PENTECOST #3 : March-23rd-2022
I believe tonight is a very special night to us, to the heavens and to our God. One of the greatest prophets whom God used mightily in tough times and days, his name was Ezekiel: he raised a whole army of God from death. We don’t know what killed these people, but we know they were dead; they were killed in the valley, and they were not buried. It’s usually easy if you are in a low area that soil erosion does the burying. The bible tells us that they were in a valley and that valley was full of dry bones scattered all over the place, and those bones were of the House of Israel. We don’t know whether they were killed going to fight, or what caused them to die, but we know they were in the valley.
In Ezekiel chapter 37 the man said, the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he led me into a place he did not know. When somebody is leading you, it means that place is unknown. He said, then he took me to the valley and behold it was full of dry bones. They were not just bones but full of dry bones and there were very dry. Verse 3: And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? It is another thing to be led in a mortuary where dead bodies are, and God says, well they can come back to life, and it’s a different thing to go to bones scattered from joints all over the body: the skull is there, the spine is disintegrated, and God asks, can these bones live?
Ezekiel answered, O Lord God, thou knowest, and He gave him four instructions for four stages. He said to him, PROPHECY – the bones will meet their bones. Remember bones don’t have legs, brains, and ears: he spoke to things that didn’t make sense. Revival doesn’t make sense. This is not something about common sense. You are about to be filled with the Holy Spirit and do things that are not written in any book; things that have never been done before, and things that are against normalcy. You are about to speak to things that do not hear, see, or reason with you, and you are about to see things move with no human hand. Ezekiel saw bones move and they were rattling in the valley. The Lord sent an earthquake in the valley without shaking him, but it shook the bones, and they began to move towards each other.
Child of God, moving things that have not been moving sometimes it’s not your effort: It’s your trust in Him that will cause things to move, and that’s what Ezekiel did. Child of God, as we get the presence of God in our lives and bodies, we will see things move that have not been moving. Bones don’t move unless somebody moves them. So, the rattling in the valley began to move the bones in the valley and they were joined to each other. Then we had the skeleton, and He asked, can these skeletons live? Number 2: prophecy that let them receive skin and muscles, and everything in ligaments let flesh may come upon them. Things you have not yet seen in your life and business, you are about to see them move. So, flesh came, and the skin covered them.
Number 3: He said, I want you to command the wind. When you are in a valley, you can only get wind if the valley is open and there is a waterbody somewhere. The bible doesn’t tell us that there was water, but it states that God told him to command wind from the North, South, East and West, and he was standing at the center of the dry bones. So, it was easy for him to identify the north, south, east, and west. Who told him those things when he had no compass? But we know that the wind came. You may have no tools or even knowledge where things are coming from, but God reveals #3 that the unknown is about to come where you are. Remember He started with the immoveable and the invisibles, and now He talks about the unknown. The wind blew and entered these dead bodies, and the bible says, there stood up a mighty army. An army is not zombies: you define an army because of several things, and that is Number 4: the uniforms, ranks and the way they are standing. These were not just dead bodies or statues made to stand but an army at war and in ranks ready to fight. Ezekiel found himself surrounded with an army dressed in uniform, and he was like the commander. Remember, he started with that which does not move.
The reason why I give you all this, Ezekiel started with the hand of God. After chapter 37, ten chapters down the road, what he saw by himself is now released for all of us to receive. Ezekiel wanted all of us to receive that which came called “the hand of the Lord was upon me”. In chapter 47, he explains it that don’t think he was born on Wednesday, and you were born on Saturday; not because he’s tall or white or black, or educated, but what happened to him to see the immoveable move, the invisible visible, the unseen seen, the unknown known, and the unachievable achieved, now he is a commander of a big army. Listen to this, he goes down and reveals to us, how this hand of the Lord is going to come upon you, and he said, He led me out. One of the best things that are going to happen to you, God is going to lead you out such that He may show you one of the greatest things that are going to happen.
Ezekiel said, He led me out and measured 1000 cubits. Some of us must get out of religion, humanism, tradition, and the way we have been doing stuff. He said, Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. Now what is the East? The East is where the sun rises and settles in the West. Jesus Christ is going to come on the East gate [Ezekiel 44:3], and the sun will rise with the healing in his hands [Malachi 4:2]. The sun rises from the east [Isaiah 45:6], and the three kings were from the east [Matthew 2:1]. If you really want to see, you need to focus your eyes on the East. In other words, let me break it down for you, his mercies never come to an end [Lamentations 3:22b]. Every day, the Lord gives you another day to be alive and when the sun rises, that is another day for your victory. You may have lost today but tomorrow, if you are still alive, you can see the sun rise. David said, early in the morning I will praise the Lord [Psalm 63:1]. I am telling you, those of you in the Morning Glory, you are about to see the glory of God. The bible says, The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing [Psalm 34:10]. The reason why the lion never starves is because it wakes up at 3:00 am in the morning and begins to look for prey. People of God, the church sleeps too much, even right now when there is a sunrise all over the world in business and commerce, we are sleeping.
