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0:00 In Today’s Gospel Partner Episode…
0:49 What Is Gospel Partner?
3:43 01 Introduction: 2022 is the year of rest & acceleration
10:41 02 God’s prophetic plan to restore the Tabernacle of David
20:38 03 Why did God call David a man after His own heart?
27:38 04 David valued the ark of the covenant—a picture of Jesus
34:18 05 Your priority this year: spend time in His presence
41:04 06 Don’t trust in your own effort, but rest in God’s ways
50:47 07 Expect an unprecedented acceleration of breakthroughs!
58:03 08 How to experience more healing and restoration this year
1:12:17 09 Salvation Prayer & Closing Prayer
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This coming year, God has even
more beautiful and exciting days
in store for you and I. I
received this vision for this
year in a dream, and I saw
clearly the year. The Year of
Rest And Acceleration. God is
saying: “When you enter His rest
this year, things that will take
months, things that will take
years will accelerate and
manifest this year.” Things will
happen so rapidly, so fast that
while he’s breaking the ground,
it is harvest time! You’re
going to see people saved that
you never expected to be saved!
Your loved ones that you’ve been
praying for before. There will
be an acceleration and they will
be saved! Praise the Lord!
My friend, I am filled with a
great sense of urgency for the
gospel of grace to be preached
more strongly than ever before.
There are still so many people
who need to hear the good news!
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A very happy new year to one and
all. Church we are in exciting
days. And this coming year, God
has even more beautiful and
exciting days in store for you
and I. Praise the Lord. And
every time we look at the theme
of the year from the beginning
of the year, we see God’s
setting for us a theme,
something for us to focus on and
let us be aware of what He is
doing. So that when it happens
during the year, we know that
God has spoken to us. And that
gives us the assurance to carry
on, on that path, on that track.
On whatever we are doing. Amen.
Praise the Lord. Just like the
year of time and space. We
entered into the pandemic, the
Covid-19 pandemic. When God gave
me that word, it was the year
before the pandemic, of course,
for the coming year. That will
be the year 2019. And little did
I expect that the whole world
will be like under lock down. We
will be in the state of like not
travelling, social distancing
and all that. And even the
church itself will not be
meeting the way we normally
would. Physical gathering. But
God gave me the word in 2019
that the coming year will be the
year of time and space. And who
would have thought that we will
all be spending time watching
through all the media. Through
time and space, the Word of God
comes forth to all of us. And
time was shortened. And the
reach was greater, further,
wider and we are able to reach
more people with the gospel of
Jesus Christ. And in the year of
hazon vision, which is this past
year 2021, we see God giving us
all vision in our hearts. Many
of it for many of us are
personal, even for me also. It’s
a personal move, a major move
and some of you will see fresh
vision for your life, for your
families, for the direction God
wants you to take. Some of you
have fresh vision to take care
of your health. But God gives
you a vision before the
motivation comes. God says my
thoughts towards you are
thoughts of good. My plans are
for good and not for evil. The
devil, when the devil ever
prophesises about the future,
it’s always something bad. He is
telling you unless you do this,
unless you do that; unless you
give money here and there, this
bad thing is going to happen to
you. And that is the devil’s
technique. And that’s why he
uses different kinds of medium
of his voice. But it is always
the same thing. It is always to
make you afraid of something in
the future. Whereas God’s vision
is always give you something
great for the future, Amen?
Praise the Lord. So what does
God have for you and I this year
2022? The Year of – praise the
Lord! I want to tell you this, I
receive this vision for this
year in a dream. It’s not always
that I receive the word of the
Lord in a dream. But we know
that God can use dreams to speak
to people. Yes you might say the
old man dream dreams and all
that. But you know what, even
young man like Daniel receives
dreams during his youth. So it’s
not a matter of young man or old
man. It’s a matter of like
visions are pictures you see
from God when you are awake and
dreams are pictures from God
when you are sleeping. So I
receive this when I was asleep.
And I remember just prior to my
waking up I had this dream from
the Lord. And I saw clearly the
year. Year 2022 will be the year
of what God has for us, Amen.
Are you ready to receive it? Sit
back. Enjoy.
The Year of Rest and Acceleration.
The year of rest and acceleration. And in
my sleep, I saw this so clearly.
The Lord said, “The Year of Rest
And Acceleration”. And the next
thing I know, I saw myself, I’m
still dreaming, and I saw myself
on a travelator in an airport
and I saw people around me. They
were not on the travelator and
they were rushing and they were
all stressed out, anxious, you
know, carrying their heavy bags.
And many of them were running.
Some were sprinting. And they
were out of breath. And I looked
at them and I felt compassion
for them. And all the while I
was calm, I was restful, but I
was on a travelator. It’s not
that I don’t have burdens to
carry. I looked around me and I
had my two bags with me and they
look heavy. But they were
resting on the travelator and
the people were rushing, but
they were not resting. And yet
while resting, I was
accelerating. And I woke up.
When I woke up, I realised very
clearly this has been the
clearest ever dream of the
vision of the year that God has
given me – The year of rest and
acceleration. It looks like an
oxymoron, right? That when you
are resting, you don’t seem to
be accelerating. And when
someone is accelerating, they
are not resting. But then God’s
ways are not the ways of men.
God is saying that when you
enter His rest this year, let us
labour therefore to enter that
rest people. When you enter His
rest this year, things are going
to accelerate for you. Things
that will take months, things
that will take years will
accelerate and manifest this
year. And the Lord also said to
me, that all this has got to do
with God restoring the
tabernacle of David this year.
Actually, I was thinking to
myself when God gave me this
word and the next thing I know,
Pastor Lawrence preached last
week, you know the thanksgiving
week he preached on a little bit
about the tabernacle of David
and I was telling, oh no, don’t
preach my sermon. But it goes to
show that he’s listening to the
Holy Spirit and he’s in the flow
of what God is saying for the
now, for the now word, praise
the Lord. And everything to do
with this vision of the year of
rest and acceleration has got to
do with the tabernacle of David
being rebuilt by God. And God
says He will repair its ruins.
Amos 9 verse 11. It says in that
day will I raise up the
tabernacle of David that is
fallen, and close up the
breaches thereof; and I will
raise up his ruins. Notice the
breaches there; it’s plural.
It’s not just one breach, there
are breaches – there are a lot
of bricks. Breaches thereof; and
God says I will raise up his
ruins and I’ll build it as in
the days of old: that they may
possess the remnant of Edom, in
the Masoretic text. It can also
be translated as Adam, mankind.
And of all the heathen or the
Gentiles, the goyim here; which
are called by my name, saith the
LORD that doeth this. Behold,
the days come, saith the LORD,
that the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, and the treader of
grapes him that soweth seed; and
the mountains shall drop sweet
wine, and all the hills shall
melt. So God is rebuilding the
tabernacle of David in these
last days. And remember when
I’ve taught on the tabernacle of
David many years ago, and pastor
Lawrence alluded to it a few
times in his sermon, is all
about the church that He’s
building in these days.
Hallelujah. And we know that we
are coming to the culmination of
the church age. The Lord Jesus
can return anytime this
pandemic, this plague that the
world has gone through has been
total, has been global. It’s not
just something isolated in one
country or one place. It has
been global. So we know that
Jesus mentioned when signs
happen in such a global scale,
you know that He is coming back.
