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Hey guys, welcome to session number six, School of the Spirit.

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This session is called Stewarding the Seed and Growing in the Gifts.

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And this is going to be a very practical session.

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This is going to be a session that is geared around giving you some practices and things

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you can do.

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If you really do actually want to grow in the Spirit and grow in the Gifts of the Spirit.

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I mentioned that the Gifts of the Spirit are kind of like musical instruments.

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You have been given all of them, but you need to learn how to play them.

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If you really want to learn how to play them, you know, my daughter is right now learning

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to play the guitar.

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All my daughters are actually learning how to play the guitar.

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And I said to them, well, you know, if you don't practice, you're not going to learn.

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You've got to practice.

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If you want to become good at it, you want to be able to enjoy playing it, then you've

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got to practice.

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You've got to practice your chords, your scales, all that stuff.

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So this is going to be a very practical session.

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I'm going to give you some tips and tools and things that will help you to steward the

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seed and grow in the Gifts.

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The underlying kind of principle for this session is really the same as the last session,

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and that is what you focus on, you agree with, what you agree with, you empower, and what

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you empower will manifest in your life.

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You don't get to choose what happens externally in your world, but you do get to choose what

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world you steward internally in your heart.

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And the world that you steward and that you create internally today will be the world

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that frames what your life looks like tomorrow.

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Whatever your life looks like today is a result of the world you stewarded internally yesterday.

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And so what you focus on, you agree with, what you agree with, you empower, what you

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empower manifests in your life.

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So it's super important to be intentional about what kind of world you steward internally.

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And the kind of world you steward internally is not determined by whatever disastrous or

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undisastrous things are happening around you, but it's really determined by your powerful

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choice in choosing what kind of things you want to spend time thinking on.

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And if David, when this whole entire country that he was meant to be leader of started

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to turn against him and wanted to kill him, and even in that moment he was able to strengthen

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himself in the Lord, then you can do it too.

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And so we're going to get into this session and that is going to be super cool.

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Just to let you know, I'll also post, sorry I forgot to put it in the description, it's

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in the description on session five if you want to just jump on there, but there'll be

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a link for the Online School of Sonship, which is the platform that will be hosting

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the three-week activation after this.

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So if you want to be part of that, then check that out.

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And again, love your comments, so keep the comments coming.

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I did look back on some of the comments from the last section.

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Thank you guys for being patient with me when I wasn't seeing your comments.

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Good to have you back for session six and session seven we're going to do shortly after

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this session, and that is all around the Still Small Voice of God.

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I'm going to share a story about an angelic encounter that I had and how that changed

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my life.

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So that's going to be cool.

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Awesome.

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All right.

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So stewarding the seed and growing in the gifts.

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We are going to begin with this, Father, bless this time.

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Lord, I just declare over every person tuned in right now.

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So much blessing over them, God.

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I pray that they would feel you, God, around them, that they would feel your presence just

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around them, around their hearts, around their minds, around their physical beings as they

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as they are tuned into this.

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And I just want to say also, thank you guys for tuning in.

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So it's such an honor to be given the space to speak into parts of your lives.

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So thank you, Michelle.

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If we are already in the Online School of Sonship, do we need to sign up?

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No.

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If you're already in the Online School of Sonship, then this is all included.

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So worry not.

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You're in there.

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All you need to do is keep an eye on what's going on in there and you'll see me pop up

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at some point after this and we'll begin our three-week little journey.

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It's going to be fun.

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We're going to begin this session, we're going to begin this session in a scripture.

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I love the scriptures.

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We're in Matthew 13 right now, and we're going to Matthew 13 and verse 31.

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The whole of Matthew 13 is actually really, really good, so I recommend reading the whole

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thing.

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But Matthew 13, verse 31, Jesus adds in a parable, he says, another parable he put forth

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to them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and

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sowed in his field, which indeed is the least of all the seeds.

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But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds

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of the air come and nest in its branches.

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Selah.

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And there's a few points on the mustard seed.

