WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.240 what a beautiful beautiful day so I think this is us I think we are live now what a delight to 2 00:00:12.800 --> 00:00:21.360 be with you today I'm so excited about this whole event the three-day Open Heaven 3 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:28.880 intensive and I'm just checking the tech and everything is going there it's all 4 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:38.480 happening so welcome everyone one final thing I'll check and make sure that we are all 5 00:00:41.440 --> 00:00:50.240 all happening as you jump on board here as you jump on board let me say a massive welcome to you 6 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:57.520 and please drop in your name let me know where you are from let me know what you're expecting 7 00:00:57.520 --> 00:01:09.600 as we launch into this event together oh well I have been up since 2am this morning had a 8 00:01:09.600 --> 00:01:16.640 beautiful time we had a 24 hour prayer and worship session that has just gone up until 9 00:01:17.360 --> 00:01:24.320 right now really and we are now going to be launching into this but I just thought I would 10 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:32.640 say hello um look let a bunch of you guys jump on board and um we're gonna get into it but as we do 11 00:01:32.640 --> 00:01:40.240 um let's just let's start with a prayer and um and let's go oh 12 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:42.400 Rikishi 13 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:53.280 oh jesus jesus jesus jesus 14 00:02:00.240 --> 00:02:07.200 jesus we thank you so much for this moment we thank you for your spirit that is at work right 15 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:14.800 now jesus jesus i thank you for every person that is jumping on board i thank you for this 16 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.240 adventure that we are going on jesus i thank you for this three-day open heaven intensive i thank 17 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:25.600 you that you're releasing the spirit of awakening i thank you that there is an unprecedented move 18 00:02:25.600 --> 00:02:31.360 of god breaking out all over the face of the earth right now and i thank you that you are 19 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:38.320 catching us up into what you were doing you are lifting us up you are wrapping us up in a spirit 20 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:43.360 of awakening i thank you for this time i thank you that you pour fire on us i thank you that 21 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:50.720 you open our eyes and open our ears and set our hearts ablaze holy spirit we acknowledge that 22 00:02:50.720 --> 00:02:56.400 we need you desperately right now holy spirit we acknowledge that we've come to the end of 23 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:02.720 ourselves and we are desperate to go beyond good to go where we've never been before we long holy 24 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:08.400 spirit for you to take us into the wilder things into the greater things into the more glorious 25 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:13.600 things than we've ever known or walked in holy spirit we thank you that you are present here 26 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:18.800 we thank you for your anointing we thank you for your power we thank you for your glory that is 27 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:24.240 here right now we thank you that you are setting hearts ablaze setting lives ablaze holy spirit i 28 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:29.840 think that you are moving holy spirit we release your glory right now holy spirit i thank you that 29 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:36.880 you wrap us up all over the face of the earth as we come from our lord nations all over the globe i 30 00:03:36.880 --> 00:03:41.920 thank you that you breathe life on us you breathe fire on us you breathe revelation you breathe 31 00:03:41.920 --> 00:03:47.760 healing you breathe redemption you breathe restoration you breathe lord a fresh move of 32 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:53.440 your spirit right now honest thank you for fire coming right now i thank you for love outpourings 33 00:03:53.440 --> 00:03:58.000 coming right now i thank you for baptisms and your glory coming right now i thank you that it's 34 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:03.680 for right now right now right now holy spirit i thank you for your fresh move and as i speak 35 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:09.600 and as we go on this journey together i thank you for spontaneous miraculous supernatural 36 00:04:09.600 --> 00:04:15.120 interventions from heaven i thank you for divine appointments we release heaven right now release 37 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:19.760 the angels release the cloud of witnesses release the living creatures release the spirit of the 38 00:04:19.760 --> 00:04:24.400 lord the spirit of wisdom and revelation the spirit of counsel the spirit of understanding 39 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:28.000 the spirit of knowledge the spirit of might and the spirit of the fear of the lord we thank you 40 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:33.680 for every aspect and facet of heaven being released we thank you for new dimensions of faith 41 00:04:33.680 --> 00:04:39.200 new dimensions of grace new dimensions of anointing and power new dimensions of your 42 00:04:39.200 --> 00:04:44.720 fire in jesus name give us revelation that takes us where we've never been before 43 00:04:45.680 --> 00:04:52.480 breathe on us lead us and we give this time to and we trust you that you will take us where we've 44 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:59.520 never been before you will show us what we've never seen before and you will catch us up in this move 45 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.040 God that is unfolding all over the face of the earth, and you will raise us up as catalysts 46 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.160 and stewards of a move of God that releases your kingdom in the seven mountains, that 47 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:16.520 releases your kingdom in nations, that is a move of God that checks darkness, that shuts 48 00:05:16.520 --> 00:05:22.000 down darkness, that brings down giants of darkness, and unleashes your kingdom and your 49 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:27.760 glory and your presence in Jesus' name like never before. 50 00:05:28.400 --> 00:05:37.920 Amen, beautiful, all right, all right fam, I've just got to do one quick, I've just got to check 51 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:51.600 one tech thing, just make sure that it is doing what it's supposed to do, and okay, so 52 00:05:51.600 --> 00:06:05.200 we are, right, well we are into it, and what we are checking out right now in this session, 53 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:11.040 okay, this is the first of six sessions, we're going to do one session, sorry, we're going 54 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:16.640 to do two sessions a day for three days, okay, so two sessions a day for three days, now 55 00:06:16.640 --> 00:06:21.360 if you want to catch any of the replays or anything like that, there is a unit being 56 00:06:21.360 --> 00:06:26.320 created in this group, so you go to the top of the page, and you click guides, and then 57 00:06:26.320 --> 00:06:30.960 you can find all the information there, in that place there, you can find a schedule 58 00:06:30.960 --> 00:06:34.720 that you can download when all of the events are, it's got international time zones to 59 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:39.120 help you figure out when it is for you, because I know that I'm in New Zealand time, so you 60 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.960 can go to the guides and look for the Open Heaven Intensive Guide, then you'll find all 61 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:47.440 the replays will be put in there right after we are done, I'll put them in there, so you'll 62 00:06:47.440 --> 00:06:53.680 be able to find handouts, schedules, all of that good stuff in there, I'll give you one 63 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:58.720 quick notice as well, that we are doing an Extravagant Love giveaway right now, so there's 64 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:03.280 a thousand dollar giveaway to someone's amazing dream, just go for the info on that, check 65 00:07:03.280 --> 00:07:08.240 out the Extravagant Love guide, you can vote for someone's dream, you can submit your own, 66 00:07:08.240 --> 00:07:14.800 it's awesome, all the info is in there, so we are checking out, in this session, we are checking out, 67 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:25.760 we are checking out the top three, right, the top three Open Heavens in the Bible, 68 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:33.520 so the top three Open Heavens in the Bible, righto, the top three Open Heavens in the Bible 69 00:07:33.520 --> 00:07:38.400 is our session, and we're going to start right into that right now, and we'll start by defining 70 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:46.880 what an Open Heaven is, okay, so what is an Open Heaven, and we'll start with this, we have to kind 71 00:07:46.880 --> 00:07:53.040 of go right back to the beginning, so let me start, and if you've followed me much, I often start 72 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:59.200 in this place, as we're going on an adventure, we take it all the way back to the Trinity, we take 73 00:07:59.200 --> 00:08:09.760 it back to the very beginning, and we take it back to this word perichoresis, okay, it's p-e-r-i-c-h-o-r-e-s-i-s, 74 00:08:09.760 --> 00:08:17.280 perichoresis, it's a word that theologians have used to describe the fellowship of the Trinity 75 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:23.040 for centuries and centuries, to capture the heartbeat of it, and you can translate it best as 76 00:08:23.040 --> 00:08:29.920 the divine dance, okay, so the perichoresis or the divine dance, and to kind of capture that 77 00:08:29.920 --> 00:08:36.080 the best for you, I wanted to share something I'd written with you, which is in my book, 78 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:42.480 The Science of Dreams, and I've got that link to download the audio and the e-book of that for free, 79 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:46.880 it is in the description of this video, so if you want to download it for free, you can do it, 80 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:53.600 so come with me to perichoresis, and we have to start right now at the beginning, so let's go back, 81 00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:59.120 let's go all the way back to before time began, and this is an extract from the book, 82 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:09.040 before time began there was God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, perichoresis is most 83 00:09:09.040 --> 00:09:17.280 simply translated and described as the divine dance, imagine with me if you can, all that exists 84 00:09:17.280 --> 00:09:25.520 is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dancing together in a seamless, harmonious union, 85 00:09:25.520 --> 00:09:33.840 infused perfectly with the most dynamic, powerful, extravagant, wild, gentle, and exquisite 86 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:42.640 expressions of love that have ever and will ever exist, culminating in the most abundant and 87 00:09:42.640 --> 00:09:50.320 glorious demonstrations of delight that have ever and will ever be known, imagine with me if you 88 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:59.840 will, the fullness of the infinite power of God concentrated into one giant laser. 