Shalom Friends,
As the church enters into the "Christmas season," it is very imperative to understand what Yah Himself told the prophets to warn His people about the paganism of the nations, including, decorating a tree in their home. He warns all believers not to be apart of the nation's celebrations, as they all originate from paganism and idolatry. It is written, "Yah is Spirit, and those who worship Him MUST worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:24).
Many Blessings,
Chadwick
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*[Opening worship — "Desire of My Heart"]*
I love you. You are the sorrow of my heart forever. Jesus, in the beginning you knew my name. Before the womb you saw me, in the holy place, to fulfill your will — desire of my heart. Jesus, desire of my heart, I love you. He called on me before I chose him; he loved me first.
My heart is bowing and praising before your throne, Lord. You and me will never depart — desire of my heart. You love me, Messiah. Love me. Faithful Performance.
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I'd like to thank everyone for joining us tonight as we continue our journey from the cross to the crown — a spiritual purification journey on God's divine appointments.
Tomorrow night we'll be back at 8 p.m. for the Feast of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur has deep prophetic significance regarding the Messiah's second coming event, so I hope you join us. We're on this journey to set ourselves apart on God's divine appointments — on his feast days, on his calendar — as we petition him to render righteous verdicts on Yom Kippur, which begins tomorrow night.
We have some new technology we're using tonight, so bear with us if there are any technical issues. We also wanted to do something a little different with the book series, and we just got that done today, so I hope you enjoy it.
My good friend Joseph Taylor Strickland and I have put together a music project — five songs recorded over the last two years. We've completed the mixing and mastering, and four of those songs have been released on YouTube. The fifth one, "Desire of My Heart," which was playing before the broadcast, has not yet been released. We plan to put all five out — remixed and remastered — during the last weekend of the Feast of Tabernacles, along with a live video. That video will share the background story of how Faithful Performance originated: the music, the books, and the relationship between Taylor and myself. We grew up in the same hometown and the Lord brought us back together through this music project. Taylor does all the singing, and he and Nikki, the background vocalist, did a wonderful job. The songs span several genres — a worship song, a jazz-rock song, a Christian rock song, and a writing song, among others — so I hope you get great inspiration from it.
Tomorrow night, right after the Yom Kippur broadcast, we'll be doing a Courts of Heaven prayer. The service should be about an hour to an hour and a half, followed by a few questions, and then we'll go into the prayer. Whoever wants to join us is welcome.
I want to remind everyone that this journey is ultimately for each of us to get personally intimate with God. Of course we want prayer from one another, and I will pray for you — please send me an email — but the whole purpose of the book is for you, for me, and for anyone who reads it to get intimate with God, to petition him, and to let him reveal himself through your spiritual gifts, whether through dreams, visions, words from another believer, tongues, or whatever your gift may be. If you haven't received anything yet, ask him to open your gifts. Go on this intimate journey with him on these divine appointments.
Ever since the Feast of Trumpets, there has been a different vibe — a different environment over these ten days of awe, as my mother calls them. Something has changed in these ten days with the Lord, and we're going to see what he does. I encourage and lovingly challenge you to get intimate with the Lord deeper than you've ever been, especially on his divine appointments: the ten days of awe, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the weekly Shabbat. These are his intimate days. I promise you it's going to change your life and give you a paradigm shift you've never experienced. If you're already doing these things, you are another witness to these beautiful realities, and I really appreciate everyone's support — the testimonies shared in the comments and via email. If I don't get back to you within a couple of days, please give me some grace. I have a lot going on with business, work, the book, and the music, but I will get back to you.
All of our journeys are going to be different, so God is going to communicate with each of you in the way he wants you to understand, according to your spiritual gifts. There have been a lot of great testimonies and a lot of openings. If you haven't received anything yet, do not panic — just keep petitioning the Lord. He is going to show you your spiritual gifts, he is going to speak to you, and he is going to do an amazing work.
For the Courts of Heaven prayer tomorrow night, I encourage everyone to bring two or three witnesses from the Holy Bible to petition your cases. I'll go through the template that I use, but it's just a template — we're simply quoting the word of God organized in a courtroom fashion. Please make it your own. Use your own scriptures, your own psalms, your own praises, however God leads you. I'm sharing what has worked for us, but there are many verses in the Holy Bible to choose from. Come with two or three witnesses for each petition as we ask the Lord to seal our verdicts on Tishri 10 — Yom Kippur.
We're going to petition him to seal those verdicts for good — for the goodness of the Lord to shower blessings upon us in this Jubilee year. Remember, we're stepping into the Jubilee year tomorrow night. Pastor Mark Biltz has worked out the Jubilee cycle from the beginning of creation to now, and it's hard to argue with math. He has been a very big inspiration in my life; I listen to his Shabbat teachings regularly. I would encourage you to tune in to Pastor Mark Biltz and El Shaddai Ministries — his books and his teachings are really phenomenal.
This is an amazing time to be alive, to be on his calendar, and to receive what he's going to do in your life. Not knowing how old everyone is, this may be the last Jubilee year that some of us see. So let's receive it. Let's go into it with positive thinking and faith, knowing that the Lord is going to hear our cries, hear our prayers, hear our petitions, and give us those righteous rendered verdicts — to move whatever needs to be moved in your life and in mine.
That's why I felt today that we shouldn't separate it into a different broadcast. We'll go straight from the Yom Kippur service right into the Courts of Heaven prayer. When two or three are gathered, he is there among us. We're going to go through all of these beautiful things — just as we did with the Feast of Trumpets — letting the scriptures prove what we're discussing, and imagining ourselves in that moment of the second coming event. It is a very important time, my friends, to really pray, to really get right with the Lord, to ask for forgiveness, to hold no unforgiveness in our hearts, and to repent of anything the Lord brings to mind, so that we can come before him clean.
