Luke 19 The table of the Will - time to overturn personal rebellion

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Luke 19:1-48
Jesus and Zacchaeus
1Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. 2There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was one of the most influential Jews in the Roman tax-collecting business, and he had become very rich. 3He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowds. 4So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree beside the road, so he could watch from there.
5When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. "Zacchaeus!" he said. "Quick, come down! For I must be a guest in your home today."
6Zacchaeus quickly climbed down and took Jesus to his house in great excitement and joy. 7But the crowds were displeased. "He has gone to be the guest of a notorious sinner," they grumbled.
8Meanwhile, Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "I will give half my wealth to the poor, Lord, and if I have overcharged people on their taxes, I will give them back four times as much!"
9Jesus responded, "Salvation has come to this home today, for this man has shown himself to be a son of Abraham. 10And I, the Son of Man, have come to seek and save those like him who are lost."
Story of the Ten Servants
11The crowd was listening to everything Jesus said. And because he was nearing Jerusalem, he told a story to correct the impression that the Kingdom of God would begin right away. 12He said, "A nobleman was called away to a distant empire to be crowned king and then return. 13Before he left, he called together ten servants and gave them ten pounds of silver F85 to invest for him while he was gone. 14But his people hated him and sent a delegation after him to say they did not want him to be their king.
15"When he returned, the king called in the servants to whom he had given the money. He wanted to find out what they had done with the money and what their profits were. 16The first servant reported a tremendous gain—ten times as much as the original amount! 17'Well done!' the king exclaimed. 'You are a trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with the little I entrusted to you, so you will be governor of ten cities as your reward.'
18"The next servant also reported a good gain—five times the original amount. 19'Well done!' the king said. 'You can be governor over five cities.'
20"But the third servant brought back only the original amount of money and said, 'I hid it and kept it safe. 21I was afraid because you are a hard man to deal with, taking what isn't yours and harvesting crops you didn't plant.'
22"'You wicked servant!' the king roared. 'Hard, am I? If you knew so much about me and how tough I am, 23why didn't you deposit the money in the bank so I could at least get some interest on it?' 24Then turning to the others standing nearby, the king ordered, 'Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one who earned the most.'
25"'But, master,' they said, 'that servant has enough already!'
26"'Yes,' the king replied, 'but to those who use well what they are given, even more will be given. But from those who are unfaithful, F86 even what little they have will be taken away. 27And now about these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king—bring them in and execute them right here in my presence.'"
The Triumphal Entry
28After telling this story, Jesus went on toward Jerusalem, walking ahead of his disciples. 29As they came to the towns of Bethphage and Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, he sent two disciples ahead. 30"Go into that village over there," he told them, "and as you enter it, you will see a colt tied there that has never been ridden. Untie it and bring it here. 31If anyone asks what you are doing, just say, 'The Lord needs it.'"
32So they went and found the colt, just as Jesus had said. 33And sure enough, as they were untying it, the owners asked them, "Why are you untying our colt?"
34And the disciples simply replied, "The Lord needs it." 35So they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their garments over it for him to ride on.
36Then the crowds spread out their coats on the road ahead of Jesus. 37As they reached the place where the road started down from the Mount of Olives, all of his followers began to shout and sing as they walked along, praising God for all the wonderful miracles they had seen.
38 "Bless the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in highest heaven!" F87
39But some of the Pharisees among the crowd said, "Teacher, rebuke your followers for saying things like that!"
40He replied, "If they kept quiet, the stones along the road would burst into cheers!"
Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41But as they came closer to Jerusalem and Jesus saw the city ahead, he began to cry. 42"I wish that even today you would find the way of peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from you. 43Before long your enemies will build ramparts against your walls and encircle you and close in on you. 44They will crush you to the ground, and your children with you. Your enemies will not leave a single stone in place, because you have rejected the opportunity God offered you."
Jesus Clears the Temple
45Then Jesus entered the Temple and began to drive out the merchants from their stalls. 46He told them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves." F88
47After that, he taught daily in the Temple, but the leading priests, the teachers of religious law, and the other leaders of the people began planning how to kill him. 48But they could think of nothing, because all the people hung on every word he said.
FOOTNOTES: F85: Greek 10 minas; 1 mina was worth about 3 months' wages. F86: Or who have nothing. F87: Pss 118:26; 148:1. F88: Isa 56:7; Jer 7:11.
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~ Lena’s Journalin’~
“He was one of the most influential”….Jesus is looking to make disciples of people of influence, Jesus is looking to make influencers out of disciples! Influence causes the gospel message to spread far and wide.
Have you ever thought to pray for people who are already in positions of influence, pray that God will appear to them, save them, deliver them and use them right where they are at? Or do you just complain about who they are and the bad things they do to hurt you and our world?
