Out of His presence!

I really believe in Divine appointments and the destiny of the Lord being on and in our lives. You know how exciting it is to see what God has done over the years?

One thing I wanted to add to the offering message was simply this, Proverbs 11:24-25 says, those that scattered will increase more. I want you to think about that for a second, for those that scatter, what does scatter mean? It's like taking wheat and scattering it over a field, and then the Lord rains on it, and supernaturally produces an increase. Everywhere I go I scatter. I'm a scatterer. I love giving money. I love giving things away to people and you know God uses it all. So don't be afraid to scatter. But as a warning, the next verse says something very interesting also, it says those that hold on to they will decrease.

You know the gospel is totally opposite of our natural way of doing things. If you think, okay, well I'm going to keep sowing into my bank account and the natural thinking is that's going to bring an increase, which is totally true. I'm not saying it won’t and is no doubt a good investment strategy, but the Lord says when you give away that's when you increase. You see how opposite that is of the world, but all the word of God is opposite of the world's way of doing things. That's why we need the supernatural in our hearts and in our lives.

As we started this service, we talked a little bit about the conferences that have been undertaken in years past. In some of those conferences, you may have remembered that we had a young lady that would come and dance for us at the front and how eloquent that was, and how the spirit of the Lord used that to touch people's lives. You know what that young lady is here with us tonight. That young lady is my granddaughter, and her name is Alison. From a very young age, Alison has been one to seek the Lord. She's been one to be on fire for God and I've asked her to share a little bit tonight. I've asked her to share something with those that are gathered here. She's 16 now and on fire for God and is touching people already at that young age.

I need to give God the glory you know, and it's everything of the Lord in her life, the destiny of God is upon her life, and I’m honored to have her as part of my family. I'm going to ask her just to share a few words and then we're going to go deeper and further with the Lord. (Alison speaking) I have done a little painting here that I wanna show all of you tonight. But before we get into this, I don't want you guys to get your hopes up; it's not that good of a painting. I'm not an artist; actually, art was my lowest grade last year, but I wanted to show you this painting because I think it's absolutely perfect. I had gone through the strokes in my mind, and I planned it in great detail. It took me about 2 hours, and I was like oh I want to use this shape, and this shape, all because I think it's perfect.

Now you guys might look at this painting, and the world might look at this painting, and think of it somewhat differently than I do. You might think, oh it's ugly, oh, it’s not worth anything, oh, it will never be in a paint gallery, and definitely doesn't have a future at all. It’s not a masterpiece. It definitely is not beautiful. Now, what if I told you that even with all these black lines running through this painting, I still think of this painting as beautiful? You know I think it's so beautiful, that when I get home, this is going on my wall. I'm putting this on my wall. I planned it all earlier, it's going next to this poster I got from Mexico, and it's going to be perfect. I have a great plan for it.

Now you might be like, okay I've talked about painting a little bit but how does this relate to anything? Well, how I like this painting, and I'm the artist I'm the painter, God is the painter of your life the same way I made this painting in my image. God made you in His image as it says in Genesis 1:26, "And God said, let us make man in our image and act our likenesses." So just like I made this image in my image, God made each and every one of you in His image. Ephesians 2:10 says, "We are God's masterpiece." This is my masterpiece. You are God's masterpiece. He is the painter within your own lives, and the verse goes further. He's created us a new, in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago. Just like I planned to put this on my wall when I get home, God plans to do something with His Masterpiece, which is all of you. Now I want to bring emphasis to these black lines I drew. Now sometimes these black lines can symbolize the weight of the world, and the worldly pressure, saying you're too young, you're not good enough, you can't do this, you can't spread God's word. But what if I told you that God says the exact opposite? God tells you that you are competent, and you can do it. Through him, and with God, we can flip the painting, and if you're unable to tell, it's now a butterfly, and that's all I have to say for you guys, thank you.

