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I'm driving to a customer site or something and it, you know, it, it, it doesn't necessarily

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like align with something.

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It's all of a sudden just, oh man, oh goodness.

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Like you just, I never thought about that.

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It's just, just, yeah, it's just kind of out of nowhere.

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Do you feel his presence?

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Yeah.

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Do you feel his presence when you run?

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All the time.

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And that's why, and that's why it gets addictive.

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Yeah.

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I wonder.

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That's that.

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Yup.

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Yup.

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I usually pray before I run.

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So yes.

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Okay.

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That's cool.

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All right.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, don't, don't, don't limit yourself.

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Billy Joe Geordi, our pastor used to call it the breakfast of champions and because he

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would start the day, you know, with prayer, which was, you know, great and amazing, but,

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you know, it's funny how different people have different ways and, and different, you

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know,

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Brother Hagen was a nighttime person.

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Speak up.

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I just, Brother Hagen, I read him a Bible college that I went to.

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He was the opposite.

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Everything he did was like at night, late at night, because he wasn't a morning person,

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you know?

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Yeah.

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I don't consider myself a morning person either.

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Usually up till, I don't know, almost midnight every night, but still get up at six or try

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to.

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Right there at.

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Yeah.

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So, yeah.

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And for me, a lot of it is music.

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You know, if I've got music on or if there's worship on, sometimes some of the places I

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hear most clearly is in my car.

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Why?

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Because I can get in his presence when I'm driving and I can put in worship and I can

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pray in the Holy Ghost while I'm driving.

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I've got the cruise control on and it's just me and Jesus time and people probably think

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I'm talking to myself and I'm just praying in tongues.

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So, you know, the first thing, the first thing you cannot be out of his will, if you're seeking

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his face and if you're getting in his presence.

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So that's, that's, that's probably number one.

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And then, you know, don't, don't try to get into works, just really just be sensitive.

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I mean, some people need structure and they need that daily structure.

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And then, you know, other people, they have structure, but then, you know, they're sensitive

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all day long.

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Awesome.

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Anybody else have anything you want to add in that, that from the learning?

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I guess I try not to understand everything I hear just to hear what he has to say.

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And I'm always asking questions, Lord, what about, what about, what about, so I have no

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idea even sometimes if it's answers to that, but, but I know he says things that I just

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don't quite know how that fits in.

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Eventually I will.

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I always agree.

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Eventually I will.

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I, I used to journal a lot.

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I haven't journaled much in the last year, year and a half, but I found that I heard

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a lot more from God than I thought I did when I actually took time to write it down.

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Even if I thought it was weird or wonky or strange or in picture form or whatever.

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And then I would go back and be like, dang, that was right on.

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So, you know, yeah.

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So anyway, um, I think there's like a beautiful, like when he was talking about journaling

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Lee and it's like, um, just recognizing, I think when we recognize that he's speaking

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to us and we're taking that to heart and acknowledging it and taking it seriously, you know, then

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he's like, wow, I've got, I have her attention.

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I have his attention and they're hearing me.

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And I think that the more we do that, then the more we hear him, you know, throughout

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the day.

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And it was really, I don't know how to, how to express it, but it's very liberating when

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you realize that you can walk your full day, like having conversation with him and him

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being a part of everything you're doing because he lives in you.

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And I just remember before I really got ahold of that, it was always more about designated

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times with him.

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But when that switched, it was an all day long thing.

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And, and, uh, more than that's when everything became more intimate and closer and more beautiful.

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And then you'd see him in the context of the day, in the little bits.

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And that's when real relationship comes.

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Go, Renee.

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I'm going to back up to the title of the Bible study, I think, is what you're talking about

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is what is God's purpose for our life.

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I think, in general, we can go back to the Great Commission, when we go look at Mark

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16, 1615, it talks about what they want us to do, what God, what Jesus said to do with

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our lives.

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So...

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Yeah, you just jumped to page three.

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You're doing good.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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Nope.

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I'm just going to let you...

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Nope.

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I'll jump.

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I've got a whole page full of notes.

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I'm like, writing.

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So anyway, I will talk when you get to that point.

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No, it's really good.

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I'm just glad I'm here, and you're just confirming things.

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Well, it's interesting, because people think, oh, I don't know what to do.

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Well, generally, Jesus says, this is what we're going to do, okay?

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What I want you to do.

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And it's not always...

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How do I want to say this?

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We tend to think our calling is tied to our gifts, tied to our intelligence, tied to our

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credentials, tied to our job, but that's not all of it.

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Yeah, God can use those things, but it doesn't limit him to those gifts and talents.

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He has something a lot more planned for your life, but sometimes people get a word in their

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life, and they're given this word, a specific word.

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This is what you're going to do in your life, a prophetic word, but they'll run away from

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that word.

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So they run away from their actual calling, and they'll run away from God when they've

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been told, this is what you're going to be doing, but when you run from him, you run

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from his presence.

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And then you run from that constant guidance, that constant, okay, I'm going to direct your

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steps here.

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But when you're running in the opposite direction, and you, like we talked about, you're not

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making time for him, or listening in those quiet times, or those thoughts, you're running

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away from God, and you're running away from your purpose.

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And then you'll be like, I don't know what I'm supposed to do here.

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And we're constantly wondering, what are we supposed to do?

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Why don't you take a step back and think, did he already tell me something I'm supposed

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to be doing?

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And I ran the opposite direction, kind of like Jonah, you know, Jonah was told to go

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give this news.

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And he's like, I'm out of here.

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And look what happened to him, you know, when he ran away from the calling that he was supposed

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to do.

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So I just wanted to interject that.

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So the Great Commission, we all have a purpose.

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And maybe whatever your purpose is in life, probably is going to be attached to that general

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the Great Commission statement.

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So yeah, I'm gonna let you roll with this.

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No, no.

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And I'm gonna go piggyback right off that because ultimately, we can live life and do

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life and be rewarded for what we did with our talents, because we were talented.

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And then what reward goes into eternity with us for that versus somebody who maybe didn't

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have a specific talent, but they walked in what they knew what God was telling them to

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do, they're going to walk into eternity with rewards for their obedience.

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Because you're right, Renee, we're not going to take our college degrees with us.

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We're not going to take our bank account with us.

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You know, when somebody when your caskets in the hearse and it's taking you to the cemetery,

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you know, you're moving van and your bank account isn't going there with you.

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It's just you and Jesus.

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And at that point, when and, and I'm just going to jump right ahead and number one,

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if you're really in relationship with him, then number one, you're going to be saved.

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Okay, you're gonna, you're gonna have surrendered your life.

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And, and you're gonna want to be in relationship with him because not because it's a rule,

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but because you love him.

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And because you love his presence, and because you love his word, and you want to walk it

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out with him.

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So that's first.

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And then the next thing, and I love this, is you're going to be loving, okay, if you're

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if you really

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love God, then the love of God is going to pour out of you.

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And that was John 13, 34, a new commandment.

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I give you that you love one another, even as I have loved you,

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that you also love one another.

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So, you know, we can say absolutely that we are supposed to be saved and we can

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say absolutely that we're to love people and to let our love for God

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flow through those relationships.

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The next one is Romans 12, one and two.

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So we know that we're to be saved.

