WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.880 Good morning, good day everyone. Today is day 15 in our journey together and this one 2 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:14.680 is entitled Solving Problems. Beloved one, I call your spirit to attention in the name 3 00:00:14.680 --> 00:00:20.480 of Jesus of Nazareth. Listen with your spirit to the word of God for you. Consider it pure 4 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:27.080 joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds. James 1.2. His intent was that 5 00:00:27.080 --> 00:00:32.439 now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers 6 00:00:32.439 --> 00:00:38.520 and authorities in the heavenly realms according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished 7 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:47.800 in Christ Jesus our Lord, Ephesians 3.10-11. Restful one, your culture centers around avoiding 8 00:00:47.800 --> 00:00:53.360 problems and greatly values happiness, which is defined as having others take care of your 9 00:00:53.360 --> 00:00:59.640 problems. That is a delusion. God placed Adam and Eve in a garden in a perfect environment 10 00:00:59.640 --> 00:01:05.040 and a perfect relationship with himself, yet he created a problem for them to take the 11 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:11.400 resources of the garden and the resources of their relationship with him to the rest 12 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:18.240 of the world and to subdue it. You were designed by your father to face problems and solve 13 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:23.200 them, not just to escape them. The problems God has designed for you to solve will bring 14 00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:28.840 the greatest treasures in your life. People are remembered for the problems they solve 15 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:35.040 or the problems they create. I bless you with being remembered for the problems you solve. 16 00:01:35.040 --> 00:01:40.400 I bless you with wisdom and pure joy when you face different kinds of problems. Whatever 17 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:46.200 problem you face, I bless you with rejoicing in the situation instead of complaining and 18 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:52.120 turning back. Restful one, I bless you with the faith to look at problems through your 19 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:57.960 father's eyes and realize that every problem he brings you is an opportunity to experience 20 00:01:57.960 --> 00:02:06.840 his faithfulness. Ephesians 3.10-11 assumes that many colors of problems will make known 21 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:12.160 that many different colors of God's wisdom to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly 22 00:02:12.160 --> 00:02:18.640 realms. God has an infinite amount of wisdom and there are colors of God's wisdom that 23 00:02:18.640 --> 00:02:24.640 you do not yet know. He will position you so that he can bring new problems into your 24 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:30.640 life and you can reach deep into your father's wisdom and find his multifaceted wisdom to 25 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:37.040 solve the problems that he brings you. When you do that, God releases through your life 26 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:44.600 a color of wisdom that you have never seen. God will gain great glory and the evil rulers 27 00:02:44.600 --> 00:02:50.640 and authorities in the heavenly realms will suffer great loss and great grief. Problems 28 00:02:50.640 --> 00:02:55.840 are the playing field for the wisdom of God to be displayed. There is a time and a place 29 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:02.000 for God to display his favor, for him to lift you up out of a tight spot, to rescue you, 30 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.240 to lift you to a safe place above your enemies. There is a time and a place for God to give 31 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:13.560 you favor in the eyes of people who should be your enemies. But there is a greater joy 32 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:21.600 than either of those. That is the joy of discovering God's wisdom that flows in solving problems. 33 00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:27.200 I bless you with not having a welfare spirit within you so that you do not look to someone 34 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:33.680 else to solve your problems, but that you rejoice in accordance with the Word of God 35 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:40.480 and consider it a joy to receive from the hand of God new and different colored problems 36 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:45.720 and you will search out the wisdom of God to solve those problems. I bless you, Restful 37 00:03:45.720 --> 00:03:52.120 One, with rising to the challenge of finding wisdom. I bless you with perseverance to dig 38 00:03:52.120 --> 00:03:59.520 in the Word of God as if you are looking for gold and silver and jewels. You have to 39 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:08.320 move a lot of dirt to find new jewels, but their value is worth the effort. I bless you 40 00:04:08.320 --> 00:04:15.480 with the endurance to press on, to study and to look, to find those jewels of wisdom that 41 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:21.040 will reveal new things of the nature of God. I bless you with perseverance to seek out 42 00:04:21.040 --> 00:04:27.840 solutions. I bless you with refusing to develop a theology of failure, never settling for 43 00:04:27.840 --> 00:04:34.240 something that is a contradiction to Scripture. I bless you with not buying into the enemy's 44 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:41.400 lies to settle for an armed truce rather than a real victory. I bless you with perseverance 45 00:04:41.400 --> 00:04:47.080 to spend decades, if necessary, searching the Word of God and the mind of your Father 46 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:53.160 to know the truths that will set you free and set others free. I bless you, Restful 47 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:59.520 One, with having the mind of Christ so that you can see things from His perspective and 48 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:00.040 see solutions. 