The Blessings of Obedience

Will you please turn with me in your Bibles again to the book of Leviticus. I'm going to take you to Leviticus 26. I am going to be continuing the weeks ahead from chapter 17 through to 27 and finishing up.

But there's a reason why I'm jumping to Leviticus 26 as we go to part 12 here in this series on Leviticus. It's because the past few days we've had the kids club going on in this church with the theme that's behind me, the Lord is my shepherd, Psalm 23. The kids have been learning about the great shepherd and about being sheep.

Anna and others have been dealing over these days concerning why bad things do happen to the righteous, that bad things do happen in life. And you know, saints, in this church, we've seen it over the past year, several months and even weeks. We've seen how one of our mothers had to be resuscitated and was in a crisis and losing her baby and almost lost her own life and is still in a fight for her health.

Another mother, less than a year ago, almost being lost through bleeding and again losing a baby. We've almost lost children in here several times over the past months. Various things have been going on.

And you know what? I take it personal. When the devil attacks mothers and children, you better realize what's behind that. That isn't natural.

That isn't normal. It's not a curse on us. It's not God doing something.

You know what? We're in a real warfare. The devil hates spiritual life and what he's doing naturally, I assure you he's doing spiritually. If you want the devil just to run over you, just let him because he wants to do it and he'll hit you when you're down.

But I serve a God that wants to encourage you, wants to bless you. I actually believe right now God is here to bless you. The Holy Spirit is here to bear witness to the Word of God.

He's not here to tear you down, not here to discourage your heart. There's enough of that in life. I'm here with the blessing of God, with the Word of God, with the Holy Spirit of God.

I know the power of the blood. I know the power of the cross. I know the finished work of God.

I know what it is to walk in the Spirit. I know this works. I know there's life here.

I want you to understand it. I want you to be revived in your spiritual life since that's come to the Word of God. But having said that, in this kids club as we dealt with this, with this theme of Psalm 23, I sat in here on Friday.

I loved it just sitting at the back hearing everyone who ministered over a period of hours. Different ones ministering, giving scriptures, teaching the children, pouring out. Yous are a very gifted people.

You have so much to give, and you know what? The devil will steal that from you. Oh, I've got nothing to give. You've got a bountiful supply to give.

This is a good thing that we're doing, and God will bless and use it and use you. Don't let the devil steal. Pour out into this church.

Stand and testify. Minister. Give to the children.

Minister on the streets, saints of God. Don't let it be stolen from you. I want to tell you, as I sat in this kids club, one scripture, and that's why I'm going to Leviticus 26.

27 is the last chapter. I'm going to 26, and it's one scripture, verse 6. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid, and I will rid evil beasts of the land. Neither shall the sword go through your land.

This isn't my text yet. Just hold on. I'm just about to open up and go and read.

I'm not reading my text. I'm reading the scripture, telling you why we're going to this chapter. This scripture, verse 6, I will give you peace, and ye shall lie down.

In Ezekiel 34, verse 14, again it speaks about my flock. They shall lie in a good field, and I will cause them to lie down. In Psalm 23, it says, the Lord is my shepherd.

He shall cause us to lie down. You need to realize this lying down mentioned in Leviticus 26 has everything to do with you being the sheep of God, we being a spiritual flock, and him being our great shepherd. It's only mentioned once, and only once do we read the term, do not be afraid.

I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me give you my title here, and let's read our text, and let's preach the Word of God this morning. Turning to Leviticus 26, there's my message, part 11, sorry, part 12 here this morning, and my message is the blessings of obedience.

Reading from verse 1, you shall make you no idols, nor graven images, neither rear you up a standing image. Neither shall you set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it, for I am the Lord your God. You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary.

I am the Lord. If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them, then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time, and you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. And I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid, and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through the land, and you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand aflight, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword, for I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you, and you shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new. And I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you, and I will walk among you, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their bondman, and I have broken the bands of your yoke and made you go upright.

Let's pray together for God's blessing. Let's agree. Let's pray.

Saints, don't be silent. Wrestle for a moment. You join with me.

Let's pray together. Let's ask God's blessing. Father, we pray, Lord God, for the blessing of God that you show us through Leviticus.

Lord God, the highway back to blessing. Lord God, redemption by the blood, the word of God, the truth of God. Father, I pray you sanctify us.

You remind us that you brought us out of Egypt, out of captivity to bring us into a good land. You swear, and you cannot lie. You're a good God.

You're a kind God, and you want to bless us and provide for us. You want to pour out your Holy Spirit upon us, and Lord God, we're asking right now as a church, visit us for your name's sake, in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah.

My message, the blessings of obedience. When we go to Leviticus chapter 17 to 27, commentators or Bible teachers often name this portion of Leviticus the holiness code. You'll remember that we've already taught from chapter 1 to chapter 15.

That was an entire block that emphasized blood redemption, or sacrifice, or the altar. In other words, for the first 15 chapters, it focused on the altar, or it was a picture of the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ that actually hadn't been brought out of Egypt by the Passover lamb. Leviticus was given to us.

You see, we were saved out of the land of Egypt, out of captivity by one Passover lamb in the book of Exodus. Exodus is about your deliverance. Exodus is about being saved from the hand of your enemy.

Exodus is about being brought out of this world. But you know what? When you come to Leviticus, it's not about you being redeemed and saved and born again. It's actually how you walk with God.

That's why for the first 16 chapters, it's all about the sacrifice. It's all about the blood. It's all about the altar.

It's all about the house of God. God isn't saying, oh, you need to be born again. Oh, you need to be washed in the blood again to be saved, or this is how you get saved.

No, no, no. For the first 16 chapters, he is saying, this is how you walk with God. You don't only get saved by the Passover lamb, but as a believer, as a follower in God, all of this teaching in Leviticus is to show you it's by the sprinkling of the blood.

Do you remember that? We dealt with the sprinkling of the blood every stage of your walk. You can't come into the house of God. You can't approach God.

You can't pray. You can't worship. You can't give sacrifice unless you come through the sprinkling of the blood.

In other words, there's a dominance. There's an emphasis. There's an awareness.

There's a consciousness of the blood. Don't you dare. If you're sitting here unconscious of the blood, you're condemned.

You're looking at yourself. You're caught up in your own thoughts. Saints, wake up again.

