Scripture reference: Haggai 1:13 (AMPC); Acts 22:14 (AMPC); Acts 11:15 (AMPC); 1 Thessalonians 2:13 (AMPC); Hebrews 3:7-8 (NKJV); Hebrews 3:9-11 (NKJV); Revelation 2:7 (TLB); Revelation 2:7 (TLB), (NLT), (WUEST), (MSG)
So you may be seated. Let’s pay special attention to these things, that are in the heart of God. We’re going to have special services with Pastor Josh and Iliana. These are very precious friends of Pastor John’s and for a long time and they’ve been wanting to come for a long time to see what the Lord is doing here. So, we’re going to have special services with Pastor Josh and his wife, Iliana. So, a high level program has been sent to you. A high level program, I like that, has been sent to you. Then this is especially what Pastor John asked us to announce. We are making announcements from Pastor John, our spiritual leader to you. Special Obedience Services in December. Pastor John asked for me to please make an appeal to you not to miss Sunday services, just because you’re attending special services. It’s something that he’s noticed that when there are Special Obedience Services that we give to God, then it’s almost like it’s enough now, I don’t have to come on Sunday because I’ve come on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday.
Well, I’ll tell you what, some of us people here are that fanatical we like, the Christians in the book of Acts. It says that they met daily in the temple. Daily they met in the temple, in breaking of bread, in the apostles’ doctrine, and in prayers, daily. We’re making progress. We’re making progress. We’re becoming that kind of people where you don’t have that cultural thinking anymore that fights with Covenant all the time, that fights against you to be seeking first His Kingdom and His way of doing and being things. Hallelujah. Oh, glory. So, that’s what he’s asked. I told you these announcements would be anointed. Glory. Don’t miss Sunday services because you attend special services.
Remind the people, in the month of December, if you have financial difficulties in getting here, please do let us know. Is that good? So, now this is the sacred time for me. My heart always leaps. I just have to be honest with you, to be honest with you. Every time I hear the word offering, my heart leaps. Every time I hear the word tithe, my heart leaps because it’s my Covenant connector. It’s me showing my God, my trust is totally and completely in Him. Every time I hear the word offerings, my heart leaps. Can you bring me my wallet please, Stefnie? Let’s take up an offering unto the Lord this morning. Thank you so much.
Pastor John sent a message right now that the Holy Spirit woke him up to watch the service this morning he’s watching now. Hey, Stefnie, Glory to God. Pastor John, welcome, welcome to be with us. We are so glad to have you with us. I’m really holding back the tears. Hallelujah. We’re so grateful because today is such a marker day. Won’t you just take…. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Thank you, Stefnie. Thank you, thank you. You can just pop that back into my bag. Wow. I knew as I always do that I would be ministering in the presence of the Lord this morning, but I did not see this coming that the Lord would wake you up Pastor John, to hear the words of beauty that He has given me to speak this morning to this house of His ways of righteousness. The ways that He has taught us in this house. Glory to You, Lord. So, do you want to just bring the offering here? Are we done with the offering? Glory to God.
Father, when we pray for this offering, we are also praying for all the tithes and the offerings that Your precious people are doing by EFT. We pray and we thank You, Lord, that You bless your people, Father. You bless Your faithful tithers. You bless Your faithful offerors. Oh, everywhere they look blessing, Lord, everywhere they look blessing. Blessing after blessing after blessing. Blessed in the field. Blessed in the city. Blessed going out and blessed coming in. Blessed in the fruit of our body. We are blessed spirit, soul, and body in Jesus’ name. We thank You for Your Covenant of provision that You have with us. Extreme providence, Father. Hallelujah. This is the Gospel to the poor, that the poor don’t have to be poor no more. Hallelujah. We know what our more is for as well in this house. We know what our more is for. Our more is for You. Not to build bigger houses and bigger barns, but our more is for You in Jesus’ name. We all say amen. Glory to God. All right. Shoe, yeah.
