WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.560 So good morning and welcome to Supernatural Saturday. 2 00:00:05.560 --> 00:00:07.820 This is our holiday edition. 3 00:00:07.820 --> 00:00:12.540 We are in the Advent season, and I'm going to be doing a Supernatural Saturday next week 4 00:00:12.540 --> 00:00:14.120 on Advent. 5 00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:18.980 And so if you want to be anywhere live, you're going to want to be at that because we're 6 00:00:18.980 --> 00:00:22.520 in a very supernatural and notable season. 7 00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:25.160 We're in a supernatural season. 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:29.660 And so I'm going to kind of start the Advent series today by talking about a specific scripture 9 00:00:29.660 --> 00:00:31.080 from the Sermon on the Mount. 10 00:00:31.080 --> 00:00:36.600 But before I get into that, I want to talk to all of you new people about what is Supernatural 11 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:37.600 Saturday. 12 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:43.800 It is a time when we come together for the purpose of looking to heaven and stepping 13 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:46.960 into God's reality together. 14 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:48.920 You know, there's no distance in the spirit. 15 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:52.280 And we just had everyone put their cities and states, countries in the chat. 16 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:55.600 And you see that we're all over the place. 17 00:00:55.600 --> 00:00:59.180 But we're together as one on this call. 18 00:00:59.180 --> 00:01:00.540 And that is very powerful. 19 00:01:00.540 --> 00:01:05.860 The Bible says when we gather together and we're in one mind and one accord, crazy things 20 00:01:05.860 --> 00:01:07.160 can happen. 21 00:01:07.160 --> 00:01:10.860 And so we've had all kinds of miracles happen on these Supernatural Saturday calls. 22 00:01:10.860 --> 00:01:13.340 We've had people get healed. 23 00:01:13.340 --> 00:01:16.300 We've had people get freedom, breakthrough. 24 00:01:16.300 --> 00:01:24.300 We've had people get their prayers answered, long prayers, prayers that had not been answered 25 00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.800 for a long time. 26 00:01:26.800 --> 00:01:31.920 We've had people have answered prayers quickly, accelerated answers to prayers. 27 00:01:31.920 --> 00:01:35.320 People have gotten clarity and wisdom and revelation. 28 00:01:35.320 --> 00:01:38.520 All kinds of things happen when we gather together. 29 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:41.400 And it's not just about me leading you on these Saturdays. 30 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:47.000 It's about you coming and you adding your faith as well to your brothers and sisters. 31 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:51.580 And so Father God, we look to you this morning and we're so thankful. 32 00:01:51.580 --> 00:01:55.000 We're thankful that you are not a man that you can lie. 33 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.960 You can't lie. 34 00:01:56.960 --> 00:01:58.720 Everything that you've said is true. 35 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:03.200 And so we come into agreement with that this morning. 36 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:05.440 And we want to partner with heaven. 37 00:02:05.440 --> 00:02:08.400 We want to lock arms with each other and with you. 38 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:11.840 And we want to see your will done on the earth. 39 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:16.720 We want to see breakthrough, not just for ourselves, but for the others around us and 40 00:02:16.720 --> 00:02:18.880 for the others that we don't even know. 41 00:02:19.380 --> 00:02:23.620 Father, we're asking that you would utilize us. 42 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:29.060 Your word says that you're looking, that you're searching for someone that you can show your 43 00:02:29.060 --> 00:02:31.120 power through. 44 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.300 And so we're offering ourselves this morning. 45 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:36.660 We're volunteering ourselves this morning. 46 00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:38.340 Show your power through us. 47 00:02:38.340 --> 00:02:41.120 In Jesus name, amen. 48 00:02:41.120 --> 00:02:44.020 So the other morning I hijacked prayer. 49 00:02:44.020 --> 00:02:46.700 I a lot of times hijack on hump day. 50 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:51.160 I get on Wednesdays for whatever reason, I wake up with something that I want to share. 51 00:02:51.160 --> 00:02:53.740 And then I jump into that prayer chat. 52 00:02:53.740 --> 00:02:56.340 And so thank you for the grace to do that. 53 00:02:56.340 --> 00:03:02.200 I'm sure that the prayer leaders, when I do hijack, I know that you're glad that I came, 54 00:03:02.200 --> 00:03:06.900 but sometimes maybe what you were feeling in your heart doesn't get fully accomplished. 55 00:03:06.900 --> 00:03:10.280 And so I appreciate you honoring me in that way. 56 00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:15.760 So this Wednesday, I woke up and God had been talking to me in my sleep. 57 00:03:15.760 --> 00:03:22.760 When else God kind of talks to you when you're in between being fully asleep and fully awake? 58 00:03:22.760 --> 00:03:24.760 Raise your hand if that's you. 59 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:37.560 Lots of hands being raised. 60 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:40.240 One of the reasons why, okay, put your hands down. 61 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:41.840 We'll have another question. 62 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:43.840 Go ahead and put your hands down. 63 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:51.840 Go ahead and get your hands down. 64 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:56.840 Now raise your hands if God talks to you in the shower. 65 00:04:02.840 --> 00:04:05.840 Got that shower prophetic life going on. 66 00:04:11.840 --> 00:04:12.840 Okay. 67 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:18.839 So let's talk about that for just a second, because we are going to be doing a special 68 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:23.840 session this coming week on Thursday, and it is about hearing from God. 69 00:04:25.840 --> 00:04:30.840 Now, it's great that we come here on Saturday and we gather together and we listen to what 70 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:32.840 Jackie heard from God. 71 00:04:32.840 --> 00:04:37.840 And then God speaks to us when we're here in this group, just like I prayed a few minutes 72 00:04:37.840 --> 00:04:38.840 ago. 73 00:04:38.840 --> 00:04:44.840 But we want you to have those tools to be able to hear from God all the time, not just 74 00:04:44.840 --> 00:04:46.840 under special circumstances. 75 00:04:46.840 --> 00:04:47.840 Okay. 76 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:52.840 So the reason why a lot of times we feel like God's talking louder to us when we're in the 77 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:59.840 shower or in those moments right before consciousness, is because God is speaking to us in a way 78 00:04:59.840 --> 00:05:01.840 that we can't hear. 79 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.280 like full consciousness when we're waking up in the morning 80 00:05:03.280 --> 00:05:07.400 is because we haven't had a chance to get fully in gear 81 00:05:07.400 --> 00:05:09.760 in our own minds yet. 82 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:13.560 Think about it, when you're in the shower, 83 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:14.760 there's a frontal cortex. 84 00:05:14.760 --> 00:05:17.520 Everyone put your hand on the front of your head, 85 00:05:17.520 --> 00:05:21.160 on the front of your forehead there, put your hand there. 86 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:24.280 Okay, your brain, you have a frontal cortex of your brain 87 00:05:24.280 --> 00:05:26.440 and this is your learning center. 88 00:05:26.440 --> 00:05:29.760 This is the part of your brain that lights up 89 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:33.200 when you're learning new things, okay? 90 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:35.360 And you have to use this part of your brain 91 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:37.200 to learn new things. 92 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:38.640 So when you're learning a new skill, 93 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:40.280 when you're on the job training 94 00:05:40.280 --> 00:05:41.480 and you're learning new things, 95 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:43.060 or maybe when you're learning an instrument 96 00:05:43.060 --> 00:05:44.600 or how to play a game, 97 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:45.880 this is the part of your brain 98 00:05:45.880 --> 00:05:49.360 that's going to be activated, okay? 99 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:53.960 But when you've done something over and over and over 100 00:05:53.960 --> 00:05:56.380 and over and over again, 101 00:05:56.380 --> 00:05:59.440 you don't have to use that part of your brain. 102 00:06:00.120 --> 00:06:02.560 You're operating on other parts of your brain 103 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:04.400 because now you could, 104 00:06:04.400 --> 00:06:07.280 have you ever heard that expression, 105 00:06:07.280 --> 00:06:08.780 I could do this in my sleep? 106 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.120 Right, it's almost robotic, it's so ritualistic. 107 00:06:14.120 --> 00:06:16.200 You've done it so many times before. 108 00:06:16.200 --> 00:06:20.520 And the reason why God seems to speak so loud to us 109 00:06:20.520 --> 00:06:25.520 in the shower is because we are not fully engaged, 110 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:28.380 concentrating, we're just in there 111 00:06:28.380 --> 00:06:30.900 kind of going through the motions. 