WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:09.080 good morning good afternoon good evening this is day two day two and I want to 2 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:13.720 thank each and every one of you for taking the time to be with me on this 3 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:26.800 journey because hey what a quest what a quest it was technical difficulties it 4 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:32.479 was learning curves technical difficulties more learning curves 5 00:00:32.479 --> 00:00:39.280 dyslexia problems you name it it has come up and I'm just thankful that I'm 6 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:47.600 that I'm here so I hope you had a chance to view the replay from day one and I 7 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:52.680 hope you took some takeaways from that I also want to say if there was something 8 00:00:52.680 --> 00:00:57.760 in there something that was said in day one that was a takeaway for you 9 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:02.200 something that blessed you please let me know that will really be a blessing and 10 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:08.000 a help to me as we go further so drop that in the chat on the on the Facebook 11 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:13.040 page and that will be a blessing to me now let's do a quick quick quick quick 12 00:01:13.360 --> 00:01:23.520 recap and first we talked about I share with you my story about my my hard place 13 00:01:23.520 --> 00:01:29.600 my my being stuck between a rock and a hard place and I told you also and I 14 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:35.120 share with you that it got to the point that it was not just looking at what was 15 00:01:35.120 --> 00:01:44.080 going wrong because God showed me that that rock has to be the promise so by 16 00:01:44.080 --> 00:01:49.920 looking at the promise that is right next to that hard place allows me to see 17 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:55.280 the face of the one who promised that blows me away to even consider that I 18 00:01:55.280 --> 00:02:00.640 also talked a little bit about what Graham talked about what Graham Cook 19 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:10.800 talked about about you know that prayer is stepping back into the presence of 20 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:17.640 God and asking God or watch seeing what God wants to do in the situation and 21 00:02:17.640 --> 00:02:24.320 then asking him to do it and I said for me it's a conversation with my heavenly 22 00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:33.160 father it is stepping into that quiet place that secret place and asking him 23 00:02:33.160 --> 00:02:39.320 God what do you think about this situation and allowing what he says to 24 00:02:39.320 --> 00:02:45.920 be my stance in that circumstance we also talked a little bit about what Mark 25 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:51.360 Verkle talked about when he when I share with you out of Habakkuk that if we want 26 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.400 to learn to hear the voice of the Lord to hear the voice of God we have to what 27 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:03.120 find that secret place remember we have to find that secret place I stand at the 28 00:03:03.120 --> 00:03:12.680 watch okay that's quieting myself down to see what he is going to say and then 29 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:21.000 then I fasten my eyes on the Lord and then I write down I journal what he's 30 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:27.400 saying and for me that blew me away because one of the things that blessed 31 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:35.680 me in my travels in my travels and my quest if you want to put it that way in 32 00:03:35.680 --> 00:03:45.400 my quest was getting to the place of wanting to there was a verse out of Acts 33 00:03:45.400 --> 00:03:52.000 remember after on the road to Emmaus that's what I'm thinking about on the 34 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:57.120 road to Emmaus where Jesus shows up to these guys and starts to walk with them 35 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:01.640 and opens to them the scriptures and they said after the whole thing was over 36 00:04:01.640 --> 00:04:08.160 with what did not your heart burn within you as he opened them to us the 37 00:04:09.160 --> 00:04:16.640 for me that's where I would go I wanted to be one the one the unnamed one 38 00:04:16.640 --> 00:04:24.080 because it was Cephas and another I was the other in my mind I would visual I 39 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:28.760 could see myself walking and listening to the Lord talk but what he was talking 40 00:04:28.760 --> 00:04:33.880 about was the things that I needed to hear things I needed to know things I 41 00:04:33.880 --> 00:04:38.120 needed to understand about the situation or the circumstance and then 42 00:04:38.120 --> 00:04:43.560 at that time I would say Lord what do you think about this and I would journal 43 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:49.080 