AUG 11 2024 | Josiah S1E5 | Curse Breaker

Sea Change Church · AUG 11 2024 | Josiah – S1 Ep 5: Curse Breaker
2 Kings 23:15-20
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about how you want to partner with this church, whether it be monetarily or maybe through volunteerism or through prayer, and then we will pray for today's offering. Lord, we just want to thank you for all the work that you're doing in this church. We want to continue to follow you, Jesus. I pray that you'll receive today's offering and use every little bit of it to expand your kingdom as we move together in unity towards you.

In Jesus' name, amen. Moreover, the altar at Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, that altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust. He also burned the Asherah. And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.

Then he said, What is that monument that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and predicted these things that you have done against the altar at Bethel. And he said, Let him be, let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria. And Josiah removed all the shrines also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which kings of Israel had made, provoking the Lord to anger.

He did to them according to all that he had done at Bethel. And he sacrificed all the priests of the high places who were there on the altars, and burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem. This is the word of the Lord. Well, good morning. If you have your Bibles, open up to 2 Kings 23. We are in episode 5 of the character study of one of Israel's most zealous kings.

A king who was following on the heels of multiple pagan kings, his father and his grandfather included, told you that Manasseh was the most evil king that Israel saw. And Josiah, as a very young boy, came to know the Lord in a powerful way. And by the time he was a teenager, he began to decide that he wanted to start reforms in Israel. And then by the time he was in his early 20s, he began taking charge and enacting those reforms.

Those reforms were found in this passage. And in this passage, you see some of the things that he began to do. And Israel sounded just like that baby when he started doing it. They were upset. See what I did there? Got a key word today. You can put it in your notes. That key word is zealos or zeal. Zealos means, you can write this down, an excitement of your mind, ardor, fervor of spirit.

Now, the word zeal has been associated with the word zealot. And to be a zealot is kind of a pejorative term in our culture, right? When Jesus used the phrase, and when he quoted from David and spoke about himself in John, I believe it's, excuse me, it's John 2.17, zeal for your house will consume me. This is before the term zealot had ever been used.

The term zealot came from the Maccabeans in the first century. And it was a group of Jewish believers who rebelled against the Roman armies. And they became a political movement. And they attached their politics to their relationship with God. And they began to rebel against the society. And all those things happened. And the idea of the word zealot comes from an understanding of those people.

When Jesus used the word, it was something very different. It was a soul's longing to be consumed with a passion for multiple things. A passion for God's word. Jesus in John 2.17 says he has a passion for the physical place where God dwelt. For actually the house. Can you turn those house lights down a little bit? My eyes are going to burn out of my head.

There you go. Perfect. I like Moses and he had the Shekinah glory, but that was a little much for me. So I've got babies, lights, people running down the altar. And so he sees this term of zeal. And zeal is a passion. Now I heard a coach one time talk about, he was a professional coach. And he says, you know what the only thing I need is when my players come to the practice at the beginning in August, they need to bring their passion bucket and it needs to be full.

And then that term passion bucket got really full. And I always thought about that. Like, I'm not sure I want a passion bucket. But nonetheless, I want to ask myself, what am I zealous for? What are the things that bring passion to my soul? And if you were to ask yourself, separate from the understanding of being a zealot, in regard to God, how full is the measure of passion you have for the things of God?

Jesus was zealous for his house. He was zealous for the physical place. And the church is not only a physical place, it is the people of God who meet, but the place where God does his work and gathers people together. Josiah in this passage is zealous for God's word. We know that they had lost God's word and under his watch they had found it. He read it for the first time.

They had forgotten about the law of God. And he began to get a zealous heart, a passion for the word of God and for the things of God. And one thing about having a zealous spirit for the things of God, the heart of God, the word of God, being zealous for prayer, is if you are zealous about something, you will know it because it will enact reform within your life.

It will cause action. It is impossible to be zealous for something and not to have a proactive nature attached to that. So you will know if you are zealous for the word of God and that you will read the word. You'll be passionate about reading the word. Jesus says the zeal for your house will do what? Will consume me. I think we're all consumed by something.

