Episode Transcript
[00:00:02] Speaker A: Welcome to the Karma Chaj podcast.
[00:00:06] Speaker B: I want to just take a few moments to talk to you a little bit about raising Levites. The Levites were a tribe, but from them came the priests, and I think we're meant to raise Levites in the church. You know, all priests are Levites, but not all Levites are priests.
And I don't know if you've ever thought, why were the apostles so effective?
When you look at the New Testament Church, and the one reason is they were. They were anointed of the Holy Spirit.
You see, they were more than great leaders.
They represented God to his people.
You know, when the priesthood is instigated, Aaron was dressed, and I think Juliet mentioned it in these incredible ropes.
And I've been playing a little bit with AI.
Okay.
I've learned a lot about AI.
It's definitely artificial.
Anyway, so I've been reading a little bit. I was reading about the robes.
So I just asked AI and I said, so show me what Aaron's robes look like.
And this appeared, and I thought, it looks a bit empty. So I spoke to AI and said, could you put Aaron in his robes? Okay, there he is.
Okay. But that is one miserable Aaron, and he's got no legs. So I said, could you add a smile and legs to Aaron?
It was. It was. It was just.
He's. He's. He's been to the dentist recently.
Okay. And then now this is why, you know, just don't get AI to write your sermons. Okay? Because if. If you actually look at that, it's wrong.
There's meant to be 12 stones.
So I'm like, trying to tell it to give me 12 stones. And it's taking his clothes off. I mean, it's taking things off.
And I'm like. And then it comes up, this is Gonna cost you 19.99.
AI is a capitalist.
Okay, So I paid, and then Here we go. 12 stones.
That cost me £19, 99.
And I still didn't get the shoulders right. And now Aaron has no shoes on.
Okay. So I think we're going to be okay for a while with AI. Okay.
I don't know, but I.
But anyway, in the New Testament, we are dressed even more extravagantly. If you actually read in Exodus, just the incredible workmanship that went into the robes of the priests and. Oh, it's gone. And that particular robe. But in the New Testament, we. We are dressed even more extravagantly because we're clothed in Christ.
We are anointed with the Holy Spirit, and we are descended from Peter because Jesus Says on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail.
And if you read one Peter, he says, we're not only clothed with Christ, but we're clothed with humility in the New Testament. So if you've got a Bible, find one Peter, let me find my glasses. Let's read one Peter, chapter two and verse verse nine. They go and look, one of the. One of the things we do here at this gathering is just show you some of the things we've been doing. And so we always stand when we read the Bible. So why don't you stand? I'm only going to read a few verses.
And you know, there's been a just in our society, there's a lot of confusion.
And the Bible even in the church has been sometimes demoted to culture or what the world is saying.
And so one of the things the Lord just spoke to us about is, well, if you start standing when you read the Word Word and people will realize that my words are more important than their words.
My ways are more important than their ways. So that's what we've been doing. And we're going to read. Let's read chapter two, verse well, just read a few verses, verse nine. But you, but you are a chosen generation, A royal priesthood, a holy nation.
His own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Who once were not a people but are now the people of God who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy. Mercy. Just stay standing for a moment. I just want to.
So you are chosen, every single one of you. He has chosen you. You are a royal priesthood. You're not just a priesthood, you're a royal priesthood. You're royal because of who your father is. And you are priests because you represent him to the people.
You are a holy nation. The word here means a non Jewish tribe who, who dwell together for the purposes of God.
That's what that holy nation means. His own special people separated different from the world. You are nothing like the world that you may proclaim the praises.
And this word, when it talks about proclaiming the praises, means manliness, valor and excellence.
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There you go.
Is anything working?
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They like to do this to me.
What was I talking about?
Excellence. Thank you. I'm pleased. Someone who's paid attention, you know the sense of declaring his praises, that men would be men. And you know, there's a time now for men to be men and ladies to be ladies.
You know, and I, you know, I probably am sexist, can't help it, I'm a dinosaur.
