When I was baptized in the Spirit back in 1985 and spoke with other tongues, I asked the Lord for the interpretation.
All that I can remember is that He said, the name of your ministry is glory to God! Ministries. And I have called you to be a General in my ARMY!
We’ll that was really cool, and I got excited. But I had absolutely no clue to what He was talking about.
We are called to be the army of the Lord. Do you know what it means to be in an army?
I never had the honor of serving in the military, but the Lord told me I want you to honor every veteran you meet. So that is what I do. When I meet a veteran, I say, I want to thank you for your service, and every single one of them says, “Well, thank you”
Because the moment you are in the Military, your life is on the line. It is a matter of life and death.
We’ll then the Lord said, I want you to teach my word. And I take the Word of the Lord very seriously! There is a greater accountability, being called into the office of a teacher.
So my life became a living nightmare. There are thousands of different denominations, each thinking they are right and everyone else is wrong.
So I went to every kind of church there is, spending thousands and thousands of dollars buying books and tapes.
Being tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine, but I was driven to understand the Word of God. So I would learn all I could from any type of Church, I went to, and when I was no longer being fed, I would leave because I still was not satisfied; I had too many questions that they could not answer.
But all along the journey people would call me general lee. But I could care less about being in the army; I am called to teach the bible, and until I can teach the Bible accurately I was not satisfied.
We’ll finally God answered my prayer and gave me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. So that I am no longer dependant upon man to teach me, but the Spirit of God, and I can teach on any subject of the Bible. So I have been working on my website, which is my own personal bible school, because I went to a couple bible schools and then the lord would call me out to study under a different ministry.
So today I want to teach on psalm 110:2 the Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: RULE IN THE MIDST OF THINE ENEMIES.
This is going to be a hard word to receive, but what kind of General would I be, if I gave you a soft word. God is not going to have an undisciplined army.
We are entering into the battle of the ages. The battle is who is going to rule over planet earth? Satan, the anti-christ, the beast? Or Jesus Christ and His army!
The Psalm most often quoted in the New Testament is the hundred and tenth Psalm.
It is quoted in the sermon on the day of Pentecost;
It is quoted by the Lord in all of His questioning to the scholars of the day;
It is quoted more frequently in the book of Hebrews than any other Psalm, especially the reference to the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek.
It contains promises that are just fabulous and it is very directly related to your problems.
You may feel that you have certain things that you’d like God to give you a word about, but more important is the need to see the Lordship of Jesus Christ, not as a thing of the future, but as a thing existing right now.
He’s not going to be King, He is King. He’s not going to be Lord, He is Lord.
The whole idea is conveyed in Psalm 110, Rule in the midst of Thine enemies. Verse 2b.
The whole purpose of Christ’s rule is that He reigns until every enemy is made His footstool. It’s a reigning until He subdues.
It’s an aggressive reign that brings everything down. It’s a rod of iron that brings everything under control.
If we understand this marvelous truth, we can enter in to become companions of the Lord in the patience of Jesus until all things are under Him.
There are a great many things that we need to be prepared for and I think that God is trying to alert us to them.
Persecutions have begun in so many different areas. It’s difficult to imagine the different forms of harassment that are starting.
We are being confronted by things we are not prepared for.
The idea of opposition and persecution coming from so many different areas is frightening, but we must come to the place where we absolutely commit it to the Lord and lay our lives on the altar.
Then we will be ready for persecution and everything that comes.
This is going to be God’s great move in the earth, I don’t think we’re going to fall short of it; God is already working the dedication in the lives of His people so they will go forth valiantly and courageously, boldly to do the will of the Lord in the earth. It is already happening.
There are still those who want to push aside the idea that this is really God’s great move on the earth; there are others who do see it but feel that it’s going to come easy—it isn’t—it is the most deadly, vicious conflict of the ages; it’s being resolved.
It is the hour that Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father, waiting, expecting that His enemies be made the footstool of His feet (Psalm 110:1).
The hour has finally come for the fulfillment of the reign of Christ to come forth and we must believe for it and be prepared to be the instruments in the hands of the Lord.
I imagine it was very difficult for John the Baptist and other men to fill their role when Christ came the first time, but it will be far more difficult for the Remnant to fulfill their ministry before the coming of the Lord in His second appearing.
We’re going to know all kinds of assault and battle.
Have you noticed that the minute that you come into this walk you start facing spiritual battle? That’s just part of the experience.
We need an exhortation like this occasionally to alert us to what we’re facing, what we’re going through.
