DIVINE INSTRUCTIONS (5)

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JOHN 19:30

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Praise the Lord, everyone. Minister Anthony Bonner here of Truth Turned Up Ministries, coming to you with another episode from the Gospel, the Game, and the Glory series. Divine Instructions Part 5. We continue to go deeper as the Holy Spirit allows and directs our paths to continue exploring the in-depthness of the scriptures and the divine instructions that God has given to those who will dare to follow Him, to submit, to surrender, to come back to God due to the blood and the sacrifice of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be guided, to be sheltered, to be clothed, to be equipped, to be fully invested in, so that you may maximize your time on earth and fully experience the blessings of all of the gifts that He's given unto you, those that are known and those that have yet to be discovered. The divine instructions of God are instructions that lead us unto the high roads of life. They transform our character, they heal our bodies, they allow us to function as our best selves in our relationships. And more importantly, they keep us in his presence. They allow us to hunger and thirst for more divine instructions. They allow us to shine brighter than the sun on the sunniest of days. And they allow our spirit to always remain in a place of thankfulness, of peacefulness, of joyfulness. Even in the most adverse and trying circumstances, we can remember that the Lord is good and that he's always with us and always has has, always have had, and always will have our best interests at heart. Today we want to talk about hearing God's voice. You know, that's not something that's really talked a lot about in Generation Z or in any generation. Hearing God's voice. When people normally say, God told me, or I heard God say, or God told me to tell you, people raise an eyebrow. You know, they may even get a little thrown aback, primarily because it's kind of taboo outside of the kingdom of God. It's not even popular within the religious church and Christianity to talk about hearing God's voice, because so few that are Christians do. And what's so sad about that is it should be uh how should how do I say this in the proper way, Holy Spirit? Uh well simply said it should be normal. Yes, it should be normal, it should be common, it should be expected, it should be sought after, uh, it should be widely known. Because throughout the New Testament, it is said on several occasions, as well as all the way back into the book of Revelation, he that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. Hallelujah. He that has ears to hear, or an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. That is God talking to those who've been reconciled, redeemed, and restored, to once again walk and abide in his righteousness, who have the desire to be directed and led and sculpted and reconstructed and resurrected into the image of the new man, knowing that the old man, the sinful man, the man born and fashioned in the likeness of Adam, is now dead, and the new man, the new man that walks in the newness of life and lives according to the law of life and the spirit of life, because they are walking with he who is life. They're seeking divine instructions. Because the Bible tells us in the book of Acts, in the 17th chapter, it says, In him, in him, we live, move, and have our being. If I'm in him, then I'm in a holy God. I'm in a holy place. I'm in a place where there is no democracy. I have no vote. I have no opinion. I have no thoughts. I'm simply abiding in him and I'm walking with him as he clothes me. Yes, he gives me free will. I have the ability to eat chocolate ice cream, vanilla ice cream, strawberry ice cream. I have the ability to just pick up and go to Japan, uh, Jerusalem, Detroit, Jamaica. I can marry anybody I want to. I can have as many of them as I want, wives, in this natural order. I can even get way outside and do what the culture allows me to do and marry within my gender. But that's not God's plan. Those are not divine plans, those are human plans that are allowed, that ultimately lead to your demise and your destruction because you're operating, because you're operating outside of the divine order of God. He who created all things and then rested on the seventh day. None of the things, none of the things that we hear about in the culture, in the woke culture, in the cancel year culture, are part of the kingdom culture. The kingdom culture is about increase. The kingdom culture is about glorifying God. The kingdom culture is about loving your neighbor as you love yourself. The kingdom culture is about advancing that agenda in the earth, which is God's agenda, not our own individual agenda or the cultural agenda. And how do we do that? We become the sacrificial lamb that lay down our lives for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. He said it's our reasonable service that we present our body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is a reasonable service. We skate around these tough issues and we try and scale them down and make them seem uh more acceptable and socially agreeable so that everybody can be included in the number. And that's not the way it is. The Bible says, many are called, few are chosen. Will you be one of the chosen ones, beloved? Will you, first of all, study to show yourself approved and become knowledgeable of that which God has said and not what man is saying? Will you incline your ear to hear the hard thing? Because they are hard things. They're hard things because we are creatures of comfort. We seek comfort, we seek validation, we seek uh inclusion. So the blind will lead the blind. We will drift off over into the groups of people that agree with