89 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:11.200 being of pure, supernatural, divine love. So wonderful that words could never hope to articulate 90 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:18.320 even a single percent of its unspeakable, unfathomable goodness, warmth, kindness, wonders, 91 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:26.800 ecstasy, bliss, euphoria, happiness, joy, and delight. Now imagine with me, God the Father 92 00:10:26.800 --> 00:10:35.040 turning that giant laser cannon of divine love on Jesus and blasting him with absolutely everything 93 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:41.520 it had, holding nothing back, completely unleashing the entirety of his divine love on his son. 94 00:10:41.520 --> 00:10:49.360 Imagine Jesus being hit with this laser cannon of pure love, more powerful than a million bolts 95 00:10:49.360 --> 00:10:54.960 of lightning, except these intense beams of love are not actually coming from a cannon, 96 00:10:54.960 --> 00:11:02.400 rather they are coming from the Father's eyes, and every glance of his eyes is like a thousand 97 00:11:02.400 --> 00:11:11.600 waterfalls of love, like lightning, like fire, like oil, like being consumed in an ocean of divine love. 98 00:11:12.880 --> 00:11:23.040 As Jesus is hit by the Father's gaze, everything slows down. The love that comes from his eyes is 99 00:11:23.040 --> 00:11:30.160 softer than silk, but stronger than steel. It's the most gentle love there has ever been, yet it is 100 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:40.000 the greatest force in existence. It is calming and soothing, yet it is a raging fire of love that 101 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:48.320 consumes every aspect of his entire being. It is an intense encounter, yet it is in perfect harmony 102 00:11:48.400 --> 00:11:54.160 with the most eloquent dance that has ever been danced. Then Jesus turns his gaze, which is just 103 00:11:54.160 --> 00:12:01.680 as intense and powerful, on Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit turns his equally intense gaze upon Jesus, 104 00:12:01.680 --> 00:12:07.440 then on the Father, and they relentlessly throughout eternity blast each other with the purest, 105 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:15.440 most extravagant, most overwhelming measures of divine love that have ever and will ever exist. 106 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:25.120 I am aiming to help you capture the wonder of the divine dance. It's an indescribable, unbroken 107 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:35.120 cycle of the most flawless, spectacular masterpieces of love in all creation and beyond. It's a perpetual 108 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:42.320 expression of divine love that never flinches. It never relents and never reduces in intensity or 109 00:12:42.640 --> 00:12:50.320 consistency. Each member of the Trinity receives this divine love perfectly and gives perfect 110 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:56.080 expression of this divine love to the other members of the Trinity in the most creative, 111 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:03.120 the most outrageously abundant, and the most excellent ways divinely conceivable. 112 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:09.840 The fellowship of the Trinity, perichoresis, the divine dance is an explosion of the most 113 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:15.360 mind-bending expressions of love divinely conceivable. Each member of the Trinity pours 114 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:20.640 out the fullness of their power. They hold absolutely nothing back but spend themselves 115 00:13:20.640 --> 00:13:27.600 entirely in their exuberant, extravagant, heartfelt expressions of love that they lavish on one 116 00:13:27.600 --> 00:13:36.000 another. It was in this setting, in the context of this radical love that the Trinity conceived, 117 00:13:36.080 --> 00:13:43.520 one of the most powerful ideas that they have ever had. That idea was you. The original idea 118 00:13:43.520 --> 00:13:50.240 that they had was that you would be a perfect dance partner created with the capacity to 119 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:58.000 participate equally in the dance. They created you in their image so that you would be fully capable 120 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:09.120 of participating perfectly in perichoresis. Wow, I love that. So this perichoresis, 121 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:13.840 I want to start here because this is the heartbeat of heaven. This is the very essence of heaven. 122 00:14:13.840 --> 00:14:20.480 The heartbeat of heaven is the fellowship of the Trinity. It's an unbroken cycle of divine love. 123 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:26.720 And when we're talking about an open heaven, we have to understand that the kingdom of heaven 124 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:32.480 is an expression of the king. The kingdom of heaven, an open heaven is an expression of the 125 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:40.320 king himself. And an open heaven is when you have direct access to that glory that leaves you so 126 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:46.880 undone and such awe and so consumed and baptized by that love that you are swallowed up in it. 127 00:14:47.760 --> 00:14:50.000 So, wow. 128 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:59.840 So when we're talking about an open heaven, that's the context. That's what an open heaven is. 129 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.880 It's a mirroring of the person. It's a mirroring of the presence. It's the mirroring of the 130 00:15:04.880 --> 00:15:10.000 atmospheres and the values and the culture of the Kingdom of Heaven. That perichoresis, 131 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:14.880 that fellowship of the Trinity, is the heartbeat of Heaven. It's the foundation of Heaven. It's 132 00:15:14.880 --> 00:15:20.480 the epicenter of Heaven. It's the very epicenter. It's the very essence and the nature of the King 133 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:26.720 of Heaven. It's the nature of God. And that, my friends, that is the epicenter. It's the core 134 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:30.240 of Heaven. And when we're talking about an open Heaven, we're talking about Him, 135 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:35.840 we're talking about the presence, we're talking about who God is and direct access to that. 136 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:43.200 So when we use the term open Heaven, though, it can usually refer to a few different things. So 137 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:48.400 we're going to explore that. So an open Heaven can refer to, it could be experienced by an 138 00:15:48.400 --> 00:15:54.480 individual person, could walk in an open Heaven. An open Heaven could be experienced by a community, 139 00:15:54.480 --> 00:16:00.160 or an open Heaven could be experienced in a geographical area. And the Bible, 140 00:16:00.160 --> 00:16:08.080 it's also important to distinguish that an open Heaven is different to a heavenly encounter. 141 00:16:10.400 --> 00:16:16.800 One is you go to Heaven, the other is you carry Heaven. So the Bible has a bunch of stories about 142 00:16:16.800 --> 00:16:23.520 amazing heavenly encounters. You've got Exodus 24, where Moses and 70 of the elders of Israel 143 00:16:23.520 --> 00:16:29.600 and Nadab and Abihu actually get taken up to Heaven. And they have a feast with God. So let's 144 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:40.160 look at this. Exodus 24, which verse will we start with? We'll start with verse 9. Moses and Aaron, 145 00:16:40.160 --> 00:16:47.520 Nadab and Abihu and the 70 elders of Israel went up, or they ascended and saw the God of Israel. 146 00:16:47.520 --> 00:16:52.800 Under his feet was something like a pavement of lapis lazuli. This is the sea of glass that John 147 00:16:52.800 --> 00:16:58.720 saw, as bright blue as the sky. God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites. 148 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:07.359 They saw God and they ate and they drank. So that's 73 of the people of Israel. So Moses, 149 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:13.119 Nadab and Abihu and 70 of the elders, they all get sucked up. They go, they ascend together 150 00:17:13.119 --> 00:17:19.040 and have a covenant feast with God in Heaven on the sea of glass. How wild is that? You have two 151 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:25.760 Corinthians 12. Paul says, I know a man who 14 years ago was called up to the third Heaven. 152 00:17:25.760 --> 00:17:33.120 Heavenly encounter. Isaiah 6. Remember, Isaiah 6 gets sucked up into Heaven before the throne of God. 153 00:17:33.120 --> 00:17:37.200 He sees the seer from crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. And then you've got 154 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:42.000 Revelation 4. This is just a few of them, right? So heavenly encounters. Revelation 4. 