112 00:06:30.900 --> 00:06:32.980 We're kind of a captive audience for God 113 00:06:32.980 --> 00:06:35.520 because we're not all up in our thinking. 114 00:06:37.340 --> 00:06:38.780 Does that make sense to you? 115 00:06:43.260 --> 00:06:46.340 It's the perfect time for him to talk to you 116 00:06:46.340 --> 00:06:50.280 because you're not trying to figure anything out. 117 00:06:53.940 --> 00:06:55.340 You're not, you're lathering up. 118 00:06:55.340 --> 00:06:56.900 You know how to do that. 119 00:06:56.900 --> 00:06:59.220 You're not even thinking about doing it. 120 00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:00.580 It's just happening. 121 00:07:04.220 --> 00:07:05.580 So there's space there. 122 00:07:07.100 --> 00:07:09.740 There's space there for God to interject 123 00:07:09.740 --> 00:07:12.460 because you're not running around, 124 00:07:12.460 --> 00:07:15.940 worrying, thinking, trying to figure stuff out. 125 00:07:15.940 --> 00:07:17.740 And then same when you're waking up in the morning, 126 00:07:17.740 --> 00:07:20.220 you haven't had a chance to engage yet. 127 00:07:20.220 --> 00:07:21.860 Now, as soon as you fully engage, 128 00:07:21.860 --> 00:07:22.680 you're gonna be thinking about, 129 00:07:22.680 --> 00:07:23.520 oh, what do I gotta do today? 130 00:07:23.520 --> 00:07:24.340 What do I gotta wear? 131 00:07:24.340 --> 00:07:25.180 What do I gotta eat? 132 00:07:25.180 --> 00:07:26.020 What do I gotta do? 133 00:07:26.020 --> 00:07:26.840 What do I gotta do? 134 00:07:27.840 --> 00:07:29.840 Those birds from that cartoon, 135 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:30.680 they're like, what are we gonna do? 136 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:31.520 What are we gonna do? 137 00:07:31.520 --> 00:07:32.440 What are we gonna do? 138 00:07:32.440 --> 00:07:34.440 You remember those vultures? 139 00:07:34.440 --> 00:07:36.200 I have no idea what movie that's from, 140 00:07:36.200 --> 00:07:39.960 but some kid's movie, maybe. 141 00:07:43.440 --> 00:07:44.980 Hold on. 142 00:07:44.980 --> 00:07:46.800 We've got an unmuted friend. 143 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.800 Okay, so we're gonna talk about making space 144 00:07:53.520 --> 00:07:55.720 to hear the Lord this morning, 145 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.080 which is why all of this is pertinent. 146 00:07:58.080 --> 00:08:00.400 But that's why you seem to hear God 147 00:08:00.400 --> 00:08:03.800 so clearly in those moments. 148 00:08:03.800 --> 00:08:05.340 But you can cultivate that. 149 00:08:06.280 --> 00:08:08.880 You don't just have to have the shower 150 00:08:08.880 --> 00:08:10.520 be your prayer closet. 151 00:08:10.520 --> 00:08:12.600 I mean, I like hearing from God in the shower, 152 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:17.560 and I've gotten some of my most crazy downloads 153 00:08:17.560 --> 00:08:19.060 in the shower from God. 154 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:24.000 And right before I wake up in the morning as well. 155 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:27.600 And so the other morning, I started waking up, 156 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:29.240 and this is what God said to me. 157 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.080 Even the sharks say yes sometimes. 158 00:08:34.840 --> 00:08:35.679 What? 159 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.000 God, what are you? 160 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:39.919 Okay, I wasn't watching Shark Tank, you guys. 161 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:41.559 I think I've only seen that show 162 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:44.000 maybe three or four times in my entire life. 163 00:08:45.760 --> 00:08:46.840 All right? 164 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:48.760 So I wasn't watching Shark Tank. 165 00:08:48.760 --> 00:08:51.920 I knew exactly what sharks God was talking about 166 00:08:51.920 --> 00:08:53.440 when he said this to me, though. 167 00:08:53.880 --> 00:08:56.160 He was talking about the sharks on this show. 168 00:08:56.160 --> 00:08:57.520 If you're not familiar with this show, 169 00:08:57.520 --> 00:08:58.540 maybe you don't live in America, 170 00:08:58.540 --> 00:08:59.920 you've never seen this show. 171 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:04.880 This is like a angel investment kind of show 172 00:09:04.880 --> 00:09:07.240 where there are three investors, 173 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.520 or three really rich, or maybe four really rich sharks, 174 00:09:10.520 --> 00:09:12.000 they call them the sharks, 175 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:14.960 and people with new inventions, 176 00:09:14.960 --> 00:09:16.940 or new products, or new companies, 177 00:09:16.940 --> 00:09:17.960 they come and they pitch. 178 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:19.420 It's like a pitch fest. 179 00:09:19.420 --> 00:09:21.280 They come and pitch to these sharks saying, 180 00:09:21.320 --> 00:09:23.440 hey, look at what we've done. 181 00:09:23.440 --> 00:09:25.120 Look what we've made, created. 182 00:09:25.120 --> 00:09:28.600 Look at this product that we're selling on our own right now. 183 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:30.240 Would you get behind us? 184 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:31.600 Would you invest in us? 185 00:09:31.600 --> 00:09:33.560 Would you partner with us? 186 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:36.680 So those are the questions that are asked on this show, 187 00:09:36.680 --> 00:09:38.600 is will you partner? 188 00:09:38.600 --> 00:09:40.080 Will you partner for this amount? 189 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:41.720 Will you invest for this amount? 190 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:47.200 So I'm waking up on Wednesday morning of this week, 191 00:09:47.200 --> 00:09:51.480 and God says, even the sharks say yes 192 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:53.040 sometimes when they're asked. 193 00:09:57.160 --> 00:09:59.800 Now, the three or four times that I've seen that show, 194 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.920 they have more than one company on, they'll just have company after company come on, 195 00:10:04.800 --> 00:10:10.880 or, you know, inventor after inventor. And they don't always get a yes. And there's four, 196 00:10:11.520 --> 00:10:18.000 three or four sharks, I don't remember how many, maybe five, that have an option to say yes. So 197 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:23.920 you kind of have even, you know, better odds because there's more than one shark that if one 198 00:10:23.920 --> 00:10:33.200 doesn't want you, maybe another one does. And what was God trying to say to me when he said that 199 00:10:34.080 --> 00:10:42.400 on Wednesday morning? He was saying, Jackie, you don't have because you don't ask. 200 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:48.800 Come on, y'all. I need you to lean in on this. 201 00:10:48.800 --> 00:10:57.760 You have not because you ask not, girly girl. And you know what? He's not wrong. 202 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.600 I have a very hard time asking people for help. 203 00:11:07.760 --> 00:11:12.080 I have a very hard time asking anyone for anything. 204 00:11:12.080 --> 00:11:19.440 I don't know if I don't want to be embarrassed. I don't know if I think it's rude. 205 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:26.880 You guys, I have friends that have no shame. I have friends that will ask for a better table. 206 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:32.800 I have friends that will ask for a discount. I have friends that will ask strangers the most, 207 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:37.920 in my opinion, embarrassing requests. And I'm with them. And I'm like, oh, my God. 208 00:11:38.560 --> 00:11:41.840 And you know what? Almost always, the answer is yes. 209 00:11:45.760 --> 00:11:50.160 The answer is yes. They ask cops to get out of tickets. 210 00:11:51.280 --> 00:11:56.240 They just ask. You know, their philosophy is, well, you know, you don't know until you try. 211 00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:04.160 But I'm not like that. And the reason why I'm not like that is because most of my life, 212 00:12:04.160 --> 00:12:07.680 I lived an orphan life where I just had to kind of figure it out myself. 213 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:14.880 It's easier to go get it myself than to ask for it. Because in my family growing up, 214 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:22.080 if you asked for it, the answer was always no. And so you hear no enough, you stop asking. 215 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:25.920 You just go figure it out on your own. Come on, y'all. 216 00:12:26.560 --> 00:12:30.960 Raise your hand if that's you. You hear no enough and you just stop asking. 217 00:12:34.240 --> 00:12:39.840 You just stop. Why should I ask? The answer is always no. 218 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:43.360 I'm just going to go try to figure it out myself. 219 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.800 And then that bleeds into our spiritual life, you guys. If that's been our natural 220 00:12:49.760 --> 00:12:54.000 experience, then it bleeds into our spiritual life. 221 00:12:56.400 --> 00:13:03.360 And I will tell you that I do pray. I pray for you guys. I intercede. I do have a Jesus Cares 222 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.800 board. For those of you that are new, you might not know what that is yet, but you will 223 00:13:06.800 --> 00:13:15.280 as you get into your phase one heartwork. I have those things. I do. But I'm here to confess to 224 00:13:15.280 --> 00:13:21.520 you today. The Bible says, confess your faults to one another, your weaknesses, your frailties, 225 00:13:21.520 --> 00:13:27.360 your limitations, and be healed. I haven't really been asking God for anything. 