And then in John chapter 12 in verse 24, most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit. Today, being the celebration of Easter and being Easter Sunday, which is Resurrection Sunday, the celebration of the resurrection of Jesus is universal across the world in the body of Christ.

And everybody's excited today and we celebrate the Resurrection Day. But did you notice there's not much celebration going on Good Friday? Who wants to celebrate death? Did you see a Resurrection Sunday couldn't have come without Good Friday? Because before there can be a resurrection, there has to be a death. Now, not every death is followed with resurrection.

The fact that there is a death does not mean that a resurrection will follow. Also, if resurrection is to follow, it's seldom automatic. There are certain conditions that must be met before this can happen.

Now, I'm not going to preach today on the resurrection of Jesus, as exciting a subject as that is. It's been preached so many times and you can probably tune into anybody out there who's preached today and they've probably preached on that subject. I'm going to preach on Jesus' resurrection in you and I'm going to preach on a subject I've never preached on before.

Well, some of the subject I've preached on before, but I'm going to present to you today truths that are a new revelation to me, which God has just given me. And I hope that it's going to minister to you and set you free. The title of my message today is Dealing With Failed Resurrections.

Dealing With Failed Resurrections. Now, we've taught a principle over and over again. I've taught it many times and you should know it by now.

You've been through our training. You've been subjected to it probably quite a lot. And that is the concept of the birth and the death and the resurrection of a vision.

When we become fully identified with Jesus, we become identified with him in his death and his burial and his resurrection. And we've taught that the purpose for the death is that there's a greater resurrection to come. The reason you have to die is because God has something better for you.

Okay, that's the concept of resurrection of a vision. And all true visions that are from the Lord should go this route quite naturally. If God's given you a new vision and it doesn't go through a death, perhaps it wasn't a vision from the Lord.

Now, the scripture uses the allegory of a seed. Jesus said, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.

Now, I'm going to use the allegory of a seed today and I'm going to take another very well-known passage of scripture, which I'm sure you're quite familiar with. I'm going to show you some things that are very interesting. But before we get to that, let me just ask a few questions.

What is needed for a resurrection to take place? Well, firstly, there's got to be a full death. You can't be resurrected if you're only partly dead. Okay.

Secondly, death must come quickly. And thirdly, you need the right environment for burial. Without those essentials, resurrection is not likely to take place.

Now, how long does it take for resurrection to occur? It begins not long after death. How long does it take before the seed dies and it then sprouts and produces life? Well, for onions, it takes a long time. For radishes, it goes very quickly.

But it's like a natural process. The moment death is complete, resurrection begins. Okay.

Now, we have taught on the subject that sometimes you have to wait for the resurrection and God will resurrect in his time. I'm going to change that today. I'm going to I'm going to throw a spanner in the works of some of the things that we've taught and brainwashed into you.

But I'm not entirely going to change it. So I'm warning you, what's coming today is going to be a little bit different. Not long after death, if everything is good, resurrection begins to take place.

But resurrection can be interrupted. Stopped. Well, what can stop this process? Firstly, if the seed does not die fully.

Fully. Secondly, if the seed doesn't remain buried under the ground. And thirdly, if there's a problem with the soil.

Using all natural allegoria, but as we go through it, I will give the spiritual applications. I think many of them will be quite obvious to you as we get there. Now, let me ask you a question.

How many of your visions that have died, have resurrected? Are you still waiting for the resurrection of a vision that died? Have you given up hope that it's ever going to resurrect? And then how did you respond to the death? When it came, did you say, oh, well, must have been a mistake. Let me go and get another vision. We'll try something different.

And you come to the conclusion, well, perhaps God doesn't want to resurrect this one side. Better just let it go and stay in the grave. And so you gave up.

Or you sat there waiting in hope for the day when one day soon, I hope resurrection will come. That vision will come back to life in a new form. The Lord's going to do it.

I've had a lot of visions in my time of serving the Lord. I've had a lot of death of visions. A lot of my visions were never resurrected.