155 00:17:42.720 --> 00:17:48.320 John, who writes the book of Revelation, it starts like this. After this, I looked and there before 156 00:17:48.320 --> 00:17:53.120 me was a door standing open in Heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a 157 00:17:53.120 --> 00:17:58.160 trumpet said, come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. And then after 158 00:17:58.160 --> 00:18:04.160 that, he has wild encounters in Heaven. So that's heavenly encounters, but an open Heaven is 159 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:09.360 different. An open Heaven is when you carry the fullness of Heaven. You carry Heaven here and now 160 00:18:09.360 --> 00:18:16.000 you carry Heaven in this place. You carry the glory in the earth. So we can look at the top three 161 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:23.200 expressions of an open Heaven in the Bible. But before we get to the top three, I've got two 162 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:30.720 honorable mentions. So two honorable mentions. The first one is, the first honorable mention 163 00:18:30.720 --> 00:18:41.520 is Moses. Check this out in the Exodus 33 verses 7 to 11. Now, Moses used to take a tent 164 00:18:41.520 --> 00:18:48.320 and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the tent of meeting. Anyone 165 00:18:48.320 --> 00:18:55.440 inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. And whenever Moses went 166 00:18:55.440 --> 00:19:03.120 to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he 167 00:19:03.120 --> 00:19:10.320 entered the tent. As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at 168 00:19:10.320 --> 00:19:18.320 the entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses. Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud 169 00:19:18.320 --> 00:19:25.760 standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshipped, each at the entrance to 170 00:19:25.760 --> 00:19:33.280 their tent. The Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would 171 00:19:33.280 --> 00:19:39.360 return to the camp, but as young age, Joshua, son of Nun, did not leave the tent. Now this, 172 00:19:40.080 --> 00:19:45.360 Moses gets an honorable mention because this is possibly the single greatest 173 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:53.120 verse in the whole Bible about someone who had the ability to shift an atmosphere and just 174 00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:59.840 unleash an atmosphere of an open Heaven. So what, let's just look at this again. As Moses 175 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:07.440 into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance while the Lord 176 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:11.440 spoke with Moses. So you've got the Shekinah glory comes here. Moses walks to that tent 177 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:16.240 and the Shekinah glory comes. Now something happens, there's an atmospheric shift that 178 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:21.120 takes place here, okay? And watch what happens. Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud 179 00:20:21.120 --> 00:20:26.880 standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped at the entrance to their tent. 180 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:33.920 Now the conservative estimates is that there's at least, at very bare minimum, a million people 181 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:42.000 here. How wild is this? So the manifest Shekinah glory cloud comes down and there's a shift and 182 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:47.440 you've got over a million people and whatever they're doing, they just stop. How wild is this? 183 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:54.320 They just stop as Moses goes to pray. It shifts the entire atmosphere of a nation and they all 184 00:20:54.320 --> 00:21:00.800 rise up and they all lift their hands and begin to worship. Now we know that these guys aren't all 185 00:21:00.800 --> 00:21:06.480 like, they are all over the place. They've got all sorts of crazy things going on. They've been idol 186 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:10.560 worshiping, they've been rebellious, they're all sorts of stuff, right? But something happens. Now 187 00:21:10.560 --> 00:21:15.680 this is the thing with an open heaven is it shifts the atmosphere and even if a person's heart isn't 188 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:22.400 right, even a person isn't like, isn't walking righteously, when their atmosphere shifts, it 189 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.880 will cause a change. It will shift the atmosphere over them. This is why a huge thing that we're 190 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:31.360 going to be talking about in the intensive is that the atmosphere shifts and when the atmosphere 191 00:21:31.360 --> 00:21:36.160 shifts, they actually come into a place of freedom where they're not bound by whatever demonic 192 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:40.560 mindsets might have been holding them back in the past. They come into a place, everyone comes into 193 00:21:40.560 --> 00:21:47.520 this place of extreme worship. Wow! Can you imagine that? You having the ability where when you pray, 194 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:53.920 it shifts the atmosphere in an entire nation and people who were once bound up, restricted, 195 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:58.960 addicted, whatever, they just got free and they were able to stand up and worship in total freedom 196 00:21:59.840 --> 00:22:05.680 the moment you stood to pray. So Moses gets an honorable mention for that as possibly the greatest 197 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:11.920 person ever to live with the ability to shift an atmosphere, actually release an open heaven 198 00:22:12.000 --> 00:22:19.280 just when he went to pray. Is that wild or what? Okay, so the next honorable mention is Paul and 199 00:22:19.280 --> 00:22:25.360 Paul gets an honorable mention because Paul understood the power of the renewed mind. 200 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:30.960 Paul talked in Romans 12, he said, do not conform to the pattern of this world but be 201 00:22:31.600 --> 00:22:36.960 transfigured by the renewing of your mind. Most people will read their Bibles and it'll say 202 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:43.280 transformed but the Greek word there is metamorpho. It's used four times in the New Testament, 203 00:22:43.280 --> 00:22:50.400 twice of Jesus being transfigured, once referring to Moses being transfigured because Moses when he 204 00:22:50.400 --> 00:22:56.720 came down from the mountain, he was glowing. In 2 Corinthians 3.18, it says we are all transfigured 205 00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:03.760 from one degree of glory to another. So it's actually 2 Corinthians 3.10 that says that which 206 00:23:03.760 --> 00:23:10.000 came with glory, which is Moses, now has no glory in comparison with the surpassing glory and 207 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:16.880 we're living in the days of the surpassing glory. So 2 Corinthians 3.18 says as we behold God, as we 208 00:23:16.880 --> 00:23:23.120 look on his face, we are transfigured from one degree of glory to another. And Paul understood 209 00:23:23.840 --> 00:23:29.040 this transfiguration, it's stepping into the fullness of your identity, of who you are. 210 00:23:29.040 --> 00:23:35.440 So Romans 12.2, it talks about the renewed mind and Paul had so much to say about the mind. He 211 00:23:35.440 --> 00:23:39.840 understood the power of the mind and Paul understood that a renewed mind is an open 212 00:23:39.840 --> 00:23:47.120 heaven. So say this with me, a renewed mind is an open heaven. A renewed mind is an open 213 00:23:47.120 --> 00:23:52.800 heaven. Paul talked about the futile mind. He talked about the depraved mind in Romans 1. 214 00:23:52.800 --> 00:23:58.080 We're going to look at that in our next session, the futile mind, the depraved mind and then he 215 00:23:58.080 --> 00:24:07.040 also says in Romans 8.6, the mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the spirit 216 00:24:07.040 --> 00:24:17.440 is life and peace. So the word life, it's the Greek word zoe, which is the divine life. Paul 217 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:23.360 understood that the mind governed by the spirit is an open heaven that actually steps into and 218 00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:30.960 functions from and actually lives in heaven on earth. It lives in a full measure of the divine 219 00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:36.800 life right here and now. Wow. So Paul gets an honorable mention for that. He understood that 220 00:24:36.800 --> 00:24:44.400 the renewed mind is an open heaven. All right, sweet. So now number three, we're going to look 221 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:50.880 at the number three. So we've got the top three open heavens in the Bible. The third one is open 222 00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:59.120 heaven in a community. Any guesses on this? Any guesses on what you think is going to be? 223 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.880 Number three. Okay, what's going to be number three in your mind? So here it is. Number three 224 00:25:07.440 --> 00:25:16.000 is the community of believers in Acts. There was so much going on here, okay? And so, 225 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:21.920 you remember, we can have the open heaven carried by a person, open heaven in a geographical 226 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:27.920 context, or open heaven in a community. And so, the community of believers in Acts, they actually 227 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:34.080 carried this dynamic of an open heaven. And there's so many things happening there. You've 228 00:25:34.080 --> 00:25:38.720 got Pentecost, where the Shekinah glory of God comes on them as they're praying, the sound of 229 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:44.640 a mighty wind, the supernatural sound that just gets the attention of the entire city. And then 230 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:49.680 you've got the baptism in the Holy Spirit, where there's tongues of fire, flames of fire, 231 00:25:49.680 --> 00:25:56.640 the Shekinah glory flames burning above their heads. And then thousands of people getting undone 232 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:05.440 in the presence. They have a crazy amount of angelic activity. You know, Peter getting set 233 00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:13.360 free from... In Acts 12, when Peter gets set free from prison by an angel, something amazing happens. 