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Hosanna

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April 13, 2003 Sun PM

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Has He triumphantly entered into your life, to where what He puts His hand on and says He has need of is immediately His with no questions asked? This kingdom is going to be birthed, established, and sustained by one thing alone, and it's the power of prayer. Prayer is the ability to access and be aware of the presence of God and to acquiesce to the will of God. Prayer is just communion with Father. Prayer is an awareness; it's practicing the presence of God. You haven't prayed until you can say, "Thy will be done."

Let's turn over to the Gospel of Luke. We want to tie this week that we celebrate [Passion Week] into the teaching that we started on Wednesday night. We started a series on knowing the Lord (and Richard continued along those lines this morning). We were being made aware of the fact that there has to be a preparation, a determination, and a cost counted before we can really pursue and come to know the Lord. We saw that Paul's heart's desire was to know Him. To be absent from this body, he said, was to be present with the Lord, and he longed for that. Leaving wasn't something that he dreaded; he really dreaded having to stay here and was looking so forward to that union with the Lord in the spirit. And that's what should be motivating every one of our hearts as we look around and we're surrounded by our daily activities. We live in a land of prosperity and abundance. There are so many opportunities to pursue what this world can offer at its best. We don't want to lose sight of the greatest treasure of all, and that's knowing Him.

As we look at this week that we're getting ready to enter into (this being Palm Sunday), we think back to the great triumphal entry of the Lord into Jerusalem. We want to look at that in light of actually coming to know Him, and understanding what His ministry was about, and how He sought us. We saw in our teaching earlier the fact that there needs to be a humility in our pursuit and a yoking up with Jesus if we're ever going to really learn of Him. And He really began to show us that in His ministry here as He entered into Jerusalem.

So we'll pick it up in Luke's gospel, the 19th chapter--passages that we've read many times concerning the triumphal entry. But I want to look at a couple of things from this teaching that maybe we can make practical and not just historical, some of the things that we can see in His ministry here that maybe we can get applied into our lives. Beginning at verse 29 it says, "And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, Saying, Go ye into the village over against you; in the which at your entering ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither. And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him. Because the Lord hath need of him."

This is one of those incidents in the Scriptures where so many times you think, "Well what's that got to do with anything really?" If you wanted, you could get into a study on the gifts of the spirit and all these different things, but we see so proficiently here the word of knowledge in operation. We see the Lord knowing these incidents prior to their natural discernment. As He speaks prophetically of what's going to take place, two things are made very real to us. First of all, this little colt was sanctified; it had never been used by anyone, but is going to be used exclusively for the Lord. Wouldn't you like that to be the testimony of your life? You say, "Man, I've been used by everybody!" Well, aren't you glad that the blood of Jesus takes care of that Aren't you glad that as we go on into this study, one of the things He's going to teach you is forgiveness? If you forgive those that have used you, abused you, lied to you, or stolen from you, you can be pure again and able to be used of the Lord to forgive, praise God! The teaching on forgiveness is one of the great teachings of the Lord's Passion Week.

We're living in a day when we've got to begin to prepare ourselves for the Lord's entry. He's coming back, praise God! This is only symbolic of a coming that you and I are preparing for right now. He rode into Jerusalem humbly; He's coming back boldly as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Every eye is going to see Him; every knee is going to bow. What are we doing to prepare ourselves to be used of the Lord to usher in this great coming? I'd like you to see yourself as that little unsuspecting burro.

I have to choose my words very carefully here when I talk about these donkeys; I've shared with you before the problem you can get into. We were teaching years ago and I talked about Jesus riding into Jerusalem "on the ass of a colt," and that didn't sound right. So, I stopped and corrected myself, and I said, "No; on a colt's ass." And I thought, "Man, that's not right either!" So, the third time I just said, "He came in on a little donkey." So, we're just going to make him a burro.

Just begin to picture yourself somehow--obscure, maybe never going to be noticed by the world, your name never in lights. But I've got some good news for you tonight: the Master has need of you. You may seem trivial, but are you a virgin? Are you sanctified? Is your heart pure? The utterance tonight talked about the harlot's heart as it pertains to the world and how there's that tendency to gravitate to the world and join ourselves to this other kingdom. We need to keep ourselves pure and separate so that God can use us. Would you be satisfied just to be used of the Lord once, never really known of the masses, but satisfied to fulfill the call of the Lord on your life? He has need of you. It has to do with how separate we keep our hearts, how pure, and how prepared.

