THE YEAR LIVING IN THE UPPER ROOM
14 January 2024
Pastor Lawrence
Lord, Your great love and blessings of my life, I am nothing without You, You have been so good, where will I be today if not for You
John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
The cross is an overwhelming evidence, ultimate proof that God love me
Romans 5:8-9
8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
The cross is an overwhelming evidence proof of God love me
There are challenges, believing God for things yet to see come to pass, remember the cross that God is loving me, He loves me yesterday, today and tomorrow
Do not be afraid, my Father love me
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
=> God's heart towards me
He wants to freely give me all things
God's heart is me prosper in all things even my soul prosper
3 John 1:2
Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
He is a good God
Response to God, heart of gratitude => I worship Him, let my praise life up and rise to Him
I am not alone, God designed us to be in community
Pastor Prince
God wants to do something
This year I will see more breakthrough and healing
My life will never be the same
No words from God is void of power
It carries within itself the power of His own fulfillment
God is still healing
there is devil out there John 10:10
The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
God wants to heal me, He wants my body well
He is a natural Father
Father's heart that child be well
Matthew 6:10
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
God's will in Heaven happens on earth
Pray in my life, my will, Father be done
Things impossible with man, are possible with God
With God all things are possible
Matthew 19:26
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Prayer for healing: In the name of Jesus, I take authority over all this spirit of illness, bind you and cast it out of their life, planted into the sea, I command complete healing
This year, it will be great year for me
difficult solution, turn around
important: Bring forth word of God
The word of God go forth, people healed, there's signs and wonders
Solution to difficult questions
=> message
Psalm 36:9
For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.
even though sermon not link to my questions, never to go with my questions, just illustrate me, message not related to me => anointed preaching
Mark 14:13-15
13 And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.
14 Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’
15 Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.”
He wants a secret place
He wants to pour out His heart like never before
This year, Look into the secret of God's heart, He is revealing to me
Last week sermon, Acts 20 Paul preaching at upper room, Eutycus sleeping and fall off and died. Paul went down and pray for him and raise him from the dead
Eutycus => Prosperous, fortunate, success, to hit the mark, good fortune
It is important of Lord's supper, John 1:11-12
11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:
many receive them, He given them power of God
By now, Judas have decided to sell Jesus off with 3 pieces of silver
Primary => not just for healing and health, remember Jesus, His love for me and what He did for me
Good (Eu) Grace (Charis)
Eucharis, Lord's supper => given to me as a blessings, it is good grace He is giving me
Lord's supper, He don't want anything to disrupt Him and His disciples
Those who fall to discern Lord's supper (body), are missing out of benefit
God doesn't want His people to fall under that because He love me
Discern correctly, the reverse will happen
I am strong, healthy and live long
In Matthew 15:22–28, woman came and ask Jesus to heal her daughter, even the crumbs from master's table is enough, she ask for crumbs, Jesus said "Woman, great is your faith"
woman revelation: even the crumbs can heal her daughter, drive disease/ devil out of her daughter
Mark 14:13
And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.
always women get water and men to the field or carpentry but this time is a man
Mark 14:15
Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.”
I am entering a finished work
"furnished and prepared" => The finished work, blessings of God
This year God makes me enter a place I will eat from vineyard that I did not plant, wells that I did not dig
Under the Holy land, follow the Holy Spirit
God said it, I need to live on certainty, only God words can give me certainty
Don't live on theories and supposition
God is a just God, He do things legally
Deuteronomy 6:10-11
10 “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build,
11 houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full—
=> all in plural
This year get ready, I experience things I don't work for me
Some people are proud , they want to and got to earn it
I enjoy the journey because I focus on God
Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
My eyes on the Lord
my work => my area is serving Him
I enter into everything blessings
God says: Don't be proud when you have alot, they forget the source
I must remember God, the Lord who is my provider
People forget where is their source
God brings me, I cannot be unbrought
God brings me, I am brought
its not my effort
Deuteronomy 8:18-19
18 “And you shall remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may [a]establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
God open doors that no one can shut
Revelation 3:7
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”:
Mark 14:14
Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’
When He enter the house, ask the master of the house, He ask for guest small room chamber but man give a large upper room
Lord foresaw this man will be a generous man
I am forever mark with favour and blessings, mark with eternity
The name man bringing Jesus and disciples to a place of secret place that Judas do not know
What is furnishing? Furnished => everything I need is there
Prepared => there make ready, in Christianity preparing what is prepared
Mark 14:13-16
13 And He sent out two of His disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him.
14 Wherever he goes in, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is the guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’
15 Then he will show you a large upper room, furnished and prepared; there make ready for us.”
16 So His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found it just as He had said to them; and they prepared the Passover.