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First of all, the mustard seed was very small.

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The mustard seed, a mustard seed was one of the smallest seeds you could get, and it

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was so small that it would fit into all sorts of different cracks and crevices, and it was

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actually a disruptive plant eventually, because especially in Jerusalem and some of the biggest

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centers, it would fall in the gaps between the bricks, between the stones, and it would

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actually, the mustard seeds would actually start, would actually start to disintegrate

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the walls as they grew, and it was actually, the mustard seed tree, the mustard trees were

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actually breaking down the city.

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So not only are they small, but they ended up in all sorts of strange, interesting, peculiar

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places, and they grew anywhere.

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And that's the thing about the kingdom.

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The kingdom is like a seed, and the things of the kingdom are like seeds, and they really

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grow anywhere.

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They're very robust, the kingdom is very robust, the kingdom is very resilient, and the kingdom

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is a kingdom that really fits into all the cracks and crevices of society.

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I'm just going to turn this light off, because it's flashing, hang on, there we go, off.

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All the cracks and crevices of your life and of society.

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And once, sorry, losing my train of thought, I'm going to have a drink of tea.

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The mustard seed is a small seed, but a very, very big tree.

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And it's interesting that it draws that distinction, that it's the smallest of the seeds, but the

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biggest of the herbs, and the birds of the air make their home in its leaves and its

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branches.

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When it talks about the birds of the air, it's most often when Jesus is talking about

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that, he's referring to the angelic and to the spiritual realm.

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And when the tree grows, it actually hosts a spiritual atmosphere and a spiritual environment

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where heaven can find its home on earth, as it were.

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And so, the mustard seed is a really cool and important illustration that Jesus refers

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to and likens the kingdom to.

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But what's even beneath that, and what's underlying that, and what is possibly even more relevant

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is this, is that the kingdom comes like a seed.

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In fact, you look at creation, you look at the way God seems to do things, and it's not

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just biblical, it's also, you see it in creation.

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You see it as one of the trademark ways of God, is that it seems like, and it's at least

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biblical that this is what it's like, but it also, when you look at life, it does seem

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like this is the way God does things.

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Is that things begin small, and they become big if they're stewarded and looked after properly.

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You look at anything from a newborn baby, to a newborn animal, to a newborn plant, to

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a newborn, everything starts small and gets bigger.

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Everything has a beginning point and grows from there.

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God doesn't make things fully grown.

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He makes everything infant first, baby first, and then it has a life process that it goes

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through where it comes to maturity.

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That's the way that God does things, and you could take that thought and you could really

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expand that thought in a lot of different areas, and it would be a fascinating thing

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to explore.

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And the kingdom of God is like that too.

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It's interesting that at creation, God created a garden called Eden.

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He put man in the garden, and that is where God chose to walk with man, in the garden,

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tending the trees and helping man garden the garden.

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In effect, in the beginning, the first manifestation of God to man, or one of them at least, was

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that God...

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manifested himself to man as a fellow gardener. Jesus dies on the cross, he

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spends three days murdering death, he comes back to life again, and Mary meets

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him, and Mary's first revelation of Jesus in his resurrected form is, she

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thinks that Jesus is a gardener. His first appearance after raising from

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the dead is as a gardener as well. I don't think that was a

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mistake, I think it's an interesting thing. I think that at his heart, God is a

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gardener, and there is a revelation in the way things organically happen in

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creation that is true of how the kingdom is in our lives. That when we receive

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something, you know, we receive the promise, and the promise is kind of like

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the writing on the back of the seed packet. It shows you what it will be when

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it's looked after, but it doesn't come like that. Within every seed, entire

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forests exist, but when the seed is still the seed, you can't access the

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forest. That can only be accessed when the seed has been stewarded well and

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looked after well. And the same is true with our lives, and the same is true with

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what God does in our lives, is that everything in our lives and everything

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God begins, needs our partnership and our collaboration to actually bring that

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thing and steward that thing into its maturity and into the promises that

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surround the thing that God has begun in us. And you can take that principle and

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you can apply that to many different areas of your life, and just about every

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single thing that God has started in your life, or literally every single

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thing that God has started in your life.

