WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.720 Hi everyone, I want to talk today about visions and dreams from the Holy Spirit. 2 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:16.360 I would call it the language of the Holy Spirit, it doesn't mean that God always speaks through 3 00:00:16.360 --> 00:00:20.960 visions and dreams, but what it does mean is in these last days we are going to see 4 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:28.800 more and more supernatural ways in which God speaks to us, and in Acts chapter 2 during 5 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:35.920 Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell, Peter preached these words, and I think they're 6 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:44.320 prophetic for us for the last 2,000 years, but especially for us right now as Holy Spirit 7 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:46.420 filled believers. 8 00:00:46.420 --> 00:00:52.400 He says, And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out 9 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:55.040 my Spirit on all flesh. 10 00:00:55.040 --> 00:00:57.940 Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. 11 00:00:57.940 --> 00:01:00.220 Your young men shall see visions. 12 00:01:00.220 --> 00:01:02.460 Your old men shall dream dreams. 13 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:09.340 And on my menservants and my maidservants I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and 14 00:01:09.340 --> 00:01:11.620 they shall prophesy. 15 00:01:11.620 --> 00:01:17.460 So here, just in this passage alone, you see that with the coming of the Holy Spirit and 16 00:01:17.460 --> 00:01:25.620 power upon believers, it was genderless, it was ageless, and it was classless, in other 17 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:31.300 words, it was men and women that were going to receive visions and dreams from the Lord. 18 00:01:31.300 --> 00:01:36.940 It's menservants and maidservants, that means those that are slaves, so it was classless. 19 00:01:36.940 --> 00:01:42.420 And it's going to be young men and older men, and young women and older women, so it's ageless. 20 00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:49.140 So this is the most inclusive, one of the most inclusive statements in the Scriptures 21 00:01:49.140 --> 00:01:50.580 of the New Testament. 22 00:01:50.580 --> 00:01:54.900 The Holy Spirit is for everyone, even children. 23 00:01:54.900 --> 00:01:58.820 And man, do I know the stories, I'm not going to go into them here, but the stories of God 24 00:01:58.820 --> 00:02:06.100 giving really supernatural visions and dreams, even to kids, that were open to Him. 25 00:02:06.100 --> 00:02:13.180 So visions and dreams have been a key part of God's Spirit leading Liz and I through 26 00:02:13.180 --> 00:02:18.340 our missionary career, as well as being pastors and leaders. 27 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:23.380 And I don't know if you as a listener have ever had a vision or a dream, but the way 28 00:02:23.380 --> 00:02:32.580 I would classify a vision is seeing something in your mind's eye while you're awake that's 29 00:02:32.580 --> 00:02:41.180 very clear, and it's almost like a movie reel, something you're seeing from a movie reel. 30 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:49.780 Dreams though are when you're asleep and God visits you in a dramatic way with a dream. 31 00:02:49.780 --> 00:02:55.420 And we were in Okinawa, we were just learning about these things actually, so we didn't 32 00:02:55.420 --> 00:03:02.580 have hardly any experience in visions and dreams, but through the circumstances of God's 33 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:07.660 work in our lives, we were considering leaving, we had thought about leaving the mission field 34 00:03:07.660 --> 00:03:08.660 and coming back to the United States. 35 00:03:08.660 --> 00:03:14.140 And I knew God was calling me to be a pastor, and then one night, and Liz is going to correct 36 00:03:14.140 --> 00:03:19.060 me if I get this wrong because she's better at details than me, but she had a dream, and 37 00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:24.740 in the dream she was with these women in a room, it was kind of like a Bible study, and 38 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:31.580 there was a big window, and she looked out the window and she could see the Snowcap Mountains 39 00:03:31.580 --> 00:03:33.380 and she could see a rodeo. 