welcome today to our online internet
around the world church service i am so
happy that you are here
and i know that you value the word of
god and that it is the spiritual food
that you live by it gives you faith that
gives you strength it gives you hope
and it empowers you to do what god has
called you
to do now today we're going to be in the
book of deuteronomy
chapter 28 and we're going to prepare
our hearts to receive the tithes
and the offerings we're going to bring
them into the house of the lord
now deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 1
now it shall come to pass if you
diligently obey the voice of the lord
your god to observe carefully all his
commandments which i command you today
that
the lord your god will set you high
above all the nations of the earth
and then verse 2 and all these blessings
shall come upon you and overtake you
because you obey the voice of the lord
your god
now verses 1 through 14 are very
important for any believer to study and
be aware of but notice there is
the word if that we see here in verse 1.
now it shall come to pass if so there's
conditions those conditions are things
that we need to be
very interested in we need to be
aware of the principles of god
the commandments of god the instructions
of god
the difference between good and evil the
difference between what god calls right
and what he defines is wrong and we need
to live our lives
in the light of god's word praise the
lord
now so if we diligently obey
it says these blessings will come upon
us
overtake us because so the word because
gives us that great indicator that if we
do the right thing
then god promises reward for obedience
praise the lord and so we need to honor
the lord with our finances it's very
important to do that
the tithe belongs to the lord and also
the holy spirit
moves upon our heart to sow financial
seed as well
so you can tithe and you can also give
an offering that would be above the
tithe above the 10 percent
and you can sow that and god blesses you
and god
bestows favor and goodness upon your
life every area of your life
and you need to be aware that god has a
plan for your life financially
i think it's very fascinating that in
hosea chapter 4
verse 6 god says that his people are
destroyed
because of lack of knowledge and it
doesn't mention lack of prayer or lack
of walking in love
or you know things that we know that are
requirements
but lack of knowledge and when i grew up
in church we hardly ever heard teaching
on finances and you have to understand
that jesus taught more
about finances than he did about prayer
he actually talked
twice double as much as he did
on prayer he talked about finances
very very often and is very important
but when i grew up in church
money was viewed as something
that was evil and while
the offering basket was passed around
we were told that tithing was under the
old testament
and therefore you certainly don't need
the tithe anymore
and then the pastor he dug a deeper hole
for himself
uh by basically telling the people you
know that
god god doesn't want you to have any of
this world's goods
so make sure that you never have extra
make sure that you never move into a
place that would be considered
being rich because rich people they all
uh they all
fall away from god and they all end up
going to hell and
and i'm not over exaggerating that's the
way it was taught
directly from the pulpit so the church
was terrified of money
and the church didn't have any and i
tell you what
we were a very uh beggarly group of
people
and not only that of course divine
healing was never taught
that aspect of the covenant was never
mentioned uh except for the mention that
that's not god's will for you to be
healed if you're sick just
walk it out and bear it and uh you know
of course you know they'd get sick turn
right around go to the hospital
uh didn't make any sense because if god
put it on you while you're trying to get
it off of you
and on and on it went with really lack
of knowledge
enough knowledge to get you saved praise
god and go to heaven
but how many of you know although we're
going to
continue to exist for all eternity
but until we get into the eternal realm
and cross over you know life life
doesn't just flash by
i know in a sense that from god's
perspective
of being outside of time uh our life is
just like a vapor you're here for a
moment and then you're gone and the
the centuries roll by and the the
millennia roll
by but for those of you that are on the
planet you know uh
as you get older time does speed up the
clock does move quicker
but nevertheless 10 years is a long time
50 years is a long time and you know
what you have to live
your life on this earth in victory and
you need god's principles in order to be
able to do that
so don't don't let yourself be destroyed
because of lack of knowledge
get knowledge on finances intentionally
study the prosperity verses such as
deuteronomy chapter 28 verses 1 through
4 excuse me 1-14
which reveal the great depths
of how god wants to bless you praise the
lord
and remember live your life to the
fullest of your ability in accordance
with god's will
and you'll see good things really begin
to take place
in your life hallelujah praise god
praise the lord you know there's a lot
of christians
they actually belittle prosperity they
think money's not important
they think that you know you're just
supposed to be spiritual that they don't
ever define what
they think spirituality is i guess they
think that just means stay home all day
and pray all day
but they think that money is something
that's of non-importance
yet while they profess
such supposed beliefs they turn
right around and then they work for 40
hours
to get it
[Laughter]
so it's it's pretty important after all
after all because i've never met one of
these people that says money's not
important in the church
then they'll work 40 hours a week to get
it but i've never seen any of them after
40 hours a week
tell their boss you know what i worked
40 hours
just to volunteer i don't really think
money is important and
you just go ahead and keep my paycheck
because it's not important
oh no uh they would get extremely upset
if they didn't get paid and of course
rightfully so
uh but my friends money is very
important don't let anybody ever kid you
on that
we need to be aware that god has a plan
for our finances and we need to do all
we can do
to merge into that plan and to walk in
the blessing
of the lord you know we can do a lot of
good things with money
we can alleviate pain very very quickly
for people
when we have finances we can we can send
them to the dentist
uh you know you talking about pain i i
know there's
dreaded diseases out there but when you
get into the pain category
whoo uh you know those nerves that go
down into your gums
uh if there's some decay and there's
some bacteria in there
that can be pain on a on a level that's
up there with the worst of them
so you know what sometimes it's amazing
what 400
can do to take care of the dental bill
and get somebody down to the dentist
and i i really agree with um mr booth
the foundation
excuse me the founder of the salvation
army who said
no man can hear the gospel present it to
them
while he has a toothache i i totally
believe that
how could the person hear the gospel
present it clearly and understandably
when he's in so much pain he's about to
go out of his mind
so money is a great blessing it can
alleviate
pain money can create wonderful
experiences for people money can print
bibles
money can send missionaries money
can buy air time on christian networks
so that the gospel can be preached how
about this
not only on christian networks but there
are secular
networks that will let you on if you
have the ability
to purchase the air time praise the lord
and i
i think i think sometime in the future
it would be good for this ministry
and for the pure gold program to go
fishing
uh in some areas where how can we say
would be a little bit out of the box i
think we need to try that sometimes and
that there are these other networks that
are out there
they're just a secular uh and we could
say sinful as they could be
but you know what if you've got the
money they'll let you get on their
network and i believe we should go
fishing
sometime over in their pond and i'm
talking about fishing for souls
praise the lord so we can do a lot of
good things with money
we can build hospitals uh we can uh
build uh all types of things
that are platforms to
send the gospel to all of the world
praise the lord
thank you jesus glory to god you know
you you could take some money and get a
podcast that's what we did
and we started podcasting on itunes last
year
and uh you pay some money to to set
these things up and to do these various
things
but you know just on itunes with the
podcast last year
i'm not talking about the other social
media platforms like youtube and i'm not
even talking about the
the larger platforms we have such as uh
the pure gold television on
satellite tv but just on the
on the platform of these podcasts
we had uh last year we had over 83
nations
that were watching or i shouldn't say
watching listening
consistently just to the itunes
podcast that we're setting out well now
we
are on so many different podcast uh
networks from spotify to blueberry to
it just goes on and on and on but there
are all these people out there that are