us, who will comfort us, who will tell us it doesn't take all that, and we'll shy away from the narrow place. But yet the high place God wants to put us in according to the plan that He has for our lives. And that's why He sent Jesus Christ to be the sacrifice, to bridge the gap, to allow us to come back into that place of continuous victory, of ruling and reigning with him, of being seated at the right hand of the throne of God, of knowing we have power, that we can hear his voice. So, in that prelude and interlude of warming up, leading into our subject of this fifth session of divine instructions, we want to talk about hearing God's voice and what that looks like. So in the book of Deuteronomy, in the fourth chapter of the 36th verse, it says, Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee. Can you imagine that? So we have uh AI now, you can talk to AI, and AI will do whatever it is it you tell it to do to the degree that it can. It still has flaws and it is not perfect, it is not all powerful like our God. So there are many things it still cannot do, amazing as it is. But you can talk to AI and it will perform the task. You can input information into your GPS and it will pinpoint to the T the address of where you're going, it will pick up some detours, it will pick up police officers, it will pick up uh items in the road that are obstructing traffic and many other things it can pick up. Imagine how much wonderful, more wonderful, more excellent is the God who created you in his image and his likeness, who wants to talk to you. He wants to talk to you about everything, not some things. But in order for God to talk to you, you have to position yourself back in him through the word, through submission, through the low place, through humility, which only comes through the breaking of our natural circumstances, because any other humility is a false humility. We want the divine humility that strips away our identity, that strips away our pride, that strips away our haughtiness, that that strips away the need for us to put ourselves on a pedestal and act like we are different, even though we are different, but we're different in the way that God says we're different, not in the way we try and distinguish differences or um put ourselves as being better than someone else. So God wants to talk to you, and he wants to talk to you about meaningful things as well as trivial small things. Does it matter that you stumped your toe? Absolutely. God loves nothing more than hearing your voice. Does it matter that you're struggling with your identity? Absolutely. God says, I'll talk to you about it. Does it matter that you're at a crossroads in what vocation or career you think you should uh uh uh uh grasp or gravitate toward or what university? God said talk to me. Because though you have two or three choices and those are your heart's desire, I may have a different plan. And it'll be the best plan. And you'll have to accept it even though you don't understand it, and you probably won't agree with it. But you can't see five years down the line, you can't see 10 years down the line, you can't see 20 years down the line. They say experience is the best teacher in most things, but not in all things. I don't have to make 15 or 20 mistakes to learn a lesson. I can learn some lessons just because I'm wise and because I uh humble myself to have a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, to spend time in the Word, to allow Him to order my steps, to allow Him to grow me up spiritually so that I can mature in all things and be able to represent Him in the earth and to go forth and to be able to fight against the wiles of the enemy who's attacking my brethren throughout the land, who's destroying our neighborhoods, our family structures, uh our culture, our country, the world. But we're not here to be saviors of the world because we can't even save ourselves. We already have a Savior. We're here just to carry out the assignment or that portion of which we are to carry out until the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But in order to do that, I need to hear his voice. I need to incline my ear, I need to seek him while he may be found, because he's not always going to be found. There are seasons that you'll know that the voice of God is silent, the Holy Spirit is silent, and it's just like there's no communication. But yet you have to keep going anyway and stand on the last instruction that he gave you, because that's the only instruction that matters, is the last instruction. What is the last thing God has said to you? What is the last uh communication you've received? And the most amazing thing about God is God can use anybody to talk to you. I have several instances in my 18-year journey of people speaking to me, whether they were homeless on the street, whether it was at a in a church atmosphere or a prophetic atmosphere, whether it was a man of God that I sat underneath his feet for more than a decade, listening to his teachings, talking to him on the telephone, him imparting things in my spirit, him speaking things uh that had not yet come to pass in my life, but would. He spoke my marriage into existence four or five years before I was even married. And on that day, he told me that my wife's hair would be auburn. And the day that me and my wife got married, her hair was auburn. He even did our wedding. He spoke prophetic things about my son's future. He spoke prophetic things about my mother before she passed away. And again, only I know these things. I've shared some of these things with other people, but they don't know it. They can briefly reference it, but they can't go in-depthness with it. See, because you can't stand on somebody else's prophetic word. You gotta go get your own. Like, I don't repeat any what someone else has said