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July 30, 2021
GOING HIS WAY?
Just as the way to the throne room is through the servant’s quarters, the way to My table is through the living room. I desire you to be family. That requires time, transparency and trust. Live life with Me so I can take you to your destiny.
GOING HIS WAY?Co-laboring with God is a process you have to learn. It doesn’t just happen automatically. You need to be dedicated to and committed to the process as each new layer is added.
You learn how to hold on to your dreams – those “babies” you want to see born. See, what God desires is fruit. Fruit is what happens when the seed is planted and the harvest is cultivated and that doesn’t just happen with a snap of your fingers. You don’t learn God in the miracles. You learn God in the process to those miracles.
God Almighty did miracles for Israel over and over again and they turned their backs on Him. Only the people who were willing to go through the process and learn intimacy with Him as they walked with Him had fruit in their lives.
You and I want to say the magic words and “Poof” this thing you want magically happens. When you just want the result without the process, when you want intimacy without relationship, that’s rebellion against God. Ouch!
We can’t rebel against God and say, “I want the benefits of knowing You, but I don’t really want to know you.” He will not honor that.
What does He honor? Effort, hard work, time, commitment. You have to labor toward some things and relationship with God is one of them. You have to carry some things through the process and walk it all the way through even when the road is tough.
Think of it like an ox. If you’re yoked together with God, but you don’t want to move forward with Him, you’re going to have a giant pain in the neck! You must work with Him for fruit in your mind, ministry, marriage, family, job, and your words.
Are you unequally yoked? If you are, that’s on you! God’s going in the direction of your destiny. You best be going His way.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES BEGAT
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July 28, 2021
CLEANING HOUSE
I desire a godly generation. That’s why I have grafted you into My family. I have promised life to a thousand generations of those who love Me. Bring life to those I have surrounded you with. Bring them to the table.
CLEANING HOUSEAll of us go through terrible things – times we thought things were going to be better than they were. But Jesus is always born in these kinds of situations. God loves to bless a horrible mess.
If anything is messy, it’s family. If you’re disappointed in your family dynamic, or you find yourself completely alone – it’s always been like that. Even the very first family was a terrible mess – remember Cain and Abel?
Just so you know, Jesus’ family was no different. When Mary turned up pregnant but none of the relatives had been to a wedding, the judgment began. Bad blood was stirred up. They threw Joseph and his beautiful bride to the animals.
It wasn’t the way it was supposed to be, yet the greatest miracle the world has ever seen outside of the resurrection happened in the midst of that terrible mess.
My friends, I want to encourage you that family is not for wimps. No matter how bad things get, know that Jesus loved his family despite the times they disappointed him. His mom, brothers and sisters actually tried to have him committed!
Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.” – Mark 3:20-21
That’s whack! However, when His own family didn’t believe in Him, Jesus didn’t give up on them. Just like the masses crowding that room, He knew they needed a savior. So does your crazy family. Introduce them to Jesus. He’s good at cleaning house.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES INDESCRIBABLE
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Prophetic Wednesday: Israeli Cloak of Invisibility
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
KEY VERSE
Psalm 27:5 – For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle (booth in the wilderness); In the secret place of His tent He will hide me; He will lift me up on a rock.
How do you see the prophetic in the headlines? Check out the word in the Israeli army’s new KIT 300 Cloak of Invisibility. Just like Sam and Frodo outside the Black Gate of Mordon in the Lord of the Rings! This is a right now word for us all–being hidden in the Lord.
OTHER VERSES ABOUT GOD HIDING US
Psalm 31:20 – You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;
You keep them secretly in a shelter from the strife of tongues.
Isaiah 49:2 – He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.
Psalm 17:8 – Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings
Psalm 64:2 – Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of those who do iniquity,
Colossians 3:3 – For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Jeremiah 36:26 – And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.
POLARIS SOLUTIONS
• Polaris – North Star
• Throne of God
◦ Psalms 76:6 – For exaltation comes neither from the east, Nor from the west nor from the south. (God’s throne is in the North – the only place not mentioned.)
• Symbolizes Jesus
• Center of OUR universe from our firmament (GRX)
◦ Colossians 1:16-17 – For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist (HOLDS ALL THINGS TOGETHER).
• Not the brightest star or easiest to find
◦ Isaiah 53:2 – For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him.
• Leads us home: If you find the North Star, you will never be lost.
◦ John 14:2-3 – In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
KIT 300
KIT
2. a set of articles forming part of a soldier’s equipment.