But, you know, it's time that men stood in courage and had strength and were proud to be men. And that women were looked like women and were beautiful and displayed the splendor and the glory of God. And that we come together to be his people. We have different function. He made us different.
No one's trying anything. Good.
Because he has called us from darkness into his marvelous light. He's bringing us into the light.
The Passion says this, and now he claims you as his very own.
He did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world. For at one time, you were not God's people, but now you are.
At one time, you knew nothing of God's mercy because you hadn't received it yet. But now you are drenched with it.
Grab a seat.
You see, I believe the Lord wants to raise a generation of Levites who can all be priests.
The job of the priests was to minister to the Lord and they would serve the people so that they, as a nation, could walk in the Lord's ways.
And my prayer is that the priesthood would arise in these coming days.
You know the definition of insanity? Keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.
You know, we.
I've been around the church for years now. I've been to so many leadership conferences where the church is teaching different leadership techniques to help the church grow. Do you know the Bible doesn't mention leadership that much?
And when it does, it's not that favorable. Jesus says they are the blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall in the ditch.
Now, look, hear me.
Anyone that knows me knows I believe in leadership, okay? It is a gift of the Spirit. Romans 12.
But if our goal is to raise leaders, not priests and Levites, I think we'll end up in the ditch.
And that's what happens too often.
And you go, you know, well, what about the great leaders of the Bible? You know, like men like Moses. Moses was a prophet first and he talked with God face to face.
You know, Samuel, another great leader, but he was. There's another prophet who heard the audible voice of God.
You know, David was just a superb leader. No, David was a king and a man after God's heart who spent hours in the Lord's presence, worshiping and dancing.
And you say, well, Daniel, Great Leader outlived 4 Kings Daniel was a servant, you know, I read, just to check. The king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king's descendants and some of the nobles, young men in whom there was no blemish, but good looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had the ability to serve in the king's palace. And I just want to offer you a thought tonight. If a leader doesn't have a call on their life or some kind of office from the Lord, he or she is the blind leading the blind, and both often end up in the ditch.
And so that's why I want to call you to the priesthood, not to leadership tonight.
If the goal is to be a leader, we could end up in the ditch. But if the goal is to be a prophet, you lead people to hear the voice of God. If the goal is to be an evangelist, you lead people to know God.
If the goal is to be a teacher, you lead people in the ways of God. If the goal is to be a pastor, you lead the flock under the protection of God. And if the goal is to be an apostle, you'll be beaten, misunderstood, rejected, and left for dead. Who wants that one?
You see, my prayer is that this would be a place of his presence and a people who, who love that presence, you know, and you know, we've got people leading worship and I'm not so worried about the worship leaders. I more want the worshipers, because a worship leader is only as good as the worshipers.
So we want a people who are raised as worshipers who love the Lord. You know, I don't often listen to podcasts, but I heard a young guy and he was talking about worship and you know, they were talking about how long, and he said, oh, in our church we just have a little short section. We have three songs. Because if you know where you're going, it doesn't take long to get there.
I think you've missed the point.
You're absolutely right. If you know where you're going, it doesn't long to get you. But the thing is, when we get there, he's there and we want to stay there.
Yeah, we want to get there quickly. But the whole point is that we, we gather in his presence because he is there, you know, and, and one of the, you know, one of the things you were doing tonight, and I'm not just going to talk about worship tonight, but we've learned just pushing when we're worshiping a tiredness can come on us at a point and learning to push through the tiredness into the glory.
Because, you know, quickly, you know, we're singing songs and you've had a busy day or a busy week, and it isn't just coming into the presence of God and ticking a box, but it's meeting with him and encountering Him. And often we're singing and go, oh, I think I might need to sit down now. I'm getting tired and you might need to sit down. That's perfectly all right. But what we found is that when we keep going, going, we come into the glory where he manifests himself. That's John 14 and John 16 where we have an encounter with Jesus. You see, leaders often assume you want to get to a place and I often feel the impatience with them. We've just got to get there.