Praying for them to be saved and watching it happen would take a whole lot less time than raising up a governmental leader from a baby, though we want to raise our disciples and our children to be leaders and people of influence we also need to pray for those who are already ruling over us!
I’m talking about praying regularly, Praying with a target, PUSH-ing, Praying Until Something Happens! Something happened to Zaccheus, he met Jesus, and he got saved!
Pray that people in government and leadership positions will seek God, and find God and will look for Him with all they are, pray that God will come visit them in an intimate way, in their own homes. That they will turn from wickedness and change wholeheartedly in such a visible way that their influence will be used in God’s kingdom! Pray they will come down from the high places of pride and acknowledge God as Lord and Master of everything they are involved in. Pray that they will see Jesus as they come out of hiding. This goes for anyone in authority, bosses, husbands, church leaders, group leaders, teachers, administrators… We are in such a high alert time. God wants to move governments.
We know God sent His only begotten Son Jesus to the earth with an earth mission and an earth assignment, but do we know we all have that same assignment? Do we know who we are and what we were sent here to do and what we were called, commissioned and discipled into? Jesus in His day said he was a King sent by God to make the temple new, they did not see or understand that message, they thought He’d tear down the natural temple and get on the throne of a natural king. He did not do either of those natural things, but he over threw religious order and sat down at the right hand of God, far above principalities and powers and rulers of wickedness in heavenly(earth realm) places, and was given a name above every name, and then gave that same authoritative name to anyone who would come into covenant relationship with Him while here on earth.
We are stewards of God’s Divine plan for man, for the earth’s inhabitants. Do we realize that? If we don’t we are missing out on the knowing of our life’s purpose.
Our stewardship is about ruling the earth. Our stewardship is about filling the earth with more who are like Jesus. Our stewardship is about having dominion – not domineering, but of taking territory away from the domination of God enemy and winning now and later. Our stewardship is about the Genesis Mandate and of the Great Co-mission. If we do not do it, we do not believe it and we are saying we” hate Him and do not want Him to be our king”.(those who are not for Me are automatically against Me) If He is our King, we are His subjects, subjected to His will, stewards of His purposes, the purposes of His Divine Kingdom. It says those who would not steward the treasure of the King, were found to hate the king. It was clear they did not want Him to be their king. They were executed and ceased to be a part of His kingdom.
The rubber is meeting the road in this day we are in. We can say the right things all day long, we can act like a Christian or just look like one, but because it is time to Do the word of God, as stewards of the Divine plan, it will be known very clearly who wants Him as their true King or not. The proof will be in the doing!
In the day of Daniel when the King told everyone to bow to his great idol, people all over everywhere could say they wouldn’t bow, but the proof was made known on the day the trumpet blew. The trumpet is blowing in Zion.
Yesterday in prayer we had 2 prophetic words that said- “this is the beginning of the end time harvest!” That would mean it is time to work and give account, give account and work.
Another person to pray for in authority are the Kingdom of God workers, that they’ll stay at the work, as unto Him, and that they’ll desire to give accurate accounts, also that they’ll have strength to stay the distance, be loyal and not bow.
What does the Lord have need of? Laborers who love Him and through loving obedience, do the work of the kingdom. He needs to subdue rebellion, in me, in you, in our rulers and for a people who will pray and pull down strongholds in their own lives and in the areas they live in!
He needs to be esteemed and worshipped as though He is King. He is, but do we acknowledge it as so, personally?
Jesus wept, why? Because they refused the opportunity presented them and rather than overcoming their enemies conquered! We still have time to arise and defeat every foe. We have been given righteous tools and the power and authority of sons of God. Our Daddy owns the Universe! We belong to Him! We don’t have to empower lies and let them rule our little or big worlds. Time to nullify lies and stand for truth.
The religious sought to kill Him, really they wanted to kill the word that had come alive in their midst and challenged their systems, their pity parties, their lack of self control, lack of love, lack of obedience to God rather than man or self. Does your own flesh rise up against the knowledge of God? Of course it does, it has been trained by the sway of evil! Turn the tide, change the outcome, reprogram by the word of God.
Jesus was showing them they can turn things that are so wrong around and make them so right! So can we! The problems we see in our lives are opportunities for the strength and power of the Lord and His word to arise! Nothing is impossible to our Almighty God, the maker of heaven and earth, He is the maker of heaven and earth! Come on, what impossible problem do we have that’s that big? Come on, we love and serve a Mighty God. The only thing between us and Him are a few tables, They can easily be turned over!
The will is one of those tables. Let’s will His will, giving Him the glory due His name!

Daily Repetitive Verses -
John 17:15 I'm not asking you to take them out of the world but to protect them from the evil one.