listening
but my friends it cost money to do that
we i'm telling you we can do amazing
things with money that bring glory to
the lord so don't let don't ever let
anybody
try to sway you in the thinking money's
not important
money is extremely important and
it is a great blessing when you have
prosperity
and when you're walking in the blessing
of the lord i tell you
just take your time read through these
blessings deuteronomy chapter 28 verses
1 through 14
and you will be blessed and at the
conclusion of it you can say
that belongs to me praise god so
diligently obey the word of god the
voice of god
and you will be stepping into the
fullness of what god
has planned for you hallelujah
now let's prepare our hearts to honor
the lord with the tithe
and with the offering praise god
if you would like to mail in your tithes
and offerings
please send them to stephen brooks
international
p.o box 717 moravian falls
north carolina the zip code here is
28654
if you would prefer to bring your tithe
and offering in online
it's very safe it's highly encrypted
it's very secure
and you can do so from anywhere in the
world
just visit the ministry website
stevenbrooks.org
and there is a link on the home page
that's a red tab and it says give that
has a heart on it
and you can click on that and through
that internet
secure site you can bring your tithe and
offering
right into the storehouse of god and we
take the provision
we take the finances and we use it to
continue to send the gospel
all around the world praise god there
are still
so many who have not yet heard
of the good news of jesus but we're
going to reach them we're going to do a
great work praise god
we're going to expand expand expand the
sending of the gospel
pastor stephen we're going to need some
money for that artwork yes
so believe the lord to bless you trust
him to bless you
and honor him with your finances and
we're going to throw
some big harvest pulling nets praise god
glory to god all right let me pray for
you now
heavenly father i thank you for your
precious people that
as they are honoring you with their
finances with the tithe and with the
offering
father god i just thank you that you're
going to unveil the prosperity plan that
you have for them
and they're going to have plenty of
money all of the time
thank you father god that they are very
discerning with their money
thank you that there are very wise with
their money
thank you father god thank you for
lifting him up
up up financially father we give you
praise
hallelujah we give you praise father god
we thank you for this mighty gospel work
reaching around the world father we
thank you we thank you father god that
we have the privilege
of presenting christ the savior to men
and women
boys and girls children throughout the
earth we give you praise father god
thank you for blessing us with wealth
and riches to do your work
thank you father god and to be a great
blessing in
jesus name we pray amen and
amen hallelujah
let's take our holy bibles and go over
today to the gospel of john
chapter 14 and we're going to
we're gonna launch today off of verse 21
it will be our theme verse
i'd like for you to take a nice look at
it today we're going to examine it
and i'm going to share some things with
you about this verse
and then we're going to take it into a
direction
that is scriptural but it's a direction
that is extremely rarely mentioned
but when adventured into
it produces some of the most
amazing amazing testimonies praise god
let's jump into it today's message is
called the moment you realize
this is of god let's pray
heavenly father as we jump into your
word we ask that the anointing of your
holy spirit
would be upon the scriptures that they
would come alive
and that we can take them and make them
our own
thank you father god for the
written word but thank you father for
your holy spirit who does illuminate it
so that it is the rhema word the living
word
thank you father god we thank you that
we receive your word today
as our spiritual food oh god we give you
praise in the name of jesus let's all
agree and say
amen today we're in john chapter 14
and let's go to verse 21
jesus said he who has my commandments
and keeps them it is he who loves me
now we talked a little bit about this
earlier just briefly during the tithe
and offering when we
looked at deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 1
and we see the word if in other words
there's conditions
if you meet these conditions of
obedience there's blessings that follow
and then verse 2 talked about because
you obey
then you step into verses three through
14
of deuteronomy 28 but my friends here
is very similar jesus understands
the necessity for honoring
the commandments of god he who has my
commandments
and keeps them it is he who loves me
and he who loves me will be loved by my
father
and i will love him and manifest
myself to him so we have focused a
little bit
on the first part of this verse already
which is the necessity
and it really is a necessity not
something that suggests it
it is a necessity that we obey
god's commandments and so when we do
that
we move into this place that if you're
open for it
and you desire it and you talk to the
lord about it and
say hey lord um i'd like in on this you
can move into one of the most amazing
verses in the bible
and see it begin to work in your life
and this is the part b
of verse 21 where jesus says
that if basically if we do the first
part then comes the second part
and i will love him and
manifest myself to him
now i want to read this to you from a
couple
of different translations because this
word manifest
is actually uh very very powerful
and we need to look into this today
praise the lord
hallelujah first of all let me say
that this word manifest means
that god is saying to you and i that
when he says i will manifest
myself to you he says he's basically
saying
literally i will plainly show
myself to you in the thayers
greek lexicon it says the word manifest
is so strong that it can mean nothing
less than a manifestation of god
that is perceivable by one or more
of our human faculties wow this is
incredible
praise the lord now
it says in the niv
whoever has my commands and keeps them
is the one who loves me
the one who loves me will be loved by my
father and i too will love them
and show myself
to them praise the lord
hallelujah praise god now this is also
very very powerful
and my favorite version of it which is
the amplified bible
if you don't have an amplified bible of
course you can always pull it up online
at the various bible study websites but
it's good to have one in your
uh a printed one in your personal
library
the amplified bible is
an expansion of the original new
testament greek text
in other words uh the the new testament
is written in greek
and then it's brought over into english
and our modern translations
but the english language while it is you
know
it's the global language today of the
world
greek was the global language back in
the days of paul the apostle
and the greek language technically has
more
depth and a deeper level of expression
and so
if you want to sometimes open the
scriptures
up to more of the fullness of what was
being conveyed it's good to get an
amplified bible
it's good to study it's not so much
necessarily
fun to read through because you can't
zip through it real smoothly because
a lot of it becomes repetitive when you
see the emphasizing of the
original greek language but it's still
it's very very helpful
now let's let's read verse 21 in the
amplified
and bring out even more fully what jesus
meant when he made this amazing
statement verse 21
the person who has my commandments
and keeps them is the one who really
loves me and whoever really
loves me will be loved by my father and
i will love him
and reveal myself to him i will make
myself
real to him glory to god
now i know that every one of you
watching me as a born-again christian
jesus has made himself real to you as
savior
yes pastor stephen i'm saved my ticket
has been punched i'm ready for heaven
and uh i have assurance of my salvation
yes
you do and if that were all
that's that's enough that's more than
enough to get you to heaven praise god
but my friends
there are different dimensions of god's
glory and goodness
that he would like for you to step into
and that
is what i want to talk to you about
today
praise the lord
i believe what we're looking at here in
verse 21
is even more than
an experience of the presence of god
although that's very
important it can be even critical at
times but this
this is really what i would call
stepping into even the fullness
of knowing the lord praise god and i use
that word very very carefully
but this is something that is uh
going on between you and god that is in
these certain areas
it's real it's not a theory it's not
something that
you you don't know about but maybe
you've heard about it taught or lectured
on
oh no this is something that
you know because god has manifested
himself to you
in this area in your life and so you
know he's real
in this area praise the lord
let's let's jump into an example let's
go to
second samuel
i really enjoy ii samuel it's the
coming forth of the new anointing of
david
as king praise god king over israel
hallelujah ii samuel chapter 5
verse 22. then the philistines
went up once again well the philistines
