Harnessing Adversity for Spiritual Growth! ... English

AM with Evangelist Rema Duncan

What if the key to unlocking your spiritual potential lies in embracing the challenges life throws at you? Join us as we explore the transformative journey of apostolic ministry, inspired by the recent spiritual breakthroughs in Mongolia. Discover how maintaining a sense of awe and gratitude can shape your spiritual DNA, and learn why staying rooted in deep spiritual practices like prayer and Bible study is essential to preserving divine connection. Reflect on the rich legacy of faith and sacrifice from previous generations, and understand how these foundations continue to shape our spiritual experiences today.

Embark on a journey to find your flow amidst adversity and life's pressures. We delve into how perseverance and commitment in difficult times can reveal new dimensions of personal growth and lead to miraculous outcomes. Through captivating metaphors and stories, be encouraged to trust your unique path and embrace transformation with humility and preparation. Understand that true strength is forged through life's experiences, and even if the world doesn't recognize your name, staying true to your journey will enable you to contribute to something greater and enduring.

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Chapters

• 0:00 The Flow of Apostolic Ministry
• 18:50 Discovering and Stepping Into Your Flow
• 33:36 Embracing the Flow of Transformation

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:47

Keep your hands lifted this morning. Praise God, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. He is great and greatly to be praised. He is mighty, hallelujah. He never lost the battle. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Come on, if you can't think of anything else to give him praise for today, go ahead and magnify him for the mighty victory that he won last night.

Speaker 1: 1:16

hallelujah with all your heart all your soul in the name of jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God, praise God. If you remain standing, we'll turn. In the book of Genesis, hallelujah, chapter 26, verse 17. Praise God, 17, praise God, praise God. I'm probably going to take a little bit of a different pace this morning, but I am so thankful for what God has done in the nation of Mongolia. What a victory.

Speaker 2: 2:10

What a victory, what a victory.

Speaker 1: 2:30

Hallelujah. I feel to give a sharp warning this morning to all of those that you may be what you would call a generational apostolic, or you've been in church for a long time, or maybe you've been on crusades for several times. I warn you this morning not to lose the awe of what God has done, of what God has done. I know that you're a native to atmospheres that you experienced this week Hallelujah, but these people are not Hallelujah, and this week will be talked about for history. Do you realize you're writing the pages? Hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 3:15

Of apostolic history Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God. Oh so good, stay right here and just begin.

Speaker 2: 3:35

I'm so thankful I'm so honored Lord.

Speaker 1: 3:55

Thank you, lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 2: 4:03

Hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 4:04

Praise God. Before we go into scripture, just clap your hands and thanks. Clap your hands and thanks. Thanks to God for trusting us with this moment. Trusting us with this moment. Praise God. Gerar and dwelt there. Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham. His father, for the Philistines stopped them after the death of Abraham and he called their names after the names by which his father called them Hallelujah. And Isaac, a servant, digged in the valley and found there a well of springing water. Hallelujah, hallelujah, you can be seated today. Hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 5:09

There are some things I feel like the Lord wants to highlight this morning, as we are gathered here experiencing the making of an apostolic witness in a part of the world that didn't have a huge or much of an apostolic witness. Hallelujah, and we are coming alongside an apostolic family that has given much. I don't know you, I don't know where you've been recently, this week, but you have given much. You have sacrificed much, not just to come to Mongolia, because your sacrifice predates this appointment and your sacrifice qualified you for disappointment. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 6:20

There are streams and flows of the spirit of God that he wants us to tap into what you're seeing here this week and what you're experiencing is not a one-off. It's not God's intention for this to be a one-off experience. It is God's intention for you to make this part of your DNA. This has to get in you, not on you. This is not something that you just felt it so you did it. No, this is going to become part of your bloodline, it's going to be your DNA. You cannot afford to go back to the way you did church prior to that. Okay, but to sustain that and the difference between it being in you and on you, everybody say it's flow, it's flow, it's flow, it's flow.

Speaker 1: 7:31

This is not just for a meeting and an event. It's flow. This is not just for a meeting and an event. It's flow. God wants you to walk in it. I think I was talking to Brother Marks here. We were talking about people and their proximity to knowing God, and I remember the statement while he was talking that was referred to my wife and I while we were going through some premarital counseling, and the statement was you never know someone until you live with them. Amen, amen. You're going to live with this. Live with this. This is your life. Brother Tacker, this is not a trip.

Speaker 2: 9:22

This is your life.