I've taught until now that you let it die and God will resurrect what he wants to resurrect. And so if the vision isn't resurrected, we assume that quite obviously, God didn't want to resurrect it at this time. Something was faulty somewhere perhaps.

Perhaps I missed it. Or perhaps the Lord changed his mind. I don't know.

Sometimes we sit and waiting in hope saying, well, perhaps it's not God's time yet for the resurrection. Perhaps the vision that he gave me so many years ago, I wasn't ready for it yet. And so when the time is right and I'm ready, perhaps then God will resurrect that vision and it will come back full blown.

And then I'll step onto this path once again and fulfill the vision that God's given me. That sound about right? It's the way we presented it. So I have taught it.

So I have always believed it. And as I look to the Lord, what I should teach today, he showed me something I'd never seen before. He said, since you look at it, seeds go to the parable of the sower.

You know the parable of the sower? Sower went forth to sow seed. Some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and ate it and took it away. Some seed fell amongst stony ground and it sprung up but had no root in itself and it withered away in the sun.

Other seeds fell amongst thorns and weeds that sprang up and choked it and the seed died. And then the fourth seed was the only one actually that made it. That is a seed that fell into good ground and it bore forth much fruit.

Very in degrees, 30 fold, 40 fold and 60 folds. I'm not going to major on that today. So it doesn't matter.

I want you to see that there are four different scenarios here. Okay. Only one of them shows the principle that we've always taught and believed.

Of the birth, the death and the resurrection of the vision. Something that starts out small and is resurrected into something far greater. That's the fourth seed.

It was planted in good soil. Now, that means the other three failed. Only the fourth seed died and resurrected to produce fruit.

The other three, they failed. Let's look at the fate of these seeds. Okay.

The first seed, it bypassed everything. See, the seed didn't even penetrate the soil because it fell on the walkway where everybody was walking, where the soil had been trampled hard. And so when the seed landed there, it couldn't penetrate the soil, so it couldn't germinate.

That seed was very quickly removed, either blown away by the wind or eaten by the birds that came to take it. That seed never died or resurrected. Nothing happened to it.

Then we look at the second seed and we see that this seed got halfway and then stopped. The seed died. It was in the ground.

It even started to resurrect. It sprang up, the scripture says, but it failed to complete the resurrection. Why? There were stones in the soil that opposed it and blocked it and it couldn't go any further.

This, I believe, is an example of a failed resurrection. Let's look at the next seed, the third one. This one went a very similar route to the other one.

The seed died. It started to resurrect and up sprang the thorns and the weeds and choked it. Again, we have a failed resurrection.

The fourth seed went through all the stages. It died, resurrected straight after death. According to the normal pattern, and it began to bear forth fruit.

Now, I'd like to liken this seed to your vision. I know the scripture says the seed is the word of God, but we're using a different illustration here. I'd like you to think of that seed as being the vision that God gave you.

It has within it the potential to produce amazing fruit and life, but not until it's been through death and resurrection. Now, when God gives you something like that, you immediately come into an opposition from the enemy. He's going to attack it right away.

He doesn't want you to get that seed in the ground to go through its process of death and resurrection. So, he's going to fight it immediately. Any true vision that God has given you, I'll guarantee straight after you got it, you begin to wonder, are you right? Was that really of the Lord? Maybe did I miss it? Maybe it was just my emotions were stirred.

Maybe it's from something I saw on TV last night. Maybe I wonder, was this really a vision from the Lord? See, if you leave it huddling there in your mind for long enough, it's not going to stay long. It's going to be gone.

Satan's going to take it right out. Now, the second seed, perhaps you got the vision and you are really excited, really keen. The scripture says this seed sprung up immediately with great gusto.

So, you got into the vision, you got out there, you started to make the preparations, you started to put yourself out there, started to do. This vision says you should do. But man, oh man, all the hassles that come your way, after a while, you kind of wonder whether it was really worth it.

You kind of wonder whether you have what it'll take to follow this thing through. Sounded great at the beginning, seems such a brilliant idea. Man, I gave it my all and I saw results, but now comes the grind.

