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"Phase 2: Building The Altar" - Pastor Craig Field - Jun. 23. 2024 AM
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"Phase 2: Building The Altar" - Pastor Craig Fiel…
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If you'd look, please. What did I. Did I tell you to turn somewhere? Jenny, I didn't. You know where it is. Just pick something first. Kings, chapter 18. The reason the Lord wanted this done today is because this is about our year. This is our remember. This is our. We're in a year. We just finished the Bethel year and we're in the Carmel year. Part 1. Carmel has more than one part. We're in the first year of Carmel and I want you to go down with me. And let's start there, please, in. Verse 21st Kings 18:20. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people and said, how long will you halt between two opinions? And if the Lord be God, follow him, and if baal, then follow him. And the people answered him, not a word. Then Elijah said unto the people, I, even I only remain a prophet of the Lord. But baal's prophets are 450. Let them therefore give us two bullocks, and let them choose one bullock for themselves and cut it in pieces and lay it on the wood and put no fire under. And I will dress the other bullock, and I will lay it in wood, and put no fire under. And call ye on the name of your gods. And I will call on the name of the Lord, and the God that answers by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, it is well spoken. And Elijah said unto the prophets of baal, choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first, for you are many. And call on the name of your gods, and put no fire under. And they took the bullock that was given them, and they dressed it. And they called in the name of BAAL from morning until evening, from morning until noon, saying, o baal, hear us. But there was no voice, neither any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made. And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, cry aloud, for he is a God. Either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is on a journey, or peradventure he sleeps and must be awakened. And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And it came to pass when midday was past, and they prophesied unto the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice nor any to answer, nor any that regarded. And Elijah said unto all the people, come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. That's the first Thing the Lord said in January to me, on December 31st, he and I did share this on that New Year's Eve service. And the Lord said, tell the people to come near. In other words, he wants this congregation pay attention, stay in unity and come close. Listen with your heart, okay? Come near unto me. And all the people came near. And he now watch what we've been doing for the last almost six months. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down. And the Lord said, the first thing you've got to do, you cannot move forward until you repair the altar. And so there were certain things in staff leadership, ministry of helps, Africa areas, even in our home, that things that I was taking responsibility for that was taking too much of my time, stuff here at the church that was distracting me. Just a lot of different things that really God considered a little bit out of order. They weren't in the right place. And if we don't fix that, we can't go forward. We're not going to see the effect that God has for us if we don't repair or put back in divine order stuff that's out of place. Do you understand? It's in personal life, it's in my family life, and predominantly it's in this ministry's life. And in a lot of different aspects and areas. You say, well, I'd like a list, please, Pastor Craig, of all the areas that you have repaired. Well, if you would like a list, please go to Jesus and he will give you the list. But just trust me, I have worked diligently for five, five and a half months, almost five months and three weeks now, and we have done pretty much almost all of it in terms of what the Lord showed me to make corrections on. All right, now notice that he had to repair that first in verse 30. Now watch verse 31. Are you there? And Elijah, the repairing of the altar, God said, I'm giving you the first half of the year. Okay? So I need you all to understand something. When God speaks prophetically like this, he might give me the general outline because I can read it, but I don't know specifics usually until closer to the time. Paul said, I see in part. I see through a glass dimly. I know in part, I see in part. In other words, we don't always know every fine detail of the plan or the instruction at the time that he starts telling us. Do you understand? That's very rare. If ever does that happen. And with me, he'll give me a part, he'll give me usually the Whole thing, but in general terms. And then as I'm doing each individual part, he'll give me specifics within that part. Okay. Like the last six years, we knew the different stages of Elisha, but until we got into that year and that year started to play out, we didn't know the specifics exactly what was going on in that year. But as it played out, we got more knowledge. Well, in this case, the Lord showed me what was supposed to be for this year in very broad spectrum terms. But all I knew and all he revealed at the time was, I give you six months to repair the altar. That's all he said. So I know what that means, and it's my job to repair it. It's not my job to ask what's going to happen in the next section. Just do the first section, and when the time comes, he'll reveal the second section. What he said, the reason he wants me to hear this morning, the reason we bumped Brother Randy, the reason he said to me on the plane, I want to