Testimony given at Independence Christian Center, Oct. 10, 1999, by Paul Tucker, missionary,
recently ministering to the Ojibwa Indians in Canada.
My message this morning deals with ‘Reaching Your Destiny.’ Now, I don’t know what I’m
going to preach, but that’s my sermon topic. You know, during the course of a service anything
can change. But I’ve learned one thing, that there are certain keys that we need to recognize in a
service. And we’ve had several this morning.
The first things I’m going to tell you about is a little insight the Lord gave me in the first service.
As we were worshipping the Lord, suddenly, I saw what I described as an invisible wall that
seemed to be surrounding this community, this whole community. And I call it invisible simply
because we couldn’t see it. It was very real to me. It was a very high wall, a very thick wall,
but I saw this wall being dismantled bit by bit, piece by piece, board by board, post by post,
I saw it being dismantled. And I though in my mind, What is causing this to be dismantled, and
suddenly I saw a group of people that were praying. And I believe that somebody in this church,
a group of people, has been praying_how many have been praying?_there’s some kind of a
wall that’s coming down_I want you to know that_that’s being torn down.
And then the scene was changed and I saw a throne over this community, like a throne, a big
seat; and a big, dark, ugly looking character was sitting on this throne, and he was looking down
on this church with a big frown upon his face, at this church. He was very unhappy with what
was happening here, a look of disgust and disdain and disappointment, and as this group of
people over here was praying I suddenly saw a figure come to where this throne was at, which
I believe was the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, He’s the King of kings, and He’s the king over
every throne, and over every dominion_how many know that this morning?_and I saw Him
just kind of sit on this seat and go like this (bump)_you know_and suddenly this figure exited,
he was pushed off the throne, hallelujah, and I believe that God is bringing down principalities
and powers.
Oh, one other thing: I saw, in the Spirit I saw, that this wall had been built, erected generations
in the past because somebody, some generation in the past, did not take their rightful place and
did not hold on to the inheritance that God gave them and so an outside invader came in and
took possession of the territory that really belonged to God. How many know this community
belongs to God? Amen. I’m talking about the one true living God. And I’m not talking about
syncretism, if you know what syncretism is. That’s a mixture of all kind of conglomerates.
How many know that God doesn’t like mixed drinks? Amen. He likes the pure stuff, Amen?
Hallelujah. And so God is not content to have a lot of false leaven in the bread. So I believe
that God is establishing purity, and the Lord has a real destiny for this church, hallelujah.
And this former generation of people that relinquished what God gave them, the Lord gave me
a verse for this church, 1Peter two and verse nine, which says, You are a chosen generation.
This is the generation that’s going to make an impact on this community, hallelujah, Amen.
This is the generation right here, you’re the generation, praise the Lord. You’re the chosen
generation. God has a special mission for you. You are a people on a mission impossible,
hallelujah. How many of you want to a part of that team, Mission Impossible? Well, we’re
going to call it Mission Possible, because all things are possible with God. And God is going
to change the course of things.
Showing posts with label Vision. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vision. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Covenants vs. Vision
Covenants vs. Vision
I thought about Proverbs 29:18 KJV–“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law happy is he.” You can translate “vision” for prophecy, prophetic insight, and more. You can translate “perish” to become unruly, lawless, without (moral) constraint. I want to stick with “Where there is no vision, the people perish...”(Proverbs 29:18 KJV). I started out thinking that covenants are the bare minimum we are called to do while vision (prophecy) is the larger picture of where God desires to take us. I almost made them into an adversarial role with the “versus” as vision is where we are heading whereas covenants is about present and past agreements.
