Leave the ashes behind (The Cross)

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Isaiah chapter 61, and I'll read the first three verses for the moment. We'll rig more lighter, but let's start with. Isaiah 61 verse is 1. 2 3, the spirit of the Lord, God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me to preach. Good news to the poor. You sent me to heal, the brokenhearted to Proclaim Liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to those who are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of the Vengeance of our God to comfort old Ramon to consult, lycee morning, sign to give them Beauty for Ashes. The oil of joy, for mourning, the Garment of Praise for the spirit of heaviness that they may be cool Trees of Righteousness. The planting of the Lord that he may be glorified.

Now, you might have to leave. That's very presumptuous of you to read that about yourself. So I'm going to read it again with a bit of poetic license because you could have read it as well. Because I believe this is true, the spirit of the Lord God is upon you because the Lord has anointed you to preach Good. Tidings to the pool. He has sent you to heal the brokenhearted to Proclaim Liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison for those who are found to proclaim the acceptable year of the lord, of the day of the Vengeance of our God to comfort. You can sell those who mourn in Zion to get them Beauty for Ashes. The oil of joy, for mourning, the Garment of Praise for the spirit of heaviness that you may be called Trees of Righteousness. The planting of the Lord. He may be glorified. What is the little bus to be upon us? What is an anticipation? I know to somebody talk to the chat box. I'm coming with expectancy this morning. I don't know what you, how you came to church this morning. You suck sometimes I think if church was full so problem. Would be nice if it was full but then they'll be no room to invite anybody. Until we have a bit of a mindset while once you buy anybody cuz they might not have a seat. I remember talking to a Chinese Christian friend of mine who said, when they met in church when they met as church, he said that I met in the house and they found all the Chase and they sat on the floor and then they squatted in the hole and then when the hold of the downstairs was full, they put a little microphone down stairs and they put some people went and sat in the bedroom. He said sometimes their be a hundred people in the house just having imagine having a hundred people in your house to gather around the word. No. It's very, very, very interesting how different cultures move in different ways.

Different than mine is not being to be with the Lord. He went to preach in Romania and he said the checks like preached in the windows were broken and it was cold. So that was cold air blowing through no one complained about whether it was hot so cold, I came ready? And that was in the toilet in the building. The toilet was the other end of the street. This interesting thing people went to the toilet before they came so they didn't have to go. It said it was going to be in the room. I want to be there because God is going to move. Put the spirit of The Sovereign Lord is upon you. What purpose is going to have to anoint us? He anoints us to preach. Good tidings. We should have something good to say happy that doesn't always have to be. Are you a Christian and all you saved? But just a good story, a good story of how I feel good this morning. Some some of us would leap out of bed in the morning. Proverbs talks about his people will lie sometimes.

But you'll have good news. Why you feeling good this morning? Because the salt Spirit, The Sovereign Lord is upon me If you don't feel good in the morning, ask for the spirits of gold upon you to heal the brokenhearted, we live in a broken World. There are plenty of people around there. Plenty of times, I hear people talking about how difficult challenging, the die has been, how something is being lost to Proclaim Liberty to the captives. And please do not just in case is about prison bars. There are many people to a captive to habits to mindsets to relational.

Proclaim Liberty to the captives.

Lyrics. If somebody, if somebody stops sharing with you about how they feel stuck when was not declaring Freedom over that stuck place. Why not speak it. I'm the openings of the prisoner to those, who are found. So those who are found may be spiritually.

The opening of the prison. Speak forth life Proclaim, it's the Lord's year. And then for those who were struggling and this is why all these particular the beginning of verse 32 consoled, icy morning so I can to get them Beauty for Ashes. She speaks of the end of something, has gone completely. And he's the crazy thing. Most of us would not remember this, but that would, that would be people possibly in the room. Possibly releasing. You would remember coming down in the morning? I'm blowing on the Embers of the night before to start the fire again for the day just to die down and then you and then you put more wood on the fire and you blow on the Embers from last night. They were in the middle of the hash and then the flame would bust again. But yeah, if you cannot get any flame, if it's just ass remind there's nothing left you going to start again? Ashley speaks of an into something, he speaks of something that he's finished and actually people to use these for 4 morning. I'll show you some pictures in a moment of some, some, some people I thought I knew who used ice cream for morning.