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Almost everything that we're talking about and everything in the kingdom has

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something to do with stewardship. And so we're going to talk about that. I want to

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just give you some practicals. Now we could do a whole session on

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the dynamics of stewardship. We could do a whole session on what Jesus has to say

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about stewardship, but I would just encourage you to actually do that in

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your own time. What I want to do for the rest of this session is I just want to

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give you three things that you could do. I want to make this session really

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practical so you can actually take something away and apply it to your life.

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I know that lots of people do courses like this and do listen to things like

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this. And a lot of people, because we're in an information age, they actually

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don't take it and apply it. A lot of people just are hearers only and not

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doers. And my prayer is that people in this group would be doers as well and

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would actually take some of the stuff and put action to it. And I want

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to spend some time just speaking into some ways that you can put action to

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your stewardship of the Spirit, your stewardship of spiritual gifts, and your

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stewardship of what God is doing in your life. The first thing really to ask in

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light of that is, and this is a question you can ask God in prayer, you could ask

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him right now, is this. God, in my life what are you putting grace on right now?

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Now you know what the grace is on because you'll feel it. It'll probably be

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the first thing that comes to your mind in terms of the first godly thing that

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comes to your mind. When there's grace on something, there's a hunger for it. If you

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have a hunger for something in your heart, you can take it as evidence that

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there's grace available for you to bring you into the fulfillment of the thing

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that you're hungry for if it's a godly hunger. And so I just want to ask you

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that question again, maybe rephrase in a different way. What sort of hunger is God

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stirring in you right now? Maybe it's the prophetic. Maybe I really want to

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see the word of knowledge. Or maybe it's I just want to hear your voice God

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because I want to know you deeper. Or maybe it's for the miraculous and the

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supernatural. Maybe it's for healing. Maybe it's I want to start seeing angels.

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Whatever it is, it might be a little bit broader, it might be very

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very specific, but take note of the actual thing that is a hunger that

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is stirring in your heart right now and take that hunger as

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evidence that that is a sign to you that there's grace available for that very

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thing that you're hungry for. Okay, so that's the first thing. And what I would

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do right now is I would actually write that down. Write that down somewhere. Put

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that somewhere in front of you right now so that you can clearly define. It

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might be even more than one thing, but you could clearly define one or a few

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things that you know God is stirring in your heart right now. I could in a moment

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at the point in the session I'm going to share some of the things that God is

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stirring in my heart right now. And I'm gonna share with you some of the

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ways that I am stewarding and what I'm doing about that. So do that now.

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And that's cool and then

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I'm going to share just three ways that you can steward the seed and grow the gift.

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That you can step towards the fulfillment of the hunger.

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The first thing I want to say is, the first thing is feed the seed.

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If you want the seed to grow, feed the seed.

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We're going to talk about feeding the seed, we're going to talk about fertilizing the

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seed and we're going to talk about exposing the seed or warming the seed and eventually

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exposing it to the light.

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Those three things.

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The first thing is feeding the seed.

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Because the seed is internal, because when God puts something in you, He puts the seed

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in you, in your heart.

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That's where the seed lands, in your heart.

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Because the seed is in the garden of your heart, you need to get the food in there somehow.

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So what you need to do to feed the seed is eat the food that the seed is hungry for.

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Eat the sort of food that is going to encourage the growth and fulfillment of the seed or

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the promise or the thing that you're hungry for on the inside.

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Now in terms of healing, I'll just let you know, for me, I remember going through a time

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and I'm still obviously hungry for the miraculous, but I remember going through a time where

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I was just uncomfortably hungry for miracles to happen in my life.

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This was a time where I hadn't really seen much happen at all and I just was longing

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I realized in hindsight especially that God had put that hunger in there because He wanted

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me and was inviting me to step into the thing I was hungry for.

