1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,500 Hi. This is Dave Olson. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,700 I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa. 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:15,200 ultimately changes you. Thanks for joining us when the 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,400 spirit of God Falls. There are suddenly no experts in 6 00:00:19,407 --> 00:00:23,600 the room. We all become little children 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:29,000 novices and if you can sit in an environment where God is pouring 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:33,800 out and you still hold to your status as an expert, then you're 9 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:38,600 like Jacob who awoke at Bethel and said God was here and I knew 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,700 it not. You were immune to what was 11 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:45,400 going on in the room. I don't care how much you have 12 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,900 in God, how much history? I've had the great privilege, 13 00:00:48,900 --> 00:00:55,800 the honor of being in revivals, for a number of revivals over 14 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:59,900 the years and have even had the privilege of leading a few Mama. 15 00:00:59,900 --> 00:01:02,400 Tell you, when God shows up all of a sudden all that goes out 16 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,900 the window and it's just like Lord, Let's Get Low and Lord, we 17 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:09,600 just want to go with you and so here's been my concern. 18 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:13,400 I was talking to my 17 year old. We were driving after Wednesday. 19 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,700 Going home and we're talking about this and and I said, you 20 00:01:17,708 --> 00:01:21,400 know, I said Nathaniel we this church has had a reputation of 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,300 being in some people's mind, the Revival Church, some people's 22 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:28,500 mind, a Revival Church in the region, and I know there's 23 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:30,500 others, there's others that are contending, don't don't 24 00:01:30,500 --> 00:01:34,200 misunderstand me. There are different, callings on 25 00:01:34,200 --> 00:01:37,500 different churches, but the calling of this house is we are 26 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:41,200 crying out for a break through the spirit of God, to fall on 27 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,200 this nation. I'm not Not saying that every 28 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,300 church should do that they're responsible for their calling 29 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:49,900 and I bless them to do it. But that's our calling. 30 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:53,500 The danger of having that reputation in the danger of 31 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:56,500 having tasted. Some things in the past is that 32 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:59,900 we can arrogantly assume that when God moves of horses going 33 00:01:59,900 --> 00:02:04,900 to move here, And our history can actually produce in us and 34 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:09,699 apathy born of this assumption that. 35 00:02:09,699 --> 00:02:11,800 Well God, surely God's going to do it here. 36 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:14,700 And that posture is the wrong posture. 37 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:18,800 We need to go low and say God I've just had this thing going 38 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,100 through my heart of blind Bartimaeus where he stood on the 39 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:24,200 sidelines. He said, Son of David do not 40 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:30,100 pass me by the Lord walked right by blind Bartimaeus and others 41 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:34,600 wanted a touch They were not willing to violate. 42 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:37,300 Decorum. They wanted to look proper. 43 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:40,200 But blind Bartimaeus. He was a desperate man. 44 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:43,700 And he screamed out, son of David do not pass me by and 45 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:45,500 people rebuked him said, calm down. 46 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,900 You're embarrassing yourself just calm down. 47 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:50,700 What did he do? He yelled all the louder and 48 00:02:50,700 --> 00:02:53,700 Jesus turned back around and said what do you want from me? 49 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:57,900 He said, I want to see And we need to have this Harker 50 00:02:57,900 --> 00:03:00,900 whenever we're here of God moving we need to do two things. 51 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:04,600 Rejoice and bless what God is doing, but then cry out. 52 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,700 God, if you're going to move, don't pass this by Lord. 53 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:10,000 Don't forget us. I don't want to have the 54 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,900 arrogance that just because we talked about Revival, we've had 55 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:16,400 Revival. We've prayed for Revival that we 56 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,200 assume, that will be the next place that God's going to break 57 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:21,000 up. I want to see God break out 58 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,500 everywhere. I'm not praying for church 59 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:26,300 Revival. I'm praying for National and Or 60 00:03:26,308 --> 00:03:30,100 national Revival. And I was telling someone the 61 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:32,600 other day. I said men, the Lord challenge 62 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:35,800 me a number of years ago when I first became the pastor of this 63 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:37,500 church. We were fasting and praying and 64 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,100 contending for a move of God and the Lord asked me. 65 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:43,400 He said, what if I answer your prayer by visiting the church 66 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:46,200 across the street? What if I answer your prayer 67 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,800 about visiting a church that's criticized you in Des Moines? 68 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:57,000 Are we willing to Humble ourselves and go and drink from 69 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,600 a stream that we don't necessarily agree with and that 70 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:05,600 doesn't agree with us? There was named. 71 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:11,400 Am that that he Heard there was a prophet in Israel and he 72 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,100 needed a healing, and he went to the prophet and he said, you 73 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:16,399 know, would you pray for me said, go dip in the River. 74 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,399 Jordan and he felt there was this arrogance with and we said 75 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:24,500 we have cleaner streams and our own Nation, we have cleaner 76 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:27,900 Rivers. Sometimes God will take you to a 77 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:30,600 stream of Christianity. You don't fully Embrace 78 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,900 sometimes she'll take you to a river that you don't fully agree 79 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:39,200 with just to test your humility, many of you know who Randy Clark 80 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:42,500 Is by the way, we're going to be hosting Randy again next year 81 00:04:42,500 --> 00:04:47,300 for a healing school and Randy is one of the heroes of the 82 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:50,300 faith and this this hour of human history really is he's 83 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:55,000 been tremendously used by the Lord but Randy used to have a 84 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,400 real prejudice against the word of faith movement. 85 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:02,000 But tell you there's a lot of prejudice against the word of 86 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,800 faith movement whenever you hear someone talking and they spit it 87 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:09,000 out, the Prosperity Gospel. They're usually talking about 88 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:13,900 those who believe that the kingdom of God also affects your 89 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:21,300 livelihood. There is an effect on wisdom, 90 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:24,600 it's not just we're going to get into a whole different thing. 91 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:29,000 Three manifestations of the spirit of God in your life are 92 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,700 wisdom, power, and love, most of us has Pentecostals. 93 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,500 We always want to talk about the power element and that's real. 94 00:05:36,500 --> 00:05:39,500 And that's that's important. It's Acts chapter 2. 95 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:42,800 You shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, 96 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:46,400 that's a real deal thing. Now that power is both internal 97 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,400 and external internally. It's the ability to live a holy 98 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,100 life, that's the Holiness stream. 