I changed my mind, and I believe that covenants and vision go hand in hand with each other. I want to use the examples of Caleb and Joshua. 12 “spies” (scouts, tribal leading men) were sent into the promised land. (See Numbers chapters 13 & 14.) 10 out of the 12 spies/scouts brought discouragement to the covenant people of Israel, and they had no faith in God to help them take the land. Caleb stated, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30 NRSV). The spies, other than Joshua (formerly Hoshea), said, “We are not able....” These discouraging, disbelieving tribal leaders focused on the size of the towns and giants among the land rather than the size of their God and His faithfulness to His covenants with them. The Lord God of Israel had brought them out of Egypt in a mighty way (Ex. 7:15-12:36, Ps. 78:12, 42-51), parted the Red Sea (Ex. 14:15-22, Ps. 78:13), drowned Pharoah’s chasing armies (Ex. 15:28-30, Ps. 78:53), guided them to the promised land (Num. 9:18, Ps. 78:14, 52), established the law and covenants through Moses (Ex. 19:1-31:18), fed them with manna and quails (Ex. 16, Num. 11, Ps. 78:23-29) yet they gave into disbelief. All of the scouts were leaders and followed the covenants of God. Only Joshua and Caleb had the vision and faith (Hebrews 11:1–“Assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...”) to take the “big step” that God was calling them to take. Everyone, without the vision/prophetic insight, died in the wilderness including the 10 discouraging spies/ tribal leaders and their followers. “Where there is no vision, the people perish....” literally and figuratively. Caleb remained faithful and young, strong, and healthy–same at 85 as he was at 40 (Joshua 14:11).
In conclusion, I believe that the covenants and vision go together like two hands or even two legs, and one can do more and get further with the two together then with only one by itself. Vision draws us forward into the prophetic promises of God while covenants keeps us grounded in how we are supposed to live out our relationship with God in our daily lives.
I thought about Proverbs 29:18 KJV–“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law happy is he.” You can translate “vision” for prophecy, prophetic insight, and more. You can translate “perish” to become unruly, lawless, without (moral) constraint. I want to stick with “Where there is no vision, the people perish...”(Proverbs 29:18 KJV). I started out thinking that covenants are the bare minimum we are called to do while vision (prophecy) is the larger picture of where God desires to take us. I almost made them into an adversarial role with the “versus” as vision is where we are heading whereas covenants is about present and past agreements.
I changed my mind, and I believe that covenants and vision go hand in hand with each other. I want to use the examples of Caleb and Joshua. 12 “spies” (scouts, tribal leading men) were sent into the promised land. (See Numbers chapters 13 & 14.) 10 out of the 12 spies/scouts brought discouragement to the covenant people of Israel, and they had no faith in God to help them take the land. Caleb stated, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” (Numbers 13:30 NRSV). The spies, other than Joshua (formerly Hoshea), said, “We are not able....” These discouraging, disbelieving tribal leaders focused on the size of the towns and giants among the land rather than the size of their God and His faithfulness to His covenants with them. The Lord God of Israel had brought them out of Egypt in a mighty way (Ex. 7:15-12:36, Ps. 78:12, 42-51), parted the Red Sea (Ex. 14:15-22, Ps. 78:13), drowned Pharoah’s chasing armies (Ex. 15:28-30, Ps. 78:53), guided them to the promised land (Num. 9:18, Ps. 78:14, 52), established the law and covenants through Moses (Ex. 19:1-31:18), fed them with manna and quails (Ex. 16, Num. 11, Ps. 78:23-29) yet they gave into disbelief. All of the scouts were leaders and followed the covenants of God. Only Joshua and Caleb had the vision and faith (Hebrews 11:1–“Assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen...”) to take the “big step” that God was calling them to take. Everyone, without the vision/prophetic insight, died in the wilderness including the 10 discouraging spies/ tribal leaders and their followers. “Where there is no vision, the people perish....” literally and figuratively. Caleb remained faithful and young, strong, and healthy–same at 85 as he was at 40 (Joshua 14:11).
In conclusion, I believe that the covenants and vision go together like two hands or even two legs, and one can do more and get further with the two together then with only one by itself. Vision draws us forward into the prophetic promises of God while covenants keeps us grounded in how we are supposed to live out our relationship with God in our daily lives.
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