NOTES: DIVINE SPEED // SUNDAY SERVICE // DR. LOVY L. ELIAS
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YOUR PRAISE PROVOKES RESULTS
So many people are in their problems because their problems are greater than their praise. The reason their problems are greater than their praise, is because they don't know what to praise God for because they don't know the outcome of their situation. To praise God is a prophetic act celebrating what has already been done. So when people can't stand, shout, and be excited, it means they don't have foresight or insight, on the mind of God, on the workings of God for their life. So they praise God for what they see. They can't praise God for what is to come. Jesus said, blessed are those that believeth without seeing.
Even the world knows that anyone caught up with where they are, they can never go to the next level. They say, great people are not moved by now, they're moved by what is to come. They'd rather suffer now.
They operate off insight. But you don't only have insight and hope, you have foresight. We already know how this story ends. We know that we end up being winners and overcomers.
What is happening is you don't understand you're alive because God is not done with you. You are cast down because you don't understand He's not done with you. God is not done with you. If you had nothing to do here, He would've taken you home. The bible says, "I'll praise the Lord with all my life in the land of the living." You are in the land of the living!
Do you understand the devil knows the #1 way to destroy you is to hinder you from praising God? The devil knows when you praise God, you are prophesying! You already know you're out of the situation. Some of you measure your progress out of a situation by the results. But you don't know what provokes the results is your praise.
When Paul and Silas began to praise God in prison, in the middle of the night arrested and locked up, the prison could not hold them. The devil is holding you because you're refusing to praise God. When you're bound and say, "I am free," YOU ARE FREE. When you're sick and you say, "I am well," you become well.
By your words shall you be justified or be condemned. I choose to praise God. I choose to prophesy! I choose to declare upon my life the goodness of God.
DO EVERYTHING BY REVELATION.
If you praise God without revelation, you're wasting time. You need to know what you're doing. Whenever you feel cast down, your spirit is actually impressing on you. Telling you something is off. The bible says God is enthroned by the praises of His people. If you want God to come and sit where you are, just praise Him!
When you dance for God, Satan is looking for an exit because He knows God is coming. Human psychology doesn't allow you to be happy when things are bad. When you start praising and enjoying the presence of God, Satan knows you've tapped into the divine.
Your carnality is being swallowed up by divinity.
Learn to be prophetic with every single act. Understand why it's done. There's a reason why the bible tells you, "make a joyful noise." Noise is just noise. But JOY is the intention of this noise. The bible says, "even if I speak in the tongues of angels and I have no love..." means I am empty. What is lacking in your noise is the love and passion for God. The moment that realization enters and progresses in you, there's no day you'll have "one of those days." It makes you in tune. The breath in your lungs is a weapon!
DIVINE SPEED
1 Kings 18:41-46
41 And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees, 43 And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not. 45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. 46 And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
Everything in life is measured by speed.
We know how long you have lived because we are measuring your growth. The number of years is the length of your life. How long you've lived determines the speed you're moving through. Notice what causes accidents is not that you're not moving... it's that you're not moving at the speed the street requires you to move when everyone else is driving at that speed. The reason why a police officer stops you when you're driving fast is because you've broken the flow of traffic. If everybody is driving 90 miles, who will he stop? He can't stop anyone because it's the flow of traffic. But the moment the norm is broken, there's a problem because it will cause an accident.
The Journey of Life
In the realm of the spirit, you are on a road. The issue is, many of you have overstayed certain lanes. You're on a street that's 25 miles an hour, but you were supposed to leave that 5 years ago, but you're still there. Some try to merge on the freeway too quick, and you're not ready and cause an accident. Some go too fast in a slow lane and cause an accident.
Divine speed doesn't come because you forced something. It comes because you know something. Divine speed is a product of knowing something that others don't know that allows you to go faster and to progress quicker than everybody else.
God is giving you divine speed.
You're being measured, not only by God but by the devil. Delay is a revelation that you've been kept somewhere longer than you should. When you look at people around you doing the same thing, you see them progress when you are not. There's a contradiction.