I received that, that you are beautiful, and it's not dependent on what you think of yourself; it's dependent on what the Lord Jesus says about you. Amen. And many times when we may think we mess up or make a mistake, this is something that I believe the Lord is giving me Revelation on, is we are that beautiful butterfly, and even though we make mistakes, all have sinned, and all have fallen short of the glory of God, God looks at us through the blood of His son. When He looks at us, He sees us clean, and whole in Him, Amen? It's not about your perfection, it's not about how perfect I am, yes, I strive to be Christ-like, but you know what? That is done in the power of the holy spirit in me. I can do nothing but in Him, all things are possible right now. I just ask for that Supernatural release, wherever you may be, Lord for the destiny, the rest on their lives. I break every assignment to rob, kill, and destroy because You, oh Lord, came to give us life, and give it more abundantly.

You know what? There's too much hell on earth. We need a little bit more heaven on earth and we're the ones that are responsible for the advancement of the kingdom of God. We’re the ones that are on the lines, where the Lord Jesus says, you are battling for the kingdom. Never forget your position in the authority that the Lord has given you. Where we can declare a word, and see it manifest from the supernatural to the Natural. Amen. How many need a little bit of word that manifests from the supernatural to the natural? I do. I need more of you Lord. I need more of you Lord I need more of your wisdom. I need more of your understanding. I need more of your love. I need it all, and we cannot do it in our natural strength. We can't do it in our natural strength. That's why every time I come; I see a rise in the level of anointing in this place. Why? Because the spirit of the Lord is moving. I say it again, the spirit of the Lord is moving. Let him move, I will never restrict the flow of the Holy Spirit ever in my heart and my life and I know it’s for all of us, and I know that my granddaughter is here on Divine appointment, but I know also, you're here on divine appointment in the name of Jesus.

Did you know Canada is really called the Dominion of Canada? There’s something about dominion that really can activate the power of Heaven and you know what there’s such an open Heaven here. I can almost say anything as long as it lines up with the kingdom of God, and you know why? Because the presence of the Lord is in this place. The scripture says, "that where two or more are gathered together He is in our midst". Amen. So we're gathered in His name, so He is here, and you know what He brought a few angels with Him in Ephesians 1:17-19 it says that, and this is Nash's paraphrased, that we must see by the spirit, that our spiritual eyes would be enlightened to see clearly, you know what veils are eyes to the truth? There has been so much untruth in the world; there's probably been untruth about you.

There's so much untruth, and Jesus was looking Pontius Pilot in the face, the ultimate truth, the Lord Jesus Christ, looking at his executioner, and the question became, what is truth? Truth is this the word of God. Jesus is the word, and the word is Jesus, so every word in the scripture represents the Lord Jesus Christ. Every word is as if he was saying it to you. Every word that's in alignment with heaven. Every word that unlocks the doors that need to be unlocked.

So, I want to look at a very important portion of scripture found in Jeremiah 33:3. Very common scripture. If you're prophetic you're going to know this scripture but I'm looking at it in a different way now. I talked about Moses before and Exodus 3:1-4 and talked about Moses on the back side of the desert. But God says I put him on the back side of the desert, and how many believe in the suddenly’s of God? All of a sudden the suddenly of God hits suddenly of the day of Pentacost 5,000 individuals get salvation suddenly the room was filled with the holy spirit and He spoke in other tongues transforming their complete life. They weren’t the same. I'm not the same as before. Before I was a believer I used to swear like a trooper. I used to swear every second word before I was saved, and then miraculously when I got saved all that passed away. Now I can't do it. So I know it was the power of God and since then I've seen time after time where the Lord has intervened in my life.