3. a large basket, box, or other container, especially for fish (fishers of men)
Hebrew Letter/Number Shin = 300
21st letter (year 2021)
Pictograph: Crown (corona)
Meanings:
300 SCRIPTURES:
Rapture or “taking up” – he was no more! Hidden in Heaven
Genesis 5:22-24 – After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. 23 So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.
Enoch as one of the Two Witnesses (CONCEALMENT SCRIPTURE)
Isaiah 49:2 – He has made My mouth like a sharp sword, In the shadow of His hand He has concealed Me; And He has also made Me a select arrow, He has hidden Me in His quiver.
ARK: Safety Box
Genesis 6:15 – And this is how you shall make it: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.
Joseph has not yet UNCLOAKED himself to his brothers:
Genesis 45:22 – He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.
300th VERSE OF NEW TESTAMENT
DO NOT HIDE GOD’S WORD(S)
Matthew 10:27 – “Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.”
BEING SEPARATE AND HIDDEN FROM YOUR PAST TO GET TO YOUR DESTINY
Genesis 12:1 – Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you.”
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July 26, 2021
AS SIMPLE AS THAT
I Am pleased with your pursuit. Come into the secret place. Read My story and let it speak into your heart. I want to know you and be known by you. I Am an open book.
AS SIMPLE AS THATThere is a Kingdom principle that makes Father God smile. It melts His heart and makes Him willing to give you the Kingdom. That principle is seeking.
Seeking proves that you want it. Seeking qualifies you for the thing you’re looking for, whether it’s your identity, your purpose, God’s face, deeper relationship – whatever it is. Seek and your Abba says you will find.
Think of it as an Easter egg hunt. You want to go after something good in your life that glorifies God or draws you closer to Him? Those “eggs” are hidden in plain site. He rolls them right past and all you have to do is pick them up.
It’s so important it is to live a seeker-lifestyle. Someone who is seeking the Kingdom and seeking to go to the next level in everything they do. Why? God meets people in the place of seeking.
Anytime you see Jesus say, “Lo,” what He’s saying is ‘“look for me.” Jesus meets you in the place of seeking. He likes to be pursued. And when you’re not seeking Him and He shows up, you don’t know that He’s there.
Don’t let that be you. Don’t be so focused on lesser things that you forget to continually seek Him in that secret place. It’s His presence that qualifies you for upgrade.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. – Matthew 7:7
The number seven is all about the Spirit of God. That’s what you’re seeking. That’s the door you’re knocking on. It’s His good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. It’s as simple as that.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES FIRST THINGS
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July 25, 2021
IT’S ALL ABOUT INTIMACY
You are My child and it pleases Me to be your Father. Like all good fathers, I wish to see you grow and develop. When you do, we have so much more to talk about – to look forward to. It’s OK to get out of My lap and go after more. I’m there too but as your friend.
IT’S ALL ABOUT INTIMACYIntimacy is such a big deal to God and it should be to you as well. You can’t really know somebody without becoming obsessed with their heart – knowing what they love and what they hate. You have to come into alignment with that to have true intimacy. It’s like that with God too.
In the Kingdom, it’s all about the different levels of intimacy in relationship. When it comes to sonship, it’s all about being an heir. You can run to your daddy for help or just sit in HIs lap and be loved.
“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” – Romans 8:15-17
Now, there is another level to relationship with God that’s just as intimate, but it reveals a totally different side of His character and yours.
“Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend…” – Exodus 33:1
When you are a friend of God, you don’t get the inheritance. You get His counsel and His partnership, but not the inheritance. Sons get the inheritance. If you are an heir with Jesus, that means everything that’s been given to Jesus has also been given to you. And the same way He’s been glorified, He wants to give to you! Yes! It’s that radical!
But it’s not friendship. It’s not that other level where you’re partnering with God for Kingdom advancement. Where you move into your Promised Land and your friend God counsels you and backs you up. This is for big boys and girls who want meat and not milk. They want to serve and not be served.
If the way to the throne room is through the servants quarters, the way to the Promised Land is through partnership. And get this, you can be a son and a friend at the same time! God doesn’t relegate you to one or the other. Sonship is for certain seasons as is friendship. Do you want to speak to Jesus face to face? Partner with God. Step out to your upgrade.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES PRAY FOR RAIN – INTIMACY
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July 24, 2021
NEW COVENANT
There is power in prophetic acts. I love it when you step out and declare My sovereignty in your life for all to see. Make a new covenant with Me this day. I will let My blessings flow over you and give you overcoming power.