Get back to the blood again. Let the spirit of God bring you again, wound you and draw on you. There is an emphasis in Leviticus.

I'm going to show you how to walk with me. In chapter 16, we dealt with the day of atonement. We said that is the heart of the book or the pivot of the book or the hinge of the book.

It's literally the linchpin from chapters 1 to 16. We deal with the preciousness of the blood. How do you walk with God? A consciousness of the blood of the lamb.

Saints, you need to be aware of the blood every day. You need to wake. Thank you for the blood of Jesus.

Is it any wonder you become a victim of the enemy? You allow your own thoughts. You allow circumstance. You're not even thinking of Calvary.

You're not even open the word of God. You will be driven into the ground. I'll tell you, God will let you get driven into the ground.

When are you going to wake up? I saved you. I redeemed you. I called you.

I provided for you. I poured out my word. I sent the preaching of the word.

And still, every single day, oh, I can't be bothered. I'm too lazy. Oh, I'm too discouraged.

Oh, I can't do it. That is a lie from the pit of hell. You have believed a lie and it's paralyzed you.

You need to repent today. You don't need sorrow today. You don't need someone to sit down and sympathize with you.

You need to repent in light of God's word. You need to say, forgive me, God, for being so selfish, so self-centered. I want to get my eyes back on you.

But listen, that was the beginning of this book. Now we've come to the latter half of the book, chapters 18 to 26, or to chapters 27. Listen, we have been dealing for 17 chapters.

It is the blood. It is grace. It is mercy.

It is God's provision. He has done everything, not only the Passover lamb to save you, but the provision of God in the house of God, in your life, in your prayer life. It's all the blood.

He has provided the sacrifice, but you need faith. You need obedience. You need to hear the word of God.

You need to understand who your great high priest is. How does things change from chapter 18 to 27? Now we primarily deal with holiness. In other words, with conduct, morality, purity, obedience.

In Leviticus, the word holiness is mentioned 94 specific times. When you begin to come to the word now, see, he spent 16 chapters saying it's the blood. It's the sacrifice.

You come by way of the sprinkled blood of the lamb. That isn't only for a sinner. It is for a saint.

The sprinkling of the blood is for you. If you're mature, walking 50 years with God, you need the blood here this morning. You can't pray.

You can't worship. You can't hear the word of God. Saints, you can't even listen to me outside of the blood.

Some of apart from the sprinkling of blood, all you hear is condemnation, guilt. Oh, this message is discouraging me. That's because you're not coming to the sprinkling of the blood.

If you got your eyes back on the cross, what Jesus done on the power of the blood, you would hear grace this morning. But do you know what? Because you're not looking at the cross, you hear law and you hear legalism. When we talk about commands, instructions are what God asks of you.

You say that's too hard. That's a burden. That's too heavy.

You remember what they said to Jesus? Your sins are too hard. And they all left him and walked off. He began to teach the word of God.

There's nothing new under the sun. Remember Galatians? What happened to us? You once ran in the word of God. You once obeyed me.

You once followed after the Lord. You walked in the spirit. Why are you not obeying the word of God anymore? You used to.

You were able to. You used to run after the word of God. Now you go, well, I can't do anything.

Why do you think that is? You don't walk in the spirit. It's not that there's less provision. It's just you're not walking in the spirit and you'll hit a brick wall.

You'll fall flat in your face. You'll get ground into the ground. It's not a case of efforts or will or knowing more.

It's just a case of walking by faith in the provision of Jesus Christ. And so when we come to the latter half of Leviticus, I'm jumping to Leviticus 26 to show you the heart of this latter half. I actually believe where we've read verse 1 to 13 shows you the blessings of obedience.

We are going to begin to teach from chapter 17 all the way through to 27 concerning this holiness of life, the commandments, the instruction, the requirements of God to be in the house of God. Saints, you only come to that after you've got the blood in place, after you've got a right focus, after the altar or the cross is in its right place. This is not law and legalism.

If you get this back to front, you'll end up very, very confused. You will end up a legalist. You'll end up dry, barren, fruitless, unable and powerless.

If you're that this morning, it wasn't God's lack. It was your lack. You actually got this wrong.

You've left the cross. You've left the blood. It's not obedience that's your problem.

It's not the commands. It's not your inability. You left the cross.

You say, oh no, it's the commands. They're too hard, too much for me. No, no, no.

You took your eyes of Jesus Christ dying on the cross. See, if you get your eyes back there, Jesus died for me. It's by grace.

It's a new covenant. He said then all this works. It's by faith.

It's in the spirit. It's not you, but as soon as you get your eyes off the cross, oh, it's a heavy grind. I'm trying and you can't say fail.

Do you know what you've done? You've got all this confused up. You need to listen to what Leviticus says. Let me take you to my text this morning.

My message, the blessings of obedience. Look at Leviticus 26 and verse one. This is how this chapter starts.

See, it's showing you what the entire latter half about how you live, how you walk before God. It's showing the blessings of this. I want to tell you there's blessings for you in obeying God.

And the reverse is true, to disobey Him. Well, contrary to Him, to cast the word of God aside, to forget it, neglect it, not read it, not meditate on it. There are consequences.

You can't say you're a pervictim. No, it's all to do with the word of God. You cannot neglect it.

Since you know this, meditate on it day and night. I'm going to read your Bible. I don't get time.

Rubbish. Stop eating. Oh, I forgot to eat for the past three months.

No, you didn't. No, you didn't. I've been too busy to eat for two weeks.

No, you didn't. You've utterly, deliberately neglected it. No, it's been stolen from you.

The flesh says, oh, I can't be bothered. Oh, I can't. Oh, I'm not going to do that.

What are you listening to? Why not listen to the word of God? Don't you realize there's the key to the blessing of God? God is going to bless you. God is going to pour out upon you. God is going to bring life and fill you with His Holy Spirit.

Don't you realize there's a way back? And so listen how he starts. He says, you shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image. Neither shall you set up an image of stone in your land or bow down to it.

Four things he mentions, idols, graven images, standing image, and an image of stone. They're all different. Why mention four things that sound the same that you can't even understand? Well, what's the difference between them? And yet we know it's all idolatry, all images, all statues.

