Episode 1
New Devils, New Levels: Breaking Limitations and Hosting God’s Glory
In this powerful debut episode of Kingdom Soundwaves, we feature a recent prophetic message from Glenn Bleakney titled “New Devils, New Levels.” Recorded live in Australia, this word calls the Church to rise beyond the limits of past breakthroughs and step into deeper authority, greater miracles, and unbroken communion with the Father.
Drawing from Matthew 17, Glenn teaches on the necessity of growing faith, fasting and prayer, and a relentless pursuit of God’s glory. With compelling testimonies from the Charismatic Renewal—including his own healing in a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting—this message will ignite your spiritual hunger and stir your soul for revival.
🔥 It's time to confront complacency, cast out limitation, and move from glory to glory.
🎧 In this episode:
- Why faith like a mustard seed means growing, living faith
- The price and power of intimacy with the Father
- How division quenches revival—and unity releases it
- Eyewitness stories of miraculous healing and revival history
🌍 Join the Kingdom community and explore our archives or invite Glenn Bleakney to speak at your next event by visiting AwakeNations.org.
Transcript
For over three decades, Glenn Blakeney has preached the gospel of the Kingdom across continents, cultures and generations.
Speaker A:Welcome to Kingdom Sound Waves, the exclusive podcast featuring raw, revelatory preaching that ignites hearts, confronts compromise, and calls the church back to Holy Spirit fire.
Speaker A:From timeless sermons to fresh prophetic messages, these sound waves are piercing darkness and shaking systems.
Speaker A:Kingdom Sound Waves, the voice of the Lord still shaking the gates of hell.
Speaker B:I want to read from Matthew chapter 17 tonight.
Speaker B:Matthew chapter 17.
Speaker B:We're just going to jump right into the word of the Lord.
Speaker B:One of the things I felt come up in my spirit was that the Lord says, this is a time.
Speaker B:This is a time to see things shift in terms of unresolved issues being met.
Speaker B:And I want to share some things related to the battle that we are in as Christians, as believers, and how sometimes we go so far and we get a breakthrough to a certain limit.
Speaker B:But there's a place that God wants to take his church right now of no limitations.
Speaker B:And if I were to give this message a title, I would call it New Devils New Levels.
Speaker B:Now, you might have heard new levels, new devils, the best form of it to respond when you're under attack.
Speaker B:If you're in the army and you're being attacked, what's the best thing?
Speaker B:Okay, so you get on the offense before you get attacked.
Speaker B:You attack the enemy.
Speaker B:And so as I've said, some people have said, when you go to new.
Speaker C:Levels, there's new devils.
Speaker B:And I'm like thinking about that.
Speaker B:What are you trying to do, discourage.
Speaker C:People from going to new levels?
Speaker C:You, if you go to new levels, be prepared to get.
Speaker C:And I just thought about it and I said, you know what?
Speaker C:It's the opposite.
Speaker B:There is a heap of new devils out there.
Speaker B:And what I mean by is not that they're new, but they're just showing up.
Speaker B:They're manifesting all over different ways.
Speaker C:And we're in a time, in a.
Speaker B:Season where we need extraordinary power.
Speaker B:But says in Acts, chapter 19, verse 11, that God performed extraordinary miracles through the hands of Paul.
Speaker B:Think about that.
Speaker B:It isn't that God did miracles.
Speaker B:He did extraordinary miracles, unusual miracles.
Speaker B:In other words, these are miracles at another level.
Speaker C:And I really believe we're in a.
Speaker B:Season where God is calling us to that.
Speaker C:So let's just jump in.
Speaker B:In Matthew, chapter 17, verse number 14, this is an amazing story about a boy who is demonized, being completely healed.
Speaker B:Verse 14 says this.
Speaker B:And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him and saying, lord, have mercy on my Son.
Speaker B:For he is an epileptic and suffers severely, for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Speaker B:So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.
Speaker C:Then Jesus answered and said, o faithless.
Speaker B:And perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?
Speaker C:How long shall I bear with you?
Speaker C:Bring him here to me.
Speaker C:And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him.
Speaker C:And the child was cured from that very hour.
Speaker B:Then the disciples came to Jesus privately.
Speaker C:Said, what up with that?
Speaker B:Now they came to him and they said, why couldn't we cast that demon out?
Speaker B:And Jesus said to them, because of your unbelief.
Speaker B:For surely I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move.
Speaker C:From here to there, and it will.
Speaker B:Move and nothing will be impossible for you.
Speaker B:Now, verse 21 is not in all English translations, saying that perhaps it's from a different manuscript, but verse 21, I'm.
Speaker C:Going to read it anyway.
Speaker B:It says this.
Speaker B:However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
Speaker B:All right, let's just welcome the Lord to come, because tonight I'm believing that we're going to see something extraordinary.
Speaker B:Would you just lift your hands one more time?
Speaker B:And let's just say, holy Spirit, come and have your way.