He said, he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. Again, he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again, he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins (waist). These are levels. The anointing begins at the ankles. Ankles means to stand after you have done everything. Stand in the Truth, on the word of God and to be counted as born-again. Then the knees (which is prayer), and the waist. Remember God is using a thousand: One shall chase a thousand [Joshua 23:10]. Our God is a God of thousands. May God give you not only 10 customers, 100 customers but from 1000 and above. He said, once you reach that level of the waist, then you are about to start swimming in the Holy Ghost. We started with the ankles which was Pentecost #1, then to the knees which was Pentecost #2 and today it’s our Pentecost #3 which is the level of the waist.
Beginning on Monday, we will go another 10 days for those who are hungry for the Holy Spirit, and on Wednesday 6th– April – 2022, it will be our day forty and that will be the swimming level which will be a point of no return, because you can’t cross again the river of the Holy Spirit. When we reached crusade #49, we did not know that we had reached the swimming level. Anybody can walk through water at the low level but if it goes beyond the waist, it can sweep you and if you don’t know how to swim you will drown.
Now listen to this child of God because it is very important and we are at a very critical moment which is going to determine level 4, remember Jesus and Moses fasted for 40 days and we are about to reach #40. When Jesus rose from the dead, He remained with His disciples teaching and revealing to them for 40 days, and after those 40 days, He then ascended to heaven. In 10 days, He told them that He was going to ask the Father to send them the Holy Spirit [John 14:16]. It took ten days to reach the day of Pentecost for Him to pour down the blessing. What Jesus had wanted is that as much as Israel was gathering, when God pours out His spirit, it will be upon all flesh unfortunately only 120 men gathered in the upper room [Acts 1:15-19]. We don’t see people moving, but there were other men who traditionally came, and they were 3000 devoted, dedicated, and they were seeking and waiting, but they never got it. They only got part of the move of God because they gave their lives to Jesus [Acts 2:40-41]. Do you know that these men of our Lord Jesus Christ, each one gathered 10 people and they only brought 120? They even never brought the disciples of John because down the road, apostle Paul met the disciples of John and said, where you baptized to receive the Holy Spirit? Yet the ministry of Jesus and John were so close [Acts 19:2]. John’s ministry is what baptized Jesus Christ and he saw the Holy Spirit coming down, but down the road his disciples did not know who the Holy Spirit is [Luke 3:22]. They were saved and baptized, but they didn’t know the Holy Spirit.
It is very easy to have been used of God like John’s ministry baptizing Jesus and hold onto the tradition and yet when time comes, people who were not even there like apostle Paul – who even never benefited and received directly from the ministry of Jesus, who were simply arrested by grace, now they are the ones to pray for you to fill you with Holy Spirit. It’s so sad! These are the men who walked with a man Jesus called the greatest prophet but to find out, they do not even know the Holy Spirit [Matthew 11:11]. It was Paul who prayed for them to receive the Holy Spirit [Acts 19:2-6]. They were so close and near, in fact John sent them to Jesus to figure out if He was the One but they never knew the Holy Spirit [Luke 7:19].
There are so many people in your family, among your friends, and in churches: they are good and devoted people, they love God, but they don’t know who the Holy Spirit is, yet it is the LORD’s desire that the only way they are going to function or turn the dead things in their families, homes, businesses and marriages is to have the hand of God and the Holy Spirit rise on them. The Holy Spirit moves from glory to Glory. He sweeps you off your feet and takes you ahead so that you no longer struggle physically, financially, or spiritually but you swim in Him. We need to know the Holy Spirit, and one of the things that we need to understand also, “who dressed these soldiers?” Who gave them uniforms, combat, boots, and weapons? Where did they come from? You know people of God; we have been subjected to think that everything that comes in Uganda must come through Malaba or Entebbe International airport, and we have forgotten that God can drop an idea from heaven and that idea can make you a billionaire. We have been subjected to think that if I cannot manage the little I have, I will be out soon.
