The Prepper Broadcasting Network - 2024.11.05 - Reliance - God Deserves Victory

Episode Date: November 10, 2024

God Bless the Menking Family!!! 

Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, for praise from the upright is beautiful. Praise the Lord with the harp. Make melody to him with an instrument of ten strings. Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy. For the word of the Lord is right, and all his work is done in truth. He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deep in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord.

Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance. The Lord looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. From the place of his dwelling, he looks on all the inhabitants of the earth.

He fashions their hearts individually. He considers all their works. No king is saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain hope for safety. Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his mercy, to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our

help and our shield, for our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in you. God, thank you for your mercy, your love, your grace, your sovereignty. Thank you, Lord, that you will never leave us nor forsake us. Thank you, God, for all of the incredible things that you have done. You are righteous and true and holy and just and powerful and wise and forgiving and loving and comforting. You are powerful. God, you are almighty. Jesus, your name is above every name. There is no authority higher than you. You have the final say. Lord, be with us today. Holy Spirit, fill us and quicken us and help us to receive from your word something for our very souls, something that nourishes us, that equips us, that strengthens us, that draws us closer to you, that establishes us in your righteousness and in your will.

Lord, we want to see your will accomplished. That is our firm desire. Lord, you are due a harvest in this generation. You are due a mighty victory in this land and in this world. Lord, we bless you. We praise you and pray that you would strengthen us for what is to come, that you would direct our paths appropriately in the paths of righteousness. direct our paths appropriately in the paths of righteousness. Lord, I pray a special blessing over our families. Lord, protect us, cover us in the blood of Jesus that redeems, restores, that saves, that keeps safe. You have made exceedingly great and precious promises to us, God. And we know that your word will not return void. Give us clarity of purpose. Give us wisdom in our decision-making. Give us calm and peace in our emotions. And help us to revere you and to follow you in every single way. Redeem the time, and to follow you in every single way.

Redeem the time, Lord, for the glory of your kingdom. In Jesus' name, amen. I have lived my entire life in a secular culture surrounding me. I have lived in a generation that grew up alongside the information age with the consumer internet, we saw the events of September 11th and the housing boomless and devoid of the type of power that is necessary to maintain proper cultural norms and righteousness. We witnessed apathy, despondency, destruction, and pain. We witnessed judgment. We witnessed all of these things. And I have in my heart a sense of how much the Lord is due. How much the Lord is due.

We have sinned greatly as a nation and brought calamitous things upon ourselves. We have fallen asleep at the switch. We have failed to be watchmen on the wall. And we have abandoned the cause of Christ for trinkets. Our priorities have been wrong. We have allowed things that should never be allowed, and we are finding ourselves in a time when what is right is called wrong, and what is wrong is called right. and what is wrong is called right. This is a time when argumentation and logic may have some effect. It is a time when moves inside of politics and other machinations of our institutions may have some effect. But there is something so foundational and so core to our culture

and to our humanity that is off. That these solutions are insufficient. The proper place of restoring holiness and righteousness and civility and good conduct and love and perseverance and meaning and purpose is going to come from nothing other than a mindset and an attitude of genuine, proper repentance before the Lord and a desire to see his name glorified in this generation. Is that a constant feature of what we long for in our hearts? We can long for many good things.

We can long for the safety and the health and the prosperity of our families and our children and our communities. But how much, how actively are we pining for the Lord's name to be glorified in this time? the Lord's name to be glorified in this time. How much grievous behavior has taken place? How wide do the rivers of sin have to become before we bring everything to God and declare his righteousness? Is this what God deserves? Is this state of affairs what God ultimately wants? Is this happening, this abandonment of proper order, of basic principles, of relationship with God? Is it happening in such a way that it will eventually move us into the position of humility and repentance that brings about an awakening and a revival? Let it be so. Is it just one more step on the way to an even greater disastrous judgment?

God forbid. Nevertheless, not what I will, but thy will be done, O Lord. But how deeply do we feel that God is being slighted in this generation? Does God want to see judgment? Does he want to see revival? Does evil need to be judged so that revival can take place? Do we need to repent in order to see the hand of God moving in powerful ways again? Remember the words of Jesus.

Jesus says, greater things than these shall you do because I go to the Father. We have the Holy Spirit. When will we see these greater things? when will we see these greater things? And yes, we don't want to be a generation that simply seeks after a sign for the sake of excitement or thrills or something new and fresh and unusual. We know that when the Holy Spirit is operative, when the power of God goes forth, that signs and wonders will follow necessarily. This is not about the signs themselves.