You know, just picture yourself as Moses on the back side of the desert. Do you know how old he was? He was 80 at this time, and you know what, for 80 years he'd been toiling, he’d been faithful to the Lord and all of a sudden there's a burning bush. You know what, there are burning bushes in front of us all. We just need to be spiritualized, to see spiritual understanding, to know that Lord your providing direction to me right now, in the name of Jesus. I've said this here before it's not the thus saith God but it's just me, that bush could have been burning for 40 years the whole time Moses was toiling on the back side of the desert and he didn't see that Bush burning quite possibly for forty years. Suddenly he sees the bush burning. Instantaneously Moses finds himself in a moment of destiny that would consume him the rest of his natural life.

From that moment onwards transformed by the holy spirit took place for his heart. Why do I keep using this story; because maybe you haven't had a burning bush experience but I can tell you categorically as a matter of fact, I'll guarantee it if you have a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, you will have a burning bush experience. An experience to propel you to the destiny that the Lord God has for your life.There is a reality that we all have a role to play in advancing the kingdom of the Lord.

This church has a destiny and in the name of Jesus, they'll be no abortion of that destiny. There'll be no abortion of the destiny for your life. When you think it's over that's when it's just getting started. Come on, Come on church, Amen. Now maybe you're burning bush doesn't look like a burning bush. Maybe it's something else that totally transforms and changes your life.

I'm going to give you one example for me is that one night in Sylvan Lake, years and years ago, I’m coming up to a stop sign and there was a big truck that's stopped in front of me also waiting to enter the intersection. You know the type particularly if you live in Alberta, that have the big tires and like $3,000 a tire. There was another vehicle that was turning across our path, and the driver in front of me had backed up this vehicle in front of me wanted to give more room to the turning vehicle in front of us and backed straight into me causing a small accident. Those that know me know I don't believe in accidents, I believe in Divine appointments. This my friends was a divine appointment. Even an accident can be a Divine appointment.

Remember the world’s way of doing things is the opposite of the supernatural, so the gentleman operating the truck backs into me and gets out, slams the door, comes running back to where I am, and starts swearing at the top of his lungs. Some of you don't know but my past life before I went into Ministry I was in the RCMP, so these things are no problem for me. I've been through it many times before people spitting at you, shooting guns, wanting to beat me up etc., You know you get used to it all, all these things, and now that I'm at Pastor I'm really used to them, but anyway, so he comes back to my vehicle. So I say why don't you sit in the backseat of my red jeep. This gentleman gets in the ?back seat of the jeep and we're exchanging information.

We begin talking back and forth, and I just happened to say, “you know I'm retired from the RCMP, but not only that, I'm in Christian minister.From that moment onwards the conversation shifted to more spiritual things. Interestingly the language used began to change becoming more positive in nature. From that moment onwards was was able to share the goodness of the gospel with him. I don't know if he gets saved or not but he gets out of the vehicle and closes my door very gently and he says to me, “you know I wasn't angry at you I was angry at me”.

How many people do we come across and they're not angry at you but they're angry at themselves? The thing that they need is the Lord Jesus Christ. Divine appointments and accidents, yes, we can have them. I am not saying have an accident every day, but we can have a divine appointment everyday day. Some of you may have had them and you didn’t know you had them.

I know there’s one key, and when the devil tries to distract me, you know when I’m in airports you get a little anxious because you don’t wanna miss your flight, and the Lord says talk to this guy about the kingdom of God. So I do, I turn around and talk to the person behind me who’s a burned-out pastor, and that flight from Dallas to Calgary they canceled, but you know what I had the most joy, and the most peace at that moment of time, knowing that I touched people for the kingdom of God.

I do believe that many times we’re distracted. That’s when the Lords got this supernatural assignment for you. When distractions come in just ask the Lord, Lord what are you trying to show me? As simple as that. I have had many distractions over the course of my life, but God is so faithful to His people. I know that every place I go, I'm on a divine assignment I know I'm here because the Lord wants me here, but how many believe that God can use you? The key to breaking through is hearing the voice of the Lord with accuracy, and how does God speak but in the still small voice? That still small voice that says do this or that and you shall see the kingdom advance. This may be shocking to some reading this, but there are times God has to essentially hit me over the head and that's happened to me a couple of times, not literally, but put me in positions where I couldn't help but know the Lord wanted me to do something, and I declare that over you today.

