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LACKING

Pastor Marcos Marrero

17 Junie 2024

The message opens with authoritative prayer over the city—declaring Jesus’ Lordship and the end of demonic rule—and sets the theme: faith that truly works in power. From 2 Thessalonians 1:11, believers are called to be found worthy through faith that moves mountains—not by hype, but by knowing God and refusing inner doubt. Daniel 2:22 shows why mountains don’t move: divided hearts hide “deep and secret things” where doubt lives. God, who is light, reveals these dark places when invited.

Jeremiah 33:3 issues the invitation: “Call to Me”—God alone can retrieve what we cannot, including early wounds, rejections, and generational injuries that still sabotage trust. Entering covenant (pictured in Abraham’s sacrifices) means letting the Word cut between spirit and soul (Heb 4:12), guarding the promise from “birds of prey,” and staying through the “dreadful darkness” until God’s fire passes through and gifts faith.

Ezekiel 44:4 portrays the result: once the inner gate is opened and cleansed, the glory of the Lord fills the temple—we are that temple. Job’s journey models deliverance by stripping and restoration; his daughters’ names picture the process: the Dove (Spirit) comes, the bark is stripped, then inner strength and beauty are bestowed (Job 42). This requires the cross: laying down Adam’s old coverings so we’re clothed with Christ’s glory, which intimidates darkness and empowers ministry.

Practical applications include: ask God to reveal unsearchable things; forgive ancestral/offending voices; submit to the Spirit’s surgical work; persevere through fire; and live from the intimacy Jesus offers (Rev 3:20). The warning from John 6:66—turning back when the word feels “too hard”—is answered by a call to courageous surrender. The message closes by blessing the congregation and prophesying a fountain of living water rising in the house, flowing to the city with end-time deliverance and awakening.

Objective:

Equip believers to walk in “the work of faith with power” (2 Thes 1:11) by inviting God’s light into hidden places of the heart, entering a true covenant with Him, and yielding to His cleansing so His glory can dwell within and flow outward for deliverance and awakening.

Synopsis:

The message opens with authoritative prayer over the city—declaring Jesus’ Lordship and the end of demonic rule—and sets the theme: faith that truly works in power. From 2 Thessalonians 1:11, believers are called to be found worthy through faith that moves mountains—not by hype, but by knowing God and refusing inner doubt. Daniel 2:22 shows why mountains don’t move: divided hearts hide “deep and secret things” where doubt lives. God, who is light, reveals these dark places when invited.

Jeremiah 33:3 issues the invitation: “Call to Me”—God alone can retrieve what we cannot, including early wounds, rejections, and generational injuries that still sabotage trust. Entering covenant (pictured in Abraham’s sacrifices) means letting the Word cut between spirit and soul (Heb 4:12), guarding the promise from “birds of prey,” and staying through the “dreadful darkness” until God’s fire passes through and gifts faith.

Ezekiel 44:4 portrays the result: once the inner gate is opened and cleansed, the glory of the Lord fills the temple—we are that temple. Job’s journey models deliverance by stripping and restoration; his daughters’ names picture the process: the Dove (Spirit) comes, the bark is stripped, then inner strength and beauty are bestowed (Job 42). This requires the cross: laying down Adam’s old coverings so we’re clothed with Christ’s glory, which intimidates darkness and empowers ministry.

Practical applications include: ask God to reveal unsearchable things; forgive ancestral/offending voices; submit to the Spirit’s surgical work; persevere through fire; and live from the intimacy Jesus offers (Rev 3:20). The warning from John 6:66—turning back when the word feels “too hard”—is answered by a call to courageous surrender. The message closes by blessing the congregation and prophesying a fountain of living water rising in the house, flowing to the city with end-time deliverance and awakening.

Inspired Teaching - Written and/or Transcribed from Video Above:

Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah.

Amen.