Do you know what? I didn't realize there's so much work involved in this thing. I didn't realize what it was going to cost me to follow this through. You begin to lose some of that first enthusiasm that you had, that great excitement.

What seemed like a fun thing now becomes work. Boring, you express it. See, the stones quickly prevented further growth of the seed.

Now, all would have been great if the stones weren't there, wouldn't it? Wouldn't have been a problem. That seed would have sprung up beautifully, started to bear forth fruit or whatever, flourished. Nothing wrong with the seed.

There's a problem in the soil. The soil has got stones in it. And until you get the stones out of the way, that seed is not going to prosper.

Your vision started to hit the rocks, started to hit the stones, and it couldn't go any further. You been there? I've been there. And we get the third one, the third vision.

You get it in there. You get it going. You work at it steadily.

The scripture doesn't say that this one sprung up quite as quickly as the second one, but it was steady. It got in there. It began to grow.

It really tried hard, but slowly, bit by bit, other things started to come in. Other things started to come into your life and into your way. You began to sense things coming out of your heart that you didn't know were there.

You began to think thoughts that you hadn't thought. You began to have these conflicting ideas in your mind. Thorns began to choke that plant.

Resurrection, once again, didn't complete. Now, all would have been great if it wasn't for the thorns. There's nothing wrong with the seed.

And actually, the soil, by and large, was pretty good. It had everything that was needed for the seed to grow. But those thorns prevented it from happening.

Well, how can we stop this from happening? Because I'm quite sure that as you see the allegory of how you've tried to get your vision going, you face some of these same problems. I'm an expressive. I come up with 10 ideas at a time.

I've lost count of the number of visions I had that I tried to fulfill. They failed. Well, I learned if this one fails, plant another seed.

If that seed fails, plant another one. Sooner or later, we're going to hit one that's going to grow. That's how I thought.

And every now and then, I did get a bit more success. But the bottom line was those powerful visions that I felt were from God. It just went so far, and then they died.

Now, what can we do to stop this from happening? Well, in the stony soil, you need to take the stones out first. And you know, if you take the stones out, there's a lot more space for soil. There's no blockages in the soil when the plant tries to grow.

So here's a piece of simple, logical, common sense advice. Don't plant until the stones are gone. Doesn't that make sense? But we never learn, do we? Maybe this time it'll be different.

Maybe this time, you know, maybe I was planting the wrong thing. That's what it was. I was planting the wrong kind of seed.

Let's try something different. Maybe this seed will grow stony. No, you're looking at the wrong thing.

You need to look at the soil. You need to deal with where that seed is being planted. Now, in the original allegory, the seed is the heart of man.

The first place to look before you plant your seed is to look what lies below the surface right here. So that's where the stones are. Before you plant where the thorns and the weeds are, get rid of the thorns and the weeds.

Yeah, that's a bit more difficult. Stones are pretty easy. You just dig up the soil and you pick the stones out.

They're pretty clear. You can see what's soil and what's stone very quickly. Very easy.

Take the stones out, throw them away, put the soil back in. You got a good soil, right? You don't even need to put anything back. You just take the stones out.

I'm going to show you shortly what that allegory means in practical terms. When it comes to the thorns and the weeds, man, that is another story. That soil looked perfectly good to me.

There were no stones or anything in it. I couldn't see any of those thorns and weeds. But as soon as my plants started to come up, there comes all the weeds.

And they always grow faster, don't they? Oh, Lord, if you've ever done gardening, you know what this one's like. Where did those stupid weeds come from? The soil looked fine. It's going to take a bit more work to get rid of those seeds.

You're going to have to actually treat that soil in some way. You may have to sift it through a very fine sieve to pull the seeds out. You might have to put some weed killer in or something.

You've got to get rid of those thorns first before you try to plant the seed. Like I said, it's not as easy as the stones. You're going to have to work with the soil.

You're going to have to take things out, but you may also have to put things in as well. It's going to be slightly different. Now, there are two essential preparation ministries that fit exactly with this allegory.

