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Hey guys. Hey, hey, hey. I'm excited to be sharing with you this morning. I just want

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to show you where I am. I'm in a boom lift and in a second I'll show you a little bit

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about what I've been doing up here in this boom lift. Actually, I wonder if I should

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show you now. I wonder if I should just quickly show you what I've been doing in this boom

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lift. Let me just see here. Let's make sure I don't hit anything. Let's just have you

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come over here. Let's just have a look here. I've just been painting this wall. I'll show

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you a little bit more later, but I'll move back here. It's sort of raining a little bit

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so I found a little sheltered spot. Back we go. I'm going to talk to you this morning

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about David Stones, which I'm really excited about. I'm just keeping an eye on this to

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make sure that the thing, the boom lift doesn't hit the wall. It's kind of a different place

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to teach from. There we go. I want to talk to you about David Stones, guys. I'm really

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excited about this. I love King David and I love his life. I think he's such a prophetic

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prototype of what is true of our generation, what's available for our generation. I want

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to begin by saying, I think, let me backtrack, sorry, before I get into that. I'm going to

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share from Matthew 20. I'm going to talk about the story of David and Goliath. I'm also possibly

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going to talk about Matthew 16. Then we're going to pray. I think it's going to be an

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awesome time. I remember being in India a little while ago. My friend Andy and I were

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walking through a village. God was moving. It was amazing. We saw lots and lots of miracles.

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People were getting saved. People were getting delivered of demons. We just went for a walk

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through this village. It was awesome. If you've ever been to India, you know it's super hot

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and sometimes the heat can be a little bit exhausting. At the end of, of course, we'd

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just been speaking at this conference, so we'd been going pretty hard. At the end of

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this time in this village, I was thinking, man, I'm loving this so much. This is so amazing.

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But man, I am wasted, man. I am absolutely smashed. I don't know if I have anything left

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to give. So I just thought, man, I'm going to walk to the van and I'm going to jump in

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and see if we can head back to the place we're staying just to get some rest. As I was getting

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in the van, this girl who had been healed previously in our time in the village, she

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comes running up and she's dragging her friend with her. She stops me before we get to the

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van and she says, hey, hey, pray for my friend, pray for my friend. I noticed obviously she's

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talking to me through an interpreter. I say, man, okay, what does she need? What does she

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need? I'm thinking, oh, just one more prayer. But I'm thinking, man, I'm pretty wasted.

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Maybe it's just a blessing. I'll just bless her. I really feel like I need some rest.

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I feel a little bit exhausted. And she showed me her rib and out from under her bottom

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rib, there was this cricket ball sized tumor coming out from under her bottom rib. And

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it was pretty gnarly. It had lots of scar tissue around it and it was just a crazy kind

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of a thing. And I thought, oh, man, like, I don't know if I have the energy for this.

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I don't know if I have, I don't think I have, I don't think, I don't know if I've got, I

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think I might have spent the anointing. That's what I was thinking. And I, and I just felt

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like that was, even though we'd seen a bunch of miracles, I just felt like, oh, man.

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This feels like hard work, and then I remembered this beautiful truth.

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I remembered, God, I don't have anything to give here, but I know you do.

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And the only thing I can give in this situation is to trust that you're with me, and then

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to say, God, I'm trusting that you will do what I can't do.

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And obviously that's what he'd been doing the whole time.

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But it's interesting when we get to the end of ourselves, it sort of pushes us into a

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corner where we're forced to realize that, well, God is really the one that's doing the

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stuff, not us.

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It's a beautiful truth, and it's such a freeing truth.

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So I laid my hands on this girl, and I said, in the name of Jesus, I command that tumor

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to go.

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And that's all I really had the energy to say, I command that tumor to go.

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But I just leant back into a place of trust, that God, you are here, and you can do what

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I can't do.

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And instantly, guys, the tumor went, and completely disappeared.

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And I've got a photo of her face, actually, after she's feeling around, and she starts

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poking in under her rib, and the tumor is completely gone.

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It was just an amazing thing to watch.

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The best thing about it was to watch her face.

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And the thing that I took away from that was, not only has God dissolved tumors, but God

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is with us even when we feel like maybe we're not feeling His presence with us.

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But He's with us all the time, and simple trust is one of the, if not the greatest key

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to the Christian walk.

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And so I want to share a little bit about that.

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And in Matthew 20, 21, I think that's the scripture.

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It says that the stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

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Of course, it's talking about, the scripture is talking about, it's using temple language.

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It's talking about, it's talking about the building of a new temple.

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And of course, we are the stones in the new temple.

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And of course, temple speaks of the place that God dwells.

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We together are the place that God dwells on earth.