All of us are consumed by something. And usually if you look at your checkbook and you look at your calendar, you will know what you're consumed with. It could be anything from, you know, your business to pickleball, to golf, to God's word. The things that we do tend to show what we have zeal about. And I began to ask myself this week, how's my zeal?

How's my zeal for prayer? At the end, I want to give you some practical ways in order to have zeal arise within you. And one thing I want to say about zeal is this. Zeal is not a personality trait. If you're sitting there saying, well, you know, I'm an introvert. You know, I'm kind of one of those highly sensitive people. And there's a book called The Highly Sensitive Person, and I've been reading it.

And as I'm realizing, if you start thinking that zeal, that you are disqualified from zeal because you're not an extrovert or you're not one of those passionate people that wants to run through a brick wall, I want to say that zeal is a spiritual component that has nothing to do with personality. I've met incredibly gentle, genteel people that are zealous for prayer, that are zealous for the poor, that are zealous for the work of God.

And so we see a king here, Josiah, who is zealous. And so the word of the day is zealous. One thing you'll see is when it comes to being zealous for God, there's one thing you will not tolerate. It's sin. If you are zealous for the heart of God, you won't have little areas where you're saying these are off limits for God. He can't have that. He can't have this.

You actually have a desire to remove anything that might separate you from the passionate, beating heart of God that is for you. A couple things I want to say in regard to quotes that I think we need to use to frame up being zealous. Because I want us to be zealous but not be zealots. And when Jesus used that word again in John 2.17, it was before the modern understanding of zealotry came into place.

Leonard Ravenhill says this, you never have to advertise a fire. Everyone comes running when there's a fire. Likewise, if your church is on fire, you will never have to advertise it. I love that. Next one is this, and this is from John Calvin, and I think this is the one that frames it up the best. Zeal without doctrine is like a sword in the hand of a lunatic.

Zeal without doctrine is like a sword in the hand of a lunatic. We want to be a zealous people, zealous for God, zealous for his heart like Josiah, but obviously have that within the bounds of Scripture and within what Jesus says, to love God and to love your neighbor as whom? As yourself. Two main ideas. Here's one main idea today and two points we're going to look at.

The main idea in regard to being zealous is where sin lives, the curse remains. But where sin is vanquished, blessings thrive. I'll say that again. Where sin lives, the curse remains. But where sin is vanquished, blessings thrive. This is believing that all sin leads to death, and anything that we do in the camp of sin has fruit that you cannot get away from.

It is attached to it in a metaphysical way, and there is either a blessing or on a curse on whether things are righteous or whether things are wicked. And there is a pretty stark dividing line between the two. There are things that are nominal. If you want to plant a peach tree in your yard, go ahead. You know what I mean? There are things that are nominal.

But there are things that we do, and when we step into those, to think that we can step into the realm of sin and not have the metaphysical curses that come along with sin, in some way affect our life, to overshadow our life, either in a small way or a large way, is being ignorant of Scripture. Scripture is very clear. When the righteous do righteous things, you get blessed.

When the righteous do wicked things, they live with the results of the curse. Now, if you're in Christ, you were free from the curse. We'll talk about that. But the results of the curse still exist if we want to live in the land of wickedness. And so we see that. So there's two things. Number one, back on last week, it was such a great point. I want to say it again.

Pull down your high places. Find the high places in your life, the things where you are going after that have become more important to God than you. It could be anything. They can be good things. And pull them down. Have a zealous nature that nothing will stand between you and a father who loves you. Nothing will get in the way. Think of it sometimes like on Christmas, if you have a father or a mother that is there, and there's a gift that is given, and the kids sometimes will just focus on the gift and miss the parents that are behind the gift that gave him the gift.

And that gift becomes, in that moment sometimes, bigger, and this is just a metaphor, bigger than the parent. Anything that stands before us, no matter if it's good, wicked, needs to be vanquished. And that becomes when we become zealous for the heart of God. Pull down your high places. And number two, which I think we see Josiah doing here, is breaking generational sin.

He's breaking a 300-year tradition of pagan worship in Israel, and he's breaking it down, and he's defiling the high places. He's defiling the bones of the people that brought the wickedness into Israel and tearing it down. So the first one is pull down your high places, and two, be a chain breaker. Break the chains of generational sin. Go to verse 15.