talk to you is because now he's giving me the specifics of the second phase so that I, as the pastor and you as the congregation, will know and not be in the dark about it. All right? So I want you to know the first thing which he gave six months to do was this repairing. And I don't know if you've been paying attention, because it's really up to you and God. You're going to answer to him, you know, answer to me. But he said this applies to the whole congregation, and there are many things in their lives that have to be put back in divine order. Some in marriages, some in finances, some in just your personal lifestyles, what you're involved in, there's just stuff that is out of place. And tell them to watch your example and don't just sit on their high horse thinking, well, it's good that Pastor Craig's fixing all the mistakes he's made. I'll just sit here and smoke my pipe while I wait for him to get it done. Well, first of all, we don't believe in smoking. Okay? That's. But really what your attitude should be is, Lord, okay, you're dealing with him. If you're dealing with him, you're probably going to be dealing with me because I'm part of this thing, and I'm a member of this church. And so is there any areas in my personal life, in my thought life, financial life, sex life, sex life, marriage life, children life, Is there any area in my life that is out of divine order that I need to repair and put back into right place. If you haven't asked yourself that, then, Well, you've got about seven days. I hope you can get it all done in the next week. Because he's been expecting all of us to do this. And believe me, he wouldn't tell us if all of us were perfect. So that's the first part, but now we go into the second part. Now, be completely honest with you, I didn't really even realize that there was a second part fully because I kind of thought, I guess in the back of my mind, well, he said, repair the altar. So I know there's a repairing. And then it says that he built a new altar. But I kind of just assumed that all of that was happening at the same time. Like we fixed something and we're building something and we're doing it simultaneously. But on the plane. The Lord said, that's not what I told you. I told you it's a repair. It's a repair. It's not a building, it's a repair. Repairing is different to building. Do you understand? So he said, you have spent time repairing, and I'm pleased with you. He said that to me. He said, I'm pleased with you. He knows how hard we've worked at this. He said, I'm pleased with you. He said, but now the time has come, meaning July 1st. Now the time has come for you to build. Because I'm focusing on prayer. I'm focusing on the water that has to be poured, which represents prayer. And I saw on the horizon in the spirit that anointing coming. So I said, lord, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not what I understood this to be. I understood this, that come July 1st, that anointing is here. I saw it coming. And on the plane, the Lord. Now listen to me. I'm going to say some stuff maybe you haven't heard before, but there's things of the spirit that we're all learning. God is so. So he said to me, when I said, no, this doesn't really make sense. This thing is coming. It's coming right now. And he said to me, look into the spirit. Now, you can't do that unless he allows you to look into the spirit. But he told me, look into the spirit. So I looked into the spirit. But that's by the operation of the Holy Ghost. You can't do that without him telling you and allowing you to do that. And I looked into the Spirit and I saw that anointing that grace, that thing that I saw coming. Remember, I said a few weeks back, I said, I see it. It's on the horizon. It's coming. I looked into the Spirit and I saw it, and it was much closer than what it was when I first saw it. But I thought it would be right here. Because in seven days, ten days, we're done. We're in the next phase of this thing. So this thing should be right here. But it wasn't. It was about halfway closer than it was when I first saw it. So I said, oh. I said, lord, I thought that this was all right now. And it was happening right now. Like we fixed the altar and then we're in it. And I said, but I see that it's still not here yet, but it's much closer than it was before. I said, what's going on? And he said, because there's a difference with repairing and building. And he said, your first phase was repairing, and you've done a good job, son. And he said, there's a few more things you've got to mop up this week. But he said, mop it up, finish it up. He said, but you're coming into the second phase, the second section, the second part of this year, this Mount Carmel part, one year. And he said, and that phase is not yet the praying. Even though I know you're anxious for it, you're longing for it. He said, but look into the Spirit and you'll see it's not quite where you think it should be. And the reason it's not is because it's not quite time. And the reason it's not is because you have to build. You have to build. You've repaired. But now listen now, great effort must be made to build. What is he talking about? I'll explain it. Read with me. And it says, he repaired. The altar of the Lord was broken down, verse 31. And Elijah took 12 stones according to the number of tribes. And these stones are large in the root. It really means carbuncle. Stones which are large stones, they're not pebbles. They're heavy, almost like boulders. He took 12 stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came saying, israel shall be thy name. And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord. He built. Do you see that? And he made a trench round about the altar as great as contained two measures of seed, which is about this big. It's three to four feet. That's pretty wide. For a trench, okay? And