Scripture reference: 2 Peter 2:20-22 (NKJV); Hebrews 11:1-3 (AMPC); Hebrews 11:1-3 (NLT); Hebrews 11:3 (TPT); Ephesians 1:3 (AMPC)
Well, good morning, everybody. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory to You, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. It’s You that we love, Father. It’s Your presence, it’s Your presence with us that we appreciate. We appreciate that You will speak to us this morning from Your word and from Your heart, Lord. You will speak to us and so, Father our hearts are ready. We’re listening to Your word in Your presence, and we receive Your word in Your presence and Father, I’m ministering Your word in Your very sight, in Your very presence, Lord. And I thank You that You will speak through this vessel of clay this morning so that the faith of the people can rest in You. Rest in the power of Your words, and we thank You for that in Jesus’ name and we say, amen. Amen. We may be seated in His presence. Isn’t this wonderful to be like this in His presence?
Just, this is a…, message moment will be at 5 o’clock this afternoon. We will have message moments. For those of you that don’t know what message moments are, we have these message moments on a Sunday afternoon, mostly. Most of the Sundays, we have it, and what we do is, in this church, the disciples in this church take the previous message that was ministered like last Sunday’s message and a lot of us have it printed, and a lot of us have made notes or a lot of us will pull it up on our devices and we will go through the message that God brought to us on the Sunday. Because in this church, we really do believe that God brings us a message on a Sunday. We don’t believe that it’s the human being bringing the message. We believe that it is God by His Spirit bringing the message. And so, Pastor John and I and others that minister from here seek the Lord for His message. Right?
And then He brings the Message to us in our personal prayer time with Him, and then we bring the message. He brings it to you through us. So then, on a Sunday message moments what we do is, there will be people that have gone through the message during the week because then we go through the message during the week and then there will be people that come during Message Moments to share a very important point that really ministered to them from the message that was alive to them in the message.
And so, we encourage one another to make sure that we don’t let the Message that comes to us on a Sunday that Jesus, Father God, Holy Spirit brings to us on a Sunday, we make sure that it doesn’t go in the one ear and out the other ear. Because that’s how God has taught us in this church. God taught me and God taught Pastor John like that when we were planted in our church. Before God released us into the Ministry, we were planted in a specific church. Well, from our married life, we were planted in that church for 19 years and God taught us from the beginning.
He said, “The Pastor is bringing a message from Me, get your notebook and listen. And then go through it during the week. Make sure you get it. Make sure you got it.” And, that’s how He raised me in my church that He planted me in. And I thought that everybody in my church was doing that. You know the story but He’s leading me to tell it again. In my church, I would do that and other people would come to me, “Listen to this cassette, listen to this preacher, did you hear this preacher? We’re going to that conference, we’re going here, did you listen to this and read this book, and read that book, and read that book. “
And I thought, “Wow. You’ve got so much time.” And I remember saying to somebody one day. I said, “I don’t have time to do that. I’m so busy in the message that God brought on Sunday, that I don’t have time.” And I realized then because they looked at me as though I crawled out a piece of cheese. Vrot kaas, nogal. You know? As if why on earth would you want to remember what God said on Sunday? And so, the Lord began to minister to me and say to me, “My people are all over the place. They listen to everything, everywhere. They are like dipping into lucky packets. Let’s see what’s the most popular thing that’s going around. What’s the biggest, books biggest Christian bookseller? What’s the, what’s the, what’s the, what’s the. We must go there, We must be up to date with all the big things, and the visible things, in the whole church all over the world.” And God all the while was just saying to me, “Sharon, this is the simplicity of your plantedness. This is how easy and how simple I’ve made it for you. I plant you in a church of My choice and then I bring a message from the messenger and then you listen to what My message is to you. That’s how I grow you spiritually. That’s My plan. For every local church, that’s My plan. That’s how I will grow you, Sharon. And if there’s a book out there or if there’s something out there that you need, I’ll speak to you about that. I’ll lead you and I’ll guide you, but don’t be on…” He said to me, “Information overload. Because My people have a lot of knowledge but they’re not sitting with the message that I brought to them from my messenger and then actually saying, okay, now I’m going to do this. Now I’m going to walk in this that I learned.”
And so, when God called Pastor John and I to the ministry, Pastor John was in the business world and He called us to the church and Brother Jerry laid hands on us and witnessed with the Holy Spirit. I said to the Lord, “What do I do?” He said, “You don’t do anything different from what you did when you were planted in your church. You come to church, and you listen to the message I’m giving my messenger. I’m giving to Pastor John. You listen to it, you continue you take notes…” you know. Now what I do is I record it on my phone, but now what we’ve got is we’ve got a whole transcribing team that by Monday, Tuesday night, the whole message has already been transcribed and it’s available already on the website. That’s how easy God has made it for us. That you can pull it up and you can go through it yourself, you know? And praise the Lord. Glory to God.