226 00:13:29.760 --> 00:13:33.040 I haven't. Specifically just for me. 227 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:40.720 You know, a lot of us have no problem asking God for other people. And I ask God for you 228 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:44.480 all all the time. But what about for you? What about your needs? 229 00:13:47.360 --> 00:13:49.760 I know people who don't want to even bother God. 230 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:56.320 I don't want to bother God with that. I had someone tell me that the other day. 231 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.240 They're about to have another surgery because the first surgery didn't work 232 00:14:02.240 --> 00:14:08.640 to fix a bone in their leg. And I said, oh, we need to pray that this time, you know, the doctors 233 00:14:09.520 --> 00:14:13.600 have wisdom. And they stopped me. They're like, oh, you know, I don't want to bother God with 234 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:20.640 this. They're like, I'll be all right. What? What do you mean bother God? 235 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:26.560 And some of you feel that way. 236 00:14:29.600 --> 00:14:34.000 Some of you don't want to bother God. You were raised in a religious environment where 237 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:38.160 you just you don't want to bug him. You know, he's got more important things to do. There are 238 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:43.440 people that are starving. There are people that are dying. And, you know, OK, you have a problem, 239 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:48.320 but your problem is not as big as theirs. Guys, I want you to know something. This is another 240 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:56.480 thing that God said to me this week. He said. Just because other people in the world are in 241 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.840 pain and you might think they're in more pain than you and that they deserve. 242 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.600 my attention more than you do. 243 00:15:02.040 --> 00:15:04.600 He said, it doesn't negate your suffering. 244 00:15:09.560 --> 00:15:12.080 Guys, it doesn't negate your suffering. 245 00:15:15.640 --> 00:15:18.580 This isn't suffering on a scale where God's only going to help the 246 00:15:18.580 --> 00:15:21.160 people that are the worst in need. 247 00:15:23.920 --> 00:15:24.920 God's not limited. 248 00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:26.560 I want you to say that to yourself. 249 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:27.680 God's not limited. 250 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:28.840 Yes. 251 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:34.800 If there was a limited supply of resources, they should go to the 252 00:15:34.800 --> 00:15:39.240 people who most need them, but there's not a limited supply of resources. 253 00:15:39.240 --> 00:15:41.600 We live in the kingdom of God. 254 00:15:46.760 --> 00:15:48.880 And we're going to get into that in just a second. 255 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.760 There's not, I need you to start to reprogram your thinking here. 256 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:57.400 There's not a limited amount of resources. 257 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:03.640 Therefore, it's not whoever is first in line because of the 258 00:16:03.640 --> 00:16:06.200 desperation of their situation. 259 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:07.880 It's all of us. 260 00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:10.720 God cares for all of us. 261 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:18.280 A long time ago, when I worked at the homeless shelter, when I was going to 262 00:16:18.280 --> 00:16:23.440 college to be a social worker and a psychologist, I drove a outreach van. 263 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:29.920 I saw the poorest of the poor and my focus was always on the people that were 264 00:16:29.920 --> 00:16:33.800 down and out, the people that were in a desperate situation. 265 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:36.320 I never thought about the middle-class. 266 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:41.720 I certainly never thought about the upper-class needing Jesus, needing 267 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:46.320 anything, needing breakthrough, needing healing, and one day God just simply 268 00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:50.320 said to me, Hey, you know, Jackie, pain is also driving a Porsche. 269 00:16:51.160 --> 00:16:56.000 He was identifying someone behind the wheel of a Porsche as somebody who was 270 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.600 in pain, and that was a new thought for me. 271 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:08.720 I was like, Oh, it's not just these people, the quote unquote have nots that 272 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.480 are in pain, the haves are in pain as well. 273 00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:17.520 They have broken lives and broken bodies and broken spirits and broken 274 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:18.520 relationships. 275 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:25.000 And so I'm just glad that we can show up together this morning and understand 276 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:30.560 that God does not have us on a list according to need, according to the 277 00:17:30.560 --> 00:17:31.920 desperation of our need. 278 00:17:33.200 --> 00:17:37.600 In fact, the Bible says that he knows what we have need of before we even ask. 279 00:17:40.600 --> 00:17:45.680 So Wednesday morning, I wake up, God talks to me about the sharks and what 280 00:17:46.680 --> 00:17:54.160 he's saying to me is, is that if these, these guys and girls, if they're even 281 00:17:54.160 --> 00:18:00.720 willing to say yes, some of the time, then how much more willing am I to say 282 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:01.240 yes? 283 00:18:01.440 --> 00:18:08.360 When you ask me, he was talking to me about not asking you guys, I can pinpoint 284 00:18:08.360 --> 00:18:13.920 when I stopped asking God, when I stopped really asking God for myself and it's 285 00:18:13.920 --> 00:18:15.520 when my mom got sick and died. 286 00:18:19.040 --> 00:18:22.560 I did not want that to turn out that way. 287 00:18:26.840 --> 00:18:28.800 That is not what I was asking for. 288 00:18:30.840 --> 00:18:33.520 That is not what I was seeking God for. 289 00:18:33.960 --> 00:18:36.400 That is not what I was interceding for. 290 00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:41.280 And now almost five years on the other side of that, I can see it a lot 291 00:18:41.280 --> 00:18:41.800 differently. 292 00:18:41.800 --> 00:18:43.320 I can see what was happening. 293 00:18:43.320 --> 00:18:44.880 I can see free will it play. 294 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:51.640 I can see so many different things, but what it did is it shut down my asking 295 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:54.400 God, not on purpose. 296 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:56.440 Okay. 297 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:01.400 I don't have a conscious grudge against God where I'm like, well, I'm just, you 298 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:09.120 know, I'm not going to ask you for anything now, you know, no, it's not 299 00:19:09.120 --> 00:19:09.840 conscious. 300 00:19:10.520 --> 00:19:16.280 It's just a situation where I have focused all of my energy on other things 301 00:19:16.360 --> 00:19:18.880 and not myself. 302 00:19:23.760 --> 00:19:27.480 So when God spoke to me this in the morning, that morning, he was talking to 303 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:29.040 me, but he was also talking to you. 304 00:19:31.080 --> 00:19:32.320 And you know what it reminded me of? 305 00:19:32.320 --> 00:19:34.920 It reminded me of the scripture of the unjust judge. 306 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:37.200 Guys know that story? 307 00:19:38.360 --> 00:19:40.320 It's about the widow who needs justice. 308 00:19:40.600 --> 00:19:43.840 There are bad things happening and they're out of her control. 309 00:19:43.840 --> 00:19:46.760 So she comes to the judge and she's demanding justice. 310 00:19:47.520 --> 00:19:52.720 She's demanding that he deliver her from her adversaries and she's coming every 311 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:58.320 day, every day, every day, every day, every day, every day, every day, every 312 00:19:58.320 --> 00:19:59.200 day, every day. 313 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.640 We're going to get into Matthew 7, 7 here in a second. 314 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:08.240 That is the ask, seek and knock scripture. 315 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:13.740 And some commentators think that scripture actually is translated on keep asking, keep 316 00:20:13.740 --> 00:20:19.080 not seeking, keep knocking. 317 00:20:19.080 --> 00:20:28.160 They think in the original Greek that it's translated to mean keep asking, keep seeking, 318 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:29.420 keep knocking. 319 00:20:29.420 --> 00:20:36.780 This is not a one-time situation, this is a lifestyle. 320 00:20:36.780 --> 00:20:45.900 So she keeps on pestering him, she keeps on showing up, I need justice, avenge me of my 321 00:20:45.900 --> 00:20:49.260 adversaries, avenge me of my adversaries. 322 00:20:49.260 --> 00:20:53.860 Some of you need to be showing up every single day in the courts of heaven, avenge me of 323 00:20:53.860 --> 00:21:03.060 my adversaries. 324 00:21:03.060 --> 00:21:12.180 Avenge me, avenge my family, avenge my children, avenge my lineage, my legacy, avenge us of 325 00:21:12.180 --> 00:21:20.500 our adversaries. 