The one is perfect for removing stones. The other one deals with weeds and thorns and hidden things. Now, we've just had a seminar.

That's another message last week on the subject of inner healing and transformation. And I warned you, you're going to be hearing a lot more about the subject. We're not finished with it yet.

But you see, the healing of the soul, the dealing of the hurts of the past, bringing supernatural power to bear on the memories. You know what that does? It takes out the stones. It takes out the stones.

Now, when you come to taking stones out of the soil, it's very easy to see the big ones. I had one where you try and push the fork in or the pick, and it just goes, hits solid rock. Sometimes you've got to dig around.

Here comes this huge, huge boulder. I'm so big, you can barely pick it up. You pull that out eventually.

Out it goes. You think, sure, wonderful, at last. But you see, it's not just big boulders there.

There's small ones too. And even though you may have got the big ones out, if you leave the small ones in, you're going to eventually have the same problem occurring. Now, we make the same mistake with inner healing.

We have an experience from God where he puts his finger on some of the hurts of the past and some of the big things in our lives. And by his supernatural transforming power, as he did even during the seminar, and afterwards, he reaches in and he dislodges that big boulder and he takes it out. And you feel the difference immediately.

Wow, how did I live with that thing there for so long? I think my soil is ready now. Let me go plant my seed. I shared with you in my own personal experience, as I prepared that for the seminar, God showed me things I'd never dealt with before.

And I've been teaching this for years. Both during the seminar and after the seminar, he continued to show me new things, more little stones that I'd missed. So, you may have had a wonderful experience of healing and transformation, but that doesn't mean you're ready yet to start planting your seed.

Don't rush off too quickly. The expressives, we do this. Analyticals, they strain out it and eventually never plant the seed because they can't make up their mind.

So, we have these two extremes. Make sure all the stones are gone before you can trust that soil. Otherwise, you know what's going to happen.

The vision takes off. Isn't this exciting? Where did that rock come from? I thought I got rid of that. I thought I got rid of all those big hurts in my life.

You know, there was still something there. It was still something from my past. I was standing in the way.

You know, when you start getting going with the vision God's given you, especially if it becomes more public, oh, it's devastating when you hit one of those unexpectedly. Before you know it, your great vision, you die. You die.

So, there's still something there. It wasn't dealt with. So, I'd encourage all of you who've had this wonderful experience of transformation that God gave us, the seminar, to just don't rush off just yet.

I said I've been doing this for years and I found some in me. So, chances are pretty good you've still got some in you. It's not all gone yet.

Don't re-watch the seminar if you want to. And if you feel that you need personal prayer, come for prayer. Perhaps there's a few things that you haven't uncovered yet that need to be removed.

If you try to plant your seed and your seed began to hit the rocks, stop right there. Let it go. Give it up.

Come and deal with the stones first. So, but now my seed has died. Can I believe for a resurrection? Nope.

Wrong kind of death. See, you actually did start the resurrection but your resurrection failed. When the resurrections failed, you can't resurrect the resurrection.

You've got to start again with a new seed. And you don't even think about that until you've dealt with the stones. The healing of the soul is a preparation ministry.

It's a supernatural ministry. That God by his power reaches in and takes out of you those things which are standing in your way. He literally removes those stones from your heart.

Now, I thought that was enough and it was wonderful to experience his healing power during the last while. I felt it was time for me to get going with some of the new things that God's given me. And he gave me some new exciting visions.

Oh, really exciting visions. Some of the things that I've desired for a long time. And I thought, I must go.

Let's start putting it into practice. Here we go. I'm ready to take go.

I don't want no stones. Never hit any blocks. Suddenly, other things began to overwhelm me.

And I began to lose the vision. And I began to feel I can't go on. I said, Lord, what's going on? The Lord challenged me on a subject I've never preached on.

Subject I like to avoid. Because it's a subject that some people out there major on all the time. So they've written it hollow back until you're sick of it.

And that's the subject of holiness. Well, you know, I was told that holiness is really a kind of legal standing. That in Christ, we are righteous and we are made holy, not because of what we have done, but because of Calvary.

