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The first time I heard him speak was actually in this room.

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I was a first-year student in BSSM, and he got up to speak, and I was sitting in the

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way back, and all of a sudden, everything started lighting up in the room.

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And I was like, oh my gosh, and I thought we were all seeing it.

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And I was like, what's going on?

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I'm like, why are things lighting up when this dude speaks?

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And he started sharing about how he pursues God's voice and experiments with God.

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And as I was listening to him share, I heard the Holy Spirit go, do what he does.

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I was like, interesting.

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I don't know him at all.

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So then I would just randomly meet other people in his, he's a, he was a revival group pastor.

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They'd be like, oh yeah, Francesco's my RGP, and I'd be like, oh cool, like, what does

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he do?

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Like low-key spying.

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And I learned about some cool things that he did with Holy Spirit with street ministry,

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and so I started going out and just kind of like mimicking, right?

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Because I was just following the Holy Spirit.

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And honestly, when I tried to do those experiments, they failed.

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But then I went and talked to him, and I got some, he has such, I like to call him a Yoda

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prophet mentor.

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He has such good juicy one-liners that invite you into relationship with Holy Spirit.

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And I became a student of his, and in that process, I experienced God in new ways that

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I'd never had before.

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I don't know how to explain this.

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There is such a gift of impartation on his life.

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So I encourage you to lean forward and keep your ears peaked.

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Please welcome Francesco Sedelli.

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Thank you so much.

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Hey everyone.

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I'm excited.

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I'm excited.

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Listen, there's a license plate number.

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I'm going to read it out, and there's something going on with your vehicle.

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It's 9C, 9CNJ872.

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The trunk is open, so you might want to close that.

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They found a body in the back, but it's okay.

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It was someone that was taking a nap.

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They just needed a spot to lay down.

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It was me earlier.

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I got to be honest.

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I just needed to take a nap.

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I don't know.

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Let's do this.

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Let's do this.

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Someone get a color.

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Just shout it out.

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White.

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Okay.

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White.

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Okay.

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Someone get a brand.

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Camry.

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Toyota Camry.

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All right.

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So we're looking for a white Toyota Camry.

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That's usually how I do things.

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My kids all the time come up to me like, Papa, I lost my truck, like my little car, you know?

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And I'm like, ask Jesus, where is it, you know?

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And then sometimes they'll come back and they're like, Papa, Papa, I found it.

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Jesus told me it was in this location.

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And other times they're like, they're walking around the house for an hour, you know?

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I'm like, what are you doing?

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They're like, oh, I'm walking around trying to find the car, and I'm like, you're still

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doing that?

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It's an hour later, you know?

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It's just, you know.

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It's okay.

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All right.

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This is like a showroom for Apple products right now.

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This is one of those things.

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All right.

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Well, we are going to talk about seeing in the spirit.

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All right.

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So we just have a short time together.

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If you guys could start the timer, that would be outrageous.

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And so I want to just keep us on track with where we're going and what we're doing.

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But I love the idea and the concept of seeing in the spirit.

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It's absolutely beautiful.

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And each of us do see in the spirit.

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I think sometimes we just need to learn that we already do and learn the framework for

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those things.

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And so I'm going to just lay down a framework.

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And obviously people come into a session like this and they're like, just teach me how.

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Just do it.

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Just teach me how.

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And it doesn't always work like that, you know?

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And so my kids, when they were right now, they don't ask me how to teach them how to

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eat something.

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They already know how to eat, right?

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Because they were born eating, and they have digestive systems, and they have a mouth,

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tongue, teeth, the whole thing, so they already have all the technology for eating, right?

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So if we say it that way.

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Now sometimes I walk in and I'm like, okay, listen, don't eat the cannoli like that, you

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know?

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Eat the cannoli like this.

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Don't eat the tiramisu like this.

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You have to eat the tiramisu like that.

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Don't use your hands to eat the tiramisu.

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You're not Winnie the Pooh, you know?

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It's like, you know, something like this, things like that.

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It's like, all right, so we need to be taught how to eat sometimes with certain things,

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you know?

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It's like, oh, that's not how you eat this.

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This is a sea urchin.

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This is how you eat that.

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You know, whatever it is.

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And so sometimes it just works that way, right?

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And so, we learn how to do things, but we already have the technology to hear God.

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We already have the technology to see in the Spirit.

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We already have all that technological stuff.

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We've been born with it, and it's within us, right?

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And so, some people are born seeing in the Spirit.

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They just, you know, like my kids are like that.

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My kids are just, you know, frequently seeing things happening, and sometimes they're beautiful.

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Sometimes they're unique and interesting.

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And so, you know, we're just learning how to work with that with four-year-olds and

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six-year-olds and two-year-olds and that whole thing.

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So, I want you guys to hold me accountable, though, as I'm talking.

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We're going to talk about the framework for seeing in the Spirit, and then just give some

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examples of what's happening there on, you know, what is the Spirit?

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Why is this even important?

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But then, I didn't include this on the slide, so I'm going to throw copious amounts of scriptures

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at you.

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And so, you could feel free to write notes, or you could take pictures of the screen,

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and on the last slide, we have a QR code, which you could download this slide presentation,

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you know.

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And that's just included.

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That's included.

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The humor and this, Ben's good looks, everything is included on the whole thing.

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Let me tell you a story about Ben.

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I met Ben 15 years ago.

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I came from the School of Ministry.

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I was so sincere and so hungry.

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I didn't know anything about anything.

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And I just showed up on the Bethel doorstep, and I had actually neck pain from a missions

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trip that I went to on the South Pacific.

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I got into a fight with a dead witch doctor.

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You know how that goes.

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And so, I had arrived in Reading, and I had this severe neck pain.

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Long story.

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Long story.

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That will be part eight of this whole series, you know.

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We'll get there.

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But anyway, so I see Ben on the prayer line.

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I said, who is this cat?

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I said, I got to get him to pray for me.

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And so, he prays, and my neck gets healed, and it was beautiful.

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And so, that was my first introduction to Ben, and I was like, I love this man.

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This man, he's a beautiful man.

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And so, it was great.

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So, I want to talk through the framework of seeing in the Spirit.

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And so, for me, a great framework is looking to God.

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I want to look to God with everything, especially with seeing in the Spirit.

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Sometimes seeing in the Spirit gets interesting, and you all know these people, and some of

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you might be sitting next to them, and some of you might be them.

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And so, you know, you're in the church, and I'm friends with a lot of these people.

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I am this people sometimes, and where you see things, and you're like, I don't know.

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And someone comes up to you, or you go up to someone in the church, and they're explaining

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what they see, and you're like, yeah, I don't know.

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I don't know what to do with that, you know?

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And so, I think the more that we could look to God, the more that we could, number one,

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understand and learn more about God, right?

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It sounds very simple, but we're going to break this down.

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And so, I'm looking to God, and I want to understand more about God.

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When I automatically, when I understand more about God, I automatically understand more

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about myself, right?

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It's a pretty, pretty beautiful exchange.