It's not about miraculous healings and deliverances and salvations and all of these incredible things that we want to see, that we desperately want to see. It is about the glory of the Lord and the honor that is due to his name. The name of Jesus is above every name, but that is not respected or honored in the hearts of men. His name is above every name, and it should be that way, and it deserves to be that way because of the love of Christ, because of the power of God and his holiness and his righteousness. There is no better solution. There is no other alternative. God deserves better from this generation. He deserves better from you. He deserves better from me, certainly. But is there something in our hearts that is crying out to God to say, God, you are the one who deserves a harvest of souls in

this generation. You are the one who should be worshiped and not all of these other things. are the one who should be worshipped and not all of these other things. You should be the object of our affection, as opposed to what we covet and what we dedicate our lives and our idle time to. You should be the one who is glorified. You should be the one who is high and lifted up, knowing that if we will lift up the name of Jesus, then the power of God will draw people to him. Holy Spirit, go forth, change our hearts, stir us up, give us hearts of flesh instead of

hearts of stone, hearts that understand the times. We want to be wise, we want to be discerning, and we need to be impassioned, set ablaze by the fire of God for this generation. How dare we not do what the Bible instructs and follow through in service of the Lord? We want to hear those sweet words, Well done, now good and faithful servant. Do we not pine for God to be glorified in this era? Do the young people who are coming up, who are thrown into tumult and deception, not deserve a

chance to meet the Savior who has all of the answers for them? Do we not have an obligation, them? Do we not have an obligation having been placed in the times in which we live and in the places where we are to bring glory to the name of God? Will he not help us in this endeavor? Do we have to do this on our own or will the Holy Spirit guide us and show us and equip us and give us opportunities and give us eyes to see these opportunities if we will only lay everything down and allow God to direct our lives. I don't know about you, but to me, I am tired. I've lived my entire life in a culture that in macrocosm has not just a lack of a desire to honor God, but it seems a desire to come against God and to stand against godly principles and to overturn these things. Now, this is an observation about things writ large, power structures,

the kings of men, the things that we see in the Bible. We shouldn't be surprised by this. But in my lifetime, I want to see revival. I want to see the name of the Lord glorified. I want to see miracles. I want to see a wave of the Holy Spirit taking over this entire nation so that there is a moment of clarity, a period of time where people will get to choose the same way Joshua declared, whether as for us and our houses, we will serve the Lord or whether we will serve others, Serve others, other gods besides him, ourselves. There is nothing that the Lord cannot accomplish. May he give us greater and greater faith.

Whatever excuse, whatever block, whatever obstacle, it is nothing to him. If we will adhere to the promises of Scripture, if we will repent, if we will humble ourselves, if we will pray, we know the standard approach. We know the recipe. We know the Scripture. Will we do it? Is there a motivation in our hearts to see a victory for God in this generation? He deserves it. Nothing can stand in his way. Jesus, you are good and your mercy endures forever.

You are the Prince of Peace. You are the King of Kings. You are our advocate, our defender, our high priest. You are our advocate, our defender, our high priest. You are our savior. And we need you to be the savior to this generation as well. We praise you the same way that your people have praised you for generations and generations and centuries and millennia. God, you are worthy of it all.

You were always worthy of it all, and you will always be worthy of it all. So are you not worthy of a mighty move in this generation? Will we see it? Do we believe for it? Do we have the faith for it? Are we actively stirred up and praying for these things? I am tired of being a part of a society that rejects God. But it is the power of the Holy Spirit that will accomplish what needs to be accomplished. There are so many who need healing and restoration and forgiveness and love. who need healing and restoration and forgiveness and love. There are so many who are suffering and pining under oppression in so many different ways. Let God arise. Let the name of the Lord be glorified.

Let Jesus be lifted up. Let the Holy Spirit flow forth. Let us do everything that we can to follow the will of God for our lives and for this generation. There are children coming up who need to know Jesus. There are people right now who are suffering without Jesus. There are people on their deathbed right now who do not know Jesus. God, help us. God, save us. God, restore the years that have been taken. So many years, so many people, so much sin, so much devastation. God, restore these things. You are able to do it.

Redeem the time. Win a great victory. Let revival spring forth in our hearts and everywhere according to the power of your word. Wouldn't you rather live in a time when people knew proof positive that the presence of God was there because people were being instantaneously healed instantaneously delivered miraculously saved completely transformed wouldn't you rather live in a society where the manifest presence and power of God was so present that it could be denied by no one. It might be refused, but it could not be denied that God is on the move, that God is at work. People would still, in some manner, say no

to not participating, to not be a part of it. It would just be a spectacle. But wouldn't you rather enter a society like that? Isn't that what we need? Hasn't that been the answer all along? Why have we not been more diligent in believing for this, in having the faith for it? Well, faith is not something that we stir up in our own emotions, in our own minds. in our own emotions, in our own minds. Faith is a gift of God. Faithfulness is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. So let us be faithful and let us also be full of faith.

Where does our faith come from? Do we know who God is? Is there anything God cannot accomplish? Is there anything God does not deserve in terms of glory being given to his name? He is worthy of worship. He is forever true. He will never fail. And yet we abandon this principle. We abandon this God. We neglect this savior. We fall into apathy and refuse to believe for these things based on our own doctrinal presuppositions that can be used in many cases to justify apathy or just say, well, this is what we would expect. expect as we rewrite the expectations away from the counsel of scripture and towards normalizing what is around us to convince ourselves foolhardily that this is just the way things are. No. I want to see miracles. I want to see the glory of God in this generation. I want to see his power at work in a way that no one can deny.