The bible says, "I have numbered your days." We are counting up how long we will live but God is counting down. Within God's countdown He is measuring how fast you're going to finish the work He's given you! For you to tap into what God is doing, you need to tap into the time of God in order to measure up to how God is expecting you to get to the place that He's calling you. Be synchronized. The bible says, "the race is not for the swift but for those who will endure." So we know there's a race. Paul said, "I'm running, and I'm running well so that I can gain the crown at the end."
So now, you're seeing Elijah already hearing and seeing something... warning his friend. "Go and eat because rain is coming, I hear the sound of it." Elijah wasn't operating by the speed of men, but he's operating by divine speed. When you offer your offerings to God, are you synchronized with the speed that God is about to move?
You can sow well, pray well, and give well, but at the same time you can be out of synch with everything that God is doing and end up missing what God has prepared for you.
Many of you are caught unaware because you're not operating with divine speed. EX: When God spoke to Noah and told him to build the ark, he asked others to build with him and they laughed at him. When takeoff time came, they were running to the ark but Noah was already shut in and prepared. There was no room for them even if the door was open.
Elijah operated with divine speed. He told them rain is coming before he prayed. Here he is saying something that'll come to pass before he prays. Prophesy proceeds prayer. Prophesy is the answer to prayer. Prayer is simply the protocol of initiation of what you're prophesying.
Moses stood before the red sea. They said, "Moses you brought us here to die." He said, "the Egyptians you see today, you shall see them no more!" Then turned and he prayed, "Father, what do I do?" God said, "you already said what you're going to do. Tel the people to march forward, stretch your hands, part the sea, and walk through it!"
MAY YOU BE ACTIVATED INTO DIVINE SPEED. MAY YOUR WORDS BE THE FUEL, THE ENGINE, THAT WILL CARRY YOU INTO YOUR NEXT DIMENSION.
Elijah said he can hear the sound of something, when there was no sound. When he said rain is coming there was still a drought. The king was even looking for grass anywhere to save a few of the animals that remained alive. But Elijah said to the king, "go eat and drink, rain is coming." Because now they'll be abundance. Eating and drinking will be normal!
Some of you have been saving too long, denied yourself for so long, because you just want to get by. God is about to bring you to a place of enjoying! The Lord says more than enough is coming. Because there is a sound of rain! I prophesy: something is about to happen!
DIVINE PERFECTION
1 Kings 18:44 - And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
Why number 7? Divine Perfection. Creation did not end until God rested. What marked the end of creation, is because God stopped. Technically everything was done on the 6th day. But what was the full stop of creation was God resting. Number 7 is not just the number of divine perfection, it's also the number of rest.
Notice Elijah didn't just tell him, go again and come back... he told him go seven times and come back. You see, some of you, the persistence and the patience to keep doing exactly what God wants you to do... you're counting to divine perfection. Every time you endure and push, you're entering into perfection.
All he saw after the seventh time was a little cloud. Some of you pray and see a little result. You don't understand that little cloud is supposed to cause a ripple of things. Some of you do something and see a little result and look for something else... you just abandoned the blessing of God. What you're doing is aborting exactly what is supposed to turn into a thick cloud with heavy rain.
Heavy rain is being predicted, not because of what has happened. But because of what the man foresaw that will happen. The most successful people on earth are people who foresaw the trends that are coming that others didn't see. EX: by the time everyone is buying bitcoin, the guy who bought it first is already enjoying!
When you cannot see the rain, you undermine your prayer and progress because you are shortsighted. The young man is only seeing a cloud that's so small, it's the size of a man's hand. But Elijah is speaking about a cloud that is heavy with thick rain. But the young man only sees a cloud that is so small like a man's hand. Some of you don't realize that there's divine help behind what you're doing. What people measure to be small, in the fullness of time it turns into something else. WHAT WAS ON YOUR HEAD, WHAT WAS SIMPLY AN IDEA, IS ABOUT TO OUTGROW YOU AND BE BIGGER THAN YOU!
