good morning my friends i'm pastor stephen brooks and welcome today to our sunday morning online internet around the world church service and i'm so happy that you are here and i believe that god's word will build you up to do the things that he has called you to do and more importantly to be the person that he has called you to be praise god now we're going to open up today's service by receiving the holy tithes and offerings and i would like to read a verse to you from proverbs chapter 13 verse 22 a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children but the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous now every word of god in the bible is going to see its fulfillment and there have been times in history's past where there have been what we would call wealth transfers and i believe that we are going to come into not just another wealth transfer but perhaps we could even call it the end time wealth transfer again the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous let's be very clear in the sense that we're not covetous or desiring anybody else's money i'm not looking around for other people's money or for some center to give me money and i'm not trying to drop hints that hey why don't you give me some money uh this is something in a different category so we're not this people walking in the flesh doing silly things this is different this is a move of the spirit of god where several things are going to happen that will bring fulfillment to the scripture one which is our desire and god's greatest desire is to see the lost saved and that includes not only the poor not only those who may be considered financially average but it would also include those that would be wealthy those that perhaps would even be in categories or classific classifications of having ultra wealth or very high net worth and we're going to see sinners who have great storehouses of wealth we're going to see them get saved give their heart to christ and the lord's going to touch their heart to support his work and so there is going to be a transfer into the kingdom of provision and we're going to see this scripture fulfilled and we're going to use this provision not so i can go out and buy 6 000 pairs of shoes we're going to use it to preach the gospel hallelujah because it does take finances to send the gospel forth to print bibles to print books to by air time on television to keep the lights on and on and on it goes the wealth of the sinner is stored up now it has been stored up but i believe it's moving it is moving and it's going to move to the righteous and i believe that the lord can even orchestrate things in a way where you're touched through this blessing and you're freed up to do the work of the lord you're freed up to be more involved in the things of god praise the lord i see things happening for you as well now there will be those who are in the category of sinners those outside of christ who will not yield to the gospel message and will continue to try to not only hoard but guard and protect their horde of financial wealth regardless of how it was accumulated but it's going to begin to slip through their fingers it's going to be like trying to hold oil in your hand [Music] and we have seen over the decades even recently the great indicators that so much of the wealth that has been accumulated towards certain organizations has been done so in a fraudulent way where there has been cheating and there has been the breaking of the law but a lot of times for these large corporations if they break the law and they get caught and often they do they get a fine they get a penalty but for them it's just a slap on the wrist and we saw a company not too long ago that received a 900 million dollar fine for their illegal unlawful activity in their areas of investing 900 million dollar fine oh but they made 90 billion dollars through fraudulent means so see it's just a little slap on the wrist but what i'm trying to say is there will be people in these organizations that they're going to get saved they're going to get touched they're going they're going to want to release to the lord much wealth praise god and others that will not yield regardless of how the lord would try to touch their heart they're going to stay hard it's going to still slip away it's going to slip away praise god and it's going to come to those that have a heart for god it's going to come to ministries that have a heart for god and there could be quite a few of you that are watching where the lord is going to cause wealth to be transferred to you because he knows you don't have grasping hands that want to take it and begin to do what they've done with it so the first thing you will do is you will work biblical principles number one you will tithe and then number two you will sow financial seed you will give offerings praise god and when you do this it breaks the grip of greed it it breaks that power that's out there in the world that just causes so many to be consumed with you know money and the things of life and constantly grabbing praise the lord glory to god be open to this because the angels are already working right now cause this shaking to come to pass praise the lord now let me just say one thing i'm not talking about silly stuff that i would even call unbiblical stuff i'm not talking about like one well uh one minister said that he had this guy contact him and the guy contacted him and said you need to give me a hundred thousand dollars because god told me that with that hundred thousand dollars i'm going to go to las vegas and i'm gonna bankrupt vegas by beating all the odds and emptying the slot machines and you know winning all the jackpots and stuff like that so he told the minister give me a hundred thousand dollars i'll go out there and do that and i'll make billions and then put it back into the into the work of the lord and the the minister was like this is total baloney and it is it's it's uh stupid on steroids it's people that are deceived that are actually full of greed and covetous even if they they claim the name of christ and we're not talking about silly foolish things like that we're talking about things that are very holy and sacred in the eyes of god where this is designated funds that have a designated purpose praise god for the end time harvest of souls praise the lord and when those motives are pure and right then a person is now positioned to receive some very unusual extraordinary financial breakthroughs glory to god glory to god hallelujah the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous psalm 103 verse 20 blessed the lord you his angels who excel in strength who do his word heeding the voice of his word bless the lord all you all you his hosts you ministers of his who do his pleasure god's pleasure is to see his war his word performed and we are in a season where god is watching over that word of proverbs chapter 13 verse 22 to perform it i would like for you to be open to it because angels are working angels are shaking angels are shaking things praise god and there's wealth coming to the body of christ praise the lord you can tell i haven't been watching the news i'm not sharing something with you based upon my report of looking at news i haven't looked at the news in quite some time i've been in the word i've been in prayer i've been in the presence of the lord and i know what the lord is up to right now so be ready for this be on the front line of what the holy spirit is doing praise the lord because this this can change things for you overnight praise god and i'll have to say one of the greatest joys in life is paying the tithe hallelujah now if you're faithful in the little you'll be faithful over much because these are proven principles so should god cause a tremendous blessing to come into your life wow when it's joy to pay tithe on a thousand dollars i tell you what it's a joy to pay tithe on a million dollars praise the lord the joy the joy of the lord in obeying his commandments it is such a wonderful thing get ready for unusual breakthroughs hallelujah there are angels special category of angels that are working in this area right now to cause these shakings to come the place where