I want to open with the Scripture I ended with last week
and Isaiah 59. It says the Redeemer will come
to Zion and to those who turn from transgression in Jacob,
says the Lord. As for me, says the Lord, this
is my covenant with them. My Spirit, who is upon you, and
my words which I have put in your mouth shall not depart from
your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from
the mouths of your descendants. Descendants, says the Lord, from
this time and forever more. This is a prophecy given by the
prophet Isaiah during a time in the history of the people of
God. They were called the children of
Israel in those days where God had done so much for them and
wanted them to kind of show that they appreciated it by obeying
His word and walking in His ways and letting the work that He had
performed in them demonstrate in their lives.
And he said to them, if you will listen to my word and keep it,
I'll be your Redeemer. Last week I shared with you what
a Redeemer is. In the Old Testament, they had a
term called the near kinsman Redeemer.
If someone in the family, through righteous living is what
the Bible calls it, lost their inheritance or their possession,
it was also possible for a near kinsman Redeemer.
Someone in the family could always have the opportunity to
buy that back because God had it set up that no one could in the
end lose their inheritance, whether it was for their tribe
or their position, if they were willing to turn to God and let
him become their Redeemer. That's what God speaks to us
today in the New Testament, if we will repent of our sins and
be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the
remission of our sins. The Bible says that we can be
filled with the Holy Spirit, and after the Holy Ghost has come
upon you, the Bible says you will receive divine power.
I'm glad for the covenant God has for us.
Amen. And he said to them, you have to
understand that it is a covenant of faith.
And so he says, when I put my word in your mouth, you have to
make sure you keep that word in your mouth.
And what he's talking about is in the book of Romans, chapter
10, it says that with the heart man believes, but with the
mouth, confession is made unto salvation.
So after the Lord has done something for us, we need to
confess it. And then of course, as I
mentioned, act upon it. But always remember it is a
covenant of faith and we must, must be a people of faith.
Now he says if you're willing to do this, I'm not only going to
have it be in your mouth, but it's going to be in the mouth of
your descendants, your descendants descendants, and
your descendants of theirs. So he's talking about the fact
that God's blessing will come to even the third and 4th
generation of those that love him.
And this is a very important promise for us always to
understand that God is at work in our seed as we put our trust
in Him and our faith in Him. He says you need to know
something. It might not look possible to
you, but I'm going to put my word in their mouth.
You keep it in your mouth and you're going to see that I'm
going to put it in there, says the Lord.
And that's such an amazing thing that God is such a faithful God.
Now he talks about this being 1/3 generational blessing, and
there's something significant about that.
If you study in social sciences, they'll often tell you that the
third generation is the generation that loses it, so to
speak. For instance, if you have
somebody who is an entrepreneur and starts a business, they not
only understand they got to have a vision, but they have to work
hard. And if you want blessings in
life, you're going to have to make a sacrifice to get them.
And so that first generation will do that.
And often times the second generation, maybe they won't
appreciate the sacrifice their parents made because it
sometimes impacted them, but they'll understand how important
it is. And so they will usually in the
second generation follow on along long, maybe not in the
same specific work of the parent, but understand how the
principles work. But they say oftentimes in the
third generation, the second generation will not want to put
the responsibility part upon the third generation.
So that's often when the generation is lost.
That happens in churches, when churches are founded.
That's what happens in denominations.
There's a lot of amazing denominations in the world that
were founded by somebody who saw something in the Scriptures,
stood for the Word, preach the Word, and got a lot of people
excited, forgot. And yet after the 3rd
generation, you have people who have what the Bible calls a form
of godliness, but deny the power thereof.
And so when this talks about God doing something in the third
generation, it's very significant.
Today I'm going to talk about the history of Mountain Zion
because when we first started our church, God told me two
things that were very important to our journey.
Number 1, he said, if you'll go the way of spirit, you'll
possess things that others not have not possessed before, which
to me was that way that would walk by faith, which is what
we're talking about here. And of course, our first
challenge that we face is we were a small group of people
without very much money. We needed the building to
worship in, but by trusting and believing in God, God He met the
need and we were able to build. By your first building, which is
down on Clintonville Rd. We still own that building.
We actually made a couple of remodeling additions to it, if
you would. And the rest of the history we
have seen as we walked by the way of Spirit, how God has done
these very powerful things. But he also said he wanted our
church to be a symbol. And part of that is because we
have buildings and also because we have ministries of how the
walk of faith works, because we have to be a people that learn
about the principles to walk by faith.