Father in heaven in Jesus name we take authority right now. Father God, your word declares that we overcame Satan by the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony. And we testify, Father God, that we have authority in the name of Jesus. And Father, and that authority that Jesus has been given to us is to trample on the snakes and the scorpions, Father God, and that nothing shall by any mean harm us. So we declare that authority to the uh city of Wington tonight, Father God, and as we proclaim the word of the Lord tonight. We declare to the principalities and powers, to every creeping thing that creepeth on this city, every demonic spirit, every foul bird of the air, we declare that Jesus Christ is Lord over the city of Wington. We declare that Jesus Christ is Lord over every uh single member of this church of this body. And father in the name of Jesus we also declare that your time has come to an end. Uh spirits of darkness that rule over this city. Your time has come to an end. We prophesy tonight in the name of Jesus that the door for the uh victorious deliverance ministry of the end time. The awakening, the trumpet calling out for the people to awake is being ready to be released, Father God. And we serve notice to all of the u uh ruling spirits of this area that your time has come to an end. for the Lord will drive you up by the power of his glory and majesty in Jesus name. Amen. Praise God. Open your Bible to uh 2 Thessalonians 1:11. And I want my my wife to read it from that translation that she has is better than than the NIV. And tonight's message is real simple. If you look at it, the scriptures are going to be 111 2222 3333 444556667778899.

2 Thessalonians 1:11.

If my translation, the NIV doesn't do what u what it comes out. 2 Thessalonians 1:11.

Yeah. Therefore, we also pray always for you that our Gods would count you worthy of this calling and fulfill all the good pleasures of his goodness and the work of faith and power. Okay? That you may be found worthy of God's calling. And what is God's calling? That you would would have the work of faith with power. Remember what Jesus says? He says, "If you speak to the mountain," he says, "Mountain, in the name of Jesus, lift yourself up and throw yourself into the sea." Every single one of us here would understand that that would be a work of faith with power. Because there wouldn't be no shovel or no tow truck or anything doing it. It would have to be God actually raising up the mountain and throwing it onto the sea. But you see, Jesus says, "If you doubt not in your heart, that which you're saying will come to pass, then that which you're saying will be done for you." In one of the Old Testament scriptures, the prayer is, "Lord, give me an undivided heart." We know the heart is talking about the spirit and the soul. We know that the spirit is willing, but the flesh, which is connected to the soul, is weak. So Paul is saying, I'm praying for those people in Wington that are going to believe the gospel that I'm preaching to the Gentiles 1970 years from now. I'm praying for you guys that God will say when he looks at you and women to there are some people that are worthy or of my calling. And how do we make oursel worthy of God calling? We have the work of faith with power. Now, obviously, we do not have the work of of faith with power right now. So, we're lacking something, and that's what we're going to talk about. So, we went from 2 Thessalonians 1:11. Now, we're going to go to Daniel 2:22. Daniel 2:22. And Rod, if you want to go ahead and read that one. The Lord's going to have us all participate tonight, I guess. Daniel 2:22.

Daniel is towards the uh the end of Jeremiah. Just just go to the big prophecies, the first small after Jeremiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and then Daniel.

Lamentations and then Daniel. Ezekiel. I mean, after Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and then there. Don't they love when you put somebody on the spot like that? After Ezekiel, find Ezekiel. Jeremiah, I'm sorry.

Yeah. Daniel 2:22.

