Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine. I'm recording this on Sunday, April 16, 2023. Welcome. This message is called Unity with the Lord. Hallelujah. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word. We thank you for your blessing on your word. And we thank you that we have ears to hear and eyes to see and a heart to receive your word. that we may live it, apply it, walk it, and express it, and show it off to others, Father God. For you truly are a treasure that we're trying to share with the world so that they can grab onto this treasure as well. We thank you for your word, your mighty word, the mighty living word of God. And we thank you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Let's go to our opening scripture here. Unity with the Lord. We're going to start in Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Hallelujah. So what we want to realize and understand here when we walk into unity with the Lord is that God has three functions. He is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. So, I'm going to show you the scriptures of who he is. And as you can see, this is the son being born. But look what he says. Look at the mystery here at the very last sentence there. He says, "Everlasting father." Why does he say that? you know, he's the son of God and God and him work in tandem so well and we're adopted in as brothers and sisters with Jesus and yet he's called the everlasting father. That's incredible because we he we're the fruit that he reaps and that calls him father which also says that God the father, God the son, God the holy spirit even though they have three different functions they are the same walking in one accord. So how do we enter into that unified relationship of the three of them? They're in perfect tandem unity. You can't even tell them apart. When we say God, we're actually speaking to all three. When we ask for repentance, we're speaking to all three. When we ask him to be the Lord of our lives, we're speaking to all three. What is this that we can be a part of and know? Because I have to say, you guys really need to understand how this works. Look at what Jesus says because this is key right here. This is John 8:28. Then Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and I do nothing of myself, but as my father taught me, I speak these things." Now, you can see something going on here. Jesus is mimicking his father. Jesus. Anything the father says, Jesus is going to follow through and do, which is now giving us a clue of how to get into a unified relationship with the three of them. Look what Jesus said though. This is very powerful. Look at John 14:26. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. So here we've got three functioning parts of God being pulled together. And all three of them are for the goal of the purpose that the heavenly father has, whatever that may be. Daniel 9:24, bringing into sin, bringing into iniquity, to close up vision and prophecy. These are where God is going. And so if we're going to be in unity with God, then we need to be on that same path. Which means we need to understand how God the Father works, how God the Son, and what he did works. Notice it's today, not past tense. And how the Holy Spirit works, which is who we have here today with us. We need to understand how they work together in tandem. And we need to join in. Let's go here to Ephesians. Ephesians 4 1-6. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called. I want to pause there. Part of entering into the unity with God is to enter into ministry and to go forth with whatever the calling is in your life. And it could be just simply here in the beginning if you're a new cre uh Christian, new creation, your ministry could simply be smiling and expressing the joy of the Lord. But as the Lord works in you, you're going to find the things that he is working in you to get you to. In my case, I'm called to teach and preach the word of God, and that's what I do. So he shows me the scriptures and he gives me the revelation of the little mysteries that are going on so I can teach it to you whatever he's willing to reveal. But that is my calling. But I do that because I get in unity with God. I've joined hands with all three. Now notice look what he says here. Worthy of the calling for which with which you were called with all loneliness and gentleness with longsuffering bearing with one another in love. There is a transformation that takes place within your spirit the moment you enter. And I am not talking sanctification or salvation. Now I am talking about the understanding of justification and glorification. Because see when we grab hands with God the father. So you got the father, God the son, and God the holy spirit. And then Lisa, you take the four of us together and we're complete. and how God can move his ministry forward because I line myself up with him. Let's continue to read this. Notice it's loneliness and gentleness, longsuffering, bearing with one another, endeavoring to keep, look at this, the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace, the unity of the spirit. You see, we are a body made in his image. And in this body, we have the body, the flesh. We have the soul, our conscience, and then we have the spirit of God that he blew into the nostrils of Adam that continues to perpetuate throughout the generations. So, we're a three-part, but notice we're not in unity. Why? Because the flesh is in sin. We don't spend all time in the presence of God. You see, God is outside of time. So, we have to rest. We have to sleep. So, we have to be in the element of time because we were born into sin. But all three parts need to come together in unity just like God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Let's continue on with Ephesians here. We're in verse four. There's one body and one spirit. Now see something here. Just as you were called in the hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all. Notice this, and in you all. You see, when we're in perfect unity in tandem with God, there's only one, and it is God moving forward. We're just in line with him, behind him, moving forward by the anointing, the pressure of the numa, the Holy Spirit pushing us. Yes. It pushes our conscience. It pushes our soul. And guess what? When we spend time with God and we let the Holy Spirit do that to us, our flesh follows. It might be the last, but it gets there. I'm telling you. I am telling you we can come into that perfect unity with God. Look it it t it it takes our action though we have to do something. Look at what Philippians says. Philippians 2:5-11. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Okay. So watch this. So Christ Jesus had the mind to follow what his father said. And so now it says, well, we got to put the mind of Christ on us. And guess what that means? We have to follow what the father says. And so the three, four of us with the Holy Spirit working in tandem in unity, pushing forward. Let's continue on. Look at this. Who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. Whoa. Whoa. Hold on here just a moment. Jesus knew he was equal with God because he's the one who said, "Let there be light." And there was light. So he's the power behind all of this. But he humbled us himself. He put himself into this creation. You know, if you ever make something for yourself, let's say you make a sweater and it's the wrong size or you make a paper castle, you try to step into it. What happens is the body doesn't fit. It's not right. But Christ entered his creation and it was perfect. He redeemed us through the remission of sins. This is what he did. He purposed this. So here you can see, look at the scripture says he did not consider robbery to be equal with God. If we have to be like Christ, we're not being robbers of saying we're equal to God. The difference is we understand what our flesh can do. And this is where now we have to purposely put the mind of Christ on and walk forward and tell our flesh, get in line. Hallelujah. Let's continue on verse seven. But made himself of no reputation. And this is this is so powerful. Jesus knew he was changing the world. Knew he was going to be the most popular person ever to exist on the planet. And yet look at how humble and gentle and low that he was. He He didn't promote himself. People promoted him through the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does this part. Look what he does though. He says, "Taking the form of a bondervant and coming in the likeness of men." Because see now he had to come like a man to see well what we're going through but to fulfill prophecy and to place his blood on the mercy seat. so that you might be saved. Notice the key word there, might, you got to take that action. You got to repent. And if you want to be in unity with Christ, which is the next step, this is how you walk in Christ. This is how you move forward with Christ. This is how you move in ministry. Then it is time to put down the world, let it go, and die to it. And as you put the mind of Christ on, you grab hands with God the Father, who's also holding the Son's hand, who's holding the Holy Spirit. And the four of you together move forward to make disciples of men to reap the harvest. Oh, hallelujah. Hallelujah. What a powerful word. Look at this verse eight. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Therefore, God has highly exalted him and given him the name which is above every name. Pause. God is the one exalting him. God says, "This is my son. I'm well pleased with him." Oh, hallelujah. And you put the mind of Christ on. God is well pleased with you as well. Oh, catch this. Grab this because you wait till you see what happens when you move forward with this. Look at this verse 10. That at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow of those in heaven and of those on earth and of those under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. Oh my goodness, the power and the authority that you have just by speaking the name of Jesus. Romans 10:9 when it says that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord you will and believe with your heart you will be saved. That is the power you have. You have this power and God is waiting on you. You have the power to put on the mind of Christ. You have the power to grab on to God's hand and hold on tight because you are moving forward in his name by the choice you make. Not just salvation and mercy, but by the choice you make because it is God and that is whom you love and serve. Oh, what a powerful powerful word of God. And you know when this happens, you get filled with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. The helper, the comforter is here with you. Just like the day of Pentecost. Let's go look at the day of Pentecost. Because you need to be aware of this because now what happens when you putting on the mind of Christ, it is a spiritual matter that you're taking on. Your flesh is pushed down because you're saying, "Nope, I ain't got time for you flesh. You're not going to be the stronghold of me." No, Jesus is my stronghold. The Holy Spirit is my stronghold. I move forward in them. You prophesy that. You speak it. And you have the anointing of the Holy Spirit come out of you wherever you're at. You could be at the gas station. You can be at the grocery store. People will feel it and know it and will ask because they will sense the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit's moving in them. And he's going to give you the right words to say. Look at the day of Pentecost. Look at scripture. Acts 2 1-4 when the day of Pentecost had fully come, which we saw earlier. Jesus said that I'm going to prepare you. You're you're going to have to wait for the Holy Spirit. Look at they did it. They obeyed. They were all in one accord. Look at this. In one accord, in one place in obedience to God. The moment you grab onto God's hands, you are in unity. You are in one accord with God and you are holding hands. And the anointing of the Holy Spirit now is ready to bubble out of you. Oh my goodness. This is awesome. Listen. Says, "And suddenly, oh, I love it. You're You're not even going to be expecting it." "And suddenly came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues as if as on as a fire and one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance. Now you are baptized with fire. Do you understand this is not just the water that germinated the seed and caused growth for you to mature where now you say, "Hey, I can take on that mind of the mind of Christ." Because see, the Holy Spirit had matured you enough to realize I can be with God. I can be in unity with him. I can boldly go to him. I can be like Christ. Look, now I pick up the mind of Christ. And now here