How about the people that own these animals? People aren't always readily making these things available. Someone just comes in and begins to take some of your property, and you say, "What's going on here?" And he says, "The Master, the Lord, has need." Not everyone is ready to bow their knee to that lordship. "The Lord has need of him." Many of us have possessions that possibly the Lord is wanting to touch tonight. We're talking about the triumphant entry of the Lord. Let's turn it from Jerusalem, and let's talk about Him triumphantly entering into your life to assume lordship. Because what we're going to see here in just a moment in Jerusalem is this: He's wanting to triumphantly enter in and gather them to Himself, but they wouldn't have Him, and He wept over their rejection of Himself. Jesus is wanting to enter into our lives. He's wanting to assume the prophetic fulfillment of the establishing of His kingdom in each of our hearts. Are you ready? The Lord has need of you, of yours. For some of us, it could be our children, and we've talked about this many times. We have great plans for our kids, and we want them to do better than we did.

I was sharing just the other day that there are two things in the last days with my father that stand out in my mind. I've shared with you before that in our relationship, he was of the old school. You didn't get a lot of compliments; you were never told that you were loved. Basically, it was only when you did something wrong that you heard about it, and this was kind of the upbringing that we had. And yet, there was some truth to what that generation portrayed. They'd say, "Why do I have to say it? Can't you tell? I mean, there are clothes on your back, there's food on the table, I haven't killed you. That should be enough to let you know that I love you!" And then as an adult, I remember one time we were doing something, and he became very offended. I can't even remember all of the circumstances, but it seems to me that it had something to do with going someplace to eat. It could have been that there was the choice to go to Sizzler or Charlie's. And I made a comment like, "Why would you want to eat a shoe when you could have a cow?" or something like that. I can still remember that he looked at me and said, "Do you know what the problem is with you?" I said, "What's that?" And he said, "You forgot where you came from." I said, "Oh no, I haven't. I remember where I came from." He was talking about the fact that we were raised in poverty, and now I didn't have to eat at Sizzler anymore, and I thought I was a big shot and too good to eat at Sizzler. I'm not too good to eat at Sizzler. I have a choice. I'm too smart to eat at Sizzler! There's a difference when you have a choice. I took that opportunity to share with him the blessings of the Lord, and how the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow with it, praise God! It's not a boasting; it's a thanksgiving in the good things that God has given you.

In the process of all of that there are times, of course, that we can lose sight of the blessings of the Lord, and we can lose sight of the One to Whom these things belong. We're just stewards, not of our material things alone, but our children don't belong to us either. They're the heritage of the Lord. They're the blessings of God that He has given to you, as stewards, to train up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. You may have an Ivy League education in your mind for them. You see, my father wanted better things for me and my brother than he had, and we both achieved that. There were times that he resented it, and there were times that he was pleased and proud. My brother bought their retirement home from them to help them out financially. They had gotten into a financial bind, my brother bought it, and when he did, he just gutted the place. Greer and I stopped by and saw it; it was the first time I'd seen it since my brother remodeled it. It's a beautiful little place, right outside of Yosemite. I remember what it was like before, and to see it now--it's just a beautiful little place! And he resented the fact that, "What was there wasn't good enough for them!" Well, he wanted better for us.

I'm talking to you parents. We want better for our kids, don't we? But we want better according to our perception of better. We want better to operate our way. I don't want to bog down on this one point (I don't even know why I am), but the point I want to make is: Jesus may touch some of your households as it pertains to your kids, and say, "I have need of them." And your dream may not be fulfilled in your children, but Jesus' will might be accomplished, praise God! What if He doesn't want them to have an Ivy League education? What if, on this trip to Kakamega, your kids don't come back to go to college, but they go on the mission field? "Well, that'll be okay after college." The Lord has need of them. Can you buy that? Has He triumphantly entered into your life, to where what He puts His hand on and says He has need of is immediately His with no questions asked? Oh, it's getting quiet; let's just go back and talk about waving branches!

