The Master Builder
It’s ok to dream again. A lot of time people give up on a dream that the Lord has given them. I am here to tell you it’s ok to dream again. This message was birthed at the end of ministry at a local service. I want to pray over everyone who has lost his or her dream or his or her vision. I believe that by the spirit of the Lord there is a release for it. When I get this it is because the Lord wants to resolve it. We must resolve those things.
It’s ok to dream, it ok to grab a hold of it. Don’t drop it, just keep going. The moment I released that I believe something shifted in the heavenly. I totally and completely believe those things can happen by the spirit of the Lord.
I believe something was actioned in the spirit on June 6, 2021 was exactly 77 years since the invasion of Normandy on D-day June 6, 1944. The enemy embarked on this defeat of Normandy June 6th 1944. I believe there is spiritual significance to this. There was a lot of preparation and details put together, but June 6th 1944 saw an invasion occupied by land. I want to release something to you, it is the master builder, I believe the enemy is on the run. It looked like the allies were going to lose the war, and by the way it looked like Christ was going to lose. Look at the disciple’s their plan was to be defeated but Gods plan kicked into overdrive. I am excited about what the Lord wants to release each and everyday. I believe tomorrow is going to be in sync and so on for days to come.
There are a number of scriptures I want to go to, The Lord is the master builder and he knows what he is doing. I don’t have a clue but he does.
I want to go to Genesis 1:2. Have you ever noticed there are a lot of things incomplete out there? Do you ever feel incomplete or inadequate? There is a reality that there is something in every one of us that the Holy spirit has to infuse in each one of us. It’s ok to feel inadequate and that you don’t know what you’re doing. God says he uses the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. I am on the other side. What people don’t like to see is probably what God will use. That’s why I am not so enamoured with gifts. How many know that Christians have gifts. I am more enamoured with other things like the character of Christ, surrender and going lower, and those that are humble and those are the people I draw upon and want to be close to. Giftings are gifts.
Let’s go to Genesis 1. Whether you like to think it or not… in yourself you are incomplete. There is a remedy for that. It is found in the scripture.
Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form and a empty waste
Sometime we may feel that way. Empty going day in and day out. What is this all about Lord. Why am I here. This is what we ask all the time whether we are aware of it or not. Why do I react a certain way or get angry. Why is there so much turmoil of chaos? A simple answer is we are in the world but we are not of this world. We are heavenly invaders. This may throw your theology off. The reality is I am different and we are called to make a difference in a lost and dying world.
This is not a protestant Church. We are not protesting anything. Someone asked me what type of Church are we? I went to the Lord for two weeks because I didn’t know. We speak in tongues and believe in Water baptism. I felt the Lord say you are called to be a kingdom church. Anything else is not acceptable.
Someone was in the Hospital in Red Deer. I went in and visited with him for 5 seconds and asked if he wanted to accept the Lord. He said Yeah. His family had been trying to lead him to the Lord for years. It may be Gods plan that someone else led him to the Lord. I got the skinny on this guy, he was saved and three months later he died. When you’re the minister and your half hour late to a funeral it’s not good. It way over by the Saskatchewan border, they finally got me on the cell phone and I finally got to where the funeral was located and they had an open casket. I happened to say when I got in there that Gordon (the deceased) was looking down and said this pastor would be late even to his own funeral.
In reality the whole worlds system is to try and make us comfortable. Even as you are driving here they have people working radar so you don’t speed, and traffics lights. Another example is air conditioning in this building; everything is to make us comfortable so we are not in turmoil or chaos. This may throw you off but there is a better way. I told this story one morning. I am pretty routine person, I get up at 5:00 and I am in the office. One morning in the middle of winter I am in the office I am shaving and the lights go out. I was a little ticked, but I felt the Lord say that there will be a day that all these convenient things may not be available to you. I just kept shaving. There is a reality that we are too dependent on the world and the worlds system and there are safety nets that we all have and carry. One day these things will all come to an end and when it does it better be the Holy Spirit leading you. I don’t know when it’s going to happen but be ready. The bible says, be wise as serpents and as harmless as doves. Be wise and be ready. Nothing should faze you, frustrate you, or make you weary. It starts in your thinking. Let the Holy Spirit renew you.
Genesis 12The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep.
Do you know that light penetrates into darkness. Anyone heard of quantum physics. Light and sound is the very same thing. Ever been in a worship service and something starts to vibrate. I had my bible on my lap and it started to vibrate. Sounds were vibrating the scripture. There are so many things in life that we don’t understand in life. Like an ultra sound. Sound achieving something.