40 00:03:33.380 --> 00:03:38.100 Between the Snowcap Mountains and the window there was a rodeo, and the Lord spoke to her 41 00:03:38.100 --> 00:03:42.380 that he was sending us to this place, right? 42 00:03:42.380 --> 00:03:46.460 And woke up, and then woke me up early in the morning and said, I think I know where 43 00:03:46.460 --> 00:03:48.780 God's sending us in the future. 44 00:03:48.780 --> 00:03:51.660 She told me the dream, we both looked at each other, where is that? 45 00:03:51.660 --> 00:03:52.660 We didn't know. 46 00:03:52.660 --> 00:03:54.420 Well, I thought it was Colorado. 47 00:03:54.420 --> 00:03:55.420 You did? 48 00:03:55.420 --> 00:03:56.420 I did. 49 00:03:56.420 --> 00:03:57.420 Even at that point, because of the Snowcap Mountains? 50 00:03:57.420 --> 00:03:58.420 Yeah. 51 00:03:58.420 --> 00:03:59.420 You know what I thought of at first? 52 00:03:59.420 --> 00:04:00.420 What? 53 00:04:00.420 --> 00:04:01.420 Sapporo. 54 00:04:01.420 --> 00:04:02.420 Okay. 55 00:04:02.420 --> 00:04:03.420 I thought of Sapporo. 56 00:04:03.420 --> 00:04:07.100 I can still remember distinctly thinking, by the way, Sapporo is northern Japan, it's 57 00:04:07.100 --> 00:04:09.820 very snowy up there, so that was my first impression. 58 00:04:09.820 --> 00:04:14.500 I mean, I knew the language, we knew the culture, it didn't seem like, maybe God doesn't want 59 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:17.660 us to go back to the States, he wants to keep us in Japan. 60 00:04:17.660 --> 00:04:24.740 Well then, I'm going to say, six months later, we get a call on a rotary phone, kind of on 61 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:25.740 the wall. 62 00:04:25.740 --> 00:04:26.740 I remember it ringing. 63 00:04:26.740 --> 00:04:27.740 Oh. 64 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:28.740 Is that the old days? 65 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:34.780 It did no flip thing, you just take it off, it's got a little ringlet cord to it, and 66 00:04:34.780 --> 00:04:39.220 this guy named Dale Landon, who was the coach of the Women's Gymnastics Team for Athletes 67 00:04:39.220 --> 00:04:44.900 in Action, which is a ministry of Campus Crusade, that I had competed with, he went to Long 68 00:04:44.900 --> 00:04:51.780 Beach State when I was at University of Georgia, and we had competed with AIA in Fountain Valley, 69 00:04:51.780 --> 00:04:57.220 California, one summer, training for the Santa Monica Gym Festival, and trained together. 70 00:04:57.220 --> 00:05:00.020 He was a parallel bars guy, and I was an all-around. 71 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.520 Brown, but he had gone on to become staff with Campus Crusade and coach for this women's 72 00:05:08.520 --> 00:05:14.880 team and they wanted to come to Okinawa and so I said yeah, come, we'll set you up with 73 00:05:14.880 --> 00:05:20.560 some meetings, some evangelistic gatherings and the way it worked back then was we would 74 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:25.560 do these gymnastics programs and thousands would come out for these because A, we were 75 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:29.760 Americans, B, it was really good gymnastics, these were some really good gymnasts from 76 00:05:29.760 --> 00:05:35.560 around the country and then we'd present the gospel, but the call had come from Colorado 77 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:37.200 Springs so that was interesting. 78 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:43.160 That's just a little bit of a side point for what I'm going to share now. 79 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:49.360 So we get there, we do these events and we take them up to this Baptist retreat center 80 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:54.440 in a beautiful part of northern Okinawa and we're sitting out on this veranda of the retreat 81 00:05:54.440 --> 00:05:59.840 center and I just asked Dale about what it's like to live in Colorado Springs, so I was 82 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:04.040 just making conversation, wasn't