BABETTE JANSEN: MOUNT HOREB 9 December 2006
Babette Jansen preached at our church to-night and is going to preach tomorrow morning and evening as well. She brought a dynamic wonderful, life changing message and I want to share it with you. Babette emphasized the fact that the word is from God. She is just the vehicle. I am sharing my notes.
Understand God’s will. Get the provision for God’s will. God’s will will be accomplished and he will give the provision for it. These were her introductory words.
She then talked about Christians being worn out. She put it in such a wonderful manner. The devil “rubbing” against the Christian or pastor or minister till they cannot go on. 1 Kings 19 verse 4. She used the example of Elijah who went to lie down under the broom tree and requested for himself that he might die, and said It is enough now, O Lord, take away my life. Elijah could also not continue. He fell asleep under the tree.
In this life it is about victory and defeat. There is no in between. God gave Elijah supernatural provision – food and water – basics – to restore his spirit. God often takes us back to basics. We must die to self - be empty to be able to be filled.
The angel woke Elijah and told him to eat. After he ate, Elijah went back to sleep. The angel of the Lord came again the second time and touched him and said arise and eat because the journey is too far for thee. Elijah arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mountain of God. Elijah had the strength to walk for forty days and forty nights without stop.
At Horeb Elijah went into a cave but he was to go on to stand upon the Mount before the Lord. God wanted to meet with him on top of the mountain. We must get to Horeb, the mountain of God, a desolate place, where the things of the earth don’t count any more.
God gave Elijah supernatural provision to do God’s will. He was able to walk forty days and forty nights. That is the provision that we can receive – supernatural provision to do His will.
We need to get God’s will through intimacy with the Lord. We have His presence. He is omni-present. We must seek His manifest presence. Christians have lost touch with His presence. We need His manifest presence a presence where everyone knows he is more present here than anywhere else.
God has prepared Horeb for Moses, for Elijah and for you, us the Christians to have a meeting with Him.
- God will have no strength for battles without the strength that he gives us to fight the battles. In my strength I can do nothing, in His strength I can do all things. Do you depend on God in all what you do? To do His will, by His choice – when we say to God we will serve Him and get to His Mountain where we are cut off earthly things. We talk of our free will. Once we have made a decision for Him then there is no more free will then it is His will for me.
- Our emptiness is just our preparation to be filled. You must be emptied. Are we empty of our ways? God is emptying us to fill us.
- The ground of our safety is not in remembering God but God always remembering us. God is holding our hand. Our grip is pathetic. God has us in His grip and there we are safe. He keeps us back and brings us back with His tight grip on us.
Elijah went into the cave at Mount Horeb. How often don’t we find a cave to hide? God said to Him get out of the cave. That is what he is saying to us tonight. Get out of the cave. Our wisdom and zeal must be encompassed by God’s meaningful presence.
She continued by saying if you and I do not respond to the divine design that God has for us, we are in trouble. Whatever God says it is.
We have to experience the manifest presence of God. When God blesses it can be seen.
She asked the congregations how their prayer lives are. It is not a time to despair but a time to prepare. It is time to go to Mount Horeb. To die t self – a place of desolation – and then meet with God.
Go to Mount Horeb. God is bringing a new beginning, a beginning His way.
The church has not reached that place yet – wanting the breath of God. The breath of God will bring unity in the church.
Port Elizabeth it is time to die – to die to self – to die to pettiness and to unite. God’s will is unity in the church.
For myself I take this message:
- I must understand God’s will for my life.
- I must know that my progress is noted by the devil and that He will be trying to wear me out.
- It is always a case of victory and defeat.
- He will give provision for His will to be done.
- I have to have heart to heart intimacy with God and
- See His presence manifest.
- A new beginning where God tells me what to do.
- I must depend completely on God in all I do.
- My emptiness is but a preparation to be filled. God is emptying me to fill me.
- God has me in His grip
- I must meet Him at Mount Horeb – where all the things of the earth are strangely dim – no don’t exist for me .