But I do record it and I sit here like I always did. I don’t have a pen and paper, pencil and paper, but I have my audionote. What… app on my phone. So, I record it and then I can also type on it to make a special note that I’m used to while the messenger is speaking to me, the message of God is coming to me, the Holy Spirit will say something extra to me and I want to just get that down. Right? Like something, like, “Take note, take note, Sharon,” and then I know that when I go to the printed one that I print or, that I take note of that, that He said to me while I was listening, “Take note, Sharon.” So, that’s how I’ve grown in God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. My my my my my. How beautiful are His ways?
And so, “What is the Scripture that you’ve got for that Pastor Sharon?” Well, you can go and read in the book of Revelation where Jesus is talking. Jesus is talking to John and saying, “Now I’m going to write this letter to this church. This church at Thyatira. Now write this letter to the church at Laodicea. Now write this letter to the church at Philadelphia. Now write this letter to the church at Thyatira.” I’ve said that already. Right? “Now write this church to the church at Ephesus.” Right? There were 7 churches and Jesus had a different message for each of them. And at the end of every letter that He told John to write down, He said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit of God is saying to the church.” To your church. Not to everybody else’s church. God is growing us here together as a people with these messages. So maak Hy ons groot hier, in hierdie kerk. He is raising us like this.
He gives Pastor John and I and then when Pastor Christi and Pastor Gath come in and Pastor Melusi, he gives us messages in sequence. When Pastor John is busy with Crossing Over, I don’t come and start a new series by saying, “Okay, now we’re going to talk about baptism in water.” Our messages dovetail like this so that they can dovetail in your heart. So, that we can all grow in the Word together, as a people. That’s how you are of one mind and one heart and in one accord. It’s because we’re all talking the same, we’re all feeding the same, we’re all reading the same. We’re all hearing the same. We’re of one mind. We’re of one heart.
So, I don’t go to somebody else in another church and say, “You need to hear Pastor John’s messages, they’re very powerful.” “No, that’s their business in their church.” They have a shepherd there. The Lord spoke to Pastor John very early on when we started shepherding and said, “You don’t counsel or shepherd people that belong to other shepherds. They must go to their shepherd.” There’s this weird thing that happens in the body. It’s weird. It should not be so. Every local church is a precious church to Jesus; the church at Thyatira, the church at Lea… the church at, the church at, and there’s the Heritage of Faith church here, and then there’s um, give me the name of another church in Witbank? Here’s the New Life Church here. Right? And here’s the Heritage of Faith church here. Right? Hallelujah.
And there’s room for all those that God has legitimately called. Praise the Lord. And so we need to… this is definitely for somebody here this morning or else I would not, I was not going this way today, but the Lord wanted to bring that to you again to assure you that this is a very precious process of His that He wants to speak to every local church personally. So, the messages that come are for the people that are in that church, it’s not for somebody else out there. It’s for you. It’s for me. Right? Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
And then I love the way Pastor Christi teaches it so that if you do and you have given your attention and there is a book to read that… and you have got that time and to give that attention, that’s muscle building because you’ve already fed yourself with the right things now. Now you can read that book and have some muscle building. But you want to read things and feed on things that are one with us. You know? You don’t want to read something and then you start talking to the people in here and saying, “Oh no, you’ve got to throw oil on your walls.” You don’t want to do that, that’s not what we get taught here. Right? So, you want to read and feed off things that are in unity with what God is saying and doing with us. Right? Praise, say “Praise the Lord.” Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Isn’t this wonderful?
So, we have message moments. This afternoon at five o’clock, and that’s what that is, in case you didn’t know. Now, you know. Right? So, I’m going to continue from where I was last week because if we have a look at where we are right now, where this church is right now. We have been, from last year’s September 30th it started. Pastor John started bringing messages, and God, and we called it ‘Crossover.’ To transform. To cross over from where we are currently to take on a different state and a different condition and to be very different.
He took us through a process of revelation, of teachings, and just absolutely beautiful. You know, I was looking and going through those messages, and I’m just going to, I had a reflection yesterday. Crossover. I’m just going to read some things that I just jotted down out of the messages that we all heard. God wants a single church destroying the works of the enemy. He read from that book about the demonic army and how as an army of God, we have to be moving up the mountain and how we saw that; few are adequately trained in the Christian army and God brought transform scripture, Romans 12, which is move from one place to another, from one state to another. Trans means to go across and go beyond and surpassing and transcending and literally, moving across from appearing as one thing to appearing as a different thing completely.