Okay. God reveals the deep and the secret things because he's light and the light is able to illuminate what's in the darkness. Now, if I say to the mountain, let's let's let's bring it down home. Let's say the mountain is not Paul's birdies or idol wild or or baker. Let's say the mountain is a difficulty that you have in your life. Let's say that the mountain is a problem that you have with relationships. Let's say that the mountain is your marriage, your spouse. Let's say that the mountain is your job. Let's say that the mountain is your Christian walk. You do have a desire to do what the word of God says, but you can't do it no matter how hard you try. So let's say that because of division within your heart, you have an undivided heart. Because of division within your heart, you can tell to the mountain in the name of Jesus, but it doesn't come to pass because there's doubt. You see, that's what darkness is. Darkness is doubt. You see, people believe that faith is somehow uh something that you conjure up or or something that you, you know, bring it up for some reason. That that is our our what we believe that faith is. But there's nothing mystic about faith. Faith is knowing something. You see, I know that when I put my keys in the car and I turn the keys, I know that it's going to start. You know how many parts are involved in actually getting the car to start? There's a whole bunch of parts. You have electrical, you have all kinds of things, but yet I don't worry about none of those things. I know that if I put the key on it, that that darn thing is going to start when I turn the key. So you see faith is knowing something and you're so sure. People people say let's use a biblical example this will be better. People think that Abraham somehow was such a superhuman that was able to believe. But the Bible says that God told Abraham, I want you to take your son and I want you to take him to a certain place. I'm going to take you and I want you to sacrifice him there for me. And when he brought him and he tied him up and he was about to sacrifice his son says that the angel of the Lord says Abraham Abraham and stopped him. And it says that at that time Abraham looked beyond the mountain where he was and he saw a ram that was God and the thickets. If you study that Abraham might have been drawn to the attention of a real ram because the ram was sacrificed in the place of Isaac. But he looked beyond the ram. If you if you read, it says he had a vision. And in that vision, he saw Jesus because that mountain where he was is the same mountain where the temple was later built. And it's the same mountain where later Jesus was crucified. So Abraham actually saw Jesus being crucified. You say, "Well, how do you know that?" Well, Jesus said to them, Abraham saw my day and rejoice on it. How did Abraham saw Jesus's day? He had a vision. He visualized in what he was doing with his son. He said, "God, you're not a god of human sacrifice. Those are those idols over there that require that. I don't understand. That's what faith is. I don't understand, but I'm going to follow what you say." And when he was willing to go all the way with God regardless of what it was, then a vision was given to him and he saw Jesus the lamb of God caught in the thicket in the cross. That was the faith that Abraham had. You said Moses, how do you know Moses had so much faith on everything he wrote? Hey, Moses stepped into the mountain with God and come out on the other side and he was in the mount of transfiguration with Jesus. Did you know that Moses was with Jesus on the mount of transfiguration? He said that the Jesus was so radiant in the mount of transfiguration that that he shone brighter than the noonday sun. And yet we see Moses 1500 years earlier come down the mountain with his face shining from being in the in the place of Jesus. So you see faith is not something that you huff and puff for. Faith is being taken by the spirit of God to the place of your victory. You see, faith is taking God taking you ahead of time. You may be going through the most difficult time right now. You may be tormented. You may be in darkness. But Daniel 2:22 says that God reveals. Let's read it again. It says uh he reveals deep and hidden things. He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with him. You see, there are deep and hidden things in the darkness areas of our soul that keep us from speaking the word and having it come to pass because it have to do with doubt. Doubt comes in. But the Bible says if we understand that God 2 Thessalonians 1:11 that God wants to find me worthy of his calling and in order for me to be found worthy of God's calling, I need to have the work of faith with power. Paul's praying for us. Paul was praying for us. He says, "I'm praying that the work of faith with power will be in you." Well, I cannot have faith with power when there are things hidden within me that are in the darkness. That's what he's saying. You see, Moses had to be brought. Remember when when the cloud came to the mountains that appear, the people were so frightening and so trembling, the people said to Moses, "We cannot bear it. You go talk to God, Moses. will hide back over here away from the mountain. You come back and tell us what God's saying to you. So Moses had to step into the darkness. There was a dark, dreadful darkness that he had to step through before he was able to come into the top of the mountain. And who was in the top of the mountain? Jesus. 