99 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,000 That's the way they preach and it's right, and then there's the 100 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,100 Pentecostal stream external. Holiness for Ministry to give it 101 00:05:57,100 --> 00:05:58,000 away. And you know what? 102 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:00,100 That's right, and it's scriptural. 103 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:03,400 They're just neither one of them are the whole picture and even 104 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:05,900 if you merge both streams together, it's not the whole 105 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:10,800 picture because there's also this love stream Romans chapter 106 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:13,500 5. The the love of God, is she'd 107 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:17,400 abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit, much of the 108 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,100 missions movement has been impacted by the love of God, the 109 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:25,000 last move of God some 25 years ago whether it was out of 110 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,600 Brownsville. Or out of Toronto was an 111 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:32,500 outpouring of the Father's Love. And we need that we need the 112 00:06:32,500 --> 00:06:36,500 supernatural ability to love beyond our means. 113 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,300 I don't need that if I'm trying to live within my capacity to 114 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:45,800 love you, we're all in trouble. Anybody that's in the wake of my 115 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:49,200 relationships is in trouble. I need the Lord to make up the 116 00:06:49,207 --> 00:06:51,700 difference. I need to walk in his love and 117 00:06:51,700 --> 00:06:54,700 there is a supernatural impartation of love that's 118 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:59,800 available to us. But there's also a supernatural 119 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:06,000 accessing of the wisdom of God, a spirit of wisdom and 120 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,800 Revelation and make no mistake about it. 121 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:10,800 That wisdom helps you to be a better. 122 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,400 Dad, a better mom, a better employee and in better employer 123 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:18,800 and more financially, a depth because the wisdom of God can 124 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:22,300 fall upon you so that you can become a source of supply for 125 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:26,200 others. And when people begin to talk 126 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:30,300 about when they when they degrade someone because they 127 00:07:30,700 --> 00:07:35,400 believe that God also operates supernaturally through Finance, 128 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:37,600 some of the people that have been criticized. 129 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:41,800 The most for their messages on Supernatural, Finance are some 130 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,800 of the most generous people in the Kingdom. 131 00:07:45,500 --> 00:07:48,300 Let me step out on some thin ice for some of you this morning. 132 00:07:48,700 --> 00:07:54,400 You know, Kenneth Copeland gave literally tens of millions of 133 00:07:54,400 --> 00:07:56,500 dollars to Reinhard bonnke alone. 134 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:00,000 Reinhard bonnke would do Crusades in Africa. 135 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,500 They would have over a million people show up at one service, 136 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:06,600 they would literally have flatbed trucks for the altar 137 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,100 call. They would load people up on 138 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:12,700 trucks as far as the eye could see and drive them to the front. 139 00:08:12,700 --> 00:08:15,700 Waves of healing would go out over the crowds. 140 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:20,500 You can't gather a million people with the sound systems in 141 00:08:20,500 --> 00:08:24,400 the trucks and all the logistics without a lot of money. 142 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,600 And a lot of that money came through a man named Kenneth 143 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:29,900 Copeland. Now do I agree with everything 144 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:31,400 that Kenneth Copeland is Todd over. 145 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:32,700 There's no. But you know what? 146 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,000 I don't agree with everything. Dave Olson is taught over the 147 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:41,200 years. And so, we've got to be really 148 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,200 careful because that man operates in a wisdom from Heaven 149 00:08:47,100 --> 00:08:52,100 people, people Point, let me just as long as I'm on this ice, 150 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:55,400 let me just say, people criticize, Joel Osteen. 151 00:08:56,300 --> 00:08:58,700 Do you know that? He does not take a salary from 152 00:08:58,700 --> 00:09:00,500 his church? Do you know that? 153 00:09:00,500 --> 00:09:04,900 Furthermore, he is the largest Giver in his church and that 154 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:07,600 church gives millions and millions of dollars. 155 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:12,900 Way. Now, do I agree with everything. 156 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,000 Joel Osteen is taught. No, but again, there's a pastor 157 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,300 here, the lead Pastor, I don't agree with everything. 158 00:09:20,300 --> 00:09:21,800 He's taught over the years either. 159 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,200 I've had to talk to him and have some. 160 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,200 Do I have to sit him down and correct them over the word at 161 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:31,100 times? And so we just, we just need to 162 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:32,400 be careful. I don't know how I got into 163 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:36,100 that, but the what was that? Randy, Clark. 164 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:39,300 Thank you, John reel it in. Okay, Randy. 165 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:42,800 Clark Randy had a real beef. Beef with the word of faith, 166 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,700 movement. And Randy was he was, he was a 167 00:09:45,700 --> 00:09:49,100 southern baptist that became a Vineyard Pastor, he was 168 00:09:49,100 --> 00:09:52,400 pastoring and st. Louis and he would get up in 169 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,100 front of his church, Sunday after Sunday, and he would 170 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:56,800 greet. The visitors will welcome to 171 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:58,800 church this morning. And by the way, if you're one of 172 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:00,600 those name, it claim it, blab, it grab it. 173 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:02,200 People were not the church for you. 174 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,900 There's the door. It's up the street and his wife 175 00:10:04,900 --> 00:10:09,200 with you, Randy. You can't say that but Randy had 176 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,200 an issue in his heart. With those people, Randy has 177 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:16,400 become very dear friends with some of the leaders within the 178 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,200 word of faith movement. In recent years. 179 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:20,200 You know what, the Lord told him. 180 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:23,000 He heard about a move of God, through a man named rat. 181 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:24,300 Rodney. Howard Brown. 182 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:30,600 And the Lord said, if you want a fresh touch, you go to Rhema The 183 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:33,700 Citadel of the word of faith movement. 184 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,500 Amen. He said, you go and dip in that 185 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:40,200 stream and in Randy's mind that was a river. 186 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:44,000 Jordan, it was a muddy stream, but the Lord said you go there, 187 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,100 if you want a fresh touch. And so he went to Rhema and sat 188 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:48,600 on the service and every chance he got. 189 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,300 He would have ran Rodney. Howard-browne pray from Rodney. 190 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:53,400 I think prayed for him, three or maybe four times. 191 00:10:53,700 --> 00:10:55,200 The last time he prayed, Paid for him. 192 00:10:55,500 --> 00:11:00,000 Randy said his hands just like came like ice and Rodney said, 193 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,900 pray over everything that moves It broke out in his church. 194 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:09,600 Then regionally went to Toronto for a weekend meeting that lat, 195 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:15,200 that turned into, like, 10 years of Revival out of which came, 196 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:19,200 Heidi Baker, and life Headland and a bunch of lesser known 197 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,700 names. He received a fresh impartation 198 00:11:22,900 --> 00:11:24,300 in a stream. He disagreed. 