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And so, that's kind of where we're at with the framework for seeing in the Spirit is

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always looking to Jesus in every situation.

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And that's ultimately the revelation of Proverbs 3, 5, and 6 is I trust the Lord with all of

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my heart.

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And I'm seeing something, but I don't know how to interact what's happening, but I trust

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the Lord with all of my heart.

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I lean not on my own understanding, right, because I just don't understand what's happening

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But in all of my ways, I'm continually acknowledging my relationship with the Lord and continually

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acknowledging Jesus, and He will direct my paths.

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As I'm learning more about Him, He's making things more clear, right?

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So, in the spot of accountability, what I would love for you guys to do, after the last

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slide, we have the QR code, but there will be a bonus that I want to add in that I didn't

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add in on the slides.

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And so, when I get to the last topic, if someone could just be faithful and shout out, bonus,

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you know, just to help me out, because I have it written down over here, but it's actually

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really important because it's a concept that we have that I feel like so many people get

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caught up with, and it's quite liberating to not get caught up with this.

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So, what is the Spirit?

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So, let's talk through that for a second.

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What is the Spirit?

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The Spirit is the unseen realm, right?

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And so, it's odd to call it the seen realm when we're talking about seeing into the unseen,

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I mean, some people call it the intangible, but we have Hebrews 11, verse 3, and there's

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this wonderful spot where we basically understand that God is creating the world that we see,

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this sort of tangible space that we're in, but He's creating it from an intangible reality,

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from the unseen, from the Spirit realm, from His imagination, from His heart, you know,

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in that space.

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And so, that's what we're working with, you know?

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We could even more pinpoint into the Spirit realm where there's different concepts and

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different people have different definitions.

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And so, I don't like making things overcomplicated.

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really complicated, although I am very good at that,

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but I'm also very good at making things very practical and simple, so I could go

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on the spectrum.

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But we could refer to the spirit realm as

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the whole of the spirit realm

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and the kingdom

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of specifically what's happening in heaven,

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in heavenly places, right?

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And so some people will say, hey, I saw this happening in the kingdom,

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and when they say that, I understand that they're referring to

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the heavens and the highest of the heavens.

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When people say the spirit realm, they're talking about

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all of the spirit realm.

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So I oftentimes get people come up to me and they ask like,

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hey, what's happening in the spirit realm?

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You know, they ask like that.

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And it's a very valid question, it's great.

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It's just that it's like this, it's like,

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that's a very vast question, you know?

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Because you take like the earth,

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and that's one concept, but

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how much greater and bigger is the spirit realm than even just the earth?

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But if I said to you, hey guys, what's happening on the earth right now?

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I'd get millions or thousands of different answers depending upon

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where you're from and what's happening.

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You could say something that's happening over a country,

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all the way localized down to this is what's happening in my neighborhood.

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And, you know, and so the spirit realm is just so vast.

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Why do we need to see in the spirit?

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For me, this is the why.

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This makes sense to me.

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So this is my thought progression and how you could kind of

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pattern along with that.

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The more I get to see God and his world, the more I understand his ways.

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It's very simple.

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And so there's been many times where I see into the spirit, or

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I see different things, or the Lord allows my eyes to open to see something.

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And when I say allows my eyes to open up to see something, I mean my eyes.

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I also mean other, and we'll talk about this in a little bit,

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receptors that we are built with, different senses and

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sensibilities that we have.

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when I refer to God, let's just, so we get on the same page.

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as in the God of gods, the highest God of Jesus Christ, the Trinity,

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the Holy Spirit, I'm referring to that, right?

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multifaceted aspect, where we have both Abba and then we have Father.

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We have mighty counselor, we have the shepherd, we have the lion,

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we have the lamb that was slain before the foundation of the earth, right?

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So there's so many different facets and aspects and dimensions of the Lord, and

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sometimes people talk about God like he's just one dimensional, right?

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encountering him, or you're experiencing him, or in that way.

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that God revealed to them about his Father's heart.

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of discipline or correction or something in there with wisdom and

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counsel that spoke, right?

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we have the spirit of adoption by which we call out, right?

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I mean, does he have Tourette's?

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That he's just like, Abba, Father, because Abba in Hebrew means Father.

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Father's the one that disciplines us, and both show our sonship through that aspect,

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right?

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And so I think that's a beautiful aspect of how we get to encounter him, right?

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Because the word in Romans 8 for Father and the word in Hebrew chapter 12 for

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Father both talk about the disciplinary aspect of the Father's role.

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And when I say discipline, we think, oh, the Lord's going to shoot me

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with lightning bolts, you know?

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I'm like, oh, wait, where are we getting this?

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I'm from New York originally, but we were doing some evangelism on the streets.

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We were talking to this one guy, and he goes, man, I don't want to go to church.

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The Lord's going to strike me down with lightning bolts.

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He'll strike you with lightning bolts right here.

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Like, you don't need to go to church to get struck with lightning bolts.

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He'll strike you with a lightning bolt right now.

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You know, it's like, don't you know it?

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So, anyway, so he was encouraged, you know, and so, and so.

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No, no, I'm just kidding.

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I'm just kidding.

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I was an angry prophet, you know.

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I'm just kidding.

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We gave him candy.

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about seeing in the Spirit is I want to understand God's ways.

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I love this verse about Moses is that the children of Israel knew all about God's acts,

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all the stuff that he did.

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They're like, wow, hey, we love the quail.

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Thanks, Lord.

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That's great.

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You know, love the pillar of fire.

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But Moses knew why it was happening.

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I refer to myself as a spiritual scientist sometimes in certain circles.

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I love the healing, but I want to know the dimensions behind the healing,

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all the steps, what's happening.

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I want to know about the spirit realm, but I want to know what's happening

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in all the dimensions, if that makes sense.

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All right, this is a big key.

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This is a big key for me with the different aspects of God's nature

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is Jesus in John chapter 5, right?

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He's talking to this crowd, and he says, listen, guys, check this out.

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I'm going to tell you the truth.

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The son could do nothing on his own accord,

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but only what he sees the father doing.

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For whatever the father does, the son does likewise.

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For the father loves the son and shows him all that he does

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and shows that himself is doing,

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and greater works that these that he will show him,

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so that you may marvel.

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You will be in a perpetual state of wonderment and amazement, right?

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This is beautiful because the son looks to the father,

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but the father also shows the son.

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So it's not a one-way street.

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This is a two-way street, and this is a dialogue that is always happening.

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and when I say father, I mean Abba and father, right?

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So just we're understanding.

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There's multiple aspects.

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I have some friends, and they're like,

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hey, I'm going to have a confrontation with somebody.

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I'm going to kick down the door, and I'm going to tell them the way it is.

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I'd love to get tickets.

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I'd love to buy the ticket to that show.

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And then other times, it's like, oh, hey, I'm going to come in like a lamb.

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But can you, in your communication style, be a lion and a lamb?

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Could you be gentle?

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Could you be aggressive?

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Could you be, you know?

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God, the way he thinks is so different in his multifaceted nature.

