Dave Kelly
Pastor Dave Kelly
lives
in Kentucky
words
given at Valley Christian Assembly of God
Charleston,
WV
“I
Have Chosen You West Virginia”
There
are pictures in my spirit. I’m gonna share a little bit of what I shared last
night. But the Lord showed me much more. For the Lord spoke a word to my heart
last night, I want you to receive this. Those of you that yearn for revival,
those of you that yearn to see the Spirit of the Lord evident in our streets
and in our cities, let me give you a word from the Lord. The Lord says to you
tonight and I pray to the Lord that you hear this. He said to me, “I have
chosen you, West Virginia. I have chosen you, West Virginia. I have picked you
as my own, I have chosen you, West
Virginia , just as I chose Bethlehem to birth my son. I have chosen you,
West Virginia, to birth something in this day and in this hour.
Long
before men came to this place and drew their geographical lines and put their
markers on your boundaries for your state, I picked you. I chose you.
Let
me tell you what I see. As I was praying the Lord had me turn to Isaiah 66. It
says, “Before she goes into labor, she gives birth. Before the pains come upon
her, she delivers a son. Who has ever heard such a thing? Who has ever seen
such a thing? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a
moment? Yet no sooner in Zion is Zion in labor that she gives birth to her
children.”
And
the Lord says to you this night, “Do I bring to the moment of birth and not
give delivery?” says the Lord, “Do I close up the womb when I bring delivery?”
says the Lord.
He
spoke that verse to me, and I want you to hear this. I’m gonna do my best to
try to explain the way I see it in the Spirit.
But
I see the state and the cities in WV. God has picked this state. Don’t ask me
why, but the Lord has His reasons and the Lord has His seasons. But several
years back the Lord gave a message to me to preach and the message was entitle,
“The Birthday of Revival.”
But
the Lord showed me many more things last night in this area. He showed me the
state of WV. The state is pregnant, you’ve got to hear me.
I
watched intercessors pray last night and the Lord revealed some things to me
that I am still trying to sort through. But hear me! We keep looking for a
possible outside source. But the Lord showed me, just as a baby is in its
mother’s womb, there is a bag of water that surrounds that baby and protects
that child. You gotta hear me. There is a bag, a membrane, which holds fluid,
which the baby is able to live in and survive in until the timing of that
birth. The Lord says that you, just as that baby, are surrounded and protected
by that membrane. “I have surrounded this state with anointing.” Some of you are
gonna get set free tonight. Some of you gotta understand you are in the womb of
anointing. What is the womb of anointing? God has come to this state. He has
chosen this place. I live over in Kentucky and I’m saying, “God why here?”
You’re
saying, “David this is hard for me to figure out. What are you trying to say?”
Let me say it to you the way the Lord spoke to Nicodemus. He said, “You must be
born again.” Nicodemus said, “What? Can a man be born again? Can a man enter
into his mother’s womb for a second time?” He couldn’t fathom it. He couldn’t
figure it out in the natural. Can I say something to you? The Lord says, ‘The
church needs to be born again.” And he has got you in the womb of His anointing
right now. Some of you keep waiting for revival to come. Some of you keep
waiting for an outside source. And for the first time last night, I think I got
it.
God
has His hand on this state. You, my friend, are in the womb of anointing. You
are the seed of God. And what is going to be released my friend, is not someone
else, but you. Habakkuk 2:3, “For the revelation waits an appointed time. It
speaks of the end and it will not prove false. Though it linger wait for it.
For it will certainly come and it will not delay.” There is a revelation
according to the scripture that has not been released upon the earth yet. It’s
awaiting an appointed time, much like a baby in the womb surrounded by
anointing. And when that baby inside begins to grow, you know what the Lord
showed me last night? He has you in His womb of anointing, and He says every
time you bow your knee in intercession, you grow. Every time you bow your knee
in intercession; intercession is the nutrient necessary for that seed of God to
begin to develop and grow. He also showed me another nutrient necessary for the
child within, the seed of God, within to grow. Every time you lift your hands
in worship. Can I say something to you? That is why the devil is raging so
strongly in those two areas. Because if he can keep you from prayer and keep
you from worship, he can keep you from growing in the womb of anointing. He can
keep you from maturity, and if he can keep you from maturity, than that means
he can keep you from revelation that’s awaiting the appointed time. The Lord
showed me last night and early this morning that the intercessors and the
worshippers are getting weary.
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I
hope you can understand what I am trying to say tonight. We can’t naturally
fathom what the Lord is about to do in this place. I wish I had the words to
describe what the Lord is doing. Because, my friend, just as the church in New
Testament times was birthed and brought firth, that was its first birth. But
the Lord says, “Ye must be born again.”
