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Kia ora, hey, how's it going guys?

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Hope you guys are doing well, thank you for tuning in if you're tuned in live, and also

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thanks for those of you who are tuning in on the replay.

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This is session three for the School of the Spirit, it's entitled Reframing Success for

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Maximum Growth in the Spirit.

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The whole goal of this whole three-day school, just to recap, is to further equip you, knowing

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that some of you have already been partially equipped, much like myself, to live naturally

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supernatural lives that look like Jesus.

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Jesus is what God has to say about the normal human life, Jesus is what God has to say about

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what He's like, and Jesus is what God has to say about what you're like.

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And so if you haven't caught up on yesterday's two sessions, then I just want to encourage

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you to jump on and watch the replay of those two.

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This session and the session after this session will build on yesterday's two sessions.

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And yeah, then following this three-day school, which will end tomorrow, tomorrow we're going

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to have three sessions, following this three-day school there will be an opportunity for you

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for a three-week activation challenge.

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It's not going to be all day every day, but there are going to be challenges, and we'll

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have some Zoom meetings, we'll have some question and answer times, we'll have activations,

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we'll have challenges.

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There'll be various different things that we do in that three weeks, and like I said,

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it's not going to take up all of your days for every day of that three weeks, but it'll

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be a real manageable amount of time, and it'll be more of like a coaching mentoring time

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with me, which will actually lead into an opportunity for you, if you would like to,

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to have a period of time where I personally one-on-one coach you to see you step into

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a flow of the Spirit in your life.

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And so that's just to let you know about that.

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I kind of put it like this three days, if it was teaching surfing, I'm right now teaching

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my daughter how to surf, when she will let me of course, and one of the first things

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about surfing is you've got to paddle out the back, and that can be quite a daunting

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task if you're not used to paddling through waves and getting underneath white water and

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all that kind of stuff, and it can be quite challenging, and this three-day course is

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in effect getting you out the back so that you can catch the waves, and once you're out

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the back, and once my daughter's out the back, when the wave comes, what I do is she doesn't

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have, her paddle strength is not quite strong enough to get her onto every wave.

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Some waves, but not every wave.

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And so I'm there to just add a little bit of a helping push to push her onto those waves

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and to help her be in the right position, and she's away laughing.

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So that's what the three weeks in effect is like, it's like you're out the back now,

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and it's me helping to push you onto some waves of the spirit.

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So awesome, hey thanks everyone for tuning in, so cool, we've got people from Queensland,

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Auckland, hey, just thinking about all our Auckland friends in level three right now,

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and the restrictions that come with that, just bless you, and what you're facing there

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in Auckland, I actually need to get to Whangarei and up to Cooper's Beach soon to pick some

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of our stuff up, and man, you cannot get through Auckland.

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But anyway, thinking about you guys, guys feel free as well to just share that you're

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doing this live and share it around with people, the more the merrier.

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Oh, Heather from Kirikiri, come on, good to see you Heather, that's so cool, I need to

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get up your way real soon, there's something I need to pick up from right next to Kirikiri.

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Oh, so cool, yes Kevin, it does give more time to do catch-ups online, Ohope, good to

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see you Lorraine, awesome, thanks for dropping comments guys, there's going to be a little

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bit of interaction in this session, so that's cool that we've got some liveys.

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Thanks for tuning in live. I know many people have tuned in and are tuning in on the replays and I love that too, but it's always good to have a few live-ins, so that's cool.

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Awesome. I hope you guys have had a great time.

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Oh, you tuned in, Melody, with your three kiddos. So good. All right.

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Okay, well, let's pray and we'll kick this off. Session three, reframing success for maximum growth in the Spirit.

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And let's pray and then we'll begin. Father, right now, we love you and we thank you that you are good.

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You're a good God in a good mood and you do good things. Thank you that you're all around us.