the wealth of the wicked is moved into the hands of the righteous for righteous causes and righteous purposes now we are going to do all that we can to minister to any lost person with the love of christ we're not after their money we're after their soul we want to see them come to christ miss out on hell and gain heaven praise the lord but i'm saying the lord's going to take care of this he's going to he's going to take care of this when the people of israel came out of egyptian bondage and captivity 430 years of captivity they left with a tremendous amount of gold and gems and precious items and the egyptians were just giving it to them so you would think why in the world would anybody just unload their wealth and give it to somebody and say take it and leave well some things had been going on as we're aware of the 12 you know excuse me the ten plagues and other types of things but that was still basically a move of god in that area and a lot of angels working in these areas to persuade people to move up on their hearts to do this hallelujah glory to god pastor stephen when it happens to me what should i do you keep working biblical principles stay humble stay grounded thank god for it pay the tithe 10 of all monies that come into you percent belongs to the lord i'm not just talking about money that you earn at your job but ten percent of the of all the monies that come to you whether it's an unexpected inheritance or wealth that somehow got transferred into your life 10 belongs to the lord and be generous give an offering also along with that praise god now let's receive the tithes and offerings as you do i want you to be mindful that you are a candidate for proverbs chapter 13 verse 22. there are other scriptures ecclesiastes chapter 2 verse 22 excuse me verse 26 and others james chapter 5 that do speak towards this end time prophetic event but my friends rear end we're in the end times these things are moving praise the lord hallelujah position yourself through obedience to god's word father i pray that you bless your people and that you give them more understanding concerning your workings of this thank you father god thank you father god that we're going to see many saved oh god we give you praise we give you praise thank you father god hallelujah hallelujah glory glory to your name thank you father there's there's even those that are being marked for this to be involved in this to be recipients of this because you don't scoff at god's word you revere it as holy and sacred and god's watching over his word to perform it in the hearts of those that believe it it will not be it will not be accidental it will not be luck or happenstance to who it happens to it will be those who revere his word who fear the lord and embrace it as truth glory to god now father we give you praise we thank you for everything up front and we thank you father that even though the enemy would also try to spin counterfeits at times by trying to lure your people into things that will be that would be illegal or unethical or the breaking of the law maybe forms of tax evasion or uh not reporting things that need to be reported we thank you that we will have none of that we will have nothing to do with any of that but everything will be done according to the proper letter of the law now father we give you praise we thank you for a heart for evangelism a heart for the lost we thank you that when you move everything's beautiful we give you praise bless your people thank you father god let them taste the strength of this scripture of proverbs 13 22. father we bless you in jesus name amen and amen now let's bring the tithes into the storehouse of god we also have a special project that we're focused on right now which is the repaving the res the resurfacing of the ministry parking lot the budget for this is going to be just a little over forty thousand dollars and so we are moving towards that if you would like to sew a special offering into that it would help us to move forward and it would be greatly appreciated if you have a designated seed for that purpose just make note of that and say uh pastor stephen this is for the tithe and this amount is for the parking lot resurfacing with the new asphalt praise god father bless your people we thank you we thank you for exciting exciting times in these last days in jesus name amen and one more thing before we move off the this part of our worship service the tithe and offering let me say this to you regardless of what is going on out there in the world with shakings or with persecutions against the people of god let me say this you're going upstream even if the current is going downstream even if there are multitudes out there thinking how are we going to get our next meal how are we going to pay these bills i'm telling you you're not here just to survive god's anointing on you is to thrive and you are going to go uphill upstream as a miracle sign and wonder this is not your time to survive this is your time to flourish there will be gross darkness in the earth but this is your time to shine the glory of the lord will be seen on you this is you will not be seen in agony you will not be seen in despair you will be seen with the glory standing in the coolness under the protective shade of god's mighty feathery wing you're going to be just fine this is your time for explosive growth this is your time of great lifting up in the kingdom of god praise the lord in the financial arena blessed be the lord praise god amen now let's take our bibles today and we're going to talk about high vision h-i-g-h high vision by the way if you ever smell evergreen or that scent of pine that is a reference spiritually to eagle type high vision when you get up into the alpine heights things begin to clear up praise the lord and you get up in the beautiful fir trees and the out you know the the pine trees that grow real really way up high it's a beautiful thing praise god and you're going to be able to see very very clearly we're talking about a high vision our key scripture today is going to be found in the book of ephesians we're going to be in chapter 2 primarily today why don't you take your bibles and meet me over there praise the lord ephesians chapter 2 let's pray heavenly father as we study your word today we ask that your holy spirit would unveil it so that we can see very clearly what christ has made available for us how he has positioned us because we are in him and father let us make good application of these truths and walk further upwards on mount zion thank you father god until we come into the the measure of the stature of a full man in christ those of you that are ladies father they come into that full womanhood in christ a mature believer representing christ and his beautiful character and qualities father we thank you for the work you're doing in jesus name we all agree and say amen now the book of ephesians which is the letter that paul wrote under inspiration of the holy spirit to the church in ephesus is a letter that the theologians call superlative upon superlative just when you think paul has unveiled another blessing that christ has made available for us because he has redeemed us and you think that's that's about all i can handle if it gets any higher i'm going to fall out he unloads another revelation and you see more of what christ has done for us and i tell you what it's a lot to chew on praise the lord and we're going to see this very quickly as we're going to move into verse 1 ephesians 2 verse 1 and you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins now if you're watching this message and you don't know christ as your lord and savior you are physically alive but i have to tell you that you are spiritually dead oh i know you're still walking around still breathing you can you could laugh you can have fun you could eat drink but your spirit is dead you are a spirit you have a soul which is your mind your will your emotions and you live in a physical body but don't be fooled by thinking the body is all it no the body's just the house or the tent the temporary structure that you're in for your earth journey but within your body is your soul your mind your willing emotions