It's a new year and with it is a time of change! Hallelujah! My husband said that we will be preparing for what God is about to do and that is what my sermon is for today. Let us prepare our hearts to receive the Lord - Hallelujah.

Now I know some of you are very uncomfortable with change, and I think it's because you don't want to mess up with something that's working well. You don't want to mess up something that's going good for you. And when real ID rolled out in New Jersey, some of you said, “Well, what's wrong with my old ID? What's the problem?” And some of you really dug your heels in the sand, a little bit of stubbornness was coming out and (you) said, “I'm never. I'm never getting a new ID.” And so we see that these people who are just so afraid of the change, but they're also still the same people driving to the bank, filling out a bank deposit slip like it's still 1995! I get it. I get it.

You know, technology is changing faster than some of us really can get used to. When my husband and I got our brand new TV, I couldn't even figure out which remote to use. And so that was the first step, you know; trying to get it on, trying to figure out which application I was going to be signing into, trying to launch the program and go through monitoring the system. You see, this is the thing that I was dealing with and I could not figure it out - navigating the menus! You remember that you just “had a TV” at one time, you’d press power and it'd be flipping through, but it's not that simple anymore. But Church, I'm here to tell you today that there is change and not all change is bad! There is a good movement on our way!

God is bringing in something new in your life that you do not have to avoid. You don't need to be afraid of it, but the Lord wants you to embrace a new wave of something that wants to take over every aspect of our lives. Open up yourself to the change because it is God's favor unto you this day. Allow Him to be who He is. Let God be God. Sometimes we get so stuck in our stubbornness of not being able to be maneuvered to the right or to the left, but the Spirit comes in the house of the Lord to make you malleable; to teach you how to move with Him with the winds of the Holy Spirit. No longer that you would pray the same way. No longer that you would worship in the same way. No longer that you would do the same thing, but be open to the plans of God.

Psalms 102:13, “The Lord will arise and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show favor to her.” My friends, the appointed time has come! Throughout the Bible, there were times when the blessings of God were stopped up. And for various times, I remind you, there were the Israelites that were slaves in Egypt for 420 years. There were times in the time of Gideon when he was being overcome by the Midianites for 20 years! There are times in the Bible where the blessings were stopped up, but when the appointed time of God comes, He will release us and deliver us by His strong arm!

The strong arm of the Lord is Jesus Christ, and He comes to deliver the church this day. That which he has planned so long ago; it is His will that in this season that you would have times of refreshing, and of revival, and of great joy that hit the church like never before. That revival would come and that those doors would burst open, that many people would come in who are searching for the Lord - who are searching for something new! We will not be in the mundane! We will not be in the expected, but open to what God has for us this day! He's coming with power in the church like never before to break down the gates of hell.

You see, hell has this locked bar and it doesn't want to give up its people, but we will be able to ransack the enemy territory and bring back those peoples whose minds have been far from God - who haven't known Him, who couldn't see Him, who couldn't find Him. That is the power in this season that the church has. We feel it. We know it. There is strength in the house of the Lord this day! The times of refreshing and revival are coming. When you have the season of favor upon you, it's a time like never before. And if you have faith in the Lord, what good is it if it doesn't bear fruit? It is the season for building, it is the season for bearing fruit of the Lord.

"He is never late, He is never running behind, He is always on time."

Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, had not borne fruit. “But from this day on, I will bless you,” says the Lord. He is moving, and that which did not yield in the past is about to bear fruit. It is coming forth, those blessings that were once stopped up are on their way, Church. It is coming forth at the appointed time of God. For He is never late, He is never running behind, He is always on time. And now when the time has reached its fulfillment, that which God has predetermined since the beginning of the foundation of that world - that God would release His blessing upon His beloved church as we prepare again for His coming! Hallelujah!

And so first God announces His plans of what He's going to do in advance. Even before we see all that God is going to do; before the deliverance, before the power that's coming, God is going to tell you, “Well I'm going to do something in your midst. I'm going to bring signs, wonders, and miracles. Do you believe Me?” God is speaking it, and He's making the announcement in advance to the church today so that we would be ready.