But Levites want to get to the person of Jesus now. It's from him everything else flows.
You see, leaders will often want you to do something. And it's really important we do something. You know, if no one switches the lights on or put the chairs out, you know, church and the gathering is not going to happen. But we read in the Bible that when the, when the presence of God comes, the priests couldn't do their work. And that's the high water mark, okay? So when he comes, they were flawed, okay? And from that they can do their work.
Someone asked me tonight, you know, where does Levites come into the New Testament?
Well, we are a priesthood. We're a royal priesthood. But I've got a feeling Levite disciple, disciple Levi are probably interchangeable.
You know, there's often lots of talk in the church about discipleship.
You know, my observation on discipleship is that the hardest disciple to get is the first one. Me, I'm always the hardest to get the first disciple. Once I've got me as a disciple, it's easy to get the rest. I think Tim said it this morning, it starts with me.
And our journey here was really simple.
The Lord just invited us to walk with him and we were in pain and we were feeling rejected and we were feeling our world was falling around literally to bits around us. And the Lord just said, walk with me. And what I want to say is, if you're in pain tonight and if you're carrying wounds from things that have happened in your life, walk with Jesus.
Just walk with him every day. Because what I found was as I walked with him, my pain started to diminish and my relationship with him started to grow. Now hear me, don't get me wrong. I often asked him if we could call fire down from heaven. I always check, okay, because one time he may say, yes, okay. You never know.
But it was. But in the process of, Can I call fire down from heaven? He's going, no, not today.
Walk with me.
And as I walked with him and just every morning for the last eight years, just spending time with Jesus, the pain went and his presence and my awareness of him grew, you see. Then all we did was we started to do what he said.
So I'd be out walking, and he said, you know, gather around my presence.
Then he said, you know, start doing altar calls. Then he said, heal the sick. He talked about getting our thinking of money, right? And so we. It came out of the walking with him.
And I used to. When we started this journey, I used to walk with him. The other thing I did was I started going to a vivimiento. Some of you heard Pastor Ricardo here in May, and I would go out there and I'd go. I'd ask loads of questions, go, how do you do this? And how do you make this work? And how does this happen? And they were so helpful. Their answer every time was, well, what's the Holy Spirit saying?
And I'm like, I've gone halfway around the world to hear you tell me what's the holy. If I knew what the Holy Spirit was saying, I wouldn't need to ask you.
All right, Just give me the formula and what I learned from them. There isn't one.
There isn't a formula. Walk with Jesus.
Just walk with him and walk with him and ask him and ask him until he starts speaking and until we can hear. And then, and then, and then I probably told this boy, I remember a car journey with him. We were driving somewhere. The traffic in Bogota is just horrible. I mean, you think traffic around here is bad?
In Bogota, you've got.
You can only drive your car every other day.
So if you've got an even number plate, you can drive on one day, and if you've got an odd number plate, you can drive on the next day. Okay? It was some genius, thought it would cut down on traffic, so a number of people just bought two cars.
It really didn't work.
So anyway, we're on a car journey, and my friend Alvaro said, said, I've been watching your services, and, oh, that's great, because, you know, I really want to impress you. And he said, your times of adoration are wonderful.
And I. Oh, I know, I know. And then he said, you not so Good.
This is true. He swears blind he didn't say it, but he did. He definitely said that. Well, at least Google Translate did.
But then what he said is, you're wasting the anointing.
You're not praying for the sick. I am praying for the sick. And he says, you're not praying for the sick.
So we started praying for the sick. And, you know, you've heard me say before, it's hard in the local church to pray for the sick because the same sick people keep coming forward, and people know if they're getting healed when the same people are coming forward. And so we.
We wrote, we felt. You know, I try not to complain in my prayer, but I'm asking questions that are vexing me when I'm walking with the Lord.
And that's when he told us to write a song. He said, just write a song, and every time you pray for the sick, sing that song, and the faith in the room will rise. And as the faith in the room rises, I'll heal the sick.