It is a day when men’s hearts shall fail them for fear of looking after those things that shall come upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
But when ye see these things come to pass lift up your heads, your redemption draweth nigh.
Thou art not concerned with the expectation and hope of the world. They are without hope and their expectation is one of gloominess.
But your expectation shall be one of joy and gladness. Yea, even through these days ye shall return to Zion with everlasting joy upon your heads.
Is not the Lord the One who brings unto you a double portion that you should walk in the mercies and in the grace of the Lord?
Lift up your hearts, be a partaker of that blessing that is being rained upon the Remnant. Be not a partaker of the judgments of this earth.
Yea, save yourselves from this generation and from what will befall it and walk thou as sons of the Kingdom. For you are not children of the night, but children of the day. Watch and be sober. Put upon yourselves the whole armor of God and be ready for the things that are about to come to pass.
Psalm 110: The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand, Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet.” The Lord will stretch forth Thy strong scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of Thine enemies.” Thy people will volunteer freely (be freewill offerings) in the day of Thy power; (Army) In holy array, from the womb of the dawn, Thy youth are to Thee as the dew. The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, “Thou art a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.” The Lord is at Thy right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath. He will judge among the nations, He will fill them with corpses, He will shatter the chief men over a broad country. (A better version would read, “He will strike through the head in many countries.”) He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head.
This is actually one of the most quoted Psalms in the New Testament.
This is the Scripture Jesus referred to in Matthew 26 when He was speaking to the wise men of the Council.
Peter quotes this passage in his sermon on the day of Pentecost. He says “If David called Him Lord, how can you say He’s the son of David?” For it was not David who ascended into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet.” ’ “Therefore let all the house of Israel know for certain that God has made Him both Lord and Christ—this Jesus whom you crucified.” Acts 2:34–36.
This Psalm is constantly appearing at very strategic times; the phrase: “Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek” is referred to repeatedly throughout the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of Hebrews as it deals with the high priesthood of Jesus Christ.
In the chapter on the resurrection (I Corinthians 15), Paul dwells upon it and quotes from it.
The first chapter of Ephesians also has an outstanding quotation from it.
So, when we study the hundred and tenth Psalm, we must understand how very important it was to the Christians in the early Church and the way that they recorded it in the New Testament.
We don’t speak of Jesus as though He were some great king to come.
It is obvious that the early Church believed for the coming Kingdom, but it was not a future thing in their thinking.
The Kingdom of God existed then but they believed that ultimately the Kingdom of God would invade every other realm.
That’s what we’re looking for—manifestations of God taking over all things.
The Kingdom of God is already within us but we just look for it to reach out and fill every other aspect of existence.
One day He’s going to fill all the heavens. The Lord will fill all the heavens, it’s important for us to think that way, if we don’t we will just be looking for a blessing or for something to come instead of recognizing that it’s here right now.
If we understood exactly where we were in the divine scheme of things we’d be laying hold and claiming a great deal more than we are.
We’re almost trying to get by with the quantity of blessings the Lord turned loose twenty-five years ago.
We don’t realize that at every Feast the Lord is speaking about lifting limitations from us, lifting off all the barriers. If we really believed and pressed in we’d be walking in much more than we are now because it has already been loosed.
Instead of waiting for the Lord to come we should understand that to a great extent we’re in the Parousia right now; we’re moving right into the time of the presence of the Lord.
I don’t think the Lord’s presence has ever been so manifested.
I’m continually rebuked that we are not more aware of that presence and we are not more in tune. We don’t open our hearts enough to the thing God wants to say and what He wants to do with us right now.
The hundred and tenth Psalm has the same emphasis or even a greater one today than it had in the New Testament times.
They knew that Jesus was seated at the right hand of the Father.
Revelations 1:9 says that the saints were companions in the patience of Jesus. “The patience of Jesus,” means that the Lord is long-suffering and waiting until His enemies be made the footstool of His feet.
And the Lord stretched forth a strong scepter from Zion, saying, “Rule in the midst of thine enemies.” (Verse 2).
Don’t get the idea that when Christ sets up His rule it’s because all the enemies are gone. He is King until He has wrought all His enemies under His feet and when that has all taken place the whole of it is turned over to the Father (I Corinthians 15:24–25).
When there is no longer anything contesting the reign He turns it over to the Father. But He has to reign until all of His enemies are made the footstool of His feet and then He turns that rule over to His Father. Jesus is ruling right now.
