1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,240 You've tuned into a mega church. We are people hungry to 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,240 encounter God through worship and His Word being witnesses to 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,760 the world around us. We pray this teaching blesses 4 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:16,320 you and trust God will reveal Himself to you in a new way 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:18,320 today. And if you need prayer for 6 00:00:18,320 --> 00:00:21,040 healing or breakthrough what to find out more about Omega, get 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:23,760 to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 8 00:00:31,130 --> 00:00:33,690 Let us shout Hallelujah. All are Hallelujah. 9 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:45,160 Before I launch into the 11 to 20, I was preparing for 11 to 20 10 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:51,080 but my eyes went on verse 7. So I got stuck there for a long 11 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,480 time. I would say verse 7. 12 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,520 So I want to share a few thoughts on verse 7 and then we 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,720 will go into 11 to 20. Verse 7 says I also said to him, 14 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:06,200 if it pleases the king, may I have letters to the governors of 15 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:09,920 Trans Euphrates so that they will provide me safe conduct 16 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:16,120 until I arrive in Judah? What is what is this verse 17 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,960 saying? Can we see it on the screen if 18 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:27,000 possible? Verse 7 If it pleases the king, 19 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:32,160 may I have letters to governors of Trans Euphrates so they so 20 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,760 that they will provide me safe conduct until I arrive in Judah. 21 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,880 So here what is happening here is he is having the letters 22 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:43,680 given so that he can travel safely to Judah. 23 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:51,240 Who can stop him? Now no one can stop him because 24 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,880 he is having the letters from the king. 25 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:57,240 So now those letters have lot of power. 26 00:01:57,560 --> 00:02:00,560 The letter written by king number one thing that happened 27 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,760 when king gave the letter is tables were turned. 28 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,280 Everybody said tables were turned. 29 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:14,040 What is meant by tables were turned here there was a the art 30 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,200 exists. Art exists is the title like 31 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:19,640 Pharaoh. So you have more than one king 32 00:02:19,640 --> 00:02:24,720 having the same kind of a title. During the time of Ezra, many 33 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:27,880 decades ago, they tried to rebuild the temple and people 34 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,800 complained saying, oh, if you allow these people to rebuild 35 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,320 it, this is going to revolt against you. 36 00:02:32,320 --> 00:02:36,040 You are going to lose the taxes. They said, the king, art execs, 37 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:39,760 they said stop it. Stop the rebuilding of the 38 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:42,760 temple, stop the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. 39 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:48,520 So now you are getting letters to reverse the same thing to say 40 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:54,280 let the walls be rebuilt. Do you do you see how it is 41 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:57,840 changing the letter? It is changing the situation 42 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,840 completely. It is turning other tables. 43 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:09,120 It is you are ignoble, reproach, put down, no safety, no 44 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,280 prosperity. You are being looted anytime, 45 00:03:12,280 --> 00:03:15,000 every time. Now once you have the walls, it 46 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,720 is going to be everything going to be tables are going to be 47 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:22,600 turned. So I decree and declare, by the 48 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:25,720 power of the Holy Ghost, the table should be turned in your 49 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:31,600 own heart this morning, tables being should be turned. 50 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,080 Why is it important that? Well, as I was meditating on 51 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,120 that. Now Nema has letters. 52 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:44,400 What is the letters for letters to Asaph so that he may release 53 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:48,200 the timber required for the doors and anywhere it is 54 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,160 required, the SEDAR or whatever is required, oaks whatever needs 55 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:55,480 required. He has to release the timber for 56 00:03:55,480 --> 00:03:59,120 the temple, for the gates and for the house he is going to 57 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,080 live. Usually it is built with stones 58 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:06,520 and mortar and things like that but inside the house it is 59 00:04:06,640 --> 00:04:10,920 furnished with panels of wood and he needs lot of wood for 60 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:15,280 that. So he has a letters to for the 61 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:21,120 wood to be released and whatever help is required, they have to 62 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,520 give. They cannot touch him anymore 63 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:26,720 because he's coming not as a common citizen, but he's coming 64 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,760 back as a governor of Judah from the cub bearer. 65 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:33,720 He's putting on a hat of governor. 66 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:37,080 He is transitioning from cub bearer to a governor. 67 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:41,480 And I tell you, when you are in the plan of God, when you are in 68 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:44,480 the will of God, when you are doing His will, when you are 69 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:50,320 living for him, you will not be always a cup bearer, but you 70 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:51,960 will transition to become one with. 71 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,160 You will begin to move with authority. 72 00:04:54,280 --> 00:04:59,000 You will walk in authority. Now what I want to focus on this 73 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:03,920 morning is just the letters. Will the walls be rebuilt? 74 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:09,400 He has letters. Will the walls be rebuilt? 75 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,160 No, he had to have a vision, he had to have a plan. 76 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:18,360 He had to speak to the people to motivate them. 77 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,600 He had to gather them together. He has to be praying all the 78 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,480 time. He prayed for 3-4 months. 79 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,320 He was traveling for four months and he arrived into Jerusalem 80 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:30,000 and all these 4-4 months of travel, he must have been crying 81 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,040 in his heart. God, I want you to give me 82 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:34,120 favor. Let the people believe me. 83 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:37,800 Let the people believe me. Let touch their hearts that they 84 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:41,960 will reunite and they may join me in this venture of rebuilding 85 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:44,800 the walls. He must be crying out as walking 86 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,840 every day morning to evening and he must be crying in his heart 87 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:51,840 for this favour, this revival to come so the walls can be rebuilt 88 00:05:54,280 --> 00:05:58,680 and Nehemiah. So there are two things here. 1 89 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:03,680 is called positional, 1 is the positional, other is actual. 90 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,800 So one is here. He is having the positional 91 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:10,920 positionally he has everything released for him. 92 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:13,760 But actually it has not yet happened. 93 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:17,360 It has not happened. Tables turning of the tables 94 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:20,960 happens, happened even before, during when Esther was the 95 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:23,960 queen, tables were turned. How did he turn? 96 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,840 Haman succeeded in getting the king to stamp with his signet 97 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:33,200 ring and he cast lots and it fell on a day called pouring. 98 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:37,280 And pouring was the day they decided that all Jews all over 99 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:40,240 the Persian Kingdom must be killed in every city and village 100 00:06:41,720 --> 00:06:45,000 finished, no Jews should be living anymore. 