Well, I'll just wait for a couple of people to jump on board.
But welcome to session two of the School of the Spirit.
And whether you are here on the replay or whether you're here live, thanks for tuning
in.
Thanks for stopping by and being part of this school.
Hope you're receiving some good stuff out of it.
For many it will be more of a reminder or a recalibration towards some of the things
you already know.
And for some of you, it'll be a combination of that and learning some new things.
And for some of you, it might be just brand new and fresh.
And so many of you haven't heard me teach before, or some of you might have, but if
you haven't heard me teach before, I'll probably share things in a slightly different way to
what you've heard before.
But yeah, thanks for coming.
Thanks for jumping on board and being part of this.
Session one, we talked about Jesus as our compass for spirit life.
And thanks for some of the questions that some of you added afterwards.
They were great questions and hopefully I answered a few of them.
I did so in the small amount of time that I had.
I jumped off that live, by the way, and just quickly made some lunch.
Well, sorry, I didn't make lunch.
My wife made me some epic lunch.
I scoffed that back and here I am.
So thanks for those questions.
I love the questions.
I love the interaction.
Again, feel free to drop comments.
Love to know, you know, where you're from, what time it is where you're from.
And if you have questions along the way, I may not answer them when you're asking them,
but really love the questions.
And I can look back after the sessions are over and hopefully answer a few as well, and
respond and interact with some of those comments a little bit more.
So, yeah, love them all.
And this session we're going to be talking about balancing our internal stance for the
miraculous.
And I love the miraculous.
I love the power of God.
I love the Spirit of God.
I love the gifts of the Spirit.
I love the reality of walking in the Holy Spirit.
It's just so cool.
I mean, even just, was it earlier this week or no?
This week's just begun.
It was the end of last week.
We were seeing just miracles through the online stuff, and seeing people be healed.
These days it seems to be more online stuff than live stuff, or in the flesh stuff, because
travel has been so difficult.
I'm from a small town of like 2,000 people live in our town, so there's not that many
people here.
But still opportunity to pray for people and see things happen, so yeah, God is just so
good.
God is so good, and yeah, thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus.
I just long to and dream of seeing the church step into the fullness of who it's called
to be, of who God designed it to be.
I cannot wait to see the day where the sons and daughters of God step into their inheritance,
where they begin to live the normal, not just Christian life, but the normal human
life as God intended it to be lived, where our lives start to reflect the life of Jesus
at a greater dimension.
When the majority of Christians start to live the way they've been designed to live, and
start to live the normal human life as defined by Jesus, the world will never be the same
again.
It will be outstanding.
And there's just some simple things that we can apply to our lives and we can adopt as
beliefs and receive as our own personal beliefs that will enable us and undergird and become
a foundation for us to be able to step into that kind of life, and that's what I intend
on sharing over this three-day school.
The goal of this three-day school is really to provide a foundation and undergirding for
supernatural life, for a life that looks like Jesus, for the normal human life as I've just
been sharing.
And then, again, just to remind you, this is going to lead into a three-day school.
Three-week activation, it's not going to be the same format as this.
This is more teaching.
It's going to be more kind of mentoring activation.
We're going to be giving challenges.
I call them chicken line challenges.
I'll explain that more in the activation.
And the strategy I'm going to take for that three-week activation is the same
strategy that I used to take when travel was open.
I can't wait for it to open again, by the way, and I'd love to invite many of you
to come on some trips with me.
But the same strategy that I would use when preparing a mission team to go on a
trip somewhere, I would often spend sort of not just three weeks,
but I'd often spend sort of three or so months coaching and mentoring people
into what I'm teaching right now, into the gifts of the Spirit,
into spirit life, into the normal Christian life, so that by the time we hit the place
that we were going, everyone was ready to go.
And so I'm going to sort of take some of the things that I learned through some
of those processes and apply them to the three-week activation.
And again, I'll put the link, that's going to be in the Online School of Sonship.
If you weren't part of the first session before, then that might be helpful for you
to know.
It's not going to be in the Raising Royalty group.