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on behalf of other people is what aspect of your nature am I becoming more familiar with?

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Are you becoming more familiar with?

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are you knowing God right now as a provider?

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And then everything is going to filter through that.

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If you're learning God as a healer, you guys get the point.

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So different aspects of God's nature, I think it's really healthy when we start getting into,

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I'm seeing in the Spirit is I'm building relationship with different aspects of his nature.

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And we're going to talk through angels as well.

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And so there's a lot of things with angels and seeing in the Spirit that overlap, you know, which is great.

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So this is engaging the reflection of Hagar.

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I think she was one of the first ones in the Bible that popped out with this revelation of who God was and his nature.

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But she says she gave this name to the Lord El Roy, which is so beautiful.

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And it basically means, Lord God, you are the one that sees me.

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And I think this is continually beautiful because now we have David in Psalm 139 who basically crafts a whole psalm.

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You know when I sleep.

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You know when I rise.

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You know my comings and my goings.

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You know when I go out.

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You know all about me.

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Where can I go from your presence?

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Where can I flee from you?

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If I make my bed in Sheol, you would be there.

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And you know the rest of the verses.

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But it's such a beautiful aspect of understanding who God is in that midst because God is the one that sees us.

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And if we have that as one of the primary things for, hey, I'm going to start engaging into seeing in the Spirit realm,

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then I'm going to start to understand, hey, God is the one that sees me.

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And the more that I could understand that God sees me, therefore I am able to see him and then I am able to see his world,

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that's sort of the framework that we're working with.

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So this is the circle that I keep on looking through is that I am continually.

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And right now in this season, Psalm 139 is really meaning a lot to me because it's a way that I've been lowering anxiety.

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It's a way that I've been understanding more about who I am.

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I know we all love personality tests, but I could understand more about me when I'm looking to the Father.

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Jesus, you see me.

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Jesus, you love me.

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And I was just talking to some friends yesterday that, you know, I've been doing a lot of research

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on neuroscience, but even neuroscience has proved that if you put your head—a way to

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lower anxiety is if you put your head up and you put your eyes all the way up, that somehow

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it sends messages to your brain.

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And if there's any neurosciences in the room, I'd love for you to confirm that.

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But they—oh, sweet Jesus, what happened?

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Oh, Lord, bring it back.

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Come back, Lord.

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But even that sends messages to your brain that begins to come—it brings peace into

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your spirit, soul, body.

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my help come from?

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My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heavens and earth, because what do I do?

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I lift my eyes to the hills, right?

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And so I think there's interesting things with that, with how we see God.

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I lift my eyes to the hills, and as I'm lifting my eyes, you know, I know some people are

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like, wow, that's such a beautiful metaphor.

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I think David was actually doing that and in some way understood that, hey, this is—the

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peace of God which transcends all understanding is guarding my heart and mind, you know.

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So God, you see me, and then we see you.

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That's the way that this works.

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And so this is probably going to be one of my—this is one of my anchor texts that I

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keep on going after, is blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God, right?

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So listen, I am—there's a few ways that we could look at this, and we'll break this

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down a little bit.

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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God, right?

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This is now the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, Matthew chapter 5, beautiful part of Scripture.

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I don't necessarily think that the majority of what Jesus was talking about was this revelatory

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nature to the Hebrews about seeing into the Spirit and seeing into the multifaceted dimensions

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of the Lord and, you know, light transparencies and photonics and light energy.

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I don't think He was talking about that exclusively.

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I think that that could—that was a part of what He was talking about.

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I think He was also trying to show, hey, Hebrews, Israelites, you guys have had 400 years of

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silence and now I am here, Emmanuel, and if you see me, you see the Father, and if you

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see the Father, you see me, and I'm a physical representation of God here.

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And so the thing that really strikes me with this is that people will always say, hey,

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can you pray for me to see in the Spirit?

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And they're like, just lay hands on my eyes.

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I'm like, okay, I guess.

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And so I poked a sister a couple of weeks ago.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I poked her in the eye.

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No, no.

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But I'm like, okay, so I—so pray for the eyes because they're like, I want my eyes

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to be open.

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I know that Elisha prayed for the servant and his eyes were open.

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I don't know if he laid hands physically on his eyes, whatever.

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The thing that really hits me with this is that is seeing more of a heart posture or

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is seeing more about the function of the eyes, right?

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it deals with the heart posture.

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Seeing the eyes is important, but how many of you know, if they took my eyes out, I would

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still be able to see, you know?

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They could do whatever.

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I'm still seeing, you know?

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So I don't know who they is, but let's just say—let's just say this they.

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So but seeing is linked to the heart posture and what's happening in the internal world.

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And so I know that there are dimensions that I see into and I see into it according to

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my heart posture.

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I see into it according to the purity of my heart.

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Now the Lord's never come to me and said, you can't see that because your heart's impure.

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But I think that there's moments where in my relationship with the Lord, the Lord would

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permit me to see more because my heart posture is prepared for being able to see that.

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People come up and they're like, hey, I would—can you give me a double portion of everything

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that you have?

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I'm like, oh, that's—I don't know if you want that.

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You know, I've been getting a lot of rejection lately from people, so I could give you double

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that too, you know?

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And so I was like, you know, I mean, it's a wide range, right?

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I'm just saying that, you know, in certain seasons we, you know, there's things that

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happen.

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But it really deals with what's happening inside the heart.

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And I think there was one day that I just—you know, all of us love the love languages and,

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you know, and my love languages are conditional.

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00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:44.300
I think people—I've had staff people, when I came on staff, they were like, Francesco,

472
00:24:44.300 --> 00:24:45.300
what are your love languages?

473
00:24:45.300 --> 00:24:47.460
And I was like, well, they're—I could tell you, but they're conditional.

474
00:24:47.460 --> 00:24:49.580
And they're like, man, that's so dysfunctional.

475
00:24:49.580 --> 00:24:53.860
And they began to try to diagnose all my dysfunctions, which I don't know how many there are, but,

476
00:24:53.860 --> 00:24:55.540
you know, I was very appreciative of them all.

477
00:24:55.540 --> 00:24:57.260
But I said, listen, check this out.

478
00:24:57.260 --> 00:24:59.980
I says, I love physical touch, it just depends who's—

479
00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:01.080
you know, touching me.

480
00:25:01.080 --> 00:25:03.520
Like, I said, because sometimes I'd be in a spot

481
00:25:03.520 --> 00:25:05.680
and someone, you know, would be leaning on me

482
00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:08.040
and I'm just, I'm cringing inside, you know?

483
00:25:08.040 --> 00:25:10.280
And I'm like, thank you, I love that you're leaning on me,

484
00:25:10.280 --> 00:25:13.120
I don't know if you have a hurt leg, I will help you,

485
00:25:13.120 --> 00:25:15.120
I will walk with you, I will pray with you,

486
00:25:15.120 --> 00:25:17.080
but can you not hang on me?

487
00:25:17.080 --> 00:25:18.720
You know, and other times I'm like, you know,

488
00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:19.760
my kids come up and they're like,

489
00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:20.720
Papa, can I have a hug?

