Preparing To Receive The Promise

I Chronicles 22:5 (NKJV)

5 Now David said, “Solomon my son is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all countries. I will now make preparation for it.” So David made abundant preparations before his death.

Preparation is important to God!

A Picture of Preparation

II Kings 3:16-18 (NKJV)

16 And he said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Make this valley full of ditches.’

17 For thus says the Lord: ‘You shall not see wind, nor shall you see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, so that you, your cattle, and your animals may drink.’

18 And this is a simple matter in the sight of the Lord; He will also deliver the Moabites into your hand.

The ditches dug determined the amount of water that would flow!

Principles of Preparation

Luke 3:4-5 (NKJV)

4 as it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, saying:

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:

‘Prepare the way of the Lord;

Make His paths straight.

5 Every valley shall be filled

And every mountain and hill brought low;

The crooked places shall be made straight

And the rough ways smooth;

-Valleys of Depression

-Mountains of Unbelief

-Crooked Places of Sin

-Rough Places of Dislocation

We are making a freeway for the Lord to come in Power!

The Promise When Preparation is Made

Luke 3:6 (NKJV)

6 And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.’ ”

All Flesh!

Acts 2:16-18 (NKJV)

16 But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:

17 ‘And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God,

That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh;

Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,

Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams.

18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants

I will pour out My Spirit in those days;

And they shall prophesy.

God is up to something BIG!

The Promise Decreed

Luke 5:17 (NKJV)

17 Now it happened on a certain day, as He was teaching, that there were Pharisees and teachers of the law sitting by, who had come out of every town of Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was present to heal them.

The Lord Is Present!