(February 1987) 06 - a New Pasture — Ray Lowe

From Tarsus to Nineveh: Following God's Direction

Now, I would really like to change the direction of this revival. I'd like to go towards Tarsus, but I must keep going towards Nineveh. Now, it would be easy to go towards Tarsus, because that word means the route of least resistance.

But lest I wind up in the belly of the whale, we're going to keep going the direction we're going. Now, we're living in a time in the church, and even in the world, of a great transition period. When the time of change, the winds of change are blowing.

Some of it's good, and some of it's bad. Even the wind of bad change is taking place. And Proverbs says, don't fool around with those that's given the change, which that's speaking in a negative sense.

The change for the bad. And I don't know why it is, but a lot of God's people are horrified at the word change. And they use the scripture in Malachi 3 and 6, where it says, I'm the Lord and I change not.

But see, the problem is, God don't need any changing. There's nothing wrong with Him. Amen? We're the ones that got all messed up in the fall. You're right, God is not changing. He never changes. But there is a change going on in the church tonight.

You might as well get ready. And get willing to change. Amen? Now, all of the promises. You look in Matthew 16 and 13, which is one of the greatest prophecies of promises. I guess both. Where Jesus said that He was going to build a church.

You know, where He said, who are the men that say that I am? They said, some say you're John the Baptist, some Elijah, and some Jeremiah. I said, who do? You know, then He looked at His disciples and said, who do you say that I am?

And Peter said, thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And He said, Peter, flesh and blood didn't give this to you, show this to you, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee that thou, Peter, and upon this rock, I'm going to build my church.

And the gates of hell is not going to overcome the church. And then He gave some great promises to that church. He said, I'm going to give you the keys to the kingdom. What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.

What you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. And then if you'll, I don't know if you've ever seen this or not, but in chapter 18, He picks the story back up again. And He says to the church, talking directly in the same language.

He says to the church, you know, He says, I'm going to give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. What you bind on earth will be bound in heaven. Then He said to the church a great promise. He said, two of you shall agree as touching anything.

It will be done on my Father. Amen. And then He said, where two or three of you will gather together in my name. I'll show up. I'll be there. Amen. But all of God's promises, as far as the church is concerned, is given to the overcomer.

The Overcomer in Revelation's Promises

Now, I want you to just flip real quick with me to the book of Revelation. I just want to, I want to point this out because we're going somewhere tonight in the book of Revelation. And let's look at chapter number two and verse number seven.

To him that overcometh, this is to the church at Ephesus. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Verse number 11. To another church, he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Verse 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone. And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth, saying, He that receiveth. Verse number 26.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works in the end, to him will I give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. As the vessels of a potter shall be broken to shivers, even as I have received of my Father, and I will give him the morning star.

Chapter three, verse five. He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment. And I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels.

Verse number 12. He that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God. He shall go no more out, and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from God.

And I will write upon him my new name. Verse number 21. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne. All of God's future promises are to the overcomer.

Now, the rankest sinner walking the streets of this county and this city tonight is enjoying the blessings of the Lord. Because the Bible said he sends his rain on the just and the unjust. The Bible said that he causes his sun to shine or to rise on the good and the bad.

Is that true? But there's a little difference, though, folks, in the promises of God, as I just mentioned, than there is the promises of future blessings of the Lord. They are all made to the overcomer.

You've got to be a part of that overcoming crowd. If you're going to sit down with him, if you're going to have a new name, you've been heard all your life about ruling and reigning with him, but who's going to rule and reign with him?

The overcomers. How many believe there's going to be some overcomers? How many wants to be an overcomer? Now, you'll either be an overcomer or be overcome. You've got to be in one of them. Amen? And that's what we've been talking about this week.

Amen? If you don't, he'll overcome you. If you don't overcome your flesh by the power of the Spirit and overcome the desires of your body, it will overcome you. Now, the overcomer not, and I'll prove this by the Scripture, is inseparably tied to the overseer.

Joel's Pasture: From Desolation to Restoration

That's why I got on the overseer first. Looked like I was going to preach this whole revival to the overseer. Why don't you turn with me now to the book of Joel. Chapter 1, verse number 18. Just going to break right in here, right in the middle of the...

Well, he is changing a little bit here because he starts talking about another subject, but it's, you know. Verse 18, How do the beasts groan? The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture.

Yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. O Lord, to Thee will I cry, for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field. The beasts of the field cry also unto Thee, for the rivers of the waters are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Chapter 2, verse 22. We've moved out of the destruction, the devouring end of it, over into the restoration. Verse 22, Be not afraid, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness do spring, for the treebath of fruit, the fig tree, and the vine do yield their strength.

Now, we've got a situation here in this church that we're running into all over the country. You do not have a unique situation in the Stone Mountain Church of God. Here's what we've got here. We've got one pastor, P-A-S-T-O-R.

We've got one flock, we're good so far, isn't it? One pastor and one flock. You say, well, there ain't no problem there. Yeah, we've still got a problem. The problem is we've got two pastors, T-U-R-E.

One pastor, one flock, and two pastors. So that creates a problem. Now, the problem is the flock's divided. Now, here's how they're divided. There's a few of the flock would like to change pastors, P-A-S-T-O-R, and stay in the P-A-S-T-U-R-E they're in.

The rest of the flock wants to keep the same P-A-S-T-O-R and get out of the P-A-S-T-U-R they're in and get in another one. And we've got a problem. All over this country, I know a church not too far from here, it just happens to be a church of God.

They've got the same situation we've got here. The only problem is they have had five pastors in six years. That means they don't hold one very long. He who's a big shot in that church, he said, I just don't understand why we can't keep a pastor.

And to you folks that it may not be the pastor, well, I've given it a little thought. If I was in a church six years, I'd start seeing ain't there a problem somewhere else. Here's where the problem's at.

To get out of the flesh and get in the spirit. To get out of law and get into grace. To get out of works and get in faith. Hallelujah. To get out of the man-made and get into the God-made. Joel, I use the term, and Joel used this term, pastor, P-A-S-T-U-R-E.

Pasture as a Place of Rest and Spiritual Birth

He only used it four times. I just want to tell you what it means. It means a home, a habitation, a pleasant place, shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, the temple, the tabernacle, the dwelling, the tent, and a lodging.

The word P-A-S-T-U-R-E, all of those words, a place to lodge, a place to dwell. Scripture that Joel used the word, pastor. That's what you get for the purpose of a pastor. Now, pastor is just the act of feeding.

The pastor is the place of feeding. But that word there, the purpose of it, given in the Hebrew says, a pastor is a place to lie down. I'm going to remember reading Psalms 23 where David said, the Lord is my shepherd.

He's making me to lie down in green pastures. Okay, now this is going to blow your mind. It means a place to lie down. Number one, you lie down, lay down to rest that God would lead us into. And the pastor that he's trying to lead the church into is a place to rest.

It's a place of rest. Aren't you tired of laboring in the flesh? Wouldn't you like to get into a place of rest where you cease from your labors and enter into his rest? Amen. So the pastor that God seeks to take a place of rest, the one that we've been in in the last few years, is producing burnout preachers and saying, if you will follow this into a pastor of rest.

Hallelujah. Some more meanings it means. Section folks up. Let me explain that first. That God has ordained for his flock to live in is a place to male sheep and produce offspring. I ask you folks up here at Stone Mountain, how many offspring have y 'all produced since this church has been here?

The pastor is not the flock. He don't produce the sheep, the offspring. The pastor is where the sheep lie down for sexual connection and produce offspring. Isn't that something? Now God's going to take the Stone Mountain church where they can start producing some offspring.

It means birthing some young ones. Wouldn't y 'all like to see some birth ones around here? Wouldn't y 'all like to see some folks get born again in the church again? I know churches have been for years and haven't had a soul saved.

You know why? They ain't got the wrong pastor, they're in the wrong pasture. Have you heard of a revival where the altars get filled with repentant sinners? I'm not talking about kids getting recapped again.

Got saved in the last revival. I'm talking about cold-blooded, rank-hard sinners getting saved and born again into the kingdom of God and get out of the altars and get up and start walking right. It's a rarity now.

I said it's a rarity now. But brother, God has got a hold of the church. Amen. Whether she follows is yet to be seen. To take that church into a pastor, praise God, where there can be some sexual connection made between sheep to sheep and produce some offspring and some little ones and nourish them and bring them forth into the kingdom of God.

To go into that kind of pasture. Huh? Is that what y 'all looking for? Okay, it's to lie down in peace. Even in decease. It's the place where the old are supposed to be able to lie down in peace and even die, but die in peace.