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We know that we're supposed to love our brothers.

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But the next thing we know that is the will of God for our lives is that we're

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supposed to be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

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So this is Romans 12 verse one.

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Therefore, I urge you brethren by the mercies of God to present your bodies

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as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your

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spiritual service of worship.

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And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of

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your mind so that you might prove what is the good will, what the good will of God

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is so you may prove what the good will of God is that which is good and

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acceptable and perfect.

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So right there is really that process of renewing your mind.

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And for me, renewing my mind is thinking about God, listening to people preach,

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you know, getting into the word.

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The one thing about studying the Bible is you can study one thing one year and come

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back three years later and you can see it completely different because God has just

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done a different work in you and you're on this journey and the journey is what he is

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into.

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He isn't necessarily into you getting into the final destination.

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He's into your process of you becoming a child of God and being transformed.

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He is, and I can prove that out over and over again, that it's the daily, it's the

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growing in knowledge.

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It's the process that he's glorified in.

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And we know, according to the scripture right there, that that is the will of God.

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So it's his will that you get saved.

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It's his will that you're loving.

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It's his will that you would be transformed by renewing your mind.

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Now, in all of those things, you're building a relationship.

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And you're getting to know him more and you're getting to know his character.

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Like sometimes we'll hear people preach and Grant will go, that's just not God's

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character.

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Because why?

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When you have a relationship with him, you're like, that doesn't feel right.

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Well, I'm just thinking about what did God through Jesus Christ tell the disciples to

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do?

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Go to all the world and make disciples of people.

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Now I'm sure all those guys are sitting around Mark.

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When I think of something, Paul, the other, and everybody was thinking, well, and they

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all know their abilities.

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And, you know, I don't like to do that.

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And I've never been very good at that.

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And I don't know how I'm going to ever do this.

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How would I ever meet him?

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And that goes with us too, because when he calls us with, and sometimes calls us into

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something that's completely foreign to who we are, but that's the growing process.

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And then if we trust him to empower us by revealing who he is and then empowering us

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to be able to do something that we, in our own mind, never thought we could do.

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And let him move you because, you know, the first time I had the notation or the

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indication that I was to pray for somebody in the middle of the hardware store caused

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me to pause because of right away, my surrounding.

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And if somebody sees it, what will that be?

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And so forth.

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And it was just like, it just overpowered me and that all went away and I did.

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So God has got us.

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figured out, and he knows what he wants of us, but it isn't always easy for us to transform

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that without, well, we can't do it without his guidance and his willpower, and we become,

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and then we have, then we understand the will of God, is that, you know, whether it happens

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next door or whether it's next year or whatever, that's the important thing is that we have

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been transformed in our mind, I can do it, and the first of that is there has to be a

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first time, and when that happens, then we realize that he will empower us to do anything

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he wants us to do to fulfill that original thing, and that's make a disciple of people.

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can't do it without his presence, without renewing your mind, without being humble and

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calling out to him and asking for a fresh anointing and asking for wisdom and, you know,

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the ability to multiply whatever gift you have, you know, if you will just ask him,

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he'll show you, but what he wants more than anything else, because, you know, especially

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if you're really smart or you're really talented or you have the ability to do certain things

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in the natural, it's really easy to want to take the credit yourself, but when you're

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doing something that is so over your head that you have no idea how the heck you're

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ever going to do it, then generally, he's in the middle of it.

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That's what he's going to do.

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Because that's happened several times when I've preached and I had prepared a sermon,

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went through my brain, and I'm thinking, where did that come from?

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then step back and breathe and say, well, I'm sure glad he came along when he did.

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at dedicating myself to hear him wherever he wants me to go, and he'll take care of

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If I just am obedient and open my mouth, if that's the case that needs to be done, or

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stand and pray with somebody, whatever that is, because he just needs the body.

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He needs my voice, he needs my function, and he needs my heart, and he changes that heart

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in me every time it happens.

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changed him, and, you know, the rest is history after that.

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to be doing, and then something will happen to you, it's like, whoa, puts you in a tailspin

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and puts you in a position, like you said, Leanne, doing something that you absolutely

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have no idea why you're doing it or how you're going to do it, but that's when God shows

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He's the one that's, you know, turning the wheel or steering for you.

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When you get over yourself and your inadequacies, then he can really use you.

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environment where it's about rewards or, you know, expectations or whatever, you know,

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do what they're doing.

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but she has a debate background, uh, a competitive college debate career that

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came in really handy for her, you know?

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I know there's a guy that, um, works with Andre in, in, in bringing the Jews,

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um, you know, help and, um, like this guy is a billionaire and he has an anointing

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to take money and make money so he can give money and, um, and this guy is used

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over and over again, you know, to lease entire airplanes and, and bring people

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in or do things, and I remember meeting him for the first time when I went down

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to Mexico and Jewish boys, um, because it was his heart, you know, he had this

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anointing, um, but you know what?

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using that for the kingdom and then he gets the glory for it and, and nobody,

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and nobody, you know, those are, that's, that's what he takes into eternity with

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him, so you, you just never know.

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I love Matthew 7, 11, go, go hop in.

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It's like, uh, you know, a lot of times when people want some, want you to

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volunteer, like for something for the Lord, if it's easy, they'll say yes.

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I can do that.

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Well, it's just like, you know, when I, when I was playing football, you know,

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the coach would say to me, can you get me a, can you get me a yard?

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I'll get you a yard.

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other, you know, the same way of God, you know, yeah, I can do this for you, Lord.

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abilities, because we all can't be eyes.

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We all can't be the arms, you know, so we all have something to offer.

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I can, I can tell you working at victory, um, the business administration

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guys are the most important men in the ministry bar none.

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He's retired now.

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you know, you want to use it.

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four, three, I jumped ahead.

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You're sanctified your sanctification.

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That is that you abstain from sexual immorality and that each of you know

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how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in lustful

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passions, okay, so, um, there is a level of sanctification that as we love Jesus,

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Rejoice.

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Give thanks for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

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That we know is clearly from the word as well, where we're supposed to be born again.

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We're supposed to be loving and kind and demonstrate the love of God to others.

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be thankful for, for what he's done for us.

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righteousness.

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For your namesake.

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David trusted the Lord and he knew that it was God and he knew that God was

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going to lead him. Now think about David. Let's go back to his journey. When

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the prophet came to figure out who was going to be king, he didn't go for the

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tall good-looking brother. He went for the youngest guy out in the

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field playing the harp, talking to God. But God knew who he was going for. God

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knew the man after his heart and it was found in the field alone. It was found

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one-on-one. It was found in the quiet place. So never underestimate the days of

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small beginnings. And his father, the way his father talked about him,

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he said, this useless one, this one that amounts to nothing. That's because he was

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conceived out of an affair with somebody else. He wasn't really part of the family.

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So you know, you don't always, you don't always, we have a

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tendency to judge people our way and God has a way of looking at people in his

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way because he ultimately knows the heart. And that's the only one that can.

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God is the only one that sees your heart. Somebody else might have an inkling, they might think

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they know you well, but God is the only one at 100% can see everything in your

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heart. Yep. And this, I love Philippians 1.6. This is a great scripture that was

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shared at my recital and it's true. He who began a good work in you will be

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faithful to complete it. Okay? And that's a promise we all need to stand on. We are

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all on a journey. We are all at different stages in the journey and it's really

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not fair if you start comparing yourself to somebody else. Comparison kills joy.

