Scriptures and Key Points:
Esther 4:14 NKJV ….Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Luke 21:26 NKJV Men’s hearts failing them from fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Luke 22:39-46 NKJV …He found them sleeping from sorrow…
- This is not a time to sleep, but to press in and pray.
- Purim celebrates God intervening in what seemed to be an impossible situation.
- A spirit of Hamman exists even today.
- God can do something in a moment.
“There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens.”
1 Corinthians 16:9 NKJV For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.
- There will be obstacles even when God opens doors.
Luke 21:13 NKJV But it will turn out for you as an occasion for testimony.
Revelation 12:11 NKJV And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
Lighthouses gave guidance and bearing.
Matthew 5:16 NKJV Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
Isaiah 58:8 NKJV Then your light shall break forth like the morning…
Isaiah 43:18-19 NKJV “Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
- Our God is bigger than the obstacles and circumstances.
Hebrews 10:39 NKJV But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
Micah 4 NKJV …Many nations shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord…They shall beat their swords into plowshares…
- When the world is being shaken, it’s a time of harvest.
Isaiah 5:20 NKJV Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil…
God will do the harvest; we need to be ready to receive them.
Daniel 10:12-14 AMP Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words…
Ephesians 2:2 NKJV …according to the prince of the power of the air…
2 Corinthians 2:14 NKJV Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place.
- It’s critical for the Church to be in corporate unity of agreement in prayer and a proper posture of humility.
- The more you get the Word of God in you, the more it becomes the rhema Word of God through you.
1 Corinthians 10-11 NKJV Five sins that kept Israel out of the Promised Land: 1. Lust 2. Idolatry 3. Sexual Immorality 4. Tempting Christ 5. Murmuring
- Saʿar : gateway
- Idolatry is anything that masters our affections more than Jesus.
- Maturity isn’t based on age, but on the willingness to accept responsibility.
- Are we really following Christ or only wanting His benefits?
Revelation 2:2 NKJV …you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars…
God anoints whom He appoints.
1 Corinthians 10:21 NKJV …you cannot partake of the Lord’s table and of the table of demons.
Romans 12:1 NKJV I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice…
- Hāṭā’: to miss the mark, ʿāôn: iniquities, peša: willful disobedience
- Pressure magnifies and exposes hidden iniquities in our lives.
Psalm 51:10 NKJV Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
- To know to do right and not do it is sin.
Hebrews 12 NKJV …Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…
- It’s what we do in private that determines the power of God, or lack of it, in public.
- Sometimes it takes shakings to bring us to our knees.
Things the Church Has Had To Overcome:
- Persecution
- Periods of poverty
- Long periods of peace and prosperity
- Faith is being armed by the Spirit.
- And to have reckless abandonment to God.
Matthew 17:20 NKJV …if you have faith as a mustard seed…
- Do we trust God?
- God can move in an instant when His people posture themselves in humility and reverential fear of Him.
John 4 NKJV …Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did…lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest!…
- Look up!
- Agreement is a position of power.
Mark 5:25-34 NKJV …Who touched Me?…
- Jesus knows the difference between who is just in the crowd and who is desperate for Him.
- The letter of the Law will either produce legalism or justification.
- Deeper in consecration; higher in expectation.
Links:
- A Million Women
- The King is Summoning His Bride
- Preparing our hearts for authentic communion.
- Is The Red Heifer Prophecy Being Fulfilled?
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