Good morning, good morning, good morning, I hope you're doing great.
I hadn't told anyone specifically that I was going to be jumping on live this morning,
but I am, and I'm going to be chatting about in this video, so I'm going to go live each
morning this week at the same time, 7am, and we are going to be chatting about
prayer, we're going to be chatting about the 24-7 prayer wall that we have set up with Raising
Royalty, it's happening right now, 24-7 prayer this week, we've got a week-long prayer meeting
happening right now, so we're going to be talking about that, and my goal this week
is to increase the joy levels on the planet, all right, very cool, so stay tuned, stay tuned,
my goal this week is to increase the joy levels on this planet, if you like that goal,
then let me know that you like it, so hey, cool to be connecting with you wherever you are
in the world, I'm streaming on a couple of different places right now, so
say hello, let me know where you're tuning in from in the world, whether you're live or whether
you are watching the replay, it's awesome to have you with us, I'm just going to do a quick check
of the tech and make sure this is streaming like it should be,
Primo, it's happening, cool fam, so yeah, let me know where you are in the world and what's
happening for you, but this is a big moment, we have been wanting to set up 24-7 prayer for a
while, so what's happened is 48 people have jumped up and said, yes, we would love to pray, and so
what each of the people are doing is they've taken a half an hour space in the day, and each day this
week they will be praying a lot, well they'll be praying for that half an hour, so that's going to
be their standard they're taking, and so with Nehemiah, so you'll probably be familiar with
Nehemiah, but when Nehemiah was around, he got pretty upset, just like real quick abbreviation
of Nehemiah's story, Nehemiah heard that Jerusalem was in ruins, that the walls were torn
down, the people were in poverty, it was just a nasty space over there, and he was really
heartbroken, he goes to the king, the king gives him favour, he's like, sweet, he gets all this
favour, he's able to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the wall, so he surveys the wall and he's
like, flip, this wall's a mess, then he tells everyone, hey, we're going to rebuild the wall,
and what's cool about that is each family took a part of the wall, and they defended that part
of the wall, they rebuilt that part of the wall, they slept there, they guarded there,
and by doing it like that, they actually rebuilt the wall in record time, it was like 52 days,
ridiculous speed that they rebuilt the wall, which was just wild, so that's what our 24-7
prayer wall is, kind of based off Nehemiah's model, that each person takes a half an hour,
and they kind of stand, and that's their stand, they're going to pray there, they're going to hold
that half an hour in the day, that's their stand, so let me know, just drop prayer in the comments,
if you love prayer, if you love the idea of 24-7 prayer, just drop prayer in the comments,
now this 24-7 prayer wall, sometimes in the past we've done 24-hour prayer meetings,
and the whole 24 hours has been live, it's not going to be like that, with this 24-7 prayer
meeting, there'll be some extra lives, some extra worship, I'll be doing live each morning this week,
and my focus this each week, yeah, each morning this week, I'll be doing live, but my focus this
week is going to be on joy, so I'm going to be talking about alignment with the mind of Christ,
I'm going to be doing a bunch of praying, and a bunch of joy activations, so there's going to be
a lot of joy, my goal this week is to unleash whole new levels of joy, so stay tuned for that,
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the Raising Royalty Facebook group, where we're doing all the extra prayers, where I'll be doing
prayer, where there's live prayer and worship, and all of that stuff's happening on a regular
basis, so if you're not watching this, if you're watching this and you're not in the Raising Royalty
group, and you want to be part of the prayer, the worship, and the journey that we're on there.
just drop royalty in the comments and we'll drop a link there that you can access the group for free.
