1 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,680 Hello, a big welcome to the We Are Zion sermon podcast. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,400 We are a church based out of Chennai, India. 3 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,760 We are thrilled that you tuned in today and hope that you will 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:19,360 be refreshed, revived, and energized by what you hear. 5 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:23,200 Our desire is that you will live life with a renewed sense of 6 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:26,400 purpose that stems from a vibrant faith in Jesus. 7 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:32,560 The year 2025 is 1 where we will be positioned by God to possess 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,360 our promise. As you listen in to today's 9 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,880 sermon, Carefully Curated Promises Part 2, we look closer 10 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:44,360 at God who is the one who stands guarantee over our promises and 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:46,160 carries them through to completion. 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,280 We hope that your heart is stirred up with the renewed 13 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:56,000 trust in God for the year ahead. Hi church, this is joy and a 14 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,960 privilege to be bringing God's word to you. 15 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,160 I consider an honor and even right now as we get into God's 16 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:05,680 word we're going to look into the second part of the series 17 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:08,560 that we've started carefully curated promises. 18 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:13,200 It goes in line with our years theme, which is position to 19 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,400 possess the promise and even before I start. 20 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,680 I just want to say that as we have seen the theme as you 21 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,280 started this year, we are bang in the middle of the month. 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:26,520 And I don't know, for a lot of us it can be like you're back to 23 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,360 the routine of life. You know, especially for those 24 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:33,600 of us who are in India, this particular time this season is 25 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:38,160 hectic because kids exams come, kids are going to graduate from 26 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:42,040 one year to another year in the next couple of months. 27 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:43,760 And so everything is geared towards that. 28 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:47,840 For those who are running businesses, this is the closing 29 00:01:47,840 --> 00:01:49,720 of the financial year, the last quarter. 30 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:51,560 And so there's a lot of pressure around that. 31 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,880 But as we've started a new year and as we've been positioning 32 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,240 ourselves to say, God, what is the promise that you have for 33 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,000 me? And as we heard last week, you 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,440 know, to be in this place to understand what God has because 35 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,880 he's carefully nitpicking promises for each and everyone 36 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,680 of us. We saw last week that your 37 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,800 promise and my promise will be entirely different. 38 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:18,920 Yes, the overarching image of what God wants to see happen is 39 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:20,520 he wants to see all his children get saved. 40 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,560 But he's also placed us pivotally in different places to 41 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:27,160 achieve certain promises, not just for ourselves. 42 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:28,920 But for the. Generations to come in. 43 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:32,160 So even as we meditate on that, I just thought it'll be good for 44 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,600 us to visit the verse that we saw starting of the year so that 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,000 that kind of aligns us to where God is wanting us to see. 46 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,200 Hebrews chapter 6, verses 11 to 12, reading from the NIV and 47 00:02:42,200 --> 00:02:45,440 this is what it says, verse 11. We want each of you to show the 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,080 same diligence to the very end so that what you hope for may be 49 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,520 fully realized. We do not want you to become 50 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,400 lazy, but imitate. Those who through. 51 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:57,240 Faith and patience inherit what has been promised. 52 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:02,080 And as I heard last week as Tina was speaking, a couple of the 53 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,160 things that we saw was we need to leave behind what God asks us 54 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:09,760 to leave behind. We need to go where God leads us 55 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:12,160 and we need to let God bring the blessing. 56 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,960 And I think this comes to a place where when we are being 57 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,240 positioned to possess the promise, it's all God. 58 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,920 God is calling us to rise up. God is calling us to break the 59 00:03:21,920 --> 00:03:25,240 cycle. God is calling us to change what 60 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:29,240 has been passed down through generations in God is causing us 61 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,880 to rise up and say, Hey, I'm calling you to your promised 62 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,840 land and what does that look like? 63 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Probably you, you we've all had certain baggages that we come 64 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:43,320 with in life when we bring when we grow up and we do life in 65 00:03:43,320 --> 00:03:46,480 general, You know, there is a lot of baggage that we carry and 66 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:49,440 along the way those kind of dictate where we are heading. 67 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,880 But God, the minute we accept Jesus Christ into our lives, the 68 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:56,600 minute we allow Jesus to be Lord and Savior, we are giving even 69 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:01,080 those baggages, you know, the same privileges of being under 70 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,960 the Lordship of Jesus. And what does that mean? 71 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,960 God says, hey, these are things that are slowing you down. 72 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:09,320 These are things that won't take you to where I'm calling you to 73 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,840 be. If you want to enjoy a life of 74 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:13,680 freedom, these things that you've picked up along the way, 75 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,120 certain addictions, certain dependencies, certain triggers, 76 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,320 certain comfort zones aren't, you know, in alignment with. 77 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:23,840 What I have for you. And so today as we look into 78 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:26,080 this, the second part we're going to be. 79 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,080 Specifically looking back into Abraham's life and we're going 80 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:33,520 to be seeing specifically from the book of Genesis chapter 15 81 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,040 because I believe that's where God wants us to meditate. 82 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:41,320 But I just wanted to go back to Genesis chapter 12, verse 4, as 83 00:04:41,320 --> 00:04:45,800 we saw last week and read this one thing it says in Genesis 12, 84 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:49,360 verse 4. So Abraham went as the Lord had 85 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,120 told him. And what was the promise that 86 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:55,000 God had given Abraham? This is, mind you, this is right 87 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,920 when he's been asked to leave from his hometown, from 88 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,960 everything that's familiar. And the promise that was given 89 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:02,080 to him is right before these two verses. 90 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:05,120 It says I will make you into a great nation and I will bless 91 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,120 you. I will make your name great and 92 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,760 you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you 93 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:11,960 and who are curses. You I will curse and all the 94 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,520 peoples on earth will be blessed through you. 95 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,160 And the reason why I'm going back to this is this is what 96 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,200 caused him to get up and leave. This is what caused him to say 97 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:25,760 God, I'm obeying you, He. And his entire household got up 98 00:05:25,760 --> 00:05:28,000 and left. And we saw time and again 99 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,480 certain instances from last week. 100 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,800 We saw where God was leading him in that journey, where God went 101 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,120 in the forefront, where God said he will bless, but God said He 102 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:42,760 will take care of things. And as we step into the second 103 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,960 part, I want us to come to a place where God is asking us, 104 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,760 Will you? Take hold of this curated 105 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,080 promise that I have for you. And there are three things which 106 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,160 I want us to draw our attention to from Genesis chapter 15. 