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Thank you, God, that the kingdom is at hand. Thank you, God, that you have deposited the resources of the kingdom

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and access within reach of us. And thank you, God, that your power you've placed inside of us to

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distribute to the world around us. Thank you that our role is the distribution and yours is the power.

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God, we thank you, God, for everything you do. We thank you, Holy Spirit, we honor you right now.

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Ask that the Spirit of wisdom and revelation would rest on every person as they tuned in

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or as they watch on the replay. And we just ask for transformation. And right now, where you're

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sitting and where you are right now, you just ask the Lord just to just quiet your heart before God

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and just ask him to bring transformation about in your heart, in your mind, and in your life.

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As you enter into this session and enter into this course. Awesome. Well, again,

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thank you for tuning in. Good to see you back, Tia. Just interacting with some of the comments.

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When I get started, I'll probably stop interacting so much with the comments, but I love seeing your

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comments. So please keep commenting and feel free to ask any clarifying questions or anything as I

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go along. And that might help me just cover some things that I might miss out otherwise.

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Welcome to session three, School of the Spirit, Reframing Success for Maximum Growth in the Spirit.

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And I think this is a very important session. And I'll tell you why initially to kick it off

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is this. One of the biggest hurdles that people face when they are thinking about

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the power of God, the gifts of the Spirit, walking with Jesus,

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living naturally supernatural and living the way that Jesus has invited us to live. One of the

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biggest pitfalls for people is a fear of failure, is a fear of what happens if I pray for someone

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and it doesn't work? What happens if I prophesy over someone and I get it wrong? What happens

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if I have a word of knowledge and it's way off? And a word of knowledge is a classic one because

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you're either right or wrong. What happens if it doesn't work out the way I thought it would?

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What happens if I pray for the person and they get worse, not better? What if, what if, what if,

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what if it doesn't work? What if it fails? What if it fails? Well this is what I want to suggest and

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this is what I want to ask in light of that. I think it's one of the great, along with the fear

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of people's opinion, the fear of failure is one of the greatest fears that humanity faces in general.

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And so I'm pretty sure that most of you would have experienced some kind of a fear of failure

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in your life. I have. You might be an exception to the rule, but most humans have. And especially

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in regards to, you know, walking alongside, partnering with, and ministering the power of

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our invisible friend, the Holy Spirit. And you know, it can be sometimes a little bit scary,

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especially in regards to that fear of failure. So the question is, you know, and the fear comes

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from, what if it fails? And my question to that is, what if, even if it failed, you could never fail?

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What if, even if it, even if what you're doing, the activity you're trying to engage in, does not go

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according to plan? What if you were a raging success, no matter the outcome, no matter the

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result? What if you knew deep down in your heart that there was nothing, whether it happened

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exactly as you expected to happen, or whether it went drastically wrong? What if you knew deep down

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in your heart, no matter how it turns out, now of course, side note is, success, um...

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In terms of results, getting positive results, people being healed, miracles happening, correct

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prophetic words, correct words of knowledge, all that stuff.

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We all want that stuff, let's just face it.

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And Jesus wants us to want that stuff.

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And that's part of the process as we're going towards that, becoming more and more skilled

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and accurate in our ministry of the Spirit.

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But it's not about that.

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It's not about that.

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The truth is that even if it fails, you never fail.

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Just the fact that you sit down to take the test gives you an A-plus at the top of your

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report card before you've even attempted to answer one of those questions.

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Why?

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Because God is not a results-orientated God, God is a relationship-orientated God.

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And Hebrews 11, 6 says this, and you'll know this so well, but it's impossible to please

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God except by faith.

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Without faith, pleasing God is impossible.

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And what is faith?

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Well, if we just boil faith down to the essence of what it is, I know it's much bigger and

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there's a much bigger conversation around faith that could be had, but if we want to

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boil it right down, faith is trust.

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Faith is trust.

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And trust is a relational dynamic.

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Whether you trust God or not is not dictated by whether you got the result or not.