Praise the Lord. Lift up your
heads your redemption draws
near. But the Lord also says
that He is going to repair all
the breaches, all the bricks of
David’s tabernacle. All the
damages He’s going to repair. He
is going to rebuilt it in the
days of old. Actually, the
rebuilding started when the
church started on the feast of
Pentecost in the book of Acts,
when Jesus ascended up to
heaven. And the Bible says
exactly 50 days after His
resurrection, we have the feast
of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit
came down and filled all the
church. That was the birthday of
the church. Amen. And the church
was fresh, young and they were
still holding on to the law.
They were still holding on to a
lot of their Jewish traditions
and beliefs, and yet they had
grace and they had the leading
of the Holy Spirit and there was
a conflict and the conflict came
onto it to a head when Paul and
Barnabas were preaching among
the Gentiles and got the signs
and wonders and miracles and
Gentiles were being saved. And
some of the Jewish believers
actually confronted Paul and
they said you need to tell them
they need to be circumcised and
keep the law of Moses. Now the
argument was such, it was so
intense that Paul says, let us
go up to Jerusalem, and let us,
let’s have a council, is known
as the Jerusalem council where
the Gentiles who was saved, need
to keep the law. So they met ok.
And when they met, Peter was
there. Remember God used Peter.
God used Peter to reach out to
the Gentiles in Cornelia’s
house. Remember the Italian
band, right? God used Peter to
reach out to the Gentiles. At
that time Paul wasn’t saved yet.
So God used Peter and Peter
stood up and Peter says, guys,
all right, listen, God used my
mouth to speak the gospel to the
Gentiles. Y’all know that. And
God purified their hearts by
faith. And he said something
very beautiful. He said this
now, why do you test God by
putting a yoke on these
believers, these young
believers? Why do you test God
by putting a yoke on these
believers that neither we nor
our fathers were able to bear?
Now, some people say the whole
argument is about circumcision
alone. No, it’s not about
circumcision alone. It’s about
keeping the law of Moses, which
is the law from Mount Sinai.
That’s the argument because if
it’s just circumcision alone it
makes no sense for Peter to say,
why do you test God by putting a
yoke on their necks that neither
we, nor our fathers were able to
bear. Why is it that Peter was
not able to bear circumcision?
Because you know, Jewish
children, they are circumcised,
boys are circumcised when they
are babies at eight days old.
When they are eight days old,
they are circumcised by law,
eight days old. And how is it
that they are not able to bear?
They are not even conscious of
not being able to bear it. So
obviously Peter is talking about
keeping the law that neither we,
nor our fathers were able to
bear. And they said something
very beautiful here. He says
that we believe that through the
grace of our LORD, Jesus Christ
we shall be saved, even as they.
That’s a very beautiful, humble
statement from Peter. Peter
actually turned the tables on
the Jewish believers that wanted
the Gentile believers to keep
the law. He actually told them
this. Guys, we believe that
through the grace of our LORD
Jesus Christ, we shall be saved,
even as they, the Gentiles are
saved. Now he did not say, he
should have said this; We
believe that through the grace
of our LORD Jesus Christ, they
the Gentiles will be saved, even
as we. That will be more like
because they, they were saved
first. Right? But it was such a
beautiful, humble statement from
Peter to just shock these people
that are trying to be legalistic
over the Gentile believers. And
he says, we believe that through
the grace of our LORD Jesus
Christ we shall be saved, even
as they are saved. Isn’t that
beautiful? And then James, the
pastor of the church in
Jerusalem, the half-brother of
our Lord Jesus Christ, he stood
up and he said something very
beautiful that confirm the
prophecy of Amos about the
tabernacle of David and this is
what he said. Then all the
multitude kept silent and
listened to Barnabas and Paul
declaring how many miracles and
wonders God had worked through
them among the Gentiles. And
after they had become silent,
James answered, saying, “Men and
brethren, listen to me: Simon
has declared how God at the
first visited the Gentile; Simon
here is Peter, to take out of
them a people for His name. And
James is talking now. And with
this the words of the prophets
agree, just as it is written:
Now James is quoting from Amos
9:11, “After this I will return
and will rebuild the tabernacle
of David, which has fallen down;
I will rebuild its ruins. I will
set it up so that the rest of
mankind”; in Amos it says the
remnant of Edom. But the word
Edom is spelled the same way as
Adam. “So the rest of mankind
may seek the LORD, even all the
Gentiles who are called by My
name, says the LORD who does
these things.” So it’s very
clear. Because there are some
people that teach that the
prophecy of Amos about God
rebuilding the tabernacle of
David will happen when Jesus
returns for His millennial rule,
for 1000 years on earth. That’s
when all these things will
happen. And the plowman shall
overtake the reaper and the
treader of grapes him that sows
seed, all right, this is
acceleration. This will happen
when Jesus returns. No my friend
it’s obvious that it’s already
happened during the early
church. God started to repair
the breaches of, or the areas
that were broken of the
tabernacle of David. And notice
breaches is plural. So God is
still rebuilding the church and
all throughout this years. And I
believe we’re coming to the end
of it. I believe that it could
be this year that God is
rebuilding and repairing the
final breaches of the tabernacle
of David. We might be that
terminal generation, that last
generation. To see Jesus come
for us, praise the Lord. And
then we’ll be with Him in heaven
for seven years. And then we’ll
come back with Him for the
Millennial rule on earth. That’s
what the Bible talks about. But
notice in Amos, when it first
prophesied about the tabernacle
of David, okay, it’s very clear
that that he’s saying that this
will happen and it began to
happen when James mentioned,
guys what is happening when you
see the Gentiles getting saved,
this is just a prophecy. And to
these agree the words of the
prophets that behold, the last
days God says, I’ll rebuild the
tabernacle of David and what’s
going to happen? Then all
mankind will seek the Lord. They
will be saved. There’ll be a
harvest of souls. Hallelujah.
And I believe that’s going to
happen this year. You’re going
to see people saved that you
will never expect them to be
saved. Your loved ones you have
been praying before there’ll be
an acceleration and they will be
saved. Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah. You’ll see a harvest
of souls. I know that we said
that, you know, the Lord showed
that in the year of hazon vision
last year, that there will be
the greatest harvest of souls.
Imagine this year when God is
rebuilding the tabernacle of
David, so that the rest of
mankind will seek Him in the
year of Rests and Acceleration.
Praise the Lord. Now why rest?
Because rest is when the
tabernacle of David finally has
– you know the tabernacle of
David is just an empty tent
without the ark of the covenant.
You know, David had in his heart
to bring the ark back to the
central place of where God has
wants it to be. In Zion, Mount
Zion. That’s the heart of David.
You know I believe church; I
believe that this is the reason
why David was called a man after
My own heart. You know, when God
rejected King Saul, Samuel says
that the Lord has found a man
after His own heart. In Acts 13
when Paul preached to the
synagogue of the Jews and in
Pisidia Antioch, he said these
words, he says that, he quoted
that God says I have found David
son of Jesse, a man after My own
heart, who will fulfil all My
will. So Samuel, the prophet
Samuel says, David is a man
after God’s heart and Paul in
the New Testament confirm that
God sees in David, a man after
His own heart. No one else have
this appellation. This is desire
expressed that God says, I have
found a man; it’s like God was
looking for a man who is after
His own heart. You know we say
things like, that boy is a boy
after my heart. That means what?
He knows exactly what you like.
And he does the things that
pleases you and you enjoy being
with him. Amen. You know, God
loves all his children, but
there are some children He just
plain likes. Hey man. He just
likes them. He is fond of them.
