WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.200 Well, I'll just wait for a couple of people to jump on board. 2 00:00:16.200 --> 00:00:20.640 But welcome to session two of the School of the Spirit. 3 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:25.680 And whether you are here on the replay or whether you're here live, thanks for tuning 4 00:00:25.680 --> 00:00:26.680 in. 5 00:00:26.680 --> 00:00:31.000 Thanks for stopping by and being part of this school. 6 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:34.480 Hope you're receiving some good stuff out of it. 7 00:00:34.480 --> 00:00:41.360 For many it will be more of a reminder or a recalibration towards some of the things 8 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:42.360 you already know. 9 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:46.320 And for some of you, it'll be a combination of that and learning some new things. 10 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:49.240 And for some of you, it might be just brand new and fresh. 11 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:55.280 And so many of you haven't heard me teach before, or some of you might have, but if 12 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:02.240 you haven't heard me teach before, I'll probably share things in a slightly different way to 13 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:06.000 what you've heard before. 14 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.160 But yeah, thanks for coming. 15 00:01:07.160 --> 00:01:12.280 Thanks for jumping on board and being part of this. 16 00:01:12.280 --> 00:01:19.160 Session one, we talked about Jesus as our compass for spirit life. 17 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:27.000 And thanks for some of the questions that some of you added afterwards. 18 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.800 They were great questions and hopefully I answered a few of them. 19 00:01:31.800 --> 00:01:34.160 I did so in the small amount of time that I had. 20 00:01:34.160 --> 00:01:37.480 I jumped off that live, by the way, and just quickly made some lunch. 21 00:01:37.480 --> 00:01:39.280 Well, sorry, I didn't make lunch. 22 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:41.000 My wife made me some epic lunch. 23 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:46.320 I scoffed that back and here I am. 24 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:47.320 So thanks for those questions. 25 00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:48.320 I love the questions. 26 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:49.480 I love the interaction. 27 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:53.320 Again, feel free to drop comments. 28 00:01:53.320 --> 00:01:58.760 Love to know, you know, where you're from, what time it is where you're from. 29 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:07.040 And if you have questions along the way, I may not answer them when you're asking them, 30 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.039 but really love the questions. 31 00:02:08.039 --> 00:02:13.680 And I can look back after the sessions are over and hopefully answer a few as well, and 32 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:18.080 respond and interact with some of those comments a little bit more. 33 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:20.800 So, yeah, love them all. 34 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.200 And this session we're going to be talking about balancing our internal stance for the 35 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:28.200 miraculous. 36 00:02:28.200 --> 00:02:29.200 And I love the miraculous. 37 00:02:29.200 --> 00:02:30.200 I love the power of God. 38 00:02:30.200 --> 00:02:31.480 I love the Spirit of God. 39 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:33.040 I love the gifts of the Spirit. 40 00:02:33.040 --> 00:02:37.320 I love the reality of walking in the Holy Spirit. 41 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:38.320 It's just so cool. 42 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:42.800 I mean, even just, was it earlier this week or no? 43 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:43.800 This week's just begun. 44 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:46.760 It was the end of last week. 45 00:02:46.760 --> 00:02:54.440 We were seeing just miracles through the online stuff, and seeing people be healed. 46 00:02:54.440 --> 00:03:00.040 These days it seems to be more online stuff than live stuff, or in the flesh stuff, because 47 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:01.440 travel has been so difficult. 48 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:05.820 I'm from a small town of like 2,000 people live in our town, so there's not that many 49 00:03:05.820 --> 00:03:08.540 people here. 50 00:03:08.540 --> 00:03:16.040 But still opportunity to pray for people and see things happen, so yeah, God is just so 51 00:03:16.040 --> 00:03:17.520 good. 52 00:03:17.520 --> 00:03:23.160 God is so good, and yeah, thank you, Jesus. 53 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:24.160 Thank you, Jesus. 54 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:33.120 I just long to and dream of seeing the church step into the fullness of who it's called 55 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.760 to be, of who God designed it to be. 56 00:03:35.760 --> 00:03:43.160 I cannot wait to see the day where the sons and daughters of God step into their inheritance, 57 00:03:43.160 --> 00:03:46.940 where they begin to live the normal, not just Christian life, but the normal human 58 00:03:46.940 --> 00:03:53.880 life as God intended it to be lived, where our lives start to reflect the life of Jesus 59 00:03:53.880 --> 00:03:56.060 at a greater dimension. 60 00:03:56.060 --> 00:04:00.080 When the majority of Christians start to live the way they've been designed to live, and 61 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:06.400 start to live the normal human life as defined by Jesus, the world will never be the same 62 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:11.120 again. 63 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:13.720 It will be outstanding. 64 00:04:13.720 --> 00:04:18.019 And there's just some simple things that we can apply to our lives and we can adopt as 65 00:04:18.019 --> 00:04:25.560 beliefs and receive as our own personal beliefs that will enable us and undergird and become 66 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:29.960 a foundation for us to be able to step into that kind of life, and that's what I intend 67 00:04:29.960 --> 00:04:37.000 on sharing over this three-day school. 68 00:04:37.400 --> 00:04:44.640 The goal of this three-day school is really to provide a foundation and undergirding for 69 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:49.640 supernatural life, for a life that looks like Jesus, for the normal human life as I've just 70 00:04:49.640 --> 00:04:51.880 been sharing. 71 00:04:51.880 --> 00:05:00.000 And then, again, just to remind you, this is going to lead into a three-day school. 72 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:05.880 Three-week activation, it's not going to be the same format as this. 73 00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:06.800 This is more teaching. 74 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:09.320 It's going to be more kind of mentoring activation. 75 00:05:09.320 --> 00:05:12.520 We're going to be giving challenges. 76 00:05:12.520 --> 00:05:14.960 I call them chicken line challenges. 77 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:18.360 I'll explain that more in the activation. 78 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:23.920 And the strategy I'm going to take for that three-week activation is the same 79 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:30.240 strategy that I used to take when travel was open. 80 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.280 I can't wait for it to open again, by the way, and I'd love to invite many of you 81 00:05:33.280 --> 00:05:35.440 to come on some trips with me. 82 00:05:35.440 --> 00:05:42.760 But the same strategy that I would use when preparing a mission team to go on a 83 00:05:42.760 --> 00:05:47.760 trip somewhere, I would often spend sort of not just three weeks, 84 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:54.920 but I'd often spend sort of three or so months coaching and mentoring people 85 00:05:54.920 --> 00:05:59.680 into what I'm teaching right now, into the gifts of the Spirit, 86 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:04.320 into spirit life, into the normal Christian life, so that by the time we hit the place 87 00:06:04.320 --> 00:06:07.080 that we were going, everyone was ready to go. 88 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:09.800 And so I'm going to sort of take some of the things that I learned through some 89 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.840 of those processes and apply them to the three-week activation. 