It's going to be in the Online School of Sonship that is part of the same thing.
But it's not a free group.
It costs, I think, $50 New Zealand or $30 US, and that gives you kind of lifetime
access to everything in that group forever.
So part of it is this three-week activation I'm going to be doing after this.
So if that's something you're interested in, then click on that link, sign up,
and you'll be ready to go when that does go live on the Online School of Sonship,
which I'm really looking forward to.
And I'm trying to think if I wanted to recap on anything.
Oh, so I am going to have another look over some of those comments and just
interact a little bit more after this.
But just to reiterate as well, today, we're doing two sessions.
We've done the first session.
Now, this is session number two.
And these two sessions, there's like a principle that I mentioned in the first
session that kind of is the undergirding principle that kind of speaks to the reason
why these two sessions are important.
And that principle is a Proverbs 23, 7 principle,
as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
That your experience of reality, your experience of life,
what you experience as life, in other words, what your life is actually
like, is not necessarily a reflection of reality in terms of what God defines
reality to be.
Your concrete experience of life is evidence and a reflection of not reality
necessarily, but what you believe reality to be.
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
It doesn't say as God defined a man, so is he.
It's as a man thinks in his heart, so is he.
And as our mind comes into alignment with the way that God thinks,
our lives and our concrete experience of life will begin to come into alignment
with the way we think.
And if that's an alignment with the way God thinks, our lives will come
into alignment with the way that God has designed our lives to be.
And so that is the undergirding principle behind these two sessions and the reason
why these two sessions are really important.
In the second session, we're going to talk about balancing our
internal stance for the miraculous.
And there are really two things that I want to...that I pray are instilled
into the fabric of your lives.
And I'm fairly confident that they're already there, but my prayer is that this
session would just pour gasoline over the fire that's already there,
especially in two areas, the area of confidence and the area of humility.
That to live the kind of lives that Jesus has designed for us to live,
we need 100% confidence in who God says that we are and 100% humility before God
and in the way that we live our lives.
Confidence and humility are two things that we're going to really go
after in this session.
I want to share a story right now just to kick the session off.
And it's a story of my friend, Cam.
We were at a youth event a little while ago, and it was at...
my house and sort of started about, I don't know, sometime in the in the late
afternoon and we got we had a big big bonfire and a bunch of youth over it
would have been like 50 to 100 youth and um and I was a leader in the youth group
and my friend Cam was a leader in the youth group and just awesome um
and uh we got the bonfire cranking it's the sun started to go down all of a
sudden the sun's down and um and Cam comes running up to me and he says
man mate I'm trying to find my phone I'm trying to find my phone have you seen my
phone and he's looking around for his phone and I'm like man
dude I haven't seen your phone I have no idea where your phone is
um and he's like man if you see it let me know man if you see it let me know I
said well I'll go up and have a look in the house and you go have a look around
the fire and he's looking with this flashlight
looking for his phone and uh but half an hour later he comes up
to me and he's like man are you sure you haven't seen my phone
and I'm like mate I haven't seen your phone man he said well
on the way here and he's got his flash eyes looking around
trying to find his phone and he said on the way here I pulled over
um uh for a little bathroom break and um maybe my phone fell out where I
pulled over so I'm just going to go for a quick drive I'll be back so
heads up the road and uh drives off I get a call about probably 10-15 minutes
later and uh he's he's obviously found his
phone he's calling me from his phone and he's like man bro I feel so
bad I cannot believe it you never guess and I said what what
happened man what happened he said you know that flashlight I was looking
for my phone with I said yeah yeah yeah he said that is
that was the flashlight on my phone I literally had my phone
in my hand the whole time and I was using it to try and find my phone
he said it took me literally like he said that's so crazy he said I