1500 years later, Jesus takes James, John, and and and the other disciple. He takes him up. I mean there Peter, James, and Joan. And he takes them up in there. And then all of a sudden, Elisha and uh Moses were there. And what does that tell you? That there's a place in God that transcend time and space. That is the place where faith dwells. You see in time and space right now, I may be sick. I may be under oppression. I may be bound. I may be having all of these problems in this present time and space. But in God, there is a place of time and space where I can go into. And everything that pertains to my life and my godlin is just already there. Jesus is there and Paul is there, I'm pretty sure, because he's the one that's praying for us in this in this thing. He's praying for it. They're there. And all I have to do, I have to allow the darkness that is within me to be dispelled by the light. He says he is light. When you invite God into the area of darkness, darkness please. Did you know that you can take go to the darkest darkest deepest cave take a little box with you while in this dark place you can't see nothing. open the uh the box and allow the darkness to get in there. Then seal the box completely and then bring it out. Then open it and the darkness is gone. But now you can go to the to the to the smallest place. You take a little light, a little candle. Okay? Take a little candle, put in a little box, hide it the tiniest, littlest light, and you can go to the darkest place on the deep of the earth and you open that little light and it will illuminate the whole thing. See, darkness could not comprehend or overcome the light. And we have to realize that there are darkness, areas of darkness in our soul that divide us, that separate us from faith that works. And so we see the problem. We see the problem and we cannot have faith to come into the solution. And God says, "But I want you to have faith that works. I want you to have power when you pray. I want to found you worthy. And without faith, it is impossible to please me, says God. So I need you to come into a place to where you allow me into the dark recesses of your soul. Did you know that Abraham uh was with God? God takes him out and said, "Look, Abraham, see that many stars? If you could count them, you can't, right?" Well, that's how many. See, Abraham didn't have children at that time. And God says, "That's how many descendants you're going to have." The Bible says that Abraham believed, and so God says, "You're righteous because you believe. And if you believe, you're saved. you're delivered. You're righteous. But then Abraham comes back in and says, "Okay, God, now how am I going to know that what you just promised me, what you just revealed to me, that I'm really going to get it?" You see, that's what faith does. Faith, God says, "I am the Lord that heals you and I'm sick. I need to say, "Oh, I'm healed." No, no, I don't say that because it's a lie. I'm not. I'm sick. I'm tormented. Whatever it is, what we say is, "Okay, Lord, you said that I am healed. Now I need to take the light of your word and I need to bring it to my time and space. How do I do that? How can I come into that? What does uh God said to Abraham? Take a three-year-old ram, a goat, and a lamb or or a a bull. Cut them in half. Take two birds. One one of the birds uh is a John fishing and the other one is a a dove. do that means term and deer. This is how God signs a covenant. And the young fleshing uh fleshling means that uh just just a little mustard seed of faith that we have. Those were not cut. Those were put on the end. But the the ram, the goat, uh uh the bull were cut in half and spread in between. And then he says that after Abraham did, you know what that symbolizes? spirit, soul and body being cut in half. You see the word meismos, the word uh Hebrews 4:12, the word of God is lifegiving energy, and it is able to divide a sunder between spirit and soul, between joints and marrows, and between your heart and the your thoughts and the attitudes of your heart. They had to be Abraham had to say, "God, I'm going to open myself up. I know that I've been hurt so many times in the past. I know that I've been disappointed so many times in the past. I know that I have so many promises that didn't come for me in the past. But God, I am willing to open myself up to your promise. I am willing to allow your light, Lord, to come into that area of darkness that is deep within me." You know what it says? that as soon as Abraham did that, the birds of prey came, the crawls and the buzzers came in to go and Abraham had to fight him away. You see, whenever you make a try to make a covenant with God, okay, God, you promise me, I believe, so you say I'm righteous, but I need to know how can I receive deliverance? How can I be set free, Lord? And God says, okay, open up your soul. As soon as you open up your soul, Satan is going to come in and he's going to try to get in there. He's going to try to steal. Jesus says, "My word is like the seed that falls by the road and by the different places and the enemy comes in and pecks at it, takes it away." So, you need to guard that word. Satan is going to say, "You're getting worse. You're getting worse. You're not a That's when you take that word and and you fight those buzzers off." And then all of a sudden a deep and dreadful darkness came. I think that's on Genesis 12 or 17. I think it's probably 12. But anyway, as you read on it, a deep and dreadful darkness comes over Abraham. And then in the midst of the deepest darkness to where he couldn't see anything, a fire pot appears out of the heaven and comes in and it goes right into the pieces. And you know what he was doing? It was consuming, putting everything back together. That's what the word meismos is. When it says the word of God is lifegiving energy that is able to divide, the same word appears on Hebrews 2:4 where it says and God by sign. So the Holy Spirit gave gift. The word metismos mean been cut apart so that God can gift you. Faith is a gift. Faith is a fruit of the spirit and faith is a gift. The faith that move mountain is a gift from God. And that gift can only be imparted into your heart when you're willing to allow the darkness of our heart. We're willing to allow to be cut open as if it were. God, I'm going to trust you with my heart. I know that every time I trusted in the past, I was hurt. I know that every time I open myself up, I was wounded. I know that every time that I done that, Lord, I've been kicked. But I'm going to trust you now because I I want to be found worthy. I want to have faith in my life. I want to have faith with power that works in me. So Lord, I am going to trust you. I'm going to enter into a covenant with you. I'm going to cut myself. I'm going to let your word cut me open. I'm going to let your word undress me. I'm going to let your word really expose everything that is within me. Lord, I'm going to open up myself to you because I want that light that Daniel 2:22 says. It says there that and light dwells with him. He knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with him. Okay. Our next scripture is 333.

