but as we approach the beginning of our service and for next two hours we are going to spend
together here we want to give a right direction for our service we're gonna pray just in the
minute but before we do that I want to rephrase or present this story that most of us are aware of
it's about a prophet and a donkey this is not the only time a prophet and the donkey are mentioned
together we see a donkey carrying a blind prophet we see a prophet who just yesterday heard the
voice of God but today he was blind we see a donkey carrying a prophet that just yesterday
was in connection with the Living God but today this prophet is blind by greed and same thing
sometimes we as Christians we are under certain authorities or certain movements or certain
ministries or certain even pastors you know that we are under certain teachings that work yesterday
heard God yesterday but today the silence between them and God we are donkeys today our church is a
donkey you are a donkey every church every individual has somebody that they sit under
every individual and every Church has a ministry or a pastor or a bishop they respect and the day
carry that ministry all day on earth at ministry or they sit under the ministry in American culture
they used this phrase called you sitting under his under his word or sitting under his ministry
means you're receiving from that word means you're listening to that to that preacher means you are
you know admiring that preacher and sometimes you can be sitting under somebody who yesterday heard
God but today they're blind this happened with his donkey this donkey was carrying a master
that yesterday this Balaam heard God said I want you to go I want you don't go and today this
Balaam saw no God he didn't couldn't recognize him for us as Christians it's important that
wants to speak to us in every situation God has something to say in every situation it is very
important to be current with God you cannot live and yesterday's man because yesterdays
men ruckus today if Abraham would have walked with Isaac and three days later after he heard God say
sacrifice your son and if Abraham would have been blind three days later after hearing God he would
have killed his promise but because Abraham heard God yesterday and Abraham also had a relationship
with God today only because of that Isaac lived be careful who you follow just because they listened
and heard God yesterday that does not mean they hear him today just because Balaam heard the
vision and saw the vision of God yesterday that did not mean Balaam had a right and authentic
and genuine a vibrant relationship with God today because today God said I'm standing against Veila
while this donkey is carrying still she's still carrying Balin and God said actually to bail him
to go this path the Balaam was on it wasn't and she wasn't instructed by a demon spirit
he wasn't instructed by his own greed it was God who spoke to him in a dream and God says I
want you to go and and do this and dad with that nation of Israel and he is underway supposedly in
obeying the instruction of the Lord and in their destruction God was standing against them because
God had something to say into a very moment that seemed like contrary to what God said before but
it was in country because never God contradicts himself God is always the same and i want i want
to encourage our church is that we have to we all as churches have ministries people that we look up
to not one person is here who's just on his own nobody is here just riding around running around
every person is carrying somebody every person is listening to somebody on their podcast every
person is respecting or listening or admiring somebody and we have to choose the Balaam that has
his eyes open we have to be that as one of the is why when we watch the ministry of TB joshua that's
what address while we respect that today not necessarily that this is all our church is about
but we know that we will have somebody we look up to I remember pastors advice for me ilion Martin
for many it's been many years now that he always tells us he says you guys will look up to somebody
anyway he says you will have somebody as an example before you he says it could be a preacher
it could be a speaker it could be a pastor of a large church a pastor who because of his large
church she has he has very great reputation and has a tremendous wealth and you may look to him
and you say I want to be like that he says you will always have somebody you look up to he says
but you have to put the right person you look up to you as a donkey will have somebody your caring
you will either carry a bail on who is blind or you will be a donkey who carried Jesus who has
vision see we can be a donkey at church that carries a Balaam a carry and movement or carry
even a denomination or carries some kind of a leader who used to hear from God who used to have
these things from God but today that leader is as ignorant as Balaam or we can be the donkey that
carries Jesus Christ that we can carry somebody who knows God somebody who hears God somebody that
got caught talks to even today not just yesterday not just five years ago not just 500 years ago not
just azusa street not just Brownsville revival not just somewhere in Korea not just somewhere
there in Ukraine when my parents were young I don't know but today God still speaks not just
yesterday but today let's be a generation that carries a prophet carries a man of God care is
somebody who hears today not just yesterday and I want to remind our church before we pray God
has something to say about every situation of a life in every situation God has something to
say every the fruit of success sometimes carries a seed of failure because Balaam was under way that
seemed right before God Balaam was doing the right thing Baylen stole live a successful life but in
every success if we are not careful and if we'd seek the will of God and the voice of God every
success every fruit of success sometimes inside has a seed of failure if we are not staying humble
and current with God and he was one mistake away from destroying his life every successful person
is always one mistake away from destroying his whole life every marriage is one mistake away
from falling apart every nation is one mistake away from falling apart that is why when you are
walking even with the Lord like Balaam thinking he's obeying the voice of God don't be ignorant
don't be just walking in casualty know you always have to have the scripture says your loins girded
and you always have to be alert and be always attentive to what God has to say today not just
yesterday but today Jesus name I love Abraham because Abraham heard the voice of God and God
says sacrifice your son but if Abraham would have closed his ears from then on and say I heard from
God period but Abraham didn't do that Abraham was walking in that mountain and his ears were still
tuned to God even though he heard God yesterday but he says God has to say something about my
situation today and something happened God's poked him about his situation and God says don't kill
your son don't destroy your son God has something to say about our situation you know last Sunday in