We
are about to be born again in the Spirit. You know the Bible says that flesh
bears flesh, but the spirit births spirit. So now we are all in this thing
together. You, some of you, have had days of frustration that have turned into
weeks, which have turned into months, and now turned into years. But the Lord
says, “Wait!” I don’t want to wait. Just like my little baby Allison didn’t
want to wait, I don’t want t wait. But it’s imperative that we wait, so that
when we come. – I don’t think you comprehend yet – that you are the revelation
that God is going to release in the last day.
What
kind of revelation? Revelation to the lost that Jesus Christ still saves. They
haven’t comprehended the revealed truth yet. But if we’ll wait and if we’ll
pray and intercede, and we’ll worship, we’ll grow. And the more we grow the
thinner that membrane that surrounds us gets. Till that point that it gets so
thin that there’s a breaking in that membrane and a releasing of that
revelation. But we must wait. But I say to you tonight it’s in the waiting –
it’s in the waiting that the temptation comes. See the Lord speaks something to
our life and the day in which we live says, “Now!” Pop it in the microwave and
give it to me in a moment.
But
the Lord says, “Wait!” See the Lord speaks something to us and says, “I’m going
to do this,” and we are ready on the spot. See, the Lord speaks to Noah and
says, “Noah, it’s about to rain; build an ark.” And 120 years later and it
hasn’t rained yet. The Lord spoke a promise to him. He said, “Get your hammer;
get your nails; get your saws; start building ‘cause it’s going to rain.” He
had to wait. And in his waiting I just wonder if there were moments of
temptation. A few months pass by, he’s been telling people its going to rain.
He’s been telling people, “God says it’s about to rain.” A few months go by and
he’s the laughing stock of the nation. Everybody’s making fun of him. And I
just wonder if through those months and through those years of building he
said, “God you told me it was going to rain and I have been out here day in and
day out hammering in the midnight
hour. And I haven’t felt a drop.” He throws his hammer down and says, “I’m
going to the house. I quit!”
Because
it’s in the waiting time that many of us quit. I quit! I’m tired of this! That
promise is never gonna come. Lord you spoke to me and said revival was coming –
I feel it in my spirit, but I’ve been praying for years and now people are
laughing at me. I’ve been building this ark, I’ve been preparing this place for
you because you said you were coming. He says, “Wait!”
But
in the waiting there’s a temptation to quit. It’s in the waiting the temptation
to get satisfied comes. I’ve been praying long enough, I’ve been pursuing long
enough. You know what? Church isn’t that bad anyway. I mean, it’s better than
it was. Amen! But is it where God called you to be?
I
feel like the Lord has sent me by to let you know tonight ‘cause some of you
are on the verge of quitting. And I really feel it strong in the area of
intercession and worship. Your intercession has become dry and there seems to
be no power there, seems to be a lot of repetition, a lot of mechanicalism
about it. But the Lord says, “Wait!”
Worship
has become stale and stoic. And you’re at the verge of going, “You know what?
I’ve spent months waiting, years waiting. I think I’ll just settle in.” You
know what? It’s in the waiting that the temptation comes. It’s in the waiting
that we maybe begin to find substitutes for God’s glory. We begin to find
substitutes. Maybe we pop in a video and watch a certain man or read a certain
book. Maybe we begin to be like the children of Israel in Exodus the 32nd
chapter. “When the people saw that Moses was so long in his coming down from
the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, ‘Come make us gods who would
go before us, as for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t
know what happened to him.’” They got tired of waiting. They got so tired of
waiting that they took their own things and created something. Let me say this
to you. The Lord showed me this in the Word. Just as Moses brought the children
of Israel out of Egypt, they had always had a leader, looking for someone to
lead them. Do you understand? Moses led them everywhere. And for a mom in their
lives, about a 40 day period, they didn’t have anybody to lead them. And
because inside of them was created for someone to lead them, someone to give
them guidance, they got tired of waiting and said, “Let us make other gods that
will go before us. Let us find something else that will lead us on.”
Are
you hearing me? Because they got tired of waiting they built for themselves a
golden calf. You all know the story. And I love this part: “When the Lord
revealed to Moses what had happened in the camp, he started going down the
mountain.” And it says in verse 17, “When Joshua heard the noise of the people
shouting, he said to Moses, ‘There is a sound of war in the camp.’” I love this
reply, though. “Moses said, ‘It is not a sound of defeat. It’s a sound of
singing that I hear.”
I
just wonder what kind of sounds we are releasing up. Because they got into a
place where they didn’t have the sound of victory and they didn’t have the
sound of defeat. They just did a whole lot of singing. They said, “We’ll meet.