90 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:18.480 And again, I'll put the link, that's going to be in the Online School of Sonship. 91 00:06:18.480 --> 00:06:22.960 If you weren't part of the first session before, then that might be helpful for you 92 00:06:22.960 --> 00:06:23.440 to know. 93 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:25.280 It's not going to be in the Raising Royalty group. 94 00:06:25.280 --> 00:06:31.920 It's going to be in the Online School of Sonship that is part of the same thing. 95 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.040 But it's not a free group. 96 00:06:34.040 --> 00:06:40.560 It costs, I think, $50 New Zealand or $30 US, and that gives you kind of lifetime 97 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:42.720 access to everything in that group forever. 98 00:06:42.720 --> 00:06:48.000 So part of it is this three-week activation I'm going to be doing after this. 99 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.760 So if that's something you're interested in, then click on that link, sign up, 100 00:06:53.760 --> 00:06:57.640 and you'll be ready to go when that does go live on the Online School of Sonship, 101 00:06:57.640 --> 00:07:01.240 which I'm really looking forward to. 102 00:07:01.240 --> 00:07:05.240 And I'm trying to think if I wanted to recap on anything. 103 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:12.360 Oh, so I am going to have another look over some of those comments and just 104 00:07:12.400 --> 00:07:15.040 interact a little bit more after this. 105 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:19.680 But just to reiterate as well, today, we're doing two sessions. 106 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:20.720 We've done the first session. 107 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:22.360 Now, this is session number two. 108 00:07:22.360 --> 00:07:29.880 And these two sessions, there's like a principle that I mentioned in the first 109 00:07:29.880 --> 00:07:36.640 session that kind of is the undergirding principle that kind of speaks to the reason 110 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:39.240 why these two sessions are important. 111 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:42.120 And that principle is a Proverbs 23, 7 principle, 112 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.760 as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. 113 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:49.200 That your experience of reality, your experience of life, 114 00:07:49.200 --> 00:07:54.920 what you experience as life, in other words, what your life is actually 115 00:07:54.920 --> 00:08:00.040 like, is not necessarily a reflection of reality in terms of what God defines 116 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:01.400 reality to be. 117 00:08:01.400 --> 00:08:07.480 Your concrete experience of life is evidence and a reflection of not reality 118 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.640 necessarily, but what you believe reality to be. 119 00:08:11.640 --> 00:08:15.080 As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. 120 00:08:15.080 --> 00:08:20.000 It doesn't say as God defined a man, so is he. 121 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.480 It's as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. 122 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:27.400 And as our mind comes into alignment with the way that God thinks, 123 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:31.640 our lives and our concrete experience of life will begin to come into alignment 124 00:08:31.640 --> 00:08:32.559 with the way we think. 125 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:36.640 And if that's an alignment with the way God thinks, our lives will come 126 00:08:36.640 --> 00:08:41.600 into alignment with the way that God has designed our lives to be. 127 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:47.200 And so that is the undergirding principle behind these two sessions and the reason 128 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.240 why these two sessions are really important. 129 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:53.160 In the second session, we're going to talk about balancing our 130 00:08:53.160 --> 00:08:55.240 internal stance for the miraculous. 131 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:04.360 And there are really two things that I want to...that I pray are instilled 132 00:09:05.320 --> 00:09:08.120 into the fabric of your lives. 133 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:12.720 And I'm fairly confident that they're already there, but my prayer is that this 134 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:16.960 session would just pour gasoline over the fire that's already there, 135 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:22.200 especially in two areas, the area of confidence and the area of humility. 136 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:29.240 That to live the kind of lives that Jesus has designed for us to live, 137 00:09:29.280 --> 00:09:37.120 we need 100% confidence in who God says that we are and 100% humility before God 138 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.480 and in the way that we live our lives. 139 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:43.160 Confidence and humility are two things that we're going to really go 140 00:09:43.160 --> 00:09:44.920 after in this session. 141 00:09:44.920 --> 00:09:51.880 I want to share a story right now just to kick the session off. 142 00:09:51.880 --> 00:09:56.280 And it's a story of my friend, Cam. 143 00:09:56.280 --> 00:10:00.360 We were at a youth event a little while ago, and it was at... 144 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.560 my house and sort of started about, I don't know, sometime in the in the late 145 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:10.000 afternoon and we got we had a big big bonfire and a bunch of youth over it 146 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:15.360 would have been like 50 to 100 youth and um and I was a leader in the youth group 147 00:10:15.360 --> 00:10:21.920 and my friend Cam was a leader in the youth group and just awesome um 148 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:27.840 and uh we got the bonfire cranking it's the sun started to go down all of a 149 00:10:27.840 --> 00:10:32.480 sudden the sun's down and um and Cam comes running up to me and he says 150 00:10:32.480 --> 00:10:38.240 man mate I'm trying to find my phone I'm trying to find my phone have you seen my 151 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:42.640 phone and he's looking around for his phone and I'm like man 152 00:10:42.640 --> 00:10:46.160 dude I haven't seen your phone I have no idea where your phone is 153 00:10:46.160 --> 00:10:51.200 um and he's like man if you see it let me know man if you see it let me know I 154 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.680 said well I'll go up and have a look in the house and you go have a look around 155 00:10:53.680 --> 00:10:56.000 the fire and he's looking with this flashlight 156 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:00.320 looking for his phone and uh but half an hour later he comes up 157 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:03.600 to me and he's like man are you sure you haven't seen my phone 158 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:06.400 and I'm like mate I haven't seen your phone man he said well 159 00:11:06.400 --> 00:11:10.800 on the way here and he's got his flash eyes looking around 160 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:13.920 trying to find his phone and he said on the way here I pulled over 161 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:20.320 um uh for a little bathroom break and um maybe my phone fell out where I 162 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:23.040 pulled over so I'm just going to go for a quick drive I'll be back so 163 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:30.080 heads up the road and uh drives off I get a call about probably 10-15 minutes 164 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:34.080 later and uh he's he's obviously found his 165 00:11:34.080 --> 00:11:39.600 phone he's calling me from his phone and he's like man bro I feel so 166 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:45.520 bad I cannot believe it you never guess and I said what what 167 00:11:45.520 --> 00:11:50.080 happened man what happened he said you know that flashlight I was looking 168 00:11:50.160 --> 00:11:55.360 for my phone with I said yeah yeah yeah he said that is 169 00:11:55.360 --> 00:12:00.160 that was the flashlight on my phone I literally had my phone 170 