God's gonna do in someone else's life because that's between them and God, and they don't understand the importance of you gotta fight for a prophetic word. That's the promise of what God plans to do in your life, and just like you know it, guess who else knows it? The enemy knows it. That's why you gotta have an ear to hear and rely only upon divine instructions, because this is the fight for your real life. This is not the fight for your natural life, young people. Satan has no problem with you living the natural life, getting the big office, making eight million dollars a year, having the big house, not being married, sleeping with whoever you want to, drinking Dom Perrion every night, eating filet mignon, uh uh donating money, being on the news, putting your name on buildings, having private jets. He has no problem with any of that. Because he knows what the Bible says. The Bible says those who sow unto the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption. Corruption is deceit, defeat. Corruption is destruction, corruption is misdirection, and ultimately ultimately corruption leads to separation from God. So Satan's not worried about that. But he wants, he doesn't want you to have that abundant life through that connection that he lost when he was banished from heaven with a third of the angels because his need to want to operate in the lane of being God, of being the king of kings, the lord of lords, the head hancho. So he relinquished that right through his rebellion and disobedience. But all those who will have an ear to hear, who will seek after him or bless with divine instructions, and you don't have to hear uh or submit to anybody else. And when you know this word, it bothers the devil and those that are in religious places because they get mad when you go into the indeptness of the word and you know who God says you are and what God says you can do. One of the first scriptures God gave me when he started teaching me himself through the Holy Spirit back in 2007 was about the time the Lord got a hold of my heart and began to pull on my ears to help me study and write the word on my heart. I wasn't picking up the phone calling anybody. I had a man of God, like I said, that I sat under who was truly prophetic. Truly, truly. And I walked to church every night for six or seven years. Every Saturday night, church would start at 10 p.m. We get out about 2, 3, 0 in the morning. Then I have to walk back home and I'd sit up an hour or two, look at the notes, listen to it. If it was really, really deep, because I knew God was doing something in my life. He was plowing through my heart, he was redirecting my purpose and my motive. He was teaching me to hear him so that I could hear other people, but also distinguish of who was walking with God and who was building their own kingdom, who was operating in the flesh and who was operating in the spirit. So God gave me 1 John 2 and 27, and it said, But the anointing, the anointing is God's presence upon you, it's God's power upon you. He says, Uh, but the anointing which you have received of him, it abided in you, and you need not that any man teach you. But as the same anointing teaches you of all things and is truth and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, you shall abide in him. Now, see, when you when you hear this, men want you to hear their instructions. They want you to hear their plans, the things they're doing, or they say God has told them to do. They come out with these master plans to build a hundred thousand square foot campus, more church buildings, more buildings, more bodies. Hallelujah! But not more anointing, not more disciples, not more divine instructions, just natural carnal instructions. You have no idea there are a number of people that go to church every Sunday, but yet are still broken, still bruised, still battered, still bewildered, still overwhelmed by the devil. They have joy for that two or three hours. They may go to two services a day, but yet when they get home, they can't keep their minds stayed on Jesus and be in perfect peace. They don't know whether to go to the left or to the right because they're not embedded deeply enough within their relationship with Jesus Christ to hear his voice, to seek his counsel, to be still and know that he's God and wait on him. That's not victory, my brothers and sisters. Victory is the peace that's the pastor's all understanding. Victory is being able to hear God's voice, whether you're standing in the middle of Manhattan on Fifth Avenue, taxi cabs blowing, people walking, hustling, bustling, trash trucks picking up tracks, musicians singing, subways running, airplanes zooming, it doesn't matter. Drop me off in the middle of the war. I'm gonna hear God's voice. Because that is one of the blessings of having a relationship with Him. Not a think, not a hurt. You don't even have to agree with me. Because the Bible says, how can two walk together except they be agreed? If I say God told me something to do something a certain way and you got another opinion, then that means we're not to walk together. You go left, I'm gonna go right. And if God brings us back together again, so be it. If he does not, so be that as well. I got a race to run, you got a race to run. Hallelujah. That's it. Nobody gets to hijack the things that God has given me. Because only I get to stand before him and ask him or answer the question: Were you faithful with truth turn up? Were you faithful with the gospel, the game, and the glory? Were you faithful with brother to brother? Were you faithful with one flesh? Were you faithful with kingdom message? God has given me many ministries because the Bible says, He that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. My creativity and my indeptness of God is proof of my relationship with