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[Music] We glorify Your name as we honor You. We glorify, glorify Your Name, Lord. We honor You. We glorify Your Name, Lord. Glorify Your name. Yes, we… You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. We magnify Your name. Your name. We magnify Your name. Magnify Your name. We magnify Your name. Yes, we… You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful, Lord. Wonderful Counselor, the Prince of Peace. Lord, You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful, Lord. There is none like You, Lord. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. Messiah, Messiah, Messiah, Messiah, Messiah. You are wonderful, Messiah. Messiah. You are wonderful, Lord. You are wonderful, Lord. You are wonderful. Glory and honor belong to You, Lord. Dominion and power belong to You, Lord. Oh, power belongs to You, Lord. Oh, the glory belongs to You, Lord. There is none like You, Lord. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are wonderful. You are glorious. You are beautiful. You are wonderful. You are excellent. We worship You. [Music]
Lord, greetings in the name of my Lord and King, Jesus Christ, the tried, tested, precious, and chief cornerstone that was rejected by men but chosen by God and laid in Zion for a sure foundation. I thank God for yet another opportunity to minister on this platform, and today I welcome you. I want to minister to you the anointing that accompanies the word that I gave, the prophetic word. The prophetic word says, “Upgrade, upgrade yourself, or upgrade unto a vessel of honor.” This is a vessel that is fit for the Master’s use, and the process that we need is the process of cleansing. This is what will take you there, to that place of upgrading. So this is a word we are working on; we are meditating on; we are acting upon in 2025, a beautiful year that the Lord has given to us. As we know, the Lord is approaching; we need to be useful to the Master, but also to be ready. The exaltation in the word of God says, “Be ready; you do not know the time that the Lord is coming.” So we are getting ourselves ready, but also we continue to serve. We are not just waiting and falling asleep, but we are continuing to serve the Lord as if there’s still another thousand years to come, but we are ready like He’s coming tomorrow. So the anointing… the beautiful thing about the anointing is that when God releases a word, He also releases an anointing to operationalize, or to make the word become flesh. So what He has spoken may also be something that we can touch in our lives, that we can handle, that we can see. It takes the anointing. So we know the anointing will make the word come to pass. We learn this from Mary in Luke, chapter 1, verse 37, when she was visited by the angel and she was told a word, a powerful word, that she was going to be the mother of the Lord Jesus Christ; that she was going to conceive as a virgin and bring forth a son. When she received that word, it looked like, “How does this come to pass?” When she asked the question, she was told, “The Holy Ghost will come upon you; the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and this word will come to pass,” or, “The holy thing that will come out of you will be the Son of God.” So we know when you receive a word, it is also important to be cognizant of the anointing that will operationalize the word, that will make the word come to pass. So we know… precious stones… we do have the threefold anointing that God has released because of the word that He gave us. The word that makes us know that inside every woman and every girl there’s a precious stone concealed by the evil works of the devil, particularly the inferiority complex. We also believe that the value and potential of the woman can be released through the power and wisdom of Jesus Christ found in the word of God, revealing a woman of wisdom, well-strengthened, of true beauty, excellence, good works, in the woman that fears the Lord. That word God pointed out that the anointing that makes it come to pass, that makes it become real in any woman’s life, is a threefold anointing. And this is the anointing that we find upon Queen Esther, the Queen… the anointing of grace and favor. So we abide by those anointings. The grace and favor of Queen Esther continues to operate in our lives to make that way come to pass. And also, this we know that this anointing, it breaks the yoke of the fear of men, the limiting yoke of the fear of men, so that we are operating in the realm of the fear of God. And as you operate in that realm, that’s when you can actually achieve what God wants you to achieve. And also the second one is the faith and fruitfulness of Mother Sarah. This is an anointing that we find upon Mother Sarah that broke the limitation, the anointing of barrenness in your life, to make it into a mother, a mother of many nations. So this anointing continues with us; it continues with us and eternity to operate in your life. So you need also to embrace it, to make sure that you’re operating in that anointing. This is the faith and fruitfulness of Mother Sarah. These are three important women that we see as role models for us in the word of God. And also we have the anointing that was upon Prophetess and Judge Deborah. This helped her achieve what God had called her to do, to mobilize the children of Israel and to overcome the enemy. So we have… this is the anointing of wisdom and boldness. The wisdom and boldness of Judge and Prophetess Deborah is the anointing that breaks the inferiority complex, that looking down upon yourself, that loathing that was there at