even thinking about the dream or anything, I said tell me 83 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:09.720 about Colorado Springs and this is what he said, he said well, if you were living anywhere 84 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:14.800 in the sea of Colorado Springs and let's say you had a big window and if you were looking 85 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:22.000 out that window, 90% of the year, he might have said 80% of the year, you see snow-capped 86 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:28.280 mountains and I was like okay, and then he said the craziest thing, which you would think 87 00:06:28.280 --> 00:06:32.760 he would say the Olympic training centers in Colorado Springs, he didn't say that, he 88 00:06:32.760 --> 00:06:38.800 said the rodeo hall of fame is in Colorado Springs, so he mentions the mountains, hello, 89 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:45.560 he mentions a window, hello, and then he mentions a rodeo, so then Liz said remember the dream, 90 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.460 yeah, she elbowed me like this, like that's what women do to their husbands in our church 91 00:06:50.460 --> 00:06:56.700 at the road when I make a point about the men, the women all, so she elbowed me, I was 92 00:06:56.700 --> 00:07:04.340 like oh yeah, the dream, so that really got our attention, it didn't conclude or make 93 00:07:04.340 --> 00:07:07.140 our decision on anything, it just was like whoa. 94 00:07:07.140 --> 00:07:10.140 Right, I'd never been to Colorado Springs and you hadn't. 95 00:07:10.140 --> 00:07:12.500 Yeah, I'd never been there either. 96 00:07:12.500 --> 00:07:18.100 We had been speaking one time after we got married and we were speaking across the country 97 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:23.140 and we were up in Fort Collins, that's the closest, in Boulder, it was the closest we 98 00:07:23.140 --> 00:07:29.820 had ever been, so never been to the city or anything, so that got us thinking, God had 99 00:07:29.820 --> 00:07:37.940 definitely gotten our attention, well then we go to Atlanta for a furlough and while 100 00:07:37.940 --> 00:07:44.780 in Atlanta I have this dream at night and in this dream I see this guy on a stage and 101 00:07:45.260 --> 00:07:51.060 he looks like, I'm going to mention a name, probably most of you, if you're under 60, 102 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:54.940 which is the majority of you, don't know who this person is, but his name was Garrison 103 00:07:54.940 --> 00:08:00.740 Keillor, Garrison Keillor used to have a radio program called Prairie Home Companion, it 104 00:08:00.740 --> 00:08:07.900 was the most popular radio program in America, probably in the 80s and 90s, so I saw this 105 00:08:07.900 --> 00:08:13.900 guy, he looked like Garrison Keillor and he, with big glasses, big glasses, thick glasses, 106 00:08:13.900 --> 00:08:17.540 he told me to come forward, he told people to come forward and then I came forward in 107 00:08:17.540 --> 00:08:21.580 the dream, this is still in the dream, he lays his hands on me and the power of God 108 00:08:21.580 --> 00:08:26.020 hits me and I wake up, that's it, that was the dream. 109 00:08:26.020 --> 00:08:32.460 Well we're in Atlanta and we're at this Presbyterian church of all places, a charismatic Presbyterian 110 00:08:32.460 --> 00:08:39.580 church, in which they supported us financially, so I just met with the leaders and they said 111 00:08:39.580 --> 00:08:46.380 you guys should come on Sunday and hear this guest speaker that we have named Michael Cotton 112 00:08:46.380 --> 00:08:51.780 from North Carolina, he's going to be ministering here and we didn't even know much about prophecy 113 00:08:51.780 --> 00:08:53.340 or prophetic people. 114 00:08:53.340 --> 00:08:57.300 We were just going because they asked us, we weren't that interested. 115 00:08:58.300 --> 00:09:03.660 But it was within 48 hours or so of that dream, so I know I was a little curious, like hmm, 116 00:09:03.660 --> 00:09:06.140 but that was it. 117 00:09:06.140 --> 00:09:10.380 So then we got finished speaking at this one church, I spoke at a Sunday school group or 118 00:09:10.380 --> 00:09:16.020 something and then we jumped in the car, drove across town, went to this Presbyterian church, 119 00:09:16.020 --> 00:09:21.620 we walk in, it's super crowded and I look up at the guy that's on the stage and it's 120 00:09:21.620 --> 00:09:26.100 the dude in my dream, he looks like Garrison Keillor, he's got the glasses and I'm like, 121 00:09:26.100 --> 00:09:28.780 Liz, that's the guy in my dream. 