were very persistent
and the enemy can too uh but that's okay
david knows what to do he's ready to
engage again
but he's very wise to inquire of the
lord then the philistines went up once
again and deployed themselves in the
valley of rephaim
or the valley of the giants uh
septuagint the valley of the titans
verse 23 therefore david inquired of the
lord
that's very very key i pray that that
would be something that's a
regular practice in your life that you
don't just rush into things
but you always pray and get the heart
get the mind of god concerning
whatever it is that's you know would be
important where you have crossroads or
decisions to make
therefore david inquired of the lord and
he said you shall not go up
circle around behind them and come up on
them in front of the mulberry
trees now honestly i don't know if the
mulberry
tree is the same mulberry tree that i
knew here
uh in the southern part of the usa
growing up as a little boy but i'll tell
you this
i ate a bunch me and my brothers ate a
bunch of mulberries
when we were little kids and they were
extremely
extremely good uh and they stain your
fingers like crazy and uh
uh if you get that on your clothes it's
gonna be completely red
but wow are they good very very sweet
and i love the um those mulberry
that that beautiful fruit just loved
eating those uh
those things now uh it says here in
verse 24
and it shall be when you hear the sound
of marching in the tops of the mulberry
trees and i don't know if that's the
same tree over there in the middle east
in israel
but we're just going to go with what we
have here in our bibles
and it shall be when you hear the sound
the sound
please underline that the sound of
marching
in the tops of the mulberry trees then
you shall advance quickly
that that's not a sound that indicates
hey you're supposed to start eating the
mulberries
let's eat some fruit off that tree
pastor stephen you said it's real good
let's see some
that's not what that sound this is
referencing when you hear that
sound that's when you advance quickly
then the lord will go out before you to
strike the camp of the philistines
and david did so as the lord commanded
him and he drove back to philistines
from geva
as far as geezer now
the sound is the sound of
marching what what is making this
marching noise
up in the top of the trees is is it
crickets with little bitty feet
grasshoppers that are walking around up
there no no no there's nothing like that
this is an invisible army this is an
army of angels
that are up there in the air and they
are going
before the israeli army as they hit off
onto the battlefield so it is the sound
of marching it's a supernatural sound
that
can be heard in the spirit realm at
times it's the angelic army
in other words when david was told hey
when you hear this sound
you have to understand uh god's in this
you need to know that this sound is of
god well i thought it was the angels it
is the angels
under the orchestration of
the lord of hosts the commander of the
angelic armies of heaven the armies of
israel
it's god moving through the angels so
when you hear it
get going praise god in other words
there's moments you realize this is of
god in other words david when he was
told to hear when he heard that sound
david knew okay this is of god this is
the sign from god
and he can tell us men we go now
don't you know they went out in faith
and yes they won
another victory praise god lord jesus we
give you praise
um there's a sound that's very similar
to this
that i often hear not not every time
but but often quite often just before
the spirit realm begins to open up or
before i have a
divine visitation or some type of
supernatural encounter
i i often hear this sound and to me
to my ears it sounds like
uh tree leaves blowing in the wind
like the rustling of all the leaves and
of course when i hear the sound
there's no trees around uh i'm usually
inside or in a room or somewhere and
there's
there's no leaves or anywhere so this is
a supernatural sound
and every time i i hear that sound of
leaves rustling in the wind blowing
by the wind i know uh you know if i was
about to do something else stop you know
stop everything
something's about to happen the spirit
realm is about to open up
uh the first time i ever heard it i had
been in prayer
i had actually been in prayer for a
little over two hours and i had a
wonderful time in prayer
and i actually stood up and i i said
lord
just before i stood up he said lord i've
had a great time in prayer with you i
wrapped up my prayer
father in the name of jesus amen and i
stood up and you know it was a great
prayer time and i
actually was getting ready to leave
leave the room and go about some things
that day that
you know i had on my i had planned to do
when suddenly i heard
this sound and it sounded like movement
that was above me
kind of like the angels up there in the
mulberry trees but i heard a sound above
me that was like
rustling in the wind of leaves leaves
are blowing
and i knew i just somehow knew by the
holy spirit
this glory ram was about to open up so i
went right back down on my knees in
prayer
and i got right back down on my knees
and when i closed my eyes immediately i
went into a vision
and i saw jesus walk right through the
wall he had an angel with him
he walked jesus and the angel walked
right through the wall and came into the
bedroom where i was praying at
praise the lord and i tell you what uh
i'm not going to go into that visionary
experience but i will say this i'm
really glad i didn't miss it because a
real blessing
came out of that in uh several different
ways
that were very very important oh praise
the lord
so there is understanding that
if you hear a sound like that then
realize
this is a god oh pastor stephen maybe
somebody turned a fan oh no no
no there's no fans or this is not an air
conditioning i'm not hearing in the
natural although i can hear that
what i'm i'm hearing something in the
spirit i'm hearing in the spirit realm
and so there's that moment you realize
wait a minute this is of god
and so when you have that moment and
you're going to have times when that
is going to begin to open up then you
need to respond
why what's going on here's what's going
on and let me
let me see if i can break this down a
little bit for you
jesus is making himself
real to you jesus is manifesting himself
to you
through the medium of sound oh then we
need to focus on the sound
no the the sound is the intermediary uh
thing that's getting your attention the
focus is not on the sound
although you're gonna you're gonna
perceive that the focus will be
on what that sound is going to lead you
to and in my
my situation is it was you know a
visitation from the lord
in david's situation it's the sound that
denotes
get in the battle now you know engage
the enemy
now don't get caught up in the sound oh
that's wonderful that's wonderful i
wonder if we can record that on
some type of audio recorder no no no
that's not the focus that's not what
it's about
but that is the initial the initial
indicator that opens that
up to you and you need to know how to
respond when that's taking place
why what's going on jesus is making
himself
real to you in this way and you know
it was really through these type of
experiences
that david got fresh revelations of the
lord such as
adonai pearson the lord of the
breakthrough praise
god hallelujah so you you catch these
things through these victories in battle
that uh when when the moment is over
with you realize you know what i know
god
in a new way now i i know god in a way
that i i i knew him before
but i know him even better now and i
know i know him deeper now because
he has revealed himself to me in a fresh
and new way and you know david probably
thought you know that's that's the most
amazing thing he actually told us to
come up behind the enemy well i never
would have thought of that what an
amazing thing and a philistine certainly
certainly didn't think of it either
this is not about who can outsmart who
in military strategy
there is a part of that but you're never
going to outsmart god
so with instruction like that following
instruction like that
yes they went on to another victory but
my friends understand
there are those moments you realize wait
a minute
this is a god this sound is of god
okay so that will lead you into a new
a new way in which god reveals himself
to you
what way will that be oh that's uh
that's between you and the lord it can
be many different things but let me just
say this
you nor me nor anyone knows everything
there
is to know about god nobody does it's
just it's not possible
so there's a lot more that we can find
out
that we can be taught that we can have
exposure to
that will certainly carry us on in our
journey with the lord
but also greatly deepen our
understanding
of god himself and that is that is very
much what we're after today
praise god now let's continue on with
this
let's go to the book of acts chapter 2
and be mindful that the lord is going to
reveal himself to you
he is going to make himself real
are you ready for this he's going to
make himself real
to you oh pastor stephen i'm starting to
realize hey this is this
is real yes it is that's very very real
hallelujah but you need you need to know
these things so that
you are ready for it you have that
platform of the word to stand
on which supports the experiences
