RAISING UP A PROPHETIC GENERATION
in the Face of FEAR
2 Timothy 3:1 (KJV)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
furious :- fierce, perilous
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
However, in the midst of incredible decadence and depravity of our day,
God is raising up a prophetic generation that
will carry the spirit of Elijah.
They will be anointed to perform miraculous signs and
wonders and to accomplish great exploits for the
Kingdom of God. BY FAITH
Hebrews 11:1-3 (KJV)
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen.
from <G1680> (elpis); to expect or confide :- (have, thing) hope (-d) (for),
trust.
from <G1651> (elegcho); proof, conviction :- evidence, reproof.
2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
from <G3144> (martus); to be a witness, i.e. testify (literal or figurative) :-
charge, give [evidence], bear record, have (obtain, of) good (honest)
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report, be well reported of, testify, give (have) testimony, (be, bear, give,
obtain) witness.
3 Through faith we understand that THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED
BY THE WORD OF GOD, so that things which are seen were not
made of things which do appear.
The faith here exercised is confidence in the truth of the Divine
declarations in regard to the creation. The meaning is, that our
knowledge on this subject is a mere matter of faith in the Divine
testimony.
It is not that we could reason this out, and demonstrate that the
worlds were thus made; it is not that profane history goes back to
that period and informs us of it; it is simply that God has told us so
in his word. The strength of the faith, in this case, is measured
(1.) by the fact that it is mere faith-that there is nothing else on which
to rely in the case, and
(2.) by the greatness of the truth believed. After all the acts of faith
which have ever been exercised in this world, perhaps there is none
which is really more strong, or which requires higher confidence in God,
than the declaration that this vast universe has been brought into
existence by a word!
We understand-. We attain to the apprehension of; we receive and
comprehend the idea. Our knowledge of this fact is derived only from FAITH, and
not from our own reasoning.
Notes on the New Testament Explanatory and Practical.
); persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the
truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), a special reliance
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upon Christ; truth itself :- assurance, belief, believe,
faith, fidelity.
Notes For Verse 1
a [faith] Greek: pistis (GSN-<G4102>), faith (note, 2Th. 3:2).
Eighteen Definitions of Faith
- Substance of things hoped for (Heb. 11:1)
- Evidence of things not seen (Heb. 11:1,7)
- Invisible backing of elders (Heb. 11:2)
- Creative power of divine works (Heb. 11:3)
- Divine testimony of right doing (Heb. 11:4)
- Defies and Cancels of natural laws (Heb. 11:5) – Enoch was
translated—
Hebrews 11:5 (KJV)
5 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had
this testimony, that he pleased God.
- Basis of pleasing God (Heb. 11:6) –
Hebrews 11:5-6 (KJV)
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to
God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that
diligently seek him.
- Dependence upon God’s word (Heb. 11:7) -Hebrews 11:7 (KJV)
7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an
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ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the
righteousness which is by faith.
b [substance] Greek: hupostasis (GSN-<G5287>), a support; ground work;
confidence; subsistence; reality; essence (
c [things hoped for]
d [evidence] Greek: elengchos (GSN-<G1650>), proof. 2Tim. 3:16
e [things not seen]
Every stronghold in the church is a detriment
to what the faith of God can do!!!
Every ounce of FEAR AND UNBELIEF MUST BE MELTED AWAY
BY THE REFINERS FIRE OF LOVE.
IT IS A BAPTISM OF LOVE, LOVE, LOVE FOR GOD THAT
FOUNDED THIS CHURCH. RAW, YES BUT GREAT GRACE WAS
UPON THEM!!!!
Acts 4:33 (KJV)
33 And with Great Power Gave The Apostles Witness of the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and GREAT GRACE was upon them all.
CHURCH, JESUS can do the impossible with people,
who will believe him!
b [substance] Greek: hupostasis (GSN-<G5287>), a support; ground
work; confidence; subsistence; reality; essence
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Seeing Him Who is Invisible—Hearing Him who is
invisible.
This essential substance[faith] which constitutes deity in
body, soul, and spirit SCREAMS I CAN at your
impossibility…. BECAUSE I AM.!!!!
Philippians 4:13 (KJV)
13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth
me.
Faith sends us to do the impossible with
little to nothing to do it.- but a moral
conviction that it needs to be done.
So that He can get all the glory! WE don’t
need resources when He is the Resource. WE just
need to ASK!
2 Samuel 7:1-13 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round
about from all his enemies;
2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark
of God dwelleth within curtains.
3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in
thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.
4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying,
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5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to
dwell in?
6 Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out
of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.