And so it's important for us to review these things because
they're very important. So when I talk about the third
generation, my grandchildren are quite young.
I don't know how much I'll be able to see their life when they
get older. But in a local church setting
here, we can honestly say that we have seen 1/3 generational
success. Our newest staff members that
are part of our ministry here are literally a third generation
because that's how long we've been in ministry now, close to
50 years. And it's exciting because
they've been raised in the House of God.
They understand the vision, they understand the principles.
And so they're able to step up there having learned about the
things that we've been through and can actually apply them so
that as the third generation, they can even make a fourth
generation and a fifth generation that can continue the
blessing of prosperity that we have seen God perform here.
When you come to one of the buildings at Mount Zion, you can
just say, oh, that's Mount Zion, the church.
For those of us who were there in the beginning when we started
in the unfinished basement of my mom and dad's house, we can look
at every building and every ministry and say, wow, God is so
faithful. And when you walk by his word,
you'll see that God will give you the capacity to do something
that's above your human capacity.
And that's so important for us to understand.
That's what God wants to do. Now this next verse of Scripture
I've actually shared for a few weeks now from Ephesians chapter
two, it says for by grace you have been saved through faith,
that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works.
This anyone should boast, for we are his what workmanship created
in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand,
that we should walk in them. So important for us to know that
everything with God starts with grace.
God's unmerited favor. He chooses us.
When God chooses us and we're aware of the fact that we need
to be a Christian, we have to rejoice on the fact that, well,
that means God has chosen me. Sometimes it happens because
we're in a certain circumstance or situation that we need help.
But the fact that you know that you can get it from God, well,
that's just God at work behind the scenes so that you'll come
to Him. Now, His grace makes that
possible. And then with that, He gives us
faith. When faith comes, that's the
capacity that God gives to us to believe above the natural realm.
So you can believe a lot of things, but when you have faith,
how many know that amplifies what you can believe?
And so just like the scripture says, we can walk in the Word,
we can walk in the power of faith.
Now I use those scriptures to talk about something God wants
us all to experience and that is His rest.
Because when we understand what God has done and then that
second part says we understand that we were created by God and
that not only we were created by God, we were created by God for
a purpose in this life. It uses the terms good works,
which He has prepared ahead of time for us.
Well, that helps us rest because we're not struggling to make
life happening. It should be a matter of
struggling to find out, well, Lord, who am I in you?
And when I began to find out who I am in you, I can begin to look
at the path that you have prepared for me ahead of time.
And so walking with God is quite an amazing life.
It gives us the ability, again to live above the natural.
But when we understand how it works, it's not a hard way to
walk, but it is a way that requires us sometimes to make
some hard decisions to say I'm going to choose to go God's way
and not my own. It is a prepared life that God
has given to us. In first Peter chapter one verse
22, it says since you have purified your souls and obeying
the truth through the spirit and sincere love of the brother and
love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible through the
word of God, which lives and abides forever because all flesh
is as grass, all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass Withers and its flower falls away, but the word of the
Lord endures forever. Now if you notice I put over
here guarding the seed because this is such an important
concept for us to understand because when we receive the seed
of God by faith, the Bible says that when we obey that word
through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can have an
expectation of some powerful things happening in our life.
That's why the first step is repent of your sins, be baptized
in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you
shall receive the gift of, of the Holy Spirit.
And so whether it's in our initial experience that we have
to obey the gospel or whether it's as God is speaking to us
and he says something to us and we obey him, it's through that
obedience that we open the door for the opportunity that God has
for us. Now it is so important for us to
understand the power of the seed.
When we first started the church, I was graduating in 1978
from ministry candidate School at Bethesda Missionary Temple in
Detroit, and they'd asked me to be the speaker at the
graduation. So I was quite excited about
that, quite nervous about that as well, because it was a much
bigger church than I'd ever actually been a part of, let
alone speak in front of. And as I was preparing the word,
the Lord spoke to me. He said guard the sea and he was
speaking to me about a word to preach, but also he was telling
me something about the direction of my life.
We had started the Bible study in the base of my mom's house.
We have taken like 40 some people to Detroit to be water
baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit.
And so it seemed obvious we should start a church so that
these people can grow in the Lord.
But I didn't want to do that just because it seemed like a
good idea. I wanted to follow the word, the
Lord and that's when the Lord spoke to me.
Guard the seed, for in the seed you will see the power of life.
And so Mount Zion is a local church, is a ministry.