that are coming your way acts chapter 2
verse 1. when the day of pentecost
had fully come they were all with one
accord in
one place and suddenly there came a
sound from heaven
see a sound a sound from heaven
you you and i both know that the sound
was something that was supernatural oh
then we need to build up
we need to build a church and dedicate
it to the sound no
no the the sound is this initial
indicator to do what grab your attention
of what of what's coming what's coming
pastor stephen well let's read on
and suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of rushing mighty wind
oh oh pastor stephen we really uh
we should really focus on the wind no
the holy spirit's a person he's not wind
he's not a dove these are things that
are representations of him but he is a
person
he is the third person of the godhead
deity
and suddenly there comes a sound from
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind
as of as of a rushing mighty wind
pastor stephen the holy spirit he's a
rushing mighty wind
no he's a person he's god he's he's not
wind he's
as of he's in other words he's similar
to that
but he's he's god he's not wind and he's
not fire
what is the what is the purpose of the
of of the wind it's the sound
that gets your attention now you're
going to have to be able to look beyond
the supernatural sound that
that will get your attention trust me
but um
i've heard sounds in the spirit room
before i've heard that sound of the
rustling of the of the leaves that
always gets my attention but there's
other types of sound too
it could be the wind oh yes pastor
stephen
let's make sure we get that recorded on
audio that's that's
that's nice if you could somehow capture
that and it actually has been captured
before in certain
uh you know services in certain
spiritual churches when the holy spirit
came in and actually that sound of the
wind
got recorded but you understand that god
is not wind
he is a spirit so that that word is very
you know it's the same word pneuma in in
the greek uh which can be translated
you know wind or spirit but we know that
god is not win
he's he's like that but he's still he's
a person he's a spirit
praise god then there appeared to them
divided tongues as a fire and one sat
upon
each of them now we know verse four they
were all filled with the holy spirit
began
to speak with other tongues as the
spirit gave them utterance oh well
pastor stephen then we need to get
we need to get our focus on the fire
well the fire is a manifestation of the
spirit
but the holy spirit he in a sense is not
fire although he can manifest through
that medium of fire upon a person
but the focus is on being filled with
the spirit
so you have to look beyond the wind the
sound
you have to look beyond what you see now
we're in the scene also because now we
have a manifestation not just of hearing
of a sound
but now we have a manifestation of
something they're seeing they're seen
as the king james version says cloven
tongues are split tongues of fire
burning on top
of each person's head glory to god
praise the lord
and what would be the focus the
infilling of the holy spirit with the
evidence
that we know as uh that of speaking
in other tongues wow that was new
yeah it sure was it was the birth of the
church and
also this
was another way of god revealing himself
now if you've never had
the baptism in the holy spirit and
you've never spoken in other tongues
that is for every believer
praise the lord and so you need to say
hey jesus
i would certainly like for you to
manifest yourself to me
as the one who baptizes your people in
the holy spirit
jesus show yourself to me make yourself
real to me
as the baptizer in the holy spirit
get ready get ready praise the lord
because he certainly
will answer a prayer like that
you better believe he will praise god so
we're looking at
the lord making himself real to you his
people through
various platforms or various mediums
such as that of sound
such as that of sight we have the sound
of wind the sight of fire
here in acts chapter 2 verses 1-3 let's
go further
let's go to the book of exodus chapter 3
praise the lord
and we're going somewhere because there
is a special way
that the holy spirit has spoken to me
recently
that god wants to manifest himself to
you
that he wants to make himself very real
to you
in a certain area but i'm going to get
to that in just a moment
exodus chapter 3 let's let's go further
into this area of realizing those
special moments when you realize
this is of god god is in this
praise god now watch this exodus chapter
3 verse
1. now moses was tending the flock of
jethro his father-in-law
the priest of midian and he led the flop
to the back of the desert
wow what a just a beautiful
experience a beautiful place hallelujah
i i like the desert now
my wife she loves the mountains i like
the mountains too
and uh i grew up on the gulf coast i
like
i like water i like salt water but the
desert is also it has a very
unique beauty to it and this was uh this
was a day that moses
never forgot this is when he received
his commissioning from god
now it says it happened on the backside
of the desert praise the lord
and he came to horeb the mountain of god
verse 2 and the angel of the lord
appeared to him and a flame of fire
from the midst of a bush so he looked
and behold the bush
was burning with fire but the bush
was not consumed then moses said
i will now turn aside and see this great
sight
why the bush does not burn
oh pastor stephen we need to we need to
go over to the middle east and we need
to find where this happened we
we need to build a church on that spot
maybe we should call it the church of
the burning bush we we really need to do
this
look look that was a very sacred moment
that was something
beautiful and holy i mean even the the
lord said
you know take your sandals off this is
this this is holy ground
why was it holy because god was there
praise the lord
the presence of the lord was there but
you have to realize that
the bush burning on fire but not being
consumed in the fire
is something that's meant to grab your
attention
you're not supposed to just get hung up
on the bush yes
the bush it's all about the bush no
that's that's the attention grabber for
what's coming
what's coming well i'll tell you what's
coming god
is about to reveal himself in a new way
to moses oh yes the bush
unforgettable experience but remember in
these moments where you realize
this is a god this thing of this bush
it's on fire but it's
not being consumed this is of god
yes yes it is
but get ready for the revelation of how
he's going to reveal himself to you in
the new way
through the burning bush experience
praise god
thank you jesus then moses said i will
now turn aside
see this is the attention grabber and
see
ah a visual experience
that arrested his attention um
and see this great sight why the bush
does not burn so when the lord saw that
he turned aside to look
oh oh may you also turn aside to look
well don't you know pastor steve but i
got an agenda to keep
well you you can miss your visitation
you can miss an unveiling of god
that i'll say this it won't just take
you to a new level it'll it'll take you
into a new realm
i would highly recommend that you put
the brakes on i know you're busy
who's not right but i i would highly
recommend that you take a time
out uh and let some other things slide
and because if you if you will stop the
lord will notice that if you'll keep on
going don't think god's gonna out shout
your busyness
so when the lord saw that he turned
aside to look
god called to him so god wasn't going to
call until he stopped
so you have to stop lean into the
experience
let the lord know that you value the
experience that you recognize the
experience in other words
let let god know that you know hey
this is of god this thing's on fire it's
like being consumed
this is a god okay so stop acknowledge
that
and then get ready for an unveiling of
god in a new way that you've never
encountered before
so when the lord saw that he turned
aside to look
god called to him from the midst of the
bush
and said moses moses
moses is probably like he he knows me he
called me twice
oh yes yes
and moses said uh here i am
he's probably going what what's going to
happen next
an unforgettable day and any time
you have these moments where you realize
this is of god that this is something
special
get ready get ready to know god in a
special way
deeper than you've known him before
praise the lord
pastor stephen i know god yes i know
you're saved
pastor stephen i've been in the church
for 40 years yes
yes but even after you've been in heaven
for 40 million years
there will still be realms of god that
you just he's
inexhaustible in knowledge and beauty
and glory and wisdom and splendor
we'll still be digging into these
aspects
for all eternity praise god
get ready to know some new things he's
going to make himself
real to you now this again is another
unveiling of god to his servant
through the medium of sight in other
words moses
saw something and then it became audible
then he heard
he heard the angel of the lord talking
to him praise the lord
my friends these are new unveilings
of the lord praise god yes all
along a scriptural line we're not trying
to push your voyage into something
that would ever go beyond the word but
i'm saying there's a lot in the word