00:12:00.160 --> 00:12:04.640 in my hand the whole time and I was using it to try and find my phone 171 00:12:04.640 --> 00:12:08.400 he said it took me literally like he said that's so crazy he said I 172 00:12:08.400 --> 00:12:11.520 probably over an hour looking for my phone with my phone 173 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:15.360 I cannot believe I didn't see it and that's often 174 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:19.760 the way we are with the kingdom that's often the way we are guys with 175 00:12:19.760 --> 00:12:23.200 the the resources that God has given us 176 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:27.280 is we're often trying to find something or trying to acquire something or trying 177 00:12:27.280 --> 00:12:30.400 to work for something or trying to get something that has 178 00:12:30.400 --> 00:12:36.560 already been given to us um and Jesus simply said as he said 179 00:12:36.560 --> 00:12:40.240 repent repent just means read to go back 180 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:45.680 pent high to come back high high to what is high high is God's high 181 00:12:45.680 --> 00:12:49.200 opinion God's high perspective the highest point of view 182 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.240 in other words come back to God's perspective come back 183 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.080 to the to the highest perspective come back 184 00:12:56.080 --> 00:13:00.960 to um to God's mindset to God's belief to God's 185 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:07.120 thinking repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand in other words guys 186 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.040 there once was a day maybe where where the kingdom wasn't at hand but 187 00:13:11.040 --> 00:13:15.440 now the kingdom is at hand now there's a difference between being present and 188 00:13:15.440 --> 00:13:19.040 being at hand let me explain the difference right now 189 00:13:19.040 --> 00:13:23.760 um my guitar is over there in the corner of the 190 00:13:23.760 --> 00:13:29.200 room I'm sitting on the seat and uh that I am in the presence of my 191 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:32.080 guitar but if I stay sitting on the seat I 192 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:35.840 cannot reach my guitar it's not at hand I don't have direct 193 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.200 access to my guitar without changing something about my life or 194 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.840 my position 195 00:13:42.640 --> 00:13:47.200 the guitar is in the same room but it's not at hand 196 00:13:47.200 --> 00:13:50.960 this glass of water this glass of water is at hand I've got it sitting right 197 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.080 next to me because I wanted it to be at hand while 198 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.960 I'm doing this session 199 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.520 let me tell you right now the kingdom of God 200 00:14:01.520 --> 00:14:05.760 is not just in the same room the kingdom of God 201 00:14:05.760 --> 00:14:08.960 along with the king along with the presence of the king along with the 202 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.240 spirit along with the gifts of the spirit along with everything 203 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:16.480 that comes with the kingdom is not just in the same room you do it's 204 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.440 not just in the kingdom not just in the same 205 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:23.360 in your presence in your in your geographical location 206 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.640 in your area in your environment somewhere 207 00:14:26.640 --> 00:14:34.480 it's not just within sight it is at hand it's not just with you 208 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.240 it's accessible to you when you reach for it 209 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:43.360 it's there when you reach for it you don't you're not grasping at thin air 210 00:14:43.360 --> 00:14:46.960 when you reach for the kingdom the kingdom is 211 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:53.440 within your reach it is at hand it's actually closer to you than this 212 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:59.120 glass of water is to me and and not just it doesn't say 79% of 213 00:14:59.120 --> 00:15:02.000 the kingdom is at hand 214 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:06.320 And the other 21% of the kingdom will be at hand if you do this, this, and this. 215 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:12.520 Jesus is the kingdom, full stop, the whole thing. Not a part of it, not a 216 00:15:12.520 --> 00:15:17.960 percentage of it, not a skerrick of it, not a small bit of it. It doesn't come in 217 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:25.760 installments. The kingdom is at hand. Just come on Jesus, that is 218 00:15:25.760 --> 00:15:30.600 sailor. We could end the session right there and just incredible. I'll tell you 219 00:15:30.600 --> 00:15:38.600 another story. Oh Jenny, hey thanks, thanks for commenting on my hairstyle. 220 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:43.640 I've actually got it tied up today and you might have seen I cut it a bit short. 221 00:15:43.640 --> 00:15:47.560 It took me a while to get used to it but I'm now used to it and someone pointed 222 00:15:47.560 --> 00:15:51.600 out that I have the same haircut now as the Jesus from the Chosen series which 223 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:59.000 I'm also happy about. So thanks for commenting on my hair. My wife's in the 224 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:04.560 corner laughing at me. She knows the journey I've gone through with my hair. 225 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:14.440 Yeah, ha ha ha. Let me tell you another story regarding repent for the kingdom 226 00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:19.760 is at hand. By the way, that was the first sermon that Jesus preached, repent for 227 00:16:19.760 --> 00:16:26.480 the kingdom is at hand. He was echoing his cousin John Baptist. This is not a 228 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:29.440 true story. This is more of an illustration but I want you to imagine 229 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:36.080 that you that you go to, you've got a nice jacket. Let's just say a nice jacket. 230 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:41.960 You go to the dry cleaners. It's a very nice jacket. You really love your jacket. 231 00:16:41.960 --> 00:16:44.720 You don't want to stick it in the washing machine. It's a bit grubby. You 232 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:48.320 take it to the dry cleaners to get cleaned and you know this dry cleaner is 233 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:51.520 a pretty good guy. He's very generous. He's got a great reputation in the 234 00:16:51.520 --> 00:16:56.000 community and just an all-around legend. Actually someone you really look up to 235 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.440 and a real community leader and he takes the jacket and he's like, mate listen I'll 236 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:03.960 tell you what, this one's on the house and you're like man thanks mate. That's 237 00:17:03.960 --> 00:17:09.880 so awesome and he's got a bit of a cheeky smile on his face and what you 238 00:17:09.880 --> 00:17:14.040 don't know is that while he's dry cleaning the jacket, when it's all 239 00:17:14.040 --> 00:17:21.280 finished and done and dusted, he slips a million dollar check into your pocket of 240 00:17:21.280 --> 00:17:25.960 your jacket but he doesn't say anything about it. He just slips a million dollar 241 00:17:25.960 --> 00:17:29.160 check in the pocket, in the pocket of the jacket. You go to pick the jacket up and 242 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:35.480 he goes, you know, he thinks I might push the envelope on my cheekiness a 243 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:38.960 little bit. He says, mate it wouldn't be classic if you had a million dollars in 244 00:17:38.960 --> 00:17:42.120 your pocket after you drop your jacket off here. How would that change your life? 245 00:17:42.120 --> 00:17:47.040 And you say, ha ha ha ha, oh that would change my life because I might be able to pay 246 00:17:47.040 --> 00:17:51.960 the rent. You know, you start making some comments like that and anyway you pick 247 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:54.480 your jacket up and you don't believe for a second that there's actually 248 00:17:54.480 --> 00:18:02.040 a million dollars in your pocket. And so you go through life, it's hot weather 