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Trust is whether you stepped on the field or not.

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Trust is not to do with whether you win the game, trust is to do with, I got on the field,

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I got in the ring, I trusted, I walked with God, I engaged with God, and I trusted my

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relationship in God to a degree that I actually stepped out with Him.

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And some people have said faith is about R-I-S-K, risk.

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And I like that.

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What I like even more is faith is about T-R-U-S-T, trust.

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But risk does, your capacity to take risk does demonstrate your capacity to trust.

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And so the first thing I want to say is that trust is what makes you successful, not results.

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Your willingness and your decision to relationally walk with God and trust your relationship

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with Him, that is what makes you successful in God's eyes, and that is what ideally would

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make you successful in your own eyes as well.

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Again, just to reiterate, we all want the results.

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We all want the stuff to happen the way that it's meant to happen.

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But even when it doesn't work out, you're still at success.

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And I want to just share around that idea for a little bit in this session.

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The next session we're going to talk about is how to pray.

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And that's going to be a very practical session, just a little side note, a very practical

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session in terms of how to approach prayer when ministering the Spirit.

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And I'm going to go through a little process with you that I go through when confronting

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situations that are impossible for you and that require 100% God intervention for anything

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to happen.

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So we're going to get into that in the next session.

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And this is really the foundation to that next session, reframing success.

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So I want to share a little bit around that.

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John 10, 27.

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You can turn there.

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I've got my little analog, beautiful collection of Scripture right here, otherwise known as

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the Bible.

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And we're going to read from John 10.

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And we're going to start in, well, let's just start in verse 2.

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But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

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We know our shepherd, Jesus Christ.

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To him, the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep

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by name and leads them out.

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And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for

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they know his voice.

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And it carries on, and the whole rest of that chapter is an amazing thing, but I just want

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to draw out one thing from this chapter, and that's this.

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The Bible clearly says, the Apostle John writes, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,

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he says this, the sheep hear his voice.

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The shepherd comes, the sheep follow him, because the sheep hear his voice, and they

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know his voice.

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Now, I want to just draw a little distinction, and I want to suggest, and say, and point

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out what John is not saying.

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And this is an interesting thing.

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distinction to make. He's not saying, and it does not read there, it doesn't say

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his sheep understand word-for-word what he's saying. It says his sheep hear his

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voice and they recognize his voice. It doesn't say they understand what he's

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saying. It doesn't say they understand. There's a big difference between

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recognizing God's voice and hearing God's voice and understanding what he's

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saying. Hearing comes much before understanding comes, and anyone that's a

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parent knows this very well. I have three daughters, and oh hello again from New

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York. So good. Good to have you back. Anyone that's a parent knows this very

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well. I remember when my eldest daughter was in mom's tummy, in the womb. I

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remember I was so excited when I found out that my daughter actually could hear

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my voice and recognize that it was her father's voice while she was still in

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the womb. And so I would, every night I would pray for her, well most nights

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probably I missed a few, but I'd pray for her. I'd speak in tongues over her. I

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would bless her. I would declare goodness over her and sing over her and all that

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stuff. And when I would, I would notice that she would make movements in the

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womb and there was an obvious, there were signs that suggested that she could most

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definitely hear my voice. And it wouldn't happen the same for other people's

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voices. It would happen for my voice and mom's voice and my wife Renee's voice.

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So that was just a fascinating thing. Now if I asked her, hey listen can you

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repeat back to me what I'm saying so I know you understand me, like how

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absolutely 100% ridiculous would it be for me to expect my baby who's still in

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the womb to repeat back to me, to prove that she understood what I was saying. It

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would be absolutely ridiculous because there's no expectation in the father's

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heart for my daughter to understand what I'm saying when she's still in the womb.