122 00:09:28.780 --> 00:09:31.420 So we ran out, we didn't stay. 123 00:09:31.420 --> 00:09:37.380 Yeah, we just said forget it, we're out of here, couldn't be God, no, so we were like 124 00:09:37.380 --> 00:09:42.500 super curious at that point and we hadn't been there 10 minutes when he said if you're 125 00:09:42.500 --> 00:09:45.780 wanting prayer, come forward, exactly like in my dream. 126 00:09:45.780 --> 00:09:52.740 So then I come forward and to make a long story longer, he prays for me, he prophesies 127 00:09:52.780 --> 00:09:58.780 some stuff over me that nobody knew about except Liz and me, nobody else knew this stuff, 128 00:09:58.780 --> 00:09:59.860 he just read my mail. 129 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.620 I start weeping, and then in my spirit, 130 00:10:03.620 --> 00:10:06.200 in my spirit I hear resign, resign, resign. 131 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.680 I hear the word resign three times. 132 00:10:08.680 --> 00:10:12.640 And I knew the first resignation was to resign 133 00:10:12.640 --> 00:10:14.880 from Campus Crusade, from being a missionary, 134 00:10:14.880 --> 00:10:15.800 and come back to the States. 135 00:10:15.800 --> 00:10:18.760 I just knew in my spirit that's what God was saying. 136 00:10:18.760 --> 00:10:20.360 And then there were two other resignations 137 00:10:20.360 --> 00:10:22.840 that followed in the next year. 138 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:24.720 So there were three resignations in my life 139 00:10:24.720 --> 00:10:26.220 to get me back to the States. 140 00:10:27.400 --> 00:10:29.880 Then we start going to Fuller Theological Seminary, 141 00:10:29.880 --> 00:10:32.120 in Southern California, in Pasadena. 142 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.400 And I won't go through, there's too many. 143 00:10:34.400 --> 00:10:39.400 There's like 35 different times that people came up to me, 144 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:43.540 or there were circumstances where God spoke 145 00:10:43.540 --> 00:10:47.920 for me to go and plant a church in Colorado Springs. 146 00:10:47.920 --> 00:10:49.760 So, why? 147 00:10:49.760 --> 00:10:50.680 Why all that? 148 00:10:50.680 --> 00:10:52.380 Why so much commotion? 149 00:10:52.380 --> 00:10:54.340 Why so much commotion spiritually? 150 00:10:54.340 --> 00:10:56.280 Why all the visions and dreams? 151 00:10:56.280 --> 00:10:59.800 Well, what we didn't know until the last year, 152 00:11:00.600 --> 00:11:01.760 we were in Southern California, 153 00:11:01.760 --> 00:11:05.160 were the opportunities that were afforded to me 154 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:08.660 to stay at the Anaheim Vineyard. 155 00:11:08.660 --> 00:11:12.200 I was working as an assistant to a man named John Wimber. 156 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:17.200 And there was a really sweet offer made to stay there 157 00:11:18.160 --> 00:11:20.620 and be on staff at the Anaheim Vineyard. 158 00:11:21.620 --> 00:11:26.360 And I think I would have taken it if we had not heard 159 00:11:27.260 --> 00:11:30.040 37 different times that we were supposed 160 00:11:30.040 --> 00:11:31.800 to go to Colorado Springs. 161 00:11:31.800 --> 00:11:34.000 So, I declined. 162 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.400 I said no, very lucrative salary with a house 163 00:11:38.400 --> 00:11:43.240 and just tons of stuff involved with the Vineyard Movement 164 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.720 to go to Colorado Springs with nothing, zero, 165 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:50.040 and build a church from nothing, zero. 166 00:11:50.040 --> 00:11:51.280 But we knew. 167 00:11:51.280 --> 00:11:54.360 And so, I think, men and women, 168 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:59.360 God uses visions and dreams to bypass our logic. 