For example, a standing image literally means a tower, a block of stone. It means, what's those pointed Egyptian? Obelix. That's the word I was trying to think of.

Literally this word is talking about an obelix. An idol, the word means a worthless thing. A graven image means to literally be molding with your hands trying to create something.

An image of stone means you take stone and make a man's image out of it. All four are different words. When we were in the city of Rome recently, I was shocked.

I rarely seen a statue of Mary or Peter or Paul or any of the saints. I was shocked how little of Mary I seen. As we entered in Vatican City and the museum was there, or it's called the Papal Palace, it was the house of the popes all through the centuries.

You know what I was shocked with? They are absolutely saturated with statues and with images and with obelix, all of these things from the ancient world. They have dug them up out of the Tiber, out of the seven hills they brought them up and literally the Papal Palaces were saturated, not with Mary, not with Peter, not with the saints. You know what it was? It was all the ancient pagan gods of Greece, of the ancient world of Babylon and they're saturating the Papal Palaces.

In other words, they lived in this environment, they function, they serve, they operate, they entertain, saturated. I've been in many statues throughout my life. I've been in London, Berlin, I've been in Ephesus, I've been in many of the museums of the world and I want to tell you I've never, my jaw was almost on the ground.

I was shocked. I've never been so dumbfounded in a long time because of the saturation of idolatry. Here are men who are meant to represent Christ.

They claim they're the only true church. They are ambassadors of Christ, the vicars of Christ, the representatives of Christ. They say they've got the word of Christ.

Eternity is within their hand and guess what? It was all literal idolatry. You know what my Bible says? It was the same for Israel, it was the same for the Catholic Church, it's the same for any denomination. Ye shall make you no idols.

Don't raise up other things. I believe the Evangelical Church, the Pentecostal Church, the Fundamentalists, the Baptists, the Brethren. I've watched all the nominations.

I love all the good points about them. I don't like the bad. Do you know where they're all going today? Idolatry is saturating concerning the word of God, the image of Christ, the gospel.

It's all changed since it has radically changed. I have seen it and I am horrified the change in the churches of this generation. Idolatry is coming.

We change Christ. We change the understanding of Scripture. We change the basic revelation of who Jesus is and what happened on the cross and what grace is.

We've been changing, molding, erecting false doctrines. And I want to tell you, God is not happy with the church of God. We have changed all these things and we think we're going to be blessed of God.

No, you cannot. You can't change the image of Christ. You cannot change the teaching of the inspiration, the inerrancy, the infallibility, the authority of Scripture.

You cannot change that without becoming idolatrous in the church. And I want to tell you, the denominations, the movements, the Bible schools, the seminars, all the great lives in the churches, their books, their Bible schools, their colleges have become idolatrous. They have changed and departed from a simple understanding of the word of God.

When God says, you are not to make any idols. In other words, nothing tolerated by Scripture. Why do you say that? For I am the Lord your God and you shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary.

I am the Lord. Notice here, he says, I am the Lord. He says, don't have any graven images.

Don't you dare mold something, even if it's a theory, an idea or your way of expressing the gospel. Don't you dare use the Lord's table or this pulpit or the high street or the children's ministry. Don't you dare change the gospel.

Don't you dare speak your own words. You have no right, no authority. You only speak, you ought to be trembling that I've got to stick to Scripture.

Not ministering out of your own heart. You minister the word of God. Don't you just go out on that street and tell people what you think.

Preach the Lord Jesus Christ. Preach Him uncrucified. Preach His redemption.

Preach the love of God. Saints, we need to be so careful. The Lord here says, idolatry is excluded.

Change in things, molding things, improvising, bringing them in new ideologies. We'll take the words of new theological terminology. We'll take all the words from the liberal school.

We'll bring in all these new phraseologies, ways to understand the Bible. It is utter idolatry. The Lord says, I am the Lord.

That term, I am the Lord, is used 45 times in Leviticus. 21 of those times, He says, I am the Lord, your God. Notice at the end of verse 1, He says, I am the Lord, your God.

At the end of verse 2, He says, I am the Lord. He is being very strong here. He says, don't you change anything.

Add to it or reconfigure or redefine. Don't you redefine the word inerrancy. Don't you redefine the word authority of Scripture or propitiation or redemption.

Don't you change the words. Oh, that's an old-fashioned word. Yes, it's from God.

It's from the Bible. Do not move away from it. The name Lord is the name Jehovah or Yahweh.

Some people want to argue over how you pronounce Yahweh. Do you know there's whole different movements in America and they say, you need to say Yahweh this way. And then another group saying, they're not Jewish enough, Yahweh.

And then they all laugh at the old preachers who said it used to use Jehovah. Well, you know what, yous are wrong. What does the name Lord mean? It means I am who I am.

God's revealing His character nature. How foolish to argue over the pronunciation of the word. Do you honestly think God cares about that? He wants you to meet Him, to know Him, to understand Him, to have your life changed.

You know what God is saying? He says, I am the Lord. Notice in our Bibles, it's always in capitals. I am the Lord.

I'm Jehovah. I'm Yahweh. I am who I am.

In other words, it means to be. I am. I will be who I am.

Guess what? God is always who He is. He is one who is what He is. Guess what? He is what He is.

Since this name is very important. It's all throughout scripture. I am the Lord, but it was specifically given to the church.

The word literally means the self-sufficient one. I don't need you. Some people today in the church that teach, oh God so needs us.

He's got this blank and He's so longing for you. He doesn't need you. He desires you.

He loves you. He saved you. Doesn't need you.

God will just keep moving on. Not going to sit down and cry because you rebel and refuse to do His word. This name means the self-existent one.

He was before everyone. He needs no one else. He is the unchanging God.

That's what it means, Lord. I am the Lord. Saints, don't create idols.

Don't change the gospel. Don't change the words. Don't change the definition of the Bible.

You know why? I am God. Don't you try to tell me anything. Don't you dare add to my words.

Don't you dare redefine my words. Aren't you scared? Aren't you scared of trying to redefine grace, re-understand the gospel? Well, I'm going to tell them you have to preach the gospel. No preacher has the right to preach apart from Christ.

He is the eternal God. This is His unique name given to Israel through Abraham and Moses and the saints of old. Guess what this name reveals? That His nature is righteous.