I don’t want just to be loved by
God. I want God to be fond of
me, to like me. You know the
Bible says that David, he was
liked by God. God liked him. One
time, after David ascended the
throne, he gathered all his
leaders, all his musicians, all
his mighty men together. And he
told them this in first
Chronicles 28. Howbeit the LORD
God of Israel chose me before
all the house of my father to be
king over Israel for ever: for
he has chosen Judah to be the
ruler; and of the house of
Judah, the house of my father;
and among the sons of my father,
he liked me. I loved that. He
liked me to make me king over
all Israel. Wouldn’t you like to
be liked by God? Not just loved
by God. God loves you, but liked
by God. I want God to like me.
What do you think? What do you
reckon is the secret of David
that he was called a man after
God’s heart and God not just
loved him, God liked him to make
him king over Israel. I believe
it was because he has a heart to
bring the ark of the covenant,
the very presence, the throne of
the presence of God, the Lord of
hosts dwells between the
cherubim. He has a heart to
bring the ark to its proper
place in Mount Zion. At that
time, the ark was in Kirjath
Jearim, which means the city of
the woods. It wasn’t a city, it
was a town of woods. It’s called
Kirjath Jearim, in the place
called Kirjath Jearim. And it
was there for 20 years and King
Saul, the first king of Israel
had no heart to seek for the
presence of God or to bring the
ark to Jerusalem. He has no
heart for that. He has no heart
for God, but David had a heart
for that. And now some people
say David is a man after God’s
heart, because he was quick to
repent. You know, friend, there
were other men in the Bible who
were also quick to repent, but
none of them God says he is a
man after His heart. It must be
something unique that David did
that none of them ever did. And
I believe that it is because he
has a heart to bring the ark to
the central place. So this year
I believe God wants all of us to
give His Son, the Son that He
loves, His beloved Son. You
know, God loves His Son, and
friend, what you do with His Son
is what God would do with you.
Love His Son and God will love
you like you can never dream is
possible. Amen. And honour His
Son and God will honour you all
right. And if you promote His
Son, God will promote you. Amen.
And if you despise His Son, God
will despise you. If you reject
His Son, God will reject you. If
you accept His Son, God accepts
you. And that’s what salvation
is all about. Accepting His Son.
It is not matter of saying I
believe in God. No, the Bible
says, Jesus says, I am the way;
the is definite article. There’s
no other way. I am the way, the
truth and the life: no man
cometh unto the Father, but by
Me. So it is the person of Jesus
Who is the express image of His
person. And the ark of the
covenant back in Bible times, in
the Old Testament, it was first
built at Mount Sinai. Ok God
gave instructions to Moses. And
it was built by Bezalel and
Aholiab and they built it based
on the instructions given to
them on Mount Sinai. But God
meant for the ark, the most
important furniture item in the
tabernacle of Moses, to be an
expression, the clearest
expression of His beloved Son,
Jesus Christ. So for 40 days and
nights, when Moses was up there
on the mountain, God talk about
nothing but His Son, is all
about His Son. His heart wasn’t
full of laws. For the 40 days,
He didn’t give Moses laws and
laws and laws, it was at the end
He gave Moses the two tablets of
stone. But when Moses was up
there God talked about the
tabernacle, every piece, the
Bible says every whit of it
uttereth His glory. Every whit
of it depicts the person, the
glory and the beauty of our Lord
Jesus Christ or His finished
work. And the ark of the
covenant is the most important
furniture in the tabernacle of
Moses. And that’s why it’s
housed in the Holy of Holies.
You know I believe that as you
begin to see Jesus afresh this
year, it would cause you to
enter His rest because Jesus
says, come unto Me. You see it
is not come unto a formula, come
unto a technique, come unto some
counselling. No, come unto me.
Come to Jesus. The very presence
of our Lord Jesus. Come unto me
and I will give you rest.
Actually, in the Greek, it
literally says, come unto me and
I, my person, I will rest you. I
will rest you. That’s more
accurate to what Jesus said. I,
the person, my person will rest
you. So to see the person of
Jesus is really to enjoy every
good blessing that God has for
us. Everything is found in the
Lord Jesus Christ, in whom are
hid all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge. Amen. All things
will make by Jesus and nothing
was made without Him. In the
beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word
was God. And the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us. So we
see that when God talk about
the, when God gave the
instructions about the ark of
the covenant, He has His Son in
His heart. His heart was full
about His Son and the whole
tabernacle is all about His Son.
His heart is not into the law.
He knew that man cannot keep the
law. He gave the law to show
that man cannot keep it. Men are
sinners. But what God gave to
man to show that they are
sinners, man is trying to keep
to show that they are righteous.
That’s not the purpose of the
law. I am for the law for the
reason that God gave the law.
Now listen carefully. When God
gave the ark of the covenant, it
was to depict one Person and His
finished work, His beloved Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ. If you
look at the ark of the covenant,
look at the materials. It is
made of, actually you can’t see
the wood, it’s made of an oblong
wood, rectangular in shape. It’s
all wood, acacia wood, which is
incorruptible wood. And the wood
speaks of His humanity. And the
gold, overlaid with gold, is
overlaid with gold, that’s what
you see here, is overlaid with
gold to the point you can’t even
see the wood. The gold speaks of
His deity. So Jesus is the
God-man hallelujah, completely,
fully God, completely, fully
human man. Hallelujah. The Bible
says in Hebrews who being the
brightness of His glory, there
you see the gold, His deity. And
the express image of His person.
He came as a Man to be the
express image so that we can see
what God is like of His person
and upholding all things by the
word of His power. That is the –
can you see the kingly, like a
crown all around the cherubim?
That is the mercy seat. That is
the lid of the mercy seat. And
that is the upholding all things
by the word of His power, when
He had by Himself purged our
sins. Now we see His work, His
perfect work. When He had by
Himself purged our sins with His
blood, right? The blood that He
shed at the cross, when the
blood drops on the mercy seat,
forgiveness for all the sins of
Israel is effected. When blood
is on the mercy seat, the ark of
the covenant becomes
functionable. Before the blood
is on the mercy seat it’s not
functioning the way God wants it
to function, right? If you bring
it to a scenario where you want
victory in war and all that, the
blood is not on the mercy seat,
there’ll be no victory. The
blood has to be on the mercy
seat and the blood is sprinkled.
In Israel’s case once a year,
the high priest goes into the
Holy of Holies and he sprinkles
the blood on the mercy seat. And
when the blood is on the mercy
seat. And that’s why, you know,
we showed in the video just now,
when blood is on the mercy seat,
that’s when forgiveness flows
out, praise the Lord and where
forgiveness flows out through
the blood of Jesus Christ,
people receive healings. They
receive breakthroughs. They
receive blessings of every kind,
hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
Even death is conquered by the
blood of Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah, Amen friend. The
Bible says in Romans that God
set forth Jesus to be the mercy
seat. In your Bible it says
propitiation. That’s a big word.
If you look at the word, it is
the word hilasterion in Greek.
Hilasterion is used in the Greek
Septuagint of the Old Testament
for mercy seat. So literally God
set Jesus to be the mercy seat
where the blood is sprinkled.
So, you know what the mercy seat
covers? If you look into the ark
of the covenant, right? It’s
death in the Old Testament to
look into the ark of the
covenant. But if you look into
the ark of the covenant you will
find three items. You find the
golden pot of manna and each
item; it depicts the people’s
sins. All right. Our sins. The
golden pot of manna is there
because the people murmured
against the Lord, when God gave
them manna. They say, what is
this? And literally manna means
in Hebrew, man-hu, what is this?