remember, there's nobody helping him. It doesn't say anybody helped him. The people drew near to listen and to watch. So he has got a shovel or whatever he used, and he is literally digging a 2 to 3. Some theologians say 4, but most of them agree that it's about 3ft, 2 to 3ft wide. Ditch on his own around this altar. That takes some time. That's a lot of heavy, hard. That's digging, that's sweating. Plus he just carried 12 boulder, like carbuncle stones on his own to build an altar. Then he's digging a trench around the altar. Do you notice a theme here? Great effort is being exerted. That's what God is wanting us to see. And he built and he made a trench about the altar that would contain two measures of seed. And he put the wood in order. So he. He does the building with the stones. Number one, he does the trench. Number two, he gets the wood and puts it in order. In other words, there's an order. This is not sporadic, not just throwing things around. He places the wood in a specific order. Number three. Then he cuts up the animal in pieces. Number four. Then he lays the animal on the wood. Number five. Five things. Do you understand? All alone, carrying 12 boulder stones, digging a three foot wide trench around the whole altar. That alone is tough. Okay? Then getting all the wood and putting it in a special order. Then taking that animal and cutting it up by himself and then putting all those bloody pieces on the altar. He built an altar. He made preparation. Do you understand? He made preparation. Now let me tell you this before I go on and I'm almost done in the hotel room, while I was praying for the services in Liberia, I had a mini vision. And what I. Now listen. God is so amazing because he knows God is never vulgar. But sometimes he wants us to see things that are vulgar. But he's not vulgar. So he shows us in a way that is not vulgar. Okay, but I saw a woman in the stirrups in a birthing room, in a hospital room. I'm very grateful the Lord didn't have me standing in front of her because I don't really particularly want to see that. That's what I'm saying. God's not vulgar. But he was trying to show me something. And in the vision, I was on the ceiling and I was looking down. I could see the top of her head. I could see her legs spread in the stirrups. I could see the doctors and the nurses around and they were saying, push and she was like, with great groaning and great strain, screaming as she pushes. Okay, but I'm looking directly down. I can't see specifics. Thank Jesus. I don't want to see specifics, and God doesn't want me to see specifics. But I just see from her head, and I'm looking down, straight down her body, and I saw what they call the breaching crown. I saw the crown of the head breach. In other words, I can just see. I can't see her privates, but I can see the crown of the head coming out. And then the vision stopped. And I said, lord, what am I seeing? He said, the head represents leadership. He said, the crown of the head represents senior leadership. That's where the crown is placed. And he said, today you will meet with the senior crown leadership of Liberia. And we met with seven of the men. The next night, the vision continued. And I saw the head come. Just the head, and then it ended. And the Lord said, today. There was the next day. This was Sunday. And the Lord said, today you'll meet with the remaining leadership of Liberia. And I met with all 14. Then on the last day of the conference, the vision continued. And I saw the baby come out. And the Lord said, today, after five times preaching and then laying hands and anointing all of them with oil and commissioning them and doing all this stuff, the Lord said, today, the baby of Sons of Africa has come forth. I mean, that was a supernatural experience. So while I'm on the plane, he reminds me of that vision. And I said, but, Lord, that's about Africa. That's not about Promise of Life Canada. Did you forget that? That's about Africa. That's not about Promise of Life. And the Lord said, yes, it's about Africa. But there's a thing I want you to see in this. Listen to thee. Because he spoke to me while I'm sitting there on the plane, and he said, I couldn't make this up. You got to trust me. The Lord said, the baby was breached. He's talking about promise of life. He said, I'm trying to bring things from the spirit realm into the natural. I'm trying to do something that Dr. Dufresne prophesied that people since the revival of 1917 to 1924 and the 1924 to 1932 have been praying for. He said, I'm trying to get something done here. Son, this is not a game or a joke. He said, I chose to use you because you said yes to me. I could have used anybody, but I picked You. I picked three others before you, and they all turned me down. But I picked you because you said yes. It's not because you're so important. It's simply because you said yes. He said, now I'm trying to get something done here. He said, but the baby was breached. If you know anything about giving birth, if the baby's breached, your baby's at risk, the mother's at risk, everything's at risk. And he said, that is why I told you, repair the altar. He said, what it means is I'm positioning the baby. Repairing the altar meant things are out of order, or we could put it this way, out of position, and God in six months has put that baby right. And he said, even though you saw it for Liberia, he said, I want you to know something now because that vision applies to your church at home, although it was primarily about Africa. But I'm going to piggyback on that vision, basically and tell something that applies right now. He said, repairing the altar was a season that you needed to do to make changes, to put things right, to make repairs, to remove people, to include people, to do these different things, because I have to get the baby right. The baby can't come if