 I want to speak to us this morning for just a few moments, not only how we can experience a miracle or a sign, but how we can be in a position to experience wonders and signs. In Joshua it says, Joshua chapter 6, I apologize, in Joshua chapter 3 verse 5 says, and Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. Ruvim, if you can be kind to give me a clock so that I don't thank you. I'm gonna start again. Joshua 3.5 and Joshua said to the people, sanctify yourselves for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders, not just a wonder, wonders meaning plural, more than one. There's gonna be a domino effect of God's power. Tomorrow God will do wonders in your midst. Spiritual things, they work by three main principles. The right soil, the right seed, and the right season. The right soil is the environment that you are in. You cannot spiritually grow if you are in a wrong environment. Bananas do not grow in Alaska because of environment. You can have all the right decisions if you're not in a spiritually conducive environment for growth, it won't work. Some of you, that's why you came to our church, is because this is an environment where those things will work. There's a spiritual environment, dynamic environment that is taking place. You need to be in the right environment. Somebody say environment. So there's a soil. But secondly, there has to be right seeds. See, you can be in the proper environment, but if you're not planting the seeds in that environment, you will not reap a harvest. For example, if you're in the right place but you're not making the right decisions, you're not praying when that church is praying. On Wednesday morning, you're sleeping in when we're praying. When we're fasting, like that's for somebody else, meaning you have a really good soil. You're just not planting anything into that soil. Then what happens is that soil, even though it's fruitful in your life, you will be fruitless. It will produce weeds. It will not produce harvest. And so not only we need a right soil, we also need to plant the right seeds. But you can plant the right seeds in the wrong soil and you won't get a good harvest. And we not only need a right soil. Somebody say soil. Somebody say seeds. And see, planting seeds are decisions. This is what we're going to talk about this morning. Paul says in Galatians, in Galatians chapter 6 verses 7, he says, Do not be deceived, God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, he also will reap. For he who sows into his flesh will, so that's a soil, will of the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows into the spirit, so that's our environment, that's our soil. But we sow something, will reap out of the spirit of our lasting life. Let us not grow weary while doing good. For in due season, somebody say due season, we will reap if we do not lose heart. So we have a soil, that's our environment that we're sowing into. We have our seeds, that's the decisions we are taking, our fasting, our prayer, our Bible reading, separation from the world, sanctify yourselves, meaning separate yourself. That's our seeds. And then there's one more, somebody say season. The Bible says and in the due season, meaning the moment you plant a seed, you don't get a harvest instantly. There is a season, there's what the Bible calls kairos moment, meaning there's God's time for it when things just begin to happen. Everything was normal until it becomes not normal, becomes supernatural. Things just break through the ground, it becomes supernatural. See revival is not an accident. Revival is a harvest of seeds being planted in the right soil. Revival and the spiritual breakthrough in our life is a consequence of the right environment meeting your right decision and God's right time coming for your life. I believe you are on the brink of the right time in your life. You are on the brink of the season shifting in your life because God has planted you in his house at Hungry Jen and some of you have been praying, some of you have been fasting and you're about to step into in due season. Come on. God says to Joshua and Joshua says that to his people, sanctify yourselves for tomorrow meaning we're in the right place, we are in the promised land, we are in the right environment but you need to do something. You need to plant the right seeds. You need to separate yourself meaning what was acceptable in the wilderness is not acceptable in the promised land. I know you were not circumcised for 40 years and God did miracles but God is about to do wonders and for God to do wonders you need to plant some seeds in the soil and you won't see those wonders in a three hour. It will be tomorrow meaning it will take some time but God promises when you plant seeds there will be a shift of a season. Hallelujah. Tomorrow. Today's sacrifice is tomorrow's supernatural. Today's separation is tomorrow's success. Today's sanctification is tomorrow's miracles. Today's obedience equals to tomorrow's destiny. My friend a lot of us are discouraged to make sacrifices today because God doesn't promise that today we will reap. Today's purity is tomorrow's potential unlocked. Tomorrow's purpose is blessed but also today's disobedience is tomorrow's defeat. Today's sixth brownie is tomorrow's obesity. Today I don't want to go to college is tomorrow's poverty. Today I want to disrespect my mom and dad is tomorrow's calamity and Joshua experienced both of them because Aiken put things under his tent and everything was still fine until tomorrow the next city they experienced defeat. If you are in defeat right now I don't want to guilt trip bring Debbie the downer on you but I want you to examine your heart