birth… it is destroyed because of the anointing. And this is the anointing that is… that was upon Prophetess and Judge Deborah. So we embrace this threefold anointing so that the word that God has spoken may continue to unfold until the Lord comes, until we are caught up to be with Him. We continue on this agenda of unveiling the hidden gem, and to unveil that gem we need the anointing, the power of that anointing, the power of the Holy Spirit. So again, in 2025, we embrace the threefold anointing, but also because of the word that God has spoken about the upgrading, about coming to the altar and working on that altar and engaging the Lord, Lord Jesus Christ, engaging the Father, engaging the Holy Ghost in a process that results in cleansing and in becoming a vessel of honor, there is also a special anointing for that word. And the foundation is in Isaiah, chapter 4, because He gave the word and then He releases an anointing. So from Isaiah 4, verse 4, let me read: “When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning, and the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon the assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense; and there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a cover from the storm and from the rain.” God bless you through the reading of that word. So here the Lord is making us conscious; there is a dimension of the spirit of God that is described as the spirit of judgment and the spirit of burning. And God is saying He uses this Spirit to wash away the filth of the daughters of Zion. So we are at the altar of cleansing; we are working on getting cleansed and working out our salvation. So there is that continuous washing, and it is the spirit of burning and spirit of judgment that will actually wash away the filth of Zion and also purge the blood of Jerusalem. We read about Jerusalem; I spoke about Jerusalem in the prophetic word that you are struggling in your blood, but there is that dimension of the spirit that is able to refine and to purge and to take away all that filth. Because some of that blood you’re struggling… it is pulling you down; you are trying to… the stone is trying to emerge out of that mud, but you are struggling with bloodline issues; you’re struggling with things, the baggage that came from the world where you were born. But then there’s this Spirit, the refiner’s fire—it is referred to in Malachi—is the refiner’s fire. We need to be cognizant of that; it is the anointing that God is also releasing to operate up and above the threefold anointing. We don’t throw away the threefold anointing, but we add to it because of the word that has come; we add that spirit of burning and the spirit of judgment. The spirit of judgment is actually the one that will be lighting up your life, searching your life to see if there are things to be corrected, are continuously surveying your life to see if there are things that need to be corrected. Because sometimes people think, “I’m born again; I’m fine; I’m okay; I’m on my way to heaven.” But the Bible shows us that we need to be vigilant; we need to be on the alert because the enemy is prowling around like a lion seeking whom he may devour. So it is important that that surveillance is there. The spirit of burning and the spirit of judgment, it’s an anointing that will walk us through 2025 and beyond as we continue to serve the Lord. So it says here also, “The Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion and upon the assemblies a cloud and smoke by day, the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defense.” So this spirit of burning and the spirit of judgment, the anointing that God is releasing upon us is also an anointing that is a protective element to it; it protects. He says He’s also going to use that same spirit of burning and the spirit of judgment to create a presence upon every dwelling place of Mount Zion, upon the assemblies. So this covers even our gatherings, our homes. It’s an anointing that we can actually seek, an anointing we can operate for the protection of our homes because God is interested in the dwelling places of Mount Zion, the dwelling places of Mount Zion, the assemblies of Mount Zion, our gatherings, our conferences, our meetings… He wants that cloud of glory. He says, “By day, a cloud and smoke by day, by night the shining of a flaming fire.” And when you see, whenever you see in the Bible this combination of the cloud and the combination of the flaming fire, it actually speaks of the presence of the glory of God, the presence of God in a gathering, in a place, the presence of God in a home. He uses these elements, the cloud and smoke by day, by night the shining of a flaming fire. So He says it actually speaks of that glory; it is the glory of God; it is… you know, I’ve been talking to precious stones about a new and a greater glory. So it is… it is expressed in that anointing of the shining of a flaming fire, the cloud and smoke by day. So this is something also to claim, to claim upon our households, our homes; it’s a protection, and also upon our gatherings, is something that we claim—our conventions, our… wherever we gather—that this glory cloud may be part and parcel of what God is doing among us. Because we find that in the foundational prophetic words, are the foundations of the precious stones. God has made a promise that in every convention, every meeting of precious stones, He is going to be there; He wants to be there to display His glory, to display His power. So we know the Holy Spirit agrees with the word of God, so we can now harness that anointing and make it become flesh. Wherever we gather, we