probably over an hour looking for my phone with my phone
I cannot believe I didn't see it and that's often
the way we are with the kingdom that's often the way we are guys with
the the resources that God has given us
is we're often trying to find something or trying to acquire something or trying
to work for something or trying to get something that has
already been given to us um and Jesus simply said as he said
repent repent just means read to go back
pent high to come back high high to what is high high is God's high
opinion God's high perspective the highest point of view
in other words come back to God's perspective come back
to the to the highest perspective come back
to um to God's mindset to God's belief to God's
thinking repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand in other words guys
there once was a day maybe where where the kingdom wasn't at hand but
now the kingdom is at hand now there's a difference between being present and
being at hand let me explain the difference right now
um my guitar is over there in the corner of the
room I'm sitting on the seat and uh that I am in the presence of my
guitar but if I stay sitting on the seat I
cannot reach my guitar it's not at hand I don't have direct
access to my guitar without changing something about my life or
my position
the guitar is in the same room but it's not at hand
this glass of water this glass of water is at hand I've got it sitting right
next to me because I wanted it to be at hand while
I'm doing this session
let me tell you right now the kingdom of God
is not just in the same room the kingdom of God
along with the king along with the presence of the king along with the
spirit along with the gifts of the spirit along with everything
that comes with the kingdom is not just in the same room you do it's
not just in the kingdom not just in the same
in your presence in your in your geographical location
in your area in your environment somewhere
it's not just within sight it is at hand it's not just with you
it's accessible to you when you reach for it
it's there when you reach for it you don't you're not grasping at thin air
when you reach for the kingdom the kingdom is
within your reach it is at hand it's actually closer to you than this
glass of water is to me and and not just it doesn't say 79% of
the kingdom is at hand
And the other 21% of the kingdom will be at hand if you do this, this, and this.
Jesus is the kingdom, full stop, the whole thing. Not a part of it, not a
percentage of it, not a skerrick of it, not a small bit of it. It doesn't come in
installments. The kingdom is at hand. Just come on Jesus, that is
sailor. We could end the session right there and just incredible. I'll tell you
another story. Oh Jenny, hey thanks, thanks for commenting on my hairstyle.
I've actually got it tied up today and you might have seen I cut it a bit short.
It took me a while to get used to it but I'm now used to it and someone pointed
out that I have the same haircut now as the Jesus from the Chosen series which
I'm also happy about. So thanks for commenting on my hair. My wife's in the
corner laughing at me. She knows the journey I've gone through with my hair.
Yeah, ha ha ha. Let me tell you another story regarding repent for the kingdom
is at hand. By the way, that was the first sermon that Jesus preached, repent for
the kingdom is at hand. He was echoing his cousin John Baptist. This is not a
true story. This is more of an illustration but I want you to imagine
that you that you go to, you've got a nice jacket. Let's just say a nice jacket.
You go to the dry cleaners. It's a very nice jacket. You really love your jacket.
You don't want to stick it in the washing machine. It's a bit grubby. You
take it to the dry cleaners to get cleaned and you know this dry cleaner is
a pretty good guy. He's very generous. He's got a great reputation in the
community and just an all-around legend. Actually someone you really look up to
and a real community leader and he takes the jacket and he's like, mate listen I'll
tell you what, this one's on the house and you're like man thanks mate. That's
so awesome and he's got a bit of a cheeky smile on his face and what you
don't know is that while he's dry cleaning the jacket, when it's all
finished and done and dusted, he slips a million dollar check into your pocket of
your jacket but he doesn't say anything about it. He just slips a million dollar
check in the pocket, in the pocket of the jacket. You go to pick the jacket up and
he goes, you know, he thinks I might push the envelope on my cheekiness a
little bit. He says, mate it wouldn't be classic if you had a million dollars in
your pocket after you drop your jacket off here. How would that change your life?
