[0:00] Hallelujah. We thank God you've tuned into this message by David Entry at Caris Church. No hand can help you with the fulfillment of your destiny, but the Word of God. May God's hand align you further into your destiny through this Word.
[0:16] Please be seated. The flavor of covenant exemption. Amen! And not only covenant exemption, I also saw divine endowment.
[0:30] Amen! Do not say I'm weak anymore. Do not say I can't do what God told me to do anymore. Do not say what my heart is for.
[0:42] To the glory of God seems out of reach. Do not say because there is a flavor of divine endowment. Amen! So shall it be.
[0:55] Amen! Because of my time, I finished prophesying. But now let me prophesy from the book. Oh, yes! Sure, but no professor! Sure, whether. Prophesy.
[1:08] I'm not teaching anything theological. But I'm teaching. I want to teach you something. In the next few minutes, my time is up. Few minutes. I need to teach you something didactic.
[1:22] Okay. I'll read my dictionary. I heard a man. He said there are some preachers when they preach, you don't need Bible to find out.
[1:35] You need a dictionary to find out what they are. Because the Bible is not relevant in their preaching. May we not be those kind of preachers. maximized teaching.
[1:47] May we not be those kind of preachers. One theologian said didactic is instructive like instructions. Now, we have spent so much time day in, day out praying.
[2:00] Can you imagine? Sir, this is very interesting. Listen, my brothers and sisters, this been 83 days of prayer.
[2:11] 83 days of prayer. We are now saying, Lord, I want a husband. I want a house, a job, whatever you need.
[2:24] No, no, no, no. For 83 days, I don't think you've missed any of the days. You haven't missed any.
[2:35] You haven't missed any. And you are not 50 years old. You are older than 50. What? You haven't missed any.
[2:47] May God remember you. Amen. There are people here, many people here haven't missed any. And every day we come, the prayer topic is boring unless you have a heart for God.
[3:01] Yeah. Thank you. Wow. We have not created room for unbelievers to come and feel comfortable. No. We are not interested in the masses.
[3:12] We are interested in His presence. Yes. When the glory comes, there will be no words to say. Yes. Yes. Yes. It is the sound that came from heaven that gave them the relevance outside the upper room.
[3:27] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
[3:38] Yes. Yes.
[3:52] Yes. Yes. constantly. And we come, when we get here, 7 p.m. or today 4, we start.
[4:03] Holy Spirit, we want you, Holy Spirit. We need you, Holy Spirit. The upper room experience, they were just praying, waiting on the coming of the Holy Spirit. You mean for 83 days, all you've been praying is Holy Ghost.
[4:14] One topic, no, no. So that's why when people are leading, they don't have much to say. No. Because? Yes. Because you don't agree. There's nothing to say.
[4:26] We all know why we are here. Holy Spirit, fall afresh on us. And our covenant team, I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. It shall come to pass afterwards.
[4:37] George 2, verse 13. Afterwards, I'll pour out my spirit. We've been praying for 83 days. Every day, pour out your spirit. Pour out your spirit. Pour out your spirit. Oh Lord, pour out your spirit.
[4:49] We are hungry for you. And we are sweating. We are falling. Every day, the same thing. We are sweating. We are falling. And we don't care about jobs. It matters.
[5:01] It matters. But in the grand scope of things. Someone said, let me cut off your ears and give you a job. Would you do that? No. You need a job, but not at that level.
[5:14] We have to close now. But let me give you the points. Because revival is not only in the gathering. If we keep having gathering and having exciting moments like this, and it does not get into personal hearts, it's not revival.
[5:29] It's not revival. Revival. Revival is so personal, even though corporate. It's so personal, like the body of Christ.
[5:40] It's filled with individuals who have relationship, direct personal, yielded relationship with Christ. And yet, it's not them. It's us.
[5:52] So we have gathered praying, oh Lord, say revival. Oh Lord, say revival. He can't go out there without coming in you. So on the day of Pentacles, when Jesus left, they waited for 10 days, waiting in one place.
[6:06] They couldn't go out there. Because God can't work out there until he works in the people, in his people. So now, some of us have encountered the Lord in unique ways.
[6:19] This thing is not the arm of flesh. You can't will it. You can't run the race until your heart is burning first. And when your heart catches fire, people don't understand why you are running the way you are running.