So, this message that I’m ministering to you today in the presence of the Lord and with our apostle watching and listening, I received this message from the Lord on Monday, the 28th of October, three days before Pastor John flew and the Lord said to me, “Sharon, do not veer off it. Do not veer off it just because you are full of many things – many things, many directions you could go in. Don’t veer off this, that I want to speak to my people this morning.” So, I’m going to just start and say to you that in every message that God speaks from this pulpit, in all the words that God speaks through a messenger, God is speaking. Whether it is on a Sunday morning, Sunday night, Tuesday night at prayer, God speaks to us. Right.
Obedience. Obediences. Obedience services. We are obedient to come to the house of the Lord. So in every message, God is speaking. I would like us to go to Haggai 1, verse 13, just this part of the scripture that the Lord wanted me to show you. It’s how He works. It’s His way in the church. It’s His way. Haggai 1 verse 13, 13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people saying. (Haggai 1:13 AMPC) And dah, dah, dah, dah, dot, dot, dot, whatever He’s going to be saying when He speaks through a messenger. This is God’s way. It was God’s way. You can take it off. Thank you.
It was God’s way in the wilderness through Moses. God sent a messenger with a message and God said to Moses and Moses said to the people. God spoke to Moses and Moses told the people. Then with Joshua, in the whole book of Joshua. The Lord said to Joshua and Joshua said to the people. It’s God’s way. When Apostle Paul came, God said to Paul and Paul told the people. God sends a messenger with a message. Just because there are messengers that are speaking their own message, does not discount you in this house to be casual about what God is bringing to this house. Because in this house, God speaks through the messenger.
Can we go to Acts 22 verse 14? I want you to have the statement that I spoke now confirmed to you through scripture that this is God’s way. Acts 22 verse 14, Amplified Bible. Please look at God’s process, God’s way. So a man came to Paul, a New Testament apostle and what was the New Testament apostle supposed to be doing? Every New Testament apostle still today has to be living like this with God. 14 And he said, The God of our forefathers has destined and appointed you to come progressively to know His will [to perceive, to recognize more strongly and clearly, and to become better and more intimately acquainted with His will]. Pastor John is supposed to know God’s will. Who tells him what God’s will is? God. God tells him first. Okay, so to know His will. Apostle Paul, spiritual leader in the New Testament church, you are to become progressively more intimately and acquainted with the will of God. That’s what God’s called you to do, to know His will. 14 …and to see the Righteous One (Jesus Christ, the Messiah). (Acts 22:14 AMPC)
Where does Pastor John see Jesus Christ, the Righteous One? In the Spirit. When he’s intimate with Jesus, intimate with the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit shows him Jesus. He sees Jesus, Who is building His church. Pastor John is to see Jesus, Who is building His church. Jesus is building His church. Unless Jesus builds the church, they labour in vain who build.
What else? What else is Pastor John supposed to do? 14 Hear a voice from his [own] mouth. Pastor John hears a voice from Jesus’ Own mouth, and he hears a message from Jesus’ Own lips. That’s what happened to me on Monday, that He gave me all of this – words. I saw Jesus. I knew His will for today. I heard words and a voice from His Own lips. A message from His Own mouth. The next verse says, and then 15 for you will be His witness Pastor John, and to all men of everything you have seen and heard. (Acts 11:15 AMPC) Everything, every voice, every message, a voice, a message from His mouth. Voice from His lips, the will of God that you know, you will then speak. You will then speak and testify of it to the people that God has called you to. That’s how God works. He definitely works that way in this church. We fear the Lord to speak, to say, the Lord, we’re speaking for the Lord and then we are not.
One Thessalonians 2 verse 13 Amplified Bible. Let’s continue to look at the way of God in this house, in this church. So Pastor John must be able to say to this Ecclesia, this church that God is building, this local church. We’re going to look at that. Pastor John should be able to say to all of you, 13 we [especially] thank God for this, that when you received the message of God. A message from His mouth and a voice from His lips. The message of God, …. which you heard from us, You welcomed it. Will close that back door, please? We welcomed it. 13 You welcomed it. Do you welcome it? Not as the word of [mere] men, but as it truly is, the Word of God. This is the Word of God that comes to you this morning through this messenger. I have no doubt about it because I know the ways of God. When I was planted in my local church, the Lord taught me that and He said to me, “Why are you sitting on a Sunday morning and you don’t care what My messenger is saying? It’s going in your one ear and out the other ear. He seeks Me during the week. He seeks Me that He may speak. He seeks to speak. You sit here and you read every other book and you listen to every other message, but you do not understand My ways. Now you will sit when My messenger comes to speak and you will take note of everything that he says because it’s Me speaking.”