249 00:18:02.040 --> 00:18:06.680 outside, you don't really have too much need for your jacket and as you're going 250 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:10.600 through that next month directly after picking your jacket up, you're like, oh 251 00:18:11.040 --> 00:18:14.640 man, it's a bit of a struggle to pay the rent, it's a little bit of a struggle to 252 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:19.120 put food on the table, it's not dire straits but it's getting pretty tough 253 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:27.840 and, you know, you're definitely feeling a little bit of lack in 254 00:18:27.840 --> 00:18:33.920 terms of your financial capacity in your life. And one evening, it's a bit of a 255 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:38.960 cooler evening, you go get your jacket out and you put your jacket on and you 256 00:18:38.960 --> 00:18:42.480 just decide your hands are a bit cold so you stick your hands in your pocket of 257 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:46.600 your jacket and you feel, there's something in that pocket, there shouldn't be anything in that 258 00:18:46.600 --> 00:18:49.000 pocket because I just took it to the dry cleaner and then you remember that 259 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:56.760 cheeky comment that the dry cleaner said and you think, no. And you realize it 260 00:18:56.760 --> 00:19:01.000 starts, the cogs start turning, he's been known to do this kind of thing before. 261 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:06.440 And you pull out of your pocket a million dollar check and this is what 262 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:14.640 you realize in that moment. You realize that you have been living with 263 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:22.840 more than everything you need, you have been living with extravagant abundance 264 00:19:22.840 --> 00:19:28.360 of financial provision in your pocket at hand for the last month but you have 265 00:19:28.360 --> 00:19:33.080 been living as if you did not have enough when the whole time your pocket 266 00:19:33.080 --> 00:19:37.760 was full of cash, your pocket was full of finances. Freely given to you by a 267 00:19:37.760 --> 00:19:47.920 generous dry cleaner. Now Jesus is the generous dry cleaner and he has 268 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:53.120 put, not a million dollar check in your pocket, but he has put the inheritance of 269 00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:58.040 the entire kingdom, he has made you a share of his own inheritance and put 270 00:19:58.040 --> 00:20:01.640 that, not in your pocket, but securely. 271 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:12.000 purely in every cell and every facet of your life is intertwined with God's own inheritance, 272 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:15.000 with the inheritance of Christ. 273 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:26.480 And often we live our lives in a sense of lack that is actually not true, that is actually 274 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:32.720 not real, and it is actually an illusion from beginning to end. 275 00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:39.720 Much of the lack that we experience, and that sometimes we even subconsciously count as 276 00:20:39.720 --> 00:20:47.880 well, this is just life, is due to a mindset, not due to what God has made available to 277 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:48.880 us. 278 00:20:48.880 --> 00:20:54.720 There is much more available to us than what we sometimes first realize. 279 00:20:54.720 --> 00:20:59.280 And I wonder how your life would change if you realized that the kingdom of God was in 280 00:20:59.280 --> 00:21:04.320 your back pocket, that the kingdom of God, much more than a million dollar check, but 281 00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:09.160 the kingdom, that you have been chosen by God to carry a kingdom, and everything that 282 00:21:09.160 --> 00:21:10.760 comes with that kingdom. 283 00:21:10.760 --> 00:21:14.960 I wonder how your life would change if you really truly believed, and if I really truly 284 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:26.120 believed, that the actual power of God was at hand for you. 285 00:21:26.120 --> 00:21:32.520 The same power that made the sun, that made the stars, that made galaxies, with just the 286 00:21:32.520 --> 00:21:33.520 word. 287 00:21:33.520 --> 00:21:39.080 That same, very same power, the power that raised Lazarus from the dead, the power that 288 00:21:39.080 --> 00:21:45.800 walked on the water, the power that multiplied the food, that same power, by the same Spirit, 289 00:21:45.800 --> 00:21:54.440 the Holy Spirit, has been made by the Father through Jesus, accessible to you. 290 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:59.460 That power is in your pocket, my pocket. 291 00:21:59.460 --> 00:22:03.040 How would that change the way you go about the rest of your day today? 292 00:22:03.040 --> 00:22:08.160 How would that change the way you approach whatever challenges you're engaging in right 293 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:09.240 now? 294 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:11.520 How would that change the way you talk to your neighbor? 295 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:16.080 How would that change the way the next time someone says to you in response to, hey, how's 296 00:22:16.080 --> 00:22:21.560 it going, and they say back to you, oh, you know what, I've got this splitting headache. 297 00:22:21.560 --> 00:22:26.360 How would that change the way that you respond to a comment like that, when you know that 298 00:22:26.360 --> 00:22:31.240 the power of God is actually at hand for you? 299 00:22:31.240 --> 00:22:37.400 You have access to it, and you have been given authority to administer the Spirit of 300 00:22:37.400 --> 00:22:38.400 God. 301 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:39.400 Whoa! 302 00:22:39.400 --> 00:22:40.400 That's pretty cool. 303 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:41.400 Confidence. 304 00:22:41.400 --> 00:22:57.440 I'll tell you what, what I'm saying right now is designed to instill confidence, not in 305 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:04.080 your ability, not in what I'm saying, not in my ability to teach, not in life in general, 306 00:23:04.080 --> 00:23:09.720 but confidence in God in you. 307 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:13.920 I want to read an example from Scripture right now. 308 00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:16.240 We can turn to Acts chapter 3. 309 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:18.680 This is another one of my absolute all-time favorites. 310 00:23:18.680 --> 00:23:25.040 It's just such a goodie, and I want to encourage you to read your Bibles. 311 00:23:25.040 --> 00:23:28.320 This is just full of good stuff. 312 00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:32.280 Read something out of Acts chapter 3, again, one of my favorite stories in Scripture, and 313 00:23:32.280 --> 00:23:39.720 I love it that it's just after Jesus, it's just after the Gospels, Jesus has ascended, 314 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:47.280 the day of Pentecost has come, there's been the baptism in the Spirit, which is Acts chapter 315 00:23:47.280 --> 00:23:48.280 1 and 2. 316 00:23:48.280 --> 00:23:52.000 Now we're at Acts chapter 3, just straight after that initial baptism in the Holy Spirit, 317 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:58.080 which we'll get into at another stage. 318 00:23:58.080 --> 00:24:01.560 One of the biggest things with designing this course is there's so many things I want to 319 00:24:01.560 --> 00:24:05.480 say, and I wanted to boil it down to just a small number of sessions, so I'm pretty 320 00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:11.120 sure we're going to have multiple other schools after this, but these are lessons that I learned 321 00:24:11.120 --> 00:24:23.840 that really have formed me, and have challenged me, and empowered me to live the kind of life 322 00:24:23.840 --> 00:24:29.200 that I feel very privileged to have lived so far. 323 00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:33.360 Many of you know some of the stories, and I've been sharing them on this group for a 324 00:24:33.360 --> 00:24:36.960 little while now, and very exciting. 325 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:40.880 But this is one of my favorite stories, and I want to draw two things out of this, and 326 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:49.440 this story really, to me, is one of the greatest biblical illustrations of a healthy stance 327 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:54.200 for the miraculous, a stance of confidence, and a stance of humility. 