and your eternal spirit and you're going to spend either one of two places with uh excuse me forever you're either go to be with with jesus in heaven or you're going to go with satan into hell and then eventually now remember hell which is in the center of the earth right now hell itself will eventually be thrown into the lake of fire and so will satan and all of the fallen angels all of the demons etc so you don't want to go with him so there is a remedy for spiritual death which we all inherited through our original father adam and that remedy is faith and trust in christ because he paid the penalty for the sin and when we put our trust in him you are born again within your spirit and you receive new life praise the lord and you he made alive so i'm talking to believers by the way if you're if you're watching and you're thinking pastor stephen i i don't like it that i'm lost in my sins and i'm spiritually dead well then right now you don't you don't have to wait till the end of the message right now you can get right with god would you like to do that well if you've never prayed this prayer before a prayer of salvation pray it right now say lord jesus i'm a sinner i'm spiritually dead i'm dead in my sins jesus you died for sinners like me so jesus i give my heart to you i repent of my sins and i turn to you save me now come into my heart write my name in your book of life and i take you now as my lord savior and king jesus in your name i pray amen praise the lord glory to god amen welcome to the family of christ a family of god and you he made alive who were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air a reference there to satan the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lust of our flesh fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind and were by nature children of wrath just as the others let me say this for those that don't know god that have rejected god who have decided to have their own formulated type of righteousness which is basically usually comes down to people think their good deeds will outweigh their bad deeds but let me say this all unrighteous deeds all sin there has to be punishment for it and that punishment is separation from god and that punishment is eternal damnation so my friends when it talks about children of wrath it's there it's there now christ died to appease the wrath of god for those that would put their trust in him but those that are outside of him the wrath of god remains praise the lord the only safe place is in christ jesus and faith and trust in him without that there's going to be full judgment for every sin that was ever committed and there's going to be the penalty for that whoo hallelujah aren't you glad that your life is right with god aren't you glad that you're not going to be in a mess like billions will be um whoo praise god thank you jesus but god who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us even when we were dead in trespasses trespasses is basically sin expressed through the meaning of if you see a property and belong to somebody else it's not your property there's a sign that says no trespassing and you go across that line of demarcation and you go on their property what have you done you've trespassed you have violated a law well god said this is right this is wrong and so when you walk in righteousness and you do what's right everything's good but when you do what's wrong ah god said you've trespassed you've committed sin you were not supposed to have done this what are you doing here well uh lord i just i guess my feet brought me here well lord the devil made me do it well you know we chose to do it and that's what trespasses are even when we were dead in trespasses now made us alive together with christ by grace you have been saved now we've come into christ and we have been saved we've we have been forgiven of all of our sins all of our iniquities all of our trespasses all of them were placed upon christ when he went to calvary and bore all of our sins for us so the penalty the wrath that we deserved went on him instead praise god now verse 6 and raised us up together and made us sit together in the heavenly realms in christ jesus now this is what god the father has done by the power of the holy spirit for the believer that would be you he has raised us up together he's already done it in a sense it's past tense and made us sit together past made us not going to going to he's already done its past tense and made us sit together in the heavenly realms in christ jesus now i would like to talk about the reality of something that already belongs to you and let me contrast it with the example of righteousness the moment you received christ as your lord and savior all of your sins were forgiven and you are now in christ remember christ is in god so you are now in christ and what the father did is that the righteousness that his son has when you became a believer and came into christ that righteousness of christ was imputed in to you that's that's a lot to meditate on but it's the truth it is a reality well pastor steve i'm just a dirty old sinner no hold on just a moment we used to be dirty old sinners but now technically you are the righteousness of god in christ whew and that's a beautiful thing so righteousness has been imputed into you doesn't mean we're perfect doesn't mean that we're never going to sin again but you know if we if we said you were just like father forgive me i didn't mean to do that i i repent forgive me you're good to go but also that righteousness is a standing that you have with god and should the the devil come around and uh you know and say hey don't you remember all the sins you've you've made and he tries to condemn you and don't you remember you did this and you did that and you you did all of that well it's been washed away with the blood of jesus and you are in right standing with god you have righteousness he doesn't the devil doesn't but you do and that's just something that god did for us and it's because of that righteousness that we can come into his presence you can't come into his presence if you're if you're defiled with sin in the sense as coming in there and hanging out with god no you couldn't you couldn't do that praise the lord but now we can go right into the throne room of grace and our prayers in our time with god because of that righteous standing that jesus has we have it too now praise the lord now that's an example of how we also have been raised up see we're not waiting to be made righteous that has already been imputed into us nor are we waiting to be seated with christ in the heavenly realms we are already there from a positional place in christ well pastor stephen i i certainly don't feel like it i certainly don't i don't uh doesn't seem like i am i'm i actually i'm kind of defeated in many areas if if i'm so defeated and i'm having such a hard time how in the world could i be seated with christ which if i'm really seated with christ that would seem to me to be like a position of ruling and reigning with him so what's going on what's going on is that just as righteousness is your true identity that your true standing as a christian and it could take a little while to come into that understanding and before you really know that the devil can beat you up with condemnation trust me that's something that i dealt with for quite a few years being raised in a certain denomination that was just real condemning in some ways and we didn't mean to be we just didn't know who we were in christ and so because of a wrong view we never saw ourselves as righteous we all always saw ourselves as unworthy and uh you know not fit to really make it to heaven and maybe we'll make it in by the skin of our teeth or maybe we could barely reach up and pull ourselves in or something like that we never really understood what jesus accomplished for us at calvary and if we had and so much of that is unveiled through the epistles not so much in the gospels but in the epistles if we had understood that we probably would have thrown out some of the songbooks we're singing from because most of those songs were just full of uh you know we're unworthy we're just so unworthy uh dirty in