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Isaiah 60:22
Isaiah 60:22
A little one shall become a thousand, and a
small one a strong nation: I the Lord will
hasten it in his time.
Zachariah 4:6
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.
Luke 24:49
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you:
but tarry ye in
the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.
Isaiah 11:1-5 (KJV)
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of
Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of
the Lord;
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear
of the Lord: and he shall not
judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his
ears:
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and
reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth:
with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the
wicked.
And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins,
and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
Isaiah 42:1 (KJV)
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom
my soul delighted; I have put my
spirit upon him: He shall bring
forth judgment to the Gentiles.
Acts 10:38 (KJV)
God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
and power, and … he went
around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil,
because God was with him
Luke 10:21 (KJV)
At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy Spirit, said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and
revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure
Matthew 12:28
But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
Hebrews 9:14 (KJV)
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge
your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Romans 8:11 (KJV)
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he
that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by
his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Philippians 2:4-7 (RSV)
Let each of you look not only to his own interests,
but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is
yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count
equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in the
likeness of men.
Jesus emptied Himself of all in order to become a man
and be filled with the Spirit.
The Spirit did not come to regenerate or purify Jesus.
As the sinless, incarnate Son of God, He did not need
to be born again or spiritually cleansed.
Nor did the Spirit come merely for indwelling and
fellowship with God, which Jesus already enjoyed.
The Spirit came at Jesus’ baptism expressly to empower
Him to begin and successfully complete His mission on earth. Jesus, the Little One who became a thousand.
Asking, Seeking, Knocking
Luke 11: 5-12 (AKJV)
And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a
friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me
three loaves; for a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have
nothing to set before him?
And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me
not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise
and give thee.
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him,
because he is his friend, yet because of
his importunity he will rise and
give him as many as he needeth.
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a
father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give
him a serpent?
Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a
scorpion?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts
unto your children: how much more
shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Shameless Persistent and Insistence
Luke 11: 5-12
I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him
anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence he will get up and give him as much as he
needs. (AMPC)
He may not get up and give you the bread, just because
you are his friend. But he will get up and give you as much as you need, simply because you are not ashamed to keep on
asking. (CEV)
But let me tell you, even if he won’t get up because
he’s a friend, if you stand
your ground, knocking and waking all the neighbours, he’ll finally get up and get you whatever you
need. (MSG)
John 3:27 (AKJV)
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing,
except it be given him from heaven.
Prayer Points
- Father, we ask for a fresh outpouring of your Holy Spirit upon our lives.
- Lord, baptise us a new with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
- We are knocking on heaven’s door and we will give You no rest until we are endured with power from on high.
- Father, we beg you, we plead with you, we even come cap in hand, O Lord, send Your Holy Ghost in all His fullness into our lives.
- Come, come dear Holy Ghost, we plead in the name of Jesus.
- We need you, dear Holy Spirit; without You we can do nothing, in fact from now on, we refuse to do nothing, say nothing, if you do not come into the situation.
- We have ceased from all our works; we voluntarily lay down our tools; our shoes; and we hand over to you, dear Holy Spirit. Come in Your power, come in Your strength, come , come, come fill us to overflowing.
But There is a Caveat
- The matter of mammon, money, provision for myself, must be dealt with permanently.
- An eye/heart looking at / focusing on the outpouring of the Holy Ghost as in Acts and money (self preservation, self provision) in a 50:50 ration is an evil eye.
- A DOUBLE EYE / HEART = AN EVIL EYE/HEART ≠ CANNOT HOUSE THE HOLY GHOST
- Such an individual is worse than someone looking at money 100%, hence the darkness of such a man a great.
- The root of this double vision is greed and /or distrust, unbelief, lack of faith.
- A life with double vision cannot be filled with the Holy Ghost as in Acts 2, since the Holy Ghost cannot dwell with darkness.
- Until consecration is 100%, complete severance from and exclusion of every other thing , including the greatest contestant against the life of faith (i.e.MONEY), the Holy Ghost cannot come as we are asking Him to.
- Just as we cannot jump over Acts 1 to reach Acts 2, We cannot jump Matthew 6 and reach Acts 2.
- UNBELIEF: DEVISING AN ALTERNATIVE SYSTEM TO TRUSTING GOD.
- SOLUTION: “TAKE NO THOUGHT”, “MAKE YOU REQUEST KNOWN”, “BE CONTENT”, “LEARNING TO ABOUND AND TO ABASE”
The Case of Lot
- For the well watered land he could see, he refused discipleship of a life of faith under Abraham and chose to provide for himself.
- God in His mercy came to him again and Abraham rescued Him, yet he did not return; he still went back to the “well watered” land in Sodom.
- God came again and delivered him from the burning Sodom and Gomorrah, yet he did not return to the life of faith.
- Another case of failed discipleship, such a man called a righteous man as we heard in 2 Peter, yet he fathered Moab and Ammon with his own daughters.
- He could not be a receptacle for the Holy Ghost and since there cannot be a vacuum in nature, another kind of spirit took over.
- Lot was culpable because covetousness, greed, unbelief, provision for himself made him refuse discipleship. Look at what became of him.
- Thank God for His magnanimity. While her forefather refused the life of faith in discipleship, Ruth, a Moabites through discipleship embraced a life of faith by a “reckless abandonment” to God. She became a receptacle of the Holy Ghost and was inserted into the genealogy of Christ.
Solution to
Mammon
Matthew 6: 31
Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink?
or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Philippians 4:6-7
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with
thanksgiving, let your
requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard
your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:11-13
Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have
learned, in whatsoever
state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both
to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all
things through Christ which strengthens me.
Prayer Points
- Lord give me light; open my eyes and the eyes of my household to see that we are labouring under mammon; show me/us Lord. Shatter the darkness and let Your light flood our eyes and our hearts.
- Deliver me/us from mammon; Deliver me from this way of life collected from Adam where he had to toil to meet his needs, fend for himself independently of God.
- Break the hold of the system of money, work, toil which does depend on God upon my heart.
- Let me pass the test of Mammon; rid me of my evil heart of unbelief that departs from the living God.
- I don’t know how to live this life of faith. I have been brought up and have lived in the life of self provision and self preservation. Break me loose from this type of life.
- Lord, teach me how to live this life of faith. From today, begin this work in my life, because “the Just will live only by faith.”
- Lord, teach me how to “take no thought”
- Lord, teach me how not to be “anxious” and how to “make my request known.”
- Lord, teach me how to be “content” in whatever financial state I am in, knowing it is a school that will teach me to “abound and abase.”
- Do this for me, Lord, so that I can be the able carrier and bearer of the Holy Ghost.