328 00:24:54.200 --> 00:25:00.000 I'd recommend reading this story on a fairly frequent basis. 329 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:05.000 kind of a, what do you call that? 330 00:25:08.040 --> 00:25:10.520 It's like a calibrating story. 331 00:25:10.520 --> 00:25:13.600 I feel like if you read this story on a frequent basis, 332 00:25:13.600 --> 00:25:17.560 it would recalibrate you back to those two things, 333 00:25:17.560 --> 00:25:19.540 confidence and humility, 334 00:25:19.540 --> 00:25:22.640 which are two things that you absolutely need 335 00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:23.920 for life in the spirit. 336 00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:29.000 And two things that Jesus had, 337 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:31.320 two things that each of the apostles had, 338 00:25:31.320 --> 00:25:34.240 two things that heroes in church history have had 339 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:37.080 from the beginning of the church until now, 340 00:25:37.080 --> 00:25:40.160 and something that we need desperately in this hour. 341 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:45.160 And so we'll start in chapter three, verse one. 342 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:46.520 It says this, 343 00:25:46.520 --> 00:25:49.200 now Peter and John went up together to the temple 344 00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:51.560 at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 345 00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:55.640 A certain man, lame from his mother's womb, 346 00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:56.880 let me just say that again, 347 00:25:56.880 --> 00:26:00.960 lame from his mother's womb was carried, 348 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.560 whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, 349 00:26:03.560 --> 00:26:05.600 which is called beautiful. 350 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:07.480 And by the way, that's a really cool name 351 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:09.780 to call the gate of a temple, beautiful. 352 00:26:09.780 --> 00:26:12.820 To ask alms for those who entered the temple. 353 00:26:12.820 --> 00:26:14.960 In other words, he's put there as a beggar, 354 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:16.760 he's begging, he's asking for money. 355 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:23.240 Who, this beggar, this person named since birth, 356 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:28.680 seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, 357 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:30.240 asked them for alms. 358 00:26:31.120 --> 00:26:34.440 And fixing his eyes on them with John, 359 00:26:34.440 --> 00:26:38.920 Peter said, so Peter's fixing his eyes on them, 360 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:40.720 Peter said, look at us. 361 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.040 Let me just say that again. 362 00:26:43.040 --> 00:26:48.040 Peter said, oi, hey, hey, you're asking for money, 363 00:26:48.040 --> 00:26:51.660 look at me, look at you, look at me, look at us. 364 00:26:53.640 --> 00:26:54.600 Look at us. 365 00:26:54.600 --> 00:26:56.520 So he gave them his attention, 366 00:26:57.760 --> 00:26:59.440 in other words, so he looked at them, 367 00:26:59.440 --> 00:27:02.960 expecting to receive something from them. 368 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:05.960 Expecting to receive something from them. 369 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:07.440 What was he expecting to receive? 370 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:08.600 I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting 371 00:27:08.600 --> 00:27:10.280 to receive what he did receive. 372 00:27:10.280 --> 00:27:14.160 I'm pretty sure he was expecting to receive some alms. 373 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:15.620 That was his expectation. 374 00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:21.560 Then Peter said this, silver and gold I do not have. 375 00:27:23.280 --> 00:27:27.840 But what I do have, I give to you. 376 00:27:27.840 --> 00:27:30.320 Now, the truth is, you can't give what you don't have. 377 00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:32.920 But what you do have, you can give. 378 00:27:32.920 --> 00:27:35.000 But you won't give what you do have 379 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:37.200 if you don't know that you have it. 380 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:38.720 Nobody reaches into their pocket 381 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:39.960 for something that I don't think is there. 382 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:41.000 But if you know it's there, 383 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:42.520 you might just reach into your pocket. 384 00:27:42.520 --> 00:27:43.680 And when you reach into your pocket 385 00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:45.800 and realize there's something in there, 386 00:27:45.800 --> 00:27:47.480 then that's when you might use it. 387 00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:51.360 See, if you look, you see. 388 00:27:51.360 --> 00:27:53.160 Most people don't see because they don't look. 389 00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:55.000 And most people don't look because they think 390 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.920 and they believe that there's nothing there 391 00:27:57.920 --> 00:27:59.720 to be seen if they do look. 392 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:01.740 But what I'm here to tell you is this, 393 00:28:01.740 --> 00:28:04.580 is that there is an entire kingdom in your back pocket. 394 00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:09.900 There is an entire kingdom accessible to you. 395 00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:11.440 Most people don't reach for it 396 00:28:11.440 --> 00:28:12.840 because they don't believe it's there. 397 00:28:12.840 --> 00:28:14.120 But if they reached for it, 398 00:28:14.120 --> 00:28:16.200 they would realize that it's there, 399 00:28:16.200 --> 00:28:17.400 and then they might use it. 400 00:28:17.400 --> 00:28:19.480 And then they might apply it to the world around them 401 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:21.320 like Peter did in this circumstance. 402 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:26.200 Rise up and walk, in verse seven. 403 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:30.040 And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up, 404 00:28:30.040 --> 00:28:32.660 and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 405 00:28:32.660 --> 00:28:34.600 He didn't just believe it, he didn't just speak it, 406 00:28:34.600 --> 00:28:37.160 he didn't just pray it, he activated it. 407 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:39.200 He put action to his belief. 408 00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:40.240 At the end of this session, 409 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:41.760 I'm gonna challenge you with a challenge 410 00:28:41.760 --> 00:28:44.640 to put some action to what's being taught in this session, 411 00:28:44.640 --> 00:28:46.560 to put some action to what you believe, 412 00:28:46.560 --> 00:28:49.640 to put some action towards the reality 413 00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:51.800 that the kingdom of God is at hand for you. 414 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:54.080 And for me. 415 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:59.160 Verse eight, so he leaping up stood and walked 416 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:00.640 and entered the temple with them, 417 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:03.120 walking, leaping, and praising God. 418 00:29:03.120 --> 00:29:05.760 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 419 00:29:05.760 --> 00:29:09.560 Then they knew that it was he who sat begging arms 420 00:29:09.560 --> 00:29:11.200 at the beautiful gate of the temple, 421 00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:15.400 and they were filled with wonder and amazement 422 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:17.480 at what had happened to him. 423 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:21.400 Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John 424 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:24.440 all the people ran together to them in the porch, 425 00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:27.240 which is called Solomon's, which is called Solomon's porch, 426 00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:28.900 and they were greatly amazed. 