49 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:06.420 that others can't see. I bless you with wisdom to embrace God's painful solutions 50 00:05:06.420 --> 00:05:11.080 to problems. I bless you with the anointing of Mary of Bethany, who 51 00:05:11.080 --> 00:05:16.320 received the truth that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was imminent and it was 52 00:05:16.320 --> 00:05:22.160 good. May you have the wisdom of God to embrace his solutions, although they may 53 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:28.160 seem bizarre or painful, and nobody has ever walked that way 54 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:36.680 before. I bless you, restful one, with a trailblazing anointing to do things 55 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:41.320 that have never been done before, revealing the wisdom of God, and in 56 00:05:41.320 --> 00:05:46.240 that anointing to have the great joy reserved for those willing to embrace 57 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:51.200 pain. I bless you with the joy of fulfillment, which is not available to 58 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:56.280 those who are merely trying to be happy. I bless you with the joy of discovering 59 00:05:56.280 --> 00:06:02.320 the wisdom of God and the mind of Christ to solve them. I bless you with 60 00:06:02.320 --> 00:06:07.040 his joy, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 61 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:20.880 How interesting, Lord, to have a passage like this in the midst of the transition 62 00:06:20.880 --> 00:06:31.120 from having the rest intensive and the rest lifestyle into a place of solving 63 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:36.640 problems. The conundrum and the mystery, Lord, of when it is that we're to be 64 00:06:36.640 --> 00:06:41.120 still and wait on the Lord and when we're to act, when we're supposed to wait 65 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:44.680 in all things that have already been accomplished on our behalf and the 66 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:50.240 things that are going to come to us, versus hidden in all of this is a 67 00:06:50.280 --> 00:06:55.320 step of faith that is the catalyst of action for faith and the manifestations 68 00:06:55.320 --> 00:07:03.720 of your promises to come to bear. I don't propose in any way, 69 00:07:03.720 --> 00:07:08.840 shape, or form, Lord, to have a clue for these people or even for my own self at 70 00:07:08.840 --> 00:07:16.640 times to be able to peer through what seems like a murky or a fogged glass to 71 00:07:16.640 --> 00:07:23.480 look ahead, especially at our own lives, to know at times when you're giving us 72 00:07:23.480 --> 00:07:27.680 things for us to solve in a place where you're mentoring and growing us up and 73 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:39.800 to be sons or daughters in your own likeness, versus a time when we are to 74 00:07:39.800 --> 00:07:49.520 sit at your feet and wait for you to act. Today, Lord, I pray that there be 75 00:07:49.520 --> 00:07:56.720 innovative, colorful solutions, Lord, aspects of your wisdom, aspects of the 76 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:02.240 seven Spirits of God, aspects of who you are and the fullness and the display of 77 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:07.480 the spectrum of your Spirit in our lives that it says that the Holy Spirit 78 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:12.360 will search the very depths of the knowledge and the wisdom of God and that 79 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:16.600 there be aspects of those things that we can almost taste that we have never 80 00:08:16.600 --> 00:08:21.480 experienced before that will shed a light on problems and situations and 81 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:26.160 even relationships in our lives as if we're seeing it for the very first time, 82 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:32.280 just like when we read a scripture and we hear something for the first time, as 83 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.200 if we've never seen it before. 84 00:08:37.720 --> 00:08:43.039 Yesterday, I think it was yesterday, Lord, you woke me up really early and at one 85 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:51.080 point I, in my desire to sleep in on a Sunday, I noticed that I couldn't 86 00:08:51.080 --> 00:08:58.360 sleep and it was 616, and for some reason I felt like I needed to turn to John 616 87 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:04.200 and it's just before the famous passage of when you describe communion and a 88 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:08.800 good bit of the disciples leave you, it's a very important passage to me, and it 89 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:15.320 was when you were walking on the water and the disciples were in the midst of a 90 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:19.600 storm, they were frightened, they saw you, they were frightened, all of this I knew 91 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:23.000 and that they were much comforted when you got on the boat, but the