it's breached. Now, finally the baby is ready. Are you hearing what I'm saying? All right. And then he said this, and I'm going to read it to you. He said, it's time to push. Remember, I saw that lady before the crown breach because she is pushing to bring something from the unseen into the scene. And he said, now it's time to push. He said the repairing of the altar represents getting the baby positioned. He said, but now the great effort with the stone and the trench and the wood and the bullock and getting the bullock on the altar. He said, all of the great effort. Notice the water didn't come yet until the great effort had been made to prepare the altar for what God needed. Do you understand? So he used the parallel of the altar and a baby. And he said, this season has been getting it in position because you can't bring it out if it's not in the right position. That's why I said, repair the altar, get it in position, make changes, alter things. Now that it's ready, it's time to push. But great effort is made to push the baby out. And great effort is made to build an altar. You don't just repair the altar, you build it. He said, you're trying to skip. Because I was. I was saying, well, I'm sure we built it at the same time we repaired it. Isn't it the same thing? And he said, no, they are two distinct things. Repairing is one and building is another. Repairing doesn't say, that took great effort. He just rearranged stuff. Now he's making big effort. The lady, you know, she's not making effort when the baby, you know, baby just adjusts itself. But now she's pushing. Now the effort is made because she's pushing that baby. And the Lord said to me, he said, starting in July. He said, I know you think it's the prayer anointing, but he said, starting in July because it's not ready for that. He said, look into the spirit. See the prayer anointing is on its way, but it's not quite here yet. He said, because you need another step first. And that is push. That is effort. That is build the altar. That is make the steps necessary to get this thing ready. I need the baby to come out. You are at the point of the. Remember, God said to me, when Pastor Nancy came, that was September, and he said, it's going to be about nine months. Remember, the woman honored the prophet, and then nine months later, she got her baby. And the Lord said, because you honored her and you paid all this money for the building, and you treated her with honor. So the desire of your heart. And at that point, I didn't even know what he was talking about. He said, it will come in about nine months. So I said, but, Lord, that means prayer has to start in about nine months, which is June, July. And he said, son, when the lady is in the stirrups and she's about to push, that is the time for the baby. But there is one thing to get the baby adjusted. There is a second step to get the baby out. When they wrap that baby and they put that baby in her arms and the baby is fully out, they don't start the clock. The time of birth is not started. When the crown breaches, when the baby is out and they clip that cord. That's when they say, this is the time of birth. And they put that baby in that mother's arms and she begins the enjoyment of the new child. She's not enjoying the new child when she pushes, she's enjoying the new child. In fact, she's hating her husband while she pushes. And she's enjoying the new child when the child's in her arms. And the Lord said, the baby is about to come, but you've got to push, son. This is time to build. Make great effort to build. Because this is the next step that you have to do. And then he said this phrase to me. And I want to read it to you very carefully so that you can see it exactly how he said it. He said. He said, Elijah took 12 stones, heavy stones representing the 12 tribes, to build me a new altar. This was the identifying 12 tribes, the name of the tribes. This is what identified his nation. Do you understand? The 12 stones were identifying markers. They each had the name Daniel, Judah, Reuben. Do you understand? They were identifying stones. Why? Listen. This is how he said it to me. These stones is what identified his nation. And he structured them and he organized them into an altar, which was a place of worship and prayer to me. Then he said, find what I. He said, you, church has identities. Are you listening to me? He said, every one of you, even though you're doing this corporately, every one of you have. You're like. There's things that identify who you are. Do you understand? Because we're all individuals. And he said, just like he took the stones which identified his nation, he said, look at your life and find what identifies you, who you are, and structure it, organize it. You don't have to repair it because you've repaired. You don't have to repent. You don't have to make adjustments of things that have not been right. You've already done that. But now the correction season is over. But he said, now, take who you are. Find out who you are. Are you listening to me? He said, tell your congregation. Find out who they are. Who are you, Mary, Chris? What represents you? Find out your identity and take it and structure your own identity. Structure your life, structure your timetable, structure your schedule, structure your time. Structure everything that represents who you are. Are you listening? Structure it with great effort because it's going to require effort. Structure your life and make your life an altar. Now, I don't fully understand. I mean, I know what he means, obviously, but it's such a deep statement. I'm not sure I fully can grasp the magnitude of what that means until this season of time plays out. But all I know is that he said he did great effort. It's time to put great effort. He lifted heavy stones. He dug a trench, he chopped up a bull. He did the wood. He did