it down and I would be quiet and before you know it a thought will come up and I 44 00:04:49.080 --> 00:04:52.120 would write it down another thought and I write it down if I had another 45 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:57.960 question I would ask because I wanted that overflow from the inside the bubble 46 00:04:57.960 --> 00:05:00.760 up now 47 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.840 I'll be totally honest with you that begin to open up doors of prophetic flow for me 48 00:05:08.400 --> 00:05:15.520 and I believe that that's where it begins because hey look most most of us think that 49 00:05:15.520 --> 00:05:21.280 when you talk about the prophetic oh you don't know what's going on because all we hear are the 50 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:26.160 things that are wrong with we don't hear so much of the things that go right and people taking 51 00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:34.880 responsibility all of those things you can go into that but that's that's just that's just the 52 00:05:34.880 --> 00:05:41.120 frosting if you will of both sides of a circumstance but if we're going after god 53 00:05:41.840 --> 00:05:49.120 wasn't it jesus who promised us that you who are evil know how to do good things with your kids 54 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.360 how much more our heavenly father if we ask is he going to give us you know if we ask for fish is 55 00:05:55.360 --> 00:05:59.600 he going to give us a stone is he going to do something that is terrible is he going to lead 56 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:06.640 us into a path that that he can't get us out of no just the opposite just the opposite he is a 57 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:11.520 loving god and that's the thing that we need to see that's where things are and that's where we 58 00:06:11.520 --> 00:06:20.800 need to go and i think that that's awesome so where do we go from here i think that one of the 59 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:29.840 things that we really really need to to look at is is like like what i talked about in the homework 60 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:36.480 did you find someone did you have a person that come to mind you know because of the glitches 61 00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:43.600 and stuff one of the things i wanted to do was to you know let you see someone next to you and and 62 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:48.960 ask god how do you think about them but because of all the things now you have a homework assignment 63 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:56.720 who is it who would you like to write a letter from god to them so if you did that that would be 64 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:03.280 nice i don't want you to send me a letter of what you wrote but it would be nice that if you 65 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:09.920 did that and you sent it to that person did you get a feedback what did you what did they think 66 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:17.680 about what you wrote was it a blessing did it edify exhort and comfort them if so you did exactly 67 00:07:17.680 --> 00:07:27.040 what god wants you to do because hey the word is breathe is breath it is a living word and it is in 68 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:34.240 a vessel you are the vessel and it will bubble up and it will come forth and it will bless 69 00:07:35.040 --> 00:07:41.600 those who need to be blessed you know and i think that that's also an awesome thing to do 70 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:47.360 the other thing i think that is very very very very important is we talked also about 71 00:07:48.960 --> 00:07:58.880 the orphan mindset you know this that was something that i never even considered for quite a while 72 00:07:58.880 --> 00:08:06.560 that hey when i begin to look back at my hard place and found out that every hard place that 73 00:08:06.880 --> 00:08:16.560 i ever had was also a promise but besides that what caused that hard place was my orphan mindset 74 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:27.680 because there were things that i didn't allow the lord to be to have his place his his place 75 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:34.000 his place of authority there's a throne in every one of those situations that jesus is supposed to 76 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:47.040 be in charge of and that's what the orphan mindset stands against you know um we need to see that 77 00:08:47.040 --> 00:08:55.040 hey uh you ought to take a look at galatians chapter five and read through that part about 78 00:08:55.040 --> 00:09:03.840 the flesh because in those things there you will find that there is a that there is a mindset 79 00:09:03.920 --> 00:09:12.000 against the spirit of god and that's that orphan mindset why do i say that because the lord showed 80 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:22.880 me a couple of months ago that because i because i asked the question no i just asked the question