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Just start your journey. Okay? Begin to seek him, begin to know him, begin to seek

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his face, begin to know his ways, begin to know his character one day and one

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thing at a time. And then over the course of your life, you're gonna look back

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and you're gonna see this beautiful pattern. Was it always easy? No. Was it

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beautiful how he preserved and cared for you in the middle of it? Yes. Yes.

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That's the beautiful part. And, you know, if we all knew the end from the

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beginning, you know, we might do a lot of things different or, like Renee said, we'd

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run and or we try to do it our way and and make things happen our way. So, so

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when you're in that transition season, then what do you need to do? Well, the

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first thing is just when you're in those seasons of waiting on him, number one, ask

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for wisdom. Okay? That is, we are, we're supposed to ask for wisdom. We're

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supposed to say, okay, God, show me what to do. Show me where to go. This is James

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1 5. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God who gives generously to

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all without finding fault and it will be given to you. Okay? It will be. Isn't that

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a good promise? It will be given to you. He will give you wisdom. And, um, as you

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are walking it out, if you just ask him and, you know, so many people, they've,

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they've, you know, never thought to just say, well, God, I, I really need to know

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what's the next step, you know, where, where is all of this gonna go? But if you

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ask him, he'll give it to you. This is Matthew. No, yeah, you're right. And you

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know what? This is so good, Grant. You're right. You, he isn't gonna give you the

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whole thing because let's, let's go back to, um, what ultimately he, he's gonna ask

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you to do something that's probably bigger and scarier than what you're

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really ready for. Okay? So if you're asking him for wisdom, he's probably

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gonna give you one step. I'm gonna turn all these, um, all of a sudden my

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announcements went off on my phone.

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If you're asking for wisdom, and you're asking about what to do next, nine times out of 10,

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as you're walking it out, he's going to give you one step, okay?

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So, for me, one step was, you know, coming to Tulsa, and then another step was going to ORU,

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and then another step was nannying for Richard and Lindsay Roberts, which was another thing that

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happened was Billy Joe and Sharon, and the opportunity to work at Victory. You know,

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I didn't, if I had known that I was going to train worship leaders, something that wasn't even

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invented yet, but it's not, no, nobody was, was training contemporary worship leaders.

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Well, no. It's going on in the world. Well, it's going on in the world now,

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but back then, think about music. What was music back then? It was Carmen, okay? It was

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contemporary Christian groups to a certain extent. It isn't like it is now, where you have people

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playing contemporary Christian music on the platform, on the dailies. In 91,

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there is no such thing, you know? So, how did that work out? Well, I just shut up and got out

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of the way. That's really, that's simple. I was willing to make it all about the kids and not

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about me, and it worked out great. Why? Because, you know why? God wants to build the kingdom.

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It's not about you. Think about it. If he, if he's really asking you to do something,

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he might ask you to do something that's bigger than you, but it's going to build the body.

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It's going to build the body of Christ. It's going to, back to Merle's initial point,

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it's going to be about discipleship. It's going to be about raising up

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and multiplying yourself in others, so that they too can walk it out and raise disciples,

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because that's, that's his will. And so, this is Matthew 7, 7 and 8.

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Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you.

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Knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives.

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The one who seeks, finds. And the one who knocks on the door, it will be opened. Okay? So,

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when you're finally at that point, when you're in, in relationship with him, and you're in his

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presence, and, and you're learning to renew your mind, and then you're walking in a whole new

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walk that you've never walked before, then the next step is begin to ask him. Okay? And,

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and then when you begin to ask him, then, then, then the next kind of series of the process starts.

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Okay? So, so this is kind of the next phase of what comes

459
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next. Anybody want to add anything? Have anything you want to throw in there?

460
00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:42.020
Anybody want to throw anything in before we go into the?

461
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I'll just, I'll just say something. It's just, what a, what a privilege. What, what an amazing

462
00:33:48.740 --> 00:33:54.260
thing that we can knock, right? Yeah. You know, I, I think about that all the time when I go to,

463
00:33:54.260 --> 00:33:58.180
you know, morning prayer service. I just say, thank you, God, for the privilege to stand at

464
00:33:58.180 --> 00:34:03.380
your front doorstep and knock. You know, that, that we're worthy to be able to ask those questions,

465
00:34:03.380 --> 00:34:07.620
and that, you know, we're not the little peasants that have to sit at the bottom of the hill. I mean,

466
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that's, to me, that's a privilege. That's, that's, that's like saying, son, you know,

467
00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:17.060
come and knock on my door, and I'll give you an answer. I mean, that's, yeah, just kind of one

468
00:34:17.060 --> 00:34:22.020
of those just amazing things you just kind of think about, and just, I don't know. It's good.

469
00:34:22.020 --> 00:34:27.860
Makes me happy thinking about that. Yeah, yeah, and I love those. I love those situations in the

470
00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:37.699
Bible where someone, whether it was Nehemiah or Ezra or somebody was in a situation, and it looked

471
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really bad, and they asked, like, I believe it was Hezekiah asked for 15 additional years, you know,

472
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and God answered, and then you go, wow, well, what if he hadn't asked, you know, then, you know, but

473
00:34:55.139 --> 00:34:59.780
he's so good, and he loves us, and, and he.

474
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.360
Go ahead. No, he was gonna die. God said he's gonna die. He's gonna die

475
00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:06.720
But he he went in front of the board. So it wasn't about

476
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:09.840
What if he wouldn't have asked right? He'd have been dead, right?

477
00:35:11.280 --> 00:35:15.200
God told him he's gonna die. So yeah, but he asked for 15

478
00:35:16.240 --> 00:35:21.200
And god gave him more, you know, that's the mercy of god, right that we ask

479
00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:28.020
That he will change things for us not change his word. That's how we change situations

480
00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:31.620
Right and walking out and stepping out in faith and

481
00:35:32.160 --> 00:35:37.620
Believing in the gifts of the spirit do exist today. Yeah, and I it's sad when

482
00:35:38.260 --> 00:35:40.100
when individuals

483
00:35:40.100 --> 00:35:42.820
are trying to do all this stuff in the flesh and not

484
00:35:43.540 --> 00:35:48.660
You know because the holy spirit's going to manifest when he wants to manifest and he's going to manifest what gift

485
00:35:49.540 --> 00:35:52.340
at that time and that purpose he wants to manifest

486
00:35:53.220 --> 00:35:54.500
and

487
00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:56.100
for people

488
00:35:56.100 --> 00:35:58.500
You know, you have to accept that holy spirit

489
00:35:59.140 --> 00:36:04.580
When you're a believer you have holy spirit and you you have to learn how to discern that voice

490
00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:08.100
And that does come like we talked about spending time with him

491
00:36:08.740 --> 00:36:13.860
um, and and just renewing your mind, like you said we have to do that, but

492
00:36:14.820 --> 00:36:19.060
But desire the gift giver more than the gifts, you know, that's right

493
00:36:19.620 --> 00:36:23.300
That's what I I kind of like these gifts are great

494
00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:30.020
but my desire is to know more of god and to and then then everything just kind of