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But I do expect her to hear my voice and recognize me because that's a natural

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thing. When she was born, you know, she went from one year old to two year old

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to three year old to four year old. Now she's 11 years old. And throughout all

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those years, right from the very first moment she was born, she could

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hear my voice and she could recognize my voice as the voice of the father, voice

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of her father. But it's taken her a long time to learn the English language, to

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learn the culture of our home, to learn the culture of the country she's from, to

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learn the culture of the kingdom that she's a part of, being the kingdom of

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Jesus. It's taken her a long time. It's taken her 11 years so far and her

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understanding is really good now and I can have some pretty in-depth

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conversations with my daughter. But the conversations I'm having now with my

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daughter, I most definitely could not have when she was one year old. But she

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could hear my voice and recognize my voice just as much when she was one as

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now when she's 11. And so a lot of the kingdom, and we're going to talk a little

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bit more about this in a later session, but a real

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massive dynamic of life in the Spirit, walking with the Holy Spirit, and walking

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with God, is recognizing and enjoying and embracing the fact that this is a

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forever process that we're on of going from newborn babies, newborn sons and

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daughters of God, to becoming mature sons and daughters of God. And we

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grow in our understanding as we embrace that journey. And that journey is not

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necessarily dictated by years, but dictated by time spent with God. There's

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a lot more I want to say about that, but that to me is an illustration of...

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alight or shed light on the dynamics of what our relationship with Him is like.

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And one of the main ones is the dynamic between a father and his children, or a

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mother and her children. And so that's pretty cool, you know, when

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you're three years old, the father doesn't expect you to have the

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understanding of a 20-year-old. When you're 20 years old, the father expects

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you to have more understanding than a three-year-old, and vice versa. So it's

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good to know that, it's good to be able to say, hey listen, it's okay for me to

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be on a journey, and it's okay for me to recognize...

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that I hear him before I understand him. Just because I don't understand him

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doesn't mean I didn't hear him. Just because I didn't quite get every word

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that he said and maybe I got it completely wrong, doesn't mean I didn't

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hear him in the first place and it does not mean that God doesn't speak to me.

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Just because the person didn't get healed doesn't mean

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that the power wasn't available there to minister from God to the person that

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it's just I'm learning how to play that instrument. I find that the gifts of the

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Spirit and life in the Spirit is a lot like musical instruments. It's a lot

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like being given a whole bunch of instruments. Guitars, drums, saxophones,

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pianos. Just because you got given the instruments doesn't mean

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you all of a sudden know how to play them. You need to learn how to play them

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and the Holy Spirit teaches you how to use the gifts of the Spirit. The

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Holy Spirit teaches you how to play the instruments of the Spirit, to make the

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sound of the Spirit through your life. You've got to give yourself a

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break. I think it's so important and you will fall into a fear of

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failure if you don't have this mindset, but it's so important to understand that

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it's a journey of learning and growing in the Spirit and that God celebrates

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deeply that journey and what pleases Him is trust more than results.

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Relationship more than results. One more story is, and some of you might have

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heard this before, but I think this really hits the hits at home, is I

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remember when, and I could tell lots of stories like this, but I remember a

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specific one where I was sitting on my couch and I call this the story of

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Sienna and the sausage. I was sitting on my couch and I was eating a sausage and

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I really needed some tomato sauce. Well, I didn't need it, but I had a

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sausage and some bread and I really just wanted some tomato sauce on that

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sausage. My daughter, Sienna, was just learning how to

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talk at the time, so I can't remember how old she was. She would have been maybe

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one and a half or something like that. I said, Sienna, Sienna, come here, and she was

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like, and so excited to come to me because she just loved being, you know,

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being included in my life and she loved to be a part of life with the family and

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she's all stoked. Yeah, Dad, yeah, Dad. And I said, Sienna, I need, Dad needs some tomato

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sauce for this sausage. Can you help me, Sienna? She said, yes, Dad, yes, I can help you. And everyone wants, it's a

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natural thing for a child to want to be helpful to their parents. It's a natural

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thing for us to want to be helpful to God. And so I created an opportunity for

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Sienna to be helpful. Not that I really needed her to do it, but hey, it was a

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great opportunity to include her in the father's business. And I said, I want you

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to go to the fridge. Do you know where the fridge is, Sienna? She said, yes, Dad, yes.