490
00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:22.360
And I'm like, ah, absolutely.

491
00:25:22.360 --> 00:25:24.160
And then they go to leave and they're like, I'm done.

492
00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:27.120
I'm like, I'm not, no, come back over here now.

493
00:25:27.120 --> 00:25:29.040
You know, I want to give you more hug, you know?

494
00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:31.000
And so, it's just like that,

495
00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:32.800
but we love all the love languages

496
00:25:32.800 --> 00:25:35.880
and what happens in that space.

497
00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:36.800
But I said to the Lord, I says,

498
00:25:36.800 --> 00:25:38.640
Lord, what are some of your love languages?

499
00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.000
And what do you love?

500
00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:41.840
And he said to me something like this,

501
00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:44.800
and he goes, when you love your wife beautifully

502
00:25:44.800 --> 00:25:47.280
and your heart posture is so sweet,

503
00:25:47.280 --> 00:25:50.040
that is like a sweet meal for me.

504
00:25:50.040 --> 00:25:52.080
And I love eating that meal.

505
00:25:52.080 --> 00:25:53.160
And I realized that sometimes

506
00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:54.920
there's bitterness in my own heart

507
00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:57.720
and I'm trying to serve the Lord this bitter meal.

508
00:25:57.760 --> 00:26:00.240
And I'm like, Lord, I'm gonna come to you in worship,

509
00:26:00.240 --> 00:26:01.840
but I'm serving you a bitter drink.

510
00:26:01.840 --> 00:26:03.760
I hope you drink it, but it's, you know,

511
00:26:03.760 --> 00:26:05.720
and there's no condemnation for that, you know?

512
00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:07.800
I think we just, we go according to the revelation

513
00:26:07.800 --> 00:26:09.520
of what God shows us,

514
00:26:09.520 --> 00:26:11.720
but it is a beautiful thing

515
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:13.520
to understand the purity of our hearts.

516
00:26:13.520 --> 00:26:15.160
So, I want to see in the Spirit.

517
00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:17.360
I want to have a pure heart.

518
00:26:17.360 --> 00:26:18.480
I want to see into the Spirit.

519
00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:20.160
I want to see into God's world

520
00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.880
and I want to see into his multidimensional world.

521
00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:25.640
And so, it's a beautiful thing.

522
00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:28.640
So, Jesus right here, he's promising the disciples,

523
00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:31.000
I think Ben referenced that earlier about Nathanael,

524
00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:34.160
but he's promising that they will see into the Spirit.

525
00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:35.960
And he's saying, hey, listen, they were impressed

526
00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:37.440
because he's like, I saw you eating figs

527
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:38.280
underneath the fig tree

528
00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:40.560
or I saw you sitting under the fig tree.

529
00:26:40.560 --> 00:26:43.160
And he says, hey, listen, I'm gonna tell you the truth,

530
00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:44.600
that you will see heaven opened

531
00:26:44.600 --> 00:26:46.960
and the angels of God ascending and descending

532
00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:48.040
on the Son of Man.

533
00:26:48.040 --> 00:26:49.240
I mean, I'd love to see that.

534
00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.000
I'd love to see that every morning when I wake up.

535
00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.040
Like, that is beautiful.

536
00:26:53.040 --> 00:26:54.920
But that's a promise that he gave

537
00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:56.000
for seeing in the Spirit.

538
00:26:56.000 --> 00:26:58.280
So, there is a level of importance for,

539
00:26:58.280 --> 00:27:00.120
hey, there's dimensions that the Lord wants

540
00:27:00.120 --> 00:27:03.600
to open up to us about seeing in the Spirit

541
00:27:03.600 --> 00:27:08.320
and this is one of them that I go back to.

542
00:27:08.320 --> 00:27:10.300
We have during Jesus' birth, right?

543
00:27:10.300 --> 00:27:12.880
We have some random shepherds that are in a random field

544
00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:14.880
outside of a random city, right?

545
00:27:14.880 --> 00:27:17.680
And all of a sudden, an angel appears

546
00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:20.000
and announces about Jesus' birth.

547
00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:21.840
And then all of a sudden, the angels look up

548
00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:24.660
and then they see thousands upon thousands of angels

549
00:27:25.420 --> 00:27:27.460
just worshiping.

550
00:27:27.460 --> 00:27:30.460
And that's a scene right there.

551
00:27:30.460 --> 00:27:33.020
And so, we have now more people that are being seen

552
00:27:33.020 --> 00:27:34.840
in the Spirit, which is incredible.

553
00:27:36.820 --> 00:27:38.740
Elisha's servant, right?

554
00:27:38.740 --> 00:27:39.580
They have the battle.

555
00:27:39.580 --> 00:27:41.580
You guys all know the story, you know.

556
00:27:41.580 --> 00:27:45.180
Elisha's servant, oh no, they're coming to get us.

557
00:27:45.180 --> 00:27:46.340
What do we do?

558
00:27:46.340 --> 00:27:47.180
Crisis.

559
00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:49.620
Elisha prays.

560
00:27:49.620 --> 00:27:51.900
Lord opened up his eyes that he could see.

561
00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:54.860
I think Elisha saw and Elisha knew

562
00:27:54.860 --> 00:27:57.620
and Elisha had the confidence that he wasn't shaken, right?

563
00:27:57.620 --> 00:28:00.380
So he was like, oh, I'm not gonna be shook by that.

564
00:28:00.380 --> 00:28:01.300
Check this out.

565
00:28:01.300 --> 00:28:04.180
You know, and he just understood the greater reality, right?

566
00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:08.240
And so he prayed and his servant's eyes were opened

567
00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:13.240
and so, some incredible promises.

568
00:28:13.740 --> 00:28:16.040
So I think sometimes we get different people that are like,

569
00:28:16.040 --> 00:28:17.820
oh man, I just would love to see in the Spirit.

570
00:28:17.820 --> 00:28:20.700
And these are just three stories alone,

571
00:28:20.700 --> 00:28:22.580
but these are three very important stories

572
00:28:22.580 --> 00:28:25.620
of these are great promises that the Lord has shown to us

573
00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:28.940
that hey, you have this ability, you can do this also

574
00:28:28.940 --> 00:28:32.620
and I've created you with that technology.

575
00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:35.300
So I touched on this earlier, but you know,

576
00:28:35.300 --> 00:28:37.340
again, what are we learning about the character

577
00:28:37.340 --> 00:28:39.220
and the nature of God?

578
00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:42.660
We have God as Abba, God as protector, right?

579
00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:47.100
These are just examples, but I think it's really important

580
00:28:47.100 --> 00:28:49.840
to have those where we get into these spots

581
00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:52.360
where like, oh Lord, I have a greater understanding

582
00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:53.960
of how you're speaking to me

583
00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:56.680
and what vantage point you're speaking to me from.