Because the problem with healing sick is unbelief.
Even Jesus didn't do many miracles in places where there was unbelief and there was unbelief in our church. And he says, when you sing this song, the faith will arise.
The other thing we started doing was releasing testimony.
So we pray for people. We do it every single week.
We sing the same song, and then we just ask people, has anything changed? And then we take testimony. And sometimes there's lots healed, sometimes there's no one healed.
But the thing I learned is I'm the priest of the house.
I have to pray for the sick.
You see, priests pray for people because you're called to pray for the people.
Your prayers hold more weight before the Lord.
You go, what about the priesthood for believers? Yet they can all do it.
But your prayers, when you pray, they hold more weight. Why? Because he told you to do it?
It's what we've been called to do.
You see, leaders delegate everything.
Priests don't. They do their duties.
They do what they're called to do before the Lord, and you go, but there's people that are just more gifted than me that pray for the sake. Tricky, right?
Yeah, there are. Yeah, I know. But we're still called to do it.
We're still called to pray for the people.
You're called, and you're anointed.
You know, what was the criticism of the shepherds in Ezekiel? You didn't heal the sick.
But I'm gonna. Therefore, I will come and do it.
It's one of the mandates of a Levite, of a disciple. Go heal the sick. So that's part of our job, you see. Another part of our job is the priest gets to declare the blessings of the Lord on the people.
You know, number six, this is the way you shall bless the children of Israel. Say to them, the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
So they shall put my name on the children of Israel, and I will bless them.
So that when we speak the blessing of God over people, we're putting his name.
And the Lord comes and blesses because he works through us.
Are we all right?
No one's going to start throwing anything. Okay.
You know, when Hezekiah restores temple worship and the Passover feast, 2 Chronicles 30, then the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place to heaven.
This is what we do. We get to speak the blessings of God over the people. We get to speak salvation.
These are some of. Look, other people can do it and they do it with us, but we can't delegate this.
We call people to give their lives to Jesus. We lay our hands on the sick and they are healed. Jesus actually never said pray for the sick. He said, heal the sick.
So this is what we're called to do, Deliverance. We cast out their demons and we free them from the things that bind them.
We speak the favor of God over people's lives. We speak prosperity over our church's life. The gospel is good news to the poor. Why is it good news? Because they're not going to stay poor. And the panic is, oh, we're going to go into prosperity. No, the gospel is good news because God doesn't want people to be poor. He doesn't want them to be in lack. He wants them to move into his abundance and blessing.
You know, we call out gold of people, the character, the things that the Lord has placed in people. We get to do this.
We speak the fruit of the spirit, Love, peace, self control.
This is the best job in the world.
And these are the things we don't want to give away.
Now, other people can do it and they do it with us, but the priests get to release the blessing on the people.
And you know, look, as we walk with Jesus, both the anointing and the favor flows through you, and people start to gather, they start to Gather around you because God is around. Because we're gathering around the presence. This is my. All right.
I just want to shift things from, you know, giving everything away. Leaders give this away, and they give that away. They give that away and they sit up here and they manage.
But priests.
Priests minister before the Lord and they minister to the people.
You know, I'm.
I may be wrong. I'm not sure you can host a move of God with leaders. I believe you need priests because the priests lead people into prayer.
Prayer is simply talking with God and learning to listen to his voice.
You know, my favorite thing we do here is a revival prayer. Everyone will tell you, I never miss it.
It's been running for three years, full of people praying and worshiping.
You know, we might even the last session do it more as a revival prayer. When we do communion, we'll just see.
See how it goes.
I just want. If your church doesn't have a prayer meeting, it's time to start one.
And you might go, well, I don't know if anyone's gonna come.
You know what? Look, I just keep hearing, you know, people keep saying we're gonna fill stadiums of people praying. Well, let's just fill the church first.
Let's get the church praying first, and then we'll do the stadiums. All right?
But it doesn't matter how many come where. Two or three are gathered there. Am I right in your midst?