comes the baptism of the Holy Spirit. tongues of fire come out of you. Now you're burning things around you. Oh my goodness. You guys got to catch this. You guys got to catch this. You got to understand that the unity in the Lord with the Lord, submitting and humbling yourself to the mission of God is where in one accord the power and the authority of God is going to move and work in around you. And you know what? But when you're in your secret place with the Lord and you're praying, that goes forward because God honors and respects those in his presence and he blesses and he answers your prayer. You ask for rain, he brings rain. You ask for healing, he heals you. You ask for deliverance, he delivers. You ask for the harvest, the harvest will be reaped because you asked and he's been waiting on you. Look at the power. I I want you to realize how much power and authority you have. Let's go back to the Old Testament and look at what God said about unity here in one accord. Let's remember this is um this is where Nimrod was building a tower before the Lord. Genesis 10:5-6. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said indeed the people are one and they all have one language and this is what they begin to do. Now, nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Oh my goodness, that's awesome. You guys have to understand when you get into the presence of God, you're the power. You're the authority with the name of Jesus. Our government is not in charge. The police aren't in charge. You should be righteously angry right now because the devil came in and hasn't taught you or has deceived you in such a way to make you feel like you're a nobody, like you mean nothing, like you can't do anything. Well, I'm here to tell you under the boldness and the confidence of the Holy Spirit that you've got so much power that the moment you go into your secret place and you ask God to change our government, he will. the moment you go into it and he will manifest himself and he will make things happen or he may even come back says you know what this is my plan leave this alone let's concentrate on this let's focus on this this is that relationship that you begin to have with the holy one and in unity and in one accord that is absolutely incredible and I want you to understand that God never tires ers never wearies of you. In fact, he's going to keep giving you strength. Look at the scripture. Let's go there. Isaiah 40 28 through31. We just heard uh Dr. Dora share this today at Bundy Canyon Christian Church. She used the scripture. Look at this. Have you not known? Have you not heard the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth? By the way, that's who you're in unity with. You put on the Christ, the mind like Christ. You come into unity with him. This is him. He's the everlasting God. He's the Lord. He's the creator of the ends of the earth. He never fails. He doesn't faint. He never is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. He gives power to the weak and to those who have no might. He increases strength. Even the youth shall faint and be weary. And the young men shall utterly fall because that's our flesh. Our flesh is last to come into unity. It faints. It falls short of the glory of God. But God, look what he does. But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. You go into a congregation, your wings should be extending out and should be touching the other wings in the sanctuary. And you should not be weary. You should not be tired. And if you are feeling that way, you have to put on the mind of Christ. You have to take that action and come into unity with God. Even if you have to just say it, it you're tired. You want to say you're tired. No, Lord. You know what? I'm in you. You're my strength. I give you the glory and the honor. Oh, how powerful. And then you come walking in not weary, not faint. You come in with the authority, the fire of the Holy Spirit, and it comes out of you. People know it, sense it, and they want you to pray for them. They want to repent. They want to give God the glory. And you're there to help them do it. Oh my goodness. Hallelujah. And you know what? God built this into creation. I'm going to show you a little revelation here that I think is so awesome. The Lord just showed this to me the other night. Watch this. This is in Genesis 2 10-14. Says, "Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden and from there it parted and became four riverheads. The name of the first is Bishon. It is the one who which skirts the whole land of Havala where there is gold and the gold of that land is good. Delium and Onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Guehon. It is the one which goes around the whole land of Kush. The name of the third river is Hiddakel. It is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. Now watch this. Oh my goodness. God is so good. I just love him. When you grab on to unity with God, there's God the Father, there's God the Son, and there's God Jesus the Holy Spirit. And then there's Lisa or you. You put your name in there and there's four of you. Now notice, look at what he said here. A river went out of Eden to water the garden. So Eden is the very first city that ever existed on the earth. And God built a garden there called the garden of Eden. And he placed Adam there. And this river came through Eden. One river, one body of water came into Eden, watered Eden. Eden is the place you come in to unity with God because all four of you are there as one. Are you catching this? Notice what he said afterwards though. He said,