495
00:36:31.060 --> 00:36:34.180
Falls into place for you and he starts just handing them out

496
00:36:34.260 --> 00:36:38.100
He's not going to stop giving you gifts, but but it does say to ask for them

497
00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:44.100
It does say in the scripture to ask for them every single year. We would send kids on missions trips

498
00:36:44.580 --> 00:36:46.580
um all over the world

499
00:36:47.220 --> 00:36:53.380
And sure enough if you would talk to the kids and you would say oh this is going to change your life

500
00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:56.820
You're going to see the supernatural you're going to know god's real

501
00:36:57.540 --> 00:37:02.020
Then they went on a mission trip doubting wanting to see proof

502
00:37:02.980 --> 00:37:03.940
that

503
00:37:03.940 --> 00:37:06.980
God was real but the kid that didn't approach it that way

504
00:37:07.300 --> 00:37:11.940
The kid that went on the mission field and just said god. I just want to love your people

505
00:37:12.580 --> 00:37:14.580
And I want to get to know you

506
00:37:14.980 --> 00:37:17.140
And I just want to share your love

507
00:37:17.940 --> 00:37:19.940
And I know and I love you

508
00:37:20.740 --> 00:37:23.780
that was the kid that saw blind eyes open and

509
00:37:24.260 --> 00:37:29.140
um, you know feet club feet turn out and ears pop open

510
00:37:29.860 --> 00:37:31.060
because

511
00:37:31.060 --> 00:37:35.700
They weren't seeking the signs and wonders. They were seeking god

512
00:37:36.340 --> 00:37:37.540
You know

513
00:37:37.540 --> 00:37:39.540
And that's when he comes

514
00:37:39.540 --> 00:37:41.540
that's that's when he

515
00:37:42.500 --> 00:37:44.580
Comes when he comes I love it. Okay

516
00:37:45.780 --> 00:37:46.900
Go ahead

517
00:37:46.900 --> 00:37:48.500
and they're patient

518
00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:50.500
until god decides

519
00:37:50.900 --> 00:37:53.780
When that's going to happen right timing right timing

520
00:37:54.340 --> 00:38:01.220
And you know, a lot of people have the attitude that well god just holds everything back because he's god and I I can't have anything

521
00:38:01.220 --> 00:38:02.500
That's not it

522
00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:06.840
The holy spirit sees the whole picture about it about a situation

523
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:11.560
And that's why he can say okay, this is what I want to move in this way

524
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:14.440
This is what I want to happen in this way, right?

525
00:38:14.520 --> 00:38:18.760
It doesn't mean god's trying to hold something away from you or somebody else, right?

526
00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:21.320
It's just he sees the whole situation, right?

527
00:38:22.040 --> 00:38:26.920
Everything and it's right if we saw the whole situation. I'm sure we'd look at things different too

528
00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:29.480
Yeah, but that's why we have to trust him

529
00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:33.480
God will say I want you to go here and I want you to do this

530
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.800
And you kind of get uncomfortable but if god told you to do it

531
00:38:39.480 --> 00:38:41.480
Then it's written in your book

532
00:38:42.040 --> 00:38:45.720
That you're supposed to do it and you can do it. Yep

533
00:38:46.520 --> 00:38:51.800
Because god won't ask you to do something. You can't do he sets nobody up for failure, right?

534
00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:56.360
He breaks through every situation. So if god tells you something

535
00:38:56.760 --> 00:39:01.000
And that's why a lot of times it shuts people off and they always say god said this god say okay

536
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.000
And why aren't you doing it?

537
00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.720
You just ask him point blank. Okay, why don't you do it?

538
00:39:07.400 --> 00:39:08.280
Well

539
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:10.840
All right, then don't talk about that anymore. Yeah

540
00:39:11.480 --> 00:39:17.240
If god's telling you to do something and you do it, don't tell everybody god's saying this this this and you don't do it

541
00:39:18.120 --> 00:39:20.120
You know every once in a while, you know

542
00:39:21.240 --> 00:39:24.040
God will have somebody correct somebody it's in love

543
00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:27.000
but you know a lot sometimes

544
00:39:27.720 --> 00:39:28.680
people

545
00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:33.160
Need a little bit more of a head head-on situation to get a message through

546
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:36.760
You know and if the bridge is out

547
00:39:37.560 --> 00:39:39.560
And you're the last one there

548
00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:42.280
And god says be firm

549
00:39:43.400 --> 00:39:44.840
You can be firm

550
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:49.000
And you can walk in love and you can get the message across i'm not talking about being mean

551
00:39:49.880 --> 00:39:57.080
I'm, just talking about, you know walking in the love of god. Well, and and if you really think about it that last message is love

552
00:39:57.080 --> 00:40:00.040
Because he doesn't want to see you

553
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.880
end up going off the broken-ended bridge, he is going to send people to warn you, and

554
00:40:07.520 --> 00:40:12.640
at that point, you know, you just hope people have the humility to hear.

555
00:40:14.160 --> 00:40:18.000
You know, I was going to make a comment before when we were talking about, I can't remember,

556
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:22.880
it was Renee who was talking about Paul on the road to Damascus. You know, I've had people say

557
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:32.640
to me, well, if God doesn't force anything on me, then how come Paul had this forced on him?

558
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I'm thinking, don't you know the character of God? How do we know how Paul was praying?

559
00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:49.680
He might have said, Lord, if you're real, I want to know, right? Well, he found out.

560
00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:55.760
I mean, we don't know how people pray. A lot of times, oh, how do I get in this situation?

561
00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:03.760
Well, what have you prayed? Have you been, like, forcing God's hand to move you in a situation,

562
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:08.560
and maybe he's let you walk there because you were forcing him so much, so you would get a

563
00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:13.760
little taste of it? You know, it's not a good thing getting ahead of God, I'm telling you what.

564
00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:20.080
It's nice to walk, you know, a little bit behind him and let him lead the way than it is to get out

565
00:41:20.080 --> 00:41:26.400
in front of him, you know? So, yeah. Okay, so a couple other principles,

566
00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:35.040
and I love, and it goes right along with what Renee was saying. If you'll just repent if you

567
00:41:35.040 --> 00:41:43.600
miss it, and you'll just keep your heart in that attitude of humility, then he can put you right

568
00:41:43.600 --> 00:41:49.040
back on track, and you can miss it over and over again, but you know what? If you are quick to

569
00:41:49.040 --> 00:41:57.520
repent and you're humble, he'll have mercy on you in that situation, and sometimes it can be even

570
00:41:57.520 --> 00:42:04.160
more fruitful because you've learned something really valuable. So, I think repentance is a

571
00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:08.080
word that isn't real popular right now. It's what we're supposed to do whenever we take communion.

572
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:13.360
We're supposed to judge ourselves before we judge anybody else. We're supposed to pull the plank

573
00:42:13.360 --> 00:42:20.880
out of our own eye before we try to pull the plank out of anybody else, and that means

574
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:27.200
just looking in your own heart, okay? So, if you're repenting, and then like Renee said, go. If you're

575
00:42:27.200 --> 00:42:34.720
obeying the Great Commission, therefore go and make all disciples of all nations. You know, Matthew 28, 19.