that still is available for us a gold
mine
and we need to possess our inheritance
praise god the lord will will manifest
himself
to you he will make himself real to you
how about this through the faculty
of smell thank you jesus
here's a beautiful verse song of solomon
chapter 2 verse
1. you know this verse don't you this is
a good one
it says i am the rose of sharon
and the lily of the valleys
now this has messianic
prophetic imagery this is referring to
the messiah
i am the rose of sharon praise the lord
the rose of sharon has no thorns
the lord won't hurt you or cause you
pain
praise god as often as i have ministered
in the many churches conventions
conferences and meetings around the
world
as many know that as i minister one of
the gifts that the holy spirit has given
to me is the gift of discerning of
spirits
and discerning of spirits is the ability
by the holy spirit to see
hear taste touch or smell
in the spirit realm and so often when
i'm ministering
that gift which is a ministry gift that
goes along with the ministry office
that gift will begin to manifest and
many of you have been in my meetings and
you've
you you have encountered the lord in
this way so these fragrances start
coming forth
many different types many different
kinds and
one of the most common if not the most
common fragrance
that begins you know sooner or later
it's gonna it's gonna come up
is that of roses why it is the
global fragrance known around the world
that no matter where i minister at
and it's happened uh uh you know like
extremely strong manifestations in in
jerusalem
it's happened all over the world of this
fragrance of roses that gets
so thick so thick and everybody always
knows what it means
it's it's the one that somehow doesn't
need a prophetic interpretation
it represents your love life with jesus
or i would say your love walk with god
it's the sweetheart relationship that
you and jesus have
it's a beautiful thing uh once when i
was ministering in taiwan
it got intensely strong where
you would have thought that if you just
closed your eyes and didn't know
that maybe uh several floral shops had
all joined together
and got gotten all of their fresh roses
and taken them and brought them into our
conference because the fragrance was
overwhelming and it was wafting it was
moving
all across the people and it was it was
one of the most intense
fragrances of roses that we have ever
experienced and it says in reference to
the messiah
i am the rose of sharon so what do we
have here
we have a very real encounter
with the lord through the medium of
smell
and you're smelling in the spirit realm
as a matter of fact in that meeting
in taiwan we had so many different
fragrances going on
and the strongest was roses but we were
going
through many we were going through
frankincense and and then it was
switched to vanilla and then it would
switch to
jasmine and then it would switch to
myrrh and i would i would give the
interpretation to the people of what the
different fragrances
what it's meaning and we would begin to
go through all of these i didn't know
this until after the conference was over
but they told me that there was a lady
that came to the conference
there was about 400 people in the
conference and these are ministers from
all over southeast asia
and china and it was very very powerful
meetings but they told me after the
conference was over that there was a
lady that came that wasn't
uh what we would say spirit field or she
had she was a christian
she was a minister but she had never
been in a meeting
where the holy spirit was moving with
signs wonders and miracles
so she was they told me this later she
was standing in the back
when all this was going on and she was
like this like how was he doing this how
was he doing this in other words
how how is it switching from how does it
go from vanilla
to rosemary and then it goes to lilac
and then it goes to
heavenly perfumes and it goes back to
roses and it's just
fragrance after fragrance she's like how
is he doing this he was getting
aggravated frustrated
and they were trying to explain to her
it's not him that's the holy spirit
well glory hallelujah amen
what was going on uh there
encounters with the lord
the lord making himself real to his
people through
fragrance and it got quite intense there
were those that were just laid out they
they were so overwhelmed with the glory
of god
with an up-close manifestation of the
lord like that
many just passed out many went into
visions laid on the floor
and it was very powerful that was
actually a meeting that we got
so far over into the glory that people
not only were smelling they were also
eating
they were being fed in the spirit realm
now pastor stephen i don't know about
that
well god does and that's why it's also
in the bible remember
there's a lot in here there's a lot on
the
banquet table of the inheritance that we
have in christ
i'll just give you a little example uh
revelation chapter 10
verse 10 john the revelator who wrote
the book under the inspiration of the
spirit said
then i took the little book out of the
angel's hand and
ate it and it was as sweet as honey see
he not only ate spiritually ate a
spiritual book
but the book had a taste it had flavor
to it that he could even recognize
and tell what that flavor was and he
said it was a sweetest honey in my mouth
but when i had eaten it my stomach
became bitter of course that was he was
actually consuming a message that he was
to declare and decree
same thing happened with the prophet
ezekiel whom was also given a
a scroll to eat and he ate it and he
said oh it tastes
like honey very sweet in the mouth
so these are all experiences in the
spirit realm
so there is there is jesus
making himself real to you through smell
such as the rose of sharon the universal
fragrance of god's love for you and
your love for him and then there even is
the area you can get over into
god revealing himself to you through
even taste and in this meeting in taiwan
the the lord jesus began to put
spicy green beans in the mouths of the
ministers and they could eat
they could taste now you could if you
open your mouth and looked in somebody's
mouth there's nothing in there but
just your tongue in your teeth but an
invisible hand was putting invisible
food into the mouths of all the people
just like with ezekiel just like with
john
and you can't see it and taste it unless
you're in the spirit
but we had gotten over into the spirit
and
the the angels of the lord through the
holy spirit's power they were putting
green beans in the mouths of the people
so we went through a
like you'd call a for a full course meal
there was like appetizers and then we
got into the main entree and then we
even got into the dessert
and people were eating things from green
beans and they were they're all calling
out to me what they're eating
because they're eating it and they
started with green beans and certain
vegetables that were
that were culturally connected to what
they ate and what they liked even the
spice the flavor
then got into the meatballs with uh
asian flavored meatballs
and then by the time we went through the
whole meal got into the the final course
which was uh different forms of
uh rich dark chocolate no milk chocolate
it was all dark chocolate glory to god
good stuff good stuff good stuff what is
that
that is jesus revealing himself to you
through through the medium of smell
or through the medium of uh taste
praise god these these are all biblical
praise the lord
by the way song of solomon chapter 2
verse 1 i am the rose of shared and
the lily of the valleys and so often
times in meetings we'll have those that
begin to smell
lilies lilies
has a dual meaning there is a perfume
that's called
white lilies and it represents
authority in the spirit realm it
represents uh governmental authority
but the white lilies lilies also
represent
intercession and we know that because in
the old testament worship system there
at the temple
they had what was called the the brazen
sea it was this
ginormous uh brazen
uh bowl that held thousands of gallons
of water
and it was used there at the temple and
we know that solomon inscribed
through his workers on the brass work
all around
these ornamental engraved lilies so
they're lilies engraved
all around this beautiful what was
called the brass sea
and the jewish rabbis have always taught
that the brass sea represented
the gentile nations of the world
so if you study the typology
of the brass sea it represents
intercession
for the lost as it says in psalm 2
verse 8 ask of me and i will give you
the nations for your inheritance
so ask in prayer and intercede for the
lost
that those of the nations of the world
who don't know christ would
be saved in the name of jesus
so the lily if you're ever smelling
lilies in the spirit realm
that represents intercession that god
wants you to intercede for the lost it
could be lost loved ones it could be
people in other nations or other
countries
but pray for the lost praise god
amen all right there can also be
what i would call unusual prophetic
witnesses
of the holy spirit now before i get into
this a little bit
let me be careful to say don't ever try
to
force something let me give you an
example of
how god spoke to me through a unusual
prophetic witness
one time i had gone and ministered at a
very powerful church