He has given us the Holy Spirit; the Holy Spirit isn’t given to a group of Christians that are perfect. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to an unworthy church to help bring it under the Lordship of Christ.
What would a perfect church need with the gift of discerning of spirits? They would already have it.
What would a perfect church need with personal ministry and all those other things; they wouldn’t need them.
You see, no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Spirit. He reigns as Lord until everything is put under His feet and then He turns it over to the Father.
The Spirit, Son and the Father are all working for one thing—to bring back the perfect rule of God upon our lives.
So, the Spirit is moving to bring us right under the complete Lordship of Christ. Christ rules and uses us to bring everything under His feet and then commits it to the Father.
The Father says to His Son, “Sit at my right hand until I make Thine enemies a footstool for thy feet.” Verse 1a.
Don’t deceive yourself, the trends seem to be completely dethroning the Lord Jesus Christ from all of our lives, but it’s not true.
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh and hold them in derision. Yes, kiss the Son lest He be angry and ye quickly perish from the way (Psalm 2:4, 12).
God is moving. The Father says one thing, “Honor My son.”
A world that dishonors Him is only bringing themselves to quick and swift judgment because it pleases the Father that in the Son shall all fulness dwell (Colossians 1:19). He is King and He is Lord and everything is brought under Him. This must be in our thinking.
The command to the Son was: “Rule Thou in the midst of Thine enemies.” It’s rule and authority that’s being committed to the Lord Jesus Christ and He’s ruling over all of His enemies.
Consequently in this day we’re going to find that the Kingdom of God will make rapid strides forward, not because the trend is that way, but because God has decreed it to be so.
By faith we understand that the worlds have been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen hath not been made out of things which appear. Hebrews 11:3.
It isn’t a trend or something that can be seen. If you watch the trend it all looks like it’s going into the hands of the devil and witchcraft and every other corrupt thing—except for a remnant: a little segment of people that are prophesying the word of the Lord. “Through faith we understand that the ages are framed by the word of God.”
The age that comes forth is not going to be a product of trends, it’s going to be a product of speaking the word of the Lord.
When you prophesy the word of the Lord it’s going to come to pass. That’s why God is raising up people and stirring their spirits strongly to prophesy in the end time.
That prophecy is the vehicle and instrument that God has chosen by which one age is just suddenly going to end and another age is going to spring forth upon us.
It won’t be the trends, it won’t be the things that you’ll see. There’ll be a thousand straws in the wind that seem to point in the opposite direction, but when problems arise someone will know how to pray, someone will know how to prophesy and the word of the Lord will come forth.
Ages are framed by the word of God and not by things that appear, there can be nothing at all in appearance.
That’s why the old prophet Elijah prayed and prayed and prayed and he said, “Go look, son, do you see anything? Do you see anything?” He was praying and believing and the boy returned: “Well, I see a little cloud the size of a man’s hand.”
“That’s enough, that’s it, it’s coming.” There wasn’t even anything there that appeared, there wasn’t anything, no cloud, nothing. But he kept praying and prophesying and the seventh time he produced it. It was brought forth by the word of faith, according to the word.
By faith we understand that the ages are framed by the word of God. It’s a force. It’s a creative force. God’s word in our mouth brings it to pass.
The Lord is going to rule: “Rule in the midst of Thine enemies.” The Lord Jesus is patient and long-suffering and I don’t think He is a bit discouraged. I don’t think He’s discouraged.
It may look like we’re further from the Kingdom of God today than ever, but it doesn’t matter what it looks like. There’s a force that has been turned loose.
Jesus taught His disciples to pray ’Thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven.’ Matthew 6:10.
Because of that constant prayer, out of nowhere, out of things that seem utter chaos, God will bring forth the Kingdom.
He says, “Thy people will be a freewill offering in the day of Thy army; in holy array.” They’re going to be a freewill offering. God is going to have a people who are freewill offerings in the day of His army.
The hundred and tenth Psalm has so much that just pinpoints everything we are experiencing. People are not going to give their money, but give themselves to the Lord: freewill offerings.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God. Romans 12:1.
It’s going to be necessary. If you bog down in the process of living and are not getting the work of the Lord done then you don’t belong in the ministry.
We can’t spend all our time in the routine of living, we have to do the work of the ministry. We need to spend time during the day working for the Lord when other people are piddling around never getting anything done.
If you are a housewife and say, “I just couldn’t get the washing done, couldn’t get the ironing done, couldn’t get anything done,” I tell you, that condition has to change.