I can honestly tell you, and I’m sure many of you can tell me, that in my crossover, I’m not the person I was in September last year. Right? I’m not. I had marker moments in my crossover. Right? I’m not the same person, because we were in the messages. The church and then he said here, literally moving across from appearing as one thing to appearing as a different thing. And then he said here, if the church doesn’t do what the church has to do, then Jesus is absent from the battle. He can’t come and refight the battle. I’m just writing down things for myself yesterday. He’s just waiting for a few strong Christians to stop partying.
How big do you want your crossover to be? He wants a powerful army to obliterate the system through the veil of the blood, not living in between. The the process of order, the old must die, taking the stones from the miracle of our crossover, building a memorial for for generations to come. Circumcision taking place in our hearts. Sons and fathers in the house. The crossover time for you and me to make sure that our whole world and our mind are crossing over from earthly thinking to eternal thinking, from natural to divine thinking.
Romans 12:2; don’t copy the behaviour and customs of this world. Be transformed. Okay. The popular culture is at war with the ways of God to draw us away from God’s purposes. Living your life in the identity of social media. No. He said; I live for the cause of Jesus Christ. A strong church is a strong people that are strong in faith. He brought Deuteronomy 30, the Word is near you even in your mouth and in your heart. The word is near you. He’s preparing the people that are going to cross over the Jordan to go over the Jordan to face Jericho.
This is the kind of church that God is saying that will obliterate the system. He didn’t want us from September last year, He didn’t want us remaining in the same spiritual condition. He was already giving us a heads-up and saying, “I want you to advance spiritually. I want you to make progress, spiritually. I’m drawing you up, higher up the mountain. I’m pulling you up, by putting you in a process of the crossover by using it as an example of what we’re going to actually do here, right? What I’m actually doing with you here, very personally with you and but very corporately with you as well.” Right.
And then it says here, the Word is near you. Romans 4:16, God who creates new things out of nothing. Don’t let their partying touch you. Cross over from curses to blessings. Blessing is the result of obedience. Curses are the consequences of disobedience to God. TPT Philippians 3, I don’t depend on my own strength to accomplish this. I have one compelling focus. I forget all the past. Remember how He spoke to us, people. Forgetting all the past as I fasten my heart to the future. I’m running straight for the divine invitation to cross over of reaching the heavenly goal and the victory prize. I’m off running, he read from The Message. I’m off running and I’m not turning back.
And then spiritual watching in the month of December so that we can close the gap that always develops in the month of December. We cannot go back. We cannot go back. God gave me a scripture about going back. If you go back. Once having received the truth and once having crossed over and once having received circumcision and then you go back, it says, “It’s like a dog returning to its vomit.” If once you’ve known the truth and you’ve been exposed to the truth and then you go back to how you used to be, you go back, it’s like a dog returning to its vomit. Would you like that scripture to come up? Would you like to see the vomit scripture? Right?
Let me see where it is. It is… here is it? No. 2 Peter 2. Second Peter chapter 2 verse 20. Let’s go to the New King James. Second Peter chapter 2, 20 to 22. Right? I didn’t print this, I didn’t. Okay. 20 For if, after we, we, we, have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and we are again entangled in them and overcome by them, then the latter end is worse for us than the beginning. What a, terrible thing it would be for us to have made all this progress on the crossover and then go back. “20 They are again entangled… 21 For it would have been better for them not to have known the way.” It would have been better for us not to get involved in crossover. “21 Not to have known the way of crossover of righteousness, than having known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to us. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: “A dog returns to his own vomit,” and, “a sow, or a pig having washed to her wallowing in the mire.” (2 Peter 2: 20-22 NKJV)
You see that’s what happens if God gives you revelation and He gives you spiritual momentum and you’re giving Him obediences, and then you go back. We cannot go back. We are advancing and we are progressing, and we are going forward with the messages that God brings us. Right? So that is a wonderful thing.
We’re on a journey with God. Us – as this church, are on a journey with God. So spiritual watching in December, so we close the gap that always develops. We had Kingdom Economics crossing over, seeking first His Kingdom and not making all of our life about houses, cars, food, and clothes. Let’s not go back to that. Let’s not go back to that. Let’s be, continuing to speak this Word. What was the Word? The main scripture seed Word that came to us. I’m seeking first Your Kingdom and so I, thank You, Lord, that all these other things, food, clothes, houses, and cars will be added to me. Thank You, Lord. That’s how we stay with that message that God brought. He said He wants us to come up to the authority of that and walk in the authority of that. So. economics crossing over. Alright. I have all that I need, Lord. When I need it, my Father will provide it. Just those, those sayings that you can get out of those messages. Nothing that I have is my own Lord. See? See? Nothing. We read from the book of Acts that scripture came to us. They said in the book of Acts that nothing that they had, that they owned was their own. They said it’s all for the Lord. Let’s not go back to it’s mine. It’s mine. It’s mine. Right? No. No. No. No.