And you say, ha ha ha ha, oh that would change my life because I might be able to pay
the rent. You know, you start making some comments like that and anyway you pick
your jacket up and you don't believe for a second that there's actually
a million dollars in your pocket. And so you go through life, it's hot weather
outside, you don't really have too much need for your jacket and as you're going
through that next month directly after picking your jacket up, you're like, oh
man, it's a bit of a struggle to pay the rent, it's a little bit of a struggle to
put food on the table, it's not dire straits but it's getting pretty tough
and, you know, you're definitely feeling a little bit of lack in
terms of your financial capacity in your life. And one evening, it's a bit of a
cooler evening, you go get your jacket out and you put your jacket on and you
just decide your hands are a bit cold so you stick your hands in your pocket of
your jacket and you feel, there's something in that pocket, there shouldn't be anything in that
pocket because I just took it to the dry cleaner and then you remember that
cheeky comment that the dry cleaner said and you think, no. And you realize it
starts, the cogs start turning, he's been known to do this kind of thing before.
And you pull out of your pocket a million dollar check and this is what
you realize in that moment. You realize that you have been living with
more than everything you need, you have been living with extravagant abundance
of financial provision in your pocket at hand for the last month but you have
been living as if you did not have enough when the whole time your pocket
was full of cash, your pocket was full of finances. Freely given to you by a
generous dry cleaner. Now Jesus is the generous dry cleaner and he has
put, not a million dollar check in your pocket, but he has put the inheritance of
the entire kingdom, he has made you a share of his own inheritance and put
that, not in your pocket, but securely.
purely in every cell and every facet of your life is intertwined with God's own inheritance,
with the inheritance of Christ.
And often we live our lives in a sense of lack that is actually not true, that is actually
not real, and it is actually an illusion from beginning to end.
Much of the lack that we experience, and that sometimes we even subconsciously count as
well, this is just life, is due to a mindset, not due to what God has made available to
us.
There is much more available to us than what we sometimes first realize.
And I wonder how your life would change if you realized that the kingdom of God was in
your back pocket, that the kingdom of God, much more than a million dollar check, but
the kingdom, that you have been chosen by God to carry a kingdom, and everything that
comes with that kingdom.
I wonder how your life would change if you really truly believed, and if I really truly
believed, that the actual power of God was at hand for you.
The same power that made the sun, that made the stars, that made galaxies, with just the
word.
That same, very same power, the power that raised Lazarus from the dead, the power that
walked on the water, the power that multiplied the food, that same power, by the same Spirit,
the Holy Spirit, has been made by the Father through Jesus, accessible to you.
That power is in your pocket, my pocket.
How would that change the way you go about the rest of your day today?
How would that change the way you approach whatever challenges you're engaging in right
now?
How would that change the way you talk to your neighbor?
How would that change the way the next time someone says to you in response to, hey, how's
it going, and they say back to you, oh, you know what, I've got this splitting headache.
How would that change the way that you respond to a comment like that, when you know that
the power of God is actually at hand for you?
You have access to it, and you have been given authority to administer the Spirit of
God.
Whoa!
That's pretty cool.
Confidence.
I'll tell you what, what I'm saying right now is designed to instill confidence, not in
your ability, not in what I'm saying, not in my ability to teach, not in life in general,
but confidence in God in you.
I want to read an example from Scripture right now.
We can turn to Acts chapter 3.
This is another one of my absolute all-time favorites.
It's just such a goodie, and I want to encourage you to read your Bibles.
This is just full of good stuff.
Read something out of Acts chapter 3, again, one of my favorite stories in Scripture, and
I love it that it's just after Jesus, it's just after the Gospels, Jesus has ascended,
the day of Pentecost has come, there's been the baptism in the Spirit, which is Acts chapter
1 and 2.
Now we're at Acts chapter 3, just straight after that initial baptism in the Holy Spirit,
which we'll get into at another stage.
One of the biggest things with designing this course is there's so many things I want to
say, and I wanted to boil it down to just a small number of sessions, so I'm pretty
sure we're going to have multiple other schools after this, but these are lessons that I learned
that really have formed me, and have challenged me, and empowered me to live the kind of life
that I feel very privileged to have lived so far.
Many of you know some of the stories, and I've been sharing them on this group for a
little while now, and very exciting.
But this is one of my favorite stories, and I want to draw two things out of this, and
this story really, to me, is one of the greatest biblical illustrations of a healthy stance
for the miraculous, a stance of confidence, and a stance of humility.