Let's gather to pray. The priests minister before the Lord.
You know, when we started this journey eight years ago, no one was talking about revival.
No one in this country was talking about revival.
And, you know, as Covid hit, we could barely get through Covid.
But then we started praying. We started praying that the Lord would move.
And you know the typical response? Well, I'm sure it wasn't us.
I'm sure it was us.
Because why would we pray if it wasn't us? Why would we bother?
You see, the problem is we don't believe our prayers move God.
But we started praying for revival, and now the newspapers are talking about it. Now, granted, they're calling it a quiet revival, which is. Is silly, and we're going to make it a lot more noisy.
Okay?
But it was the gathering around his presence. It was the prayers. The Lord heard our prayer and started to do it. Now, did he hear other people's prayer? Of course he did.
I don't care what they're praying. I just want to. I care what we're praying here. Because the whole reason we pray is because God hears our prayer. So when we gather to pray, we pray in faith. Because whatever we ask the Father for in the name of Jesus, He. He will give it.
So it was us. It was you.
We started this whole thing off.
Now we're just going to make sure it doesn't stay quiet and it gets noisy.
You know, the last time revival was brewing in England was when the Geoffrey brothers, George and Stephen, came out of the Welsh revival.
So revival is breaking in Wales, and George and Stephen start preaching in England.
Do you know what happens Next?
World War I.
The World War breaks out, and the revival never took hold.
So the revival that was in Wales jumped to Azusa.
That's what they think. Jumped to Azusa street instead of England.
In 1940, King George called the nation to pray. In fact, he called the nation to return to the Lord and repent. Millions turned out to pray, and the course of the war was changed. We prayed for deliverance.
Do you know, once again, revival is stirring in this land. And guess what's happening in Europe?
War is brewing.
I don't think that's a coincidence.
Time to pray for our nation.
It's time to pray.
Let's pray before instead of after.
Because the priests must lead the people into prayer. And the revival needs to take hold in England.
I think it was last Sunday. Young girl, she's 13 years old. She may be here tonight. Came up to me and said, I'm starting a Bible study at school.
And she said, what do I do?
I love her. I love her. I've watched her grow up here.
And she said, how do I do it? And I said, well, just invite some of your friends.
Read a passage of the Bible, ask some questions, have fun, really enjoy the Bible. And if you get some difficult questions, you can just come and ask me, okay? Do you know what she did? She just throws her arms around me and hugs me and walks. I don't hug.
And she just didn't read any of the body language. Single. She just rose her. And then last Sunday, she came up. She came up to her, saw her outside. She said three people came, and she said, what do I do next?
And we talked a little bit. And she threw her arms around me and.
And hugged me. And off she went.
You see, I got to bless her.
And when we bless the people, revival starts.
The priests bless the people. And the favor of God comes and the people gather.
You see, what I'm trying to say to you tonight is I'm not against leaders or leadership. I really believe in it. But we need to start with Levites. And priests with prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, and yes, even apostles.
But they're not layers of elevation but rather offices of function to instruct the saints in service of the Lord.
I'm going to finish in a minute.
There are big wigs and little wigs.
One of the problems we have in the church today is that the bigwigs never learned as little wigs to do the priestly activities.
My 13 year old Bible study student is a little wig and she is a little wig.
She's going to learn to teach the scriptures.
One of her friends I think was a Hindu. She's going to learn how to lead her to Jesus to cast out her demons.
And they're going to come out.
And sometimes they're not just like the disciples.
Any of you tried to cast demons out and they didn't come out?
You liars.
We've all tried and sometimes they didn't come out. And the disciples, you know, went to Jesus.
We tried to get the demon out of the kid.
Why wouldn't it come out?
And he said this type come out by nothing but prayer and fasting. What's he talking about? It's relationship with Jesus.
They know.