7 In all the places wherein I have walked with all the children of Israel spake I a word with any
of the tribes of Israel, whom I commanded to feed my people Israel, saying, Why build ye not
me an house of cedar?
8 Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took
thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:
9 And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy
sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell
in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them
any more, as beforetime,
11 And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused
thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that he will make thee an house.
12 And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed
after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13 He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.
Don’t Worry- Don’t Be Anxious
Philippians 4:6 (KJV)
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
That is, be not anxious …does not mean that we are to exercise no
care about worldly matters—no care to preserve our property, or to
provide for our families, (1 Timothy 5:8;) but that there is to be
SUCH CONFIDENCE IN GOD as to free the mind from
anxiety, and SUCH A SENSE OF DEPENDENCE ON HIM
as to keep it calm. See the subject explained Matthew 6:25.
Matthew 6:25-34 (KJV)
25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and
the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet
your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
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27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil
not, neither do they spin:
29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into
the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or,
Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things.
33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things
of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Philippians 4:19 (KJV)
19 But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches
in glory by Christ Jesus.
–Vine’s Words: Accomplish, Accomplishment, Complete, Completion, Completely, End,
Ending, Fill, Fill up, Fulfill, Fulfilling, Fulfillment
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
— employment, i.e. an affair; also (by implication) occasion, demand,
requirement or destitution :- business, lack, necessary (-ity), need (-ful),
use, want.
Psalm 23:1 (KJV)
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The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
a primitive root; to lack; by implication to fail, want, lessen :- be abated,
bereave, decrease, (cause to) fail, (have) lack, make lower, want.
Strong’s Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary.
Let your LIGHT SHINE!!!
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Luke 8:16 (KJV)
16 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or
putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they
which enter in may see the light.
Luke 11:33 (KJV)
33 No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place,
neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which
come in may see the light.
1Ch 22:5,10,11 Father God’s Plan is still the local Church
(5) And David said, Solomon my son [is] young and tender, and the
house [that is] to be builded for the LORD [must be] exceeding
magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will
[therefore] now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly
before his death.
V (10) He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son,
and I [will be] his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom
over Israel for ever.
(11) Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and
prosper thou, and build the house of the LORD thy
God, as he hath said of thee.
1Ch 22:19 Now set your heart and your soul to seek the
LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary of
the LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and the
holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of the
LORD.
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1Ch 28:8-10- (8) Now therefore in the sight (of all Israel) (the
congregation of the LORD,) and (in the audience of our God), keep and
seek for all the commandments of the LORD your God: that ye may
possess this good land, and leave [it] for an
inheritance for your children after you for ever.-
What are we called to do? Build and
Plant
Jeremiah 1:10 (KJV)
10 See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the
kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to
throw down, to build, and to plant.
Nehemiah 2:5 (KJV)
5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have
found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto
the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it.
Nehemiah 2:17-18 (KJV)
17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how
Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come,
and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem,
that we be no more a reproach.
18 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good
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upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And
they said, Let us rise up and build. So they
strengthened their hands for this good work.
Nehemiah 2:20 (KJV)
20 Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will
prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build:
but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in
Jerusalem.
The Bible is all about repair
1 Kings 18:30-33 (KJV) Repair work at Mt. Carmel Contest
30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the
people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD
that was broken down.
31 And Elijah took twelve 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:
32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the
LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain
two measures of seed.
Why?
37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know
that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast
turned their heart back again.
38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and
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the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was
in the trench.
39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces:
and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is
the God.
Mockery from the Devil
Nehemiah 4:1-6 (KJV)
1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we
builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation,
and mocked the Jews.
2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said,
What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they
sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the
stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?
3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which
they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
4 Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their
reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of
captivity:
5 And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from
before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.
6 So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto
the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
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Nehemiah 4:13-20 (KJV)
13 Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher
places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their
spears, and their bows.
14 And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers,
and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them:
remember the Lord, which is great and
terrible, and “fight for your brethren, your sons,
and your daughters, your wives, and your
houses.”- it’s their inheritance!!!
15 And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto
us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all
of us to the wall, every one unto his work.
16 And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants
wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the
shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all
the house of Judah.
17 They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with
those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work,
and with the other hand held a weapon.
18 For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his
side, and so builded. And he that sounded the trumpet
was by me.
19 And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the
people, The work is great and large, and we are separated
upon the wall, one far from another.
20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye
thither unto us: our God shall fight for us.
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Nehemiah 6:15-17 (KJV)
15 So the wall was finished …
Proving Both the will of God and the
Word of God – Psalm 23:6 (KJV)
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days
of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for
ever.
2 Samuel 7:1-13 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round
about from all his enemies;
2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark
of God dwelleth within curtains.
3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in
thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.