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Anointing, Purpose, and the Cost We Carry (Team Communion) ... English

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We trace the line from impartation to mission, warning how anointing without purpose corrodes, and we anchor our courage in heaven’s vantage from Revelation 12. Communion and symbolic foot washing call us to die to self, serve one another, and carry God’s presence with humility.

• gratitude for the team and long-planted seeds
• testimony of angelic impartation and sudden understanding
• Saul vs David as a warning and a model
• mission as the safeguard of anointing
• milch cows image: purpose over instinct and comfort
• Revelation 12: earth vs heaven perspectives
• overcome by the blood, testimony, and self-denial
• communion as doorway and demand: life through death to self
• servanthood through symbolic foot washing
• resolve to lift his name over our own


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Where is the community? Oh, it's over there.

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I want to say I'm very grateful to be a part of this team. And I'm very grateful for what Brother Robinette and Sister Rob Nett's vision is for global harvest. And I want to say a special thank you to the Dohties for being a part of their vision. Yesterday, brother Treadwell gave a prophetic word that seeds were being planted. God spoke to me and said, This seed that's being harvested right now was planted a long time ago. And you're being a part of it. Thank you. He had a vision from God that was beyond anything that he could do or he could attain in his human ability. Had to do with going to school, getting a certain degree. He barely made it through high school, as I understand. And when he went to enroll in the classes that he needed to enroll in, he was sitting at home behind his computer, going over the curriculum, and he just could not get it. Wasn't computing in his mind. He laid it down. He said a short prayer to the Lord. And he laid down and fell asleep. As he was asleep, he had a dream. The dream was an angel appeared at the foot of his bed. And the angel reached out and touched him. And when he touched him from his head through his body, this warmness came all over him. And when he awoke, he wasn't sure what quite happened. But he went back to that computer and he understood everything that he could not comprehend before. He's one of the smartest people I know. The Lord spoke to me just a minute ago and said, I have imparted things in this house. And you may not even be able to feel it at this moment.

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Wow.

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But you will not be the same. You will not be the same. We are about to partake in communion and give honor to Brother Wilson, Sister Wilson. So great to have you here. And this team is going to be praying for you at the UN Daniel of our times. You know, I worry that if we're not careful, the power, the anointing, the calling will cause us to want to elevate the wrong thing. The anointing of God came upon that young man Saul. It was the prophet Samuel. He took the anointing oil, he poured it upon Saul's head. Saul felt the transformation. He felt the anointing, the calling of his hour, of his generation. And yet it was one song that stripped the anointing from him. Saul has killed his thousands. David, his ten thousands. It severed him from the anointing. It severed him from the calling. It severed him from why the moment and the place where his anointing took place. God woke me up this morning, and God said, the anointing without the mission will cause a person to lose the anointing. There's a contrast to David. He stepped on the side of the battlefield that day, and he heard that uncircumcised enemy vomiting those threats. And he made this statement is there not because the same anointing oil that was on Saul touched David, but David was possessed with the purpose to such a degree that here's the challenge. He was willing to lay himself on his life on the line to prove that the purpose was greater than himself. Wasn't just because Goliath was saying what he said. So that my generation will know that God does not save by sword and shield. For the battle belongs to the Lord. And he will save me from that enemy this day. That we can stamp our name on it. There is a little story in 1 Samuel 6 about two milchines. They're two cows. They represent the person of God. They represent David. They represent Christ that is willing to go after the purpose of God. So what they did is they the Philistines stole the ark. We know the story. Philistines said, I've got an idea. Because we don't know if this is the God of Israel or this is just a coincidence, but this is what we're going to do. These two calves, or these two cows, just had calves, and we're going to put the calves over here. And then we're going to take these cows and we're going to tie them to this cart. And then we're going to put the ark of God on the cart, and we're going to see if they go towards Bethshemesh, which is Israel. And the Bible said this that they went to Beth Samesh. Lowing as they went. But they could hear the cry of the calves. And everything in their nature wanted to throw in the towel and say, you know, the call of God's not worth it.

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Wow.

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I'm going to tell you, the anointing will come with a cost. And you're going to low at moments when you step out of the boat. Wow. But here's the kicker. Those cows were carrying the presence of God to a generation.

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Wow.

