If you want God to move in your heart, then you are going to have to move His heart.
Scripture: 2 Chronicles 7:14
Sermon:
Want a True Move of God?
Many people today mistaken a great church service for a move of God. But I believe that when God moves, there will be change. God is always about change. We see it in the early church, through our own conversion, etc.
2 Cor 3:18
18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 7:14
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
A direct word for the church in these times
If we want to see a move of God, then there is a cost
Many cry out for a move but will not pay the price
IF MY PEOPLE, WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME
This great promise from God begins with a condition
God has made His move,
John 3:16-17
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Now it is our turn (The choice is ours)
We are His people, His children, His heirs
John 1:12-13
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
Rom 8:16-17
16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
17 and if children, then heirs– heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,
I Jn 3:1-2
1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!
This condition (choice) is for us
Do you want to move toward God?
Prophetic Prayer 2013
We are planted by the Lord
*You Oh Lord, have sworn by Yourself, that ‘’in blessing You will bless’’ us …and we the body of Christ ‘’will possess the gates of [my] enemies’’ and through our children ‘’all the nations of the earth shall be blessed’’.
*This oath You made with Abraham and his seed…we are a child of Abraham. Even more than that, we are a child of God…joint heir with Christ; therefore, these promises are our inheritance.
*I declare that we all of us under the umbrella of Artos is planted by the Lord
*We are like ‘’a tree planted by the rivers of water’’, Genesis 1:3
*We will be planted in our land and we will not be pulled up, Amos 9:15
*You [Jesus] are ‘’the true vine’’ and Your Father is the ‘’vinedresser’’, help us to abide in You…Dear Jesus abide in us, so that we can bear much fruit as declared in John 15:1-6
*You are the vine, I am the branch therefore, I will abide in You and Your Words will abide in me and I ‘’will ask what [I] desire, and it shall be done for [me].’’ John 15:7
I will Grow and Flourish in the Lord
*I am a tree that ‘’brings forth its fruit in its season’’
*My ‘’leaf shall not wither’’
*‘’And whatever [I] do shall prosper’’. Psalm 1:3
*Through Jesus Your Son I am made righteous, and You said ‘’The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree’’
*I ‘’shall flourish in the courts of Our God’’
*I ‘’shall still bear fruit in old age’’
*I ‘’shall be fresh and flourishing to declare that the Lord is upright; He is my Rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him’’. Psalm 92:12-15
*Our sons shall grow like plants from their youth and our daughters shall be ‘’like the decorated stones in the House of our God’’
*‘’Our barns shall be filled with crops of all kinds’’
*‘’Our sheep [shall] produce…tens of thousands of lambs’’
*‘’Our cattle shall be strong’’ none shall escape and nothing or no one shall break in. Psalm 144:12-14.
*‘’Through this [Our] Father is glorified [when we] bear much fruit; [and] we will be [His] disciples.’’ John 15:8
I Am Fortified by the Lord
2 Samuel 22
‘’The Lord is my Rock and my Fortress and my Deliverer’’
‘’The God of my strength, in whom I will trust’’
‘’My shield…my Stronghold and my Refuge…You save me from violence’’
‘’I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies’’
‘’He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy’’
‘’With the merciful You will show Yourself merciful; with the blameless…You will show Yourself blameless; with the pure You will show Yourself pure’’
‘’For by You I can run against a troop’’
‘’By my God I can leap over a wall’’
‘’As for God, His way is perfect…He is a shield to all who trust in Him’’
Psalm 46
‘’God is Our Refuge and Strength, a very present help in trouble’’.
‘’We will not fear’’
‘’The Lord of Host (Yahweh Shabuoth) is with us; The God of Jacob is Our Refuge’’
‘’Be still and know that I am God’’
Psalm 91
‘’I will dwell in the secret place of the Most High…I shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty’’
‘’The Lord is my Refuge and my Fortress…I will trust in Him’’
‘’He will deliver me from hidden traps…under His wings I shall be guarded.’
‘’His Truth shall be my shield and protection’’
‘’I shall not be afraid of the terror by night, or any arrow sent against me in the day’’.
‘’I shall not be afraid of any diseases that tries to come at night…or sicknesses that attacks in broad daylight’’
‘’One thousand may fall sick beside me on one side and ten thousand the other side, but I will not be harmed’’
‘’The Lord is my Protector…He is my place of safety’’
‘’No evil shall come upon me…no disaster will come near my home’’
‘’God has given command to His angels concerning me’’
‘’They will watch over me where ever I go’’
‘’They will catch me in their hands, just in case I hit my foot against a stone’’
‘’The Lord will deliver me from the lion and the cobra, I will crush them under my foot’’
‘’The Lord will save me, protect me, rescue me and honour me with a long, full life’’
I will be Establish by the Lord
To Establish: To create, to plant, to set-up, to produce, to construct, to build, to repair, to fashion, to sculpture, to fortify and establish.
Genesis 1:27; 2:22
*I am ‘created’ in God’s Own Image…God has blessed me.
*I am formed [sculptured] by God, He has breathed His Life in me.
*I am fashioned’ by God. Together we are destined to God’s fullest blessings, fruitfulness, multiplication, authority and dominion.
Isaiah 61
‘’The Spirit Of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me…’’
*To preach the Good News
*To heal the broken hearted
*To proclaim freedom to those who are bound
*To open prison doors
*To declare ‘’God’s Kingdom come’’
*To comfort those who mourn
*To give beauty for ashes, oil of joy for sadness and praise for heaviness
*I shall rebuild the old ruins…
*I shall be named ‘’the priest of The Lord’’
*We shall be called ‘’The servants of Our God’’
Amos 9:15
*God will plant me in my land and I shall no longer be pulled up
Matthew 16:18
*God is constructing me and building me into His Church
*I am the ‘Bride of Christ’
*I am built on the ‘Rock’ who is Jesus Christ
*The ‘gates of hell’ shall not prevail against me
*I have the ‘’Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven’’
*Whatever I ‘’bind on earth will be bound in heaven’’…Whatever I ‘’loose on earth will be loosed in heaven’’.
I will…
*Be Planted
*Grow and Flourish
*Be Fortified
*Be Established