107 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:57,600 And the first thing that I want us to draw our attention with 108 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:01,600 these carefully curated promises are secured by a covenant. 109 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:05,160 Yes, the promise is there, but there's a certain sense of 110 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,240 security. That we need and that security. 111 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:10,800 Comes with a covenant that God wants to have with us. 112 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:14,360 And so even as you look into Abraham's life, I believe those 113 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:17,000 of us who have already been on this Christian journey, probably 114 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:20,080 it's been five years, 10 years, 15 years, and you've been like 115 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:21,600 God. There was this promise that you 116 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,120 gave me, but I didn't see it happen. 117 00:06:23,560 --> 00:06:26,880 God is saying I am. Still working in you and will 118 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:29,920 bring it to pass. The time when Abraham got that 119 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:32,760 was probably 2025 years back, and the time when he's getting 120 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:37,760 this covenantal promise again is 25 years later. 121 00:06:37,760 --> 00:06:41,520 And God kind of is journeying along to see, is he really going 122 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:42,880 to? Because the task that is 123 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:44,480 assigned for Abraham is far bigger. 124 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:48,240 And I believe that God's also calling us to say that the task 125 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,560 that is assigned for each and every one of us is far bigger 126 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,040 than what we can imagine. A lot of us have such an 127 00:06:55,040 --> 00:06:56,960 overview of life, where we are. Thinking, you know what, if I 128 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,080 can do this, If I can be in this job, if I can get this house, if 129 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:05,160 I can get this car, if I can have a certain level of income, 130 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,560 I think we are set for life. But God is. 131 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,360 Calling you I want you to live in the promise that I have set 132 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:12,440 out for you. This word of the Lord comes 133 00:07:12,440 --> 00:07:16,880 right after he rescues Lot. He meets with the king of Salem 134 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:20,360 Melchizedek and he walks away saying I don't want anything. 135 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:21,920 Just pay the people who came with me. 136 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:24,400 They are dues and he walks away. So I just want to take our 137 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:26,920 reference Rick. Why is this covenant important 138 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:30,400 is because in Genesis 15 verse one, this is what God tells 139 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,920 Abraham. He says after this the word of 140 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:34,520 the Lord came to Abraham in a vision. 141 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:38,600 Do not be afraid Abraham, I am your shield, your very great 142 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,360 reward. What an honor it is for Abraham 143 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:44,760 to hear from God himself to say that I am your shield. 144 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,080 You know, for a lot of us, who've and which means. 145 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:54,960 When God is a shield, he comes in between US and the enemy. 146 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:00,240 He comes between US and whatever the enemy is trying to take us 147 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,080 out, you know, be it an arrow, be it, you know, the culture, be 148 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,520 it the, the negativity, whatever that is going to discourage us 149 00:08:08,520 --> 00:08:10,280 and cause us to take a step back. 150 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:14,000 God is telling him I am your. Shield and so today. 151 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,400 You and I need to come to a place of coming to a place of 152 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:20,360 saying God, I want you to be my shield. 153 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:22,280 And how did Abraham come to this place? 154 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:24,600 Abraham came to this place because not because of the 155 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,800 blessings that he had. He came to a fervent 156 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,760 understanding that God is enough for me. 157 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:32,679 His God is enough. He he came to a place where he 158 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:34,840 could boldly tell a king, you can't buy me out. 159 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:38,400 He came to a place where he could stand up and tell the 160 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:39,919 people around that this is my God. 161 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,280 He came to a place where he had his entire household believe 162 00:08:42,520 --> 00:08:45,200 that this is the God who's called us because in those in 163 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,240 that 20 years, he said, I'll make you into a great nation. 164 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:51,000 And you know, he, he saw God flourish him. 165 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:56,040 But it is in that where he gets to get an affirmation from God 166 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:57,760 saying, God says, I will be your shield. 167 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,480 I will be your reward. Two things. 168 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,400 He's the one who will protect. He's the one who will grow it. 169 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,720 And so today both when we say reward, it's more like literal 170 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,200 wages which people give, but in God's eyes, he says for your 171 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:17,000 righteousness, for your obedience, I will bless you. 172 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:21,720 Why does God start this chapter with his encouragement to 173 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:23,920 Abraham? It's very important because 174 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:28,640 Abraham is just he's he's done everything out of obedience. 175 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,480 But probably there's a he's going through some kind of a 176 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:35,440 discouragement himself. He probably is thinking, God, I 177 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,840 everything is good. I went and rescued my nephew. 178 00:09:38,840 --> 00:09:43,520 I went and did all this God. But but beyond me, who's there 179 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:44,960 to take care of all these people? 180 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,280 Beyond me, who's there to take, take this forward? 181 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:51,280 Because even though he knew that God will make him into a great 182 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,560 nation, he probably thought the nation is getting formed. 300 183 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,960 people, 350 people for a nomad who's moving from place to place 184 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:02,240 is a good enough number now, even with a victory under their 185 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,000 belt. It shows that they are strong. 186 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:06,880 It shows that they have a certain capacity that they can 187 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,200 protect themselves. But I think he felt God. 188 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,720 I still don't have my own. I still don't have my own. 189 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:20,200 And I believe that is where God needs Abraham. 190 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,000 And this is some of the deepest emotions. 191 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:24,440 And today probably you and I are seated in a place where you're 192 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:28,120 like God. I thought all I thought of the 193 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:31,480 promises that you've told me, but they don't look like what I 194 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,080 wanted. They don't match what you've 195 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,320 told me. Yes, there is blessing that my, 196 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,680 my, my cup is running over. There's been, there's been the 197 00:10:40,680 --> 00:10:43,400 blessing of our finances. There's been the blessing 198 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:47,280 materialistically, but there's still this deep promise that I 199 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:51,400 want to see happen. And God saying, yes, that 200 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,320 curated promise will happen. But I also want you to know, 201 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:00,200 would you be ready to just give me all the glory? 202 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,600 Would you be ready to tell anyone and everyone who comes 203 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,240 along, I don't need it from you? God is enough. 204 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,560 He's blessed me. He is my portion. 205 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,240 And Abraham does these three things in this chapter 15, which 206 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:14,320 I think will be pivotal. For us to take the next step of 207 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:18,440 faith in getting our promises and taking possession over them, 208 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:22,520 the first thing that Abraham did is he believed in God. 209 00:11:22,560 --> 00:11:25,440 Alone. Genesis chapter 15 verses 2 to 210 00:11:25,440 --> 00:11:28,360 six, it says, But Abraham said, Sovereign Lord, what can you 211 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:30,200 give me, since I remained childless? 