WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:23.520 If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire or something. 2 00:00:23.520 --> 00:00:28.200 Well welcome to another Raising Home Fire Secret Place Training Session. 3 00:00:28.200 --> 00:00:32.320 I hope you really enjoy this session and I hope that this results in you knowing God 4 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:41.080 in a deeper and more personal and more connected way. 5 00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:44.920 Welcome to another session today and today I want to share a principle with you that 6 00:00:44.920 --> 00:00:51.960 has dramatically changed my life and has deepened my connection with God and prayer in a profound 7 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:52.960 way. 8 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:54.920 And so here it is. 9 00:00:54.920 --> 00:00:57.820 You hear God, period. 10 00:00:57.820 --> 00:01:00.060 You hear His voice. 11 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:05.220 That truth and the revelation of that truth and the experience of that truth has changed 12 00:01:05.220 --> 00:01:06.220 me so much. 13 00:01:06.220 --> 00:01:10.740 I've realized, and this is just really common knowledge, but that to grow a relationship 14 00:01:10.740 --> 00:01:16.300 with anybody or anything, there needs to be some level of communication and the greater 15 00:01:16.300 --> 00:01:22.340 that communication is, the greater the opportunity for a depth of relationship there is. 16 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:27.660 And so I want to read a scripture to you and then share a story and then we'll pray 17 00:01:27.660 --> 00:01:28.660 at the end. 18 00:01:28.660 --> 00:01:40.140 The scripture I want to read to you is from John verse 10 and we will begin in verse 2. 19 00:01:40.140 --> 00:01:44.180 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 20 00:01:44.180 --> 00:01:52.260 To him the doorkeeper opens and the sheep hear his voice and he calls his sheep, sorry, 21 00:01:52.260 --> 00:01:56.220 and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 22 00:01:56.220 --> 00:02:01.700 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them and the sheep follow him for they 23 00:02:01.700 --> 00:02:04.660 know his voice. 24 00:02:04.660 --> 00:02:12.540 Later on in verse 20, sorry, verse 27, Jesus says, my sheep hear my voice and I know them 25 00:02:12.540 --> 00:02:16.420 and they follow me. 26 00:02:16.420 --> 00:02:20.620 The scripture clearly says, my sheep hear me. 27 00:02:20.620 --> 00:02:26.140 Now, if you're listening to this and you're a follower of Jesus, you are considered one 28 00:02:26.140 --> 00:02:27.140 of these sheep. 29 00:02:27.140 --> 00:02:31.420 Jesus considers you one of these sheep and he is your great shepherd. 30 00:02:31.420 --> 00:02:39.020 And if you are one of his sheep, if you are one of his followers, then absolutely with 31 00:02:39.020 --> 00:02:44.380 no questions asked, you hear his voice and you know his voice. 32 00:02:44.380 --> 00:02:48.980 Now what it does not say in the scripture is it does not say my sheep understand my 33 00:02:48.980 --> 00:02:50.260 voice. 34 00:02:50.260 --> 00:02:57.980 You are born with the ability to hear God's voice, but you are not born with the ability 35 00:02:57.980 --> 00:03:00.700 to understand what he's saying. 36 00:03:00.700 --> 00:03:04.780 Understanding what he's saying is something you grow in and something you mature in, whilst 37 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:06.620 hearing is something you were born with. 38 00:03:06.620 --> 00:03:08.900 Let me explain it to you in this way. 39 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:13.780 I have three daughters, which I mentioned in a previous session. 40 00:03:13.780 --> 00:03:17.340 And one of my daughters, her name is Sienna, she's my middle daughter. 41 00:03:17.340 --> 00:03:18.820 She was just learning how to talk. 42 00:03:18.820 --> 00:03:23.020 I think she was like in between, she was like one point something years old. 43 00:03:23.020 --> 00:03:26.900 She was nearly two and she was just learning how to talk and she was learning how to walk 44 00:03:26.900 --> 00:03:32.900 and she was walking around and she was just learning how to interact in a more comprehensive 45 00:03:32.900 --> 00:03:37.580 way with her mom and dad and with her older sister. 46 00:03:37.580 --> 00:03:43.380 And so I was sitting down on the couch one day and I was eating a sausage and a piece 47 00:03:43.380 --> 00:03:48.460 of bread, but it was missing a vital ingredient, it was missing ketchup, tomato sauce. 48 00:03:49.100 --> 00:03:55.820 I thought, well, it's a father's great delight to involve his children in his work and in 49 00:03:55.820 --> 00:03:57.260 his life. 50 00:03:57.260 --> 00:04:01.740 And so it was my great delight to call my daughter to me, I said, Sienna, come here. 51 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:05.500 And so she came running up to me and she said, yes, dad, yes, dad, what do you need? 52 00:04:05.500 --> 00:04:08.700 And I said, Sienna, I need you to do a special job for me. 53 00:04:08.700 --> 00:04:09.700 I need you to help me. 54 00:04:09.700 --> 00:04:13.260 And she said, what dad, what do you want me to do? 55 00:04:13.260 --> 00:04:18.260 And I said, I'm eating the sausage, but I don't have tomato sauce, I don't have ketchup. 56 00:04:19.060 --> 00:04:24.060 Can you go to the fridge and get me the ketchup? 57 00:04:24.060 --> 00:04:28.300 Now, she she started walking towards the fridge. 