199 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:27,600 With I tell you what. We've got a, we've got to go 200 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:32,800 low, and if God is going to move in a church that I don't fully 201 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,800 agree with theologically, You know what? 202 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:37,500 That's God's business. He knows more than I do. 203 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:39,800 And we need to Humble ourselves and go low. 204 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,500 And just say, Lord we bless what you're doing. 205 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:45,800 God, wherever you want to move, but Lord and the process don't 206 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:51,100 pass Us by, let's not assume. But let's go low and let's stay 207 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:53,900 hungry and let's bless what God is doing. 208 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,600 Now I had planned on teaching on something else and what we've 209 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,300 been talking about we're going to jump back in this God willing 210 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:08,000 in a couple Couple more weeks. But this morning I woke up. 211 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,800 I always get up early on why don't get up, I wake up early, 212 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,700 pull the blanket over my mouth and start to pray. 213 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:17,800 Pull the blanket over my head and I woke up and the Lord began 214 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:21,300 to minister to me out of a passage that I'm very familiar 215 00:12:21,300 --> 00:12:24,900 with but I haven't talked on and some time. 216 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,000 And so I was shocked when they when the words went up on this 217 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,300 last song, talking about sing O barren, woman Singh oberoi, 218 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:39,200 Broken Man. Man, I love that sing O, barren 219 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,200 woman, single Broken Man and the Lord began to talk to me about 220 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:46,000 barrenness. So I want you to turn with me to 221 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,800 First, Samuel chapter 1. First Samuel chapter 1, I 222 00:12:50,808 --> 00:12:54,000 believe the Lord has something he wants to speak to us about. 223 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:01,100 We are living in a very, very unique time in human history. 224 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,800 Decades from now, we'll look back at this as one of the most 225 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:12,500 tumultuous transformative seasons in human history. 226 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:17,600 We are in an epic shift and on the other side of this thing, 227 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:22,600 the boundary lines in so many areas of life will have fallen 228 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:28,000 in new places, spiritually nationally internationally. 229 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,700 There's there's just a lot of things that the Lord is doing 230 00:13:30,900 --> 00:13:34,600 and in those seasons of Epic shift, God. 231 00:13:34,700 --> 00:13:36,900 God needs to position his people. 232 00:13:37,400 --> 00:13:41,100 There are there's a need for people who hear real clearly. 233 00:13:42,300 --> 00:13:47,500 In an hour of transition, God needs transition men and women 234 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,900 people who will Usher in what God is doing in those Seasons. 235 00:13:52,900 --> 00:14:00,100 The prophetic gift becomes, especially important, The 236 00:14:00,100 --> 00:14:02,300 famous, verse many of us are familiar with. 237 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:10,000 It says, The sons of Isaac are who understood the times and 238 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:11,800 therefore knew what they should do. 239 00:14:11,900 --> 00:14:15,000 How many are familiar with that? Verse talk about the sons of ice 240 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 go. There was a tribe that the Isaac 241 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:21,400 are the sons of that tribe. They it says that they had a 242 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:25,600 unique sense of what God was doing and therefore knew what 243 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,300 they should do. So there's this prophetic 244 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,900 element to their their sensibilities and they knew 245 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:34,500 where their to throw their strength. 246 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,800 The context of that was that there was a shift from The Saul 247 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:44,700 regime, to the davidic regime. That it was a leadership change 248 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:52,400 and conventional wisdom National protocol would have dictated 249 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:56,300 that they get behind the son of Saul because he was the 250 00:14:56,300 --> 00:15:01,000 inheritor of the throne, but they sensed what God was doing 251 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:05,700 and they threw themselves behind the house of David and they lent 252 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:09,200 their strength because why they had a sense of what God was 253 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,000 doing. And so there was an epic A chef, 254 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,600 there was something going on and we see this again, and again, to 255 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:19,500 the prophetic rising. In these times. 256 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:24,300 These these chapter turns these hinge moments of human history, 257 00:15:26,200 --> 00:15:32,100 And Samuel was one such man. Samuel was a hinge, man. 258 00:15:33,100 --> 00:15:36,700 He was a transition man in human history. 259 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:42,300 He was the man who oversaw the Epic shift from profits to 260 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:44,000 Kings. That was a big deal. 261 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:49,100 But not only from profits to King, he was the last of the 262 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:54,900 ruling judge prophets and he initiated the Royal lineage in 263 00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:59,600 Israel, crowned Saul. And then also oversaw the even 264 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:04,100 bigger shift from the saw regime to the davidic regime and 265 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:07,500 literally ushered in the Royal lineage that you. 266 00:16:07,500 --> 00:16:11,300 And I said, under that of King Jesus, the son of David. 267 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,800 And it was because saw was a man who heard the word of the Lord. 268 00:16:17,700 --> 00:16:21,000 And when there are shifts in what God is doing, it's 269 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,700 essential that there are people that can hear clearly so that we 270 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:27,700 can throw our strength behind what God is doing. 271 00:16:28,900 --> 00:16:33,100 One of the great fears of my life is that I get stuck backing 272 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:36,300 what God used to be doing. It's not a bad thing, it's just 273 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:40,200 not the now thing. I want to be in what God's doing 274 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:42,300 right now. I want to make sure that I'm 275 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:47,400 about my father's business that I am doing what I see the father 276 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:51,900 doing and I'm saying what I hear the father saying we don't want 277 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:56,500 to be yesterday's man. There's a great book called The 278 00:16:56,500 --> 00:17:00,800 anointing written by RT Kendall he and Papa Jack were dear 279 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:02,700 friends. We need to have Artie come in 280 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:07,200 sometime but he was taught, he wrote this book on the anointing 281 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,800 and it was based on one verse he was reading one day and it was 282 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,800 something the Lord spoke to Samuel. 283 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:19,400 He said he said how long will You Weep For Saul because Saul 284 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:23,900 had been deposed he still occupied the throne on Earth but 285 00:17:23,900 --> 00:17:27,900 he'd been Acted by heaven. So now he had the responsibility 286 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:30,800 of the king but the anointing of the king had left him. 287 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:38,100 That's a horrible place to be. He said fill your horn with oil 288 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,500 for. I have found a man after my own 289 00:17:41,500 --> 00:17:47,300 heart, that man was a young teenage boy by the name of David 290 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:50,100 but God already saw something in him. 291 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:53,500 He could use. And so Artie, got a flash of 292 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:55,900 insight. And this is the way he framed 293 00:17:55,900 --> 00:17:59,100 her, the Lord framed it to him, and he wrote a book on it that 294 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,000 yesterday's man. Today's man and tomorrow's man. 295 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:08,600 Yesterday's man was Saul the man who once was what God was doing, 296 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,400 but had forfeited and disqualified himself. 