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Hey everyone, welcome to session 7, trusting the still small voice, and excited to have

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you here.

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Welcome again to everyone who's tuning in on the replay, and to those of you who are

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tuning in live.

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I'm noticing that as the sessions go on, as always the first session has more liveys,

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the second session has slightly less, and I'm imagining that the third session might

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have even less again, because three sessions in a row is quite a lot of sessions in a row.

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But nonetheless, welcome to this session, and it's really cool, and I just count it

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a big honor to have you here, so thanks for taking the time.

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Please again, just give us a wave when you're on the live, and engage in the comments, it's

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always really cool to have you engaging in the comments, and I love to look back and

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read over the comments, and I love to see the comments come up as I'm teaching as well.

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That's really, really cool.

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So feel free again to ask questions, give any input, or just give a high five.

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Just going to give a couple of minutes for a couple of people to jump on, and cool, let's

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have a little sip of my tea while you guys are jumping back on board.

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Talking about trusting the still small voice, this is the last session of the School of

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the Spirit.

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Again, I want to say thanks for being a part of it, and these seven sessions will be on

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the Raising Royalty group, and so again, you can look back on them if you've missed a session,

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you can look back.

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You just go to Guides, and look up School of the Spirit under Guides, the Guides tab

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is at the top there.

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And yeah, so feel free to look back and do that, and feel free to invite other people

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into being a part of this, in the replays.

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Also, hey Michelle, hey hey.

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Also the three week challenge will start next week, not challenge, sorry, three week activation.

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Like I said, it's not going to take up a lot of time, it's going to be a little bit

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of guidance to supercharge your life into the supernatural, is the kind of goal.

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So that's going to be real fun, and I'm going to be giving you challenges and activations

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and things to do.

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The things aren't going to take up every hour of your day, but the goal is really that you

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would be able to more easily embrace a supernatural lifestyle that looks like Jesus life.

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So yeah, cool.

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Okay, cool guys, well, again, I forgot to put the link in the description, but I will

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give you the link in one of the comments afterwards, and that should be cool.

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Or, if you'd like me to give you the link, or message you the link, you can also do that

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if you want to share it as well.

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So anyway, I'll leave that up to you, that's cool.

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We're going to be, this last session, trusting the still small voice.

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Thanks for jumping on board.

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We're going to crack into this, and we're going to begin with prayer.

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So Father, right now, and Holy Spirit, I just pray, and I'm asking you Holy Spirit, that

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you'd manifest your presence around every person that's tuned in on the replay or live.

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God, if they need a miracle, just heal them right now.

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Declare your power over people.

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God, I pray that they would really have a deep sense of your voice and your presence

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during this session, in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Wow, I've got good morning from India.

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Good morning, good morning, India.

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Good morning, India.

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I cannot read your name because it's in, looks like Hindi.

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It's in a language that I can't read, but if I was going to read it, it would say,

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ri, ri, no, I'm not even going to try.

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But good morning.

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Good morning, good morning.

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Good afternoon, Dorothy, and hey again, Michelle. Awesome. Okay, cool.

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All right, we're going to crack into Session 7, Trusting the Still, Small Voice,

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and we're going to begin with a principle that really undergirds this session.

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And the principle is this, and I've mentioned it in one of the other sessions just passing,

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but I'll really go after it in this session.

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If you look, you'll see.

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Most people don't see or experience God because they're not looking,

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and therefore, they miss out on seeing.

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If you look, you'll see.

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And if you see, you can experience and you can engage with what you see.

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If you don't know that God's there, you're not going to engage in His nearness or His thereness.

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And you're not going to look.

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Here's the reason why people don't look.

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You don't look because, people don't look because they don't think there's anything to be seen.

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But if you were thoroughly and 100% completely, ridiculously convinced of the truth

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that God is with you everywhere you go, then no matter where you are,

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you'll be looking to see how it is.

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Not looking to see if God is with you, but looking to see how God is with you

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for the moment and in the moment that you're in.

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The question is never if, the question is always how.