Notice everything Elijah is doing is ahead of time. If you don't listen to him, flash floods will get you. Rain is good if you have an ark. Have you ever noticed every time calamity happens in the world, somebody prospers. Rain is a beautiful thing, only for those who are farming. If you're not in the business of farming, it does not benefit you. There is somebody prospering from rain falling. It's a FULL benefit that rain is falling.
1 Kings 18:45 And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel. And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
The word Jezreel means, "the place that God sowed." Some of you, you're praying the right way. Doing everything the perfect way. But you don't get to the place that God has dropped the blessing. Because you lack divine speed!
This is why it is important for you to receive and know not only how God is going to bless you, but where God wants you! Your Jezreel is somewhere else, it's not where mine is. Your gate is different from my gate. But when you're not completely synchronized, this is where delays happen.
Since I was a kid, I knew we were planting a church in a valley. I'm in the eastern part of Africa, I didn't even know what that was. Now when somebody sees me, they say, "wow, God has just blessed you." No, God did not just bless me, I knew where the blessing was.
It looks fast for people but they don't know how long we have been waiting. You have been waiting for a long time. You are about to see something that people undermined, looked down on, abused, ignored, turned their back on, simply because they only saw a small cloud. They didn't know it was rain that was going to pour at the place that God sows.
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
The word run there isn't running in terms of human beings running. It actually means they will have movement. Their speed of life will be faster and not weary, meaning there will be no delays. The word walk there, means living life. God is saying that spiritually everything will move quickly for you but physically you'll be moving in a speed people don't think is fast enough. When people start seeing the results, they'll be confused. God wants to anoint you to get to the place He is sowing in the place that He's planting things.
SPEAK TO THE LORD
Open your heart and sincerely speak to God. Tell the Lord, "I want to have divine insight, foresight, understanding of the place that you're calling me to. I want to know where I am going. Empower me to have the speed necessary to get to the destination that you have called me to be in." Tell the Lord you desire speed.
FATHER IN THE NAME OF JESUS, EMPOWER ME TODAY!
GIVE ME STRENGTH. GIVE ME THE ABILITY. GIVE ME THE POWER. TO NOT ONLY CHANGE THINGS, BUT TO GET TO THE PLACE THAT I CAN ENJOY THE BLESSING THAT YOUR GRACE HAS PROVIDED.
TODAY I WANT TO SEE AND EXPERIENCE YOUR GOODNESS. IN MY FAMILY, IN MY BUSINESS, IN MY CAREER... IN EVERY SINGLE THING I DO.
FATHER, MAY I ENJOY MY LABOR AND THE FRUITS OF MY LABOR, BEYOND THE PEOPLE WHO ARE USING MY SERVICES.
You know, some of you have worked so hard but what you have produce, it's other people that enjoy it. That's a contradiction. You should not only be compensated, but it should be satisfactory to you. The bible says, "the worker is worth his wages." You have to be satisfied with what you plant and what you do before God.
LORD, MAY I BE SATISFIED. MAY I NEVER SETTLE. BUT LET ME BE SATISFIED BY THE WORK THAT I DO AND WHAT IT BRINGS FORTH.
Father, let the oil of speed come upon them. Let every hindrance be removed out of their way. Whatever has slowed them down today, I remove them out of their path. I decree and declare divine speed. Divine speed. Divine speed. May they break the speed of delay in their families. May they enter into the lane that you've called them to be in. Father, remove their sight from things that will not profit them. But set their attention and their focus in the place that you have called them to be in.
Father, I pray for divine speed. Divine speed. Divine speed. Divine speed. In their health, divine speed. In their finances, divine speed. In every single thing they do.
KEEP YOUR FOCUS ON JESUS
Father, may your own angels anoint them. May they know that this is your word for them. May tangible oil come upon them. Oil, appear before them. May it appear in their hands, may it appear on their heads. May it flow, that they will know that Lord, you are the God who's anointed them for another dimension.
Receive it. Receive it. Those phone calls that didn't ring, because of the oil, it will ring. Those things that were missing, that which was lost, because of the oil... before this week ends, you will have it. In the name of Jesus! Thank you, Lord Jesus.