So let's open up our Bibles to our main verse for today. Isaiah 43, verse 19. So it says, “See, I am doing a new thing, and now it springs up. Do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Hallelujah. God doesn't move in silence. He is declaring His intention to you, so there would be no mistake, there would be no misunderstanding. He doesn't keep His church in the dark, He doesn't keep us guessing. But the Lord here says, “I am making this announcement. I am doing a new thing. It springs up. Do you see that it's coming? Do you see that My hand is with you in services?”

You know, sometimes we take advantage of the fact that we have a Holy Spirit-filled church. Sometimes we don't realize the blessing that we have in Spirit-filled ministers who bring the word of the Lord in truth. It is timely, it is the Word of God. We are strong in our word, we have a deep understanding of God. Who in the world - which of your neighbors, which of your co-workers - can say that they know God? And yet in this place we seek Him and we are able to find Him. God is here to commune with His people today and He is saying a message to us that we cannot miss. I'm making an announcement to you that the times are changing, that my favor is here, that the blessings are upon the church, that the fruitfulness is about to come!

You see, He says it to you in advance so that you can know that He's in control when it happens so that you can give glory to God. “Oh, I told you, I knew God was going to do it.” So many of you have encouraged my family with a word from the Lord, even through my son's health struggles. “Oh, Jessica, God's going to do it. I know something new is on the way for you.” And I want to say the same thing back - The church wants to return that favor to you. It's coming! Your healing is on its way! The Lord is coming to you to bring that promise that He has given you! It is now that the appointed time has come.

And so this verse starts with an action word, it says to see. “See that I'm doing a new thing.” It can't be a passive thing when we see that God is doing something, you must acknowledge in your heart the work of God in the church, that He is delivering a powerful word, that He is uplifting, that He is doing powerful deliverances in the church of God. And so many of us, if you hear the testimonies of the people here - God is moving. God is bringing enlightenment and understanding to the house of God. Do you see it?

He is not going to be silent or random in His actions, the Lord is deliberate in the way that He works. We're learning more and more of the character of God this day: He is not random. He is purposeful. He is intentional in your life. And now is the time. Hallelujah.

Now Jesus always speaks first and then He acts throughout the Scriptures. We remember when God came to Noah, don't we? And He came to him and He told him 100 years before the judgment of the flood was going to come - 100 years he worked on a ship when there was not even a cloud in the sky! And there's some that say that it had never rained upon the earth before, that actually all the ground was watered from the deep and from below the earth. It had never rained and yet God said, “I will send a flood.” And Noah believed God and because he believed Him, he and his family were saved. You see, God made an announcement early, didn't He? And yet there was one who believed God. When the Lord is a little bit, you know, intentional, about saving the time and waiting for that time, we think that His delay is His inability to move. But church, that is just His mercy that none should perish! God is giving you the time today that you would get on board with what He's doing so that you do not miss out!

The same for Abraham. God brought him to the land and He had him leave his father's country, He brought him and he walked through. And He said, “Walk the length and the width of the land. Go and seek it out because this is the place where your nation will be. Out of you will come a nation and here they will live. Your people will live in captivity for some years, but they will come out.”

And what happened? 430 years to the day, the people of God were delivered by Moses out of Egypt and on their way to the promised land.

Prophets all throughout the Bible, hundreds and thousands of years before Jesus was born, the scriptures foretold of His coming. In Isaiah, it said that He would be born of a virgin through the line of David and that He would die for the sins of the people. God announced His plan of salvation from the very, very beginning. God is not random. He is purposeful and He wants you to hear His plans for the church today, that you will be able to receive all that He's doing.

When He announces the plans in advance, it's to build up your confidence in Him. The Lord wants you to know that this is the very first evidence of His work - is to believe the Word of the Lord - do you see it, do you hear it, do you perceive it, will you be obedient to the word that is being brought forth to the church today? And it's not just me saying it, God is confirming it time and time again. We've just come out of a season of prayer and in those prayer sessions people were getting a word, and someone would say, “I got it last night.” And then somebody would have a dream and they'd say, “God is confirming it through the dream” or a vision or whatever it is. That is the confirmation in the house of God.

While nothing looks new yet, when there's no evidence that God is in the situation, that is where He wants you to believe it - because that's when it takes faith. I remind you, Church, we do not walk just by our sight, but by our faith in Him.

