053126 Father God's Way is Better

053126 Father God’s Way is Better

Keywords

Worship, repentance, idols, altar, fresh fire, heart, temple, inner healing, spiritual well-being, emotional well-being, physical well-being, stewardship, warrior, victory, perspective.

Ruth Ann: So Father, we worship you today, and Father God, anything that we put in our heart that became an idol, whether it's our own problems, every problem we put ahead of you, and every problem we tried to figure out without asking you, but we tried to figure it out in our own knowledge and own strength, everything we placed above you, Father, we repent and we put you back in our heart.

Ruth Ann: So, Father God, we just ask you, we just ask you to come burn today, Father God, as we cleanse our heart of all idols, and I don't see idols like we're I'm not seeing that I'm seeing like I got to get this done I got to get that done I got to do. So we just worship you, Father. We just worship you, Lord Jesus. We exalt you, Father. We worship you. Yes, Father God, you're everlasting. You are holy. You're mighty.

JT Sheila: Bring your fresh fire, Lord. Let us be the altar, laying on the altar of the Lord.

Ruth Ann: Ezekiel 14:3 says: these men have set up their idols in their hearts and put them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. So in this verse the word idol does not mean something made of wood, stone, or metal, it means our thought patterns, it means our beliefs, we can't put wood, stone, and hay, and our metal in our heart, but we can put our beliefs in our heart. And then Ezekiel 14:4 goes on to say : everyone of the house of Israel has set up idols in their heart, here the idol is something that's taken God's affection in your life. So. Father, when we put idols in our heart, our busyness, if it's what we got to do, if it's our to-do list, if it's our problem. If we put it before you, Father, Father God, we lay our idols down today. We come before you, Father God, in everything that we put in the place of you in our heart, where you're not first, we lay it down, and we ask you to burn it. We ask you to burn it, that we can come back to your altar, your altar to seek you, Father God, your altar to worship you, and hear what you tell us about what's going on in your heart, not our heart, but your heart.

Ruth Ann: Don't know why I hear it this way, but even what we okay, God, I'm gonna say it like you said it. You said even what we call a tragedy, and we put it in our heart, whether it broke our heart, how bad it broke our heart, Father God, whatever it was that we called a tragedy in our life that broke our heart, and we put it before you, Father God, we take it out of our heart, we put it down, we put it down, we let you burn it, we let you burn it.

Ruth Ann: Today, Father, we want to hear your heart, your heartbeat, your rhythm. We want to come in rhythm with you, Father, and know who you are in a way we've never known you today. I have been looking for days, and if anybody finds it, I'm still looking for it, because God is bringing this to me. There is a Kim Clement prophecy where he says in September, September, how things will change, but he never said what year, but in that prophecy he says that God is coming closer, he's going to break another veil with man and come closer, so God, we're getting ready for you to come closer. We're putting our things out of our heart down, so we can come into a place with you that we've never been, that we've never been, where we can surrender in a place to you we never have, and we can step behind the veil with you, Father.

Sheila: Okay, so you're saying that, and you can correct me. I'm kind of processing this at the moment, but this morning I was reading, and I don't even remember which of the Old Testament books, prophets, it was. It was where God brought the word of Lord to them, and they were bringing it to Jerusalem, and it was one of those that was about, like, four chapters, and in it, God is saying, you're living in your homes, but you're not repairing my temple, so that's why everything's being devoured, you're doing your own thing over here, and you're not taking care of my stuff, and if you will come and rebuild my temple, basically he's saying, see how you will be blessed, see how what you bring will be multiplied instead of devoured. And so that was going through my mind, and even before Ruth Ann just said that I was like, okay, so we don't have, so we are the temple now, right, there's no temple that we have this place, and I think ministries, it's important when we're doing the garden at God's commands, that stuff's important, but we are the temple now. So I was just kind of asking, Lord, so what's that mean? When what are we, the devouring comes when we. so from what Ruth Ann, here's what I'm taking from that, is when we're allowing this stuff in our heart, just like she said, we're allowed, we're not taking care of our temple, which is his temple, you know, it says take care of this, this is how people see him on earth, is through us, and so if we're not taking care of us, if we're not dealing with our heart issues, if we're not coming to him and saying burnout, then stuff is being devoured. He intends, he's a God of multiplying, he's a God who created our bodies to heal, so that created our bodies to heal, so that we don't have all the stuff that goes on, and so, if we're not taking care of, and I guess you could take that physically too, if we're not taking care of our temples physically, if we're not taking care of ourselves, cleansing, coming to him, and getting rid of the things that we've allowed in our heart, the traumas, and things that I've read so many things lately on Facebook, and people say, and it broke me, and I'm like, don't say that, don't say it broke you. Maybe God is doing a work, and it's a hard season, but it doesn't break you, it makes you, if you allow Him.