Whereas ministry leaders, our goal is to guard the seed that
God has put inside of you and then to nurture that seed and
help develop that seed and so that you can go on to the
maturity and the place that God has for you.
Guarding the seed is an essential thing for us to
understand. As we began to walk with God, we
began to see the potential that God has as we walk in the power
of the seed. Now this is a very interesting
scripture because it says for the earth yields crops by
itself. First the blade, then the head
and after that the full grain in the head.
But when the grain ripens, immediately he puts in the
sickle because what, the harvest has come.
And this is just showing us the power of the seed, that if you
put a seed in the ground, it's gonna begin to grow.
I remember and I put a pure bean sprouts because as part of that
first sermon I shared when I was in fifth grade, we had a
experiment in our class where the teacher was trying to teach
us about seeds. And she gave each and everyone
of us a bean seed. And we put it on a green piece
of felt, put some water on it, covered it with a glass so we
could watch it grow. And it became a bean sprout.
If you would. Well, bean sprouts can be used
in a salad, but it can actually, if you plant in the ground, grow
into a plant and provide all kinds of beans.
And so we were encouraged after that to take the seed home,
planted in the ground so they could bring forth more fruit.
And that's what God has been speaking to us from the very
beginning. Make sure that seed doesn't just
come alive. Make sure it's planted.
And if it's planted in good ground, all the better is going
to be the fruit of the ground, a seed, If you put in the ground,
it'll just grow. But if it's a cultivated seed,
it's going to bring forth something even better than that.
And I put up here wild grapes. Because if you'll notice in the
reference that I had in the opening, the prophet Isaiah
said, and he was speaking as God to his people, I've done
everything I possibly can for you.
And then he uses the analogy of a garden, in this particular
case a vineyard. He says, I took my piece of
land, cultivated it, put the plants in the ground, Then I put
a fence around it to protect it. I even built a tower in the
middle of it so that I could keep my eye open to protect from
any attackers who might come because I was a comet.
In those days, anytime you had anything worth stealing,
somebody was going to steal it, so you had to protect it.
And he talks about all the effort he put into it.
And he says, when I look out at what has been produced by this,
all I get is wild grapes. Now, This is why it's important
to understand that every seed planted in the earth can grow,
but if it's cultivated, then it can produce proper fruit.
That's very helpful and has a lot of potential.
When I grew up in this area, we moved here when in the 50s when
I was just a small boy and this was mostly country then.
And before that, in earlier days of the area, there were a lot of
farms around here, apple orchards and such.
Most of them have become dormant.
And so all we had is a bunch of fields to play in mostly.
But when you go into the woods, there would be old apple trees.
And we used to love riding our bikes and going out there and
picking the apples off the trees and eating them.
They were no longer well cultivated or tended to trees.
And so the apples would always be a little bit sour and you had
to eat them real quick because you had to compete with the
worms in order to get to them in time.
So they were very tired. And yet we like them as kids
because we just need to be able to find an apple tree that had
apples on it. And then there would also be
different kinds of berries that you'd go out there, There'd be
wild strawberries, there were wild blackberries, just about
every kind of plant you could think of because in the old days
when people had planted them, they just let them go and they
were still growing. Now next to us was a man by the
name of Mr. Hamilton. He had a well tended garden.
He had well kept fruit trees and everything.
So I always looked at what he did and I'm like, wow, I want to
be able to do that. And I've always shared the story
that I thought I wanted to be a farmer and I really only wanted
to be a harvester because being a farmer takes a lot of work.
And I found that out. And so you had a choice.
You could go out and get the wild things that would be tart
and you'd be glad you had something to eat because it was
kind of a fun and interesting thing.
Or you could have a well cultivated garden where not only
would there be something to eat, but actually tastes good, be
nutritional. You could get seeds for the next
year. And so there was a whole process
that's different here. And that's basically what God's
saying. I just got a bunch of wild
grapes. I cultivated this garden.
I put a lot of effort into it and what am I getting out of it?
Just wild grapes. Now if you notice, he said when
the true harvest has come, that's when the harvester is
going to cast in his sickle and perform the harvest.
Now this is important for us to understand.
Right now on my call from the Mountain website, I'm sharing
about eschatology or study the last days.
And a lot of people don't understand the last days because
they don't understand what God's plan is.
So oftentimes when people talk about the last days, they talk
about the Antichrist, they talk about the beast, they talk about
the darkness. Hardly anybody talks about what
God's looking for. And God's looking for a harvest.
