Heavenly Chaos Part 4
~ Open in Prayer ~
Icebreaker
• What’s something interesting about yourself that we may not know?
• Who is someone you care about in your life? Talk about why they are important to you.
• What’s your favorite worship song?
Message Review
There are three attributes of sound. (1) Everything follows the sound that it makes – whatever it is you don’t like you change the sound; ALL of your words matter |
(2) Every great power has a great sound – there is no power without sound; wherever there is great power there is a great sound |
(3) Sound precedes manifestation – we want to respond when God does somethinggreat but you need to make a sound for the great thing to happen; you have to make the soundwhen nothing is happening; it’s going to happen there (in heaven) before it happens here;people can only see what’s going on around you, but they can’t see what your wordsare creating.
God reveals everything in threes. There are three heavens and three dimensions of praise. In order for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, the answers to our prayers have to pass through the 3rd heaven to get down to us in the 1st heaven. To make this happen, we have to praise on the third dimension. This is a praise/shout like no other; a praise that in the flesh may seem “crazy.” Are you willing to look crazy?
Let’s dig in more…
Read 2 Corinthians 12:1-4 | Genesis 1:1-4, 6-7, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25
God reveals everything in threes. God is three in one, father/son/holy spirit, you are spirit/soul/body, holy place/most holy place/holiest of holies, Egypt/wilderness/promised land. In Corinthians Paul talks about a third heaven that he was caught up to. This implies there is a first and second heaven. In Genesis we see a pattern of God making then blessing, but we see this pattern is broken in verses 6-7 when God creates the space that separates the waters of the earth from the waters of the heaven (the firmament). He doesn’t end up blessing it because in scripture it is revealed that this is where satan resides. The first heaven is the earth’s atmosphere, the second heaven is the firmament where satan resides, and the third heaven is the dwelling place of God. So in order for “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…” to happen it has to get from the third heaven to the first heaven and in order to do that is has to
pass through the second. Share any insights on this amazing revelation. How does knowing this change the way you pray?
Read the following excerpt from the sermon…
“So there are three heavens. There are three dimensions by which you can praise God and there are three dimensions by which you can worship God. You are a three – dimensional creature. You can reach into this realm because you have a body. You can reach into the realm of your self -conscious because you have a soul, you have knowledge, you have memory, you have experience. You have will, you have an intellect.
That is the realm of the soul. But you have something that people who aren’t Christians can’t do, you’ve been born of the spirit. That means you have direct contact with God who is the father of all spirits, the Bible says, and you have great contact with spiritual things. And we have authority over the power of darkness, but we’re not taking authority over it because the people standing in the pulpit don’t talk about power and authority and demons and casting them out and breaking them. They don’t talk about this stuff because we act like it don’t exist. And everybody’s life is deteriorating on a daily level because nobody will give us revelation on what am I fighting? what am I up against?”
Have you experienced this in recent church culture…a lack of focus and/or out right omission of spiritual things? Why do you think this is? What can we do to combat this?
Read Mark 11:22-24 | Daniel 10:12-13
You don’t have it when you have it, you have it when you pray. When we pray according to God’s will we already have the victory but it has to get from the third heaven through the second heaven to the first heaven where we are, and there is an adversary in the second that doesn’t want that answer/victory to get through to us. We see this happen in Daniel where for 21 days the angels were fighting to get the response to Daniel. In order to get our prayers through the second heaven we have to praise. Praise has 3 levels: 1st dimension – silences theenemy, 2nd dimension – stills the enemy, 3rd dimension – tears down the enemy (the shout).
Psalm 149 talks about a praise that silences the enemy. Pastor Ron states…
Why does the enemy have to be silenced? Because he’s always talking and he’s talking in your head and he’s causing you to doubt yourself. He’s causing you to doubt your value and he’s causing you to be offended at somebody. He’s causing you to hate. He’s causing you to have bitterness. He’s causing you to have resentment. He’s causing you to [say] “Oh, somebody else always gets the miracle, and why does somebody else always get blessed? And I never get blessed.” He’s saying all those things in your head, and he never stops. He’s reminding you of everything wrong everybody ever did to you, every betrayal, everybody that walked out. He’s sending it constantly, because the Bible says he is the father of all lies. He’s a liar. Your enemy does not have authority over you; here’s the authority of Satan….he has the power to send you a lie. You have the power whether or not to believe it and whatever a man thinketh if he can get you to believe it it will happen. He doesn’t have the power to make it happen. He has the power to suggest. When Satan came to Adam, he even says, “has God not said?”…He suggests. And then you grab it and say, you know you’re right. Oh, it’s dangerous. Cause as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. You have got to understand the next level is always designed to keep you out. To move into your next level, there’ll be something you have to change, shift, do or know. Because it has walls around it. Don’t you ever run towards your giant with your mouth shut. You are shutting the mouth of the enemy when you praise and your praise helps others who are going through. We haven’t praised in protocol so our answer is trapped in the second heaven. God answered every prayer you ever prayed; it’s only the power of the shout that releases third dimension things into your life.
Are you willing to look foolish? Have you ever done a level 3 praise (3rd dimension)? What “lies” have prevented you from praising God on the level needed to get the answers to your prayers from heaven to here on earth?
Prayer Focus and Requests
Ask your members if they have any prayer requests or praise reports. Pray that a crazy level 3 praise is lifted – a tear down praise that brings all things from the third heaven through the second to the first. Command the enemy to turn your prayers loose.
Scripture References
2 Corinthians 12:1-4
Genesis 1: 3-4
Genesis 1: 10, 12, 18, 21, 25
Genesis 1:6