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That the hunger was actually a divine invitation into the fulfillment of the thing I was hungry

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for and that's what hunger from God is in effect.

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It's not there to tease you, it's an invitation from God.

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What I began to do is I began to listen to people who I knew were seeing lots of miracles

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and back in those days it was tapes, you know, like cassette tapes.

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I would wrangle as many different cassette tapes as I could of people who had stories

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of the miraculous.

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I remember listening to David Hogan was one of them, I'd listen to Heidi Baker.

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God's Generals.

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I'd listen to that, but I would listen to, I would find people who were seeing the miraculous.

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Bill Johnson says this, follow signs and wonders until signs and wonders begin to follow you.

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I think there's a real wisdom in that saying and so that's really what I began to do is

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I began to search out people and examples that were on earth now or that had been on

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I'd read the Gospels, I'd read the book of Acts again and again and again and again.

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I'd just read the miracle stories and I would feed on the miracle stories and every time

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I read a story and sometimes for the 50th, 60th time reading the story, the seed in my

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heart for the miraculous was being fed.

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to cover, was the big blue Robert Szilard book on the sermons of John G. Lake.

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want to thoroughly recommend that book.

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That book completely changed my life.

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Other than Jesus, John G. Lake is one of my greatest heroes.

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I put him next to the Apostle Paul, he's just been so, so inspirational.

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I feel like I've actually received so much grace and breakthrough from his life.

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And so I want to say find resources, find information, surround yourself, put things

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on your wall, quotes on your wall, surround yourself with podcasts, with YouTube clips.

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people's bodies and just thinking, oh, I need to see that.

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on a hot summer's day while we're driving to a pool or driving to the beach, we would

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be desperate for a swim because it was so hot.

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digest it.

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information, digest testimony, digest, expose yourself to the thing that you're

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hungry for, to the point that it makes you extremely uncomfortable, you know,

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they do say, and now I can't give you first-hand experience here, I'm not

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speaking from first-hand experience, but my wife at least told me that the most

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uncomfortable part of her pregnancy, on all three pregnancies, was the day just

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before she gave birth, that the pregnancy got more and more uncomfortable as it

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got to the day where the promise was going to be delivered, and that's true in

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God as well, is that the more you look after the pregnancy, the closer you get

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to the day where the baby's going to be born, and so that's cool. At the moment,

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just to let you know where I'm at now, I really feel God is stirring me in the

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realm of prayer, and so I'm eating and digesting books and podcasts and talking

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to people, having coffee with people, and just talking to people about the realm

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of prayer and different aspects of prayer, and so I just wanted to show you,

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this is what I'm, this is my current little beside-my-bed books, book

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thing. I've got my, one of my really good friends, Straun Coleman, if you don't

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know Straun, there is his name, one of my favorite humans on the planet, and this

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is his book, it's a book of prayers, this is volume two, this is volume one as

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well, this is a really good book. One of my, someone who's been a father in my life

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and a mentor to me, Kristen Williams, this is written by his spiritual dad, one of

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his spiritual dads, Peter Robertson, The Abbott Shoes, about his time living in a

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monastery in New Zealand, it's a fascinating read, it's really, I'm really

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enjoying this actually, and then this is, I've read this a number of times already,

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this is one of my favorite books by Thomas Merton, New Seeds of

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Contemplation, it's really on the contemplative life, and this has inspired

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me in the realm of prayer deeply, a really, really, really, really good book,

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it's one of those ones that you just keep reading again and again, it's a

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really good one. So that's some of the ways that I'm feeding my seed right

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now. Maybe, ask the Lord just as I'm going through this teaching, the rest of this

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teaching, what some ways, or maybe some things that you could do to either find

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some food for the seed, or maybe you've got some food in your house already, you

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already know your access to some food, maybe it's simply doing this

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course, maybe it's some of the stories that I've been sharing for you, but,

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and why don't you drop some of those on the comments, some good

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resources that you're enjoying right now, or some things that you're

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feeding on right now, that are feeding the seed of God in you.