Speaker B:Do what is normal for you to do.
Speaker B:Break the powers of darkness and liberate your people in the name of Jesus.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Amen.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker C:Awesome.
Speaker C:Amen.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:So good to be here.
Speaker C:We've been in Australia since the 24th.
Speaker B:Of August, and going back tomorrow to the United States.
Speaker B:We live in Dallas, Texas.
Speaker B:So it's been incredible.
Speaker B:Everywhere we've gone in Australia, we're seeing God break out in power and glory.
Speaker B:Miracles are happening.
Speaker B:People are being saved.
Speaker B:People are being delivered, filled with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker B:It's been powerful.
Speaker B:And so this is a new season.
Speaker B:We're seeing it here in Australia.
Speaker B:People are more hungry than ever, I believe.
Speaker B:And we're seeing God do extraordinary things.
Speaker C:But we're still at a place, I.
Speaker B:Believe, where God is saying there's another level that he wants to take us to.
Speaker B:Let's not be comfortable, let's not be content with where we are.
Speaker B:Because God wants to take us to another level.
Speaker B:There's some things that he wants to do.
Speaker B:There's some strongholds that he wants to break.
Speaker B:There's people that he wants to liberate.
Speaker C:That have been sitting in church for years and have not been healed or delivered or set free.
Speaker C:And we are in a Time where the Lord is saying, enough is enough.
Speaker C:Now is the time to show my power and my glory, and I will set people free.
Speaker B:But he's looking for a people who will step into that place where they allow his glory and presence to be manifested in their lives.
Speaker C:All right, so Jesus and his disciples in our text had just been up on the mountain.
Speaker C:There's Peter, James, and John and Jesus.
Speaker C:And then all of a sudden, like, Jesus starts glowing.
Speaker C:He's radiating.
Speaker C:He's shining, and they're looking at him.
Speaker C:And then the next thing is, there's actually Elijah and Moses show up.
Speaker C:And then the voice of the Lord says, this is my beloved son with whom I'm well pleased.
Speaker C:Remember, Peter is, let's build a memorial, right?
Speaker C:And now he's, no, this is my beloved Son with whom I'm well pleased.
Speaker C:Now, when you look at this particular occasion, obviously there were.
Speaker C:There was a reason for it.
Speaker C:One, it was really just to prepare them for what was about to happen.
Speaker C:Jesus was about to go to the cross, and they were being prepared for that.
Speaker C:There was something happening.
Speaker C:In fact, when you go to the previous chapter 16, the very last verse, he said, there's some of you guys here.
Speaker C:He said, you will not taste death until you see the kingdom come in power.
Speaker C:And then, boom, here they are.
Speaker C:And the kingdom of God appears in their midst in power and glory.
Speaker C:It's an amazing thing.
Speaker C:But then what ends up taking place is reality sets in.
Speaker C:They come down from the mountain to the valley.
Speaker C:And while they come down, they are confronted with the reality of the other worlds, the other world.
Speaker C:And what I'm referring to is a world of limitations, a world of lack, unresolved conflicts, unresolved issues, because Satan has virtually been left unchallenged.
Speaker C:And so Jesus comes down, and this father immediately shows up and says to him, lord, have mercy.
Speaker C:My son is tormented.
Speaker C:He throws himself.
Speaker C:He's thrown into the fire.
Speaker C:He's thrown into the water.
Speaker C:And I brought him to your disciples and to heal him.
Speaker C:But they weren't able to do anything.
Speaker C:Lord, have mercy on my son.
Speaker C:And Jesus replied and said, hey, why are you asking me?
Speaker C:The same spirit that dwells in me is in my disciples.
Speaker C:So if they weren't able to do it, what makes you think I can do it?
Speaker C:Perhaps it's not the will of my father.
Speaker C:Did you ever think about that?
Speaker C:Maybe my father wants you to learn something from this.
Speaker C:Maybe he has a purpose and a reason for your son to go through all of this.
Speaker C:And no guy, how many know I'm.
Speaker B:Preaching the first book of heresy right now.
Speaker C:Okay, all right, so what did he say?
Speaker C:Bring the boy to me.
Speaker C:Come on now.
Speaker C:Look at this.
Speaker C:Bring the boy to me.
Speaker C:Oh, faithless and perverse generation.
Speaker C:How long shall I be with you?
Speaker C:How long shall I bear with you?
Speaker C:Now, in the Greek, it literally is.
Speaker C:The idea here is like, you have no concept of God, you have no real knowledge of God, and you have no focus.
Speaker C:So the idea, guys, here is he's saying there has to be a focus, and it has to be on the Lord.
Speaker C:This is the first thing I want us to understand tonight.
Speaker C:When you step into revival, everything else literally falls off to the side.
Speaker C:It is not important.
Speaker C:When you step into revival, you become God conscious and you have a focus.
Speaker C:Everything else is on the periphery.
Speaker C:It's unimportant, it's insignificant.