58 00:04:28.300 --> 00:04:34.460 She was very excited and I was excited that she was working with me for this goal. 59 00:04:34.460 --> 00:04:37.700 She was working with me for this end goal of getting the tomato sauce on the sausage 60 00:04:37.700 --> 00:04:40.500 and I was just excited to be doing something with my daughter. 61 00:04:40.500 --> 00:04:44.260 And she starts walking towards the fridge, but she takes a sharp right hand turn, she 62 00:04:44.260 --> 00:04:49.020 walks towards her bedroom and I think, man, the tomato sauce is not in the bedroom. 63 00:04:49.020 --> 00:04:52.900 And she walks into her bedroom and she's rummaging around in there and she comes back to the 64 00:04:52.900 --> 00:04:57.460 living room, back to the lounge and she's carrying a diaper, a nappy in her hand. 65 00:04:57.460 --> 00:04:59.980 And she walks up to me and she says, here dad, and she gives me the nappy. 66 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.480 And here is what I did not say in response. 67 00:05:03.480 --> 00:05:06.640 You false prophet! You disobedient child! 68 00:05:06.640 --> 00:05:09.880 Punishment! And now, 69 00:05:09.880 --> 00:05:13.520 of course, that's ridiculous and of course there's no way I would say that, but 70 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:16.520 honestly, that's how so many of the church treats 71 00:05:16.520 --> 00:05:21.440 people who are just learning how to understand what their father is saying. 72 00:05:21.440 --> 00:05:24.480 And instead, this is what I said. I said, 73 00:05:24.480 --> 00:05:27.680 Sienna, thank you so much! This 74 00:05:27.760 --> 00:05:31.520 diaper, this nappy is going to come in handy at some point, we'll put that down there, 75 00:05:31.520 --> 00:05:35.520 but let me take you to the fridge and let me show you where the tomato sauce is, 76 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:39.760 because you heard my voice and your heart was to work with me, your heart was to 77 00:05:39.760 --> 00:05:42.640 walk with me, but you just are learning how to 78 00:05:42.640 --> 00:05:46.080 understand what I'm saying and I don't expect you to have a 10-year-old level 79 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:49.440 of understanding when you're only two or when you're only one and a half. 80 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:53.120 You don't have to have a full level of understanding yet. We're growing in that 81 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:56.800 and that's fine and we grow in that in terms of the context of our relationship 82 00:05:56.880 --> 00:06:00.640 with one another as father-daughter and so let me take you to the fridge and let 83 00:06:00.640 --> 00:06:03.760 me take you to the kitchen, let me take you to the tomato sauce and I'll show 84 00:06:03.760 --> 00:06:09.520 you what I was talking about. And there is a big difference between 85 00:06:09.520 --> 00:06:13.600 understanding the voice of God and hearing the voice of God. 86 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:19.120 My children, I remember when my wife was pregnant all three times, 87 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:22.800 I would speak to my children when they were in the womb and 88 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:27.200 Renee's belly was all out and round and the baby was kicking 89 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:30.640 and the baby couldn't respond. I remember all three of my children, I would 90 00:06:30.640 --> 00:06:34.560 reach down and most nights I would pray for them, I would talk to them, I would 91 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.280 sing to them, I would prophesy over them and every time 92 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:43.280 I spoke, they would, most times I spoke, they would 93 00:06:43.280 --> 00:06:47.760 respond to my voice and I was absolutely aware that they could hear 94 00:06:47.760 --> 00:06:52.400 my voice before they had even exited the womb. 95 00:06:52.400 --> 00:06:55.760 But of course, I mean they had no idea what I was saying 96 00:06:55.760 --> 00:07:00.000 and when they came out of the womb and they were like one day old, 97 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.920 again they would respond to my voice but they had no idea what I was saying and 98 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:06.240 that's fine because they're only one day old. 99 00:07:06.240 --> 00:07:09.680 And then when they got to one year old, they would start to respond more so to 100 00:07:09.680 --> 00:07:12.640 what I was saying and they would, they were beginning to understand what 101 00:07:12.640 --> 00:07:15.600 I was saying but I had no expectation of them to 102 00:07:15.600 --> 00:07:18.240 understand like a 20 year old or a 30 year old 103 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:21.760 because they're only one year old and when they're three years old, 104 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:25.680 man, I could start to have conversations with my children. 