But to give them Beauty for Ashes. The oil of joy, for mourning, the Garment of Praise instead of the spirit of heaviness that lay Shelby Trees of Righteousness.

The planting of the Lord.

Genesis 3:19. It says this part of your face, you shall eat bread to be returned to the Grand for an ounce of this. She would take him from the dust and to dust you shall return.

Jobs are created, the Old Testament talks about how creative God can be and we read in Genesis how we took the dust and created, man.

Dakota creative, God. Even in the times when we can't do it, ourselves, God is able to do a measurably more than we ask or imagine. Image of 2/8. He took himself apart side from which to scrape from himself whilst in the midst of the ashes. Joe was Morning. Joe perseid.

When did they get rid of the ash on the impact of the acid self? Daniel and Daniel 93. Then I set my face to watch the Lord God to make my request by prayer and we saw concussions with fasting sackcloth sackcloth and Ashes. Morning is good.

Sometimes when we are mourning a loss and the loss does not necessarily only need to be people sometimes, our dreams are stolen. Sometimes I sense the Enemy at the moment. Really wants to attack Christians in. All right, then to to who we are coming challenge, who we are at the very first things we need to know. He's God created in His image.

So please, when you look in the mirror and you don't like the world's oldest fossil that, whatever it is the wrinkle.

Did you know that I'll go there was now you can press a button and you can be on zoom and you can lose all your wrinkles did you know? That's a, that's an option available. If anybody wants to know how to do it, I'll have a nice day with you afterwards. Buddy, buddy just feels like right now but we think it's what we feel. It's who we are, God created us. To have fellowship with us, Sunday school looking. Now,

let's go back to Ohio, 61

61.

From the Amplified, it says this to Grump's consolation and joy to those who mourn in Zion to give them an ornament. A gal, a diet of beauty instead of Ashes, the oil of Joy, instead of mourning, the garments expressive of prize, instead of heavy burdened and fighting spirit that they shall be called Oaks of righteousness, lofty, strong and magnificent, distinguish for brightness Justice, and right standing with God, the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified.

Is an example of morning. Life is a lady from property to me and the way they decide to how long they moved forward and like mud made from Ashley's necklaces and as long as that was still a show my fights but I did not work. So it wasn't like you could, you know, sometimes you have a, you have a stamp on your hand when you go in the place. So they put a stamp on your hand and then the following me. You can only allow the ash to pull off that bodies. And when that time was, I was sometimes, sometimes people think they would be wearing a hundred dice.

He's an example of a gentleman who's in the midst of morning. He's already more than four numbers is, but you can see the ashes starting to Garden.

And I want to speak to these particular I want to speak, not not not, not putting ice on your face, but I want to speak to this particular issue of loss. I want to talk to some people. I want to focus on the losses that we've had. The mornings that we've had. The trouble that we've had.

You might have been made redundant at some point in your life, you had a job and suddenly the job is no more that's what it start. Some people find identity in what, when will you make some of the deposit and you shake hands and you're just talkin to them? Typically the kind of questions people ask, what you do, why are you from What's the typical questions? We always ask one another.

Going a different way and saying so tell me what makes you tick? What will get you up in the morning? I tried it a few times and I get silenced because I'm surprised by the question and then we describe Who We Are by what we do if we working Do you know what the moment you if that's if that's who you are and when you lose it something to eat it's like we feel like we're an empty shell. I think I wait times in my life so I can speak from a place of place of experience.

Could could I have done better?

Did I upset somebody?

Did the mon? We stopped by mourning the loss of Who We Are. 11 kind of thing that we can look.

Sometimes we break up in relationships, we pull out with people. Sometimes, our covenant relationship can be broken. Do you know what? Even if even if the other party had all the wrong that we kind of stopped to buy? What did I do wrong? Could I done any better? Not just the loss of that person, but the loss of that relationship and our part to play in them.