Maybe Fred, you can read this one. It's on uh uh let's see uh Jeremiah uh 33. Jeremiah 33:3. It's two books to the left of where we were.

Yep.

Praise God.

Call me.

Now you hear that. God says, "Call upon me." Now what we're were saying in Daniel 2:22, God knows what lies in the darkness. He knows what lies on the secret place. So now God is saying, "Call to me and I will answer you." And look what in my translation it says, "And I will tell you great and uncarchable things you do not know." That sounds like deliverance to me. That sounds like deliverance to me. I'm going to I call unto me. You know, in in the Bible, it tells us in the Old Testament and the New Testament, they that call upon the Lord shall be saved. And of course, the word saved means deliver, heal, restore. They that call upon the Lord shall be fixed. They that call upon the Lord shall be made new be will be made renewed. So what does Jeremiah say? Call upon me and I'm going to show you things about you that you have no idea. See, God is able to go into that place of darkness. God, did you know that God can go all the way to the womb? Did you know that when you were conceived, I think it's six weeks? Six weeks, we're already pumping our own blood and we're able to receive sense of things. Did you know that the first thing that you sense when you're in the womb, that's our world. The the womb is our world where we're conceived and we're actually developed. that when we come out, we come out with everything that we need put together. But the very first thing that we feel in the womb is whether we were rejected or accepted. The very first thing that we feel in the womb is whether there's love or whether there's rejection. The first thing that we feel in the womb is whether there are curses upon us because that's where the demons ride. If you were conceived out of wordlock, if you were conceived by lust, if you were conceived unwanted, you know, all of those things can go all the way to there. And did you know that it's amazing, especially now that I'm 59 years old, my recollections of when I was a kid get less and less and less. You know, when I was younger, I could remember a lot of my youth. I remember things, but it seems like it's like a computer just gets to the end and then you have to bump delete some things out so that you can still put new stuff on. And usually the stuff that you get rid of is stuff from when you went back there. But you know, those things that go way to the back affect my personality today. You see, if I've experienced disappointment in the past when God says to me, speak and you will have what you ask for. Ask me and whatever you ask for, I will give it to you. If I had disappointment in in my heart and it's hidden in the dark part of my heart when I speak, there's a part of me that say, no, it's not going to happen because you ask your dad when you were two years old, dad, can you pick me up? And that was too busy with something else. Says, "Not now, son." And he just puts you to the side. Dad put a a a cut, a little cut up in there to where dad is not always going to pick you up. And you see, and when you said, "Mom, can I have this?" And mom was too busy and ignored you and rejected you in some kind of way. You see, all of those things build up in there. And then when daddy God, you come to him and and you say, "I have a need." And and you're moved by the word. You hear Fred preaching and and you find one of the promises and you say, "Daddy God, I need this." Immediately, there's a part of you way in there that is in darkness that you don't know, that you don't remember that's going to say, "Oh, you're going to be rejected. Don't you remember when your dad said no? When your mom said no? When your teacher said you were stupid? Did you know that all those words stupid, moronum, uh uh all of the things that had to do with with what you were talking about uh arrested development, all of those words arrest or hinder your being developed. So that by the time we grow up, we may be mature on the outside, but our maturity, our spiritual maturity has been hindered so much that we're just like kids. We have no understanding. But yet God says, "Call me. Call on me and I will show you things that you cannot retrieve by your own natural