And so the Lord says today, “Remember Aaron's stick?” We learned about that last week. Aaron's stick was just a pole! It had no root. It had no leaves. What was the evidence that it was going to flower to show the authority of God? And yet it came forth. When there was no evidence, when there was no proof, God says a word and the people of God believe it through faith!

Ezekiel, in his vision, went to a valley of dry bones, and they were dead. Believe me, the people in that cemetery were dead. There was not even ligaments on those bones anymore that they had been there so long. They were nearly dust. He went to that place and God said, “Blow on those bones that they would live.” And out of the ashes rises a great army of the Lord.

Will God be able to rise out of the ashes of, sometimes, what we think our life is like? In the desolate places, in the unfruitful places, in the places that our eyes tell us that it can't be God. Will He be able to have His blessing, His favor, His fruit coming out of that place?

Now, Kris and I are going to be 40 years old this year, and his birthday is tomorrow (Happy birthday!), and me not so long after. And I never got the point of being 39, I always tell people I'm 40 anyway because I feel that I've graduated out of the 30s club. And God began to speak to me to say, “You're supposed to prepare for all that I'm going to do for you in the next season of your life.” And isn't it true for all of us that you're supposed to walk in the promises and walk in the control, the power, the authority of the Lord even before you see it.

We live them out before we see them, Church! He is calling you to say, “This is what God has called for me.” I don't understand how it will happen. How will He do it? But we've been learning – God can do whatever He wants.

So He reminds us of what He has done to show us what He will already come to do. Isaiah 43:16-17. And here we see that God is recalling His deliverance of the Israelites. He often brings this up in the Bible. This is a theme that we see constantly because this was a mighty, powerful work of the Lord.

And so it says, “This is what the Lord says. He who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses and the army and the reinforcements together. They lay there never again to rise, extinguished and snuffed out like a wick.” And so what is God saying? How can there have been a way made through the sea? I mean, really think about that for one minute. The people were up to the ocean, the Red Sea, and God says, I'm going to deliver you. “How? How will you deliver me? I'm surrounded. There's an army behind me and there's waters in front of me. I'm with a million people that don't even have any weapon, not even a stick to their hand! How, God? How will you do it?”

"God will make a way when there is no way!"

And the Lord opens up the waters and they walk through on dry land. Hallelujah! God will make a way when there is no way! When there is no fathomable understanding of how God could do it in our own mind, we are limited in our understanding of how God delivers His people. And so we also see that the Lord was able to overcome a mighty, mighty army, the greatest at that time. And with not even a stick in their hand - one of those greatest armies was swallowed up by the sea.

God points out to His past faithfulness saying to you, “I've done it before, so I'm going to do it again for you.” 1 Corinthians 2:9. I don't even have to look in my notes. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard what God has in store for those that love Him.” Hallelujah! You can't imagine! You can't even think!

Sometimes we're very little in what we ask God for. “Could you just give me a little peace? Could you just give me a break? Could you just move over this issue that I'm having just a little bit…” But God is saying you can't even open up your arms wide enough to receive the goodness! Isn't this a good message God has for us today? You can't even imagine.

So God announces this for us today. It's not just information, guys, it is an invitation to align yourselves with the plan of the Lord. And so God makes His announcement in advance, hallelujah, but now we must prepare to receive it! We are receiving the new thing.

He makes this announcement, and if we continue to do everything in our old ways, if you approach life in the same way, what room is there for God? Would you open up your heart this day? Would you be willing to be a little bit uncomfortable? Would you raise your hands to the Lord? Would you open your mouth and say, “Fill it with some praise for you”? God will move in your midst! It's the time for the shake-up. No longer for the mundane, no longer for the expected things, but the miracles, signs, and wonders of God.

I keep asking the Lord, “How, how do we prepare for this time? How will we be able to receive it?” And the Lord is saying that we must ask Him not just for the big, but also that He would be involved in the intricate things of our lives. God wants to be able to be used and bring blessing into your life in the detail, and that's where His power is.

When you go to the store and you go through the checkout line, God can bring a divine appointment to you and the person that's ringing you up. Maybe God will allow you to bless that person who's ringing up your groceries and you will say, “God bless you.” And you will bring the spirit of the Lord wherever you go, that you would carry that blessing! And when you go and you take a walk around your neighborhood, instead of just listening to your music why don't you say “Blessed are the feet of those who bring the good news. I bring the spirit of the Lord with me wherever I go. Wherever my feet go I will bring the power of the Lord. May this town belong to you, may the children turn back to you." And that is how God is calling us to have the power and the faith in him this year.