I'd recommend reading this story on a fairly frequent basis.
kind of a, what do you call that?
It's like a calibrating story.
I feel like if you read this story on a frequent basis,
it would recalibrate you back to those two things,
confidence and humility,
which are two things that you absolutely need
for life in the spirit.
And two things that Jesus had,
two things that each of the apostles had,
two things that heroes in church history have had
from the beginning of the church until now,
and something that we need desperately in this hour.
And so we'll start in chapter three, verse one.
It says this,
now Peter and John went up together to the temple
at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
A certain man, lame from his mother's womb,
let me just say that again,
lame from his mother's womb was carried,
whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple,
which is called beautiful.
And by the way, that's a really cool name
to call the gate of a temple, beautiful.
To ask alms for those who entered the temple.
In other words, he's put there as a beggar,
he's begging, he's asking for money.
Who, this beggar, this person named since birth,
seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple,
asked them for alms.
And fixing his eyes on them with John,
Peter said, so Peter's fixing his eyes on them,
Peter said, look at us.
Let me just say that again.
Peter said, oi, hey, hey, you're asking for money,
look at me, look at you, look at me, look at us.
Look at us.
So he gave them his attention,
in other words, so he looked at them,
expecting to receive something from them.
Expecting to receive something from them.
What was he expecting to receive?
I'm pretty sure he wasn't expecting
to receive what he did receive.
I'm pretty sure he was expecting to receive some alms.
That was his expectation.
Then Peter said this, silver and gold I do not have.
But what I do have, I give to you.
Now, the truth is, you can't give what you don't have.
But what you do have, you can give.
But you won't give what you do have
if you don't know that you have it.
Nobody reaches into their pocket
for something that I don't think is there.
But if you know it's there,
you might just reach into your pocket.
And when you reach into your pocket
and realize there's something in there,
then that's when you might use it.
See, if you look, you see.
Most people don't see because they don't look.
And most people don't look because they think
and they believe that there's nothing there
to be seen if they do look.
But what I'm here to tell you is this,
is that there is an entire kingdom in your back pocket.
There is an entire kingdom accessible to you.
Most people don't reach for it
because they don't believe it's there.
But if they reached for it,
they would realize that it's there,
and then they might use it.
And then they might apply it to the world around them
like Peter did in this circumstance.
Rise up and walk, in verse seven.
And he took him by the right hand and lifted him up,
and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
He didn't just believe it, he didn't just speak it,
he didn't just pray it, he activated it.
He put action to his belief.
At the end of this session,
I'm gonna challenge you with a challenge
to put some action to what's being taught in this session,
to put some action to what you believe,
to put some action towards the reality
that the kingdom of God is at hand for you.
And for me.
Verse eight, so he leaping up stood and walked
and entered the temple with them,
walking, leaping, and praising God.
And all the people saw him walking and praising God.
Then they knew that it was he who sat begging arms
at the beautiful gate of the temple,
and they were filled with wonder and amazement
at what had happened to him.
Now as the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John
all the people ran together to them in the porch,
which is called Solomon's, which is called Solomon's porch,
and they were greatly amazed.
So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people.
Listen to Peter's response, guys.
This is, you know, before this was Peter's verbal response,
this was already his internal response.
And this needs to be our internal response
in the way that we live our lives.
Listen to this response.
Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this?
Or why look so intently at us
as though by our own power of godliness
we made this happen?
This man walked, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his son, Jesus.
He may be delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go,
but you do. And he goes on, he basically says, this is Jesus. This is Jesus.
So in one breath, he's saying to the beggar, hey, look at me.
And then when everyone comes around and everyone starts looking, going,
whoa, that's amazing, how did you do that? He's like, what are you looking at me?
And you can imagine the beggar just thinking, huh? You just said, look at me, and it worked.
You just said, look at me, and you gave me. You said, silver and gold I don't have,
but such as I have, you didn't say God has it, you said you had it.
And then you lifted, you prayed for me, and you lifted me up, and I received my strength.