- If I do not respond to the divine design God has for me I will be in trouble.
- It is not a time to despair but to prepare.
- There must be unity in the church of God in Port Elizabeth.
I trust that the message will bless you as it blessed me. Tia Wessels
Brothers and sisters of Frontline Ministries we are called - you and me as we sit here today, to build HIS KINGDOM! We are not here to build monuments for ourselves, but a movement that will never stop moving. The river of life will never stop moving. The Spirit never stops moving. This year we have a tremendous task on hand. We have to build His Kingdom. It’s a year of looking forward, of rising in the Spirit, of giving life. It is our task, the task of Front line Ministries to work hard for the Lord and let streams of life flow throughout this city and throughout cities and countries where He may send us. We must start opening doors. As we open doors for others doors will be opened for us – and I am also talking about spiritual doors.
Scripture Proverbs 3.
Our responsibility this year is to bring His word with our word and our actions. Actions have two prongs; the one is how we live in our every day life, our truthfulness, uprightness, kindness and the second one is our deeds; our good works, showing compassion and mercy. But unfortunately our actions and good deeds are not enough - we must go and tell. The spoken word gives life. My message and my plea to Frontline Ministries is come people join me in my decision to walk in His will.
Babette said God has a special design for every one of us and if we miss out on that we are in trouble.¼br /> I tried to see the New Jerusalem in my mind’s eye and I saw It is a city of beauty and of perfection. Our lives must be beautiful and without sin.
The believers of Jesus Christ will live sinless in the presence of the HOLY SPIRIT (in HIS HOLY OF HOLIES). Christians, born of the Spirit, are to live the new life in the present power of the Spirit, \”If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk\” (Galatians 5:16-25; Colossians 2:6). The Christian\’s responsibility, and his normal attitude of life, is to yield himself to God (Romans 6:13), trusting God to keep him. We are called to love Him and one another and are enabled to do this only as His life flows in and through us. 1 Cor.12:12-13; Matt. 22:37-40. The sanctification power of the Holy Spirit, which enables a believer to live a holy life (Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 1:15,16
And that is how we will build the city? By perfecting and beautifying our lives and our walk with God.
THE PEOPLE BUILING THE CITY AND THOSE LIVING IN IT WILL:
GLORIFY GOD.
Man\’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever. The glorifying of God, 1 Pet. 4:11. \”That God in all things may be glorified.\” The glory of God is a silver thread, which must run through all our actions. l Cor. 10:31. \”Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. The great truth asserted is that the beginning and end of every man\’s living should be to glorify God. Glorifying God has respect to all the persons in the Trinity; it respects God the Father who gave us life; God the Son, who lost his life for us; and God the Holy Ghost, who produces a new life in us; we must bring glory to the whole Trinity.
1 Corinthians 6:20, \”Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit.\” The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his name in the world, and magnifying him in the eyes of others. Phil. 1:20, \”Christ shall be magnified in my body.\”
Glorifying God MEANS: 1. Appreciation and exaltation. 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, and 4. Subjection.
If we glorify God, He will glorify our souls forever. By raising God\’s glory, we increase our own: by glorifying God, we come at last to the blessed enjoyment of Him ready for a life in the New Jerusalem
YIELD TO GOD. We have to yield ourselves to God as bondservants, that we may be what He wants us to be, in Him, in truth, to His honor and glory. Whereas God is Light and in Him is no darkness at all, we hereby yield ourselves to walk in the Light as He is in the Light and is the Light, that we may be in constant fellowship with Him and in Him, become Light unto the world, as He is the Light unto our way and our path.
HAVE THE POWER TO PRESERVE You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men.\” Matt 5:13
LOVE. Part of glorifying Him is loving Him and knowing that He loves us. Let us decide to take the message out. The right place to start is here in His own House among ourselves. Let us love God and the people around us. Deep within us must be a will to show His Love to all.
HAVE GRACE AND MERCY.