i 81 00:09:22.880 --> 00:09:31.040 asked was god i i would really like to understand what is behind what is going on with this mindset 82 00:09:31.040 --> 00:09:37.760 and as i sat there all of a sudden i could this thought just rose up within me 83 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:44.640 that overflow of the thought that lit across my mind was do you want to know who the original 84 00:09:44.640 --> 00:09:56.000 orphan was and and before i could even ask the question yes it was satan was lucifer was the 85 00:09:56.000 --> 00:09:59.760 original orphan he turned away from god 86 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:09.680 he turned and when the fall happened he wanted to get back and take away 87 00:10:09.680 --> 00:10:19.080 manipulate God into killing off his crown jewel you and I and the only thing 88 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:26.280 that happened was what God did was made safe passage through blood and 89 00:10:26.280 --> 00:10:32.360 visitation rights for the father don't you love it don't you love it for the 90 00:10:32.360 --> 00:10:38.200 father to intervene I think that that's awesome that's our God that's how loving 91 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:44.320 he really is do you see that you know even in Scripture when it talks about 92 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:49.880 the fatherless I think only in a few translations if my memory served me 93 00:10:49.880 --> 00:10:55.000 correctly where it is only translated as often Jesus says I will not leave you as 94 00:10:55.000 --> 00:11:02.320 orphans why because he gave us a comforter a comforter a comforter that 95 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:07.480 means that that you have someone to represent the heart of the father for 96 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:15.120 you isn't that awesome but that's the way it is that's how our God is that's 97 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:21.480 what he really wants to do he wants to be the father that you've never had so 98 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:28.320 you're no longer fatherless and you know what he always has a heart for the 99 00:11:28.320 --> 00:11:35.640 father that's why we have the story of the what the world calls the prodigal 100 00:11:35.640 --> 00:11:43.480 son which is really the heart of a father you have the young son who wanted 101 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:50.280 his inheritance and run off and ran off into hog country and he ended up 102 00:11:50.400 --> 00:11:56.240 fighting over scraps with some pigs can you imagine that because I got a wild 103 00:11:56.240 --> 00:12:01.400 imagination I can see him down there him and a pig squaring off over some slop 104 00:12:01.400 --> 00:12:07.600 and he finally came to his senses now how did he come to his senses was a 105 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:15.320 question that I had to ask and it and I finally saw it because in each one of us 106 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:21.120 we have that we have that thing that empty space where all of a sudden 107 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:26.440 there's only one thing that will fill it and that one thing is God and what 108 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:33.440 happened to him was the thought that he had was you know what my father has 109 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:40.680 slaves and servants that eat better than this and he said I'll go back to my 110 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:47.200 father and ask him I am NOT for forgiveness and I have sinned against 111 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:55.720 God and you and hey I make me I don't even deserve to be your son make me a 112 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:03.280 servant make me a slave that's all I want I just want to be in your presence 113 00:13:03.280 --> 00:13:09.320 that's it but I'm not worthy to be called a son does that ring a bell 114 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:13.400 because in every hard place and what the enemy always going to try to do is 115 00:13:13.400 --> 00:13:21.320 to get you to see that you don't deserve to be how God sees you so it's better to 116 00:13:21.320 --> 00:13:27.640 settle for something less but what did the father do for that young son he 117 00:13:27.640 --> 00:13:37.160 waited and he prepared a place he prepared him he prepared a calf now we 118 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:41.080 don't know how long it was let's say it took him a couple of at least a year or 119 00:13:41.080 --> 00:13:46.640 two to get there but he had this calf that he says when my son comes back we 120 00:13:46.640 --> 00:13:51.560 don't celebrate we don't have some fun you know so this calf is for him maybe 121 00:13:51.560 --> 00:13:56.520 by the time he got there that calf was not a calf anymore if it was in my 122 00:13:56.520 --> 00:14:03.080 place it would have been it would have been one fat big old heifer but the 123 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:09.640 thing is that he waited and when he saw him afar