God. Hallelujah. It's not in words, it's not in money, it's not in prestige, it's in a simple obedience and a simple hunger and a simple thirst to be who God says I am, to seek him in the manner that the blood of Jesus has allowed me to seek him and to separate myself from the masses. God chose twelve disciples. He went up into a mountain in a high place, he walked away from the multitudes, and he began to teach them. He began to instruct them. Matthew 6, 7, and 8, the Beatitudes. Those are the divine casters, the divine characteristics of a kingdom citizen, of one who will walk and follow after Jesus Christ. But we have to hear his voice. Why do we need to hear his voice, young people? Because you're living in a world that's fighting for your attention. You're living in a world that wants you to be on the world's side. You're living in a world that wants you to think that you can dictate the outcome of your life. That you can determine where you spend eternity. They want you to think that God is not real, that Jesus Christ is just a fiction, a fixture in history or even just a figment of your imagination. Imagination. The world doesn't know that he's their savior. The world refuses to make him their lord because they're their own lords. They have their own gods. They have their country clubs. They have their black card American Expresses. They have their yachts, their private planes. They have their political affiliations. And they have many other things that they've made God. So right now, they've separated themselves because they're in idolatry, and that's fine. God knows exactly where they are. But God wants you to hear his voice. God wants you to enter into the family life center. That's the word of God. God wants you to walk on the narrow path. God wants to break you so he can rebuild you. God wants you to operate in divine knowledge and understanding, not just religious jargon. God wants the word that he wants to fill you with to be a practical word that you can apply in your friendships at school, in your athletic arenas, in your internships, in your being a son or daughter, in your being your all in all. God wants to instruct you in that. Because he created you in a very particular and intentional manner. I hear parents say all the time, Oh, I know my son and my daughter. Yes, they do, but not as much as they think, to a small degree. Only God knows, all of us. Our parents are our parents, and yes, they raised us and they did the best they could. But do you think all of the parents who have sons and daughters that are on death row in prison would say, I saw that, that I knew that? There may be some that do, God bless them. Do you think a mama dad knows that his son or daughter were going to turn out to be an alcoholic or a drug addict or a liar or a thief? No, they don't. But God knows. God looks at the heart. The Bible says that God created all things for himself. Yea, even the wicked for the day of evil. That's what the Bible says. To us, evil is evil and it is evil and it's bad, and we wonder why God allows it. But even without evil, people in the world won't hear. They won't adhere to the instructions of God. It's not till something bad or sad or traumatic or challenging happens that human beings even open themselves up to even have a relationship with God. And then you have to ask, what God? Because there's so many of them. But we're talking about the God of all gods, the one and only true God, the God of Israel. We're talking about the incarnate, we're talking about Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, walking the earth. Hallelujah. The triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. That's who we're talking about. He wants you to have such a deep relationship with him that he can tell you not to get in the car and you know it's him and you don't get in the car. Not to date that boy or girl and you don't date that boy or girl. Not to marry that person and you don't marry him. Not to move to that city and you don't move. To deny that opportunity and you say, No, I can't do it. God told me not to do it. Hallelujah. To be a blessing to someone, God tells you to give that person a dollar, a thousand, or ten thousand dollars, and you do it because you can hear him, because you're blessed to be a blessing. And you're walking with him as an obedient child. In the book of Psalms, in the 32nd chapter, verse 8 and 9, it says, I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way that thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse and as the mule which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and brittle, least they come near unto thee. Imagine that. This is another psalm of David. And God talking to him, saying, Look, don't worry, David. I will instruct you in the way which you shall go. I will guide you with my eye. God's eye is an all-seeing eye. God can see Florida, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Hawaii, Italy, Africa, and every other place in the world, all at one time. That's his eye. Nothing is hidden from the eyes of the Lord. The Bible actually says his eyes go to and fro throughout the whole earth, seeking to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is perfect or mature toward him. Don't you want that God in your life? Don't you want his instructions? His instructions say, With long life will I satisfy thee and show thee my salvation. His salvation is his safety. It's not just transitioning to heaven. It's his safety in the earth. It's just participation in your life in the earth. It's just protection in the earth. It's the safest thing because your friends will reject you. Your friends will try to mislead you into things that are not of God. When you have the courage, young people, to stand on the promises of God because you've embedded them in your