your sight and unclean well i mean we sang some songs that were really uh extremely unscriptural and those wrong songs and then you know wrong messages just reinforced a sense that we were not worthy we had no righteousness we had no true standing with god but the fact was we did well the same thing uh begins to happen when you begin to walk close with the lord yes you begin to get a a grasp on what we would call foundations of faith such as your right standing with god you know the uh the believer is saved by by grace through faith and the just shall live by faith so you you begin to grasp the basics the principles as you walk close with the lord and then you begin to get some insight and there's some other startling realities and truths and not just insight but you begin to let it begin to work in you and you begin to realize you know this is real this is true you know there's other scriptures in the new testament that says we're priests and kings to our lord our god well pastor stephen i don't see how that can be we're just a bunch of you know uh we're just a bunch of losers yeah well i was in a service one time and the pastor got up and said you know we should be looking like we're all tore up from the floor up and she you know she basically said that's how we all look and i you know i was i was a guest preacher go to ministry i had to come up and minister after all that after all of the berating and beating down up on the sheep i mean it's like she had a club she was beating the sheep with the club i had to come preach after that and let them know that they did have value in the eyes of god they did they did have worth they did have potential and so you know you can look at all this stuff in the natural and you could just think well what's going on get back on the word you are a priest you are a king now that's a different message but i want to get back to this place where you are right now seated with christ in the heavenly realms and this is a reality that begins to unfold as you walk closer with the lord of your true identity as a believer in christ and people have wondered well pastor stephen um if i'm seated with christ in the heavenly realms uh what am i doing while i'm seated there uh like what's going on well first of all it's a position that you have that even if you were persecuted and drunk through the mud and you were chained and whipped and beaten you're still in that position it's a spiritual position of being seated with christ praise god hallelujah it's a position of ruling and reigning he reigns in your heart but let me tell you there's also an outworking of it in your life and that outworking brings glory to the lord hallelujah praise god thank you jesus thank you lord jesus praise god now listen to it again he's raised us up together that would be together with jesus and made us sit together in the heavenly realms in christ jesus so you come into this reality where you realize particularly during deep times of prayer that you are seated with christ in the heavenly realms fascinating pastor stephen if i'm seated which of course you are what should i be doing from my seated position that's what we want to talk about today now let me say this there is this element of seated with christ that is a reality this big part of your christian identity and while you're there you're going to be doing certain things from that place why why would i do that pastor stephen well because it's a place that's above everything else and this is what i'm talking about today with a high vision when you get up high and there's no higher place than being seated with christ there's no higher place because you're in this glory realm seated and you're able to look down because you're above it all well pastor stephen it seems like it's all above me no that's the circumstances but you get in faith and you get into the word and you begin to see clearly and from that position you're going to be you're going to begin to iron out some serious details in your life hallelujah the wisdom of god is going to flow in you well pastor stephen i need it because my life's got a lot of problems well what if what if jesus came and stepped into you for the next 24 hours do you think he could start setting your life in order yes he can he could walk you out of anything oh you don't know what i'm up against pastor stephen well jesus showed up he wouldn't know how to deal with it he would know exactly what to do and trust me he'd be walking out of it you know he would okay so he's in you you're in him you're seated with him and while you're in that seated position this vision the ability to see with the wisdom of god and the clarity of god begins to touch your intellect it begins to touch your mind now one of the things that begins to happen is that clarity the high vision helps you to see what your unique assignment and calling is so that you stay in your lane and you don't get over here or over there start trying to do everything else under the sun because you saw somebody else do it well now pastor stephen uh it worked for them god called them to do it yes we're not saying god didn't but we're we're saying this did god tell you though to do that well i don't know i've never really uh gotten to a place where i've gotten that all figured out and that's very very important why here's why because as the prophet kenneth hagin said some years back one of the most amazing statements and i still meditate on it at times because it's a powerful statement based upon scripture and this is it this is what brother hagin said faith begins where the will of god is known okay let me say that again faith begins where the will of god is known praise god can you imagine the frustration the uncertainty of using your faith for a specific thing and the whole time you're doing that you don't even really know if that's god's will for your life so what's going on on the inside of you mixed signals uh an uncertainty that you try to cover and bury maybe with busyness or or noise or activity or it's just stuff swirling all the time but that's that thing in your spirit that says you know i don't know if that's even god's plan for my life hmm how do you get all that ironed out well of course by knowing what god's will is and i'm not just talking about the scripture because this doesn't tell you what state to live in this doesn't tell you what job you're supposed to accept this doesn't tell you what color carpet or marble floor you're supposed to have in your house some of these things you're just going to have to get it from the holy spirit praise god faith begins where the will of god is known so you're going to have to remove all forms of doubt and uncertainty and unbelief in order for your faith to hit all cylinders and there if there's if it's not it's like you've got bad gas and the engine's not going to work right one time i had stopped at a gas station and filled up my motorhome and i was going down the um i-40 and going through somewhere in new mexico and i had gotten some bad gas uh something from the gas station the gas was no good and it it caused my my engine to shut down and it shut us down right at a little ledge there i barely had room to pull over and the traffic was going right by us just like two feet away and it was going on the other side and there it was just like a really really tough spot but the lord got us out of it i was able to call my father on the phone he told me some things to do to try to work through it and much to my relief there was a gas station only five miles ahead and we made it there after i was able to um get through that ordeal and uh got some good gas in there praise the lord but this thing of bad gas is like having doubt and uncertainty it keeps your engine from working the way it's supposed to your engine of faith and you can't you can't really take hold because you don't even know if that's god's will for you maybe it was for somebody else but you you're never really certain is that the path i'm also supposed to walk so you have to get all that ironed out yes pastor stephen when and where do we do that oh you do that in that heavenly realm while you're seated with christ in the heavenly places you get it all ironed