584
00:28:56.680 --> 00:28:59.040
Sometimes I think we miss what the Lord says

585
00:28:59.040 --> 00:29:01.460
and we miss what he says,

586
00:29:01.460 --> 00:29:05.160
but we miss who he's coming to us as, right?

587
00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:08.520
And I think I do this with even some of my team

588
00:29:08.520 --> 00:29:11.800
and I'm like, oh, you were looking for me

589
00:29:11.800 --> 00:29:13.520
to speak to you like a prophet

590
00:29:13.520 --> 00:29:15.400
and I was speaking to you as a friend

591
00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:18.680
or you were looking to me to speak to you as a father

592
00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.880
and I just, I went into the, I put on mentorship.

593
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:23.560
I mean, there's some of you that are married, right?

594
00:29:23.560 --> 00:29:25.560
You might realize this, you're like, you know,

595
00:29:25.560 --> 00:29:27.200
your spouse might be coming to you,

596
00:29:27.200 --> 00:29:28.760
wanting you to listen and then you're like,

597
00:29:28.760 --> 00:29:30.980
hey, I'm gonna be your counselor right now, you know?

598
00:29:30.980 --> 00:29:32.400
That always goes amazing.

599
00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:34.800
If you know, that's great marriage advice.

600
00:29:34.800 --> 00:29:39.800
If you have something on your heart and you, uh-oh.

601
00:29:47.080 --> 00:29:47.920
Okay.

602
00:29:49.600 --> 00:29:54.200
All right, so here's just a few ways to see in the spirit.

603
00:29:55.320 --> 00:29:57.300
All right, this is not an exhaustive list at all,

604
00:29:57.300 --> 00:29:58.760
but this is just a little something something

605
00:29:58.760 --> 00:30:00.320
to get started, just a little.

606
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:01.720
appetizer.

607
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:05.760
But if we start with this, that the blessed are the pure in heart, for they'll see God,

608
00:30:05.760 --> 00:30:10.800
that means that the heart is a big function of seeing in the Spirit.

609
00:30:10.800 --> 00:30:16.400
And so, we have Ephesians chapter 1, where Paul is writing to the church in Ephesus,

610
00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:20.160
and he says, I pray that the eyes of your heart be enlightened, that you would know

611
00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:26.160
the hope to which He has called you, and what riches of the glorious inheritance in the

612
00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:28.400
saints, and he goes on to list a few more things.

613
00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:32.480
But he talks about the eyes of your heart being enlightened.

614
00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:37.520
What are the eyes of your heart really gets into your imagination, right?

615
00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:42.560
So, my heart is able to see and see what's happening, and there's that.

616
00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:49.600
We have 1 Kings chapter 22, we have eyes, so physical eyes, right?

617
00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:55.040
So, we have a bunch of stories here with the shepherd's eyes were open to see the angels.

618
00:30:55.040 --> 00:31:01.040
We have the prophet Micaiah, and he's basically chatting with the kings about battle strategies,

619
00:31:01.040 --> 00:31:08.640
and he looks into heaven and sees the heavenly news report in heaven, and then he reports

620
00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:12.880
the heavenly news report of what's happening in heaven, and then what's about to happen

621
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:14.160
on the earth, basically.

622
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:18.640
But he says, I saw heaven standing open, and I saw the Lord on His throne.

623
00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.240
And then while the Lord was on His throne, he describes this whole scene, this whole

624
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:23.920
council room that was happening in heaven.

625
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:28.880
We have Jeremiah chapter 1 about hearing.

626
00:31:28.880 --> 00:31:32.080
And so, we have the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

627
00:31:32.080 --> 00:31:33.360
We all know this verse.

628
00:31:33.360 --> 00:31:40.080
It was beautiful, but then Jeremiah says, you know, he's able to hear what the Lord

629
00:31:40.080 --> 00:31:42.720
is saying because the Lord is speaking to him in that way.

630
00:31:43.520 --> 00:31:45.600
We have metaphors.

631
00:31:45.600 --> 00:31:51.920
This is a beautiful one because in that same chapter, Jeremiah, God says to Jeremiah,

632
00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:55.760
the word of the Lord came to me a second time saying, what do you see?

633
00:31:56.320 --> 00:32:00.000
And I see a boiling pot facing from the north.

634
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:06.240
And so, did Jeremiah look into the sky and see a hundred foot by hundred foot boiling

635
00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:11.120
pot in the sky, or did he see an image in his heart?

636
00:32:11.120 --> 00:32:15.040
And that was a metaphor for, because then the Lord translated and goes, that boiling

637
00:32:15.040 --> 00:32:17.280
pot, that's going to be an invasion.

638
00:32:17.280 --> 00:32:18.720
That's going to be an army.

639
00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:21.520
And so, boiling pot, an army.

640
00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:26.800
I think if I were to describe an army, I would use weapons, maybe not a boiling pot.

641
00:32:26.800 --> 00:32:30.560
But that was the metaphor that God chose to speak to him as, but he also told him the

642
00:32:30.560 --> 00:32:31.200
metaphor.

643
00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:31.920
Does that make sense?

644
00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:35.200
We have dreams.

645
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:37.040
Dreams, dreams, such a beautiful one.

646
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.960
In a dream, in the vision of the night, in Job 33, when deep sleep falls on people, when

647
00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:52.160
they slumber in their beds, he opens up the ears of us and with warnings and conceals

648
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:53.520
things within dreams.

649
00:32:53.520 --> 00:32:54.320
And that's beautiful.

650
00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:57.520
We have Jeremiah chapter 18.

651
00:32:57.520 --> 00:33:01.920
I love this one because it deals with natural events that happen.

652
00:33:01.920 --> 00:33:08.240
So, Jeremiah, it says, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah and the Lord said, arise

653
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:12.480
and go down to the potter's house and I will let you hear my words.

654
00:33:12.560 --> 00:33:17.520
So, I went down to the potter's house and there he was working at his wheel and the

655
00:33:17.520 --> 00:33:22.640
vessel he was making of clay was spoiled in the potter's hands and he reworked it into

656
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.760
another vessel as it seemed good for the potter to do.

657
00:33:25.760 --> 00:33:27.200
Now, what's happening there?

658
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:33.040
Very simply, God tells Jeremiah, go down to the potter's house and just watch.

659
00:33:33.040 --> 00:33:37.360
And then he gets this whole prophetic word over just a natural event that was happening.

660
00:33:37.360 --> 00:33:39.280
And it was a very simple, simple thing.

661
00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:45.840
I'm waiting for the Lord to say, Francesco, arise, go to a Michelin star restaurant, order

662
00:33:45.840 --> 00:33:49.840
the most expensive thing off the menu, taste and see that I'm good.

663
00:33:49.840 --> 00:33:51.840
And so, I'm waiting for that.

664
00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:57.040
I'm getting closer, but the Lord's faithful.

665
00:33:57.040 --> 00:34:00.320
But sometimes that happens also, you know, and so sometimes I think we're looking for

666
00:34:00.320 --> 00:34:03.520
this big mystical encounter that I want to see the heavens open.