And you know, positionally, in God's side, we are perfect. God does not hold us responsible for our sins, because Jesus died for them, and Jesus intercedes for them on the right hand of the Father. But we're not perfect yet.

Some people out there who teach that we have everything that Jesus accomplished, including his resurrection power. And therefore, if we would embrace it, we shouldn't need to die. Just listening to a dear brother, who was so zealous for this, became the champion of this teaching.

He got cancer and he died. Where is he teaching now? In the grave. We are in a process of being redeemed from sin.

Positionally, we have been redeemed from the consequences of sin, but there still works within us a force, a law, where Paul says that I want to do what is right, but I find myself doing what is wrong. Now we touched on that briefly in the seminar. Nadine covered it quite well.

She spoke about compulsive behavior and habit patterns that became formed in our lives, very often as a result of the hurts of the past. And up until now, I firmly believe that the only way we can deal with this is by a continual process of learning to replace the old habit pattern with a new one. And that's 100% scriptural.

And that's exactly what takes place. Scripture says, put this off, put that on. Put this off, put that on.

It's a process. You don't fully put off before you start putting on, but they kind of cross over each other like this. And so gradually, the sinful habit becomes less and less in our lives.

And more and more, the righteous, correct habit, scriptural habit, becomes stronger until eventually the new one displaces the old. And we find it easier to do the right habit pattern instead of the wrong one. Now, coming to that process might sound simple, but it's not simple.

Very difficult. There are people who have got compulsive habits, addictions, and bondages in their life, which they have tried to overcome, but they still struggle with it. You know, I never ever took up smoking, partly because I was brought up in a home situation where my grandmother, my grandfather, sorry, him, smoking and telling a lie were the two biggest sins that would take it out.

I had the literal fear of God drummed into me. You don't smoke and you don't tell lies. I couldn't even lie at school and say, sorry, miss, I left my homework at the house.

I'd tell the truth. I didn't do it. So I got into trouble while everybody who lied got away with it.

It was tough. See, once during my rebellious period, one of my friends was smoking and I said, just give it to me, let me see what it tastes like. And I just, I didn't even, I just sucked on the thing once and I was like, this is disgusting.

But yet, I grew up in church, seeing people come forward for prayer to be delivered from smoking. I see, I've seen and heard of people who didn't have a problem. They just made up their minds and they gave it up.

There are people who struggle with it year after year. And even when they prayed for, it doesn't seem to help. And so I just left it at that.

For me, I wasn't going to start it because I didn't want to be in that bondage. I didn't want this thing to grab me and I can't cope with it anymore. But you see, it's just an obvious one.

We have other little habit patterns in our lives. We have little things that creep in, like say, using bad language. Well, you know, you know, when I get angry, I'll just let a few of those words slip, helps you express your feelings better.

Normally, I don't swear, but you know, you know what, you made me mad enough. I have the right, I think right now, to use a swear word to express how angry I am. It's not a big deal.

It's not a big sin. It's not taking you to hell. I used to fear the day I would stand up here to preach and accidentally let out one of those words.

What would the people think? You, where would I hide my face? The Lord spoke to me and he said, you're going to have to stop all of them, even the minor ones. And the world, they say, they have an expression that says as close as dammit is to swear. Oh, you know, dammit's not such a big swear word, is it? Damn thing.

You know, do you know where swear words come from? They come from Satan taking God's precious truths and twisting them. Damnation, something that God brings to those who continue in the life of sin. So Satan wants to ridicule damnation and he gets us to use the word damn.

The name of Jesus is the name above every other names. It's the most common swear word for people to say Jesus. Sometimes we kind of twist it to Jesus.

That's not really a swear word, is it? You know where it comes from? See, these things are so subtle. They get into us and you know what? They're weeds, they're thorns. We have our little private addictions that don't affect anybody else but us, perhaps.

We have little areas of our life that are not fully under the control of the Holy Spirit. Now, I gave just a couple of common examples. There are so many more, so please don't think I'm trying to make you feel guilty if you have any of those habits.