What is it that He's revealing to us here? "Tell them that I have need of that." "And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him."

I remember sharing with you one time that there was some big shot at one of the meetings that we used to hold. And this guy comes up and says, "Brother Scott [this was a pretty wealthy guy], I really feel God is speaking to my heart, and I'm a hundred percent behind this ministry and what you're doing. But I just have to tell you, all of my assets are tied up." I said, "Do you remember what Jesus said about that little ass--I mean donkey? [I was calling him a donkey.] All of your assets are tied up? [You know what I told this guy, don't you? I gave him some biblical counsel.] Loose it; untie it; the Lord has need of it." "Yeah, but it's in a retirement account." "Then get it out." "It's in stocks." "Then cash them in." "It's in real estate." "Then sell it, because the Lord has need of it."

We're talking about the triumphal entry, the visible revealing of the kingdom of God at hand. So, as we look at the story here, we begin to get some of these principles applied. The Lord has need of him. Then they brought this little donkey forth, and the fulfillment of the prophecy begins to manifest itself as He rides into Jerusalem. The people began to rejoice, and the children are crying out, "Hosanna!" And we know that word "hosanna" means "save now." Today is the day of salvation. Salvation doesn't do any good if it's past or future; salvation has to be momentary. "Today is the day; this is the moment of our salvation! Save now! Hosanna! Save now!" Of course, they were in bondage to Rome at that particular time. They saw Jesus as the Messiah and thought they were going to be delivered from the Roman Empire's oppression. Do you know what Jesus was getting ready to deliver them from? The Pharisees. He's going to reveal this to us here in just a second. He said, "You know, the oppression of Rome isn't your problem. It's your spiritual bondage; it's your bondage to self- righteousness; it's your bondage to a works religion; it's your bondage to the ignorance of the totality of the depravity of man." That's all here in this triumphal entry, and we'll show you that ministry to the people in just a moment, as the children are crying "Hosanna! Save now!" But they didn't know what they needed to be saved from, and many of us don't know what we need to be saved from. We're crying, "Hosanna!" But what is it you really want to be saved from? Do you want to be saved from your momentary sickness and pain? Maybe that's not necessarily what you need to be saved from. Do you want to be saved from the trials and tribulations at work? Maybe you don't have work; maybe you're one that's just lost your job recently. Do you want to be saved from these circumstances? Maybe those circumstances are the pruning of the Lord. Maybe instead of being saved from these things, we need to rejoice in them and be glad. Maybe we need to be saved from our limited perception of what God is really doing in our lives. And when we cry, "Hosanna! Save now!" maybe we need to understand that it's, "Save me from myself; save me from my lack of understanding myself. Thank You, Lord, for the revelation of my heart and myself. Set up Your kingdom now; set it up in me. Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done in this earthen vessel as it is in heaven. Hosanna! Save now!"

Is that your heart's cry? Can you see yourself like the little children, just crying out? Do you see the King coming? You say, "Well, these kids were being influenced; they didn't understand what was going on." No; many times we don't understand what's going on, and the children do--the innocent of heart, those that don't know everything. "Yeah, but they don't really know what it's going to cost; they don't know the consequences of entire consecration and dedication. They don't know what it would cost them not to have an education. They don't know what it would cost them to forsake all and follow Him. They just don't know the value of things. They don't know the value of a dollar; they don't know the value of . They're just a little carried away with this, so let's just calm them down a little bit. They're getting a little too zealous. We don't want our kids getting too radical and doing something stupid--like obeying the Lord, like walking in faith, like selling all and following Him. I mean, dear Lord! God wants us all to be rich young rulers. That's God's will, that we be rich young rulers of our own lives, our own estates, so that we can keep everything tied up." And the Lord is wanting to loose it. Can I encourage you in something tonight? Let your kids cry out, "Hosanna!" Let them dance before the Lord. Let them experience a liberty in innocent worship. Let your teenagers be swept along with the current of the Holy Spirit and the revival that God is trying to move into our lives with. And let your kids be those that'll cry out, "Hosanna! Save now! Save me from the bondage that the generation that preceded me has been brought into, and let me to free to walk in the Spirit, praise God!" Because Jesus said, "If you restrain them, even the rocks will cry out; because I will be praised, I will be worshipped, and I will be served."