And then everyone comes around and he's saying, why are you looking at me as though this is something
from us that made this man walk today? This was Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you basically crucified.
And I think that's such an amazing, it's kind of a mystery, it's a reality, it's a balance,
and it's an internal balance that we need to learn to walk with as we learn,
as we engage in this life in the Spirit. And it's a balance of knowing that you have access
to the million dollar check in your pocket, knowing that you have access to the Kingdom of God,
knowing that that access has not come by your clever works, or your strength, or your good
behavior, or anything else, how many days you've fasted, how many times you've read the Bible
cover to cover. That access has been given to you as a free gift, as a free gift from the Father
through Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. It is something that is not achieved, it can only be received.
And we need to know that we have access to that. We need to know like Peter knew, hey,
you know, when there's people in your community that have need of the power of God, that have
need of the reality of God, that have need of the Kingdom of God in their lives, which is every
single person that you're going to come across in this next week, in this next day, in this next year,
in the rest of your life. You need to know that you can say like Peter did, hey,
not just, hey, when you go home today, why don't you pray and ask Jesus to heal you,
but instead you can actually say, hey, look at me, because I have, there's some things I can't give
you, but I can give you the power of God, I can minister the power of God to you, I have access
to that, I can give you that, and you can give that to the people in your world.
How do you know you have that to give? By choosing to give it. You might not be convinced of that
until you actually reach your hand in your pocket and actually put an action, choose to believe this,
and you'll start to see. Now, of course, everything in the kingdom, and this is one of the sessions
in one of the days tomorrow, the next day, but everything in the kingdom comes in a seed form
and grows into a tree that has fruit. Sometimes you don't reach in your pocket and pull out a
tree, sometimes you pull out a seed and it grows into a tree. Sometimes you pull out a
tree, sometimes you pull out a seed, you've got to water that seed with action, with belief,
and with use. But you'll find that it's there and you'll find that there's power available to you,
that the kingdom is available to you. And then when people come around you and they start
saying, wow, how did you do that? Now, the amount of times, and I'm assuming this is true for some
of you as well, but the amount of times that people have, you know, where miracles have been
breaking out and people are beginning to heal and they'll say, how did you do that? How did you do
that? I remember a guy in Whangarei, this has happened many times in Whangarei, but I remember
one particular guy had a lot of pain in his knee and I just said to him, you know, I just said,
right now, again, hey, look at me, right now, got his attention, he's looking at me like, okay,
what are you going to do? I said, right now, Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit,
is healing your knee. And I just said, you just try it out right now. He tried it out,
started jumping up and down, he was completely, instantly healed. And he said, he starts freaking
out, he said, what did you do to me? How did you do that? How did you do that? What did you do to
me? And this is what I said, I said this, I didn't do anything to you. Now, he could have said back
to me, no, I saw you, you pointed at me, you said, look at me, you pointed at me and you said,
be healed, you did something to me. And the truth is, Peter did do something to the guy,
he lifted him up by his hand, he did something. But the power and the gift and the grace that
the guy received is not Peter's grace, it's God's grace, it's God's power. It's been stored
in the person of Peter, and Peter has been given authority to distribute it.
fit under the leadership of the Holy Spirit by Jesus. He has been given authority to use that
power, and to use the gifts, and to use what he has access to. But Peter knows 100%. Whilst I have
the authority and the power to use it, to administer it, and to distribute it
through and in my life, that power and that grace is not my power. It's not my grace.
It's been entrusted to me so that I can distribute it to the world around me.
And that's the stance we need to live in the miraculous as a lifestyle, is God has stored
something in me, and it's not for me. God has stored something in me that's for the world
around me. And it's not mine, it's his. But he's trusted me to carry his grace.
And as I learn to have confidence in God and in what he's entrusted to me,
to my stewardship, then I will use that.