need to be cognizant of that promise and also that anointing, the cloud and smoke by day. This is the same cloud, the smoke by day that protected Israel as they journeyed from Egypt, the house of bondage, to the land of promise. God was always with them with that shining of a flaming fire by night. By day there was also the cloud and smoke by day. So by day they will be covered; by night they are covered. And also this is the same element that God would use to fight their enemies. You remember the Red Sea? That pillar of fire is what God used to block the Egyptian armies while He was shielding the children of Israel so that, you know, even by night they could not even come near. So we need to be conscious of this protection that is there for us and to harness it in 2025 and beyond so that wherever you are, even as an individual… Jesus baptizes you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. That baptism, it means you are immersed in that fire; you are immersed in that spirit so that when you appear in the spirit world, you are appearing as a… as a great light or as a sign and a wonder with that glory cloud upon you, with that flaming fire upon you. And also this… this same fire that helps you to fight the enemy is the same fire that lights up your way. So there’s this light we need to harness in 2025. Then it says in verse 6, “And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a cover from the storm and from the rain.” So we see that when God is done the cleansing, when He has brought in the protection, we come back to the concept of now a tabernacle again. God wants to be with His people; He wants to live with them, be among them, move among them. So He’s saying, “There shall be a tabernacle.” This is a tabernacle for us where you are protected, where our families are protected. There’s heat out there in the world, and this tabernacle becomes a shadow in the daytime from the heat and for a place of refuge and also a place, a cover from the storm and the rain. Life is a journey; there are storms on the way; there’s rain on the way, but you can make the Lord your dwelling place. So the Lord is as much a dwelling place for you as you are a dwelling place for Him. I told you in the prophetic word, you can be useful to the Lord by becoming a dwelling place for the Lord. You can become a dwelling place for Him. Your body is the temple of the Lord, but also the Lord wants to be a dwelling place for you, a cover, a tabernacle. So this is the anointing that will help us to actually now experience this tabernacling with God where you are in Christ, Christ is in God; your life is hid with Christ in God. Because 24/7 the enemy is prowling around seeking whom he may devour, so you need to be preserved. This anointing which I’m releasing to you through Isaiah, chapter 4, is a powerful anointing; you need to build on; you need to draw from so that as you are getting cleansed, as you are progressing in 2025 in serving the Lord, you also may become a dwelling place for the Lord; He also becomes a dwelling place. Because once you begin to have that kind of intimate relationship with the Lord, then Psalm 91 becomes so real in your life: “He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” So your life is hid with Christ in God; it’s that secret place, is that secret place where your life is hid from the enemy. So you find that it’s an important place to find because we find that Jesus Christ, when He was raised from the dead, He was given a very high place; He was exalted; He sits in the most… in the greatest rank in the Heavenly… at the right hand of the Father. And He had promised He would also prepare a place for us so that where He is, we may be there also. So that same place, that spiritual status that Jesus has is the same spiritual status that we have because we are crucified with Christ, buried with Him, raised together with Him, and made to sit in high places. So this is a place that God has prepared for us, and the anointing will help you to take you there because it is this anointing, it is this altar where you are waiting upon the Lord that you then receive… you receive the wings of a great eagle to fly into that place where you are nourished, fly into that place. Because there’s an enemy who knows we have a high rank in the Heavenly places, but he wants to keep pulling you down with weights, with sin, with all the things, the tricks and wiles that he has. But when we walk in the Spirit, we continue to present our bodies; we then ascend into that place; we then get into that place that Christ has prepared for us. It’s a place of authority, and when you are in that place of authority, this is when you can now face the enemy; you can face the enemy, and you can defeat the enemy. And as I’m speaking like this, the role model that we have of operating in that space, in that anointing, is the woman we find in Revelation 12. Revelation 12… let me just read it. It says here: “And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Wo to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” So we see from Revelation 12, this woman… she is an appearance; she… she registers in the spirit world as a wonder, a great wonder, a sign and a wonder. She is clothed with the sun. So we know as she approached that altar of cleansing, she accepted that light, and it has grown to an intensity of the intensity of the light of the sun. And also we see that this woman is developed; she’s baptized in the fire, and that fire now attains the heat like the heat of the sun. And the moon is under her feet; this is a spiritual picture, spiritual figure that we are seeing. And upon