What is this? And they rejected
the manna. And then, there is
also this rod of Aaron, the high
priest, which again, the people
murmured against Aaron. That’s
why God had to cause this rod to
sprout, to silence their
murmuring of the God appointed
leader. Amen. So all this speaks
of Jesus. Jesus is the bread
that came down from heaven, the
true bread, and they rejected
Him. Jesus is the one who was
resurrected. Amen. Life from the
dead, like this almonds and
flowers from a dead rod. That
speaks of resurrection. Then the
two tablets of stone, the Ten
Commandments, man’s rejection of
God’s standard, God’s holiness.
All these God says, all these
that depicts man’s rebellion,
disobedience, and all of his
sins, put it under the mercy
seat. Put it under the mercy
seat. Put it under the mercy
seat. And that’s the reason why
when the people of Beth Shemesh
after the ark came back,
remember the Philistines sent
the ark back on an oxcart and
they were curious to see what’s
inside. They push aside and they
look in and many of them were
killed. It is death for them to
look in. Why? Because when they
look in, they see the law, they
see all the items of rebelling.
God says, keep the mercy seat
there, praise the Lord. That’s
why mercy seat, grace, is higher
than the law. And the Bible says
in Galatians, when you try to
keep the law Christ is become of
no effect unto you, whoever of
you are justified by the law;
you are fallen from grace.
Fallen from means grace is
higher than the law. Friend,
don’t fall from grace. And how
do you do that? By trying to
keep the law. And I think that a
lot of believers today, they are
committing the sins of Beth
Shemesh. They are trying to
bring the law out from under the
mercy seat when God says, no,
put it under the blood, put it
under the mercy seat. Amen. Only
one Person can keep the law.
Jesus says thy law is in my
heart. Amen. And He’s the ark of
the covenant. Praise the Lord.
So the ark of the covenant
speaks of the Person. The gold
and the wood; He’s the God man,
as well as His work, the mercy
seat. And it was in David’s
heart to bring the ark, even
when he was a boy. Amen. The
first king of Israel have no
heart for the ark to come to his
dwelling place. He has no heart
to seek the Lord in front of the
ark. All the David’s terms about
being under the shadow of the
Almighty, between the wings of
the cherubim, he’s referring to
the ark, which is the symbol of
the person of Jesus Christ back
in the Old Testament. Friend, it
is a sign of wisdom to want to
be occupied with the wonderful
Person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen. Do you know what happened
to Solomon after he asked God
for wisdom? And He came to him
in a dream, Amen. While he was
sleeping, he asked God for
wisdom and God appeared to him
and said, ask what I shall give
you. He says, give me a hearing
heart, a wise hearing heart. And
he woke up, the first thing he
did, he sought the Lord. You
know where he when he received
that dream? You know where he
was? He was actually in Gibeon,
where the tabernacle of Moses
was. He went there to seek the
Lord. And at that time, the ark
of the covenant was in the
tabernacle of David, his father,
at the city of David, Mount
Zion. And when he woke up, he
realised – you see what happen
to a man when he received wisdom
from God? He realised, why am I
in this place of formality? Why
am I under the old covenant and
all the while he grew up knowing
that the ark of the covenant was
in the city of David. But there
was no wisdom to relish or to
cherish or to appreciate the
Person of Jesus Christ. Friend,
if this year you start to
appreciate the Person of Jesus
Christ your life will be
transformed inside out.
Hallelujah. Once you have the
desire to be more and more
occupied with the Person of
Jesus Christ, your life will be
transformed my friend. You will
live the radiant life, and your
whole person will be radiant.
Hallelujah. And you experienced
radiant health. Yes. This year
your health shall spring forth
speedily in the name of Jesus.
Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. So
when He woke up after he
received wisdom, he sought the
tabernacle of David. He went to
where the ark was and the Bible
says he worshiped the Lord
there. It’s a sign of wisdom
when someone starts seeking for
Jesus. Wise men still seek him.
Hallelujah. Pastors and leaders,
you know, the seven churches.
And that’s why to each of the
seven churches in the book of
Revelation, Jesus actually has a
special word. Amen. That’s why
every year we need to have a
word from the Lord for that
year. Praise the Lord. And the
Lord speaks different messages
to different churches. Amen. As
typified in the seven churches
of the book of Revelation. Each
one has a different revelation.
And if you look carefully, this
one is suffering from, okay,
they have left their first love,
the church of Ephesus. And you
know how the Lord appeared to
them? He appeared like this, the
one that holds the seven stars
and walks in the midst of the
seven golden lampstands. He’s
the midst of the menorah. He’s
the one in the centre. So in
other words, why did they leave
their first love for the lack of
the revelation of Jesus in this
aspect that He is to be the
centre place of our church life.
And for that, they left their
first love. Amen. And they have
forgotten. Why? Because they
depend on their own strength.
They depend on themselves. I
know your work, your labour,
your patience, but it’s not a
work of faith. It’s not a labour
of love. It’s not a patience of
hope. It’s all their own effort
and they have departed. And the
Lord says, you forgot that I
hold you. You are the seven
stars. In other words, every
minister of the gospel, every
pastor, every leader of a
church. Listen, Jesus holds you
with the right hand of His
righteousness. Amen. If you know
that it will restore you. For
every church Jesus appears in a
different way and in that unique
way He is telling them for the
lack of this revelation you are
suffering this, you are
suffering that. To the good
church, Philadelphia, which He
has not rebuke for, He actually
appears as the one who has the
key of David, who opens and no
man shuts, shuts and no man
open. What is He saying to them?
Be encouraged. No one can do
anything to do unless I open the
door and I can shut the door as
well. I have the key of David.
Hallelujah. So it behoves us
then to know Jesus more and
more, more and more to be more
and more engross with Him. To be
occupied with our Lord Jesus
Christ, Amen. That’s the heart
of David. Amen. And this year,
the Lord tells me that we’re
going to, the Lord is telling me
that we need to study more and
more the life of David in all
our teachings, whether it is on
leadership, whether it is on
praise and worship aspect and
all that, we’ll be studying the
life of David. Life of David
will feature like never before
in all the years in the past. It
will feature greatly and
prominently this year. Amen.
That’s the instruction given by
the Lord. And I intend to pursue
that. Praise the Lord. So you
hear me share a lot on the life
of David, the person of David,
how he is a type of Jesus
Christ. And that’s why the
tabernacle of David cannot be
the millennium because David was
before Solomon. David is a
picture of Christ when He was
rejected. Today, you and I, we
follow a rejected Christ. The
whole world as such do not
acknowledge our Lord Jesus
Christ as Saviour and Lord, the
true King. But one day He will
return as the King, as David did
and David ascended the throne.
But before that, David was
wandering in the wilderness and
all those who followed David,
they’re like us now, we follow
the Lord Jesus Christ. In spite
of the fact He’s rejected. Amen.
We know we are following the
king. The true King who one day
will take centre place in this
whole world. Amen. And every
knee will bow to Him. But now
we’re following Him in His
rejection. Amen. We are
following Him in His humility.
Amen. In His humble
circumstance. And the Bible
says, these are the ones that
became the mighty men. These are
the ones that He gave them
positions when He entered into
His Kingship, when He ascended
the throne. Amen. So David is a
picture of Jesus Christ now,
before the millennium. Now
Solomon, his son, is a picture
of our Lord Jesus Christ when He
comes back to rule in the
millennial rule from Jerusalem
over all the earth. Amen. That’s
the millennial rule. Praise the
name of Jesus. And that was the
golden era of Israel when
Solomon ruled. Amen. That’s the
picture of the millennial rule
of Jesus Christ. So the
tabernacle of David is not a
picture of the millennial rule.