So let me start right now just by saying, you know, obviously everyone around the world is
in a place of like, whoa, what is going down? This is a crazy space, a crazy time in world
history. It absolutely is. I 100% agree that it's crazy. And there's two sides to this coin
when we're processing everything that's going on right now, right? So one part of the process is
the reactive process where we're responding to the psychological warfare that's being unleashed
like a tsunami through the media. So there's that dynamic where we're processing like,
what the heck? That new law got passed? This new law got passed? They did what? Who did what? Are
you kidding? What? They died? Oh my, what? It's wild, crazy chaos right now in the space of
processing everything, right? And that's really normal and that's really needed because there's
so much psychological warfare being unleashed through the media that's very calculated,
very clinical, but it's also very traumatic. So people in a space where there's a lot of trauma
going on with what people are processing. And so that's one side is the reactive and we really
need to do that well. We need to chat, we need to connect, we need to process this out, make sure
that we're actually not, you know, we're not being shaken by that. But then there's the other side of
it, which is the proactive side. So you can get caught in that reactive side and a lot of people
getting caught in that reactive side, just getting caught, cycled up in what the media is doing,
cycled up in what, you know, what Satan's doing and like, getting overwhelmed from that and kind
of, you know, increased fear, increased stress, increased like sense of overwhelm, like, oh my
gosh, let me know if you're feeling that, let me know if you're feeling the sense of psychological
warfare that's being released through the media. It's very targeted, very intentional. So there's
that side of things, right? So you've got to process that well, but if you're not processing
from heaven to earth, you'll be overwhelmed in the wrong way, okay? Say from heaven to earth,
we're supposed to be processing from heaven to earth and we're supposed to be praying from heaven
to earth. We're not supposed to be getting like, getting caught up in what the devil's doing,
getting caught up in what the media is doing and then trying to pray from that place of being
overwhelmed. You know, like Jesus slept through the storm. Cool quote from Bill Johnson is this,
you can't rule over a storm that you can't sleep through. Check that out. You can't rule over a
storm that you can't sleep through. So if the storm has got you overwhelmed and you're like,
like crazy, overwhelmed, undone by the storm, you're not going to be able to arise and rule
and reign over the storm in your life if it's overwhelmed you. The key is being overwhelmed
by what heaven's doing, being overwhelmed by the mind of Christ, being overwhelmed by what's
unhappening right now in heaven, having our minds closed in three, two, set, fixed on heavenly things,
not on earthly things, and then praying from heaven to earth. And that's the model that
will actually enable us to rule and reign over the storm. That's the model that will enable us to,
you know, holding scepters of authority and dominion and ruling and reigning as beloved
sons of the most high God, seated in heavenly places in Christ at the right hand of the Father,
being those that are actually the government of God. We're actually, what we're doing,
what we're saying, what we're praying is actually shaping and shifting atmosphere. So
I want to talk, that's what we're going to be talking about this week, and that's what we're
going to be doing this week. So I'm going to make one kind of one key point this morning,
and then I'm going to wrap it up for this morning. But my one key point this morning is that
when we pray in alignment with heaven, all right, when we pray in alignment with heaven,
when we're in alignment with the mind of Christ, we are invincible.
Let me contextualize this. Why would we be invincible? Okay, so here's what I want you to ask
yourself. Anytime you get in a place of stress, overwhelm, fear, lack, you know, negative thinking,
negative emotions, anytime you're struggling in any way, what I want you to do is I want you to
just stop, all right? So if you're in that place right now, I just want you to go, I just want you
to stop. Okay, let's stop right now. And I want you to ask Holy Spirit, say, Holy Spirit,
are you afraid right now? When you ask Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, are you overwhelmed right now?
Holy Spirit, are you stressed out right now? Holy Spirit, are you concerned that the devil
is going to win right now? Okay, and when you stop and when you ask that,
the Holy Spirit's every time going to say, no, I'm not afraid.
No, I'm not stressed. No, I don't feel like I'm in lack. No, I don't feel like the devil's going
to win. No, no, no. Listen, the Holy Spirit is always going to say to you, actually, no,
I feel invincible. The Holy Spirit's going to say, no, I feel my joy levels are at 100%.
And this is a good question to ask yourself as well. Where are your joy levels at? Because
your joy levels are a great indicator of the level of alignment that you're walking in with
the mind of Christ. So ask yourself right now, where are your joy levels at? On a scale of one
to 10, where are your joy levels at? Are your joy levels at a one, a two, a three, a four,
a five? Actually, you're kind of more de-stressed and depressed than you are overwhelmed by the
fullness of joy. Where are you at? Just check that space right now. Where are you at on your
joy levels? Because the Holy Spirit, if you ask the Holy Spirit, hey, Holy Spirit, on a scale of
one to 10, where are your joy levels at? Holy Spirit's going to be like, my joy levels are 10
out of 10. You know, like the Holy Spirit's joy levels are 100% all the time. And when Jesus said
in John 8, 12, I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness,
but they will have the light of life. All right. They will never walk in darkness. What is that
darkness? Darkness is fear, stress, overwhelm, anxiety, lack, depression, all of that. You will
never walk in darkness, right? You will never walk in darkness if you're in alignment with the mind
of Christ. And he said, but they will have the light of life. And what is that life? It's the
word Zoe. It's the Greek word for life. And Jesus defined that. He said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life. All right. I am the way, the truth, and life, John 14, 6. I am the way, the truth,
and the life. So if you want to know what Zoe looks like, if you want to know what that life
looks like, it looks like God. It's the exact same emotional state of being as God. We're called to
carry Zoe, the exact same emotional state of being as God. And so your emotions are the fruit
of your attention, right? Where's your attention at? Where are your beliefs at? Where's your
mindset at? If your mindset is in alignment with the mind of Christ, you will produce
the divine state of being, right? You will manifest the divine life in your flesh, right?