You know, we always have discipleship years. You know, if you don't have prayer meetings, start a prayer meeting. If you don't have a discipleship year, start a discipleship year. We just have a, we call it encounter year where normally young people but anyone can come and serve for a year and they serve for a bit and they work, they have to get a job and they serve around the church. And many of the young people that have been serving you are on encounter year. This is week two. Okay. So they're just getting, just getting into it. Anyway, a number of years ago, and I think it was when we were in Southend, we had a discipleship year. And this particular year we only had one and we had a lad, one lad.
Anyway, he was doing something in one of the rooms of our building. And a demon manifest.
And someone has obviously seen what was happening and came to get me.
And there was a demonized woman chasing him around the room, literally running around the room. She was yelling at him and screaming at him, you know, I'm going to kill you. And he's just like this poor kid, he's just running away from her. And by the time I got there, he was just coming out the door, he was covered in sweat.
I'm never going back in there again.
He was a little wig. Learning to do the works of Jesus. That's the time to learn how to cast demons out.
I remember my first demon.
I was 20 years old.
We were preaching the gospel, and funny enough, another Hindu girl giving her life to Jesus. She ended up on the floor. She was slivering on the floor like a snake, hissing and trying to bite people. That's what gave it away. I think they. I got called in because I was in charge, unfortunately.
And again, I'd read the books, you know, pigs in the parlor and all of those. And I remember, you know, what do I do? What do I do? She's hissing on the floor. Oh, you've got to ask its name. So I said, what's your name? And he said, malcolm.
Honest truth. Honest truth. I went, what?
And then. And then, this is true. He said, I don't know who you are. I went, oh, no, because I've read the Acts, the Seven sons of Sceva. I'm going to get stripped naked. I'm going to run out in front of all of the people I'm leading, and I'm going to look very foolish.
But then the demon said, I don't know who Jesus is either.
I hadn't even mentioned Jesus this time. I was too caught up with Malcolm.
But at that point, I kicked in. And that's not true.
You do know who Jesus is. You may not know who I am, but you're gonna learn.
Something went off inside of me.
You know, you might not, you know, Jesus is. You don't know who I am yet. But let's introduce. I'm going to introduce myself to you. Get out.
Enough.
Now. Look, I think after a couple of hours, I bored it out, okay?
Which actually was a Jewish custom. I mean, that's how they got rid of demons. They would use incon. They would just repeat scripture and bore the demon out. Which is why when Jesus came and he cast demons out, they said he cast out with a word because they're the thorns. Authority of God.
I've got a bit better now, but look, the problem. The problems in the church is the bigwigs have never, ever done the little weak stuff.
And now they're bigwigs.
And when your goal is to be a leader and not a priest, you don't want to. You really struggle to fail.
Because if you've got a demon down there on a Sunday morning and you'd say get out or shut up or whatever, you don't want to do it. So just get the ministry team.
You know, week in, week out, it feels like I'm failing.
That's what it Feels like sometimes walking with Jesus, not everyone gets healed, not everyone gets saved. You pray your best joined up prayers and you know, there's no rhyme or reason. Somebody you think, I don't think you deserve to get healed. The Lord just heals them and then there's someone really good and you think, well, they really deserve to get healed. And he doesn't.
I don't know, it's a mystery.
But we do it week in, week out.
You preach the gospel, you call people forward, sometimes they come forward, sometimes they don't come forward. And you stand there and you think, oh Lord, this is hard. Leaders find it hard to fail. Priests just do what they're told.
And because we've just done what we're told, thousand, over a thousand people have given their lives to Jesus and now hundreds getting healed.
But we had to go through the pain of the little wig stuff before we became a big wig.
And I want to really encourage you to be priests, to minister before the Lord, to enjoy his presence, to do what he tells you to do, to minister to the people. And if a demon manifests and you're the leader of the church, cast it out and you go, well, but, but I might look bad.
So this is what priests do.
And I tried to cast lots of demons out and they've argued with me and you know, just keep going until it gets bored and it will just go and then you'll see it go and you go, oh, it's not that hard. And then something of the anointing starts to increase because you're being obedient.