We have His people to be in tonight. His flock in is where you can come in with a load and a burden on your shoulder and leave it there. Don't take it home with you. Leave it there. It's a place to unload your burdens.

It's a place to unload your heavy loads. Jesus said, come and learn of me. My yoke is easy. Hallelujah. To get the right direction for your life. The word here used in Hebrew means to start out right early in the morning.

It's like starting your day right. It's directing your life right. It's like coming into a pastor where you're led by the Spirit. Ain't that what we've been dealing with? Ain't that what we've been dealing with?

You get up every morning and do your thing. You get up every morning and say, Lord, what would you have me to do today? Well, go do your thing and go your direction, but start early. God wants you to start out and your day will turn out right.

If you'll start it right, it'll end right. But if you start it wrong, He's already took. See, this church that He wants this church to graze in. I've got some things to say tonight. Things that you've never seen in God's Word.

This happened. I'm only 23 years old in God. Now, the word can also mean a wall. It can mean a sheep coat. It can also mean a sheep fold. You get it? It can also mean a shield. It can also mean a hedge.

God's Wall of Fire Versus Man-Made Separation

We was in Dallas. Brother G .W. was out there with us back last February. Mr. Wilkinson came out with a message. You might have heard it. On the wall. The walls are down. I just heard Mr. Wilkinson's message.

The wall is down. Preaching along that line too. I began to do a survey in the Word of God concerning the wall. Here's what I found. I preach this a lot in the 13th chapter of the book of Ezekiel. I preach this a lot where the foolish prophets do not prepare the people.

They do not stand in the gap and make up the hedge. For the people stand in the battle in the day of the Lord. But what you... Okay, that word hedge. And the word wall. And the word shield. And the word pastor.

And the word sheep coat. And the word sheepfold are synonymous terms. The 13th chapter of the book of Ezekiel. They were building Mark. They had built a wall. Verse 5 on down. The foolish prophets. They had quit following the Holy Spirit.

Was following their own spirit. They were building a wall. Backing up the wall. Listen to me. Was not a wall of protection. Sheepfold. Sheep coat. Or shield. To protect the people from the beast of the field.

To protect the flock from the beast of the field. It was two things. Number one. It was a wall. Number two. It was a wall for a boundary. To keep the sheep. God never builds a sheepfold. God never builds a sheep coat.

God never puts a hedge around. God never puts a shield around. To separate. To keep the sheep from going. It's always the wall of protection. To come in and devour the sheep. The church. Here's what happened.

Separation. Has run rampant through our churches. There's no other church on this earth. With any more things going on in it. They shouldn't be going in. Than the Pentecostal group of people. Our kids is going astray.

Just like the world's kids. Hello? We've been open target to the enemy. You know why? Because the wall that was built by men. To separate. And to put a boundary around God's people. Will not keep the beast out.

It takes a wall built by God. A shield. It's like the pastor prophesied last night. God's wall is a wall of fire. That God. This is a very precarious situation you're in here. Which means dangerous. And yet to be seen what you're going to do.

I'm here to tell you what God's doing. He's waking up a few overseers. That word overseer in Acts 20 that I preached from one night. An elder and shepherd are the same meaning there. The shepherd, the overseer.

And the elder has got the same meaning. So he's waking up a few overseers. Men with a scope. The beast are out there. And they're on the way coming. The mark of the beast. A hole. Closure. A hiding place.

That they're trying to get the sheep in. That wall of fire. There's safety. And protection. From all the beasts of the wild. The wall of fire. With the whitewashed walls of Ezekiel 13. And the walls are not keeping the beast.

It's the devouring beast. Off of the flock. Brother, I preached in every kind of Pentecostal church. I preached in the United Methodist Church. I preached in the Missionary Baptist Church. I preached in the Free Will Baptist Church in the Carolinas.

And my next, probably my next time I'll preach. Because this sickness has just come up in our family. We'll be in a Southern Baptist Church down in Mississippi. And there's not a dime's worth of difference when it comes to how the devil is walking in.

Divide the sheep. Divide our offspring. Divide the flock. Is that true? Is that true? You know why? Because the wall. Mr. Wilkins said the wall's been torn down. And what he was saying is true. The wall has been torn down.