Speaker C:And so we have to stay focused on him.
Speaker C:Faithless and perverse generation.
Speaker B:You don't believe, you don't trade.
Speaker C:Now, the amazing thing is the parallel account of this story which is found in Mark's Gospel, Chapter nine is clear that the disciples had already been active in casting out demons.
Speaker C:Mark, chapter six, 12 and 13.
Speaker C:They went out and preached that people should repent.
Speaker C:They drove out many demons and anointed with oil many people who were ill and healed them.
Speaker C:But here they are now, after being successful for a season, after going to a certain level, and they are faced with the situation in which they find themselves, to their chagrin, powerless, impotent, unable to meet the need.
Speaker C:And Jesus looks at them and he says, faithless and perverse generation, bring the boy to me.
Speaker C:And immediately Jesus rebukes the demon and the child is cured from that very hour.
Speaker C:The child is healed from that very moment and is completely delivered and set free.
Speaker C:Guys, I want you to see the power that Jesus walked in.
Speaker C:He walked in such power, any situation was resolvable.
Speaker C:He was the one who brought solutions to all of the suffering of humankind.
Speaker C:He went around doing good and healing all that were oppressed by the devil.
Speaker C:For God had anointed him with the holy Spirit and power for this purpose.
Speaker C:The Son of God was manifested by that he might destroy the works of the devil everywhere he went.
Speaker C:Now, when I was a kid, my mom got saved in what was known.
Speaker B:As the charismatic renewal.
Speaker B:We're talking about the 70s, all right, like the 70s.
Speaker C:And so in the early 70s, something was happening, something very powerful.
Speaker B:And it didn't just happen in North America.
Speaker B:It was happening around the world.
Speaker C:It happened here.
Speaker B:It happened in New Zealand.
Speaker B:It happened in the uk, it happened in other places in the world.
Speaker C:And what ended up taking place in the Charismatic Renewal, it was very different than the Pentecostal movement in that people from all denominations and backgrounds were coming and being healed and baptized with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker C:There were Anglicans, there were Presbyterians, there were Baptists, there were Catholics.
Speaker C:So as a child, my mom would take me to these meetings.
Speaker C:I would go there and I was like, very young.
Speaker C:We walk in, we would see priests, we would see nuns, we would see people from all different denomination, Lutheran.
Speaker C:And they were there worshiping God, all in the same room.
Speaker C:And the presence and the anointing of Holy Spirit was so thick.
Speaker C:And miracles would happen.
Speaker C:People would be healed.
Speaker C:It was almost like it was effortless.
Speaker C:People were getting healed.
Speaker C:So several times I had the privilege of seeing some of the most anointed people, at least at that time, literally, personally, when Benny Hinn was 19 years old, he was in our city in Canada, from Toronto, Canada.
Speaker C:He was starting up the miracles that were taking place through his ministry at that time.
Speaker C:But probably one who is really my personal hero, who made the greatest impact upon my life was Kathryn Kuhlman.
Speaker C:I've been in three Kathryn Kuhlman meetings.
Speaker C:The first one, I got healed as a young child.
Speaker C:When I was in a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting, no one prayed for me, no one laid hands on me.
Speaker C:There wasn't a word of knowledge.
Speaker C:But I was just in that atmosphere, in that environment.
Speaker C:And what ended up happening is we left.
Speaker C:And I noticed a few weeks later, maybe two or three weeks later, that this problem I had with breathing, it was an asthmatic condition and allergies.
Speaker C:I no longer had it.
Speaker C:And I could pinpoint it to that time.
Speaker C:And so repeatedly I kept hearing the stories about people that would go into a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting.
Speaker C:The thing that I remember the most, even though I was less than 10 years of age, was that people would be lined up outside.
Speaker C:They would get there at 6am in the morning.
Speaker C:Sometimes it wouldn't start until the evening.
Speaker C:And the tangible presence of the Lord was so strong even outside, you could feel was at another level, guys, another level.
Speaker C:It was something so powerful, so real, so tangible, and people were being impacted by this all over, wherever she went and ministered.
Speaker C:And one of the stories that I heard, actually years later, probably when I was in my late 20s, early 30s, was a friend of mine.
Speaker C:I ran into him.
Speaker C:We had gone to school together.
Speaker C:And he.
Speaker C:We ended up finding out that now both of us were saved serving the Lord and he Told me a story about his mom and how she had gone to a Catherine Kuhlman, meaning she did not believe in healing.
Speaker C:She thought Katherine Kuhlman was fake.
Speaker C:But because they kept pressuring her, just go.
Speaker C:What do you have to lose?
Speaker C:She finally said, okay, I'll go.
Speaker C:Leave me alone.
Speaker C:She had some disease, which.
Speaker C:It literally crippled her.
Speaker C:She was in a wheelchair.
Speaker C:They took her in, and back then, they would bring all the people who had wheelchairs, and there were so many of them that would go to these meetings, and they would wheel them all up to the front, and they would sit in a section near the front.