It’s a picture of the church of
Jesus Christ now. Amen. I hope
you are getting all this friend
because it’s got to do with this
year, what God wants to do, and
what God is in the process of
doing, which started from the
book of Acts, Amen, He is really
causing people to be saved. And
He is repairing the damages of
the breaches. Amen. And the word
breach was first used when David
wanted to want to bring ark
back. And you remember that at
the threshing floor of Nachon,
the oxen stumbled. In the first
place, David had no business
putting the ark of the covenant
on an oxcart, the way the
Philistines did. When the
Philistines returned the ark,
they put it on an oxcart, right?
David had no business. Why?
Because the Philistines did not
know the Scriptures. But David
knew the Scriptures and he had
no business doing that and as a
result, the oxen stumbled. And
at this threshing floor of
Nachon, and Uzzah, his name
means strength, not Uzziah, not
the strength of Yah, or the
strength of God. Is his own
strength, Uzzah. Uzzah stretched
forth his hand to steady the ark
as if the ark would fall, as if
God needs man’s hand to steady
His glory. Amen. It wasn’t a
problem of sin. It was a problem
of man’s efforts, man’s strength
coming in, into the service of
God. And Uzzah was struck dead.
And David was afraid and David
says how can the ark come to me?
So he left the ark in the care
of a man called Obed-Edom the
Gittite. And for three months,
the ark was there. And the Bible
says news came to David that the
Lord has blessed Obed-Edom and
his entire family and all that
he has. He has bumper crops. His
wife became more beautiful and
his children became more wise
and sharp, Amen. And everything
he did prosper. And they knew
where the blessing, the source
of blessing was. They told
David, the Lord has blessed
Obed-Edom and all that he has,
because of the ark of God. So
after three months David
realised – by the way, when
Uzzah died, David called that
place Perez. Perez means a
breach. A breach. That’s the
first time you see a breach. So
all the places of death, you
would agree with me that this
past two years, the world has
been like in a, in a breach. It
is not a norm. It’s not, you
know, the typical ordinary life
of all our fathers and
forefathers in the years before.
It is very unique. It’s a
breach. It’s not normal. It’s a
break. Amen. But for us
believers, God is saying this
year, He’s going to repair the
breaches. Hallelujah. Amen.
Praise the Lord. And I believe
that we are in the final stages
of the final breaches of the
tabernacle of David being
restored, being repaired. Are
you with me? Amen. So when David
heard how Obed-Edom was blessed,
he came all the way there. And
then he brought the ark to the
city of David, to the tent of
David. That’s called the
tabernacle of David. And there’s
a little anomaly here because
when the tabernacle of David
existed, the ark was there.
There was no lever in front of
the ark. There was no veil in
front of the ark. And if you
look at the difference between
the tabernacle of Moses – by the
way, the tabernacle of Moses was
still in existence when David
brought the ark back, that the
tabernacle of Moses was actually
in the place called Gibeon. And,
but it had no ark of the
covenant. So it’s a picture of
like the church that no longer,
you know, like some places you
go to, it’s almost like if God
moves away from the church, no
one will know the difference.
The song would go on. Everything
would just go on. Amen. No above
everything else, above the
praise and worship, above the
sound and all that, what we want
friend, is the wonderful Person
and presence of our Lord Jesus
Christ. He must be the centre
place in the church, Amen, as He
is in our lives. And as He wants
to be in your life. Praise the
Lord. Amen. So at that time in
Gibeon, the tabernacle of Moses
was there with the altar of
burnt offering, the lever was
there. The menorah, the
lampstand was there, everything,
the coverings, the curtains, but
no ark of the covenant in the
Holy of Holies. So let me show
you the difference, by the way,
they are six miles apart. All
right, the tabernacle of David
was in Mount Zion, right? Mount
Zion is a picture of grace, by
the way, the Holy Spirit came on
the day of Pentecost, the
birthday of the church and
filled all 120 of them on the
day of Pentecost. Where? At
Mount Zion. At Mount Sinai when
God gave the law, 3000 people
died. At Mount Zion when God
gave the Holy Spirit, on the day
of Pentecost, same feast, Amen,
3000 people were saved.
Hallelujah, hallelujah. Letter
kills, Spirit gives life. Amen.
And it was at Mount Sinai that
the Holy Spirit came. And at the
time when David brought the ark
to the tabernacle of David, the
tabernacle of Moses was actually
six miles away at Gibeon. Now
let’s look at the difference,
shall we? Because the difference
will tell us and give us a quick
understanding of what God is
doing and what man, man’s
religion has turned the whole
thing around. Even the church of
Jesus Christ today has embraced
a religion or concept instead of
the Person, the vital living
presence of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Let’s look at the
difference. All right. The
tabernacle of Moses is a picture
of the law. The tabernacle of
David, grace. Remember God gave
the tabernacle of Moses from
Mount Sinai, even though it’s a
picture of grace, it was given
on from Mount Sinai. It’s a
picture of bondage. Tabernacle
of David was given as a picture
of grace from Mount Zion. And it
was in Mount Zion that David had
the tabernacle of David. And in
the tabernacle of Moses there
were daily sacrifices. It never
stops. Why? Because it never
really finished the work. Amen.
It only covered sins for another
day, for another year. But in
the Tabernacle of David it
speaks of one sacrifice forever.
And that sacrifice is the
picture of our Lord Jesus
Christ, His shed blood. Amen.
Praise the Lord. Right? The next
thing, thick veil. There is a
thick veil between the holy
place where you find the
menorah, you find the altar of
incense and you find that table
of showbread, before the Holy of
Holies, there is a thick veil.
Ok. But in the tabernacle of
David, you see that there is no
veil at all. And there’s praise
and worship, direct communion
with God, enjoying God’s
presence. And that’s what it
means to be under the shadow of
the Almighty. Worshipping
between the wings of the
cherubim. And that’s how the
tabernacle of David is like. And
notice none of them dies there.
Praise the Lord. Amen. Has it
ever occurred to you that when
God wants His way of bringing
the ark back, God says that put
it on the shoulders of the
priests, not on an oxcart. Men
always have different inventions
or what they think can improve
the church, can improve our
spiritual life, can improve, you
know, our own lives. But, you
know, something, no one can beat
the way God did it. Amen. When
God said carry the ark, let only
the Levites, the priests, the
Levites carry the ark on their
shoulders. You know they carry
that ark from Mount Sinai for 40
years on their back, all the way
to the river Jordan into the
promised land for 40 years. And
there is not one example or one
occasion where they stumbled,
where God smite any of them.
When you do it God’s way,
There’s life, there’s
celebration. And David did it
the Philistines way, and there
is death. So this past two years
there’s been death. There’s been
a break. Amen. And it’s not so
much that the problem sin is
bounding. Of course sin is evil
and God hates sin. And my friend
sin will be punished, will be
visited upon. But Jesus died on
the cross for all our sins
friends. And if anyone will
believe that in their own lives,
God will never punish them for
sins anymore. Judgment is
passed. He that believes on
Jesus Christ shall pass from
death unto life. Amen. So what’s
the problem? I believe God is
putting an end to all of man’s
strength. In every area this
past two years, you will find
that where men boast of his
strength, it dies. Where men
boast of his own wisdom, it
dies. Where men boast of his own
skill, it dies. And it’s like,
God is putting, God is humbling
the pride of man. Amen. Now God
is not the one sending the
pandemic. He has no virus to
send. Only every good and
perfect gift. But God allows it.