Ruth Ann: Referring to Haggai 1:4, it's time for you and yourselves to dwell in your panel house as well. This house lies in ruins. But it goes on to say, after the resurrection of Jesus in First Corinthians 3:16 do you not know that you are God's temple, and that God's spirit dwells in you. And then, First Corinthians 6: 19, it says your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. So, when we're repairing the temple now, we're coming to repentance, we're letting inner healing happen, we're dealing with heart idols, and remember, heart idols are not metal, they're not stone, they're things we placed in our heart. We're caring for your spiritual and emotional and physical well-being. But then it said in First Kings 18:30 and Elijah repaired the altar of the Lord that had been broken down. So, Father God, where we broke your altar, your altar, where we come and we didn't worship you, but we came and we just walked, rolled in our problems, and we didn't worship you at the altar. Father God, where we just let our problems and our heart idols overtake us. Father, we come and repair the altar, Father God of worship with you. We come, Father God, we come. Each is the temple of you, and we repair the altar of our lives when we worship you, Father. When we worship you, Father. And that that we call greater than you, Father God, is no longer greater than you, we see you larger than anything. So, Father, come, Father, come, just come, come. And we're no longer as Elijah said, when are we going to stop going between two opinions, Father, we stop today, and our opinion is you're greater than anything. You're greater than anything. There's no more opinion than about you and your greatness, Father God. You're greater than anything.

Ruth Ann: So now just put your heart back on your altar and let God just refill your heart, let Him refill you with Him, and everything that we call pain, just let it come out and just refill it with him.

JT Sheila: Are you willing to lay your heart on the altar. Give it all to him. Are you willing to lay your life down? Give it all to him. He's waiting with healing and blessing, he's waiting with his fire and burn it all away, everything that's gotta go. Are you willing to lay it all on the altar? Father, remake us, remake us in you, everything that is compromised is now washed away, burned away. Purify, purify this temple, purify, purify this temple, bring your fire, bring your fire. Maybe we have a picture, an idea of what t he's gonna do even the promise that he's given us. Are you willing to lay that on the altar, so he can bring back everything, even multiply? He will bring back more than we could ever dream. First, lay it down on his altar, there are pieces, pieces of that idea that may be ours and not his. Will you listen, will you listen, will you listen to what he has to say without trying to convince him what he needs to know? We think he needs to know. Will you listen to what he has to say as you lay your life on the altar.

Ruth Ann: Part of the process with the Lord at its altar might be removing walls we've built. Part of the process on his altar might be building walls we have let fall down. We have to hear him, listen. But the process, the journey, that's part of that's part of it all, that's your testimony. When we walk through the fire, when we walk through the test, there's a testimony.

Ruth Ann: A moment ago, when I was speaking, I'm telling what I was seeing, reading the Bible. I saw a picture, and I saw this being step out with a sickle, and I'm like, "God, what are you showing me? What is that? And I always want to back up what I see with scriptures, not go in there, and so Joel 3:13 reads, Now let the sickle do its work. The harvest is ripe and waiting. Tread the wine presses, for it is full to overflowing with the wickedness of these men. Now I'm going to read that one more time, because I want us to get what it's saying. Now let the sickle do its work. The harvest is ripe and waiting, and tread the wine press, for it is full to overflowing with the wickedness of men. Let me talk a minute. Let me just kind of get you to what God was showing me, and I said, "Lord, what are you talking about? Wickedness? And he told me, "He said, 'I not only harvest the good in the earth, I harvest the wickedness out of the earth, and that's what he's doing in Joel. Now, the scriptures that we often quote about him being Lord of the harvest goes with Matthew 13:30 at harvest time both the wheats and the tares reach the maturity, and they're separated. Everybody good, so we're not going to get that mixed up, because God does harvest the wickedness out of the earth, and this is what he spoke to me. He said, I'm looking for the hearts now that are with me, and I'm seeing the hearts that have become hardened to me. And he says, you're going to see a separation. It is coming, it is coming, it is coming quickly, and I have released the sickle into the earth, because you're going to see the wicked, the wicked be exposed. So, Lord, as we prepare our heart for you, Father God, we prepare our heart. See, Father God, we prepare our heart for you to come, you to come into our heart. But, Father God, we know that there is a sickle in the earth, Father God, that is here, and He says, "I'm harvesting the wickedness for me to be able to come. I said, "Father God, we say yes to what you choose to do. Father God, we say yes for what you choose into the earth, and we do not back up, we do not hold ourselves back, but we go forward with what you're doing in the earth.