234 00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:18.640 It's like, he goes and knocks on the door of his friends. He's back there. And then the girl looks 235 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:23.680 and says, oh, he's back. And everyone's like, no way, Peter can't be back. It must just be his 236 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:28.640 angel. So if they had to logically choose, is Peter standing at the door knocking or is an 237 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:32.480 angel that just looks like Peter standing at the door knocking? They're like, it's way more likely 238 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:40.080 to be an angel, right? So there's just so much angelic activity, resurrections going on. And 239 00:26:40.080 --> 00:26:46.320 then, you know, Acts 17 verse 6, they get referred to like this. It says, these men who have turned 240 00:26:46.320 --> 00:26:51.440 the whole world upside down have come here also. So not only are they carrying something, they're 241 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:58.240 carrying something that's turning the entire world upside down. You have Acts 4.32, the fellowship 242 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:03.600 of believers, where they shared everything. How beautiful is that? One of the most beautiful 243 00:27:03.600 --> 00:27:10.400 expressions of church in history when no one had any need whatsoever and everyone just shared what 244 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:19.760 they needed. Check the power out. Let's read this from Acts 5 verse 12. The apostles performed many 245 00:27:19.760 --> 00:27:25.120 signs and wonders among the people, and all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's 246 00:27:25.120 --> 00:27:32.160 colonnade. No one else dared join them. So there's this dynamic of the fear of God in that community. 247 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:37.680 And I tell you what, when you do have an open heaven, there's this extreme love, the extreme 248 00:27:37.680 --> 00:27:44.960 baptism of the love of God. But there's also an awe, there's a phenomenal awe of God that you 249 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:50.480 just do not mess with His glory, all right? You don't want to mess with His glory. There's a fear, 250 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:57.120 a reverence of like, oh my gosh, God is real. God is in this place. He's not to be dishonored. He's 251 00:27:57.120 --> 00:28:05.200 not to be messed with. He is holy and awesome. And that reverence of the Lord was on them so strong 252 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:09.040 that no one wanted to, they didn't want to mess with them. They didn't want to join them lightly. 253 00:28:09.040 --> 00:28:13.040 But even though there was that fear on them, it says this, even though they were highly regarded 254 00:28:13.040 --> 00:28:20.000 by the people, nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to 255 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:26.400 their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so 256 00:28:26.400 --> 00:28:32.960 that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. How's that? They were just, 257 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:39.680 there's so much glory on them as a community that just their shadows would heal people. Just as 258 00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:42.560 they're walking by, they're not even trying to do healings. People are laying them on the streets 259 00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:49.920 because they know just the shadow of Peter, whoa, will bring a total shift in people's lives. Crowds 260 00:28:49.920 --> 00:28:56.080 gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure 261 00:28:56.080 --> 00:29:04.080 spirits and all of them were healed. Whoa, whoa, this is phenomenal. So that's pick number three. 262 00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:12.160 And then number two, okay, we're going for number two. Number two is phenomenal. Okay, now this one, 263 00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:19.920 this is an open heaven in a geographical area. Okay, so we're going to look at this one in a 264 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:27.360 few different levels. Feel free to chuck out your picks there of who you think or where you think 265 00:29:27.360 --> 00:29:33.520 or what you think this one's going to be. Let me, you'll get it as soon as I read this, but this is 266 00:29:33.520 --> 00:29:45.760 1 Kings chapter 5, verse 4. And I will read this to you from the New King James Version. 267 00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:54.560 It says, but now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary 268 00:29:54.560 --> 00:29:59.920 nor evil occurrence. Now, look, we're going to pause here for a moment. Okay, so now the... 269 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:03.200 Lord, my God has given me rest on every side. 270 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.400 There is neither adversary nor evil occurrence. 271 00:30:10.600 --> 00:30:15.760 Here are the so a few key, there's two really key words here, 272 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:19.640 but now the Lord, my God has given me rest or peace, that is the word Shalom. 273 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:21.400 OK, so this is Solomon writing it out. 274 00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:25.120 OK, so we're looking right now at the beginning of Solomon's kingdom 275 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:28.640 and what the world was like at the beginning of Solomon's kingdom. 276 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:31.760 So now the Lord, my God has given me peace or Shalom. 277 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:37.800 And Shalom means everything functioning according to divine design. 278 00:30:37.840 --> 00:30:41.160 Wow. Everything functioning according to divine design. 279 00:30:41.320 --> 00:30:43.800 So imagine a Solomon speaking about his kingdom. 280 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:47.160 He said, now the Lord has caused everything in my kingdom 281 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:49.560 to function according to divine design. 282 00:30:49.800 --> 00:30:52.880 And there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence. 283 00:30:52.880 --> 00:30:54.080 Now, this is wild. 284 00:30:54.080 --> 00:30:56.720 OK, this is talking about a whole geographical region 285 00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:59.280 where there's no evil occurrences. 286 00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:01.800 It doesn't matter what translation you look at it. 287 00:31:02.080 --> 00:31:03.400 You go back to the Hebrew on this. 288 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.960 It literally means that he's saying that nothing evil was happening 289 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.520 in his kingdom. This is phenomenal. 290 00:31:11.520 --> 00:31:13.680 This is unprecedented. This is amazing. 291 00:31:13.960 --> 00:31:16.240 Now, here's something that goes even crazier. 292 00:31:16.400 --> 00:31:19.360 When you look at the word adversary in the Hebrew, 293 00:31:19.560 --> 00:31:21.640 it's a word that we're well familiar with. 294 00:31:21.840 --> 00:31:24.840 The Hebrew word for adversary is Satan. 295 00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:29.920 So he said, now the Lord has caused everything in my kingdom 296 00:31:29.920 --> 00:31:32.400 to function according to divine design. 297 00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:37.440 There is no Satan and nothing evil ever happens. 298 00:31:37.560 --> 00:31:39.600 Wow. Wow. 299 00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:42.160 That is why you got to picture this. OK. 300 00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:48.160 But can you imagine a kingdom where nothing evil ever happens? 301 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:51.160 Wow. What is that? That is an open heaven. 302 00:31:51.360 --> 00:31:55.560 Now, I've had a really interesting story at church 303 00:31:55.560 --> 00:31:56.800 when we were pastoring at church. 304 00:31:56.800 --> 00:31:59.720 A guy came into church and he said when he came into church, 305 00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:02.880 he used to have demons that tormented him. 306 00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:05.640 But the moment he stepped over the threshold into our church, 307 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.360 those demons couldn't hinder him anymore. 308 00:32:08.360 --> 00:32:10.120 They actually stayed at the door. 309 00:32:10.120 --> 00:32:12.200 And he said when he left the building, 310 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:14.560 demons would be waiting for him. 311 00:32:14.560 --> 00:32:15.960 But there was always less. 312 00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:18.720 Every time he came in, he'd go out and there'd be less 313 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:20.360 that would actually be there. 314 00:32:20.360 --> 00:32:23.440 Now, there's one day where he was in church 315 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:24.640 and he was down on the ground. 316 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:26.800 Well, I wonder what's happening with him. 317 00:32:26.800 --> 00:32:29.880 He was having a heavenly encounter where he was taken into heaven. 318 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.360 And he had this face to face time with God. 319 00:32:32.520 --> 00:32:36.600 And when he left that day, there was there were no more demons there. 320 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:38.360 Nothing there to oppress him. 321 00:32:38.360 --> 00:32:43.840 So what Solomon had in his kingdom was a realm, an open heaven realm 322 00:32:44.120 --> 00:32:47.360 where the demonic realm was not functioning. 323 00:32:47.360 --> 00:32:49.280 Now, Solomon started with this. 324 00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:50.720 He didn't have that at the end. 325 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:51.920 He totally lost that. 326 00:32:51.920 --> 00:32:53.960 But let's look at where this came from. 327 00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:56.960 OK, can you imagine this a demon free zone? 328 00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:58.840 And God wants to restore this. 329 00:32:58.840 --> 00:33:03.240 And I tell you what, when we create habitations of the glory of God, 330 00:33:03.480 --> 00:33:06.440 when we create habitations of the kind of glory of God, 331 00:33:06.560 --> 00:33:08.800 we're going to see this restored again. 332 00:33:08.800 --> 00:33:12.240 We're going to see areas where you just with demonic realm. 333 00:33:12.280 --> 00:33:13.840 This cannot function. 334 00:33:13.840 --> 00:33:14.840 They cannot operate. 335 00:33:14.840 --> 00:33:16.360 They have no access. 336 00:33:16.360 --> 00:33:17.960 It'll be a demon free zone. 337 00:33:17.960 --> 00:33:20.440 There'll be so much kind of glory 338 00:33:20.600 --> 00:33:23.880 that demons will not be able to access that realm. 