So, we’re reading it. You welcome it. We are to welcome the message that comes from Pastor John, 13 not as the word of [mere] men, a [mere] man, but as it truly is, the Word of God, which is effectually at work in you who believe. These words from these messages will only be effectually at work in you who will believe. You’ll believe everything that God says. That’s Covenant didn’t Pastor John say and he believed and Abraham believed. There are things that God’s requiring for you to believe today and from today. There’s a fresh consecration that He is expecting you to make because He is wanting us as a people, as a church to be making spiritual progress, to be advancing spiritually with Him. We have not arrived. We have come a way on this journey, but we have not arrived. We’ve got a long journey ahead of us that we must walk together.
So,13 it is effectually at work in you who believe, not you who let it go in the one ear and out the other ear, exercise, it will 13 [exercise its superhuman power in you, who adhere to it. You see that. Whatever the message says, it’s got to stick to you, like adheres, like adhesive, you who stick to it, adhere to the Word and trust in it, and rely on it]. (1 Thessalonians 2:13 AMPC) Right?
So, let’s go to Hebrews 3 verse 7 to 11, New King James, Hebrews 3 verse 7. So today. Hebrews 3 verse 7, 7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says: Today, today, if you will hear His voice, today, today if you will hear His voice. Today, He wants you to hear His voice. If you hear His voice today, and you receive it, and you adhere to it and you believe it and you trust in it, and you begin to walk in what you hear today, you will have God’s superhuman power at work in your life, in a way you never could have imagined. But God has got a way for His superhuman power to be working in His children. It’s to receive the message from the messengers.
If you’re already doing that, you already have His superhuman power at work within you. Working that Word in your life. Right? So, 7 Today, if you will hear His voice, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. (Hebrews 3:7-8 NKJV) Do not harden your hearts. So, how do you harden your heart here today? You’ve already hardened your heart, you’ve already displayed your hardened heart to God by saying, “I don’t really need to adhere to the messages to that degree.” You’ve already spoken and reasoned in your mind from a hard heart. You’ve already got a hard heart. If you’ve dismissed the fact that from today you need to be making a consecration and a dedication to be listening to what God is saying and to stop it, that you think this is just a man. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it. Stop it! If you are here in this church and you’re doing that to Pastor John, then you’ve already entered into the sin of familiarity. Oh, it’s just Pastor John again. Here he comes and he’s got wonderful words. Oh my, he’s got wonderful words. Isn’t he a good teacher and preacher? Isn’t he full of wisdom? But it’s not working in you. You’ve already betrayed yourself and deceived yourself into your own deception. You’ve reasoned contrary to the Word. You’ve reasoned contrary to the Word.
So, God wants me to show you, 8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. It’s rebellion. You are in rebellion if you’re not in agreement with God’s Word that comes to you today. You are in rebellion. The rebellious live in a parched land. They live in a parched land like a shrub destitute in a desert. There’s nothing living in them. There’s no living water. There’s no living, living, living, living things living in them “⁹…Your fathers tested Me, tried Me, saw My works for forty years. ¹⁰…I was angry with that generation, And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.’” Today, God is showing you His ways, His ways in His church. How He works in His church. …They have not known my ways. ¹¹ And so I swore in My wrath, “They shall not enter My rest.”(Hebrews 3:8-11 NKJV)
So, He speaks His messages to every .… here God goes again. He speaks His message in every legitimate local church. What is a legitimate local church, Pastor Sharon? Where there’s a legitimate spiritual leader that God sent there. He is legitimate in his walk with God. He’s legitimately hearing messages from His mouth and a word from His lips. He’s legitimately seeing Jesus’ face and he’s knowing God’s will and progressively becoming more intimately acquainted with the will of God. He’s declaring what he’s seen and he’s heard. It’s legitimate.
