive thoughts incited by the Father of lies 451 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,800 belong under your feet. Take control of your mind. 452 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,880 Put the enemy in his place. His place is under your feet. 453 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,040 The second thing that you do as a thresher is that you will need 454 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,840 to thresh mountains and open the ways for others. 455 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:52,240 You know, many times if you have a particular direction you want 456 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:55,080 to go in your life, you will find that there are huge 457 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:57,520 obstacles that come out of nowhere, right? 458 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,880 These huge mountains. And many times we get this 459 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,240 confused, we confuse the mountain with the enemy. 460 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:05,440 The mountain is natural obstacles, obstacles of the 461 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:08,440 broken world we live in, obstacles that are brought in by 462 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,960 people, by situations. And if you look at what Jesus 463 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:16,960 talks about these mountains, he doesn't address the mountain as 464 00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,600 a demon. He addresses the mountain for 465 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,000 what it is. It's a huge looming thing ahead 466 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,840 of you which prevents you from seeing your God ordained 467 00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:25,640 destiny. And he actually tells you to 468 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,640 speak to the mountain and pull it down, right? 469 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:33,640 Isaiah 41 verse 15 says, see, I will make you into a threshing 470 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:35,960 sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. 471 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:40,440 You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the 472 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:45,360 hills to chaff. You will thresh the mountains 473 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,080 and crush them and so many times. 474 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,800 As a thresher, while we need to keep the enemy threshed under 475 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,080 our foot, we need to thresh the mountains that loom large ahead 476 00:24:57,080 --> 00:24:58,840 of us. It could be this huge mountain 477 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:01,440 of debt. It could be this huge mountain 478 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,080 of unbelief. It could be this. 479 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,720 Huge mountain of infertility. It could be this huge mountain 480 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,720 of relationship failures again and again, set back after set 481 00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,680 back and you're thinking God, there is no way forward. 482 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:18,520 But God is calling us to look at the mountain and to thresh it 483 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:20,920 into nothing. What does that look like? 484 00:25:21,120 --> 00:25:24,480 I want to read from Zechariah chapter 4 verses 6 to 9. 485 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,040 I want to encourage you from this that the mountain ahead of 486 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:28,800 you cannot be threshed by you alone. 487 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:32,480 You can have the best financial advisors, you could have the 488 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,320 best doctors, you could have all of the AI at your fingertips 489 00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:37,960 giving you all the inputs you need. 490 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:41,320 But without this one ingredient, the mountain will still stay a 491 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,320 mountain. So he said to me, Zechariah 492 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,400 chapter 4, verses 6 to 9. This is the word of the Lord to 493 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,720 Zerubabel. Not by might nor by power, but 494 00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,680 by my spirit, says the Lord Almighty, What are you, mighty 495 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,200 mountain before Zerubabel, you will become level ground. 496 00:25:57,200 --> 00:26:00,080 Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of God bless 497 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,680 it, God bless it. Then the word of the Lord came 498 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,760 to me. The hands of Zerubabel have laid 499 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:08,960 the foundation of this temple. His hands will also complete it. 500 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:14,160 Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to what's 501 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,080 going on here. Zerubabbel and A and a remnant 502 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,840 after the exile are returning to Jerusalem to rebuild the Temple. 503 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,960 Now you have to understand, the Temple was completely burnt 504 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,080 down. Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed the 505 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:29,240 Temple. The walls of the city had been 506 00:26:29,240 --> 00:26:31,800 pulled down by conquerors and the temple. 507 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:35,160 Which was built by Solomon, and such grandeur had been brought 508 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,880 down to nothing. It was ash and there was no 509 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:43,560 remnant glory of what was. And here these men have 510 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,200 returned, thousand or two, couple of them, couple thousands 511 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:48,400 have returned. They're looking there. 512 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,720 They've heard about the temple. They have not seen it because 513 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:56,240 it's about 60-70 years in and the task seemed so huge. 514 00:26:56,240 --> 00:27:00,360 How do you rebuild a temple when all you all you see is ash? 515 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,920 It's an ash heap. You're standing there thinking 516 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,560 or how will I do this? Zerubbabel was of the royal line 517 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,560 of David. Zerubabel didn't know he was an 518 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,040 ancestor of the coming Messiah. He just knew he had been brought 519 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:14,960 here. He was royalty. 520 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,560 He had this huge task ahead of him to rebuild this temple. 