=> some call farewell address of Lord Jesus Christ
God sharing things about Church, present day truth
Sermon on the Mount (Upper room at Mount Zion)
High mountain than mountain
Upper room => go even higher
John 14, 15, 16 go even higher and to John 17
Paul fullness of it
Paul said: The word you receive from me, not my word, its from God, effective work in you who believe
1 Thessalonians 2:13
For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.
effective => divine energy, power
This year, I will be supernatural
Lord's supper, nothing to do with passover supper
Lord's supper only for His family (believers)
Talk about rapture, Lord is coming back for Church
I need to be save => My health, not money
Upper room => the secret of Jesus' heart being revealed
Last words are always important
Mount Zion, sermon on highest mountain
Sermon on the mount => Jesus on earth preaching to disciples who believing on Him
talks about the law, new addition of the law
hurt someone is murdering him
Jesus is bringing people to be end of themselves
Hand offend you, cut if off. Eyes offended you, pluck it out
Matthew 5:29
If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.
What Jesus means? Either you obey completely or you need a Savior
If you break one, you are guilty of all, it is link of chain, all come and glued
Don't keep the law, you come under curse of the law
The moment you keep the law, you come under the curse
I need a Savior
Law of the King find most in Matthew compared to Luke, I will find Lord's prayers as well
Forgive us of our sins as we forgives those who sin against us
Paul wrote in Colossians and Ephesians => forgives even as for Christ's sake, has He forgiven me
He forgives me
Know that I am forgiven and I forgive others freely because I know I am forgiven
Brought to New Covenant: Love your enemy, overcome evil with good, don't worry about tomorrow and your life
Church is not a building, it is meeting of God's people together
Church truth is heavenly truth on earthly world
=> Jesus in Upper room applies today
John 16:12-14
12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.
14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.
Paul's words are not Paul's words, its ascending glorified Christ seated on the right hand in Heaven
Ephesians 2:4-7
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Remember this => John 16:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us
God is rich in mercy
Mercy is for those who fail
God don't measure sins, I am a Spirit, I live in a body
This year, God wants me to spend more time on Paul's book
John 16:23-24
23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
In Heaven, Jesus called God Father, not Father in Heaven
Jesus came to make dead people live, resurrection the dead
A child ask father for an egg, will you give him a stone?
Luke 11:11-13
11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will yourheavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the person who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Bible said good is good, bad is bad
I am royalty
Luke 22:29
And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;
I am brought into His kingdom
Kingdom => Kingship
Jesus said: I vast in you Kingship as My Father vast in me
Where the word of King is there's power
God does what I say not until what I say
There's King, there's power
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Let men have dominion (subdue/ control) over the earth, not just garden
Paul caught up in 3rd Heaven
Upper room => upper because never touch earth
good things, when Jesus said: its good things means its good things
Ephesians 2:6
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Romans 5:17 AMPC
For if because of one man's trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Reign as a King in life
Learn more in Kingship this year
Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Why? I am seated with Christ
Secret Place => no-one can be there
Today, no secret place for me, I am seated with Christ, posture of rest
Me who seats in the secret place, all protection will be on me although living on earth
sitting down, seated => Authority, He speaks, so watch what I speak
The power of life and death is in the tongues
Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
There will be more rumours
God says: Something I don't tell you is to protect you
Theme of the year not meant for the world
God for Christ's sake have forgiven me
When going overseas, pray Psalm 91 over myself and family
My position is seated in Christ, throne
I need God, we all need God
Hebrews 13:2
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.
Psalm 91:11
For He shall give His angels charge over you,
To keep you in all your ways.
Right Place Right Time
Ephesians 2:4-7
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Heavenly => good heaven, upper, heavenlier (picture of upper room)
Mount Sinai God gave law and 3000 people dead, latter kills
Bible - God married Israel, Jewish (hupa - pattern after Sinai)
Jesus married Church - bride of Christ, New Pentecost
Acts 2:1-4
1 When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3 Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them.
4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Same upper room => man gave Jesus the first time
Pentecost finally come
God gave Holy Spirit
3000 peopled saved before day was over
Latter kills, Spirit gives life
God said: I am not come to destroy, I am come to fulfilled
Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Fulfill => exactly what He did, He fulfilled it
I am now under grace, grace say I shall love as Christ loved me. Grace gives me love for my husband that I don't want to adultery
No-one can live under law, I am under grace
Acts 1:12-14
12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey.
13 And when they had entered, they went up into the upper room where they were staying: Peter, James, John, and Andrew; Philip and Thomas; Bartholomew and Matthew; James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot; and Judas the son of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with His brothers
Acts 1:15
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), and said,.