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Get me the tomato sauce. And she said, okay, Dad, okay, okay. Go, Sienna. And she went, she started walking

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towards the fridge, all happy, you know, bobbing up and down, walking towards the

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fridge. And then she took, just before she got to the kitchen, she took a sharp

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right-hand turn, started walking toward her bedroom. And I started thinking, this

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is peculiar. I don't know what's going on here. She walked towards her bedroom and

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she's rustling around the drawers. I'm thinking there's definitely no tomato

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sauce in those drawers, at least. I really hope there's not tomato sauce in those

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drawers. And for my American friends, when I say tomato sauce, what I mean is

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ketchup. I realize that some Kiwi phrases don't translate into into American that

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easy. I can tell you lots of stories about traveling the world and needing an

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interpreter because I didn't have an American accent. Anyway, that's a side

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note. It's quite fun. I've got tons of stories about that. It's so funny. Anyway,

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she goes to her room and she skips back a little bit later, probably another, you

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know, less than a minute later, she comes back out of her room. The drawer shuts.

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You hear the drawer shut. She comes back out of her room. She's all so

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excited. She walks up to me. She says, Hey Dad. And she passes me a nappy, which is

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Kiwi for diaper. And I thought to myself, well, that's not quite the tomato

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sauce I was asking for. But I thought to myself, you know, my sheep heard my voice.

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My daughter heard my voice. My daughter didn't just hear my voice. My

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daughter engaged...

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with my voice, my daughter trusted my voice, my daughter went with my voice and

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her heart is with me. She is engaging in this relationship and here's what I did

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not do. I didn't say, you false prophet, you deserve punishment for that. How

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dare you call yourself a daughter of mine, you can't even hear me,

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you can't even understand me, what are you doing? I didn't go off my rocker.

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Of course not, there's no expectation in the father's heart for me to expect

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her to understand everything I'm saying. Instead I thought what an epic

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opportunity to be part of the process of my daughter's growing up and maturing

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and learning to understand me and all this stuff and I said wow Siena, thank

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you so much for this nappy, for this diaper and then I said listen, what I'm

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gonna do is come with me and I'm gonna show you where the tomato sauce is. So I

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took her to the fridge, showed her the tomato sauce, put it on my sausage and

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and that was that and it was just so cool and I just want to

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say that sometimes we're like Siena and sometimes God is like I was holding the

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sausage and asking for tomato sauce, not because he can't get up and get it

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himself and possibly and probably and almost definitely it will be much easier

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for him to just do that. He doesn't necessarily need our help but he loves

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our help because he loves doing life with us and this is what pleases him.

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Without faith it's impossible to please God. Whether you get the diaper or

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whether you get the tomato sauce, whether you get it right or whether you get it

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wrong, whether you hit the nail on the head or whether you totally miss it and

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break glass or do something disastrous, the fact that you simply chose to

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connect your heart and your life and your decision with the heart of the

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Father and you chose to trust him, that's what pleases him and when you learn that

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that's what pleases him, that becomes the thing that pleases you.

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There's that scripture in Nehemiah 8, the joy of the Lord is your strength and I think that

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is so true that your joy, your joy is not your strength but it's his joy over

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you that's your strength and when you realize what gives him joy, what gives

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him delight, what absolutely lights his heart up in terms of his

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relationship with you, then when you realize that it gives you absolute joy,

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it fills you with strength and so I want to suggest that, I want to say that

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we all, you right now, whether you have been a Christian for 30 seconds or

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whether you have been a Christian for 50 years, it doesn't matter, each of us

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hear God. I want to just declare this over you, you might have

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believed the lie that you can't hear God's voice, you always hear God's voice,

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you 100% hear God's voice and you recognize him. I'm just, that is a solid

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fact, you hear his voice, that's biblical and it's just a fact, you hear his voice.