339 00:33:23.920 --> 00:33:26.720 Wow. And Solomon's kingdom 340 00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:29.360 had a geographical demon free zone. 341 00:33:29.360 --> 00:33:31.160 Wow. But where did it start? 342 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:32.520 You know, this all started. 343 00:33:32.520 --> 00:33:37.320 And let's go back to where it started, which is it started with David, right? 344 00:33:37.320 --> 00:33:39.480 It started with the heart of David. 345 00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:40.720 So we'll go back to 346 00:33:42.800 --> 00:33:46.280 we'll go back to second Samuel six and we'll look at this. 347 00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:52.600 Actually, this story is recorded in second 348 00:33:53.520 --> 00:33:57.440 in Samuel six, and it's also recorded in Chronicles 15. 349 00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.320 We're going to look at the one Chronicles 15 version. 350 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:04.840 It says David brought together all the young men of Israel. 351 00:34:05.280 --> 00:34:07.920 30,000. Wow. That's a gathering. 352 00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:11.960 He and all those men went to Bala and Judah to bring up from there 353 00:34:12.199 --> 00:34:14.000 the ark of God. 354 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:17.840 How amazing is the ark of the glory of God? 355 00:34:18.560 --> 00:34:22.280 God said about himself that his glory dwells. 356 00:34:22.280 --> 00:34:23.800 He himself dwells. 357 00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:25.880 His glory dwells in that ark. 358 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:31.159 When Moses created in Exodus four, it says that God, God dwells. 359 00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:33.280 He God wrapped himself into that ark. 360 00:34:33.280 --> 00:34:35.600 God dwells in that ark. 361 00:34:35.600 --> 00:34:38.360 It was the ark of the glory of God. 362 00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:42.400 And then we know in verse seven, 363 00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:46.920 verse six, it says that Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark. 364 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:48.679 Boom. So this is 365 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:51.320 so this is reading from 366 00:34:53.080 --> 00:34:55.320 Samuel six. All right. 367 00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:58.200 But Uzzah, he touched the ark and he died. 368 00:34:58.440 --> 00:34:59.960 And then Dave was totally. 369 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.000 disappointed, right? Here it says, Uzzah reached out and took 370 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:06.600 hold of the Ark of God because the oxen stumbled. The Lord's 371 00:35:06.600 --> 00:35:09.680 anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act. 372 00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:12.880 Therefore, God struck him down and he died there beside the 373 00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:17.080 Ark of God. Then David was angry because the Lord's wrath had 374 00:35:17.080 --> 00:35:20.800 broken out against Uzzah. And to this day, that place is called 375 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:25.800 Perez Uzzah. David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, how 376 00:35:25.800 --> 00:35:31.920 can the Ark of the Lord ever come to me? I wonder if you've 377 00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:36.240 ever had a disappointment, or you felt like you've waited so 378 00:35:36.240 --> 00:35:39.040 long and it hasn't happened, or you've been longing for this 379 00:35:39.040 --> 00:35:43.400 promise, or for some reason, disappointment or discouragement 380 00:35:43.560 --> 00:35:46.800 has got into your heart as you've been seeking God. You're 381 00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:49.760 like, wow, where is it, God? Discouragement and 382 00:35:49.760 --> 00:35:52.600 disappointment can get into a heart and got into David's 383 00:35:52.600 --> 00:35:56.040 heart. And he was not willing to take the Ark of the Lord to 384 00:35:56.040 --> 00:35:59.640 be with him in the city of David. Instead, he took it to 385 00:35:59.640 --> 00:36:04.240 the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite. The Ark of the Lord 386 00:36:04.240 --> 00:36:07.680 remained in the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite for three 387 00:36:07.680 --> 00:36:11.040 months, and the Lord blessed him and his entire household. Now 388 00:36:11.040 --> 00:36:13.800 this guy, Obed Edom, just think about him for a moment. This 389 00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:17.720 guy, Obed Edom, you don't really hear about him much before this. 390 00:36:17.720 --> 00:36:21.760 But after that, Obed Edom, the Ark goes to his house for three 391 00:36:21.760 --> 00:36:24.240 months, right? And he looks after it in his house for three 392 00:36:24.240 --> 00:36:27.760 months. And then they come later on, and we'll read this in a 393 00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:32.080 second. And they take the Ark from Obed Edom's house. But Obed 394 00:36:32.080 --> 00:36:36.240 Edom, after that time, he won't go anywhere except where the Ark 395 00:36:36.240 --> 00:36:41.080 is. He leaves everything just to be with the Ark. Verse 12. Now 396 00:36:41.120 --> 00:36:45.640 King David was told, the Lord has blessed the household of 397 00:36:45.640 --> 00:36:51.240 Obed Edom, and everything he has because of the Ark of God. So 398 00:36:51.240 --> 00:36:55.240 David went to bring up the Ark of God from the house of Obed 399 00:36:55.240 --> 00:36:59.080 Edom to the city of David with rejoicing. When those who were 400 00:36:59.080 --> 00:37:03.160 carrying the Ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a 401 00:37:03.160 --> 00:37:09.280 bull and a fattened calf. You imagine that every six steps, 402 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:12.920 there's a sacrifice. So this took a long time. And it was an 403 00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:16.720 insane amount of sacrifice. What we're going to realize here is 404 00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:20.440 that David went away. And it's actually David's mind was the 405 00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.440 problem. David's mind was the problem of why he couldn't carry 406 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:26.800 the Ark of God. So when we look before Paul, he understood a 407 00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:31.920 futile mind. He understood the dynamic of a futile mind. Well, 408 00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:35.200 David was caught up in that. But then David actually dealt with 409 00:37:35.200 --> 00:37:38.040 it, right? David had stuff in himself that had to be dealt 410 00:37:38.040 --> 00:37:40.760 with. And we've got stuff in ourselves that needs to be dealt 411 00:37:40.760 --> 00:37:43.480 with. If we want to go beyond where we've ever gone and 412 00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:46.920 carrying the glory of God and carrying the Ark of God, you 413 00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:51.480 will create to carry the Ark of His glory. But we've got to, 414 00:37:51.520 --> 00:37:59.040 we've got to, we get stuck. And we need a renewed mind that will 415 00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:03.240 enable us to go beyond where we've ever gone before, to carry 416 00:38:03.240 --> 00:38:06.640 the Ark and carry the glory like we've never carried the glory 417 00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:11.400 before. Wow. Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before 418 00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:14.760 the Lord with all his might, while he and all Israel were 419 00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:18.320 bringing up the Ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of 420 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:24.040 trumpets. And we know that Michal, the daughter of Saul, his 421 00:38:24.040 --> 00:38:26.880 wife watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping 422 00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:29.800 and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart. And 423 00:38:29.800 --> 00:38:32.720 you know what, when you were going all in to carry the glory 424 00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:36.120 of God, you're going to have enemies, you'll be polarizing. 425 00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:41.560 Nevermind, verse 17, they brought the Ark of the Lord and 426 00:38:41.560 --> 00:38:44.640 set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched 427 00:38:44.640 --> 00:38:47.880 for it. David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship 428 00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:53.480 offerings before the Lord. This is amazing, right? Because this 429 00:38:53.480 --> 00:38:58.080 is in the time where Moses had instructed how the Ark of the 430 00:38:58.080 --> 00:39:00.280 Lord was supposed to be stored, it was supposed to be in this 431 00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:03.200 tent, there was supposed to be all these veils set up, there 432 00:39:03.200 --> 00:39:08.480 was supposed to be all this, all of this protocol around the Ark 433 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:10.960 of the glory of God in terms of how it was supposed to be set 434 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.960 up. But David, he just set up a single tent, they put it in a 435 00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:19.920 single tent, and they worship before the Ark of the glory of 436 00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:24.960 God. They worship before the Ark of the glory of God. Now, what 437 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.320 we're doing is we're connecting right now, why Solomon inherited 438 00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.360 a kingdom where he could say there was no Satan, or evil 439 00:39:32.360 --> 00:39:35.880 occurrence. We're exploring why Solomon had one of the greatest 440 00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:39.800 expressions of an open heaven in the entire Bible. And it comes 441 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:44.520 back to this moment where David brought back the Ark of the 442 00:39:44.520 --> 00:39:53.280 Lord. So that was in 2 Samuel 6. Give me one second. 443 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:05.600 Yeah, 2 Samuel 6, that was David bringing it back. 444 00:40:05.600 --> 00:40:11.480 Now, if you look in Chronicles for this story as well, it happens in 1 Chronicles 15 and 445 00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:12.480 1 Chronicles 16. 