You’re going to present your body as a living sacrifice. This is not based on legalism, the Lord says, “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, (by all the help that He can give you) to present your body as a living and holy sacrifice unto the Lord.”
You must produce; you must become a freewill offering unto the Lord.
Some of you will have to beat your brains out all day trying to make a living and then turn around and pastor a church at night. You can do it.
Women can do the same thing; work by day and take care of their house and help the pastor at night. It can be done.
There’s no premium on laziness or slothfulness. There’s a diligence that must be in our spirits if we’re going to do the will of the Lord; there isn’t any other way it’s going to work.
You might say, “Oh, I want to preach, I want to get out in the ministry.” You don’t know what you’re going to run into when you get into that field; you have to be prepared to literally double your work load—whatever you’re doing, you’ll have to double it. You’ll have to think that way. You’re going to double the things that you’re doing; you don’t know what it’s like.
If you have ever worked in an office you know what it’s like to sit down and work at a leisurely pace for eight hours and get the work done, but you probably also know what happens if your supervisor asks you to answer the telephone and suddenly you become the switchboard operator besides having to finish your regular work.
If you are given a promotion or become foreman or the supervisor over all the secretaries then your work load triples.
That’s just about the same amount of increase you get when you become involved in the ministry. You have to be the overseer over everyone else’s work and the phone is constantly ringing and everyone is wanting counsel and you still have your original work to do.
God didn’t say, “Pray the Lord of harvest that He’ll send bums into the harvest field.” He said, “Pray ye the Lord of harvest that He’ll send forth laborers into the harvest field” (Matthew 9:38)—it’s going to take that.
It’s steady work, constant work, you’ll never be finished. This is why the Lord says, “My people are going to be a freewill offering in the day of My army.” They’re just presenting themselves completely to Him. “Here I am, Lord, I’m giving myself over to You.”
The people as a whole are still too evasive as far as the volunteer labor is concerned. You can be generous in giving, but still avoid becoming the real bondservants of the Lord. You’re avoiding it too much.
You can do more than you are. You can do more and God will bless us if everyone says, “I’ll stand and be counted. I’m ready to do my part. I’ll do something. There’s something more that I can do.”
If the routine of your work and your home life has occupied all of your time so that you cannot wait on the Lord and seek the face of the Lord, how will you be an elder, a prophet or a prophetess?
How will you come to be great ministries of the Lord when you have not even disciplined yourself so the most important things are the things of the Lord?
You manage to get the so-called “necessary” things done but what about the word and the things of His service? The Kingdom of God must come first. His people are going to be a freewill offering in the day of His power.
Lord, teach us to pray. Lord, teach us to worship. Lord, give us a good sense of emphasis of what is really important. Lord, teach us to work, teach us to work in the name of the Lord.
God is going to do so much for us. Thou art a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Psalm 110:4b. Who’s Melchizedek?
Some say they have met him in heaven and he is not Jesus, He is head over the treasury.
Some claim he is a figure of speech because he has no geneology, he was without father or mother or beginning or ending of days. There’s no identification of him, and so also Christ was that priest without father or mother or beginning or ending of days.
In other words, it’s an unending priesthood.
In all other priesthoods, they died and that was the end of their priesthood, but His is an abiding priesthood forever.
The Lord is that holy priest to us, a holy high priest giving us help in the time of our need. He ever liveth to make intercession and to save us to the uttermost (Hebrews 7:25).
He’s the one who is helping us to be what we purpose in our hearts to be unto God, freewill offerings in the day of His army in holy array.
He’s going to judge many nations and to fill them with corpses and He is going to strike through the head in many countries: Bring the sword right down and strike through his head! Judgment is coming right at the kings, right at the principalities, right at the powers.
The world’s going to change. It’s changing already. The balance in the spirit world has already been upset. Satan is raging wherever he can.
There are areas where he has already hopelessly, irrevocably lost. We have made breakthroughs to things we will never lose.
In the charismatic outpouring we have gifts and ministries of the Spirit restored in real measure for the first time since the apostolic Church.
In this generation there will appear more prophets than you read about in all the pages of the Scripture put together.
There will be more prophets in total number, more of them walking in the earth. There will be more prophets than in all of the generations past; many times there were not too many prophets; occassionally there would be a school of prophets, a company—still, it doesn’t equal to what is being raised up in this day!
In every church the anointing is there; they’re coming forth. Thank God for what’s taking place; what a day to live in!
The land is going to be purged of witchcraft and brought to its knees before the Lord. He is Lord. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that He is Lord to the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10–11).