Know Your Rank In The Anointed King

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Peace to you. Well, I've started reading this book called Order by Kirby De Lanerol. And I heard about Kirby through Karen Leidens. He's a mega pastor in India and is on fire. He has had he had such a um tough time as even as a youth. And um he explains this in the introduction of the book, which is so far all the farther I've gotten in the book, because I just really want to chew on it and understand it. It is so huge. Um I just had to share. So he explains a little bit about his past, and you kind of connect with this guy right away, and um just his heart for the Lord to, you know, when when he basically gets um evicted from his ministry, he just cries out to the Lord, you know, what's the deal? You know, your kingdom is victorious and on top. And why why does it seem that the enemy has the upper hand here? And the revelation that the Lord gives him finally is so precious, bought with blood, sweat, and tears. And that is why I am sharing it with you today, because this is so powerful, and I'm so grateful to know this revelation today. Even though I was raised in church, I know about God is sovereign, God is all powerful, and but we were never taught how to take our seat and how to rule and reign with Him. And this book, I didn't even really grasp that it was so much about that, but here it is. It is about ruling and reigning, and it's called order. And I love that word because everything does have order, and we need to know where we fit in that order for it to run smoothly. So, James Gall several years ago, God told him, I want you, James, to spend the rest of your life kicking the enemy out and taking back ground that he has taken. And that hit me so hard, like wow. That's that's what God is saying the rest of Jim's life is to be about. That's huge. And so it's been an interesting journey. Okay, you know, we don't, we don't, you know, we learned about casting out demons, and that had its place for sure. That my eyes were opened, you know. I I was hungry for more. I said, Lord, teach me more, show me about, show me something new. And I got brought into a a group of ladies who who believed in in deliverance, and it was wonderful because people were being set free, and that has its place, and it's a it was a tool that God put in my belt. And and so now in this new era, this new age, we're coming into this revelation and that we we are well let me just let me just say, get the book. I can't read through all of it to you. I mean, I could, just the introduction is so so so beautiful. And it reminds me, uh, it's not quite as intense as my utmost for his highest book. That one, wow, like every word I have to like stop and meditate on. But this one is is deep and he kind of teases you with some scriptures and makes you want to go back and read the scriptures, and he doesn't even put the references there. So it's like he's he's really he's really seeing, you know, are you gonna dig for this? You know, and I like that. I like that about him. And um, but I am gonna read some of it to you because what was the icing on the cake was when he shared his own personal testimony. Um, wow, and what that means, what the what that means for us. So I'm just gonna read a few paragraphs uh from the introduction and then I'll I'll end with his story. Jesus knew from the scriptures where such words were first spoken. Um when I guess we're talking about get thee behind me when when Peter said that. Um man, so good. Okay, Jehu, anointed yet unrecognized, driven to Jezreel under prophetic mandate, issuing that same command. And then this must be Greek, servo are a karai. And the servants aligned themselves at once. The kingdom was not seized by force, but settled by rightful authority. The servants, long propping up a false throne, cast Jezebel down at a single word. Three eunuchs, neutral powers hijacked by lower dominions, shifted allegiance in a breath. Three eunuchs, and he says, which are neutral powers hijacked by lower dominions, shifted allegiance in a breath. Perhaps the pattern holds that principalities, elements, the very forces that shape wind, water, earth, fire, and even the stars designed to serve God's children have been unlawfully commanded only because rightful kings abdicated as Ahab did. Okay, they're talking about there again, my beloved Francis Miles. I love his teachings, and we as children of God have authority, and and um the unrighteous children of God have this information and they've been using it, where the church has been um what's the word? Uh the church has been cut like covered over and masked, blindfolded to to this truth, and so a lot of ground has been lost um to the enemy, but that all changes now. Um and then Colossians 1.15. I'll just say read that, and then he says this can this chapter in Colossians literally mean what it says? That it's not them against us. They were all created to worship our God, and the ecclesia are destined to bring them back under authority? It's a question, but it really is a statement. So that's a that's a huge key sentence right there. And I would love to talk with with people about this because everything that God created I don't know. It's we were all created to worship him. It's true. Everything sings, everything releases frequency of worship, everything. Okay, at home, okay, let's skip that one. When Janice and Jambres confessed this is the finger of God, they recognized through their henotheistic lens that their own gods had turned against them. Moses, emissary of Elion, used their symbols to dismantle their systems, so used the enemy's symbols to dismantle their own systems. The serpent of Apophis was swallowed by its own likeness. Yahweh was not confusing the matter. He showed his supremacy over every lesser throne. His servant commanded their gods. God's servant Moses commanded their lowercase gods. Remember that. We have mistaken spiritual warfare for a pitched battle against principalities when the call is to command them into rank under the anointed king. So they're just getting away with what they're getting away with because we haven't told them their place. What? Allow me a personal story not to mystify, but to steady the reader's hand through these hard harder sayings. Let the spirit of this testimony be its test and then a colon. If Christ emerges with greater preeminence in your life than the doctrine has done its work. That's a cool principle with something that you know you're about to share. And is it is it worth it? Is it gonna draw somebody um to to lift Christ even higher? Okay, here's his story. Um, he explains how he had lost lost everything. Um Our diocese in Sri Lanka grew from a single church to six hundred and nine months, a full gestational season. For the first time in the nation's history, a prime minister attended a Pentecostal, charismatic, evangelical or nation. Growth of this sort stirs resistance. Ours is a Buddhist nation which has long been hostile to the gospel, churches burned, pastors beaten, the soil drenched with the blood of martyrs. A sign and wonder that marked our ministry went viral, reaching millions. In a secular land where Christians are dismissed as myth peddlers, a cabinet minister branded us as scammers. Okay, so he just continues to share all the stuff that came against him, and eventually um they had to he had to leave. Um, and I'm not gonna get into that right now. Um so in exile, I wrestled with God over the apparent powerlessness of his kingdom against Leviathan's coils. So as you read these symptoms that happened to him, this is this is the work of Leviathan, the spirit of Leviathan. Night after night I soaked my pillow, not for myself, but for what looked like the triumph of corruption over the justice of Christ. International publications piled on. Even vindication did not grant rest. Threats required bodyguards and constant relocation until one night, during a one-sided shouting match with the Maker, I heard him speak to me like he spoke to Job. Gird yourself and get ready to answer me. Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? Can you put a reed through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you? Will he make a covenant with you? No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against me? Who has preceded me that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is mine. The Lord flashed back to my childhood when I was playing in the river next to my house, and I was attacked by a massive Indian saltwater crocodile. I'm just gonna pause right here for a minute because we recently went to a zoo. For the first time in my life, I saw a crocodile, and he was huge. We there was one piece of dog food on the ground in front of us, and we threw it in and it landed on the water. And a couple minutes later, he moved over to the dog food. But what he did, he went under the dog food and raised his snout, and it sat on his snout. And we're watching him like well, first of all, why does he care about that little teeny tiny piece of food when he's so massive? But besides that, he's just letting that sit on his and then before we could even blink, he lifted up he he flipped his head to the side so fast, and the dog food went right in his mouth. And I thought, oh, that's how he captures prey. Comes under it and then just so fast. I mean, they're so they look so slow, but they're so fast that they devoured that. So yeah, it's quite a quite a creature. Um that creature, feared and almost legendary in our town, became the living symbol of Leviathan, both in flesh and spirit. Just as the crocodile struck with stealth and power, so Leviathan had sought to strike fear, scandal, and oppression into my life. The crocodile's bite, though it missed my physical heel, had firmly taken hold of my soul. So this is w this was when he was um Okay, yes, so this happened to him, and it says a year or so after the incident of that encounter with the crocodile, my life went into turmoil. A scandal the size of a nation came upon me. Excuse me, at fifteen. Okay, so this is cool because it was a prophetic foreshadowing of what the enemy was doing with Kirby. And here's this crocodile coming after him. So it says a year or so after that, here it here comes the manifestation. Um he was falsely accused, arrested at school, you know, even when when he was young, and um let's see, I was taken to the highest criminal investigation unit, an environment no child should ever enter, where drug lords, kingprint pins, and serial killers walked the corridors. In the ensuing years of my adult life, I visited that unit twice more on occasion where the mark of scandal placed on my life had now been integrated into my soul. Like I say, this revelation came at a high price. Okay, the Lord said, You have trafficked with Leviath since youth. Everything under heaven is mine. I answered, Lord, you know, your king has been glorified. Help me understand. The voice that followed was like many waters. Will you put a hook in his mouth? Will he no longer thunder but speak softly? Will he obey your command? I replied, Only in the name of the king. Fear left me, replaced by an authority I had never known. A shout roared out of me, in the name of Jesus Leviathan, heal! The heavens opened. A beast with a crocodile's head emerged through cloud and knelt. Picture that. A kneeling Leviathan. Command me, and I shall go where you send. Isaiah 54 rang out No weapon formed against you shall prosper. I created the destroyer to destroy, yet it shall not destroy you, for your righteousness is from me. So I commanded it. Okay, I'm gonna pause right there because in my early days of praying with a prayer partner, God talked to me and told me, I want you to get comfortable with saying I command and using that phrase. And some people are uncomfortable with that. That's too bold, that's too strong. But really, we're we're in a spiritual battle, and if you we need to know that we can do that, and it I guess if we don't think we can or we should, then we don't know, we don't really know our rank. So here he says, and God is teaching him too. So I commanded it, go to the swine of the earth, those who hate God, to the perversions and injustices of the world, to those misaligned with the Lord's commission. It departed, and the vision closed. Within a week, and again, I haven't told you all the stuff that he had to deal with, and constantly, one thing after another, but within a week the government had fallen, the minister who opposed us was exposed for bribery and abuse and sent to prison. Religious leaders who sided with him faced similar disgrace. Overnight the tide turned. I was appointed coordinator to the president over 2,000 non-denominational churches and bishop over nearly 800 free churches in Sri Lanka. I was later made general secretary of the International Independent Apostolic Diocean Synod, serving over 11,000 churches worldwide. Since then, my wife and I have walked in peace and favor, our work thriving amidst a flourishing community at home and abroad. The pages ahead will, I trust, open your eyes to the keys of the kingdom, my prayer echoing Paul's ancient cry that you may behold the glory of God in his ecclesia. And I was weeping as I as I read this revelation. It touched me so deep and resonated in my soul as God wants us to arise in in our ranking. And um we have the power, we have the authority, and um in his name we get to we we get to see shifting of thrones. We get to we get to do this while we're alive. This is amazing. So I just I just wanted to share this today, and I know it might be really thick, it might be really rich, but um play play this recording over and over a few times to let things settle in. Look up scriptures, look up, you know, the things that I went over kind of quickly and and um and just go deeper with the Lord about it and talk to him about if this is what he's bringing you into. And um and as we meet um in a corporate group, which I encourage everybody, you know, to to have a a a tribe and and you do these things together, you you change you change history, you change the time, you change things, change nations. It's there's nothing like it. There really is nothing like it. So bless you.