And He can allow it, if man
doesn’t want Him, He can just
lift one finger and we are all
in a pandemic. But I’m believing
God, that part of this
acceleration this coming year,
Amen, that God will preserve us
and cause us, if we are sick to
have the manifestation of
healing. I believe, I believe
that many of you you’ve been
told by the doctor, you need to
go for chemo for three years at
least, or four years. I believe
your acceleration will come and
it will come quickly. Praise the
name of Jesus. Amen. What takes
five years will take a short
time. Amen. If you read it
again, behold, the plowman shall
overtake the reaper. Let’s look
at that again. Behold, the
plowman. God says behold, the
days come when, what days? When
He rebuilds the tabernacle of
David, God says the plowman
shall overtake the reaper. Now
friend, the plowman and the
reaper, the twain never meets.
There’s no danger of them
running into each other because
they are separated by months.
Right? When the reaper is
finished, after a few months,
then the plowman comes and sows
the seed. They never run into
each other. The same goes for
the treader of grapes and him
who sows seed. Amen. While
they’re treading grapes, is a
time of treading grapes. That
means what? Harvest just
finished. Now they are treading
grapes to make wine. Amen. It’s
not a time of sowing seed. They
are about to make wine. In fact,
the wine is not even completed
yet, but the Bible says the
plowman shall overtake the
reaper. That means things would
happen so rapidly. So fast that
while the plowman is breaking up
the ground, Amen, the reaper
comes, he’s not even sowing
seeds yet. He just breaking the
ground. Next stage is what?
Sowing seed right? So while he’s
breaking the ground, it’s
harvest time. Hallelujah. And
the reaper is reaping. And the
both of them meet. Wow. It never
happened before. In other words,
plowing time and harvest time
become one. That’s acceleration.
Hallelujah. It’s also the idea
of abundance. There’s so much
abundance. It goes on and on and
on and on. And until it is
sowing time. You know like
wheat, for example, in Israel,
they plow in the month of
October and then they sow in the
month of November. And you know
when they get the harvest? Only
in April and May next year. And
again after a number of months,
then you come to the sowing
again. But here the plowman, and
the reaper meet. The treader of
grapes and the one sowing seed,
the sower meets. Hallelujah.
There will be such an
acceleration and such an
abundance. Amen. And all these
speaks of good things my friend.
Wine in the Bible speaks of joy.
Something that the Lord is gonna
cause us to be rejoicing over.
The joy of the Lord. Hallelujah.
There will be a lot of joy, a
lot of new wine this year for
you and your families. Amen.
Praise the Lord. And all the
tears. It will so swallow up the
tears, the sighing and the
groaning of all the past years,
two years put together, Aamen.
This year, amen, be expecting
new wine. Hallelujah. Amen.
Because the next verse says that
the mountains shall drop sweet
wine, and all the hills shall
melt. The mountains shall drop
sweet wine, and all the hills
shall melt. In fact, Amos and
Joel shares about the same
prophecy in this. Look at Joel’s
words here, and it shall come to
pass in that day, that the
mountains should drop down new
wine, same word in the Hebrew as
Amos, and the hills shall melt
in Amos, the word is actually
the word flow. Flow with what?
Flow with milk. And all the
hills shall flow with milk. When
will all this happen? When I
restore the tabernacle of David.
Behold, the days comes says the
Lord, the plowman shall overtake
the reaper and the treader of
grapes, him who sow seeds and
the mountains shall drop sweet
wine or new wine, Joel says. And
all the hills shall melt, and
the word melt is flow. Flow with
what? Milk. It means that there
will be vineyard terraces all
across the mountains and be so
plentiful it is as if the
mountains are dropping sweet
wine. You know as I was
preparing for this, I googled to
look at wine because I don’t
claim to understand everything
about wine. And I notice that
they said that wine that is
planted on hills, on terraces,
on slopes, right, they yield
better quality wine than those
on the flat, on a flat ground,
unless they have all the same
components. Because they say
that the drainage and all the
winds and all that, it’s just
perfect to have good grapes for
wine. So good quality wines are
grown on the slopes. Amen. So
God says the mountains will drop
sweet wine. That’s speaks of
abundance. There will be
abundance for you and I, Amen.
New wine speaks of the power of
the Spirit as well. Hallelujah.
Amen. We’ll walk in the power of
the Spirit. One thing I desire
more and more for God’s people
is to see more and more, not
just the fruit of the Spirit,
Amen, we should have that, of
course, but the gifts of the
Spirit, which many believers
despise saying it’s all passed
and all that. We need so much
for the gifts of healings to
manifest this year more and
more, more and more. Won’t you
say so? You look at all the
prayer requests that people have
in all the chats and all that.
You know you look at the prayer
requests. I would say that more
than 50 per cent are all about
prayer requests for healing for
themselves or their loved ones.
Let’s pray. The Bible says covet
earnestly the best gifts of the
Holy Spirit. Amen. Perhaps we
are not seeing the manifestation
in our lives friends because we
don’t covet earnestly. We need
to covet earnestly the best
gifts. Amen. And they will
manifest. I covet earnestly the
gifts of healings to manifest in
the lives of people. Praise the
name of Jesus. Amen. I covet
earnestly the words of wisdom,
because I need God to show me
what’s going to happen. Amen. In
the future. Amen. Just that part
where it’s important for me to
know. God is not going to show
me everything, He would never do
that. Amen. But words of
knowledge that I’m at a loss to
know what’s wrong with my son or
what’s wrong with this person is
coming to me and asking for
advice. But I need a word of
knowledge. One word of knowledge
comes, that’s it, like Jesus had
– you’ve had five husbands and
the one that you’re living with
is not your husband. Immediately
she saw Jesus in a different
light. Now friend, we need the
gifts of the Holy Spirit in
these days, and they will happen
in an accelerated fashion. Amen.
And not only the mountains will
drop with new wine, it says the
hills shall flow with milk. The
meaning there is that there’s
such plenty of rich feeding for
the cattle, which the cattle in
consequence will produce a large
quantity of milk. That’s the
idea, the mountains drop new
wine, sweet wine, and the hills
shall flow with milk. I want you
to be like David having a heart
for God. Amen. And David
actually in Psalms 132, David
said when he was a young boy, he
already wanted to bring the ark
to the place that God wants it
to be. And that’s Mount Zion.
That was in David’s heart.
That’s why he’s a man after
God’s heart. And God knew it was
in that boy’s heart. God marked
that boy. Of all the boys in
Israel at the time, this boy had
a desire. Let’s read Psalms 132.
LORD, remember David and all his
afflictions; how he swore to the
LORD, and vowed to the Mighty
One of Jacob: “Surely I will not
go into the chamber of my house,
or go up to the comfort of my
bed; I will not give sleep to my
eyes or slumber to my eyelids,
until I find a place for the
LORD, a dwelling place for the
Mighty One of Jacob.” And then
David says this, behold, we
heard of it Ephrathah. You see
David was a Ephrathite. He’s a
Bethlehem Ephrathah. His
hometown is Bethlehem Ephrathah.