We have to stay in this expansive spiritual place that God has brought into. This wide open Kingdom world that God has brought us into. We have to stay here. God wants us to stay here and then advance from here. Glory to God. Hallelujah.
And so, this is coming from the message, just writing it down. God has raised the standard of authority that cannot be moved now. Irrational honour and accountability have created that. He has come to shake our whole tree of the way we see our life. He’s come to shake the foundations of everything we hold sacred and things we worship. Wow. So, that what needs to remain will remain. He’s coming to put His finger on things that are important to you. Your money, your holidays, your education choice, your plans for your life. He’s coming to put His finger on things important to you. See? He can do that in this church because He brought us to the point. Pastor John can’t stand up in another church and preach this message. They’ll think you’re cuckoo. But we’ve come this way. We’ve come this way. God has brought us to this point by revelation knowledge.
Then the right… He’s putting His finger on things important to us. This righteousness. Increasing the feet of our fruit of our righteousness. Righteousness is a state of me as I ought to be. And that was what crossing over and transform was. So, I’m not, I’m moving from the state, the current state I’m in. I’m being transformed. I’m moving to a completely different spiritual condition and spiritual state. Me as I ought to be. Now, in this spiritual state and condition, we can reach for God’s dreams. We can dream God’s dreams with Him now. In this current state, we can dream God’s dreams with Him. What dreams is Pastor John dreaming? God’s dreams. He’s dreaming God’s dreams, and God’s dreams are for us. Right? Now we can reach. We can stretch even more. In this spiritual state that we’re in now, we can reach for God’s dreams. Now He can and we can and we can share in the same dreams. We can share in the same dreams.
So, last week, the Lord had me bring to you… So, this is how the people that crossed over, they went from the wilderness, they crossed over the Jordan, and they went into the promised land. So, I’m going to put it like this, the promised land is the land of all the promises of God. All the promises that God’s ever made, the promised land is the promise.
All the promises – and God made many promises to them. When He took them out of Egypt, He said… He didn’t have to say to them, “I promise you that I’m going to do this. I promise..” He didn’t have to do that. He just said, “I’m going to bring you out of bondage, and I’m going to take you into a place, and you’re going to be so blessed. You’re going to be so blessed. So blessed, so blessed, so blessed. And you’re going to love Me, the Lord, Your God. You’re going to love Me. You’re going to love Me. You’re not going to say in your own mind and your own heart, my power and my might have gotten me all this that I’ve got. You’re going to love Me. You’re going to…” You know, He made promises to them. “I’m taking you out of bondage and I’m taking you into a Promised Land.” And you know what happened to those people? They were not believers. They did not believe God. Hebrews, chapter 3 says it very plainly and very clearly that they did not mix what God promised with their faith. They didn’t believe Him.
So, God is speaking to us about our believing this morning. He’s speaking very seriously. I know this because He spoke very seriously to me about my believing. He said, “So, now Sharon, your believing My promises kicks up on… kicks, must kick into you on a different level than what it’s kicked into you before. Because you’re advancing, you’re progressing, even in your faith and even in your believing. You are going to be more focused on My promises now. You’re going to listen out for My promises and you’re going to believe that what I’m taking you into is My plan for you.”
So, I’m going to just start to read how He started to speak to me on Friday. He said this, He said, “Sharon, 4th dimensional living – 4th dimensional living this is.” So, at the Jordan, something very important spiritually happens. It’s a type of, listen to this, once we’ve crossed over and entered the Promised Land of promises, an immense change takes place. It is a change and a transformation from earthly to heavenly. From the natural man to the spiritual man. Supernatural man. From carnal living to spiritual living. A tremendous change has taken place in us people. We have to recognise what God is saying to us this morning. As you have given yourself to Crossover, you are now entering the Promised Land of promises and in you is the change and the transformation from the earthly to the heavenly.
From the natural to the supernatural. From a carnal christian to a spiritual christian. From a 3rd-dimensional living christian to a 4th dimension living christian. You see we live in a 3rd dimensional world. The 4th-dimensional world is the spirit realm. It’s the spirit world, it’s where God lives. It’s how God lives. God is a Spirit. God is a Spirit and God is the Father of spirits. He’s the Father of your Spirit.