169 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:01.760 I think a lot of times that's what it is. 170 00:12:01.760 --> 00:12:05.280 God's bypassing our logical thinking 171 00:12:05.280 --> 00:12:09.880 to give us a supernatural word that we would not believe 172 00:12:09.880 --> 00:12:11.700 if it didn't come that way. 173 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:13.500 At least that's the way it's worked with us. 174 00:12:13.500 --> 00:12:17.600 And then Liz and I have been married now 37 years, 175 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:22.560 and we've had these big changes, probably like six. 176 00:12:22.560 --> 00:12:23.960 I think there's like five or six things 177 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:27.760 where there was an alteration of our direction, 178 00:12:28.640 --> 00:12:30.720 and it's been through visions and dreams. 179 00:12:30.720 --> 00:12:33.120 So, like we're in this season right now 180 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:36.080 where we've had five or six pretty significant dreams, 181 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:38.760 and we were telling the staff team the other day 182 00:12:38.760 --> 00:12:43.760 that to us means Lord's shifting something. 183 00:12:44.200 --> 00:12:46.560 He's trying to get our attention 184 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:48.720 about something new that he wants to do. 185 00:12:48.720 --> 00:12:51.040 And that's what Acts 2 is about. 186 00:12:51.040 --> 00:12:52.080 This is a shift. 187 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:53.700 This is a big paradigm shift. 188 00:12:54.580 --> 00:12:59.580 And some would argue that this was the beginning 189 00:12:59.580 --> 00:13:01.540 of what we call the church era 190 00:13:01.540 --> 00:13:03.440 and the end of the Jewish era. 191 00:13:04.580 --> 00:13:06.900 You know, for you that are history buffs, 192 00:13:06.900 --> 00:13:10.040 you may know that in Matthew 24, 193 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:15.040 Jesus predicts the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. 194 00:13:15.100 --> 00:13:19.980 So he probably gave that prophecy around 30 to 33 AD. 195 00:13:19.980 --> 00:13:22.640 So some 37 years later. 196 00:13:24.220 --> 00:13:28.820 The Romans are gonna surround Jerusalem and sack Jerusalem, 197 00:13:28.820 --> 00:13:31.300 and he's prophesying about that. 198 00:13:31.300 --> 00:13:34.220 And many would say, and I would agree with this, 199 00:13:34.220 --> 00:13:37.380 that historically that was the end of the Jewish era, 200 00:13:38.300 --> 00:13:42.060 was the end of the sacrificial system of the Jews 201 00:13:42.060 --> 00:13:45.860 in the destruction of Jerusalem, the temple in 70 AD. 202 00:13:45.860 --> 00:13:48.700 Well, this is the beginning of the last days. 203 00:13:48.700 --> 00:13:51.660 This is the beginning of the last days church age, 204 00:13:51.700 --> 00:13:53.780 and we're still living in the church age. 205 00:13:53.780 --> 00:13:57.420 And Peter's saying, God speaks through visions and dreams. 206 00:13:57.420 --> 00:13:58.580 So it's the Holy Spirit channel. 207 00:13:58.580 --> 00:14:02.220 So one of the Holy Spirit channels that we can tap into 208 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:05.020 if we have the Holy Spirit is visions and dreams. 209 00:14:05.020 --> 00:14:08.700 And if you've never had a vision or dream, ask God. 210 00:14:08.700 --> 00:14:10.660 I mean, ask God to start speaking to you 211 00:14:10.660 --> 00:14:13.140 in the night season when you're going to bed. 212 00:14:13.140 --> 00:14:16.540 Ask him, keep a journal by your bed, write down stuff. 213 00:14:16.540 --> 00:14:18.180 You'll say, well, how do you know the difference? 214 00:14:18.180 --> 00:14:19.540 You don't, okay? 215 00:14:19.540 --> 00:14:21.220 You don't know the difference at first. 216 00:14:21.780 --> 00:14:23.980 But the more you have dreams and visions from God, 217 00:14:23.980 --> 00:14:25.780 it's very clear. 218 00:14:25.780 --> 00:14:27.860 For me, I think Liz, you would agree, right? 219 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:30.740 That it's something different about it. 220 00:14:30.740 --> 00:14:33.220 It's just, when it's from the Lord, 221 00:14:33.220 --> 00:14:36.780 you remember the details of it really clearly. 222 00:14:36.780 --> 00:14:37.620 And it's- 223 00:14:37.620 --> 00:14:38.700 And it will fit with scripture. 