A legitimate local church is where the people, God has called the people to him. They know that God has called them to him. They’re not sitting in the congregation, weighing up his words, “Is this of God and is this not of God.” You are not the judge in this church. You are not the judge in this church. Pastor John is accountable to God. He’s accountable to God. But if you sit there and you’ve already judged his messages coming from his mouth, as not applicable to you. Not applicable. Not applicable. There you go. You’ve exposed and showed your heart already to the Spirit realm. Right.
So, He speaks His message to every legitimate local church. Local. When Kenneth Copeland brought that word about the local church, the time of the local church, I said… Lord, church is a very powerful word to me. It’s Ecclesia. It’s those who God has called out to rule and to reign on His behalf on the earth. It’s not a commodity. It’s not what people have made church to be.” Jesus said, “My house shall be called a house of prayer. My house shall be called a house of speaking to God about things, speaking God’s Word to Him, speaking to Him about things that matter to Him.” We matter to Him. We are His priority. His Covenant is His priority. His Covenant with us. Right?
Local means, the etymology of the word means pertaining to position, confined to a particular part of the body. So there’s the body at large of Christ, but then there are those that are confined to a particular part of the body. Pastor Garth was just saying to me that people don’t like local. “Don’t give me local family. Don’t give me local church. Give me global.” Part of the global, but local is what God … I said, “God, you have to show me what this word local means.” It’s limited to a particular place. Webster’s says about this word local, I think it’s 1838 Webster’s, where words had their origin. This place local means pertaining to a fixed portion of space, limited to a spot. We are here as a spot in Witbank. God called Pastor John here. We are in this place, we’re positioned and we’re in this spot, right? Characteristic of a particular place, not broad or widespread or general. Most of the Body of Christ live in the general and the widespread. They think everything in the Bible pertains to them.
Yet they go from place to place, they hop from place to place. They’re not in a particular place that God has called them to. Right. They’re widespread. “Yeah, I’m part of the Body. I’m part of the church global. I’m part of the Body at large. I can listen to anything I want to. I can watch anything. I can read anything. Everybody does. So I will too. Don’t confine me. Don’t confine me to a local church. Don’t tell me there’s power in that. I want to church hop. I want to go where I want to go. I want God to be who God wants to be on my terms, not according to His Word.”
When I saw the power of local, the specific part of the body and what it meant local church is an Ecclesia called out to a particular part of the body, called out to collectively govern and be the vehicle through which God’s Kingdom keeps coming on earth as it is in Heaven. That is happening in this church big time. If you don’t have eyes to see it’s because you’re not looking and you’re not listening. You’re not stepping up into the realm of the Spirit. You don’t actually realise what effectual working is happening in this Ecclesia that Jesus is building, through these messages that He is leading and guiding us by. What impact we are having in the Spirit realm. We are having impact in the Spirit realm. I must say something right here and right now. Pastor John has been on a missions, cross borders missions trip. God sent him to America to speak to America. He went, he has spoken to America. I said, “God, but who heard?” He said, “All of Heaven heard. I heard. Jesus heard. The Holy Spirit spoke My words through Him while He was there.” Speaking, speaking, speaking, speaking, speaking with no body listening. No body. Your bodies are sitting here. No body listening. I saw it, and I got it. That everything that he has spoken to America, that he has begun to speak to America is already, God is already working with those words. They are already reverberating and resounding in the realm of the Spirit. God does not see as man sees.
He spoke to Ezekiel to speak to bones, and there was no body that listened and heard and was present to listen to Ezekiel. No body. All of Heaven, because they were God’s words that God sent Ezekiel and told Ezekiel to speak. It has already begun. It has already begun in the Heavenly realm. Right?