O little town of Bethlehem where
the Lord was born. David came
from Bethlehem Ephrathah. And he
says, when I was in Ephrathah, I
heard about the ark. We heard of
it while we were still in
Ephrathah. And we found it.
Where do you find the ark? In
the fields of the woods. What is
that? If you look at the Hebrew,
the word ‘woods’ there is the
word, ‘ya’ar’. Ya’ar. Ya’ar. Now
ya’ar in plural is yarim. Guess
what? For 20 years when David
was a boy, Amen, the ark was
actually in a place called
Kirjath Jearim. And the first
king of Israel has no desire for
the ark. And David says we found
it in the fields of yarim.
Ya’ar. Amen. And that place,
that town is called, where the
ark was for 20 years, it’s
called Kirjath Jearim, the town
of the woods. Kirjath means city
or town; Kirjath Jearim, Jearim
is plural for woods. City of the
woods. Literally he found it
there. Amen. If it dropped down,
see what David says. Let us go
into His tabernacle. That’s the
tabernacle of David in the
context. Let us worship at His
footstool. Arise, O LORD, to
Your resting place. Now friend
in Hebrews 4, God says to us to
enter My rest. Amen. The land of
rest. But most specifically it
is in the tabernacle of David.
And when you enter into His
rest, you enter into the Holy of
Holies. And in the holy of
Holies, you find that it’s a new
and living way. If you look at
the difference in the tabernacle
of Moses and the tabernacle of
David, one is a dying way. Let
me just finish that part first
before we come back to this.
Let’s look at the difference
again, the compare and contrast.
Aaronic priesthood here;
Melchizedek priesthood there. No
access into the holiest; free
access into the holiest. Work
never finished; a finished work
in the tabernacle of David. And
finally threats of death you see
that? But in the tabernacle of
David, a new and living way,
which is the church way now.
Friend, do you know that the
Bible calls God’s presence, a
new and living way? It says in
Hebrew 10, having therefore
brethren, boldness to enter the
Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
by a new and living way. Say
that again, a new and living
way. Say it again, new and
living way. Friend, this year,
spend more time with the Lord
and know this. Every time you
come, it’s a new way. The old
way is what, the more you’ll
come there are threats of death
because if you’re not perfect,
you’re not fully prepared or you
commit some sin in your thought
even, in the presence of God,
you die. Amen. The thrice Holy
God cannot accept sin in His
presence? But now because it
says having therefore brethren
boldness to enter the Holiest,
how? By your good works? No. By
your good intentions? No. By
your perfect behaviour? No. But
by the blood of Jesus and the
blood has been sprinkled on the
true mercy seat, in the presence
of God. Hallelujah. So now is a
new and living way; by a new and
living way. Amen. Which He has
consecrated for us, through his
flesh, the veil. The veil is the
picture of His flesh. It’s been
rant at the cross and the way
has been opened. So the more you
come to God, it’s not just a new
way, but it’s a living way. You
know what it means people? Do
you know that the more you come
to God is a new and living way,
right? That means living way
means what, the more you come,
it’s the opposite of the Old
Testament. The more you come
there are chances that you might
die because you’re not perfect.
It’s based on who you are under
the law, but now it’s based on
Jesus. So the more you come,
it’s not just a new way alone,
but it’s a new and living way.
The more you live. The more you
come to God this year, Amen, I
want you to see this, the more
your diseases in your body dies.
Amen. The more you come to the
Lord, the more you’ll find that
disease becomes weaker, Amen.
That depression dissipates.
Because why? You’re coming to
God’s presence. And it’s a new
and living way, living way,
living, life giving way.
Hallelujah. The more you come to
God, the more that sickness that
despondency you feel and that
emotional trauma or whatever
addiction you have, the more it
dies off. And the more you live.
Hallelujah. I pray that you
catch that friend. Amen. And
don’t let religion come in.
Don’t let anyone pull you back
under the law and being so
afraid to come to God’s
presence. And you’re so
self-conscious instead of Christ
occupied, Amen. You’re looking
at what you are doing or what
you’re not, you’re not doing
instead of what Christ has done.
No, look away from self to
Jesus. He is altogether lovely.
Amen. And let’s go back to Psalm
132. And it says here, arise, O
LORD. David says when he was a
boy he heard about the ark in
Bethlehem Ephrathah. And he
found it in Kirjath Jearim, the
fields of wood. Now he says
arise, O LORD, to Your resting
place. This is the year of rest.
This rest is His rest. And God
wants us to enter His rest. How?
The more we understand about the
ark of the covenant and what it
means; the materials, the mercy
seat, the work of Jesus, the
Person of Jesus. The more we
cherish that, the preciousness
of the Person of our Lord Jesus,
the more you enter His rest
because this is His resting
place. And David says, arise, O
LORD, to Your resting place, You
and the ark of Your strength.
Let your priests be clothed with
righteousness, and let Your
saints shout aloud for joy.
Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Drop
down. He says for the LORD has
chosen Zion. Listen, my friend,
God has not chosen Mount Sinai.
Mount Sinai has been antiquated.
Amen. God has moved mountains.
You’re not come to Mount Sinai.
You are come to Mount Zion.
Amen. The Lord has chosen. It’s
His personal choice and it says
He has desired it for His
dwelling place. And this word
desire is a strong word.
Literally, it is intense,
intense craving. It’s an intense
craving. God is using this word,
avah in Hebrew to denote how He
feels about Mount Zion. Why?
Because Mount Zion speaks of
grace. Mount Sinai speaks of
law. Law demands, grace
supplies. Mount Zion, the more
you come, the more you see
supply. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen.
And the tabernacle of David was
at Mount Zion, Amen, in the city
of David. By the way, they had
just uncovered the city of David
a number of years ago. You can
visit Israel and see the city of
David. And somewhere at the
slopes there, that’s where the
tabernacle of David was. We’ll
share more in the weeks to come.
My friend I’m by no means
finished yet on the vision of
the year. In fact I just got
started. You need to tune in at
least, you know, I feel like I
can, it’s so concentrated, I can
only release it bit by bit. Amen
is like a stream and then a
river. But in the coming weeks,
we’ll finish it. And I believe
that you will be excited. You’ll
be so captivated by the vision
that God has for you personally,
even though this vision is
general for this church and for
my ministry and for those who
are following this ministry, I
know that personally, you will
hear from God for your life this
year. In His light, while you’re
hearing the word, in Your light,
we see light. Amen. And this is
what David says. The LORD has
chosen Zion; He has desired it
for His dwelling place. God
says, now God is talking. “This
is My resting place forever;
here I will dwell, for I have –
again the word, intensely
desired it. I will abundantly
bless her provision. In this
place you will be so blessed in
your provision. Friend, the
Bible says it clearly, Amen, not
just blessed in the Hebrew, the
word abundantly blessed is the
word blessed, barak, mentioned
twice to show intensity, Amen,
and enormous, enormity. Amen. It
shows abundance greatly blessed;
in the English it says
abundantly blessed. God says I
will abundantly bless her
provision where? At Mount Zion.
Nowhere else not at Mount Sinai,
only at Mount Zion. I will
satisfy her poor with bread. I
will also clothe her priests
with salvation, and her saints
shall shout aloud for joy.
Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
Amen. I want to share with you a
testimony that we just received
that came in just on Christmas
Eve. Amen. Just a few days ago.