Do you know what the whole context of this story is all about? What Jesus is introducing to them is this: "Your fathers all say they knew Me; you say you know Me, but you don't know Me." We're talking about coming to the knowledge of the Lord--that I may know Him, in the power of His resurrection, in the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable into that death, that I might be a partaker of the likeness of His resurrection so the body of sin can no longer dominate me. We're crucified with Him, that we might be raised with Him, Romans 6 says. You see, the Pharisees were being rejected at this particular moment. He goes on in the context of this thing and says, "You're wanting to know by what authority I'm healing in the temple and casting out the moneychangers. But I've got a question to ask you. The ministry of John the Baptist--was it of God or man?" Jesus would always ask questions that they would be destroyed by if they answered, and He reminded them that this ministry of John the Baptist was in fact a ministry of God. And they rejected it, because they rejected the message that he brought of repentance from dead works, as John called them to a circumcised heart, as he prophesied of the kingdom that was coming and the Lamb that had been slain. And Jesus said, "I want you to know something. The harlots and the publicans are going to enter in before you do."

"Hosanna! Save me from religion, save me from the false perception of myself. Save me from my self-righteousness." The rocks (some of the hardest hearts) will be those that are touched and cry out. So many times we survey audiences or groups, and we think we have our finger on who's going to be saved. "Oh this is a good little guy, and he has such a tender heart, and this guy is so hard." Jesus spoke in that parable about those who say, "Yes, I'll do it" (and don't) and those who say, "I'm not serving You" (and eventually come back and repent). Even the hard hearts will be made to cry out when some of us who have been given first opportunity refuse to.

So, we see this ministry as the Lord is entering in on this sanctified little donkey--never been sat upon, used exclusively for the Lord. What a blessing! Now they're spreading garments in the streets, and they're putting out the palm branches, and they're waving them and crying "Hosanna!" and the city is in an uproar. The Pharisees then say in verse 39, "Master, rebuke Your disciples!" And Jesus says, "...I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it." You can see the compassion that the Lord had for His people, for the covenant that had been made with Abraham, despite their rejection of all of His provisions.

I have a picture at home in our family room that Bill Heglund took as I was sitting on the Mount of Olives. I had slipped away from the whole group; I'd do that periodically. I like to get alone and hear from God. There was just a lot of stuff going on, and I just wanted to get alone. So I took off, went down the mountain, and was just sitting there. Bill got a candid shot that turned out to be such a blessing. As he took the picture from up a little higher on the Mount of Olives, I was sitting on a wall just out at Gethsemane. You could see the ruins of the temple behind, and it's just a picture I enjoy. I just think about the Lord as He was looking over this city, His heart broken for these people.

And as He's weeping for them, He said, "...If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side. And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation." You know, God doesn't always strive with us. As He is wanting to enter into our lives by His Spirit and establish the kingdom, as we're humbling ourselves and beginning to understand what it means to say, "Hosanna," we can't determine what it is that we need to be saved from. We need to leave that up to Him. Then we're going to humble ourselves as little children, and not rest in our past accomplishments or our pedigree, but in the momentary establishing of the kingdom of God and the will of God.

He's rebuking these who thought they were in right standing. He said, "You don't understand the day of your visitation. I've been dealing with you, and you won't hear My voice." He not only prophesied the destruction of the temple, but He showed the cause, what He meant when He said, "You wouldn't receive the day of your visitation." He said, "You're trying to be perfected in the flesh. Having begun in the Spirit, are you going to be made perfect in the flesh?" Then it says, "And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought; Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves." We've shared with you before what was taking place here with the moneychangers, those that were selling in the temple. The priests were to determine what sacrifices were acceptable to the Lord--those that had a blemish and those that didn't. And their judgment, as you read through the Levitical ordinances, was final. So, they set up a little scam. They would reject the offerings, but they just happened to have kosher ones over here, those that were acceptable. "Such a deal I have for you!" And then, of course, they had the ability to change money from the foreign exchange and all of these different things--"At a price, of course. I mean, we've got to stay in business!" These men had set themselves up as the way to access God; but Jesus said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and you can't come to God but through Me." There are no man-made standards that are acceptable, and when Jesus went into that temple, He began to tear it all down. He said, "You have made My Father's house a den of thieves. It's a house of prayer; it's a house of accessing freely My blood."