I want to ask you a question to-day “ are you a minister of grace?” That means, what I am asking you to-day is – are you graceful to the people around you? Are you showing grace as Christ showed grace to us? Do you encourage, build-up and affirm people. Do you live your life your way or God’s way? We must restrain ourselves from might and power and allow the Holy Spirit to rule our lives to be grace filled. I plead with you people in your homes and everyday lives be graceful. Grace upon grace upon grace.¼br /> LIVE IN TRUTH. We read about mercy and truth in our scripture. Bind them around your neck and write them on the tables of your heart and you will find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
OPEN DOORS. It is for us to live in His presence and experience His manifest presence as we live close to Him and open doors for others. Your first step into maturity is not being concerned about yourselves but about each other. You can never give enough love. We should have a competition about who can love the most and the best. As we open doors for others doors will be opened for us. This is a spiritual principle.
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DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOD’S ANOINTED ONES?
I want to talk to-day to you as God’s anointed ones – all who have been saved have His anointing available to us. My question to you is do you know, do you realize that you are God’s anointed one? And do you have the slightest clue of all the blessings that are available o you. Unspeakable are the blessings that we can receive if we abide in Christ the Glorified one.
It means that w go and live in His stead; we are clothed with Him. God clothes Himself with men today. We become God\’s temple; Your body becomes the habitation of God; It becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost. We all know that Christ is God’s anointed one. Christ’s is known as the Anointed one. And then we go in Christ\’s stead. The only body that Christ has in this world is our body. We are His hands, His feet, His eyes, and we follow in His footsteps; As He is, so are we in this world; We do the works of Christ,
In the first place I want us to look at Gideon and how he was clothed with God. Turn to Judges Chapter 6 verse 11 – 15 . Would you perhaps say I am not worthy Well, Gideon WAS inferior- at least in the judgement of his peers - and in verse 15 he pointed this out to God. He said that he was of the tribe of Manasseh, which was the lowest and weakest tribe in all Israel. Then, he said that his family was the lowest and weakest family in the tribe of Manasseh. Further, he was the lowest and weakest member of his family. So, he was the lowest and weakest member of the lowest and weakest family of the lowest and weakest tribe of all Israel! You cannot get much lower than that.. If we look back at that battle. God won the battle. He fought the fight for Gideon because Gideon was clothed with God. It\’s not a matter of who you are….but Who you are with.
God does not seek people who are the most outwardly capable, or the most naturally \”strong.\” It is those who are in Christ with Christ
In verse 34 of Judges 6 there is a wonderful statement. Look at it: \”Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon.\” It literally says is, \”The Spirit of the Lord CLOTHED HIMSELF with Gideon.\” Isn\’t that a delightful picture! The Spirit of God WORE Gideon the way a man puts on a suit of clothes, indwelling him, empowering him to do battle. We must remember this principle if we are to be brave, effective soldiers in God\’s army! I read about a man who says that he begins every morning with this prayer and can we perhaps to-day make the same decision. \”Lord, here I am. I want to be Your suit of clothes today. I want You to take me and use me. Lord, just walk around in me today.\”
When God moved on Gideon, He actually \”clothed Himself\” with Gideon. Now, you can understand how Gideon could win the battle.
It was actually God going to battle. God reduced the army from thousands to three hundred men II Chron. 20:15. God clothes Himself with men today. Cor. 3:16. We become God\’s temple, , Eph. 2:22. Your body becomes the habitation of God, I Cor. 6:19 It becomes the temple of the Holy Ghost, II Cor. 5:20. We go in Christ\’s stead. The only body that Christ has in this world is our body. We are His hands, His feet, His eyes, and we follow in His footsteps, Pet. 2:21.
As He is, so are we in this world, I John 4:17. We do the works of Christ, John 14:12. We must allow Him to be our God by functioning and living the way He wants us to do. Have you reached your physical, emotional and spiritual potential? Clothed with Christ you can do it. From Paul\’s body, which was full of virtue and the glory of God, was taken handkerchiefs and aprons which had touched his body. The power of these handkerchiefs and aprons healed people, Acts 19:11.