101 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,080 But when God intervened because, hey, Mordecai was seeking God, 102 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,800 because Esther was seeking God, God intervened, turned the 103 00:06:54,800 --> 00:06:59,280 tables, and they reissued another letter on the same day. 104 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:03,600 Jews, you have the power to defend yourself and to kill your 105 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,560 enemies if required. And that day, when the Purim day 106 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,440 came, Jewish, Jewish people killed their enemies everywhere. 107 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,760 Tables were turned. Everybody said tables were 108 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:20,320 turned. And when Jesus crushed of 109 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:25,520 Nazareth, when he came and died upon the cross, there must have 110 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:30,480 been apparent celebration in the Kingdom of darkness where Satan 111 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:34,440 in Satans Kingdom, he must have said, yeah, we have put the Son 112 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:36,720 of God on the cross. We have succeeded in killing 113 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,640 him. We have won, we have won. 114 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:44,160 He did not stay long because Jesus Christ from that grave he 115 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,000 went into the Kingdom of darkness and he defeated the 116 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,560 force of darkness. He took the keys of Hades and 117 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,000 death and he has came out and that victory has to be 118 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,600 celebrated. That victory has to be crowns 119 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,880 and it sent shock waves in the city of Jerusalem and the tomb 120 00:07:59,880 --> 00:08:02,560 was shaking. The earthquake was there and the 121 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,440 tombstone was rolled away to find Jesus not inside the board, 122 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:09,840 in that his body not in the tube anymore. 123 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:14,640 Tables were turned. Satan thought he won, but he 124 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:18,680 lost. He thought he won but is lost. 125 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:27,120 So in our lives we are saved. Everybody say we are saved, but 126 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:32,400 we are yet to be saved. Your your sins are forgiven. 127 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,880 You are justified. You are made holy. 128 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:37,039 You are given righteousness of Jesus Christ. 129 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:38,799 You are putting on like a robe upon you. 130 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,360 But a time is coming when you will be totally freed from the 131 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:46,000 presence of sin. Now power of sin. 132 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,760 You are set free from power of sin. 133 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,480 Sin cannot have dominion over you anymore. 134 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:57,840 Tables are turned, but you need to walk into it. 135 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,600 Just because you know the truth doesn't make you a St. doesn't 136 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:07,480 make you a man of power, doesn't make you to go and heal 137 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:10,640 everybody you come across, raise everybody from the dead. 138 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:14,360 It's not going to happen until there's a transition between 139 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:18,160 having the letter and possessing what the letter says. 140 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,560 Positionally, we are saved. One of the best things that I 141 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:28,400 ever have learnt in my life is a phrase in theology. 142 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:30,800 It is called already and not yet. 143 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:33,560 Everybody say already and not yet. 144 00:09:36,440 --> 00:09:40,400 When we don't have this thing fixed in our mind, when we are 145 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,280 not aware of this truth, we are going to be disappointed. 146 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:48,280 Let's say who? I mean God has given us 147 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,000 authority to lay hands on the sick. 148 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,280 They shall recover. That's a promise. 149 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:55,640 Now we are praying for every week. 150 00:09:55,640 --> 00:09:59,280 We are praying for people and sometimes they are not healed. 151 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:06,000 What is why it is not happening? So sometimes, you know, there 152 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:08,400 are times are gone. One time I went to Crushes 153 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,920 Hospital, someone said, oh, somebody's with cancer, would 154 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:13,960 you like to go and pray? I said, yeah, definitely. 155 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,000 I took somebody along with me and we went into the room and we 156 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:21,080 prayed fire to come down and to heal and to raise the person. 157 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:25,480 And when I came out, the man with me said that was a very, 158 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:28,440 very powerful prayer. Either they will live or die. 159 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:31,880 And the third day the person died. 160 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:38,760 What am I trying to say here? Is there is a potential for that 161 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,520 person to be healed when we pray? 162 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,360 But when it does not happen, what you have to pray as if you 163 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:47,120 are going to receive that answer, that person is going to 164 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,960 be healed when it does not happen, Its not in your domain 165 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,600 to feel about it. You don't be depressed about it. 166 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,920 You don't be detected about it. Oh God, I went and prayed in 167 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:58,760 your name, nothing happened. Oh that man died. 168 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:04,200 That can send me to depression, but this is what it is already 169 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:06,360 and knotted. There will be cases when people 170 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:08,360 are healed. There will be cases when people 171 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:10,520 will be delivered. There will be cases when we can 172 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:13,600 successfully throw out the devils, and sometimes we cannot. 173 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,520 And it is subject to certain things. 174 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:21,200 You need to grow in it. If I want to go into a shop and 175 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,240 let's say I want to buy this kind of a thing item there, and 176 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,840 that item says there's a label hanging, the $1000. 177 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:32,880 I quickly open my wallet, check how much money I have. 178 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:38,680 Yeah, $500 I have. Can I get it? 179 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:44,720 No, I need to have $1000. Every single dollar has to be 180 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,560 paid before I can take it and walk away. 181 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:51,240 Same way there is a place for discipline in prayer. 182 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,200 There is a place for discipline in studying the word of God 183 00:11:54,360 --> 00:11:57,640 before the letter becomes actually you enter into the 184 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,040 meaning of the letter to possess the things that the letter is 185 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,560 giving you, you. There is a discipline of prayer, 186 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:06,800 study of the word, faith, growing in faith, growing in 187 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:08,640 faith. Every day I am crying out to 188 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,800 God. God, you said you, whoever 189 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:15,280 believes in you when he uses the word, whoever he doesn't talk 190 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:18,320 about the disciples anymore. He talks about anyone who is 191 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,920 going to believe in him is going to do what he does and greater 192 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:27,240 works than they shall he do. I am crying out, God, I need to 193 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,520 do this. I need to do what you have done. 194 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:34,920 I need to do what you have done. I've been praying for a couple 195 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,400 somewhere else in the in some part of the world for more than 196 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:39,440 six months. I am praying. 