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May 13, 2006 PM
Pastor Steven L. Shelley
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(Singing:) "Oh Lord, You're beautiful . . . " (I love to look at Him)
Come on, let's worship the Lord for just a moment again.
Hallelujah. We bless You, Lord.
Let your voice be lifted up in this place for just a moment.
Hallelujah, we bless You, Lord. We glorify You, oh God. We magnify Your Name. We glory in You, Lord. Hallelujah.
Come on. I'm not through worshipping Him. I want you to join me a moment or two.
Hallelujah, Lord. (Tongues) Hallelujah, hallelujah . . .
(Tongues) Beautiful Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
Let's go ahead and give the Lord another handclap of praise. Amen.
Let's turn in our Bibles tonight to the Book of Ephesians, chapter 1.
We want to welcome you to the meeting tonight. And we want to welcome all of you who could not be with us physically. We have some people out of town. Brother Greeley begins his meetings tonight in New Brunswick so we want to pray that the Lord will be with them.
Real quick, let's welcome you who are video streaming over the Internet.
Let's just pray a moment.
Father, we thank You that You are. You just are. And we thank You. We thank You for Your faithfulness. We thank You for Your provision. We thank You that all things are in Your hands and that Your kingdom is being established in the earth no matter how the enemy rages.
I pray, Lord, right now, for our dear friend and sister in the Lord, Sister Alma Potter. You are her healer. You're her Savior. You have been a friend and a companion down through these many years.
And Lord, I pray that You will raise her up with healing. I understand there was quite a bit of damage done to her heart. Lord, You are able to reverse the damage. By the power of the Spoken Word, You are able to recreate and remake and reshape her heart so that she would not suffer because of this attack of the enemy.
And Lord, I lift before You every one of these prayer requests that have come in in the last few days or so from our television program. I pray, oh God, that You'll send healing to those who have written or called from all over the world ? from Saudi Arabia, from the United Arab Emirates, from all over Europe and Scandinavia. You see the requests. Some are holding on just by a very thin thread to life.
Some, cancer has attacked their bodies, and they have called to ask us to agree in prayer. Some are facing mental attacks and their bodies are needy. Their chemicals are not balanced. Some are really facing serious surgeries. Some have called and written because their loved ones are out of the ark of safety.
We lift up each and every one of these that had enough confidence in us to contact us for prayer.
Bless now, Lord, the reading of Your Word and anything that You would speak to us this evening. And we'll give You the glory and the honor and the praise. In the Name of the Lord Jesus, BaShem Adonai Yeshua HaMashiach. Amen. And the church said, "Amen."
You may be seated.
Ephesians, chapter 1.
(You can have your seats since I've already given it back to you.)
Ephesians, chapter 1. And I want to begin reading this evening in verse 17 to see what the Lord will say.
17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
I want that. I need that. It's not an automatic thing, is it? I appreciate these words now more than ever before, I think, because of the prophecy, you know, that was given over me some weeks ago in another state concerning this.
I haven't taken that as an automatic deposit. I have sought to position myself to receive this thing that has been promised from the Lord.
17. That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
20. Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
You see where Christ is seated? In heavenly places, far above . . .
Somebody say, "Far above."
21. Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
I want to read that again. This is where Christ is. This is where the focus is. You'll see in just a few moments in another of Epistles. This is where God wants us focusing our attention.
21. Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
22. And hath put . . .
"What did it say?"
22. . . . all things under his feet . . .
This is very important to remember that Christ has been given authority over all things. Everything is under His feet.
22. . . . and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
23. Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Forgive me for doing this, but I want to go back and take two verses here and read them again before we look to the thought.
18. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
19. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Let's turn to Revelation, chapter 4, for just a moment.
That's where we were Tuesday night. And I want to refresh your mind for just a moment or two on those first few verses.
Verse 1, Revelation 4.
1. After this I looked . . . (We're not going to read the whole chapter, but just a few verses.) . . . and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
2. And immediately I was in the spirit: and . . .
What was the first thing that John saw when he yielded himself to the call of the Spirit? He saw a Throne. I said, "He saw a Throne."
2. . . . behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
3. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
I want to begin tonight just a little bit of a study for the next service or two . . . not sure what we'll do in the morning just yet . . . concerning the Throne.
And the reason why is because while we were in Jerusalem . . .
And you know, there's no way in the world we could go back . . . and with new people on the hookup and so forth, there's no way we could go back and get everything that we've been jumping into the last three services since we've been home.
But God gave us some very special revelations while we were in Jerusalem. And one of those revelations was concerning the importance of the Throne.
You see, we understand that from the Throne . . . God's government, His authority, moves forth from His Throne. It's a symbol of His government. It's a symbol of His authority. It's a symbol of God's administration.
But it's more than that because we read that John was called to come before the Throne.
And the Lord revealed while we were in Jerusalem that . . . The whole thing started at the beginning of the year when the Lord said, "I have an appointment with you . . . through those four Living Creatures, I have an appointment with you in Jerusalem."
And you know, that's a special thing, but it's not a lot of detail. It's kind of a general thing. And it made us extremely nervous because we didn't know at what time, and how it would be, and what we would see, and where we would be, and how these things would unfold.
And it started unfolding in just little phrases of revelation that would drop down into our spirit - maybe one, one day and the next day, a little something would add to that. And then the next day, something would add to that.
And then there were the two night visions that we briefly talked about last Saturday night and last Sunday morning.
Sister Nancy has sent out an update that has caused a lot of interest. We've been getting e-mails from people here that the e-mail was forwarded to, and they have written.
And I guess more than anything else, it's confirmation upon confirmation upon confirmation that God is speaking to people that are focused. And our attention in this hour cannot be on this earth.
We've got to set our affection on things above. And until we do that, we're going to keep getting knocked down, and we're going to keep getting tossed about, and we're going to keep getting distracted and sidetracked in what the Lord is calling us to do.
But I believe that there's a call going forth in the Spirit even tonight that says, "We must make up our minds, we must make a conscious effort, to discipline our thoughts, to bring our thoughts under control to the Holy Spirit, to refuse to think on those things that do not edify and build us up in the Holy Ghost.
We've got to make up our mind that we're not going to get in other people's business. We've got to make up our mind that God has something better for us than taking care of everybody else's stuff.
(Help me now.)