One of the things that the LORD has been dealing with me was the story of a young ruler who was also rich. When he came to Jesus and told him, you have done everything right, but you are wrong in one area, “Go sell all that you have, give it to the poor, be at zero, come and follow me.” The young man said this is impossible, and Jesus said something, “it is hard (not impossible) for the rich to enter into the kingdom of God”. Remember, the non-spirit-filled people, their chief whip was Simon Peter before Pentecost. He stood up and said, who can get into heaven? Jesus never talked about heaven but rather the kingdom of God [Luke 18:22-28]. The kingdom of God is righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost [Romans 14:17]. He was talking about things that have been dead, immovable, intangible, unseen, and you begin to see them have move. In the Holy Ghost, you’re about to see things move which have not been moving for a long time, and that’s the Kingdom of God. Jesus wasn’t talking about heaven because we go to heaven by believing in Him. He was talking about the kingdom of God which had come here on earth, and which is within us.
Romans 14:17 says, For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. What is peace? Job 22:21 says, Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. After peace has come to you, then good shall come to you. What peace does is good to come to you and it’s in the kingdom. Righteousness is what God gives you so that you qualify, and you can have the right standing with Him. When God gave Abraham righteousness, he became the richest Influential man and a friend of God. Once you become a friend of God, good comes to you. So, the Kingdom of God is not heaven. He then said, joy in the Holy Ghost: the joy of the Lord is your strength [Nehemiah 8:10]. The joy is the ability to stand in the battle and win. You are going to enjoy whatever the devil brings your way because of the strength from the Lord.
Jesus was telling the young man that the things that are making you happy, this and that, make God happy [Luke 18:22]. The things that you think are making you happy, give it to the poor because God’s happiness is to take care of the poor. God hates to see a world full of hunger, sin, poverty, iniquity, disease, and drought. Christians usually look at the people of the world as their standard: they look at the East and the West, or China thinking that their success is there. Lazarus was the most holy man in those days, yet he was so poor that with all his holiness, the dogs of the rich and the dogs of the village which were giving him solace by licking his wounds. Lazarus was the one giving those days something to lick on every single day. He had wounds all over his body, yet he was the most righteous man [Luke 16:21]. People of God, I have seen it over the years, that the most righteous, dedicate and godly people are the poorest that their only solace is among dogs. Lazarus lived near the house of a rich man, someone who was known in heaven. When he died, he went straight away in the bosom of Abraham, but he couldn’t afford a meal, not even medicine or plaster for his wounds. The affliction he was suffering was not spiritual because he did not know what the Kingdom of God is. He died and went to heaven while the rich died and went to hell. I want to show you something that your riches have nothing to do with heaven or the earth. Your riches must bring souls into the Kingdom of God, because when Lazarus died, he went straight in the bosom of Abraham alone: he took no body, not even the dogs because even among the dogs, there was a chief dog (the chief licker) – he didn’t take it. He died alone and went alone, but the rich man, when he died, and he went to hell. The scripture teaches us that while in hell, it was too hot and he said God, the issue is this, it is too hot here, I need some ventilators, fans and ACs. God said, NO: we can’t come there, and he said, can Lazarus dip his little finger which has no wound so that he can dip water here? That rich man in hell pleaded with heaven to send Lazarus so that he can go and preach to him the gospel and God said, we can’t come over there. Then he pleaded for his brother and relatives who were not yet in hell and said, can you send someone such that he goes back on earth and preaches to them such that they don’t have to come where I am… poor people are selfish people especially when they are religious [Luke 16:22-28].
Lazarus in all his godliness never pointed anybody to God but instead to a rich man: my hope is at the door of the rich” not God. So, the whole world focused on the rich how to live, and this is what we do with our poverty. We let our children know that we are preaching an invisible message that we can’t make it: you may not say it, but you are doing it. You are telling your children that the rich are better than us; they drive better, their kids go to better schools and hospitals but for us, we suffer, and this is where we are. That is the gospel your children are picking. That’s why it’s very difficult today to find a son of a Bishop – bishop or a son of a pastor – pastor because our lifestyle tells them that once you are kicked out of the house, where does dad go? He goes to elder so and so who is rich in the church. Apostle Paul said, “my God shall supply all your needs” [Philippians 4:19].
So, this move of God is in three levels: number 1: we are going to see holy and righteous people in this move of God. number 2: we are going to see people demonstrate the power of God, and number 3: we are going to see people getting rich in the house of God. Because you have never seen these three things working together.
I pray that as you read and meditate on this message, it will go through you in Jesus’ Name. To watch a rebroadcast of this entire message, use this link below and you will be blessed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn5iZWuWTHA
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