Genesis 12The earth was without form and an empty waste, and darkness was upon the face of the very great deep.
Something happens when the word go out. Why am I so opposed to negative words? Someone said to me awhile ago. I don’t know if you’re telling me the truth or when you are just saying positive words. In reality my positive words are the truth. If we don’t think that are words have effect you better think again. They have more significance then you know. Why do I keep my mouth shut so much, because there are some words I don’t want to release!
Lets continue on in the scripture. 2… The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters.
The spirit of God is moving today. you may have came in feeling inadequate, incapable and weak, or an inability to carry out the basic things of life. But by the spirit of the Lord we can do it. In Genesis 1:2 when it says Hovering and brooding it is like a chicken brooding over its eggs. It is like being an incubator, and that’s what the Holy Spirit does he hovers and incubates. How many feel like they are at a higher realm in there walking with the Lord? How does that happen? By the spirit of the Lord, incubating. A couple of weeks ago we embarked are leaders and came up with 25 characteristics with what you should see in a church. I believe everyone is changed if they get the Holy Spirit in their life. We need to have a tolerance for people, or a better word would be a certain Love for people until the Holy Spirit touches their lives. I want the Church here and in Sylvan Lake to be a place people can come in and not necessarily look like you, (Maybe purple hair, baseball cap, or spend an hour getting their hair up straight) but there is a reality that this needs to be a safe place for everybody, not just you. I really believe the spirit of the Lords hovers over me and you. I don’t want to be the same tomorrow as I am today. How about you?
Lets go to another scripture, Jeremiah 1:10
10See, I have this day appointed you to the oversight of the nations and of the kingdoms to root out and pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.
The mandate of Heaven is really contained in this. The lord only tears down to do one thing. Build it up. We can apply that to our lives and virtually everything that the Lords touch. He tears down only to build it better. The Lord is a Master builder.
Has anyone heard of the flood, and Noah’s ark and all those things? It’s to build it up again.
Jeremiah 24: 6-7 6For I will set My eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not pull them down
He will set his eyes upon you for good. This is for me and you. This is for the nation of Israel but just as applicable for our lives.
6…. and I will plant them and not pluck them up.
I want to talk for a second on planting. In Psalms it states people planted in the house of Lord with flourish like a Palm tree. Where is a palm tree? Normally in a dry and hot climate. Not everyone is planted in the Church. They may attend but are not planted. The Lord is calling us to be planted and flourished. It doesn’t matter where you are planted. I want you to be planted somewhere so when the storms come you are planted. I don’t care where but be planted, because I want your relationship with the Lord to grow.
7And I will give them a heart to know (recognize, understand, and be acquainted with) Me, that I am the Lord; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.
The Lords is looking for your whole heart, not a piece of it, all of it. He doesn’t want anything else in your heart other than him.
Mathew 16:1818And I tell you, you are [a]Peter [Greek, Petros--a large piece of rock], and on this rock [Greek, petra--a [b]huge rock like Gibraltar] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades (the powers of the [c]infernal region) shall [d]not overpower it [or be strong to its detriment or hold out against it].
The Lord is the master builder. I am not trying to build the Church. I want the Lord to build it because he is the Master. Yes I am being used in building the Church. Have you got a dream tonight, let the Lord build it. He is the master builder.
There are a few more scriptures I want to look at tonight, what happens when the Lord gives you a dream, what happens when the Lord gives you something. All hell comes against it. When you are focused on advancing the Kingdom of God whether it is in your life or the life of your family, I will tell you right now all hell comes against it. No matter what it is. God is the Master builder he knows what he is doing. If you keep your eyes on the Master builder it will be built.