You see, it's not just John that had an appointment before the Throne. It wasn't just Brother Shelley that had an appointment, or Brother Branham, or any of these other people that have had these heavenly experiences.
But I believe that God has an appointment with each and every one of us in heavenly places. We may not physically leave this building tonight, but how many of you know just sitting in the Presence of the Lord, we can soar into heavenly places in Christ Jesus. It's not a physical relocation. It's a spiritual relocation.
I like the words to that old song that Brother Enzo started with tonight. "Until then, my heart will go on singing . . ."
But I like that part that talks about "the soul of man is like a waiting eagle, and when it's released, it's destined for the sky."
I want you to know you don't have to wait until your soul leaves your body tonight to let your spirit and your inner man soar into heavenly places to receive that revelation and that overcoming anointing that has been promised for us in this hour.
How many of you want an overcomer's anointing?
You've got to have it. You're not going to get it here. You're not going to get it focusing on this life. You're not going to get it caught up in the things around you.
The only way you're going to receive that portion that Brother Branham said was reserved for the end of this age, that overcoming portion, hallelujah . . .
Someone wrote an e-mail this week and they said, "I cannot fathom . . . I couldn't get it like I really wanted to get it. I knew there was something in that flying eagle anointing. I knew there was something in that. I heard those messages, but I didn't quite get it."
"But when I heard you tell what the apostle Paul said in that night vision concerning the fact that he was almost to the point of laying it all down . . ."
Nobody in here's ever been there before. But you see he already had a reputation among the Jews. And it would have been relatively easy for him to have slipped back into the lifestyle that he had become so accustomed to.
He could have gotten rid of a lot of persecution. He could have gone through the rites of repentance. And he could have been sort of re-accepted into mainstream Judaism.
And I got this revelation that he was so weary, and so beat down, and so discouraged, and so ready to give up that he almost would have just slipped back, sort of into the shadows of where he had come from.
And his testimony to me in this vision was, "In that moment that I almost gave up I was overcome by such an anointing, such a Presence and an anointing to overcome. And I knew that I could not give up. I could not go back. I had to overcome."
And when you . . .
This person who wrote the e-mail said, "If Paul went through that, then I don't have to beat up myself when I've been in that same place where I almost would have said just let me be a church member. Just let me sit on the pew. Just let me be one of the crowd.
"I don't want to give up on the Lord. I don't want to give up on Jesus. I don't want to give up on serving God. But I sure would like to get out of any kind of active ministry. I sure would like to come to a place where people aren't depending on me and counting on me. I'd just kind of like to relax a little bit."
Perhaps you've never felt that way.
But it's in that moment, if we allow ourselves to be pulled up a little bit higher than this sphere where we're living right now, if we would allow the Holy Spirit to transport us from this dimension into a higher realm, just stand for just a few moments before the Throne of God . . .
It's not about what you see and it's not about what you hear, but it's about what you allow Him to impart into your life.
One divine impartation from the Throne changes a lot of things. It doesn't just change perspective, it can change ambition. It can raise your level of determination. It can give you more strength. It can do so much. "Just five minutes . . ." Granny used to say. "Just five minutes in the Presence of the Lord can make everything all right."
How many of you have ever experienced just that? You get home and the dishes are still in the sink and the bills are still on the desk.
It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it changes you. And when you're changed, you just seem to face your circumstances with a different attitude and with a different spirit.
And that's where the Bride of Jesus Christ is headed to immediately - immediately.
You see, when we preached here the other day about that THUS SAITH THE LORD . . . When I saw Brother Branham in that night vision, all these different messengers, and received a little Word, and then come down . . .
And when Brother Branham said, "THUS SAITH THE LORD is about to come in and all other voices are going to be silenced," I knew that's what I needed.
I knew I didn't need another prophecy. I knew I didn't need somebody else to tell me what God wanted to do in my life.
I knew I didn't have to sit in a service ever again and pray, "Lord, let him speak to me. Lord, let him prophesy to me. Lord, let him tell me about my problem."
I knew that when THIS SAITH THE LORD comes in to the Bride of Jesus Christ, then all those other lying vanities, all of those other voices of discouragement, all of those other voices that cause our circumstances to cry out, all of that is silenced.
And our focus immediately shifts from where we are right now into another realm before the Throne where all of God's government issues from, where all of His administration, everything that God is doing in the earth . . . it issues forth from the control room of heaven.
And the control room of heaven is His Throne. It's the symbol of God's will revealed. It's the symbol of knowing God's heart. You can't worship Him like you want to worship Him until you have an understanding of how He wants to be worshipped.
There are still too many people trying to do it their way. There are still too many people that don't understand what praise and worship is. And they think they can just do it their way and it's acceptable to God.
But when you get into the place where we've been coming to lately, any old thing . . . it just ain't going to do it any more. Any old song, any old style, any old way that we've always done, it just seemed like it's not enough any more.
We want to know the heart of God. I want to know what God wants from me. I want to know what I can say, what I can do, and how I can live that will bring honor and glory to Him. And in order to really know Him and to know what He desires, to know what He longs for, there's only one place in the world I'm going to hear that.
There's only one place in the world that that's going to be revealed in the whole universe, in all the universes of universes. There's only one place where God's mind is revealed in this hour. And that's before His Throne.
We'd better come before His Throne like the priest who prepared himself on the Day of Atonement. He was kept up all night long. He wasn't allowed to sleep the night before the Day of Atonement.
Seemed to be like he would be more likely to make a mistake if he hadn't had any rest, but that's not what they were thinking.
They were thinking that possibly he would dream a dream in the night that would defile him, he would have a thought in the night that would make him impure.
And it was a dangerous thing to go into the Holy of Holies with an impure thought or with some sin or some blemish in your life. So they keep him up all night discussing the Law, and speaking of the things of God, and preparing himself.
And we don't have time to talk about it tonight, but you know there were several garment changes that took place.
We were just a few days ago, again, at the Temple Institute in Jerusalem. We had a little tour. I've been many times now. We had a little tour. A beautiful young American Jewish girl took us through. She was so smart and so informative. And she had such a sweet spirit about her. And she took us through.
I remember being there when the breastplate of the High Priest had just been introduced to the public. I remember seeing it with these brothers in 2002 when it had just first been crafted. Took hundreds of hours of preparation and research because they wanted to find out which stone to use to symbolize which tribe.
