(This is the message that I was delivering when we experienced the miraculous with God. I tried to recreate as best as I can and praying that you have an experience with God as you read it.)
As Jesus was broken so must we also be broken. Psalm 51:17 “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit:, O God, thou wilt not despise.” When we take Holy Communion there is the breaking of bread that represents the Body of Christ, broken for us. Broken with leather and blades and broken with our accusations, our tongues. Things haven’t changed much since then. Assassination by tongue is very much present in the world today. Tongue assassination is something most of us do without even realizing it. I can remember when I was younger and we would go into a grocery store and my Mother would tell me to “look at what that woman had on.” She talked about people a lot but she never realize what she was doing was wrong. Not only was it wrong but she was teaching her children to do the same thing and I did it for years. My siblings still do it and they think nothing of it. But as I began to learn and understand the things of God I knew in my heart that He didn’t want me talking about people the way I was. Criticizing them all the time. You do know that criticizing is a demonic spirit right? And so I prayed for God to deliver me from it. How many of you know that when you get delivered from something that it gives you power over that thing? Now how many of you know that there are also 2 sides to THAT power? When you are delivered from something you are granted the power to not allow this demon spirit to affect you ever again. But guess what? You are also given the power to allow it to affect you. {Revelation: In the days of the Bible a simple life was led. There were not as many distractions as we have today. Our jobs, electronics, television, radio. These things are static in our minds. Distractions that are blocking out the power of God. God is still moving today the way He did in Biblical times but our static is preventing the manifestation of the power of God. That is why His power is far more evident in small countries. They have fewer distractions, less static in their minds. If you want to responsible access the power that you have already been given then you are going to have to remove the static. And then you will be able to do as Jesus and lightly touch a person and they’ll be healed or lightly touch yourself and be healed.} Our mouth and our actions speak louder than we perceive them to. Not only are other people listening to what we speak but there are demonic spirit right now listening to every word that is coming from my mouth right now. Waiting for me to slip up in the use of the power that God granted me. Yes the power God gives us goes both ways. Why? Because it’s attached to that gift of free will that God gave us because He wanted US to choose Him on our own. And our tongue is the hardest power to control. We not only cause ourselves harm with it but we cause others great harm. Our mouth along with our heart and spirit it is the most important parts of our body. Romans 12:1-3 says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Not only are we to keep our bodies holy but we are to keep our tongues holy also. If what we speak is coming out of our bodies then it was first a part of our body. We have to keep it holy. 2 And be not conformed to this world; (Don’t talk as they talk) but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. While your heart determines how you feel about a thing, it is your mind controls what comes out of your mouth. You have to keep out holy too. Be mindful of what you watch and hear because it will stick to your brain to present its presence at a later day. 3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” Amen. So this is where the brokenness comes in. Anybody ever felt broken. Lost your loved one, disappointed with children, hurt by those closest to you. You may think that it is your feelings that were broken but no, it was your spirit. And you may think it was the devil that caused others to act the way they did and cause this brokenness, but it was God. Why? Because God knows that sometimes we get so distracted that we don’t pay attention to HIM and those wonderful desires He has for us and our lives which has to become true. And we need things to be broken off of us so that we can pay better attention. A broken and a contrite heart. A broken and contrite heart is a humble heart. It’s humble so that God can begin to build purpose on it. There was purpose in Jesus’ brokenness and since we are to be a reflection of Jesus there has to be brokenness in man so that God can begin to build on the stepstool of humility. A broken and contrite heart. Do we have any broke and contrite hearts in here today? Waiting and ready. Waiting and ready for God to build on that stepstool of humbleness.
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