We're not just called to be pew sitters; we’re called to advance the kingdom of God. I don't care what age you are; you're called to advance the kingdom of God. It's not about your great success, but I'm sure God wants to release that to you, but it's about “thy Kingdom Come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. I said it earlier, there's too much hell on earth. Well, whose responsibility is it to bring Heaven to earth? Ours! He’s already released it for us.

We were saved even before we knew we were saved. Think about it. He chose you before you chose Him. God shouldn't have choose me, but He did anyway. It wasn't my choice but it was His choice I know that I know that. His love is so deep it defies all natural understanding.

So getting back to Moses right now. Moses worked on the back side of the desert for many, many, years knowing that he was a prince of Egypt, knowing that he had a call from God it was not finished, and knowing that the Lord will make a way where no way was possible.

I know this by the spirit, those people in the scripture are no different from you and I. Most of them were crucified, most of them chose to go the way God wanted them to go, and sometimes we like to think God is so good which He is but there are things. Most of the Apostles were murdered. Only one got away and he went to prison. We like to think that everything has to go the way we think it should go, but God says no, my ways are higher than your ways, my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. I've had many things happen in my life that I never even dreamed or anticipated would happen, and I sense that's the same for you. But let God use it all to advance His kingdom, His plans, and His purposes; and He's not finished.

Let's turn to Jeremiah 33:3. "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you the great and mighty things you do not know ". It sounds pretty clear to me sounds like the holy Spirits at work. We must, especially as we come to the end of the age, truly understand that the Lord is going to show us things. Could it be 2023? I say this is going to be a great year. You know there are Mysteries and secrets that are hidden in scripture? That for over 2,000 years or even longer we have not seen the depth and the magnitude of the weapons of heaven warfare completely in action. I believe that a Grace is coming on us that's going to propel us into the realm of being Champions on this Earth. Only by the Holy Spirit at work in our lives. You can't do it in your strength, but God sure can and we're going to need it to the End of the Age, which we are rapidly entering.

How many believe that God really, truly desires to show you things? He's looking over the whole earth to show Himself approved in a people, and how many want the stamp of God on their life? I do, I want it when I get to heaven. I want the Lord to say, "Well done, faithful servant," but it only can be done when we put the love for Him for the Lord Jesus before everything else.

For God so loved the world, the key to breaking through is love. It’s a simple message you carry it I know you do it's the only way. It's not anger, it's not rejection, it's not about every insecurity which we all have, by the way, but by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ and I believe the Lord is here to take us into new rounds of glory. Could it be the manifestation of His presence in this place? I believe it. I believe He's here. I believe He wants to transform our hearts. I even believe this, that He can go in and change us from the DNA out. DNA that is part of you and God knows what is absolutely best for you.

You can have all hell breaking loose around you but that still could be the destiny of God for your life. Maybe God is saying, what are you made of? I believe that God tests His word in our hearts. How about you? I believe He tests everything He gives us, and then He qualifies Us by the spirit of the Lord. Was Joseph tested? He gets a dream in the Old Testament, gets thrown in a pit where the boys, his brothers actually wanted to kill him. The Lord intervenes and he is shipped off to Egypt. The lord had a plan and it involved Joseph to demonstrate kingdom principles. Life out of adversity. It was for a future date, and time. A times when Joseph would be used mightily to advance the kingdom. It became a great miracle for the destiny of ancient Israel.

The Miracles of Heaven, we can’t naturally understand them but supernatural in operation. Joseph was chosen just like you, and he had so many things opposing the mandate that was upon his life. Will the devil oppose you? He does, but God will use it to advance the kingdom of God in and through your life.