There's three things it reveals. He is righteous. He demands righteousness, but He also provides righteousness.

When the Bible speaks about righteousness, you need those three things. He demands it. He requires it.

He is it, but He also provides it. Saints, I don't get condemned over the gospel. Guess what? When a strong message comes or a clear word, I go, you know what? I'm not able.

I can't do this myself. Lord, do it in me. Because you're asking.

You're willing to do. I believe you. Lord, I'm a Christian.

You live in me, and you're going to do this. Notice He doesn't only say, I'm the Lord. He says, I am the Lord, your God.

Your God is the word Elohim. That's the word for God used in Genesis chapter 1 and throughout those early chapters. Actually, within the name Elohim, it's the first name ever revealed about God.

This is where God began. I am Elohim, or I am God. The name is a plural name, yet it can be used in the singular.

It's a plural name saying we, I. So Elohim could say I, but it's a plural name. It means more than one. It is a plural name with a singular meaning.

There's a mystery in this. This God is defining Himself as plural, and yet He's singular. God is both one, and yet He's more than one.

And we know the Bible teaches us that there is a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost manifest as God. There's only one God. There can only ever be one God.

He speaks as one God, but He is Elohim. He is a plural God. There is a counsel of God.

That isn't angels. That is God Himself, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This is divine counsel.

There is no divine counsel apart from this. God Himself communicating. Look at Leviticus 26.

We're about to look at the blessings of obedience. But where does God start? He says, don't have any idolatry. Don't lot in this church.

Don't lot in your home. Don't lot in your life. Teach your children, right? I am the Lord.

I am Jehovah or Yahweh Elohim. Saints, when you begin to see when He says His name, who is He? The character of God, the nature of God. And then listen, having said this, don't you make any idols.

I am the Lord. Look what He says next in verse 3. If you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them, He's going to do four things. And these are my four points.

I want to give you four blessings. Saints, He said, if you walk in my statutes and keep my commandments and do them. The word if is used nine times in this chapter, nine times.

We've had people in this church, they argued with me, so you use the word if and online. They don't like the word if, but the Bible says if. The apostle said if.

He said if. And saints, it's a very important word. Things hinge on that.

Do you want blessed of God? Then there's an if. You can't ignore the if and then complain about not being blessed. You have done it to yourself.

God Himself can't even bless you because of the if. There are certain things you have deliberately, stubbornly, resistantly done. God can't even bless you.

And I want to tell you, God really wants to bless you. I mean, He really wants to bless you. You actually have to work hard to stop God blessing you because He saved you when you're a sinner, when you're a rebel, when your heart was a heart of stone, when you didn't believe in Him.

You're a drug addict. You're an alcoholic. You're sexually impure.

You're a rebel. You're an atheist. You're everything.

I'm telling you everything. And yet God conquered you. He blessed you.

He pursued after you. He came looking for you. Now in Leviticus, as a follower, as a bear, as a sheep, this if is important.

You have to work hard. You have to be stubborn. You have to really neglect.

In fact, it says seven times from verse 14 to 26, and we're not dealing with them. You can go and read them. It'll shock you because I'm dealing with the blessings in verse 1 to 13, the blessings.

But after the blessings, He gives a warning from verse 14 to 46. He actually warns you very carefully concerning the consequence of walking contrary to the words of God. What's contrary? It means a hostile encounter with the intention of fighting.

And He says, I'll chasten you. He doesn't cast your way. He chastens you.

I'm going to chasten you. Remember Saul, he removed his mercy. Speaking to David about Solomon, your son.

Remember Saul and Solomon both rebelled against God, didn't they? You remember that? So what was the difference? Saul was under a covenant of law. Solomon was under a covenant of grace. God says, listen to me, David, concerning your son, I won't take away my mercy as I took it from Saul.

God removed his mercy from King Saul. He'd been anointed and blessed and used and chosen and raised up, and God removed his mercy. But Solomon, who got into idolatry and many wives and eventually got back, God says, I won't take my mercy from him, but I'll chastise him and bring my rod to bear.

Do you know what you have in verse 14 to 46? You have the chastisement of God. He says, if you walk contrary to me, do you know what this is about? It's the Word of God. Hear me, saints, before I give you the four promises.

If you want to hinder the promises of God, the blessing of God, walk contrary to this book. I mean, walk aggressively, contrary towards God. I didn't say this.

7 times says, why has all this come upon you? You walk contrary to me. You were an enemy. Oh, I'm not an enemy.

I need you. Oh, poor little me. I can't do what you tell me.

You need to wake up. Who lied to you? Who tricked you out of this? It used to be so simple, so basic, so obvious, and God blesses you. And now you're walking contrary, in other words, in the opposite direction of God.

He's going that way. I'm going that way. He loves the Word of God.

I'm neglecting the Word of God. Saints, you cannot do that. You've got to walk with him.

He's not going to change his direction. Oh, sorry. I'll come down to your level.

I'll change my gospel. I'll just bless you. I'll ignore all the rebellion.

No. You know what? You're going to have to walk with him. Saints, he's walking.

Can't you see him? Aren't you going to pursue after him? There is a way of blessing. He came looking for you when you're a sinner. He redeemed you.

He saved you. Now you make excuses. But I want to tell you in this chapter, it is actually, I'm going to go back to chapter 17 and start teaching this.

But I want you to understand when we give a command, it's not legalism. It's not law. It's not a heavy burden.

It's instruction to protect you, to guard your family, guard your mind, guard your body, your physical body. It's to put barriers around you. We're going to deal a whole message at least on sexuality.

We need to deal with it. A whole chapter in here. And it gives a listing of sexual sins that you don't find anywhere in the New Testament.

You need to hear this. Guess what? I need all the kids to be here in this meeting when I deal with that. I don't like talking about these things.

I'm not going to be perverse. I'm not going to be explicit. But we need to teach in the house of God.

We need this clear again. But saints, I want you to say, there's four promises here. It says, if you walk in my statutes.

In what? In my statutes. If you walk in them. If you keep my commandments.

And if you do them. He says three things. Walk in them.

Keep them. And do them. Then I'm going to give you these four blessings.

Do you want the blessings of God? Saints, I'm talking about the basic Christian life. Up until chapter 16. It's the blood.