run by a great apostle who started many
churches and when i
went to his church and ministered and
saw the great work that god had done
through
his life and really the vastness of it
and the the largeness of it and how it
was reaching the world
me and my wife said when we go back we
must expand our ministry
and we're going to we're going to have a
new ministry office and so when we came
back
we left on sunday we flew back got back
on
on sunday on monday we went out looking
for our new offices and our faith was so
high we were so
charged with faith and we were prayed up
that
we we went out and we were looking and
the first place that we looked
which had the best potential to us after
having
you know looked up properties online uh
the first place that we looked at
we just we we loved it and we had
immediate favor
with the person that was going to rent
lease it out so they're looking for a
client and we're looking for a place to
to move into so
this place was was nice this was it was
also going to take some money to fix it
up
but the the the monthly rent was going
to be way higher
than anything that we had ever paid plus
we're going to need extra money to
do certain renovations to make it the
way that we need it to be
but you know what we were so charged
with faith and we just knew god was
helping us
he was helping us but i i still i needed
something to just
nail it for me well we went into one of
the offices
of this beautiful facility and when i
went into
one of these offices which would be the
office that was going to end up being my
office
there was a picture on the wall and when
i looked at it i thought
no that can't be what i think it is and
i went up close to the picture and
looked at it and sure enough there it
said on the bottom of the
of the picture this is a painting of man
of war
it was a horse a big red colored
chestnut colored horse
named man of war who most historians who
follow
racehorse you know racetracks and all
that they say was the fastest horse
ever to walk on the planet even even
faster than secretariat
so there was a there was a picture of
that horse
hanging on the wall in the room that was
going to be if we get this building it's
going to be my office
and see i had written in my book just
before this experience
i had written in my book working with
angels i had written about man of war
i had studied man of war i had even
taken my
uh information about him and put it in a
book praise god so i
knew about man of war and there he is
hanging
on the picture on the wall that would be
my office well as i'm looking at that
totally puzzled and kelly she comes in
and sees it we're just like oh my
goodness that's amazing
wow well the lady uh the owner of the
building she comes in
i said hey i saw this this picture here
this beautiful picture
i said if i if i lease this property
from you
i said could i have the picture she said
um
she said yeah she said you can have you
can have that and so i still
have that picture today and every time i
look at it
every time i look at it it just it
it was i i acknowledged that it was
something that to me said
this is of god god is in this
this is of god now here's what you have
to be careful for
don't try to force these type of unusual
prophetic witness experiences
have you ever met those in the church
who are very immature
and they they know just enough about the
prophetic to be dangerous and to confuse
themselves and maybe others who don't
know
they go around with everything they see
oh that's of god that's a sign from god
pastor stephen i saw the number seven
seven seven
and that means i'm supposed to go out
and spend my whole paycheck and buy
lottery tickets
uh no that's not what that means all
that means is that you saw three numbers
that's all that means unless there is an
anointing of the spirit
and if it is an anointing of the spirit
it would never lead you to do
something unbiblical or something
foolish or stupid such as going out and
buying
lottery tickets
praise the lord hallelujah glory to god
hallelujah thank you jesus
so don't don't try to force these things
uh this is not something that you need
every day anyhow this is something you
need in those special moments
and i call them the unusual prophetic
witnesses of the holy spirit
when you realize when you realize god
is in this this is of god
praise the lord oh pastor stephen
pastor stephen that painting of that
horse
we probably should erect a church
building and
we should have a church called the man
of war church
because god spoke to you through that
painting yes we need to start a church
called the man of war
church no no
you have to look past the painting
that's the attention grabber
and look at what god is trying to reveal
himself
to you through that moment and what is
that
god was basically saying hey i'm
breaking something open new for you
this is your time to increase and expand
and we stepped into it
and the moment we stepped into it a very
large offering was released
to the ministry so that we could put
brand new flooring through the entire
place
whoa praise god and we made it nice we
made it nice until the lord promoted us
and we went from
renting leasing into the facility that
we now have
which we now own to the glory of god
thank you jesus
praise the lord now there was another
situation where
we moved from our home that we were at
at one point
and me and kelly we thought well this
next home we don't really need to buy
a home at this place of in our life
let's lease something
and so we went and we looked around and
the leases were real high on these homes
in the city that we were going to be
living in but we knew we had to make a
decision because you've got to live
somewhere
and we saw one home that really stood
out it was
it was very beautiful it was very nice
but
but it was it was pricey it was gonna it
was gonna be a very pricey thing to
lease
but at the same time everything was
pricey you know that there was nothing
that you could find that would be like a
steal of a deal
but the only thing about this one is
that it was a little bit more
and it was very clean very beautiful and
very very nice
and we thought this would be a wonderful
place to live it's not our
certainly not our final destination but
would it be in
it would be enjoyable while we are here
but we just thought lord you know
we need a we need a little more help we
feel everything's right we've prayed
about it
and lord we just need some help so me
and my wife decided to drive over one
more time to take a look at it
we felt it was going to be the right
choice for us and so when we pulled up
to make our final decision the neighbor
her car was parked right there
next to the house and we pulled up right
behind her car and for the first time we
noticed her license plate
and it said yeshua the name of christ
our savior
and this was not a fake plate this was a
custom plate
uh it was a real plate you know and it
said yeshua
y-e-s-h-u-a i said that's beautiful she
must be a believer of course
and jesus would be nice to have a
neighbor next door
and i realized this is of god this is
where we're supposed to be
and we signed the lease and never
struggled once to make the payment lived
there had a great time
and of course it was it served us well
in that season of our lives
now praise the lord we're in a different
place but now we have a nice home
and we own the home and we give god the
glory for that
but the moment me and kelly saw the
license plate yeshua
we knew this is of god
pastor stephen you should start a church
and you should you should line the walls
of the church with license plates
[Laughter]
you should commemorate that moment and
call it the church of the holy license
plate no
you look beyond the license plate to the
way that the lord is manifesting himself
to you
and he was basically saying this is my
will this is my blessing
you can move forward i'll cover this
you're good to go praise the lord
hallelujah glory to god my
friends jesus wants to make himself very
very real to you now
let's talk today about something that
the holy spirit revealed to me i'm about
to wrap this up
that
jesus wants to reveal himself to you in
a
special way and i was given this
by the holy spirit and i would like to
take you to it
now now before we go to it it's actually
found in genesis chapter 22. if you want
to turn over there
genesis chapter 22 before i read it to
you
one more time let me just refresh your
memory
and plant this word deep in your spirit
which again is john 14 21
jesus said the person who has my
commandments
and keeps them please underline that
that's
not an option you have to keep the
commandments of the lord
the person who has my commandments and
keeps them is the one who really
loves me and whoever really loves me
will be loved by my father and i will
love him
and will manifest myself to him
will reveal myself to him i
will make myself real to him
jesus wants to make he wants to make
himself
real to you in these various areas i've
given different
expressions of how he can do it there's
many different formats of how we can do
it
many different mediums of how we can
work through through sight through sound
uh through a license plate through a
picture on the wall
and it's beautiful but i want to take
this now in a direction
the holy spirit said this is what the
lord wants to do for you
right now are you ready genesis chapter
22.