the whole thing in preparation. He made effort to alter and restructure and organize that altar unto me. I want that to be representing your life. Find who you are. Find what identifies you. Take the stones of your life and structure them in a way to make your life an altar. Are you Listening to me. He was very, very intense on the plane. And I want to say something, and it might offend some of you, but I really, at this point, don't care. But he said, most of your congregation, their life is structured around their job or around their extracurricular or around their marriage or around their children or around different things. We structure our life around what is most important. And he said, all of those have a place. But your life is supposed to be structured and organized around me. And really what I'm trying to get over to you is that I need you to pray. So you've got a structure life that gives you time to pray. Are you listening? So he said, look at your time schedule. He said to me, he said, son, look how busy you are. How are you going to pray when that anointing shows up? Because you've got this and this and this and this and this and this and this. And he said, now that you fixed things that are out of order, that's done now. I need you to take stuff in your life that's not out of order necessarily. It's just stuff. That's who you are. And I want you to reorganize it so that you make time. I want you to fashion out time so that you can give yourself to prayer. Because most of us don't have time to pray. Most of us are so busy. And I'm not saying quit your job or anything foolish like that. I'm saying there is time. You're going to have to maybe move stuff, cancel stuff, rearrange stuff, re tweak stuff, maybe get up earlier, maybe go to bed later, maybe rearrange your schedule. Maybe you don't do this extracurricular as much as you used to do it. Maybe you don't do this class that really is not that important. But you like it. But maybe you don't do it as much as you used to. I'm not telling you what to do. It's not my place to tell you what to do. He said, every individual has to get their identity and has to restructure it around prayer. And if they don't, then when that anointing comes to pray, they will not be able to receive it because their life will look the same as it did before. So, number one, we got to get things corrected. That's done. Number two, we got to get things structured, organized, ready, prepared. Lord, we're ready. Then that anointing comes. That anointing is not going to come if you're not ready. He said, now you thought that anointing was starting because you thought both altars were happening simultaneously. And they're not. That's why when you look in the spirit, you can see it. It's closer, but it's not right here. It's still out there. Because time is not. It's not time for that anointing. In fact, if that anointing were to come, the way that you're organized right now, son, how busy you are, how crazy your schedule is, he said that anointing would come and you would not be able to handle it. And then it would have the wrong effect. Listen to me. If God gives you an anointing and you mistreat that anointing, God is displeased with you. You can open the door to problems, to sickness, to a whole bunch of stuff. So the Lord said, it is mercy that I do not give you that anointing because you are not ready for that anointing. You are. I'm just telling you what he said to me. While other people around me are all snoring and the stewardesses are in the other room. They're not coming by. It's dark. You know, this is the sleepy time of the flight. I'm sitting there and, I mean, I am like, I'm wired because the God of heaven is speaking to me. And he said, you better thank me for not giving you that prayer anointing instead of. Because I was kind of complaining. And he said, because I'm looking forward to it. And he said, you better thank me because if I give it to you and you mistreat it, which you would if I gave it to you now because you're too busy, son. Your schedule is too busy to focus on what needs to be focused on. I'm going to give you a time. I'm going to give you a season to restructure so that you're ready for when that anointing comes. And you better be grateful, because that anointing cannot be mistreated when it comes. It cannot be sidelined. It cannot be. Well, I've got to go to the gym, Lord. And dear God, don't get me wrong, I need to go to the gym. I'm not knocking the gym. Or it could be your class, or it could be, I need to go to my racquetball. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't have racquetball. What I'm saying is that we are so busy, where is the time to pray? We've got to make it. We've got to restructure. We've got to plan on the schedule and say, okay, I'm going to rework my life and I'm going to change this, tweak this, remove this, move this over here, move this over there. Da da da da da. I'm going to make an altar. And it's going to take effort to do that, but I'm going to do that. And the trench and the wood and the bullock, I'm going to get it ready so that when that water shows up, my trench is ready to receive it. Hallelujah. I'm ready to receive that. Because right now I might have fixed the things that needed to be fixed, but I am not structured and ready to receive that water. My God, what a revelation. I'm just sitting there thinking, Lord Jesus, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you for your mercy, for your mercy, for your mercy. Now listen, the next part, and this is the last part. Then we'll close. I told you, things come in steps. I don't always see everything. I don't always know everything. But all I do know is he said, starting July, I'm giving you a season to build an altar. Okay? Then he said, look in my word, because I was writing. So I opened up the Bible again, and he