You will become a manifestation of the life of Christ right here. But to become a manifestation
of the life of Christ, it requires that you actually step into alignment with the mind of
Christ. So ask Holy Spirit, hey, Holy Spirit, where are your joy levels at? And Holy Spirit's
going to be like, man, my joy levels are a 10 out of 10. And so the question for you is like,
where are your joy levels at? And how can you shift them? If your joy levels are less than 10
out of 10, how can we shift them? Because we're called to live actually in alignment with the
mind of Christ. Living from heaven to earth looks like 10 out of 10 joy levels all the time. Now,
this is not hype. No, this is not hype. This is not unattainable. Religion will tell you
that that's just hype. You can't attain that. Listen, religion will be just like switch the
topic and go, oh, well, but there's so many suffering. I tell you what, the people who
are persecuted know joy the best, right? And one of my favorite stories of all time is the
Chinese pastor who spent 27 years being persecuted, tortured in a Chinese prison.
And then when he got out, everyone asked him, man, how did you survive 27 years in prison? And
he said, what do you mean, how did I survive? It was my 27-year honeymoon with Jesus, all right?
So don't try and justify saying, oh, like the sufferings for Christ. Sufferings for Christ
don't rob us of joy. Like James wrote, consider it pure joy, my friends, when you suffer persecutions
and hardships of all kinds. Consider it pure joy. So as we're praying, as we're going through
everything, wherever we're at, there is this opportunity, open door, invitation for us to live
from heaven to earth. And from heaven to earth looks like the fullness of joy. Even when you
are weeping with your brother who is weeping, even when there's chaos, even when there's things
happening in Afghanistan. I tell you what, that the people that are going through in Afghanistan,
they'll be having the same mindset as Christ in many times. Yes, there's fear, stress, crazy,
overwhelmed. But I tell you what, the grace of God is with our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan.
The love of God, the peace of God that surpasses all understanding is with them strongly, right?
Jesus hasn't abandoned them. He is with them in the midst of the chaos, right? He is our
ever-present help in our time of trouble, in our time of need. The joy of the Lord
will actually come with us in. Well, that's why it's a peace that surpasses all understanding.
We're going to be talking about that this week, of how you can increase your joy levels,
how you can take your joy levels from wherever they are and lift them up into alignment with
the mind of Christ.
And that's my goal this week, is to increase the joy levels on the planet.
So just drop joy in the comments if you think that is a great mission, if you think that's
a great goal, if you want to increase your joy levels to a whole new realm, live from
a whole new realm, a whole new dimension of joy.
If you want to do that this week, then just join these sessions.
It'll be in the Raising Royalty Masterclass group.
So if you're not in the Raising Royalty Masterclass group, because I'll be live praying, I'll
be at the beach, I'll just be on my phone, I won't be in my office.
I'll be out and about praying, so that I can be noisy, I'll have my conch there, we'll
be blowing the trumpet, we'll be having a good shundi, it'll be pretty wild and glorious
this week.
Join me for that.
And let me give you a couple of scriptures on joy before we sign off for today.
I'll give you one more thought and then we'll give a couple of scriptures on joy and then
we'll wrap it up for today.
But first thought is this, your joy levels are the direct result of your beliefs and
your attention.
So your joy levels are a direct result of your beliefs and your attention.
So ask Holy Spirit, if you ask Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, where are your joy levels at?
The Holy Spirit will say, oh, 10 out of 10.
You ask whatever your situation is, ask Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, are you afraid?
Holy Spirit, are you distressed?
Holy Spirit, are you overwhelmed by what Satan's doing?
And you'll find that the answer is no.
And so you ask Holy Spirit, here's the key then to alignment.
And this is what we're going to be working through this week.
But the key then to alignment is asking, OK, Holy Spirit, what's the lie that I'm
believing that's robbing me of my joy?
OK, Holy Spirit, what's the lie that I'm believing that's robbing me of my joy?
And then the Holy Spirit will start to speak to you and actually give you truth that
increases your joy level.
So that's what we're going to be focusing on this week is two things.
Actually, what is the truth that increases your joy levels?
