Mark 4:30-34 How to Present the Kingdom/Mustard Seed

And He said, “How shall we picture the kingdom of God, or by what parable shall we present it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is smaller than all the seeds that are upon the soil, yet when it is sown, it grows up (Matures) and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”

CLOSE YOUR EYES

Picture the day and place

Where you accepted Jesus!

That little step, That innocent step of faith

Activated the Kingdom of God inside of you!

It started growing and IS still growing

It starts to become Visible in You!

It starts to become Visible to Others

Year after year The Kingdom of God Grows

Year after year The Kingdom of Satan Shrinks

Satan loses More and More OF YOU

He loses Sin, Sickness, Unworthiness, Fear, Stress, Worry, Anxiety, Insecurity, Hurt, Anger, and your Comfort Zone (Satan’s Anchor)!

The Kingdom of God has INVADED you!

The Kingdom of God has EXPANDED you!

Now you’re doing Weird things!

Now you’re doing Crazy things for Jesus

Satan keeps trying to STOP YOU!

Instead you keep STEPPING OUT!

NOW You find JOY in

Church Sunday Morning, Bible studies during the week

Online sermons, Books, Christian Concerts, Conferences,

Driving long distances to Get More, to Go Deeper!

Praying for people in PUBLIC and………… LIKING IT!

You’re Doing things that scare you

But you do it anyway and LIKE IT

You’re out of control!!!

And THEN you Give a praise report about it!

WHY?? Because: That Little Kingdom seed

IS still growing and expanding after ALL these years

Now God is using you! To Advance His Kingdom!

What is the Gospel? Meaning What is the Kingdom?

The Kingdom of God proclaimed, preached, and demonstrated.

His Gospel is good news

You can’t get saved without

The Kingdom And the Goodness of God

That leads men to repentance

People repent when

They See the Goodness of God demonstrated

THAT IS The Kingdom Come

And The Will of God Done

Here ON EARTH in front of them

As it is done in Heaven

It’s not just witnessing

When you proclaim the goodness of God

It IS a magnet that draws God to you

And to what you are proclaiming

Two years ago the Lord told us He was placing us right in the middle of revival! We experienced the beginnings in 2022 when we set up Free Prayer at several revival meetings in Iowa and Minnesota. We are now honored to be asked to speak at The Nations Glory Barn in Waldorf, Minnesota April 28-30th! (https://www.thenationsglorybarn.org/)

God has done so many amazing things on the roadside throughout the years, incredible signs, wonders and miracles! And He is speaking powerfully through prophetic words. We are looking forward to the Lord continuing the same at The Nations Glory Barn!

Friday night while we were singing the different songs, we sang “You’re everything glorious,” “the grace that You gave is an open door,” “Noel, come and see what the Lord has done,” “the story of amazing love,” “I heard the bells on Christmas day”– hearing all these things and all of a sudden, I (Emil) was standing in the stable when He was born. I looked in the manger and He had on this little tuxedo, and I watched all these shepherds coming and the wise men and all these people were dressed in wedding gowns. I’m looking at all this and I’ve never seen anything like it and He said, “On the day I was born, the great courtship began.” He courted us for 33 years to become His bride. He courted us with the greatest courtship in the history of the world. There’s never been a courtship like it before or since. Then I had a picture of our nativity in the yard and I saw the cross over it—Wow, here He is born with the cross right behind Him. He was born to go there, and He was born to keep us away from that. He came to court us into the greatest love story ever. I kept hearing this, “Don’t lose Me through the holidays. It’s easy to look at money and presents and family and friends and going here and going there. Start with Me every day and then go do your stuff.” Stop at the manger for 5 minutes and thank Him for that courtship. I couldn’t help but laugh, seeing all these shepherds in wedding gowns but it was so real and it was so personal. It was a love I saw in their eyes and in His eyes, even as a newborn, like nothing I’ve ever seen before. We just can’t lose that.