212 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,480 And the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus. 213 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:40,720 And Abraham said, you have given me no children, so a servant in 214 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,880 my household will be my heir. And the word of the Lord came to 215 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:46,480 him. This man will not be your heir, 216 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,320 but a son who is of your own flesh and blood will be your 217 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,000 heir. He took him outside and said, 218 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,640 look up at the sky and count the scars, if indeed you can count 219 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,600 them. Then he said to him, so shall 220 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:01,120 your offspring be. Abraham believed the Lord and it 221 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:03,600 was credited to him as righteousness. 222 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:05,640 And you might be reading something. 223 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:07,720 OK Geshom, we all believe in God. 224 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,680 We all believe God, you know. It's this very line, this very 225 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:21,680 verse, that set him apart. In possessing something that was 226 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:25,600 far beyond what he could. Imagine this, Imagine here we 227 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,560 see this entire journey. We see him come. 228 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:30,880 God says he'll be his reward and shield. 229 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,920 But in this head, as Plan B, he's already thought who will 230 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:37,560 inherit everything. He's already probably started 231 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:41,280 grooming his chief servant Eliezer into every step of the 232 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,000 way. This is how you should do it, 233 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,160 and this is how I would like things done. 234 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:47,960 There was a Plan B, but God's coming and saying no, your 235 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,200 promise is coming. Plan B is not what you think it 236 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,600 is. And so today I want us to come 237 00:12:54,600 --> 00:13:00,800 to a place where are we really trusting God In verse 6 says 238 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:06,480 Abraham believed the Lord. Today we all believe. 239 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:12,960 Yes, we believe. God can do my miracle, but we 240 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,000 also have a. Plan A, Plan B. 241 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,040 Plan C Plan D Yes, God will do this, but. 242 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,280 I want to also get a confirmation from the medical 243 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,120 doctor to see what are the possibilities you're probably 244 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,480 seeing. You know what, I know God can do 245 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:30,480 this, but we are also moving to a place of seeing ABC. 246 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:34,560 OK, probably if I change my form of diet this way and probably 247 00:13:34,560 --> 00:13:37,680 these are the things that cause my issues or probably the if we 248 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:40,640 move to the next place God. I believe in you, that you will, 249 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,080 you know, uplift our family. But I'm also striving here 250 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,880 trying to do this job and I'm also trying to see if I can do 251 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,280 3-4 other things so that we can make ends meet. 252 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:53,800 God is saying will you believe solely in me when Abraham it 253 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:57,640 says here Abraham believed in Lord is basically he believed in 254 00:13:57,640 --> 00:14:02,160 God alone and no one else. He believed solely in God. 255 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:07,320 You and I have this big problem today in this day and age where 256 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:11,640 we have information all over us. We have solutions all over us. 257 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,840 We have machine learning all over us that we can get an 258 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:17,800 answer tailor made to what we want to hear. 259 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:21,320 But today God is saying, if you know this is the promise that 260 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,640 I've given you from my word, my word, which will not change, 261 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:30,120 will you believe in me only? And so today, why am I coming 262 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,520 there? Because today a lot of us have 263 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:35,680 been stuck at the place where we've received God's 264 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:37,960 intervention. Today Abraham could have been 265 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,960 content saying that he's been, he left out, God blessed him 20 266 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,840 years good, he's Chieftain, all that. 267 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,840 But the promise was God said he'll give him a child, He'll 268 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:53,680 give him a child. God wants to work in all the 269 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,160 impossibilities that the world has thrown at us. 270 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,680 And so today, what is it that you've been struggling? 271 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,640 Because today, if you believe, a lot of us are trying to believe 272 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,160 in the system more than God. A lot of us are trying to 273 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,240 believe in the processes more than God. 274 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:10,040 A lot of us are trying to believe in thinking if I have 275 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,680 the right connections it will all work on believe in God 276 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:20,400 alone, believe in God alone. God wants us to move to that 277 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,120 place. And why is it so important 278 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,600 Because Abraham took him at his word when it says there that he 279 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,600 will give you children, you can look at the sky and the stars, 280 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:32,600 will you be able to count it? He said God, if that is your 281 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:37,040 word, I take you at your word, which means when Abraham said 282 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,640 God, I believe in you. There was not nothing else that 283 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:43,440 he could believe in. There was no Plan B. 284 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:49,760 You know, there's the instance when we had gone and I think it 285 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:52,720 came across as fear. When I think about it now, six 286 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:56,640 years back when Tina was going through the entire procedure and 287 00:15:56,640 --> 00:16:01,320 things like that, you know, post the, the hospital, the, the 288 00:16:01,320 --> 00:16:04,960 procedure, she came out in the, the next one year as she was in 289 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:09,800 medication and things like that. I always was in this place. 290 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:11,960 I I love. The fact that God worked out a 291 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:17,760 medical, but I also have the belief on the doctor and it came 292 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,680 to a place when after a year when the doctor said even I 293 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:24,360 don't know. And that's when I knew saying 294 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,000 God, I can only trust you with my wife. 295 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,600 I can only trust you with her, no one else. 296 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:33,960 And just sitting opposite him and listening to that when he 297 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:36,720 said I don't know because you're a different case. 298 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:39,480 All the people that we've treated till now are all either 299 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:44,240 55 plus you're the only one who's come to us who's 35 over. 300 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:49,000 And that's when I realized God. When you're solely taking us on 301 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,520 this journey and when you're giving us a promise and when 302 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:53,720 you're causing us to move in that direction and you're 303 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:57,640 calling us to believe, I can have my belief in you only and 304 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,760 nothing else. Today, a lot of us are 305 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:06,079 struggling to find a promise because our belief is in 306 00:17:06,079 --> 00:17:08,760 different places. We've probably broken it like a 307 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:11,839 pie chart and we've split it equally across different places, 308 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:13,720 thinking, you know what, if God doesn't show up, I'll have a. 309 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:15,680 Backup. If that doesn't happen, I have a 310 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:22,560 backup for a backup. But God's saying, can we move to 311 00:17:22,560 --> 00:17:24,680 a place of solely depending on God? 312 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:27,720 Abraham moved by hearing God's words. 