It's the sacrifice. It's the cross. If you're someone who only, you get lifted when you hear the grace of God.

And you're plunged down as soon as we begin ministering like this. You've got a faulty view of this. Saints, you need to get back to the cross.

Back to the atonement. You need to get into Calvary. You're condemned because your eyes are on the cross.

Oh no. I get lifted up. I get incurred.

Just keep talking about grace and the blood. You haven't seen it. If the blood on the cross.

If the blood sprinkle doesn't lead you to obedience. Your revelation's faulty. You're not understanding this.

You're actually using it as a safety blanket. Some kind of assurance or to ease your conscience. But do you know really? You're not understanding the grace of God.

The power of God. The provision of God. Calvary and the blood.

And I'm going to be out of time. I've got 10 minutes to preach my four points. God help me.

Saints, let me give you these four promises. Number one. Outpouring and fruitfulness.

Look at verse four. Then. If you walk, then.

Do you see these four promises that I'm going to give you? And there's many promises. But four that I want to concentrate on. Then I will give you rain in due season.

And the land shall yield her increase. And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. This is the first blessing I want to deal with.

It's for you individually. It's for your family. It's for this church.

And I'm very interested about this church. Leviticus is here to lead this church into the blessing of God. This is number one.

Outpouring and fruitfulness. When the Bible speaks about rain, it's talking about the Holy Spirit. The falling of the Holy Spirit from heaven.

The Holy Spirit being sent down. The outpouring of the Spirit. The entombment of the Holy Spirit.

Talking about revival. Or the baptism in the Holy Ghost. God says, then will I give you rain in due season.

The rain doesn't come by accident. You say, oh, I'm waiting for the rain. Then you're doing the wrong thing.

Saints, if you walk in his statutes, keep his commandments and do them, then I will pour out rain. This church needs the rain again. We need a revival again.

Saints, we need an encounter with God again. We need an outpouring of the Spirit. Do you want rain to come to this church? I'm telling you, this is the way back.

Leviticus has shown us the way back. This is God's blessing from chapter 17 to 27. He is literally saying, if you hear me, if you hear my word, if you walk in the light of God's word, then I will give you rain in due season.

The rain, it's speaking about the former and the latter rain. In the Old Testament, there's 10 different words for rain. We have one word in Ireland for rain.

We get a lot of rain. Rain is rain is rain. Not in Israel.

There are 10 different words for 10 different kinds of rain. This word, then I will give you, it's the first blessing. Notice the first blessing of obedience.

I'll give you rain. I'm going to give you the Holy Spirit. Not my little touch, not a sprinkle.

I'm sending rain. I'm sending a flood. I'm sending deluge.

How did God start with the church in Acts chapter 2? With rain. He didn't tell the church, you need to earn this. He began.

120 in an upper room. They're scared. They're small.

They're unable. They're fearful. What does God start with? One blessing.

They weren't ready for 10 days ago. Remember that? They were scared. They denied Him.

They ran. They hide. They're in fear.

Then what happened? The rain. This is the first blessing of God. If you hear me, I'm going to send the rain.

It says rain in due season. You see, in Israel, the summer is a long, hot, dry summer. It never rains from May through to September, five months.

Five months, no rain. You Irish are complaining for a bit of sun over the past few months. We've only had rain every few weeks.

That's very rare. This is nothing compared to Israel. Five months, no rain.

No rain at all. But then there's the early rain or the former rain. It comes in October through to December.

That's the first rain. There's the winter rain. It begins in December through to March.

There's the latter rain. It's from March through to April. So outside of those five months, there is ordained of God.

Every season has a different kind of rain. It has a different purpose. The former rain, the first rain, it's when the seed goes in.

It's to prepare the harvest. It's to prepare the ground. The winter rain is a violent rain.

It does much damage, but it's also important for the harvest. The latter rain, when it comes, it is to bring the harvest in. So notice here, God makes a promise.

I'll give you rain. Church, we need the rain in this church. It's not an accident.

If we walk contrary towards God, we are going to be in a state of barrenness since we'll be dry. We'll be thirsty. There'll be no fruit.

There'll be no spiritual growth. We'll be scorched by the sun, and we're going to complain, going, per me. You know what you need to do? You need to seek the Lord.

Saints, it's time to seek the Lord. I want the rain to come. You can make the rain come.

Then I will give you rain in due season. In other words, God says, I will send it at certain set times, not just once, not just unique. These aren't things he just does uniquely every hundred years.

He says, I want it for the local church. Saints, we need rain in this church. We need an outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

You need baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire. The baptism in the Holy Ghost is for you. I can remember Sinead in this school.

She wrestled over it, false teaching in the church. I'll never forget in the school two years ago. She's in here.

I could have laughed because when someone really gets baptized in the Holy Ghost, they just get caught up with the Lord. They get filled with the Spirit. It is so real, so pure.

I just go, I love this. It is so real. Around this church, some of you guys, when you're coming in, I didn't even get taught.

You were just making comes in. Oh, I got baptized in the Holy Ghost. You're only in the door six months or a year.

I went, hold on. I haven't had time to teach this and preach this and exhort. Don't you know I'm going to lay hands on you? You're on an altar getting filled.

You're over there. You're at home. You're just telling me, I go, this is brilliant.

Saints of God, God has a plan to pour out the former and the latter rain. In verse five, it says, and notice the fruit of this. I'm going to send the rain and your threshing shall reach onto the vintage and the vintage shall reach onto the sown time.

Listen carefully. What is it saying? It's talking about bountiful harvest supply because when I send the rain, you're going to have a harvest. Not just talking about souls, talking about in your life.

Some of you are so barren, so dry. You need the rain. I've got an answer for you.

Remember when God came with the rain, when he filled you with the spirit. Do you remember what it's like to get filled with the Holy Spirit of God? Do you remember when you just open your heart and receive from him? And now it becomes hard. No wonder you're trying to live this Christian life without the rain, without the blessing.

Saints, this is for you. Not a one-off experience, a living experience. You can go back every week, be filled anew.

I need filled God. I need a fresh filling of your Holy Spirit and your threshing shall reach onto the vintage. This means the threshing of corn, barley, wheat in the field, the initial harvest in March, that harvest being brought in and it's going to be threshed from March.