NEW COVENANTThere is crazy power in baptism, but it’s not the power to save. You’ve already been saved, Amen? The power in baptism is this: baptism initiates supernatural victory to overcome things.
The reason baptism is so supernaturally powerful is because it’s a prophetic act of a supernatural covenant. The fact is, we serve a very supernatural-covenant God and baptism is our promise or pledge to all that we belong to Him.
Jesus demonstrated this when He went to the Jordan River to be baptized by His cousin, John the Baptist. John was not absolving the people there of their sins by dunking them under the water, he was helping them enter a new covenant with God for their identity, purpose, and destiny.
“I indeed baptized you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.” It came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him like a dove. Then a voice came from heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” – Mark 1:8-11
Boom! This was the moment Jesus truly stepped into His power and His ministry started. Baptism initiated a response from heaven and Jesus walked in the tremendous victory of signs, miracles, and wonders. He overcame objections. He overcame angry mobs. He overcame our doubt and fear. He overcame death and hell.
Are you an overcomer? Do you have that supernatural victory working in your life? Make a new covenant with God for this new season you’re going into. Demonstrate your intention through this prophetic act and see the power of God manifest in your life.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES EPIC
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God & Country 5 – High Alert
Sermon Notes, Sunday, July 25, 2021
Pastor Troy Brewer, OpenDoor Church, Burleson, TX
Those who are truly listening to the Lord would agree we are at an urgent hour in history. The greatest thing the enemy desires at this time would be to for you and me to miss the urgency of the hour by putting our attention on secondary matters.
HIGH ALERT
Our military has a system of terrorist condition indicators. It is called the Threat-Con system. Posted at entrances and in key locations on each military base are Threat-Con signs.
Most of the time, they read “normal.” That means standard operating procedures are in place. You do your job. You go to class, keep things nice—you put in your time. Normal Alert conditions are very INWARD focused.
When a country is on High Alert– everything changes. There is an OUTWARD focus. Awareness.
Normal things might still happen—inspections, classes, graduations—but they are not what everyone is focused on. They are focused on what is going on in the world and how they are going to be part of it.
There is a Kingdom counterpart to Threat-Con that’s throughout the Bible:
Be ready. Be Watchful. Be sober. Be vigilant.
BEING WATCHFUL IS A LOT LIKE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING AT NIGHT. “I CAN’T FALL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL.”
ANYBODY EVER GONE THROUGH THAT TERRIFYING MOMENT WHEN YOU DO FALL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL?
It’s not romantic. It’s not attractive, but it is imperative to our success in the day that we live in.
1 Peter 5:8 – GBe sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Revelation 3:2 – Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
In context, let’s just look at this whole segment of scripture:
Revelation 3:1 – “And to the angel of the church in Sardis write,
‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.”’
Two Warnings for Not Being WATCHFUL
1. The devil will pounce on you to destroy you, and you won’t know until it’s too late.
2. Jesus will show up to bless and deliver you, but you will miss it.
Matthew 23:37-38 – “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate;”
Luke 17:26-30 – And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
THEY MISSED THEIR ESCAPE (OPPORTUNITY TO BE IN GOD’S PRESENCE INSTEAD OF BEING UNDER HIS WRATH) BECAUSE THEY’RE CAUGHT UP IN THE STREAM OF SOMETHING THAT IS NOT THE KINGDOM.
Many of you will know this passage. It says,
Proverbs 4:23 – “Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life.”
This is wisdom literature, and a father is telling his son to watch over his heart. Some versions say “keep your heart” or “guard your heart.” That’s implied in watchfulness because from the heart flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 4:23 (KJV) – Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life
Proverbs 4:23 (The Message Bible) – Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts.
Proverbs 4:23 (Evangelical Heritage Version) – Above all else, guard your heart carefully, because your life flows from it.
Proverbs 4:23 (Expanded Bible Version) – Be careful what you think [ Above all that you guard, protect your heart], because your thoughts run your life [life flows from it].
To live a truly watchful life is to take on the responsibility of being watchful over our own hearts.
Psalm 51:10 (KJV) – Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
Psalm 73:26 (KJV) – My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Matthew 5:8 (KJV) – Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
You remember Jesus’s words in Matthew 26:41. He’s in the garden of Gethsemane with his disciples, and he tells them to watch with him and to pray. But they fall asleep. Do you remember what Jesus says? He says, “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Jesus’ disciples asked him when the end of the world would be. He gives them a list of signs like wars, famines, earthquakes and the like, then he says something curious…
Luke 21:28 – “…when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”
Why would he say “look up” AND “lift your heads?”