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God, how are you with me right now?

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Because if I can look to see how you're with me right now,

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then I can engage in what you're doing and in how you're doing it,

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and I can truly partner with you in what you're doing.

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And we together can see the kingdom of God manifest on earth.

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And so, if you look, you will see, and if you think there's something there to be seen,

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then you will look.

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That's the principle we're going to go after today.

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And we're going to begin in Genesis 28.

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I'm actually not going to turn there because I'm just going to use that as my reference,

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but I'm going to retell just pockets of the story.

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And the story really goes like this.

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Jacob is on a journey and he gets to a place called Luz,

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which literally means the place of almonds, where almonds grow.

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And he's tired.

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And in that place, he finds a stone.

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And, oh my gosh, I've got a whole teaching on that stone.

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And that is extraordinary, the revelation around the stone.

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I love it. It's very, very deep.

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But he gets a place. He's tired. He's exhausted.

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Many people feel tired and exhausted, by the way.

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And many people feel tired and exhausted

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because they haven't yet fully learned to trust

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or to recognize the still small voice of God

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and his leadership, his subtle leadership in their lives.

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And he gets a stone. He rests his head on the stone.

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And as he rests his head on the stone, he goes to sleep.

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When he goes to sleep, he has an encounter with God.

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A ladder is set up and the angels of God are ascending and descending on the ladder.

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And there's obviously a lot of revelation on that too.

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I'm choosing to not go down rabbit trails.

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And he wakes up in the morning and he says something

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that's profound and relevant for the session.

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He says this, this is, this, when I saw this

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and the Holy Spirit highlighted this to me,

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it really changed my life.

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Jacob said this, surely God was in this place

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and I knew it not.

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And I started to think, God, how many times

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have I been in a place that you were surely there?

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And yet I didn't recognize your presence.

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And how many of those moments where you were present

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and I didn't recognize your presence,

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did I miss out on what you're doing?

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Did I miss out on partnering with you?

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Did I miss out on seeing your world explode into this world?

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How many opportunities did I miss out on God?

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And then when I realized that God is everywhere with me,

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no matter where I go, I realized how many

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extraordinary opportunities I still miss out on today

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because of my lack of awareness and my prayer

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since reading the scripture really has been,

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God, teach me to be aware.

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Teach me to be one that looks,

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that's convinced that there's something there to see

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and that looks and that sees and engages with what he sees.

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God, teach me to be one that is aware

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of your subtleties, God.

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Teach me to be one that walks in a spirit of revelation,

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that has his eyes wide open,

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that is not half asleep in the way he walks.

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God, I want to be a person that is awake in my walk with you.

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That's really been the essence of my prayer.

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It's possible for you to be in a place

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where God thoroughly is

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and for you to be thoroughly unaware of that.

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But God can open your eyes

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and there are many examples in scripture

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of God opening people's eyes.

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to his nearness. I'm thinking Road to Emmaus. I'm thinking 2 Kings 6. I'm thinking the story

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I'm talking about now, Genesis 28. I'm thinking Joshua walking down the road and saying,

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Are you for us or against us? Sword drawn. One warrior against a whole army. And the answer is

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no, but I have come. And he drops to his knees realizing he's talking to God.

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And there are many moments where God appears and where God shows up, but people don't recognize

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that it's him. There are many moments where people are in places in scripture where God is there,

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but they don't realize God is there. And it's almost as if God is hiding in plain sight,

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longing to be found by us. And I think that is so true about our lives that God is hiding around

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every single corner of your life. God is hiding not from you, but for you. It's the glory of God

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to conceal a matter, but it's the glory of kings to search a matter out. And God is wanting to

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raise his sons and daughters to be kings and queens. And part of the way he does that is he

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never ever hides from you, but he often will hide for you because the process of hiding for you and

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you finding him where he's hiding is the process that he takes you through in raising you into

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your royalty. And after all, we are in a group called raising royalty right now. Just to point

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that out, God does not hide from you, but he hides for you. And he hides for you around every single