667
00:34:03.520 --> 00:34:06.240
And he's like, hey, actually go to the potter, go to the car mechanic.

668
00:34:07.120 --> 00:34:07.920
Go to the DMV.

669
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:09.440
Go to the DMV.

670
00:34:09.440 --> 00:34:11.360
Like that's like purgatory.

671
00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:13.120
Okay, I guess I'll go there, you know.

672
00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:14.719
But like the Lord wants to show us some things.

673
00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:18.800
So, sometimes through natural events, the Lord wants to speak to us and He's just faithful

674
00:34:18.800 --> 00:34:20.560
to show us things in that way.

675
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:28.639
Here's some fun accountability, the ways that we know that we're seeing accurately, three

676
00:34:28.639 --> 00:34:29.600
ways.

677
00:34:29.600 --> 00:34:33.440
There's probably many, but we have God's affirmation.

678
00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:36.400
God's affirmation is so fun and so beautiful.

679
00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:41.440
In Jeremiah chapter 1, He has this phenomenal conversation with the Lord, which I revisit

680
00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:44.960
quite often because I just pretend like the Lord's talking to me, although it's written

681
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:45.840
the words of Jeremiah.

682
00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:49.920
But I insert myself into the story because it just brings so much settling in my heart

683
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:53.360
for who I am and where I'm called to and those things.

684
00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:56.159
But the Lord asks Jeremiah a very interesting question.

685
00:34:56.159 --> 00:34:57.760
He goes, Jeremiah, what do you see?

686
00:34:57.760 --> 00:35:00.000
Jeremiah says, the branch of an apple.

687
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.000
And God responds and says something like this,

688
00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:08.000
that's phenomenal, great job, you see accurately.

689
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:12.000
So the Lord, as he calls him, he's also affirming him according to what he's seeing,

690
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.000
which is beautiful.

691
00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:18.000
So, very interesting, if I came in here today and said,

692
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:22.000
hey guys, I had a vision this morning, early in the morning,

693
00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:26.000
the heavens opened up and I saw the branch of an almond tree,

694
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:31.000
I think most of you would go, okay, can I, is there a refund for this?

695
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:34.000
That doesn't really sound that profound, you know.

696
00:35:34.000 --> 00:35:37.000
But the Lord goes, hey Jeremiah, what do you see?

697
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:42.000
And he goes, a branch, this is not even the whole tree, it's just a branch.

698
00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:45.000
Yeah, that's great, yeah, hey, you see accurately.

699
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:48.000
And so I think we're looking for the affirmation of the Lord

700
00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:50.000
in every situation that we get into.

701
00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.000
And so, fun story, I'm sitting in the church,

702
00:35:54.000 --> 00:35:57.000
probably within the past six years, let's just say that.

703
00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:01.000
And so at one point I'm sitting, and we're in a worship set,

704
00:36:01.000 --> 00:36:04.000
and I look on the stage, and I'm just looking.

705
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.000
I'm just enjoying, I'm worshiping the Lord,

706
00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:09.000
and all of a sudden I just happen to notice, right?

707
00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.000
And so I use that phrase because sometimes this happens for you,

708
00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:16.000
it happens for me, but so I'm just looking around,

709
00:36:16.000 --> 00:36:19.000
I'm like, oh, it's this beautiful day, Lord, you're faithful, I love you.

710
00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.000
What is that?

711
00:36:21.000 --> 00:36:25.000
And all of a sudden I just become aware of something that's been there,

712
00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:28.000
but I just seem to catch it, right?

713
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:33.000
And I see all these waterfalls on the stage in my imagination.

714
00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:36.000
I'm like, okay, it seems like there's a bunch of waterfalls,

715
00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000
that's very interesting.

716
00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:41.000
And I just continue to worship, and I'm like, okay, I'm still there,

717
00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:45.000
and Lord, you're faithful, and oh, it's still the waterfalls.

718
00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:48.000
And I'm trying to just play it off, whatever.

719
00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:51.000
And then I started to ask the Lord, okay, what's happening with the waterfalls?

720
00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:54.000
And we dialogued very shortly about it.

721
00:36:54.000 --> 00:36:59.000
Anyway, I was like, okay, Lord, I believe that was from you,

722
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:02.000
but some affirmation is always lovely.

723
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.000
It's one of my love languages.

724
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:05.000
That's not conditional.

725
00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:07.000
Gifts and affirmation are non-conditional.

726
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:10.000
So people are like, I don't care what gift, I'll take it.

727
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:13.000
But so I was like, okay.

728
00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:17.000
So then fast forward just a little bit later, Bill gets up to speak,

729
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:20.000
and he starts reading a verse, and he goes, this verse is like a waterfall.

730
00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:23.000
And he's like, let me tell you about waterfalls.

731
00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:25.000
And he starts breaking down this whole thing about waterfalls,

732
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:27.000
and I was like, that's it.

733
00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:28.000
That's the affirmation.

734
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:29.000
Thank you, Jesus.

735
00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.000
Thank you for your faithfulness.

736
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:35.000
And sometimes we are continually, let me say it like this,

737
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:37.000
we are continually getting affirmation all the time

738
00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:40.000
and have no clue that the affirmation is coming.

739
00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:43.000
And so the prayer that I have is continually,

740
00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:46.000
Lord, will you open up my eyes and my ears and my heart

741
00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:50.000
to know and recognize when the affirmation is coming.

742
00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:53.000
Another one is by myself.

743
00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:56.000
And so in Luke 24, we have the disciples.

744
00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:57.000
They're talking to Jesus.

745
00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.000
They think he's a traveler, right?

746
00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:02.000
And Jesus unfolds the Scriptures to them,

747
00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.000
and they're talking to him for potentially a long time.

748
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.000
And afterwards, right, you guys know the story,

749
00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:12.000
then they break the bread, Jesus then disappears,

750
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.000
and they go, that's so crazy.

751
00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:17.000
But wasn't our hearts burning within us

752
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:20.000
when Jesus was opening up the Scripture?

753
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000
How do you know if you're seeing accurately?

754
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.000
Is your heart burning within you?

755
00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:26.000
Is something resonating within you?

756
00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:29.000
Equally, how do you know if something is not really connecting?

757
00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:31.000
It doesn't resonate within you.

758
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.000
That doesn't mean that automatically

759
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:35.000
what the other person is saying is completely off and wrong.

760
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.000
It just means, hey, there's not a frequency here

761
00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.000
that I'm resonating on.

762
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:42.000
I'm not picking up the same radio station as you.

763
00:38:42.000 --> 00:38:43.000
And other times, it's like, you know,

764
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.000
I'm not picking up the same radio station as you,

765
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.000
mostly because you're crazy.

766
00:38:47.000 --> 00:38:49.000
And so there is that, right?

767
00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:52.000
So it's multiple.

768
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.000
And so, and then others.

769
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:56.000
This is a nice one.

770
00:38:56.000 --> 00:39:00.000
This is a big one, is how do I know if I'm seeing accurately?

771
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.000
It happens, and it's affirmed by others, right?