Speaker C:So the worship starts pretty old school, not like tonight, but the tangible presence of God is already there, and it just gets stronger and stronger as they're worshiping.
Speaker C:And then the next thing you know, Kathryn Kuhlman comes walking out through some side door from her dressing room onto the platform, and you just feel it shift, just shift.
Speaker C:And what ends up happening is, my friend says at that moment, when Kathryn Kuhlman was walked by his mom, never touched her, never looked at her, didn't do anything, walked by his mom, who was in that wheelchair.
Speaker C:She said, like, electricity went through her body.
Speaker C:She felt it, and immediately she jumped up.
Speaker C:She knew she was healed.
Speaker C:She didn't even believe that Kathryn Kuhlman was of God.
Speaker B:I spoke with Richard Roberts, who's the son of the late Oral Roberts, and.
Speaker C:He told me when.
Speaker C: I think it was in: Speaker B:University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and she did a miracle crusade.
Speaker C:At that time, she was in her room doing what she always did.
Speaker B:She'd pray and pray.
Speaker C:She lived a lifestyle of prayer.
Speaker C:She was shut in with God.
Speaker C:And then she ended up being asked to come out and.
Speaker C:And there were two custodians, like janitors, that were standing in the hallway.
Speaker C:As she was walking towards them, they actually began to mock her.
Speaker C:And as she walked towards him, both of these janitors fell out under the power, laying there.
Speaker C:And they take her because the crowds, they're in the university, in the hallways, and they end up saying, we got to do something.
Speaker C:We got to get you out there, so we don't want you to be thronged.
Speaker C:So they take her through the kitchen.
Speaker C:As she walks through the kitchen, people who are working in the kitchen start falling out as she walks through the kitchen.
Speaker B:I'm telling you, there was something that.
Speaker C:This woman had on her life.
Speaker C:When you would go to a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting, she would come out, she would Begin talking.
Speaker C:She would be worship a little bit, and then she would just begin to.
Speaker B:Call out, like words of knowledge.
Speaker B:Somebody over here, you have this condition.
Speaker C:Someone here, you have this condition.
Speaker C:She would begin to just call out things.
Speaker C:And these people would be healed miraculously.
Speaker B:But many other people would be healed as well.
Speaker C:Incredible stories of healing.
Speaker C:I encourage you to look it up.
Speaker C:But what I realized as I have studied her life is there is something that the Bible really speaks about, which is more of an impartation that comes just from being around people like that.
Speaker C:The Bible is clear.
Speaker C:Remember King Saul gets around the prophets and then he starts prophesying.
Speaker C:So there's something that happens when we get around people like that.
Speaker C:And I've seen that happen throughout our ministry on several times it happened related to healing.
Speaker C:There was a man who's older than me now, quite a few years older than me, who actually served as an usher in Kathryn Kuhlman's meetings.
Speaker C:At the time, he was pastoring a church in Canada that had about 40 people out in the country.
Speaker C:And just by being in that atmosphere, serving as an usher, never was prayed.
Speaker B:For, never was anointed.
Speaker C:I don't even know if he ever met Kathryn Kuhlman.
Speaker C:He went back to his church and miracles started breaking out in his church to the point that people were lining up to get into the building in the early hours of the morning in this country church, amazing things began to happen.
Speaker C:And eventually he would fill up, literally stadiums as a result, not even being prayed for.
Speaker C:The only thing he says is, I went there, I was in that atmosphere, I caught something, and it was transferred to him.
Speaker C:And he stepped into a level of anointing and power that he had never experienced before.
Speaker C:And I believe that the real hallmark of revival is when it becomes contagious and it equips and it empowers people to go out.
Speaker C:As William Booth said many years ago, I am not waiting for a revival, I am a revival.
Speaker C:We become that revival ourselves and we take it out and we impact people all over the world.
Speaker B:So the disciples, they're like Jesus, why couldn't we cast out the demon?
Speaker B:Verse 20 because of your unbelief.
Speaker B:For surely I say to you, if you have faith, listen to this as a mustard seed.
Speaker B:You will say to this mountain, move.
Speaker C:From here to there, and it will.
Speaker B:Move and nothing will be impossible for you.
Speaker B:Now, contrary to what has been stated, I'm going to just share something a little bit different in regards to what I believe.
Speaker B:This means faith as a mustard seed.
Speaker C:In the new Testament language.
Speaker B:In the Greek, it does not say faith the size of a mustard seed.
Speaker B:It literally says faith as a mustard seed.
Speaker B:It's the Greek word hois, and it literally means like the same as, even as, in the same manner as.
Speaker B:In other words, it's not about the size of our mustard, the mustard seed.
Speaker B:It's about the vitality of the mustard seed.
Speaker B:Smith Wigglesworth called it ever increasing faith.
Speaker C:So watch this.
Speaker C: Matthew: Speaker C:Jesus tells the parable of the mustard seed, and he equates, the kingdom of.