And he's not just looking for a big harvest, he's looking for a
well cultivated harvest. In other words, he doesn't want
just wild grapes, he wants cultivated grapes.
He wants that which has taken a little bit of work.
And so we're oftentimes people talk about harvest as getting as
many people as saved as possible.
Very few people understand that from God's perspective, a
harvest is not just a lot, but it's something that's good.
It's not the volume, it's the quality that God is looking for.
Obviously volume is nice too, but sometimes we as Christians
forget about what God's plan is and don't realize what is it
he's looking for in our life. He's looking for us to allow him
to cult fade our lives so that we can bring forth good things.
And I just wanted to show that because this is basically what
they're describing. If you don't understand wheat, I
want you to see what that's like because he said when you plant
the wheat, the first thing it does is it grows a stem.
Then at the top it gets these heads.
It's called, but ultimately it gets grain in the head.
So if you cut that down before there's grain in the heads,
you're just going to have a bunch of empty heads if you
would with nothing good for making into bread.
And so you have to understand the purposes of God and how they
work. And so you have to visualize he
wants a fruitful people, but he who who received seed on the
good ground is he who hears the word and what understands it,
who indeed bears fruit and produces some a hundredfold,
some 60 and some 30. Now, I've quoted this Scripture
often through the years. And because I'm a person who
wants the best that the world has to offer.
If I'm going to do something, I want to do it well.
If I'm going to be a Christian, I want to do it well because
that's just the personality God has given me.
So I've often said over the years, I don't want just a 30
fold blessing. I don't just want a 60.
How many of us say I want a hundredfold blessing?
Amen. I want the whole thing.
Well, I'm in this special time of the presence of the Lord
these days, and God's just communicating with me, trying to
prepare me for this next season that we're moving into.
And yesterday I was thinking about this scripture and
thinking about the hundredfold blessing.
And I thought about the fact that I've often taught there's a
whole chapter that talks about this in the discipleship book,
and that is, if you want to have good fruit, you have to have a
good ground. Now in the Bible, the ground
that the seed is sown in is our heart.
And so if we want to allow that seed to have its best
opportunity in us, we have to cultivate our heart.
That's why Mount Zion, we have all their calls and respond to
the word and the Lord's Supper, etcetera, because we're giving
God our heart. We're dealing with some areas so
that we can say, OK, God, I want the best that you have to offer.
And so it's necessary that we would have a good ground.
But yesterday the Lord kind of changed my thinking more than
kind of quite a bit as I was thinking about that because he
said, now remember I told you to tell people when you first
started basically that Mount Simon was going to be an
example, visible example for people to see how the walk of
faith would work. And he said, yes, we want a
hundredfold return, but look at how I've LED Mount Zion and we
started in 1978 on our location on Clintonville Rd.
In 1990 is when we purchased 52 acres here and build our first
building over there. We call now Auditory May and
then building this building in 2010.
But he said now watch and see how it's worked.
So for the 1st 12 years I would say yes, that was our thirty
fold blessing. Then we came over here in 1990
and built the building here and we began to experience a whole
different level in God. And I would say those years were
the 60 fold blessing. When we first moved here, the
Township was resisting us getting this land because they
thought it was too valuable for a church and so they limited the
size of our building. So we actually had to hold on to
our old church. On Wednesday nights we would
have our children's ministry down at the other location so
people would drop their kids off, come here for church, then
go pick up their kids. And I see now and looking back
that really God wanted us to keep that building so we could
remember the pattern and the process that we would go
through. So anyway, as we got here, we
began to experience the blessing of God, went to two services
within the first year. Second year we built a balcony
over there. Third year we were building a
addition on. And so we've seen the blessing
of God. And I would say that the 60 fold
blessing lasted from 1990 to the year 2020.
Now why do I say that? Well in 2020 in March, I
preached a message and I quoted the scripture where Jesus said
it is the time, it is the acceptable time says the Lord.
And as I read that to the congregation, I actually
preached on it. The word time there means in the
original Greek Kairos moment or a time of opportunity.
And God said, now this is our time of change.
This is a time when we're going to see everything go into a
whole new level, a whole new dimension.
And so I said this is our time of opportunity.
The next week we didn't even have church because that's when
they locked down the churches for Covad.
I'd never dreamed I'd see a day when the government say you
can't have church. And I have to admit that I was
not quite sure I was going to do what they said at first because
I know the Bible says it's better to obey God rather than
man. But as I prayed, as is typical
throughout the journey we've had at a church, he says, you know,
government's very good. Just submit and see how I can
make all things work together for good to those who love me.