197 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,640 One time I prayed, the man was knocked down and he fell on the 198 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:45,080 bed happily. And I saw I was really a little 199 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:46,800 bit to know that he fell on the bed. 200 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:52,280 And other day when I prayed for him, the devil manifested and he 201 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:55,960 was looking into the camera and says I can't look into her, I 202 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,360 cannot look into your eyes. I'm afraid inside. 203 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,040 I'm afraid inside, separated by thousands of kilometers, 204 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,560 connected by Internet. He's looking into the camera, I 205 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:08,840 can't look into your eyes. I'm afraid inside. 206 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,680 I'm shaking inside. I said they will come out. 207 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,560 And I thought for a moment whether he's gone or I said, oh, 208 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,040 I don't think he's completely gone. 209 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:22,440 It took me 40 to 45 minutes of praying on the phone, WhatsApp. 210 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:28,680 And then he walked back and he was spitting out for me kind of 211 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:31,760 a thing from his mouth and through, you know, in his own 212 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,760 house. He was uncontrollably spitting 213 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:35,640 everywhere. And there was no one in the 214 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:36,960 house. His wife was not there. 215 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,920 And this guy ultimately walks down to the bed and there he, he 216 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,320 fell down on the bed. I said, OK, that's also good. 217 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:49,000 I think it is gone, but only to know that yesterday again, I 218 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,160 pray that is not gone. Now what am I trying to 219 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,560 communicate here? You can have a letter in your 220 00:13:55,560 --> 00:13:58,640 hand. Jesus has given you the letter. 221 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:03,120 You shall cast out demons. Has he given you the letter? 222 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,240 Yes. But is it a reality yet? 223 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:13,680 Not 100%. So in between what happens, I 224 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:17,240 need to increase my faith. I need to study the Word, I need 225 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,680 to believe Him, I need to pray, I need to be more of the Holy, 226 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,440 fulfilled with the whole, more of the Holy Ghost. 227 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:24,960 Until it happens, I should not give up. 228 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:33,880 And many of us are confused when it comes to the New Testament 229 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,320 reality, the new creation reality. 230 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:39,840 Yeah, we are children of God. We are saved. 231 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,160 We are set free from the domain of Satan. 232 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,800 We are all these things we have. But again, He has given us 233 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,840 authority to cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead. 234 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:51,120 Blind eyes to be opened. Deaf, He has to be opened. 235 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:53,480 Lamb should walk, dead should be raised. 236 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:56,280 We have the letter in our hands, but we are not walking in it 237 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:03,400 yet. The challenge is to do. 238 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,160 If we have been doing it for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, 40 239 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,560 years, it has not worked for us. We have not arrived there yet. 240 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:14,080 We had to change the way we do things. 241 00:15:16,560 --> 00:15:19,320 I was talking to somebody. I said I am not praying enough 242 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,680 yet. I prayed yesterday 3 or 4 hours 243 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,600 for the service. I said I called on fire. 244 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,160 I said, oh, the whole heart, the church should be filled with the 245 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,240 glory of God and people should be, should not be able to stand 246 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,520 on their feet because of the glory of God as it happened in 247 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,640 the Old Testament. I have prayed, I have prayed, I 248 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,440 have prayed, but has it happened? 249 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:41,880 No. That means what? 250 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:46,360 I need to pray more and the church has to pray more to walk 251 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,600 into the reality of what is promised. 252 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:56,040 We have to pray. That's the call for 21 days of 253 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:00,760 prayer is that we should walk in Revival should come into Omega. 254 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:03,280 Revival should come into the city of Christchurch. 255 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:07,520 That is possible only this is the only one ingredient in the 256 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:10,360 recipe is the prayer is the most essential. 1. 257 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,720 You take it out, you will not have what you want to have. 258 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,880 You will not have an orange cake and there is no orange juice in 259 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:20,920 it and no orange rinse in it. Put in it. 260 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:27,040 It will not be an orange cake if it is a chocolate cake, it 261 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:33,400 didn't have chocolate for revival, we need one ingredient 262 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,480 is prayer. The Holy Spirit says, son, you 263 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,480 are saying the right thing right now. 264 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,080 So at the cross, tables are turned in our favor to rebuild 265 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,880 broken walls, to set up the gates, to restore dignity from 266 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,360 disgrace to dignity, to set our families free, to write your 267 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,720 future, pursue vision, His Kingdom. 268 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:59,920 All these things have been done, but we are not walking in it 269 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,480 yet. The look at the gates, they are 270 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:05,480 burned down. Look at the walls, they've been 271 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:09,359 broken down. And I tell you, the situation of 272 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:13,119 Jerusalem is the situation of every local church. 273 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,640 I'm not talking about only our church, Every church. 274 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:20,319 If you have eyes to open, you will see that the walls are 275 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:22,359 broken now and the gates have been burned down. 276 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,200 And I'm telling you, this is the story of families. 277 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Every individual family can be affected in different ways, more 278 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,160 than we can ever imagine. People are affected in every 279 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:38,520 family. And what happens here? 280 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,120 Nehemiah comes after so many decades and walks into 281 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,040 Jerusalem, and then he says we should be rebuilding the walls. 282 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,520 People look at him and say why should we rebuild the walls now? 283 00:17:50,840 --> 00:17:52,440 We have been living here for so many decades. 284 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,040 We are all right without walls being rebuilt. 285 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:56,720 Why do you want to tell us to rebuild? 286 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,040 There will be resistance to prayer. 287 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,560 There's one thing the devil fights you. 288 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,880 It will be the requirement to pray. 289 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:11,520 He will keep you engaged on your WhatsApp, on your Facebook, on 290 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:15,560 your YouTube or your any other kind of social media hours. 291 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:18,600 Together. He can keep you busy and He has 292 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,720 succeeded. He has succeeded. 293 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:26,880 You don't need another person to disturb you, just the little 294 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,200 thing. Maybe that should go on the 295 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,480 altar. It has to go on the altar. 296 00:18:34,880 --> 00:18:38,240 Whatever comes between you and prayer, sacrifice it. 297 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,040 Sacrifice it. Bring it to God and say God, I 298 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:46,000 know this is important, but this is coming in my way between you 299 00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,280 and me. I need to put it on the altar. 