WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.680 Okay, everyone, it is day 11 and this is entitled, Being Rescued. 2 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:11.920 Restful one, I speak to your spirit in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 3 00:00:11.920 --> 00:00:14.960 Listen with your spirit to the word of God for you. 4 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.760 From the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling. 5 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:24.960 He will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high upon a rock. 6 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:29.480 Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me. 7 00:00:29.480 --> 00:00:33.040 At his tabernacle I will sacrifice with shouts of joy. 8 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:35.920 I will sing and make music to the Lord. 9 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.960 Psalm 27, 5-6. 10 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:43.280 Restful one, there is a time for you to endure pain. 11 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:48.600 Knowing there is joy on the other side, a time for pressing on to get through the pain 12 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.000 to enter into that joy. 13 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:55.640 But there is also a time when you are supposed to be delivered by your Father, the Most High 14 00:00:55.640 --> 00:01:02.840 God, when you cry out to him and ask him to remove the obstacles, to lift you out of their 15 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:08.680 clutches and to set you in a beautiful, safe place. 16 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.240 I bless you with knowing the difference between the two. 17 00:01:12.240 --> 00:01:18.080 I bless you with having the courage to move ahead and press through pain when it is time. 18 00:01:18.080 --> 00:01:25.240 I bless you with freedom from a poverty spirit, with being willing and ready and knowing the 19 00:01:25.240 --> 00:01:31.680 time to cry out to your Father to be rescued from the problems that are not yours to fight. 20 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:36.800 I bless you with seeing his provision in rescuing you in a multitude of ways. 21 00:01:36.800 --> 00:01:44.160 I bless you with enjoying the creativity of God in rescuing you in little things and big 22 00:01:44.160 --> 00:01:45.160 things. 23 00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:49.520 A monumental crisis and a little confusion of the day. 24 00:01:49.520 --> 00:01:54.600 I bless you with the joy of watching your Father easily handle those things that would 25 00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:58.320 perturb you or confuse you. 26 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:04.280 I bless you with being rescued and celebrating his creativity in the rescue with the emotion 27 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:06.620 of security. 28 00:02:06.620 --> 00:02:13.680 I bless you with enough problems in life and God rescuing you from those problems that 29 00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:21.040 you no longer fear problems because they become an opportunity for God to show himself strong. 30 00:02:21.040 --> 00:02:30.240 I bless you with the blessing that Daniel had of living so long with God and experiencing 31 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:38.040 his faithfulness so many times that when he was in the lion's den, he was not overwhelmed 32 00:02:38.040 --> 00:02:39.760 with fear. 33 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:45.360 The animal's mouths were bound and they could not bite him. 34 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:52.160 I bless you, restful one, with the same security that David had, to walk into the enemy's camp 35 00:02:52.160 --> 00:02:56.240 and leave with a solved spirit and water bottle. 36 00:02:56.240 --> 00:03:02.680 I bless you with experiencing your Father's intervention so often on such a profound level 37 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:04.920 that you are emotionally secure. 38 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:12.320 I bless you with seeing him do remarkable things to rescue you so that you can go before 39 00:03:12.320 --> 00:03:19.960 God's people and share glory stories of what God did on your behalf and how he activated 40 00:03:19.960 --> 00:03:26.020 events to rescue you from the trap of the enemy designed to destroy you. 41 00:03:26.020 --> 00:03:31.640 I bless you with the joy of imparting to other people the faith to walk in security. 42 00:03:31.640 --> 00:03:38.240 I bless you with stories of God's intervention that are so deeply woven into your spirit 43 00:03:38.240 --> 00:03:44.400 that sharing those stories with others lifts their faith up, lifts them out of fear, and 44 00:03:44.400 --> 00:03:50.000 enables them to have the faith to look forward and cry out for God's intervention in their 45 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:51.520 own lives. 