We've talked about the "seeker friendly" churches of today, like the one over here at Regal Cinema. When we came in one day, they had one of those kid-jumping things out there, and I saw people coming out from the church with popcorn. I don't know what they were doing--watching "The Ten Commandments" or something. But it's a "seeker friendly" church. We want to make everything acceptable. Some of the churches we've told you about--Hybels' church where they play something-forty music, or thirty-something music, or the Top 20, or "Name that Tune"--I don't know! But there's some phrase for whatever the popular music is that they play. Is it popular? Do they still have popular music? Is music popular today? Pop music. A lot of what you hear isn't even music anymore; it's noise. Instead of melody, it's called clash, collision. Pop music. Anyway, when you come in (like we do for prayer), they're playing whatever music is popular today. So, whatever is secular that people like, that would appeal to the flesh, that's what they're playing in the church. "Seeker friendly." Paul had another word for it; he called it "worldly, carnal, damnable." Jesus said, "My Father's house is to be called a house of [seeker friendliness]." A house of what? Prayer--accessing God, worshipping God, separation to God.

The one thing that Jesus emphasized in this triumphant entry (that Palm Sunday that we're celebrating today in historical recognition) is that this kingdom is going to be birthed, established, and sustained by one thing alone, and it's the power of prayer. Jeff's been teaching on it from some of E. M. Bounds' books that are outstanding. Prayer is just communion with Father. Prayer is an awareness; it's practicing the presence of God, as we've shared in times past. Prayer is the quieting of our own hearts and minds to the point where we can drink of the cup and say, "Thy will be done." You see, you haven't prayed until you can say, "Thy will be done." Prayer is not finished until you say, "Thy will be done." Sanctification isn't finished until you say, "Thy will be done." And God does it in different ways and over periods of time.

I know in my own life, as God has been dealing with me in recent months concerning different things, I made a determination today. In one of the things I've felt God has been dealing with me about, I've made a change of course in my life. And it was very difficult for me to surrender and to die to self in that area, to be able to say, "Lord, I thought that was what You were saying, but I wasn't sure. And since I wasn't, I just kept doing it my way. But now I'm sure." And the one thing that I do know is that every time I'm sure of what God has said, by His grace I've been able to say, "Your will be done. If it's possible, let the cup pass; but nevertheless, not my will, but Thy will be done." It's a difficult thing, and that's what prayer is all about. Prayer is not petitioning God for your will. If you'd read many of the books on prayer, you'd really think that prayer is a force by which you can alter God's will, that prayer is a force by which you can reinforce your will, that prayer is a force to establish your will in the earth, that prayer is a force by which you can establish your will on others (that's really witchcraft). Prayer is the ability to access and be aware of the presence of God and to acquiesce to the will of God. That's what prayer is. So, as we've prayed in His house, His house has become a house of prayer,

not just the church building here where we come together to pray. His house is the body of Christ. "My church will be a praying church, a church that isn't doing it's own will. It will be a church that's not seeking it's own way. It's an organism that's allowing the Head to direct its function.

This was the establishing of Jesus' ministry here on Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry. He wants to clean the temple. How about our bodies as the temple of the Holy Ghost? On this Palm Sunday, have you let Him enter into your temple and clean it up, to where there is no other power there but prayer power, where you're not trusting in your own strength, your own ability? With many of us, it's our intestinal fortitude. Some of us are very disciplined, and some of us are very structured in our lives, and some of us are very successful, and some of us trust in our intellects. Some of us trust in different skills, in natural physical prowess that we have--whatever it is. On this Palm Sunday, the Master has told us that what He wants to use as one of His vessels is just a pure, little, innocent donkey--undefiled from the world, nobody else lord over it. He wants a temple that is cleansed of all of man's methods of the Pharisees, a temple that can be called a life of prayer. Is that what we're offering Him this day as we recognize Palm Sunday? My Father's house is going to be called a house of prayer.