Pull down the high places. Moreover, the altar at Bethel, circle Bethel, the high place erected by Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin. That altar with the high place he pulled down and burned, reducing it to dust, he also burned the Asera. And so one of the things we know about Bethel, Bethel was the place where Abraham made his first dwelling and put a tent up.

It was also the place where Jacob's ladder came down, and he had the vision of the angels. Bethel is a very important place. And 291 years before Josiah was born, there was a rebellion in Israel. Why was that? Why did God take Israel and allow a civil war? That would break a united nation into two nations, a southern kingdom and a northern kingdom?

Because Solomon, unlike his father, who fully went after God's heart with all of his heart, which is something that is said about Josiah this king, Solomon allowed a place for other high places. God said, you will not marry foreign wives, for they will take away your heart towards other gods. And it says in the scripture that the kingdom was fully put into Solomon's hand.

And the very next scripture says, and so he went to Egypt and got a wife from the pharaoh of Egypt, and that wife led him astray. He had 700 wives, and they began to erect high places. By the end of Solomon's life, Solomon was worshiping false gods in high places. And God said, because of your father David, I will not touch you. The blessing is so strong off of David that I won't touch you, and I will allow you to die in peace.

But as soon as you're gone, Solomon, it ends. And moments after Solomon passes away, Rehoboam, his son, has an argument with some of the elders, and the kingdom is split, and Jeroboam comes back from exile and takes a northern kingdom. And he knows, as a king, politically, you can't have people going to Jerusalem, to the southern kingdom, to worship God.

Because then they all have a street cred, right? Where God lives and dwells. And so he says, I'm going to set up a different temple. And it's going to be at Bethel. This is the new high place. We will no longer go where God said we should go. We will go here. And so for 291 years, they changed the place where God had said you should worship, in Jerusalem, in my city.

And as they did that, they began to bring in false customs, to by the end of time, to the end of this 291 years, they are taking their children, and they are burning them alive to the altars of Molech, in northern Israel, in southern Israel. Now God said to northern Israel, because you have done these things, the Assyrians will come and take you away.

And the Assyrians came in and took them away. And that opened it up, so Josiah could now go into the northern kingdom. And Josiah goes from the southern kingdom, which is Judah, and he goes up into the northern kingdom, and he goes to Bethel, to the very place of wickedness. And he stands before it, and he tears that place down. He turns it to dust.

He defiles the bones of the prophets that he sees. But there's one prophet there. He says, whose bones are those? And I can't go into the whole story. But God, 291 years earlier, had sent a prophet to Bethel, and he prophesied at Bethel, when he says, a king will raise up one day, and when he does, he will tear this altar down. It's interesting, 300 years to wait for that prophecy.

Some of us have been waiting like six months for something. We're like, oh God, where are you? 300. 291 years. And that is found in 1 Kings 12, 28, and 29. You can go read the story of the kings. It's amazing. One of the things that I said is regard to high places in our life. There are high places that are not a problem. I mentioned a peach tree a moment ago.

Let me just use an analogy again. There was a church that was in the south, and this is a true story. And the church, they got a new pastor, and this pastor had the best fried chicken recipe you have ever had. I mean, it was unbelievable. It made Colonel Sanders, like, run, you know, just he was afraid. And so he would make Sunday, once a month, they would have fried chicken.

And everyone loved it so much, they said, pretty soon, you know what? People are coming to church for this fried chicken. It's amazing. Let's do it every week. Let's do it. We're going to have fried chicken every single week. And so they started the thing on Sunday night. You can come back and have fried chicken. And we were doing it for evangelism, and it was amazing.

And pretty soon they said, you know, our Wednesday night Bible studies need a little juice. So let's throw that chicken down. We'll have a chicken night on Wednesday night. And so they had chicken on Wednesday night. And it was thriving, and God was working. And pretty soon they said, you know what? What if we just open a cafe, and we do chicken?

We'll have people come in all the time. They continued to do this. The chicken was so good until one day the church closed down, and it became a chicken restaurant. It's a true story. Is there anything wrong with fried chicken? I love me some fried chicken. That's how high places work. High places work until they take over. You see, there's nothing wrong with chicken until you make chicken the thing that's more important than the true gospel because you're making so much money or whatever the thing is.