So Joseph goes to become a baker, goes to prison, and a couple of other things, he’s accused of being intimate with Pharaoh's wife and thrown in prison for what he said. That sounds like a life I wouldn't want. But, suddenly Joseph understood. After many years his brothers come to him in a time of great famine. God made a way 17 years earlier for Joseph to become a deliverer for Israel. He made a way for Joseph to be an answer for Israel, and I also believe, that each of us in our own way, are deliverers, perhaps not on the level of Joseph or other great names in scripture but a deliverer just the same.

I'm a deliverer, you're a deliverer, in Christ Jesus. Jesus is a deliverer. He delivered Himself but you’re a deliverer also to advance the Lord’s mandate. God chooses the foolish things of the world and it never makes natural sense. The foolish things in the world to confound the rest of the world. The meek, timid and mild to confound the wise and transforming the world.

Let’s lay down all our concerns, and lay down all our cares hearing his voice and moving accordingly. How is this going to work out? How am I going to balance my checkbook at the end of February? Let's lay all those things down and say, but God, I've been delivered from so many situations where I could have been killed. You know I can talk for hours about all the attacks. Falling off a pedal bike in Mexico fracturing 11 ribs, collapsed lung, and factured vertebrae in my back. 9 days later I was back in the church in Sylvan Lake, yeah sure in pain, but on that Journey over those nine days, I got closer to the Lord, and I was used to touch people for the kingdom of God.

I'm not going to tell you the story you've heard it before but when I got on the plane to return to Canada a lady is crying beside me on the plane, and she wants a husband, (which wasn't going to be me)allowing me to share the gospel. She was travelling home to Sherwood Park. The Lord allowed me to pray over hear and release her into freedom in Christ. Interestingly, we are flying to Calgary, but she is going to Sherwood Park where we had a church. I was also pastoring a church in Sherwood Park at the time and you see how God works things in our lives, and we don't even see it.

I also believe that every person in this place is inSome form of pain at this very moment. It could be emotional, it could be financial, could be relational, could be the mindsets that you have that don’t line up with heaven. But I have a solution, and His name is the Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe you had a fight with your wife. Maybe that's to advance the kingdom of God. Maybe God's going to use that, and I declare “thy Kingdom Come thy will be done”

My second book is called manifesting heaven; it releases an understanding that your life is not yours and is destined for kingdom purposes. Your life is not your own, but when it lines up with heaven, watch and see what God will do. I'm excited about the future because I see the future. I see the future at work in this church and that this place will be filled. I declare total overflowing, where people are so hungry for the things of God they're trying to get in the doors. I've had that happen when I've been in Bulgaria and healings are breaking out all over the place. People are running in from outside to get touched by the spirit of the Lord. There was one service I think I shared before where there was 100% healing. What does that mean? Everyone that came forward for healing was healed. I've only seen that one time. A place where they desperately wanted the full presence of the Lord.

So In conclusion, the Great and mighty things of the Lord can manifest this year. The things that we haven't seen in Scripture because scriptures is always alive. It is breathing and God wants to reveal more areas where our hearts are transformed and changed for Him. How do we do this? Simply by surrendering. “Lord, it is no longer I those lives, but Christ who lives in me”. The hope of glory. I wouldn't have chosen me. Not a chance, but He did, and it's for such a time as this.

Don't abort the destiny that the Lord's has for your life. God knows what is absolutely best for you amen. The voice of the Lord will never go against scripture. In other words, if you've got a word that says you know, I have to kill this person, and I hear it all the time. You know this guy in Florida went and killed a whole bunch of people and felt he heard from God, but no, he heard from the spirit but it wasn't the spirit of God. The voice of God will never ever go against scripture. Remember that.

If you're looking for keys, I'm declaring for this year that the Mysteries and secrets of the kingdom of God are revealed for you, and that we all go deeper with the Lord this year. If you want fruit in your life don't be afraid to go deeper in love for your fellow man. Not only that but for the Lord Jesus Christ.