did you allow defeat in your life yesterday because everything you are today is a result of what happened yesterday and at the same time you are creating the tomorrow not in a sense that you are a creator but in a sense that you are a farmer God created the laws that we have to work with and these are the laws of sowing and reaping sometimes he suspends those laws temporarily but he does not suspend them permanently the laws are this what you sow is what you reap if you want your life to change in next five years if you want your spiritual life to change in next five days sanctify yourselves today separate yourself today because tomorrow says the Lord I want to do wonders in your midst God wants to do wonders and hungry Jen where the church will not be as usual or Sunday morning services will not be predictable not because we moved worship from the beginning till the end but because God will move you from sickness to health because God will move somebody from bondage into freedom because God will move somebody from being lost to being found my God is still in the business of doing miracles he makes dead things alive he makes lost people be found God heals the sick he still provides supernaturally and this God is saying I want to do wonders in your midst but you got to prepare yourself by separating yourself that means what was acceptable in the previous season is no longer okay in this season why because you have something promised that I want to release in your life revival is our portion revival is not a set of meetings revival is a lifestyle that's a harvest of us recognizing we are in a right environment we are making right decisions and we are patiently waiting for God to supernaturally add his super to our natural amen the Bible says in second Timothy chapter 2 verses 20 through 21 and 22 but in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay some for honor and some for dishonor therefore watch this if anyone God doesn't place responsibility upon himself to separate to so but he places responsibility on anyone therefore God says in my house there is vessels for honor vessels for dishonor therefore how would you become a vessel of honor how would you be qualified to see God's glory in your life God says if anyone cleanses himself if anyone separates himself now we don't initiate separation the spirit does we respond to the spirit how the spirit initiated sometimes making you dissatisfied with the status quo you just not happy with where your Christian life is it a command there is more to Christian life and you realize that state of dissatisfaction is initiation and an invitation of the Holy Ghost he's inviting you to separate yourself and Paul says if anyone cleanses himself from the ladder he will become a vessel of on for honor sanctified and youthful for the master prepared for every good work flee off so useful us and pursue righteousness faith love and peace with those who call on the name of the Lord my friend the difference between salvation and sanctification is the following salvation occurs instantly God saves us instantly sanctification occurs gradually salvation requires faith sanctification requires surrender or it requires yielding salvation is final you're saved you're safe you don't have to add anything to it your good works doesn't add anything it you there's no upgrade but sanctification is growth you're growing salvation removes the penalty of sin sanctification resists the desire of sin are you following me salvation is God's desire for all to be saved sanctification is God commands all to be sanctified it's not his desire it's his command for you it's his command for me he says cleanse yourself he says choose my words my spirit initiates that process you have to respond salvation is you getting out of the world sanctification is God getting the world out of you salvation is your eternal destination being changed sanctification it's your character being transformed so what I'm talking about right now please hear me loud and clear we do not believe that if you improve your Christian life you are more saved we are not more saved or less saved we are saved not by church attendance not by doing ordinances we are saved by the blood by the grace through faith amen but you can be saved and stuck you can be saved and stagnant you can be saved and chosen frozen you can be saved and not be in revival but be in a rut you can be saved and be in a religion instead of being in a renewal why because you stuck in here instead of going to the next step you can be saved and talk like the devil look take the devil drink like the devil smoke like the devil do everything like the devil and still call yourself saved that's why we have to move from the position of salvation into sanctification so that we can step into the promises of God into the purpose of God into the power of God into the wonders of God into the glory of God somebody say amen if you're watching us drop that fire emoji let us know that you're with us now practically how do we do that let me just give you few practical things that we can take home I want you to open Isaiah with me chapter 40 and verses 3 through 5 the voice of the one crying in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord make straight in the in the desert the highway for our God every valley shall be exalted and every mountain hill every mountain and hill brought low the crooked places shall be made straight and the rough places smooth and the glory of the Lord somebody say the glory the glory of the Lord shall be revealed have you noticed Joshua said the same thing you will see the wonders of God Paul said to Timothy that you will be a vessel of honor