See, the Holy Spirit needs to show you. To walk in true holiness before the Lord, these things must be removed from our lives. We should be the same at all times.

When we first started in our ministry online, there were times that I got angry with people and tore strip off them with my emails until the one day I was telling the rest of my team what I thought of this person and I accidentally sent it to them. And there were repercussions there. I made up my mind that from now on I'd rather just not say anything negative and have Satan trip me up and use those things to destroy the ministry that God's given me.

You see, we who have the call of God, we've been given a powerful vision of the kingdom of God. We can't afford the luxury of these things in our lives. Okay, so we've all got them, whether they be small or big.

We've got these little things and I'm not trying to preach to bring conviction today, but I want to offer you a new hope. Because the Lord said to me, my power can take those things out of you. I can remove them instantly just like that in the same way I took out your hurts of the past.

It's a different kind of anointing. It's called the power of sanctification. People in the past have experienced such a sanctifying work of God that they pulled the doctrine out of it.

They called it the second blessing. The whole church and denominations, the holiness movement who preached this as a doctrine, that after you saved, you need to pray and ask the Lord for the second blessing. And like John Wesley were famous for laying the doctrinal foundation of this and the methodism that he created was based on this.

And the idea was that God can take all the sin out of you and make you righteous. Kind of borders on this whole idea of me living forever, of me becoming totally like Christ. You see, we still have the seed of sin in our bodies.

And until we are resurrected with a new body like Jesus, we will still have the effects of sin in this life. But the Holy Spirit can supernaturally come in and take those little things. The scripture says, let's lay aside the weights and the sins that so easily beset us and let us run the race.

And so it may even seem a small thing, but you battle to get to let it go. God by his power can take it out of you just like that. He can take the very desire away.

He can just transform it. It's part of the transformation process. Now, I haven't reached this because I've avoided the subject.

The Lord spoke to me about holiness. I said, Lord, what is this going to do with me? I can't prepare this message. He reminded me, he said, see, this is where the holiness part fits.

It's the thorns and the weeds, and they have to be removed or they're going to choke the vision. They're going to destroy your ministry and it will not flourish. So we have the ministry of the healing of the soul, and we have a ministry, which I'd like to call the purging of the soul, where we are made clean within by the power of the Holy Spirit.

It's called the ministry of sanctification and cleansing. It deals with sinful habits and compulsive behavior. It brings the supernatural power of God to bear on the sins of the flesh.

It takes out the thorns and the weeds, and the result is true holiness and purity of hearts. So we got to get rid of the stones, but that's not enough. We got to get rid of the weeds and the thorns.

As I shared on the healing side, you may be saying, well, I do feel the stones are gone. I do believe that the Lord healed me of every significant thing there, and you may be right. You may think it's now safe to plant your seed.

Stones may be gone, folks, but there could be thorns there. Could be weeds there waiting to choke that new vision. And so this is the next step.

I'm probably going to be preaching more on it without majoring on it, because the Lord said, I've given you a supernatural anointing to heal the hurts of the past. He said, I've also given you a supernatural anointing to take away sinful traits and habit patterns in people. And he said, the symptom of such a healing is when a new infusion of love begins to take place in the heart of a person.

Now, I've met people who have had this sanctification experience, and their major emphasis comes love, because if you love your neighbor as yourself, you'll do them no harm. If you love the Lord, you guard with all your heart. When love becomes the motivation, sin falls by the wayside.

Now, I have often prayed with people, and in my early experience of the Lord where he taught me his love, I've come to a place where I feel a love anointing. Sometimes when I'm praying with a person, I feel this overwhelming urge just to put my arms around them. And sometimes I have to be careful, but if it's a beautiful young woman, she may get the wrong idea.

But that's not even my mind. I'm just thinking, let me just infuse you with the love that I feel. At one stage, I was convinced that when I felt that love anointing, that God was performing an inner healing.

But only when God gave me an actual anointing for inner healing, did I realize that the manifestation was not the same. So the Lord has showed me that these two anointings are different, and they operate in different ways, and that he wants his church to function in these things. Now, I'm still in a learning process myself.