But really the correct meaning of the wall of fire has been replaced with a wall of separation and a boundary line. I said we're breaking out of those walls. Hallelujah. I said we're breaking out of those walls.

Praise God. Get back to the leadership of the Spirit. Why? Because He's going to lead us besides not troubled waters. He's going to lead us and restore our soul. Amen. Somebody say amen. He's going to lead us where we can produce offspring.

Ain't you folks tired of being barren? Ain't you tired of not producing? Of course, I said to myself and the Lord a few years ago, I don't want to produce no more like me. Wait until I get straightened out and then let me reproduce and have some spiritual offspring.

Would you like to move into an enclosure that God built that you can lay down in safety and in peace and in rest and at the same time be producing offspring? What a pasture. What a pasture. What an enclosure.

What a place. Now all the walls, the walls of separation are coming down. How many believe that tonight? They're already falling. I said they're already falling. I said they're already falling. Folks, it's jumping them walls.

I said they're jumping them walls. Inside them walls, they're starving to death. They're jumping them walls. You're going to see thousands. Now you listen to me. You listen to me. The Lord told me February, a year ago, that in three years, I saw thousands of people forsaken the TV type ministry and forsaken the churches.

Scattered Sheep Returning to a Place of Safety

We know it. They begin to walk through the land seeking. I'm not talking about a bunch of wild-eyed fanatics. I'm not talking about a bunch of Revelation hounds. I'm talking about God's sheep. I'm talking about real lambs.

I'm talking about sheep looking. I want a place of safety. I see the storm coming. I want a place of rest. I'm tired of walking the flesh. I want a place to reproduce. I'm tired of spending my money for that which is not right.

Somebody say amen. Let's go forsake. Here's what God's doing. Here's what he said he would do. He said my sheep that were scattered by the leaders, he said what I'm going to do is gather them back in and put P-A-S-T-O-R's over them.

Overseers. Shepherds. Sheep coming back into the fold. They're going to be safe again. And they're going to reproduce again. Can you say amen? To the fourth chapter of the book of Isaiah. Chapter of the book of Isaiah.

One verse. Amen shall take hold of one man saying we will eat our own apparel. Only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach. I won't take time. One night I wished the Lord, well I probably won't get to though, preach on the rest of that chapter.

Because oh, there was some revelation right there in that chapter. But here is the day in that day, verse 2. He's focused in on a day. He's talking about the day of the Lord. When God begins to cleanse Zion and wash Zion.

Get the daughters of Zion with the spirit of burning and of judgment. It's the day that God begins to purge the church. It's the day that God begins to clean up the church. It's the day when God begins to take the church from the man-made enclosures into the pasture that God has made.

Here's what happens in that day. To those, these women are under reproach. What was reproach in the Old Testament? What brought the reproach on a woman in the Old Testament? Why was Hannah praying before God so desperately until Eli thought she was drunk?

Why would she pray? That's a hard mark. She was barren. She could not reproduce offspring. Okay? Now, here the Bible said, in that day, these women are barren. There's reproach on them. And say, keep us up, for it is our own reproach.

We are barren. I want you to turn with me to Zion today. The devil hates what I'm saying. And the Word of the Lord came, and the Word of the Lord of Hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy.

I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of Hosts, the holy mountain.

Let the Lord of Hosts let your hands be strong, you that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of Hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.

You remember I told you that the word P-A-S-T-U-R-E in the book of Joel is the same word for temple. God come back to Zion. Here's the prophets going through the land, saying, God's returning us back to the foundation.

In these days when these prophets go through the land, returning us back to the foundation, there's going to be a people. He said, in these days, when you hear the words of the prophets, as the foundation of the pastor begins to be laid.

What's going to happen? Pastor, and the P-A-S-T-U-R-E, and the flock, and gets them back into the pastor that God wants them to. Look at verse 23. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, in those days it shall come to pass.

Isaiah's Seven Women and the Hunger for God

Back over here was seven women taking hold of a man. Shall take hold out of all languages of the nations. That word nations can mean denominations. Shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew. You go to church.

Go to church. They grab you by the skirt. The word you say, you go to church. I've heard that God's over there. That's all they ask. That's all they say they've heard. They ain't heard where you got a Christian school.