521 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:23,480 And the task seemed huge. And there was God talking to him 522 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,760 through the prophet Zechariah, saying this will not be possible 523 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,880 by your might, by your power, not because you have 524 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,880 connections, not because you have royal blood, but because of 525 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:37,920 my spirit, because of my spirit. And I want to tell you this 526 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:43,040 today, if you have a mountain before you stop looking for 527 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,840 those human sources because these mountains need the Spirit 528 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,600 of God to move. If you have been resisting the 529 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:51,960 move of the Holy Spirit, you have been coming up with your 530 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:56,160 plans, your financial analysis, you have all these friends who 531 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:57,720 are giving you counsel. Great. 532 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,960 But the main ingredient is the power of the Holy Spirit. 533 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:05,000 He is the one who will change the situation, because when you 534 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:10,200 harness the power of God, it is God who brings the flattening of 535 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,960 those mountains. So whatever the mountain looks 536 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,360 like to you, you speak to it in the power of the Holy Spirit and 537 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:19,640 you see, I bring you down because this is what Jesus said 538 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,640 in Mark 11/23. He says truly I tell you, if 539 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,080 anyone says to this mountain go throw yourself into the sea and 540 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,960 does not doubt in their heart, but believes that what they say 541 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,760 will happen, it will be done for them. 542 00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:37,160 It will be done for them. What is it that God has done in 543 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:37,880 your? Life. 544 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,960 That is magnificent, but that is where you saw God pull down a 545 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,880 mountain. Ahead of you, you take that 546 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,160 miracle and then when you start declaring and bringing the Holy 547 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,600 Spirit into, not only does the way get cleared for you, it 548 00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:56,480 clears it for many behind you. Too many of us, we talk about 549 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,880 this a lot in our church. Too many of us are living 550 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,640 individualistic lives. We live it for myself, my 551 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,480 spouse, my children. It all has to be tailor made to 552 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,640 fit for us. But God is calling us. 553 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:10,240 We are part of a Kingdom. We are part of a huge family 554 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,720 where we are doing things that bless others. 555 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,360 What is it that? You have seen in your life where 556 00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:18,440 God came through and pulled down a mountain. 557 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,040 Not just did He make a way for you, but He's made a way for 558 00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:23,760 others. How do you bring that? 559 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,960 Make that applicable to someone else? 560 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:30,000 You start to believe that the Holy Spirit who did it for you 561 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,320 will do it for them. Would you? 562 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,640 Stand in the gap with others. If you've had your breakthrough, 563 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,560 it's time you start asking for someone else. 564 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,760 God, what Can I pray for them? You did it for me, and now I 565 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,480 want to see you do it for them. You saw restoration in your 566 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,080 life. Can you stand in the gap for 567 00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:48,040 someone else's restoration? You saw healing in your life. 568 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,840 Will you stand in the gap for someone else's healing? 569 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,640 Because we we stand before a God before whom mountains are 570 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,720 nothing, before whom a crooked path is nothing. 571 00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,880 With the Word, He straightens things out. 572 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,840 With the Word, He annihilates the mountain. 573 00:30:04,760 --> 00:30:09,880 So I want to ask you, what have you been doing in the presence 574 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,320 of that mountain? Or maybe a mountain disappeared, 575 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,320 but now you're finding that you don't really have a purpose. 576 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,840 What if in threshing that mountain with the Spirit of 577 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,400 God's help, you made a way, just not for yourself, but for many 578 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,280 others behind you, and you start to direct them and say, Hey, you 579 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:27,800 know what? I get what mountain you're 580 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:30,360 facing. I faced it to this is what God 581 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,920 did for me. I want to encourage you to pull 582 00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,840 that mountain down to the treasure in you needs to be 583 00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:40,600 called to the forefront to say this mountain is nothing to my 584 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,520 God. Many times we're speaking to the 585 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,840 mountain, all kinds of things We are. 586 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:47,880 We're looking at it and thinking, Oh my gosh. 587 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,520 How am I going to get through this? 588 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,120 Will I make it? To the other end, it's time that 589 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,120 you start speaking to that mountain words of faith that the 590 00:30:55,120 --> 00:30:59,040 Spirit of God puts in you when you pray in the Spirit, when you 591 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:02,760 start declaring spirit filled words from His word. 592 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:05,720 Something shifts in the spiritual realm. 593 00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:10,840 The things that you beat, the things that you defeat, the 594 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,240 mountains that you defy and stand against and thresh down 595 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,520 will become testimonies for many others. 596 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,040 And their mountains in turn get threshed. 597 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:27,120 So even as we close, we go back to Isaiah chapter 28, verse 29. 598 00:31:28,360 --> 00:31:31,840 All this also comes from the Lord Almighty, whose plan is 599 00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,720 wonderful, whose wisdom is magnificent. 600 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,440 You know, and I felt like we needed to come back to this. 601 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,080 Knowing that we are being threshed in a threshing season 602 00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:47,240 by an Almighty God should put you at ease because many times 603 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:50,600 the fear comes in of God. This feels unnatural. 