300 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,120 Whatever it is, it can be business, it can be anything, 301 00:18:53,120 --> 00:18:55,840 relationship, Whatever it is, we need to do it. 302 00:18:57,520 --> 00:19:00,000 So what is the difference between positional victory and 303 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:02,720 actual victory? Positional victory is like 304 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:04,440 having the letter that Nehemiah has. 305 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:08,800 Actual victory is walking in it, possessing it, enjoying it. 306 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,680 And there is a difference between these two. 307 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:17,240 We have our identity in Christ. We are children of God, saved by 308 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,680 from the power of sin, from the power of Satan. 309 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:24,040 But you have to overcome sin in many forms and grow in holiness 310 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:29,000 daily, not just once in a while. Daily we must have victory. 311 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:33,000 What is that besetting sin that is defeating you again and again 312 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,640 and again? And you are going back to God, 313 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,760 saying, Lord, please wash me in your blood and set me free. 314 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:42,960 That means we are not yet arrived there. 315 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,400 Authority. You are seated with crash in 316 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,760 heavenly places. You need to have increasing 317 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:51,720 dominion over sickness. Peace in all our relationships, 318 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,200 peace in all aspects of life such as finances, children's 319 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:59,640 welfare, personal health. Are we working in authority? 320 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,440 If not, we only have a letter in the hand. 321 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:10,000 We don't possess it yet, but the path is one man. 322 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:15,880 Ingredient is prayer. Believing I am a new creation 323 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,320 means they no longer need to wrestle with sin or develop 324 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:21,080 character. Some people think oh I'm a new 325 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,040 creation, I'm a new creation. They don't have a struggles with 326 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:27,160 flesh and blood and with the sin and Satan. 327 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:31,120 No, no, that is reality. You will have this fight with 328 00:20:31,120 --> 00:20:32,880 the flesh. You will have the fight with the 329 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,840 devil. The new creation doesn't change 330 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:40,920 the situation. So when some people only believe 331 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:47,000 in positional authority and not actually possessing it, the 332 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,160 problem comes here is they may neglect spiritual disciplines 333 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,040 like prayer, accountability or scripture study. 334 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,040 We need not do that. Thinking I have authority in 335 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,960 class means every challenge will be instantly overcome. 336 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:03,840 Some people think like that, oh, I have authority, the problem 337 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,720 will be gone next moment. No, it will not. 338 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,280 You will stay there in the family, you will stay there in 339 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:11,560 your personal life and you will have to fight it. 340 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:13,880 You will have to root it out. There are times we will be 341 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,880 shouting and when we are delivering somebody, I will kick 342 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,240 you out. You devil, in the name of Jesus, 343 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:20,480 I kick you out. I kick you out, I kick you out. 344 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,760 We pray for an hour or two sometimes before the devil 345 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:30,320 ultimately leaves the person. And if it is so easy, why are we 346 00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:33,200 working so hard? It will be foolish on our part 347 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:36,480 to be working hard. Some people ask me, why are you 348 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:38,880 crying, shouting like this for one hour, 2 hours? 349 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,280 Do you want to be free or you don't want to be free? 350 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,360 That's what I asked. Oh, I want to be free, so I 351 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:46,880 allowed to shout until that goes. 352 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,720 Or you are so desperate, so disgusted with you, so much 353 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,960 repulsing the its presence, you must be throwing it out by 354 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,800 yourself. God gives us personal victory, 355 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,440 our identity, authority, access to Him, but He also calls us to 356 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,200 work it out. That's the reason why Paul says 357 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,920 elsewhere in Philippians chapter 2, workout your own salvation 358 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:16,120 with fear and trembling. We had to work it out. 359 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,640 We cannot just have 5 minutes quiet time and two minutes grace 360 00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,480 for the food and expect everything to go well. 361 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,920 There's one thing that I learned in my life is prayer. 362 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,160 There was a time I was preaching. 363 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,040 Very busy morning. Early morning, 7:00, I'm 364 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:37,360 standing and preaching to the preachers, the pastors to 365 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:39,640 prepare them and then go to my work. 366 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,240 And the evening again. I take my motorway, drive for 40 367 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,600 kilometers and preach the Word. I get in the evening and all 368 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:48,920 night I'll be making notes. Early morning, 6:00, the Xerox 369 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:51,040 shop opens. I used to give it there and get 370 00:22:51,040 --> 00:22:53,720 copies done. Go 7:00 again, stand there and 371 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:59,480 preach prayer out of the window. Would you ask me now? 372 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,720 I would rather pray than preach 3 times a day. 373 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:09,760 No, I'm not interested. I am not interested to preach 40 374 00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,280 messages in a month. No, I have done it and you had 375 00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:15,400 not done anything. No change anywhere. 376 00:23:17,400 --> 00:23:21,680 I'm happy to be on my knees praying because that is going to 377 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,160 move the mountains. That's going to move the 378 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,080 mountains. So that's all about verse 7. 379 00:23:31,440 --> 00:23:34,880 Having a letter in your hand is not going to change that. 380 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,400 The walls will rebuild by itself. 381 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,640 He had to envision, he had to have a plan. 382 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,000 He had to motivate the people. He had to inspire people. 383 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,280 He had to gather the people and he had to make them do things. 384 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,760 And they had to say, he said let us rebuild the walls. 385 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,120 And they had to say let us rebuild the walls. 386 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:56,400 We need to have that, we need to do it. 387 00:23:56,760 --> 00:24:00,880 I am saying this 21 days. Whatever is inconvenience you 388 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:05,520 have, consider it as a sacrifice for God. 389 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:13,120 The petrol you have to spend the time, you may be just losing 390 00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:15,680 some time on your YouTube messages. 391 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:19,400 Don't worry about it. Come for prayer because in the 392 00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:22,840 corporate trade something happens when people gather 393 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:24,680 together and pray something happens. 