off he the father ran to him 124 00:14:09.640 --> 00:14:15.800 and in the middle of him trying to explain everything he said hey bring the 125 00:14:15.800 --> 00:14:20.000 bring a road and put the ring on his finger bring the shoes put it on his 126 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:27.560 feet hey that calf go get it cuz we're gonna party I just love it I just love 127 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:32.880 it but that's the father's heart for those of us who are out in hard country 128 00:14:32.880 --> 00:14:39.160 and don't even know it but you know what sometimes we miss the son that was 129 00:14:39.160 --> 00:14:47.600 there now when you think of how that son was how he acted you'll see that he had 130 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:53.520 a orphaned mind spirit too he did a lot of things that only to try to get the 131 00:14:53.520 --> 00:15:02.120 father to notice him and then said you didn't look at your son he even got rid 132 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.520 Of his brother and called him your son because he ain't my brother 133 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:11.480 Your son went off and did this and your son did this and he did that and you give him a dad 134 00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:13.820 I got the dad that the dad doesn't that sound like 135 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:22.940 Family but that's not the family that God wanted and what ended up happening was what? 136 00:15:23.620 --> 00:15:29.260 What these guys what he did was he said isn't that all that I have yours 137 00:15:32.300 --> 00:15:37.260 That must have not only busted his bubble, but it must have filled him with 138 00:15:42.940 --> 00:15:44.940 And 139 00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:51.340 Sometimes we don't see that we have all of who God is 140 00:15:53.620 --> 00:15:59.180 In us and we need to see that we need to understand that and I think that's awesome 141 00:15:59.180 --> 00:16:02.220 I think that that's really awesome. So 142 00:16:03.060 --> 00:16:05.060 We have that 143 00:16:05.540 --> 00:16:11.740 Then the other thing that I really thought that we should talk about is the fact of prayer 144 00:16:12.780 --> 00:16:16.900 Prayer is important, you know, and I think that 145 00:16:17.460 --> 00:16:24.540 You know when we go back into our quiet spot a quiet place and we're asking God what's going on 146 00:16:24.540 --> 00:16:32.400 What can I do? And he begins to share stuff with us. We do that out of we enter in how by 147 00:16:33.420 --> 00:16:36.380 Thanksgiving and praise remember that's what we do 148 00:16:36.380 --> 00:16:43.180 We enter in his presence with Thanksgiving and praise and you know what? Like I said, it takes time 149 00:16:43.740 --> 00:16:46.260 It takes time it's not oh Lord 150 00:16:46.260 --> 00:16:51.180 I thank you for allowing me entrance into your into your presence. Amen. And then you were out the door 151 00:16:51.180 --> 00:16:56.340 No, no, no, it takes time and you're gonna have to set aside time and it's hard 152 00:16:56.980 --> 00:16:59.740 Sometimes for me I do that before I go to bed 153 00:17:00.140 --> 00:17:05.200 Sometimes I do it in the morning before I get up and sometimes in the middle of the day 154 00:17:05.200 --> 00:17:11.339 I want to get to the place in my life that I will stop whatever I'm doing and say Lord. I 155 00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:13.220 Thank you 156 00:17:13.220 --> 00:17:15.020 Thank you for this moment 157 00:17:15.020 --> 00:17:18.900 Show me what I need to know. Show me where where did where to go? 158 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:27.380 I want right now more than anything else is a light unto my feet. Where do I set my feet? 159 00:17:29.220 --> 00:17:35.220 And then the first thought that comes up into my head I go, okay, I'll do that and 160 00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:42.220 That's the point that's the point, you know that I think that allows us to see 161 00:17:42.980 --> 00:17:48.380 God's heart for me and then my response is yes. I 162 00:17:49.940 --> 00:17:55.140 Love it. I love it. And I hope you do too. Um, the other thing is 163 00:17:57.260 --> 00:17:59.260 If you have 164 00:18:01.300 --> 00:18:03.300 Started writing a 165 00:18:04.140 --> 00:18:07.060 A letter to one of your friends. I 166 00:18:07.980 --> 00:18:10.620 Want you to think about one other thing? 