Let’s go over to Nehemiah
100% of the time that I have been focused on advancing the Kingdom of God 100% of the time there has been opposition. I am not talking people now, we are talking spiritual opposition. Like going to Bible School, and well intended people told me I had a great career and I was doing well where I was at. This was all true. There is a scripture that says you can do good things but not God things. Well intended well meaning people saying you shouldn’t go to bible school, or be a Pastor, or do a conference. Well intended well meaning people being used of the enemy. Remember Peter, total revelation of Christ four verses later Jesus saying Get you behind me Satan. Not that he was Satan, but he wasn’t mindful of the kingdom of God. Why wasn’t he mindful, because of the sole relationship he had with Jesus? He didn’t want to see Jesus go to the cross. I would have done the same thing, and in reality so would have you. We don’t want to see anyone go through Pain but if the Kingdom of God will advance it ok. Chances are God won’t do things the way we do it. Unless we have the mind of Christ, me doing it the way he wants it done. People may not be of Satan but they are not mindful of the things of God. Just like watching Jesus go to the cross. No one wanted to see him go through that; however it was God’s plan. We need to understand that the Lord uses everything to advance his Kingdom. Sometimes when something bad happens we think that only good things should be happening. The reality is that sometimes these things happen, and it’s called suffering. There are three types of suffering in the scripture. Number one suffering because we are in the world, number two suffering because we are Christians, and number three because there is sin in our lives. We only have control over 1/3 and that is the Sin element. We don’t have control over the two thirds. Paul wanted to go to Rome he got shipwrecked on the way, he had a divine purpose and he understood the mandate of heaven. God wants to impart this on us, don’t despise the fires that are going on. Everybody has something going on at some point or another. What is the Lord using those things to achieve in your life? What is he doing? What is the reality? He is the master builder. But along the way in your journey when you are giving the mandate of heaven there is going to be opposition. When you are married there is mandate for you and your family. For everyone single, there is a mandate for you. For everyone there is a mandate of heaven. You are not an accident you are here on divine assignment and it is a divine appointment for this point and time. There will be things coming against you at some point and time.
There are things that will try and come against you all the way along. Number one, ridicule and mockery – we need to see things the way the Lord sees things. They do these things to get them off track.
Let’s look at Nehemiah 4:2 2And he said before his brethren and the army of Samaria, What are these feeble Jews doing?
Nehemiah had a mandate from Heaven would that be a fair statement. Rebuild the temple, rebuild Jerusalem. Rebuild what has been torn down, the enemy has come in now it is time to re-build. The mandate of heaven, the King of Persia says go Sanballat and Tobiah, they are totally opposed to it. Sanballat means God of Sin being glorified. This is occupied territory it used to be the Israelites. The Israelites are coming back into it they are opposed by who is there now.
Will they restore things [at will and by themselves]? Will they [try to bribe their God] with sacrifices?
See they are trying to ridicule and mock the mandate of God. Nehemiah saw through all of this, how many know we all need the eyes of the Lord to see. We need to judge the way the Lord sees things. They mocked and ridiculed what was going on to get them off track. Has anyone been off track? Has anyone seen a train off track, big trouble derailment injury you name it.
Verse 7-8 7But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabians, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were going up and that the breaches were being closed, they were very angry. 8And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem, to injure and cause confusion and failure in it.
Has anyone been mad at you because of the mandate you have. They may not say it but they really are angry. The enemy does not like it when people have the mandate of God, and that you are not backing off your mandate. There will be opposition plain and simple. People don’t want you to be a Christian so why wouldn’t you think people will have a problem with you getting closer to God. You are going to be opposed, get over it. Have this understanding and say I am walking with the Lord. There are patterns you need to understand these patterns.
Verse 10-11 10And [the leaders of] Judah said, The strength of the burden bearers is weakening, and there is much rubbish;
There is a lot of Rubbish out there, mounds of it. Rubbish is garbage and there is a lot of it out there. This is to discourage them. They tried the anger intimidation, ridicule now they are going to try this bit. They prayed for 52 days before they built this wall. That is why I am so happy with the intercessors in this church. More time spent in prayer. If there is no prayer before service we notice this as a staff. Worship goes on 24/7 in the heavenly realm and we tap into it like a vain when we come to Church. It becomes easier and easier to tap in when we are constantly getting into the presence with the Lord through worship.
Let’s go to Chapter 6. You know if the enemy can’t do it he will hire someone else to do it. This is a reality.
Nehemiah 6:2
2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, Come, let us meet together in one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they intended to do me harm.
Now lets keep going to Nehemiah 6:10-19
10I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut up. He said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you--at night they are coming to kill you.
This is escalating now there trying to kill you. But there is one that has been killed for us. If you are declaring the mandate of heaven you will have opposition. Your life will be opposed. I am not asking for it, but there is a reality that is in the scripture. It is not this nicey Christianese. You are in a war whether you know it or not. There is a war raging to take you off the mandate of heaven. If they haven’t been able to get to you they will introduce new elements to get to you.
Let’s go back to the scripture and then tie it up.
11But I said, Should such a man as I flee? And what man such as I could go into the temple [where only the priests are allowed to go] and yet live? I will not go in.
Let go very quickly to Chapter 6: 14
14My God, think on Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who would have put me in fear.
When you have a dream it will be opposed. If it’s from God it will be opposed. I felt the Lord say, when you start to dream again things will happen there will be mockery and opposition. The Lord is the Master builder.
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