Speaker B:God is like a grain of mustard.
Speaker C:Seed that a man took and sowed in his field.
Speaker C:It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown, it is larger than all the garden plants and.
Speaker C:And becomes a tree so that the birds of the air come and make their nests in the branches.
Speaker C:Listen, if you read Matthew 13, if you read Mark as well, you will see that Jesus is talking about the kingdom of God expanding throughout the earth.
Speaker C:The kingdom of God is meant to expand and to fill the earth.
Speaker C:Habakkuk 2:14.
Speaker C:The earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters covers the sea.
Speaker C:The NLT says the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord.
Speaker C:Now, if people can say, the glory of the Lord is everywhere, but he said, with an awareness, with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, so that everyone recognizes it.
Speaker C:If you were an atheist, if you were a Satanist, if you were a Buddhist, if you're a Hindu, whatever religion you come from, when you would go into a Kathryn Kuhlman meeting, you could not deny the tangible reality of God's presence there.
Speaker C:Anyone that walked in said, whoa, so what is he saying?
Speaker C: Let me read to you Matthew: Speaker C:For truly, I say to you, if you have faith that is living and growing like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, move from here to yonder place, and it will move and nothing will be impossible to you.
Speaker C:So if you have faith like a mustard seed that is living and growing.
Speaker C:You see, what happened to Jesus before he walked down from the mountain is he was in the presence of his Father.
Speaker C:But let me say to you that Jesus lived in a place of constant communion with his Father.
Speaker C:He didn't have to say to them, look, hey, I'm glad that you brought this child to me, but right now I'm just not ready.
Speaker C:No, he said, bring the boy to me.
Speaker C:Faithless and perverse generation.
Speaker C:Boom.
Speaker C:He spoke the word and it came out no contest.
Speaker C:No resistance.
Speaker C:The devil was overpowered because of the authority that Jesus walked in.
Speaker B:Jesus lived in a state of unceasing interaction and fellowship with his Father.
Speaker B:Do you know that Jesus did not die of crucifixion?
Speaker B:Do you know that Jesus was crucified?
Speaker B:But when they came to him and saw him on the cross, they were amazed that he was already dead.
Speaker B:He was already dead.
Speaker C:So what happened?
Speaker B:So they say, okay, just to make sure that he's dead, let's actually put a spear in him, in his side, and from his side flowed water and blood.
Speaker B:He had died already.
Speaker B:He was dead.
Speaker B:And medically speaking, something had happened.
Speaker C:I've read different theories.
Speaker B:I've talked to different friends of mine who are doctors, medical doctors, and I've heard different theories.
Speaker C:But one of the theories is that.
Speaker B:The pericardium sac around the heart which holds the body fluids can rupture under times of extreme stress and anxiety.
Speaker B:And when that happens, the body fluids and the blood mix in the natural.
Speaker B:No one can withstand that.
Speaker B:You would die quickly.
Speaker B:But remember when Jesus was in the.
Speaker C:Garden and he was praying, and it.
Speaker B:Was like he was sweating as great drops of blood.
Speaker C:And it says in one of the.
Speaker B:Accounts, I believe it's Mark's account, that angels came and ministered to him.
Speaker C:My hypothesis is this, that if they did not come and minister to him.
Speaker B:At that point, he would have died in the garden.
Speaker C:But he couldn't die in the garden.
Speaker C:He had to die on the cross.
Speaker C:But the thing that broke Jesus heart and caused this great stress upon him was not that he was thinking, I have to go to the cross.
Speaker C:No.
Speaker C:Remember, he cried out, I believe it's in John, chapter 12.
Speaker C:He said, the hour has come for the Son to go to the cross to be crucified.
Speaker C:And he said, what do I say?
Speaker C:Father, save me from this hour.
Speaker C:No, Father, glorify your name.
Speaker C:Here I am.
Speaker C:I present myself as a living sacrifice.
Speaker C:I'm not running from that.
Speaker C:I'm not stressed out over going to the cross.
Speaker C:But the thing that literally caused Jesus such pain was knowing that he would be separated from his Father.
Speaker C:And when he cried out, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Speaker B:He became a sin offering.
Speaker B:He took your sin and my sin upon him.
Speaker C:At that point, for the first time.
Speaker B:In his life, his communion and intimacy with the Father had been disrupted.
Speaker B:When you read the Amplified Bible in Hebrews chapter five, listen to this.
Speaker B:Hebrews chapter five, verse seven, it says, in the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up definite special petitions for that which he not only wanted but needed and supplications with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death.
Speaker B:Listen, why was he heard?
Speaker B:This is what he says.
Speaker C:And he was heard because of his.
Speaker B:Reverence toward God, his godly fear, his piety.
Speaker C:The word that is used here in.
Speaker B:The Greek is not the typical word translated fear.
Speaker B:It's a different Greek word.
Speaker C:And it doesn't speak like, I'm afraid and therefore I don't want to do this.