We all have high places. And you will decide what those high places are. Are they the heart of God? Are they the gospel? Are they the poor? Are they your neighbor? These are difficult things to make high places that God is calling us. He ultimately is the high place. But there's other places where he wants to worship. He says our bodies are a living sacrifice.

To sacrifice our bodies as we go to Africa like our team did recently. Or like the team went here and you just saw the video for, you know, the sports camp. It was really hot that week, you know. The ways that they give. And we will all worship. We will all sacrifice at the high places of our life. Are things in proper perspective in our life? There's something that says when something goes into the area where it becomes sin.

And the first commandment is make God number one. Have nothing before him. When something becomes more important than God, that thing starts moving slowly, sometimes more quickly, into the realm of sin. It is impossible to have sin in our lives without having the effects of the curse affect us. Now, once you're in Christ, you are saved from the curse.

But if you want to step into the things of the curse, there will be results. We understand this for our diet, right? We don't really understand. We don't really like this idea when it comes to the metaphysical things of the spirit. But when it comes to our diet, we think about it all the time. We understand that if I want to have a Twinkie and vodka diet, okay, like, you know, Homer Simpson in that one episode.

You know, his wife says, you know, Homer, you're going to stop eating Twinkies and vodka. He goes, that's a problem for future Homer. I understand. And a lot of us have high places. We're like, that's a problem for future Adam. You know what I'm saying? We understand. We all understand this. I think a few of us would argue that you can just eat whatever you want and it's not going to affect you.

You are still under Christ's grace. If you're in Christ, you are free from death, right? You're going to live forever. Does that mean that you can eat whatever you want? It's not going to affect your body? It's the exact same thing when we have sin in our lives. It affects us and we have righteousness. I'm going to give a verse. You have to write this verse down.

It is Deuteronomy 28, 15. However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow all of his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you. Let me say that again. However, if you do not obey the Lord your God and do not carefully follow his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you.

The New Testament, Paul speaks about, you know, we don't want to live under the law of sin and death. He picks up on this in the book of Romans that there is a way. And so what I would want to put in front of you again is when we do righteous things, there is a blessing. And you can live in the land of blessing. Or you can live in the land of the curse, even if you're under Christ.

You can choose to get those results. I put a curse as a spiritual or supernatural pronouncement intended to bring harm or misfortune to a targeted individual, group, place, or thing. I was listening to a podcast recently from a converted witch. She's Christian now. And she said that she was on this podcast. It was on Insta. I was listening to it.

And she said, you know, we hated praying churches. And the guy said, well, why is that? She said, well, we would specifically get our group of witches. And we would find churches. And we would find the pastors. We would find out who the leadership was. And we began to cast curses upon them. And we would do their form of prayer. And we would do, you know, little seances and everything to attack these churches.

And she said, when we found a praying church, we would begin to do that. And she goes, in the spirit, I would see a blue bubble, a dome. Now, I haven't been a witch, so I don't know how this works. I'm just telling you what the witch said, okay? Former witch. She goes, I would see a blue dome over the church. And she goes, anything we did, any curse, because the scripture says a curse that comes upon a place that is not deserving of it will not rest.

It won't find a place to rest. Any church that was a praying church, we could not curse. And she goes, it made me so angry. And she said, it made the demons that we prayed to so angry. And she said, one day I asked myself the question, why is that power greater than the power I have? And she said, it is through that journey of seeking that that I came to Jesus Christ.

And I gave up all that. I want to say that when you live in things like prayer, prayer is righteous, the righteous pray. And when you pray, there is a covering over your life. When you pray over your children, there is a covering over your children. Am I saying bad things never happen? No, bad things do happen. But there is a covering that will affect your life.

And so when it comes to the idea of living righteously or living in the high places of wickedness, these places have a metaphysical world that surrounds them. Now, we live in a world of science, right? We don't believe in the metaphysics. We don't believe there's invisible, supernatural things and powers. But the Bible is clear that there are. And the Bible speaks about the metaphysical because the word blessing and curse are both metaphysical.