There's a lot of neat stuff that's going on here in the periphery of this day, and nobody's sure of the chronology. Some people think there were two cleansings of the temple, and they're not sure if the temple was cleansed on the same day as the triumphal entry or if it was the next day. Some say they're pretty sure that it was the next day. Others ask, "Well, how does that relate to the cursing of the fig tree as they were coming in?" You could just sit down, look at your synoptic gospels, and try to establish a chronology for these events. But the fact is that all of that stuff happened in such a close proximity of time that a very real message is beginning to be made clear in Jesus' last days of ministry, regardless of the chronological order--as He taught on the talents, as He taught on the two sons and how they responded to the admonition to go and involve themselves in the ministry, as He taught the message of forgiveness (freely you have received; freely give), as He taught the message of fruitlessness. The fig tree got cursed in the first place because it was a tree that had leaves and every indication that there should have been something to partake of there to sustain the Master. You see, we lose sight of what that was. That tree was saying, "Here I am; use me," and Jesus came up to access the fruit. He came up to take from that tree that was boasting in its ability to provide, nurture, strengthen, and satisfy. But all it had was leaves; all it had was "talk." And Jesus, in the midst of establishing His kingdom, responded to that tree the same way that Ananias and Sapphira were going to be responded to, and they were cursed.

On this Palm Sunday, as we examine our own hearts, are we outwardly showing one thing, but when Jesus wants to access our hearts, when the Master has need of it, is it available? Is there fruit there to satisfy the Master? Do we have something to offer Him? And will we when He asks for it? When He enters the temple of our hearts, in this Holy of Holies, is there an altar of incense, effectual prayer that's ascending into the heavens? Or is there just the clamor of the moneychangers, of men's religions--just enough to satisfy ourselves and those around us that we're right with God?

"Hosanna! Hosanna! Save me from myself now!" is our hearts cry, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's bow our heads. As Gary comes, let's take just a moment in the presence of the Lord and celebrate this Palm Sunday, the great victory that the Lord had proclaimed. It wasn't what the people thought. It wasn't a deliverance from Rome; it was a deliverance from self. It wasn't the establishing of an earthly kingdom, because this King was to be crucified in a few days. The visible kingdom that they all looked for and hoped for never materialized. But fifty days after that resurrection, the kingdom in power became visible, as the Spirit of God descended upon them, and tongues of fire sat upon them, and they received power to become witnesses of this kingdom.

"Hosanna!" is the cry of our hearts. Like the little children, we don't know exactly what it's going to entail or what the cost will be; but we know that we've seen Jesus. We know that we've seen what men have longed to see. We've been changed, and we long to become that temple, the house of prayer, the vessel, the vehicle, the sanctified conduit to bring Your presence to others. Save now as You build Your kingdom.

As our hearts are bowed and we just take that moment, what do you have tied up that the Lord is asking you for? What do you have in your life that needs to be loosed? It may not be sin; it may just be something the Lord has need of. He may not have need of it; He may have need of you. The King is coming; let's make straight the way of the Lord.

Let's stand before Him tonight, and as Gary plays for us, take just a moment and let your heart be touched by the Holy Spirit as He prepares our hearts and establishes us for this day that we're in. What a great day--to be able to see the kingdom! You see, when we're changed and caught up with Him, we're coming back with Him to rule and to reign. We're being prepared for that process even now, to reign in that kingdom that's to come. You can either reign in this one or that one, but these kingdoms are all going to pass. Let's invest in the heavenly. Let's sing it together. "Let my heart be the temple of your Spirit" Just worship Him. Let Him fill the temple right now; let Him fill your temple with His presence.

By Your Spirit, Lord, come and access this temple, and cleanse us, Lord, from self. Make it a house of prayer. Make it a house of the presence of God, the purposes of God. Let everything that's of man's religion die, and be glorified in Your church, Jesus. Rule and reign in us by Your Spirit and by Your Word. We will give You all the praise, Father. We'll be careful to boast in You. And we ask that by Your Spirit we can cry "Hosanna!" in faith. Show Yourself in the redeemed of the Lord, and let our works be seen and our Father glorified, we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, "Hosanna!" Amen. Go in peace; God's love go with you, in Jesus' name.

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