Speaker C:I can't handle this, it's too much for me.
Speaker C:And a person just falls apart.
Speaker C:That's not the word.
Speaker C:You'll see that it's translated fear in some English Bibles.
Speaker C:In others it's rendered reverence.
Speaker C:And still in others, piety.
Speaker B:But the word literally speaks of walking circumspectly.
Speaker C:And the Amplified Bible says this.
Speaker B:He shrank from the horrors of separation, from the bright presence of the Father.
Speaker C:He shrank from the horrors of separation.
Speaker B:From the bright presence of the Father.
Speaker C:The thing that broke Jesus heart, the thing that was beyond what he could handle, was the idea that he would be separated from the bright presence of his Father.
Speaker C:That for a moment of time, when the sins of the world were placed upon him, the Father literally no longer was there.
Speaker C:My God, why have you forsaken me?
Speaker C:And he was separated from the presence of his Father.
Speaker C:At that point, his heart ruptured.
Speaker C:At that point, something took place.
Speaker C:And because of that he died not of crucifixion, but of a broken heart because of the anguish and the pain of being separated from His Father.
Speaker C:So my concern about U.S. church is how do we feel about the communion of God, the intimacy of the Father?
Speaker C:How do we live?
Speaker C:Can we more than anything else say, lord, nothing else matters.
Speaker C:Your presence, your glory, being connected to you, intimacy with you is more important than anything else.
Speaker C:God, take the whole world, but give me Jesus.
Speaker C:I want Jesus.
Speaker C:I want your presence.
Speaker C:I want your anointing.
Speaker C:More than anything else, seek the Lord.
Speaker B:For position, power, prestige, even for provision.
Speaker B:But Jesus sought his Father for his presence.
Speaker B:He sought the Father for his presence.
Speaker B:See, Jesus lived a fasted lifestyle.
Speaker B:He walked in the glory realm.
Speaker B:He abided in a place where he didn't know what it was like to not experience the presence of God.
Speaker C:He didn't just show up on Sunday or Thursday night at revival service and go, man, it was good to be back in the presence of the Lord.
Speaker C:He didn't know what it was like to not be in the presence of Father.
Speaker C:We live in that state Perpetually, nothing disrupts that.
Speaker C:More than anything, Jesus shrank from the horrors of separation, from the bright presence of the Father.
Speaker C:In other words, I don't want to do anything that would grieve the Holy Spirit.
Speaker C:I don't want to do anything that would cause the Holy Spirit to be offended.
Speaker B:If you had seven days left to live, what would you say to the people that are nearest and dearest to you?
Speaker C:Jesus.
Speaker B:Says something very different in John chapter 15.
Speaker B:He's talking about, he's leaving, he's going to go to the cross.
Speaker B:And it already said to them, hey.
Speaker C:I serve like I serve.
Speaker B:John 13, John 14, Holy Spirit is going to come.
Speaker B:Then in John 15, it seems that he digresses, but in actuality, he isn't.
Speaker B:He begins to talk to them about a vine and branches.
Speaker B:And he says, my father is the vine dresser.
Speaker B:You all are the branches.
Speaker B:All y'.
Speaker C:All.
Speaker B:That's Texan if you don't know that.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker B:That's where we live in Texas.
Speaker C:So all y' all are the branches.
Speaker C:If the branch stays connected or abides or remains in the vine, it's a Greek word, meno.
Speaker C:It will bear much fruit.
Speaker C:It will bear much fruit.
Speaker C:Every branch that does not bear fruit, he chops it down, he throws it into the fire.
Speaker C:But what has happened in many places today is we have thought erroneously that our goal as Christians should be bearing fruit.
Speaker C:In other words, good deeds, being a good person, doing all of those things.
Speaker C:But ultimately, what Jesus said is this.
Speaker C:I'm going to leave.
Speaker C:I'm going to send you the Holy Spirit.
Speaker C:But what I want you to do is bear fruit wherever you go.
Speaker C:Every good tree bears good fruit, right?
Speaker C:And so Martin Luther said, it's not the fruit that makes the tree good, but it's the tree that makes the fruit good.
Speaker C:In other words, we come to a place where we recognize that if we are a good tree, we will bear good fruit.
Speaker C:But how do we do that?
Speaker C:We stay connected to the source of life.
Speaker C:If the branches are connected to the vine, the life that is in the vine will flow into the branches, and the branches effortlessly will bear good fruit and much fruit effortlessly.
Speaker C:And we have focused on bearing fruit.
Speaker C:Like, it's my responsibility to bear fruit.
Speaker C:I've got to change.
Speaker C:I've got to be better.
Speaker C:I've got to.
Speaker C:Like, we make New Year's resolutions, and by the end of January, like, people that signed up to go to the gym, it's 80% of people have quit.
Speaker C:So what happens is we just don't do well.
Speaker C:But Jesus is saying, look, this is not about conforming to a certain lifestyle.