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If people want to experience God, if people want to inquire of God, if people want to

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know where God lives, God lives in His house, and we are the new house.

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We are the new temple.

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And each of us are stones in that temple, fit together as the Lord fits us together.

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That's why it's important to look after your relationships, because God has set you amongst

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a group of people.

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And it's a good idea for you to not, sorry, it's a good idea for you to cooperate with

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God's setting and to protect those relationships.

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But we are each stones in the new temple.

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And that's an amazing thing, that we get to be the house of God.

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I mean, what that means, guys, what that means is we get to be the place that God dwells

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on earth.

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This is an amazing truth.

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But if you go into, I studied that scripture a little bit, and if you go into some of the

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original language of some of those words, of course it's New Testament, so it's Greek,

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but it's referring to an Old Testament scripture.

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And if you go into that Old Testament scripture and you look up the Hebrew word for stone

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in that scripture, it's such a prophetic word and it's so amazing.

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It's the Hebrew word Abin, which, and this is what I want to introduce you to today,

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is this prophetic word.

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It's this deep, meaningful word.

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It's a beautiful word.

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There are different Hebrew words that we translate to stone, and this is only one of them.

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But it's a Hebrew word Abin, and it's a compound Hebrew word made up of two Hebrew words, Aba,

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which means father or dad, and Ben, which means son.

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Abin, and Abin is a prophetic picture of a relationship, the relationship between the

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father and the son, that the son is walking in the father and the father is walking in

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the son.

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The father and the son are one, and that's a prophetic picture of you and I.

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You are one with your father and your father is one with you.

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You cannot go anywhere without your father going with you, and learning to trust that

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truth will unlock some of the greatest experiences in your life.

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Learning to trust that truth will literally unlock your destiny as God has designed it

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to be to you.

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It's so powerful.

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And so if we look at the story of David and Samuel, and we look at particularly the story

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of David and Goliath.

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I want to draw some pictures.

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some truth out of that story.

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You've got David, he's looking after his sheep and his dad says to him, hey can you

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go and take some supplies, some food to your brothers who are fighting

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on the front line of battle, they're fighting the Philistines. And David

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says, yeah sure dad, I'll go take some food for them, absolutely. And he

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goes on his way and his expectation at this time guys, is he's expecting to

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simply just give food to his brothers because his dad asked him to do it.

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That's his expectation, that's what he's going with. So he leaves his sheep, he

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goes to the front line of battle and he sees this big commotion happening on the

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front line. When he gets to the Israeli army, he sees his brothers and

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he sees this big giant in the middle of the field yelling things out, saying

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who's going to come and face me? And who's the

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one worthy to challenge me? And he's taunting the armies of Israel.

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And David says to the army and to his brothers, he says, well

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who's going to go? And they're like, oh man, you know, no one's going, like this

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guy's intense, this guy's insane, he's like massive. We've got no

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chance, one-on-one we've got no chance. And David's like, well why don't I go?

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And why don't I go? And he, sorry there's just a guy down there, he's waving at me.

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But David says, well why don't I go? And they laugh at him and they say, David you're

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just a boy, like you know, we're trained soldiers, we've got qualifications,

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we've got battle experience, we've been doing this

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for, you've not even had one day on a battlefield, like what makes you think

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you can do what we can't do? And David's like, in his heart he's thinking, guys

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have you forgotten like, it's not about your battle experience, it's not about

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your qualifications, it's not about any of that stuff, it's not about what you

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can do, it's about have you forgotten that you have a God that's with you, that

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the creator of the universe is on our side and he's with us and

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it's not about what you can do, it's about what he can do. And anyway he says,

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listen I'll go do it. And they say, no you can't do it, you can't do it. But he

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ends up being taken to King Saul. He says to Saul, listen if no one else will go, I

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will go. And Saul says to him, man you're only a boy, you're a kid, you're scrawny,

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you're not fit enough, you're not strong enough, you don't have the

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qualifications, you haven't been trained, you don't have weapons, you haven't

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learned how to use a sword, you don't, all the stuff that would disqualify him,

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all the stuff that would write him off is just like, you can't do this David. And

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David says, well listen I've killed a lion and a bear and of course Saul's

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like, well okay that's fair enough, you've killed a lion and a bear. And he says,

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also the God of Israel is with me, God is with me. And Saul says, okay well

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listen, since no one else will go, I suppose you can go. And he says, but take

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my armor and take my sword and spear, take my shield, take my gear with me, with

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you. And so David puts on Saul's gear which represents the ability of man, it

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represents what you can achieve on your own strength. And he puts it on and he

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tries to walk out with that armor on and he gets a couple of steps in and he just

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says, man I can't hardly move with this stuff. And when you're relying on