the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it shall see it together for the mouth of God has spoken now we know this is a prophetic verse concerning the coming of Messiah the glory of God and John the Baptist coming before Jesus to prepare the way for Jesus I want you to notice five things that we need to do if you're taking notes write this down is the repentance precedes revival you can't have Jesus without John the Baptist in other words you cannot have the glory of God in your life without having some kind of a construction work of John the Baptist in your character in your budget in your finances in how you speak and how you live many people want to wonders they don't want God to fix our highway and fix our way and fix our life and we call that legalism we call that ah this is just there these people they're just super you know self-righteous and we ignore that but in reality my friend that is sanctification and you cannot have the supernatural without the sanctification I'm not talking about sanctification so you can be holier than thou I'm talking about sanctification as a preparation for what is about to come amen the first thing I want you to write down is this is that this way has to be made in the wilderness which means it will most likely not be the right time for you you won't feel like doing it preparing the way in the wilderness wilderness is hot wilderness is not a place where you want to build a road wilderness is just not comfortable when you are in a spiritual wilderness you have convinced yourself that you don't feel like doing it I don't feel like reading the Bible I don't feel like going to church I don't feel like fasting I am in a dry place the place I am in is a wasteland and it's interesting God says in that way God says I want to build a highway you know when is the right time to get ready for revival right now oh but I have a birthday party right after this it doesn't matter right now is the time you know when is the right time to make a decision to stop sleeping with your girlfriend in the next 30 seconds okay in the next three seconds right now even my watch is speaking right now oh my goodness this is spiritual maybe you know when is the time to start hiding in your wilderness right now do you know when the time is to make a decision I'm gonna start reading God's word right now I know your college student I know you have a full-time job and your full-time in college but right now begin to build a highway for God in your wilderness and in your highway and in your wasteland amen okay that was a golf clap and I felt like half of you were like man I'm not laughing for that I'm not gonna be responsible for that word in my life discouragement is what the enemy will use to make excuses for why we are in the spiritual rut make up your mind if you're sick and tired of the way Christian life is for you if you're dry you're empty and you're like there has to be more those feelings are not just your dissatisfaction it could be a signal from the Holy Spirit sanctify yourself let's build a highway in the middle of the wilderness and if you are in choice cities you are in wilderness so it's time to build a highway for God it's time to prepare the way for the Lord it's time to seek the face of God it's time to humble yourself before God it's not enough to be in a revival church and not to have revival in your life it's time to set aside your plate and fast and see God it's time to wake up earlier and seek his face it's time to stay up late and be in his words it's time to separate yourself from ungodliness my friend this is the time now is the time and you are in the right place for that to happen come on somebody number two not only he says that the way has to be made in the wilderness he says that the high and the hill has to come down preparing yourself for revival means that every pride thing has to come down you cannot walk in holiness without humility water flows from the mountain but it always stays in the valley if you look at the water in your lawn if you look at the water in your driveway it will always be collected at the lowest places it can spray everywhere but it stays only in the places that are lower than others same thing is with the power of God and same thing is with the grace of God God's grace will touch anybody and everybody but it only stays on people who are low not i'm talking about low in the sense that you think of yourself ugly worthless fat no good and no no no i'm talking about low that you have a humble opinion about yourself and you live your life not about you well you can allow yourself to be a little bit offended and you don't take it personally well you don't come to church because of other people you come to church because of God and you don't live your life in offense and you don't live your life in entitlement arrogance and pride ego is like fingernails we need to get trimmed regularly and sometimes God will cause our pride to be injured by the people closest to us and instead of trimming our pride we trim relationships that caused our pride to be exposed come on somebody bring that hill down bring that mountain down don't switch churches switch your attitude don't switch spouses switch your attitude bring that pride down because in humility is where your holiness is in humility is where the glory of God is in humility is where God gives more grace in humility God gives more miracles in humility God exalts when you humble yourself come on number three not only John says Isaiah says that John and then John repeats that every hill must come down he says that every valley must be exalted and this means that low things must rise fear anxiety insecurity