Now, even though it didn't look like we were moving into a time
of opportunity, especially that year, and you look at what
happened to the world, the conflict in our nation began to
intensify. Everybody had opinions,
everybody was angry. There were all kinds of
problems. So when you look at it from a
natural perspective, it wasn't all good for sure, but I knew
what God had spoken, so I looked for undercurrents of what God
was speaking. And so whenever I look and
research what's happening, I can see some undercurrents, if you
would. And there has been a tremendous
change for the good in just these five years since that
time. I've talked about a little bit,
but one of the reports they came out with about a month ago is
Gallup polling. They do surveys of the country
on a regular basis about many different issues, and they do
one on alcohol consumption in our country.
What percentage of the people drink alcohol?
Which part don't? Now during COVID, it actually
went up because people were at home and didn't have anything to
do, getting very depressed I guess.
But literally since that time, they said now it's the lowest
percentage of people than all their history since they've been
keeping track. And they said that one of the
big reasons is because among the younger generation, there's a
choice for a more healthy lifestyle.
And even though Hollywood promotes on a regular basis what
they call coming of age stories that often center around wild
parties, etcetera, that there is a generation that's saying, wait
a minute, this isn't what we want to do.
And there was a funny part to it because they said, we've also
noticed there's a 20% turned down among Republican border
voters, literally 20% less drinks than they used to, which
maybe it's because they were happy with the turn out of the
election. I don't know.
But they were even asking the same question, like what's going
on here? Well, they knew Trump didn't
drink because he always said he wanted to have a clear mind in
his business decisions or whatever.
But it was an indicator that people are taking life more
seriously. And it was one of the first
things, a sign that I would say that there's something happening
that God's moving among the you. Then since that time, there's
been all kinds of reports that, wow, the younger generation's
not turning away from God as we used to hear so often time in
the media, Religion is losing its importance.
People are turned away from church.
No, the younger generation, there's an increase in interest
in the church and there's a big turn around.
And even when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, that brought to
light something very important because then people start taking
a closer look at even what he did on college campuses.
Now, the politicians all recognize what he was doing
because they were all at his funeral.
But research began to make people understand there's
something happening there. And that was just a part of it,
certainly not the whole thing that God is moving in college
campuses with God's moving among young people.
Because guess what? People are taking things
seriously now in a level they never were before.
Church. God is on the move right now.
This is the new day, says the mighty God.
Amen. This is that third dimension.
And again, sometimes to really see what's happening, you can't
just read the news and nor can you even say, oh, I go to social
media for mine. Because when you go to social
media, you're usually looking for people who share your
opinion. Sometimes it's good to just say,
well, what's people that doesn't have an agenda saying, well,
they're all saying the same thing.
This is a time of big change. There's an awakening happening
in our country today. Church and people are looking at
their lives and saying we got to do things differently.
Therefore hear the parable, the sower.
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and does not
understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what
was sown as the heart. This is he who received the seed
by the wayside. Phase one is you got to be
willing to receive the seed. Again, it has to do with the
ground of your heart, and it says if you don't understand,
then the enemy, the wicked one, can come and snatch away that
word. Now I put up your understanding
heart because that scripture does not say you got to get
smart so you can fight against the devil.
It says you got to prepare your heart because you are still
going to go through things that you won't be able to figure out.
Sometimes you'll look at the world and not know what's
happening and you'll hear all these different opinions and
everybody have something to say. And the Lord says, all you have
to do is recognize. You got to say, well, stop it
everybody, because I'm going to make sure I just keep my heart
open to God. I'm going to guard and cultivate
what the Lord has done inside of me.
And then in the appropriate time, He will give me the
understanding heart now. So I teach people, you can hear
the voice of God and you can know there's a change going
before the world recognizes there's a change.
And I want you to know something.
The world hasn't seen anything yet.
The best is yet to come. Amen, Church.
So the second phase is But he who received the seed on Stony
places. This is he who hears the word
and immediately receives it with joy.
Yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while.
When tribulation or persecution arises because of the Word
immediately he stumbles. Now our phase two at least I can
share this is a big part of those sermons I preached in the
90s is God began to show me how that when you walk by the way of
Spirit because God is your Father.
Sometimes he's working on your character.
He actually is working on yourself improvement.
We always talk about self help and there's a whole section in
the bookstore on self help, but you have to understand
something. You have a heavenly Father who's
always at work. Amen.