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your own strength, when you're relying on your own ability and your own

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capacity, you get to a point pretty soon, not far into the journey where you start

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to feel that feeling like, man gee I don't know if I can carry on, this is

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heavy, man this is weight, there's a weight on me that I wasn't designed to

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carry. Because you weren't designed to live on your own, you're designed to live

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with God, you weren't designed to live relying on your own strength. That's

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tiresome and it was tiresome for David who is a prophetic picture of what is

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true of our generation. Our generation is trying to go through life relying

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on their own strength at the moment and they're getting tired and they're

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getting exhausted and there's an increase in depression, there's an

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increase in anxiety, there's an increase in mental health issues, there's an

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increase in burnout and brownout, there's an increase in all these types of things,

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fatigue and all these types of things.

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of things. And one of the main contributors to that is the heart

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position of life that says, I'm relying on my own strength. And most of that's

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subconscious, but it's an exhausting place to be. And so David said, Saul, sorry

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I can't take your armor. I have to be me. I have to be me. I'm gonna go onto that

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battlefield as David, not as Saul, not as someone that I'm not. I'm just gonna go

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as me. And he walks out onto the battlefield and before he does he goes

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to a stream and he pulls out five smooth stones. Of course the word for stone

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there is Abin, which means father and son. It's a prophetic picture of the son

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being in the father and the father being in the son. It's a prophetic picture of

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our union with God. He reaches in and he pulls out the stone. He pulls out this

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revelation, which is a picture to say, man, I'm not trusting in

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sword and spear. I'm trusting in the fact that I am a son of God and God is

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with me everywhere I go. And if I step on the field, God steps on the field. And

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it's not about what I can do. It's about what he can do. It's about what my dad

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can do. I'm just a little boy with a big papa. And if I lean back into that truth,

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I'll see that truth manifest through my life. This is a powerful thing, guys. And

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he steps out on the field and Goliath says to him, what am I, a dog? Do you

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come to me with sticks and stones? And David says something along the lines of,

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today I'm gonna chop your head off. You come to me with your strength, but I come

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to you in the name of the God of Israel. In other words, I come to you knowing who

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he is and knowing that he's a God that is with me everywhere I go. I come to you

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in the strength of God. You look at me and you say, oh, you're a

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little boy. You're a dog with sticks and stones. And I may not have the capacity

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to defeat you today, Goliath. And you may be stronger than me by a significant

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amount. And I may have no chance on my own strength. But what you don't see is

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this, that the God of the universe is standing right behind me. And it's not

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about what I can do on my strength. And if it was on me, I couldn't take you out.

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But let me tell you this right now, Goliath. Today I will take your head.

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Today you will be defeated because it's not about me, it's about him. And he has

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the capacity to do what I can't do. And so they run for each other, I'm assuming.

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And hey Benji, love you too, man. And he gets a sling out and he slings that

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stone. What is that? It's more than just throwing a stone, guys. He's

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throwing a revelation. He's throwing a foundational revelation.

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It's such a prototype for what is true of our generation. He throws his

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revelation. He throws his truth. He leans his life back into the truth

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and the reality of my God is with me. And if he's not, I'm totally dead. And he

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throws his stone and Goliath, a small stone, knocks him in the head and he

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falls flat on his face. And David takes his head off and defeats the army of the

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Philistines. And they win. And he wins as a little boy, an unqualified

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shepherd boy. He wins a victory for his entire nation and liberates a nation. Let

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me tell you this. It was a revelation of his sonship. It was a revelation of the

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nature of God who never leaves us nor forsakes us that won it for the nation

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of Israel that day. It's a revelation of the fact that my God is faithful to

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never leave me nor forsake me that David was walking in in that moment. That David

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leaned into. He leaned into the richness and the truth and the power and the

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reality and the glory of that truth. And he leaned his life back into that truth.

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And he brought his actions into alignment with that reality. And

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something was unlocked that day that liberated a nation. And the same

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can happen today guys when sons and daughters learn to trust into and lean

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back into the reality that they truly are the sons and daughters of God. And

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that God truly is with them everywhere they go. Man, when you step on the field,

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he steps on the field. And you might have giants in your life right now that are

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staring down at you. That are taunting you. That are

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intimidating you. That are sapping your strength. But if you will learn to lean

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back into the truth of this reality that he's with you everywhere you go, then

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something will begin. And it might start in a seed form but something will

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begin to get unlocked in your life. And you see this again in the

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birth of the church. The foundation of the church. The whole church is built on

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this foundation. And you see the foundation of the church.

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Matthew 16 where Simon Peter, where Jesus is asking his disciples, guys, who do men

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say that I am?