her head a crown of twelve stars reminds us of that Ezekiel 16 where God places a crown, a beautiful crown upon your head as you interact with Him on that altar. And we see that this woman is with child; she’s fruitful; she’s fruitful, travailing in birth, and she’s struggling; she’s struggling to bring forth. Then we see basically verse three that in front of her she’s face to face with the dragon himself, the great red dragon with seven heads. And this dragon has not come for a picnic; this dragon is there to fight; he has come to fight, and he shows his powers, his seven heads, and he… he has a powerful tail; he positions himself directly in front of the woman, and the purpose is not even hidden; she’s there to devour and see the child as soon as it is born. So this is now a vessel of honor in the context of warfare, fighting the battles of the Lord; she’s faced with an enemy, a strong enemy, a powerful enemy, but she is clothed with the sun; that light has been working on her; the heat… she’s baptized with the fire; she’s equipped with the Holy Spirit; she’s clothed, and she stands in that battlefield. And we see that as she brings forth this child, the child is caught up to God. So she’s won that battle, and even when the enemy comes to fight Him, she’s able to get to a place prepared of God for Him. When the enemy now starts to fight, she’s given wings of a great eagle, and we know the wings of a great eagle are given to those that wait upon the Lord; they shall mount up with wings as eagles so that she can come to that place that is prepared for Him. So this is a picture of a vessel of honor, a vessel that the Lord can rely on even in spiritual war to overcome the enemy. We find also the angels coming to help in that battle to fight the enemy, and the angels of the Lord, we know they encamp around those that fear the Lord. So she’s a woman who fears the Lord, a vessel of honor, and she stands in that place; there are angels also to come to minister to, to aid. So she’s a picture, the role model that we can take for 2025 to be useful to the Master by being able to stand in spiritual warfare, stand in the evil day and overcome. So we see she… she then managed to overcome; she robes in the blood of the Lamb, the word of her testimony, a faith and a consecration; they all… those are things that are helping her to overcome the enemy. So we know she’s a vessel of honor, fit for the Master’s use. And we also see that this woman… she… she receives help from the Lord; she receives help from the Lord; the Lord is with her to fight all the way through. So I’m saying basically this anointing, the spirit of burning and the spirit of judgment, is an anointing, an extra anointing above the threefold anointing that we can harness in 2025. And through this anointing gain victories against the dragon, fight against the dragon, fight for the seed. Because we find that the seed is preserved because she’s able to stand in the evil day; when she’s faced with the enemy, she’s able to overcome. And once you grow into that sign and a wonder… Jesus says, “I and the Father are one,” and the children that the Lord has given me are for a sign and a wonder. So she becomes a sign and a wonder, and I’m blessing you, precious stone, in 2025 that you can become a vessel of honor, but also you can be a sign and a wonder, an overcomer, more than a conqueror through that anointing because the anointing is there to operationalize the word, to make you a vessel of honor fit for the Master’s use. So allow me to pray with someone today. This place that we find this woman… any woman can ascend to that place; any woman can get to that place depending on what you choose, but the first choice is to enter into that covenant with God, to do your part in the covenant, to receive, to believe the Lord Jesus Christ so that you are part and parcel of the New Covenant that we are operating in. And it is in that New Covenant that you also are baptized with the Holy Ghost. God promises long before Jesus comes, “I in those last days I’ll pour My spirit upon all flesh.” So you can also be baptized with the Holy Ghost, but you need first and foremost to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and then this anointing can also operate in your life, and you can soar into those places and become a sign and a wonder. So if you have a desire in your heart to be part of this New Covenant, to receive the Lord Jesus Christ, just pray this prayer after me. Pray it sincerely; mean it with all your heart; God will hear you, and He will include you and harness you into the New Covenant. Say, “Dear Lord Jesus, I come to You today. I know that I’m a sinner, but I believe in my heart that You are the Son of God. You came here on Earth to save sinners; You died on the cross carrying my sins in Your body; You rose from the dead; You are alive today. I believe it in my heart, so I open my heart and invite You, Jesus, come into my heart. Forgive all my sins; wash me with Your blood; make me into a child of God. I repent of all my sins and my iniquities, and I receive… receive You, Jesus, as my Lord and Savior. Thank You for the New Covenant; thank You for forgiving me. In the name of Jesus, Amen.” Whenever you pray… whenever a person prays this prayer sincerely, God hears this prayer; makes you into a child of God; and involves you in the New Covenant, and you become a child of God. So may the Lord continue to bless you, cover you under the banner of His love, carry you on the wings of His grace as you continue to serve Him in 2025 to become a sign and a wonder, a vessel of honor, meet for the Master’s use. God bless you. [Music]