313 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:32,240 So when he left in Genesis 12, he left in obedience to what God 314 00:17:32,240 --> 00:17:35,480 had called him to do. But 20 years later, God is 315 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,680 saying, I am your reward and your shield, which means I'm the 316 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:43,120 one who will protect. I'm the one who will bless and 317 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:45,840 this is where God is asking, will you believe me? 318 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,960 A lot of us today are looking for so many ways to be 319 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,800 protected. I was just watching a video clip 320 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,920 of how a lot of these billionaires have so much of 321 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,160 amount being spent on their security because they need to be 322 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,640 protected. You and I today don't have that 323 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,000 kind of a luxury. We can't be worried because our 324 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:09,840 hope is in Jesus because if anything happens to us, if our 325 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:14,440 eyes, if we close our eyes here, our eyes open up, our assurances 326 00:18:14,440 --> 00:18:18,440 that we'll be in eternity. And God is saying, can I work 327 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:21,720 beyond your Plan B, Plan C? Can I be the only one? 328 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,640 God loves that. Just imagine if I'm dating 329 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:31,080 someone, okay, and if that person is not my everything who 330 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,520 I'm dating and I'm choosing to do my life with and I'm going to 331 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:36,240 get married to, but I have a Plan B and a plan C. 332 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:40,440 I'm texting some other girl. I have a plan C also a person of 333 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,080 another person. I'm saying thinking, OK, if this 334 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:46,200 person doesn't, what kind of relationship will that be? 335 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:50,200 What kind of a what kind of a place am I taking leading myself 336 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,520 into what to what future am I surrendering myself to? 337 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:59,080 God is saying, can you have my belief solely in me? 338 00:18:59,760 --> 00:19:01,760 God gives clarity to the promise, and there's the 339 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:06,280 fulfillment allowing him to see beyond just his promise. 340 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:11,440 He's saying, I will reward you, I will give you a son, but I'm 341 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,640 also giving you something far bigger than that. 342 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:17,680 And so today when we believe in God, when we trust him 343 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,720 wholeheartedly, overtime God reveals to us far bigger things, 344 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,120 far bigger things. Just imagine Abraham is standing 345 00:19:25,120 --> 00:19:27,680 there and says that that he made him count. 346 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,920 He said, I will give you a air of your own flesh and blood. 347 00:19:32,120 --> 00:19:34,280 He took him outside. And then he suddenly reveals to 348 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:37,800 him the mystery of what his lineage is going to look like. 349 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:44,320 Today, if I believe in God, I want to know what my lineage is 350 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,520 going to look like. What is that so that? 351 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:51,960 I'll be able to move in that direction, you know. 352 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,440 It's not believing in God after I get the miracle. 353 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,680 It's believing before I even get it. 354 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,000 Here Abraham is believing in God solely 100% before he got it. 355 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,880 He is believing in God even before he can see the tummy of 356 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:13,200 his own wife increase. He's believing in God before any 357 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,680 trace of the miracle is even coming towards him. 358 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:21,360 He takes God at his word. And so today I don't know where 359 00:20:21,360 --> 00:20:26,240 you are all at today I want to ask you if you want to be 360 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:31,400 credited with to God's account and saying this person believed 361 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:32,360 in me. He's my child. 362 00:20:32,360 --> 00:20:35,920 He believes in me 100%. I have nothing else to do but to 363 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,360 bless him. I have nothing else to do but to 364 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:39,040 go before him. I have nothing else to do but to 365 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:42,080 give him a breakthrough. That's where God wants to meet 366 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,320 with us, Galatians chapter 2, verse 16 says. 367 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,560 Know that a person is not justified by the. 368 00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:50,240 Works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. 369 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:54,240 So we too have to put our faith in Christ Jesus, that we may be 370 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,200 justified by faith in Christ and not by the works. 371 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,280 Because by the works of. The Lord. 372 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,560 No one will be justified. The New Testament takes it 373 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:05,400 further. We can do all the right things 374 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:08,480 we need and yet be far away from God. 375 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:13,440 We can, we play the instrument, we can show up in church, we can 376 00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,040 hold the door, we can serve in any capacity. 377 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:20,320 We can do ABCD for God and yet be far away because we don't 378 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:25,560 believe in God, because our doing brings a certain kind of 379 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,880 good for us. It makes us feel good. 380 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,440 But it's in our faith and in believing that we start seeing 381 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:36,200 God work through US, God work through US. 382 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,400 So the New Testament takes it further and but the basis of it 383 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,320 is faith because. If we don't. 384 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:44,880 Have that it says when you believe with your heart and you 385 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,120 confess with your mouth that Jesus Lord. 386 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:53,120 So which means that we need to have 100% belief. 100% belief 387 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:57,640 means no doubt. 100% belief means there's no more room for 388 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:03,000 anything to creep in. 100% belief means we are in a tight 389 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:06,520 knit 100% vacuum, that anything that comes will deflate it, 390 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,920 anything that creeps and will be deflated. 391 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:11,280 And so today you and me have to move to that place. 392 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:16,200 Can we seek my belief is solely in you God, so that you will be 393 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:19,440 my reward. You will be my shield. 394 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,920 And so today, even as we finish the first point, I just want to 395 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,200 ask you, have you made God another section of the pie chart 396 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,760 or have you made him a plan C or a plan D option? 397 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:36,760 Can we move him to making him our soul person who will trust 398 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,640 and obey? Probably you're still waiting. 399 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,840 God, God, you're probably thinking about so many people 400 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:42,960 prayed. They said this is going to 401 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:45,720 happen in my life, but I've been I've been trying to work things 402 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:49,080 out or for those of you who've been obediently holding on, 403 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:53,320 you're still having but in the course of time you've you've 404 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,840 read so many things you've participated in so many things 405 00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:58,640 where you have your own reports to say these are not possible. 406 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,200 What is possible? God, God saying everything is 407 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,560 possible by me, but will you trust in Him alone? 408 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:10,920 The second thing that we see is the inheritance that was given 409 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:15,800 by God is sealed by sacrifice. Is sealed by sacrifice. 410 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:18,000 Genesis chapter 15 verses 7 to 10. 411 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,280 He also said to him, I am the Lord who brought you out of oar 412 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:25,400 of the Chaldeans to give you this land, to take position on 413 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,080 it. But Abraham said, Sovereign 414 00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:29,920 Lord, how can I know that I will gain possession of it? 415 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,560 So the Lord said to him, Bring me out here. 416 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:37,000 He fur a goat and a ram, each three years old, along with the 417 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,920 dove and a young pigeon. Abraham bought all these to him, 418 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,520 cut them in two, arrange the house opposite each other. 419 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:45,840 The birds, however, he did not cut in half. 420 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:49,560 Then birds of the prey came down on the carcasses, but Abraham 421 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,080 drove them away. The reason being when Abraham 422 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,120 left over, he was a nomad. He was a nomad. 423 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:01,640 In fact, there's a particular verse in Genesis 1413 when a 424 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:05,360 Lot's servant comes and calls him the the word that he uses. 425 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:08,600 There is a man who escaped, came and reported this to Abraham. 