394 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,360 There is power in united agreeing prayer of unity of mind 395 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:41,560 is great power. So we see many things in this 396 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:51,000 chapter that when this when the news went around that Nehemiah 397 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:57,200 has come into Jerusalem. The news went to a certain group 398 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,200 of people. Verse 10 send ballot the 399 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,240 Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite. 400 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:05,880 The official heard about it this. 401 00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:09,920 They were very much disturbed that someone had come to promote 402 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:15,640 the welfare of the Israelites. When we want to rebuild the 403 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,360 walls, there will be people who will be disturbed, there will be 404 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:23,360 people who will be unhappy. So these guys, who are these 405 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:26,160 guys? Sun Ballad is a Samaritan and 406 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,360 Tobiah is an Ammonite. Who are the Ammonites? 407 00:25:29,360 --> 00:25:33,920 You know when Moses said let the people out of Egypt and when he 408 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:37,360 comes to certain place the Ammonites are the Moabites are 409 00:25:37,360 --> 00:25:41,960 the ones who came and attacked, are seduced and made them commit 410 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,360 sin for God was very angry with the people of Israel killed. 411 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:47,040 Many thousands were killed on that day. 412 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:52,440 The same guy is now opposing the work of God and he has a name 413 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:57,680 Tobiah, which is a Hebrew name. A Hebrew name does not guarantee 414 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,680 his heart is for God. Someone can have a name called 415 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:06,240 Jacob or John or Peter or any other name. 416 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,360 It doesn't guarantee their heart is for the Kingdom of God. 417 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,080 You can bear the name, but not the have the heart. 418 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,560 And they were opposing, they were displeased. 419 00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:21,840 And one of the things that you see here is when he came to 420 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:25,560 Jerusalem, there were army officers with him and cavalry 421 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:29,360 with him. Cavalry, that is soldiers were 422 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:32,760 there with him. But you know what Nehemiah did, 423 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,480 you don't hear about the rest of the book. 424 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,720 You will not hear about this army, the cavalry, the army 425 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:40,960 officers. You don't hear Why? 426 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:45,080 Because Nehemiah said this rebuilding of the wall is a 427 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,640 spiritual activity and it cannot be accomplished with the might. 428 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,800 He said I will not, I will not use the soldiers to rebuild the 429 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,520 walls. What? 430 00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,600 What kind of a stance is that? Spiritual work has to be done in 431 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,840 a spiritual way, not political way. 432 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:11,120 We cannot bring politics into the Church of God because church 433 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:15,240 is a spiritual place and you have to do things spiritually, 434 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:24,320 not politically here. So he refused to use the 435 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,720 soldiers. He refused to use their 436 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,920 presence. So he must have said after a few 437 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:33,400 days, OK, thanks guys, I'm safely arrived into Jerusalem. 438 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,040 Now you can go back to Persia, go back to Susa, the capital. 439 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,320 I will handle this matter myself. 440 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:47,280 How many of us have that kind of a courage, that kind of a 441 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:54,360 commitment, that kind of AI mean a heart like a lion to say, I 442 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:57,160 will take this matter into my hands. 443 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:01,280 I tell you that requires a lot of determination, that requires 444 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,920 a lot of commitment, that requires a lot of guts. 445 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,800 I would say to work for the Kingdom of God is not something 446 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,040 easy is not something easy. We need to have that kind of a 447 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,640 thing. And then he says in verse 11, I 448 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:19,640 went, I went to Jerusalem and after staying there three days, 449 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:24,800 he, this man has travelled for 4-4 months on foot, walking 450 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,640 every day, morning to evening. And now he says comes into the 451 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,920 city and he's taking how many days rest? 452 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,560 Three days. If I were in that place for one 453 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:35,680 month, I would have been sleeping. 454 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:42,520 We just had a tour of America for one month and for one week 455 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,200 we were nearly two weeks it took for us to recover. 456 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:50,360 And I think probably Nehemiah did not have jet lag because he 457 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,880 was transitioning slowly through the timeline. 458 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,320 I mean, that may be one of the reasons. 459 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,480 I was thinking why did he do what he did? 460 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:59,160 I was thinking about it. Probably that could be the 461 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:02,960 reason. But if you are determined to 462 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:06,760 fight, if you are determined to stand, if you are determined to 463 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:11,440 accomplish the vision that we have for our lives, there has to 464 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,560 be a fight and there has to be shedding of the blood. 465 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:19,000 There has to be a struggle and we should be prepared for it. 466 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:25,160 One of the things they will, they are going to ask the 467 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:29,840 question is what is this guy coming from Persia? 468 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,320 What do you know about Jerusalem? 469 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,120 You just came yesterday. But we are living here for so 470 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,000 many decades. You want to rebuild the walls? 471 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:43,200 Forget it, man. It is not easy job. 472 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,040 It is not. People would be discouraged. 473 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:50,080 And I tell you, when we talk about prayer changing things, 474 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:56,280 people will resist the same way. Why things are not changing, the 475 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:59,800 family, finance, health, why they are not changing? 476 00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,600 Because we are not willing to pray. 477 00:30:02,040 --> 00:30:03,600 Oh no, no, we pray. OK. 478 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:08,240 What kind of prayer is it? I'm not trying to disqualify or 479 00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,840 put down anybody's prayer. That's not my point. 480 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:15,040 My point is there is a way of engaging your heart with the 481 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,160 heart of God where you know this man. 482 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,760 He could not, I'm sure when he went around looking for the 483 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,480 thing. One of the things that we says 484 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:29,120 here about Nehemiah is he he was there only for three days. 485 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,200 He took rest and then immediately jumped into action. 486 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:35,600 What did he do? I set out during the night with 487 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:39,000 a few men. After three days he was 488 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:41,280 interacting with the people who were coming and talking to him, 489 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:44,560 and he must have said this guy has a heart Fogger, this guy has 490 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:47,160 a heart Fogger, that guy has a heart Fogger. 491 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:52,000 OK, you see me after three days in the night and they come meet 492 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,920 him in the night and he takes a mule or a donkey and that's the 493 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:00,160 only mount he had with him. And they inspected the walls and 494 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,680 he went around the city and where did he begin? 495 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:10,840 Sorry, Can we have the map please? 