All the corn, all the wheat, all the field harvest are being brought in on March and they're going to keep bringing it in until the vintage. They will still be threshing in July when the grape vintage is ready to come in. So here they are.

They're still trying to bring in all the harvests from the fields and then they go, oh look, look at the vines. The vines are filled. It's July time.

We need to bring the harvest of the grapes in. You know what he's saying? There is a bountiful supply and then it says you're still going to be pressing the grapes, bringing the grape harvest in when they begin to sow again in October for the following year. You know all this is saying that you're still bringing in when the harvest is coming.

You're threshing that when you're bringing the grape harvest in, it's time to begin sowing seed again. All of this actually means that the whole harvest is remarkable. There's a bountiful supply.

Why? Because I sent rain. Since you want a bountiful supply, grab a hold of God. If you walk in my statutes, don't make it up.

Don't change it. Don't you discourse. Don't start telling me since I don't know what to say to you when you come out with lots of different reasons that are utterly unbiblical.

You're telling me why you are the way you are. It's not biblical. Why are you trying to convince me of something that's not in the scripture? Why don't you ask me for an answer? I'll give you a biblical answer.

Oh, but that's too simple. Then you're going to remain how you are. You don't begin to listen to someone.

I'm as simple. I'm childlike. I'm very simple.

I believe I can walk with God. Be blessed. He wants to fill me with the spirit.

There's an answer. If I keep hitting a brick wall, it's my own fault. God doesn't want that.

He wants to bless me. He wants me to wake up tomorrow morning with the joy of God, the peace of God, the blessing of God, the Holy Spirit moving in me. I know what trials are.

I know what troubles are. I know what to be described. I've been honest with you, but since you can't live there, you can't live.

That isn't the plan of God for you. It's not God's will for this church to be in discouragement and despair and pulling themselves along. You ought to be rushing to the prayer meeting.

Saints of God, we need a press in. It is time to seek the Lord for this latter rain. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely.

Notice the rain is for the land. You'll dwell in your land safely, satisfied, bountifully, all the benefits of the harvest. There's provision.

There's protection. There's security. There's confidence.

There's everything you can eat. There's the first great blessing, saints. You obey Him.

You walk in the I tell you, saints, wake up and say, I'm going to obey Him. I'm going to get into the Word of God. I'm going to meditate on the Word of God.

These children, all meditating, reciting us, Psalm 23, they learned it like that. The youngest ones, four years old, and then they're just coming out. How old? Yeah, yeah.

Three. She needs to tell me. She tried to do it secretly, but she's coming out with all those words.

And we're there. We can't even memorize the scripture. Don't tell me that you're less able than Lela.

Number two, victory over the enemy. Verse six, and I will give peace in the land. And ye shall lie down and none shall make you afraid.

And I will rid evil beasts out of the land. I'm talking about this church, saints of God. I'm not just talking about Israel.

I'm not talking about Leviticus in the Old Testament. Leviticus, and I'm going to prove it before I finish this. I'm going to prove that this chapter, these promises are specifically for the church, specifically for the church, not just Israel.

They're for this church, the local church. When I read about this, that ye shall lie down, it's for this church, not Israel in the Old Testament. This is my second point, victory over the enemy.

You walk in my word. You listen to what I say. I'm not only going to pour out my spirit upon you, give you a bountiful harvest so that you're eaten.

About three years ago, Mary says, what was it you said about my neck? My neck's thin. She says, you've got a thin neck, you've lost too much weight. Well, this girl's put it back on.

I look back on one of those videos from three years ago, almost scared myself. I went, man, you look like you're dying. I was in a bad way.

He'll feed your soul. Saints, he'll feed your soul. I will give peace.

That's the word shalom. He's talking about the land of Israel, but he's talking about this church. I, this is a great second lesson.

You walk in my word. I will give you peace. Shalom.

This is a remarkable word, shalom, meaning more than peace. It means fullness, completeness in your body, in your soul, in your mind, in your circumstance, spiritually, practically, in your marriage, in your workplace, in your church life. I'm going to give you shalom, the presence of God, the blessing of God, the provision of God.

Saints, you need to get back to the word of God and go, it's God's will that I have peace in this church. God wants me to be blessed. God wants me to be filled with the spirit.

God wants me to have peace and you shall lie down. Some of you, it's been a long time since you laid down spiritually as a sheep of God. You're irritated, you're scared, you're jittery.

Paul done a good example the other day of running around. One sheep jumps, gets scared and all of them, Paul ran around the room. I wish I would have videoed it.

He was acting as a scared sheep and all the kids chased after him and he said, you just don't even know why you're running. He said, one sheep gets scared, they all get scared. I think you're all getting scared, saints of God.

We need to get back to reality. One sheep jumps over, sheep goes, why is he jumping? I think I'll jump as well. Oh, I'll jump as well.

I'll jump. We're called sheep, saints of God. There's great dangers and none shall make you afraid.

You may be afraid this morning. You need to get into the word of God. Many fears have come in since you neglected the word of God.

You didn't used to be afraid. Nothing can make you afraid. A giant wouldn't make you afraid.

Enemies didn't make you afraid. Sudden fear didn't make you afraid, but now you're afraid of your own shadow. You're scared of everything.

You don't have peace of mind. You're not lying down. You're not like a sheep.

Why do you think that is? Get back into the word of God. Saints, I am telling you God's plan for your life. This is victory over the enemy and I will rid evil beasts out of the land.

Talking about this church. Are you tired of the evil beasts that are attacking you? Are you weary of the beasts of the field that are devouring, that are stealing, that are killing the lambs? God says, I will rid evil beasts out of the land. It's time church.

It's time we get rid of these evil beasts because I'm telling you there's a lot of wicked, demonic, evil beasts praying in and out of your homes, walking around the saints in this church. I want the blessing of God again where he sends his peace of mind, peace of heart, where we're not scared. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies.

Look at verse 7. Listen, and you shall chase your enemies. See the Lord is bringing you into a blessed place. You're going to rest.

You're going to be at peace. You're not being chased. I'm tired of you getting chased by your enemies.

Oh brother Keith, you're going to get tired of that voice of mine. I'm tired of it. Are you not tired of it? Are you not tired in this church? Do you not get weary and say, I've got enough of the enemy chasing, pursuing me, stealing from me? Are you going to let him keep doing that? There's something wrong.