224 00:14:38.700 --> 00:14:40.840 And it fits with scripture and truth. 225 00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:43.820 If you're going through struggles in your marriage 226 00:14:43.820 --> 00:14:45.620 and you have a dream about divorcing your husband, 227 00:14:45.620 --> 00:14:47.780 that's probably not from the Lord. 228 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:52.620 But for us at least, 229 00:14:52.620 --> 00:14:56.100 it's often been when God is kind of giving us 230 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:58.020 a right-hand turn or a left-hand turn 231 00:14:58.020 --> 00:15:00.180 on something in our life that- 232 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:03.840 that I'm not sure logically we'd be willing to think about. 233 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:07.340 Well, I would say the Holy Spirit is a great encourager, 234 00:15:07.340 --> 00:15:10.940 and he's a comforter, he's a teacher, 235 00:15:10.940 --> 00:15:15.940 and if we're available, he's gonna show us what to do. 236 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:20.920 He's gonna guide us and show us something encouraging 237 00:15:20.920 --> 00:15:25.920 because he loves us, and he's wanting to use us, 238 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:29.200 and we're not just here randomly. 239 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.800 And a lot of times, I would say, 240 00:15:32.720 --> 00:15:35.280 a lot of times he comes with power 241 00:15:35.280 --> 00:15:37.840 when we're kind of at the end of ourselves, 242 00:15:37.840 --> 00:15:40.280 and we're ready to hear something new. 243 00:15:40.280 --> 00:15:43.080 Those are the best times that he'll come 244 00:15:43.080 --> 00:15:47.200 and he'll speak something through a dream or a vision, 245 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:49.160 or it can be through a scripture, 246 00:15:49.160 --> 00:15:52.840 but even today, he may be speaking, 247 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.120 he may be wanting to speak, 248 00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:56.440 especially if you're going through a hard time. 249 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.360 And I think we get so busy, you guys, 250 00:15:58.360 --> 00:16:01.400 that we just don't, we're not willing to hear something 251 00:16:01.400 --> 00:16:06.320 that's not sort of in line with what we're already thinking. 252 00:16:06.320 --> 00:16:09.960 And the scriptures are really clear 253 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:14.000 that some of the best people that God can speak to 254 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.640 are the people who are available. 255 00:16:17.640 --> 00:16:19.640 They're not necessarily the most gifted, 256 00:16:19.640 --> 00:16:22.240 they're not necessarily the smartest, 257 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:23.820 but they're available to God, 258 00:16:23.820 --> 00:16:26.300 and they'll do whatever God wants them to do. 259 00:16:27.160 --> 00:16:28.860 So the challenge for you is, 260 00:16:28.860 --> 00:16:31.120 are you willing to do whatever God tells you to do? 261 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:32.880 Are you willing to go anywhere, 262 00:16:32.880 --> 00:16:34.900 talk to anyone, and obey him, 263 00:16:34.900 --> 00:16:37.900 knowing that he'll empower you supernaturally, 264 00:16:37.900 --> 00:16:40.000 not using your natural talents 265 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:41.540 as much as the supernatural work 266 00:16:41.540 --> 00:16:42.380 of the spirit in your life. 267 00:16:42.380 --> 00:16:45.100 If you are, he is going to speak to you. 268 00:16:45.100 --> 00:16:50.100 He is no respecter of anyone special, 269 00:16:51.760 --> 00:16:54.700 whatever your gender, whatever your age, 270 00:16:54.700 --> 00:16:56.820 however long you've known the Lord, 271 00:16:56.820 --> 00:17:01.140 whatever your socioeconomic status, God doesn't care. 272 00:17:01.140 --> 00:17:02.700 He just looks at your heart, 273 00:17:02.700 --> 00:17:04.660 and if the direction of your heart is toward him, 274 00:17:04.660 --> 00:17:06.520 he'll speak to you and he'll guide you. 275 00:17:06.520 --> 00:17:09.140 So God bless you, I hope that's helpful to you.