426 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,440 The Hebrew it says now Abraham was living near the great trees 427 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,360 of memory, the Amorite, a brother of Escol and Anner. 428 00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:18,640 All whom were. Allied with Abraham, so Abraham 429 00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,320 was his nomad, was moving from place to place, digging wells, 430 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:25,680 you know, moving as God directed him, moving in places where God 431 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:28,800 called him to settle down. And so there's this 432 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:31,800 understanding that when you are moving in different places, it's 433 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,360 like typically these backpackers, you'll see that 434 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:37,040 they won't have a house. A lot of them in fact now have 435 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,520 moved to that place where they want to work around the world, 436 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,800 that they are minimalist, they can live with certain things. 437 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:44,720 They are moving around. They are setting up their 438 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,560 offices and just open their laptop. 439 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:48,840 They are working remote. And they move around to 440 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,280 different people. So which means there's nothing 441 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,560 permanent for the man. So when God is saying, I'm going 442 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:56,000 to give you an inheritance, I'm going to give you people beyond 443 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,320 this, which means there there's a place where the people have to 444 00:24:58,320 --> 00:24:59,520 sit. There's a place where people 445 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,720 have to do business as a place, people where people have to 446 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,000 sleep. There's a place where people 447 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:07,240 have to settle down. And so this inheritance needs a 448 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,000 place. So today for those of us who've 449 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,400 been like nomads, who've been moving around, yes, we moved 450 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:14,800 around. We moved around from different 451 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:17,240 place after different place, but God's been faithful. 452 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,800 He's provided, he said, God's also saying I will settle you 453 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,080 down. I will settle you down so that 454 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:23,400 I'll be able to establish. You. 455 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,400 And what is God telling him that he's saying I will do it. 456 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,360 And can you bring in a sacrifice? 457 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,000 He asks him to bring certain animals and laid at the altar 458 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,920 where he seals it with sacrifice. 459 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:41,200 What does that mean? Which means there is definitely 460 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,600 an inheritance that Abraham was getting into. 461 00:25:43,840 --> 00:25:47,400 He was moving from being a nomad to becoming a great nation. 462 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,400 He was moving from becoming just a wanderer to becoming a person 463 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:57,160 who had things, who had lands. And as I had read from Hebrews 464 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:01,080 14, verse 13, the word Hebrew, it comes there, which means 465 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,560 nomadic. They were nomads at that point. 466 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:07,200 When you look at the root word, it goes on to say that they were 467 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,800 considered as nomads by the local people at that time. 468 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:14,360 And so today we see a couple of things that happened here. 469 00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,800 God is saying Abraham is asking God, how will I know that I'll 470 00:26:17,800 --> 00:26:20,920 gain these possessions? God is saying I'll stay true to 471 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:23,760 my word. And it's interesting that he's 472 00:26:24,120 --> 00:26:28,640 asked for a whole bunch of animals, a heifer, which is 473 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,320 basically a cow that's not yet given birth and it's just three 474 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,840 under three years old. He asks for the doves, He asks 475 00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,680 for pigeons, he asks for a goat and a ram. 476 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,160 And as I was just thinking about it, it got me reminded when I 477 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,160 was reading in Leviticus that these were the different 478 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:53,520 sacrifices that were given for different socio economic groups, 479 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,440 for people who could afford, for those who could afford when they 480 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:01,080 were coming to offer a sacrifice in the temple, in the altar. 481 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,480 And they they had the capacity and the economic status to 482 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,520 afford for a heefer or a goat or a ram, they could do that. 483 00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,800 For those who couldn't, who just had low income wages or they 484 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,520 were part of the lower rung of the socio economic group, they 485 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:19,880 would give pigeons and doves. And God is setting him up to 486 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:23,080 realize I'm covering you. I'm setting you up as a nation. 487 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,440 A nation will have people across different socio economic groups. 488 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:32,200 A nation will have people across different skill set. 489 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:36,280 God is prophetic with Abraham there. 490 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,560 He's giving him a promise saying they will occupy the land. 491 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,800 They will occupy the land. It's a foretaste of what was to 492 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:47,680 come and I really want to say that God also is moving forward 493 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:52,160 to agree that He is in it. The reason why he chose Abraham 494 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:56,280 was so that the sacrifice of his own son will happen at a point 495 00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:58,760 where He'll redeem the entirety of mankind. 496 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:02,280 So today Abraham felt dispossessed. 497 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:05,360 Abraham felt he had nothing for his own. 498 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:08,320 Yes, there were wells dug. The the evidence of God's 499 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,680 blessing was seen in the people and the things that they had, 500 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:13,360 but there was no land to say that this is ours. 501 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:15,040 This is where God is establishing us. 502 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,240 But God gave him and sealed his inheritance, saying I will give 503 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,440 you the land that. You will be able to occupy. 504 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,280 God turns the very nature of what the world sees Him as a 505 00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:31,840 person who has no inheritance to a person who will have 506 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,080 inheritance. To give you this land, to take 507 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,280 possession of it. So today whatever you are 508 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:42,280 feeling about the promise that God's called you to do will feel 509 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:46,120 like you don't deserve it. You how will God make it happen? 510 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,880 And that's where God will make it happen. 511 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:51,320 There is definitely a ceiling that God wants to do with the 512 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,800 inheritance. The ceiling is basically setting 513 00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,040 us apart basically to say you can't mingle, You can't, you 514 00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,680 can't do things what others are doing. 515 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,360 And suddenly you realize in this Christian walk, when you're 516 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,640 moving towards God, closer to God, obeying what God's calling 517 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:07,960 you to do, and you believe in Him, certain things start 518 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,720 falling off. Certain habits start falling 519 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:12,400 off. Certain friends group that you 520 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,880 hang around with change because they are not in. 521 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,560 They're not going to. Lead you towards your promise. 522 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,320 Rather, they might be leading you toward they may be leading 523 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,240 you away and God is moving you towards the promise, but he's 524 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:24,960 asking you to cast off certain things. 525 00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:29,560 Cast off these things. Suddenly the the the the glamour 526 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:35,600 of the world changes and the light of Jesus starts taking all 527 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:38,600 prominence in your life. And so this is where I want us 528 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:42,400 to come to a place where we come to a place saying will we move 529 00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:46,040 to a place of saying God, I totally surrender. 