part that I 92 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:27.520 saw for the very first time was that it said immediately they were on the other 93 00:09:27.560 --> 00:09:37.320 shore, immediately they arrived at their destination. Wow. As if for the 94 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:43.480 very first time, I just read that passage I don't know how many times, for the 95 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:49.160 first time I saw it. Lord, I pray today for each of these that are learning to 96 00:09:49.160 --> 00:09:57.720 rest in you, in sublime confidence in all that you are, that Lord that you're 97 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:01.520 also standing and walking 98 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:12.160 next to them through, in a way of raising up and training through specific trials, 99 00:10:12.160 --> 00:10:18.160 specific challenges, specific things that were designed for each and every person 100 00:10:18.160 --> 00:10:22.480 that is under the sound of my voice today, including myself, including Ashley. 101 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:32.480 That there be innovative solutions. Lord, it's been said many times by people that there are whole rooms of things in heaven. 102 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:37.480 Some say that there are arms and limbs that are waiting to be grown out. 103 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:42.480 Other talk about there being this, what they would call the realm of creation, 104 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:47.480 where there are, where all of the things that are in creation now came from, 105 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:53.480 that there are things in that place that have yet to come to earth, yet to manifest. 106 00:10:53.480 --> 00:11:00.480 Some of those things are, it is implied that there are things, innovations, understandings, 107 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:04.480 just like Daniel and the things that were sealed up until a time, 108 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:09.480 that there are things that have been held up through all of these years, 109 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:14.480 that no one has ever thought of, no one has ever done, no one has ever created, 110 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:19.480 that you have waited until right now to release, and that some of those people, 111 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:25.480 all of them to some expect, that are under the sound of my voice, 112 00:11:25.480 --> 00:11:31.480 are called in this time to start to reveal, to be entrusted with, 113 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:36.480 and to be a conduit and a catalyst for these things to make it into the earth. 114 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:43.480 That your kingdom, Lord, is wanting to come through very different, 115 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:47.480 various different avenues and greater spectrums of color and completeness, 116 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:54.480 that Lord, we would go from the time of having a black and white television to 8K and 20K and 40K, 117 00:11:54.480 --> 00:12:03.480 and that we are called to see in a spectrum that has never been seen or experienced before. 118 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.480 Some of the challenges that are in our lives today, Lord, 119 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:13.480 are inexplicably linked to your conditioning, your pruning, 120 00:12:13.480 --> 00:12:19.480 and into your development of who we are and to prepare us for the season ahead, 121 00:12:19.480 --> 00:12:26.480 that the challenges that are in our lives at the moment are the challenges that are meant to prepare us 122 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:31.480 and to instill in us the things that we don't have for the next season. 123 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:46.480 So Lord, I pray today that you would stretch each of us to wrestle with the idea 124 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:52.480 that we're not just lucky, we're chosen. 125 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:59.480 When you read in the synagogue, 126 00:12:59.480 --> 00:13:02.480 you know, I have been anointed, I am anointed, 127 00:13:02.480 --> 00:13:06.480 that Lord, that we are anointed and appointed, but we are chosen. 128 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:09.480 And in that place, to wrestle with the idea that you chose us, 129 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:14.480 knowing all that we would do, all of our hangups and mistakes. 130 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:17.480 There's a friend of mine used to say that, you know, 131 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:23.480 that with all that you knew, that you chose us in a place 132 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:29.480 and that there are things that you are wanting to entrust us with 133 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:34.480 and that you know far more than we do about who we are and what we're capable, 134 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.480 especially capable in you. 135 00:13:39.480 --> 00:13:44.480 So Lord, whether you're calling us to rest or you're calling us to act, 136 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:49.480 that there is a place of resting in you and who you are. 137 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:58.480 That we can sit, whether we're sleeping, whether we're running, walking, working, or playing. 138 00:13:58.480 --> 00:14:03.480 I pray, Lord, that there is a place of resting in you and who you are. 139 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:07.480 Walking, working, or playing. 