And you have to know He's concerned about your personal
development, and when you begin to realize that, you'll go to
that 60%. But he received the seat among
the thorns as he who hears the word and the cares of this world
and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word.
And what happens again, you become unfruitful.
Now, this is important because the cares of this life literally
means distractions. And then it talks about
distractions you might have because you're anxious and
fearful about what's going on in the world and what's going to
happen in your life. Or on the other hand, it can
actually be riches and blessing. Whatever it is, if it's a
distraction keeping you from your course of action, how do
you know it becomes a bad thing? And so God says be careful of
distractions because when you're a person with a goal and you
have an expectation for that goal, you have to make sure you
maintain your focus. He said you did not choose me,
but I chose you and appointed you that what you would go and
bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, that whatever you
ask the Father in my name, he may give you.
And we have to understand that God wants us to have power in
our prayer. And we have to understand that
there's a prayer power we can have when we let God work in our
heart, bring forth our place of faith and our belief in the
power of God. I keep saying this because I
believe this with everything within me, that God's bringing
the church to a place of prayer power we haven't ever seen
before. And it's going to be possible
because we've become mature. Now, I also want to talk about
the tipping point. And what is a tipping point?
Well, that's when small changes make a big impact over time and
continuous commitment. And I know that term because
when Obama became president, they were talking about there
was a man who wrote books who was very influential with his
inner circle. His name was Malcolm Gladwell,
and he wrote several books that I have, and one of them was
Turning Point. And in Turning Point, he talks
about the fact that, well, you do small things if you want to
change your country, which is the way they were looking at it
from a political perspective. You just got to do something.
And then you keep pressing and you keep moving in the right
direction because if you keep in that right direction, eventually
there comes a tipping point where everything begins to turn
around. Now for me, when God was
speaking to me tipping point, he was telling me about the message
I shared with you today, which is the power of the seeds that
are sown in my heart. And I want to prophesize to you
today because I say thus saith the Lord.
God says this is a time, it's going to be a tipping point,
says the Lord. And there's going to be a great
evidence of change. It's not just going to be under
the undercurrent, if you would. It's not going to be just
reported here a little there. You're going to find out that
God's word is going to begin to come to pass because this is
tipping point time, says the mighty God.
Amen. And there's a lot of people that
have been trying to push our country in One Direction, and
everybody has their agendas. But I want you to know who's got
the highest agenda because that's God and his people are
going to see His word is going to come to pass.
And I believe this is tipping point time.
There's a lot of things that the world is doing that's also going
to be a tipping point, if you would, because bad behavior
produces A tipping point as well, and it's the fruit of the
bad behavior. I think that's going to cause
people to look in the other direction and say, what are we
going to do? Where are we going to turn?
How are we going to work this out?
Well, that's why I often speak the word from Isaiah chapter 2
that says in the latter days of time, the mountain of the Lord's
house shall be established on top of the mountains.
It will be exalted above the hills.
What's going to happen is people are going to say, come and let
us go to the mountain of the Lord, to the House of the God of
Jacob. He will teach us of his ways,
and we will walk in his bath. For out of Mount Zion she'll go
the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Jesus said it this way in the Gospel of Matthew.
He said another parable he put forth, saying the Kingdom of
heaven is like a mustard seed which a man took and sowed in
his field, which indeed is the least of all seeds from a
natural perspective. But when it is sown, it is
greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the
birds of the air come and nest on its branches.
Can we all bow our heads and close our eyes for just a
moment? Because we need to know It's
tipping point time. The changes are going to be more
rapid, more evident. The world is going to become
more confused, more disconcerted, if you would,
because God's preparing a season of twice.
And so we have to be all ready, knowing that we're in God's
hands and knowing that doesn't matter how small our seed may
seem, God says it becomes the biggest in the end, that even
the birds will come and land on the branches.
The worst enemy of a seed is the birds, because if they see a
seed, they're going to go eat it.
But when that seed is planted and becomes a tree, then they
rest on its branches. Some of the people that tried to
steal your seed are going to come and rest on your branches,
says the Lord, because you're going to see that God is
faithful and his word works and the power of his covenant shall
be established. So Father today, today in the
name of Jesus, we give you our hearts and ask, O Lord, that you
would cause our hearts to be ground for the good seed that
Lord we might bring forth not just 30, not just 60, but to be
that hundredfold blessing. Father, we ask it in Jesus
mighty name, Amen. This is Pastor Lauren Coburbius
from Mount Zion Church. We thank you for joining us
today and invite you to connect with our church family by
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God bless you.