And maybe you haven't noticed that you just can't turn to chapter so-and-so and verse so-and-so and find out what kind of stone represented what tribe.
So they had to do all kinds of research to find out what were the precious stones in the time of the Bible, and what's the meaning of each name and the character of each stone.
And, rabbinically, there was like seventy-something different interpretations of which stone to use. And these men . . .
Today this sounds mysterious. Sounds like something that would happen in Bible days, but they've spent hours and hours determining . . .
And I remember seeing it for the first time - how beautiful it was, how special they have prepared it so that the High Priest would be able to wear it in the Third Temple when the Temple is rebuilt.
And now, when we went back this time . . . I remember going back another time, and it was all sewed onto the ephod. And now everything is in place.
They're called the "Golden Garments of the High Priest." And the whole outfit that the High Priest would have worn in the times of the Bible has been re-crafted, re-woven. Special dyes went in to dyeing the thread, the yarn. And it had to be woven in a special way.
And it's beautiful. It's royal. A real gold crown on his head engraved in Hebrew, "Holiness unto the Lord." And everything now has been woven together. It's like a vest that goes across his back.
The breastplate in the front and the britches, the linen britches that go underneath, have been made. Everything is in order for this High Priest to wear one of these days.
You become a little bit overwhelmed when you think about their dedication to get it exactly right. So much effort and so much detail. And you think about how sloppy Christian people are when they're doing things in the Kingdom.
They're doing all of this because they want to restore Temple worship as God revealed it.
Of course, you know the Ark of the Covenant is missing. And that's another story altogether, isn't it? But they're not worried about it. That's not stopping them. They're going to have everything ready. Everything is in order. Everything is as it should be.
I'm going to leave a thought there that I wanted to make, and I'm going to say that . . . Remember that Moses was transported spiritually before the Throne of God. And he saw what it looked like before the Throne. He came down to earth. He described what he had seen.
And God raised up craftsmen who could make each implement crafted just like Moses saw it. That's just like God. When He gives a vision, He adds the support necessary. He brings in the gifted people that are necessary to bring that vision to pass. That's like God, isn't it?
Come on, now. And it was built just like that.
Then Solomon's Temple, the Temple that Herod rebuilt or remodeled . . . We know all those different things. But do you know what the Ark of the Covenant was fashioned after?
Did you know that the Ark of the Covenant was fashioned after the Throne that God was sitting on? The Ark of the Covenant was an earthly representation of the Throne. These two cherubims were placed on the Mercy Seat that was the lid of the Ark of the Covenant. And that's where the Blood was sprinkled. And I want you to think about that only once a year . . .
Now, I recently saw . . . I never thought of anything like this before. But I recently saw that in the Temple, there were times that things needed to be repaired. And they have found in the oral writings, things that were passed down orally and then recorded in writing, that they created a special basket like a cage.
And they had a special pulley system in the top of this Holy of Holies that they would literally let specific special, sanctified, holy craftsmen to go in sometimes and repair or fix tile that was broken or something inside of there.
But they weren't allowed to go in through the veil, under the veil, or the veil could not be parted. They had to be dropped in from the top. They had to finish their work. There were all kinds of rules, restrictions and regulations put on them. And they were taken out.
And according to this history, oral history, they didn't die. They went in for a purpose. They went in for a specific reason. They were brought out. But they had to be dropped in from the ceiling . . . (That's so strange, isn't it? We're talking about several thousand years ago now) . . . in some kind of cage-like thing.
Because only one day a year could the High Priest go in under the veil. And this beautiful garment that I just described, all of these beautiful stones . . . (How many of you have seen some of it?) . . . these beautiful stones . . .
And remember, on either shoulder were onyx, big beautiful onyx stones, the Bible talks about, plus the stones, plus the breastplate, the Urim and the Thummin in behind. All of these things were called "The Golden Garments of the Priests."
But when he went into the Holy of Holies and stood before the Ark of the Covenant, which was the earthly representation of the heavenly Throne, he could not wear his crown of gold. He could not wear his onyx shoulder stones. (There it is, minus the crown. That's just the turban.)
He couldn't wear all of those garments. (That's the actual garment that has been recreated.) All of that had to come off. And the only thing that he could wear was a simple white shift or tunic.
It was loose, free flowing, and went straight down to his feet. And it had to fall in a special way that a portion of his . . . the top of his foot was covered. Everything had to be just right.
But here is what God kind of placed in my spirit. You know, God loves beautiful things. And God went to such meticulous design to make this beautiful thing.
And yet when He called the High Priest in on the Day of Atonement into the Holy of Holies, he had to lay aside the golden crown. He had to lay aside this beautiful breastplate with all these precious stones.
He had to take off the blue ephod and this beautiful vest. And all these other things had to be laid down. He could only go into the Holy of Holies with a simple white garment on. Because when you stand before . . .
Listen, somebody. When you stand before the Throne of God, you don't want to go in with your golden garments on. You don't want to go in taking glory for yourself. You don't want to distract anything from the focus of what's coming from the Throne.
You want to go in pure. You want to make sure that you've been up all night, and you haven't been defiled with dreams, and you haven't filled your mind with Hollywood, and you're not perverted by all the filth and garbage that comes before our eyes every day.
You want to know that you've been sanctified anew, afresh - a fresh sanctification. You want to know that you've been immersed. He had to go into the mikvah. He had to be immersed.
And listen. He went in . . . This is even more serious than that. He had to go in naked. He had to go into the mikvah naked because this water was a symbol of purification.
Just a few days ago, I stood with my family and those that were with us and we looked over the ruins of the mikvahs - the mikvahs that are at the Ophel, which is the southern end of the Temple Mount just in front of the triple Huldah gates.
There were double gates and there were triple gates - that people walked up those staircases, went into those gates and up onto the Temple Mount. And before they could climb those steps, there were the mikvahs.
They found even a special mikvah there, unlike any they've ever found before . . . For even the pots and pans were brought at Pesach time, Passover time. Even the pots and pans had to be immersed in this water.
I've told you before that when the priest would go into the mikvah, he would . . . I've mentioned about women . . . Because you know at least once a month women also had to go in and for other reasons, other seasons of special dedication, wanted to draw closer to the Lord . . . they would go to the mikvah. And even to this day, all over the city of Jerusalem there are active mikvahs.