#1. Ask. It starts with asking. Ask the Lord to show you these mysteries and secrets. Matthew 7:7-8 "ask and it shall be giving you seek and you shall find knock and they shall be opened unto you for everyone that asks- it's a word from heaven, for everyone that asks receives it and he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be open amen. Some of you may have been knocking for 15 or 20 years on the door in certain areas. You know what, never give up. Keep on knocking.

#2. Ask the one who can deliver. Who is it? The Lord Jesus Christ, there are miracles in this room. Be encouraged by those that are walking through turmoil, stress, discouragement, despair, and depression. Almost all the words, Lord I just declare that You go to where they are supernaturally and touch them by Your spirit. Lord, that all those things that are broken, depression should not be a part of your life. Yes, we can be discouraged, and yes we don't understand at times, but I break off that Spirit of depression that tries to destroy us in the name of Jesus, and the Lord is the one that hears every cry, He sees every tear, He loves you that much. He loves you, He loves me, Lord let it be manifest through us.

The word says, out of us” will flow rivers of living water”. Lord let it manifest in the natural person. I have an addiction and that's to the Lord Jesus Christ. An addiction for more of Him and less of me. On the way here I said in my mind, devil I'm not going to be distracted. Thank You Lord. Lord, I know that You want to release something because the devil wants to distract me, but you know what, no distraction is going to prevent the kingdom of God from going forward amen.

I really do believe that we can access heaven because the Bible says that we can come boldly to the throne room of Grace. Where do you think that is? Boldly into the throne room of Grace is not here it's in heaven. But He can manifest here in the name of Jesus. Let it be a night of surrender. That you surrender your heart.

You know we like to think how important our hearts are, and they are because God has chosen us. But you know what? maybe my call is just to touch one person for the kingdom of God. Maybe the person I was talking to on the plane when I was coming back from Mexico? Maybe that was the Lord saying that this is your assignment. I believe I have multiple assignments but maybe it was just for that one?

Maybe it was the time when Iwas flying throw South Africa and then over to Mozambique and touching lives there. We went on several trips into a garbage dump in a city of two million inhabitants. We went to the garbage dump to preach. Now this isn’t like your normal garbage dump in Canada. This garbage dump was massive and it had 150,000 people living there. So we would go and bring bread and we would preach the gospel to them. Think of it, in my whole life, I've been there, in a garbage dump, but somehow, we think that we have a hard life. Try living in a garbage dump where they walk around with all this garbage, they have no shoes, and as a matter of fact, a few of them were eyeing up my shoes. People living their whole lives in a garbage dump.

You know what? Those are some of the people that the Lord wants us to touch and bring into the kingdom. You know, and I'm going to say this, and maybe I've said it already before, I feel at times more comfortable in a bar drinking soda water than I do in some Churches. I know that's not a really profound thing to say or maybe I shouldn't even be saying it, but I'd rather be with those that know that their sinners, need something, than those that think they have arrived. We're never going to arrive.

On this side of Heaven, I focus on holiness. I focus on the 634 Commandments in the Old Testament, but we can never fulfill them in our strength, but we have fulfilled them through the love of God in our hearts, and Jesus said this in Matthew 18:21 and it says this "Those that love me will obey my commandments." Well, it's a done deal, so what is the issue? Is it about obeying the Commandments? No, but most religion makes it that way. What really is it about? Loving with Jesus Christ in our hearts and in our lives. How many of us want a little bit more of that? Ask the one who can deliver what you expect. It's a great catalyst for the kingdom, and your destiny is expected. I expect the Lord to empower and infuse with heaven those that have a surrendered heart to the Lord. Is your heart surrendered? ask yourself. I don't need to know, but you need to know whether your heart is surrendered. Matthew 6:33 says, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and of all these things will be added unto you." Well, what things? The things that everybody else is seeking after will be yours by the spirit. This is a year of great destiny and I declare you will not miss it. Put him first. Much love!