So, the church, Revelation 2 verse 7. I want you to see this. Revelation 2 verse 7. 7Let this message, TLB. Oh, Jesus. Praise You, Jesus. Yoh, Lord. Glory to God. It’s just, it’s like fire shut up in my bones, people. Let me see if I can go more quiet. Okay. Right. The Living Bible says this. So when you; if you want to see an example of the local church, then go to the book of Revelations and see how Jesus writes a letter to Ephesus, He writes a letter to Thyatira, to Smyrna, to Philadelphia, to Laodicea, Thyatira. He writes a message to a local church and all the messages are different. Every message that Jesus brings to our Ecclesia is pertinent to us. It pertains to us in this locality, geographic locality, which is how God uses an apostle; relationally and geographically with revelation that we have access to, to lift us up into the realms of the Spirit, all of us, as sons of God.
So, this is what the Spirit of God says at the end of every letter. This morning, a letter is being written here. The Spirit of God is endeavoring to write what I’m saying on the tablets of your heart. He’s endeavoring to see whether He can engrave this message today on your heart so that you will begin to live differently. 7 “Let this message sink into the ears of anyone, let this message sink into the ears of anyone who listens to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. (Revelation 2:7 TLB) The NLT, 7 “Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what He is saying to the churches. (Revelation 2:7 NLT) The WUEST translation, 7 Let him hear at once what the Spirit is saying to the assemblies. (Revelation 2:7 WUEST) The Message Bible, 7 “Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words. Why is He calling it Wind Words? Jesus said to the people, His disciples, “The words I speak to you are Spirit and they are Life. The words I speak to you. So, if you receive them, not as the word of a mere man, but as what it is, the Word of God and you receive it and adhere to it, it will exercise its superhuman power within you.” 7… the Spirit blowing through the churches. (Revelation 2:7 MSG)
So, be beholding the journey. This is how God leads us. You will have noticed, if you are fairly new in this church, you would have noticed very quickly how God leads us in this church, what the ways of God are in this church. God is just wanting to bring it to all of our attention again.
Be beholding the journey. We are on a journey as a church. We’re on a spiritual journey. The way the people were on a spiritual journey with Moses, on a spiritual journey with Joshua, on a spiritual journey with the Apostle Paul. When Paul would write a letter to a church, then when he wrote again, he would have a follow up letter of what he already has said.
He speaks to us in His order. The messages that come here from this pulpit come in His order and His sequence. He has an order and He has a sequence in which He brings messages to us. It was one of the main reasons where when Pastor John came into the full-time ministry, I said to the Lord, “What is my part?” He said, “It’s no different from how you were when you were planted in your local church. You will listen to the words of the messenger. You will meditate on them during the week like you always did. Then whatever else there will be for you to do what Pastor John says for you to do, and if you’re going to step into your teaching gift, it will be on the back of you being full of what I’ve said through My first messenger.” I’ve done that for 24 years. I’ll never stop doing it.
I remember the first time I walked down this aisle with my book, because I then understood the seriousness for me to be right with God, that I better listen to Pastor John on another level. If I’m going to go on the back of him. I better listen to him on another level. I had a transparent file here. On the spine of the file, I had, “The Apostle’s messages.” So what I began to do is I began to transcribe, instead of making key points, which my journals are full of Sunday mornings that my pastor preached, I began to transcribe the messages for myself. It was in my heart. So, I yielded. It was in my heart. So, I just started filing all of the transcribed messages. I walked down this aisle, I think, and I was showing the people the spine of what, “Look what I do. Look what I do with the apostle’s messages. Look what I do.” I opened my file and I showed them all the pages. People looked at me as if I crawled out of a piece of real stinky cheese. Really? Some of you all were here and looked at me like that too.
Now we have every message that ever comes here transcribed and on the website. I still work with paper. So, here is my latest file, and it’s got on my latest file, From Vision, part one of Ultimate Impact, and what’s imaginations? Boundless, Limitless. This is my file with all of the messages from that time. I have my Crossover file. I have my Reset file. I have all of the messages transcribed in sequence and in order as God has brought them to me. This is God speaking to me. Not because I am with Pastor John in the full time ministry because I am a disciple. I’m a disciple. I’m a disciple. I’ve chosen my level of discipleship. I do this because I’m a son of God because I love to do this. All right.