Think of the environment when the church in Acts was being birthed, when the Holy Spirit was poured out at Pentecost. Even when the people opposed the church of God, they said, these men have been with Jesus. An undeniable miracle has taken place at their hands. Evil spirits cast out, put to flight at the name of Jesus. The power of that name turning over the entire world, not through physical conquest, not through psychological warfare, not through economic sanction, not through anything kinetic, but through the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit, transforming people, transforming minds, transforming lives, miracles, salvations, minds, transforming lives, miracles, salvations, the gospel going forth, and a firmness of conviction in the hearts of the people of God that God deserves a victory.

Does he not? There will be an ultimate victory, but does not God deserve a victory in this generation? After everything that we've done to grieve him, after everything that we have put him through as a nation, the rivers of blood that have been spilled, the disastrous agglomerations of corruption and abuse and destruction that we have wrought, that is on our hands, after all of this, does God not deserve a victory over these things to bring glory to his name? Does God not deserve a victory over these things to bring glory to his name? Will his name be glorified more in our redemption or our destruction? What needs to happen in order for belief to be stirred up?

We need to believe in faith, knowing and understanding God's power. And as we believe in faith for his power to be shown and his glory to be established, we will see the things that we know will happen. Don't just say, oh, I'll be on the sidelines until I see these things happening and then I'll praise the Lord for it and I'll hop on in. Believe now. Believe now. Let faith arise in your hearts. This generation needs the Lord.

The next generation needs the Lord. The generation after that needs the Lord. As long as the Lord tarries, we need the Lord. And we need to see him glorified in our society. What does that look like? Humility, repentance, love, faith, calling upon the name of God. Our hearts need to be motivated by these things. God will establish his throne and his dominion. He will transform. There is nothing stopping him.

A mighty victory is due our God. Miracles, salvations, millions and millions and millions of transformations. The Great Commission being expanded upon. An establishment of peace in our communities. Only God can do this. Let us continue to cry out for him, to establish faith in our hearts, to win a mighty victory in this generation for the glory of his name and for the advancement of his kingdom. He is worthy of it all. He is worthy of it all. And he has shown his worthiness because of the depths of his love for us. Do we really understand how much God loves us? God loves us. I don't think we ever could. Do we really understand how much our sin grieves God?

Do we really understand the cost that was paid in the form of the blood of Jesus Christ to establish this pathway to redemption and what it looks like when we refuse it. We don't deserve a victory in this generation, but God does. He wants to show his mercy, his love, his power, because he will receive glory for it. Let us believe together for it. Let us pray and press in for it. Let us orient our lives so that we can be used as vessels to establish the way for it. God, bring this about in this generation. I'm tired of living in a culture that actively dishonors you and

deliberately dishonors you. Lord, bring glory to your name. Let it be done. It has been done before. It will be done again. Let it be done now in our age, in our time, in our generation. Let me not live my entire life without seeing an immediate revival that brings about the power of God that gives you great glory. Let the people sing for joy to the Lord. You are good. You are good. And your mercy endures forever. Your counsel stands forever and the plans of your heart to all generations. That includes this one. Lord, let me live in a nation who is blessed because our God is the Lord.

Lord, you have chosen us as our own inheritance. You look on us. You see us. You made us. You consider what we're doing. You are our strength. We wait for you, Lord. Establish your word in our hearts and establish your power in this generation. Jesus, let your mercy be upon us. We hope in you. Our hope is in you. Your love is sufficient. Your power is sufficient. Sufficient doesn't do it justice.

You have all love, all power, all wisdom, all authority. So let it be done in this generation. Stir up your people, Lord. Raise up your people. Bring about these transformations. Let your name be glorified. Oh God, to live in a culture where just once, just for one period of time, that it would be the default persuasion of men's hearts to praise God and to follow him. default persuasion of men's hearts to praise God and to follow him. Oh Lord, that we could see that in any measure. But we believe not just for a small measure, but for a great victory in this regard. What is stopping this? Your will is for all to be saved, Lord.

Your will is for all to be saved, Lord. Let it go forth. Your will is for Jesus to be high and lifted up and worshiped and acknowledged for your glory and for your kingdom. Let it be so. Let it be so in our hearts and everywhere. We bless you, Lord. We declare your faithfulness to this generation. You have been faithful to us,

even and especially when we didn't deserve it. And we don't to this generation. You have been faithful to us, even and especially when we didn't deserve it. And we don't deserve this now. It is not for our sake, Lord, that we desire this, but for your sake. Glorify your name in the earth once more. Bring about a revival. Pour out your Holy Spirit. Show forth your power. Show forth your great love that has transformed our hearts and use it. Let it heal this generation. Let it strengthen this generation and let it break the bondages that have been established through so many years and decades and centuries of sin. Lord, wipe it all away. You can do it. You can do it now. Give us great faith for this, Lord. Great faith for it.

To know who you are and to know what you want. And to say, Lord, here I am. Send me. The least we can do is believe. Isn't God capable? Lord, you are. Let it be so according to your will. In Jesus' name, amen.