326 00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:25.820 Remember this parable is about an unjust judge, it's not a righteous man, it's not a good 327 00:21:25.820 --> 00:21:30.540 man, he's not. 328 00:21:30.540 --> 00:21:35.660 And for those of you that need the political leaders in our era that we're living in to 329 00:21:35.660 --> 00:21:41.500 be righteous and just people, no, we don't need them to be righteous and just people, 330 00:21:41.500 --> 00:21:46.980 we just need them to do the right thing because God moves on their heart. 331 00:21:46.980 --> 00:21:51.500 That's all we need. 332 00:21:51.500 --> 00:22:00.180 And so in this story, the judge says, I don't fear God, I don't fear man, but this woman 333 00:22:00.180 --> 00:22:02.660 is antagonizing me. 334 00:22:02.660 --> 00:22:08.260 And because of her constant coming, I'm just going to give her what she wants. 335 00:22:08.260 --> 00:22:09.700 What? 336 00:22:09.700 --> 00:22:15.820 Come on, you guys, come on. 337 00:22:15.820 --> 00:22:25.900 Because of her persistence, I'm just going to give her what she wants. 338 00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:26.900 What is this showing us? 339 00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:32.660 It's showing us the precedent that even when someone's unrighteous, they're not godly, 340 00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:36.300 but we don't give up on what God has told us to do. 341 00:22:36.300 --> 00:22:42.740 When we're consistent, when we're persistent, we will still see victory. 342 00:22:42.740 --> 00:22:48.540 We will still see breakthrough. 343 00:22:48.540 --> 00:22:55.100 So ask Seek and Knock, Matthew 7, 7, you guys, this passage of scripture comes from the Sermon 344 00:22:55.100 --> 00:22:57.740 on the Mount, Matthew 5, 6, 7. 345 00:22:57.740 --> 00:23:01.380 If you ever really want to dig in the Bible, if you're new to the Bible, you want to dig 346 00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:07.540 into the Bible, go to the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, stay there for a while. 347 00:23:07.540 --> 00:23:08.780 Don't go into Paul's letters. 348 00:23:08.780 --> 00:23:16.020 Stay out of Paul's letters right now, okay, unless it's Ephesians. 349 00:23:16.020 --> 00:23:17.940 Stay in the Gospels. 350 00:23:17.940 --> 00:23:19.020 Why? 351 00:23:19.020 --> 00:23:22.540 Because you need to see what Jesus is like. 352 00:23:22.540 --> 00:23:29.220 And while you're in the Gospels, ask Holy Spirit to show you Jesus. 353 00:23:29.220 --> 00:23:33.940 Show you Jesus. 354 00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:36.220 Don't just read the red letters. 355 00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:38.540 That's Jesus talking in lots of Bibles. 356 00:23:38.540 --> 00:23:42.500 They have his talking in red. 357 00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:44.820 Don't just read the red letters. 358 00:23:44.820 --> 00:23:48.140 Read the heart behind the red letters. 359 00:23:48.140 --> 00:23:55.260 Ask Holy Spirit to show you the heart of Christ. 360 00:23:55.260 --> 00:23:56.260 Religion will twist it. 361 00:23:56.260 --> 00:24:01.820 It'll twist the words of Jesus and make them sound legalistic and condemning, make them 362 00:24:01.820 --> 00:24:04.460 sound scary sometimes even. 363 00:24:04.460 --> 00:24:06.000 You don't want to look at it through that lens. 364 00:24:06.780 --> 00:24:08.240 You want to look at it through the lens of love. 365 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:15.560 And you can if you invite Holy Spirit to read the Bible with you, okay? 366 00:24:15.560 --> 00:24:19.320 For those of you that are new to Holy Spirit, he's the God agent in the earth and he is 367 00:24:19.320 --> 00:24:24.280 with you and he is for you and he is in you and he will help you. 368 00:24:24.280 --> 00:24:30.480 And we'll get into a little bit more about him in just a second too. 369 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:35.360 But when you're reading the Gospels, go to Matthew chapters five, six, and seven and 370 00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:38.400 look at the speech that Jesus made, the Sermon on the Mount. 371 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:40.480 Guys, there were all kinds of people. 372 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:43.640 Most of them were disciples and followers of Christ at this time. 373 00:24:43.640 --> 00:24:47.240 This multitude, this crowd of people, they were following him everywhere. 374 00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:49.320 They were disciples. 375 00:24:49.320 --> 00:24:52.280 They considered him their teacher. 376 00:24:52.280 --> 00:25:00.040 But there were some newbies in the crowd from all, all different walks, okay? 377 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.680 Jews and Gentiles, there were people in the crowd that were there just to crip him up 378 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.400 and try to get him to do something so he could get in trouble. 379 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:19.120 There was Pharisees, there was Sadducees, all kinds of people there listening. 380 00:25:19.120 --> 00:25:22.080 And so Jesus was talking and he was talking in parables. 381 00:25:22.080 --> 00:25:25.640 He was telling stories about the kingdom of heaven. 382 00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:33.120 He was giving an invitation to the people whose hearts were softened, to who has an 383 00:25:33.120 --> 00:25:37.320 ear to hear, let them hear. 384 00:25:37.320 --> 00:25:39.800 And God is always doing that with us too. 385 00:25:39.800 --> 00:25:41.280 There's always an invitation, you guys. 386 00:25:41.280 --> 00:25:44.240 There's always an invitation to more. 387 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:46.640 Sermon on the Mount was an invitation to more. 388 00:25:46.640 --> 00:25:52.120 Gosh, those of you out here that are weary and heavy laden, you know, I'll give you rest, 389 00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:53.120 right? 390 00:25:53.120 --> 00:25:54.120 That's what he was doing. 391 00:25:54.320 --> 00:26:02.440 What he was doing is he was talking about, first of all, what Father God was like. 392 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:06.880 He was talking to them and telling them that God is a good father. 393 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:10.480 He's a good father that wants to hear from you. 394 00:26:10.480 --> 00:26:13.080 And so Matthew 7, 7 comes from the Sermon on the Mount. 395 00:26:13.080 --> 00:26:18.320 And you have to, it's important, you guys, even though these are scriptures to us, it's 396 00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:23.320 important for you to know the original audience so you know you understand the heart of Jesus 397 00:26:23.320 --> 00:26:24.320 when he was speaking. 398 00:26:24.320 --> 00:26:33.120 He was speaking to people that did not know God as a father, a good father, an Abba, who 399 00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:40.360 wanted to help them, who wanted to hear from them, right? 400 00:26:40.360 --> 00:26:41.360 Everything was very ritualistic. 401 00:26:41.360 --> 00:26:45.520 If they were a Jew in that audience, then it was all about rules and regulations. 402 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:47.560 It was all about the law of Moses. 403 00:26:47.560 --> 00:26:48.560 It wasn't about relationship. 404 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:53.600 You guys, I want you to see that the Sermon on the Mount was trying to shift people and 405 00:26:53.600 --> 00:26:57.680 invite them out of religion and into relationship. 406 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:06.080 Do you see it? 407 00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:09.800 And that's what God wants to do with us this morning. 408 00:27:09.800 --> 00:27:12.320 He wants to invite us out of religion and into relationship. 409 00:27:12.320 --> 00:27:15.520 A lot of your prayers are religious prayers because you think that's the way you're supposed 410 00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:16.520 to approach God. 411 00:27:17.520 --> 00:27:20.880 You're only supposed to ask for what you need and you're not supposed to ask for what you 412 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:21.880 want. 413 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:25.560 You're not really supposed to ask a lot because God's got better things to do. 414 00:27:25.560 --> 00:27:29.680 And some of you, like me, have kind of stopped asking because of disappointment and discouragement 415 00:27:29.680 --> 00:27:31.840 and hurt and pain. 416 00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:35.480 And now you're doing, you know, you're interceding for others and you have no problem asking 417 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:41.000 on behalf of others and their requests and their needs, but you've kind of just let yourself 418 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:44.480 go a little bit. 419 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:49.520 And so there's people in all different categories here this morning that need a whole different 420 00:27:49.520 --> 00:27:53.600 word and there's a word for each and every one of you and what God is speaking over us 421 00:27:53.600 --> 00:27:55.180 today. 422 00:27:55.180 --> 00:28:02.640 So let's take a look at Matthew 7, 7 says, ask and it will be given to you. 423 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.440 He's talking to these people in the crowd. 424 00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:07.280 They don't know God like this. 425 00:28:07.280 --> 00:28:10.880 And maybe you don't know God like this either. 426 00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:14.080 Ask and it will be given to you. 427 00:28:14.080 --> 00:28:17.240 And for those of you that are worried that you might ask for something that you shouldn't 428 00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:19.560 have, God might give it to you. 429 00:28:19.560 --> 00:28:22.280 Well, first of all, God's not a magic genie. 430 00:28:22.280 --> 00:28:24.440 Doesn't have to give you what you ask for. 431 00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:25.440 Okay. 432 00:28:25.440 --> 00:28:26.440 He's a good father. 