They ain't heard what your building looks like. You know what they heard? You know why they grab your skirt? Ten of them. Rings your telephone number and says, hey, where do you go to church? All we've heard about you is, is where you go to church, God's there.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Wouldn't that be something if everybody tomorrow night got ten telephone calls in the Stone Mountain Church of God and said, I hear God is in y 'all's church. Will you tell me how to get there?

And some of them is going to say, I don't have no way. Will you come by and get me? I want to go to church where you go to church. Wouldn't that be something? Hey, it's going to happen, brothers and sisters, when the pastor gets back and the Lord restores Zion and puts the pastor back where people can come in and unload their burdens, where the people can come in and find rest for their souls.

Brother, when God restores this thing, it ain't going to, you ain't going to have to sell secondhand bicycles to get folks to come to Sunday school. You ain't going to have to put on some kind of drive.

There's a cry in the heart across this nation. We are looking for God. We are searching for reality. We are tired of religion. We are tired of the flesh. We are tired of junk. We are tired of man. We are looking for God.

Hallelujah. Where do you all go to church? I want to go to church with you. Amen. You say, he's talking about Jews. Well, who do you think, which is in bondage with her children? See, the promise was not made to Abraham and his seeds, plural.

The promise was made to Abraham and his seed, singular. The seed in Galatians is Christ. Well, who are Jews? If you are born of him, of his seed, that makes you a Jew. To church, where are you going to church?

If I had anybody like me, I'd like to be like you. I've had a few say, I don't want nothing you got. Chief, I asked you folks tonight how many of you would like to be like Jesus. Now, one of you, raise your hand.

There's something about him that makes you want to be like him. Is that right? Well, see, that's the way we're supposed to be. There's supposed to be something about us that makes folks want to be like we be.

We are. Amen. How many of these folks out there is looking for peace? How many of these ain't looking for rest? How many of these ain't looking for a place to lay down? Hallelujah. To unload their heavy burdens and find a church that can minister to their problems.

Unity in the Spirit Versus Man-Made Ecumenism

You know what God's going to do with this church? He's going to raise it up. Amen. And send folks down here with problems galore. Hallelujah. It's like, please God, don't send them now. That's true. Amen.

But he's going to send them down here with problems. But see, if you'll follow the P-A-S-T-O-R that God's placed here and going into the P-A-S-T-U-R that God's got provided for you and getting that wall of fire in that enclosure where there's peace and green pastures.

Amen. And reproduction. Amen. You can take the vilest of sinners. And I don't care how crippled a man is. I don't care what a sheep looks like. If he comes in that place, he can find what he's looking for.

See, they're not finding it in our man-made enclosures. That's why they're made by man. They operate in the flesh. Oh, they can find a warm, friendly welcome in a few places. These folks are looking for more than just a warm, friendly welcome.

They're looking for a place to unload their heavy load. Say, man, they're looking for a place to get that thing off their shoulder. That monkey that's on their back. If this church will follow what God's trying to do for it, brother, there'll be a time that there'll be hundreds walk through those doors and possibly thousands with a monkey on their back.

You reach up and grab that monkey, bless God, and cut a hole in his tongue. Stick his tail through his tongue and tie a knot in it and hang him on the clothesline. Can you say, man? This is a matter of whether you survive or overcome or not.

Survival's at stake. Overcome or overcomes at stake. How many believes you're a sheep tonight? How many would like to pasture in a safe fold? How many would like to go to pasture where you can reproduce?

Amen? Oh, they're going to be folks running together. All kind of comings together. There's a cry in this land now for unity. That's not the cry of the Lord. The cry of the unity that's in this land now is not a cry from God.

It's a man-made unity. It's the way everybody does, just like these seven women does. You get in and you don't have to change your clothes. You can wear your own clothes. Is that true? I mean, if you're a Baptist, just come on, keep preaching eternal security.

That's all right. Just listen. Let's get together. If you're a Catholic, that's all right. You can still say the Rosary and pray to the Queen of Heaven. Just come on. Let's get together. That'll be all right.

Just come on. We want unity. Seven women's going to take hold to one man, one head. Come together. Stay Catholic. Stay Protestant. Stay Mormon. Stay Jehovah's Witness. Teach your own doctrine. Do your own thing.

Just come together. Hey, brother and sister, let me tell you something. The church ain't this dumb. They know we are barren. They know we're losing this generation. They know the American public is slipping through our hands like a slimy eel.