140 00:14:07.480 --> 00:14:15.480 I pray, Lord, that there be a place of encounter today with you in some form or fashion. 141 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:25.480 But Lord, that today, Lord, that you would provide a new light, a new hue. 142 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.480 Like they talk about in photography, the golden hour. 143 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:35.480 That just causes the perfect picture, that there be a shifting in the light, so to speak, 144 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:41.480 for us to be able to see things from a point of view, a vantage point that we never did before 145 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:46.480 and that, Lord, it would give us confidence. 146 00:14:46.480 --> 00:14:50.480 As it says, don't even worry about what you will say because the words will come to you. 147 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:56.480 Give us confidence to step out knowing, to face new challenges without the solution in advance 148 00:14:56.480 --> 00:14:59.480 because we know... 149 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.600 not just who we are, but whose we are and who is with us. 150 00:15:04.800 --> 00:15:07.600 And finally, Lord, it's the image. I keep looking at this 151 00:15:09.520 --> 00:15:14.960 painting across my office, this picture. It's actually Ashley's picture. It's of a mountain, 152 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:20.560 but I keep seeing the face of a lion in it. And it reminds me of this clip. 153 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.320 And I don't, there was a, there was a mountain lion that had, 154 00:15:26.880 --> 00:15:31.360 uh, I'm sure many people have seen this, but there was a mountain lion that had been, 155 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:41.440 uh, that had cornered a cub bear. And the cub bear is scared. It's in their water. It's wet 156 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:47.680 and it is outmatched, but it can't run any further. And it turns the face, 157 00:15:48.640 --> 00:15:56.880 you know, the, this mountain lion. And, uh, it starts to do its seemingly small and pitiful 158 00:15:56.880 --> 00:16:01.200 roar and, but it's scared to death. And all of a sudden the eyes of the, 159 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:09.520 of the mountain lion get big and turn. And of course there's this confused bear. And it's 160 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:17.600 the fact that the mama bear is standing on her legs behind, behind the cub. 161 00:16:19.040 --> 00:16:25.920 It wasn't the cub. It was who was walking, who stood behind the cub that struck terror 162 00:16:28.800 --> 00:16:34.560 into the mountain lion, Lord. And that there is an aspect of that where you, the Lion of Judah, 163 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:41.840 are walking with us. And that Lord, it'd be known far and wide into every realm of every, 164 00:16:42.400 --> 00:16:49.360 of every dimension that who it is that walks with us. Then that Lord, that if we can somehow 165 00:16:49.360 --> 00:16:57.680 come to a, a settling within our own selves of who is really walking with this in might 166 00:16:57.680 --> 00:17:03.840 and in strength and signs, wonders, and miracles, but also in just innovative solutions, 167 00:17:05.520 --> 00:17:11.440 as it talks about here, and it'd be known, sought after. 168 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.240 There was another person, I don't want to make this too long, uh, 169 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:30.320 forgetting his first name, Comenius. And he was an educator, Christian, well beyond, 170 00:17:31.280 --> 00:17:37.600 he was like the modern day, a lot of education initially was, came and derived from him. He was 171 00:17:37.600 --> 00:17:50.400 just so far beyond his time in education. And he became so well known that the, I believe it was 172 00:17:50.480 --> 00:18:01.200 the King of like Saudi Arabia or, or, or the like wanted to hire him to do their education. 173 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:07.040 And of course he said, well, you know, I'm a Christian. And the man said, I don't care. 174 00:18:07.840 --> 00:18:20.720 Huh. Oh, Lord God, this world needs to see and to witness a full experiential 175 00:18:21.600 --> 00:18:27.760 encounter with you. And not just of the spiritual kind, but in the places where it meets their walk 176 00:18:27.760 --> 00:18:32.400 in the road, where the rubber meets the road, that Lord, there'll be such a communion with you. 177 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:42.560 That Lord, that, that people are drawn to all that you do through us as ways of people being able to, 178 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:49.040 that we would be known as really as the sons of God, and that we would be stretched into a place 179 00:18:49.040 --> 00:18:53.680 of really understanding what that could possibly mean and how that might manifest. That just like, 180 00:18:54.480 --> 00:19:00.400 I think it's George Comenius, uh, just like him, Lord, that there'd be such a place of walking 181 00:19:01.360 --> 00:19:08.160 in and with you, known for solving problems, known for being able to, to be, uh, 182 00:19:10.880 --> 00:19:19.200 to give counsel to Kings, to presidents, to leaders, that there'd be such a, a, a place, 183 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:24.800 a distinction, a branding on our life, such a track record, such a history, Lord God, 184 00:19:24.800 --> 00:19:30.720 that it would draw all people in some form or fashion in every way to you. And to know 185 00:19:31.280 --> 00:19:37.760 that you walk with us. We walk with you. We bless you. And we love you, Lord in Jesus. Holy name.