772
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:09.000
And so we have 1 Samuel 9 and 10,

773
00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:11.000
where all of a sudden Samuel tells Saul

774
00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:14.000
that he gives him this huge prophetic word,

775
00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:17.000
and he goes, and then when all these signs are fulfilled,

776
00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:19.000
you will change into another man.

777
00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:23.000
And then it happens exactly like that.

778
00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.000
And then he was changed into another man.

779
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:26.000
He got around the prophets.

780
00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:31.000
And this whole thing happened throughout the whole time with Saul.

781
00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:33.000
And how beautiful was that?

782
00:39:33.000 --> 00:39:35.000
Because it happened, right?

783
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:38.000
And so how do we know that Samuel was seeing accurately

784
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:40.000
is because it happened, right?

785
00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:43.000
And so it's confirmed by others, and there's that.

786
00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:45.000
I had this reputation with my family

787
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:48.000
where I said to one of my cousins,

788
00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:52.000
and they love Jesus in their way, right?

789
00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:56.000
And so my cousin, she says, so I tell her one day,

790
00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:59.000
I was like, hey, listen, you're going to be going, traveling,

791
00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:01.000
and you're going to see a lot of people.

792
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.920
You you're gonna get on the plane and I says, you know, I know you have a trip coming up

793
00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:07.160
But when you're on the plane, you're gonna be sitting in this type of chair. You're gonna look over

794
00:40:07.160 --> 00:40:12.200
There's gonna be an older woman blonde hair and she's gonna start talking with you and she's gonna tell you about her her daughter

795
00:40:12.200 --> 00:40:16.760
That's in college and you guys gonna have a whole conversation about education. And so my cousin goes oh

796
00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:20.040
Okay

797
00:40:20.040 --> 00:40:23.160
No grid for any of this, right? And so

798
00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:29.800
Anyway, it was like six years later. She comes up to me. She goes. Hey, do you remember like six years ago?

799
00:40:29.800 --> 00:40:32.640
You told me I was gonna go on a trip and I was like, yeah, and she goes well

800
00:40:32.640 --> 00:40:37.680
It happened just like that and I was like, oh, oh, I mean it's better than seven years, right?

801
00:40:37.680 --> 00:40:40.240
You know, so I was like cool that hey, thanks. That's great, you know

802
00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:43.680
And so I was like, I at least I got I at least I understood. Hey, I'm seeing accurately

803
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:50.140
Anyway, what ended up happening was she starts she starts dating a gentleman who now she's married to great guy great family

804
00:40:50.140 --> 00:40:55.680
And and so so I said to I said to my cousin. Hey, do you remember a few years back?

805
00:40:55.680 --> 00:40:58.040
I told you about the airplane and the lady in the airplane

806
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:03.640
Yeah, and I was like I have one of those for Joe and she goes, oh, okay she and so she goes

807
00:41:03.640 --> 00:41:09.920
Hey Joe Francesco makes predictions and they come true. So he does he has a prediction for you. It's gonna come true and I was like

808
00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:14.800
Oh, that's it. So I have this reputation now with my family that like if I say it's gonna happen, whatever

809
00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:18.520
And so it's not everything I say, but you know, it's this sort of thing

810
00:41:18.520 --> 00:41:22.040
So I think we get into this into this space in that way, right?

811
00:41:22.040 --> 00:41:26.160
And so if I just really simply just by demonstration

812
00:41:26.160 --> 00:41:30.360
If I said this and I stepped out of the way and I said hey this whole space up here

813
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:33.400
What do you see the Lord doing?

814
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.880
Shout someone shout out. What do you see the Lord doing up over here?

815
00:41:39.000 --> 00:41:42.980
Dancing. Okay. How many of you let's just take that one for how many of you saw dancing?

816
00:41:43.680 --> 00:41:47.800
Okay, a bunch of you. That's great. All right. What else anything else?

817
00:41:49.200 --> 00:41:51.200
Raining, okay

818
00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:56.920
Angels making music. Okay, so we have music and dance though. That's that's a bit of a theme, right?

819
00:41:58.340 --> 00:42:01.680
Children dancing. All right, there's children dancing. Okay, that's even more specific

820
00:42:02.640 --> 00:42:07.600
Rays of light shining down. So we have rays of light and then we have rain that's shining down. Okay

821
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:10.480
Open doors, okay

822
00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:17.280
Okay, so we have pot of smoke where prayers going up how many pots of smoke anyone seeing smoke

823
00:42:17.760 --> 00:42:19.280
What

824
00:42:19.280 --> 00:42:21.280
Fire, okay fire smoke. I mean they're related, you know

825
00:42:22.080 --> 00:42:26.240
Preparing a feast. Okay, beautiful. All right, so we're all seeing different aspects. Yes

826
00:42:28.640 --> 00:42:32.320
A play acting. Yes. Okay, beautiful. Yeah. Yeah

827
00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:45.840
Yeah, beautiful, yeah, so so I think I think it's all that so everyone's seeing different things

828
00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.720
But when someone calls out and says, yeah, I just see the Lord dancing then all of a sudden you're like, oh, yeah

829
00:42:50.720 --> 00:42:57.280
Dancing dancing dancing like there's there's a theme that's happening and it's it's settling because you're like, oh am I making this up?

830
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:03.760
You know and a lot of times I'm like gosh, am I making this up? You know is continually my this is the QR code

831
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.400
Hey, all right. All right, cool. Cool. I was testing. I was testing you guys

832
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:12.000
So, all right, I'm gonna I just want to end with this

833
00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:16.400
The bonus round, but I think I think equally it's beautiful and it's settling when you're like, oh

834
00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:21.920
20 people in the room are seeing dancing or 30 people, you know, whatever and it's like, oh that's settling to me

835
00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:28.960
Because am I making this up or is it is it real, you know, and and I would I would automatically say it is real

836
00:43:29.520 --> 00:43:31.520
You're just learning to fine-tune

837
00:43:31.520 --> 00:43:35.440
Right, and we had oh I see the Lord dancing and then I see children dancing

838
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:39.840
I see I see acting like so those are all facets and forms of something creative

839
00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:45.280
In that space, right? So here's the bonus round, right? So, um, I was I was

840
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:49.280
Living in New York City at the time when 9-eleven happened

841
00:43:50.160 --> 00:43:53.280
And so no, I know it's not the story i'm about to tell is not tragic

842
00:43:53.840 --> 00:43:57.760
But I was living around that time and right after that right after the whole thing happened with 9-eleven

843
00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:01.520
They started putting up signs everywhere that said if you see something say something

844
00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:06.720
Right and and that that became like the slogan for everything. So you see something you say it

845
00:44:07.040 --> 00:44:09.040
There's so many suspicious people in New York

846
00:44:09.680 --> 00:44:14.240
I gotta be honest everyone's suspicious like my own cut my family's suspicious, you know

847
00:44:14.240 --> 00:44:18.560
I'm, like i'm gonna report them, you know, and so so I think we have this whole thing happening, right? So

848
00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:23.520
So the way that that happened that this revelation came in that was like hey