out up there and then things flow smoothly down here praise the lord while you're seated with christ in that place of deep prayer in the very presence of god himself you sit with him and you plan with him the holy spirit working with you the whole time so that you get precision in your life's choices precision precision precision and you know that you know i'm on target i'm on track praise the lord praise the lord glory to god proverbs chapter 24 please which is the book of wisdom proverbs 24 let's go to verse 3. through wisdom house is built now this house can symbolize your life maybe your minister can symbolize your ministry it could symbolize your unique career field that god has for you the calling he has for you through wisdom a house is built by understanding it is established by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches these different chambers of your heart these different areas and compartments of your life each one being very important to you all of them being built up beautified hallelujah glory to god and this is you ruling and reigning over your house or over your world your life you are called by god to govern your life well i want to get over there and tell him what he's supposed to do no you need to get back on your assignment and then live the way you're supposed to live and that light that example just people seeing that will say oh i need to change things up things are working so good for that person i'm going to i'm going to change things up praise the lord glory to god hallelujah the wisdom of god helping you to build the house build the house and i might as well touch on this since we're here you continue walking in that wisdom you're most likely going to end up owning a house as well maybe more than one through wisdom a house is built it's that wisdom of god touches you don't be surprised to find yourself sooner instead of later sooner than you think in homeownership through wisdom a house is built praise god now while you're seated with christ in the heavenly realms there is a planning that takes place there is the mind of god that is revealed to you by the spirit of god so you sit with christ and you plan you plan it all out and there has to be details this is very important for the angels because oftentimes they want to help but they look at your life and there's there's no direction there's no plan and they're like we're not really sure which direction he's going in so we don't he's all over the place and so there needs to be clarity purpose it needs to be understood it needs to be written out you need to know where you're going praise god hallelujah that's all a part of building your house through wisdom a house is built through wisdom through wisdom so you sit with christ and you plan one of the funnest things to do with god is to go in his presence and just hang out with him spend time with him and then you can start getting hit with these it could be it could be small skill it doesn't have to be like a full-blown open vision but you start getting these ideas from the lord and you start you start getting this creativity that starts to flow into you and so you take your pin and you can start to plan and write down what it is that god has taylor designed for you to live well i want what so-and-so has um if you actually were not designated by god to go down that path and you did go their path you would be unhappy you would be you would be unhappy now may you never hold ever what god has not intended for you to hold i want to hold what they're holding no no you don't you you really don't you only want to possess what he says this is your inheritance i'm smelling frankincense right now glory to god praise the lord see the path that he has for you is the blessed path praise god don't be a copycat be an original that doesn't mean that you can't be inspired by somebody else that's wonderful it doesn't mean that you can't maybe even go in a direction that well others have walked this path but let me just say that your specific route will be uniquely yours praise god and there will be some uh some big differences praise the lord thank you jesus it's very important to understand so you sit and plan in the heavenly realms you're seated with christ you sit and plan you build out your house through wisdom next you this is very important you sit and speak praise god god himself spoke and said let there be light or in hebrew was even shorter light be and there was praise god light is a wonderful thing so there is the confession of faith the confession of god's word and you get close with god and walk with the lord and the holy spirit swells up on the inside of you when your faith is full and out of your mouth comes these statements of bold faith and you you end up saying this is what i'm going to do wow you think wow that just rushed out of me the righteous are as bold as a lion ah and some of you think oh pastor stephen that's i i i don't know if i'm really into that let me talk to you married folk just for a moment some of you that maybe think you're not really into that men you stood at the altar the preacher stood in front of you your bride standing on your just to your right the preacher said to you sir do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife to have in the hole the cherish and on and on the good the good the good statement and he looks at you and he says do you did you stand there and go no they're not going to accept she's not going to accept she with their own ears wants to hear out of your mouth say i do praise god and if you're not willing to do that you're not ready for marriage and if you're not willing and ready to open your mouth when your faith is full and your heart is full of faith and the spirit is moving and speak forth the utterance of faith i will do this to the glory of god by the strength and grace of god this thing shall be accomplished in my life if you're not willing to do that you're not going to come into the fullness of what god has for your for your life praise god praise the lord mark chapter 11 verse 22 so jesus jesus answered and said to them have faith in god and that in the literal greek text actually says have the god kind of faith god's faith is perfect and that faith can come into you to believe for what he has assigned as your inheritance and all of that gets figured out while you're sitting and planning and after you've sat and planned then you sit and speak have faith in god for surely i say to you whoever says to this mountain be removed and be cast into the sea and does not doubt in his heart but believes that those things he says will be done he will have whatever he says pastor steven i'm believing god to heal my body i'm believing god for this sickness to leave my body when's the last time you spoke to the sickness and said in the name of jesus get out you s foul cancer get out of my body and be thrown into the sea in the name of jesus praise the lord so i'm just i'm just telling you out of these high councils faith is so strong that you want to take advantage of those high vision moments and address certain situations that need to be addressed you speak to the debt in your life and say debt in the name of jesus you're leaving debt i command you be uprooted out of my life and be thrown into the sea in the name of jesus praise god hallelujah glory to god um what did jesus say about that he says that if we do not doubt in our heart but believe that those things that we say it will be done he said you'll have whatever you say so you sit and say you sit and speak not just anything specifically precisely as you rule and reign not over somebody else's life over your life praise god you put your house in order your house built by wisdom your house in order praise god so there is that time you sit and you say you sit and speak praise the lord pastor stephen what else should i do you must be consistent to sit and pray praise god the plans are developed you're making strong confessions but we have greatly undervalued the power of effective prayer we have so sold short god's ability to answer our prayers that it has reduced much of the church to a status of normalcy of nominal christianity and this is changing this has