And I want to share this because
when I read this, it just
confirms with me what God has
been saying about this coming
year. Amen. Listen, is a sister
from Virginia, United States. I
struggled with Bulimia, an
eating disorder for 30 years
since the age of 12. Every meal
felt, wow, eating disorder for
30 years since the age of 12,
that’s a long time to have a
disorder. Every meal felt like I
had a gun to my throat. There
was so much stress and pressure
to eat the right way and I would
eat and throw up daily. Once in
a while I would even bleed. I
had already been through
multiple recovery programs and
hospitalisations, and still I
had not changed. I would reach
out to friends every time I
struggled, which felt like a
never-ending process. Nothing
seemed to be able to help me
overcome this eating disorder.
Then in the last quarter of
2021, I started listening to
Pastor Prince’s messages daily
for a month. And I knew that the
Lord was healing me. One night
in December, I felt desperate
and downloaded a message by
Pastor Prince titled; Jesus, The
End Of Your Struggles. And I
listened to it closely. That
day, I asked the Lord to help me
receive what He was saying to
me. Praise the Lord. His gospel
is so simple and powerful. As I
reflected on the words ‘as Jesus
is so are we in this world’, I
said to myself that as Jesus is
without any eating disorders and
He’s not worried about what to
eat or what is in the future, so
am I. As Jesus does not hate His
body, so neither do I hate my
body. I also confess that I no
longer have all these struggles
and that Jesus is now my true
identity. I simply prayed and
ask God to help me receive this
truth. And I decided to stop all
my efforts, that’s rest, to try
to control or prevent the eating
disorder. The next day, I went
about my day, the next day,
listen, the next day, talk about
acceleration. The next day I
went about my day and every meal
felt like a normal eating
experience. I didn’t experience
any anxiety while eating and
neither was I trying to control
or watch what I eat. Since that
day, I have been enjoying
complete freedom from the creak
of the eating disorder that had
me struggling for 30 years.
Thanks to Pastor Prince and his
ministry for being powerful
conduits of God’s grace. To God
be all the glory. Hallelujah. In
the year of rest and
acceleration God gave me this.
And I only happened to read it
only last night. And what a
confirmation of this coming year
friend, that He is going to
bring you into His rest. Amen.
And caused there to be such an
acceleration. I know it sounds
like an oxymoron rest and
acceleration, but trust God,
this is God’s way. The more you
enter His rest, the more you
accelerate. And people are all
trying to accelerate, to pursue
their dreams and the things they
are after. And they are hasty to
be rich and things like that.
But you are resting in the Lord,
enjoying the Lord’s presence,
serving the Lord. Amen. And just
doing what the ark of the
covenant before you tells you to
do, Amen. Our Lord Jesus Christ,
instructing you, praise the
Lord. And His ways are ways of
grace. And yet you are
accelerating more than any of
them put together. They have
only their own resources to
depend on. They only have man’s
ways to rely on. But you have
God Almighty. Amen. The Lord
Jesus Christ. All power is given
unto Him in heaven and on earth.
And friend in this year of rest
and acceleration He wants you to
enter His rest. Man, I just felt
like I only want started sharing
about this year. There’s so much
more to share. Amen. But let me
pray for you. First and
foremost, I just want to pray
for those of you who are not
saved, but you say I’m not a
Christian Pastor Prince. I do
listen to you here and there,
but I’ve never made that
decision to accept Jesus Christ.
You know what friend? I believe
today is the day. Now is the
time. Pray this prayer from your
heart. Amen. If it’s from your
heart, you mean what you say,
Jesus Christ comes into your
life. The true ark of the
covenant. You will find that all
of a sudden everything in your
life makes sense. Amen. And
you’ll have what Jesus promised,
life more abundantly. Amen. A
man’s life does not consist in
the things which he possessed.
You can buy something but after
a while you get used to it. It’s
in one corner, is gathering
dust, becomes a white elephant.
But with Jesus, the quality of
life is just flowing all the
time and God wants to bring you
friend to a place of just
restfulness, calm, peaceful. And
that’s a place where you know
inside, that all your sins are
forgiven. Amen. Will you pray
this prayer with me right now.
Father God, I thank You that You
sent Jesus Christ to die for my
sins. I believe His precious
blood washes away all my sins.
Thank You Father, that You
raised Him from the dead and
He’s alive today at Your right
hand, after the power of an
endless life. Thank You Father
that Jesus Christ, that same
Jesus Christ is my Lord and my
Saviour now and forever. I thank
You Father the ark of the
covenant, the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ is now in my life.
Hallelujah. In Jesus’ name.
Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise the
Lord friend, all your sins are
forgiven, Amen. You are a
brand-new creation in Christ.
You are now added to this
greatest organisation in this
whole universe called the church
of Jesus Christ that will last
for all eternity. Amen. And
you’re a part of it. Keep on
hearing the word, will you?
Praise the Lord. Amen. And the
rest of you I want to pray for
you for this coming year. A
prayer that I believe the Lord
has instructed me to pray. And
one of the prayers also that you
know, that there’s such a thing
as people dying an untimely
death. God doesn’t want that to
happen to you. Amen. And God can
prevent that. Don’t forget death
to God is an enemy. Amen. But
the enemy of our souls, the
devil is out there. Amen. And we
need to know his devices. And
one of the ways is that God told
us to pray that to lead us not
into testings, but deliver us
from evil. Amen. So let’s pray
right now. Stand to your feet.
Praise the Lord. Amen. If your
loved ones are with you, just
join hands and receive this
prayer. For this coming year, I
pray this prayer over you. And
Father in heaven I thank You
Lord that You answer our
prayers, not just answers our
prayers, but answers them
abundantly, exceedingly, over
and above Lord. Thank You
Father. And Father I pray for
everyone under the sound of my
voice. I pray first and
foremost, father that You’ll
give to each and every one of
them, the spirit of wisdom and
revelation in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ, that they
will be excited Lord in the days
to come Lord this year. To see
more and more of Jesus in every
preaching and every teaching,
they desire to see more and more
of our Lord Jesus. That their
live will be engrossed Lord and
obsessed Lord, and occupied with
the wonderful, adorable Person
of our Lord Jesus Christ. I
prayed that Lord for everyone
under the sound of my voice. And
I prayed Father in the name of
Jesus for those who are
struggling Lord with depression
and they’ve cried out to you and
they have not seen the
manifestation for those who are
sick in their bodies. They see
themselves getting worse it
seems and they are waiting for
the harvest of healing Lord. I
pray in the name of Jesus that
this year Lord, that healing was
spring forth speedily. That
healing will spring forth Lord,
speedily and in an accelerated
way. And that the harvest will
be plentiful Lord like the
mountains dropping sweet wine
and the hills flowing with milk.
Hallelujah. Father in heaven, I
pray Lord that You will keep
everyone under the sound of my
voice, under the shelter of the
most high, in the secret of Your
pavilion, completely protected
from depression, from greed,
from lust, from everything Lord
that will tear them apart Lord.
I pray Father, that you will
protect them Lord from every
sickness and from every disease.
And protect them Father from
untimely death throughout this
year Father. And Father in the
name of Jesus, I asked Father
that You will prosper them,
Lord, wherever they are, cause
them to prosper even as their
souls are prospering. Cause them
Father to be in health even as
their inner man is in health.
Father I thank You in the name
of Jesus and I pray Father God
that You will lead us all, lead
us all throughout this year Lord
not into trials, not into
testings, but deliver us all
from the power of the evil one
throughout this year for thine
is the kingdom, the power and
the glory forever and ever Amen,
in the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Amen. Get excited friend
and especially for next week as
well for the word that is going
to come forth. God bless every
one of you.
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