the service then we came one man in TB joshua's ministry in the lady they were not sitting
together and profitable Joshua he addressed a lady and he says call your husband and her
husband begins to walk closer to her as he does TB Joshua looks at him and he says to him that you're
a good man and he looks at her and he says that you are a betrayer he says he disappointed your
God and you disappointed your husband you know I mean he was very straightforward and I was
like this is this is not you know very kind it was just very rough and very straightforward he says
you disappointed your God and he disappointed your husband he says I see you leaving the house in the
morning and coming back in the evening he says you sleep with other men he says you're he says you're
disrespecting your husband he's and the husband's a kiosk yes that's true and he looks at the
husband and he says and you're the one who opens the door for her and you're the ones who doesn't
you know just kind of let her do whatever she wants to do and he looks at the woman and says you
have a demon of a dog he says you have a demonic spirit of a dog he says that spirit causes you to
flirt and live around with other men and he says your husband looking at that lifestyle he could
have come to the conclusion I'm gonna divorce you linksys because your husband has the fear of
God and he came to church to hear what God has to say see sometimes we are in a situation where our
situation says that's it divorce our situation says that it is over but see don't let your
situation dictate were you supposed to do because God has to say something about every situation God
still has something to say about every situation you Rin amen and so TB Joshua looks at him and
he says that divorce is not an option he says this marriage is from above and he says right now God's
gonna deliver your wife from that demonic spirit of lust and perversion and he says she will not be
the wife that she's ever been before he says God is going to restore this marriage and then he went
on to say that don't let what's around you settle your matter what God has to say settles everything
not our circumstances are telling us not what is happening with their life Balaam had to learn it's
not what is happening right now it's not the fact I heard God yesterday no I have to hear
them today let's be a church that that care is a ministry that hears God today I do not want to be
a person you know and we don't discourage people to listen to other ministries I personally gonna
listen to a lot of other podcasts of people like Joyce Meyer people like TD jakes people like Joel
Osteen people like Bill Johnson people like fact Focus on the Family and so many other ministries
that every week I get encouraged stuff but when it comes to sitting under the ministry I want to
sit under the ministry not that heard God 20 years ago mother hears God today I want to be a donkey
that carries Jesus into Jerusalem even if they'll crucify him I'll rather be with him who hears God
instead of Balaam who they could enrich him and all this stuff but he's completely arrogant let's
not be people who do that and honestly if God can open the mouth of a donkey he can open the eyes
of the Prophet if God can open mouth of a donkey open the eyes of the prophet and i believe we are
that balaam today to our generation i believe our generation is expecting us as a church to
live with eyes open and people don't perish today because they don't persist or because you know
the donkey kept you know pushing him away kept push we can see when you have a vision and you
see in the spiritual world and you see the path that you're walking on you see God in it or you
see something opposing you you can avoid certain pits you can avoid so you can go and take a derail
when you see a clear vision of the spiritual realm in the natural realm that path lik clear the path
looked beautiful but in the spiritual realm there was a sword that was standing against it and out
of all the people in the world the person whose side or the being that saw that was a donkey and
the scripture says the donkey starts to avoid the sword donkey starts to go away the donkey
starts doing all of these things why because when you see in a spiritual realm you live your
life differently when your eyes are open not just to what you see on the screen of a TV not
just so what you see around in your generation but you see what's behind what you see you see
what's behind the natural you see what's behind the drug you see what's behind the pornography
when you live your life and you see what's behind the visible you begin to take derails if you can
to say everybody's doing it you know I'm not doing that and naturally people look at you and say why
are you taking that road because what you see because your eyes are open that's why the Bible
says in Revelation Jesus says ask me the church who is blind and i will give you ice soft so you
can anoint your eyes so you can see that's why the blind man still cries out says Lord open the eyes
or my understanding posters and Corinthians open the eyes of my understanding Lord that's why the
scripture says that people God's people perish for lack of vision we need the vision from the
Lord today we need to have the eyes our eyes to be anointed so we can see in the realm of
the Spirit the realm of the Spirit unfortunately the church like Balaam is supposed to see that
realm better than the donkey called the world the church supposed to have the corner and
the supernatural the church supposed to know more and the the rod from Moses have to trump the rods
magicians of Egypt we know that the church when it comes to supernatural has to be more not just
educated more experienced today go to a movie theater and every movie in the weekend it becomes
the biggest movie is everything about supernatural it's either about somebody some ghosts either
about things from the spirits evil against good and the world today like a donkey has his eyes
completely open even though they're deceived but they're completely open to the supernatural
stuff while the church try so supposed to have a connection with God completely blind and not only
blind they justify their blindness saying the only thing that exists is what we see my friends God is
gonna open that ice my friends even the videos that we watch even their clips that we watch I
believe it's just to push our eyes a little bit wider so we can see there's something beyond what
you see what you think as a clear path are walking with the Lord and not realizing something's always
opposing me my donkey always goes wrong South left to right always get start crushing me
when in reality of something that's there in the spiritual realm and God wants to open the eyes of
my understanding today amen this is why you came here today it's so the your eyes can be open it so
your eyes can be open maybe your situation doesn't change today but may God give you the grace delay
with eyes that open don't leave blind and as a church let's do respect ministries we will
choose ministries any will all have ministries but let's walk on the ministries not just
that heard God yesterday I'll balaam but let's walk under the ministries that he'll got today