let's go to verse 9. then they came to
the place of which god had told him
and abraham built an altar there and
placed the wood in order
and he bound isaac his son and laid him
on the altar upon the wood
and abraham stretched out his hand and
took the knife to slay
his son
verse 11 but the angel of the lord
called to him from heaven and said
abraham abraham i tell you what abraham
was dialed in wasn't he
well that angel was shouting i have to
get his attention because abraham was he
was fully committed
fully locked in abraham abraham
so he said here i am and he said
do not lay your hand on the lad or do
anything to him
for now i know that you fear god
since you have not withheld your son
your only son
from me now verse 13.
then abraham lifted his eyes and looked
and there behind him
was a ram caught in a thicket by its
horns
so abraham went and took the ram
and offered it up for a burnt offering
instead
of his son and i'm sure isaac was saying
praise the lord glory
[Laughter]
hallelujah of course you and i know that
isaac was coming back one way or the
other because even
abraham was so assured that god was
going to raise his son from the dead
that even after he was not only killed
but
burnt on that altar that god would have
reconstituted the ashes and brought
the flesh brought his son back to life
praise to god
he was dialed in 100 he knew it
and that act of faith was accounted to
him as righteousness
praise the lord now back to our story
the ram caught in a thicket
abraham went and took the ram and
offered it for a burnt offering instead
of his son
and abraham called the name of the place
the lord will provide as it is said to
this day in the mount the lord
it shall be provided praise the lord now
here's an instruction i have for you
god wants you to pray to him and you can
pray to the father
you can do it just like this are you
ready
heavenly father i ask
that by your holy spirit
you would manifest yourself to me
through finances in jesus name
i pray amen
oh pastor stephen i already know
everything about jehovah jireh
do you know how you really know
jehovah jireh oh i'm not talking about
you know the name
oh pastor stephen in the hebrew is
jehovah yahweh
there's no jay in the hebrew so it
actually is jehovah yahweh
and that is the covenant name of god one
of the eight compound covenant names of
god
that means the lord will see to it that
your every need is met
yes pastor steve and i know exactly what
it means
oh there's a whole lot of christians
that can tell you exactly what it means
and they struggle to pay
their light bill there's a whole lot of
christians
that can say oh jehovah jireh he will
provide
and that they're running out of money
before the before the
end of the month has arrived and they're
nervous
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here's what i'm trying to tell you jesus
said
i will reveal myself to him i will make
myself
real to him well pastor stephen how how
do i know
that the living reality
of jehovah jireh as my god
is real how do i know that oh you can't
miss it
when there's a ram in your thicket did
you notice that
until the ram was caught in the thicket
and then suddenly
abraham is hit with a revelation and for
the first time
in his life he realizes that the god
that he has been serving
the god that he trusts the god that he
believes in with his whole heart his
whole life
he finally for the first time he catches
something
that he never even knew he he realizes
oh my goodness
this is the lord god who will see to it
that my
every need is met oh pastor stephen he's
known that all but no no no that was a
brand new
revelation he never knew before that one
of the facets of god
is i am jehovah jireh
so here's what the what the lord has
revealed to me by the holy spirit
that god wants to be real to you as
jehovah jireh
oh pastor stephen i even know the song
jehovah jireh
he's my provider his grace is sufficient
for
me let's sing the second stands out his
grace is sufficient
oh see there's people that know it they
even have a dance that goes along with
it
but they they know the song they know
the verse
they know the chapter but they don't
know
jehovah jireh in a real way in a real
breakthrough way praise the lord yet he
is still jehovah jireh
so there needs to be fresh encounters
in this area and it's coming to those of
you
that believe and that open your heart to
this and i
i would ask you to pray that prayer
heavenly father
i ask that you would manifest
yourself to me make yourself real to me
by your holy spirit through
finances in jesus name
i pray amen and when you pray that
and you ask that you're you're going to
find the ram
caught in your thicket um praise the
lord
praise the lord hallelujah
glory glory to god a new revelation
oh not information there's a lot of
christians that got a lot of information
they got a lot of information it's kind
of like they say down in texas though
big hat no cattle
big hat where where's his friend chat he
ain't got no ranch where's his cows at
he don't have any cattle he's got a hat
though
praise the lord god wants to give
he wants to give you some cattle praise
god he wants to give you a break
through miracle now
you need to ask god to reveal himself to
you
to make himself real to you in this area
i'm not just talking about getting the
light bill paid
i'm not just talking about you know you
got got a little extra money and you
you can get the large pizza instead the
medium pizza
i'm talking about blessed i'm talking
about
god doing some special things for you
thank you jesus oh don't forget the
emphasis
on the first part of verse 21
of john chapter 14 the emphasis of
obedience
the person who has my commandments and
keeps them is the one who really loves
me i don't like that part professor
stephen get to the last part about
jesus reveal no no we have to we have to
have the whole thing
praise god the person who has my
commandments and keeps them as the one
who really loves me
and whoever really loves me will be
loved by my father
and i will love him and reveal myself to
him
i will manifest myself to him i will
make
myself real to him in the area of
finances
pastor steve that's never happened to me
have you ever asked him to do that
well no i just thought he'd do it anyhow
well obviously not
praise the lord ask and you shall
receive
seek and you shall find knock and the
door shall be opened
to you praise the lord some of you
you've had some blessings
some of you you've got some testimonies
don't think for a moment
you've drained the heavenly bank account
hallelujah
god has more god has unlimited provision
god is able to bless you but you need to
lean into the lord
and ask him to reveal himself you in a
very living way
in a very real way that you know
he came through for you that you know
that blessing came from god
now sometimes when you pray along this
line
you do see the big ones but sometimes
they can begin to build
and they can begin to build real quick
and you get something really good you
think wow
wow i think i better keep praying god's
answering this prayer
yes it is and then you go along and
maybe just a week later
i'm not talking you know two years later
i'm just talking maybe
a few days or a week later boom there's
another one you're like
lord hey hallelujah lord this is all
right
this is all right lord you and me we've
got something going on hello you keep on
going and then boom hallelujah
glory to god and he will make himself
just as real to you
as uh he'll pour it to you just as much
as you are open to receive
praise the lord hallelujah
pastor steve i'm i'm afraid my
brother-in-law gonna get jealous
he's gonna get jail at my cousin they're
gonna get jealous when they see what
god's doing in my life yeah they
probably will
but just go ahead and let the lord bless
you remember jesus said you can have the
hundredfold return
with persecutions just go ahead and walk
in the glory walk in the blessing
stay humble but walk in wisdom
hallelujah walk in obedience and you'll
be a blessing
to the work of god you'll be a blessing
to many praise the lord
hallelujah heavenly father we thank you
for your word
we thank you for your promises we thank
you father god for the different
ways in which you convey to us
when you interrupt our normal life in a
sense and you convey to us
this is me this is of god
father we thank you we welcome those
moments and we would ask
that they would never be a rarity but
that they would become
often in our lives something that
is manifesting thank you father god
father we thank you that much has been
said about the greater glory