God is good and His grace endures forever
God said: Everything I do in upper room, I will do to My people this year. What I do in Upper room, what I will do to my people this year
Acts 20:7-8
7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
8 There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together
Came together to break bread
many lights and lamps in Upper room
Theme of the year: THE YEAR OF LIVING IN THE UPPER ROOM
Upper room => 3rd Heaven where I am seated in Christ
local body of Christ
Upper room=> place of light and illumination
=> Jesus reveal Church truth, truth never be reveal before
=> New prayer He have brought up to know
John 16:24
Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
Include Lord's Prayer , not in Jesus name but a family prayer
Take my place as daughter
Holy Spirit => Spirit of truth
He will get me with all the truth
John 16:13
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come
I believe correct, He confirms the truth
Spirit of Sonship, come to God, I must have Spirit of Sonship
I need to master reading Paul's revelation => Romans, Colossians, Ephesians, Galatians => Master them than I can interpret
I shall bring forth treasure of the old because of the new
Place of wisdom and illumination
Acts 20:7-8
7 Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his message until midnight.
8 There were many lamps in the upper room where they were gathered together.
Exodus 10:21-23
21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, darkness which may even be felt.”
22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
23 They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Egypt thick darkness, can't see each other
There's light in dwelling of Israel
Only God's people => Thee is light in all their dwellings (Upper room)
Principle Pastor Prince wants to brings me to Upper room
Birthday of Church in Upper rom, Lord's supper
Bosom unveiled, His bosom which John lean on to hear the secret of Jesus
God reveals more and more this year
In His light, I see light
Daniel and 3 friends captive by King Nebuchadnezzar, they don't want to eat what they offered to idol, just one simple food, theeir trust is in the Lord
end of 10 days, they look better and wiser than all sons of Babylon
Wisdom of God make Daniel and friends 10 times better
Daniel 1:3-16
3 Then the king instructed Ashpenaz, the master of his eunuchs, to bring some of the children of Israel and some of the king’s descendants and some of the nobles, 4 young men in whom there was no blemish, but good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who hadability to serve in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the language and [a]literature of the Chaldeans. 5 And the king appointed for them a daily provision of the king’s delicacies and of the wine which he drank, and three years of training for them, so that at the end of that time they might serve before the king. 6 Now from among those of the sons of Judah were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. 7 To them the chief of the eunuchs gave names: he gave Daniel the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego.
8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king’s delicacies, nor with the wine which he drank; therefore he requested of the chief of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
9 Now God had brought Daniel into the favor and [b]goodwill of the chief of the eunuchs.
10 And the chief of the eunuchs said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking worse than the young men who are your age? Then you would endanger my head before the king.”
11 So Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
12 “Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink.
13 Then let our appearance be examined before you, and the appearance of the young men who eat the portion of the king’s delicacies; and as you see fit, so deal with your servants.”
14 So he consented with them in this matter, and tested them ten days.
15 And at the end of ten days their features appeared better and fatter in flesh than all the young men who ate the portion of the king’s delicacies.
16 Thus the steward took away their portion of delicacies and the wine that they were to drink, and gave them vegetables.
Daniel 1:20
And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians andastrologers who were in all his realm.
I never lose out
Focus on God's wisdom even in the natural signs
Signs can tell what but cannot tell who behind it
Eutycus fell and dead
Lights in God house but midnight all around
Raise myself out of sleep of death
Paul embraced him
Upper room => Place of resurrection
God's sons and daughters are coming back
Salvation raising people out of dead especially young people
Focus on young people and young generation to place of living in the upper room
Old Testament Upper room raising from the dead,
Elijah, bread and oil never ran out, widow's son died and Elijah carried him to the upper room
1 Kings 17:17-19
17 Now it happened after these things that the son of the woman who owned the house became sick. And his sickness was so serious that there was no breath left in him.
18 So she said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to me to bring my sin to remembrance, and to kill my son?”
19 And he said to her, “Give me your son.” So he took him out of her arms and carried him to the upper room where he was staying, and laid him on his own bed.
2 Kings 4:9-11
9 And she said to her husband, “Look now, I know that this is a holy man of God, who passes by us regularly.
10 Please, let us make a small upper room on the wall; and let us put a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; so it will be, whenever he comes to us, he can turn in there.”
11 And it happened one day that he came there, and he turned in to the upper room and lay down there.
Acts 9:37,39-40
37 But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room.
39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
40 But Peter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up.
This year my life be illuminated with God's supernatural light as I dwell in the Upper room, highest Heaven
Thank you Jesus!
Amen!