So, what’s happened to us and you must know that this has happened to you, God said to me, “Sharon, you must know this has happened to you. You must know that you’ve moved. You must know that you are now spiritual. You must know that you are now heavenly. You must know that you are now a 4th-dimensional person. You must know that you are now a supernatural person. You must know that you’ve shifted in your crossover from there to there. Know that about yourself. See that about yourself. Don’t even see yourself the way you were at the 30th of September last year. You’re not there anymore. You’re not there anymore, Sharon. You’re not there anymore. You’ve moved, you’ve shifted, you’ve come up higher up the mountain. You’re more ordered Spiritual in the army of God being.” Yeah.
Once you’ve crossed over, once I’ve crossed over and I entered the promised land of promises and immense changes taken place in me, I have changed. I have changed. I have. The old is old stuff that has died in me. The old has died. I’ve taken stones from the miracle of my crossover. I’ve built, we built a memorial for generations to come, leaving a landmark. And so this is what else here? What happens? Yeah. That’s what happens. The Jordan draws the line between the Israelites carnally and their life spiritually. It draws the line. That’s why God has drawn such a line. He’s, He’s drawn lines in this congregation. He’s drawn lines. He’s drawn lines. He’s drawn lines. He’s drawn the lines.
And so, what happens now in this Ekklesia, is because God has afforded us the crossover. When we go in now to the promised land and we begin to display carnality… it’s God’s going to judge it in this church very quickly like He did with Akan. He’s going to judge it very quickly and He’s busy doing that right now. As I speak, He’s doing that. He’s saying, “No. No. You had the opportunity in the crossover. Now you’re behaving like this. No.” God is judging it. God is judging it. And God is executing the judgment in the way that He must. And He will continue to do that in this Ekklesia. He will continue to do that. He will continue to expose Akanish things. And He’ll expose, and He’ll expose, and He’ll expose, and He’ll expose.
And if you let Him expose it in your own heart, it’s better. It’s better if you let Him expose it in your own heart and you let God deal with you with it. Otherwise, you’re going to fall into the hands of man. And God’s going to use a man to come, to expose that. And to say, “You may, you may not.” You were here when God said, “Do not.” You were here when God said, “Do not.” You were here when God said, “Do this, go this way. You were here.” Now I come to you. He’s busy doing that right now.
So, because He is very serious about blessing us. He’s so intent on blessing us and taking us into everything that He’s promised for this church, for these people here now. But His blessing is going to come to us on His terms. We’re going to meet the conditions. All the conditions that He’s shown us in every message from way back, 30th of September. Right. Right. Right. Right. Glory to God.
So, this is what He said to me your… Here we go, let me just keep on reading here. So, 4th dimensional living is living by faith. He said this to me, I am greatly desiring and encouraging and drawing you completely out of the seen sense realm. Come fully into My realm of the unseen. Come fully into My realm where I am, more, more. Come. Come live in My glory. Live in My Kingdom more fully, in the righteousness of faith with peace and joy.
This is you walking by faith and not by your senses. So, there’s a spirit of faith. God… some of you are going to get it. There’s a spirit of faith that we’re going to slip, we’re slipping and sliding into it. Faith is spiritual. Faith comes from God; He’s given to every one of us the measure of faith. The measure of the spirit of faith.
So, I want you to just quickly see 2 Corinthians 5:7. He’s talking to me, “Walk, walk by faith and not by your senses. Walk by faith. Walk by faith. Walk by faith. Don’t walk by what you see.” What are your senses? What I can see, what I can hear, what I can touch, what I see, what I feel, what I see, what I feel, what I hear, what I see, what I feel, what I hear, what I see, what I feel, what I hear. “Come out of that realm completely, Sharon. I want you living with Me in the realm of the spirit. I want you to walk by spirit-faith and not by your senses.” That’s what that word ‘sight’ means. Walk now by faith and not by sight. “Going now into your promised land, Sharon; now walk by faith. Do not walk by your senses. Come out of the sense realm into the spirit realm. Come out from the earthly, what you see, into the heavenly. Come out from the natural realm and come into the supernatural realm.”
So, I see this whole crossover and everything that it’s done for me and He’s now saying, “I’m pulling you now more, more, more into the realm of My spirit. You’re going to be spiritual now. More, more, more. You’re going to not be moved at all by what your senses tell you. You’re going to live in this Kingdom with Me, in My Kingdom with Me.”
You see, the Bible says He’s translated us from darkness into His Kingdom of light. It’s already been done through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, but now we have to learn to live in His Kingdom and living in His Kingdom is a spiritual living. It’s not a natural, it’s not a carnal, it’s not an earthly. It’s not. It’s not. It’s not. It’s not. It will have its manifestation in the 3rd dimension, but everything that’s going to come to me, the blessings that are going to come to me from God, is going to come from the spirit into the natural.