105 00:07:25.680 --> 00:07:29.760 I could start to talk about the day and talk about the desires of the heart and 106 00:07:29.760 --> 00:07:33.600 talk about some deeper things but not too deep because at three years 107 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:36.560 old, you still don't expect that they have the same level of 108 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.120 understanding as a 10 year old and so on and so forth and so this has 109 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:45.760 been a massive encouragement to me to know that I have grace to hear God's 110 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:48.560 voice and there's not this massive weight of 111 00:07:48.560 --> 00:07:51.680 expectation from the Father on my shoulders to say 112 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:54.960 you must understand what I'm saying to you 113 00:07:54.960 --> 00:07:58.560 but there's this grace and there's this 114 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:02.080 this joy in the Father's heart of journeying with us 115 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:08.240 in relationship and journeying with us in our capacity and in our maturing and 116 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:13.200 learning to understand what He's saying. And I've noticed that one of the things 117 00:08:13.200 --> 00:08:16.800 that trips so many people up especially in the context of prayer 118 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:21.200 is I really want to hear your voice but I don't believe I do 119 00:08:21.200 --> 00:08:26.480 and what people are really saying and a very important distinction to make is 120 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.960 this, you are hearing His voice and you 121 00:08:30.960 --> 00:08:34.640 do know His voice. What you're experiencing 122 00:08:34.640 --> 00:08:38.080 that you're diagnosing as I'm not hearing His voice 123 00:08:38.080 --> 00:08:41.760 is you don't understand what He's saying yet and that's totally okay and that 124 00:08:41.760 --> 00:08:44.800 just shows where you are in your level of maturity 125 00:08:44.800 --> 00:08:49.440 and in your growth in terms of your capacity to understand what He's saying 126 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:53.440 but that does not mean you are not hearing His voice 127 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:56.800 and so for me it's been very encouraging and it's been 128 00:08:56.800 --> 00:09:03.520 very empowering for me to realize that I can hear Him and at the same time 129 00:09:03.520 --> 00:09:06.240 learn to understand Him. I hope that blesses you, 130 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:10.000 I hope you feel empowered by that, I hope you feel encouraged by that 131 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:14.480 and what I pray is I pray that that leads you to a place 132 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:18.080 of freedom where you are freer to take more risk 133 00:09:18.080 --> 00:09:23.040 and to experiment more with hearing and understanding what the 134 00:09:23.040 --> 00:09:25.920 Father's saying, that you would be like my daughter Sienna 135 00:09:25.920 --> 00:09:30.800 and not have this crazy religious pressure to have to get the tomato sauce 136 00:09:30.800 --> 00:09:33.760 but instead you could come back with a diaper, come back with a nappy and 137 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:37.120 they're like hey sometimes I come back with the nappy, sometimes with the diaper 138 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:40.400 and sometimes I get the tomato sauce but it doesn't matter either way because the 139 00:09:40.400 --> 00:09:44.080 most important thing is this, is that I'm leaning into the Father and 140 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:47.040 I'm learning to understand but I'm hearing His voice and I'm walking with 141 00:09:47.040 --> 00:09:49.600 Him and He's okay with me making mistakes 142 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:51.920 on the journey because He doesn't expect me to be 143 00:09:51.920 --> 00:09:56.000 at a maturity level above my actual maturity 144 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:01.680 and I pray that this core truth 145 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.160 That this core principle becomes within you a living revelation. 146 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:12.360 This core principle of I hear God's voice becomes within you a living revelation that 147 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:16.560 transforms you from the inside out and causes you to step into a greater fruitfulness of 148 00:10:16.560 --> 00:10:20.880 prayer and a greater intimacy with the Father, the Holy Spirit, and the Son. 149 00:10:20.880 --> 00:10:23.680 And so God bless you, have an amazing day. 150 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:37.000 If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire, or something. 151 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:39.000 Well guys, I hope you enjoyed that session. 152 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:43.800 Welcome to The Activation, where we take the information, we stew it up for long enough 153 00:10:43.800 --> 00:10:48.000 until it becomes revelation on the inside of us, and we dwell on that revelation until 154 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.000 it becomes transformation, because we know that transformed people transform the world. 155 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:57.000 And you guys are called to transform the world, and that all begins, I believe, in your prayer 156 00:10:57.000 --> 00:11:02.000 space, and that's why we're doing this thing to strengthen you in your prayer space. 157 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:08.000 I love that truth that you hear God's voice and you're learning to understand Him. 158 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:12.000 I'm going to ask you a few questions now, and I want you just to make sure you have 159 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:17.000 some space to be, some undistracted space to process these questions with the Lord. 160 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 I'm going to ask you a question, then I'm going to ask you to press pause. 