to change praise god we must tap into the heart of god through prayer and again see god move in miraculous ways because for many of you the only way these things are going to be unfolded and be answered and achieved is through god's miraculous power praise the lord how does faith begin faith begins by knowing the will of god and so when you know and you're praying on target i'm telling you you're in the will of god and you keep really pushing in prayer you're going to see god come on the scene you're going to see god come on the scene and you're going to see a miracle praise god you're going to see god do it let's go to the book of james praise the lord james chapter 5 verse 16 confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much it says in the amplified bible that it's dynamic in his power and working my friends when you hit those moments where you come into a time in your prayer life where suddenly you realize i'm in in other words you broke through all of the distractions all of the moanings and groanings of the flesh all of the soulish nature that says oh what a beautiful day we could be doing something else and you break through and you know you're in the glory i would greatly encourage you to do not come out of the holy of holies until you have emptied your heart in prayer and i mean when it says fervent put the heat on it praise god that this was the whole picture of the altar of incense back in the old testament there in the holy place which was placed right before the veil the curtain that separated the holy of holies praise god what is that a picture of prayer carries you into the holy place how do we know that because the altar of incense burned incense so when the incense was ignited it would burn and smoke would come up what was that a picture of intercession of prayer and that smoke would actually go through the curtain and would work its way into the holy of holies so it is prayer that carries us into the very presence of god into the holy of holies and i think we need to get back to the ancient paths and we need to look at people like elijah that prayed and god worked miracles in situations where all of the odds were stacked against the righteous yet god prevailed because the people prayed and the situation was changed the effective fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much now when i say we're seated with christ so sit and pray that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't stand up you maybe you want to walk around maybe lie down and i'll be honest sometimes walking really helps me particularly if your flesh is edgy kind of like doesn't want to pray so you kind of have to learn the tricks of how to trick your flesh so just maybe you start walking but you're praying in the spirit but after a little while you realize i i'm really starting to get into prayer now now you've forgotten about walking in the sense or whatever the attractions were and now you can just start leaning into it and let me tell you when you're into it and you you know you're praying accurate again again faith begins where the will of god is known and you know that will it's been revealed to you and i would say in your you're in you're in the presence um unleash the big the big cannons i mean go all out go all out pray pray pray praise the lord and you will come out of times like that knowing knowing and and saying it's gonna it's gonna come out it's gonna want to come out saying i've got it this is going through i know it why it creates so much confidence in those moments with the lord of mighty prayer because you know you've prevailed before you ever even see it you know you've got it and yes you'll keep on praying but there's also a shift where there's there's praise there's thanksgiving and it's a remarkable journey praise god we must get back to this praise the lord now let me say this also first corinthians chapter 14 when we're talking about prayer let's also look at verse 18. i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all now this is paul referring to the great value of speaking in tongues and the more you speak in tongues and it takes faith to speak in tongues so you're exercising spiritual gifts you're you're exercising faith so the more you speak in tongues the more you're exercising faith and also this takes you over into the area of revelation revelation for example the book of revelation of jesus christ the last book in the bible the word revelation means to unveil it means to take a curtain and pull back and see what has been there the whole time but you previously could not see it it was veiled so when you pray in tongues a lot there is a revealing a revelation anointing that flows that allows you to see god's tailor-made plan for your life praise the lord so he said i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all than you all yet in the church i would rather speak five words with my understanding that i may teach others also than ten thousand words in a tongue well of course here in verse 19 he's talking about the gift of tongues now first corinthians chapter 12 we see listed the nine gifts of the holy spirit this is in reference to the gift of tongues and whenever you have the gift of tongues there also needs to be someone that would have the gift of interpretation or else if you stand up in a public assembly and you give a an utterance in tongues to the gift of tongues but nobody can interpret it or there's no interpreter or you don't interpret it nobody knows what's going on so that's why paul said yet in the church i would rather speak five words with my understanding that i may teach others also than ten thousand words in a tongue excuse me yes in a tongue so you need to understand that your your prayer language of tongues you're being filled with the spirit and the ability to speak in tongues that's your residential tongues and you always have that and you need to be speaking in tongues often now does that mean that you could have the gift of tongues for a you know a public assembly perhaps the holy spirit will flow through you with that for me it's always stronger for me in the area of interpreting tongues so if somebody gives a tongue in a public meeting almost always i've got that interpretation now if somebody else has it and they uh and they go first that's totally fine but if nobody uh stands up and gives the interpretation i usually will because that will come to me very very quickly just i can hear it i could understand it remember the gift of interpretation is not the gift of translation so i'm not translating word for word what they're saying i'm giving the interpretation of what they said that's why the gift of tongue message could have only have been a 10-second message in tongues but the interpretation to explain what they just conveyed could could take you know 45 seconds or a minute or something like that because i'm not translating i'm interpreting praise god but the truth is is that the more that you speak in your personal tongues for your personal prayer life the more sensitive you will be to the things of god including most certainly the gifts of the spirit as well as revelation of knowing god's will for your life i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all well we see that paul wrote two-thirds of the new testament and that was a lot of revelation to be able to do that particularly the book of hebrews which is very deep and the book of romans which is probably the most technical book in the entire bible it took a genius to write it and paul wrote it under the inspiration of the holy spirit and it's it's just supernatural but it's very complex in many ways very simple in many ways but also such incredible depth praise god but we see that speaking in tongues just helps us to grasp the things of god and even be able to communicate those things to others praise the lord thank you jesus so i want to encourage you my friends to spend time in this reality of being seated with christ in the heavenly realms sometimes while you're in that place in in vision form you can even see it and i've i've seen myself i've actually have been caught up into that realm before i've actually have seen myself seated on a throne