I think about when you get a project in school or at work and you're joined up with a partner; And you may be happy or not with that person, but God can use it - it is His divine purpose in our life. Don't put God in a box this year. Allow Him not to be put into these narrow expectations, but allow God to be who He is.

We've been reading a lot of scriptures in the Book of Isaiah. And I want to bring up the fact that Isaiah is one of the most dynamic prophets in the Bible. He brings the word of the Lord to the people, speaking the plans of God in the past, the present, the future, and the far future of the Lord. Things that we see even evolving in our midst, even right now. So I ask you to turn your Bibles to Isaiah 42:6-7. These are God's words that Isaiah is speaking about Jesus. “I will make you a light for the Gentiles to open up the eyes that are blind and to free the captives from prison, to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.”

I know we speak this verse a lot in our church - You've heard it before; to set the captives free, to release from darkness those who are in the dungeon. But what I want you to grasp today is the fact that this is God speaking about His Son Jesus, who is yet to be born. This is God's plans for His son, Jesus Christ. And I remind you that the plans of God cannot be thwarted. They cannot be changed. This is the ministry that God, that Yahweh, the creator of the universe, has given to His Son. It was spoken about Him ahead of time so that at the appointed time it would come to pass.

So what is the ministry of the Lord but to open up the eyes of the blind, to free the captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who are set in darkness? And I remind you that that ministry did not end when He left this earth. In fact, it continues now and is bringing forth the fruit in this season! This is for you! This is for you to receive the release of the Lord.

And the reason why I bring this up is to say, all this goodness that we're speaking of is of no account of us. It is not because of my works. It is not because of my own holiness or righteousness. It is not something that I have earned, but I remind you, Church, it belongs to Jesus Christ! It is His alone to give! Unto Jesus is the power, the salvation, the ability to bring renewal, revival, redemption, and a new life into you! It belongs to Jesus! Hallelujah! And He comes to do His ministry. It is His ministry. The goodness that you will have and receive today is His to give. And it is ours to receive all the glory and the blessings from Him.

The preparation is to wait in eager expectation, not with the pessimism in our hearts. We often get so negative. We get focused on what's going on in the natural, we're judging things just based on our eyes, what we can see. And we say, “Lord, how? How could you do something?” And we walk around - There's a saying that says, you know, “If you expect the worst, you can't be disappointed.” Have you ever heard that before? And really that's like, well, “I'm not going to get my hopes up” But the Lord wants you to change your heart in the midst today.

We must prepare in eager expectation that the work is for us. The Bible tells us that all of creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. What is the eagerness that you need to have today? How? How can I show my heart to the Lord that I'm expecting Him to work? It is that strong and urgent desire to be transformed. That you would have a desire and an understanding that He is on His way bringing redemption to the world.

Church, He is coming back, like my husband said. The church is preparing for the return of Christ. And yes, that will come in the future. We don't know when. Could be tomorrow. Could be 10 years. Could be 50 years from now. But today, the redemption of the sons back to Jesus Christ is the reconciliation that we seek. We want the world to know that we're sons of God. We want them to know that there's something different in us that they could also have.

How will they know that you belong to the Lord? How could they glorify God about your life? But it is truly the ones who believe, no matter what the situation looks like, showing that they have a faith that doesn't come from this world, but it comes from on high. It comes from the Lord. Only He can bring us up in the faith that causes salvation!

He is preparing His church to break down those walls of captivity. The Lord is in heaven, but the power comes down. So we would fulfill that ministry that God gave to Him. We will break down the walls, we will free the captives from their bondage, and we will make those level paths. Hallelujah.

And so God moves in that expectation, in those eager hearts that are arising in the church this day. Like beautiful flowers unto Him, He will receive them. And He comes to those who wait upon the Lord. You know, some people will not wait for God. I've seen it time and time again. People can be here for a specific amount of time that they're expecting God to move. They put God in a box, and when God doesn't meet their expectation, then they're out of here. But I tell you, God will come to those who wait upon Him. He is your deliverer!