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be able to drop a comment. Or let's just say if it is working, maybe can you drop a comment and
just say it's working. Thank you. You realize that you have access to this, that should fill
you with an incredible amount of confidence, especially when you realize that you did nothing
to earn it or deserve it. It just came for free. That's incredible. Now, you play a role in
stewarding that and growing that, but initially that didn't come from you. That came as a gift
from God. That came as the Father said, you know what? I want you to help me. I want you to help
me in the family business. I want you to help me distribute kindness, love, and goodness.
And kindness, love, and goodness looks like something. It looks like the dead being raised.
It looks like tumors falling off. It looks like broken bones being healed. It looks like
broken families coming back together. It looks like reconciliation, redemption, healing. It looks
like all those things as we distribute the goodness and the kindness of God and the power of the
kingdom. But when it's received and when people try to give you the credit or the glory for it,
our response must be that this, and many people have made the mistake,
and it often happens subconsciously, subtly, and insidiously, but many people have made the mistake
over time and throughout church history of taking the glory
for themselves. And I think to a degree everyone's susceptible to that if they don't
manage themselves and intentionally hold on to a stance of humility in their life and in the way
that they live their lives. And so our response when people say, how did you do that? Our response
when people try to give us any credit for our response. And we can say, when people say thank
you, we can say you're welcome for the part that we played. You're welcome. I mean, yeah,
I did give you some of my time. I did lift you up by your hand. I did take the time to pray for
you. So I can say you're welcome for that part. But what I cannot say you're welcome for is
the actual grace that they receive because that is a hundred percent God's grace.
And so when people say that to me, this is what I say to them. Listen, I did nothing.
What you experienced isn't possible because of something I did. What you experienced is possible
because God loves you and He's with you. And you need to say thanks to Jesus right now. You need
to say thanks to the Father. You need to recognize that the Holy Spirit's around you. Say thanks to
the Spirit for what He's done. God has moved in your life right now. Matt Lansdowne didn't move
in your life right now. God moved in your life right now. And we give the credit back to Jesus.
And I know this is 101 Christianity. This is 101 spirit life. And this is 101
kind of teaching. But it's just so important. A lot of people have one or the other of those
two things. But there's not too many people that have the confidence and the humility.
And I want to encourage you to both have the confidence and the humility. And you get that
from recognizing that God has entrusted His kingdom to you so that you can distribute His
kingdom, His power, His grace throughout your world. His grace, your world, which is also His world.
And so I want to encourage you with that. Whilst I realize that this is this both
comes across simple and it is simple, I'm sharing this in this initial
foundational school because along with the last session that I shared and the
other ones that I've all shared, this lesson and this teaching that I'm
sharing with you now has been huge for me. And I think it's been huge for me
because it didn't just go in one ear and out the other. I chose to hold on to it
and to wrap my life around it. And that's why I'm offering and I'm inviting you
into this three-week activation because I want to I want to say hey let's take
some time to wrap our lives around this stuff. So it actually goes deep. A lot of
people take it as head knowledge. A lot of people take it as just hey yep cool
heard it before that's cool. But I want to encourage you to actually like let
this sink real deep into your life. Let this reality, let this truth
that I'm sharing form you and frame you and change you. Let it retract the way
you think. And for that to happen it does take time. It's more than just one
session and this one session helps and it's great but it's also a journey. You
can choose to take that journey on you on your own or I'm also offering that
as well like I mentioned in the online school sonship to just help you. I also
want to issue this challenge as we come to an end to the end of the second
session of the School of the Spirit is here's my challenge to you. This is a 24
hour challenge so I'm gonna challenge you within the next 24 hours I want you
to ask God take some time to ask God and just say God what is around me in my
world right now that requires your power? Are there any people in my world
right now any people that I might have interaction with or that I could have
interaction with that actually really need your power right now? It might be
someone that's sick. It might be someone that needs a miracle. It might be someone
that needs a family breakthrough. It might be there are impossible things
that people are facing right now and those people and those things are all
around you in your world and me in my world. I just want you to take some time
to ask the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit give me a mission. Give me a task.