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What I'm also going to say is this, you have permission from the Father, you have

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been designed to be on a process of growing in your understanding of what

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he's saying and that's something that we're all engaging in, not just what he's

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saying in terms of giving us information, but what he's communicating

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to us by the Spirit, every moment of every day and so I want to just

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push the green light, I want to push the permission button in your spirit right

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now and say you have permission, boom, to engage in the process and not feel

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guilty or ashamed or bummed out or like a failure when you get it wrong, because

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getting it wrong does not mean you failed, you are a success when you choose

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to engage with and walk with God and choose to lean into him and so hopefully

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that empowers you to take some risk, hopefully that empowers you, my prayer is

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that that empowers you and encourages you, in other words fills you

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with courage to step out and to realize that just that one step, that

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first step, at that point, that's where you get your A+. Not at the end of

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the test, not when the Father's marked scrupulously all of the different

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questions that you have, that you have answered to the best of your ability, no

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no no no, you get your A+.

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at the first step, A+, BAM, success all of a sudden, and the rest is just the cherry on the top.

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Awesome guys. Well, we're going to pray. I'm going to pray for you. But before I do,

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I'm going to actually, we're going to go into a little activation now. And there's a couple of

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us on the live feed. And I want you to stay on if you can, if you need to run off, of course,

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freedom in the house. But we're just going to do a little activation. And I want you to

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to actually pick someone that is watching right now. Now, a side note, if you're on this,

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and you have not put a comment on the comment section, then people might not know that you're

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watching. So I just want you to just, if you're there, just drop a little a little piece, a

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little emoji or a little yo-yo or just a little high five or just, just, just drop any comment

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on the comment section just so that people can see your name skip up on the screen. Just do that now.

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And what that's going to do is that's going to, that's going to put you in this activation.

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That's going to put you in this thing. And then what I'm going to ask you to do in a moment,

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and I'm going to ask you to just, just ask the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, highlight one of the

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names and preferably someone that you don't know very well, but highlight one of the names

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on the comment section. Highlight to me a name of one of the people that's live right now.

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And, and so just do that now and just allow the Lord to highlight to you or draw you towards

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or just illuminate one of the names on the, on the comment list right there.

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Once you've got that, you could put a little thumbs up on there and just say, yep, I've got

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that. I've got that name. This is a little chicken line challenge. I've got that name.

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Why don't you just get someone's name, get someone's name, and then we're just going to spend,

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once you've got that name, we're going to spend just only a couple of minutes. It's not going to

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take long. I'm just going to ask you to, to find a quiet space. You can kind of tune out of my

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voice for a moment and I want to ask you to just say, just say, Holy Spirit, could you drop into

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my heart an illustration, a picture or something that I could share with that person that would

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encourage them. It might be something that feels quite generic or it might be something that feels

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very, very specific. And don't worry if it doesn't necessarily feel highlighted. The fact that you

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picked the name probably means it was highlighted. So that's cool. But thanks Lorraine. That's so

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cool. I'm glad you picked the name. Thanks for doing that. And just take some time and just,

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just be quiet before the Lord. Just ask Him to drop into your spirit. Now, when He drops something

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into your spirit, you know, you'll hear His voice. You will. You may not fully understand what He's

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saying and that's okay. Just ask the Holy Spirit to give you understanding and He will give you

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understanding in accordance with your capacity to understand, which is something that will grow in

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time as you continue doing this and utilizing this, this way of walking with God.

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Just ask Him to give you something. Now, if it's a discouraging thing, then

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then don't, probably don't share it or ask the Lord how you could communicate that in an

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encouraging way. But we're going to ask the Lord for an encouraging thing to share with that person.

