Build An Altar
“Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land. And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.” Genesis 12:7
What happens at an altar? First thing the Holy Spirit said, this is where he learned to worship the Lord. Second, he said this is where he married the land. Pastor Tim
Here at The Wilderness Place, we have said, Yes and I do to this land, and Yahweh is inviting us to be deed holders. In verse 8, it tells us Abram pitched his tent between Bethel and AI. Bethel means House of God. AI means Heap of Ruins. What was Abram declaring to the land by pitching his tent here? He was yielding his life to the process of seeing the house of God restore the heap of ruins. It has always been Yahweh’s heart to partner with men and women willing to stand in the gap for people and places. Ezekiel 22:30 says, “So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land.”
Abram’s heart must be our hearts cry. We can partner with Yahweh and see this entire city and state transformed. Yahweh is looking for covenant people to plant them in broken, discouraged, hopeless, and desperate lands. We are called to be these covenant people.
Are you ready to build an altar before the Lord to say yes and I do to being a covenant kingdom family and see the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our God? He is ready to partner with us in the transformation of our families, cities and state. Pastor Tim shared the history of a well-known ranch in Texas called the King’s Ranch. In 1854, Mr. Richard King bought nearly 17,000 acres deep south of Texas for $300. This land was dry and worthless, but he saw something there which caused him to say - I will marry you and change your destiny. He ended up bringing a whole village of people from Mexico who were wasting away because of the drought and not only did he change the land but also the lives of those precious people for many, many generations. The story is quite fascinating.
Pastor Tim closed with a prophetic word for our family here at The Wilderness Place.
There are businesses not yet started that will be started from people in this room in the next 5 years. The transformation the land is waiting on is locked up in your yes and I do. That means YOU own Pass Road, that means YOU own Gulfport, that means this is your wife, this is your husband, this is your inheritance, and God has called you here to marry the land to see it become all its designed to be. To see a dry desert place become a bubbling Wilderness that dances and sings with Joy.
Saying yes to this beautiful covenant with Yahweh will not only change your life, but it will also change many lives in the generations to come. The altar is ready and waiting for your yes. Will you pitch your tent between The Wilderness Place and Mississippi?
Will you commit to meditating on this scripture this weekend and come Sunday ready to encounter Yahweh?
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her, Will bring her into the wilderness, And speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, And the Valley of Achor as a door of hope; She shall sing there, As in the days of her youth, As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt. “And it shall be, in that day,” Says the Lord, “That you will call Me ‘My Husband,’ And no longer call Me ‘My Master,’ Hosea 2:14-16