433 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:32.060 I want you to take a look at James 4 verses 2 and 3. 434 00:28:32.060 --> 00:28:33.760 What is that right there? 435 00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:37.520 A lot of people are like, well, you know, you're going to ask, but you're going to ask 436 00:28:37.520 --> 00:28:40.680 amiss because you're selfish and God's not going to give it to you. 437 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:42.920 That's not what that scripture means. 438 00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:47.440 That scripture is actually telling us that we're God defended. 439 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:48.760 You know what that scripture is doing? 440 00:28:48.760 --> 00:28:56.480 That scripture is giving you permission to ask extravagantly. 441 00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:57.480 You know why? 442 00:28:57.480 --> 00:28:58.480 Because you're God defended. 443 00:28:58.480 --> 00:29:07.000 And if anything you're asking for is harmful to you, God will take care of it. 444 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:11.220 But he can't, you know, he can't direct a parked car. 445 00:29:11.220 --> 00:29:13.900 Your prayers are movement. 446 00:29:13.900 --> 00:29:16.900 They're ingredients that God will use to bless you. 447 00:29:16.900 --> 00:29:23.180 When you give him permission to bless you by asking for those blessings, he will give 448 00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:25.780 you the ones that are good for you. 449 00:29:25.780 --> 00:29:26.780 He will. 450 00:29:26.780 --> 00:29:29.620 Remember, prayer is not about changing God's heart. 451 00:29:29.620 --> 00:29:35.500 It's about changing our hearts, but that can't happen if you don't ask. 452 00:29:35.500 --> 00:29:40.500 And you guys don't ask just once. 453 00:29:40.500 --> 00:29:43.020 Keep on asking. 454 00:29:43.020 --> 00:29:47.180 And you'll find out that every time you're asking for the same thing over and over again, 455 00:29:47.180 --> 00:29:50.060 every time you ask for it, it'll get a little different. 456 00:29:50.060 --> 00:29:53.000 It'll sound a little different this time, and then you'll add this to it, and then you'll 457 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:56.120 take away that from it. 458 00:29:56.120 --> 00:30:00.020 And pretty soon what happens is your prayers come into the alignment with the heart. 459 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.040 Heart of God. 460 00:30:03.800 --> 00:30:04.640 Why? 461 00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:07.080 Because God's directing the moving car. 462 00:30:07.080 --> 00:30:07.920 Come on. 463 00:30:12.120 --> 00:30:16.000 God cannot be the developmental editor on your prayers 464 00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:18.360 if you don't pray them. 465 00:30:18.360 --> 00:30:19.460 You gotta pray them. 466 00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:26.080 So James 4 is not some kind of, you know, 467 00:30:26.080 --> 00:30:27.560 scary scripture. 468 00:30:28.560 --> 00:30:31.440 We're not reading it through the right lens. 469 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.240 What it's saying is you're God defended. 470 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.080 Ask. 471 00:30:37.320 --> 00:30:38.900 This is the scripture that literally says 472 00:30:38.900 --> 00:30:40.760 you have not because you ask not. 473 00:30:42.120 --> 00:30:44.360 And then it puts in that thing about asking amiss 474 00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:46.040 to consume it upon your own lust. 475 00:30:46.040 --> 00:30:49.020 Guys, that is just a safety net for you. 476 00:30:53.520 --> 00:30:55.800 Otherwise, y'all, some of us would have some crazy stuff 477 00:30:55.800 --> 00:30:57.100 going on in our lives. 478 00:30:58.200 --> 00:31:02.240 If there was no safety net, we would have asked for stuff. 479 00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:05.880 You would have asked for people in your life. 480 00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:07.040 And you know what? 481 00:31:07.040 --> 00:31:08.920 God didn't give that to you because he knew 482 00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:12.120 what those people were like when they weren't around you. 483 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:16.680 You didn't know, but he knew. 484 00:31:18.360 --> 00:31:21.320 He knew that that job was gonna lay off 485 00:31:21.320 --> 00:31:24.760 all of their new employees within six months 486 00:31:24.760 --> 00:31:26.960 and you were gonna be one of them. 487 00:31:28.560 --> 00:31:32.560 You guys, I cannot tell you how many times 488 00:31:34.720 --> 00:31:36.520 someone has come to me and said, 489 00:31:36.520 --> 00:31:38.600 you know, that thing that I was really praying for 490 00:31:38.600 --> 00:31:41.760 and I was asking God for, you know, I didn't get it, 491 00:31:41.760 --> 00:31:45.480 but this is what I found out about it afterwards. 492 00:31:46.760 --> 00:31:51.760 Jesus, taking care of us, watching out for us. 493 00:31:53.840 --> 00:31:57.520 If nobody else has your back, I'm telling you what, 494 00:31:58.360 --> 00:32:00.680 God's got your six, he's with you. 495 00:32:05.720 --> 00:32:09.240 He's with you, but it doesn't mean 496 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:12.220 that we shouldn't be asking extravagantly. 497 00:32:14.840 --> 00:32:18.600 Because God can take the best parts of those prayers 498 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:24.480 and he can shape them and mold them and give them back to you 499 00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:25.960 when you have a teachable heart. 500 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:27.240 And then the next time you ask, 501 00:32:27.240 --> 00:32:29.800 like I said, it's a little different. 502 00:32:29.800 --> 00:32:32.640 It's a little better, it's a little bit more in alignment. 503 00:32:38.080 --> 00:32:39.920 God's watching out for us, he's defending us. 504 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:41.800 For those of you who are like, what God defendedness 505 00:32:41.800 --> 00:32:45.680 is part of this culture in last year single. 506 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:48.760 So many of you have been doing life on your own for so long 507 00:32:48.760 --> 00:32:51.280 that you only do what you feel safe doing 508 00:32:51.280 --> 00:32:54.240 and you only do what you feel able to do 509 00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.760 and protected to do. 510 00:32:55.760 --> 00:32:59.120 And because of that, you're missing out on so much. 511 00:32:59.120 --> 00:33:01.160 You have to trust that God will show you 512 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:03.640 what you need to see when you need to see it. 513 00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:07.000 When you're living a life where you have surrendered to him, 514 00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:08.800 that's what that supernatural surrender part 515 00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:10.840 of the heart work is about. 516 00:33:10.840 --> 00:33:13.000 When you continue to give him permission 517 00:33:14.840 --> 00:33:17.320 to have authority in your life, 518 00:33:17.320 --> 00:33:20.000 he will continue to show you the way, protect you, 519 00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.960 lead you, guide you, order your steps. 520 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:25.560 Once again, show you what you need to see before, 521 00:33:25.560 --> 00:33:26.800 when you need to see it, 522 00:33:28.120 --> 00:33:30.120 instead of you trying to sleep with one eye open, 523 00:33:30.120 --> 00:33:33.440 trying to save yourself, protect yourself. 524 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:35.400 That doesn't work, you guys. 525 00:33:35.400 --> 00:33:38.640 We're human beings and our intuition, 526 00:33:38.640 --> 00:33:41.600 our revelation is limited, but God's is not. 527 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:46.320 You guys, he knows what we have need of already, 528 00:33:46.320 --> 00:33:49.280 but he wants us to ask, why? 529 00:33:49.280 --> 00:33:51.440 Because he wants us to live supernaturally. 530 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.120 And we can't if we don't ask. 531 00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:55.720 What does Ephesians 3.20 say? 532 00:33:56.760 --> 00:34:00.680 Ephesians 3.20 says that he's able to do exceedingly 533 00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:04.160 abundantly above all we can what? 534 00:34:04.160 --> 00:34:07.440 Ask, think, or imagine. 535 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:09.719 There's that word ask again, hello. 536 00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:17.760 To him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above. 537 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.760 What's that mean? 538 00:34:21.600 --> 00:34:22.520 It's better. 539 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:24.639 Whatever you're asking for, 540 00:34:24.639 --> 00:34:26.440 what God's gonna give you is better. 541 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:31.120 But then it goes on to say by the power that works in us. 542 00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:31.960 What is that? 543 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:32.800 That's Holy Spirit. 544 00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:34.719 What is Holy Spirit doing? 545 00:34:34.719 --> 00:34:38.400 Holy Spirit is refining you and defining you as you what? 546 00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:42.600 As you bring yourself boldly before the throne of grace 547 00:34:42.600 --> 00:34:43.600 to ask. 548 00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:47.159 Once again, prayer doesn't change God's heart, 549 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:48.719 it changes yours. 550 00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:52.760 It changes yours. 