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This was David. This was Christ. And this is us. And so while we partake of the communion here in a moment, I want you to understand that the anointing is given, but there must be death. At the end of the journey, the calves were taken and they were offered unto God as an offering to the Lord. And here's what the Lord is telling a generation. There must be partnership of faith. There must be no fingerprints. There must be no big eyes. There be must be no little U's. It's every tongue, every nation, every culture, every ability, every IQ. I'll tell you, my friend, it doesn't matter rich or poor. There's going to be an army so vast and so great that it is innumerable. It cannot be counted. I want to read one set of scriptures as we, and then we're going to go into communion. But I want you to see this. The Lord had me up all night speaking to me about this, but it wasn't really just all to speak here. God is doing a work. In Revelations, let me find it here. 12 and 9. I'm going to read 9 through 11. So many contrasting things going on. Says, and the great dragon was cast out, the old serpent called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. He was cast into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Now, like Brother Wilson said, there's going to be a lot of stuff that happens out here. And it's easy to look at what's happening on the earth and become very discouraged. You mean the devil's being cast out? You mean he knows his time is short? You mean he's going to stir up the governments and the nations, and there's going to be persecutions and there's going to be trials. But I want you to show you the contrast. See, that's earth's vantage point. But there's another vantage point, and that's the next verse in verse 10. And I heard a loud voice saying, In heaven, now is come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of God and the power of Christ. For the accuser of our brethren is cast down. You see, heaven's vantage point was a little different. It's not despair, it's not hopelessness, it's not brokenness. No, it is power, it is the devil's cast down, he's cast out, it is strength that is taking over heaven that they haven't seen in a while. And then what's caught in the middle is you and I, the anointed ones of God. Verse 11. See, it matters where you're looking.

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It's short matters.

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Is the news giving you perspective, or is God giving you perspective? And here it is. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb. And the word of the testimony. It's the atonement of Christ that none of us deserve. None of us can pay back, and none of us can comprehend why Christ did it for us. And it's the word of the testimony, it's what we've seen, it's what we've heard, it's the experiences we have, it's walking in these crusades, it's walking into the church services, it's God doing what only God can do. And we stand in the midst and say, I saw it with my own eyes, I was there, I heard it, my own ears, I experienced with my own being. It's the testimony, the amening of what God is doing in the generation. But we can't leave out the last phrase. They loved their lives not unto death. They loved their lives not unto death. The mission that's tied to the anointing is more important than death itself. I just want to say this as I close. The world is stirred by Charlie Kirk's assassination. Did you post last night? Brother Abnett's going to post about it. I'm interested in what he has to say. But I was talking to my son last night, who's very stirred about it. When you get back home, you're gonna see the world stirred about it. I don't know him very well. I didn't keep up with him as much as some. I don't want to judge his faith. I don't want to make any judgments. I only want to say this. The measure of truth that he had, he was bold about it. The Bible says that some were given one talent, some two, and some five. And I feel like we, the apostolic movement, especially us here this morning, God has put five talents in our hands. And all I know is someday I'm gonna stand next to that man like Charlie Kirk. What did he do with his life and what did you do with yours? So much. So this morning I'm gonna step out. I've received, I'm gonna stand in a generation, and I made up my mind, I'm gonna be like Christ, and I'm gonna lay my life on the line because the mission is more important. That's why the anointed is getting anointing is given to us in the first place to reach a dead, broken, dying world. But there is hope and there is light and there is power and there's the supernatural abundance that flows directly from heaven through you into a world. And we're gonna stand up together and say it's not about my name, it's about his name, it's not about my ministry, it's about the God that saved us and washed us. I'm not gonna build a tower to myself, but I'm gonna step on a battlefield and say that all this generation might see that the Lord saveth it is his battle, and he's gonna rub his sleeves in this in time and do what he has prophesied, and the calls of giving prophetic words and utterance and sin is going to happen. So let's stand together. Would you come up here and would you take one of these um the body and the blood? Would you come up here right now? We can just stand around the altar as we do this. But were given to you through Christ. So it's very strange this morning that the body and the blood was the doorway to the call and the anointing in your life. And yet it's also the calling to the death that you must embrace. Jesus said, I will give you life and give it to you more abundantly. He said, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead yet, shall he live. The resurrection life can only come after we die. So I want you to take his body, take the wafer, take the book. That the Lord Jesus Christ, the same night which he was betrayed, took bread. And we had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, Take, eat. This is my body which is broken for you. Do in remembrance of me. We're gonna take this. I want you to remember. He was about to be broken on that cross, and yet he was given thanks. I want you to understand there's gonna be brokenness in your life, but we must die that he can increase in us. So we take this in Jesus' name, your body. After the same manner, he took the cup. And we had when he had supped, he said, This cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do gee. As often as you drink it in remembrance of me, for as often as you eat of this bread and drink of this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he comes. In Jesus' name, let's take the blood of Christ. No, we only have a few minutes left here, but here's what we're going to do. Out of respect and out of just being very careful, we don't want to destroy the restaurant. Our foot washing is going to be a little different. We're going to do it without actual water. But my friends, here's what we're going to do. Jesus Christ came to serve. He opened up that door at that last supper when he was about to have the first communion, and he bent down and he washed the feet of his disciples. And he said, This I do as an example for you. No servant is greater than his master. If I have done this for you, you should do this for each other. For the last moments we have left, would you go men to men and women to women? And would you fall on your knees and would you wash the feet of one another symbolically here? And would you show that servant mentality of Christ?

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