297 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,200 Then there's today's man the man who stands between and has to 298 00:18:15,208 --> 00:18:18,100 hear the voice of the Lord and say, we're going to get behind 299 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:22,800 the next thing. This thing, this this space 300 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:26,200 between waves between the purposes of God. 301 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:31,300 God God does things in history and as one waived is cresting 302 00:18:31,300 --> 00:18:35,000 and hitting the, shoreline God is mounting another wave at Sea 303 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:38,000 and we want to be those who understand what he's doing and 304 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:42,000 throw our strength behind it. And then you have the davidic 305 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:47,400 regime, tomorrow's, man. Saul had a throne, but no one 306 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,800 knowing David had anointing, but no Throne, that's very 307 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:54,000 frustrating as well. Not quite as frustrating as Saul 308 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 situation. And then there was Samuel who 309 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:04,900 had to go against protocol and even endanger his own life by 310 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:08,400 siding against a man, that what he considered a son in the 311 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:13,600 faith, Saul, who he had anointed as king but had drifted from the 312 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,400 Lord and turned his back on the things of God and he had to he 313 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,600 grieved it, but the Lord said your grieving is done. 314 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:21,600 It's time to get on into the future. 315 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:26,600 And he had to go find David and he anointed David. 316 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:32,400 Saw was a very key character and I believe this story is relevant 317 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:36,000 to this hour in human history because I really do believe, 318 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:39,800 we're in between seasons in the Lord, that there are things the 319 00:19:39,800 --> 00:19:43,500 Lord did in the past. And now there's there's fresh 320 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:48,700 things emerging and I'm not even talking about just Revival and 321 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:50,800 on it. That's more of a microscale. 322 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,600 I'm talking on a macro scale in human history. 323 00:19:53,900 --> 00:19:59,500 We are entering a new era Not the last time, but the time 324 00:19:59,500 --> 00:20:02,800 before that life was with us, he brought a message that I 325 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,500 believe, was more prophetic than many of us realized it was a 326 00:20:06,508 --> 00:20:09,600 teaching, and he talked about the difference between a 327 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:14,600 multipolar and a unipolar world. And he talked about the unipolar 328 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:20,200 world of pax, Americana, American peace. 329 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:26,700 And how we've enjoyed this season of Peace as a nation. 330 00:20:27,300 --> 00:20:30,900 But now there's there is a battle for the Thrones of the 331 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:34,500 Earth right now. And we're entering into a 332 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:38,200 unibrow multipolar world, where there's there. 333 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:43,700 Several different nations that are vying for ascendancy and I 334 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:47,600 believe the intercessors will determine who ends up in that 335 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:51,900 place. These are very key times and the 336 00:20:51,900 --> 00:20:54,800 prophetic is essential in those in those seasons. 337 00:20:56,900 --> 00:21:00,500 I was how many of you did anybody catch Dean Briggs and 338 00:21:00,500 --> 00:21:04,400 Lou Engel yesterday on there. I tell you what we're I'm going 339 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,800 to I'm going to reach out to Dean and I'm going to ask him to 340 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,900 when he comes here in a few weeks to bring that message on 341 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:15,100 communion it. Rocked my world it was so bad 342 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,700 that I was struggling keeping on track with what the Lord had 343 00:21:17,700 --> 00:21:20,000 spoken because I started listening to it this morning and 344 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:24,300 I got pulled into it, it, but it was a powerful word. 345 00:21:24,600 --> 00:21:26,600 One of the things they brought out in this conference. 346 00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:31,400 It's was this that America that the church in America has had 347 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,600 the privilege, the, the luxury of living from a piece 348 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,800 perspective. Both missions and the 349 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,100 intercession movement, the prayer movement, the missions 350 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:44,900 movement, we've pretty much been able to go wherever we want it 351 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:49,000 as Americans, the door, swung wide and there's something 352 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:53,800 shifting in the Earth right now, and we're entering a wartime 353 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,700 mentality. Whether you realize it or not, 354 00:21:56,700 --> 00:21:59,300 one of them said this. They said many thought that 355 00:21:59,300 --> 00:22:04,300 abortion was the giant that David had to fight and that we 356 00:22:04,300 --> 00:22:08,200 brought the giant down. I think was Matt Lily. 357 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,100 He said I truly believe that abortion was married merely the 358 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:17,300 lion or the bear and the real giant is China. 359 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,400 I believe he very well may be, right? 360 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:31,400 And we need to be like the sons of Isaac, are who understand the 361 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,500 signs of the times. And therefore, know what we 362 00:22:33,500 --> 00:22:36,900 should do. The thing about the, the the 363 00:22:36,900 --> 00:22:41,400 privilege of being a prophetic people is we begin to pray into 364 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:46,000 the crisis before it rises we begin to pray into the problems 365 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,700 before they emerge. It's like the New Testament 366 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:53,700 Church where was it agabus? Gave the prophecy of a coming 367 00:22:53,700 --> 00:22:57,700 famine so that church was already able to take a cup 368 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:01,500 offerings before the famine head so they could provide an answer 369 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:04,400 before. The problem arose, they were 370 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:08,400 already positioned. And we need to be that people. 371 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,800 So, real quick here, I'm getting like, you're the one keeping me 372 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:13,700 from it. Come on. 373 00:23:14,300 --> 00:23:19,100 Okay, that's read in chapter 1. There was a certain man of 374 00:23:19,100 --> 00:23:22,700 ramoth am zopim. Just say it real fast and it'll 375 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:25,800 sound like, you know, Hebrew ramoth am zopim of the Hill 376 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,800 Country of Ephraim. Whose name was elkanah the son 377 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:33,000 of Jerome, son of Ally, Who son, of tohu, the son of Zeus and 378 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:38,300 Ephraim effect F recite. He had two wives, the name of 379 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:42,300 one was Hannah, and the name of the other was Pnina, I love the 380 00:23:42,300 --> 00:23:47,900 poetic nature of this passage is so beautiful, and if you read it 381 00:23:47,900 --> 00:23:52,000 like it's written, there are, there's this prophetic, poetry 382 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:56,600 that he culminates his comments. There's so many little punch 383 00:23:56,600 --> 00:24:00,200 lines here and this is one of them and Panetta had children 384 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:05,600 and Hannah had no children. Now, this man used to go up year 385 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,300 after year from his City to worship and sacrifice to the 386 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:12,400 Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli hophni and 387 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,400 Phineas were Priests of the Lord, on the day, when elkanah 388 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:20,100 sacrificed he would give portions to Pnina his wife and 389 00:24:20,100 --> 00:24:24,100 to all her sons and daughters. But to Hannah, he gave a double 390 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:27,000 portion because he loved her though. 