And each one of these mikvahs . . . there's an old woman for the women when it's a woman's mikvah. There's an old woman there who is called an attendant.
And it's her job to make sure that when the woman goes into that water, she doesn't bump against the wall, she doesn't accidentally scrape the wall with her body, with her leg, but that she goes in and that nothing is between her and the water - no garment is between her and the water.
And she dips down. She bends herself at her knees down under the water and says a blessing to God. And if she has long hair, as most all of the religious unmarried Jewish girls have, it's the attendant's job to push the hair down under the water because the hair floats up, you know.
When the woman goes down, the hair is floating on the top. And the attendant is there to push the hair down. Nothing can be a separation between this worshiper, this woman, and the water that's a symbol of purification.
When she comes out, she's handed a towel that's special and she's guided out up the steps. In fact, she goes in one set of steps and comes out another set of steps.
Look at all the types. And she can't brush the walls. She's got to be careful that she stays right in the middle of the staircase. Kind of like Brother Branham told us about the middle of the road.
Funny thing about the middle of the road, you can often get run over if you stay in the middle of the road. But it's still where we have to be.
Brother Branham said, "The middle of the road is the highest point of the road." It gets lower toward the edges. And that's so that when the rain comes, it washes all the filth into the gutter.
So he said, "We have to live our lives in the middle of the road." God, give us that proper balance.
Do you know that's what a lot of people are missing in the Bride of Christ? We're missing the balance. "God, give us balance."
I believe He wants us to be balanced - not fanatical, not legalistic - balanced. And I believe the balance is revealed from the Throne.
If you want to know God's balance for your life, you've got to find yourself before His Throne. You've got to figure out how to get there. And we've got to get there in a hurry because we're going to be transformed in this hour by the full knowledge of God.
We just made it through that pyramid a few weeks ago. (I'll hurry.) We just made it through that pyramid a few weeks ago.
We talked about all of those virtues that we are to be born into. We came to that word "knowledge." We study it out a little bit, and we find out it's not "gnosis." It's not a general knowledge - you know, someone who is a jack-of-all-trades, but a master of none. They know a little bit about everything, but not a whole lot about anything particular.
This is not how we're going to stand before God in this hour. We're going to have to have more than a general understanding or a general knowledge of Him. We're going to have to have a full revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I mean bigger . . . (Listen) . . . bigger than what a lot of people have thought about, bigger than what a lot of people have prepared for.
We're going to have to come before His Throne, and we're going to have to see Him as He really is.
Another type of the very same thought is that our Lord died that way. He died naked. He died exposed. It was to His shame that He died that way. It was to shame Him. It was to reproach Him. It was to mock Him further.
But it was a symbol. It was a type that even as our Lord left this world naked with nothing to hide Him, this is how we're going to enter into the Presence of the Father - naked, no mother to hide behind, no husband to hide behind, no wife to hide behind, no excuses to hide behind, all things exposed and naked, revealed before God.
I mentioned here, I think it was Tuesday night, that a brother said to me on the telephone, a preacher friend . . . He said, "I'm going through a crisis."
He said, "My meetings are . . . We're seeing more success in our meetings than we have ever seen in our entire ministry. People are being ministered to. God is showing up. Wonderful things are happening.
"It's not about the ministry. It's not about the meetings. It's about me."
And I said a few words to encourage, try to encourage. And he said, "I, I . . ."
I said, "Well, just explain a little bit."
He said, "Well, here it is. Here it is. Here it is in a nutshell."
He said, "I've made up my mind that I'm tired of preaching John 4 and not doing John 4."
He said, "I sometimes say I'm not going to preach it any more until I can do it."
I like that. This is a very, very successful minister.
"Do you just do it anyway?" Because he said, "I see plenty of people just do it anyway. Do you know what I mean? Or do you just stop and say, 'I've got to have it for myself. I've got to have it for myself.'"
You see, brother, sister, you just . . . It's like . . . You're not going to fool everybody. The hype that has invaded the Pentecostal and Charismatic world, all the hype . . . it's not going to fool everybody.
Everybody is not going to be fooled. There are some people that say, "Oh, just get me to somebody. Just help me to find somebody, somewhere, who is doing John 4."
I mean the real one, the THUS SAITH THE LORD that silences all other voices, that sets everything in order.
Oh, yes. That's what God wants to do. It's on the way. I am thoroughly one-hundred percent convinced that it is on the way.
I believe it's already been released out of heaven. All we're waiting on now is an impartation and the sealing of the impartation. We're waiting on God just to impart it into our lives and then seal what He has done so this work can go on. I mean His work in the earth.
You're nodding your head. Of course, you're not helping me much tonight. The last three services you've done well. Tonight, you're just tired, I guess, or I'm just not in the flow for you. You're nodding your head and saying a little amen, maybe a little . . . Maybe you feel a little obligated to. I'm not interested in that.
I'm not interested in your courtesy amens. What I'm interested in is one person in this house who would leave here with a determination, "I'm going to get myself in a position to stand before the Throne of God. God has a Word for me in my life, and I need it. I want to hear it."
There is revelation that I need in my life right now and I want it. And I'm not going to depend on anybody else to get it for me. I'm going to find myself somehow in the Presence of God before the Throne.
We've convinced ourselves that we know the will of God, and we've . . . some of us have never been before His Throne.
Until you go before God, you don't know the will of God for your life. It's from the Throne, it's from the control room, that the will of God is revealed. That's where the will of God is revealed ? before the Throne.
How many of you want to know His perfect will? I want to know that.
Let me read a verse of Scripture here. (Just ten till eight.)
Colossians, chapter 1 (I think), verse 9.
9. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
10. That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
Look at this verse of Scripture. I found this interesting.
Look at 1 Timothy a moment, chapter 2. This New Testament will get you sometimes. 1 Timothy, chapter 2, verse 4.
Verse 3 said,
3. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior;
4. Who will have all men to be saved, and (and) to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
We've been saying, and you have, too, for years now, it's not enough to be saved. You preach that and people look at you like you're trying to add something to salvation. But it's not enough.
The only requirements of salvation are to call on the Lord. The Bible said, "If you call on the Name of the Lord, you'll be saved."