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Michelle, thanks for that, yeah, what I'm going to do, I'll just hold them up

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against the camera, just in case I forget, okay, so there's the New Seeds of

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Contemplation by Thomas Merton, I'll try and put them up as well, but just the

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Abbott Shoes by Peter Robertson, and just look up Strawn Coleman, he also runs a

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ministry called Commoners Communion, so all those prayers are on his Instagram

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account too, so Commoners Communion, and you'll enjoy that, you'll thank me for

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that afterwards. So feed the seed, the next one is fertilize the seed, and what

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I mean by fertilize the seed, is dream with God. I remember reading a John G

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Lake sermon, and in the sermon he talked about a tumor that he was standing on

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stage, a person came up with a basketball, no, was it a bus? A large, let's just say

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large tumor in his side, and he prayed for her, and the tumor, a lightning flash

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went through his hand, exploded the tumor out of her body, it landed on the stage,

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and it started wriggling around on the stage, and then it died, and I read that

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testimony, I thought, God, I want to see tumors disappear, but even more than that

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God, I want them to explode out of people's bodies, oh my gosh, that would be

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so cool, and I just caught this hunger to see that specific thing happen in my

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life, and so I would spend time just dreaming, God, thank you that your

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power's in me, and around me, and flowing through me, God, what is it like when

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tumors disappear, when tumors explode out of people's bodies, and I would imagine,

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God, I'm in a village right now, and a person's coming next to me,

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and I can see they've got a tumor, I say, excuse me, do you have a tumor? They say

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to me, yes I do, can I pray for you?

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And you know, your imagination,

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you get to decide what happens in your imagination.

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I would just imagine what it's like

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and I would dream with the Holy Spirit

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about what it would be like.

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What would their face look like?

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What is it like when the tumor explodes?

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and meditate and meditate on,

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on and fertilize that seed, that promise

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and that thing that God put a hunger in me for

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to see tumors explode out of people's bodies.

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and I saw that very thing happen.

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I was in a meeting mainly with non-Christian people

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and I prayed just the Father's love over someone actually.

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They had a tumor in their throat and it went,

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and she went, and it exploded out of her throat.

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and it flew like a big bright green projectile vomit tumor

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out of her throat, landed in her handbag.

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that she'd had this tumor for 60 years

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that had been growing in her throat.

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She's like got her voice back, completely healed.

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I feel like I saw this a thousand times before I saw this.

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I feel like I experienced this a thousand times

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before I actually experienced it,

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because I experienced it internally

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before I experienced it externally.

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that learns how to dream with God

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about the things that you're hungry for.

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I remember doing this with some interns a while back

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and I was teaching them about,

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I sometimes call this and I do sessions on this

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and we'll probably do some of the stuff

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in the three week activation.

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and that he's with us everywhere we go.

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Holy Spirit, we give you our imagination.

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Holy Spirit, we give you our imagination.

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and what does it feel like

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when our lives are fully engaged with the truth

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that you're with us and you never leave us nor forsake us?

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I see myself walking down the road after this internship.

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I'm walking home down the pathway

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and I'm filled with such joy and God is all around me

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and I'm just feeling alive and God,

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I'm feeling almost tipsy and drunk in the spirit

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of just joys around me.

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there's an intersection across the road,

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there's a green power box.

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she's got crutches and it's her birthday.

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excuse me, can we pray for you?

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and these students had come up and they're like,

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man, you wouldn't believe what happened.

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I said, what happened?

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I started to feel that presence

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as I was walking down the path,

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the same as what we were building the spirit around.

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I got to the intersection and I looked,

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there was a green box there, power box.

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the same one I saw when we were meditating.

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prayed for it.

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And they had never seen a miracle before, guys.

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This is their first miracle.

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and she got completely healed.

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We went to the library

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and a guy walked out of the library with crutches

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and he'd also broken his ankle.

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because we prayed for him too.

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And whoa!

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And so it's just a real good idea

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to be a person that learns to build in the spirit.