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And some say, and they say to him, some say John the Baptist, some, you know, sorry, I

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might have got that wrong, Elijah, someone of the prophets, blah, blah, blah.

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They spout off a bunch of names.

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And then he says, well, who do you say that I am?

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And Simon Peter, which was his name at the time, says, you are the son of the living

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God.

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And Jesus says, well done, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father

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who is in heaven.

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And he says, from now on you will be called Peter, and upon this rock I will build my

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church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

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One of the clearest urban encounters, one of the clearest moments where someone actually

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received the revelation of urban in the scripture, and it is the foundation of the church.

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What you see is, you see Peter looking at Jesus, and in Jesus he sees the Father, and

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then when he sees the Father, he sees in the Father Jesus.

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And then when he sees Jesus, he sees in Jesus the Father.

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And what Jesus is saying is, you looked at me, and in me you saw the Father.

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And then in the Father you saw me, and in that, there is a revelation of union that

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we get to have with God, and Peter, this revelation is now your revelation, and upon this rock

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or upon this stone, upon this urban, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall

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not prevail against it.

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He gives the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and he gives the keys, and he rests the keys

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of the kingdom of heaven, upon that revelation, upon that revelation, I want to just share

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with you that authority, victory, destiny, and the destiny and the victory and the fruitfulness

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of the church rests on this revelation.

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This is the foundational revelation that the church is built on, the revelation of sonship,

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the revelation of sonship.

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And so there's a lot more that I have to share on this topic, and I really just wanted to

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kind of have a little chat with you about that this morning while I'm up here on the

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cherry picker.

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And we actually have another school coming up.

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This is the Sonship Masterclass right now, which is just a short three-week school, but

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we're going to be having a more in-depth school coming up soon, and in that school I'm going

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to share a little bit more in-depth about the subject of urban, about this whole thing,

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and I'm excited about that.

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But for now I believe that in that moment in Matthew 16, Peter received, I believe that's

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the moment he received the spirit of adoption.

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Now some people might not agree with that, but I believe he received a revelation, and

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in that revelation something awoke on the inside of him, and he received this spirit

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of revelation, a revelation of his own sonship and a revelation of the nearness of God that

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changed his life, and on that revelation and on that spirit, God gave authority and

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God gave the grace for the entire church to be built on.

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And I believe that we can each receive a spirit of adoption.

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I remember when I received a spirit of adoption, and I'll share that in the next school, but

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I want to pray for you right now, and I just want to pray that God really unlocks this

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revelation on the inside of you, that God really unlocks within you a revelation of

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your own union with God, a revelation of your own union with the Father.

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I want to pray that God unlocks a revelation of your own sonship.

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I want to pray that you feel the nearness and the closeness of God so deeply today that

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it literally changes the rest of your life.

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And so Father, right now I just declare over everyone that's tuned in, over everyone that

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will watch this session, God I declare the spirit of adoption over people.

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I declare Arban over people.

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I declare a revelation of sonship.

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I declare that you are loved by your Father.

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I declare that you are adored by your Father.

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I declare that right now over you that you are your Father's happy place, that you are

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the house of God, that you are the...

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place of God that you are the one in whom God delights you are the one that

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God is pleased with you are the one that God looks at with great delight you are

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God's child you are God's son you are God's daughter and he loves you so so

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so so so so so so so so so so so so so much and there is no step that you can

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take today that is outside of his presence everywhere you go he is with

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you in Jesus name I declare a spirit of adoption amen

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I want to encourage you today that as you as you walk out into the rest of

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today to just to just let your actions line up with that reality to just bring

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your actions into alignment with that reality that God's with you maybe you're

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in the supermarket and maybe you see someone on crutches well just why don't

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you just go over to them and just trust that God will heal them you don't have

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to heal them but God can heal them and you can just be the one that brings God

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to them and so hey God bless you have an amazing day today what I might do

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this before I finish is I might just show you I might just show you the

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painting I've been working on would would anyone watching just like to see

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that right now you can just comment if you do it's common if you want to receive

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if you just want to quickly have a look at that I'll take that

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how many as a yes and I'll just now just excuse me while I just

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all right we're going in right here we go guys here we go here we go we're going

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now actually I should show you what I'm what I'm looking at right here how do I

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turn this camera on here we go okay so drive with me okay so we've got

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this little button here this little guy here

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there's Mikey T down there hey Mikey

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so we're just driving over here

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there we go

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it doesn't move that fast this thing and when it does it swings like crazy

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it has and we're just watching those power lines there that we don't go

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straight into those I think this might be slightly illegal

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but I'm not 100% sure so okay here we go guys

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there it is

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I can't fit it all into my frame but there it is guys

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many hands make light work many hands make the light work so god bless you

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have an amazing day today love you