849
00:44:23.520 --> 00:44:27.840
We're all going to be responsible to what we see right that that came in

850
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:32.000
Now i'd like to propose that the spirit realm just doesn't work that way

851
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:39.440
And I think I see a lot of people unnecessarily get caught up with well, I saw this thing happen and they feel so

852
00:44:40.080 --> 00:44:42.080
heavily responsible to it

853
00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:46.640
That it actually plagues them and it's a weight rather than a blessing

854
00:44:47.600 --> 00:44:51.040
And I use this example if I uh, if I were to go home

855
00:44:51.680 --> 00:44:53.680
And I would have baked a cake

856
00:44:54.080 --> 00:44:56.480
I would have baked a cake and I would have done it

857
00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:59.860
If I were to go home and I would have baked a cake

858
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.480
And I would I would have baked the cake and let's say it's a chocolate cake. I baked this chocolate cake and

859
00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:10.020
And now I have a six-year-old twins that are four two-year-old

860
00:45:10.640 --> 00:45:14.540
Newborn, that's the progression in our house. We have five boys six years old and under

861
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:19.160
So if I make the chocolate cake when it's baking in the oven

862
00:45:19.640 --> 00:45:23.760
My son who's six is gonna be down the hallway in his room

863
00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:27.320
He's gonna come running out because number one he smells the sugar

864
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:31.960
He smells the chocolate and go where's the chocolate at and he's gonna he's gonna be super pumped

865
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:36.040
And if I take that out, I'm gonna put it up to cool, right?

866
00:45:36.040 --> 00:45:38.800
So now it's all done. I take it out to cool now the twins

867
00:45:39.080 --> 00:45:43.860
They don't have the consciousness to understand about smell yet at four

868
00:45:44.720 --> 00:45:50.320
Sort of but not quite to what my what my son will so now the four-year-olds will come in

869
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:55.400
they'll they'll they won't necessarily connect the smell of smell and and and and

870
00:45:55.600 --> 00:46:03.280
Sweets, but when they look up on the counter, they'll see the cake and they'll go. Oh, I recognize that cake

871
00:46:04.000 --> 00:46:10.640
That's that's a cake and and all of them will automatically assume that I baked it for them, right because they see it

872
00:46:10.640 --> 00:46:17.800
They're like well pops baked it. It must be for us now the two-year-old. He doesn't doesn't recognize the smell

873
00:46:18.240 --> 00:46:20.240
He is running around

874
00:46:20.420 --> 00:46:24.300
He could look at it on the counter, but he doesn't even recognize it when it's on the counter

875
00:46:24.500 --> 00:46:30.780
it's only until I put it onto the table and then I take a piece and I start serving it to everybody that he

876
00:46:30.940 --> 00:46:35.700
Recognizing cake cake cake. It's his new favorite word cake cake cake

877
00:46:36.580 --> 00:46:41.620
The newborn has no clue about really anything other than he's waking up and sleeping and eating and that's it

878
00:46:41.860 --> 00:46:46.320
So we have these stages and I like to propose that sometimes you are seeing things

879
00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:51.740
not necessarily because God is showing you but because your maturity level is growing and

880
00:46:52.340 --> 00:46:59.380
Are you seeing things because your maturity level is growing or are you seeing them because God is showing you are

881
00:47:00.220 --> 00:47:03.860
Two very important questions to understanding the spirit realm

882
00:47:04.220 --> 00:47:10.780
The next stage then is Lord if am I seeing this because of my gifting am I in my maturity?

883
00:47:10.780 --> 00:47:13.700
Am I seeing this because I am I am growing?

884
00:47:14.260 --> 00:47:19.980
Am I seeing this because you're showing me two different if I if Lord if you are showing me this what do you want me?

885
00:47:19.980 --> 00:47:21.300
to do with this

886
00:47:22.020 --> 00:47:25.500
Oftentimes we never ask the Lord what they what you want me to do with this

887
00:47:25.500 --> 00:47:33.380
We just assume that I need to do something. I see a tornado in the spirit over over over a certain area and I go

888
00:47:33.380 --> 00:47:34.340
Oh

889
00:47:34.340 --> 00:47:36.580
Tornado, that means I need to pray. I

890
00:47:37.580 --> 00:47:41.580
Need to pray against the tornado, but maybe the Lord's saying something completely different

891
00:47:41.820 --> 00:47:47.100
Hey, I want you this is a tornado and this is not a destructive tornado in the natural

892
00:47:47.100 --> 00:47:53.460
This is I am I'm causing things to stir in the spirit realm and I want you to give thanksgiving and not

893
00:47:53.620 --> 00:47:56.820
Command it to leave because that's actually from me, you know

894
00:47:56.820 --> 00:48:02.860
And so I think I think sometimes we just we do the ministry of assumption rather than the ministry of Jesus, right?

895
00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:07.900
And so if you see something say something except when it's in the spirit realm

896
00:48:08.580 --> 00:48:14.980
So I should I should more accurately say this if you see something in the spirit ask the Lord. Is this me and

897
00:48:15.460 --> 00:48:19.820
My maturity or is this you showing me and if it's you showing me

898
00:48:20.460 --> 00:48:26.940
Tell me what to do and and when you tell me what to do. Have you given me the authorization to do that?

899
00:48:27.820 --> 00:48:30.420
Because listen you we all love

900
00:48:30.980 --> 00:48:36.140
Spiritual topics, but if you start going and messing with the spirit realm the spirit realms gonna start messing back

901
00:48:36.140 --> 00:48:42.100
Like they're not the spirit realms not playing games and this whole idea behind. Hey, we're seeing in the spirit

902
00:48:42.100 --> 00:48:44.100
This is not we're not playing games

903
00:48:44.820 --> 00:48:47.380
Princes don't become princes by losing battles

904
00:48:49.340 --> 00:48:56.260
It's important to realize that and that's for darkness and for light and we don't get promoted because we lose battles

905
00:48:57.420 --> 00:48:58.900
You get that

906
00:48:58.900 --> 00:49:01.460
So this is not a game that we're playing

907
00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:07.140
So so don't necessarily go into a battle that you're like, oh, I'm gonna stumble into this

908
00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:09.860
No, there needs to be wisdom. And so I

909
00:49:10.180 --> 00:49:16.020
So I know I'm being funny throughout the talk and I know I'm giving different slides and and I'm wanting to end on a sober

910
00:49:16.020 --> 00:49:20.700
note for a very specific reason is that I've seen a lot of people go into these situations and like well

911
00:49:20.700 --> 00:49:25.420
I'm just gonna kind of go in and then it's all gonna work out. I just wish that was the case

912
00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:32.740
Lord am I seeing this because you're showing it to me and if so, I don't want to assume

913
00:49:33.500 --> 00:49:39.860
Please show me how and give me a blueprint and we'll talk more about that with with angels coming up

914
00:49:40.780 --> 00:49:42.780
Thank you guys

915
00:49:52.660 --> 00:49:55.940
Okay, you guys it's activation time