inferiority timidity has to come up and there's the sweet balance where cockiness comes down and then insecurity has to come up meaning if you feel like I'm not worthy I'm not good enough it's still about you you have to switch it to God what he is worthy and I have faith where fear has to be replaced with faith what insecurity has to be replaced with identity if you walk around with this God won't use me I want you to begin to fill that valley and that was me my problem was not that I had a big hill I had a long deep valleys valleys not in the sense of humility but it went deeper than humility it went into ungodly false humility I'm ugly I'm worthless I'm no good God has no purpose and a plan for my life and revival before revival comes God looks at Moses and says Moses I'm gonna send you to Egypt and you will speak and Moses says God I stutter and God says I am the one who causes men to speak and not to speak meaning this valley has to be filled God comes to Jeremiah and says I want you to prophesy he says I'm just a youth God says don't say you're just a youth because this valley has to be filled inferiority insecurity maybe people called you ugly maybe people called you you know no good maybe people called you with racist slur you need to fill that valley why because you are not defined by your past you are defined by the cross you are defined by the blood you are defined by what he did on the cross and what he says about you in his words and the fact that his spirit lives inside of you God could not move in my life until that valley had to be filled now my faith wasn't changed but my attitude had to be changed God doesn't just want to change everybody's view of you he wants to change your view of you by filling it with the gravel of his promises do you believe what he says about you I want you to notice the fourth thing the bible says not only the low things have to go up the high things have to come down you have to make a way in the wilderness crooked things have to be made straight that means don't live your life with what I can get away with live your life with can this bring me closer to Jesus or further from Jesus don't live your life with well the bible doesn't say that drinking is sin no no no that that's crooked it might not be wrong but it's already crooked and a lot of Christians live like that they look for loopholes instead of for a way to get closer to God if you're looking for a loophole you'll always find one but you'll never find yourself in revival you'll never find yourself close to God because your goal is this how can I maintain as much of my will and still get as much of God you will not get you and you will miss God you will like be like a person who's an offense you will try to get a little bit of God a little bit of the world and the worst part is you'll miss both and you'll be the most miserable person choose this day whom you will serve serve the devil but serve him fully or serve God and serve him fully otherwise you will never get the benefits of both and so what I want to encourage you today let's not live our life in a crooked way shady way with our finances in the way we do our taxes in the way we relate with other people in the way we drink in the way we you know for those of you who maybe you find those loopholes and what you drink and what you watch and how you treat other people and how you're doing things behind the back of your wife and she doesn't see or he doesn't see it in the way you talk and you know in your heart there is this thing which says you know I don't think that I should be doing that and you silence that voice long enough and that voice will start telling you something else you're okay you're fine and you can be completely spiritually dead inside and you will still be getting that confirmation why because the real voice of the Holy Spirit after being ignored for so long it dies down it goes mute God wants us to live a life without blemish he wants us to live a life without a hint of immorality not just like what can I get away with but God wants us to live without a hint of immorality why because the question is not how close to the cliff I can get without falling the question is how close to God I can stay so that I don't even think about the cliff oh I just stepped on somebody's toe in the morning I know this is early imagine if I will come to my wife and I said babe the Bible says thou shall not get commit adultery adultery is intercourse how close to another woman can I get without it being labeled as adult as adultery in your eyes the very idea of asking that question will put me in the grave you guys will have a funeral in five days from now if I will ask my wife that question she's gonna say first of all that's the wrong question why because we are relational you're asking a relational question you should be asking how close to her I can get that I don't even think about those dumb questions and that's exactly what many Christians do is we come to God and because we treat God as a religion or a vending machine we dare to ask those things and live crooked ways but the moment you begin to walk after God my friend you won't be asking those dumb questions because you have a relationship that's in love with God and you say God I want to love you so much I want to be with you now if you don't have those then ask him to give you that revelation pay the price of having that intimacy with God my friend the world criticizes us because we live crooked ways because we live shady ways because we do people because we got corners because we'll loophole Christians that's what the world has a problem with us and that's why I'm here today to rebuke you and myself