[6:35] And you too, you don't understand why they are not running the way you are running. It's like when the tsunami was coming in East Asia some time ago. The animals were running to higher planes.
[6:45] When the waves, sea waves were, the waves were coming, animals have heard it and they are running to higher planes. Human beings were still having party. And animals were running and they are wondering, can't these people hear the thing coming?
[6:58] And people were like, why are these animals keeping running? Operating on two different platforms. The animals have heard something. And they can't deny, they can't deny the sound they have heard.
[7:10] They can't deny it. Some of us, sorry, we have heard the sound. We might look antisocial. Because we are not attending parties. We might look too extreme.
[7:21] Because every day we are in church. We might look too Bible, Bible, every time we are holding Bible. Yes, we know. It's not like we are trying to impress anybody. But we have heard the sound from heaven.
[7:34] We cannot deny, we cannot deny what we have heard. But you have been heard it. So we understand why you don't see why we are doing what we do. But we don't also see why you can't hear it.
[7:46] Can't you hear it. Can't you hear it. And when some of us have definitely caught revival. However, however, without corporate gatherings, some of you, your system of operation is not likely you'll be able to survive.
[8:10] Quickly, if you want to sustain the personal revival, number one, shadow prayer times, private prayer times, personal prayer times.
[8:24] Personal prayer times. Say prayer. Prayer. They said, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer. Yeah. That's the only way we can keep this thing going. Peter, they were going to the temple at the time of prayer.
[8:38] Acts chapter 3, verse 1. Peter and John. Prayer. They personally gave themselves. Listen to the phraseology in Acts chapter 6, verse 4.
[8:49] But we will give ourselves. How? Regularly. So one thing, give ourselves. It's like you have donated yourself to a certain system.
[9:01] Until you give yourself to prayer, this whole thing will be a nine-day wonder. Others will be on fire and you'll be on ice. Woo! Woo! Number two.
[9:14] Quickly. Sensitivity. What's the point on you being, every day you are praying, every day you are praying. But Holy Ghost is not telling you anything.
[9:26] I'm not talking about, I hear the Holy Spirit say, you should be my wife. I hear the Holy Spirit say, you should donate. No, no, no, no. I'm not talking about those kind of pediatric, pediatric canal tough. I'm talking about, you hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you to go and start evangelizing.
[9:42] You hear, it makes you take steps that normally people won't take. Not in your benefit, but even some of the steps are kind of risky.
[9:53] Socially unpalatable. But you've heard the Lord. It makes you take some steps. How can you obey what instructions you don't know?
[10:04] An instruction you don't know. How can you obey a voice you haven't heard? So, sensitivity. What do I mean by saying, Pastor, I want to be sensitive. Yes, be intentional.
[10:15] That Holy Spirit. He said that, speak yourself and hear. Here I am. Isaiah chapter 6 verse 8. Who shall I send and who will go? He said, here I am. In Acts chapter 9 verse 11.
[10:26] Ananias, Ananias, here I am. In 1 Samuel chapter 3 verse 4. He said, here I am. Samuel, Samuel. Here I am. Here I am. Here I am.
[10:38] Here I am. Until we know how to say, here I am. God will not bother constantly trying to speak to us. When you develop a desire to hear from him, he finds it easy to speak to you.
[10:55] I'm not talking about you hear an audible voice. Some people are waiting. Charles, Charles. Forget it. Forget it. I'm talking about. Bible says that the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit.
[11:08] Romans chapter 8 verse 16. He bears witness with our spirit. He doesn't have to speak. He's already inside you. Why must he speak from outside you? So, the more you are praying, the more you get, let me use this word for the lack of a better word.
[11:22] Your intuition. Internal witness. Internal confidence. You know this is what God is trying to talk to you about. And it doesn't start with something spooky.
[11:33] It starts with simple instructions. Don't, this time, don't eat that fruit. Your sister has left in the fruit. Yeah. Sometimes, it will start. It will start.
[11:44] Say sorry to your wife. Go and say sorry. So, you finish praying. And you hear. You hear. Go and say sorry. Don't think he said, go and stand on the road.
[11:55] And anyone you see crippled. He will start from there. He will start from instructions that you know you are supposed to do. He will speak about things you can do instantly.
[12:06] Yeah. Before you attempt doing miracles. Yeah. Yeah. So, he will do. Sometimes, you are just about to eat the food and you hear today fast. You are about to respond to a text message.