Speaker 1: 9:23

This is your life, and to sustain that from this point on, you're going to have to do some digging. You're going to have to get beneath the surface no surface prayers, no surface bible study. You're going to have to do some digging. You're going to work to keep this, because when we leave this place, the familiarities of what was will fight your new life. It's not that you weren't apostolic before this, but we go from faith and stepping up into this new dimension that God wants you to walk in. You're going to have to do some digging and find a flow, and that's what I want to talk about this morning Finding the flow, finding the flow.

Speaker 1: 10:32

The flow predates us. The flow, the flow predates us. We're not just here walking in something that man. We just kind of stumbled on this and discovered that God can move like this here. No, this predates us. It predates Apostle Robinette, it predates us. There are men that dug things out in the Holy Ghost that we are living in right now, and I want you to lift your minds from the physical now, because I'm not talking about geographically, I'm talking about in the spirit here, what we are walking in, what we are part of the apostolic ministry and mentoring and atmospheres have been dug out in the spirit by much prayer, much fasting, much sacrifice and obedience to the Holy Ghost. And I want to say this carefully, but I'm going to be biblical here. No one can give this to you.

Speaker 2: 11:32

That's right.

Speaker 1: 11:35

I can't give you a mantle, brother fish. No one can give you a mantle. We talk about mantles and how things are transferred, and when we're talking about this flow and finding that flow that people dig for, um, we cannot just, by association, walk in the things that we have seen. Okay, it's not your proximity to Brother Robinette, it's not buddying up, it's not ambition, it's anointing. And you find that by doing your own digging. I'm going to take my time here because I need you to understand how this works. This works by you picking up the tools that were used before and finding the place where the flow was and dig there.

Speaker 1: 12:42

I believe in our generation we're going to tap into some things. Hallelujah, that probably hasn't been tapped into for a long time, and the Bible says there are wells here that were already dug, but they lacked access. There was no access to these things that former generations were utilizing, and when Isaac stumbles upon this place, he knew where it was. His father did these things, but he didn't inherit it. And I'll just go ahead and say this too I don't care what your pedigree is. Somebody said the other day I don't have a pedigree, you don't need one, it's irrelevant to an apostolic atmosphere. You need to do your own digging Amen. His father couldn't give him those wells. He had to go back to those wells and do his own digging. Amen, his father couldn't give him those wells, he had to go back to those wells and do his own digging. Amen.

Speaker 1: 13:41

And if you're going to sustain the flow of what God is trying to do in you, you're going to have to pick up the tools that were already used and find the place that had already been discovered and do your own digging, because mantles cannot be given to you. Biblically, mantles are not even caught. Biblically, elijah cannot give Elisha a mantle. We know that the mantle fell, but Elisha didn't even catch it. He was just there at the right place to see where it was laying. And you must pick it up, get in the atmosphere and pick up some things that have been left for you. Hallelujah, because God wants us to, things that have been left for you. Hallelujah, because God wants us to live in the flow. And the flow that I'm talking about here is not just the flow of miracles, it's the flow of the spirit. The miraculous is attached to that. But, as we notice here, miracles, the purpose of miracles is for the message.

Speaker 2: 14:56

Yes, it is, that's right.

Speaker 1: 15:01

Jesus abraded Capernaum Because so many miracles were done in Capernaum, but yet they still didn't get it. They couldn't even repent and he rebuked them, although they had the miraculous. Now let me tell you something this morning you must understand the purpose of living in an apostolic flow. And, brother Fish, it is for the purpose of soul winning, not for the purpose of self-aggrandizement, that you have power, but we must use it to find the stream where souls can be saved. Let's stop right here. Oh, oh, shut up. I'm going to lay out through scripture here how this access becomes available to us, and you have to pay attention to some of these details. You might just read over, but the Bible says that when Isaac went to this place, he decided to set up camp. Where was this? Everybody say a valley. A valley, not the mountain. That's where you're going to find the flow.

Speaker 1: 16:42

You always wonder why certain things are needful and necessary to us that God does not stop and God allows in our life, and we don't want them to happen. We wish they wouldn't happen, but God never stopped it. It's not that God doesn't love us. It's not that God is trying to punish you. It's not that, god. There are things that are needful. Why? Because if he doesn't allow that to happen, you won't find the flow. It's just our human nature. So he leads you into a valley, and don't rush out of that valley, because that's where you're going to find access.

