SCRIPTORIAL TEXT
ISAIAH 62:10-12
- Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones. Lift up a standard or ensign over and for the peoples. (Isaiah 62:10 AMP)
- Behold, the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth: Say to the Daughter of Zion, Behold, your salvation comes [in the person of the Lord]; behold, His reward is with Him, and His work and recompense before Him. (Isaiah 62:11 AMP)
- And they shall call them the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord; and you shall be called Sought Out, a City Not Forsaken. (Isaiah 62:12 AMP)
STANDARD
- a level of quality, achievement, etc., that is considered acceptable or desirable;
- ideas about morally correct and acceptable behavior;
- something that is very good and that is used to make judgments about the quality of other things.
Full Definition
- a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem;
- a long narrow tapering flag that is personal to an individual or corporation and bears heraldic devices b: the personal flag of the head of a state or of a member of a royal family c: an organization flag carried by a mounted or motorized military unit d: banner 1;
- something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example: criterion <quite slow by today’s standards>;
- something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality;
- the fineness and legally fixed weight of the metal used in coins.
PRAYER—HAVING AN OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATION
THOUGHT
- SPEAKING THE THINGS I OUGHT SPEAK
- USING GOD’S WORD BACK TO HIM — LUKE 11:1-4, THE LORD’S PRAYER
- EXPECTING YOUR GREAT RESULTS — 2 CHRONICLES 7:14
POWER—USING THE AUTHORITY GIVEN F0R YOU TO USE — LUKE 10:19
- EVERY BELIEVER WAS GIVEN A WEAPON– ACTS 1:8
- YOUR WORD’S HAVE POWER- DEATH AND LIFE IS N THE POWER OF YOUR TONGUE
- HAVING THE ABILITY TO CREATE
PURPOSE—PRODUCES THE CHARACTER THAT’S IN YOU
- NEVER GO INTO DENIAL
- DON’T LET PEOPLE DISTRACT YOU FROM YOUR DESIRE
- ABOVE ALL GO PASS THE POINT OF EXTREME
CONCLUSION – CLOSE WITH HANNAH
YOU MUST RAISE THE BAR IN YOUR WORSHIP