496 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,840 Not this one, please. One more. 497 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,200 Ah, yeah, that's the one. Now he begins his thing from 498 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,240 here. The Valley Gate. 499 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,920 That's probably his. He must have found a house to 500 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,920 live somewhere nearby. So he chooses to start from 501 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:35,680 there. He goes down. 502 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:37,920 He goes to Jackal. Jack. 503 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,440 Jackal. Well, it must be about 500 yards 504 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:43,880 from Valley Gate, Jackal. Well, probably inside the wall 505 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,440 probably. And then he goes down to Kings 506 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:49,120 Garden and he comes to Dung Gate here. 507 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,160 And then from the Dung Gate he goes to Fountain Gate and then 508 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,920 he goes to up through, he comes up to Watergate. 509 00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:59,440 But then you see here there is a wall here, this light line here, 510 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,680 that must be the wall that's been broken down. 511 00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,360 And there's so much of rubbish, there's so much of rubble, you 512 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:11,120 cannot walk there. So he says when my mount had we, 513 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,240 we came to place where the mount had no place to go. 514 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,240 So he left the mount there and he went on foot. 515 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:22,000 He walked in the darkness. He walked and what did he do? 516 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:27,880 He took probably this is the wall rebuilt by Nehemiah because 517 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:29,640 it's impossible to rebuild this one. 518 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,840 It's like a valley, it's on the slope and rubble. 519 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,920 It is very hard to rebuild it again. 520 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,720 So what he did was he changed the plan and he said let's 521 00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,080 rebuild inside like this. So one of the things that did is 522 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:45,800 there is a kings house here somewhere and one of the walls 523 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,960 of the king, they use it as a wall for the city wall. 524 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:51,800 You know what certain things are? 525 00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,360 Some information that I learned as I was studying this is what 526 00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,200 would be the perimeter of Jerusalem in Neymar's time. 527 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,640 If you start from here, you go around like this. 528 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,160 It's about 1.5 miles. That is 2.4 kilometers. 529 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,160 Sometimes we think Jerusalem or must be a big city. 530 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:16,040 It was not, at least during the time of Nehemiah, it was very, 531 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:20,640 very small and it was smaller still in the time of Solomon. 532 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,400 Because here you have got about 10 gates. 533 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,760 You start from here, Valley Gate, and then you got this Dung 534 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:32,560 gate and you got a fountain gate, Watergate, Horse gate, 535 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:34,760 Eastgate. Don't think this is crashed 536 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:41,640 gate, Eastgate Ship Gate and the Fish gate and Eshana Gate. 537 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:45,000 All this gets 10 gates are there, but during the time of 538 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:48,680 Solomon there are only 5 or 6. The walls were not completely 539 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:53,200 rebuilt, must be done afterward. But now Nebuchadnezzar comes and 540 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,440 he pulls down everything. So I was thinking what part of 541 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,200 the area he would have come and attacked because it is fortified 542 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:05,000 all around. This side is valley, This side 543 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,080 is valley. So when Nehemiah came up to this 544 00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:12,239 point and this was all rubble, he must have gone away from here 545 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:17,840 and walked down like this and again retreated back and back up 546 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:25,560 to Valley Gate and finished the trip to 2.4km multiplied by two, 547 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:29,800 4.8 kilometers. So we must have taken 3, two 548 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,920 hours leisure walking, two hours or three hours to go around and 549 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:35,800 come back. But what did he do? 550 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,280 He did not let anybody know about it. 551 00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:42,800 He did secretly sometimes is a quality of leadership is they 552 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,480 should not speak their mind until it's the right time to 553 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,360 speak. And Nehemiah was a great leader. 554 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,480 He knew how to communicate and when to communicate. 555 00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,159 So he said, no, no, I'm not going to tell anybody about it. 556 00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,080 By night I went out through the valley gate toward the Jackal 557 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,000 well and during Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem 558 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,920 to understand the structure of Jerusalem and the work that is 559 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,200 done. You need to study Chapter 3 to 560 00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:15,080 understand Chapter 2. Because here you see, he started 561 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,720 visiting or checking out from the valley gate. 562 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,280 But when they begin the work, they start from the ship gate 563 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:26,280 and like this. And he divided the whole wall 564 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,200 into 41 or 42 sections and alerting them to different 565 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:33,120 leaders to rebuild near their own home. 566 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:36,640 I don't want to hurry up, but we'll study that in chapter 3. 567 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,400 But the point here is he had to move away from the rubbish 568 00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,800 rubble and then he had to walk and then he examined. 569 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,120 Now one of the things that I want you to understand here is 570 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:53,480 the word used there in verse 13. By night I went out through the 571 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,760 valley gate toward the Jackal well and the Dung Gate, 572 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:59,280 examining the walls of Jerusalem. 573 00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:04,200 Everybody say examining. What is this word examining? 574 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:10,080 Examining is a medical word. When you have a wound, sometimes 575 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,480 it is covered with dry, you know all kinds of material there and 576 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,480 then you want to know how deep is the wound. 577 00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:22,000 You lift it up and probe. That is what he did. 578 00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:29,240 He probed the damage to the walls in the night, going on the 579 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:33,000 foot, going on the mule. And I tell you, we need to take 580 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,440 stock of our own families, our own, our own business, our own 581 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,920 relationships and look at it where it is hurting. 582 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:47,840 Lift the lid, lift that debris, lift that pus and see how deep 583 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,320 is it that is hurting. And that requires a lot of 584 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,320 courage to look at your own problem that way. 585 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,160 And he did it. He did it for the city. 586 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,240 He did it for the people. And examine the walls of 587 00:37:03,240 --> 00:37:05,880 Jerusalem which have been broken down, at gates which have been 588 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:12,680 burned down. He was probing to find out how 589 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:16,920 deep is the problem. Then he moved on to Fountain 590 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,360 Gate and the King's Pool. Of course, I just showed all 591 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:25,080 those things here. Fountain Gate is here. 592 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,280 King's Pool is here. This is a little bit puzzling to 593 00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:32,400 me why he mentioned Fountain Gate and then mentions the 594 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,560 King's Pool here. This is also called Pool of 595 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,000 Siloam. You know what is the Pool of 596 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,960 Siloam is all standing for? It stands for Revelation. 