Pastor John brings God’s message to us in order and in His sequence. We’ve been on a journey. So the message is full. Pastor John brings messages from the Lord, from His mouth, from God’s mouth. He brings the will of God to us. He’s seen Jesus. He’s progressively knowing in this journey. He’s progressing in this journey and he’s knowing the will of God. So the message is full of seed in it. God intends for us to take the seed in His messages to heart. There’s power in that seed to produce, it will work superhuman human energy in us. There are two primary ways of sowing seed. The one is to scatter seed. The other is what the best farmers do. They sit in the dirt of the field and personally plant the seed into the soil by hand. In the corporate setting, the members, all of you are His field. Your personal heart is God’s field. There are things growing in your heart. Whether you like it or not, you’ve spoken words and seeds are growing in your heart, whether for life or for death. But God wants my mouth to speak only Your Word. My eyes behold only Your Word. My ears hear only Your Word. My faith comes from Your Word. Hallelujah.
So, teaching and preaching the message as I am this morning, the voice of God’s lips and the message from His mouth is going out. It’s coming out of my spirit by the Holy Spirit out. This is really happening in the Spirit. Whether you know it or not, it’s really happening in the Spirit. And God is saying, “How’s My Word going to land? Where’s My Word going to land? What kind of soil is it? Is there soil here? Is there soil here so that My Word may not return to Me void?” Teaching and preaching the message by hand or by mouth, sowing the seeds by mouth in an organised orderly fashion. This is what discipleship is all about. Personally planting the seed, covering it with protection, watering it, pouring fertiliser onto it to ensure its growth. Messages from God to a specific local church because God is not a haphazard God. Messages are to be organised, have continuity and flow from previous messages. I’m so grateful for that. I know where I’m going. I know what I’m sowing. I know what I’m knowing. Hallelujah. Glory.
He’s not a haphazard God. It’s organised. The messages have continuity and flow from previous messages linked with a series of messages to follow. On the other hand, disjointed messages. A message here and a message there and boom, another new subject again and another often confusing God’s people. We all need help to keep our lives in spiritual order. The more orderly the field, the easier the harvest. Right. That’s why He said to me, “Whatever you do in your calling will not be disjointed from Pastor John, not boom, another new message.” This is His plan and this is His beautiful order.
So, I’m going to just read this to you now. Hallelujah. That’s what He spoke to my heart, Sharon, but He speaks this to your heart this morning now. Be beholding the journey, Sharon, Heritage of Faith field, hearts that have God has called you to Pastor John. Be beholding the journey you are travelling with Me. Keep proceeding, keep advancing, keep progressing, continue in motion for promotion from Me. I am with you. Forward, onwards. I am writing living letters to you, Heritage of Faith Church. I’m speaking to you, My voice in endless flow upon the waters. Wave after wave it rolls. My living voice is proceeding and who is heeding? He who heeds is the one who proceeds. I am leading. My Word is proceeding. I am creating My will here, as in Hebrews chapter 3 and 4. He was creating His will. Hebrews chapter 3 and 4 is full of God speaking to the Israelites in the wilderness and how He kept speaking to them and they did not believe, they did not receive. So, they did not exercise the word that God spoke. They hardened their hearts because every day was a today that they didn’t listen. They hardened their hearts as in the rebellion in the wilderness. Right.
I’m creating My will here as in Hebrews 3 and 4. It’s not difficult. He said. He’s been saying to us, it’s not hard for you to do this, for you to give attention to every message that comes from God here in this house. It’s not hard for you. It’s just not your priority if you’re not doing it. If you are doing it, it is your priority. You will always make room for yourself for what’s your priority. You will always make room for yourself for what’s your priority. You’ll always have time for what you make your priority for yourself. But if your priority is toward God as a disciple, don’t say to me, “It’s easy for you, Pastor Sharon, you don’t know the life that I live.” I was living this life when Pastor John was in the business world and I had plenty of other things that I could prioritise my life with.