427 00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:33.160 So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people. 428 00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:34.680 Listen to Peter's response, guys. 429 00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:39.680 This is, you know, before this was Peter's verbal response, 430 00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:43.760 this was already his internal response. 431 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.960 And this needs to be our internal response 432 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:49.440 in the way that we live our lives. 433 00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:50.280 Listen to this response. 434 00:29:50.320 --> 00:29:52.800 Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? 435 00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:55.840 Or why look so intently at us 436 00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:59.520 as though by our own power of godliness 437 00:29:59.520 --> 00:30:00.360 we made this happen? 438 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:05.440 This man walked, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his son, Jesus. 439 00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:10.140 He may be delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go, 440 00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:15.180 but you do. And he goes on, he basically says, this is Jesus. This is Jesus. 441 00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:19.480 So in one breath, he's saying to the beggar, hey, look at me. 442 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:23.120 And then when everyone comes around and everyone starts looking, going, 443 00:30:23.120 --> 00:30:27.320 whoa, that's amazing, how did you do that? He's like, what are you looking at me? 444 00:30:27.320 --> 00:30:33.400 And you can imagine the beggar just thinking, huh? You just said, look at me, and it worked. 445 00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:40.200 You just said, look at me, and you gave me. You said, silver and gold I don't have, 446 00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:44.360 but such as I have, you didn't say God has it, you said you had it. 447 00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:49.840 And then you lifted, you prayed for me, and you lifted me up, and I received my strength. 448 00:30:49.840 --> 00:30:53.800 And then everyone comes around and he's saying, why are you looking at me as though this is something 449 00:30:53.800 --> 00:31:01.320 from us that made this man walk today? This was Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you basically crucified. 450 00:31:01.320 --> 00:31:10.440 And I think that's such an amazing, it's kind of a mystery, it's a reality, it's a balance, 451 00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:15.320 and it's an internal balance that we need to learn to walk with as we learn, 452 00:31:15.320 --> 00:31:22.440 as we engage in this life in the Spirit. And it's a balance of knowing that you have access 453 00:31:22.440 --> 00:31:26.600 to the million dollar check in your pocket, knowing that you have access to the Kingdom of God, 454 00:31:26.600 --> 00:31:32.920 knowing that that access has not come by your clever works, or your strength, or your good 455 00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:36.920 behavior, or anything else, how many days you've fasted, how many times you've read the Bible 456 00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:45.800 cover to cover. That access has been given to you as a free gift, as a free gift from the Father 457 00:31:45.800 --> 00:31:53.240 through Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. It is something that is not achieved, it can only be received. 458 00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:59.400 And we need to know that we have access to that. We need to know like Peter knew, hey, 459 00:32:00.120 --> 00:32:04.680 you know, when there's people in your community that have need of the power of God, that have 460 00:32:04.680 --> 00:32:08.920 need of the reality of God, that have need of the Kingdom of God in their lives, which is every 461 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:13.800 single person that you're going to come across in this next week, in this next day, in this next year, 462 00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:19.480 in the rest of your life. You need to know that you can say like Peter did, hey, 463 00:32:21.400 --> 00:32:25.560 not just, hey, when you go home today, why don't you pray and ask Jesus to heal you, 464 00:32:25.560 --> 00:32:30.760 but instead you can actually say, hey, look at me, because I have, there's some things I can't give 465 00:32:30.760 --> 00:32:35.880 you, but I can give you the power of God, I can minister the power of God to you, I have access 466 00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:40.520 to that, I can give you that, and you can give that to the people in your world. 467 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:46.760 How do you know you have that to give? By choosing to give it. You might not be convinced of that 468 00:32:46.760 --> 00:32:53.080 until you actually reach your hand in your pocket and actually put an action, choose to believe this, 469 00:32:53.080 --> 00:32:57.880 and you'll start to see. Now, of course, everything in the kingdom, and this is one of the sessions 470 00:32:57.880 --> 00:33:02.280 in one of the days tomorrow, the next day, but everything in the kingdom comes in a seed form 471 00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:05.720 and grows into a tree that has fruit. Sometimes you don't reach in your pocket and pull out a 472 00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:09.240 tree, sometimes you pull out a seed and it grows into a tree. Sometimes you pull out a 473 00:33:09.320 --> 00:33:13.400 tree, sometimes you pull out a seed, you've got to water that seed with action, with belief, 474 00:33:14.520 --> 00:33:19.960 and with use. But you'll find that it's there and you'll find that there's power available to you, 475 00:33:20.520 --> 00:33:23.800 that the kingdom is available to you. And then when people come around you and they start 476 00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:33.880 saying, wow, how did you do that? Now, the amount of times, and I'm assuming this is true for some 477 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:39.320 of you as well, but the amount of times that people have, you know, where miracles have been 478 00:33:39.320 --> 00:33:43.320 breaking out and people are beginning to heal and they'll say, how did you do that? How did you do 479 00:33:43.320 --> 00:33:52.840 that? I remember a guy in Whangarei, this has happened many times in Whangarei, but I remember 480 00:33:52.840 --> 00:33:57.960 one particular guy had a lot of pain in his knee and I just said to him, you know, I just said, 481 00:33:58.040 --> 00:34:05.000 right now, again, hey, look at me, right now, got his attention, he's looking at me like, okay, 482 00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:10.040 what are you going to do? I said, right now, Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, 483 00:34:10.040 --> 00:34:16.280 is healing your knee. And I just said, you just try it out right now. He tried it out, 484 00:34:16.280 --> 00:34:21.719 started jumping up and down, he was completely, instantly healed. And he said, he starts freaking 485 00:34:21.719 --> 00:34:24.920 out, he said, what did you do to me? How did you do that? How did you do that? What did you do to 486 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:30.679 me? And this is what I said, I said this, I didn't do anything to you. Now, he could have said back 487 00:34:30.679 --> 00:34:35.960 to me, no, I saw you, you pointed at me, you said, look at me, you pointed at me and you said, 488 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:40.600 be healed, you did something to me. And the truth is, Peter did do something to the guy, 489 00:34:40.600 --> 00:34:47.080 he lifted him up by his hand, he did something. But the power and the gift and the grace that 490 00:34:47.080 --> 00:34:54.760 the guy received is not Peter's grace, it's God's grace, it's God's power. It's been stored 491 00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:59.240 in the person of Peter, and Peter has been given authority to distribute it. 492 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:05.840 fit under the leadership of the Holy Spirit by Jesus. He has been given authority to use that 493 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:14.320 power, and to use the gifts, and to use what he has access to. But Peter knows 100%. Whilst I have 494 00:35:15.040 --> 00:35:21.680 the authority and the power to use it, to administer it, and to distribute it 495 00:35:23.600 --> 00:35:28.880 through and in my life, that power and that grace is not my power. It's not my grace. 