446 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:19.000 But something beautiful and powerful happens that says, so David left Asaph and his brothers 447 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:25.480 there before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to minister regularly before the Ark 448 00:40:25.480 --> 00:40:27.400 as each day required. 449 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:31.400 So just a minute, I want you to capture what's happening here. 450 00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:38.280 David sets up one tabernacle, one tent with the Ark of God's presence, the Shekinah glory 451 00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.600 that dwelt between the cherubim as they overshadowed the mercy seat. 452 00:40:42.600 --> 00:40:45.200 And God said, my glory will dwell there always. 453 00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:50.080 And the Shekinah glory of God dwelling there in the Ark of God. 454 00:40:50.080 --> 00:40:54.320 And they would come and not like Moses' tent, Moses' tent, Moses' tabernacle, they said 455 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.240 you have to have this veil and this veil. 456 00:40:56.240 --> 00:40:59.120 You can only go in, the high priest can only go in there once a year. 457 00:40:59.120 --> 00:41:03.280 Well, David didn't do that, David ignored all the instruction. 458 00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:07.080 And David went and created this one tent, just one room. 459 00:41:07.080 --> 00:41:11.800 Everyone came around the Ark and everyone spent time before the very Shekinah glory 460 00:41:11.800 --> 00:41:12.800 of God. 461 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:17.920 And David said he left Asaph and his brothers who were priests there before the Ark of the 462 00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:24.360 Covenant of the Lord to minister regularly, whoa, before the Ark as each day required. 463 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:32.200 But that word regularly in the Hebrew is the word Tormid, okay, Tormid, Tormid, and it 464 00:41:32.200 --> 00:41:38.960 means always, it means forever, it means perpetually, continually, it means forever more. 465 00:41:38.960 --> 00:41:46.480 And so what actually happened, that was the very first birthing of a corporate 24-7 worship 466 00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:53.600 time where David actually employed the priests and the Levites to minister, to worship before 467 00:41:53.600 --> 00:41:56.440 the Ark of God's glory 24-7. 468 00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:57.440 And you know what? 469 00:41:57.440 --> 00:42:03.960 This prayer meeting, this worship meeting before the Ark of God, it went on for between 470 00:42:03.960 --> 00:42:12.640 36 and 37 years, whoa, somewhere around 36 and 37 years, they worshiped, they ministered, 471 00:42:12.640 --> 00:42:16.480 they gave glory and honor, and they worshiped before the throne of God. 472 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:23.120 And now that is why King Solomon could say, I have shalom on every side, you've given 473 00:42:23.120 --> 00:42:30.320 me shalom, the Lord has given me shalom because the kingdom was established in 24-7 prayer 474 00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:37.200 and worship, and it created a geographical open heaven where there was no Satan or evil 475 00:42:37.200 --> 00:42:38.200 occurrence. 476 00:42:38.200 --> 00:42:39.640 Now, that is wild. 477 00:42:39.640 --> 00:42:45.520 Now, that's what Solomon started with, but he obviously, he lost it, whoa, let me know 478 00:42:45.520 --> 00:42:53.040 if you think that is wild glory, whoa, it's just amazing, Papa, whoa, there's glory on 479 00:42:53.040 --> 00:43:01.880 that, Papa, Papa, would you restore that glory on us in Jesus' name, whoa, wow, so 480 00:43:01.880 --> 00:43:10.160 it goes on, whoa, just the presence is beautiful right now, oh, let's just take a moment just 481 00:43:10.160 --> 00:43:18.760 to sit there, Papa, there's a grace, there's a grace that David carried, there's a grace 482 00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:21.080 that that generation carried. 483 00:43:21.080 --> 00:43:28.680 We ask you to release that grace on us, we wanna walk in that glory, we wanna know geographical 484 00:43:28.680 --> 00:43:36.080 open heavens, whoa, Jesus, we wanna know your glory, we wanna walk in your glory like David 485 00:43:36.080 --> 00:43:42.400 walked in it, we wanna know that glory, that open heaven that Solomon had, whoa, we want 486 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:47.440 that on our nations, whoa, let me know if you want that, let me know if you want that, 487 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:53.040 that's what God wants to do, he wants to restore open heavens, but think about this, 488 00:43:53.040 --> 00:43:59.280 remember this, that it began with the first organized corporate 24-7 prayer and worship, 489 00:43:59.280 --> 00:44:06.080 that's when this was birthed and went 36 to 37 years, just stewarding the glory of God, 490 00:44:06.080 --> 00:44:10.960 worshiping, ministering to the Lord, because worship, it shifts the atmosphere, we're gonna 491 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:16.520 look at this more as we go on, but let's look at number one, okay, we're gonna look at the 492 00:44:16.680 --> 00:44:26.600 number one open heaven in the Bible, okay, so open heavens can be on a community, open heavens 493 00:44:26.600 --> 00:44:33.000 can be geographical or an open heaven can be on an individual, man, can you, like how amazing 494 00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:38.840 was that, that Moses, he had the ability that when Moses decided to pray, he would go to the 495 00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:43.480 tent and the Shekinah glory of God would fall as he went to the tent of meeting, 496 00:44:43.640 --> 00:44:50.360 wow, and the atmosphere shifts so radically that over a million people would just stand 497 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:55.320 to their feet and worship, over a million people, listen, the good, the bad and the ugly, 498 00:44:55.320 --> 00:44:59.880 those that love God, those that didn't love God, the atmospheric shift when Moses went to 499 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:06.560 pray was so phenomenal that over an entire group of people, over everyone that was there, they all 500 00:45:06.560 --> 00:45:12.640 stood and they just came in this place of abandoned worship until Moses finished praying. 501 00:45:12.640 --> 00:45:17.040 You think that those guys, you think that Moses went in to pray for five or ten minutes? Moses 502 00:45:17.040 --> 00:45:22.080 would have been in there for hours and the whole community was in this place of hands raised 503 00:45:22.080 --> 00:45:29.280 worship before, wow, worship just sold out in worship. This is phenomenal guys. We've got to 504 00:45:29.280 --> 00:45:35.360 think about the power of that atmospheric shift. It was huge. So Moses carried this ability to 505 00:45:35.360 --> 00:45:43.200 shift an atmosphere and release the atmosphere of an open heaven over people, those that were, 506 00:45:43.200 --> 00:45:48.880 and that's amazing. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine walking into a city and when you 507 00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:55.280 go to pray, the Shekinah glory of God falls from heaven and there becomes such an awareness 508 00:45:56.240 --> 00:46:06.160 of the awe and the wonder and the glory of God that people who know Jesus and people who don't 509 00:46:06.160 --> 00:46:13.600 know Jesus are undone by the wonder of his beauty. They just come into this place where even though 510 00:46:13.600 --> 00:46:19.200 they don't even know him, they're just like, wow, what is this? They just begin to step into worship. 511 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:26.080 They begin to step into adoration, wow. And you know what David called the priests to do, 512 00:46:27.200 --> 00:46:31.120 there's a prayer movement that has, this is their statement, let me know if you love this, 513 00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:39.680 the prayer movement is, our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration. Our lives are devoted to 514 00:46:39.680 --> 00:46:47.920 perpetual adoration and that is exactly what David commanded the priests to do. He commanded them to 515 00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:56.560 come into a place of perpetual adoration and as a community for 36 to 37 years they lived in a place 516 00:46:56.560 --> 00:47:06.000 of perpetual adoration of God and it shifted the atmosphere so powerfully on that geographical 517 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:13.600 region that after 36 to 37 years, the demonic realm couldn't operate or function in that 518 00:47:13.600 --> 00:47:22.080 territory, wow. So let's now look at the number one example, the number one open heaven in the 519 00:47:22.080 --> 00:47:28.080 entire Bible. I'd love you to try and guess what this is. Remember an open heaven can be 520 00:47:28.080 --> 00:47:34.800 on a community, it can be on a region or it can be on an individual and this one was on an individual 521 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:40.640 and I'm sure you've probably guessed it but here's a quote from that individual, that individual said 522 00:47:40.640 --> 00:47:51.120 I am the way, whoa, I am the way, I am the truth and I am the life, wow. Now that word life, this is 523 00:47:51.120 --> 00:47:59.280 Jesus. Jesus is the greatest example of an open heaven in the entire Bible, wow. Jesus is the 524 00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:05.760 greatest example of an open heaven in the Bible. He, listen that word life, it's a Greek word 525 00:48:06.400 --> 00:48:14.320 Zoe, right, the Greek word Zoe and it is, Jesus defined that Greek word in this moment when he 526 00:48:14.320 --> 00:48:20.640 said I am the life, that is the divine life. It is, what does it mean? It's, we're going all the way back 527 00:48:20.640 --> 00:48:27.600 to the beginning of this message that started with the divine dance, the divine dance, the divine 528 00:48:27.600 --> 00:48:35.840 life, Zoe is the divine dance, Zoe is the exact same emotional state of being as God, catch this, 529 00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:41.920 whoa, is that wild crazy? Zoe is the divine life, it's the exact same 530 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:51.280 feelings as God, the exact same emotional state of being as God, wow, the, it's oneness with God, it 531 00:48:51.280 --> 00:49:00.160 is the divine life, wow, it's the unbroken cycle of divine love crashing over us, flowing over us 532 00:49:00.160 --> 00:49:06.640 and in us and through us, it's an unbroken cycle of divine love that consumes us and baptizes us 533 00:49:06.640 --> 00:49:13.040 and immerses us, it blazes as a raging fire in the inside of us, it releases his glory over us, 534 00:49:13.040 --> 00:49:19.520 it releases his wonders in us and through us, it infuses us with the divine nature, wow. 535 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:28.640 So, Jesus is the number one example of an open heaven in the Bible, in John 14, 12, just after 536 00:49:28.640 --> 00:49:34.240 this, right, where he said, I am the life, he says, anyone who has faith in me will do what I've been 537 00:49:34.240 --> 00:49:40.960 doing, they will do even greater things than these. Listen, Jesus has said that it's 538 00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:47.760 possible for us to step in and be an even greater expression of heaven on earth than he was. Now, 539 00:49:47.760 --> 00:49:52.080 if it wasn't Jesus that said that, no one would believe it, everyone would say, 540 00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.920 like that was heresy, everyone would say, you can't dream that big, you can't think that crazy, 541 00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:59.920 you can't be that wild, but Jesus 542 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:06.000 said, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. 