This message is prophetic for the times that we are in.
The Lord is preparing us in this message as to what we are facing and will face in the
days to come.
Let's look at that again.
What the Lord shared early this year.
Let's look at the temple of Solomon from afar first.
Okay, we see the chambers, the three floors.
Can you see it?
That is attached to the temple proper.
The first floor is five cubits broad.
Amen.
Then you go up to six cubits broad.
Right?
And then up to the highest one.
The third floor is seven (number of perfection), seven cubits broad.
We are always going to a larger place, a wealthier place, a broader place.
So from the first floor to the second floor, they go by the winding stairs.
This is the winding stairs.
The truth of the winding stairs is this: you gain the maximum height
in the shortest amount of time.
Hallelujah.
In the smallest possible space.
Even, you know, when you are going up the winding stairs, you can't see the end right?
Amen, but you're going one step at a time.
Sometimes you feel like you're going in circles.
Sometimes, it seems like you're not reaching the top and everyone wants to know what's
going to happen at the end of this crisis.
Do we see the light at the end of this tunnel?
I want to know what's going to happen!
Will there be a vaccine?
Will there be this and that?
My friend you don't have to worry about where it came from and where it's gonna go.
God wants you right now to live one day at a time.
Jesus says: There's enough provision, there's enough supply, there's enough wisdom, there's
enough manna from heaven only for one day at a time.
You are trying to worry and use the manna God gives you for today, for tomorrow, and
there is no grace there.
The grace that comes is only for today.
You only have grace for today.
So we are actually compelled as God's children to learn to walk by faith.
Now, it is to tell ourselves, live in the present.
I'm with my children and with my wife, and I'm in this situation.
I want to learn to live in the present.
But believe me, you feel like you are regressing during this time.
You feel like you could have done more for your job, your career, whatever.
During this time you feel like you can make more money.
During this time, you feel like you can do accomplish much more.
You feel like you have all this wasted time.
But if you live one day at a time, when you finally look back, you're actually making
ascension.
You are ascending higher and higher.
Without even realizing it.
This reminds me of that verse in Psalms 23.
Amen.
He leads me in the paths of righteousness.
If you look carefully at the word paths in the Hebrew, it's actually "circle".
You know, for example, you're going to bring the sheep to the top.
If you make a direct route all the way to the top, it will cause those sheep to be weary
and to be discouraged and to, to you know, loose strength.
But the wise shepherd does it in a way that the sheep don't even know that they are ascending.
They don't even know they're making it all the way to the top.
They do it effortlessly.
How?
By grazing, it gives them food to eat.
All the way around.
He leads them in the paths of righteousness and they go in paths.
They call it paths.
Circle of righteousness.
I believe is a truth of righteousness.
As they eat the truths of righteousness they are making ascension, they're ascending higher.
They are being elevated.
Amen.
They're going higher and higher above their enemies, high and higher above their challenges,
high and higher above all the obstacles where the fresh air are and they end up on top.
And they hardly knew that they were making Ascension right?
Without all these, you know, stress and effort.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
When we look at our lives right now at this time, it is the midnight hour.
It is midnight.
Daybreak is coming.
It seems like there's no light at the end of the tunnel.
We know midnight night, midnight night is the word layil.
Laila and always in Israel they say, Laila Tov.
Good night, right?
Laila comes from the word luwl.
Hey, look, the only time luwl is actually winding stairs that is used here in the temple
of Solomon from floor to floor.
You go by the winding stairs.
Amen.
So what do we do in the time of midnight, the night seasons of our life?
We don't understand what's going on.
Just do it one step at a time.
If you are depressed, amen.
Just do what is in front of you.
Look at the Lord and live one day at a time.
Don't worry about tomorrow.
Don't get into the what if.
What if?
Amen.
Just live one day at a time when tomorrow comes, when next week comes, the supply for
next month will be there.
The grace and the provisions will be there.
If God says, rest, rest.
If God says spend time, spend time with your wife, then do it.
Amen.
So you need to just take it one step at a time, and before you know it by going one
step at a time, you are making strides.
Heavenly strides, you're making, uh, progressive upwards, strides, and you're going higher
and higher and higher.
Amen.
And before you know it, you will find you're in a larger place.
Amen.
That's the same for all your provisions.
God will provide for you.
You find that what God provides for is larger than where you came from.
Amen.
You won't be where you came from.
You came from the five cubits broad room.
You're going to a larger room but it happens so effortlessly that you don't even know it.
You were just being obedient one step at a time.