530 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,840 I'm willing to sacrifice Lord Jesus and I think more and even 531 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,680 as I was meditating on that verse 9 on the different 532 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,720 sacrifices, it covers different areas of our own journey, our 533 00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:01,160 own blessing journey. If you notice, not all of us 534 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:05,400 start where we can, you know, sacrifice a ram and a goat, but 535 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,320 we all start off somewhere. But as we move, the more we move 536 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,200 closer to God, the greater the sacrifice. 537 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:15,480 We see fulfilment in the promise that God's calling us to do so. 538 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,560 Today when we are looking into the life of Abraham, we see one 539 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:22,200 thing very clear. He's willing to lay it all to 540 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:25,040 get that inheritance. He's willing to lay it all, that 541 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,000 inheritance. God is saying I am serious about 542 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:29,840 it. Will you be serious about it? 543 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,480 It all trickles down. It's like because he believed in 544 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,840 God, God showed him that he's going to get a son and he's 545 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,440 going to have people as numerous as a stars because he believed 546 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,120 in God Goddessing, I'm going to give you the inheritance that 547 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:46,280 you want to possess the land which looks physical, but I'm 548 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,280 also here to seal it for you so that no one will be able to take 549 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:51,480 it from us. God is saying, will you trust me 550 00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,240 if I seal this? Will you trust with trust me 551 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:57,720 with it with your life so that you won't be suddenly find 552 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,960 glamour in some of the promise that you're running after that. 553 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,560 This is why it's so important that as we have this theme that 554 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,240 we all see God saying, God, what is the promise that you have? 555 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,840 For me, my wife has a promise, I have a promise, a marriage has a 556 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:13,360 promise. But but we will pursue this or 557 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:17,040 we will run after this. We will move towards you to get 558 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,960 this promise. God wants to see it happen. 559 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,920 Jesus made a covenant with us by dying on the cross so that we 560 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,960 can partake of the promise that is for us. 561 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,680 That is eternal life. But he also said that he's 562 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:34,840 called us to live life to its fullest here, heaven on earth. 563 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,560 Which means I have to move to a place of seeing God come through 564 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,800 every step of the way. Not just when I feel like it, 565 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,720 but every day I need to see Him come through. 566 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,560 Can I remember His sacrifice every time I take the cup in my 567 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,520 hands? Beautiful aspect of the 568 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:55,760 sacrifice is what when God asked him to do that is that He laid 569 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,280 his Son and once you hold the cup in our hands, that reminder 570 00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:04,800 that he is called us to this every time we take that cup that 571 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,200 we are his, we are no one else's. 572 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,440 Every time we partake of the cup, you're saying God, we are 573 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,520 yours. There's no one else. 574 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:13,160 So that's why he said do it as often as you can so that we'll 575 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:18,280 be reminded who's we are, who's we are because we are his. 576 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,280 If we have to partake on the promise, if our belief is in 577 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,360 God, we are His. There's no doubt. 578 00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:27,720 You can't say I know I do this and we are His alone. 579 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,920 So today can we move to a place of getting an inheritance sealed 580 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,400 by God Himself? The third thing that we see here 581 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:41,720 is God gives a covenant to Abraham and He secures it. 582 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,200 He secures it. What is the covenant that God 583 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:47,160 gives? Genesis chapter 15 verses. 12 It 584 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,680 goes on to say, as the sun was setting, Abraham fell into a 585 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,240 deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful darkness came over him. 586 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,560 When the Lord said to him, no, for certain that for 400 years 587 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,640 your descendants will be strangers in a country not their 588 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,280 own, and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. 589 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,840 But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and 590 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,360 afterward they'll come out with great positions. 591 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,640 You, however, will go to your ancestors in peace and be buried 592 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,040 at a good old age in the 4th generation. 593 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:19,840 Your descendants will come back here so, for the sin of the 594 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,720 Amorites has not yet reached its full measure. 595 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,480 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, a smoking 596 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,920 fire pot with a blazing torch appeared and passed between the 597 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,960 pieces. On that day the Lord made a 598 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,240 covenant with Abraham and said to your descendants, I will give 599 00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:39,320 this land from the Widi of Egypt to the great river. 600 00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:42,000 The freight is the land of the Canaanites, Kinesites, 601 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,040 Khatomites, Hittites, Pedicites, Raphites, Amorites, Canaanites, 602 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,880 Girgarites and Jebusites. I love this because when God 603 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,640 wants to secure the covenant, covenant. 604 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,640 Which means he's standing as guarantor for the covenant. 605 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,240 He's willing to reveal what is going to happen couple of 606 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,120 generations later. He's revealing what's going to 607 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:05,600 happen couple of generations later. 608 00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:09,120 So the weight of what we carry is seen today. 609 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,639 You and I are carrying promises and the covenant that is going 610 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:15,520 to be promised, the covenant that is going to be fulfilled 611 00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,040 over yours and mine. Life is for our future 612 00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,000 generations. What is our future generations? 613 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:24,480 The future generations are one with what is God raising us up? 614 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:28,440 What is God calling us to take? Possession of now so that our 615 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:30,920 children will know how to take possession of certain things 616 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,760 later in their life. They won't give up and think, 617 00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:37,320 you know what my parents, it didn't make sense to me at all. 618 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:41,880 Because today, if we don't really believe in God and say 619 00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:46,400 this is what God is calling us to do, our future generations 620 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,360 will have doubts more than ever before. 621 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,639 If God is not a shield and a reward now, and our children 622 00:34:52,639 --> 00:34:56,239 don't see it and don't walk in it, they will not be able to 623 00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:58,840 experience it. And so why is it important is 624 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:05,440 because when God is wanting to, when God wants to reveal it to 625 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,040 Abraham about what his covenantal blessing is going to 626 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,720 be like, he wants him to realize that it's far bigger than what 627 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,360 he's imagining. The very land that he's wanting 628 00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,600 to possess may not happen in his lifetime, but his future 629 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,840 generations are going to come and possess the land. 630 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,040 Yes, we send that. Yes, it's disbelief that yes, 631 00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:28,280 it's hardship that yes, through it all, they will come into 632 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:33,080 possession of something which is far bigger because God wants to 633 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,800 be glorified. God wants to be glorified. 