Lord, we thank You that You exuded more love at that moment when You came to life on earth than this world has ever known. We thank You that You chose to come, You chose us, and thank You Lord for allowing us to choose You. We thank You and we praise You and we worship You. And every time we hear the bells, every time we hear the songs, every time we think of the gifts, we’re going to think of You—the biggest gift, the greatest gift, the ultimate gift that You gave to us. 

We were so pleased to be at Church of New Beginnings yesterday morning. It was a joy reconnecting with many whom we met 10 years ago almost to the day when we moved from Idaho to be a part of the church. We were met enthusiastically with hugs all around .

We had a wonderful trip to Eufaula, Oklahoma last week where we attended the Billy Burke Healing Crusade at the Lighthouse church. It was a tremendous three days in the powerful Presence of the Lord as we witnessed so many healings and miracles! It ended too soon.

When God told us we were moving back to Iowa two years ago, He promised, “It’s going to be wonderful.” Well, Saturday night was wonderful! Almost 100 people came for the revival on our acreage! We were so blessed by all God did, not only the things planned, but the things unplanned–displaying His glory through the most beautiful sunset and most of all, intensifying His Presence in a tangible way!

It’s our 19th anniversary today! The roadside ministry officially started September 12, 2003! We have had a lot of changes over the years, from a motorcycle and 2 camping chairs and a posterboard sign, to a motorcycle with a teardrop trailer and a banner, to an Impala pulling a porta-potty after we had to get rid of the motorcycle in Colorado, to our present day beautiful trailer! It’s been quite a ride!!! God is always awesome!

There are a lot of things Christians receive that we don’t fully understand. Like a mark of Redemption. Many people don’t know what that means. Gifts to be able to hear. Many Christians don’t believe you can HEAR but it’s not that you actually audibly hear. Or that believers receive power. Much of the church doesn’t believe that! How about receiving a language that we may not fully understand? There are a lot of things of the Spirit that we just plain don’t understand. How can simply praying a prayer give us the right to go to heaven? How can simply asking to be forgiven wipe us clean of every sin we have or will ever commit? How can the most despicable person pray a prayer and be absolved of all his wrongdoing and be given the right to go to heaven while some of the sweetest people—kind, considerate, understanding—never found the need to pray the prayer and lose that right and spend eternity in hell? How does that make sense to us?

YET it seems the more in depth we go in the things of the Spirit, the more there comes a clarity that begins to make sense of that which doesn’t make sense! Does that make sense? It’s like when you tell a Christian who is seeking direction, “Why don’t you ask the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of truth, what’s the truth because He loves to tell the truth?” and they look at you like you have some marbles loose.

BOTTOM LINE: We don’t have to fully understand it to operate in it…but somehow through the Spirit, the more we operate in it, the more we understand it. That is called being led by the Spirit!

Exodus 4:15-16 NIV [God is speaking to Moses] “You shall speak to him [Aaron] and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.”

Exodus 7:1 NIV Then the Lord said to Moses, “See I made you like God to Pharoah and your brother Aaron will be your prophet!!”

Think of the magnitude of those two statements! I’m not aware of any other person to whom God said, “I have made you like God to them!” God was saying “I’m going to make you ME to them!” I find that statement so awe-inspiring! When God calls you or me to do or say something, He’s wanting to make us HIM for that moment, to bring a person to salvation, to repentance, into peace, into deliverance, into freedom! God’s asking at that moment, “Will you be ME to this person for the next 10 minutes?”

More than ever, it’s TIME to respond to the written and the spoken Word of God. It’s TIME to believe it. It’s TIME To become it. If God says, “Do this,” say “Yes sir!” and do it. If God says, “You are this,” then say “Yes sir” and become it! God is starting to move very quickly. Revival is already breaking out. Here’s the Lord’s invitation: “I’m calling in the workers for the harvest. I’m tapping you on the shoulder and inviting you to take part!”

So my question to you is, when God taps you on the shoulder, who are you going to be? Are you going to be Moses and say, “Noooo…please please please pick someone else”? Or will you be Jeremiah saying, “But I’m only a child, I’m not ready yet”? Or will you be Isaiah, “Yes, Lord! Here I am. Use me”?