161 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:25.000 That might help you to have something to take notes on, something to write something down on. 162 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:29.000 At least an undistracted space to process these questions with God, and so get ready 163 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.000 to press the pause button. 164 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:34.000 Here is the first question I want to ask you. 165 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:39.000 What are some ways that you currently recognize God's voice in your life? 166 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:42.000 How does God commonly speak to you? 167 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:45.000 How have you commonly recognized God's voice in your life? 168 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:49.000 I just want you to write down a list of the different ways that you know God speaks to you. 169 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:00.000 Awesome, thank you for writing that list down. 170 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:05.000 The next question I'm going to ask you is what are some ways that maybe you haven't 171 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:09.000 recognized God's voice, but you'd like to hear Him in these ways? 172 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:12.000 For example, have you heard the audible voice of God? 173 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:17.000 Are there ways that you've always longed to hear and recognize the voice of God that 174 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:19.000 you haven't yet? 175 00:12:19.000 --> 00:12:20.000 Just write a list of those. 176 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.000 It's good to have a dream list. 177 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.000 Just write a list of those ways. 178 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:32.000 What are some ways that you've always longed to hear and recognize God's voice? 179 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.000 Wow, guys, that's awesome. 180 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:38.000 I have one last question for this activation, and it's around taking our hearing until 181 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.000 it becomes understanding. 182 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:42.000 We're born with hearing, and we're growing in our understanding. 183 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:47.000 It's important that we learn to steward our space of hearing God's voice so that 184 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:52.000 we grow in our understanding so that we can understand clearly what God is saying to us. 185 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 There are things that we can practically do and implement in our lives in order to 186 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:59.000 do that, in order to steward our space of hearing in the presence of God. 187 00:12:59.000 --> 00:13:01.000 I just want you to ask the Lord right now. 188 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.000 Take some time to process this with God. 189 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:06.000 I want you to make a list of at least three things that you could implement easily in 190 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:13.000 your life to steward your hearing until you grow in your understanding. 191 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.000 Just make a list of at least three things that you could do, just practical things you 192 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:21.000 could implement to take hearing and to grow in understanding. 193 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 Well, thanks, guys, for being part of the activation. 194 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:36.000 I'm going to give you one little piece of homework now. 195 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.000 What I want you to do is take one thing from the list that you just wrote in that last 196 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:44.000 question, and I want you to take one thing that you put down, one way that you could 197 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:48.000 steward your hearing of God's voice, and you could steward until it becomes understanding 198 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:49.000 so you can grow in your understanding. 199 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:54.000 I want you to take one of those things from the list, and I want you to make a plan to 200 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:57.000 implement that every day for the next week. 201 00:13:57.000 --> 00:14:02.000 That's going to be awesome, and you're going to see an increase in your capacity 202 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:05.000 to understand what God's saying to you. 203 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.000 God bless you. 204 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.000 Have an amazing weekend. 205 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:08.000 We'll see you next week. 206 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:15.000 Bye.