604 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,400 Maybe it's not from you. Maybe you kind of dropped me. 605 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,920 I'm no longer on your roster. No, I'm no longer on your To Do 606 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,840 List and I'm just kind of. Being, you know, thrown around, 607 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,520 but I want to just remind you that we have an almighty God. 608 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:06,280 Your circumstances, your challenges, your situation, the 609 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:09,040 highs and lows are all being held by this almighty God. 610 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,600 And the two things that you should see from that verse is 611 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:15,920 his plan is wonderful. Maybe as you're ending the 8th 612 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,080 month, Can you believe it's the 8th month and maybe? 613 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,120 This year is. Not going like you planned. 614 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,520 Maybe the plan that you had was great, but they fell flat. 615 00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:29,840 I want to encourage you that his plans for you is wonderful. 616 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:32,800 What does that look like in Job 59? 617 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,880 It says he does wonders past fathom. 618 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,240 He's going to do things in your life. 619 00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:41,760 His plans for you are so wonderful. 620 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,440 It's going to move people's jaws to drop. 621 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,160 He's going to do such amazing things. 622 00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:51,120 Why are you settling for good plans when his plans are 623 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:56,160 wonderful? It's OK if your plans didn't 624 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,880 make it, if it's OK if your plans didn't outlast you. 625 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,800 It's OK if they had like a termination point. 626 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:07,000 God has eternal plans for you. He has plans to prosper you. 627 00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,080 His plans are way more extensive. 628 00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:12,440 They're beyond time. Maybe you thought the way I 629 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,480 planned it. My ducks are in a row. 630 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:18,760 These are the ways I I have anticipated things happening but 631 00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,240 suddenly, suddenly got through a curveball in the middle of that. 632 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,960 I want to encourage you. His ways are beyond our 633 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,120 understanding. His thoughts are higher than us. 634 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,800 So instead of trying to understand his his ways if we 635 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,040 could just understand that his plan is wonderful. 636 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,920 God, whatever you've got in mind for me is way better than I've 637 00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:42,280 ever imagined. The second thing we see there is 638 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:46,840 that his wisdom is magnificent. Our wisdom is so finite. 639 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:54,080 Our wisdom is so finite when we. Do life on earth, even the 640 00:33:54,080 --> 00:34:00,240 wisest among us, have boundaries or limits on their wisdom, But 641 00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:03,240 God's wisdom is all-encompassing when he's doing something in 642 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:06,600 your life, he's he's tailor making it so that it just 643 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:08,520 doesn't bless you. It blesses many others. 644 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:14,360 And so if his wisdom is so incredible, you can trust him 645 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,480 that when your plans fall through, when your ways of 646 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,120 thinking and doing are not meeting your expectation, that 647 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:25,840 his wisdom is so far outreached, it goes way beyond what you can 648 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,760 imagine. It changes everything because 649 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:30,920 when you read the Word, it says his ways are higher, his 650 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,880 thoughts are higher. It says that his the foolishness 651 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,120 of God is wiser than man's wisdom, while the weakness of 652 00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,880 God is stronger than man's strength. 653 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,600 In one Corinthians we read that. So if he seems slow and 654 00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,760 responding to you, it's not a problem of inability or in 655 00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:47,679 potency. It's divine wisdom at play. 656 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:53,080 If he seems like he doesn't know what he's doing, it's wisdom at 657 00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,360 it's purest form. At work, you can't understand 658 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,640 it. If he seems if the whole system 659 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:02,960 seems chaotic and upside down, his wisdom holds even the most 660 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,360 chaotic. Moments in it's right place. 661 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,760 Isn't that such an assurance? And the importance of 662 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,680 remembering who God is, is because in this micro season of 663 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:14,920 threshing, it won't be that long. 664 00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,160 I have to assure you of that. God knows exactly for what 665 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,440 duration you need to be threshed. 666 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:24,440 But in this micro season, if you remember that God is almighty, 667 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,960 he knows what he's doing. When you remember that what 668 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,480 feels harsh and jarring, you know this whole method of just 669 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,320 whacking the wheat, what feels harsh and jarring is actually a 670 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,800 blessing in disguise. It's not wasted. 671 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,680 It is not futile. It is not cruel. 672 00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:47,320 It's not like some sort of cosmic joke being played on you. 673 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,400 It's very intentional because God is not arbitrary. 674 00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,800 God is not random. God is very precise. 