167 00:18:11.820 --> 00:18:19.620 that you are connecting to the God of the universe because he sees exactly what 168 00:18:20.820 --> 00:18:27.340 what's going on and he is more than willing to let you know what's happening so that you could write it out and 169 00:18:28.020 --> 00:18:35.020 Be that blessing that they need maybe somebody you haven't even talked to in a in in quite a while 170 00:18:35.020 --> 00:18:38.340 That might be the best place to go start there 171 00:18:39.060 --> 00:18:45.500 Start with somebody you don't know. I've done that a couple of times wrote a letter sent it off 172 00:18:45.500 --> 00:18:51.540 I you know, they didn't have you know, I'm a little older. So there's some people that aren't very 173 00:18:52.820 --> 00:18:56.820 Savvy with a computer. So I wrote him a letter and I put it in the mail 174 00:18:58.340 --> 00:19:04.620 And I said, hey if you get that call me and let me know what you think did it bless you and 175 00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:08.180 I was surprised to see that yet. They were 176 00:19:08.940 --> 00:19:10.940 blessed now 177 00:19:12.940 --> 00:19:18.780 Why do I bring up all of those things is because I want you to see that you are 178 00:19:19.940 --> 00:19:22.500 Important and this is what the Lord showed me 179 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:25.380 was 180 00:19:26.100 --> 00:19:28.100 Pick do you remember I 181 00:19:29.180 --> 00:19:31.180 remember when I was young and 182 00:19:32.300 --> 00:19:40.280 Junior high schools specifically I had and I was in woodshop and we always had to make the spice rack for mom 183 00:19:41.620 --> 00:19:45.580 So I'll make this spice rack bring it home and my mother would look at go. Oh, that's nice 184 00:19:45.900 --> 00:19:48.180 Put it on the wall over the kitchen put in their spices 185 00:19:48.180 --> 00:19:54.020 I began to see that that God the Creator has created each and every one of us 186 00:19:54.020 --> 00:19:59.620 Uniquely we are unique before him and I got this picture of 187 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:01.680 of a spice rack. 188 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:06.000 Each and every one of us is on God's spice rack. 189 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:07.680 We are unique. 190 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:10.200 And there is a flavor that God has placed 191 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.840 within each and every one of us. 192 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:16.840 So what would happen when he begins to grab this person 193 00:20:16.840 --> 00:20:19.520 and this person and put them together? 194 00:20:21.760 --> 00:20:25.880 There is an aroma that is, 195 00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:31.360 ah, it must just put a smile on God's face 196 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.640 because it's doing exactly what he intended. 197 00:20:37.840 --> 00:20:41.200 Ah, that almost brings me to tears when I think about that 198 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:42.680 because that's important. 199 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:45.180 That's family in and of itself 200 00:20:45.180 --> 00:20:46.960 because that's one of the things 201 00:20:46.960 --> 00:20:49.720 that has always seemed to be really missing 202 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:53.600 when it comes to prayer, when it comes to even living 203 00:20:53.600 --> 00:20:55.040 because you know what? 204 00:20:56.240 --> 00:21:01.160 A prayer quest is a life quest. 205 00:21:01.160 --> 00:21:02.320 It really is. 206 00:21:02.320 --> 00:21:04.520 It is a stepping stone. 207 00:21:04.520 --> 00:21:09.240 It is a place where we go in to be in communion 208 00:21:09.240 --> 00:21:11.840 with the creator of the heavens and the earth. 209 00:21:11.840 --> 00:21:14.000 And there's a quest there. 210 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:14.920 Ha, ha, ha. 211 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:16.000 And that's what it is. 212 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:20.320 Can you imagine that, that he could take two, three, four, 213 00:21:20.320 --> 00:21:24.280 maybe it could be just two people, take a married couple. 214 00:21:25.120 --> 00:21:30.120 Most of them are so different and yet together, ah, ah. 215 00:21:34.520 --> 00:21:39.480 You see, that's why God worked hard to make sure 216 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:44.480 that the one he chose as my wife, 217 00:21:44.920 --> 00:21:48.200 I would not be dumb enough to leave. 218 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:50.200 Ha, ha, ha, ha. 219 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:51.700 Do you see it? 220 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:53.720 That's the important thing. 221 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:56.080 That's it, that's it in a nutshell. 222 00:21:56.080 --> 00:22:01.080 So, let that be the guiding place, the guiding point 223 00:22:01.920 --> 00:22:06.920 to see that you are the flavor of God's favor on you. 224 00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:11.040 Wow, think about that. 225 00:22:11.040 --> 00:22:15.240 So the next time you're talking to someone, ask God, 226 00:22:15.240 --> 00:22:20.240 God, what's the flavor that is missing 227 00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:26.160 that you want me to help speak into and let it bubble up 228 00:22:26.760 --> 00:22:31.760 so together, ah, we are a sweet aroma. 229 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:33.480 Ha, ha, ha, ha. 230 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:35.480 To the God of the universe. 231 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:38.740 Ah, I love it, I love it, I love it. 232 00:22:38.740 --> 00:22:43.080 So, hey, God bless you. 233 00:22:43.080 --> 00:22:47.080 I love you and I'll see you in the quest.