SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS- BISHOP KYLE SEARCY

Psalm 91

¹ He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. ² I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: My God; in him will I trust. ³ Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, And from the noisome pestilence. ⁴   He shall cover thee with his feathers, And under his wings shalt thou trust: His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. ⁵ Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; ⁶ Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. ⁷ A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee. ⁸         Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold And see the reward of the wicked. ⁹ Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, Even the most High, thy habitation; ¹⁰ There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. ¹¹ For he shall give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. ¹² They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. ¹³ Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: The young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. ¹⁴ Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. ¹⁵ He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him. ¹⁶ With long life will I satisfy him, And shew him my salvation.

I.             HE IS THE MOST HIGH AND THE ALMIGHTY GOD

II.                 WE MUST DWELL WITH HIM

Dwell - AV translates as “dwell” 437 times, “inhabitant” 221 times, “sit” 172 times, “abide” 70 times, “inhabit” 39 times, “down” 26 times, “remain” 23 times, “in” 22 times, “tarry” 19 times, “set” 14 times, “continue” five times, “place” seven times, “still” five times, “taken” five times, and translated miscellaneously 23 times.

III.              THERE IS A SECRET PLACE

IV.             YOU MUST REHEARSE WHO HE IS TO YOU

V.                HE IS YOUR DELIVERER

VI.             HE IS YOUR COVERING

VII.           YOU CAN TRUST HIS TRUTH

VIII.        TERRORISM, ARROWS, PESTILENCE AND DESTRUCTION – WHAT?

IX.             YOU ARE NOT LIKE OTHERS

X.                YOU WILL SEE THE REWARD OF THE WICKED

XI.             YOU HAVE ANGELS ON  ASSIGNMENT

XII.           YOU WILL TRED UPOM MIGHTY CREATURES

XIII.        HE LOVES YOU

XIV.       HE SETS YOU ON HIGH

XV.          HE WILL ANSWER YOUR PRAYERS

XVI.       HE WILL BE WITH YOU IN TROUBLE

XVII.     HE WILL HONOUR YOU

XVIII.  LONG LIFE IS YOUR PORTION

XIX.       HE WILL SHOW YOU SALVATION

Lust: The Devil’s Doorway to Our Soul- BISHOP KYLE SEARCY

I.              What’s This Lust Thing All About?
1.    Lust Is Any Desire Or Craving Of Our Soul That Our Happiness/Contentment Depends On.

Numbers 11:4 -  4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?         
         
2.    Lust Is Often Manifested In Complaining And Murmuring.

Numbers 11:4-10 - 4 And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat? 5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: 6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes. 7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium. 8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil. 9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell upon it. 10 Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger of the Lord was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.

3.    Lust Can Produce An unbearable  Load To Those Around Us.
Numbers 11:11-15 -  11 And Moses said unto the Lord, Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favour in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me? 12 Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers? 13 Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat. 14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me. 15 And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

4.    There Is Usually A Death That Follows Embracing The Object Of Your Lust.
Numbers 11:31-35 - 31 And there went forth a wind from the Lord, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day’s journey on this side, and as it were a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. 32 And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp. 33 And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague. 34 And he called the name of that place

Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted. 35 And the people journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah unto Hazeroth; and abode at Hazeroth.
Kibroth-hattaavah = graves of lust

5.    Lust Results In A Lean Soul.
Psalm 106:14-15 -     But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert. 15And he gave them their request; But sent leanness into their soul.

2 Peter 2:11 - 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.

James 4:1-3 - From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Mark 4:19-20 - And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

6.    Lust Begins Small And In The Heart.

Proverbs 6:25 -  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

II.            How To Overcome Lust

1.    Put On Jesus And Don’t Feed It.
Proverbs 13:14 - 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

i.                     Make sure you are saved
ii.                   Mentally put faith in Jesus and His Power
iii.                  Resist force and remove yourself from all temptation

2.  Walk In The Spirit.
Galatians 5:16-18 -  16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

3.   Contentment Displayed By Gratitude.Hebrews  13:4-6  -  4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

The Word of The Lord – BISHOP KYLE SEARCY

I.                    YEAR OF CONVERGING SEASONS (MULTIPLICATION)

1.        Multiplication Will Cause The Seasons To Converge.

Amos 9:13

Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; And the mountains shall drop sweet wine, And all the hills shall melt.

                Deuteronomy 28:2

                ² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

2.       Multiplication Requires Specification/Organization

Acts 6:1-7

And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. ² Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. ³ Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. ⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. ⁵ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: ⁶ Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them. ⁷ And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

II.                 YEAR OF TRUE GRACE

1.        The False Grace Message Is A Sign Of The Release Of The True.

Jude 4:5

⁴ For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

2.       True Grace Will Abound.

2 Corinthians 9:8

⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work.

Acts 4:33

³³ And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

Hebrews 4:16

¹⁶ Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

III.               YEAR OF MERCY

Exodus 34:5-8

⁵ And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. ⁶ And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, ⁷ Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation

IV.               YEAR OF JUSTICE

Matthew 13:24-30

²⁴ Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: ²⁵ But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. ²⁶ But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. ²⁷ So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? ²⁸ He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? ²⁹ But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

V.                  YEAR OF CONVERGING   GENERATIONS

Malachi 4:5-6

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: ⁶ And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, And the heart of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Arise & Shine: Forces of the Gentiles- BISHOP KYLE SEARCY

 From the series: ARISE & SHINE: This Is Your Hour

I.         THIS NEW SEASON DEMANDS A NEW MINDSET

1.        We must arise.

2.        We must shine.

3.        We must lift up our eyes round about us and see.

II.       WE MUST BE EQUIPPED WITH NECESSARY RESOURCES FOR THIS SEASON

1.       There is a definite conversion - haphak ; a prim. root; to turn, overturn:

2.       There is definite coming - bo ; a prim. root; to come in,

III.     PROMISES FOR THE COMING CONVERSION

PROVERBS 13:22 - ²² A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up (Hidden) for the just.

PROVERBS 28:8 ⁸ He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor -  (dal – Poor weak, downtrodden, dying) Harvest of the World 

ECCLESIASTES 2:26  ²⁶ For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God.

ECCLESIASTES 6:2  ² A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it:

JOB 27:13-17  ¹³ This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty. ¹⁴ If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. ¹⁵ Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. ¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; ¹⁷ He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.

IV.     EXAMPLES OF PAST CONVERSION SEASONS

1.         Moses from Egypt      EXODUS 3:21-22

2.        Abraham                                       GENESIS 12:14-16; 20; 13:1

¹⁴ And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. ¹⁵ The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. ¹⁶ And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. ^{… 20} And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him: and they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.

¹ And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south. ² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

3.        Isaac                                               GENESIS 26:1,12

¹ And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. ¹² Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. ¹³ And the man waxed great, and went^b forward, and grew until he became very great: ¹⁴ For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants^c: and the Philistines envied him.

4.       Jacob

                                       

5.        Jesus had wealth conversion

LUKE 18:1-3 ¹ And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him, ² And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils, ³ And Joanna the wife of Chuza Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others, which ministered unto him of their substance.

V.       HOW WILL CONVERSION TAKE PLACE?

1.        Right Heart

·         We have been and are still being tested with finances

·         Our heart and Purposes must align with God’s

2.       Right Strategy (Wisdom and Diligence)

·         We always have a part to play in everything God does

·         Deut 8 – See all that’s required of Israel in Promised Land

3.       Right Timing

·         Season is now but we must plow and sow patiently

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