597 00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,760 It is Jesus said to one of the blind men, What did he say? 598 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:47,480 He put some mud on his eyes and say go and wash in the pool of 599 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:51,160 Siloam. And he went there and washed his 600 00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,320 eyes in this place and he came back seeing. 601 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,080 We need that. We need ice to be washed. 602 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:02,880 We need to regain our sight and only then we will be able to see 603 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:05,760 properly what is the condition we are living in. 604 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,320 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, 605 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:20,760 because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the 606 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,240 priests or the nobles or the officials or any others who 607 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:28,720 would be doing the work. He kept some things secret, and 608 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:31,800 some things have to be told publicly, But there's a time, 609 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:32,720 right? Time for it. 610 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,040 Then he said to them, You see the trouble we are in, You see 611 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,880 the trouble we are in, the gates have been burned with fire. 612 00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,320 Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and we will no longer 613 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,240 be in disgrace. You know the word disgrace. 614 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,280 It's just not a good word at all. 615 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,120 When a woman in Israel did not have children, it was a 616 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,440 disgrace. And when the walls are broken 617 00:38:56,440 --> 00:39:00,600 down, gates are burned down, it's a disgrace because anybody 618 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:03,600 can come in and walk into the city and attack the people and 619 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,520 loot the people. So we need to know what are the 620 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:13,840 areas of our life, family, children that are born down 621 00:39:14,240 --> 00:39:17,160 where, where the walls are broken down, where the gates are 622 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:20,200 bound on. And I tell you, I had, I will be 623 00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:23,360 praying for my children. I will be praying for future. 624 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:26,680 Sometimes I'll have to say, God, you need to do this for the 625 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,080 future. I am praying now whether I am 626 00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,760 there or not. Remember that I have prayed this 627 00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:33,440 good thing should come to my children. 628 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:41,160 You need to have foresight in prayer and you need to do it and 629 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,800 God will answer his prayer and he says let us rebuild the wall 630 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:47,720 of Jerusalem and we will no longer be in disgrace. 631 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:52,280 I also told him about the gracious hand of my God up God 632 00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:56,840 upon me. Now this is a testimony time he 633 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,440 was, he heard the news broken down by the news. 634 00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:04,840 Weeping, crying, praying in public place until people 635 00:40:04,840 --> 00:40:07,760 walking by passing by say, oh, why is this man crying? 636 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:11,600 Why are you crying Nehemiah? Because the walls are broken 637 00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:13,640 down and the gates are burned down. 638 00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,520 Oh, I'm crying for the things to be revealed. 639 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,120 I'm crying for Gods mercy. Oh is it so? 640 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,720 I will join you in prayer. I will join you in prayer. 641 00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:24,560 I will join you in prayer. After a month or two, there's a 642 00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:26,680 big gang of people who are praying there. 643 00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:35,520 A moment of prayer came. But then here he says after the 644 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:38,160 three months or four months of prayer, he goes to the king and 645 00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,520 he looks sad and he says why? And you know all that we have 646 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,040 talked about in the previous message, he's telling how the 647 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:49,040 king had granted him the permission to go back and the 648 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,640 letters to governors of transiferates and letters to 649 00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:56,000 Asaph and the cavalry and the army officers. 650 00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:01,200 This is a testimony time when he shared the testimony how God's 651 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,280 hand was upon him. This is a phrase you will see in 652 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,960 the book of name again and again how God's hand has been upon 653 00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,400 him. That is the testimony that will 654 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,920 stir up the people to say, I believe what you are saying. 655 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,040 I believe God is going to help us. 656 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:20,440 Let us rebuild. Is anybody with me? 657 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:26,040 And then you see, they replied, let us start. 658 00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,120 Let us start rebuilding. He says, let us rebuild. 659 00:41:29,240 --> 00:41:31,960 And now they are responding, let us start rebuilding. 660 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,520 In between the time of the time is the time of testimony. 661 00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:39,360 Testimony has a power to stir. Testimony has a power to boost 662 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,800 the faith of the people. Testimony has a power that will 663 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,480 help you to achieve what is beyond achievement, normal 664 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:51,320 achievement power. That faith comes with testimony, 665 00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,240 and I tell you, I have seen again and again the power of 666 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,120 prayer. I cannot Live Today on the 667 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,560 prayers I have prayed last week. I cannot Live Today on the 668 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:04,000 prayers I have prayed last month. 669 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:06,800 I cannot Live Today on the prayers I have prayed last year. 670 00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,560 No, you need to be praying today for answers for today. 671 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:20,880 So verse 19. But when Sun ballot the horror 672 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,000 night, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem the Arab 673 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,320 heard about it. They mocked and ridiculed us. 674 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,600 They mocked and ridiculed us. What is this you're doing? 675 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:33,320 They asked. Are you rebelling against the 676 00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,800 king? You see what? 677 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,960 When you want to walk in faith, when you want to pray, people 678 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:43,480 are going to mock you. Hey, you've been praying the 679 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,960 same prayer for 10 years. Why are you praying again? 680 00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:50,000 You're wasting your time. They're going to mock the devil 681 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:53,880 will use people among your friends, among your relatives, 682 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:56,640 in your family. They will put you down because 683 00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,800 you pray. Sometimes you are you are 684 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,840 praying, you're trying to walk with God and you lose your 685 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,240 temper and you're angry with somebody in the family. 686 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,320 Somebody will say, ha, I saw you praying all week and what is 687 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:10,880 this? You're losing your temper right 688 00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:12,600 now. They'll mock you. 689 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,960 It doesn't cancel the prayer that you have prayed. 