He is your champion, and He will fight for you. The Lord comes to those who seek him, those who are trusting in Him. And this day, if you are that person that used to seek other things, you'd give up on God because it was taking too long, all of those idols, all of those altars, the things that we used to seek to protect us, to help us, to defend us? Get rid of them in this season. Be like Gideon who threw them out, who burned them up, who trashed them because they are nothing compared to your champion, Jesus Christ!

"What if your deliverance was appointed for tomorrow, and yet you give up today?"

What if your deliverance was appointed for tomorrow, and yet you give up today? What if it was just a few more steps away that you would remain faithful to God and yet you give up today? Do not give up, but lift up your faith in the house of the Lord today. Surround yourself with people who will bring your faith up with songs, hymns, and admonitions of the Word of God that you would believe. We propel each other to have faith and to not give up hope. Somebody in the house of God, somebody has to believe that now is the time. Now is the appointed time! Hallelujah.

Isaiah 43:18 - “Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past.” You see, part of the preparation is getting our minds off of what once was. Something that worked, something bad that happened, something that really didn't serve us well, and come into the new. To leave the past behind and allow God to be God, open up your heart to a new way.

Today, if you received your blessing and your mind was still on the past, it would overshadow your blessing. The rage, the anger, the fear, the bitterness, all of those things will overshadow the good things of God. Receive your healing from the Lord so that you can receive the goodness of God and rejoice in the house of the Lord.

We've been learning that God can do whatever He wants, and I want to remind you from His mouth to your ears – Isaiah 46:9-10. “Remember the former things, those things from long ago. I am God and there is no other. I am God and there is none like me. I make known the end in the beginning. And from ancient times what is still to come. My purpose will stand and I do all that I please.”

And I can translate that for you if you're having trouble. It means, “I can do whatever I want to do.” And so God makes the announcement in advance, and we prepare our hearts to receive it before it arrives, so that we would not be held back from what God is doing in this season. Preparation means letting go of what once was and coming into the new of God. He makes His announcement, we prepare, and God fulfills His promise.

He is raising up a road in this season. It is a holy road of righteousness so that we may find God without hindrance, without obstacle, without confusion. God is raising up a highway that we may find God, and it is called the highway of holiness and only those who are righteous will walk upon it.

And our last part of our main verse, Isaiah 43, and it is just the second half. This is where I want to finish off on and close with. “I am making a way in the wilderness and streams, in the wasteland…” In the place of impossibility – the wilderness – God is about to show His faithfulness to you. You see, that wilderness is the place of desolation, it's a place of confusion, it's a place of hindrances, and most of all it's a place without God.

The wilderness represents the world and its systems; the one of economy, wealth, of pride, of all the things that are not of God. God owns the earth, but Satan manipulates the systems that are found in this world. People have created these systems so that they could find order in the midst of chaos, but all without God. And I tell you that Jesus, who rose up at the appointed time, came that He would bring a higher order, amen, and He brought in a higher kingdom, that of the kingdom of heaven, to overcome all of those worldly systems that try to rise up against the power of the Word of God, against the law of the Lord, against the commands of God, against the commitments, and the covenant that God has with his people. And I say to you people, “Come out of her. Come out of the systems of the world and come to a higher order and a greater kingdom!”

Jesus cannot be bought through that old system. He came to say, “I will not be a part of a system that is about power, wealth, or anything else,” but His system that is so greater - the kingdom of God is one that is built on grace, love, and truth, not like those systems of the world. Satan came when Jesus was being brought out into the wilderness to be tempted. And He brought Him to that high mountain, and He showed Him the kingdoms of the world in all of their glory and all of their splendor. He said, “‘All this I will give to You if You bow down and worship me.’ And Jesus answered him, ‘Get away from me, Satan, for it is written, worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’”

Jesus, my friends, was making straight paths in the wilderness. He was saying that no position or power would be appealing to Him for He comes from a greater kingdom that is greater than the one of this world. He establishes His kingdom upon this earth so that you would no longer have to be part and be captive to a lesser kingdom.

God is going to level the systems of this world through the power of the church. That is what we're getting prepared to do. We will be able to overcome, because at one time we also were lost in the wilderness. But through the power of the church and through the word of the Lord, through the love of our pastors and our friends here, we have been delivered out of a place of confusion, out of a place of hindrance, out of a place where there was no God! And you have been brought here to the house of the Lord, to the temple of our God, where His spirit dwells and He speaks audibly to His people, “Obey my Word! Believe My Word! Have faith in Me!”