551 00:34:58.240 --> 00:35:00.240 You guys, we can constantly live in the. 552 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.000 He's in the advent. 553 00:35:03.300 --> 00:35:05.200 Jesus is always coming. 554 00:35:05.200 --> 00:35:05.900 He's coming. 555 00:35:05.900 --> 00:35:06.500 He's coming. 556 00:35:06.500 --> 00:35:07.300 He's showing up. 557 00:35:07.300 --> 00:35:08.100 He's coming. 558 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:19.100 I want to tell you I raised three children and not one of 559 00:35:19.100 --> 00:35:22.000 them ever left the house when they were kids. 560 00:35:23.500 --> 00:35:24.600 Without asking. 561 00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:30.900 For whatever they needed, but also without asking what was 562 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:31.900 going on today. 563 00:35:34.100 --> 00:35:37.700 Not one of my kids just hopped out of bed, dress themselves, 564 00:35:37.700 --> 00:35:41.000 fed themselves breakfast, picked up their little briefcase 565 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.400 and headed off into the world. 566 00:35:42.400 --> 00:35:44.600 Not one of them ever did that. 567 00:35:46.400 --> 00:35:50.100 In fact, our morning sounded more like mom, where's my pants? 568 00:35:50.100 --> 00:35:51.600 Mom, what's for breakfast? 569 00:35:51.600 --> 00:35:54.500 Mom, you know, what time is this going to happen? 570 00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:56.500 Or that or what's going on after school today? 571 00:35:56.500 --> 00:36:00.500 Mom, mom, mom, mom, mom, and you guys know it for those of you 572 00:36:00.500 --> 00:36:01.000 that have children. 573 00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:02.500 Why is that? 574 00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:04.000 Because they're dependent on me. 575 00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:08.300 In that season of their life, they're dependent on me. 576 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:10.800 They need to know. 577 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:14.000 I need to tell them. 578 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:18.100 They need to ask and I will answer them. 579 00:36:18.100 --> 00:36:21.700 I never held out on them like, oh, good luck. 580 00:36:21.700 --> 00:36:22.700 Hope you figure it out. 581 00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:26.700 What's going on today? 582 00:36:26.700 --> 00:36:28.000 Oh, I don't know. 583 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:29.900 That's for me to know and for you to find out. 584 00:36:29.900 --> 00:36:32.500 No, I never played games with them. 585 00:36:32.500 --> 00:36:33.600 It was never a riddle or a puzzle. 586 00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:37.500 And when we look to the Lord, like, hey, God, what are you 587 00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:38.000 doing today? 588 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:39.800 What are you up to? 589 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:41.700 What's on your heart today? 590 00:36:41.700 --> 00:36:43.400 God, can I come along? 591 00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:44.600 Can I participate? 592 00:36:44.600 --> 00:36:45.600 Can I call shotgun? 593 00:36:45.600 --> 00:36:48.800 A lot of you wonder how I have such a crazy life. 594 00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:50.600 That's how. 595 00:36:50.900 --> 00:36:54.200 I'm like, hey, God, what's you what you doing today? 596 00:36:54.200 --> 00:36:55.500 Can I can I do it? 597 00:36:58.500 --> 00:36:59.300 I want to do it. 598 00:37:04.600 --> 00:37:09.500 But as my kids got older, they knew what was going on today. 599 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:13.700 They had been in the household long enough that they knew the 600 00:37:13.700 --> 00:37:15.800 culture of the household. 601 00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:17.000 Can I get an amen? 602 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:17.500 Come on. 603 00:37:17.500 --> 00:37:19.600 They knew the culture of the household. 604 00:37:19.600 --> 00:37:22.300 They didn't have to ask me for every little thing anymore 605 00:37:22.300 --> 00:37:23.800 because they knew my heart. 606 00:37:26.100 --> 00:37:27.100 I'm trying to help you. 607 00:37:29.100 --> 00:37:31.800 So many of you, you're you're using you're using the Bible 608 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:32.800 like a Magic 8-ball. 609 00:37:34.800 --> 00:37:35.300 Okay. 610 00:37:39.200 --> 00:37:40.000 That doesn't work. 611 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:41.200 That's not how this works. 612 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:43.900 You don't pray a prayer and then go home. 613 00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:45.100 That's not how it works. 614 00:37:46.100 --> 00:37:48.800 You don't pray a prayer and then go open a Bible and hope 615 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:51.000 that's how God's going to answer you by whatever scripture 616 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:51.600 you see. 617 00:37:56.900 --> 00:38:00.900 The more that you immerse yourself in the kingdom of God. 618 00:38:02.700 --> 00:38:05.200 The more you surrender your heart to the king. 619 00:38:06.100 --> 00:38:09.300 The more you will understand the culture and the more you 620 00:38:09.300 --> 00:38:12.000 will instead of being like for every little thing. 621 00:38:12.100 --> 00:38:13.100 God, am I loud? 622 00:38:13.100 --> 00:38:13.900 God, am I loud? 623 00:38:13.900 --> 00:38:14.700 Can I do this? 624 00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:15.500 Can I do that? 625 00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:16.500 God, is this your will? 626 00:38:16.500 --> 00:38:17.300 Is it not? 627 00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:20.700 You will know because you know him. 628 00:38:22.100 --> 00:38:23.300 You know the culture. 629 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.400 You know his heart. 630 00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:30.900 The Bible says that when you spend time. 631 00:38:32.800 --> 00:38:36.800 In this place of intimacy and relationship with God, the 632 00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:40.300 desires of your heart actually are the same as his. 633 00:38:41.100 --> 00:38:42.800 So you don't have to do any of these silly prayers where you 634 00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:44.600 just get off a first date and you're in the car and be like, 635 00:38:44.600 --> 00:38:45.600 man, that was fun. 636 00:38:46.100 --> 00:38:50.700 But God, if they're not the one for me, then shut the door. 637 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:53.000 Let them disappear. 638 00:38:53.100 --> 00:38:55.300 You don't have to pray those prayers because those are dumb 639 00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:55.800 prayers. 640 00:38:58.500 --> 00:39:01.100 You can spend your prayers asking for things that really 641 00:39:01.100 --> 00:39:01.600 matter. 642 00:39:04.200 --> 00:39:08.200 Instead of asking God to control your heart. 643 00:39:08.200 --> 00:39:11.800 Ask God to control you like you're three years old. 644 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:20.400 Guys, I didn't even mean to go on any of this trail right 645 00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:20.800 here. 646 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:22.600 So this is definitely for some people. 647 00:39:22.600 --> 00:39:26.100 So please take that into consideration. 648 00:39:30.600 --> 00:39:33.900 Philippians tells us to ask consistently to bring our 649 00:39:33.900 --> 00:39:36.700 requests and our petitions before the Lord. 650 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:38.500 Philippians 4, 6, and 7. 651 00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:39.900 What does that say? 652 00:39:39.900 --> 00:39:41.500 And just give him something to work with. 653 00:39:44.100 --> 00:39:45.700 Give God something to work with. 654 00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:49.700 The Bible already says he knows what you have need of before 655 00:39:49.700 --> 00:39:50.900 you even ask. 656 00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:54.200 This is about a relationship. 657 00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:59.400 This is about you giving up your orphan tendencies and coming 658 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:00.100 and becoming. 659 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:01.400 A child of God. 660 00:40:04.920 --> 00:40:08.360 Briefly, let's go on to seek and knock, but you guys, it's the same thing. 661 00:40:08.680 --> 00:40:10.640 Ask more, seek more, knock more. 662 00:40:11.520 --> 00:40:11.760 Okay. 663 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:12.960 We're seeking God's face. 664 00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:14.040 We're seeking his hand. 665 00:40:14.040 --> 00:40:15.220 We're seeking his deliverance. 666 00:40:15.220 --> 00:40:16.180 We're seeking his wisdom. 667 00:40:16.180 --> 00:40:17.320 We're seeking clarity. 668 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:20.600 What's happening here? 669 00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:23.960 It's love over survival. 670 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:28.160 We're seeking relationship over resources. 671 00:40:28.280 --> 00:40:30.720 Did you know that you're more resourceful than your resources 672 00:40:30.720 --> 00:40:31.880 because you're a child of God? 673 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:33.480 Write that down. 674 00:40:33.480 --> 00:40:36.800 You are more resourceful than your resources. 675 00:40:39.480 --> 00:40:44.480 You might not have it, but you have access to it because of who your father is. 676 00:40:46.120 --> 00:40:48.720 Where's there a famous scripture where we see the word 677 00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:51.280 seek besides Matthew 7, 7. 678 00:40:52.120 --> 00:40:53.320 I will tell you where it is. 679 00:40:53.800 --> 00:40:58.440 It is seek first the kingdom of God. 680 00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:01.360 Guys, this is also from the Sermon on the Mount. 