That isn't God's will for your life. That is not God's will for this church. It is not God's will for the enemy to be pursuing this church, ravaging this church and stealing from this church.

Listen what he says, and you shall chase your enemies and they shall fall before the sword. To chase means to put to flight. You're going to drive the enemy out.

Saints, it's time. We need the blessing of God. We need the provision of God.

Let the rain come. We're going to be bountifully supplied. But this second one, victory over the enemy.

Saints, it's time to chase the enemy. Look at verse 8. Five of you shall chase a hundred. Five of you, one hundred.

Imagine getting five of you and you chase 100 spiritual enemies, powers of darkness. Or listen, the second half of it, and a hundred of you shall put 10,000 to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword, by the word of God. You're using the sword.

Saints, get the sword back in your hand. It's about time you start taking the word of God. Thus saith the Lord.

I stand here. I will be strong. I will overcome by the grace of God.

That is the sword of God. Notice how he says it's going to be one against 20, then one against a hundred. Has this ever happened? You may think this is just a vague promise out there.

It's for you in this church. Saints, God's word is five of us are going to put a hundred to flight and a hundred of us a thousand. That is God's promise for this church.

That is his plan, his blessing. Remember, this is a blessing. I'm going to bless this church.

You'll drive out your enemy. You'll fight the enemy. You'll defeat your enemy.

You'll get with the brethren and say, you need to pray with me. I'm tired of the enemy doing this. You need to stir your heart again.

Saints, we need the blessing of God. God's will is to bless you and not to curse you. This is the new covenant.

It's time we routed the enemy. Has this ever happened in the Bible? It's not symbolic. Remember in Joshua 23 and 10, he goes further.

One man of you shall chase a thousand. Why? For the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you and he has promised you. Oh, I can't do it.

He's promised you. It's God that does it. But you as an individual, Joshua has gone way beyond this promise saying one shall chase a thousand.

Saints, it's time we had people in this church put a thousand of flight. And you know what? It's not you doing it. It's the promise of God.

I have promised. Either you think that's literal and it's for you and for this church. Or you say, oh, it's mythical.

It's mystical. It's out there. You can make this happen in your life.

We need this in the church. Remember this happened previously with Abraham in Genesis 14. His 318 trained men actually defeated a Mesopotamian large army that defeated the giants.

But guess what? Abraham with his own trained men defeated them. Or in Judges 7, we see this promise filled in a remarkable way when Gideon 300 defeated 135,000 Midianites. This is not a mere promise or something mystical.

It is a practical promise that happened time and time again. In 1 Samuel 14, Jonathan his armor bearer defeated a Philistine army. Or in 1 Samuel 17, a small shepherd boy without armor defeated a large warrior giant called Goliath.

Or what about 2 Kings 7? God used four men who were lepers to drive out a Syrian army of many thousands, making their feet sound like a marching army. Or what about 1 Chronicles 11.11? A man whose name you probably don't even remember, Jashubim. Remember Jashubim? Do you know what he done? Jashubim, a hackmanite.

He didn't hack, but he was a hackmanite. The chief of the captains, he lifted up his spear against 300, and which he slayed at one time. Where are these individuals in our church that rout the enemy, that defeat the enemy? Where are the individuals who pray through in this church that actually have a vision from God, hear from heaven, say, we're going to do this in this city.

We're going to start a new work in this city. Say, I think you've lost something of the reality. We used to be there.

Five of us in this church, and there's only five, we could ride a city. We could drive the enemy out. What changed? It's got nothing to do with numbers, nothing to do with finance, nothing to do with reputation.

This has got to do with the blessing of God. And he goes further, for I will have respect unto you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant. That's the second thing, victory over the enemy.

First, outpouring and fruitfulness. Second, victory over the enemy. Third, eating the old and the new.

Listen to this in verse 10, and ye shall eat the old store and bring forth the old because of the new. This statement about the old and the new is actually a promised blessing for obedience. You obey me, I'm going to do this.

Not just in Israel, it's for this church. This verse, Leviticus 26 10 is for this church. It is a blessing and something that will happen if we listen to him or we obey him or walk in the light of the word.

If you don't walk in the light of God's word, this verse 10 will not happen. It's one of the four major blessings. What does that mean? And ye shall eat old store and bring forth the old because of the new.

Listen, you will have stores or store rooms filled with the old or previous harvest. And when it comes time to bring in the new harvest, your stores are still going to be filled with the old. You're going to have bountiful supply.

You're not starving. You're not there trying to bring in a new harvest just to eat. You're going to find when we start to bring in a new harvest, we still have our stores with the old harvest.

Then you eat the old. You don't throw the old out. You don't discard it.

You don't reject it. You live on the old while the new is being harvested. You bring in a new harvest since it's for this church.

It's all about the harvest and the fields. We're going to bring it in and store it. You know what? It needs to season a bit before you eat it.

Some of you try to harvest and eat. You're eating things in the word of God. Then you try to give them to others.

You better digest it first. Oh, here's the new. I'll start giving it to everyone.

No, put it in the storeroom. You need to sit on this for a time. Some of you learn things, you give it to others.

You've never made it your own. You've never allowed it to cultivate. But what this is saying, you don't throw out the old.

You actually save it. You live in the old while storing the new. You do not eat at the new at the present time.

You store it and the new harvest forces you to eat the old. Some of you need a new harvest to come in. You know why? You're not eating the old.

You've been storing the old. You've stored it in the past. You labored.

You done the work of God, not sitting in the store. You need a new harvest to start coming in because you're not eating it. You're not eating the old.

But I tell you what, when God begins to bless and bring in this new harvest, you're going to go, where am I going to store all this? Oh, the Word of God is opening. Oh, God is quickening. God is speaking.

What am I going to do with all this? Oh, well, there's no room in the store. Yeah, you're going to have to eat the old. Do you see as God begins to open up and revive the Word of God and bring in new and begin to bring in a great harvest, you have to go back to the old.

Begin to eat the old things. Feast on the old things. I've got much to say, but I'm going to finish.

Point for the Lord's divine presence. Chapter 26 and 11 as I finish. I've given you four promises and this is a summary of the latter half of the book of Leviticus from chapter 17 to 27.