So, He said, “This is the walking by faith and not by sight, Sharon. It’s natural stimulus.” And He used that word stimulus, what stimulates you in the natural versus spiritual stimulus. So, you’re either going to be stimulated in your sense realm by the natural realm or you’re going to be stimulated by the spirit realm. You’re going to be … “My Word is going to stimulate you. My Word is going to stimulate you. My Spirit Word and My Spirit life must stimulate you. My Holy Spirit must stimulate you. Spirit life must stimulate you. Receive no stimulation from the natural realm. This is where I want you to live now, Sharon.” Wow.
I’ll learn to live here. And so then He gave me the scripture in Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11 from verses 1 to 3 from the Amplified Bible. I see this now in a new light. Of course, I’m going up the mountain, you see. I’m getting more light. More light on light. Light on light. Right? I received from Him a spirit of faith advancing me and progressing me. I cannot, it’s not a natural thing I’m speaking to you here this morning. It’s a spiritual journey. That’s why He’s given us His exceedingly great and precious promises. These are spiritual things He’s given us to escape by flight from what’s in the world system. It’s my spiritual escape. He’s given me His exceeding great and precious promises that through these beautiful precious promises, I can escape the corruption that’s in this world through covetousness, through lust, through greed and become a partaker of the God things. I move right out of the darkness through the veil of the blood into His Kingdom of light. Here I am now. I’m here now. That’s what God wanted me to see. “Sharon, you’re here now. You’re right here now. You’re here now, Sharon. You’re not still trying to get there, Sharon. You’re here now, Sharon.” That’s what He was saying to me.
So, I know He’s saying that to some of you. You hear now, Sharon. You hear now, Sharon. You’re right here now, Sharon. Hallelujah. You are in the heavenly. You are in the supernatural. You are in the spiritual. You’re here now, Sharon. You’re here now. Now stay here, stay here. You’re here, you’re here, stay here. Stay here, Sharon. Stay here. Come up higher now. I’m sucking you. I’m sucking you with revelation from My Word. I’m sucking you with My words. I’m sucking you. I’m pulling you completely into My Kingdom. Out of darkness into… fully.
Hebrews 11 verse 1, Amplified Bible. 1 Now faith. Now faith. The spiritual substance. Faith. Faith. This thing that you have. This quality that I have, this ability that I have as a new creature to have faith and live by faith. Look at this. 1 Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see. It’s got nothing to do with what you see and what you sense and what you feel. Faith got nothing to do with your circumstances. Faith has nothing to do with them. Being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]. (Hebrews 11:1 AMPC)
Your senses are, I’m telling you now, your senses oh, your senses I’m just looking for that word. Your senses are shaky ground. Because one moment you sense this and the next moment you sense that. Then you sense this and then you feel that. Then you think this and then you think that. Then you see this and then you see that. Then you move by this and then you’re not moved by that. To live by your senses, by what you see, what you feel, to live by your circumstances no matter how real, is not God. It’s not God.
God did not create you to live by your senses. He created you to live by your spirit life, faith, spirit life. Perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to my senses. That’s the realm I’m living in. I’m living in the realm of, I’m not moved by what I see. I’m not moved by what I hear. I’m not moved by what I feel. I’m living in that realm now. That’s what the Lord was saying to me, “You’re there now, Sharon. You crossed over, you’re there now. Know where you are. Know where you are. That’s where you are.”
So, anything else that you want to feel, and you want to hear and when you see it and you experience it, just know that you’re not there anymore. Just know that you’re out of that. You’re out of that. So, don’t go back like a dog to its vomit. Right.