They know our children are slipping through our hands. They know drugs and alcohol is the order of the day. They know perversion is taking this land over. They know AIDS is in the land. They can't do nothing about it.

The church knows it. Even that false church knows it. They know it. So what they're going to do? Come together. They know we're barren. They know we've lost the salt. They know we're not getting the job done.

So they know they're barren. They're going to come together and cry unity. There's fixed to be in the City of New Orleans in the month this coming year, in October, they're going to start out with 15 ,000 preachers of every religion in America to meet.

They're going to shoot for gold. Cho's going to be one of the speakers. Wimba's going to be one of the speakers. And the Catholic priest is going to be a true Catholic priest. He's going to be speaking to cry.

He's going to be for unity. They're going to shoot in two years for gold. The Superdome will hold 90 ,000. They're going to shoot for 100 ,000 in two years. Preachers and folks from every denomination, every religion, to come to the Superdome, and the cry is going to be unity.

After they come together, if they can get that many, you know what they're going to do? They're going to have a Christian Mardi Gras through the streets of New Orleans. The most repulsive, the most demon-possessed, the most perverted parade that's ever been is going to mock that parade.

And they're going to tote signs of, we are one, we are one. This proves that we love one another, and we are the disciples of the Lord because we are together. The Lord is walking in total union with Christ.

Acknowledging Him, doing nothing but what you see Him do, going nowhere but where He goes. That's the full film of seven women taking hold of one man. It's beginning to happen everywhere. A cry for unity.

Brother, the cry of the Spirit is, get out of the flesh. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Begin to be led by my Spirit. I'll follow you. Amen. While that unity's coming forth, there's a unity being brought forth by the Holy Spirit.

It's not men getting together. Hey, brother, when God brings Zion back together, you know what we're going to do? The watchman's going to see. I haven't talked to this preacher for months or weeks. Preaching the very Scriptures he's reading to you.

And call me and say, hey, brother, let's get together now. Here's the Scriptures the Lord's dealing with me. What's He dealing with you? Let's make sure they jive. The same Holy Ghost in Stone Mountain as in Mississippi and North Carolina.

Well, where I go. Hallelujah. Here's how you're going to tell when the Lord's restoring Zion. And the men that God's using, they're going to start seeing the same thing. Thank God I can't wait. I said I can't wait until the watchman begin to see.

Hallelujah. He's ready. Praise God. For the Lord starts speaking to Mark. The same thing He speaks to Jim. And starts speaking to GW. The same thing He speaks to me. And starts speaking to you women. The same thing He's speaking to the pastor's wife.

That will be the unity of the Spirit. Hallelujah. Brother, God's people, if they're truly God's people, they're going to quit worshipping the Queen of Heaven. They're going to start worshipping the King of Heaven.

Amen. Ten women. Ten men. Taking hold of the skirt of a Jew. Now that messes some of you folks up that a man's got on a skirt. I hope God don't ever tell me to wear one. Because I don't believe nobody will take hold of mine.

Psalm 23 and the Shepherd's Provision

Amen. One pastor. One flock. And two pastors. And it's everywhere. It's everywhere. Everywhere. Happening everywhere. Praise God. I've made the Lord my shepherd. And David said I ain't going to want. I shall not want.

That don't mean He's going to let me splurge on the desires of my flesh. Brother, when you get right with God, you'll desire the right things. Say amen to the right amount of things too. Somebody say amen.

And that shepherd begins to lead me beside the steel, the cool, into the paths of righteousness for His name's sake. What does he mean by that? It means so His name will be glorified. So His name will get the glory.

Flesh is coming down. Amen. So the pastors, the herds of cattle groaning for the pastors did not produce the things that would feed the flock. But praise God He didn't close this prophecy out until He prophesied.

And so don't fear beast of the field. Talking about the flock. The pastors are going to produce again. They're going to come again. There will be grass, green grass in the pastures again. The Lord will restore that pasture that He had in the beginning.

And my sheep's going to get back in that enclosure. And they're going to find rest for their souls. Amen. It's ready for God to lead you into something higher, something greater. Glory to God. Hallelujah.

A Wall of Protection in a Time of Sickness

We need a wall of protection tonight, brother and sister. Can't you see the things coming on the world? Oh, did you know since we've been in this revival, my wife's first cousin in Thomaston, two days ago, we didn't, might have should have went, but we didn't.