power." You see, God is in the business of computers. I believe God is is great at computers. Our mind, you know, computers are our pattern after our minds. You know, they have retrieval system. If you want to be good at remembering things, you have to associate them with something. You associate things with different things. So you associate uh uh things just like a computer and you're able to click. Well, guess what? God has your secret code to your computer. And God is able to bring things up that you need to settle in your heart. And that can only happen when you're well willing to go into a covenant with God. See, a covenant with God is different than just believing God. It's different than serving God. Uh it it's just like having a boyfriend or a g girlfriend. It's different than being married to them. Okay? You can do everything that married people do, but you can walk out anytime. In marriage, you can't do that. Marriage is a covenant that is witness by witnesses and that is sention by God. You see, and so you need to understand in the spiritual realm that God is not going to go to bed with us as if it were going to the intimacy of the bedroom of our heart unless we mean business with him. And unfortunately, there's too much of that child of Christianity today. We want to date God and we want to do all the things, but we're not willing to go all the way with him. And to go all the way with God, you have to allow him to cut you deep inside. You have to say, "God, okay." And you know, one of my prayers is, "Oh Lord, I always asking for the fire of God." But I said, "Lord, please give me the strength to endure the fire because the fire is not fun, man. Fire is hard." But you know, it's amazing how God, see, God has different priorities that we have. He said, "My thoughts are not your thoughts and my ways are not your way." We might think that the worst thing in us is our tattoo or our earrings or our hairdo or stuff like that. God might say, "You know what? I want to start with this little thing that happened to you when you were three years old." And he'll bring that to my my wife had a dream just the other day just so real to her. Uh she has a a brother I'm an uncle, Uncle Bob. And then uh he's older than your mom, right? in this dream that she had her uncle Bob just had what his 70th or 50th wedding anniversary something a big 60th 60th wedding a big family reunion so he's getting close to go home uh to go with the Lord well the Lord showed her in a dream I mean she's never heard this or anything this just revelation from God that he said some words to her mom because her mom was a lot younger when her mom was either a teenager yeah when she was very young she was real young when she was teenager that's what I And she called her what? I don't know what he said, but there were words that hurt her real deeply. Hurt it real deep. Now, her mom is already dead and going with the Lord. But you see, those words had an effect not only on her mom, but it passed out to all of her generation forces and stuff like that. And then the cleansing that the Lord is doing, he says, "You need to deal with this thing that was never dealt with in your family." Can you imagine that? Forgive. Yeah. To forgive him. She has to speak the words to forgive her uncle Bob for what her uncle Bob did to her mother. Now see, we have no idea what all of that entails. But God says, "You girls are being affected by what Uncle Bob said to your mom 60, 40, 50 years ago, whatever it was." And yet God was able to say to my wife through a dream. He said, "You need to He took her there. God actually took her there and said, "You don't need to know the words. You don't need what's going on. You just know that what he did offended your mom and your mom probably never got over that. And that was a notch in her heart that was passed down to you guys. You didn't even know it's affecting you. But I'm working deliverance on you. So here, forgive Uncle Bob. Once Uncle Bob is forgiven, whatever demons was attached to that are gone. Not only that, Uncle Bob is released. He can go down to the grave whenever his time comes to go. He's he's released from that. See, that's how God works. God works like that. But God has to be asked. If we read again in in in Jeremiah 33:33,