So, reality. Faith perceiving as real factors what is not revealed to the senses. Right? Alright. Let’s go to verse 2, 2 For by [faith–trust and holy fervor born of faith] the men of old had divine testimony borne to them and obtained a good report. Well, we know Abraham had that. He wasn’t moved. He wasn’t moved by what he saw, what he felt, what he saw. He saw no, no Isaac. He saw no pregnancy. He didn’t see. Verse 3, 3 By faith we understand that the worlds [during the successive ages] were framed (fashioned, put in order, and equipped for their intended purpose) by the word of God, this last part God really wants you to see, so that what I see was not made out of things which are visible. (Hebrews 1:2-3 AMPC)
Now we’re going to go to the New Living Translation. It’s just going to put it more succinctly. Hebrews 11, 1 to 3. 1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for. All the promises, it’s the confidence I hope for will actually happen. It gives us assurance about things we can not see. 2 Through their faith, the people in days of old earned a good reputation. 3 By faith we understand that the entire universe was formed at God’s command, that what we now see did not come from anything that can be seen. (Hebrews 11:1-3 NLT)
The trees you see did not come from anything. Just put that back up again, thank you. The trees you see, the mountains you see, the flowers you see, the people you see did not come from anything that can be seen. Everything that you can see that God created did not come from things that you can see. Listen to the TPT. The world was created 3…by the power of God’s words! He spoke, He spoke, and the invisible realm gave birth to all that is seen (Hebrews 11:3 TPT). He spoke. He spoke. That’s why God has created us to be powerful speaking spirits. God has created us to speak His Word, to speak life, to speak His Word, to speak what He speaks. That’s why Jesus said, “I only say what I hear the Father say.” He knew the power of His words. He knew the power of His words. If He had to speak death, my, my, my. My, my, my.
I cannot even imagine that. I do not even want to imagine myself speaking death. I do not even want to imagine myself speaking death. I’m not there anymore. I have crossed over. I’m in a completely different condition. I’m not in that state anymore. I’ve crossed over now. I’m into this realm now of believing even as they were when they went into the promised land with Joshua. They had a resolve, and they just knew; We’re going in now. We’re going in now. They knew they were going in. They knew they were going in. So, let me just read some things to you. I have blessed you with spiritual blessings. Ephesians 1 verse 3. Let’s look at that. He was speaking so wonderfully to me. “Sharon, I have blessed you with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly places.” Can we look at the Amplified? “Sharon, I have blessed you in the heavenly realm.” I think the Amplified says, “In the heavenly realm.” You see this is where God’s saying, “I’m pulling you. The heavenly realm, because you’re going to live here now. You’re going to live here in the heavenly realm, in the heavenly realm you’re going to live. I want you living with Me in the heavenly realm. I want you believing what I say about you in My word. I want you believing your covenant. I want you receiving, believing My promises to you, and I want you being part of the corporate dream, the promises I’m giving to you all for assignments. Right?
I want you to be believing. I want you to be being in the heavenly realm with Me. God is in the heavenly realm. He’s not in your mind. He’s in your spirit. He’s given you a mind so that you can think from your spirit. That’s why He’s given you a mind. So, that you can think from your spirit. He hasn’t given you a mind so that you can think whatever you want to think. How can I think that I can think whatever I want to think? How can I think that as a child of God, I can think whatever I want to think? When God in His word says, “You forsake, forsake, forsake your thoughts. Forsake, don’t think like you’re thinking because My thoughts, take on My thoughts, think My word, think My word, think spirit life, think by My spirit, think by your spirit, put My word in your spirit, in your spirit think My word, let My word in your spirit explode in your thought life. Let My word and My truth that you’ve been chockablock into your spirit explode into your thought life. That’s why I’ve given you a thought life, not so that you can think whatever you want to think.” Because the word of God says, “You… whoever thinks, however, you think, whatsoever man thinketh so is he, so is you.”
“So, are you you so are you like this what you’re thinking now, Sharon? What you’re thinking now, you like this, are you like this? You’re going to keep thinking like this and thinking of this, this is who you are. Because you keep thinking it. You keep thinking it, this is who you are.” God is not mocked. If He says, “As a man thinketh so is he – so is he.” You want to worry, worry, worry, worry, worry, this is what you are. You’re a worrier. W-0-R-R-I-E-R. You just worry, worry, worry and My word says, “Be anxious for nothing. Be anxious for nothing. But in every circumstance by prayer and supplication that’s find My promises, find My word, find My promises in everything. With supplication and petition, continue to make your request known unto Me with thanksgiving and My peace that passes all understanding will mount God and garrison your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.” Be anxious for nothing ever ever never never never Sharon. Never never never Lord. Never Sharon. Never. Never ever, Sharon. Yeah. Yeah.
This is our God this morning telling this Ecclesia where you are. Are you there? I’m there. Be there. Be there. Know where you are. Don’t think that you are as you were before September. That’s what God’s saying to us this morning. “Don’t think that you are where you were from the 30th of September. You are not there anymore, Sharon.” And how Satan wants to push you back, push you back if you’ve made no progress, nothing’s changed. Nothing’s changed. That is the devil and that’s what God has blasted right out of this congregation this morning. He was here this morning to let you know that you are not where you were. You are not where you were. Hallelujah.
Let’s stand. Father, we thank You this morning. We recognize what You’re saying to us today. We recognize what You’re saying to us today. We are not where we were. We are not where we were. I am not where I was. Say this after, “I am not where I was in September. I’m here now. I’m in the heavenly realm now with my faith. [Congregation repeats after Pastor Sharon].