46 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:57.400 I bless you, restful one, with the anointing that was upon Paul. 47 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:05.440 The captain should not have set sail at that time and the ship was lost, but because Paul 48 00:04:05.440 --> 00:04:10.440 was on the ship, God kept everyone's life safe. 49 00:04:10.440 --> 00:04:15.080 I bless you with such an anointing of security that you will have the joy of God rescuing 50 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:22.440 you and also extending security to and rescuing others along with you. 51 00:04:22.440 --> 00:04:28.200 Your anointing for the powerful security of God was extended to those around you. 52 00:04:28.200 --> 00:04:33.920 I bless you with the joy of your father's acts on your behalf being translated into 53 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:37.320 beautiful acts of worship toward him. 54 00:04:37.320 --> 00:04:44.640 I bless you with not just enjoying the emotion of release and rescue, but also translating 55 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:49.940 those experiences into acts of worship. 56 00:04:49.940 --> 00:04:56.380 I bless you with worshiping and glorifying God, encouraging his people, and memorializing 57 00:04:56.380 --> 00:04:59.420 his power after a magnificent rescue. 58 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:07.200 I bless you, restful one, with shouts of joy over the intervening hand of God. 59 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:12.800 As he rescues you from the work of his enemies and yours, I bless you with the security and 60 00:05:12.800 --> 00:05:19.040 joy of being rescued by the God whom you serve with all of your heart. 61 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.240 I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 62 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:32.680 Lord, today I pray for each and every one of us that you would take us on our timelines, 63 00:05:32.680 --> 00:05:40.680 over our history, and open our eyes and remind us all these feasts and the memorials and 64 00:05:40.680 --> 00:05:46.600 the altars that were set up, even that sit to this very day across the desert, the wastelands 65 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:54.200 over in the Holy Land and Israel and Syria and even Iraq and the Red Sea and Egypt, all 66 00:05:54.200 --> 00:06:01.760 of the places where significant things happen to help people to remember, Lord, let there 67 00:06:01.760 --> 00:06:10.120 be memorials in our lives, that these milestones, these things that have happened along the 68 00:06:10.120 --> 00:06:15.640 way that we've maybe forgotten and for some of us have not even been aware that it was 69 00:06:15.640 --> 00:06:18.440 your intervention in the first place. 70 00:06:18.440 --> 00:06:24.200 The hidden throughout our lives is a great testimony of God's weaving and interweaving 71 00:06:24.200 --> 00:06:39.040 and injecting into our lives to bring a confluence, to bring in a merging, I guess again it's 72 00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:47.480 like weaving together a tale and a story of the, it's like the scarlet thread woven 73 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:53.920 through the Bible of Jesus himself, that there's this scarlet thread written, woven through 74 00:06:53.920 --> 00:07:01.480 our lives that we are often not aware of. 75 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:08.720 And alongside this, Holy Spirit, that today that you would bring to our memories things 76 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:14.520 that we do know that we forgot and things that we've never even imagined could have 77 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:22.000 been you, to rewrite our history in a fact, in a manner, but Lord, that would draw us 78 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:33.800 into a place where our expectation, our level of peace, our, the grandeur of what's available 79 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:41.960 to us in you and through you to give great confidence that whether we are, you know, 80 00:07:41.960 --> 00:07:48.480 it's like when we used to, you know, have to go backpacking, it's like one thing you 81 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:52.680 remember is all you have to do is make it, you know, we took 50 minute intervals, you 82 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.560 just need to make it another 50, you need to make it over that hilltop. 83 00:07:55.560 --> 00:07:59.160 But every hill has an end. 84 00:07:59.160 --> 00:08:02.040 Every mountain, you know, has a top. 85 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:07.200 And every experience that we go through only lasts for so long. 86 00:08:07.200 --> 00:08:15.480 But there is that, those moments where you yourself show yourself large, in the moments 87 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:20.240 where they used to pray, if I've ever found favor in your sight, if not for me, then for 88 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:25.240 my father, if not for my fathers, then my father's fathers, if not for them, then for 89 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:31.240 your own name, be glorified. 90 00:08:31.240 --> 00:08:38.919 That Lord that this day, that there be such an extravagance of your, of your emeshing, 91 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:47.880 of your intervention, of your, your, your intimate, intentional involvement in each 92 00:08:47.880 --> 00:08:54.760 and every person's lives, come to a place that would cause a radical shift in a reformatting 93 00:08:54.760 --> 00:09:02.400 that was a word I was looking for before, a reformatting of our, of our place, like 94 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:08.600 a change in our operating system of what is expected and how we're to live and the posture 95 00:09:08.600 --> 00:09:15.840 that we're, that we, that we take on. 96 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:27.440 And that there be such a, an immersion, such a, like a, any, such a, a unifying of this 97 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:30.280 life of ours with you. 98 00:09:30.280 --> 00:09:38.200 And that we become so full of you in a way like Paul, that it becomes so obvious to people 99 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.120 that you are the distinguishing difference in our lives. 