Maybe you've seen that thing where the Japanese scientist got the two plants and he got a group of plants and he put them in one room and he spoke real nice to them. You're good plants. I love you. In Japanese, obviously. You're really, you're just amazing plants. And you're awesome. And then the other one, he would curse the plants. You're horrible little plants.

You're the worst little plant. You're not even as green as you should be. Whatever he said to them. And they showed that those plants died. And the ones that he blessed were thriving. You can look it up on Google. Look it up. Japanese guy who blessed the plants. I don't know. Whatever you want to do. Maybe you're good at searching. There is a supernatural current.

And you don't have to believe it. If you're all science, you're not going to believe this. That runs through the universe. And there is righteousness and there is wickedness. There is life and there is death. And the things that Israel was doing was leading to death. And it was bringing a curse upon them. Some of those curses actually show physically.

Those things come out. But they are there. And when we do righteous things, the power of the righteous life, this is what Proverbs talks about, will begin to supernaturally affect your life. And then it will become physical. If you begin to walk with righteous steps, one after another, righteous decisions, pulling down the high places and putting up new places where you worship God in the midst of caring for others or reading the word or praying or meditating, whatever those things are, you will see that eventually after multiple months, years of doing that, your paths will be made straight.

Your feet will become more firm. Your spirit will become more encouraged. And this is the transcendent nature of blessing and curses. What is a blessing? A blessing is a spiritual or supernatural pronouncement intended to bring flourishing benefit targeted to an individual group or place. So that's the first one. Tear down the high places. The final point is this.

Break the chain of generational sin. Go to verse 16. As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of those tombs and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God had proclaimed 291 years earlier who had predicted these things. This is the transcendent nature of blessing and curse.

Now, we tend to think, if you were to study generational curses, generational blessings in the Bible, there is a theological systematic theology in regard to blessing and curses. And we tend to believe that if someone is living a life that is really blessed and they've prayed all their life, that when they pass away, that blessing kind of, that was theirs.

It kind of goes with them, right? And we also believe that if somebody is living in wickedness and curse and then when they pass away, it kind of ends. The Bible's very clear in the Old Testament that these blessings, because they are supernatural, because they are beyond time, have the ability to follow family lines and lineage until someone comes along like Josiah and says, either not on my watch, and I'm gonna break the chains that have been on this family, and you become a chain breaker, or you lean more into the blessings.

If you come to our Tuesday prayer, one of the prayers we always pray is God take all the prayers that have been here for 100 years that have not been answered, that some little old lady prayed in 1929 when she was here, and she was praying for things that we don't even know about, but we know that those prayers exist, because in Revelation, it says that every prayer ever prayed that is of God will burn in a bowl before God like incense, and it burns before God like incense.

If you wanna know what God smells like, he smells like incense, and it says an angel will come one day, and he will take those during the tribulation, he will take all that bowl of prayers, and it says he will dump those prayers upon the earth, and we continue to pray in this church for the lineage of people that have sat in these pews, that have been here, in order for that blessing.

We wanna harvest the blessing. There are prayers that, you know, maybe you're three prayers away from a breakthrough. I always think that. How many prayers away am I from a breakthrough? Sometimes God, he's just waiting for somebody to be a little more zealous in regard to prayer. Many of you have sat here and had prayer lists. I have a few friends that are here today that just come to me all the time.

We've been praying for this since this. They're praying for the church, and they just show me. They just check things off the list. Devin and Eden do that. They're just always praying for our church. Many of you are. They'll come all the time and say, we prayed for this, we prayed for this, we prayed this person in. They did all that, and God began to move.

What am I saying? I'm saying that we need people like Josiah that'll look at the family lineage and break that family lineage or step into the things that were powerful. Carrie and I went away 10 years ago. We realized that there was baggage on our family. There was just baggage. There was sin. There was lust. There was adultery. I mean, there was just stuff.

My mom tells me the stories. There was a lot that went on in the 1800s back on the farms. I was surprised. There was a lot going on. You think TV shows today are bad. It was rough. I can't believe the story she told me. We went away for three days to this thing called, it was called Breakthrough. I believe it was called Breakthrough. Maybe I'm getting the name wrong.