I've been experimenting, as it were, by ministering to those that God brings. But as God teaches me more, I will be sharing more. And whatever God gives me, as an apostle, I will naturally, freely give to others.

So the scripture says, follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts. Some goals to aim for. Lord, I want you to use me in healing the soul, the hurts.

I want you to use me to transform people and take those sinful things out of them. I believe that the Lord wants to use each one of us in that way. Now, if we've dealt with these parts of our being, if we've dealt with the stones, and we've dealt with the thorns and the weeds, and usually we only actually come to do that after we try to plant our seed and it didn't make it.

So now that I've done that, and I'm now ready, and the soil is ready, how do I view the seed that didn't make it? Do I say, well, that was a mistake. I don't think it's a good idea to try that again. Or do we say, that must have been a death of a vision.

So I will wait until God resurrects it. Is that the way you would do it naturally in a garden? If you planted seeds and they failed and you discovered that the soil was bad, so you went and you dealt with the soil, what would you do? You can't plant the seeds that died. You plant new seeds.

Same kind of seed again, that you had. See, now this is totally contrary to what I've taught until now, concerning death and resurrection of a vision. You see, in all of these cases, no death of a vision or resurrection actually took place.

That means the original seed must get replanted. And only now, the full process will begin and will follow through to fruition. Now, I have a lot of visions that God's given me along the way.

I've tried a lot of things, and most of them have failed. And God's challenging me afresh, and he's saying, you're waiting for a new vision. I'm saying, Lord, show me what I should do next.

And the Lord's saying to me, what did I give you back there? I never changed my mind. I never brought it to death that it could be resurrected. It came to death because you weren't ready.

Nothing wrong with the vision. It still stands intact. Now, I'm sure you've got some things you tried before and they failed, and you came to the conclusion it was a mistake.

Maybe I wasn't equipped for this. Maybe I never heard God right. The Lord's going to do a new kind of resurrection.

He's going to do a reminding. He's going to remind you of some of the visions that he gave you in the past. And the scripture says the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable.

And do you think it's time you went back and tried again? But not until you're sure that you've dealt with those stones and with those thoughts. Don't even think of planting a garden until you've dealt with that thoroughly. Once that's dealt with, don't sit around waiting for a new vision.

You've probably got dozens already there waiting that you can get into. Some of them were really exciting visions. But you know what? The time may even be better now than what it was back there for you to carry out that vision.

Bring it to pass. So in conclusion, how many visions have you had from the Lord? And how many of those visions went through death and resurrection? How many died and failed to resurrect? Are you able to identify your failed resurrections? How many of them were caused by stones? Oh, I tell you, as God began to show me some of the things that he's healed me of just in the last months, he pointed me back and he said, this is why you failed there. This is why you failed there.

This is why you failed there. I said, oh Lord, why didn't I see it? I've been, I've left no stone unturned trying to find out what it is in my life. It's been stopping me.

What curse there was, I've searched for everything. There it was sitting right there. And when the Lord healed it and he took it out of me, he said, you could have succeeded in those if I dealt with it back there already.

I have to have a fresh look and say, should I try it again? Oh, I'm afraid. Am I afraid that if I try it will fail again? Have I allowed my heart to be filled with fear of failure? You know that old English expression, once bitten, twice shy? What is God saying to you? I'd like to suggest you go pray about some of those old visions and ask the Lord whether he still wants you to plant that seed now that he's dealt with the soil of your heart. They were caused by thorns.

How many of them were a mistake? They really weren't from the Lord. That's why they failed. Let's not leave that possibility out.

Maybe it was just your imagination, your excitement, your own true desires, what you really wanted. Examine each one of them and give them these tests. Now that you've experienced healing, see which ones you can try again.

Maybe it's time to stop waiting for a resurrection. This is no resurrection coming because the true death of a vision didn't take place. Could it be that the failures caused by sinful patterns in your life? Are you still struggling with certain compulsive behavior or bad habits? Have you tried to overcome them and failed? You need the purging power of his spirit.

