Sermon:  “Canada, God Has A Question”

Sermon:  “Canada, God Has A Question”

Canadian Facts:

The official phone number for Canada is 1-800-o-canada.

10% of the world’s forests are in Canada.

Sam Panopoulos Canadian creator of the Hawaiian Pizza

Longest street Young — 2,000 km.    Longest coastline — 202,000 km

The United States has invaded Canada twice. Lost both times.

Wasaga – Canada has the longest freshwater beach in the world.

Canada eats more doughnuts than any other country in the world.

Basketball was invented by a Canadian — Dr James Naismith

Superman was co-created by Jerry Siegal and Canadian Joe Shuster.

Canada is the most educated country in the world

More than 50% of the Canadian population has a post-secondary education qualification. And Canada’s literacy rate is 99%.

Psalm 33:12 “The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.”

Psalm 72:8 “He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, And from the River to the ends of the earth.”

Dominion:– dominance or power through legal authority; Sovereign or supreme authority.

“He shall have dominion…”

“…Canada and the Canadian church is going to rise up once again and go to the four corners of the world and bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to pave the way for His second coming.”  CHO

The Bible is about a King, a Kingdom, and a royal family of children. 

A message about the desire of a King to extend His Kingdom  through His royal family. 

Matthew 13:33  (NLT) “The Kingdom of Heaven is like the yeast a woman used in making bread. Even though she put only a little yeast in three measures of flour, it permeated every part of the dough.”      Quietly — Progressively — Inevitably     His Kingdom fills every thing every way!

Man rejected heaven’s government, when he chose independence.

The result was manmade attempts to govern God’s creation.

The root of the problems that plague mankind are primarily fallen government and religion.

1 Peter 2:9   “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a [special] people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies [the wonderful deeds and virtues and perfections] of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

“Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child with God. Working hand in hand with God towards the realization of His redemptive purposes in the earth.”     Jack Hayford

“What a man is on his knees before God, that he is, and nothing more.”  R M McCheyne

“The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.”  Andrew Murray

Acts 2:18-19  “I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy: I will show…” 

Isaiah 48:6-7  “I show you specified new things from this time forth, even hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known.They are created now [called into being by the prophetic word], and not long ago; and before today you have never heard of them, lest you should say, Behold, I knew them.” 

Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”    Two-edged (Distomos):— two mouthes 

Jeremiah 1:9-10 “Then the Lord put forth His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me: ‘Behold, I have put My words in your mouth. See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant.’” 

Jeremiah 1:12 (AMP)  “Then said the Lord to me, You have seen well, for I am alert and active, watching over My word to perform it.” 

When God wants to change the world he touches someones mouth. 

Isaiah 6:6-8   “Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth with it, … Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: ‘Whom shall I send, And who will go for Us?’ Then I said, ‘Here am I!  Send me.’”

Ezekiel 37 BACKGROUND
597 BC — Judah overrun by the Babylonians. 

Those not taken into captivity revolted and Babylon returned, razed Jerusalem and the temple. 

Ezekiel in the first group taken into Babylon. 

People broken and hopeless. 

Ezekiel 37:1-14  “The hand of the Lord came upon me and brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. Then He caused me to pass by them all around, and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed they were very dry.”

THIS DOES NOT LOOK GOOD — HOPELESS!!!  

And He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” So I answered, “O Lord God, You know.” Again He said to me, “Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! Thus says the Lord God to these bones: “Surely I will cause breath to enter into you, and you shall live.

I will put sinews on you and bring flesh upon you, cover you with skin and put breath in you; and you shall live. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.’ So I prophesied as I was commanded;…

and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and suddenly a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.  Indeed, as I looked, the sinews and the flesh came upon them, and the skin covered them over; but there was no breath in them.    

Also He said to me, Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath, Thus says the Lord God: “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on these slain, that they may live.” So I prophesied as He commanded me, and breath came into them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet, an exceedingly great army. 

1. Position Yourself For Vision 

Proverbs 29:18 “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

No fresh vision and you fall for nonsense, abuse your purpose.

“I didn’t move.”  D. Karl Thomas

2. Speak His Word To The Dry Bones

Don’t speak for them speak to them. What does God Say?

Can God trust you to speak that word.

A Prophetic voice will cause NOISE!

Hebrews 11:3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”

Proverbs 11:11 “A city is exalted by the blessing provided from the upright, but it is destroyed by the counsel of the wicked.”

3. Command The Army To Breathe

 2 Timothy 3:5 “…having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!”

Ephesians 6:10-11 “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”

Ezekiel 47:12 “Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land…”