And then the next one's easier and the next one's easier and the next one easier. And when you're praying for the sick and you'll see patterns of your legs are getting healed or backs are getting healed. And often, you know, some people can get anointing for certain sickness. And you go, oh, that's easy. I could do those, those are a bit harder. I'm going to practice more on those.
But that's what priests do. So back to my 13 year old, you know, she's going to walk as a little wig with her friends through the difficulties of life. The favor of God is going to come upon her and she will walk through the valleys and the mountains and she's going to become a priest, a priestess in the service of the Lord.
Where's, where's Felicia? Oh, there she is. Come here. You're normally asleep. Wake up. Come on, come on down there.
She's my friend.
Let me, I don't read it you. The other week. She. She's got a. Come here, Come here. That's all right.
Felicia came here as a student, and she's leaving us in a. In a few weeks to go to Manchester, which I will not forgive, but it's Manchester's gain, and she better be back. You're going to go and do an ma Just really quickly. I think you did it in revival prayer or somewhere. You. You just talked about what God had done for you here.
Okay.
[00:42:29] Speaker A: I came to Cromer three years ago, but when I first came, I came really depressed, really sad, full of so much social anxiety.
And I just walked into one revival prayer, and I was overcome by the love of God. It completely wrecked and ruined my life. I didn't know I could be loved in such a way like that. And I have never looked back since. Like, the Lord has continued to meet me. And then I got baptized, and then I did the encounter.
[00:42:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:42:55] Speaker A: Which is just a life where you. You lay down your life and you give everything to Jesus. And honestly, I cannot tell you that everything I gave to Jesus, He. He gave me much more than I could ever ask for or even thank him for. So my life has completely changed, and it's just because of this house and just the community. So, yeah.
[00:43:24] Speaker B: I get her to tell you that, because I don't know if she'd cast any demons out before she came, but she has now, and she's prayed for the sick and she's led the ministry team in one of the services.
And on one hand, she's a great loss because she's going, but that's the business of the church, because they come, they get saved, they get transformed, they get equipped, and then they go and they bless.
And that's what we're called to do. And we're not about keeping people, although we want to. And that's a normal thing, because who wanted to go?
But we're in the descending business, and the whole purpose of the priesthood is for the people to come and encounter God. That we pray, we minister, we bless, and then we send them, and we send them into the harvest to go and do the adventures that Jesus has. So all I'm doing today and I'm done is to.
I want to call you to the priesthood.
It doesn't matter what size your church is.
It matters. What matters is that you're ministering to the Lord and you're ministering to people.
I don't believe it's about a formula, but rather a call.
Has the Lord called You. I don't believe it's how hard you work. I believe it's where you walk.
He's calling you to walk with him.
You see, all the Levites can become priests, but not all do.
But you have to be a Levite to become a priest, John. Priests are on the ground ministering.
And this is a room full of humble ministers who are clothed with Jesus and anointed by the Holy Spirit.
And I want you to hear. Firstly, I want you to hear these words of the Lord over you. Well done, good and faithful servants.
Stay in your call.
Minister to me and the people, raise Levites. A worshipping and praying people.
And I will not forget the United Kingdom.
If you will do this, if you will minister before the Lord and raise Levites and priests, the Lord will not forget the United Kingdom. Why don't you stand?
There was three things that they did to the priests, okay? So that they would remember what their job was, they anointed the ear, the thumb, and the big toe.
Yeah, you read that bet. Odd, right?
I'm so pleased it's, you know, the Holy Spirit now.
But there was a reason for it.
The ear was to hear the Lord.
They anointed your ears to hear what the Lord is saying.
They would anoint the thumb, the hand, to do his work, to take people by the hand and lead them, and the big toe to walk in his ways.
They would walk in the ways of the Lord.
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[00:47:06] Speaker A: Thanks for listening to the Cromer Church Podcast. If you enjoyed this message, you can like and subscribe. You can also join us in person or online every Sunday at Cromer Church. For more information about us, including our ministries, online events, worship, and how to donate, visit our website at Chroma Church.