Many of us had been lost at one time in that wilderness, we know exactly what it is to be in that place. But a road is rising, and it is the route to find God. We are preparing a way, making clear paths for others to follow. And you know where I'm going with this: John the Baptist, Luke 3:4. He was the forerunner to Jesus Christ, wasn't he? He was appointed to go and bring and make a way for Jesus to come.

And it says, just in quotes, “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’” Hallelujah! He was the one willing to rise up and prepare the hearts of the people. That's what our job is to do. And he was going to be a light in a very dark place where people didn't have understanding of the Word of God. They didn't know how to find Jesus; they had a lot of ideas of how to do that, but he was going to be the one to make straight paths. “This is the way to God. Follow me. We're raising it up in the wilderness in this season. It is called a path of peace, the highway of our God.”

If we continue with that scripture, verses 5 and 6, “Every valley will be filled in. Every mountain and hill will be made low. Crooked roads will become straight. The rough way is smooth. And all the people will see God's salvation.” Those crooked roads are sins and hindrances; things that keep people from finding God, and those crooked roads need to be made straight.

God will tear down the mountains and make them straight roads. He will bring up the valleys that people get caught in. Imagine walking around life and falling down a hill and not being able to find your way and make it back up. These roads have to be risen up in this season so people can find their way.

And with that verse it says, “I am making a way in the wilderness, streams in the wasteland.” Much like the wilderness, the wasteland is a deserted place. It is isolated and it is unfruitful. It does not have God there and there is confusion. Imagine yourself in that desert even now. Every step is so hard because you're exhausted. The heat is burning upon your head and with every step that you take, “Oh my goodness, I'm exhausted and the weight of the world is upon my shoulders and I feel - that with every moment I'm out here - I feel like I'm going to faint. I'm never going to find God. I'm too exhausted. I don't get it. I'm confused. God's not here! There's nothing around me! There's not even shade for my head!” And this is the place that people find themselves in. And so we must be able to be those voices. Who here will raise up and be able to be that voice in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight paths!”

When you're in that desert, you're walking and all of a sudden maybe underneath your feet you see some bubbling, and the water begins to come up out of the ground and it fills in a little hole around you and yet with more pressure that water begins to rise up and becomes a stream in the desert. And it makes a path through the desert and it brings a way to the Lord.

That water, my friends, in that desert is going to bring refreshing times. It is going to bring revitalization and renewal - revival to the house of God. Everyone who sees that water will be glad, and everyone who is there will be glad to drink of it and splash it upon their faces because that water is pure. It is refreshing and it is good. The Lord today is asking us to raise up those streams in the desert place.

This is the picture of the transformation that is ours for this season, and if you would allow me to just read a little chapter for you. I just picked it and chose some verses for you. It's Isaiah 35, and it's called the Joy of the Redeemed” (it's not going to be up there). “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like a crocus, that will burst into bloom. It will rejoice greatly and shout for joy.” And then, “...the eyes of the blind will be open and the ears of the deaf unstopped. The lame will leap like a deer, and the mute tongue will shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert place. The burning sand will become a pool, and the bubbling ground will become springs. In the haunts where jackals once were, grass and reeds and papyrus will grow. And a highway will be there; and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. It will be for those who walk on the Way and only the redeemed will walk there, and those the Lord has rescued will return. They will enter Zion with singing. With everlasting joy, the crown will be on their heads. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.” Hallelujah.

God has made an announcement today. A new day has come for the church. The appointed time has come, and I'm praying that God would touch your hearts to receive all that He has for us today. And some of us need to rise up as those voices in the desert. To raise up the ancient old ruins, a praise to our God. He is in our midst, and the fruit is coming and the waters of the Lord are coming down even from heaven.

The book of Ezekiel talks about a river that comes from the throne of God, and it makes His way. And I'm just seeing - who here is going to walk in that water today? That you would receive your forgiveness? That you would receive salvation? And for those of you to rise up, to pray for a remnant. To rise up and be John's voice calling out in the wilderness, “You have been saved from the wilderness! You have been delivered from the wasteland!” Would you be that voice in this season?