543 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:09.560 And what was he doing? He was the greatest expression of 544 00:50:09.560 --> 00:50:13.280 heaven on earth, the greatest open heaven that the world has 545 00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:18.040 ever seen. Jesus was a portal to the exact nature of the Father. 546 00:50:18.160 --> 00:50:22.160 When you looked on Jesus, you saw the Father. When you looked 547 00:50:22.160 --> 00:50:25.840 on Jesus, you saw heaven. When you looked on Jesus, you saw 548 00:50:25.840 --> 00:50:30.160 love. When you looked on Jesus, you saw the glory of God. Not 549 00:50:30.160 --> 00:50:33.520 only this, they will do even greater things than these. Let's 550 00:50:33.520 --> 00:50:38.360 look at John 8, 12. Now this is wild. Okay, in John 8, 12, Jesus 551 00:50:38.360 --> 00:50:44.160 said, I am the light of the world. Whoa. How beautiful is 552 00:50:44.160 --> 00:50:49.880 that? I am the light of the world. Whoa. I am the light of 553 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:54.280 the world. How amazing is that? He's the light of the world. He 554 00:50:54.280 --> 00:50:57.200 is the greatest open heaven. I am the light of the world that 555 00:50:57.200 --> 00:50:59.280 he makes that statement. And it's an identity statement. 556 00:50:59.280 --> 00:51:02.320 Right. And then he doesn't go anywhere. He's not moving. He 557 00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.280 hasn't shifted anywhere. And he says, whoever follows me. Right. 558 00:51:07.280 --> 00:51:10.120 So he's not talking about geographically following him. 559 00:51:10.120 --> 00:51:13.200 He's talking about whoever thinks about themselves like I 560 00:51:13.200 --> 00:51:16.440 think about myself. I am the light of the world as an 561 00:51:16.440 --> 00:51:21.080 identity statement. And Jesus says, whoever follows me, whoever 562 00:51:21.080 --> 00:51:24.640 thinks the same about me, whoever believes the same about 563 00:51:24.640 --> 00:51:28.920 themselves that I believe about myself will, here's what they'll 564 00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:33.800 do. They will never walk in darkness, a sinless existence, 565 00:51:33.800 --> 00:51:37.400 my friends. That's what we're called for, created for, a 566 00:51:37.400 --> 00:51:41.560 sinless existence. They will never walk in darkness. And I 567 00:51:41.560 --> 00:51:44.480 promise you that when you step into your identity, you will 568 00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:49.400 never walk in darkness. They will never walk in darkness, and 569 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:56.240 they will have the light of life. The Greek word that would 570 00:51:56.240 --> 00:51:58.480 have you might not think that there's much to it. But the 571 00:51:58.480 --> 00:52:08.960 Greek word is echo. The Greek word echo. It means to hold in 572 00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:13.240 one's hand means to possess in your hand, right? It also means 573 00:52:13.240 --> 00:52:19.120 to put on like a garment. It means to be and obviously, it 574 00:52:19.120 --> 00:52:23.320 means the word echo to mirror to be an exact expression. What 575 00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:27.520 will they? So let's look at John 8 12. Again, I am the light of 576 00:52:27.520 --> 00:52:32.680 the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness. But 577 00:52:32.680 --> 00:52:36.080 they will have what will they have, they will have, they will 578 00:52:36.120 --> 00:52:40.160 possess in their hands, they will mirror on earth as in 579 00:52:40.160 --> 00:52:45.200 heaven, they will wear it like a garment, the light of life. 580 00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:48.880 That's the divine nature. That's the divine life. That's the 581 00:52:48.880 --> 00:52:53.640 fullness of the divine life. And Jesus is saying that he even 582 00:52:53.640 --> 00:52:57.440 though he is the greatest expression of heaven on earth 583 00:52:57.440 --> 00:53:00.600 that the world had ever seen, that's what you were created 584 00:53:00.600 --> 00:53:05.120 for. You've been created to step into that same place to be 585 00:53:05.120 --> 00:53:08.920 followed after Jesus is the greatest expression of an open 586 00:53:08.920 --> 00:53:15.240 heaven the world has ever seen. Wow. John 17 26. Let's look at 587 00:53:15.240 --> 00:53:19.440 this. Jesus said, and I have this is an amplified 588 00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:23.360 translation, and I have made you known to them or I've revealed 589 00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:29.080 you to them. He says I have made your name known to them. And I 590 00:53:29.080 --> 00:53:33.600 will continue to make it known your name, your nature, I will 591 00:53:33.600 --> 00:53:38.400 continue to make you known to them. So that the love which you 592 00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:42.480 have for me, so that the love with which you have loved me may 593 00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:48.400 be in them, overwhelming their hearts, and that I may be in 594 00:53:48.400 --> 00:53:52.920 them. Let's read this again. John 17 26. And I have made your 595 00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:58.440 name known to them, and will continue to make it known. So 596 00:53:58.440 --> 00:54:03.480 that the love which with which you loved me may be in them, 597 00:54:03.720 --> 00:54:09.320 overwhelming their hearts, and that I myself may be in them. 598 00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:13.880 Wow. If you look at this right back to the start where we 599 00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:18.440 started this message with the divine dance, where the Father 600 00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:23.640 and the Son and the Holy Spirit each lavish each other with the 601 00:54:23.640 --> 00:54:29.320 most exquisite, phenomenal, powerful, outrageous outpourings 602 00:54:29.360 --> 00:54:35.400 of love that they can possibly be. And Jesus says here, he has 603 00:54:35.400 --> 00:54:40.040 revealed the Father to you for this purpose, right? So Jesus is 604 00:54:40.040 --> 00:54:43.600 the greatest open heaven there ever is. He's an open portal. 605 00:54:43.600 --> 00:54:46.960 He's an open door. When you see him, you see heaven. When you 606 00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:50.280 step close to him, you step in, you step close to heaven. And 607 00:54:50.280 --> 00:54:54.080 what's happening here is that when you step close to Jesus, 608 00:54:54.080 --> 00:54:58.920 there's a baptism in love that's so powerful, it will completely 609 00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:00.040 overwhelm 610 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:06.400 you in love. Whoa. And that's what happens in an open heaven. As you get undone, you get undone 611 00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:13.840 by the awe, by the majesty, by the wonder of who God is. And you get overwhelmed, saturated, 612 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:20.720 inundated, outrageously smothered in the baptism of the Father's love. Whoa. 613 00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:32.640 Shukuruku. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So I want you to imagine this, right? I want you to 614 00:55:32.640 --> 00:55:39.440 imagine this with me because this open heaven that Jesus carried, God is getting set to do 615 00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:44.400 something greater with it than we've ever seen, right? Jesus carried this as an individual, 616 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:49.600 but you imagine what would happen when this starts becoming an atmospheric shift, 617 00:55:49.600 --> 00:55:56.640 like when Moses went to pray and the atmosphere shifted of over a million people. Well, 618 00:55:56.640 --> 00:56:03.200 they didn't have this degree of the open heaven. This is why Jesus is the single greatest expression 619 00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:08.720 of an open heaven is because he was the greatest expression of love. He was the greatest open door 620 00:56:08.720 --> 00:56:15.200 and to be being swallowed up in a baptism of the love of God. Jesus is the greatest expression of 621 00:56:15.200 --> 00:56:21.440 an open heaven that has ever existed because when you come close to Jesus, you get baptized, 622 00:56:21.440 --> 00:56:28.480 you get saturated, you get marinated, you get undone and overwhelmed by the all-consuming 623 00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:35.520 fires of divine love. They consume your body and soul and spirit. Now, this open heaven that 624 00:56:35.520 --> 00:56:41.040 Jesus carried, he said, anyone who has faith in me will do what I've been doing. They will do 625 00:56:41.040 --> 00:56:45.520 even greater things than these. And I'll tell you one of the greater things that I believe is coming 626 00:56:45.520 --> 00:56:51.680 is that Jesus is calling our generation to step into an awakening where we carry an awakening, 627 00:56:51.680 --> 00:56:57.440 where we carry an outpouring, an atmospheric shift that enables this awakening to break 628 00:56:57.440 --> 00:57:03.280 out over entire regions where what was the greatest expression of heaven on earth 629 00:57:03.280 --> 00:57:08.240 that was contained in Christ is no longer contained in Christ, but it becomes 630 00:57:08.240 --> 00:57:17.040 a geographical, communal outpouring of love, of open heaven. Wow. So Jesus right now, pour it out 631 00:57:17.040 --> 00:57:24.720 right now. Jesus right now, release this open heaven, release this baptism into the wonder 632 00:57:24.720 --> 00:57:31.440 of divine love. Wow. Release a baptism into the wonders of divine love right now. Wow. 633 00:57:32.960 --> 00:57:38.000 And I want to say to you something about the nature of love and when you step into this realm 634 00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:44.640 of an open heaven, when you step into this realm of being immersed and undone by this open heaven 635 00:57:44.640 --> 00:57:51.200 that Jesus carries, when you step into that, the nature of love is to supply, right? Say that with 636 00:57:51.200 --> 00:57:57.920 me. The nature of love is to supply. So whatever needs you have, they get met in that place, right? 