and i can see others i can see activity in heaven i can see things that are taking place and these thrones can be very high and it's it's a spiritual position in christ glory to god so i want to encourage you to understand this is your inheritance god did not program you to suffer defeat praise the lord now in life we are going to go as christians through difficult experiences at times that is for our development that is for the maturity of our character in christ but even should we go through the most difficult of times yet you must realize that in those moments you are still a priest and a king unto christ you are still seated with him where in heavenly realms praise the lord and from that position you have the wisdom to live life skillfully and the come through every trial glory to god glory to god you you will find yourself in some situations where you will stand there and you could either say the right thing that will release favor and usher you forward or or you could say the wrong thing and the door close right before you and you find yourself unable to go any further praise the lord but i believe that because you understand this heavenly reality of who you are and where you are right now in christ that you will stand and you will render righteous words words of purity words of wisdom that even startled the hearers at times praise the lord sometimes they're going to ask you would you say that again why it came it came not from you it actually came through you from the heavenly realm it came from christ christ the wisdom of god we have the mind of christ praise the lord [Music] glory to god glory to god so i believe you'll say the right thing hallelujah praise the lord you're going to find yourself standing in some very interesting places in the coming days you must be operating with the mind of christ you must be spending time in the holy of holies praise the lord glory to god glory to god father i pray for your people that they will sit and plan [Music] i pray for your people that they will sit and speak and i pray for your people father that they will sit and pray and go all the way in thank you father god we give you praise hallelujah thank you father in jesus name we pray amen i've said this before but i feel greatly assured of the spirit to say it again drink until you're full or you're when you're in the lord's presence it took look it took you so much effort to get there it took so much sacrifice to get there when you're in drink until you're full praise god praise god thank you father god go into the overflow praise the lord um thank you jesus hallelujah thank you father i see you in that place glory to god glory to god and when it's time to conclude it the lord knows how to gently close the session praise the lord hallelujah thank you lord praise the lord i was in a moment one time with the lord right in the presence of almighty god enjoying his presence it's like i could have stayed there forever and the lord said to me through the holy spirit your wife and daughter are really going to enjoy the nintendo weed that they just purchased they're going to have fun with that i said oh i said okay lord and the presence began to fade out the glory began to pull back and i came out of that holy place so happy and blessed and refreshed and i walked out and i saw my wife i said honey i said the lord told me that you and that miguel are really going to enjoy that nintendo wii she said how did you know that we just ordered that we we didn't tell you i said the lord told me she said the lord told you about a nintendo wii i said yes [Laughter] they just purchased it praise god amen seated with christ in the heavenly realms i'm i'm [Music] i'm tossing around the idea right now in my mind about telling you a little story and i think i'm going to tell it to you praise god some of you you have no clue how real this realm is and that you actually are talking to the believers that you actually are seated with christ in heavenly realms you're just waiting till you die some of you all you're waiting till you're done you're going to die and then and then you're going to go be seated with christ in the heavenly realms yes you will come into your full redemption there will come a time you're going to come into your full redemption right but right now i'm telling you you'd be shocked at what jesus has already made available for you right now as your inheritance right now and that's what we find out in the epistles and the truth this is that you're seated with christ in the heavenly realms so i was spending some time once with dr wade taylor dear spiritual friend of mine he he laid his hands on me and transferred his mantle to me years ago but i was spending the night with him one time and we stayed up real late talking and we were talking about a certain prophet that had a very deep walk with god and dr taylor said um he said stephen and he you know he said uh uh wade taylor was sitting in his recliner and i'm sitting in another recliner and sometimes we talk so late into the night he'd fall asleep in the recliner just before he would fall asleep he'd say now you make sure you go back and sleep and i would i'd go back and sleep in his bed and so he'd just sleep in the recliner sometimes all night we'd wake up in the morning have breakfast and start talking about the things of god again now we were sitting in these chairs we're talking maybe you could say we were proceeded in our heavenly places hallelujah it's even even more fun when you're there there in the nice lazy board recliner and we're talking about this certain prophet talking just talking about the deeper things of god and he said he said stephen he said i've heard the stories about that prophet yes i've heard that he is caught up to heaven often a real man on the earth that's caught up into the heavenly realm often and he and i were sharing stories about this prophet uh that we had heard from different people and and we both knew the prophet and wade knew him a lot better than i did of course i didn't know him that much but i did meet him one time he invited me my wife to his house we spent kelly and i spent the day with him and so forth but um so we're talking about that prophet and wade taylor told me he said stephen i know another minister i know this guy personally and he's very trustworthy and he's a very reputable minister and this minister was not how can we say he was not like one of these guys that has supernatural things happening all the time that's that was not his that was not the kind of walk with god that he had but this minister did love the lord and this minister had a supernatural experience where he found himself being caught up into the third heaven and it only happened once to him and he told wade about it and this minister said i found myself caught up into the third heaven and i'm walking around in the throne room of god area and he said there were a lot of people there there were angels there there were heavenly creatures there there were redeemed saints there now not a whole lot because you're right in that area where the throne room area is at so uh it's intense so there but there are those that are coming in still and he said i was there and he said you wouldn't believe who i saw and wade said who did you see he said i saw that prophet i've never met that prophet she said i saw that prophet walking around up there and uh he thought that's wild well anyhow that minister he had his maybe you could call it once in a lifetime type wild encounter like that and he told wade about it but wade said that's not the rest that's not the end of the story my friend that minister who was caught up and you know saw the heavenly realm and was in the actual throne room realm himself he said wade said two weeks later that that minister friend of mine was in a conference where that prophet was speaking and after the conference the conference was in a hotel conference center after the prophet got through speaking he walked back to his hotel room to go rest and while they were going various directions they happened to cross paths in the hallway they met in the hallway that they've never met before and when they crossed paths in the hallway that that