That’s right. That’s right. He wants us to be mindful of that in Jesus’ name. Hallelujah. I’m just going to pray for you. Father, I thank You. I’m going to pray for us. I thank You, Father, that You have spoken to us this morning. You’ve spoken specifically to us in this church, and we are grateful for You giving us an update and for You giving us a locate. You really did have located us how we need You, Holy Spirit. How we need You to show us where we are. How we need You to locate us all the time, Lord. So, that we can have true north. Both in our personal lives, Lord, and in our corporate life. We thank You that You have blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenly realm, Lord. We thank You that we are understanding that we access the spiritual blessings and pull them to be in the natural blessings with our spirit life, Lord. Our spirit faith, Father. Hallelujah. We have moved from 3D, from 3rd-dimensional living into 4th-dimensional living, Lord. Hallelujah. We have moved from the natural into the spiritual. We have moved from the carnal into the spiritual, from the earthly into the heavenly. We’ve crossed over, Father. And now, Father, our faith, we’re coming up in faith. We’re coming up in our believing, Lord. Hallelujah. In Jesus’ name, and I thank You, Father, that Your people are blessed. The Word of God surrounds them. The blood of Jesus surrounds them. They are blessed going out of here. They are blessed coming in. Going in, to wherever they go in, and wherever they come out. Blessed coming in, blessed going out, Father in this whole week ahead of them, Father. Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord, that this Word that You’ve brought us today will continue to pull us into the 4th dimension and into Your supernatural Father. Where You are, where You live, where You operate so that we can live and move and have our being in You, in the heavenly realm Father. In the heavenly realm, Father. In Your heavenly realm. Thank You, Father. Thank You, Father. In Jesus’ name, and we all say, “Amen.” God bless you all.
The offering. Okay. You can sit down again. We’re going to do the offering. I’m telling you if I miss the offering, the people in this church get very upset. Yeah. Because you come prepared. Right? Hallelujah. “Hey, Michael.” “How are you?” “Fine and you?” “Good.” Good. Yeah. Praise the Lord. Glory to God. He’s wonderful. He’s wonderful. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. He has ministered to us this morning. We thank You, Lord. You have ministered to me this morning, Lord. You have spoken to my heart. I’m so glad that You’ve shown us that we are here now. We are not there. Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah.
That’s a spiritual fact; I’m here now. I’m not there anymore. I’m here and I’m anticipating – that’s those things that Pastor John read about going up the mountain – I’m anticipating going up. Hallelujah. Making progress this year, advancing, experiencing that promotion in myself by my growth, by my own growth that’s happening in me. You see, this promotion, it doesn’t happen like somebody is going to come to you and say, “Now, you’re so spiritual, thus sayeth the Lord, you shall now…” No. You advance and you progress in God and then you’re in the promotion. Phew. You’re in it. You progress your own promote. You advance your own. Hallelujah. Glory.
Can we pray, Michael? Thank you. Let’s stretch our hands out to these precious offerings that God’s people have brought. Father, we thank You for the harvest of blessing. You never forget a seed sown, Lord. You never forget a seed sown, Lord. Hallelujah. And I thank You, Lord, that this harvest is coming to Your people on every wave, on every wave as Your Word says, on every wave the harvest comes to Your people, in Jesus’ name. And we thank You and praise You that seed time and harvest time will never pass away. As long as the earth remains will be seed time and harvest, Lord. Hallelujah. And we praise You for the harvest. We thank You as we’ve been taught to praise in advance. We praise in advance for the harvest, Lord. Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Lord. Our faith is up, Lord. We’re up in faith here, now, Lord. Hallelujah. Thank You, Lord. Praise You, praise You, praise You. Our expectations are happening, our expectations are working, Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Glory, glory, glory. Yes, Lord. Hallelujah, Lord. You have made… This is Your way, this is Your way, this is Your Spirit-life way to increase more and more. In Jesus’ name, we thank You. Thank you very much, Michael. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah.
Be so blessed today. And then I’ll see some of you later at Message Moments. Bye-bye, everybody. You are greatly loved. Oh, you know what, Pastor John sends his love. Oh, my word. I have to because Pastor John will be watching this. So, he always tells me, “Please send the people my love. Please send the people my love.” And he says to me, “So, how are things going, baby? How are things going?” And then I say, “Oh, peachy, peachy, peachy.” “How’s things going, baby?” “Everything’s coming up roses. Everything’s coming up roses, baby.” And then he’s so happy. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. And then he sends his love. So, be blessed today. Bye-bye, everybody.
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