But how many of you have learned that just being saved is not enough to keep you in this hour? Just repenting and saying, "Lord, come into my life. Forgive me my sin," and being saved . . . There is something else. If you're a part of the Bride of Christ, there's something in you that's not satisfied.
And what you often do is you turn that around and condemn yourself. You don't need to be condemned tonight because you're not what you need to be.
You don't need to leave this place condemned tonight because you're not who you'd like to be or what you think God would want you to be.
But what you do need to do is determine in your mind, "I'm going to spend some time before the Throne of God. I'm going to let Him lift me. I'm going to quit doing what I do out of a sense of obligation, and I'm going to ask the Lord to fill me with that holy zeal."
Routine and ritual and obligatory behavior, you know, you're obligated . . . It will not produce the fruit of the Spirit in your life.
But letting God . . . And He will. He wants to. He wants to put that . . . He wants to fan that flame that you were singing about. He wants to stir up that desire.
He's looking for some people who will come. We've read about the treasure room of heaven. Some of you have been reading some books. Read about the treasure room of heaven. Read about all the revelation that has been reserved for the End-time. Just waiting on somebody to go and see it and bring it to earth.
We talked about those angels. I've never been a person who fixated on angels. I've mentioned angels. I've seen angels on occasion. But I've never been a person who fixated on angels.
But I tell you, my whole opinion of these creatures has changed in the last few weeks, having had an opportunity to spend a little time while I was in Jerusalem with some angels (some devils, too). It's a wild place to be, I'll tell you.
I learned so much to appreciate what God is doing. I mentioned it before, but it will bear repeating.
I saw a host of angels being trained. This is what was so hard for my little . . . You know, this wasn't in my theology exactly. But I saw these angels being trained. And they were being trained by mortal men.
The Bible said, "Man's made a little lower than the angels."
And this was very hard for me to understand - how that mortal men could be teaching angels anything. But you see, mortal men who have already gone into the Presence of the Lord, who lived their lives and served the Lord, and women who have lived their lives and served the Lord . . . they know more about overcoming. They know more about being tempted and tried than a bunch of angels that have spent their time before the Throne. Amen.
And so I saw these angels being trained by men and women who had overcome, who had fought the fight and finished the course and entered into the Presence of the Lord. And they were prepping them and preparing them.
And the Angel of the Lord that had guided me through this experience explained to me that they were graduating.
"This is a graduating class. They're getting ready to go."
He explained to me that they were going to enter into this realm in the same way that I had left this realm. They were coming in the same way.
I saw those angels ascending and descending. He said, "That's the way they're going in." It was a portal. And this particular portal hung between the New City and the Old City of Jerusalem. I looked down and recognized where I was in the Spirit.
And these angels are about to descend. And they're coming to the overcomers. I'm ready for help. I'm not going to worship them. I'm not going to pray to them.
But I'm going to yield to their assistance. I need it. I need help. I need angelic help. I need something to help me come to that place of overcoming.
And He said, "The first thing they're going to do when they get here is they're going to announce our destinies."
They're going to reveal to us by the Spirit of God what we've come to this earth to accomplish for the Kingdom.
I'm ready to hear that - tired of second-guessing. I'm ready to know, aren't you, exactly what I'm here to do.
"How are you going to do it if you don't know what it is that God wants you to do?"
And then He said, "The second thing they're going to do is they're going to reveal what our next step should be."
How many of you have ever prayed before, "Lord . . ."
I've prayed this prayer often. "God, You don't have to show me between here and eternity everything. I don't have to see it all."
How many of you have ever felt that way? That would be dumb. I feel a little embarrassed to ask God, "Show me every turn. Show me every decision. Show me every event. Show me everything for the rest of my life. I want to see it all." I'd feel stupid to ask God for such a favor as that.
Sometimes I've only needed my next step revealed. "Just show me what I'm supposed to do next. I'll be satisfied with that." Because the same angel that tells me what my next step is, he's able to reveal to me what the step after that should be.
And then I did a little study through the Bible. I'll give it to you sometime. I did a little study through the Bible and I listed all the times that angels revealed the next step for somebody. And the list was long.
For instance, there was the angel that said to Joseph, "Don't be afraid. Arise. Get up. Pick up the baby and flee to Egypt."
There was the angel that came to Gideon and said, "Thou mighty man of valor, get up and go. Now is the time."
There was the Angel of the Lord that appeared to Hagar and her son, Ishmael, and told her what to do - "Get up and go."
On and on and on and on through the Bible, God has sent angels sometime to reveal what the next step should be.
And when God reveals what the next step should be and you're ready to take the next step, you're moving in the will of God.
God recognizes that some of us just don't seem to be able to find our way to the Throne Room. And He said, "I'm going to help some of you. I'm going to send angels from the Presence of God (hallelujah) to announce . . ."
I like that word "announce."
Didn't Sister Weems do a wonderful job with the prayer directives this week? How would you know? Some of you didn't read them. Go home and read them again.
I sent her a note. I said, "I believe you captured the essence of the services on the weekend - such nice detail."
But there was one thing that she mentioned . . . And, of course, it wouldn't mean the same to her as it would to me because I heard it so direct.
I don't remember exactly how she worded it, but she worded something about the angels telling us, I think probably, what our destiny would be.
And I send her a note back and I said, "Would you just please use the word "announce."
There was such an emphasis in the Spirit when that was revealed to me that they were going to come and "announce."
Do you know what the difference in telling you and announcing to you is? Well, there's a lot of differences.
But I kind of got this picture that some of us are a little spiritually hard of hearing. And we've come to a place in our life where we need more than an insinuation.
We don't need an angel, or the Holy Spirit either, or a man of God, or whatever, to insinuate or imply. We need it straight.
Anybody with me now? Wow. I'm so glad that a few of you have come on board with me now. Thank you so much.
We don't need something by implication. We need it by revelation. Okay? I'm dumb sometimes, and I don't just need an inspiration. I don't just need a gentle leading, or even sometimes a nod or a prod, a nudge or a prod. But I need something announced.
I've got a feeling that God is taking us all into consideration. And some of us are going to get it loud and clear that by the Holy Spirit, God is getting ready to announce, declare, proclaim, prophesy - not imply, not nudge you in the right direction, but shout in your ear what God has determined for your life.