681 00:41:01.440 --> 00:41:02.160 Coincidence? 682 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:05.520 No, it's Matthew 6. 683 00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:10.960 I think it's, I didn't write it down, but I think it's like Matthew 6, 8. 684 00:41:13.680 --> 00:41:15.080 Seek first his kingdom. 685 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:18.880 Seek first what? 686 00:41:18.920 --> 00:41:19.760 The kingdom of God. 687 00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:20.160 What is that? 688 00:41:20.160 --> 00:41:22.720 The culture of heaven. 689 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:26.920 Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. 690 00:41:27.840 --> 00:41:29.040 What does that mean right there? 691 00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:32.160 Well, Jesus is foreshadowing what's about to happen. 692 00:41:32.160 --> 00:41:34.920 And that is that we are going to take on the righteousness of Christ. 693 00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:41.280 Remember all these people would have been under the law of Moses if they were Jews. 694 00:41:43.040 --> 00:41:47.040 And so their righteousness would have come from the blood of 695 00:41:47.040 --> 00:41:48.880 bulls and goats, right? 696 00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:54.760 Their righteousness would have been a temporary atonement for sin, but 697 00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:56.200 Jesus knew that he was the lamb. 698 00:41:59.080 --> 00:42:00.200 And he was the lamb. 699 00:42:01.600 --> 00:42:05.280 So he's talking to these people, you guys, he's prophesying to these people. 700 00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:09.280 He's saying, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. 701 00:42:09.720 --> 00:42:10.480 What does that mean? 702 00:42:10.600 --> 00:42:15.680 That means seek to live in the finished work of the Lord. 703 00:42:16.160 --> 00:42:21.040 Seek to live in the finished work of the cross for us. 704 00:42:22.680 --> 00:42:25.320 Now the audience that's reading these scriptures is us. 705 00:42:25.520 --> 00:42:26.680 Jesus has come. 706 00:42:27.680 --> 00:42:29.000 We're not waiting for him to come. 707 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.920 There's still people in this world that are waiting for him to come. 708 00:42:32.640 --> 00:42:34.200 They're waiting for his appearing. 709 00:42:34.360 --> 00:42:38.400 We are too in a different way because we know that he has come. 710 00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:43.200 And he has started something on the earth that we are here to finish with him. 711 00:42:44.600 --> 00:42:45.760 That's our assignment. 712 00:42:47.200 --> 00:42:52.440 Our assignment is to let heaven invade earth through our lives and through us. 713 00:42:53.280 --> 00:42:57.600 And so he's telling us now let's read this through our eyes and our ears. 714 00:42:57.600 --> 00:43:00.360 And this audience, he's telling us to seek first his kingdom and the 715 00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:02.840 righteousness that was given to us at the finished work of the cross. 716 00:43:03.320 --> 00:43:04.560 That means it's not in your strength. 717 00:43:04.560 --> 00:43:05.440 It's not in your power. 718 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:06.440 It's not in your performance. 719 00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:07.360 It's not in your works. 720 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:08.480 It's in Jesus. 721 00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:13.120 Striving is out. 722 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:14.720 It's not part of our culture. 723 00:43:15.120 --> 00:43:17.200 Don't forget what Psalm 126, two says. 724 00:43:17.200 --> 00:43:20.080 It's vain for you to sit up all night and worry about your problems. 725 00:43:20.560 --> 00:43:24.600 God gives and provides to his lovers while they're sleeping. 726 00:43:28.560 --> 00:43:29.960 So we seek first his kingdom. 727 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:32.880 And we seek first his kingdom. 728 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:35.560 And the righteousness that's been provided for us. 729 00:43:35.560 --> 00:43:36.440 And then what happens? 730 00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:39.920 And all this other stuff that everyone else is worried about, all that stuff 731 00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:42.080 will chase you, you don't have to chase it. 732 00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:49.800 Love over survival, write it down. 733 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:51.480 Love over survival. 734 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:53.640 That's what that scripture is really talking about. 735 00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:56.400 We are children no longer orphans. 736 00:43:56.880 --> 00:43:59.320 And you guys, this is something we're going to have to remind ourselves of 737 00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:00.000 every day. 738 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.200 Because that, that orphan tendency in this culture is strong. 739 00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:10.840 It's hard to be dependent, especially because you've asked for things in the 740 00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:12.160 past and they haven't shown up. 741 00:44:18.760 --> 00:44:23.640 And so here for the last few minutes, I want us to all go to God because I 742 00:44:23.640 --> 00:44:29.000 want to, I want you to, I want you to, I want you to, I want you to, I want you 743 00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:33.760 to understand that God has things for you. 744 00:44:34.880 --> 00:44:37.200 He has things for you that he doesn't have for me. 745 00:44:38.200 --> 00:44:40.360 And I'm not talking about basic survival things. 746 00:44:40.360 --> 00:44:40.880 Okay. 747 00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:43.720 I'm not talking about needs here. 748 00:44:43.720 --> 00:44:45.040 I'm talking about wants. 749 00:44:45.040 --> 00:44:46.440 We don't all want the same thing. 750 00:44:49.120 --> 00:44:55.000 We don't all want the same thing right now, but collectively together, we are 751 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:56.320 going to go to the Lord. 752 00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:58.000 There have been plenty of times. 753 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.540 That's when God has just said to me, what do you want? 754 00:45:02.540 --> 00:45:03.680 Has God ever said that to you? 755 00:45:03.680 --> 00:45:05.800 He's literally said to me, what do you want? 756 00:45:07.160 --> 00:45:11.720 And I wish that I could tell you that I was Jackie on the spot, able to answer 757 00:45:11.720 --> 00:45:16.960 that question with a heart full of want, but I wasn't, I really just didn't 758 00:45:16.960 --> 00:45:18.680 even know how to answer that question. 759 00:45:20.440 --> 00:45:25.040 And a lot of times we are so bogged down by the cares of this life and 760 00:45:25.040 --> 00:45:29.160 trying to get what we need that we don't even really know what we want. 761 00:45:29.160 --> 00:45:30.560 That seems like a luxury. 762 00:45:35.700 --> 00:45:40.320 And this is not, you know, this is not the toxic prosperity gospel of, you 763 00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:43.600 know, blab it and grab it, name it and claim it, but I will tell you that the 764 00:45:43.600 --> 00:45:46.320 gospel of Christ is about prosperity. 765 00:45:49.480 --> 00:45:51.760 It is, it is about you living abundantly. 766 00:45:51.780 --> 00:45:55.920 It is about you prospering even as your soul prospers, but it's for 767 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:57.640 you to be blessed, to be a blessing. 768 00:45:58.640 --> 00:46:00.920 Not just in money, not just in goods, 769 00:46:04.160 --> 00:46:08.440 not just in lands and inheritances, but in the most important inheritance. 770 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:10.880 And that is your spiritual inheritance, being rich. 771 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:14.840 You are rich. 772 00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.720 You are rich in good things because of who your father is. 773 00:46:22.520 --> 00:46:24.320 And so father, we look to you right now. 774 00:46:25.200 --> 00:46:27.240 We want to have a shift in our hearts. 775 00:46:27.680 --> 00:46:31.320 We want to become askers and seekers and knockers from this day forward. 776 00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:41.400 We want you to consistently and persistently hear our voice on high. 777 00:46:43.080 --> 00:46:51.360 We want our voice to be a regular voice that you hear every day, requesting 778 00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:59.280 things for ourselves, for others, for the world, praising you, thanking you. 779 00:47:00.600 --> 00:47:04.440 As you supply all of our needs from your riches and glory, 780 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:08.920 we know that you know us, 781 00:47:11.880 --> 00:47:15.840 but we want to become a regular in the courts of heaven. 782 00:47:16.080 --> 00:47:23.120 We want to become a regular in the places of power. 783 00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:26.560 And so Lord, we thank you right now. 784 00:47:27.720 --> 00:47:36.760 We ask God that you would give us the grace to believe that you're a good, good father. 785 00:47:39.560 --> 00:47:43.960 And that is your pleasure to give good gifts to your children. 786 00:47:44.080 --> 00:47:45.400 And to those who ask. 787 00:47:47.880 --> 00:47:50.280 And so Lord, what do you have for us this morning? 