he says, "Call to me. Call to me. Call to me and I will answer you and I will tell you great and uncarchable things that you do not know." Unsearchable things. Unsearchable things to us. We cannot retrieve it. How can she retrieve something that she wasn't even there when this happened 50, 60 years ago? She wasn't even born yet. How can you? Well, God does. He knows your garbage. God knows your garbage. God reads your mail. God knows everything that's there. But God says, "Okay, call unto me." So, here we have 2 Thessalonians 1:11. God says, "I want you to have faith that works. I want I I I want you to be found worthy of my calling. I have a call upon your life." Remember, many are called, but few are chosen. Who are the ones that are chosen? The ones that have faith that works. It's that simple. Without faith, it's impossible to please God. So, your call, God wants you to be worthy of that calling. And in order for you to be worthy of that calling, you got to have faith that works. And in order for have to have faith that works, we need a heart that is not divided. We need an undivided heart. And in order to get an univarted undivided heart, you got to go to Daniel 2:22 and allow the God of light to come in into the place of darkness and to reveal those deep and secret things that are in there. And God is not going to come in there unless you call him to come in because Revelation 3:20 says, "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. And if anybody answers the door, opens the door, I will come in and I'm going to have fellowship. I'm going to sit and have dinner with you." See, back in those days, the more intimate thing that you could do with people was sitting at the table and having dinner with them. That's where the new covenant was made. That's where that's where the old covenant was made. People were supposed to gather and kill the lamb, put the blood. That's what the covenant was. So God is saying, "I want to be intimate with you. But you got to call me in. You have to invite me. And you have to be willing to allow me to cut you because you see faith is not going to work for you. You're not going to have no power in your faith unless I shine my light in your heart." Hebrews uh 20:27, the spirit of the man is the candle of the Lord searching all all the inward parts of the belly or the heart. This is where the different compartment that are in there. Listen, my friend, when you tell God, Lord, I want to expose whatever is in me that is not right, it's not going to be pretty. Okay? If you ever go into a closet that hasn't been open for a long time, going to be a lot of garbage there. Had a dream not that long ago going through this deliverance process that I've been going. It was um after I preach here two weeks ago about Leviathan and I was going through a bucket. I was cleaning and it was in my house back in Cuba, my my patio. And in this bucket there was all kinds of different cans of paint that were all and I was taking them and throwing them away. And then there was one that was still full that could be used and I saved that. And when I got to the bottom there was a can that had split open somehow and there was paint all over thick paint all the bottom. In other words, it was a mess and it was a mess to get into that. And then all of a sudden as I got into that I looked at the floor and right there was mud. the bottom of the thing became mud and all of a sudden in that mud there was the form of some kind of an animal. I said, "Man," because I was standing there and so I picked up a root that was in there and I poked the thing and it was this big giant alligator and I had been sitting there this whole time next to this alligator. You see, I was digging deep into my my pelite back into where Cuba was. That's what that symbolized. And you know what the thing I had in my hand? It was a root. It was a root partially like a bamboo root type of thing. And it had three stems on it. One was longer. That's what I poked the thing with. I got up and I read 11 uh Isaiah 11:1 where it says the root of Jesse, the root of Jesse, which is Jesus. The branch. He says the branch. The root of Jesse. That's what I poked this alligator with. This is a Leviathan that was hidden inside of me. This is part of my past that was in the mud that was there. And then I run to the house to get my wife and say, "Honey, you can't believe it. The place where we've been sitting, I'm ministering all this time. There's this big thing that was buried there. And by the time I get back with that root in my hand to get the thing, it was nothing but clear water. All the mud had clear out. And there was this alligator. You know, alligator is is another uh translation for Leviathan. Is the Lord showing me that if you go into a covenant, you begin to dig deep into the things that are there, the fountain. Zechariah says, "In that day, I will open up a fountain for for the cleansing from sin." That's what Jesus has done for us. He He is our fountain. In Isaiah said, "All of my fountains are in you, Lord." And he has given us the weapon. The weapon is the root of Jesse. And in that one, it talks about the the manifold wisdom of God, the seven spirit, the wisdom, the knowledge, the power. So you see, there's a step that I'm trying to put here. If we need it, we need the work of faith with power so that we can be found worthy, then we need to allow the God of light to come into our soul and reveal those deep hidden things. And it's not going to happen unless we ask God to give us those things that are unsearchable to us, but that God is able to expose. Now, let's go to 444. I don't know this. I I wrote this a week ago and I haven't done anything, but the Lord says chair and and don't even prepare. Just look him up. Ezekiel 44:4. Who wants to read that? Rich, can you do it over there? Ezekiel 44:4.

This is so neat. The Lord gave me this revelation when I was laying down and I just went and look for scriptures and look for the numbers. 3:44.

Do you get it? Do you get it? We are the temple. We're the temple of God. Where's the temple of the Holy Spirit? And what does 4:44 says? God brought me in through a gate. He brought me in through a door. And when I got there, the glory of the Lord came into the temple. You You got to see this. The glory of the Lord came after the light was brought into the darkness. After we ask the Lord to bring revelation, after we ask the Lord to expose what was in darkness, after we asked the Lord, Lord, I want you to cut me. I want to enter a co I want to enter into a covenant with you. I want you, Lord, to expose what to expose whatever is in me that will hinder the work of faith with power. I don't want to have a divided heart, Lord. I want your God to your word to cut me, to do the mismo, to expose, to heal, to strip me so that I can then have your glory. See, the Holy Spirit is not going to come when there's filth in there. You know, you you I I did a house for a doctor once. He was German, but he made his money in Venezuela. He developed a drug company or whatever and this guy made tons and tons of money and his wife this was many many years ago. She smoked like a like a shim. I mean continuous. She had this long long cigarette. She I don't know if they were called Virginia Slims or whatever. The cigarettes were like tw

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