And you can see it on people spicy. Sometimes like I had a difficult week, a difficult died, and you can see that Pisces love that down.

Sometimes our dreams can be stolen. Sometimes we sense a prophetic words of knowledge. We had a prophetic Gathering last weekend we had climb with us. Prophetic, words were released one of the first things that will happen is that will come a time. When the enemy wants to dissuade us, I don't didn't speak to us.

I thought maybe we would kind of in the place of that was wonder if he did say that.

Yeah, it happens from time to time. I'm where we need to get our eyes Focus back on the source. We need to throw off the elements of morning. We need to press into who we are in Christ. so let me dive back into 1 Corinthians 11, but to start reading on now, I want to read the whole of Isaiah 61 starting at verse 1.

The spirit of The Sovereign or not. I really would love you to receive this now, because I want to get one from what we leave behind to what God has for us. As he promises to be upon us by his Spirit, the spirit of The Sovereign, Lord is upon you because the Lord has anointed you to Proclaim. Good news to the poor. You sent you to bind up the Brokenhearted to Proclaim freedom for the captives until released from Darkness, for the prisoners to proclaim the year of the Lord's, favor of the day of the Vengeance of our God, to comfort over the moon. And to provide, for those who grieve in Zion to bestow on them, a crown of beauty instead of Ashes. The or the joy, instead of morning in the Garment of Praise instead of a spirit of Despair, that will be cold Oaks of righteousness of planting of the Lord. For the display of his Splendor, they will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long beverage. Play will bring you the ruined cities that have been devastated for Generations. Strangers will check with your flocks foreigners, will work your fields and Joe Vineyards and you will be Kohl's. Priests of the Lord and you will be named Ministers of our God, you will feed on The Wealth of Nations on the in their riches, you will boast. Instead of your shame, you will receive a double portion. And instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land and everlasting. Joy will be yours for the Lord. For I the Lord love Justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing, in my faithfulness, I will reward my people and make an Everlasting Covenant with them. The Descendants will be known among the Nations and that Offspring amongst the peoples who who will see them will acknowledge that they are a people. The Lord has blessed you liked greatly in the Lord. My soul rejoices in my God for, he has clothes me with garments of Salvation and erase me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom of Thrones his head, like a priest. And as a bride wants herself with her Jewels for as the soil, that makes the Sprout come out on the golf course is set to grow. So The Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before or nations. Such a promise, the spirit of The Sovereign Lord is upon us too. And we understood that and the purpose is that God would be manifest through you and me.

So, what I'd like to do is to pray, we're going to come round communion off to the woods this morning, but I want to try, I want to linger in some words.

And I'm going to ask you to respond at least in your hall by was online. Those in the room that's missing lights on.

But I want to start with self-image. Want to stop at that place that I want to start with that place. Cuz I just said there was something, I had a picture as I Was preparing for this and I had a picture of somebody looking at themselves in the mirror, but the mirror had been shattered side of the picture wasn't perfect. Have a two noses and three years just because of the way the mirror. Now, what

Since I worked for one or two people, it was true for you and I want to pray for you right now. Play science, we going to focus on. Okay, the problem is not ask the problem is the mirror. What are we looking at?

Are we see ourselves reflected in others? We see ourselves reflected in what people say about to say to us.

I don't want to encourage if that's you I want to encourage you to go back to the father and the father sees in, you know what others say about, you know, what you see in yourself. But what does the father say about you?

Allow he's words to wash over. You allow his words to speak to you in a building. Allow, he's Woods to fill you

I'm so probably God, when we get an imperfect view of ourselves. Father, we lift our eyes up to you. We look to you. When we say, oh God, Refreshment renew me. Help me to get a right mind over my relationship with you and how you see me? For you and I have been created for a purpose. You and I have a calling upon all like you and I have something that we need to do, what we need to do it for his glory.

The Phoenix that rises out of the ashes. The emblems that glow again. This is that it seems like the guy had died and the breadth of the Holy Spirit, breathe on those Embers again in the fire comes again. And this time becomes more strongly this time. It comes more brightly. Walk, the Rises relationship people are drawn in by the story.