And two is actually giving our attention to that truth, because you can have you can
be aware of truth.
And a lot of people actually a lot of Christians are in this place where they
actually know the truth that could be increasing their joy levels.
They just don't give they just don't put their attention on that truth because not
putting their attention on that truth, their joy levels are stuck.
So we need to put our attention on the truth that we know, on the things that we
believe that we know will increase our joy levels.
And here's one of the reasons why we have to really, really focus on our joy levels
is because Nehemiah 8, 10, it says the joy of the Lord is your strength.
And it absolutely is.
The joy of the Lord is your strength.
And if you can't let the first thing that Satan is going to come and try and rob you
of in your in your life, whenever Satan tries to come and attack you in your life,
the first thing he attacks is your joy.
All right. But if Satan can't steal your joy, he can't steal anything.
So the joy of the Lord is your strength.
And if there's anything that we need right now, Ephesians 6 says, you know, you know,
like we now having done all these things, stand.
All right. What we have to do is we have to stand.
But if we want to stand, we have to be strong.
So where I'm going with this, talking about praying with the in alignment with the
mind of Christ and having the joy of the Lord and alignment equals joy and joy equals
strength and strength equals a stand.
All right. So if we want to be unshakable, if we want to be unmovable, if we want to
be those that aren't shaken by the storm, but those that rule and reign in power and
love over the storm, those that act as the sons of God, those that act as the
government of God, those that act as the ecclesia, those that pray and rule and reign
from heaven to earth, if we want to be in that place, if we're trying to function in
that place, then we've got to understand the joy of the Lord.
We've got to pray in alignment with the mind of Christ.
And when we're praying in alignment with the mind of Christ, boom, it will produce the
joy of the Lord and joy equals strength and strength equals an unshakable stand.
All right. And that's what we need to be doing right now in this hour is making an
unshakable stand from heaven to earth, clothe in authority and dominion and love
and joy and power and making an unshakable and movable stand and shifting atmospheres
and shifting cultures and decreeing and declaring and mandating and legislating and
not being overwhelmed by what's happening at the lower levels in the earthly realm.
Colossians 3 to fix your mind, set your mind on what's happening in heavenly places.
Fix your minds on what's happening in heaven, not on earthly things,
and then rule and reign and power and love from that place.
So that's where we're going.
But we're starting with alignment with the mind of Christ.
Let me give you a couple of verses on joy,
and then I'm going to wrap it up for this morning.
So, right.
Let me give you a couple of my favorites.
Oh, here's an amazing one.
John 15, 11.
All right.
This is Jesus speaking.
John 15, 11.
He said, I have spoken these things unto you so that my joy will continuously infuse you.
You don't have to invent your own if you can tap into mine.
This is the ultimate bliss.
How good is that?
I just want you to kind of get into a receiving moment,
a receiving space right now as I just read some scriptures over you.
I'll read this again.
John 15, 11.
I've spoken these things unto you so that my joy will continuously infuse you.
You don't have to invent your own if you can tap into mine.
This is the ultimate bliss.
That's the mirror translation.
Psalm 16, 11 says, You make known to me the path of life.
In your presence, there is fullness of joy.
At your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
May that fullness of joy.
Listen, in the presence.
So Psalm 16, 11.
You make known to me the path of life in your presence.
So always in the presence of God.
Always, always, always in the presence of God, there is fullness of joy.
At your right hand are pleasures forevermore.
Well, the fullness of joy is a person.
The fullness of joy is your shoe.
Jesus is the fullness of joy.
And the fullness of joy lives inside of you.
May the fullness of joy well up on you.
May the fullness of joy overwhelm you.
May the fullness of joy bubble up on you.
May the fullness of joy marinade.
You may have fullness of joy.
Baptize you.
May the fullness of joy amuse you.
May the fullness of joy completely overwhelm you.
May you live under a waterfall of the fullness of joy.
May you live in an ocean of the fullness of joy.
May you live in the fire of the fullness of joy.
May you live perpetually in the awareness of the fullness of joy.
Whoa, come on.
Nehemiah 8.10.
And Nehemiah continued,
Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks
and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared.
This is a sacred day before our Lord.
Don't be dejected and sad,
for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Come on.
That's why it's so necessary that we focus in on the joy of the Lord
and we receive the joy of the Lord.
We live overwhelmed by the joy of the Lord.
Listen, the more serious things get on the planet,
the more joy is necessary, right?
And yeah, let me read another couple for you.
Romans 15.13.
May the God of hope.
And let me just declare this again.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy.