576
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:41.920
There is a difference, too, between saying, I'm sorry and saying, Lord, forgive me. Yeah.

577
00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:48.320
There's a big difference. A lot of people are sorry for something that happened,

578
00:42:49.920 --> 00:42:53.200
but when you humble yourself and ask for forgiveness,

579
00:42:54.240 --> 00:42:58.240
that's a whole other plane. I mean, that's a whole other walk with God, you know.

580
00:42:59.040 --> 00:43:06.080
Okay, back to Matthew 28, 19. So, go therefore and make disciples of all nations,

581
00:43:07.200 --> 00:43:13.440
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them

582
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:21.680
to observe all that I commanded you. So, that's where that teaching gift comes in, okay? We're to

583
00:43:21.760 --> 00:43:29.200
make disciples. We're to teach, okay? And we're to remind them and meditate on what the Word says, and

584
00:43:31.520 --> 00:43:40.240
that, Lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the age. And so, that discipleship process is

585
00:43:40.240 --> 00:43:48.320
really supernatural. I love that phrase. The discipleship process is a supernatural process.

586
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:55.280
It's something that happens over time. It's something that you grow in. It's something that

587
00:43:55.280 --> 00:44:01.840
there's anointings that are transferred. If you sit under someone with a great teaching anointing,

588
00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:07.440
that anointing will be transferred unto you, and then you carry it, and you transfer it on

589
00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:17.680
to somebody else. Amen. Okay, so what can we do to just practical things? I love this. First off,

590
00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:25.760
search Scripture, okay? In that process of transforming your mind, it's really good to get

591
00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:33.280
a good study Bible and to begin to learn to use it. I have my old Thompson chain here, my big one

592
00:44:33.280 --> 00:44:39.760
that I taught out of for years, but the first one that I had, the very first Thompson chain Bible

593
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:45.040
changed my life. And I didn't start reading chapters and verses because the Bible was too

594
00:44:45.040 --> 00:44:52.560
weird and hard to understand. I went to the back and did the topical studies, and God used it. And

595
00:44:52.560 --> 00:44:59.840
that's where the journey began. So, begin to study. And then, don't buy a Bible that you can't mark up.

596
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.500
Because the most valuable part of my Bible now is how nasty and ugly and marked up it is.

597
00:45:07.500 --> 00:45:13.500
Because it's got all my little notes from people and dates and outlines.

598
00:45:13.500 --> 00:45:17.500
And when somebody said, and you know, this happened there.

599
00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:21.500
And I've got little markings where scriptures were in songs.

600
00:45:21.500 --> 00:45:22.500
I got all kinds of stuff in here.

601
00:45:22.500 --> 00:45:24.500
I got my kids doodling in church in it.

602
00:45:24.500 --> 00:45:25.500
Okay.

603
00:45:25.500 --> 00:45:26.500
And that's dear to me.

604
00:45:26.500 --> 00:45:31.000
Because I remember when Josiah was sitting next to me in church and he was doodling in my Bible.

605
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:32.000
Okay.

606
00:45:32.000 --> 00:45:33.000
It's my Bible.

607
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.000
And it was a holy season with my son doodling in there.

608
00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:41.000
And you've got to have something that you can personalize.

609
00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:42.000
Okay.

610
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:47.000
And that's, it's fun to get a new Bible that you can mark up again.

611
00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:50.000
But I always go back to this old familiar thing.

612
00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:55.000
I remember the first time I marked in my Bible, I thought I was doing something wrong.

613
00:45:55.500 --> 00:45:58.500
You weren't brought up that way.

614
00:45:58.500 --> 00:45:59.500
Yeah.

615
00:45:59.500 --> 00:46:00.500
Yeah.

616
00:46:00.500 --> 00:46:06.500
Especially if you don't happen to open it in front of somebody that doesn't believe in that.

617
00:46:06.500 --> 00:46:07.500
They look at that thing.

618
00:46:07.500 --> 00:46:08.500
Whoa.

619
00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:09.500
Yeah.

620
00:46:09.500 --> 00:46:10.500
Yeah.

621
00:46:10.500 --> 00:46:12.500
Oh, this is so holy.

622
00:46:12.500 --> 00:46:13.500
Yeah.

623
00:46:13.500 --> 00:46:16.500
How dare you write it for your mother?

624
00:46:16.500 --> 00:46:17.500
Yeah.

625
00:46:17.500 --> 00:46:19.500
How dare you?

626
00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:30.000
When in reality, you know, I love those pictures of people that doodle and draw in their Bibles and outline things because they love certain scriptures so much.

627
00:46:30.000 --> 00:46:31.000
It's so personal.

628
00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.000
So, you know, just learn how to use good study tools.

629
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:43.000
There is some online Bible software that's very reasonably priced that I use a lot.

630
00:46:43.500 --> 00:46:54.500
I have a Logos word search Bible program that I have had for probably 15 years and every year there's an update.

631
00:46:54.500 --> 00:46:56.500
I pay the money for the update.

632
00:46:56.500 --> 00:47:00.500
So, you know, and then I have my standby study.

633
00:47:00.500 --> 00:47:07.500
The Thompson chain changed my life and I always taught my kids in my Bible classes how to use it.

634
00:47:07.500 --> 00:47:08.500
So do it.

635
00:47:08.500 --> 00:47:09.500
All right.

636
00:47:09.500 --> 00:47:24.000
So the next thing is, is really pray for wisdom and we talked about that earlier, but you know, if you're reading, if you're having trouble with, you know, finances, look for people in the Bible that were managing finances.

637
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.000
If it's marriage, study marriages.

638
00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:29.000
If it's children, study children.

639
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:34.000
If you're trying to understand something that he's spoken to you, study prophecy.

640
00:47:34.500 --> 00:47:44.500
Whatever it is that you're needing wisdom, then go right to study that, you know, right now I'll go to YouTube and I'll look under topics of sermons.

641
00:47:44.500 --> 00:47:45.500
I need to hear.

642
00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:46.500
Okay.

643
00:47:46.500 --> 00:47:49.500
And I heard a sermon this week.

644
00:47:49.500 --> 00:47:53.500
Actually, I talked about it earlier today with Renee when I talked to her.

645
00:47:54.000 --> 00:47:59.000
There were five ministers that gathered just randomly, not because it was a conference.

646
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:16.000
They just got together in Kansas City from three different realms of like, like Holy Ghost, Kansas City prophets, Mike Bickel, and then over here is Francis Chan, who doesn't necessarily believe in the gifts of the spirit.

647
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:19.000
And then they had Diedrich Bonhoeffer and then two other pastors.

648
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:20.000
I've never heard of.

649
00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:24.500
And they began to talk about the importance of Diedrich Bonhoeffer and I.

650
00:48:28.500 --> 00:48:31.500
No, but Eric Metaxas wrote the book about Diedrich Bonhoeffer.

651
00:48:31.500 --> 00:48:46.500
And anyway, Eric was there and they began to teach about everything that Bonhoeffer experienced in the church in the late 20s and into the 30s.

652
00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:54.000
And that led to Adolf Hitler is the same sort of pattern we're seeing in the church right now.

653
00:48:54.000 --> 00:49:00.000
And the body of Christ is raising up a generation of Bonhoeffers.