391 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:31,500 The Lord had closed her womb. Let's just pause there. 392 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:40,600 That is a troubling statement. The anointed inspired word of 393 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:48,600 God, States, clearly that the Lord himself had closed the womb 394 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:55,000 of Hannah It wasn't that they were seeing this wrong and they 395 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,700 were speaking culturally and just didn't understand what. 396 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:03,100 We Now understand in the New Testament, the text is clear. 397 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,400 God had closed this woman's womb. 398 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,800 And her husband, he loved her and so he would give her a 399 00:25:11,808 --> 00:25:18,200 double portion when they would go up to worship verse 6 and her 400 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:24,100 rival used to provoke her grievously, to irritate her 401 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,700 because the Lord had closed her womb. 402 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:31,700 So we have this scenario, this man, this man had two wives, 403 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:34,500 Hannah and Pnina, Pnina had a bunch of kids. 404 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:39,100 Hannah had none elkanah loved both his Lives. 405 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,600 But there was a unique affection, he had for Hannah be 406 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:45,400 precisely because she hadn't produced any children. 407 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,400 And he knew how hurtful this was to her and it was during the 408 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,800 time of worship that thing would really rise up. 409 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:56,200 And it was that unique time. When they would go to the Temple 410 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:00,000 of the Lord, or the, the tent of the Lord to worship that Pnina 411 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:05,000 would grievously, irritate her and provoke her precisely 412 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,500 because she had no children. How hurtful? 413 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,200 And she was questioning there was, as you can imagine seeing 414 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,300 our culture. It's hard enough when you want 415 00:26:17,300 --> 00:26:21,200 children and you have not been able to Bear children, but in 416 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,000 that culture, it was always attributed to a spiritual thing 417 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,800 and I'm not saying it is, I'm just saying that from that 418 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:31,100 cultural perspective and this situation, it's very clear. 419 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,100 God was the one who closed her womb. 420 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:37,300 And in that culture, they looked at as a spiritual thing and it 421 00:26:37,300 --> 00:26:40,700 became an identity issue for the woman alkane. 422 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:44,400 Knowing that would give his wife a double portion and his heart 423 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,700 hurt for her and listen to what happened. 424 00:26:46,700 --> 00:26:50,400 So, Pnina would provoke her and irritate her because the Lord 425 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:53,100 had closed her womb. So, what went on here, after 426 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:56,700 year, as often as she went to the house of the Lord, she she 427 00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:59,700 used to provoke her, I find it interesting that it was in the 428 00:26:59,708 --> 00:27:01,900 secret place. It was in the place of worship 429 00:27:01,900 --> 00:27:03,800 that that provocation would rise. 430 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:07,100 And I believe there's a spiritual lesson for each one of 431 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:09,900 us in that that little observation. 432 00:27:10,700 --> 00:27:14,400 Therefore, Hannah wept and would not eat. 433 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:21,500 Hannah's response was she would lose her appetite appetite. 434 00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:25,400 She would fast but it wasn't a fast of choice. 435 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,200 It was almost imposed upon her out of the grief of her own 436 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:32,900 heart and she would weep and not eat and elkanah her husband said 437 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:36,100 to her Hannah, why do You Weep? Why do you not eat? 438 00:27:36,100 --> 00:27:39,400 Why is your heart sad? And then he would say this, am I 439 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:45,100 not more to you than ten Sons? Now, his heart was hurting, he 440 00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:49,100 was saying, honey, you're so fixated on this thing. 441 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,500 What about our relationship? I've given you a double portion, 442 00:27:52,700 --> 00:27:54,600 don't? I mean more to you than 443 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:57,300 children, am I? Just a means to an end. 444 00:27:57,400 --> 00:28:00,300 It was causing friction in their marriage. 445 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,000 After they had eaten and drunk and Shiloh. 446 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,500 Hannah Rose. Now, Eli, the priest was sitting 447 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:11,400 on the seat beside the doorpost of the Temple of the Lord. 448 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,900 She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept 449 00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:18,800 bitterly. And she vowed a vow and said, O 450 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:21,700 Lord, of hosts. If you will, indeed look on the 451 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,600 Affliction of your servant. And remember me, and not forget 452 00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,400 your servant but give to your servant of sun. 453 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:29,900 Notice she wanted. She was very specific in her 454 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:31,200 request. She didn't say I just want a 455 00:28:31,208 --> 00:28:33,800 baby. She wanted a son. 456 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,600 And that culture that was a bigger deal, not in this one. 457 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:42,800 And every man should say, Amen guys, I'm giving you an 458 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,500 opportunity here to get some points here it and that culture 459 00:28:46,500 --> 00:28:49,000 was a big deal. Have a son that she said if you 460 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,000 will give me your servant of son then I will give him to the 461 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,100 Lord, all the days of his life and no razor shall touch his 462 00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,100 head. What she was saying is Lord, I'm 463 00:28:57,100 --> 00:29:00,400 going to, I will dedicate him unto you as a Nazarite. 464 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,700 He will be given unto you uniquely consecrated, even to 465 00:29:05,700 --> 00:29:10,100 the point what she was saying is this God, if you will allow life 466 00:29:10,100 --> 00:29:14,000 to come through me, I don't need to even raise this thing. 467 00:29:14,300 --> 00:29:17,700 I'll give it to you. I'll give the fruit of my womb 468 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:21,000 back to you to use any way you please. 469 00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,700 As she continued praying before the Lord Eli. 470 00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:29,600 Observed her mouth. Now you got to understand. 471 00:29:29,600 --> 00:29:36,400 You go on to chapter 2 and it's one of the most Heartbreaking, 472 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,500 but poetic passages in scripture. 473 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:43,700 Describing a backslidden condition. 474 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:49,500 Samuel came out of barrenness and a backslidden religious 475 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:54,200 system, and he single-handedly became the hinge upon which God 476 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:58,600 ushered in the greatest era in Israel's history. 477 00:29:59,900 --> 00:30:02,000 So we need to have great. Hope you look around you. 478 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:05,200 What God's doing in the nation? I'm telling you ought of 479 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:10,200 barrenness and a backslidden state, God can raise up profits 480 00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:14,300 that can become the hinged people to change history. 481 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:19,800 Israel's greatest, our came through the anointing on in 482 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,600 Samuels horn that he anointed king David as she continued 483 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:24,900 praying. He'll, I observed her mouth. 