"And from there it parted and became four river heads." Now, I want you to see something else here. So awesome, so amazing. The four of you go forward into the areas that God has called you to go into. God does his part. The Son does his part. The Holy Spirit does his part. We do our part. Now, notice it talked about the gold. When we go into ministry for Christ and we choose put on the mind of Christ, we choose to enter into this and we decide to walk forward to share the good news and to bring out men to be disciples. We generate gold that cannot be burned when we go to judgment. Let's go look at the scriptures. 1 Corinthians 3:9. Let's start there. For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field. You are God's building. I wanted to include that because I want you to understand when you come into unity, you submit. Humble yourself before God. And whatever his plan is, you go forward to promote it, to support it, to live it. You're that. Look at what did he call you? You are God's field. You are God's building. The people will come to you. You can be out on the street. They don't even know what's going on. All they know is the Holy Spirit's nudging them. And it's going to be something you say that's going to cause them to believe. Oh, fire of tongues. Oh my goodness. Let's continue on. Verse 12. Now, if anyone builds on this foundation, look at this. with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw. Each one's work will become clear, for the day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test each one's work of what sword it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss. but he himself will be saved. Yet so as through fire. Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy which temple you are. So whatever ministry you are in, God is going to burn it with the fire of the Holy Spirit. And it's going to burn. It's going to hurt. But if you're doing it for gold under the unified relationship of God the Father, the mind of Christ, and the Holy Spirit, the gold will not dissipate. It will still be there after it's gone through the purification of the fire from the Holy Spirit. If you're doing something though that's one foot in the world, one foot in Christ, and you you got some straw going, a hay going, it's going to burn, and you're going to lose everything. That is the way this works. This is now not salvation. This is making the decision to live in unity with God and to move forward under his guidance, under his direction. This is where the grace of God comes in now because it is a perfect free gift that you get to receive. You don't have to do anything. You don't have to work for it. Is free. But when you encounter a grace like that where all of a sudden you know you see it takes a knowledge you know that you said Jesus is the son of God. You said Jesus I messed up and you said Jesus if I believe and I'm talking to you Jesus because I can't see you. That's me believing. You said I will be saved. That salvation then grows and it comes into now I'm going to wear the Christ the mind of Christ. You're going to mature and you're going to realize I want to be with God because it is the better place and it's going to affect my eternity. But at the same time, this love starts to grow in you. You change, you transform. And this love says, "I got to get people saved. Oh Lord, how do I minister to them?" I sit here every night in my little time with the Lord and I ask him, "How can I express my word? How can I express your word through my mouth and share to help people re realize and believe the importance of walking with God? You can't have one foot in the world and one in God. You're saved, but you're going to burn and it's going to hurt. You're saved, but you burn and it hurts cuz all the straw, all the hate, by the way, that ignites the fire even more. That's how it burns even more. God is shaking the Christian faith, the church. He is showing us the better way. Not through the law, not through rules and regulation, but through a new wine, through his anointing, Holy Spirit. So that that fire burns up through us, comes out of us, and we know, we know, we know, we know that we've grabbed on to God. He knows my name and I know his name and I know exactly where I need to go, where I need to be and I know the will of God for me. In my case, it is to teach and preach the word of God. In your case, it could be a simple smile. It could be just showing love. It could be just feeding them with food and hunger. It could be just being the perfect housewife or mother. Whatever it may be that the Lord has called you to be, you stand. Stand and let the fire come out of you. Let it burn. Let it get rid of the junk. It hurts, but let it change in here so that you're walking in the grace of God, in unity with God. Imagine you have that authority to say the name of Jesus. That should make you shake and tremble. That should make you go, "What am I doing?" Lord, why am I not so focused on you, Lord? I need you to be Lord of my life. Lord, I need you to heal and take care of this this body because this body is dragging behind me. Lord, I need you to be Lord over my body. Lord over my spirit. Lord over my heart, over my mind. Lord, I put the mind of Christ on. I grab hold of your hands and I come together with you in unity and I submit and humble myself to you and your will. Your Lord of my life, you take me where you plan to put me. And I promise you, he will move you in ways that you never even thought you could be or do or anything. I I never thought I could actually be. I always knew I'd be a preacher or teacher one day, but I never realized how much of the anointing of the Holy Spirit I would get in with and how much more there was here. In fact, it was such a humbling experience that I just wanted to back off and say, "I I'm not worthy enough to share your word." But God He says, "You're my daughter.

That's my God." He says, "I will put my word in your mouth and it will go forth and it will not return void. That's my God. And I stand in unity with him. I may not understand everything about him. I may not understand all the mysteries of the world. But the one thing I do understand is that he forgave me of my sins and that he is asking me to put on the mind of Christ and to walk in that. Oh, hallelujah. What a powerful word of God. Amen. Let's pray together. Say this prayer with me. We're going to repent and we're going to turn our lives around and we're going to ask God to put the mind of Christ on us. Dear Jesus, dear Jesus, I ask you to forgive me of my sins.

I ask you to help me put my hand in your hand. I ask you to be lord of my mind. I I ask you to help me pick up the mind of Christ and to put it on. I ask you to help me survive the burning of the fire, not just for salvation, but for the riches of the gold and what else you have for us in eternity. Lord, it is more important to me that you move forward and I'm just here to tag along. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your wisdom. Thank you for your knowledge. Let me walk in those with you in the name of Jesus. Amen. Wow. I am honored and blessed. God bless you and I will see you in the next message. Amen. Bye.