What he's doing here is, this is why I want you to listen to me. This is why in the weeks ahead, I'm going to teach Leviticus and tell you about sexual morality or the feasts of God. Brother Jer, guess what? I'm going to teach on those five feasts.

I'm going to teach in tabernacles. For years I've wanted to do it. This man wants me to preach in tabernacles.

I've never been able to. I'm going to preach a whole series. We're going to sidestep Leviticus.

I want to do a whole series. You know why? I can't help myself. I've got to share this.

It's a prophetic timeline. Those feasts in Israel weren't just about feasts. We're not going to keep Passover in this church and keep tabernacles.

It is a timeline of what God is going to do prophetically. It is remarkable. It's in Leviticus.

Since these are unusual prophecies, men don't teach them. We're going to teach a whole series just on those five feasts because they're so phenomenal, starting at Passover. Passover, a ritual, a feast in the Old Testament, was a prophecy of God's great provision.

Do you see what is in Leviticus? But let me finish. The Lord's divine presence, fourth and lastly, verse 11, and I will set my tabernacle among you, and my soul shall not abhor you, and I will walk among you, and will be your God, and you shall be my people. God says here, the fourth great blessing, I will set my tabernacle among you.

He said it to Israel. Saints, get into the Word of God. Do you want God to tabernacle here? Do you want him to literally make this place his house? Do you want his heart to be here and his eyes to be here? Do you want a manifestation of God? Do you want his glory and his power and his presence and his Word? Do you know how you do that? Get into the Word.

Keep his statutes. Hearken to what he says. If you walk contrary to them, we'll grieve the Spirit of God away.

This won't be as well in place. You can't walk contrary and disobey God and yet expect the blessing of God. See, this verse is actually used by the Apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter 6 for the local church.

He speaks about being unequally yoked with unbelievers. Don't marry an unsaved person. Don't do it.

You can't be a Christian and marry an unsaved person. For what fellowship is righteousness with unrighteousness? And communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? Notice Paul is speaking about unrighteousness, Belial, infidels, and darkness in the local church. You, the local church, must have nothing to do with the works of darkness.

It doesn't mean I can't have a sinner friend or someone unsaved I love or an unsaved person in my family who I'm close to. It doesn't mean that. But you're meant to be separated.

It shouldn't compromise you. All these verses, Paul begins to talk about the separation of the church. Then listen to what he says.

And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? He's referring back to Leviticus 26. He says, for ye are the temple of the living God, as God has said. He's about to quote from the Old Testament.

You know why? He's talking about don't let all this idolatry and the false gospel, the images of Christ, don't let it in. He's actually calling you back. Do you want God to set up his tabernacle? He then quotes from Leviticus 26.11. And he says, as God has said, I will dwell in them and walk in them and be their God, and they shall be my people.

This is from Leviticus. It's used in the local church in the New Testament, applied to believers. And there is there, don't be corrupted by this world.

Don't make the wrong marriages. Don't get involved in Halloween. Don't get drawn in into all manners of sexual immorality.

Be a temple unto God. I want to come and dwell with you as a church here. I want to walk with you.

I want to be your God. I want to dwell here. But saints, you need to listen to me.

Wherefore come out from among them, be separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you and will be a father unto you. And ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

And listen to the last verse as I close. I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt. He saved you for a reason.

I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of Egypt. Don't you realize I saved you for a reason? I delivered you. Just stop for a second before we close.

Think about the Lord saving you out of Egypt. Your sin, where you were, how you believed, what you're doing. He says, I brought you out.

I'm the Lord your God, that you should not be their bondman. And I've broken the bands of your yoke and made you go upright. God didn't save you to be a slave.

Saints, He didn't save you to be in bondage or to be bowed down, dragging yourself into the house of God, trying to pray, trying to do the will of God. That is not the will of God. That's a lie from hell.

That's a counterfeit. You've been tricked out of this. Saints, God wants to bless you and manifest and walk and fill you with the Holy Spirit, but come back to the word of God again.

This will operate. It can operate today. Lord, bring me back today.

Lord, forgive me today. Lord, restore me today. Lord, make us your temple again.

Let the glory come down in this church. Saints, go after the blessing. Go after the rewards.

Some of you are going to lose your crown if you're not careful. What you are called to, someone else will do, because you don't want to. You refuse to.

You refuse to obey. I've watched this week the giftings you have with those children. Giftings, a belly to speak, and then you become like a dumb dog.

You need to stop that. Lord Jesus, let's lift our hands. Saints, he wants to bless you.

He wants to pour out the rain. It's time we return. Oh, saints, the rain.

God is here. He wants to bless. Saints, he wants to pour out the former and the latter rain in its season at the right time.

Is it not time again? Have you not felt the heat of the summer? Have you not felt that hot sun? Have things not been drying up and burning with the heat? We need the rain again. One visitation of God, you're going to be satisfied. You're going to be lying down in peace.

You're going to be pursuing your enemies. You're going to chase out the enemies. All of this, saints, because you hearken to the Word of God.

Because you didn't walk country, but you came and you're blessed and you're tearing down the altars and the idols of the enemy. Saints, it's by the blood of God, by the grace of God, by the blood of sprinkling. But as we deal with Leviticus, this book is to take you into the land, to bring you in, to be blessed of God.

God has a plan for your marriage. You need to get back to Scripture and say, I know the will of God. I know the plan of God.

I don't know how to get there, but I'm going to have a blessed marriage. Or I'm going to have children that serve God. I'm going to fight for my children.

Or I'm going to get into the prayer meeting. I'm going to get in and seek the Lord. I'm going to pray first in the prayer meeting.

And as we do, saints of God, the blessing of God comes down. Father, we pray right now in the name of Jesus. Father, pour out your blessing in this place here this morning.

My God, we look for the latter rain. We look for the former rain. We look for the winter rain.

Lord God, do you drive out your enemies? My God, we've had enemies, nor God pursuing the mothers, nor God in this church, the wives that have been bringing for children. My God, we're angry at the enemy. Nor God, we're listening to you this morning.

Lord God, we want to set our hearts aright. Lord God, we want to pursue the enemy. We want to smite the enemy and drive him out.

My God, we want a bountiful harvest of new things coming in. And Lord God, we're asking for your presence in this church in Jesus' name.