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corner of your life. There is potential in your life to find God if you have eyes to see, to find

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him where he's hiding in plain sight to find. This has been my prayer. This has really been one of the

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driving motivations of my heart is to be someone, and this has been for near 20 years now, to be

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someone who is a seeker and a searcher, to be someone who is attentive to notice the subtle

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hints of God. And I really want to speak into that now because it's been a real blessing to me in my

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walk with the Spirit is a growing willingness and attentiveness to notice his subtleties. It's been a

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big, big blessing. I'm going to share some stories in a second of some of the specific

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results of that in terms of my ministry with the Spirit. But before I do, there was a moment

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where God really gave grace to me for this that was a real game changer. It was a moment where a

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guy prophesied over me and Renee, and at the end of the prophecy he said, and God is giving you an angel

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of appreciation, and he's giving you an angel of appreciation. And I thought at the time,

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what a stupid angel. Why can't it be a power angel or a glory angel or a translating angel

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or some kind of cool angel, but instead an angel of appreciation. What kind of angel is that? I was

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the most unappreciated. I had the most unappreciative response to this new thing that God was doing to

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me, and only because I had no idea of the consequence of this kind of grace that God was

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giving me, me and Renee. And that's just to be open and vulnerable with you. Anyway, the next

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day I woke up in the morning. It didn't feel that much different. I felt encouraged, but not that

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much different. And we were going for a walk around Lake Shasta. We were living in Redding, California

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at the time. And as we were walking around the lake, I noticed this flower, and something about

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it just jumped out at me. I'd walked past flowers like that. It wasn't an unusual flower. It was a

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Californian poppy. Lots of them in California. And I walked over and started to look at this flower,

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and I started to feel the presence of God coming off the flower. I realized that God was speaking

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to me through this flower, and I couldn't even repeat to you. I couldn't even put words to what

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He was saying. I don't even know if it was relevant for anything in particular, but I was seeing the

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beauty of God in this flower, and I was becoming overwhelmed by the presence of God as I was

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noticing Him in His creation. And I stayed there for a long time. The other three people

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we were with, including Renee, walked off. And I had what I call my hippie moment. I was just buzzing out.

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I was just, if you've seen that YouTube clip, double rainbow all the way. I was double rainbowing

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all the way. I was like, whoa. People would have thought I was probably on drugs or something.

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It was a profound experience for me. And I realized in that moment, there are so many other

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flowers and things that I had walked past in the past that God had been subtly drawing my attention

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to, but I ignored His subtle prompts and carried on about my day because I had to get somewhere.

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do something, or I had a timetable to keep, a schedule to look after, I had to honor this

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appointment or that appointment, and my honor of the person that I was trying to honor in

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terms of keeping my time frames intact actually dishonored God who was trying to show me something

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in the moment.

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And I think the same is true of most people, is that often, especially in the Western world

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and the way that we live, and I know that not everyone here is tuned in from the Western

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world, but especially in the way that we live, especially in New Zealand, it's so time-oriented

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and so schedule-oriented that sometimes our times and schedules don't fit with the way

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of God and with the way He is with us, and I think that it's a good thing to readjust

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our lives and to put margins, and practically that could look like making a meeting here

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and then not making a meeting straight after, but giving a half an hour gap between that

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meeting and the next meeting so that you have some margins that God can fill.

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I'm not saying He can't fill your meetings, but I'm saying sometimes He just wants to

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draw your attention to a flower.

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Sometimes He wants to just subtly draw you in a different direction, and it's good for

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you to have time in your day to be able to respond to those promptings of the Spirit.

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Anyway, since that day, since the Angel of Appreciation, I feel I've experienced a much

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more heightened awareness and sense of God's subtle promptings, and it's led me to some

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really, really cool things, some amazing things, and one of the things I've noticed in the

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process that I want to share with you is I've had God speak to me in dramatic, clear,

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clear, clear, clear ways as well over the years, but often when I've responded to the

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subtle, quiet, still, small voice of God, the one that's really easy to miss, the one

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that often just feels like your own thoughts, or that just is, yeah, the volume's right

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down at level one, most people miss the still, small voice.