654
00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:04.000
They love everyone and they love the body of Christ.

655
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:13.000
But there were there were people in Germany that said, well, you know, Adolf is quote Martin Luther and Adolf is quote in scripture.

656
00:49:13.500 --> 00:49:15.500
I mean, he can't be all that bad.

657
00:49:15.500 --> 00:49:17.500
And Bonhoeffer is going, wait a minute.

658
00:49:17.500 --> 00:49:19.500
This isn't right there.

659
00:49:19.500 --> 00:49:21.500
There's something about this.

660
00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:24.500
And through that, he wrote the cost of discipleship.

661
00:49:24.500 --> 00:49:28.500
And then from there, you know, he started the confessing church.

662
00:49:28.500 --> 00:49:33.500
And at that point, he ended up counseling all those guys that went through the Valkyrie plot.

663
00:49:34.000 --> 00:49:43.000
He is the pastor that pastored all of those military leaders when they knew that Adolf was taking Germany in a funky direction.

664
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:49.000
I think he's going to go down as probably the most influential theologian in the last hundred years.

665
00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:57.000
There's no doubt because his life now is even more significant now because we see the parallels.

666
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.000
Anyway, it was really good.

667
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.480
Um, and the body of Christ is, is going to have to wake up and have wisdom.

668
00:50:06.600 --> 00:50:07.100
Okay.

669
00:50:07.560 --> 00:50:11.360
And the last two things are just really super common sense here.

670
00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:13.580
Did we lose somebody or something?

671
00:50:13.580 --> 00:50:14.000
Buzz.

672
00:50:14.040 --> 00:50:14.540
It's okay.

673
00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.240
The last two things is fasting.

674
00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:21.060
Uh, we've talked about fasting in the past and it's powerful.

675
00:50:21.060 --> 00:50:25.700
And what it does is it shuts your flesh up so your spirit can hear.

676
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And, um, it helps, um,

677
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:31.760
yeah, not at first, but yeah.

678
00:50:32.160 --> 00:50:37.400
But what it will do is, is, is in that habit of that, it, it breathes spiritual

679
00:50:37.400 --> 00:50:42.200
power and, um, when you fast, you don't always get your answers when you're

680
00:50:42.200 --> 00:50:47.220
fasting, you get your answers to prayer later, but when you're doing it and,

681
00:50:47.800 --> 00:50:52.600
um, he, Jesus fasted before he began his public ministry, you know, how

682
00:50:52.600 --> 00:50:55.280
good is that a great example.

683
00:50:55.300 --> 00:50:55.680
Okay.

684
00:50:55.680 --> 00:50:59.280
And then the other thing is just trust and wait.

685
00:51:00.040 --> 00:51:06.040
Um, the timing of the kingdom is everything.

686
00:51:06.720 --> 00:51:07.220
Okay.

687
00:51:07.480 --> 00:51:11.960
The, the timing, it isn't just about doing the right thing.

688
00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:14.920
It's I love how Grant brought that up earlier.

689
00:51:15.640 --> 00:51:22.920
It's really about being at the right place at the right time, meeting the

690
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:33.120
right people that position you to be used by him and, and, um, timing.

691
00:51:33.640 --> 00:51:39.760
Um, I know, um, Terry law preached a sermon called come before winter out

692
00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:41.840
of it's either first or second Timothy.

693
00:51:42.680 --> 00:51:49.600
And, um, Paul, I believe is giving Timothy instructions about the timing

694
00:51:49.640 --> 00:51:57.040
and the importance of when are you, when are you going and Terry law?

695
00:51:57.320 --> 00:52:04.200
Of course, I, I love him and his ministry, but he had an angelic encounter, um, up

696
00:52:04.200 --> 00:52:11.960
in Edmonton, Alberta, and, um, he, he, um, was working in the wheat fields and

697
00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:16.640
he had a divine encounter and an angel came and told him that he would be going

698
00:52:16.640 --> 00:52:23.120
to oral Roberts university and he would be, um, he would be going to, or,

699
00:52:23.120 --> 00:52:24.960
you, you know, he would be going.

700
00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:30.440
And at that point, you know, they, they're up in a farm in middle of Canada.

701
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:32.280
Like, how is that all going to happen?

702
00:52:32.360 --> 00:52:37.560
And, um, a man there prepared for him to go.

703
00:52:38.120 --> 00:52:42.920
And when, um, I don't remember the exact sequence of events, but when

704
00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:46.480
the man told him to send him.

705
00:52:46.560 --> 00:52:46.960
Okay.

706
00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:49.440
So then yeah.

707
00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:53.920
And, and, and it, and it, part of it was that he knew it was going

708
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:55.720
to come because of this angel anyway.

709
00:52:57.040 --> 00:52:59.760
So the man heard from God to send him.

710
00:53:00.920 --> 00:53:06.720
He comes to, Oh, are you, he sets up a band of praise and worship band living

711
00:53:06.720 --> 00:53:14.000
sound and living sound in the seventies went, took music behind the iron curtain

712
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:18.080
to East Germany and to Russia and Eastern Europe.

713
00:53:18.200 --> 00:53:21.000
And, um, my kids is piano teacher.

714
00:53:21.000 --> 00:53:22.840
Barbie Cottingham was a part of that.

715
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:29.840
And, um, so we used to hear Barbie stories and then, um, Andre

716
00:53:29.920 --> 00:53:32.160
Gosserowski, who we met in Israel.

717
00:53:32.720 --> 00:53:37.320
His family was part of the Polish connection when living sound went over

718
00:53:37.320 --> 00:53:43.280
to Poland and started doing this contemporary worship and the, the guy

719
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:47.280
that of course would eventually become the Pope of the Catholic church said.

720
00:53:47.880 --> 00:53:48.960
This is amazing.

721
00:53:49.000 --> 00:53:49.840
I want this.

722
00:53:49.840 --> 00:53:51.160
The Holy spirit is here.

723
00:53:51.160 --> 00:53:56.640
Look at what is happening to these young people come and, and, and then

724
00:53:56.720 --> 00:53:58.840
kind of, you know, the rest is history.

725
00:53:58.840 --> 00:54:02.920
And now, you know, when you think of Terry law, he was the guy that was on

726
00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:08.000
the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq and, uh, uh, taking care of the Kurds.

727
00:54:08.640 --> 00:54:12.320
And, um, and his daughter, I know Kathy.

728
00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:14.320
I worked with Kathy and Scott.

729
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:19.040
So yeah, I've had his kids in class and, you know, those people

730
00:54:19.040 --> 00:54:20.560
were really on the front line.

731
00:54:20.600 --> 00:54:26.000
Um, you know, when, when we're watching the video this week of Afghanistan.

732
00:54:27.680 --> 00:54:35.080
And, um, you have friends and, you know, uh, Rick Altizer flew in one time, one

733
00:54:35.080 --> 00:54:39.800
of our really close friends is now missionary in Florida, flew a plane,

734
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:43.400
like a corkscrew into the Capitol because they were shooting,

735
00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:44.760
trying to shoot down his plane.

736
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:46.400
Baghdad.

737
00:54:46.400 --> 00:54:46.720
Yeah.

738
00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:50.360
And he brought in Bibles on flash drives, believe it or not.