788 00:47:51.520 --> 00:47:53.640 Each and every one of us, what do you have for us? 789 00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:01.480 Let there be an invitation to each heart that is here to ask for something, bring it 790 00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:05.880 from the unconscious to the conscious so that we can remember what it is that we 791 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:11.320 want, what it is that we need, what it is that we can now ask for. 792 00:48:11.680 --> 00:48:16.160 What it is that we can now ask more, seek more, knock more for. 793 00:48:18.600 --> 00:48:20.760 In Jesus name, let it be done. 794 00:48:21.520 --> 00:48:22.000 Amen. 795 00:48:22.960 --> 00:48:23.160 Right. 796 00:48:23.160 --> 00:48:25.320 I want you to go ahead and put that thing in the chat. 797 00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:29.720 What are you going to start pulling on daddy's sleeve about? 798 00:48:34.080 --> 00:48:38.240 Do you ever do that with your granddad or your mom, grandma, anyone to pull on their 799 00:48:38.240 --> 00:48:38.760 sleeve? 800 00:48:39.720 --> 00:48:41.040 You're short, they're tall. 801 00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:45.240 Pulling on their sleeve, trying to get their attention because you wanted 802 00:48:45.240 --> 00:48:45.760 something. 803 00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:49.360 Pulling on their pant leg. 804 00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:51.880 Hey, hey, hey, I'm down here. 805 00:48:52.040 --> 00:48:53.280 Take, take a look at me. 806 00:48:57.280 --> 00:48:58.240 I want an ice cream. 807 00:49:03.800 --> 00:49:05.800 I will tell you something about my kids. 808 00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:11.720 I, I learned really fast that I better not say anything unless I plan on 809 00:49:11.720 --> 00:49:12.480 following through. 810 00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:18.200 Like if I'm just externally processing about doing something like going to the 811 00:49:18.200 --> 00:49:23.120 fair or going to, you know, the bookstore or whatever, if I'm just externally 812 00:49:23.160 --> 00:49:26.480 talking out loud, cause I'm external processor about, Hey, well, you know, 813 00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:28.480 maybe later we should do blah, blah, blah, blah. 814 00:49:28.800 --> 00:49:32.520 That's a mistake with my children and maybe your children as well, because as 815 00:49:32.560 --> 00:49:36.800 soon as it comes out of my mouth, my kids would persecute me until it happened. 816 00:49:38.080 --> 00:49:43.800 I mean, they would drive me up the wall until it happened. 817 00:49:44.880 --> 00:49:50.240 And God's really inviting us to do the same, to let, and I never felt annoyed by 818 00:49:50.240 --> 00:49:52.400 them because it was my promise. 819 00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.720 And so if any of you can't figure out a promise, there's plenty of them in the 820 00:49:57.720 --> 00:49:58.360 word of God. 821 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.000 Go pick one and understand that promises come with processes, 822 00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:08.540 but start praying about it. 823 00:50:08.540 --> 00:50:10.420 Say, hey God, your word says this. 824 00:50:10.420 --> 00:50:12.140 I don't see this in my life, 825 00:50:12.140 --> 00:50:14.700 but your word says I can have it and I want it. 826 00:50:17.100 --> 00:50:19.140 Jesus, I don't know if y'all feel Holy Spirit 827 00:50:19.140 --> 00:50:23.320 all confirming in here, but I do. 828 00:50:26.800 --> 00:50:28.220 It says it here, Lord. 829 00:50:28.220 --> 00:50:29.340 Didn't Daniel do that? 830 00:50:29.380 --> 00:50:30.220 He's like, hey, wait, 831 00:50:30.220 --> 00:50:32.900 aren't we supposed to be out of captivity already? 832 00:50:32.900 --> 00:50:33.740 Wait a second. 833 00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:38.180 This was written in the scrolls at this time. 834 00:50:38.180 --> 00:50:40.100 And it says that we're only supposed to be in captivity 835 00:50:40.100 --> 00:50:42.820 for this many years and that years is done. 836 00:50:42.820 --> 00:50:44.060 And what did he do? 837 00:50:44.060 --> 00:50:46.700 He went to God and he began to pray and said, 838 00:50:46.700 --> 00:50:51.040 hey, we're supposed to be out of captivity. 839 00:50:52.040 --> 00:50:53.460 The Babylonians are not supposed 840 00:50:53.460 --> 00:50:55.340 to be in charge of us anymore. 841 00:50:55.340 --> 00:50:57.380 I see it in your word. 842 00:50:57.380 --> 00:50:58.900 Your prophets declared it. 843 00:50:59.420 --> 00:51:00.660 It is true. 844 00:51:00.660 --> 00:51:01.980 What's going on? 845 00:51:03.700 --> 00:51:05.180 What's going on here? 846 00:51:07.820 --> 00:51:09.420 And it said that when he asked, 847 00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:12.020 there was a spiritual battle in the second heavens. 848 00:51:13.680 --> 00:51:17.140 Did you realize that something that you ask 849 00:51:17.140 --> 00:51:19.540 might be so important, not just to you, 850 00:51:19.540 --> 00:51:22.860 but to the future generations of this earth, 851 00:51:22.860 --> 00:51:25.140 that there will be a battle over the answer 852 00:51:25.140 --> 00:51:26.380 in the heavenlies? 853 00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:32.500 But it can't happen if no one asks for it. 854 00:51:35.900 --> 00:51:38.340 Look, I don't know why God does what he does. 855 00:51:38.340 --> 00:51:40.300 I don't know why he decided, 856 00:51:40.300 --> 00:51:41.940 even though he's omnipotent and omniscient 857 00:51:41.940 --> 00:51:44.220 and all powerful and all knowing, 858 00:51:44.220 --> 00:51:47.580 to partner with people to get things done on the earth. 859 00:51:47.580 --> 00:51:50.380 Seems kind of unproductive in my opinion, 860 00:51:50.380 --> 00:51:53.340 but at the same time, that's how it works. 861 00:51:54.180 --> 00:51:56.060 God is in control, but he's not. 862 00:51:56.500 --> 00:51:58.540 God is in control, but he's not. 863 00:52:01.220 --> 00:52:03.220 He needs us to partner with him. 864 00:52:04.660 --> 00:52:06.420 And so it's not just about asking for you, 865 00:52:06.420 --> 00:52:08.360 it's about asking for all of those 866 00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:09.780 who don't know how to ask. 867 00:52:12.340 --> 00:52:14.980 So that those battles can start in the heavenlies 868 00:52:14.980 --> 00:52:15.980 and they can be won, 869 00:52:15.980 --> 00:52:19.120 because if you read the back of the book, we win. 870 00:52:20.120 --> 00:52:22.200 So remember friends, when you're asking 871 00:52:22.200 --> 00:52:23.480 for your husband or wife, 872 00:52:23.480 --> 00:52:24.800 and I know that that's gonna be at the top 873 00:52:24.800 --> 00:52:26.120 of a lot of your lists, and you know what? 874 00:52:26.120 --> 00:52:28.200 It should be, because you need a partner 875 00:52:28.200 --> 00:52:30.120 for what you're gonna do on this earth. 876 00:52:30.120 --> 00:52:32.360 And relationship trumps everything else. 877 00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:35.320 That's the only reason that we're here is relationship. 878 00:52:35.320 --> 00:52:36.160 That's it. 879 00:52:36.160 --> 00:52:38.400 All God ever wanted was a family. 880 00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:39.400 But when you're asking, 881 00:52:39.400 --> 00:52:41.640 you might wanna put in your future generations 882 00:52:41.640 --> 00:52:42.760 and be asking for them, 883 00:52:42.760 --> 00:52:45.520 because you don't know how to ask for them. 884 00:52:45.520 --> 00:52:47.200 You don't know how to ask for them. 885 00:52:47.240 --> 00:52:48.360 And be asking for them, 886 00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:51.720 because your marriage is what changes everything. 887 00:52:54.080 --> 00:52:56.680 You're not just asking selfishly for yourself. 888 00:52:56.680 --> 00:52:58.600 You're asking for that partner 889 00:52:58.600 --> 00:53:00.200 so that you can show your children 890 00:53:00.200 --> 00:53:02.800 and your children's children's children's children, 891 00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:05.720 if Jesus should tarry and not establish fully 892 00:53:05.720 --> 00:53:08.060 his kingdom on earth during our lifetimes 893 00:53:08.060 --> 00:53:10.160 or their lifetimes or their lifetimes, 894 00:53:10.160 --> 00:53:12.960 what love looks like, 895 00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:14.960 what marriage looks like, 896 00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:16.920 what family looks like. 897 00:53:18.200 --> 00:53:22.320 And how to raise them in the admonition of the Lord. 898 00:53:23.880 --> 00:53:25.400 You guys, if you read the Chronicles, 899 00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:26.780 you'll see that there was a lot of evil 900 00:53:26.780 --> 00:53:28.080 that ran rampant in families 901 00:53:28.080 --> 00:53:31.420 until one person stood up and tore down all the altars. 902 00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:39.760 And then it goes on for generations to say, 903 00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:41.760 and their children walked in the fear of the Lord 904 00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:43.640 and their children walked in the fear of the Lord 905 00:53:43.640 --> 00:53:46.140 and their children walked in the fear of the Lord. 906 00:53:48.040 --> 00:53:51.080 It just takes one and you're the one. 907 00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:54.060 You are the one. 908 00:53:56.600 --> 00:53:57.920 So Father, we thank you for today. 909 00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:00.480 We thank you for everything that you've given to us. 910 00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:03.360 Let our voices be heard on high. 911 00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:06.060 Let us raise our voices, Lord. 912 00:54:06.060 --> 00:54:08.920 Let us speak out loud your promises, God. 913 00:54:08.920 --> 00:54:11.440 Let us declare them and decree them, Lord. 914 00:54:11.440 --> 00:54:13.680 Help us to partner with you, God, 915 00:54:13.680 --> 00:54:15.200 not just for a moment, God, 916 00:54:15.200 --> 00:54:19.080 but for momentum in Jesus name, amen. 917 00:54:19.080 --> 00:54:21.480 I love all of you and I'll see you tomorrow night. 918 00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:22.320 Bye.