496 00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:34.000 It's been entrusted to me so that I can distribute it to the world around me. 497 00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:44.720 And that's the stance we need to live in the miraculous as a lifestyle, is God has stored 498 00:35:44.720 --> 00:35:49.840 something in me, and it's not for me. God has stored something in me that's for the world 499 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:56.640 around me. And it's not mine, it's his. But he's trusted me to carry his grace. 500 00:35:57.600 --> 00:36:04.000 And as I learn to have confidence in God and in what he's entrusted to me, 501 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:09.600 to my stewardship, then I will use that. 502 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:18.160 Sorry, just looking at...I just got a little notification on my phone on the screen that 503 00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:21.920 just said, upload failed. I hope this is working. If it's not working, 504 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:28.000 drop a comment. Well, you're probably not going to hear this if it's not working, so you won't 505 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.520 be able to drop a comment. Or let's just say if it is working, maybe can you drop a comment and 506 00:36:31.520 --> 00:36:43.280 just say it's working. Thank you. You realize that you have access to this, that should fill 507 00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:47.200 you with an incredible amount of confidence, especially when you realize that you did nothing 508 00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:52.800 to earn it or deserve it. It just came for free. That's incredible. Now, you play a role in 509 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:58.320 stewarding that and growing that, but initially that didn't come from you. That came as a gift 510 00:36:58.320 --> 00:37:04.240 from God. That came as the Father said, you know what? I want you to help me. I want you to help 511 00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:10.720 me in the family business. I want you to help me distribute kindness, love, and goodness. 512 00:37:10.720 --> 00:37:13.840 And kindness, love, and goodness looks like something. It looks like the dead being raised. 513 00:37:13.920 --> 00:37:19.120 It looks like tumors falling off. It looks like broken bones being healed. It looks like 514 00:37:19.120 --> 00:37:23.280 broken families coming back together. It looks like reconciliation, redemption, healing. It looks 515 00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:30.720 like all those things as we distribute the goodness and the kindness of God and the power of the 516 00:37:30.720 --> 00:37:36.400 kingdom. But when it's received and when people try to give you the credit or the glory for it, 517 00:37:36.400 --> 00:37:41.520 our response must be that this, and many people have made the mistake, 518 00:37:42.240 --> 00:37:48.800 and it often happens subconsciously, subtly, and insidiously, but many people have made the mistake 519 00:37:50.560 --> 00:37:53.520 over time and throughout church history of taking the glory 520 00:37:55.360 --> 00:38:03.200 for themselves. And I think to a degree everyone's susceptible to that if they don't 521 00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:12.800 manage themselves and intentionally hold on to a stance of humility in their life and in the way 522 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:20.160 that they live their lives. And so our response when people say, how did you do that? Our response 523 00:38:20.160 --> 00:38:24.160 when people try to give us any credit for our response. And we can say, when people say thank 524 00:38:24.160 --> 00:38:29.600 you, we can say you're welcome for the part that we played. You're welcome. I mean, yeah, 525 00:38:29.600 --> 00:38:35.280 I did give you some of my time. I did lift you up by your hand. I did take the time to pray for 526 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:43.680 you. So I can say you're welcome for that part. But what I cannot say you're welcome for is 527 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:49.280 the actual grace that they receive because that is a hundred percent God's grace. 528 00:38:50.560 --> 00:38:53.360 And so when people say that to me, this is what I say to them. Listen, I did nothing. 529 00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:59.200 What you experienced isn't possible because of something I did. What you experienced is possible 530 00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:04.240 because God loves you and He's with you. And you need to say thanks to Jesus right now. You need 531 00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:09.200 to say thanks to the Father. You need to recognize that the Holy Spirit's around you. Say thanks to 532 00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:14.560 the Spirit for what He's done. God has moved in your life right now. Matt Lansdowne didn't move 533 00:39:14.560 --> 00:39:20.400 in your life right now. God moved in your life right now. And we give the credit back to Jesus. 534 00:39:21.200 --> 00:39:25.040 And I know this is 101 Christianity. This is 101 spirit life. And this is 101 535 00:39:26.720 --> 00:39:33.280 kind of teaching. But it's just so important. A lot of people have one or the other of those 536 00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:37.280 two things. But there's not too many people that have the confidence and the humility. 537 00:39:38.640 --> 00:39:43.440 And I want to encourage you to both have the confidence and the humility. And you get that 538 00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:50.320 from recognizing that God has entrusted His kingdom to you so that you can distribute His 539 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:59.840 kingdom, His power, His grace throughout your world. His grace, your world, which is also His world. 540 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:08.680 And so I want to encourage you with that. Whilst I realize that this is this both 541 00:40:08.680 --> 00:40:14.600 comes across simple and it is simple, I'm sharing this in this initial 542 00:40:14.600 --> 00:40:20.040 foundational school because along with the last session that I shared and the 543 00:40:20.040 --> 00:40:23.920 other ones that I've all shared, this lesson and this teaching that I'm 544 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:32.520 sharing with you now has been huge for me. And I think it's been huge for me 545 00:40:32.520 --> 00:40:35.960 because it didn't just go in one ear and out the other. I chose to hold on to it 546 00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:42.640 and to wrap my life around it. And that's why I'm offering and I'm inviting you 547 00:40:42.640 --> 00:40:46.680 into this three-week activation because I want to I want to say hey let's take 548 00:40:46.680 --> 00:40:51.240 some time to wrap our lives around this stuff. So it actually goes deep. A lot of 549 00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:55.000 people take it as head knowledge. A lot of people take it as just hey yep cool 550 00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:00.320 heard it before that's cool. But I want to encourage you to actually like let 551 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:07.520 this sink real deep into your life. Let this reality, let this truth 552 00:41:07.520 --> 00:41:14.040 that I'm sharing form you and frame you and change you. Let it retract the way 553 00:41:14.040 --> 00:41:18.880 you think. And for that to happen it does take time. It's more than just one 554 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:26.560 session and this one session helps and it's great but it's also a journey. You 555 00:41:26.560 --> 00:41:30.040 can choose to take that journey on you on your own or I'm also offering that 556 00:41:30.040 --> 00:41:39.720 as well like I mentioned in the online school sonship to just help you. I also 557 00:41:39.720 --> 00:41:44.680 want to issue this challenge as we come to an end to the end of the second 558 00:41:44.680 --> 00:41:49.960 session of the School of the Spirit is here's my challenge to you. This is a 24 559 00:41:49.960 --> 00:41:58.360 hour challenge so I'm gonna challenge you within the next 24 hours I want you 560 00:41:58.360 --> 00:42:10.960 to ask God take some time to ask God and just say God what is around me in my 561 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:16.960 world right now that requires your power? Are there any people in my world 562 00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:21.160 right now any people that I might have interaction with or that I could have 563 00:42:21.160 --> 00:42:24.800 interaction with that actually really need your power right