I want to know it. I want to know it. I'm reading the Bible. I'm reading the Bible, and I don't see this blind journey that has been preached to me. I don't see this journey in the Bible where we're bumping into this and bumping into that, led around like blind people because we don't know what God would have us to do.
I don't see that in the Bible. I see God coming by the Holy Spirit and translating Philip, picking him up out of a great revival that was going on and putting him . . .
You know, there's two ways you could look at that. You could look at that and say, "My, what a mighty man of God Phillip was. He was translated."
Or you could look at it this way - "My, what a dumb bunny Phillip was. He couldn't hear the nudging or the prodding so God just made a plan. And He came and picked him up and put him where He wanted him to go."
Either way, the results are the same. Amen? The blessing is the same. The benefit is the same. But I have been taught all my life that we just, you know . . .
Even in the Message I've heard these quotes, you know - "We're just laying in the Presence of God now, ripening in the sun. There's nothing left to do now, but wait. We're just biding our time. We're just holding on until that glorious day."
I read all that. I heard all that. That's the way I was raised in the church. But I'm finding out it's not the Biblical way. God is not shifty. He doesn't do the flip-flop. He knows His will. He knows what He wants done. He knows who is the man or the woman for the job.
The problem is not on God's part. He knows what He birthed you to do. He knows what you're called to do. He knows what you're destiny is. He was there at your beginning, and He'll be there at your end.
So the problem is not on God's part. It must be on my part. There must be some reason why I can't know God's perfect will.
Somebody said, "Well, you've got to trust. You've got to trust." Of course, we do. Of course, we've got to trust God. But I'd rather trust God in motion than trust God sitting in the byways somewhere. Hadn't you?
Okay. Okay. If You won't tell me what You would want me to do for the next twelve months . . . I have a choice.
I can sit here for the next twelve months and wait on You, or I can at least be doing something. Just give me something. Lord, show me something.
Oh, listen. It may be quiet in here tonight, but I want to tell you something. There are people in this house that are positioning their lives, repositioning their lives, because they believe that personally and corporately they're on the brink of a breakthrough.
People are setting their affairs in order because they believe that God is about to break out and do something special. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
There's a handful of people that are determining, "I'm going to find my way to the Throne. I want God's . . . I want God's government in my life."
Brother Kary, again, preached it so well while we were away. "I want the judgment of God in my life."
I have never heard that. I have never heard that preached growing up that I needed God to judge me, you know. In fact, it would be the opposite. We need mercy. We need grace. We don't want to face the judgment of God.
But you know, it's His judgment that we want to face because He loves you. He's in love with you. And He's going to judge you fairly and justly. He's going to re-order things in your life that have gotten a little out of whack.
When you face the judgment of God, you're all right because when He sees you, He sees you through that filter that Brother Branham talked about - the blood of Jesus Christ.
Can you imagine that you'd come all this way and now, in this last time, you'd be praying, "God, show me Your judgment?" What a crazy prayer. And there's people praying that. "Lord, I'm ready for You to judge me."
That song is more than a song. "You're the only reason I live."
What other reason is there? To see how many things I can gather? To see how well my name can be known? To see how big I can build my kingdom?
"You're the only reason I live."
That's what I . . . I feel it. But I want to know that that's really who I am. I want to know that that's really my deepest desire. Amen?
And if it's not, I want God to judge my intentions now. I want God to judge my will now. I want Him to judge my deepest desire now.
Musicians are coming.
Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord.
I regret that we couldn't go any farther than this, but still scratching the edges. But it's all right. God knows, doesn't He?
Let's just put our mind on Him a moment. Hallelujah.
I love it. I love it. I love what I see. I love what I hear. I love what I feel. It's just a time to be sincere, to be real before God. It's just time. That's what we've been going through. It's just time.
"Okay, here I am. Put me in place. Just reveal it. Just tell me everything that's rotten because I have to deal with it quickly. Because when my destiny is announced, I don't want to have to take time to repent and get my life in order."
I want everything in order. I want everything in . . . (Tongues)
I want everything in line so that I can just step into what God has.
(Singing:) Looking down through ages, God beheld the dying soul. Sin had brought separation, never more would man be whole. There must come a Lamb, one whose Blood alone redeems, Bringing gifts to the Father of the souls made white and clean.
When He sees me, He sees the Blood of the Lamb. He sees me as worthy and not as I am. He views me in garments made white as the snow. For the Lamb of God is worthy, and He washed me this I know.
(Maybe we should change keys.)
So He left His Holy City, traveling on to the cross. (Think about it.) Just to bridge the gulf to Glory and to rescue the lost. With His blood He entered into the Throne Room of our God. On the Mercy Seat He placed it, salvation for us all.
And when He sees me, He sees the Blood . . .
(I like this part.)
Well, He left that Holy City, traveling on to the cross Just to bridge a gulf to Glory, He came to rescue the lost. (I like this.) With His blood He entered into the Throne Room of our God. On the Mercy Seat He placed it, salvation for us all.
When He sees me . . .
Looking down through the ages, God beheld the dying soul. (That's a revelation.) Sin had brought separation, never more could man be whole. Oh, there must come a Lamb, one whose blood alone redeems, Bringing gifts to the Father of the souls made white and clean.
When He sees me . . .
(Sing one more time, would you? Think about it.)
When He sees me, He sees the Blood of the Lamb. He sees me as worthy and not as . . .
You don't have to fear the Throne. You don't have to fear the Throne. The Blood's already there. The Blood's already there. You don't have to fear standing before the Throne.
Brother Branham said, "That great veil has been torn in two. You've been invited in to the Holy of Holies."
He said, "What we need now is for that veil to fall behind us, shutting us in to the glories of God and shutting out the world."
I really believe that there is a divine mentality that's going to be revealed in our spirits where we're just going to start thinking . . .
It'll be a revelation. It'll be an impartation. But we're just going to start thinking heavenly thoughts, God's thoughts, Throne thoughts. It's going to change our attitude. It's going to change how we look at things.
We're going to realize . . . I've got a Scripture I'll share soon where the Apostle Paul said, "The sum of it . . . The sum of it is that we have a Mediator on the Throne."
That's the answer to all of it. That which comes from the Throne is the answer to everything.