Speaker 1: 17:30

Let me prophesy to somebody right now that's why it happened, that's why they turned on you, that's why God allowed them to hurt you, because there's a dimension of flow that you would not find unless that pressure of that pain forced you into a place to get beyond the surface and find the streams under our feet that God wants us to. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. That's why you had to live with that misunderstanding for the fish. That's why you had to deal with those people that you trusted so much and all of a sudden, it seems like they're against you. The pressures are coming against you. You don't know why. You don't even know what you did. You're trying to figure out what you did wrong, but it's not about what you did wrong. It's about what God is fixing and doing right so you can get to a deeper level and get into a stream.

Speaker 2: 18:50

that's been there in the valley. It's been there, it's been there, sister.

Speaker 1: 18:57

That bird's been there. It's been there. It's been there, sister. Leopard's been there. It's been there for you and your husband. It's been there. Lift your hands right now. It's been there, sister leopard. You wouldn't have found that dimension had he not pushed you down. Oh, hallelujah, the pressure Caused you to get so low and the only place you can go is deeper.

Speaker 2: 19:36

Hallelujah and the only place you can go is deeper.

Speaker 1: 19:43

Hallelujah, this is how it goes. Welcome to the big leagues. You get to this valley, you're going to start digging. You're going to begin to find something. I will say they found a well there springing up water, and they're in the valley now. The well was there before they got there. But as soon as they start doing the work, they're going to find something. As soon as they tap in and things start springing up. Now they want to fight you for something they could have done for themselves. Come on.

Speaker 2: 20:37

All right.

Speaker 1: 20:45

It was always there, brother Robinette. Others could have done it, but they didn't want to work, they didn't want to sacrifice, they didn't want to trust, they didn't want to obey. They ran when the pressure hit their family members and things started messing with their minds and their emotions and you had to deal with the extenuating circumstances outside of ministry, that kind of hinder. Your ministry, hallelujah. But oh, hallelujah, because you chose to sit on camp Right there. You were unafraid to dig. God said it's yours, it's yours, my God. You were unafraid to dig. God said it's yours, it's yours.

Speaker 1: 21:34

They're going to fight you for your flow, but don't stop Because even if they fight you for that well, you got what it takes to keep fighting it. Just keep going. It doesn't matter where you go. You're going to find it, hallelujah. You might be in the Baltics, you're going to find it. The enemy might try to push you out. You're going to find it in Mongolia. The enemy might try to push you. You're going to find it in Dawson Springs. The enemy might try to push you out. You're going to find it in Mongolia. The enemy might try to push you. You're going to find it in Dawson Springs. The enemy might try to push you again. Hallelujah. It doesn't matter where you go. As long as you have those tools and you start getting beneath the surface, god's going to allow you to tap in to a flow. Hallelujah, that everybody's going to want.

Speaker 2: 23:15

Lay your hand on the neighbor next to you. Ahead and start the music.

Speaker 1: 23:19

So don't you let that devil keep you away from your extended fast. Don't you let that devil keep you away, hallelujah, from pushing away from certain attachments and certain friendships, hallelujah, that will try to drain you because they don't understand your flow. Hallelujah, you tap in and you lock in, hallelujah, because your flow is going to feed them too is going to feed them too, hallelujah. So he dug in the valley and wait for a good opportunity. Didn't wait for a perfect circumstance and conditions, brother Lopez. He dug where he was.

Speaker 1: 24:10

He digged in that valley and he found the flow. They fought him for the flow and he did what he did to find the first flow and he found another flow. And they fought him for the flow and he did what he did the first two times and found another flow. And he did what he did the first two times and found another flow. And the enemy realized that I am not going to stop his flow. And here's what he named that last place Rehoboth, which means there is room. Can I speak to you right now?

Speaker 1: 24:50

You might think that there's no room for you because there's so many others. Brother Gleason, keep digging. The truth is, you might be in a concentrated area where there's several that might be gifted, several that might be used, several that might be in positions, but God never had a problem using people without positions. We have enough positions. We don't have enough flow. We don't have enough flow and that's what God is wanting to release in the atmosphere as we are experiencing what he's doing for this apostolic family. So he had a room. That means the enemy backed up. Gave him room, because it doesn't matter what I do, he's going to keep doing what he's doing and he's going to keep finding the flow, and it seems like the more I put pressure on him to stop is the more access points he finds, and that's what God's going to do with you. Put your hands right now, in the name of Jesus.