JT Sheila: Heart of a warrior, we will fight for you, Lord. We will worship, sword in hand. Heart of a warrior, we will fight for you, Lord. We will worship sword in hand. We will not back down. We will not give in heart of a while. Always holds a line. We will not back down. We will not give in. Our God never fails. Oh no, our God never fails, never loses about all, and he never fails. Our God never fails. Oh no, our God never fails. He never loses a butt on. He never fails. He never fails. Never fails with the heart of a warrior fight for you, Lord. We will worship sword in hand. Heart of a warrior, we'll fight for you, Lord. We will worship with sword in hand. Lord, and come change our hearts, purify. We fight with your word, your truth, and your love. We fight with your word, with your truth, and with your love. Purify, purify, purify our hearts right now. Move to new levels. New levels in you. Purify our hearts right now. Our God never fails. Oh no, Lord, you never fail, you never fail, you never lose a battle, and you never will. We already have the victory, you already have the victory in you. We Lord, we fight with you, cause you never fail. We can never fail as we follow you, because you never fail. Lord, we can never fail as we follow you.

Ruth Ann: Okay, I just heard it. Somebody, either sitting in this room, or watching, whatever you can is a failure. God says, "Put it out of your heart now. I said, "I consider it wickedness in the heart. He says, "Because I don't fail, you don't fail. He says, "Because I forgive, you're forgiven, you're released. He said, "So put the failure down, don't make it an idol, it's not there, it's forgiven. So release it, get it out of your heart, let him take it, and let him bind it on the altar. Remember, warrior, we're all warriors in Christ. He leads an army.

JT Sheila: Never fail, never fail. Oh, he can never leave us or forsake us. He's always there, right beside us. Talk to him, worship him. He'll never leave us or forsake us. He'll never leave us or forsake us. Talk to him and worship him right there, right now, right there, right now.

JT Sheila: Sing it along, make a joyful noise, Lord. We praise you. We make a joyful noise. We worship you. Joyful noise, Lord, we praise you. Lord, we worship you.

JT Sheila: Our God never fails. God never fails. So we never fail. We fight with him, we walk with him, we worship him, because he never fails, never fails, and he never will. So, look back on those times when you felt it was a fail, and let him talk to you about what he did, about what you gained, about where you are. Let him change your perspective. Let him change your perspective. Give it to him and listen to him. Lord, change our perspective. We want your thoughts. Renew our mind. We want to think like you do. Let us help us think like you do.

Judah Team : sings-Your Ways Better

 Ruth Ann: How many of you go look for something else? Because you just don't think God is doing what He's supposed to be doing sometimes. Yeah, we've all done it at some time or another. At least I could raise my hand, my feet, and everything else, right? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Okay, so I noticed I was thinking about it. Wednesday night we were looking up scripture about our heart and the idols in our heart, and we were reading those scriptures Wednesday night that's come up here this morning. So God is really after the heart thing. It's just interesting, is it not? Okay, because I'm like, Wednesday night we were doing God, we did this Wednesday night, you know, it's like he said, okay, let's dig a little bit deeper and keep going.

Ruth Ann: So let's stand and let's just pray a second. Now we're going to do something with our heart right now, if God says there's anything in your heart that you're not stewarding, you're gonna give it to Him, okay? Whatever you're not, whatever you just letting happen to you, you can't let it happen anymore. You know, you go into work and you look like you, things look bad, and it looks like it might be your destruction. You gotta say, God, I'm going to let you destroy my enemies in it, and I will not be destroyed. It's a whole new way of looking at it, right? I will not, not keep on looking at it as my destruction. It will be what my enemies will be destroyed in. Wow, whole new concept, right, whole new concept. So, Father God, we just give to you today the thing that we think is our destruction. We just hand it over to you, Father. And, Father God, we sit in the midst of our enemies, but we know we cannot be destroyed, because we choose today to steward for you, Father. We choose today, Father, to be who you created us to be, and we thank you, Father, for who you are. So just give it to him, just quietly whisper it out, whatever you're giving to him, give it over to him, something you haven't been stewarding. Just commit to him to go home and start taking care of it. Start stewarding, start being the I'm finished letting this go, and just start stewarding it now. Thank you for this Father in the name of Jesus