We’ll join together. We’ll have a good time. You know, we’ve have bondage in
our lives. We’re struggling with inner problems and sins in our lives. We don’t
really have the sound of victory, but we are not doing so badly. We are not
really defeated that bad, either. So we’ll just get happy and dance for a
while. We’ll sing a few songs.”
I
don’t know is that describes where you’re at today or possibly where the church
of America is. But I’m not satisfied with just singing. I’m not even satisfied
with hearing just the sound of war. Let me tell you what happened. Moses asked
who was on his side and the sons of Levi said that they were. I believe that
God is asking that same question. I believe God has come off the mountain and
he is speaking to the churches in this valley. And he is saying, “I hear the
sound of war, but it is not the sound of victory and it is not the sound of
defeat. It’s just a bunch of singing. And I want to know tonight who is on my
side.” You know what happened? He said, “I want you to go through this camp
killing your brother, your son, and all of those who were on the other side. I
want you to slaughter.” You know what he was saying? “All of those who are
satisfied with just singing I want you to separate yourselves from. I want you
to be a people who comes out and separates yourselves from it.”
Wait
And
here is something that is awesome. Because, all because, they chose not to
wait, the Bible says that, that day 3,000 were killed. All because they chose
not to wait. I wonder what would have happened if they had chose to wait. I
think we get a glimpse over in the New Testament when there were a few men and
women of God that went into an upper and said, “We’re gonna wait this time. Now
we might start out 500 but I’m not going to be one of those that leave.” The
Bible says that because they chose to wait – you gotta understand that we are a
people that need a leader and they had no leader because Jesus had just left.
But God says, “Wait! I’m gonna send somebody down. Wait! Don’t leave yet. Don’t
build anything. Just go pray and worship ‘cause I’m about to give revelation
unto your cities. – Because they chose to get unto a place of intercession and
worship – they waited for the leader. They waited for one that would lead them
to a new place and because they chose to wait, instead of 3,000 being
slaughtered, the Bible says, “In that day 3,000 came to know the Lord.” That’s pretty awesome.
You
know what I’m here to tell you tonight that there is a responsibility in
reaching the city. And you are just like
me. Your flesh is just like my flesh. I want to see the glory. I want to feel
the glory. I want to know the Lord like I never knew him. But I tell you more
than that I want revelation to be released from my life into the streets of our
cities that others might know that same power. The Lord says to you tonight,
“You must be born again.” I want to give you warning tonight. It is so easy in
the waiting time to get bitter, to begin to get resentful, to start
finger-pointing and say. “It’s this pastor or that pastor.” When you do that
your choosing not to wait. King Saul, according to the Scripture, if he’d have
stayed on course, the house of Saul would have been established forever. Know
what his downfall was? He couldn’t wait. Samuel said, “I will be there in seven
days.” And on the seventh day he got antsy and Samuel didn’t show up. The Bible
says that Saul took the offering and he sacrificed it. And Samuel showed up at
the time he was doing it and he said, “What in the world are you doing? Because
you chose not to wait, Saul, God’s already picked another man.” Listen to me
child of God. Because you choose not to wait, God will pick somebody else. You
know why, because he loves this city. He loves this valley. He loves the
children, the mothers, and the fathers. I don’t care how dirty they are. I
don’t care what kind of sin they are in. I don’t care what kind of things they
are involved in, His heart breaks for them.
Seed
in the Womb of God’s Anointing
We
are the actual seed in the womb of God’s anointing. And every time we bow our
knee and every time we lift our voices, we are growing in that womb. And the
Lord says, “As soon as Zion travails, she’ll bring forth a child” I felt a real
sense last night. You know they do these ultra sounds as we went through the
pregnancy with Janis and it gives a snapshot of the baby inside the womb. It showed
Allison moving around and I wish you could have felt what I felt last night. As
I watched people worship and I watched people intercede, all I could see was us
moving inside that womb, stretching inside that womb, waiting our times.
Waiting our destination, waiting for our moment of taking in the nutrients of
the Lord. At we are growing and that we are maturing inside of that. We are
forming a body. The little fingers and the roes are growing. All of the parts
start growing. Do you understand that the turmoil our city is in and the church
is in is because God is forming his baby again? Inside the womb of anointing,
God is bringing churches, pastors, intercessors, and worshippers together.
What’s happening? I’ll tell you. There is a maturing taking place. The heart is
beginning to get stronger. The lungs are beginning to get stronger. There are
things that are happening. God says, “I’ve chosen you WV. I’ve picked you. Wait
for it. Stay in the process.” Hebrews 6:12
says, “in order to inherit the promises of God, have faith and patience.” Have
faith and patience. If you don’t have patience to wait your faith won’t last
until that moment.
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