Speaker C:This is not about behavioral modification.
Speaker C:This is about transformation from the inside out.
Speaker C:So when it says that Jesus was transformed, figured on the mountain, the Greek word literally speaks of something that happens on the inside, but yet it manifested literally on his physical countenance.
Speaker C:Yet we are told, watch this in second Corinthians 3:18.
Speaker C:So all of us who have had the veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord and the Lord who is the Spirit, Spirit makes us more and more like him as we are changed into his glorious image.
Speaker C:That's what the new living says.
Speaker C:Another one says, as we are literally transfigured from one degree of glory to another, it's the same Greek word.
Speaker C:And what it's saying is, unlike Moses, who experienced it on his face, that the glory of the new covenant starts on the inside of us, and it transfigures us on the inside, and it changes us, because the life that is in the vine flows into the branch.
Speaker C:So bearing fruit is a promise.
Speaker C:Abiding is a process.
Speaker C:We focus on bearing fruit, but bearing fruit is a promise.
Speaker C:If you will abide, God will provide.
Speaker C:If you will stay connected to him, all things pertaining to life and goodliness, you will change from the inside out.
Speaker C:And people will see the glory of God even in your eyes.
Speaker B:You can tell when people need deliver.
Speaker B:Look in their eyes, darkness.
Speaker B:But when people are full of the light, of the glory, full of the light, the kingdom of God is within you.
Speaker B:It brings transformation from the inside out.
Speaker B:It changes us from the inside out.
Speaker B:And this power is what he's given to us.
Speaker B:So we are to be like a grain of mustard seed that though it's small, it continues to grow and grow and grow.
Speaker B:And as we continue to grow, as we continue to change, then what ends up happening is we go from one level of glory to the next.
Speaker B:The key in all of this, we have been part of several revivals, all in America.
Speaker B:They've broken out, they've impacted hundreds of people, even outside of the church.
Speaker B:And it's continued for a year, sometimes two years, but then, boom, it stopped.
Speaker B:In every case, what it was is something happened in terms of the people getting their eyes off of Jesus and putting their eyes on what was going on.
Speaker B:One of the greatest things the enemy does is he creates something that Paul calls in first Timothy six, evil suspicions.
Speaker B:And I've seen it happen time after time, people, all of a sudden, they start getting this.
Speaker B:I wonder what they're doing.
Speaker B:They Just start thinking negatively, terribly, critically about other people.
Speaker B:And it grieves the Holy Spirit.
Speaker B:We were ministering in Seattle and been there.
Speaker B:There was a move of God's spirit.
Speaker B:People were coming and it was powerful.
Speaker B:But I felt like something was wrong in my spirit and I was praying and I said, lord, what's wrong?
Speaker B:I feel there's more.
Speaker B:I feel you want to do something even greater.
Speaker B:Sunday morning, I'm getting ready to speak in the second service in this church and I see this woman walk in.
Speaker B:And as soon as she walks in, I hear the Holy Spirit say, one accord in one place.
Speaker B:One accord in one place.
Speaker B:She ended up coming over and she talked to me briefly and spoke with the pastor.
Speaker C:And I said to her, ma', am.
Speaker B:I just got to share this.
Speaker B:I said, I hear the Lord say, one accord in one place.
Speaker B:She looked at me, she was not happy.
Speaker B:She went sat down in another section during worship.
Speaker B:She didn't look very happy at all.
Speaker B:She looked miserable.
Speaker C:And then after the service, she came.
Speaker B:Up to me and she said, young.
Speaker C:Man.
Speaker B:She said, when you told me that, she said, I was angry at you.
Speaker B:And I said, okay.
Speaker B:Like, I have no idea what's going on.
Speaker B:I'm just the delivery boy.
Speaker B:I'm like the Uber driver, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker C:And so what ends up happening is she says, do you know who I am?
Speaker C:Did he tell you?
Speaker B:She points to the pastor and I said, no one told me anything, not even God.
Speaker C:Like, I don't know who you are.
Speaker C:All I know is one accord in one place.
Speaker C:And she said, that man right there, that's my husband, the pastor.
Speaker C:And she said, about six months ago, we got in an argument and he was wanting to do things in the church that I didn't agree with.
Speaker C:So I took about half of the women of the church and went down the street and started my own church.
Speaker C:And you had the audacity to tell me one accord in one place.
Speaker B:Now I'm like, okay, now I know why there's something being hindered.
Speaker B:She looked at me and she said, that was God.
Speaker B:I said, uh huh.
Speaker C:And she said, I gotta repent.
Speaker B:And I said, uh huh.
Speaker B:And she said, thank you for sharing that.
Speaker B:And she got reconciled with her husband, they still live together.
Speaker B:And she came back, one accord in one place.
Speaker B:Now, I know in Australia you guys would never do anything like that.
Speaker B:Like, you don't ignore one another.
Speaker B:It's like, especially people you live with, right?