[12:25] You are about to respond to a text message to someone who said, why are you ghosting me? Meanwhile, it's your ex. And you feel, for some reason, this is, you miss him so much. You miss her so much.
[12:35] You're about to say, are you here? The Holy Spirit don't. Listen to that instead of trying to ask him, which cripple am I supposed to raise? You are not raising, you are crippling his move in your life.
[12:48] You have become a crippler. Yet, not a cripple, a crippler. You have crippled the move of the Holy Spirit in your life. And yet, you want him to use you to raise cripples. Sensitivity.
[13:05] Sensitivity. Number one, prayer. The more you pray, the easier you become sensitive. Number three, honor. Honor.
[13:17] Quickly, let me explain this to you. Honor the Lord. Honor the Lord. I saw him preaching. I saw him preaching.
[13:28] But I know this guy, I mean, I don't believe in people like that. But I saw him preaching. And the ways he was saying, this is something that God has been speaking to me. And I can tell God is working in him.
[13:40] Just let me give God for the sake, even though I don't like him. For the sake of God. The usher says, don't sit there. For the sake of God. Let me honor whom God has chosen to use.
[13:54] That's the way you honor God. Honor the systems he's put in place. Thank you, sir. Honor the systems. It takes humility to work in honor. You cannot sustain revival with rebellion.
[14:11] Rebellion. People who work in rebellion never enjoy sustained revival. Honor. What else do you honor?
[14:21] Honor the Lord. Number two. Honor the vessels God has given you privilege to. Giving you the privilege to have access to.
[14:34] Honor. So some of us, maybe you are in your local church. That's your, let's say, the leader there. And the leaders there. Don't try and prove anything.
[14:47] Give honor to whom honor is due. So you honor the Lord. And honor the people he's put in place. Number three. Honor the principles that have been put in place.
[14:59] We say we are coming at six. He said, no, me, I'll do it eight. Wow. Okay. You are not honoring some systems.
[15:09] The principles. Principles. There is always some, there will be always some rules governing, it's called the rules of engagement.
[15:21] Every engagement have rules. Honor systems. Honor the systems. Some of you, you have to honor the principle of not visiting or talking to men after 9 p.m. or 10 p.m.
[15:35] No, you have to have a set, personal, and honor it. You, anytime you feel soft towards somebody, you have a system. I have to try and avoid regular chatting and put boundaries in place.
[15:49] Because you are human beings. It's human to have a crush on somebody even though you are on fire. The fact that you are on fire doesn't mean you will be hungry.
[16:03] The fact that you are on fire doesn't mean they should close down your toilet. So you are still human. The normal elements of humanity, drinking, eating, feelings, it will be there.
[16:19] Because you can't be in the spirit so much that the normal human elements have been suspended. It never happens. So then you have to honor the systems.
[16:32] Honor the principles. Put systems in place. And honor it. And some systems that have been put in place by a community, a spiritual community, or have been put in place by leaders you follow.
[16:45] Keep it and stop being fake. Stop being fake. Stop trying to keep up with the joyses. And be real.
[16:59] It says that Philippians chapter 3. Let me just quote the scripture. Chapter 3 verse 15 and 16. See, see. It says that, Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, not as mature, as you are growing, as you are on fire, be thus minded.
[17:15] So that means that, in verse 14, it says, I press on towards the mark of the higher calling, that I might gain Christ. So this is the mindset. It says, All those who are maturing, the next verse, those who are maturing and on fire, have this mindset.
[17:31] And if anything ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal it, even this unto you. So keep that mindset. And if there's, for instance, they went out to go and preach in Galatia.
[17:41] The Holy Ghost said, Don't go there. So where God needs to intervene, He will intervene. But if God hasn't intervened, keep the same system, the same attitude towards God, the same attitude towards church, the same attitude towards His word, the same attitude towards listening to messages, the same attitude towards service.
[18:02] Your service, I mean, to the other believers. Look at verse 16. Verse 16. It says, Nevertheless, where until we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same.
[18:17] They say, there's nothing new under the sun. You've gotten this far by being consistent. Keep it. Point number what?
[18:29] Point number four. Selfless sacrifices. Yeah. That's the song. It will be hard, we know. And the road will be, selfless sacrifices.