We have an intercessor. We have somebody who is for us, not against us. We have somebody pleading our case. I believe it's a powerful revelation.
(Real soft.)
I believe it's a powerful revelation that some of these men of God are getting. They don't even know. Some of them don't even know what we know.
But they're getting something I think is very powerful - something that God had sort of placed in my spirit, but I would have . . . years ago . . . but I would have never known how to articulate it. I would have never known how to express it.
And God gave two people an experience at the same time. They saw the same vision in two difference places. And they saw these beautiful ancient gates - wonderful ornamental gates. And there was some writing at the top of the gates.
One of them, in the vision, focused on the writing. And never could really make it out. The other person read it. They saw what it was.
And these old ancient gates . . . they opened up. And there was such a momentum produced, almost like a suction, like a vault that had been sealed up.
How many of you know what I'm talking about - something that's been - like pressure sealed. And when those ancient gates opened up, it was like a pressure released, a vacuum seal - whomp.
One was a man, one was a woman. They didn't see each other in the vision, but they each saw the same vision. And they walked in the gates, described the gates alike.
And one of the two turned and looked up at the gate from the inside and read what it said. It said the verse that we read in Jeremiah 33:3, "Call unto Me, and I will show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."
And both of these people were ushered into a place and saw what they described as the Ancient of Days.
For a long time in my heart, I've had a desire to really place this together, this Ancient of Days - only talked about once in the Bible, in the Book of Daniel.
And you study a little bit . . . When you have a "Oneness" theology, you really . . . It's hard to place these things. Did the Ancient of Days represent God the Father. Did the Ancient of Days represent Jesus the Messiah? How is all this . . .?
But here is the thing that they started declaring.
It was God's justice that the Ancient of Days is going to reveal - His justice. I didn't say "judgment," I said "His justice." And they received this revelation.
I heard one of them tell it personally, the lady . . . tell the experience. They received this revelation that we're coming to an hour where the Ancient of Days is about to render His justice on the earth.
And every wrong . . . (Did some of you all speak about that while I was gone?) Every wrong . . . (I don't know why people look so blank, then.)
Every wrong, every injustice, every wrong thing, every wrong deed, every wrong action that has ever been carried out against the people of God . . .
There's a record of it. It's recorded.
Sixty-eight million people lost their lives. And it's all recorded. "Foxe's Book of Martyrs" doesn't begin to tell the story.
But God's Book does. He's got it all written down. Every injustice that's ever been carried out against the people of God in every age is written down and recorded.
And Daniel saw in a vision the Ancient of Days. John saw the same thing. Brother Branham preached about what He looked like - hair like wool. He said in the "Revelation of Jesus Christ Series" - ". . . like the old powdered wigs they wore as a sign of wisdom and authority upon those who could render judgment."
And that's how He appeared.
So John was seeing what Daniel saw with a different description, a different title, the seven-fold glory of this One who has been revealed.
And they said . . . (And I like it. I believe it.) . . . that God is getting ready to reverse all of those injustices that have been done against the people of God for every age - all these ages - and that His justice is about to be poured out upon those who are ordained and predestinated to overcome.
I'm one of those. I'm one of those overcomers. I'm one of those who will overcome in this hour. And all of those things, those hits, that the people of God have taken . . . God's about to release a justice on the earth. If I were the devil, I think I'd run when God starts pouring out His glory and His blessing on this generation of overcomers that's been building and building and building, and gathering and gathering and gathering all these ages.
Well, that's what he said to me in this experience, this night vision.
He said, "In the same manner that the evil of every age was gathered together into Laodicea, the most evil of all ages, in the same manner the overcoming portion, the overcoming anointing from every age - what it took in the Church Age of Ephesus, what it took in the Church Age of . . . all the way through . . . Sardis - all the way through, every one of them . . .
There was a portion that it took to overcome in that day. The prophet talked about it, typed it to the four Living Creatures. . . . Was released - a measure of that.
He said to me in this experience, "The same way all the evil was gathered together, the portions of overcoming anointing that were poured out upon the overcomers in every age have been gathered together as well. And God is about to pour that great big measure, that great big portion of overcoming anointing upon those that have eyes to see," he said.
That was his description - "upon those who have eyes to see and ears to hear."
Pray that that's you. Pray that you'll hurry up and get eyes to see and ears to hear because when God pours out that fullness . . .
It's the same thing Brother Branham said. He just called it a potion - a potion. I think he meant portion. But he was country. He said, "That 'potion' that's been reserved until the End-time."
That ought to settle some things in your life. I'm looking for it.
Somebody said, "Well, we're always pointing to what's going to be. We're always pointing to what's going to be."
I hope you don't think that that's what I'm doing now. I don't even feel the point to what's going to be. I believe it's so close.
I'd rather be labeled a fool for declaring that it's already here. It's already here. We're just waiting for the impartation and the sealing. We're just waiting, but it's already here. It's already so close.
Let's come. Let's come and stand around the front for just a moment. I know it's getting late.
(Well, it's just 8:20. My, my.)
Let's come and stand for just a few moments in the Presence of the Lord, see what God will do to touch our lives. Hallelujah.
(Singing:) "When He see me, He sees the Blood of the Lamb. He sees me as worthy and not as I am . . ."
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. How? How does God see you? How does God see you? How does God see you? He sees you how? Worthy. How does God see you? Worthy.
Did you deserve it? No. Is it something good you've done? No. Is it how nice you dressed up for tonight? No. But how does God see you? Worthy. So God doesn't want you coming to tell Him how unworthy you are. All that's over with.
And for those of you that didn't serve the Lord way back there, I did enough of that for all of you. Some of you didn't come up the way we came up, and you didn't go through that.
But I want you to know that I've told God enough times how unworthy I am that you don't ever have to tell him how unworthy you are ever again, because we were taught that that's the way we had to approach God is by telling Him how unworthy . . .
"I'm unworthy to come before You. I'm unworthy to call on Your Name. I'm unworthy that You should do anything for me. I'm unworthy."
And listen. This is kind of a kick, it's kind of a slap, when God says to you, "You are justified by faith."
When God says to you, "I have made you a new creature. I've made you a new creation. My Blood has been applied to your life. You are not what you used to be. Old things have passed away, and all things have become new."
He has made us worthy, the Bible said. Come on. So you do not get any extra grace by telling God all the time how unworthy you are.