675 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:59,800 God is so. Caring to the last detail so as 676 00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:01,520 I close. I want to leave this with you. 677 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:07,080 Threshing will not break you but it will release you. 678 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:11,040 Just watch this quick video to help me help you understand what 679 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:38,440 that looks like. If you noticed the cows were 680 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:43,240 working, grain was being threshed and the other side 681 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:47,120 where a bunch of women who are taking the released grain and 682 00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:51,960 storing it as bales, they were working with the grain that was 683 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,160 exposed that was released because of the threshing. 684 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,960 And it's so important if you worry about the threshing or 685 00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,440 what if I don't make it? You will. 686 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,360 It will not break you because the the farmer in our lives is 687 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,360 God himself. He is so precise. 688 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,160 He's so precise. He knows exactly how much 689 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,440 pressure to use. He knows exactly what situations 690 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:11,440 use. They won't break you. 691 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:13,880 They will release you. They will release you into the 692 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,960 fullness of your calling. Nothing untoward, nothing 693 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,760 ungodly will hold you back. It will release you with 694 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:24,560 freshness into the new thing. There's a new season coming. 695 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:27,200 He's releasing you with freshness into the new season. 696 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,040 The second thing is threshing will not destroy you, but it'll 697 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,520 direct you. It will direct you. 698 00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,280 And I just want you to watch this quick video to understand 699 00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:44,720 what that looks like. Did you notice they put the the 700 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:49,000 grain through the machine just a few seconds, they thresh it, the 701 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,040 shaft blows and the grain is immediately tossed on another 702 00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:55,720 bundle. Many times it will feel like 703 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:58,920 threshing is actually completely annihilating your personality. 704 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:00,520 You feel like your character is changing. 705 00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,640 You feel like, Oh my gosh, I don't recognize myself anymore. 706 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,960 But what God is doing is he's literally removing the things 707 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,880 that thus far had given you identity, and he's moving. 708 00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,400 You in a fresh direction of where he's heading. 709 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:17,680 You for your destiny purpose. Just that simple act of the 710 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,200 farmer's threshing and directing it to a different pile shows us 711 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:23,680 that this is how God looks at us. 712 00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,600 He says I'm done, you're good to go, you're ready for the new 713 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,680 season. He puts you on the path that you 714 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,120 need to be on. Many of you worry. 715 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:32,920 What if I choose the wrong path? You don't have to worry. 716 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,280 You're in the hands of the great I am. 717 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,800 He knows exactly what to do, where to put you, where to 718 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,040 settle your feet on. Would you let him direct you? 719 00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:42,760 It's just the kind of right pressure. 720 00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,520 If we who are unschooled go and try this threshing with that 721 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,400 machine, we'll destroy the grain, but the farmer knows 722 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:53,680 exactly the right kind of pleasure in order to free it up, 723 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:55,360 to point it in the right direction. 724 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,440 The open doors may be many. You may be so confused about 725 00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,600 which direction to take, but God will direct you. 726 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,680 The threshing will not destroy you, it will direct you. 727 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:10,520 And finally, the threshing will not crush you, but it will 728 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:12,760 concentrate you. What does that look like when 729 00:39:13,720 --> 00:39:16,320 when stuff's happening, when the threshing process is happening, 730 00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,800 it's like chaos. You will feel 100 voices in your 731 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:21,480 head. You could feel the pressure all 732 00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:22,840 around you. You feel exhausted. 733 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,320 You don't feel like you have direction. 734 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:28,240 Focus is missing. But when you watch this quick 735 00:39:28,240 --> 00:39:30,160 video, you'll understand what it actually does. 736 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:47,960 Did you see what happened at the end? 737 00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,800 He beats it. The wheat falls to the ground, 738 00:39:52,320 --> 00:39:54,640 and the farmer takes the wheat in his hand and shows you 739 00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,360 concentrated grain. No distractions, nothing that 740 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,880 holds you back, nothing that's burdening you, nothing that 741 00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:03,880 you're carrying unwanted into the new season. 742 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,080 The grain is ready. And God is calling you to a 743 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:09,520 place where the distractions are completely cut off. 744 00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,200 Because distractions can be cruel when you're trying to 745 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,040 understand God's will, when you're trying to get His 746 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,800 blueprint for the next season. The distractions, the thousand 747 00:40:17,800 --> 00:40:21,880 voices, the enemity that you feel from the enemy pressing in 748 00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,760 the oppression can be so distracting. 749 00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:28,880 But God is bringing into this threshing season so that you 750 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,240 will fully focus on God in His ways. 751 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:35,000 You won't be all over the place, but you'll be so concentrated. 