"BEERSHEBA"
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Preached by: Pastor Carolyn
Sissom
What a week we have had at Little
This past weekend we
were corporately lifted into a measure of the Shekinah Glory. Keith Miller preached in the Glory under the
anointing of revelation knowledge. Steve
Mitchell and the Eastgate praise and worship team lifted us into the throne
room of the Lord. Then John Sielski
took us through the Word into the “the
blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.” These messengers ministered in Grace and
Humility. Through their genuine
humility, the ministry flowed from the Holy of Holies.
Then this weekend,
some of us attended The Atmosphere of Heaven Conference at Church of the
Redeemer, hosted by The Rev. Dr. Jack and Anna Marie Sheffield. The vision of that conference was to re-dig
the wells of revival that were so glorious in that church in the 1970’s during
the Charismatic Revival.
The Holy Spirit gave
me a word from Genesis 26:21-33:“This well will be
“Though the Philistines came in stopped up
the wells, filled them in with earth, and fought with Isaac over the wells he
dug, the well of Rehoboth was not taken over by the Philistines. The Philistines don’t want the flow of truth
and revelation (Mt. 23:12). To stuff a
well is to declare war. Abimelech a
title which means “father of the King” drove out the spiritual seed. Rehoboth is a type of the firstfruits
ministry of the Holy Spirit. Isaac said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the
land.” Rehoboth means (“broad
place, or enlargement”). In spite of
the contradiction of the flesh and the wars that men wage over the wells of
doctrine, Isaac had no problem finding water.
He continually moved out and forward in Faith. This perseverance and faithfulness is the
journey of the Overcomer we have been on since the 1970’s.
The Baptism of the
Holy Spirit and gifts of the Holy Spirit during the Charismatic revival were
the first fruits of the Glory. At the
entrance to the
Isaac had a
commission and calling to dig wells. “He
had consistent results in tapping the water of life. This causes the leaders of the religious systems
to come to him” (Vs. 26-27). Perhaps
they are sorry they threw him out, or maybe their people are crying in
desperation for water. Though they were
filled with lust and lies, Isaac blessed them.
The spiritual seed acted spiritual.
He fed his enemies. “(27-30) “And Isaac said to them, wherefore
come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you? And they said, We saw certainly that the
Lord was with you: and we said, Let there be an oath between us, even between
us and you, and let us make a covenant with you; That you will do us no hurt,
as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and
have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of the Lord. And he made them a feast, and they did eat
and drink”
So he is blessed with this fourth well (vs.
25-32). It is called
Van Tanner ---The Seven Thunders of God: "Any use of "four" or "fourth" is abut the end-time because the last watch is the fourth watch, and we are in the last watch of man-kind."
Isaac’s
name is associated with wells seven times.”
In this geographical
location, Abraham pledged to Abimelech seven ewe lambs to bear witness to the
sincerity of his oath; from this transaction came the name “Beersheba”.
While in prayer on
Friday morning, November 12, 2010, Jack Sheffield and Wayne Woods received a
word of a “shift in the Spirit” About
4:30 p.m. on that same day, on the way to the meeting with Sandra, I was
standing outside the car door. I felt a
breeze, looked up to see a cloud over us.
I said to Sandra, “There has just been a change in the Spirit. Things will change.” When Keith Miller was here, he preached that
“there has been a turn.” I believe we
have come to a change of season. (Acts 1:7)
This that we are
looking for is not the re-digging of the old wells of Pentecost and the Charismatic
renewals, but a new well of the oath and covenant of the Lord of His Promise. This is the well of the fullness of the Glory
of God being revealed in His Body, the Church.
The Pattern Son was
“the well of the seven” spirits of God (the fullness of the spirit), anointed
with the Spirit without measure (Jn. 3:34).
It pleased the Father that in Him should dwell all the fullness of the
Godhead bodily (Col. 1: 19: 2-9). The
Father and the Son cut the everlasting covenant and confirmed it by an oath.