now? It might be 564 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:27.760 someone that's sick. It might be someone that needs a miracle. It might be someone 565 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:35.320 that needs a family breakthrough. It might be there are impossible things 566 00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:39.680 that people are facing right now and those people and those things are all 567 00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:43.880 around you in your world and me in my world. I just want you to take some time 568 00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:49.400 to ask the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit give me a mission. Give me a task. 569 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:53.880 Give me a direction to point this weapon in. The weapon of the kingdom that I have 570 00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.840 access to that's at hand for me. I want you to let the Holy Spirit give you an 571 00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:01.640 assignment and it might seem a little bit scary and what I want to encourage 572 00:43:01.640 --> 00:43:06.800 you to do is when it seems scary don't rationalize it and dial it down to 573 00:43:06.800 --> 00:43:11.480 something that seems more manageable to you. Just take it exactly as God 574 00:43:11.480 --> 00:43:18.320 says it. He might say hey there's someone down on 42nd Street that has a brain 575 00:43:18.320 --> 00:43:21.920 tumor. You know them. They've lost all hope. They've been prayed for a thousand 576 00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:26.240 times before. I want you to go pray for them and you might have never prayed for 577 00:43:26.240 --> 00:43:30.680 someone before but here's what I want to ask you to do. I want to challenge you to 578 00:43:30.680 --> 00:43:34.640 walk straight on down to that person's house, knock on the door, say I've come 579 00:43:34.640 --> 00:43:39.400 with something from God for you. God has asked me to come to you and pray 580 00:43:39.400 --> 00:43:42.280 for you and I believe that you'll receive a miracle. Reach your hand into 581 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:47.200 your back pocket. Take your access to the kingdom that you have been 582 00:43:47.200 --> 00:43:52.360 given access to and I don't need to teach you how to pray. There are 583 00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:56.080 plenty of interpreter angels in heaven to interpret your prayers. 584 00:43:56.080 --> 00:43:59.240 It's not about that. It's about learning to believe that you have 585 00:43:59.240 --> 00:44:05.360 access to what God has given you access to and go ahead and do that and feel 586 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.480 free on this thread to share some of the testimonies that happen after that. I'm 587 00:44:08.480 --> 00:44:13.120 gonna be asking you tomorrow in our third session how that goes for you and 588 00:44:13.120 --> 00:44:17.680 I'm looking forward to hearing some of the stories but I'm literally gonna give 589 00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:23.320 you guys now 24 hours. You've got a 24 hour mission so please like consider 590 00:44:23.320 --> 00:44:28.960 taking me up on that on that mission. I know it's easy just to go oh nah I'm 591 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:32.440 gonna just have a cup of coffee but just choose. Just do it. Let's do it. 592 00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:37.760 Let's do it. So that's my challenge to you. Now let me pray and we're gonna 593 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:42.560 finish the second session. Father right now we just thank you that you have that 594 00:44:42.560 --> 00:44:47.760 you I didn't gain access to the kingdom. You gave me access to the kingdom. You 595 00:44:47.760 --> 00:44:56.440 gave us access to the kingdom God and we honor you and we celebrate you and Lord 596 00:44:56.440 --> 00:45:01.840 we feel the confidence and the humility that's now 597 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:05.360 hearts right now. We thank you God that we have been entrusted with such an 598 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:11.320 amazing thing as the kingdom, that we have been entrusted with your power God 599 00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:15.720 to bring so much change in the world. And we thank you that it's not ours, that 600 00:45:15.720 --> 00:45:23.920 it's yours. And Holy Spirit I ask that you would like brood over our hearts and 601 00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:30.080 help people in the realms of confidence and humility. God I pray that 602 00:45:30.080 --> 00:45:35.320 they would feel the reality of that the kingdom that's at hand. I pray that you 603 00:45:35.320 --> 00:45:39.640 would fill them with supernatural boldness to go out and to face the 604 00:45:39.640 --> 00:45:42.960 challenges of the world, not on their own but with the power that you've made 605 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:49.800 available by the Spirit. Holy Spirit lead people into incredible situations. Lead 606 00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:54.680 people, God, over the chicken line, over the line of fear and into the realm of 607 00:45:54.680 --> 00:45:59.280 confidence, into the realm of trusting in your nearness, into the space of being 608 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:05.120 bold with you Holy Spirit to administer the kingdom of God. And we just declare 609 00:46:05.120 --> 00:46:11.600 that right now. I declare that over every person. I pray God that you would give 610 00:46:11.600 --> 00:46:16.480 people the confidence to really latch on to the way that you speak to them. I know 611 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:19.480 that some of them you will speak to them and it's still small voice and they 612 00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.760 might easily count that as their own thoughts, but God I pray that they would 613 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:29.000 recognize it when you speak in the way that you speak. And amen. And I just want 614 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:33.200 to say guys that if you hear something from the Holy Spirit and you're like 615 00:46:33.200 --> 00:46:37.880 questioning like, oh just guys I'm just not sure. It might have just been my 616 00:46:37.880 --> 00:46:41.760 thoughts. I'm just not sure. Listen there's only one way to find out. If you 617 00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:45.460 think hmm not sure if it's just my thoughts or not, just assume that it's 618 00:46:45.500 --> 00:46:51.620 God speaking to you and go for it anyway. That's really the way you find out. I 619 00:46:51.620 --> 00:46:57.100 assume the lights green until it turns red obviously rather than assuming the 620 00:46:57.100 --> 00:47:02.420 lights red until it turns green obviously. I love what Todd White said 621 00:47:02.420 --> 00:47:07.340 to me once. He said you know many people are waiting to feel led to this 622 00:47:07.340 --> 00:47:11.840 person or that person or this person to administer the kingdom. And so he said 623 00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:15.100 what he used to do is he used to buy lead pencils for people and say put this 624 00:47:15.100 --> 00:47:19.180 pencil in your pocket. Make sure it's sharp. And when you're wondering 625 00:47:19.180 --> 00:47:22.500 if you're led or not, just put your hand in your pocket and feel the lead. And now 626 00:47:22.500 --> 00:47:29.420 you feel led. Go. And so I just want to encourage you to do that. Maybe 627 00:47:29.420 --> 00:47:33.540 some of us need a lead pencil in our pocket. Assume the lights green. God is 628 00:47:33.540 --> 00:47:37.660 really good at letting you know when it's red. Okay awesome guys. Well bless 629 00:47:37.660 --> 00:47:44.940 you. And again just feel free to drop any questions in the comments. Any 630 00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:49.620 comments in the comments. Some of you just put some really cool comments on 631 00:47:49.620 --> 00:47:54.820 that last session which I really appreciate it. So thanks for 632 00:47:54.820 --> 00:48:00.940 those. And we'll see you back tomorrow at 12 o'clock New Zealand time. We'll have 633 00:48:00.940 --> 00:48:05.100 another two sessions, maybe even three tomorrow. We'll just see how it goes. And 634 00:48:05.220 --> 00:48:12.500 yes Bianca, good to see you. And yep I am probably about to go for a surf. 635 00:48:12.500 --> 00:48:20.420 You're right. So we'll see you soon. Also I'll also drop that link for the Online 636 00:48:20.420 --> 00:48:23.460 School of Sonship for those of you who are interested on this one as well. Okay 637 00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:26.340 bless you. See you guys.