637 00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:04.880 They get met in that place of an open heaven. They get met in that place of coming face to face 638 00:58:04.880 --> 00:58:09.040 with love. So whatever you have need of right now, I just want you just to say, 639 00:58:09.040 --> 00:58:16.880 wow, like, wow. Whatever you have need of right now, the realm of love, the nature of love 640 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:25.520 is to supply. The nature of love is to supply. Whatever your needs are, when you come into an 641 00:58:25.520 --> 00:58:31.840 open heaven, it's a realm of abundance and the nature of love supplies that need. Wow. 642 00:58:32.800 --> 00:58:37.760 And whatever your need is right now, I just want you to open up and just say, Papa, I receive, wow. 643 00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:42.720 So stretch out, just declare, put it in the comments or whatever, whatever your needs are. 644 00:58:42.720 --> 00:58:49.600 If you need healing, if you need breakthrough, if you need God to move on your behalf, you step 645 00:58:49.600 --> 00:58:56.800 into Christ, you step into that open realm and you'll find that love casts out all fear. How 646 00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:04.720 does love cast out all fear? Love casts out all fear by supplying the lack that produces the fear 647 00:59:04.720 --> 00:59:12.160 in the first place, the nature of lack, right? Lack produces fear, but love supplies every need 648 00:59:12.160 --> 00:59:16.400 and destroys lack and brings abundance that casts out all fear and meets every need. 649 00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:23.040 So right now, whether you need healing, whether you need restoration, whether you need breakthrough, 650 00:59:23.040 --> 00:59:29.200 whatever your need is right now, open up into a realm of supply. Love is the realm of supply. 651 00:59:29.200 --> 00:59:35.520 Love is the realm of abundance. Love is the realm of breakthrough. Jesus is the realm of breakthrough. 652 00:59:35.520 --> 00:59:42.240 So I release over you right now in Jesus' name. I release anointing that breaks every yoke. I 653 00:59:42.240 --> 00:59:48.160 release anointing right now that heals and restores in Jesus' name. I release anointing 654 00:59:48.160 --> 00:59:56.480 of love. I release love outpouring. I release a love outpouring. I release the glory of love. 655 00:59:56.480 --> 00:59:59.840 I release the supply of love over you in 656 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:07.360 Jesus name. Not that it would just supply your need and heal your body and break through for you 657 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:12.560 and change your circumstances. Not just that, but the love. Here's what I see for you right now. 658 01:00:14.640 --> 01:00:22.480 Whoa, I see you being a carrier. I see you being a catalyst. I see you being a carrier of the open 659 01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:30.320 heaven of love. Whoa, whoa. I see you being a carrier of the open heaven of love. 660 01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:41.680 Jesus released healing right now. Jesus released restoration right now. 661 01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:49.440 Jesus released peace right now. Jesus released hope restored right now. 662 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:56.240 And I just see as well that David was discouraged and disappointed and he gave up on carrying the 663 01:00:56.240 --> 01:01:03.840 ark. You're called to be like David to carry the ark back into your nation. You're called to be 664 01:01:03.840 --> 01:01:09.120 like David to carry the ark of God back to your people. You're called to be like David to carry 665 01:01:09.120 --> 01:01:15.600 the ark back right now. You're called to be like those that David commissioned to perpetually 666 01:01:16.240 --> 01:01:22.240 this is what you were commissioned for. You're commissioned to devote your life to the perpetual 667 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:30.480 adoration. You're called to devote your life to perpetual adoration. Whoa, and I see this coming. 668 01:01:30.480 --> 01:01:39.200 I release it right now. The ability to carry an open heaven in Jesus name. The ability to carry 669 01:01:39.200 --> 01:01:45.040 an open heaven, not just to receive an open heaven, not just to receive from an open heaven, 670 01:01:45.040 --> 01:01:51.280 but to carry an open heaven in Jesus name, to be the breakthrough, to be the love that supplies, 671 01:01:51.280 --> 01:02:02.320 to carry the grace in Jesus name. I thank you Papa for release. Whoa, a release of the capacity 672 01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:07.280 to carry the ark of God. Papa, I thank you for right now out of the realm of love, 673 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:12.560 out of the realm of supply, healing every disappointment, healing every discouragement, 674 01:02:12.560 --> 01:02:19.600 healing everything that has caused people to stop carrying the ark of your presence. 675 01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:24.800 And I just declare in Jesus name. I just see this word happening for people right now. 676 01:02:24.800 --> 01:02:29.440 I see this word happening that where you were disappointed and waiting for God, there's 677 01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:36.480 restoration there. There's fresh hope there. There's fresh life coming on you, on your capacity to carry 678 01:02:37.200 --> 01:02:48.800 to carry the ark of God's presence. Wow, there's fresh capacity. There's fresh capacity. Whoa. 679 01:02:50.800 --> 01:02:52.320 Whoa, whoa, whoa. 680 01:02:54.800 --> 01:03:01.440 Whoa, there's what it is. It's if you were disappointed, if you gave up waiting for God, 681 01:03:01.520 --> 01:03:06.320 if you gave up waiting for God, you'd waited so long for God to move. You had high expectations. 682 01:03:07.520 --> 01:03:11.040 And then you would like David and you stopped carrying the ark of God, that God, this is what 683 01:03:11.040 --> 01:03:16.240 God's saying. God's saying you pick the ark up again, carry the ark again, because here's what 684 01:03:16.240 --> 01:03:21.680 happened for Solomon. He wants you to step into that place where you are not the disappointed 685 01:03:21.680 --> 01:03:26.480 David, but you're the victorious David, where you carry the ark back. And so as we go this 686 01:03:27.280 --> 01:03:31.840 next three days, we're going to look at how we can actually carry that ark of God, how we can 687 01:03:31.840 --> 01:03:37.440 actually create atmospheric shift, how we can bring that atmospheric shift, how we can step into 688 01:03:37.440 --> 01:03:43.360 an open heaven as individuals, how we can step into carrying the open heaven as a community, 689 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:49.840 and how we can step into bringing an open heaven over geographic regions. So love you very much, 690 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:55.680 and may you be healed. If you've received healing yesterday on the video, multiple people received 691 01:03:55.680 --> 01:04:01.440 healing immediately, instantly. So check your body right now, be healed in the name of Jesus, 692 01:04:01.440 --> 01:04:06.480 and share your testimonies here of your healings, your breakthroughs, because love is, there was 693 01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:11.440 such a powerful anointing there. I could tell people were getting healed. I could tell God was 694 01:04:11.440 --> 01:04:17.520 moving, whether it's the replay, whether it's a delay, whatever, whether it's live, just put your 695 01:04:17.520 --> 01:04:25.200 testimonies in there. It's going to be so exciting family. As we go through for the next few days, 696 01:04:25.280 --> 01:04:30.640 I'll look forward to seeing you in session two. Session two, we're looking at the dark trinity, 697 01:04:30.640 --> 01:04:35.840 and we're looking at how the enemy opposes an open heaven, and we're looking at how we get that 698 01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:44.400 breakthrough when the enemy is going after a closed heaven. So love you, bless you, and we will 699 01:04:44.400 --> 01:04:54.400 see you real soon. See you fam. Bye-bye. The next session is live at 3 p.m New Zealand time. I'll be 700 01:04:54.400 --> 01:04:59.840 sending the email out to the email list for that, and also watch the space here. It's a live. 701 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.440 now. So four hours from now. Love you so much. This is going to get deeper. It's going to get 702 01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:11.920 juicy. And we are going to never be the same by the end of these six sessions. So I want actually, 703 01:05:11.920 --> 01:05:17.040 as I just closed, I just want to encourage you to commit to the six sessions, because something's 704 01:05:17.040 --> 01:05:22.000 going to happen by the time we get to the end of these six sessions, where the spirit of awakening 705 01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:26.240 is going to be on you. And you don't want to miss out on that. You want to be a part of this process, 706 01:05:26.240 --> 01:05:31.360 the spirit of awakening gets on you, and you actually get wrapped up in this ability to be a 707 01:05:31.360 --> 01:05:37.200 catalyst and a steward of an open heaven. And not just an open heaven as we've seen in the past, 708 01:05:37.200 --> 01:05:42.400 because God's doing something unprecedented right now. And I promise you, God's going to take us 709 01:05:42.400 --> 01:05:47.280 beyond what we've known, beyond where we've been, beyond what we've seen. He's going to take us 710 01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:54.240 beyond. So stick with me for these six sessions over three days, and we will never be the same, 711 01:05:54.240 --> 01:05:58.800 bless you, love you, and we'll catch you soon. Bye-bye.