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This Old Man
This Old Man
- After the fall, all the principles of life including education, societal norms, idioms, cultures, philosophies, values, beliefs, ways of life, ideas, standards, morals, customs, concepts, outlook, ethics, learning, home training, views, opinions, governments, financials and relationships were set up by the old man to allow for him to operate freely in and among men.
- The enemy sets the agenda for his purpose and uses all the above to execute, maintain and propagate his agenda from one generation to the other.
- Once a principle has been set, he goes to work very quickly to infiltrate every area of human existence with this lie until that principle becomes a norm; becomes acceptable behaviour and the church is not spared. E.g. abortion.
- These principles are a direct affront and opposition to God, to His position, to His direction and His declaration about the subject in question.
- The
church is meant to speak and shine against this onslaught of darkness
The European Church
- The Bishop of Grantham has become the first Church of England bishop to say that he is gay and in a relationship.
- Bishop Nicholas Chamberlain, a suffragan in Lincoln diocese, was consecrated last year by Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby - who has said he knew about the bishop's sexuality. He said, "He lives within the bishops' guidelines and his sexuality is completely irrelevant to his office.“
- Susie Leafe, the chairwoman of the conservative evangelical group Reform said, "All
human beings have a range of complex desires; who he is attracted to should not
make any difference to his ability to do the job of a bishop
- Dr Barry Morgan, the Archbishop of Wales, says that sex between gay people in committed relationships is perfectly “proper.” Even Biblical texts often cited as condemning homosexuality, such as the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone, could be “interpreted in more than one way”, he said. Read as a whole, it is not possible to argue that there is “one settled understanding of what the Bible says” on sexuality and a range of other topics, he claimed.
- Following wide consultation, the Methodist Conference in 2014 agreed that more time was needed for careful reflection before deciding whether to look again at our understanding of marriage. Same-sex marriage is not the only consideration. There are wider issues in relation to human relationships in the modern world which may or may not lead the church to reconsider our definition of marriage.
The Enemy is Knocking/Pressing on the Door
"But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of
Sodom, compassed the house round, both
old and young, all the people from every quarter:
And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.
His Aim is the Family - The Unit
of the Church
"But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt."
"And the firstborn
said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth
to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: Come, let us make
our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of
our father."
- Dead works deposited in the lives of the girls have become amplified now in the absence of their mother.
- Sinful habits, principles, cultures, philosophies, values, beliefs, ways of life, ideas, standards, collected in Sodom and Gomorrah which were not buried by the mother were transferred to the daughters and now they became enlarged, augmented, increased, bigger and greater than they were in the mother.
The Last Adam Most Superior
"Thus it is written,
The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last
Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring
the dead to life]."
- The New Man is most superior to the old man; He gives life and awakens all that is dead. He lights up the darkness that the old man has sown so far in our lives and in the church of God.
- One day, one week, one month, one year, a lifetime of living, carrying, obeying, allowing the New Man inside of us to manifest will dismantle all that the old man has done for years in our lives and centuries within the church.
I Die Daily…By Faith
"Always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies." (2 Corinthians 4:10
- We died; we truly died; we know we have been crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20); we saw Jesus evidently crucified before us (Galatians 3:1) when we trusted and believed the gospel preached to us. It was by faith.
- Yet
we must carry this death around with us everywhere, anywhere, on a daily,
moment by moment basis by faith
- My
death is not a once in a lifetime achievement, but a continuous daily process
- As we hang there on the cross by faith (for example, by being mute when we are abused, our by burying previous angry responses out of sight), we ask Him how He wants to respond. The resurrection life will then shoot out and Jesus will manifest Himself in that situation to the people around.
- The point of our death on the cross is the point where the resurrection life will come forth.
- Individual and collective DEATH will produce the RESURRECTION LIFE that will birth the revival that will transform Europe.
Revive Thy Work O Lord!
"O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was
afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of
the years,
in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy."
- We are asking for a miracle; we are asking that the Lord will remember mercy.
- We (the church), have pushed Him; we
have accosted Him; what an affront both in our individual lives, in our
families and in the church collectively
- We are asking for mercy this afternoon. Lord, in Your wrath remember mercy.
Prayers for Your Family
- Lord, have mercy on my household; have mercy on us. Let the gospel work fully and completely in my life first, then it will engulf every member of my family.
- Teach me to carry the death, the burial, the resurrection of Christ in my body daily.
- Have mercy upon my household, I beseech you this; turn towards us with mercy and rescue us from this onslaught of Satan.
- Deliver my household from this "pressing at the door"; secure my household inside of Christ.
- Lord, circumcise our hearts with the gospel that we are receiving now and uproot any familial dead works or collective family sinful habits that have been deposited in our family.
- Pull down every structure, principle, education, societal norm, idiom, culture, philosophy, value, belief, way of life, idea, standard, moral, custom, concept, outlook, ethic, learning, home training, view, opinion, sinful habit, dead work, that the old man has deposited up till now in my household; dismantle them or Lord.
- Instruct and teach me; give me definite instructions on (what, how, when) you want to work in and through me to dismantle them in my household in Jesus' name.
Prayers for the Church
- Lord, have mercy on Your church; have mercy on us. Let the gospel be restated afresh, again and anew.
- Have mercy upon us, O Lord; we beseech You this morning, turn towards us with mercy and rescue us from this onslaught of Satan.
- Deliver Your church from this "pressing at the door"; secure those who are Your true church inside of Christ.
- Send the correct and complete gospel afresh to Your people, O Lord. We pray to dismantle every deposit, structure, principle, education, societal norm, idioms, culture, philosophy, value, belief, way of life, idea, standard, moral, custom, concept, outlook, ethic, learning, home training, view and opinion of Satan in the church.
- Pull down every structure, principle, false gospel and adulterated gospel, that Satan is pushing forcefully upon us. Dismantle them, O Lord.
- Please Lord, mercy is what we cry for. Rescue us, save us, O Lord.
The 'Obadiahs' of the Church are Still in Hiding
"And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his
house. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly: For it was so, when Jezebel cut
off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid
them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)" (1 Kings 18:3-4).
"Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which
have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him." (1 Kings 19:18).
- There are many 'Obadiahs' and many 'seven thousands' in every nation in Europe, in every denomination, church and christian organisation.
Prayer Points
- O God! Please hasten the day that the Holy Spirit will fully come as a rushing mighty wind upon Europe.
- Revive Thy work, O Lord, in the midst of the years.
- Holy Spirit, baptise afresh Your 'Obadiahs' in the European Church. Holy Spirit, baptise afresh Your 'seven thousands' in the European Church.
- Holy Spirit, please bring Your 'Obadiahs' out of obscurity. Holy Spirit, please bring Your 'seven thousands' out of hiding. Holy Spirit, propel us into the limelight to blaze the message of the cross.
- Holy Spirit, You have them in government, in education, in finance, on the pulpit, in politics, in the palaces, in the schools, in the health sector, in the market and retail sector, in the media.
- Holy Spirit, galvanise Your 'Obadiahs' to arise from their slumber, from their fear and from their sleep. Holy Spirit, mobilise Your 'seven thousands' to arise from their slumber, from their fear and from their sleep.
- Holy Spirit, please fall afresh upon my household. We wait for You; we are waiting for You.