Can you say these words, \”Jesus is in me?\” John 14:17. God is manifested in my flesh, my whole body is full of light, Matt. 6:22. God is that light. The Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in my mortal body, Rom. 8:11. Repeat it. God is in my body now. I am His dwelling place. I Cor. 3:16. That is why people can be set free from sin and wickedness, when He comes in contact with them. That is why they are healed. It is God that dwells in me that does the work. That is the anointing. This anointing stays in me all the time, I John 2:27.
Isa. 10:27. \”No burden or yoke can remain where the anointing is, , Luke 4:18. No prison doors can remain shut where the anointing is. The condition is that we must take this anointing and use it.
WHAT CAN AND SHOULD WE DO AS THE ANNOINTED ONES? Let us read Isaiah 61 from the first verse.: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, He hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn,3. to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; and then verse 10. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my Lord, for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness
Clothed with Him is a life of perfect victory and perfect rest. No one can be discouraged with God’s anointing. I have a Comforter. I can comfort those that mourn because I am convinced of life after death, I am convinced of a wonderful life with the father in heaven. Brothers and sister do you know, do you understand here deep within you that God can do all thingsand He can doit through you: His anointed one. ¼br /> It is not how much you are or have it is what you do with it! The spiritual anointing oil will flow when you use it to build God’s Kingdom.
Can you say these words? \”I am God\’s anointed. As the Father sent Jesus, so sent He me, John 16:17. I am His representative. I go in His name, Mark 16:17. I have His power, His love and His mercy. I have His life, John 3:16. He is the resurrection and the life, John 11:25. He is dwelling in me at this moment, I John 4:15. He must be dwelling in you. Many things can and will and shall happen because you go in Jesus\’ name, WE GO IN HIS STEAD.
Joshua 6:5 All the walls of opposition will come tumbling down before an anointed man, Nothing shall be impossible with him. Nothing shall be able to stand before him all the days of his life, All things are mine, II Peter 1:3. He can say, \”I cast out devils and cause the sick to recover,\” He can say, \”I have power over serpents and over all the power of the enemy,\” I have power to get wealth.
A whole nation fled before Gideon\’s pitcher. The Red Sea divided before Moses\’s rod. Four nations were defeated when God\’s people began to say, \”Praise the Lord,\” Acts 31:1-6. The sun was shifted into reverse as Joshua spoke the words of God, Joshua 10:12.
Hunger left the lions as Daniel walked into the den. The Hebrew boys had more power than the fire. Elijah lived three and one-half years without a ration book.
God can do all things through an anointed man. It is not always His will to divide the Red Sea, make the iron to swim, or raise the dead, but it is always His will to forgive ALL of our iniquities, and heal ALL our diseases, Psalms 103:1-3. And use us mightily.
. We are kings and priests unto God, We have royal blood. We are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. Are you a King are you behaving like a King. It is our responsibility to bring all His enemies to His foot stool.¼br /> I am redeemed from the fall. Jesus came to redeem me from the curse. He came to bring us all the way back. The Holy Ghost always prays through me according to God\’s will. He hears and answers, I John 5:14. Paul says, \”Gird up the loins of your mind,\” I Peter 1:13. If he can say that, I can say, \”Tighten up the loose screws.\” Meditate on His law day and night, Ps. 1:2. I am led by the Spirit. He guides me in the way of all truth, John 16:13.
The Holy Spirit is the Comforter. He gives you a peace of mind that the world does not understand. Since you are entrusted with so much, since you have \”this treasure in earthen vessels\”, II Cor. 4:7, be sure and walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called. Wait on your ministry. Prophesy according to the proportion of your faith, Romans 12:6. Fast often, II Cor. 11:27. Wait on the Lord, Isa. 40:31. Get out of the natural. He that is in the flesh cannot please God, Rom. 8:8. A natural man cannot receive the things from God, I Cor. 2:14. Spiritual gifts work only through the Spirit.
You are God\’s anointed. You are God\’s representative. Have a regular time to pray. Do personal work every day. Win souls everywhere you go. Stay converted. Stay connected.