484 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,300 Hannah was speaking in her heart, only her lips moved in 485 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,000 her voice was not heard there for Eli, took her To be a 486 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,300 drunken woman. He lilac the discernment to even 487 00:30:33,300 --> 00:30:35,300 recognize a woman in intercession. 488 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,800 He thought she was drunk. The next passage says, it 489 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:46,800 politically says that Eli had lost his eyesight and the King. 490 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,900 James version says, in are the lamp of God was about to go out 491 00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:56,400 in the temple and the word of the Lord was rare. 492 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:03,900 A blind backslidden priest, who wouldn't correct his own sons, 493 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:06,800 who were profligate and were sleeping with that. 494 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000 The, the girls that served at the temple and they were robbing 495 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:13,900 people, who would come to bring their sacrifice to the Lord, and 496 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,700 they would literally Rob the Lord, and the Lord, and, and Eli 497 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:20,500 would try to correct them, but he didn't do anything about it, 498 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:23,200 and it says that they didn't receive it, because it had 499 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,100 become the Lord's will to kill them. 500 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:29,600 Their sin was so great in the eyes of God, that God was going 501 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,900 to take him out. And God sent a prophet to Eli 502 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:36,400 and said the day on the same day, both of your sons will die 503 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:38,800 and it will be assigned to you that I've removed you. 504 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:44,100 It's a sobering thing. And in the midst of all that 505 00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:52,300 description, it says, but Samuel served before the Lord, a boy 506 00:31:52,500 --> 00:31:58,300 and a linen. Ephod panel of that The hope of 507 00:31:58,300 --> 00:32:02,300 Israel was already in place a little boy. 508 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:08,300 Playing priesthood. But God had set him apart. 509 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:12,900 How was God able to accomplish that in such a backslidden? 510 00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:21,200 Now, our of Israel's history, what he did is he closed the 511 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:27,100 womb of a woman who deeply desired to be used of God. 512 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,200 See you don't know if you're Barren unless you've known 513 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,400 intimacy. I mean I know that's obvious. 514 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:40,100 But we need to understand that. Baroness can only you can only 515 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:44,400 know it if you've known intimacy a barren woman has to have been 516 00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:46,800 intimate with a man to realize her barrenness. 517 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:53,700 She was a woman who knew her husband, but nothing was coming 518 00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:58,700 from it. There are a lot of believers. 519 00:33:00,500 --> 00:33:04,200 Who attend the same church has as their fellow believers. 520 00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,500 They, they go to the same prayer meetings, they've applied 521 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:13,800 themselves the same way, but God will withhold fruitfulness from 522 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:18,000 them for a season precisely because he's trying to deal with 523 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:21,200 something. He's there's a greater purpose 524 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:26,400 in mind. I really believe that much of 525 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:31,000 the barriers to Samuel becoming what he was called to be were 526 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,400 taken care of, in the intercessions of his mother. 527 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:39,600 Before he was ever conceived, Samuel started much farther down 528 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:44,700 the road than his peers because God withheld, something from his 529 00:33:44,700 --> 00:33:50,000 mom so that her frustration would rise and that frustration 530 00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:52,500 became the fuel of her intercession. 531 00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:57,300 She began to lay hold of God, and she began to cry out to God. 532 00:33:57,500 --> 00:33:59,900 She would fast and she would weep. 533 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,000 But notice from the text nothing happened. 534 00:34:04,100 --> 00:34:11,300 Until she took the vow And The Vow was Lord, if you give me a 535 00:34:11,300 --> 00:34:14,000 child, I don't even have to raise it. 536 00:34:15,699 --> 00:34:20,100 Lord, I'm just asking let life come through me and you can have 537 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:24,199 the child. It's an amazing amazing story. 538 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:29,100 That's exactly what happened with Pnina sea, lice are 539 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:31,300 mumbling and said woman you know, put away your drink. 540 00:34:31,300 --> 00:34:32,500 How long will you remain a drunk? 541 00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:34,699 She should know my Lord, you don't understand. 542 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:39,000 I am I am in grief. I've wanted a child and he said 543 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,100 well, so be it unto you, as you know, let your prayer be 544 00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:47,400 answered just off the cuff word from a backslidden priest and 545 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:51,300 her faith latch to hold of it. It says they went home and 546 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:53,800 induce He's and she conceived a child. 547 00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:00,000 And then her husband was worried because they went to worship and 548 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:01,800 she said, I'm not going with you this year. 549 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,400 He knew her vow. She said I'm going to wait till 550 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,900 the child is weaned. And then I'm going to bring him 551 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:12,000 to the temple to the tent of meeting. 552 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,300 And I'm going to I'm going to leave him there. 553 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:17,900 He's going to be raised in the house of God and elkanah said, 554 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:21,700 okay? Just if you read the text it 555 00:35:21,700 --> 00:35:23,800 seems to insinuate elkanah was worried. 556 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:25,700 She wouldn't follow through on her vow. 557 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,300 But she did, it's an amazing story. 558 00:35:31,300 --> 00:35:37,200 A woman who so long to have a child, but God did such a work 559 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:41,300 in her that she was willing to surrender the answer to her own 560 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:44,800 prayer. Here's my point. 561 00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:48,700 This is what I feel like the Lord wants to say to us this 562 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:52,900 morning. That there are times where 563 00:35:52,900 --> 00:35:58,700 Believers will experience God, imposed barrenness and an area 564 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:02,100 of our life. It's not because of a lack of 565 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:04,000 intimacy. It's not because of a lack of 566 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,600 faith, it's because God has a greater purpose for your life. 567 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,300 He withholds from you, what he will give to others easily. 568 00:36:13,100 --> 00:36:16,100 But the reason he does it is because he's wanting the 569 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:20,700 accumulation of that heart cry and those intercessions because 570 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:23,700 there's a greater purpose that he wants to bring through you. 571 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:29,100 And we've got to be so careful. Remember what elkanah said to 572 00:36:29,107 --> 00:36:31,200 his wife? He said, don't, I mean more to 573 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:34,500 you than ten Sons I believe that's one of the great 574 00:36:34,500 --> 00:36:38,700 Temptations when we're suffering out of barrenness in our life, 575 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,600 where there's an area of our life, where we know God, you 576 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,500 made me for so much more there. Something you want to bring 577 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:47,200 through my life. I'm not talking about just 578 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,200 latching hold of someone else's dream, I'm not talking, I'm 579 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,200 talking about, you know, in your heart that there's something 580 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,100 that God wants to use you. You for and you're not seeing 581 00:36:56,100 --> 00:36:59,000 any movement out of that thing, and the matter what you pray, 582 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,900 other people are breaking into it. 583 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:06,200 And there's this frustration elkanah came to her and said, 584 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:11,200 don't, I mean more to you than ten Sons essentially, isn't my 585 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:17,700 love isn't what we share enough. And there was a temptation to 586 00:37:17,700 --> 00:37:24,400 settle for this faulty. Consolation You see what had 587 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,900 happened is. God had provided provocation in 588 00:37:27,908 --> 00:37:31,800 her life to bring to the Forefront, her own barrenness. 