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And then once you've got that, if it feels unclean, just ask the Lord to clarify, like,

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how can I share this with this person? What language should I use for this? And then when

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you're ready, I want you to actually just drop a comment on the comment section. Tag that person

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in the comment and just share that encouraging word with them. Just share that. It might be a

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prophetic word or a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom. Just share that with them.

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We're engaging in those three gifts of the Spirit right now.

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And then if you receive a word from someone and it feels off, then, hey, don't go throwing stones

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saying that that person's a false prophet. Not that I believe any of you would do that anyway.

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But it might be just a way of an opportunity to recognize, wow, man, so cool that that person

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heard God for me. I think they might have missed the understanding of what God was saying.

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That's okay, because that's fine. We're allowed to be on a process.

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But man, thank you God that they chose to listen to you on my behalf.

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You're going to be like, oh my gosh, that was so encouraging.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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And you can interact with that.

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So I'm going to pray, and then I'm going to invite you to drop those comments

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and encourage those people.

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I think some of you are already doing that, and that's awesome.

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Thank you for doing that.

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Yes, Father, so right now I declare freedom over people,

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and I break a fear of failure right now in the name of Jesus off of people.

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And I declare right now that people would recognize the beauty of your voice

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on the inside of them.

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Holy Spirit, I thank you God that you are the most encouraging person

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that any of us would ever meet, Lord.

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And I just declare massive amounts of encouragement flowing over the comments

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of this teaching right now in Jesus' name.

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I pray that people who are nervous to step over the chicken line right now,

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that they would just find courage in you to step out and to try their wings, God.

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To step out and to either get the tomato sauce or get the naffy,

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but either way be celebrated.

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Be celebrated by you.

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Thank you, God. Thank you, God.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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There's some cool comments coming up on here, and that's so awesome.

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Thanks, guys.

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Thanks for including yourself in the challenge, and so awesome.

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Wow. Awesome. I'm just looking at some of these now.

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Really cool. Thank you.

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Yes. Come on, guys. Some cool comments coming up. Love it.

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Thanks. That's so good.

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I mean, you can't help but be encouraged by some of these comments.

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Some of these might not feel like specific words of knowledge.

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They don't have to feel like that.

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This just might be something that the Father just wants you to know

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and wants you to hear right now.

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Like I said, sometimes things are generic,

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and sometimes when you communicate those generic things

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from the Father's heart to people,

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they can feel to that person like the most specific things ever.

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And sometimes you can go for the absolute specific words of knowledge,

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and they can feel to the person receiving them super generic.

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It's just funny.

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You never know how someone's going to receive what you're hearing from God.

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I love that. I heard you love cats.

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Come on. What a cool word of knowledge.

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I remember being with a friend of mine in America, in the USA,

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and we were having words of knowledge for healing,

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and we started with a list of words of knowledge,

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and one of them was,

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I feel like your favorite ice cream is chocolate ice cream.

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Your neighbor has a dog that barks at night,

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normally about 11 o'clock at night.

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Instead of going through all these random words of knowledge,

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the person just felt so known.

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It was so cool to see the word of knowledge used in that way.

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It actually changed the way I interacted

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with that particular instrument of the Spirit,

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the word of knowledge.

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It's so cool.

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Thanks, guys, for these epic comments.

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Love it.

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All right. Well, I'm going to let you guys keep on commenting,

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and we're going to come back in...

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What time is it now?

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No, I've left it there.

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Oh, there it is. Okay. Got it.

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We're going to come back at 1 o'clock.

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That's in 20 minutes for Session 2.

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Feel free to spread the word, too, guys.

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Thank you, guys, for tuning in to the session,

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and this next session is going to be all about

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what to do when you pray.

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Real practical about how to engage in the Spirit

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when it comes to praying for people

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and expecting the supernatural to happen.

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So, bless you.

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Continue those comments, and we'll see you in 20 minutes.

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Awesome. Peace.