heart, because you've gone into your secret place to pray with him, to spend time with him, to learn how to love him, to learn how to uh uh uh uh exhort his name. Hallelujah, in the name of Jesus. He says, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go, I'll guide you with my eye. He says, Be ye not as the horse and as the mule, which have no understanding. We know horses and mules are simply God's creatures and create. They're his creation, and they're created for a purpose just like we are, but not a divine purpose. They don't have the privilege of being able to uh have the connection with God that we have. We're the only ones made in his image and likeness. We have free will, we have the ability to think, we have the ability to pray, we have the ability to fast, we have the ability to draw nigh unto God, we have the ability to lay down our lives so that we can take them again and be transformed. Hallelujah. Horses and mules don't have that, they're stubborn. So God is saying, Don't be like them. They don't receive the instructions you receive. But let that be a warning. You receive instructions, and if you don't receive them, then he says, I'll have to do to you what I do with them to keep them from being stubborn. He says, Whose mouth must be held in with bit and brittle. That's the device you see on the horses in their mouth with the uh harnesses, so they can pull on the ropes and make them stop or make them study or make them do or make them go. You have to have that because they're stubborn. God doesn't want to put a harness on you. God doesn't want to box you in or block you in because you hear his instructions and yet you don't take heed, or because you can't hear his instructions and you walk in the paths of darkness and you walk toward destruction or you walk toward defeat, and then you spend 15, 20 years of your life that you cannot get back, all because you were outside of the will of God and you could not hear his voice. That's a divine instruction to hear the master's voice. Imagine when you were young and your mother and father would give you instructions. Put your coat on, it's cold outside. Put your gloves on. Hallelujah. Tie your shoes up. Yes, eat these. This is good for you, it'll give you strength. Take this medicine, it'll get rid of your cough. Drink this tea, it'll make you feel better. You need to go to sleep now because you'll be rested for tomorrow. Hallelujah. Wear that, it's appropriate for this occasion. Yes, take this note to the teacher. It'll be good. Give your teacher an apple. All of these are natural instructions, but divine in the sense they're given by the parents God has given you, and they were for your good every time you obeyed them. These are the best instructions, my brothers and sisters, from our heavenly Father. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. Be ye not as the horse and as the mule, which have no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and brittle, least it come nigh unto thee. We don't want it coming nigh unto us, my brothers and sisters. Let us be wise. Let us be wise. And our wisdom is in Jesus Christ. It's not the worldly wisdom. This wisdom God is talking about has nothing to do with your GPA, your ACT, or your S A T score. It is not an intellectual wisdom, it is a divine wisdom. It is the wisdom from up above. It is the wisdom that will lead you in the green pastures and by the still waters. It is the wisdom that will have the favor of God over your life that will increase you in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man. It is the wisdom that will allow you to stand regardless of whatever else is crumbling around you. It is the wisdom that will keep you standing when those who are closest to you have transitioned and you have to sit there and know that there is a partial finality to the moment, but you know that there is an eternal moment and that you will see them again if they died in Christ and you two die in Christ. So it is a temporary sadness, but a long, long, eternal joy because you'll see them again. That's wisdom. But when life hits us so very hard and we're not in wisdom and we can't hear divine instructions, we often turn to devices and things that lead us deeper down the rabbit hole towards hell. We find ourselves in the liquor stores. We find ourselves in smoking marijuana or doing other illegal drugs. We find ourselves in the arms and in the beds of people who steal our anointing or the purposes for our lives. We find ourselves overeating in food to comfort ourselves or going to the gym, exercising like crazy, trying to forget things. Hallelujah, or overworking, or many other ways, unhealthy ways that we try and shake the challenges of life. God is saying, Incline your ear unto me. Come unto me. And he says, I'll give you rest. Pardon me. He says, All ye that are heavy laden, come unto me, and I'll give you rest. Because God wants to instruct you, He wants to teach you, He wants to talk to you, He wants to love you, He wants to be loved by you. Hallelujah. It was Marvin Gaye that said the song, and there's no greater song. He meant it in a natural sense, but we're going to apply it to the kingdom of God when he says, How sweet it is to be loved by you. Hallelujah. Somebody say amen. How sweet it is to be loved by you. We can say that about our God, about our Lord and our Savior Jesus Christ, about the comforter, the Holy Spirit that He sent back to lead and guide us into all truth. That's a divine instruction. I've sent you a comforter. Why are you seeking comfort outside of the comforter? There are many fake comforters out here that profess to be able to give you comfort and give you purpose and give you peace. He's saying, Not so. It's not true. It's a lie. Only the comforter can give you comfort. I am comforted. Hallelujah. Walk with me. Incline your ear unto me. Seek me. Spend time with me. Search after me. Deny yourself. Yes, it is the natural inclination to want to do your own thing. That's fallen human nature. You're not the first and you're not the last. But I want you to look at what has happened to those who did their own thing. Did they experience some highs, some victories, some good moments, and all of that? Absolutely. But God says, How did it end? How did it end? How painful was the end? Are you certain that they're with me? Did you not read in my word that many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did I not prophesy in your name and cast out demons and do many good works? And he said, Depart from me. He said, I never knew you. Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. That is God turning people away who may have outwardly looked like they walked with him and loved him, but inwardly, inwardly, their hearts were far from him. And he said, Depart from me, you workers of iniquity. I never knew you. We don't want to hear that. How hard is it in the world if you walk up to your mother, your father, and they go, I don't know you. Get away from me. How'd that make you feel? Or you walked up to your basketball coach or your best friend or somebody else you really cared about, and they said, I never knew you. Depart from me. Can you imagine the one who created you? The one who came, walked the earth, defeated every enemy you would ever have, paid a price for you to walk back in divine purpose and receive divine instructions to say to you at the very, very, very, very, very end. But yet the beginning, I never knew you. Depart from me. I can't imagine. I wouldn't wish that on anyone. So you gotta get it right on this side. You gotta get it right in this life. This is of the word, just talking to you out of love. Talking to you out of great care. Because I've been on that side. I've walked through hell with gasoline draws on. I've broken every command and willingly lived in sin as a professional athlete. But yet God's grace, his love, his mercy picked me up in the middle of that. Broke me down so that I could have a new beginning. So that I could pour out what was poured into me, into whosoever will have an ear to hear, and adhere to divine instructions. The divine instructions of the King of Kings, not of me. They're not my instructions. They're instructions that are contained in the book that was written more than centuries ago. 2,000 years ago, Jesus was here. The book did not exist then. Portions of the book did. Written by more than 40 authors over more than 1,500 years to perfectly combine into the greatest love story ever written. It is the most uh sold book in the history of mankind. Because it's divine instructions, and when you seek him, he'll be found by you. He says, How much better is it to get wisdom than gold, and to get understanding rather to be chosen than loving silver? Hallelujah. How much better is it to get wisdom than gold? We live in a world where gold is more valuable than wisdom. But in the kingdom, wisdom is gold. Hallelujah. Wisdom will lead you to gold. Yes. It's all about wisdom. And wisdom requires inclining your ear. Wisdom requires seeking God while he may be found. That is wisdom, my young brothers and sisters. We thank the Lord for the day in this fifth session of Divine Instructions. We pray that those who are blessed to hear it will be doers of the word in seeking divine instructions and not just hearers. It's like getting a prescription from the doctor. You know you need to take it, but you're feeling a little bit better, so you go, no, I'm not going to take it today. Then that leads to another day and another day, and then soon you abandon it. So though you experience uh some temporary relief, you're not completely healed or cured because you stop following the instructions. We've all been there, done that. I've done it. Yeah, I'm not a big medicine guy. So I may start on it, but may not finish the prescription. But it can't be that way with divine instructions because you abort the process. And when you abort the process, then you reap what you've sown. Hallelujah. I'm going to pray for you right now, and I'm going to go on about my way because I've been obedient in bringing forth the message on today for those who this message is for. You might not get it today, you might get it 100, 400, 1,000, 2,000 days from today. But nonetheless, what was in my belly has been birthed out. It has been laid down. It will be put out there at the appointed time. God will be glorified. Those who need to have ears to hear will have been warned. Those who have obedient ears will be blessed, and God will be glorified in either manner. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, for today. Thank you, Lord, for your grace. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your divine instructions. We ask right now, Heavenly Father, you continue to take us by the hand, continue to grasp our attention through whatever means or measures you know are effective to reach us, that we may incline our ears to hear you, that we may walk more obedient with you. Because in fact, out of the heavens you created us to hear your voice. Teach us to hear your voice, not the voice of mere men, regardless of their titles, pastors, priests, whatever their titles are. They're mere men. Yes, they're your servants, but they are not the divine authority. Yes, we submit to authority, but we also embed ourselves in the word to make sure what they're saying is line upon line, precept upon precept, and they are not leading us astray or according to the flesh. We thank you, Lord. What a blessed privilege we have in a blessed land in such a time as this. It's in Jesus' name we not only pray, we receive the answers to these prayers. Amen and amen.