634 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,120 So today, what does it look like for you and me? 635 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,520 What are some of the things that we failed to see it happen in 636 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:45,440 our lifetime that God's saying I will make it happen and the IT 637 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,880 comes down to us. What are we prioritizing? 638 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,560 What are we emphasizing on today? 639 00:35:50,560 --> 00:35:53,040 Abraham, we see the future generations will be able to 640 00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:56,920 possess the land because Abraham obeyed God and walked in it. 641 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,280 And every time they referred back to Abraham so that the 642 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,280 future generations be able to walk today. 643 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:05,520 What are we giving in to that we're seeing God. 644 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,840 I don't think the future generations, they can take care 645 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:11,040 of themselves. There's a sense of 646 00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:13,200 responsibility that all of us have to carry. 647 00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,800 You know, the world talks about climate change, the world talks 648 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,720 about recycling, the world talks about so many things, which is 649 00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:21,680 good because we need to care for the planet that is God-given 650 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,600 mandate, creation. Care is one important thing, but 651 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,760 even the future of where we are headed towards is very 652 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,880 important. What is God calling us? 653 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,120 What is the promise that God's laid on you for you and his 654 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,560 Kingdom? What is God called you to 655 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,480 accomplish? What is God called your marriage 656 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:40,200 to be set apart, to be accomplishing here on this 657 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,400 earth? He wants you to move into those 658 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:47,240 spaces so that your future generations are set and they'll 659 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:50,760 be able to not only enjoy, but they'll be able to live in the 660 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,160 fulfillment because they will have trials and tribulations, 661 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:58,200 but God will lead them through it because He's already led the 662 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,120 people in the. Past through it this imagine 663 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:07,320 there were deed was Abraham and Isaac, Isaac had Esau and Jacob 664 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:10,920 Esau went. His own way of that Jacob, you 665 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:15,600 know, sought God, found God, met with God and then from him 12 666 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,960 tribes come out and then the the, the nation just grew from 667 00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:23,440 there. God blessed God kept him in. 668 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,400 You know, they were bonded labourers literally in Egypt. 669 00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,720 God moved them from slavery and set them free and they go 670 00:37:30,720 --> 00:37:33,680 through the wilderness and as they go on to possess, there's 671 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,880 this journey which they go in not just for themselves, but 672 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,600 they're also taking up for their future. 673 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,320 You will see time and again they are living the gospel out. 674 00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,360 They are living their lives out for the future generations. 675 00:37:45,600 --> 00:37:48,480 We today are living it out so that the future generation be 676 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:52,880 able to hold on to Jesus. So today, what are some of the 677 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,520 things that God wants to move you to so that his promises will 678 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,560 be fulfilled? You'll be able to possess the 679 00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:02,160 land so that you'll be able to have the covenant being secured 680 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,880 by God himself. I love this particular passage 681 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,280 how it concludes because as he is lying there and this is a 682 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:14,640 vision, it says here he's in a deep sleep and God is doing this 683 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:18,880 is he sees the supernatural meet the natural right there. 684 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,880 We can the future. You know when we look at it, 685 00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:29,560 there was a time when God walked through the sacrifice that he 686 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:33,120 had asked to do for people that all the first born were killed 687 00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:38,400 in Egypt, but all those who had marked the blood we see that he 688 00:38:39,040 --> 00:38:42,560 spared them. We see in verse 17 when the sun 689 00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,560 had set and the darkness had fallen, a smoky fire pot with 690 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,480 the blazing torch appeared and passed between the pieces. 691 00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:53,400 I believe it was God moving through the Holy Spirit moving 692 00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,680 through in that season, in that in between that sacrifice. 693 00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,680 It's that same fire that met Moses and told him that this is 694 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,080 the covenant that I've given. Let my people go. 695 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:07,120 It was the same fire that caused the people who were crossing the 696 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,280 Red Sea to know that there was a God above, even by night, who's 697 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:13,120 watching over them, the visibility of God's promise 698 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,360 being taken. It's the same fire that was 699 00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:19,040 present when Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were there in an 700 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,560 other foreign land in the midst of trials and tribulations to be 701 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:26,880 present in between four of them. It's the same fire that came on 702 00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,280 the upper room that goes on to say I am with you, the God of 703 00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,720 all covenant to secure everything that I've promised 704 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:36,840 with you. So today, would you allow his 705 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:40,560 fire to go between the sacrifices that we've done, the 706 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,600 sacrifices that we've done when God is asking us to lay it all 707 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,240 at the altar, he's saying I will quench it. 708 00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:50,320 I, I, I get this visual image. When we believe in God, that's 709 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,240 what will happen. No form of Baal and they are 710 00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,680 their works will remain but only God will come. 711 00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:01,400 The all consuming fire will come upon our altar and sacrifice and 712 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,840 take it at all. So today you have to be consumed 713 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,920 by the Holy Spirit to realize this is what God's calling you 714 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,600 Homeophost is just sitting on our promises thinking yeah it'll 715 00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:12,520 come. God's timing is perfect. 716 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:15,640 The best is yet to come. These are all phrases good. 717 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,760 But have you taken position of it? 718 00:40:17,960 --> 00:40:20,080 Because if you haven't taken position of it. 719 00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:24,440 You are in a pivotal place to ask God, what are you wanting me 720 00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,560 to do because it is in your doing that he will reveal what 721 00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:29,800 the next step is. It's in your doing. 722 00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,280 It's you're saying God bring the right person to me in my life. 723 00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:36,600 But if you're not able to say God, is this person worth 724 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,480 pursuing. Am I what is this is is the is 725 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:41,680 this person who you've set for me for my life. 726 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,480 God is asking you all that questions. 727 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,600 Take that step. Find that out. 728 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,720 God wants to move in. And three, if you are not able 729 00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:54,880 to take that bold step of faith, a lot of us have just sat there 730 00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,040 saying, yeah, God, you worked last year, this year, I don't 731 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,200 know, I'll just whatever scraps you give, I'm OK. 732 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,080 No, go, go back to God and say God, no, show me, Lord, which is 733 00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:08,000 the step I have to take. Even as we see this fire move 734 00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,920 through. It's a divine tool for both 735 00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:14,320 destruction and refinement. And I think it's an illustrating 736 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:16,800 power of God's holiness and God's power. 737 00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:21,280 God would use fire to remove everything that is causing us to 738 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,200 move away from him or is causing us as a stronghold. 