All the help. I'll help me. Help me those who practice, pray with me to get our eyes off. What's the difference back in the box in the past?

What's that? We keep speaking to ourselves and even repeating to ourselves so much so that we believe them Father on a break that repetitive, but repetitive speaking of a phrases 53 hearing, as I'm praying. Somebody's just if you're not you know any good at. I don't bother trying again.

If that's you, I'll just believe that God's breaking that... Phrase upon your life to speak, freshly into your situation and Circumstance, you were created for a purpose, you were created with meaning you are not a mistake.

But even such as long as I'm saying this though, that was a phrase that run in your head because your parents hadn't blind. You It's very very interesting. What do you listen to couples? Who have maybe an unexpected child later in life. Some people talk about the joyous surprise. Other people say, the unexpected problem. Do you know when not to miss taking God's plan in God's purpose, he created us in His image for his purposes. So, father, I speak your life. Your Truth into Hopsin lights right now. let me move on, let me move on and I want to pray for those who have had a dream stolen

You've been building to water drainage something that you've been building towards four years. Maybe even dab. You always wanted to be this Trying to think sometimes children are so what do you want to be when you grow up as a five-minute police want to talk to her but some of us some of us this is being true. You building all the way through to that you feel like you come to a Crossroads and you need to turn right to continue in your career and the right. He's taking you left the parties taking you left, everything that's happening is taking you left. I was just asked whether it's the Lord leading us. The father is his, you noticed, he has Ways and Means of reconnecting Pathways in Journeys the way, beyond our understanding.

Or maybe he's a boy. He's at he's leaving you a different way to avoid you guys down a cul-de-sac. And then he got stuck somewhere. So, probably want to pray for those whose dreams have been stolen by, those whose dreams are on the knife-edge, for those whose dream seemed to be Fading Into the distance for the right play. If it's, you rekindle the mode off. Unloaded leaving a different way, Lord show and speak and release your purpose of God into those license situation is that in the morning, might be past the new Dynamite doing the new energy, purpose, and direction would come, we pray in your Mighty nein. Oh, man. How much flying alaria repair these broken relationships?

I had the phrase ringing in my head is always prying in the middle of the week about what I was going to share this Sunday is no point. There's no point in me, even trying in the even picking up the phone, I'm sending an email.

When Jesus came to the disciples as they were fishing by the Sea like fish tonight. And yeah these guys they know what they doing and he said to them to be honest, I'm not a fisherman but sometimes I think about that story, I think I don't realize and so I just said it's really good to open. All is so exciting to us and through us. Lord, Spink in library. We've been toiling weeping, connecting speaking, building relationship.

Father, is this a place where I played the part in that? Forgive me Father. Help me to find a place where I can say sorry to those that I might have had with the woods that I said.

The weather is nothing that you feel. You can say lay it before the Lord. You will be surprised. Why? What happens layout? The relationship layout, the thing that you are morning laying, lay out, the fact that you are still wearing ashes.

Laid out before the Lord say no to had enough. But I want to connect again. Lol, this matters to me, help me to find a wife.

Please just be aware as I'm praying. This is I'm talking through this prayer. Sometimes when you pray with the answer to our Empress go downstairs to do something changes, I'll go change.

So I have to repent of wrongdoing, repetitive, saying something, sometimes, God challenges us. I'm not see where Paul building the bridge. Again. I don't know how it's going to work out for you, but I want to pry Lord. Would you build new Bridges? Which open you conversations? Father, would you renew relationship advice with you father? God, I even sent to somebody who might be listening lights on what your air today. Some. Come on. Some come back. Let's have a conversation that stool. Do to your special, your precious come and said, I want to, listen, I want to hear what, what's on your heart. Tell me about it.

I'm sorry. Father God.

I wanted to Claire. I've all those who are listening to they send the room lights up online, the spirit of the Lord is upon you.

Throw off the ashes of morning.

Have joy again. In Jesus name. Coming.