Pastor Poju continued from the teaching he started the previous night and started from Acts 15:6 – 17. What God is essentially doing among the Gentiles is the rebuilding of the tabernacle of David.
The first thing about the tabernacle of David is corporate worship. He mentioned that the place of corporate worship and praise is why online cannot replace physical gathering of the saints. While communication can happen via virtual means, he said, physical gathering is required for proper corporate worship.
The second thing about the tabernacle of David is seeking God’s face and getting direction from God.
Quoting from Psalm 27:1 – 8, he pointed out that David sought God’s face before making decisions. “You don’t make any decision without enquiring from God”, he counseled. In the tabernacle of David, they went there principally to seek God’s face. To seek God’s face is to seek God’s thoughts.
Ps 80:1 – 3
David understood the power of direction. Jer 10:23 – 24 Man cannot direct himself but has to take direction from God. The mistake we’re making is asking God for things and what we think is appropriate for the situation. What we should do is to go to God and ask Him to direct you, and like Mary said, whatever he tells you to do, you do it. John 2:5. Deut 32:10 – 13
2 Chron 26:4 – 6, 14 – 16
“As long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.” If you’re seeking the face of God, innovative thoughts and ideas start coming to you. And when you start getting God’s thoughts, those thoughts generate wealth.
He shared another secret of the tabernacle of David which is intercession, the principle of mercy. David understood mercy. On top of that ark is the mercy seat.
Rev 12:7 – 11
Satan is bringing accusations and Jesus is making intercession. He used Job as a reference point. Every time something negative happens in the natural, it comes from conversations behind the scene, that is in the spirit realm. Essentially, that conversation is accusations. 1 Pet 5:8 – 9, Job 1:1 –
According to Ex 12:13, it is not enough to kill the lamb, the blood has to be applied. According to I John 2:2, Christ’s blood has been shed for the sins of the whole world but not everyone has put their faith in the blood. Rom 3:25-26
Ps 107:2 You apply the blood by confessing it. So you overcome the enemy by the testimony of the blood of the lamb.
However, the other part to what John was saying in Rev 12 is that “they love not their lives unto the end.” That is, laying down your life for your friends, which really is intercession. John 15:13 It’s therefore not enough to be confessing the blood, you need to be an intercessor.
“Internal competition with friends and brothers is how people open up the door to the enemy. When Job prayed for his friends, his captivity was turned around.” Job 42:10
Ezek 22:29 – 31 What God seeks is intercessors.
The greatest in a cell is the one that lay down his life for that group. Your inner circle must be made up of intercessors and you too must be one. The problem is that we get offended at friends and put people in a prison. Release offenders and be interceding for them. That is laying down your life.
If people attack you but you have goodwill in your heart towards them, there’s an edge around you.
Quoting from Eccl 10:7 – 8, he explains that we break the edge by not interceding. Rom 12:20 – 21, Prov 25:21 – 22, Lev 16:11 – 13
Heaping coals of fire implies intercession and standing in the gap for that person so the judgment passes over them.
He concluded by saying that the new tribe God is raising must be one not having blood on their hands and conscience; they’re a people that forgive and intercede for people.