739 00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:29,040 But at the same time, God's also using the fire to set us to a 740 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:32,000 place of refinement. And saying this is solely 741 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:35,800 whatever is remaining is because we've been through the fire, 742 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,760 we've held on to him, we've been through it, we've seen him come 743 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:43,920 through. So today, May God allow us to 744 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:48,440 move from just becoming a person who's operating in the natural 745 00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:50,760 and seeing things in the natural to start seeing things in the 746 00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,200 supernatural. I strongly believe, church, 747 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,720 we're entering into a season where God wants us to start 748 00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,480 seeing things in the supernatural. 749 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,160 Because if we don't see things in the supernatural, if we don't 750 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,000 ask God for the deeper things, we will not be able to run our 751 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,080 race with weaker. We won't be able to run our race 752 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,000 with purpose. We won't be able to run our race 753 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:11,680 with strength. We would be weak. 754 00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,920 We would give up every there'll be exhaustion at every turn. 755 00:42:15,720 --> 00:42:18,920 God is wanting us to have that strength to run through the 756 00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,440 strength which Caleb had at 80 to say I will go conquer that 757 00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,680 land. We are not done yet. 758 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,080 We are not done yet. So today as Abraham received 759 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:31,320 this, he believed in God said ask and encourage you if those 760 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,560 of you who had planned these move back to God, confess the 761 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:37,560 cross is the place where we can repent and say God, I'm sorry 762 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,080 I've had other options, but today I'm solely dependent on 763 00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,040 you. You are my everything. 764 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,480 Can we move to a place of saying God, my inheritance? 765 00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,680 So far, Lord has been something which I've been striving for 766 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:53,480 about God, saying I am your inheritance and I'm here to give 767 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:55,800 it to you. Can you lay everything at the 768 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,440 altar? Can you lay everything at the 769 00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,760 altar? And the third is God is saying, 770 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,800 I'm wanting to work beyond. I'm wanting to work beyond your 771 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,800 generation. I'm wanting to see things done 772 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,360 in a covenantal way where I'm willing to stand. 773 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:14,520 As a security for that so that I'll be able to see it come 774 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:18,360 through in your life and church, I just want to encourage you, 775 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:20,840 don't give up. This is just the start. 776 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:23,720 Your miracle is on the way. Your promise is on the way. 777 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:27,560 Your It'll come only when you allow the miracle worker to work 778 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,800 in and through you, the promise keeper to work through you. 779 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,200 Abraham to wait for a certain period before God tests us. 780 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,320 Is this person really worth me giving the promise? 781 00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,920 Otherwise, we receive the promise and we don't know how to 782 00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,640 handle it. Well, we don't. 783 00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:46,280 Our love for the promise will be so much that our love for God 784 00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,120 starts taking a different turn altogether. 785 00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:51,360 Move. Let us move to a place of 786 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,440 surrendering to God wholeheartedly. 787 00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,480 Can I pray? For you, loving heavenly Father, 788 00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:56,760 Lord, we thank you, Lord, for this time. 789 00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,520 I pray that Lord, even as you heard this, these won't be 790 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:03,320 things, Lord, that we'll just go pass by like another week, but 791 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,280 these will be things that we'll be able to say, Lord, we want 792 00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:09,920 you to work in and through US. Lord, we come back to you. 793 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,160 Lord, you are our reward. You are our shield and we 794 00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:16,160 believe in you, Lord. We believe, Lord Jesus, the 795 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:19,040 inheritance that you've kept for us, We, we move to a place of 796 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,080 the altar where we laid at the altar and say, Lord, you, here's 797 00:44:22,080 --> 00:44:24,320 everything that we have. We laid that you consume it, 798 00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,680 Lord. And I pray, Holy Spirit, that 799 00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,760 you would move through our sacrifice, that you would refine 800 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:33,160 us, that you will shape us. Lord Jesus, you will cause us 801 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,440 what to be. I pray that every doubt and fear 802 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,520 will be extinguished because of your refining right now. 803 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:41,840 Lord Jesus, I pray those steps that you're struggling to take, 804 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:44,280 that we'll be able to take because we're surrendering to 805 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,720 you that areas that we are unable to let go, we'll let go 806 00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:49,720 and surrender and hold on to you alone. 807 00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,960 You are enough for us. Lord Jesus, I pray we'll see you 808 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,120 move through. Lord Jesus. 809 00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:58,960 Lord, you who moved through a through that pillar of fire, 810 00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,640 would you move into our hearts today, into our homes today, 811 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:04,840 into our offices today, into our spaces today where Lord we are 812 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:08,240 struggling that you would move. Quench everything that is not of 813 00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:10,840 you, Lord Jesus, quench everything that is not of you. 814 00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,040 I pray that Lord, those mobile phones go in and quench. 815 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,080 Lord Jesus, are spaces where we are desecrating, that you would 816 00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:21,440 go in and quench places where we have not far to allow too many 817 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:24,560 things or to take hold. Go and quench it, Lord Jesus, 818 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,840 that we will receive your covenantal blessing. 819 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,000 Lord Jesus, today for our future generations, I pray, Lord, 820 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:33,760 people will take possession of the promise not just for 821 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,560 themselves, but for the years for the generations to come, 822 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,800 Lord, they will be able to see into their children's children, 823 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,040 Lord Jesus, into that, Lord Jesus, I pray we as a church 824 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:46,080 will rise up to that place where we will see the church for that, 825 00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:48,720 Lord Jesus, for what is for the future generations to come. 826 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:50,480 What are we building on, Lord Jesus? 827 00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:52,600 That we will be united in our differences. 828 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:55,680 We will be united, Lord, we will see that come through. 829 00:45:55,680 --> 00:45:58,720 Lord Jesus, go before us, be with us. 830 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,160 I pray that Lord, your presence is what we desire for Lord, 831 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,720 every step of the way, Your most holy name we pray, Amen. 832 00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,960 Amen. So Church, even as we heard, I 833 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:12,080 pray that you will hold on to God because these are important 834 00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,120 things. These are critical decisions 835 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:17,680 that we can't just make overnight. 836 00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,600 These are things which you're going to allow to soak in. 837 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:22,720 See God. I pray that you will see God 838 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,560 because when God directs us into a particular direction, we get 839 00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,840 to see only small glimpses, but those glimpses are enough for us 840 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,640 to start the journey. So today I pray that you'll be 841 00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:37,120 able to make those faith steps across the way and see a miracle 842 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,240 come through. God bless you all and have a. 843 00:46:39,240 --> 00:46:42,800 Blessed week ahead. 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