But it was three days, and we sat with this couple, and we just prayed, and we took an inventory of everything, all of our family history, all the Masonic stuff that was in our lives, because so much of that stuff in the Masons is just demonic. And if you study it, you'll see. And so we began to break that off us. Carrie's grandmother was really heavy involved in Rainbow Girls, which is a Masonic thing.

It's an order. And at the funeral, you could just, they had rings in their path. They have all these, you know, things that they do. We just wanted to break that off our family. We want nothing to do with that. We want one God, Jesus Christ. And so we began to pray over the sicknesses. We began to pray over the things that we have seen for multiple generations, because we want to be curse breakers and blessing bringers.

And there are a few in here today that will hear this message and say, let it start with me. I bring my mom up on a regular basis because she was the first one in a line of multiple generations, five, eight, ten generations, that I know going back were over and over again. They had stubbed their toe in the same thing over and over in addiction and all the, over and over.

And one day after running in to a telephone pole with her car after being drunk, she said, no more. I'm going to go to AAA. I'm going to go to AAA. And then she got sober. She got a discipler. She went to church, got saved at church, got a discipler. And she's become the woman she is today because she said, no more. I got to say, when I watched my daughter get married last week, I saw the results of a generation that didn't even have what Carrie and I had to go through.

I was a little bit jealous watching my daughter get married two weeks ago. I'm not going to lie. And I had to remind myself that they got a way better start emotionally, spiritually, physically, all those things because of some things that we had to break after that. I want to challenge you. Be a curse breaker and be a blessing bringer. That is what we see him doing.

Final point is practical takeaway. Here's your practical takeaway. Cultivate zeal. Cultivate zeal. There's two verses above that. In regard to this curse breaking, I just want to say you cannot do it alone. Jesus Christ breaks the curse, not you. Let me give two verses. Just two verses. You can live in these verses. Galatians 3.10 as we close. For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse.

This is the New Testament. For it is written, curse be everyone that does not abide by all the things written in the book of the law and do them. This is not just a Josiah Old Testament thing. This is a New Testament thing. That curse still exists except for those that are within Christ. Galatians 3.13, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

Praise God. For it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree. Jesus took that entire curse of death and sin and it was all poured out on him and we no longer need to live according to the curse or within the curse because Christ has set us free. So how do we do that? How do we build zeal? You're not gonna build zeal by having a lot of willpower.

You're not gonna build zeal by trying really hard. You're going to build zeal by spending time with the Savior who loves you. The way to build zeal is to change your calendar, to spend time in his word. His word will change you. It'll tell you how to live. It'll tell you how much he loves you. It'll give you power. It is a double-edged sword that is able to cut through marrow all the way through bone, through spirit.

It'll guide you. It'll direct you. Prayer. It'll give you a covering like that witch said over your life. The word of God is transcendent and supernatural. Zeal comes from spending time with the Lord. And I will say, the more you show up to meet with God, the more your zeal will increase. The less you show up to meet with God, the less zeal you will have.

And it becomes committed, committing yourself to the heart of God. Amen? Let's stand if you would. Our prayer team's coming forward. Lord, if you need prayer today, we want to pray for you. We have a crack seal team of prayer people. I know they're just normal humans just like you, but they like to pray. If you have some things you want to have broken off you, you're like, hey, I've got this thing and I just gotta, I feel it and whatever it is, I need prayer.

If you want to accept Jesus and step out from that curse that the world is under, come forward. They will lead you to Jesus Christ. We will get you baptized. We will get you discipled on a new life in Jesus Christ. It happens here. Come forward. If you just want to come and chill here at the front, Kalina's gonna play. You can just come chill at the front.

No one will bother you. Just sit and we'll take about, we have about five minutes of worship afterwards, but come forward. If you extend your hands, I want to bless you. Lord Jesus, we love you, God. We bless you today. For those that want zeal, just in your own heart right now, just pray for the blessing. And ask God to bless you with zeal. And I pray that he would reveal the high places to you.

Let him show you in your mind right now the high places. And I pray for the dunamis power to break the power of the high places in your life, that you would break them off no matter how many generations back because Jesus died for that curse. And I pray that you live into the blessing this week, that the blessing would be fulfilled in your hands, in your words that you say, in the thoughts of your mind.

Lord, we just bless you in Jesus' name.