said, you don't have to believe me if you don't want to, but I'm just telling you what I heard. He said, look how many barrels. And I looked, and it says. And he poured. Can we just read it together? It's 1204. Just give me two more seconds. And it says, and he put the wood and cut the bullock. And now watch. Middle of verse 33, fill four barrels with water and pour it on the burnt sacrifice and on the wood. And he said, do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, do it the third time. And they did it the third time. And the water ran round about the altar and filled the trench. Okay. Notice the water was phase three. We're not in phase three. We're in phase two. So he doesn't normally talk to me about phases that I'm not in, but he did say this. That's why I don't have clarity, because I'm not in the phase yet. When it's closer, I'll know. But right Now I'm not 100% sure on something. So I'm telling you it's going to be one of two choices, but he won't tell me which one because it's not time. Yet let me focus on the building. But he's just giving me a little hint, Jenny. And he said, did you notice it said four barrels? And I said yes. And he said, did you notice that it was done three times? And I said, yes. Now I can only say this by the spirit of God, by the gift of prophecy, because I wouldn't know this otherwise, but I heard God speak. And he said, every barrel, son, represents one month. And he said, there is a season coming where you're going to. It's going to be in four sections, three sections of four. And he said, there's a season coming, that anointing is going to come in three distinct sections. And he said, it's going to grow with every section. He said, I can't give you the third section at the beginning, you'll blow up. He said, you have to ease your way into this. He said, there is a four month section coming where the anointing to prayer is going to land on you. And if you will be faithful, listen to me. If you'll be faithful in the first, if you'll be faithful, I'll give you the second. And if you're not, I won't. He said, if you're faithful in the second, the second will be stronger than the first. If you're faithful in the second, I'll give you the third. And the third will be the strongest one of all. And if you're faithful in the third. I don't know what he means by this. He said, I'm going to demonstrate my power in your ministry like you have never seen in all your years preaching. Now he's referring to that fire, but I don't know what he's talking about because he didn't tell me. He just said, I will demonstrate my power in your ministry that you have never seen before in all of your years put together. He said, but you must be faithful. And I'm going to give it to you in three sections. It could have just said. He just said, Pour 12 barrels, hurry up. But he didn't. He said, Four, do it a second, do it a third. Now here's where I'm not sure it could be. And this is where he didn't answer me. It could be July and August is the building and that this thing is starting in September and it's the last four months. And then the first four months would be phase two and the second four months next year would be phase three. And that starting next September something more dramatic is going to happen. It could be that or it could be that the entire six months remaining of this year is the building phase, just like we had six months of repairing phase. And then the four and four and four is next year. And in January 26th is when something's going to break loose. I said, lord, which is it? And he was silent. But I said, well, I got to know. I got to know. You can't be silent on me. I got to know. And he said, you'll know by looking into the spirit. He said, just focus on building the altar. I want you to restructure your whole life. I want you to restructure your diet. I want you to restructure your time with your children. I want you to restructure time with your wife. I want you to restructure time with the staff. I want you to restructure your traveling. I want you to restructure everything. And I'm going to help you restructure because if you don't create time to pray, that anointing will be wasted. He said, and listen to me. He said, start in July and continue in August. He said, in the middle of August, look into the spirit. I just love the way God speaks because he's so. He's so. I don't know how to explain it in English. He said, in the middle of August, look into the spirit. In other words, he's saying, I'm telling you right now, I'm going to let you look in the spirit. Look in the spirit. And if the anointing you saw is still a little ways off, it means go through till December. It means six months of building, not two. But if the anointing is right here, it means you start that September 1st. That prayer anointing will come September 1st. He said, I'm not telling you right now. He said, in August, look into the spirit. And where you see the location of that, it's coming towards you. He said, wherever it is, you'll know it's still a little ways off, closer than the last time, but not where it needs to be or it's right here, right now. We start this September. He said, I will show you in August. Just focus on building the altar. So I don't know when this season begins. All I know is that the baby was breached. If he did not have us fix things, we would have had a bad situation. The baby is now right, but it's time to push. It's time for the baby to be birthed. Listen. Prayer starts when the baby is in our arms. Prayer is the baby. The baby is not in Your arms when you're pushing. The baby is in your arms when it's born. So right now we had to get it straight and now we have to get it out. We had to repair and we have to build. Once it's built and ready for the water, ready for the prayer. Once the baby's out and in our arms, that's representing the new