739
00:54:50.760 --> 00:54:54.440
And, um, those Bibles were distributed on flash drives.

740
00:54:55.200 --> 00:55:00.040
Um, all over the middle East, the biggest move of God, the biggest.

741
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:05.800
This move of God right now in the earth is in the Middle East.

742
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.480
And it's really hard to watch.

743
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:15.520
When Dad Hagen prophesied before he passed in 2003,

744
00:55:15.520 --> 00:55:20.400
he talked at the end about 2002, 2003, 2004.

745
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.820
And it would be like an Eskimo looking at a tree,

746
00:55:23.820 --> 00:55:26.560
like they've never seen it before.

747
00:55:26.560 --> 00:55:30.360
And there are many in the body of Christ

748
00:55:30.360 --> 00:55:35.920
that believe that what happened through that whole Iraq

749
00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:40.920
war and that whole situation back around 2001,

750
00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:46.480
2002, the soldiers brought in the gospel and then

751
00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:47.280
missionaries.

752
00:55:47.280 --> 00:55:50.080
And then Terry ended up working with General Sada.

753
00:55:50.080 --> 00:55:52.600
And then General Sada gave very, I mean the whole,

754
00:55:52.600 --> 00:55:54.880
I mean if you want to read the story, buy the book Storm

755
00:55:54.880 --> 00:55:56.600
Chaser.

756
00:55:56.600 --> 00:56:03.120
It's a riveting true life story of how God will use you.

757
00:56:03.120 --> 00:56:10.160
But it started with an angel and a farm boy in Canada

758
00:56:10.160 --> 00:56:14.400
who was willing to walk it out, even though he

759
00:56:14.400 --> 00:56:16.560
didn't have the ability.

760
00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:21.760
And he had had a very abusive father, very abusive father.

761
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:25.120
And God made provision.

762
00:56:25.120 --> 00:56:27.880
And the rest is history.

763
00:56:27.880 --> 00:56:35.800
So you just never know if you're willing to step out and obey

764
00:56:35.800 --> 00:56:36.920
how he'll use you.

765
00:56:40.720 --> 00:56:43.480
Amen.

766
00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.040
Amen.

767
00:56:46.040 --> 00:56:47.680
But we do have to step out.

768
00:56:47.680 --> 00:56:48.720
Yeah.

769
00:56:48.720 --> 00:56:52.040
So there is that process.

770
00:56:52.040 --> 00:56:57.200
And I guess the word tonight is, man, enjoy the journey.

771
00:56:57.200 --> 00:56:58.320
Don't get bogged down.

772
00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:01.080
And everybody's always talking about getting to somewhere.

773
00:57:01.080 --> 00:57:03.960
Yeah, like you're going to be happy when you finally

774
00:57:03.960 --> 00:57:06.800
get there, when God just wants you to be happy.

775
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:08.080
All the way through.

776
00:57:08.080 --> 00:57:12.440
That's why it says be content in everything.

777
00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:14.960
In everything give thanks.

778
00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:18.040
Everything is all the way along.

779
00:57:18.040 --> 00:57:20.800
Because, well, why should I give thanks

780
00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:24.360
when something really bad is happening in my life?

781
00:57:24.360 --> 00:57:26.560
Because you give thanks and you praise God,

782
00:57:26.560 --> 00:57:30.720
he changes situations and circumstances.

783
00:57:30.720 --> 00:57:32.080
Kesley, I can probably use you.

784
00:57:32.080 --> 00:57:38.240
I mean, we met you through a very bad situation.

785
00:57:38.240 --> 00:57:38.920
Yeah.

786
00:57:38.920 --> 00:57:41.840
But what the devil meant for bad,

787
00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:43.400
God has turned around for good.

788
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:45.080
Amen.

789
00:57:45.120 --> 00:57:49.760
You know, God, he's the only one who can do this stuff.

790
00:57:49.760 --> 00:57:51.880
I'm not saying the Lord took her out of the picture.

791
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:53.120
I don't mean that at all.

792
00:57:53.120 --> 00:57:55.480
But the devil is the one that comes to kill, steal,

793
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:56.960
and destroy.

794
00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:00.040
But God is the one that can take whatever is bad

795
00:58:00.040 --> 00:58:02.640
and make it into something good.

796
00:58:02.640 --> 00:58:04.640
And he's the only one that can.

797
00:58:04.640 --> 00:58:08.720
And there isn't any guarantees that in the middle of that,

798
00:58:08.720 --> 00:58:14.240
that there isn't going to be a lot of adversity.

799
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:15.480
A heartache or what?

800
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:15.800
Right.

801
00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:16.880
We're all going to go through things.

802
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:18.360
We're all going to go through things.

803
00:58:18.360 --> 00:58:20.560
And there's going to be disappointments.

804
00:58:20.560 --> 00:58:25.320
And I can't tell you.

805
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:27.120
I love Terry's stories.

806
00:58:27.120 --> 00:58:29.680
I can't tell you how many time he was at gunpoint

807
00:58:29.680 --> 00:58:31.760
and the communist government in Russia

808
00:58:31.760 --> 00:58:33.600
was going to throw him in jail.

809
00:58:33.600 --> 00:58:36.400
And they sang anyway.

810
00:58:36.400 --> 00:58:41.280
So you just don't know.

811
00:58:41.400 --> 00:58:46.400
And what's funny about it, as you obey,

812
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:49.160
there's something about when you obey,

813
00:58:49.160 --> 00:58:53.680
there's provision on the other end of your obedience.

814
00:58:53.680 --> 00:58:58.560
Like God is going to expect you to go to this place

815
00:58:58.560 --> 00:59:03.640
because then you're going to be ready for the next place.

816
00:59:03.640 --> 00:59:05.720
And then when you get to the next place

817
00:59:05.720 --> 00:59:09.600
and it's the right time, there's also going to be provision.

818
00:59:09.600 --> 00:59:11.280
There's going to be provision.

819
00:59:11.280 --> 00:59:20.560
So if there's something that he's doing in you,

820
00:59:20.560 --> 00:59:23.240
then enjoy the journey.

821
00:59:23.240 --> 00:59:29.840
And don't resist the process because there's

822
00:59:29.840 --> 00:59:38.040
something very rich and very beautiful even in the hurt.

823
00:59:40.600 --> 00:59:41.600
Amen.

824
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:48.880
Anybody have anything they want to add?

825
00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:51.800
I was thinking this week, I wonder

826
00:59:51.800 --> 00:59:57.520
which one of us would like to volunteer to be Jonah

827
00:59:57.520 --> 00:59:59.640
to go to Afghanistan.

828
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:08.000
and pray them pray those people in. Now you may have to go by the Atlantic Ocean, you know,

829
01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:12.880
start in a boat, you might run into somebody that will pick you up from there and go from

830
01:00:13.600 --> 01:00:22.480
but I'm just thinking, all I can think about is how that process started out and Jonah didn't

831
01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:31.360
want to go. He thought these people aren't worth the time I'm giving them and yet in the end what

832
01:00:31.360 --> 01:00:39.360
happens? Well if I understand it right, those people slaughtered a lot of his family in earlier

833
01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:48.560
days. Yeah, he had a challenge too. Yeah, that'd be very challenging. But look what the prayer,

834
01:00:50.320 --> 01:00:56.960
when it finally struck, it changed those people. Right. You know what I'm talking,

835
01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:04.880
that's the only thing that's going to change that whole situation is God moving in a great

836
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:13.760
mighty way. Yep. And change the hearts of those people. Yeah. I just, it's just been sticking

837
01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:19.360
with me this year and this week about Jonah. Is this an opportunity for Jonah to

838
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:24.000
to bring in a people that need him more than anything else?