690 00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,200 But what I'm trying to say here is don't worry about this. 691 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:22,080 Praying is a business between you and God. 692 00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:27,040 No one can, no one should influence what you say, how you 693 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,800 pray. It is between you and God, a 694 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,360 business one-on-one you look into the face of God, stand in 695 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,240 His glory, stand in His presence and hear His voice and do His 696 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:39,280 will. That is the model. 697 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,240 And people who mock will be silenced automatically. 698 00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:48,160 And second thing they did was after mocking, ridiculing, they 699 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,200 said, are you rebeling against the king? 700 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,000 This worked few decades ago when Ezra was trying to rebuild a 701 00:43:54,000 --> 00:43:55,960 temple. They said they sent a letter, 702 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:57,560 these people are rebelling against you. 703 00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,600 And now they are saying the same, same words. 704 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:02,440 Are you trying to rebel against the king? 705 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,160 It worked then. But Neymar said, no, I'm not 706 00:44:08,160 --> 00:44:10,520 listening to you guys. I have the letter from the king. 707 00:44:10,720 --> 00:44:14,280 I am going to build, but you will not have a share in it. 708 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:20,840 You know when you are convinced about your vision, when you are 709 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,520 convinced about your purpose, when you are convinced about 710 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:28,000 what God wants to do, then you are not going to be moved away 711 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:29,920 by other people coming and doing anything. 712 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,440 Whatever they say, whatever they do, you are not going to be 713 00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:39,840 moved by it because you know that you have heard from God and 714 00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:43,400 you know that you have received a vision from God and you wanted 715 00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:47,200 to come to pass in your life during your lifetime, in your 716 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:49,680 city, in your church. You are going to be committed to 717 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,200 the vision. Nobody can put you away from it. 718 00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:57,000 Nobody can discourage you. The question is, do you have a 719 00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,320 vision for yourself? Do you have vision for the 720 00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,840 family? Do you have vision for the 721 00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:02,600 church? Do you have vision for the city? 722 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:09,160 I think I should finish it there. 723 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,240 So verse 20, he says I answered them saying the God of heaven 724 00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:17,440 will give us success. We his servants will start 725 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:20,360 rebuilding. But As for you, you have no 726 00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:24,440 share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it. 727 00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:28,200 You know, this is this is what is happening even today in 728 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:33,760 Israel, isn't it everybody trying to do the same thing. 729 00:45:34,240 --> 00:45:35,960 Syria is trying to attack from the north. 730 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:40,000 Iran is trying to attack from the east and all things are 731 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,120 happening there and trying. Russia is trying to support the 732 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,280 Iranians. All these things are happening. 733 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:54,240 But you know what, that country stands as a sign in the End 734 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,320 Times. Whether you agree or disagree 735 00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:02,000 about the place of Israel, some people, you know, say, oh, they 736 00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,640 are killing so many people in Gaza. 737 00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:06,960 True. I am not saying they are doing 738 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:11,480 the right thing. Does not cancel that Israel is a 739 00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:15,600 sign in the end times. They are not a godly people, I 740 00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:19,600 agree, but doesn't cancel that they are a people God has 741 00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,680 chosen. Put a stamp upon it and you need 742 00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:26,920 to be looking at that nation to know when crash is coming back. 743 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:37,440 And moreover, we should know who is the Ammonite, who is the 744 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,920 Tobiah, who is this sun ballad, who is the geisha and the Arab 745 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:45,000 who is trying to enter in your life to disturb you. 746 00:46:45,720 --> 00:46:51,920 You should know how to identify your enemy and shut them up so 747 00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,680 that you will keep doing what God wants you to do. 748 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:10,000 Shall we pray? Commit yourself to pray from 749 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:18,120 Monday, from tomorrow, 21 days and see what God is going to do 750 00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:25,280 to change personal life, family, finance, church, City. 751 00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:32,480 We need change, we need revival, we need the hand I've got upon 752 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,760 Nehemiah to come upon this church, upon our lives, upon our 753 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:40,240 individual lives. Sari sakthare barano bohroni 754 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:45,000 mane sahandarano history kasha sastre bandarano Rosa SE Banda 755 00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,800 baroni ma samara Sheikh sastakuroni. 756 00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:54,880 Many people have set out on this journey and they face trials and 757 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,800 opposition and have fallen down victims. 758 00:47:58,120 --> 00:48:02,680 The Lord says, my son, my daughter, I want you to change 759 00:48:02,680 --> 00:48:05,960 your story. I want to change your story. 760 00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:07,880 Do you want to change your story? 761 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:12,680 If you cry out to me, I will definitely answer, says the Lord 762 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:17,040 Samarehandabarano Sambhastarehandarano Risharaste 763 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:26,280 Sandraano Robos. In the name of authority of 764 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:30,840 Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the purpose of God shall be 765 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,000 fulfilled. In Omega, it shall be fulfilled. 766 00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,800 Each one of our individual lives and our families, it shall be 767 00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:40,440 revived. I decree, in the name of Jesus. 768 00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:44,280 If we cry out these next 21 days, it shall be revived. 769 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,560 It shall be revived. New life will flow into each of 770 00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,560 our families, into our lives, to the glory of His name. 771 00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,160 He is committed to it. If we are committed, He is 772 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,840 committed to it. We praise you Jesus, We give you 773 00:48:56,840 --> 00:49:00,920 glory, honor and praise. Oh Father, I pray bless each one 774 00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:02,560 of us. We have heard the word. 775 00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:08,720 Help us to walk into the actual part, not just positional 776 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:12,960 victory, but actual victory. Not just position in Christ, but 777 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,840 actually reign with Christ. Walk in authority and power and 778 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:21,880 let our lives be changed until we see blindness open, deaf ears 779 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:25,680 open lame Walking Dead, raised to the glory of Your name, we 780 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:28,320 have not received anything. Even if you raise the dead, it 781 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:30,960 is not the ultimate thing. We haven't even reached the 782 00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,200 minimum. So I pray, Father, for your 783 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:35,840 mercy and grace. Pour it out, pour it out, pour 784 00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:38,880 it out right now. Touch the hearts of a children 785 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,920 who are under the influence of my voice. 786 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,880 Touch their heart, touch their heart, touch their heart. 787 00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:48,640 To the glory of Your name we worship you, we honor you, let 788 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,360 your Kingdom come later will be done to the glory of your name, 789 00:49:52,080 --> 00:49:56,280 Jesus name we have asked and everybody says Amen. 790 00:49:59,040 --> 00:50:02,280 Thanks for joining us at Omega. 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