[18:41] Sacrifices. Someone say sacrifices. How can you be on fire without sacrifices? When I talk about sacrifices, I'm not talking first about what you give. I'm talking about what you forsake.
[18:55] What you walk away from. What you suffer. The losses you suffer. Because you are pursuing something. These are the sacrifices. Sacrifices. And then, number what?
[19:11] Time. Because of time, I have only two more points. Number five is changes. Changes. Routines. Habits. Listen.
[19:22] How come you have been coming for prayer every day for this number of days? You haven't changed, you haven't put some routine in place. What do I mean by routine? Maybe you have to start going.
[19:33] I've made up my mind that I told my wife, I'm going to change some things. Because no, you can't be going to prayer every day, working with God, and nothing changes in your life. No, something.
[19:43] I see people have said, God will change that. Give me a test. But I'm not talking about that. Please. When Jesus wanted to multiply water, hey, turn water into wine, did you go and fetch the water for them? No. He said, you go and fetch the water, and I will do it.
[19:57] When he wanted to raise Lazarus from the dead, did you go and roll the stone? He said, you roll out, they said, then I'll call Lazarus out. So there's also human responsibility. I'm talking about, put systems in place.
[20:09] Decide to do some things. Be determined to do some things. Be determined never to miss an offering. Never to miss your tithe. Never, it got to a time, I determined, I will never give offering below a certain, it's a change.
[20:22] When the revival was starting, listen to me, when the revival was starting, some of you were here, I told you, now, I'm going to listen, I won't listen to music again, I won't be watching movies, I won't be watching anything, I'll just listen to Bible, Bible, when I'm sleeping, when I'm bathing, when I'm sweeping, or when I'm cleaning, when I'm, every time, when I'm driving, Bible, Bible, Bible, Bible, I felt so sorry for my daughter, because there's no, when I'm dropping her to school, it's always Bible, Bible, it's talking, Bible, it's talking, Bible, regular, and I said, I'm going to do this for a year, it's a change of approach, and look at where we are today, some people wonder, how do you remember all these scriptures, sometimes I don't remember, but the things have been loaded in my spirit, the scriptures just, I've been loading, I've been loaded, no, I'm not saying you should do the same thing, but when you come for meetings, for a long time like this, something, a decision must be made, you must put a routine in place, some of us, it might be as simple as going to the gym, for those of us, for those of us male, for those of us men, in our middle ages, and they show it in our middle, with our big bellies, you can make a decision, that after certain times,
[21:42] I will not eat again, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, oh wow, say changes, changes, you must make some prayer habits, changes that will enable prayer habit, enable nourishment, for instance, you made up your mind, every day you listen to messages, every day you keep listening to messages, it's a decision, yeah, yeah, yeah, that you come, Lord, it will be hard, you know, and no change, it's like you're a comedian, you're just having fun, so, are you getting what I'm saying, put some systems in place, so, systems, changes that will help you, in a regular prayer life, in constant nourishing, listening to messages, reading your own Bible, reading other Christian books, read books, nourish yourself, build up yourself, in your most holy faith, build your, put a system in place, that every month I'll read one book, and every day I'll read my Bible, put a system in place, and don't think God will just use you anyway, he won't use you anyway, because you are lazy, so, take advantage of this moment, make up your mind, that any guy who comes, even do I want to marry, any guy who comes around me, and I can smell,
[22:58] I smell, that this guy, I like him, but this guy is not, doesn't have a heart for God, I'll walk away, it's a system, put that system in place, that I won't tell people about, some things, I won't do this, anytime someone is talking about a man of God, I won't get involved, put that system in place, that I won't watch, I won't go on social media, if I've not read my Bible, put that system in place, and don't think that, because you've come for meetings, suddenly you are going to be permanently on fire, your dreams, and then last one, constant feeding, constant feeding, constant feeding, make up your mind, you always feed, spiritually, nourish yourself, nourish yourself, you may have to even change some department, because you want to listen, more of the word, am I teaching, feed your, listen, if you are not feeding, you will dry up, if you are not feeding, you will dry up, did you receive something, come on, give Jesus praise, thank you for listening, to this message, by David Entry, we pray you have been strengthened, and enlightened, you can connect, with David Entry, on all relevant, social media platforms, including Instagram, and LinkedIn, you can also hear, more messages, from David Entry, on all relevant, streaming platforms, and the Karis Church app, don't forget to like, and share the message, be blessed,