If you don't pick up with Jesus, you scatter

Matthew chapter 12, beginning with verse 28. In the academic resource center, it is the ministry that I have the privilege of directing, and it is a ministry of this church, as the academic says, and we have a weekly prayer time as it says weekly these days, and today in an academic ministry this text was read. What a strange thing, we meditated on it, and when I meditated on it I realized wow, this is the word for this town tonight, and in the name of Jesus Lord, we don't want to read it, we just want to live it, we want to practice it. Because he declares this word like this: "Jesus said, but if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. For how can one enter the house of a strong man, and plunder his goods, if you don't tie him up first, and then you can loot his house." Then Jesus declares: "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters."

My brothers, as we entered into this conversation this afternoon, we began with this statement, the brothers that were surrounded at our conference table, whether it be the ESL mentoring program, or the university academic program, forget about that, you know what What are we?, missionaries. missionaries. Do you know what a missionary is? It is someone that the Lord has chosen to go to places where the banner of the Lord Jesus Christ has not yet been raised, there he has sent him, with his life, with everything that the Lord has given him, to plant his banner there. You know, did you know that you are also a missionary? That you are also a missionary? At the moment that you cling to the promise of Jesus Christ and call Jesus Christ Lord, at that moment you have made a decision, and the principles that govern your life, something supernatural has already happened that perhaps you did not even realize, but the rules for his life changed.

Two things happen at the same time. The same happens with institutions and ministries but also with you. The first thing that happens is the kingdom of God comes into your life, and at the moment you don't see your life in the same way, you see possibilities, you adopt these promises, you say wow my life can change, and God can do, what God cannot do in my life, that is the first thing that happens. Immediately the second thing happens as well. If you do not recognize yourself as a missionary, the kingdom of Satan does recognize you as such, at the moment that the blood of Christ touches you, they see you and they see wow, where this person enters there are problems, because that is where the kingdom of Jesus enters and that is the least we want. And I guarantee you my brothers, they will oppose everything you want them to do in their lives. So my brothers the message is simply this, we have to play by the rules. Learn about your role as a missionary and play your part as a missionary.

As I stated today, before schools are handed over to us, or funds from philanthropic foundations, or volunteers appear for our programs, we have to overcome principalities that will take over those institutions and blessings. My brothers, the Lord has made you a conqueror, know this. The promises of the Lord are, brothers, they are open to you. The longing in your heart, what you want from the Lord, when the kingdom of God comes into your life, what that thing looks like. Your home, what are you fighting for, for a stable home, for a balanced character, for freedom from vices, or patterns of thinking, brothers, the Lord longs for you to receive this, but know this, there are principalities and powers that believe they own of those things. Of that blessing, of that healing, of that home, of those promises. And you know, Satan will not cast out Satan. That was part of what we shared today. Many churches are making that mistake in these days when the Lord is drawing near and things are becoming clear in the Spirit.

A church will not go to, or a work, a mission, a denomination, can never start revival by duplicating the works of Satan. Duplicating the principles of Satan, we cannot replicate the patterns and principles of culture, and I am not merely talking about cultural achievements, music, or the use of media, no, there are entire institutions that have this in common, they oppose to the name and reign of Jesus Christ. Brothers, the same in your life. There are principalities and powers that will only be cast down, as I say, this genre does not come out if it is not with fasting and prayer, the apostle Paul also declares, the weapons of our militia are not carnal, and my brothers, when these principles, and these rules , number one, as a missionary, please, fall in love, embark, know, get closer to the Spirit of God. Explore the Spirit of God, as we did tonight, oh this is one big example, as we did tonight, let's embed the Spirit of God, don't be happy, don't go out into the street, until you have embed the Spirit of God upon your life.

Soak up the Spirit of God. And ask him for help, look what, ask the Holy Spirit for help to help you get closer to the Holy Spirit. Do you know that you can do that? Spirit of God, scan me, do it, no matter if it seems crazy, try, scan me, search me, as the psalmist David declared, search me, search me, everything crooked, everything that can grieve you, Spirit of God, everything that can blunt my sword, everything that can limit the scope of your power, eliminate it, that your grace and your anointing can flow, that I have the anointing to bind and cast out demons, what if they are usurped from these blessings, possessing it, possessions. You will see my brothers. That seems supernatural, in the natural, you war in a way.

The day will come when you will feel the air, the air is already light. And that many times the prayers that you have asked and have asked for many years you see that they seem like waterfalls. We are living in a time like this, an era, we are talking about an academic ministry, I am seeing it in lives like this, a simple thing, praying once a day for half an hour, once a week, two hours once a month, and at the moment boom, something is coming off, why, because the strong man has already tied himself to institutions that resist the power of God, they recognize you, they respect you, because they see Jesus Christ flow through you. And they don't see you, they see that Jesus Christ is ahead, and this is the thing. He who is not with me is against me. That is the key.

My brothers, this is the opposite of Emmanuel, look, this is the opposite, this is one of my favorite Christmas messages. Emmanuel, God with us. The Lord inhabiting our lives, supporting us, loving us, but here things turn around. The question is no longer if God is with us, the question is where you are, and who you are with. Lord, I want your agenda, that your kingdom come to my home. How does that seem, if Jesus were to reign in your home, in your life, in your character, at the moment that happens, and you decide in your heart Lord, I fix my face on you Jesus, you go ahead as captain. You are already living your drama, the drama of Jesus, and He will take care of binding the strong man in front of you.

Let's stand up. Lord our blessing comes from following you, so we declare as a people, we want so much from you. Lord we want what you want for us, you only love us, you want to bless us, you want to put things in order for us. We want what You want for us. And we declare that Your blessing is in following You, in knowing You, in obeying You, in being more like You. Lord in seeming more and more and more like You, and for that we need You Spirit of God, how sweet to be in Your presence tonight, how nice to see your people making statements before you, about our ladies, our gentlemen, about our marriages, our homes, our children, in the name of Jesus, every principality that dares to rise up, against our ladies, against our knights, against our homes, against our children, against our children, Father, pour out a double portion of your Spirit over every man and woman here, let them know your authority. Lord they are dangerous, that they know, where they go you go.

Accompany your promises Lord, Father that You do not find anything in Your people that disfigures and saddens your Spirit, because we depend on you. Glorify yourself in the name of Jesus, go with our homes, Spirit of God fills our homes, Spirit of God fills the desk where we work, Spirit of God, manifest yourself even over our little children, when they go to school, let them be little lights, let them be candlesticks in the darkness of the school system, yes, our children from first to second grade are missionaries with the anointing of the Lord Jesus Christ upon them, and the gates of hell shall not prevail over them, in the name of Jesus, a missionary people , who loves you, and who serves you, yes Lord accompany us to our homes, and cover us with your grace.

By the way my brothers, on Friday at six in the afternoon alpha agency has a movie here, if you are looking for a movie, called Facing the Giants, and it accompanies this message very well today, amen, amen, glory to God .