Keep connected and you will resemble the son of the King,. That is what you are. Let us read Rev. 1 verses 6, 7 and 8. 6. And hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominium forever and ever. verse 7. Behold He cometh with the clouds and every eye shall see Him and they also which pierced Him and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Verse 8. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending,saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. This God is my God and Your God and He anointed us with the oil of the Spirit.
In conclusion , I want to encourage you to act as His anointed ones, to speak as His anointed ones to live as His anointed ones. I want us to turn in our bibles to Luke 4 verses 16 to 21. Let us replay the scene in the synagogue. Usually, the attendant in charge of the scroll would unroll the scroll, hand it to the rabbi and the rabbi would read the passage where the scroll had been opened. It seems however, that for this particular worship, Jesus chose his own text. He turned to Isaiah 61 and began reading.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because God had anointed me to bring good news to the poor. God has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.
Did it ever occur to you that this reading that Jesus read is about us too—you and me. For each of us who claim to be people of faith, who have been baptized
we are the anointed ones. The Spirit of the God is upon us. God had anointed us—each one of us—to bring good news to the poor. God had sent you and me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor. Think about that. Let it sink in. We are the anointed ones just as Jesus was. I don’t know how you hear that—whether it scares you to death, or inspires you to action or blesses you with hope. For me it does all of those. We have by our very nature as God’s children the blessing and the authority to proclaim good news to the poor. We have the blessing and the authority to release the captives, to restore sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free. It is our job as people of faith. We can see it as a blessing or a burden—but it was intended as a blessing.
He will give us wisdom, Luke 21:15. It will be the Holy Ghost that speaks through you, Mark 13:11. It won\’t be us that speaks.
As God’s anointed ones, we must not only proclaim this good news but we must work for it. It is our job to restore the sight of the blind in many different ways. It is our job to release those who have become captive. It is our job to say to those to whom the church has said, “You don’t belong in the kingdom” that they are free—free to be the person God created them to be. It doesn’t matter what you have done in the past, the mistakes you have made, the sins and struggles you carry—in God’s love and grace you are free. We are the anointed ones. God’s spirit is upon us. And there is a world out there waiting to hear from us the good news of the gospel.
Lest any of us leave this place today wondering how we can fulfill our role of being the anointed ones, let me remind all of us that there are a million ways to proclaim the good news. Often we fall silent because we believe that we cannot speak. Every now and then we may be called upon to stand up in some public place and give account for the hope that is in us, but nine times out of ten our proclamation of the good news will be the quiet kind: reading a psalms to a sick friend, telling the truth to someone who has asked for it, ending a quarrel with words of forgiveness, writing a note that restores hope, listening to an old
woman’s story, laughing at a young boy’s joke, inviting a stranger to come in—those are all proclamations of the good news, and if we are ever stuck for ideas we can remember all the ways good news has come to us.”
Let us never forget Jesus saying As the father has loved me so have I loved you. As I have loved you, ye also love one another. Do we love as Christ loves us.?
The speaking, the acting the living and the proclaiming is one part of it, the other part is the blessings, the promises that we have – we have freedom – we have been set free, we have healing, we have protection, we have guidance, we have the mind of Jesus. For me personally it also means security, nurturing. The wonderful knowledge that as Jesus I am His child, His anointed one, and I will go in His stead and proclaim the good news. ¼br /> Clothed with Jesus is nothing but giving up oneself to be ruled an taught and led, and so resting in the arms of the Everlasting one. Blessed rest It is the peace of God, that passes all understanding and that keeps the heart and mind., Paul said I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. And so am I and you. What a wonderful knowledge.
Come brothers and sisters let us enter God’s throne room Christ beckons us to His banqueting table and offers us a room in His house. Come let us experience the unspeakable joy of dwelling with the King of Kings.
A blessed life is ours for Jesus is ours. May our abiding in Christ and our being clothed by Him be our power to live to the glory of the Father, our fitness to share in the glory of the Son.