Give me a direction to point this weapon in. The weapon of the kingdom that I have
access to that's at hand for me. I want you to let the Holy Spirit give you an
assignment and it might seem a little bit scary and what I want to encourage
you to do is when it seems scary don't rationalize it and dial it down to
something that seems more manageable to you. Just take it exactly as God
says it. He might say hey there's someone down on 42nd Street that has a brain
tumor. You know them. They've lost all hope. They've been prayed for a thousand
times before. I want you to go pray for them and you might have never prayed for
someone before but here's what I want to ask you to do. I want to challenge you to
walk straight on down to that person's house, knock on the door, say I've come
with something from God for you. God has asked me to come to you and pray
for you and I believe that you'll receive a miracle. Reach your hand into
your back pocket. Take your access to the kingdom that you have been
given access to and I don't need to teach you how to pray. There are
plenty of interpreter angels in heaven to interpret your prayers.
It's not about that. It's about learning to believe that you have
access to what God has given you access to and go ahead and do that and feel
free on this thread to share some of the testimonies that happen after that. I'm
gonna be asking you tomorrow in our third session how that goes for you and
I'm looking forward to hearing some of the stories but I'm literally gonna give
you guys now 24 hours. You've got a 24 hour mission so please like consider
taking me up on that on that mission. I know it's easy just to go oh nah I'm
gonna just have a cup of coffee but just choose. Just do it. Let's do it.
Let's do it. So that's my challenge to you. Now let me pray and we're gonna
finish the second session. Father right now we just thank you that you have that
you I didn't gain access to the kingdom. You gave me access to the kingdom. You
gave us access to the kingdom God and we honor you and we celebrate you and Lord
we feel the confidence and the humility that's now
hearts right now. We thank you God that we have been entrusted with such an
amazing thing as the kingdom, that we have been entrusted with your power God
to bring so much change in the world. And we thank you that it's not ours, that
it's yours. And Holy Spirit I ask that you would like brood over our hearts and
help people in the realms of confidence and humility. God I pray that
they would feel the reality of that the kingdom that's at hand. I pray that you
would fill them with supernatural boldness to go out and to face the
challenges of the world, not on their own but with the power that you've made
available by the Spirit. Holy Spirit lead people into incredible situations. Lead
people, God, over the chicken line, over the line of fear and into the realm of
confidence, into the realm of trusting in your nearness, into the space of being
bold with you Holy Spirit to administer the kingdom of God. And we just declare
that right now. I declare that over every person. I pray God that you would give
people the confidence to really latch on to the way that you speak to them. I know
that some of them you will speak to them and it's still small voice and they
might easily count that as their own thoughts, but God I pray that they would
recognize it when you speak in the way that you speak. And amen. And I just want
to say guys that if you hear something from the Holy Spirit and you're like
questioning like, oh just guys I'm just not sure. It might have just been my
thoughts. I'm just not sure. Listen there's only one way to find out. If you
think hmm not sure if it's just my thoughts or not, just assume that it's
God speaking to you and go for it anyway. That's really the way you find out. I
assume the lights green until it turns red obviously rather than assuming the
lights red until it turns green obviously. I love what Todd White said
to me once. He said you know many people are waiting to feel led to this
person or that person or this person to administer the kingdom. And so he said
what he used to do is he used to buy lead pencils for people and say put this
pencil in your pocket. Make sure it's sharp. And when you're wondering
if you're led or not, just put your hand in your pocket and feel the lead. And now
you feel led. Go. And so I just want to encourage you to do that. Maybe
some of us need a lead pencil in our pocket. Assume the lights green. God is
really good at letting you know when it's red. Okay awesome guys. Well bless
you. And again just feel free to drop any questions in the comments. Any
comments in the comments. Some of you just put some really cool comments on
that last session which I really appreciate it. So thanks for
those. And we'll see you back tomorrow at 12 o'clock New Zealand time. We'll have
another two sessions, maybe even three tomorrow. We'll just see how it goes. And
yes Bianca, good to see you. And yep I am probably about to go for a surf.
You're right. So we'll see you soon. Also I'll also drop that link for the Online
School of Sonship for those of you who are interested on this one as well. Okay
bless you. See you guys.