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If you want to supercharge,

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you know, I've got some plants in my garden

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that are exposed to the sun and that I water.

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they are going to grow way faster

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than if I don't fertilize them.

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So if you want to supercharge and expediate

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and speed up the process of the seed of God

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growing in your life,

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then I suggest dreaming with God

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and building in the spirit.

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And again, we're going to do some more around that

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in the three-week activation.

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The last thing I want to say after feeding the seed, fertilizing the seed, is warm the seed and expose the seedling to the light.

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And what I simply, what I simply mean, what I simply mean by that is this. Use it. Go after it.

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Like if your dream is to see tumors disappear, hunt down people that have tumors and keep on praying for them until you see them disappear.

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Don't give up after the first one if it doesn't happen. Go after it. If your heart is, I'm so hungry for prophecy, find a human somewhere.

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You don't even need to leave your house. You can do it on Facebook. You can do it on Messenger.

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You can just get a word of knowledge for a name and search them on Facebook and give them a Facebook prophecy.

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But just find people to prophesy. Find people to practice on and be open to their feedback. Be open to learning from them.

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Be open to how they experience you and obviously there's some, you know, things like remember love, remember kindness, remember encouragement, all that stuff.

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Don't go around telling people that they're going to, you know, the judgment of God's on them and they're going to be cursed for the rest of their life or anything like that.

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Obviously, but that's a lesson for another day maybe. But remember love and go after using the things that you're wanting to see grow in your life.

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If you're going through a hard time in your marriage and you're like, man, the thing that I'm really hungry for is health in my marriage, then go after that.

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What can you do to just really be a blessing to your spouse right now? Maybe do the dishes. Maybe organize a date night. But go after that. Use it.

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Expose that seed. Expose that plant to the light. Let it see the light of day. In other words, manifest it. Get it out there.

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And the more you get it out there, the faster it will grow. The more you dream into it, the faster it will grow.

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The more food you feed it, the faster it will grow. The more you do these three things, the faster the kingdom will grow in your life.

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So I want to encourage you, if you're hungry to see the gifts of the Spirit, I know many of you are doing this course because you want to see the gifts of the Spirit grow in your life.

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If you're hungry for the gifts of the Spirit to grow in your life, I want to really encourage you, ask the Lord for ways that you can use the gifts.

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Ask the Lord for ways that you can use the gifts.

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What I'm going to ask you to do now is I'm going to ask you just to take those three things that I've mentioned, feeding the seed, fertilizing the seed, and exposing the seed to warmth and light.

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Three different approaches that you can take when it comes to stewarding what God has begun in your life and the seeds that God has planted in your life.

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Once you've defined the thing that there's grace for or the things that there is a hunger in your heart for, then I just want you to, for the next 10 minutes, just spend some time with God.

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For the next 10 minutes, make a little game plan up of some of the things that you are deciding to do in terms of maybe a book you're going to read, maybe some people you're going to pray for,

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maybe a time you're going to go and find some people to pray for, or some time you're going to pray and dream of God.

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Make a little game plan up, a stewardship game plan for how you're going to steward the thing that God's put on your heart.

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And I just encourage you to do that now before we get into the next session.

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Strike while the iron's hot, as they say.

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And what I'd love for you to consider doing is consider dropping that strategy on the comments of this feed so that, you know, for two reasons.

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One, that we can learn from some of the things that you're going after and that might help other people in the group.

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And secondly, it's kind of a way of being a little bit accountable too.

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Not that anyone's necessarily going to keep you directly accountable, but you've put it out there.

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And that can be both a scary but also a really helpful thing to do.

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So consider doing that. Consider putting it on the comments when you've done that.

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Of course, I'm going to finish this now, and so you won't be able to put it on the comments straight away.

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But this session will be uploaded onto the Raising Royalty site real soon.

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And when it's on, then go back and put it on at that point.

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All right. Awesome, guys. Well, bless you and bless you in the stewardship of what God is doing in your life.

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And we'll see you for session 7 in 10 minutes.

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10 minutes. See you soon.