Speaker B:Silent treatment or anything like that.
Speaker B:You don't do that.
Speaker B:But guys, we are Living in a time where we have to be so careful what God is doing here at Pneuma and has done.
Speaker B:We have to guard this thing.
Speaker B:We have to watch over it, we have to protect it.
Speaker B:We have to steward it wisely.
Speaker B:What God's doing in your life, you have to steward that.
Speaker B:And you have to deal with any distractions, anything that is pulling you away from Jesus.
Speaker B:Like, I know we all have things to do in life.
Speaker B:We have to stay focused on our walk with God.
Speaker B:We have to keep short accounts with one another.
Speaker B:We have to make sure that we're in right relationship with the Lord.
Speaker B:And the Lord showed me something that I wanted to share with you.
Speaker B:It's found in the Book of Malachi.
Speaker B:I want you to see this.
Speaker B:It's so powerful.
Speaker B:In Malachi, chapter two, the children of Israel, they had received a promise.
Speaker B:God restored them to their homeland after the Babylonian captivity.
Speaker B:But then in chapter two, verse 17, they were upset with the Lord.
Speaker B:They felt that God hadn't made good on his promises, that God had failed them.
Speaker B:So in Malachi 2, verse 17, the.
Speaker C:Prophet says, you've wearied the Lord with your words, yet you say, in what way have we wearied him?
Speaker C:In that you say, everyone who does evil is good in the sight of.
Speaker B:The Lord, and he delights in them.
Speaker C:Where is the God of justice?
Speaker B:Where's God?
Speaker B:Why isn't he answering us?
Speaker C:Why isn't he responding?
Speaker C:Why does it seem that the heavens are brass and nothing is happening in my life when I pray?
Speaker B:Remember, there's no chapters or verses when the Bible was written.
Speaker B:So the next verse, technically the next line is chapter three, verse one.
Speaker C:Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.
Speaker C:And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple.
Speaker C:Another translation says, look, I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me.
Speaker C:Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to the temple.
Speaker C:What was happening was they had their eyes on their circumstances, on their problems.
Speaker C:They couldn't see God.
Speaker C:They felt that God wasn't listening to them.
Speaker C:He wasn't responding.
Speaker C:And the prophet responds by saying, and the first word in verse number one of chapter three is behold or look.
Speaker C:Some translations say low.
Speaker C:Low is an old English term that literally means look.
Speaker C:Pay attention.
Speaker C:And what he's saying is this.
Speaker C:He's saying, guys, you had your eyes fixated on everyone else, on everything else.
Speaker C:Your eyes aren't on me.
Speaker C:So the first thing he says is, behold, look.
Speaker C:And it literally implies in the Hebrew, look at me.
Speaker C:Stop looking.
Speaker C:At everything else.
Speaker C:Look at me, seek my face.
Speaker C:And suddenly the Lord whom you are seeking will appear in his temple.
Speaker C:The reason why many of us are not getting the breakthrough and not experiencing what we're wanting for and we need is because we don't have our eyes on Jesus.
Speaker C:We've got our eyes on everything else.
Speaker C:And the Lord would say to you, get your eyes off of everything else.
Speaker C:Put your eyes on Jesus.
Speaker C:And suddenly the Lord whom you're seeking will appear.
Speaker B:He'll come to you.
Speaker B:He'll come in glory.
Speaker B:He'll come in power.
Speaker B:He'll come and deal with deep, iniquitous stuff.
Speaker B:He'll come and deal with all the powers of the enemy as we go from one level of glory to the next.
Speaker B:We're in a time and a season where God is calling us to seek his face like never before.
Speaker B:Remember the book of James, chapter 4, verse 8.
Speaker B:It says, Draw near to God, right?
Speaker B:And he will draw near to you.
Speaker B:When you really look at this, it's a very powerful term because in verse seven, I believe it is the verse before he says, submit yourself to God.
Speaker B:Resist the devil and he will what, flee from you?
Speaker B:He says this.
Speaker B:He says, submit yourself to God.
Speaker B:Surrender your life, okay, and resist the enemy.
Speaker B:Fight.
Speaker B:Stand your ground and he will flee in anguish.
Speaker B:Verse 8 in the Aramaic, draw near to God, literally in Aramaic, is, move closer and closer to God.
Speaker B:Move closer and closer to God in Aramaic, and he will be touching you.
Speaker B:If we stop growing, if we stop moving from glory to glory, we will never experience all that God wants to do.
Speaker B:We will become just another movement revival that lasted for a year or however long.
Speaker B:The enemy will do whatever he can to stop.
Speaker B:But guys, I'm telling you, there's a deeper place of hunger and pursuit.
Speaker B:And I know there's many people here that you are doing that you're loving God, but can I just encourage you you to go even deeper?
Speaker B:Can I just encourage you to go to that place where you encounter God afresh, where you move to that deeper place where you go from glory to glory.
Speaker B:Get your eyes back on Jesus, him alone.
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