Series: The Supreme Court of Heaven

Session 1
Jesus and the Courts of Heaven
Introduction

Jesus teaching on prayer Matthew 6:9-13 & Luke 11:1-13 …. Not on a battlefield but
flowing from a relationship with God the Father.

In Luke 18:1-8 … Jesus is clearly stating that when we pray we are entering a
courtroom.

What if the mindset we have is flawed?

Is the method we are using producing results?
Often we think, if we just continue long enough, loud enough, hard enough then
somehow something different will happen.

The Lord has led us into “His Courtroom” multiple times in the past, and we considered
those “special projects” … and they were.

• December 1989 Solemn Assembly dealt with spirit of rebellion

• October 1994 Claiming the Land 2700 sq. miles of Greater Houston
• March 2005 Brazos River Court Case
• Mittersill 2009
o Luke 18:1-8; Ps 37:11
 Go to court before you go to war …..
 We understood that we must present our case before the Court of
Heaven
• At the waterfall we:
o Acknowledged the atrocities of the past and their
effect in the valley (2 Cor 4:3-4)
o Pleaded the blood of Jesus in repentance
o Requested a judgment be made
 Open Heaven
 Ephesians 1:17-19
 Souls
 Finances
 Healings, deliverances, miracles
 Women to rightful place
 Marriages healed
 Renaissance spread across Europe
• Released seeds and the oil of gladness into the river
• Martina Potts, a native to Austria, declared Psalm 24 & 85

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 • October 2010Humble Oil Court Case dealt with “Powers of Darkness” desire
to rule the Earth through Rockefeller decrees
• March 2013 Abortion sites resulted in drastic reduction in abortion clinics
in Texas

What if this kind of prayer is supposed to be the norm, not the occasional “special
project”?

I. Where Is The Conflict?

A. Have you ever been on a jury?
1. All the activity that takes place is done in order with no yelling, screaming or
physical wrestling.
2. If yelling and screaming does occur in a court room the person is out of order
and is in jeopardy of being punished by the judge.
3. Everything that is done is about presenting evidence, making a request,
answering accusations and other legal processes.
4. The result is a verdict rendered that is consistent with the petitions that are
being offered.
5. Thinking about all the juries I have been on there isn’t one where it would
have been appropriate for me to jump up pull out my sword and begin to voice
my opinion about the case. I would have been considered at least strange and
certainly out of order and in violation of the court protocol.

B. In the same way Heaven’s Courts have a protocol that should be observed.

C. The question is where is the conflict? Is it on a battlefield or in a courtroom?

1. Most Christians seem to believe that when they pray they are on a battlefield.
We have been taught about spiritual warfare and through our prayers we are
fighting the enemy.
2. What if this is a crucial mistake that causes us to experience unanswered
prayer, chaos, backlash and disappointment. We rush into the place of prayer
only to see things get worse.
3. This happens because we rush to the battlefield without the legal precedent to
be there.

D. Having just returned from Washington DC and visiting some of the historic
battlefields of American history it is clear that superior armies are often defeated
due to a lack of strategy on the part of the stronger force.
1. It is sad to consider how many times we have made decrees that do more to
stir up demonic forces than dismantle them because no legal precedent has
been gained from the Throne of God.

E. The first thing we need to see is that Heaven is open to us and we have access to
the Court of the King.

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Revelation 4:1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in
heaven, and the first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking
with me, said, “Come up here, …..

Revelation 19:11 And I saw heaven opened …..

Ephesians 2:18 for through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.

F. Secondly, we should be able to pinpoint the things that need to be dealt with
accuracy.

1 John 5:14–15 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask
anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in
whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

1. One of the most critical steps to effective prayer is understanding the will of
God and praying in agreement with that will.
2. So we must learn how to operate in the Courtroom of Heaven and get verdicts
and judgments in place so answers can come to our prayers and the Kingdom
of Heaven can come to the Earth.

II. The Books of Heaven

A. Types of Books
Psalm 139:16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were
all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of
them.

Psalm 56:8 You have taken account of my wanderings; Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your book?

1. God wrote down in a book the destiny and Kingdom purpose for each of us.
2. He saw not just the number of our days but the activities in them and what we
would accomplish in our lives.
3. Our battle is to see what is written in our book manifest on the Earth.
4. Even Jesus had a book written that He was to fulfill.
Hebrews 10:5–7 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “SACRIFICE AND
OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; 6 IN WHOLE
BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE. 7 “THEN I SAID,
‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL,
O GOD.”

5. When we were born we began the process of living out our Kingdom purpose.
This is why Ephesians 2:10 says we are His workmanship.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
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 6. The word workmanship in Greek means poem …. A poem with a point
7. The Apostle John while in heaven was given a book to eat.
Revelation 10:8–11 Then the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard again
speaking with me, and saying, “Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the
angel who stands on the sea and on the land.” 9 So I went to the angel, telling him to
give me the little book. And he said to me, “Take it and eat it; it will make your stomach
bitter, but in your mouth it will be sweet as honey.” 10 I took the little book out of the
angel’s hand and ate it, and in my mouth it was sweet as honey; and when I had eaten
it, my stomach was made bitter. 11 And they said to me, “You must prophesy again
concerning many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”

8. Books about individuals, cities, nations, people groups, congregations, places

….. books about all kinds of things.

B. Where Do The Books Come From?

1. These books in Heaven came into being from the “council” of the Lord.
Jeremiah 23:18 “But who has stood in the council of the LORD, That he should see
and hear His word? Who has given heed to His word and listened?

2. The word “council” in Hebrew is sod. It means a company of persons in

session, to consult, or a secret. It comes from the Hebrew word yasad, which
means to sit down together, to settle and consult.
3. Clearly God has councils in Heaven where He plans future Kingdom events.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our
likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and
over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the
earth.”

4. Notice God said, Let Us …. In other words there was a discussion or a council
concerning the formation of man in the image and likeness of God.
2 Timothy 1:9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to
our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in
Christ Jesus from all eternity,

5. Purpose and grace were given to Paul and Timothy before time began.
a. This means our purpose and the grace to fulfill what is written in our
book have been waiting on us to discover them before time began!
b. Purpose is what is written in the books about you and grace is the
empowerment to bring about the reality of it.
c. To understand this we must realize that before we existed there was a
book about us in Heaven.
Isaiah 6:8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Whom shall I send, and who
will go for Us?” Then I said, “Here am I. Send me!”

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 6. At the very least Isaiah was hearing a “council” in Heaven and responded to
their question. Most probably God spoke something written in Isaiah’s book
and he responded to his destiny.
7. Once decisions are made in heaven then decisions must be made on Earth.
Matthew 21:28–31 “But what do you think? A man had two sons, and he came to
the first and said, ‘Son, go work today in the vineyard.’ 29 “And he answered, ‘I will
not’; but afterward he regretted it and went. 30 “The man came to the second and said
the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go. 31 “Which of the two
did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.”

8. We are given opportunity after opportunity to decide in favor of those

decisions that have been made in Heaven
Philippians 2:13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His
good pleasure.

9. This is our job, to discover, come into agreement with and bring what is
written there to Earth in natural forms. I don’t believe we will be judged on
this sin or that sin but our judgment will be based on how closely we lived our
lives to what is written in the books of Heaven. Did we fulfill our destiny?

C. Manifesting The Books

Romans 8:29–30 For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become
conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many
brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He
called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

Next session we will look at these five words and what we find could be surprising ….