and to say it's time to make our way straight it's time to live our life honest before God it's time to live our life holy before God it's time not to have a hint of immorality it's time not to operate in the gray area somebody say amen somebody give God some praise right now it's easy we criticize the homosexuals we criticize people who commit abortion but the bible says the judgment of God starts in the house of God God wants to make crooked things straight Philippians chapter 2 verse 14 and 15 it says do all things without complaining and disputing that you may become blameless see this is not about getting away with stuff blameless meaning there's not even a blame blameless and harmless children of God without fault are you talking about perfection no my friend i'm talking about living life where you're progressing in sanctification without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation among whom you shine as lights in the world sin is always easier to see and everybody else accept yourself and what i'm challenging us today this is not a judgment message please hear me loud and clear i'm not trying to be judgmental what i'm saying is this my friends we want to live in revival and the bible is very clear he wants us not to have crooked paths crooked dealings crooked stuff in relationships he does not want us to live like that we all can fall but we have to get up and understand and stop calling crooked things straight amen now if you're not a christian one thing i do know about you deep inside you're like yeah finally somebody told them tell them the christians because you expect it from us you expect for us not to be perfect but not to be crooked you want to deal with the christian in the business and you want to know he's not going to dupe you he's not going to cut corner you you're expecting that out of a christian none of your expectation is correct because that is exactly what the bible teaches us and we as christians we're gonna step up our game and the last one is he said make the rough patches smooth now this is the hard one because by the time you get to the fifth one and you got your life straight like man my god i am doing everything right before god i'm living holy i am putting in work the last one hits all the people who get to first four because you develop a little bit self-righteousness and you become a little bit mean the moment you get a lot of your ducks in a row you actually start feeling really good and that feeling really good can lead to feeling better than other people and you become rough become rough with your spouse you become rough with your children and god says not only i want crooked things straight i want your roughness out and i want you to be smooth even all of you all of you rough men who like them harley davis sins and you like killing stuff and like like you're like even that that's completely fine you can be rough like that with demons you can be rough like that with the devil but when you come to your spouse when you come to other human beings that toughness has to have a tenderness in you jesus said this he says for i am meek and gentle in heart jesus could stop the storm raise the dead cleanse the lepers and yet he can also hold the child he can also the bible says the bruised reed he would not break meaning there was a gentleness about him and this was hard for me when we just got married because i thought because i was a virgin till 24 and i lived a holy life and i paid my taxes and i went to church it gave me this license to be a jerk i didn't see myself as a jerk i just thought i was jesus version two he went around throwing throwing tables in the temple and it was my right to go and you know why didn't you wash the dishes you know why don't you wake up and pray you know that i walked in this righteous indignation like elijah you know bringing fire down on people and then the lord had to really deal with my heart and he says that roughness is not the fruit of the spirit harshness is not the fruit of the spirit and when the disciples wanted to burn some area out of their passion for god jesus says you guys don't know what your spirit you're in that's not the heart and the passion of jesus christ so some of you maybe like the crookedness is not your issue and maybe the issue is not you're not struggling with necessarily with pride or with this false humility but you're just rough you're snappy to prepare for revival you have to admit that today to your spouse to your children to your co-workers to your employees you have to admit that not only you have to admit that to god and say lord i'm going to go and we're gonna start construction on my character because god's revival is not just you but a master shahabarahanda and then you're acting like a jerk everywhere else outside of your prayer god wants us to live in the way that we are in relationships with other people in the way that we are in relationship with the world that reflects his image that gives him honor and glory and at the same time prepares us to fully utilize our potential and god's purpose for our life prepare the way for the lord hey thanks for watching this video if you enjoyed this content and this was a blessing to you would you help us and hit thumbs up so that it could help more people to discover this video it cost you nothing but it can go a long way to help with the algorithm as well as if you're not subscribed to our channel hit subscribe click on the bell so that you can be reminded each time that we upload videos thank you so much for being a part of this community if you're interested in learning more about hungry jen our 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