but not much has been demonstrated about
the greater glory
and father we thank you that that
element of glory
includes finances father we thank you
that we can keep our hearts and our
hands free from covetousness
free from grasping and striving and
never being satisfied with
the blessings we already have we thank
you we can have a contented heart
while you continue to expand us
financially
so that we can have a heart for your
kingdom of heart to reach the lost
a heart to be a blessing we thank you
father god that
jesus was not a joker when he said those
words we take his words
seriously thank you father god
we thank you that your word is so
serious that everything you spoke here
is recorded
thank you father god you put tremendous
emphasis upon your word we believe it
we receive it and father we thank you
that you are going to make yourself real
to us
in this area we thank you that this is
something that you're emphasizing right
now by your holy spirit
and so father we cooperate with your
spirit and we thank you
we thank you for the beautiful things
that you're going to do
thank you oh god we give you praise and
glory
in jesus name amen now i sense a great
company
of angels that are ready to be
commissioned from heaven that are ready
to be released
so father we thank you for the angels
let these angels go through go forth and
bring
special provision and blessing father
there are those that need jobs
let there be no delay let the
breakthrough job come thank you father
god let help come swiftly
that provision comes swiftly father we
are your covenant people not to
be no lack thank you father god let
there be testimonies of more than enough
thank you father god in those special
blessings
glory glory glory
glory i see cars being released new cars
father we give you praise i see
tremendous wealth being released
inheritance is being released
provision money being released and some
of it's going to be
in a sense total miracle money
hallelujah father we give you praise
hallelujah glory glory father we bless
you
we thank you for manifesting yourself to
us
by your holy spirit through finances
thank you father in jesus name amen
amen praise the lord praise the lord
when the manifestation takes place
pastor stephen somebody just blessed me
with a pair of new shoes
you understand we we don't build an
altar to the shoes
we thank god for the shoes we thank god
for the person that he flowed through as
so often god does when he works he works
through
people he pours through people
but whatever that blessing is we praise
god for it we rejoice in it
but we keep our eyes on him
not on the burning bush that's that's
the attention grabber okay
not not on the sound we're not we're not
that interested in mulberry trees
they're cool but
they're not really that exciting the
blessing manifesting that's beautiful
but our eyes they go to they go back to
the lord fully
father we thank you that your word be
sealed in the hearts
of your people and let it produce a
hundred fold return
as the seed of the word is sown into the
hearts of your people
that it produce the one hundredfold
return
in jesus name we pray amen
now guard your heart from the enemy that
would try to steal
seed that would try to eat seed or try
to bring such destruction into your life
that the seed can't produce hallelujah
meditate the word day and night
praise god if you're watching today's
program
every blessing every manifestation
begins with a relationship with jesus
christ as your savior
if you don't know jesus as your savior
he can grant to you right now complete
pardon and forgiveness of all of your
sins
and he can take your heart
and he can give you a new spiritual
heart and give you new life
if you would like to receive christ as
your lord and savior he extends
his invitation to you right now if you
would like to receive it
pray out loud this prayer after me
say jesus i am a sinner
and i come to you asking for your
salvation
jesus i give you my life
i turn from my sins and i ask you to
save me
now write my name
in your book of life jesus
wash all of my sins away and give me
your new life thank you jesus
i take you and accept you now
as my lord and savior in your name i
pray
amen and amen
and jesus has heard that prayer and he
has answered it
and he has saved you and you now belong
to him
now live for him and he will help you he
will bless you
every day of your life walk with him
give him your very best
praise god as a church family let us
take holy communion together
grab a little wafer if you don't have
one of these little wafers you can buy
them in
christian bookstores or on the internet
you can also use a
little saltine cracker if you'd like and
grab some grape juice
and let's pray over it heavenly father
we thank you this
this bread and this juice jesus said
that on the night that he was portrayed
he said this is the new covenant and he
said
this is his body and this juice is his
blood
so father we just bless the bread and
the juice and we thank you that as we
receive it
we are receiving the body and the blood
of jesus our savior
so we thank you for the new covenant we
thank you for
the body of christ and in a mystical way
while this
is his body we are joined to him
and we are the global collective body of
christ
father we thank you for all of our
brothers and sisters around the world
we ask that you would strengthen those
who were persecuted for their faith
who would be suffering who would be
imprisoned who would be tortured for
their faith
we ask you that you would strengthen
them oh god they are our brothers
they're our sisters
we ask that you would uphold them by
your grace and that you would give them
a great reward
thank you father thank you father for
the body of jesus
we thank you that jesus laid his life
down for us to redeem us from all of our
sins
oh god we give you praise we now receive
his body
in jesus name amen let's partake
together
praise the lord father thank you for the
blood of jesus
that washes all of our sins away
and gives us a clean conscience a clean
heart
thank you father god that the blood of
jesus removes all
shame and guilt we thank you for the
precious blood of jesus
and father we pray that you would
forgive us of our sins and we forgive
anyone who has sinned against us we pray
that you would lead us away
from temptation and that you would
deliver us from evil
father for yours is the kingdom and the
power
and the glory forever we thank you that
through christ's blood
we belong to you thank you father god
we give you all of the praise we'll give
you all of the praise
thank you father in jesus
name amen let's receive
praise the lord my friends in the coming
days
and in the coming weeks lift that prayer
up
before the lord that prayer
based upon the bold statement of jesus
using a word that we in the english
have called manifest that
is so strong that all of the greek
theologians all of the
christian theologians pulling that word
from the greek say
this word is so powerful it means
nothing less than an appearance or a
manifestation of god towards you
father we thank you bless your people
with great encounters that they will
know you as jehovah jireh and have great
financial encounters
thank you oh god as you manifest
yourself towards your people
we thank you for the shedding of debt we
thank you for the paying off of
financial debts
credit cards paid off mortgages paid off
we thank you for the liberation of your
people
so that there can be a full focus on the
fulfillment of the great commission
oh god we give you glory we thank you
for financial signs
wonders and miracles we thank you father
god that for every breakthrough there
will be the tithes
given to you honored and given to you
thank you father god there will be seed
sown so that there will be a replication
of more harvest on the way father we
thank you for the application of your
principles
thank you father we're careful to heed
and follow
your commandments as jesus also
instructed
thank you father teach us lead us and
guide us by your holy spirit
we thank you so much for helping us and
we thank you
for manifesting yourself to us making
yourself real to us
in specific areas of new encounter
father we praise you in jesus name
amen these new encounters
with jehovah jireh are going to take you
into
realms of finance that you have never
encountered before but it's god's
destiny for you to walk in them
open your heart to receive the lord
revealing himself to you
as your great provider your financial
caretaker
praise god thanks for joining me today i
look forward to seeing you back
next time bye-bye