Now the Lord's given you some good visions. If those visions never got going, perhaps the seed's still good. And if your heart is prepared now, could you proceed with them again? If they died and they failed to resurrect, then perhaps you need some inner healing.

Perhaps you need some purging within. You don't have to wait. You can do this right now.

It's time to plant and get going. I'm going to end by us coming to the Lord in prayer. And I want you to reach out and let him remove any more stones that are there.

And be honest enough to say, Lord, I got some of those thorns there. There's some weeds there that I know they shouldn't be there. And I've tried to get rid of them, but they're still there.

Lord, I need you to take them out. Would you do that? Father, I thank you for your word. Gave it as you gave it to me.

By your spirit, I pray that you will convict and convince and open the understanding. I pray for your dear children that are in your presence here this morning. Those that are watching from afar, that you will show them those visions that were of you, but they failed to go through the process of death and resurrection.

They were failed resurrections. And today on Resurrection Sunday, Lord, we want to go back and we want to make sure that those resurrections follow through this time. So Holy Spirit, I ask you to move upon each one who may still have some stones there, perhaps still a few hurts, perhaps a few templates and triggers that need to be removed, which will stand in the way of their progress.

So once again, I invite you by your power, by the power of your Holy Spirit to reach in and heal some of those remaining hurts. Though the stones may be small, they are stones nevertheless, and they need to be removed. I'm asking you to take them out now by your transforming power.

Take them out. They're gone. Now, Lord, I ask you once again to anoint me with that love anointing.

Oh, yes. As you reach out to your people in love and in compassion, not in judgment, I sense his heart is weeping for you. He's not judging you.

He's not condemning you. He's saying, oh, my child, why do you struggle to overcome these things when my power is available to do it for you? Why don't you just stop trying to do it yourself and trust me? I love you and I care for you and I want to do this in you. I'm now Lord Jesus.

You're the ultimate healer. I'm Holy Spirit. You're the ultimate sanctifier.

Your very title carries the word holy. It is in your nature to bring and produce holiness. Lord, we need that holiness because your word says without holiness, no man shall see God.

We need that practical holiness in our lives right now. We need a new mighty release of the power of your love and your sanctifying power to cause these weights to fall off, to cause these sins that so easily beset us to vanish away now and trouble us no more. And so I'm asking you for each of your people now as they reach out to you in faith and trust you and believe you, Holy Spirit, you're going to do that in each one now.

And I thank you for it. Thank you for each one watching. Let you reach out where they are right now.

You touch them. You let fire of your spirit just burn out the dross. Take away what should go.

Let the purification of your spirit make us white. Your sins be as scarlet as you'll be white. That's the promise of his words.

Embrace that promise now and let him do it in you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father.

Thank you, sweet spirit. I ask now, Lord, that you would revive the visions in the sense of reminding us of some of the visions that we never followed through, not because you called them to death, Lord, but because we planted them prematurely in the wrong soil. I see is your whole your seed in your hands.

I see a whole mixture of different kinds of seeds and they're all the seeds of the past. Each one of them is a seed that God gave you. Wasn't your imagination to see that God gave you and the Lord saying it is not too late.

Though time has passed, though you have failed, though others have failed, the seed still stands and seed that has stood thousands of years still has the life in it to reproduce. If as you prepared your heart, says the Lord, and you are ready now to plant these seeds afresh, know that I will cause them to go through the correct process. Indeed, there will be a death, but it will be a very swift death.

It will happen quickly and immediately following after that death will come my resurrection power and you will see a multiplication, a mighty manifestation of growth come as a result of those seeds. The promises that I gave you many years ago will still be fulfilled, says the Lord, because I didn't change my mind and I'm still going to use you the way I promised you. Therefore, take your seeds now and plant them well, says the Lord, and plant them in good soil and trust me to do my part.

Indeed, I shall, says the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Father, for your word.

Thank you for your precious people. May each one rise up now and find their full potential, having been delivered from every obstacle that stands in the way. Ask it in Jesus' name.

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