589 00:37:33,100 --> 00:37:35,900 To highlight that area of her life. 590 00:37:38,100 --> 00:37:41,600 When God begins to do something somewhere else, we don't need to 591 00:37:41,607 --> 00:37:45,700 be jealous and and begrudge somebody else's blessing. 592 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,200 But there are times when it should provoke a hunger within 593 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,400 us where there should be something within us that says 594 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:56,500 God, if you're going to move their move here, Lord Lord, I'm 595 00:37:56,500 --> 00:37:59,100 asking you feel it more there. But Lord, I'm asking. 596 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:03,800 You do it here. There was this provocation that 597 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:08,200 made her aware more acutely aware of her own barrenness, and 598 00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:12,200 I find it interesting that she became very aware every time 599 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,100 they would go to the tent to worship. 600 00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,900 And so she would cry out to the Lord and she refused to be 601 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:26,000 consoled. The words of Rachel, what? 602 00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:29,300 She told her husband. I can't imagine being her 603 00:38:29,300 --> 00:38:32,100 husband. She said, give me children, or I 604 00:38:32,100 --> 00:38:37,200 die. He's like, I'm trying woman, but 605 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,500 there was something within her that is saying I need to give 606 00:38:40,500 --> 00:38:44,300 birth to something. There's a shared exchange here, 607 00:38:44,300 --> 00:38:48,100 that an expression of our love that I want to give birth to. 608 00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:51,800 And that's really what intercession is there? 609 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,800 Something of our life? We want to give birth to to that 610 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:59,700 is an expression of us and God. And until that happens, there's 611 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:03,800 a sense of barrenness within us. It looks different for all of 612 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:08,700 us, but there's something of you God wants to birth into the 613 00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:11,800 Earth. And there needs to be a hunger 614 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,100 and if you're finding that there's a sense of barrenness 615 00:39:15,900 --> 00:39:20,300 then begin to cry out to him and realize that often God will 616 00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:25,000 withhold the natural processes because he has a greater purpose 617 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,800 for what he's wanting to birth from us. 618 00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:31,100 I've told this story before, but years ago I was it was a Monday 619 00:39:31,100 --> 00:39:34,000 morning in that I had slept in. I was just laying in bed and I 620 00:39:34,008 --> 00:39:35,700 grabbed my phone and I'm scrolling. 621 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:39,500 I started reading the word and I'm reading about John the 622 00:39:39,500 --> 00:39:46,500 Baptist and how it says that John the Baptist, his his his 623 00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:51,800 mom and dad have been praying for years now there she's beyond 624 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:56,100 the childbearing age, he's an old man but he grabs the law, 625 00:39:56,100 --> 00:39:59,300 hit the lot Falls to him so So he's the one that goes into the 626 00:39:59,300 --> 00:40:03,700 temple to offer the sacrifice and he goes in there, and an 627 00:40:03,700 --> 00:40:07,800 angel appears to him. And the angel says, I am. 628 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,300 Gabriel I stand in the presence of God and he's like Judith 629 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:18,100 about them, he's scared spitless and the angel says, your prayers 630 00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:21,300 have been heard. I love that. 631 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,000 Because I'm assuming I might be wrong, he might be such a man of 632 00:40:26,008 --> 00:40:29,700 faith that he's still asking for a child even when they're beyond 633 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:31,900 the childbearing years that could be. 634 00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:37,100 But I'm assuming that he had prayed and prayed and gave up, 635 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:41,100 but the prayers of yesteryear were still coming Before the 636 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:44,200 Throne. That those prayers never fell to 637 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:47,200 the ground and God was still listening to those prayers. 638 00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:51,100 And now, the time had come and the angel drops in and says, 639 00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:55,500 your prayers have Been heard. Your wife is going to be found 640 00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:59,500 with child. And he will be filled with the 641 00:40:59,500 --> 00:41:03,300 spirit from his mother's womb. It's an amazing story. 642 00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:08,200 And remember Mary, you know, you got Elizabeth who's carrying 643 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,100 John and Mary, who's carrying this? 644 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:14,500 This is a great story. We don't have time because we 645 00:41:14,500 --> 00:41:17,200 got to eat chili but I'm telling you this is this is a great 646 00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,900 story. You've got the older generation, 647 00:41:19,900 --> 00:41:23,000 who knew intimacy but never had fruitfulness. 648 00:41:23,300 --> 00:41:25,900 You've got the younger generation who is a virgin womb 649 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:27,500 who has never even known intimacy. 650 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:32,100 He and the spirit comes on the younger generation, six months 651 00:41:32,100 --> 00:41:35,000 after its come on. The older generation because the 652 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,900 older generation is carrying something that's going to pave 653 00:41:37,900 --> 00:41:41,600 the way of what the younger generation is carrying the John, 654 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:46,300 the Baptist in the elderly womb, is going to prepare the way for 655 00:41:46,300 --> 00:41:50,100 the Lord that Mary's caring. Now, that'll preach another day, 656 00:41:50,100 --> 00:41:54,700 but that'll preach and I'm telling you, there are, there 657 00:41:54,700 --> 00:42:00,200 are some of you who God is still Wanting to awaken your womb. 658 00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,300 Some of you have said, hey, I've done my part. 659 00:42:02,300 --> 00:42:04,700 It's now time for the younger ones to step forward. 660 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:08,400 Hey, we want a champion, the next, the next Generation matter 661 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,900 of fact, I have sensed it in my heart. 662 00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,800 These last number of months, there is a Groundswell that's 663 00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,400 coming of this Young Generation stepping in, and we're going to 664 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,000 build a platform for them for them to run. 665 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,600 But you know what? They're going to need the wisdom 666 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:28,600 of us gray hairs. Because something we carry is 667 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,600 going to pave the way for what they carry. 668 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:35,800 John the Baptist message prepared. 669 00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:40,100 The way for Jesus. So I'm reading that passage in a 670 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,700 and it says and he was filled with this for the spirit from 671 00:42:43,700 --> 00:42:46,200 his mother's woman and Mary walks in the room. 672 00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,700 She's got her little baby bump and Elizabeth's got her big baby 673 00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:54,000 bump and when Mary comes in, she says, how you doing and Hebrew? 674 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,700 Yeah. All said Elizabeth her baby 675 00:42:56,700 --> 00:43:00,300 jumped. And he was filled with the 676 00:43:00,300 --> 00:43:05,000 spirit. And this is what I asked. 