First, looking up is not only looking for the promised heavenly signs, but it’s looking for Jesus himself coming on the clouds.
But why would He follow that up with, “Lift up your heads”? Could it be because he knew we would be busy–even addicted–to the things on this earth?
Lift up your head from your work. Lift up your head from your cell phone and Candy Crush. Lift up your head from the news media and the things that are keeping you in fear.Lift up your head from The Marvel Universe, DC and the YouTube hunting videos that are keeping you from advancing in the Kingdom.Lift up your head from your comfortable life, fashion and all the things that will pass away from this world.GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE LAP OF DELILAH! Put away childish things and put your attention on King Jesus and the Kingdom He is trusting you to bring to earth.King Jesus, please help me to be spiritually sensitive. Let me be filled with your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, help me to be vigilant and to have the presence of mind to recognize the enemy’s attack on me.
Please bless me and let me grow in grace and anointing. Make me a warrior, fully awake, not deceived. Make me a threat to enemy and let me be fully set free in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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July 23, 2021
WHAT ARE YOU GIVING BIRTH TO?
I Am the creator of the universe. I heard you when you called out to Me and I have a marvelous plan for your life. Partner with the Holy Spirit and I will show you how you can make a difference for My Kingdom. Yes, you.
WHAT ARE YOU GIVING BIRTH TO?You have a purpose. There are things God wants to happen and pieces of heaven God wants brought to this earth that only you can do. There are ministries, movements and moments that you are responsible for – just like you’re responsible for a child.
Whenever God gives you a baby – something you’re responsible for making sure happens – there’s a principle it follows and it’s in the very first book of the Bible.
“So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.” – Genesis 1:21
The principle here is that when something is born, it’s born after its own kind. Cats cannot produce dogs and dogs can’t produce cats.
So, God Almighty set up this principle that anyone in the reproduction business can only reproduce after their own kind. You can tell when two things belong together because they can reproduce.
A good example is faith and works. Together, they give birth to ministries that produce more believers who produce more ministries, that produce what? More believers!
I’ve heard it said that people add but God multiplies. What is it God is trying to multiply through you? Maybe it’s love. Perhaps it’s a servant’s heart. Fact is, true belief gives birth to action. Do you believe God has given you a great big purpose? Go after it because I promise you, it’s good!
FROM MY SERMON SERIES BEGAT
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Episode 92 – Can God Change Your Past?
Hello friends, today I’m back on Pastor Alan DiDio’s podcast Encounter Underground. Today we discuss my book Redeeming Your Timeline and some real testimonies from this teaching. Man I love Pastor Alan y’all check out all his stuff at EncounterToday.com where they have all kinds of cool resources.
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July 22, 2021
GET OUT OF MY FIELD
My Father has given you a field. Don’t go planting your seeds in someone else’s territory. It will not yield a harvest. Stay with what He has for you. His ways are higher than yours.
GET OUT OF MY FIELDGod wants a harvest out of you. That’s why He gave you a very specific territory – your job, family, city – whatever your circle of influence is. That’s also why He gave you a testimony – your unique story to touch the lives of the lost and hurting.
The problem is, we sometimes try to help God by sharing our territory and adding to our testimony. That, my friend, is a big mistake because you can’t plant two different seeds beside each other.
“You shall not sow your vineyard with different kinds of seed, lest the yield of the seed which you have sown and the fruit of your vineyard be defiled.” – Deuteronomy 22:9
Stick to your territory and your unique assignment. For example, there are people who want to partner with our church in saving girls out of sex trafficking, but they say, “You don’t have to do that in India or Uganda. You can do that here.”
Look, there’s nothing wrong with what they’re doing, but get out of my field! This is what God has brought to me. This is what the Lord has told me to steward and it’s in India right now.
Don’t be mad at me because I’ve got ‘maters and you’ve got cucumbers. I’m not going to cross-pollinate with you. Why? Because I want to see fruit and it’s fruit – lives liberated and transformed – that actually glorifies the Lord.
When Paul and Barnabas had a disagreement in Acts 15, they didn’t try to kill each other. They simply parted ways. Both of them went on to preach the Gospel and they bore more fruit separately than they could have together.
God has a unique plan for you. Don’t compromise what God has told you to do because you want to partner with someone else. Pray for them and go about your business. If you try to plant your ‘maters in with my cucumbers, neither of us will have a harvest.
FROM MY SERMON SERIES BEGAT
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