In fact, you're undoing the work that He's trying to do in your life every time you think you have to come grovel at His feet. You're just undoing it.
Don't look at me like I've lost my mind. You're just doubting. It's really an expression of doubt. And it offends God. It offends Him.
You mean God didn't do a good job in your life? You mean God didn't really save you? You mean God didn't change you?
No, you're not what you'd like to be. But He sees you as worthy. How does God see you? And did you know there is nothing that you could do tonight that would make Him see you more worthy.
You are so worthy because He's made you worthy. You didn't do it. So don't strut like a peacock. You didn't make yourself worthy. He did it all. He paid the price.
But there is nothing that you and I could do tonight . . . If we prayed all night long tonight and came in here in the morning and had them big old bags under our eyes, we wouldn't be any more worthy than if we walked out of here tonight and said, "I thank You. It's a finished work. I'm going to go home and go to bed. Be up in the morning, ready to serve the Lord."
I believe in prayer, and I believe in all night prayer. And I believe in fasting. But if you said, "I'm not going to eat for thirty days," at the end of that thirty days you would be no more worthy than you are right now.
My God. That's how things are revealed before the Throne. You see, my brother . . .
(I know it's late. I'm sorry.)
You know what? I hate to inform you. It's really not about you.
That's what's wrong with us. That's what's wrong with Pentecostal people. We focus on ourselves. We think it's about us. It really is not about you. It's really about Him.
We keep trying to make it about us. I said, we keep trying to make it about us. But it's not about us. It's really about Him. Oh, hallelujah. I believe in holiness. I believe in dressing different. But if you put your collar up to here, and your dress was a train behind you when you walked, and your sleeves covered your knuckles, you wouldn't be any more worthy than what you are standing here in God's sight tonight.
The Blood is what's made you worthy. We dress the way we dress as a testimony of what God has done in our lives - not because we think it gets us any brownie points, or because we think it means God loves us more, or because we're any more holy than anybody else.
You know, what's the use in trying to be more holy than somebody else? Holy is holy. If God says I'm holy . . . There's no degrees in "holy." There's no degrees in "worthy." Hallelujah.
You don't want to think like this, do you? Ooh. You don't want to think like this, do you? No, because then you wouldn't have as much to worry about.
If you started thinking like this, you'd have nothing to fret about all week long. If some of you would have had this revelation ten years ago, you wouldn't look as old as you do tonight.
It's all that worrying about being lost and afraid you're going to miss it, and you're not worthy, and you don't deserve it.
It's all of that that's made us look like we look. Noxema ain't going to help us now. But I tell you what will help us - thinking right, thinking right. I'm going to think right. I'm worthy. I'm worthy because He said I was.
Let's lift our hands. We've got a lot to praise Him for right now before we leave. We've got a lot to tell Him right here in a few minutes.
Lord, I thank You tonight. I thank You that there's absolutely nothing I could do that would make me any more worthy than I am because I trust in Your grace.
You made us worthy. Oh, we're going to quit worrying and fretting over levels of worthiness and holiness. And we're just going to trust in your power to redeem.
The very word "redeem" means to be re-purchased. You've done it again. We already belong to You, and yet You came back and bought us again. Thank You for it. Thank You for it. Thank You for it . . .
Now let's praise Him. I don't feel like enough of you are praising. Praise Him with me just a moment.
We glorify You, Lord. We bless You, Lord. Hallelujah. (Tongues) Oh God, I want the mentality of the Throne. I want to think like somebody that's been in the Kingdom. (Tongues)
Come on, press in just a minute - just a minute. Press in just a minute with a high praise.
I bless You, Lord. I glorify You. I magnify You. I need You, Lord. Oh, I want to lean on You a little more. Hallelujah.
Oh, heal us. Meet every need right now as we agree together as a Body. We release our corporate faith. Oh, we just turn it loose. (Tongues)
Give us a mind transplant.
Come up higher. Come up higher. Oh, if I can just get worthy, He'll let me see a vision. Oh, if I can just get a little more worthy, He'll let me have a spiritual dream.
If I could just get a little more worthy, He'll give me more peace. If I could just get a little more worthy, I could stand before the Throne like everybody else.
You can't think that way. The work is done. It's finished. Like Brother Isaiah Brooks sings, "What more can He do? What more can He do? He's already laid the foundation. He already opened up the way. What more can He do?"
We just need to start thanking Him more for what He's already done. It's finished. It's finished, Lord. It's finished. Everything we need has been poured into us. We're just ready to see it activated. (Tongues)
Why don't you just lay hands on somebody near you right now and pray the biggest blessing you could pray over their lives?
Some need healing. Some need encouragement. Some just need a visitation. Some need something. Whatever we need, just pray something good. Pray some big Holy Ghost blessing on somebody right now.
Hallelujah. Let every fetter break, every yoke break. Let liberty and freedom flow. (Tongues) Oh, yes.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Worthy. Worthy. Come on.
(Singing:) "For the Lamb of God is worthy . . ." "When He sees me, He sees the Blood of the Lamb . . ."
You can't do it. You can't do it. You'd just as well to give up trying. Can't do it. It's done. It's already done. You can't do it. It's been done for you. (Tongues)
"When He sees me, He sees the Blood of the Lamb . . ."
(Tongues) Hallelujah. (Tongues)
Holy God. Holy God . . . Somebody just praise the Lord with me, would you? Oh my, my, my . . . Oh.
"And when He sees me . . ."
Somebody praise the Lord right now. Right now. I know we've got to go. Somebody praise Him right now. Oh. Hallelujah. Oh, we're waiting. We're praying.
We're believing for the impartation of every promised breakthrough, of every promised overcoming portion, every promise. We rise up and position ourselves right under the Word.
"When He sees me . . ."
Love one another.
"When He sees me . . ."
Really love one another. Oh, I thank You for what You're doing in us. Thank You for those garments that You're dressing us up in.
"When He sees me . . ."
We love You, Lord. We love You, Jesus. We love You, Lord.
Can we tell Him one last time tonight, "We love You, Jesus. We love You, Lord. We glory in You, Lord. Glory in You, Lord. We glory in You, Lord. Hallelujah."
Hallelujah. We just thank God for each one who joined us in the streaming even after we recognized those . . .
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