677 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:08,300 The Lord God. Why don't you always do it that 678 00:43:08,300 --> 00:43:11,000 way? I mean, wouldn't that solve a 679 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:15,700 lot of problems if every Mama carried a baby that was 680 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:20,200 Spirit-filled from the womb? Wouldn't that just solve a lot 681 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:21,800 of problems? I wish I'd have been 682 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,100 Spirit-filled from the womb. It would have saved my mom and 683 00:43:25,100 --> 00:43:29,600 dad a lot of Heartache. And I just kind of said it out 684 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:32,000 loud. I didn't expect an answer, but 685 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,800 the Lord spoke to me. And he told me, he said it was 686 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:41,600 the years of barrenness that paved the way. 687 00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:47,800 So what she carried could enter in early into something, because 688 00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:53,000 the mom and dad had to wait so long, they entered in late. 689 00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:57,100 So, their baby could enter in early the previous generation 690 00:43:57,100 --> 00:44:01,700 had to wait much longer so that the Next Generation could get in 691 00:44:01,700 --> 00:44:07,000 earlier. And it was because of this God 692 00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:14,100 imposed barrenness. There are times where God will 693 00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:17,400 withhold something from us because he's wanting the 694 00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:23,300 accumulative Cry of our heart, the frustration and the prayers 695 00:44:23,300 --> 00:44:27,800 in the fasting to ascend before the throne because he's doing 696 00:44:27,800 --> 00:44:31,800 something in the spirit, he's Paving the way, he's removing 697 00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,000 things so that they can enter in early. 698 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,400 And there needs to be something in the heart of every gray hair. 699 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:45,400 Even, if you color your hair, every true, you know where the 700 00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,100 color at the roots. If you have gray roots, there 701 00:44:49,100 --> 00:44:50,700 needs to be a cry within your heart. 702 00:44:50,700 --> 00:44:54,300 God Pick Me, Lord. I am willing to pay the price 703 00:44:54,300 --> 00:44:58,200 for the Next Generation. I will labor longer if they can 704 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:02,600 enter in earlier. And so I was meditating on that 705 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,000 and bed, not that, that is fascinating later on that day. 706 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,200 I got my car drove to Central Nebraska. 707 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,500 I'm preaching on a Ministry School that night and I get 708 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:15,300 there and I caught and then I'm just praying over the students 709 00:45:15,300 --> 00:45:18,200 prophesying and, and I'm standing before this one guy 710 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,200 praying, and all of a sudden that came back to my mind and I 711 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:23,900 said, I need to share something with you. 712 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:28,200 I said, just this morning, I was laying in bed and the Lord began 713 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:32,600 to talk to me about how he Will at times imposed barrenness 714 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,000 because he's clearing the way later in life for that 715 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:39,700 individual. And I explained that principal 716 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:42,400 and he looked at me, his eyes got real big. 717 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,800 He said that is so crazy. You would share that. 718 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:50,800 He said my Mom and Dad tried to have a kid so many so long, they 719 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:55,200 couldn't get pregnant and I ended up being the child of 720 00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:01,000 their latter years. They conceived me in their 721 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,500 elderly years. I was like a miracle. 722 00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,600 And I told him on the authority of what God had told me that 723 00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,200 morning. Listen, you're starting the race 724 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,600 much farther down the road than your peers. 725 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:18,900 There is a holy obligation that you carry because your mom and 726 00:46:18,900 --> 00:46:23,400 dad's prayers accumulated and they paid a price God withheld 727 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,900 something. So he could clear the way for 728 00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:29,100 you so that you could run hard. There were, there were battles. 729 00:46:29,100 --> 00:46:32,600 Most people have to fight themselves that were fought for 730 00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,900 you before conception so that you could run hard. 731 00:46:37,300 --> 00:46:41,500 And I'm telling you that some of you, there's there's areas of 732 00:46:41,500 --> 00:46:46,300 your life that have been Barren. Let me quote to you the prophecy 733 00:46:46,300 --> 00:46:52,000 from Isaiah sing, O barren woman, sing O, barren woman. 734 00:46:52,500 --> 00:46:57,000 You who have no children because more are the children of the 735 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,300 barren womb than she who has many children. 736 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:07,100 I could based on the word of God, add to that prophecy and 737 00:47:07,100 --> 00:47:09,700 great are the children of the barren womb. 738 00:47:09,900 --> 00:47:13,600 Because all through scripture, we see these Unique Individuals 739 00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,200 popping up that were heroes in the faith that were the products 740 00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:24,400 of barren wombs. and I'm telling you that some of you there has 741 00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:29,800 been a god-ordained withholding in an area of your life, not 742 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:32,800 because God has something against you but because he has 743 00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:37,300 something great for you and he wants you to not become 744 00:47:37,300 --> 00:47:41,600 embittered or discouraged or or succumb to the faulty 745 00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:48,500 consolations that you are loved, believe me, you are But more, so 746 00:47:48,500 --> 00:47:51,600 what he wants to do is birth something through your life of 747 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:58,000 significance. The very area of our pain is 748 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,000 often the area where he wants to give us the greatest 749 00:48:01,100 --> 00:48:04,100 breakthrough. You've heard it preached? 750 00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:08,400 Your test becomes a testimony, your mess becomes a message. 751 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,700 It's the year of your pain. I'm going to ask the worship 752 00:48:11,700 --> 00:48:14,200 team to come forward. I want us to close with this 753 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:17,500 song, the song that they sang. I couldn't believe it this 754 00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:19,800 morning because I really was wrestling with what to preach on 755 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,000 this morning because Lou and Dean mess me up this morning. 756 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:24,800 I shouldn't have listened to that message. 757 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:30,100 And I got so rocked, but this last song pulled me back in to 758 00:48:30,100 --> 00:48:32,600 what I feel like the Lord is saying to us this morning. 759 00:48:34,700 --> 00:48:39,000 Some of you, there's an area of barrenness, there's an area of 760 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:42,600 pain, you feel like there's been a lack of breakthrough, you 761 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,500 know, is God's will, this is this, it's not God's will for 762 00:48:46,500 --> 00:48:50,300 that thing to remain a fixture in your life, but no matter how 763 00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:53,400 much you pounded on the door, it seems like it hasn't moved. 764 00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:55,400 And I'm telling you, it's because there's a greater 765 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,100 purpose for your breakthrough, than just your own pleasure and 766 00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:00,700 believe me, God cares about that. 767 00:49:02,700 --> 00:49:05,800 But there's something greater for the fruit of your womb of 768 00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:07,400 faith and that area. So I'm going to ask you to go 769 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,200 ahead and stand. And let's let's go ahead and 770 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,100 sing that song. Go ahead and stand and I want 771 00:49:13,100 --> 00:49:17,700 you just to just receive this as a prophetic word, this morning, 772 00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,100 single barren woman, single broken, man. 773 00:49:21,500 --> 00:49:23,400 Thanks for listening to our podcast. 774 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,800 If you'd like to help more people hear this message, you 775 00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,500 can get the word out by subscribing and sharing it on 776 00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:31,600 social media if you'd like to support the ministries of heart. 777 00:49:31,700 --> 00:49:34,000 The church, you can do. So at Heartland Church, 778 00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,100 online.com give