That's the fullness of joy again.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him
so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Philippians 3.1.
The conclusion of your faith, all right,
the conclusion of your faith is extreme gladness in the Lord.
He is your constant reference to bliss.
I am not just saying this to be repetitive.
Joy is your fortress.
There is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy.
Oh, so good.
Jude 24 to 25.
Now to Him who is able to keep you without stumbling or slipping or falling
and to present you unblemished, blameless and faultless
before the presence of His glory and triumphant joy and exaltation
with unspeakable ecstatic delight to the one only God,
our Savior through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
the glory, splendor, majesty, might and dominion and power and authority
before all time and now and forever and to all the ages of eternity.
Amen.
So be it.
Well, may joy unspeakable.
May ecstatic delight, may triumphant joy and exultation, sprinkled with the conviction
that God's purposes and plans are 100% invincible, unshakable, that His purpose will stand, His
plans will stand, His people will stand.
May that joy fill you.
Oh, I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you one more and we're going to wrap it up
with this one last scripture, 1 Peter 1.8 says, Though you have not seen Him, you love
Him.
And even though you do not see Him, now you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible
and glorious joy.
Now let me say one last thing about these scriptures.
Most of these, well, most of these scriptures are written by people who were being persecuted.
You know, their lives were at threat, and some of these people died.
That was written by Peter.
He was crucified upside down.
That's what you have.
That's what you have from persecuted people.
This is the writings of persecuted people, they said, Though you have not seen Him, you
love Him.
And even though you do not see Him, now you believe in Him and are filled with an inexpressible
and glorious joy.
These are the writings of the persecuted, Jude, persecuted.
And he writes, He can present you before the presence of His glory and triumphant joy and
exaltation with unspeakable ecstatic delight.
Come on, Paul.
He was persecuted, martyred.
These guys are all martyred, right?
The conclusion of your faith, Philippians 3.1, the conclusion of your faith is extreme
gladness in the Lord.
He is your constant reference to bliss.
I'm not just saying this to be repetitive.
Joy is your fortress.
There is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy.
Now, how did Paul know that there is no safer place to be but to be ecstatically happy?
It's because he had walked through persecution.
He had had his people thought they'd killed him.
He'd been stoned.
He'd been shipwrecked.
He'd been beaten.
He'd been in prison.
These are the writings of the persecuted and the writings of extreme joy, extreme gladness,
ecstatically happy writing.
So I love you.
Papa, I just thank you that as we share this week together on the planet, I decree and
I declare, I mandate and I legislate the opening of portals, the opening of doors
and gates in the heavenly realm, the mobilization of angels to release joy on the planet like
never before in Jesus' name.
So Jesus, I thank you right now for a release of joy on the planet, the joy of the Lord.
I thank you for a mobilization of angels carrying joy, carrying the sounds of joy, carrying
the revelations of joy.
I thank you for joy exploding.
I thank you for joy raining down.
I thank you for outpourings of joy all over the planet.
In Jesus' name, I thank you for unlocking right now in the spirit realm, whole new dimensions
of joy.
I thank you for baptizing people in joy.
I thank you for the overwhelming joy that surpasses understanding that comes from your
presence that is just the manifestation of your glory in our lives.
It's the joy of the Lord that is our strength, Papa.
Pour it out.
May there be explosions of joy all over the planet.
May there be outpourings.
May there be waterfalls of joy.
May there be just baptisms of the Holy Spirit that produce joy like never before, joy unspeakable
and full of glory in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thank you so much, fam.
Great to be with you this morning.
Again, if you want to follow this week's prayer sessions on just chats and prayer on joy,
the goal for me this week is to increase the levels of joy on the planet.
If that's you, drop royalty in the comments.
If you're not in the Raising Royalty group, just drop royalty in the comments and we will
hook you up with a link to join the group.
I am looking forward to an awesome week this week.
Joy, let's go for joy.
Let me know again, where are your joy levels at right now on a scale of one to 10, wherever
they are at right now.
By the end of the week, we want them peaking out in alignment with the mind of Christ.
The mind of Christ is at 10 out of 10 joy.
The Holy Spirit is at 10 out of 10 joy.
Heaven right now is at 10 out of 10 joy.
The Father right now is at 10 out of 10 joy.
So in the presence of the Lord is the fullness of joy and we want to unlock that joy that
already exists within you.
He moved in in fullness and it's time to unlock that joy because that joy equals strength
and that strength equals an unshakable stand for Christ in this world.
Love you fam.
And that is us for this morning.
Bless you.