100 00:09:41.120 --> 00:09:47.600 But not only that, that everyone around us be kept swept up into these things so that 101 00:09:47.600 --> 00:09:59.960 your involvement be so strikingly obvious, not just in their observance of our 102 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:09.760 our lives, but the splash for the overshadowing, the involvement that they have, in a sense, 103 00:10:09.760 --> 00:10:14.520 in your involvement in our lives that is so staggering and so great, that they themselves 104 00:10:14.520 --> 00:10:15.520 are affected. 105 00:10:15.520 --> 00:10:25.000 Lord, I remember hearing a discussion once about the value that we really have as Christians 106 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:37.320 in anything that we do, that we bring so much more to the table than we imagine, that Lord, 107 00:10:37.320 --> 00:10:44.320 that your intervention would save not just people around us, but would impact the businesses 108 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:52.240 that we're a part of, that a business that we support, that our favor would be upon the 109 00:10:52.240 --> 00:11:00.520 departments, that our bosses to be upon the places that we go, our schools, our classes, 110 00:11:00.520 --> 00:11:11.360 our families, our neighbors, our neighborhoods, that it's like the light that shines and permeates 111 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:14.760 into every room. 112 00:11:14.760 --> 00:11:24.320 Lord, I pray for each person here that today that they not need a rescue that they're aware 113 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.480 of, that they not be put in situations that they need a rescue, but that the rescuer just 114 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:42.600 remind us of who is the rescuer and who's the one to be rescued, and that you're more 115 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:49.880 than able and capable of seeing through all that you plan, but not just that, to rescue 116 00:11:49.880 --> 00:11:55.120 us from every situation, including the ones that we never even knew that we needed rescuing 117 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:59.240 from. 118 00:11:59.240 --> 00:12:16.960 The traffic jam. I remember there's a man that I work for, and he's a very gifted man, 119 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:25.880 and there was a time he was living in another state, and he had been newly married, and 120 00:12:25.880 --> 00:12:36.160 he was driving to the church, I believe, and he saw a vision of his father-in-law. 121 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:42.880 He saw what he was wearing, he saw the car he was on, he saw the street he was on, and 122 00:12:42.880 --> 00:12:50.960 he saw that there was a man running a stop sign, and there was a terrible accident, and 123 00:12:51.120 --> 00:13:01.120 he called, I believe it was his wife, and told his wife, and his wife called his father-in-law, 124 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:06.840 and the father-in-law gets the call, and it's like, this is what was happening, and he goes, 125 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:13.520 well, that's the clothes I'm wearing, this is the car that I'm driving, this is the street 126 00:13:13.520 --> 00:13:24.000 that I'm on, this is the stop sign that I'm at, and he chose to heed the warning and not 127 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:29.520 go that way, and sure enough, there was a man that ran a stop sign, and there was such 128 00:13:29.520 --> 00:13:32.880 an accident that he would have been instantly killed. 129 00:13:32.880 --> 00:13:39.880 That, Lord, that these types of things are things that you're doing all the time that 130 00:13:39.880 --> 00:13:42.880 we're not even aware of. 131 00:13:42.880 --> 00:13:52.880 If we could only really rest in knowing how involved you are into everything that we do. 132 00:13:52.880 --> 00:14:01.040 Lord, I pray that the Rescuer, we would know the Rescuer in a way that we never have, not 133 00:14:01.040 --> 00:14:08.240 to feel the need to be rescued per se, but to come into a place of trusting and knowing 134 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:16.000 that you have our back, that you're ahead of us already, that we're following you, we're 135 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:22.200 walking with you, and that we can come to a place of peace, and that this would inspire 136 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:30.360 us in a close fellowship with you, and again, it's really about who you are, Lord God, that 137 00:14:30.360 --> 00:14:35.520 we would know another aspect of who you are in our lives in a tangible way. 138 00:14:35.520 --> 00:14:45.840 So today, Lord, I pray for an injection of you, of you in the aspect of the Rescuer, 139 00:14:45.840 --> 00:14:51.880 to be revealed and injected and infused into each and every person's life today. 140 00:14:51.880 --> 00:14:54.360 We bless you and we love you, in Jesus' name.