esteemed prophet that old prophet stopped and said to that minister now he said wait wait just a minute i've seen you somewhere before oh that's right two weeks ago i saw you in the throne room of heaven and that minister told wade he said can you believe that that guy saw me up there and i saw him now that was that was what that prophet was known for being caught up being caught up oh pastor tube i don't know about all that well then one day when you get to heaven you can sit in all of the 101 classes and learn it all and go through all of that that there you'd be shocked how many on the earth already know praise the lord who praise god hallelujah matter of fact that prophet that was famous for being caught up like that and his faith was very strong in that it was so strong that he could pull others up with him and that's what happened to me when i met him for the first time in in a conference in new mexico and he looked at me and said do you want to go up i said and i knew exactly what he was talking about i said yes and he touched me just like that when he touched my forehead my spirit now my body still there in the room but my spirit shot straight up in heaven and suddenly i found myself in heaven and i began to tell him what i was seeing and when i would tell him what i would see and he he would say this is you know this is what what's going on and he was saying now keep walking and woo praise the lord hallelujah i'm just saying my friends this this realm is very real and being seated with christ helps you to live the life of the overcomer here in the earth now this message that i'm preaching is is sent out to many different directions there will be those who are behind prison bars you're going to hear this let me say right now that you can have you you have an unusual position that although you may be incarcerated you have an unusual position where you can really draw near to the lord look at the look at the prison as a monastery look at yourself as being a monk maybe you're married you know your spouse is outside of prison but you're there make use of it draw near to the lord and the holy spirit will start to you'll start to sense that pull and you will have those times up you go now that's something that that prophet was very highly developed in but you can develop that anointing too praise the lord glory to god and there's others that will hear this message and you're in persecuted countries you can't get out you can't do much because of your faith in christ and the risk that are involved with that but right where you're at even if you're shut in you can be shut in and you can go up praise the lord sometimes you're shut in and you go up but not all the way to heaven and you go up and you're translated somewhere else praise god thank you lord jesus the end-time work of preaching the gospel to all the nations will be expedited by supernatural translation to people because there are some areas they're too dangerous we'll never be able to get a translation into their language in we're never going to be able to go there and preach it's too hot so we're gonna have to be translated there in the spirit and minister and then come back praise god hallelujah praise the lord let me go a little further this realm i would call it the enoch realm that those who walk close with god are aware of changes at times why pastor stephen because some graduate on let me give you an example a year and a half ago i was talking with an apostle friend of mine overseas we were talking about the enoch company that that is around the world those that have a walk with god like enoch and certain awareness that we have of that group and we got off we got off our conversation we ended the got off the phone and i had gone in the prayer afterwards and the lord spoke to me about another minister here in america and said that minister he's one of the enoch company he is in the top 100 in the world who walk with me um well pastor stephen what do you mean though it changes he just went to heaven his life ended he lived his life out and he went on to heaven what does that mean it means that there's there's constantly an invitation by the spirit to come into the deeper walk um and to step into places that are open sometimes vacated by very godly people hallelujah glory to god and the angels helped direct god's people into the path of holiness into the hat the path of hot pursuit of the lord be very very careful in these last days with celebrity christianity because jesus warned there will be many not a few there will be many who on the day of their judgment will will say before the lord many ministers will say but lord in your name did we not did i not cast out demons and did i not do all these great works and work all these miracles in your name and the lord will say depart from me i never knew you um praise the lord we must be intimately acquainted with the lord in the times in which we're living so we're not deceived by the fraudulence that's in the world but also the things that were tried to come into the church that would have a wrong spirit praise the lord glory to god glory to god i see the enoch company rising and with that of course is the high vision now father we give you praise we ask that you would seal this message and these words with the precious blood of christ the birds of the air that tried to swoop down upon the sacrifices of abraham that the evil powers of darkness would not swoop down and steal the seed and take it from your people but i pray that this message which is the seed of your word would produce the 100 fold harvest in the lives of the listeners and we give you praise we give you praise in jesus name and we all agree and say amen and amen praise the lord the angels of god there's many angels that are very near right now praise the lord my friends let's get ready to take holy communion glory to the lord hallelujah please grab some unleavened bread grab some grape juice and let's pray over it father thank you for the bread thank you for the juice we consecrate it we set it apart as holy through this prayer we thank you father that this is now the body and the blood of jesus our savior we give you praise we give you praise thank you father for the body of the lord that we're in the body thank you father let us always uplift and build up our brothers and sisters in the lord doing good to those who are members of the household of faith thank you father let us do all we can to reach the lost and father let us never neglect our own personal ministry with you which is the most important thing of all which is to abide in the vine father we now receive the body of christ in his name we pray amen let's receive praise the lord hallelujah hallelujah don't let the accuser of the brethren try to condemn you and say you cannot go forward you can go into the holy of holies because the blood of christ has been shed for your sins and you can go right into the very presence of god and you can talk to god and lift your face up to god glory to god because you are covered with the blood of jesus your sins have been washed away praise god the blood speaks on your behalf and says he's righteous he is in christ praise the lord hallelujah father we thank you for the blood of jesus we thank you that we can draw near and because we can we choose to do just that father let this be a week of visitation that this week be a week of ascending we give you praise and let there be something oh god but there's really that's released where this becomes not a visitation but it becomes a habitation now we bless you we thank you for establishing this in the lives of your people in our lives we give you praise in jesus name we agree and say amen let's drink praise the lord please lift your hands father i bless your people i thank you that surely goodness and mercy shall follow them all the days of their life we thank you father i see them ascending up mount zion certainly not going down certainly not camping where they're at they are moving upward now father we give you praise we thank you for your anointing to draw near we bless you in jesus name father i bless your people in jesus name amen and amen thanks for watching i'll see you back next time