So, I am creating My will here. Deuteronomy 30, the Word is near you. It is not difficult for you. It’s not hard for you to give My messages your attention. For My church, this is My house. Don’t lose your spiritual sight. He is building here, present continuous building. He is planting here, perfect present continuous planting. He is giving seed to the sower. The sower is a knower. The sower knows that the seed is Word. The sower knows that Spirit and life seed is incorruptible. The sower is a knower. The sower is a sower. The sower therefore is a sower, a planter and a grower, a not letting goer of the words of God. The sower is a holder of set seed in the heart and in the mouth. A sower is a follower. A follower is a listener and obeyer of My voice. It is the crossover and the going-in way. The move of the Holy Spirit, My people are crying out for a move of the Holy Spirit. No, no, I am moving with My messages in your mouth and in your heart. That’s how I move. What is the Lord saying? Move with the messages in your mouth and in your heart. I am moving like this. What is the Lord saying? Listen, He is leading. Hallelujah. Glory to God.
So, today, the Lord said to me that He is requiring from the people that know that they are called to Pastor John. He is requiring a new fresh consecration and a dedication to Message Moments. That’s what Message Moments are, you have moments with God in the message. Message Moments didn’t come because of anything else other than everything that God has taught you here this morning. Message Moments. Because Message Moments are going to start up again, it’s very heavy on the heart of Pastor John. We had Message Moments every Sunday afternoon from 17h00 to 18h00. Now part of the vision that Pastor John has brought from the Lord for us is to touch people with the Gospel, touch people on their level, that are not actually wanting this level of discipleship that you are here for this morning. They’re not ready for it.
If you’ve been with us for any length of time, you should be quite getting ready for this level of discipleship. But it’s heavy on Pastor John’s heart that we do not let go of Message Moments personally with us. Can I tell you why? Because all of those among us, I know of some. All of those among us that have had their moments with God, that are on a regular basis having their moments with God in the messages, are becoming what the messages intend you to become. You are becoming, because you’ve put it in you, you’ve meditated on it, and you can be assured that you have become and are becoming. We’re going to continue to become sons of God on the same page as God, in sync, in step, in time, in tune with Him through His messages. That’s how He keeps us on the same page as He is on.
Every Sunday is a true north for you again. Every Sunday is pointing us. Every message has got direction in it. Where are we going as a church? Direction. This is where we’re going. Every message has correction, where you can correct, self-correct out of the messages. Every message has got, it’s searching, the Word that God speaks is alive and full of power. Dividing asunder what’s soul and what’s spirit, and piercing to the very heart of you, exposing your own attitudes and your motives of your own hearts. Every time you say, “No.” To what God is saying here, you expose your own heart to God. “Noted. Duly noted. Duly noted. You didn’t listen again.” So anyway. Or, “Noted. Duly noted. Look at you. Look at you, girl. Look at you, boy. Look at you, go. Look at you in My message again during the week. Look at you, feeding. Look at you, reading. Look at you, feeding. Look at you speaking. Look at what you’re sowing, what you’re growing. Look at you becoming. Look what you’re becoming.” Hallelujah. “Look at you full of My living Word. My living Word. Hallelujah. Alive in you. Alive in you.” Glory to God.
So, anybody who comes in here fresh and new because they weren’t here for Crossover, they weren’t here for Reset, they come into the presence of people that have become. They touch you because you’ve become, because you’re a disciple. They touch you because you have become, and you are becoming and this is the way that you flow in this house. They touch your liveliness, your spiritual aliveness. Then they have every opportunity to get onto that same path quickly. That’s why this church is the perfect environment for baby Christians to come into. As a family, you can take some time during the week. You can go home and start to talk about this, and hoor wat die Here vandag vir ons gesê het. Listen to what the Lord said to us today. We’ve got to be more diligent in the messages. We’ve got to see what we can take off. We’ve got to sit. Let’s sit together. Let’s talk about it. There are families already doing that in this church. Let’s see where we can self-correct. Let’s see the direction. Let’s see the revelation. Let’s see where we have to repent, change our mind, change our heart and change our lifestyle. Hallelujah.
So, God wants a fresh new consecration in two areas. Prayer meetings on a Tuesday night. Jesus spoke to Pastor John at the end of 2008. “You have to have prayer in the local church organized and established so that it can increase and intensify.” Jesus told Pastor John to have prayer meetings, corporate prayer meetings. Jesus. Jesus told Pastor John. Jesus told Pastor John. He wants you to make fresh consecration for prayer meetings and Message Moments that are going to be coming now.