Heb. 6:15-17: “Surely
blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you. And so, after he had patiently endured, he
obtained the promise. For men verily
swear by the greater; and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all
strife. Wherein God willing more
abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel,
confirmed by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible
for God to lie, we have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay
hold upon the hope set before us. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul,
both sure and steadfast, and which enters into the inside of the veil.”
The Father said to
the Son, “You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec”---Jesus was
made the “surety” of a better covenant (Heb. 7:21-22). Believers are complete in Him, the Head of
all principality and power (Lev. 23:15b) “Seven
Sabbaths shall be complete.” (
We shall dwell safely in Christ, “every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-Sheba.” (1 Kings 4:25)
(John 7:38) “He that believes on Me, as the
scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.”
We have been given the firstfuits of the Spirit by measure,
the earnest of our inheritance (Rom. 8:23; Eph. 1: 13-14). “In whom
you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with the Holy
Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption
of the purchased possession to the praise of His glory.”” NIV “until
the redemption of those who are God’s possession---to the praise of His Glory.” Message “a
reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and
glorious life.”
The church has been promised the same anointing that rests
upon Jesus, “the seven Spirits of God”, the Spirit in fullness (Rev. 1:4) ‘John to the seven churches which are in
Asia; Grace be to you, and peace, from Him which is, and which was, and which
is to come; and from the seven spirits which are before His throne.”
Rev. 3:1”And to the angel of the church in
Rev. 4:5: “And out of
the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices; and there were
seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the seven Spirits of
God.”
Rev. 5:6: “And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the
throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as
it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven
Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
The seven-fold anointing described in Isaiah 11: 1-2: “And there shall come forth a rod out of the
stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots; and the Spirit of the
Lord shall rest upon Him, the spirit of wisdom, and understanding, the spirit
of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.”
With great joy we draw water from the wells of salvation
(Isa. 12:3)
At
It was in the wilderness of
It was at
1 Pet. 2: 9-10: “But you are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation.”
Beersheba
was considered the southern extremity of the Promised Land, giving rise to the
often-used expression, “from Dan (in the north) to
What is the promise?
Eph. 4:13: “Until we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of
the son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ.”
I also want to honor our veterans today with the honor due
them. During some of the darkest days of
the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln reminded his fellow Americans that “we
have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven” to be born in a
land of freedom to live in a nation founded as “One Nation Under God’ by those
who served the one true God of the Bible, is both a tremendous privilege and a
great responsibility.
While we have much to admire and love and be thankful for
in being able to call
As believers in Jesus and citizens of the
We must never cease praying day and night. Through times of famine, war and tragedy, we
have been called to pray that the hand of Almighty God might show forth His
mercy and intervene with His grace toward
I heard and felt the “shift” of the Winds of God. However, we must participate with what the
Spirit is saying to the churches. We
must discern the times and seasons as well as the signs of the times. W must like Isaac keep digging wells no
matter how fierce the enemy wages war against us.
“We must also persevere.
When the call comes, many will fall away. Those who overcome and triumph will be those
who persevere in the Vision of the Lord.
When fighting for the right, we must never cease until we prevail. The battle is not always won by the
strongest, the smartest, or the most elite, but ultimately it comes to those
who persist and persevere. When
soon-to-be President George Washington led his troops into battle during the
Revolutionary War, he lost most of those battles, but through perseverance he
ultimately won the war…
Our Lord taught us that when we put our hands to the plow
of a righteous cause, we are never to look back, but to persevere and prevail
(Luke 9:62)
Let us bend our knees and humble our hearts and pray. Let us be willing to be used of God to help
turn this great nation back to Him.
There is a story about George Washington I love to
tell. It has been removed from our
history books, so we must continue to tell it from our pulpits…” (
From: America’s
Godly Heritage by: David Barton (Page
16)
Fifteen years after the French and Indian war, when
Washington had occasion to return to the same Pennsylvania woods where he had
earlier battled the French and Indians.
An old Indian chief hearing that
Let us be faithful and persevere is all the Lord has shown
us to do that we may receive the fullness of the promise.
Tonight I will preach on the Seven Crowns of the
Overcomer.
Preached by: Pastor Carolyn Sissom
Eastgate Ministries, Inc.