839
01:01:26.480 --> 01:01:34.640
Well, we've had some conversations with that one night with Mike Hyman who was a missionary

840
01:01:34.640 --> 01:01:45.040
in Oman and he would tell stories about how when they were arrested and being held

841
01:01:46.240 --> 01:01:51.120
in Middle East police departments. Yeah, they were going to kill him. They were going to kill him and

842
01:01:51.120 --> 01:01:58.640
he just talks about how there is just this overwhelming presence and anointing and

843
01:01:58.640 --> 01:02:06.240
boldness and strength that, you know, even Bonhoeffer when he was in jail before he,

844
01:02:06.240 --> 01:02:12.800
Bonhoeffer was executed two weeks before the surrender. And if he could have just held on

845
01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:19.600
two more weeks, the whole world could have benefited from this amazing theologian that

846
01:02:20.240 --> 01:02:26.960
is still rocking the world today and makes you fiercely proud to be German.

847
01:02:28.240 --> 01:02:36.240
And, you know, you wonder, you know, you know, if he could have just waited the two more weeks,

848
01:02:36.240 --> 01:02:43.440
but he talks about the glory that would come, you know, in that. So I'm sure Paul said the same

849
01:02:43.440 --> 01:02:48.880
thing. Yeah. You know, and I think the other thing that's really important, and I always shared this

850
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:57.040
with my kids, and I think my kids ended up marrying the right people. Okay. If God is really

851
01:02:57.040 --> 01:03:02.320
asking you to do something with your life, then he's going to form someone who's going to enable

852
01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:09.440
you to walk that with you. Okay. And it will compliment you. Okay. And so I can definitely say

853
01:03:09.520 --> 01:03:19.520
100% Sean and Jenna compliment each other in that they understand things spiritually.

854
01:03:19.520 --> 01:03:28.960
And I can 100% say that Josiah is 100% going to be the guy that will walk with Gabrielle. She's,

855
01:03:29.600 --> 01:03:36.960
I'm telling you, she, there's ministry. Now that little girl, she just audited all the employees

856
01:03:36.960 --> 01:03:45.840
at Oral Roberts University. She is a brain. Okay. But inside that little brain that runs a mighty

857
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:52.960
Excel spreadsheet and can tell you every penny of every single benefit of every employee at a

858
01:03:52.960 --> 01:04:00.080
university, but well, this is what she did, but the bottom line is her heart's ministry. So,

859
01:04:00.720 --> 01:04:06.160
you know, Paul was a tent maker and he made tents before he ended up stepping into ministry.

860
01:04:06.160 --> 01:04:13.600
So don't despise the job that you're in, because that's provision too, you know,

861
01:04:14.080 --> 01:04:19.520
you got to have provision for ministry and that's really important. And then, you know,

862
01:04:20.080 --> 01:04:26.000
as you're seeking the Lord about relationships, then you really got to seek who's somebody who's

863
01:04:26.160 --> 01:04:31.120
who's somebody who's going to walk that out with me. And if they're, and if, and, and, you know,

864
01:04:31.120 --> 01:04:37.520
the, the, the phrase is equally yoked. It's like the yoke of oxen on two ox. If, if one ox is

865
01:04:37.520 --> 01:04:42.400
pulling this way and dragging the other ox, that's not a lot, that's not a lot of fun.

866
01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:51.680
Okay. So if you're, you know, if you're really called to do something and I'll pick Terry Law's

867
01:04:51.680 --> 01:04:59.840
kids, Scott and Kathy, I mean, those two are beautifully matched to carry Terry's ministry now.

868
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.200
into the next phase and there's pictures right now they're posting of their time in afghanistan

869
01:05:05.200 --> 01:05:11.680
you know and so you you see you know what they did on the ground with the people and and it's

870
01:05:11.680 --> 01:05:16.960
becomes very personal when you're hearing the stories and you know you've watched them walk

871
01:05:16.960 --> 01:05:26.320
it out and anyway yeah let's pray father we come before you tonight in the name of jesus

872
01:05:27.120 --> 01:05:34.560
and lord we thank you for the word of god and we thank you for just simple illustrations in

873
01:05:34.560 --> 01:05:42.000
your word lord thank you that we are transformed and we can come to know you and know your

874
01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:48.480
character and learn to love you lord we love you with all of our heart and lord we ask that you

875
01:05:48.480 --> 01:05:59.600
would use us in this season in this hour in this day that we would run the race before us faithfully

876
01:06:00.640 --> 01:06:08.000
that we would run to win that we would run with endurance that we would not grow weary

877
01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:15.280
in well-doing for in due season we will reap if we faint not and lord we know that in running it

878
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:24.480
out for you you will grace us and anoint us to to do your will in the earth father i thank you

879
01:06:25.120 --> 01:06:32.080
that for every day that we have left on this planet god that you lead us and you guide us

880
01:06:33.840 --> 01:06:41.200
in this season lord that you show us what to do and where to go and lord that we would not

881
01:06:41.200 --> 01:06:47.840
only know what we're to do but lord that each and every one of us would be at the right place

882
01:06:48.800 --> 01:06:57.200
at the right time to make the right appointment because you were doing something in our lives

883
01:06:58.960 --> 01:06:59.760
father thank you

884
01:06:59.760 --> 01:07:09.760
yes praise you thank you oh thank you lord we will not miss it our children will not miss it

885
01:07:11.120 --> 01:07:20.800
our grandchildren will not miss it they will walk into the fullness they will they will walk

886
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:28.400
in the blessing oh man i feel the holy spirit they will walk in the blessing they will walk it out

887
01:07:29.360 --> 01:07:37.200
they will see what we could have only imagined yes they will know jesus they will carry his name

888
01:07:37.200 --> 01:07:43.520
they will carry the word of god they will carry the holy spirit to those that don't know they

889
01:07:43.520 --> 01:07:50.240
will be a light in the darkness they will go where his presence is not known and lord we thank you

890
01:07:50.240 --> 01:07:55.680
that you are doing it in our in our lives and in our children's lives and in our grandchildren's

891
01:07:55.680 --> 01:08:02.640
lives lord be glorified lord let us all be at the right place at the right time

892
01:08:03.600 --> 01:08:10.160
that we would fear for no thing because you are the good provider you are the good shepherd

893
01:08:11.920 --> 01:08:21.120
and that we're walking this out with you in divine destiny being prepared and being fashioned

894
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:23.920
into what you would have us be

895
01:08:30.080 --> 01:08:36.560
lord speak to each of us through the word through each other through dreams

896
01:08:37.600 --> 01:08:44.800
through visions speak to us through our conversations speak to us while we do the

897
01:08:44.800 --> 01:08:50.399
daily things lord we just want to hear from you we want to be led by you

898
01:08:51.120 --> 01:09:02.000
thank you father