life begins. That's representing the water of the anointing of prayer comes, but we are not. I thought we were starting July 1, but we are not quite there yet because we're not ready for that anointing because our lives do not reflect. Are you listening to me? All of you are so busy. If you want to stay busy, be my guest. Do whatever you want. I don't want you to leave the church or get offended because you don't want to comply. Do whatever you want. Just be faithful. God will get it over to you eventually. I'm just talking about me and I'm talking about all of you. If you want to run with me. But if you don't, just stay in the church and walk until you're ready to jog. And then when you're ready to run, then go from jogging to running. I'm not attacking anybody. I'm not upset with anybody. Live your life. Do your deal. It's between you and God. I'm just telling you my job, my role. And I'm asking you to follow suit with me as close as you can. Because God said to me, you are far too busy. If I gave you an anointing to pray, you wouldn't mishandle it because your schedule is crazy. You need to slow down. You need to restructure your life even when you're traveling. Because I can't avoid traveling. Traveling is part of my apostolic call. But he said, even when you travel, you're out of control. He said, don't you ever do a trip like you've just done. He said that to me on the plane. I said, what did I do? All I do is try to give my life to people that I'm trying so hard. And he said, why are you doing all the preaching? You're not the only one that can preach. He said, you should be having happy and others preach and rest your voice and spend time with me in the day. Except your do this. Run to that meeting. Go to this church. He said, did I tell you to preach at that church Sunday morning? I said, I didn't think I needed to ask you. We need to help people. He said, you don't need to help people. You need to obey my plan. He said it was out of my will for you to be in that church. And that's why it was such a struggle when I went to that church Sunday morning. I mean, everything was hard. Everything was hard. And he said to me on the plane, it was hard because you were out of my will. Because I wanted you to stay in the hotel room and pray and fast. But instead you're out there preaching. You see, it's called about reorganizing. Not everything should be preaching. Not everything should be meaning. He said, you did right in general. But he said, even on this trip, for example, you are far too busy. There's other people that can take responsibility. You're not the only one. So you need to readjust the way you think so that you make more time to wait on me. See, even in this one little microcosm, Pastor Happy God is showing me it's out of order. It's not like it's not repairing is done, but it's restructuring is required so that I have time with him. Because we are just bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Are you listening? And then even when I'm home and even when I'm at the thing and I'm not preaching, I'm doing emails, I'm responding to texts, I'm calling, you know, Pastor Nancy and other people and dealing with other things that people don't even know about. And then I'm talking to my wife. And this. It just. It's just. It's just constant. All the time, it's constant. And I'm praying, but I'm not praying the way that he wants me, because I'm trying to fit prayer in when there's a moment. And what God is trying to say is, fit everything else in when prayer is done. Do you see the change of thinking? I'm fitting prayer into my schedule. What God wants is me to fit my schedule into prayer. It's a totally different way of thinking. And he said, you better change this before that anointing comes. And he wouldn't tell me how long it's going to take. My sense of it, I could be wrong, is that it's going to take six months to fix this altar. Like it took six months to repair it. Because my life is so ingrained in a certain way of thinking and doing things. I think it's going to take me longer than two months to fix it. I'm just being honest with you. But I would like to do it in two months. Because I want this thing to start in September, but I'm going to have to pray that out. I'm just going to look in August and I'll know if it's now or if it's at the end of the year. But all I'm telling you is we're all busy, busy, busy. Dr. Dufresne would always say, busy, busy, busy. And I'm telling you, don't fit prayer into your schedule. Fit your schedule into prayer. And if you don't want to do it, I love you. Keep staying, keep smiling, keep singing like a banshee. Keep tithing, Keep serving. Keep making jokes, keeping everybody happy. Just keep coming to the barbecue. Just keep doing what you're doing, because eventually you'll get it. But for the ones that are spiritually mature, for the ones that can handle the meat of the word and not the milk only, it's time to start thinking, how do I adjust my life? Because something's going to come and I need to be ready to pray. But the way I'm at right now, I can't. And maybe I'm worse than all of you. Maybe I'm worse. So maybe I have the most work to do, because maybe I'm busier than the average person. But I know all of us applies to all of us it applies to. And some of you might have more dinky things that you need to get rid of or readjust. Others of you, like me. Everything is pretty important that you got on your plate. But just because it's important, it's not more important than prayer. So you're still gonna have to adjust it, and we're gonna take some time to do it. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, there's an anointing coming. Remember, the Welsh revival did not happen without an anointing to pray. The Argentine revival did not happen without an anointing to pray. Are you listening to me? The Azusa street revival did not happen without an anointing to pray. Every major revival, there's only one thing in common with all of them, and that is a special anointing from heaven. Came to pray. Those men could not pray it on their own. It's not possible. But when God takes hold with a human or with a group of humans, and he says, I'm putting on you a divine anointing, a grace to pray. God is giving you that. It's not just you praying. You do have to just choose to pray. But there's something there to help you that is beyond your own abilities. When that happens and you yield to it. Especially a group yields to it. God can now move and cause a move of God or a revival or whatever word you want to put on that. But an outpouring of the Spirit is maybe the best, simplest way to say God can move and cause that to come to pass. And that's what God is trying to get us into, Greg. He's trying to get us. He has an outpouring for us. That's what Dr. DeFrant, he said, God's been longing to do something in this community for years and people can keep getting in his way. And he said, don't you get in his way. Pastor Craig. Well, this has been a long journey from that day to this day. But we're getting closer with every passing year. And look at how slow burn this is. It's certainly not a get quick rich or a get glory quick rich scheme, or there has been so many seasons and levels of maturity and faithfulness and this and that and not quitting and pleasing God so that he says, yep, you passed that test. Yep, you passed that test. Yip. You pass. And now we're getting closer than we've ever got before. But we still have to pay attention to the model that he gave me in scripture. This is the model. It's not just something in my brain. This is model in scripture he gave me. And he said, you're done season one. He said, you're about to start season two, and you better take it seriously because if season three comes and season two is not done, you're going to violate things of the Spirit. You're far too busy. Revivals require prayer. Prayer requires time. A crazy schedule does not permit prayer. And nothing is more important. Nothing. In fact, when those disciples were all busy and I'm ending with this statement, and they're all freaking out and the ladies are complaining that they're not getting their food. Remember, ladies often complain about food. I'm just being honest with you. You were also with me and now I can feel it. You're just leaving. But when they were complaining. What does the Bible say, Jennifer? It says, let us give our give, give ourselves. In other words, God's not forcing you. Let us give ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. That means study. And you deacons handle all this natural stuff. Because if we do the natural stuff, there won't be the power of God for this move. We have to give ourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. That's what God is looking for me and for you to some Measure. The more we give ourselves, the more he can do. But if we're giving ourselves to everything other than prayer, do you understand? We're just going to be in a nice church, sweet church, a normal church. Nothing's ever going to change. It's just going to be the same for now, the rest of our life. And I can't live like that. I have to have what God promised me. I don't care how long it takes or how hard it is, I have to have it. I'm going to have it. And I'm putting everything I say, when I talk about this vision stuff, I'm saying it by faith because I understand that if God doesn't show up, and if God doesn't do what I'm saying to you, it's going to. I'm going to be considered a false pastor and a false teacher. So I say it with great fear and trembling, and you really think I would ever put myself out there, put my neck out if I didn't know that? I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that God spoke to me. I'm saying it because I know. I know there's an anointing to pray coming. I know there's a fire from heaven coming. I know there's a rain to end the drought coming. I know it, but I just don't know how to get there. And I don't know how long it's going to take, but I know it's coming. And one day at a time, one step at a time. He gives us one section, we obey, he gives us the next, we obey that, he gives us the next. That's just walking by faith. He won't show you the whole thing up front, but he's shown me a lot. So I'm encouraging you. If there's areas that you need to fix, fix it. If you breach past June 30, who cares? Just fix it, okay? I just want you to fix it. And then now it's time, with great effort, to push, push, push, push. This baby has to go from the unseen to the scene. We got to get it ready. We got to get our lives ready. How are you going to reschedule, restructure and reorganize your schedule so that when this anointing comes, you are ready to receive it. And if you don't want it and you want to keep your life the way it is right now, that's sad, but that's okay. God just won't give you that anointing, he's going to give it to the people that are ready for it. But I tell you I'm going to be ready for it because I'm going to start thinking long and hard about how I'm living my life and what I'm doing and how I need to change things because I know that I'm too busy to and I'm fitting prayer in instead of fitting the rest of it into prayer. So that's all I have to say about that. Hallelujah. Thank you for your kind attention this morning. I love you. God is with us. Father, bless this congregation. I thank you for them. I thank you for the great season ahead. I thank you for what you've just done in Africa. I thank you for what you're doing in the future. Lord, we prepare our hearts now to receive and obey the instruction about this next season of building the altar and we will do it and we will prepare and we will not let you down. Father, in Jesus name.