752 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,400 You'll know what you were created for and that's why the 753 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,400 the pressure sometimes will feel so big. 754 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:43,880 But I want to encourage you that it will not crush you. 755 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:50,440 It will only concentrate you. Rest but not crushed if you are 756 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,400 in the season. Congratulations, you're in the 757 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,840 harvest. Nothing to feel bad about. 758 00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:58,080 You're in the hands of your Creator. 759 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,640 You're in the hands of the One who knows everything. 760 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:06,000 Omnipotent, strong at all times, can do anything. 761 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:10,440 He's almighty. His plans His plans are to. 762 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:12,520 Prosper you. His plans are wonderful. 763 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,920 His wisdom is magnificent. And remember that you are not 764 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:18,400 being threshed for just yourself. 765 00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,160 You are threshed to be a thresher who puts the enemy 766 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,440 under his under your feet, and you take back territory. 767 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:28,240 When you thresh, you thresh the mountains that loom large ahead 768 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,600 of you, so that not only do you wake, make a way for yourself, 769 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,200 but the many who will come behind you. 770 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,960 So can I just pray for you? Can I just pray for you that you 771 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:40,480 will walk through the season of threshing with strength, with 772 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:44,200 grace, that you will trust God completely? 773 00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:47,280 Father, we just come before you, believing that we are in the 774 00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,680 harvest, believing that Lord, all that you have said, that you 775 00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:54,120 have promised will come to pass. But God, we pray that we will 776 00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,000 endure the threshing, that we will not give up prematurely, 777 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:01,440 that we'll yield ourselves. God, we'll yield ourselves to 778 00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,760 your hands. That Lord, as you expertly 779 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:08,520 thresh us, that Lord, we will stay, We will relish your 780 00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,400 nearness, and we'll allow you to do what you have to do. 781 00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,760 Remove the things that bind us down, that hold us from previous 782 00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,840 seasons. God, all the things that have 783 00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,080 held us back, release us from it. 784 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,560 And Father, we pray that you will bring us into the season 785 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:25,560 with fresh destiny, purpose with fresh. 786 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,840 Ideas of what you have in store for us. 787 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:32,720 I pray for anyone who is right now struggling by being 788 00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:35,920 intimidated by the enemy we come against that in the name of 789 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,800 Jesus. I pray they will rise up in the 790 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,280 authority that comes from being seated with you in the heavenly 791 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,720 realms. I thank you that they. 792 00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,920 Should they will understand, Lord, just how great is the one 793 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,120 who is within them than he that is in the world? 794 00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,640 Father, I pray for those whose mountains are huge ahead of 795 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,440 them. Father, I pray in the name of 796 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,760 Jesus they would thresh those into nothing. 797 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,480 By the power of the Holy Spirit, that Spirit of God, you will 798 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,000 breathe the word afresh to them, so that as they declare that 799 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,560 Rhema word, it will pull down every mountain. 800 00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,840 I pray that God, you will work within us. 801 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:16,360 Thank you Lord, that we are not crushed, we are not destroyed. 802 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,960 Thank you Lord, for we are not completely annihilated, but God, 803 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:24,000 we are being released into a fresh season. 804 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,040 I pray that God, as things feel unfamiliar, that we won't slip 805 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:32,440 into old patterns, that we won't look to all things or or the 806 00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,920 people that we look to in previous seasons, but our eyes 807 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:39,520 will be on you, Jesus, Holy Spirit, we invite you in. 808 00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:46,440 We invite you in. Work in our hearts, God, work in 809 00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,840 US. Release us into all that you 810 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,680 have for us. In Jesus mighty name I pray, 811 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:54,440 Amen. Amen. 812 00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,320 Even as you get into this week, we are believing that you will 813 00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,240 rejoice in anticipation for the harvest that is coming. 814 00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:02,920 It's a harvest. Of souls. 815 00:44:02,920 --> 00:44:05,920 God is bringing many new souls into his Kingdom. 816 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,520 He's bringing a harvest of the things you sowed in 817 00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:10,920 faithfulness, in quietness all these years. 818 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,440 He's bringing it full circle. Just want to encourage you that 819 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,520 if you know Jesus, you have found life and we want to 820 00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:21,840 encourage you that as you go into this week that you will 821 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,240 experience Jesus in all his fullness, all his goodness, all 822 00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:26,880 his glory. God bless you. 823 00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:31,040 Have an amazing week. Thanks for listening to this 824 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,160 message. We hope you were blessed to hear 825 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,880 more messages like this. Make sure to subscribe and check 826 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:41,920 out our podcast channel for. Past episodes, if you like what 827 00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:46,600 you are hearing, consider rating us, subscribing and even sharing 828 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,280 it with friends. 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