Speaker 2: 26:13

Oh, oh, don't you get discouraged because of the jealousy, because of the pressures, hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 27:19

It comes with the territory of your flow, hallelujah. It comes with it. Every time God wanted to make a major move amongst his people. He led them to a place of flow, led them to the Red Sea when they were shifting from an Egyptian atmosphere into pursuing promise, and at that point there was no way to move forward. We know the story. They pass the Red Sea by a strong east wind, they go through the flood, they're going through the flow to get to the other side. Everybody say the miraculous goes before us. The miraculous goes before us. That happens when there's a measure of deliverance in the room. The miraculous goes before you. But when it's time to step into promise, you go before the miraculous. At the point of Jordan, before they crossed over, there was no wind.

Speaker 2: 28:31

They had to step in the flow.

Speaker 1: 28:35

And when they stepped in, then the miraculous. So it's not enough to find a flow, you got to step in. And when you step in, I feel this for somebody today that God has led you to this point in your ministry where the miraculous led your decisions and led your direction, hallelujah. But in this level of flow, you are going to have to know the mind of God so much that you know what steps to take to release the miraculous. So you will move, then God will move. Prior to this flow, god moved and you followed, but now God has caused the flow to come behind you and you must go forward by faith. And in that dimension of the gifts of faith, hallelujah. You will step in. And then God when he sees your act of faith, hallelujah. When there is no wind, you will see the miracles follow. In this dimension we don't follow miracles. Miracles follow us. Follow miracles, miracles follow us. Run those. So to your level, to run on all of us, mmm and I'm gonna have a little bit of a lava, lava corral dose of oil.

Speaker 2: 31:06

I will move you from strength to strength. I will move you for your wells. As you dig deep, you find my flow. As you dig, the suffering and the things that you have endured you have dug down into my flow, which I then flood, and I flood your wells and those wells that you dig. I will remove them and make them bigger, For I will take you from little strength to great strength as I move you into Zion saith the Lord.

Speaker 2: 31:45

I will walk with you through the valley. I will be with you on the top, but you must know the path that I have ordained before you. Walk with me in the flow and I will bring you from strength to strength and I will make it rain for you.

Speaker 1: 32:24

Find the flow, step in it. And the last component is to stay in it. Don't step out, stay in it. We all know that story about David defeating Goliath and I want to be very careful how I frame this because I don't want you to misunderstand or misquote me.

Speaker 1: 32:59

Saul wanted to equip this next generation. He wanted to give it to them. They couldn't use it, had not proven it. That's not what God did in him, and there's going to be elders that want to give stuff to you. Brother Marks, you can't use it. It's not yours. You didn't dig that out.

Speaker 1: 33:29

You know where he went. He put aside all of his armor, all of the sword. I tell you that's kingly weaponry. Surely, if I'm wearing this, if everybody saw me with this on, no, can't do it. This battle is too important for me to just look good, I'm going back to where I know the real weapons are and you know, when I walk up there I probably won't see it. But if I get in it, if I reach my hand in there, I'm going to find something that won't make sense when it works, and the only reason it works is because it stayed there.

Speaker 1: 34:40

You know why there was five smooth stones in there Because at some point they might have chipped off probably a bigger stone. Probably it was fragments and pieces that were rough around the edges and you can't use it when it's still rough around the edges. You know how God's going to prepare it to be used. Get it in the flow, because when the flow begins to rush over you, it will smooth over every rough attitude, every sharp word that you will lash back, because you learned it from your culture and how you used to act in your family. Oh, this is just my personality. No, it's not you anymore. You now represent the flow. Now you can be used, hallelujah, for something that is bigger than you, something that will outlive you, because you allow the flow to change you and prepare you and wash over you. Hallelujah.

Speaker 1: 35:52

And when the hand comes upon you, it doesn't matter if nobody knows your name. And God hid you, because you stayed in the flow and you're looking at everybody else and the shiny armors. That's all around, all. No, no, god said I hid you, hallelujah, I don't know. It doesn't matter that they don't know your name.

Speaker 1: 36:13

I know your name because you stayed in a place where I can mold you and make you hallelujah, and now I can use you for something bigger than you, hallelujah. And he's saying with me, he's going to do it, he's going to do it for you, he's going to do it for you, hallelujah, he's going to do it for you, hallelujah, come on, come on some of you have already lived this and God begin to use you for things bigger than you, hallelujah. And then, all of a sudden, when all eyes are upon you, they want to fight you for your flow, hallelujah. But don't you be discouraged, don't you stop, hallelujah, because there's more where that came from. And if you stay low and stay humble, you'll realize I don't have to get higher, I can get deeper, hallelujah, hallelujah, you're a love of God, power, hallelujah well, if you ever stop right here.

Speaker 2: 37:59

Somebody needs encouragement right now. I have left your voice over somebody.