So, that will mean Sunday morning. That will mean our Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. That will mean our prayer meeting on Tuesday night from 18h00 to 19h00 and that will possibly mean Message Moments set up again, possibly on a Wednesday night from 18h00 to 19h00. “Oh, you can’t be expecting me to come to so much church.” “Wow. Really?” Jesus. Lord, Lord. God has set a standard in this house and He’s not going to lower it. God has set a standard of spirituality in this house and He will not lower it. Selah. Thank you for coming to listen to what God had to say today. And I’m going to pray for you, for me. I’m included in this message today. When I speak like this, I speak, you know, I mean, if I had time, but I don’t, I would go through all the messages of key points, key points that God has given me in messages. Key points, key points in every message, key points and what He wants me to change and where He wants me to correct and everything like that. Hallelujah. Glory. But I’m going to pray for you now. And I’m going to include myself in this prayer because God wants ..…
So, what’s going to happen? Well, possibly we’re going to have for Message Moments, we’re going to have a special consecration card. I will speak to Pastor John about it. We’ll have a special consecration card for meetings, for messages in the house of the Lord to be present and not absent. “That here by today, my Father, I consecrate to be at every meeting, not going to miss a thing, not going to miss a thing, Lord, of what Your spirit wants to bring.” Hallelujah.
I hereby, because this is time for you until that card comes for you to meditate on it. Am I going to be part of the prayer meetings that Jesus wants me to be part of? Am I going to be part of Sunday mornings where Jesus wants me …. when Jesus is speaking? Am I going to be part of Tuesday night prayer where Jesus said that this church must have prayer? Am I going to be part of Message Moments that Jesus says, this is how I’m becoming? Hallelujah. Oh, glory. Am I going to be part of the Obedience Meetings or do I want to see where I can take some time off? Why? Why would you not want to give God everything? Why? Why is your culture clashing with your Covenant because you’ve got cultural things you’ve given yourself to? No, this is a time for the church to have no compromise, no compromise, but consecration because church, this church is not a commodity. It’s not commercialised this church. This church is a church that Jesus is building. Your eternal reward is directly linked to your participation in what Jesus is wanting to do here. Glory to God.
So, we will probably have a card like that, that my consecration, that it’s before God and besides, whoever’s going to be taking Message Moments, we want to know who’s consecrated to Message Moments so that we can ask you in times to come to share the Message Moments you’ve had with God during the week. God wants to know who’s going to come and we want to know who’s going to come. Hallelujah.
So, Father, we recognise – I’m praying now for you and for me – we recognise that this is a serious moment, that You wanted to say what You wanted to say today. We want to tell You, Lord, that we want to. We want to and we’re going to be giving this some thought, now, in these days, now, ahead, to whether we are going to make that consecration commitment to You or not, Lord. But it will be definitive, Father. We will say, “I’m coming,” or we’ll say, “No, I’m not coming.”
So, Father, this is before You. This is before You, Lord. Our hearts are before You, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So, I pray for us now, Father, that as in the book of Haggai when they were building, it says those who were willing-hearted. Father, thank you for willing hearts, here. Willing-hearted people. Willing hearts, Lord. Willing hearts. Willing to be made willing, Father. That’s what Your servant, Jerry Savelle, said; we come to the Prayer Meeting, we come to the Message Moments, we come to the Obedience Services, we come because we see that this is Your way for us to become. That’s why we come. We come, even when we don’t feel like it, Lord. Because what we feel like has got nothing to do with it, Lord. It’s got nothing to do with it. Our obedience, our suffering, our obedience, our suffering of our flesh and the time we want to take for ourselves and give to ourselves is what we want, Lord. Hallelujah. In Jesus’ name and we all say, amen.
Well, and the Word of God protects you. The blood of Jesus surrounds you. You are blessed going out and blessed coming in. You are so blessed. Blessed, blessed, blessed, as you consider what the Lord has said today. In Jesus’ name and we again say, amen. Bye-bye, everybody, bye-bye.
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