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out and trusted that, I've noticed that the results and the flow of the Spirit has been

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dramatically more than when I've responded to the loud, clear voice of God.

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I mean, I'm not saying that's a theology, that's just been my experience, and so that's

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just an interesting point.

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I feel like, in a way, that God is actually really longing and waiting for a company of

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sons and daughters to rise up who will walk with Him at a level of intimacy where He can

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just do life with them in that way, in the still, small, subtle way, and people will

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respond to His subtleties.

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I remember being, I mean, there's just a lot of stories, but I just was thinking of a couple

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of stories that I wanted to share with you.

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I remember being in Myanmar, actually, my second favorite country in the world other

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than New Zealand.

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I remember being in Myanmar, and I was praying for someone, and I could just sense that they

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really wanted a prophetic word.

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I was sort of in a bit of a funny mood in terms of, it was at the end of the meeting,

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and I was kind of ready to sort of go home, and I was just feeling a little bit like my

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mind was wandering off to different places and stuff.

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a Burmese astrophysicist or space scientist, and then I started to think.

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I thought, it was just a fleeting thought, and I thought, that's a bit weird.

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I mean, it's sort of like, to me, I mean, sorry if this is funny, but to me, it was

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like the last place I would expect to, you know, it's just not a place I would expect

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an astro-scientist to pop up from, you know.

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the voice of God.

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It just felt like I was thinking on my own, but I chose to think, you know what, I just

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have that like, maybe, maybe, maybe that's God.

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I just said to the guy, listen, and I sort of got a little bit more when I decided to

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go with it.

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I felt that it was going to be a time of study, and da-da-da, I said, I feel like you're about

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to go on a time of study where you're going to study, and I just threw it out there, and

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it was like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It was either right or wrong. I said, you're going to be studying astro, like space science and you're going to be doing stuff with astrophysics and space and astronautical, you know, I was trying to explain it, but didn't have the words.

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I still don't have the words. He actually corrected me afterwards, but he freaked out and he said, that's so crazy.

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That's exactly what I've just enrolled to study.

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And I freaked out because I thought, whoa, I didn't realize that you can even study that in Myanmar, such a specialist thing.

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He was like, man, I never expected to get a word like that today.

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Another time I was praying for someone and as I was praying for them, four numbers just went across my head.

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It was like, I can't impress on you how much it's just a still small, subtle impression.

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Like I'm faint, only just visible, like even less visible than my own thoughts are in my own head.

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Like these four numbers came and they left as fast as they came.

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And, but I chose to honor that and I chose to lean my heart towards that subtle,

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the subtlety of what I thought might be, not even sure, that might be God.

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And then I saw a padlock and I saw a person's gate.

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And she burst into tears and said, that's the lock of my front gate.

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because of things that have happened, abusive things that have happened to her in her past.

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And I told her that and she burst into tears, had a crazy encounter with God and it was just epic.

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I remember another time in Myanmar, another Myanmar story.

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And a person was asking me, can you, there were about a hundred or so people up the front

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wanting me to lay hands on them or our team to lay hands on them, including me.

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how do you move in the Spirit? How do you move in the power of God?

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to kind of go down one by one and sort of almost like just go down the line

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and pray for people one at a time in the order of the line that they came,

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which would kind of be the social expectation of prayer moments like that.

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and He will just lead me from this person to that person.

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So I said to her, I said, well, the first thing that I do is I pay attention to my heart.

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If you can imagine like your heart is wearing a t-shirt and I feel like sometimes

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it's like it's as if the Holy Spirit grabs the t-shirt that's around my heart

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and just, I feel like a gentle, subtle pull.

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If you're aware that this is one of the ways that God can lead you.

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An intuition just to put my hand on that person's neck.

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Not her head, not the shoulder, but her neck.

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Put it on the back of her neck.

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She said, yeah.

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And I just released that.

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And got set free from a whole bunch of stuff.

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that was prescribed to me by the nature of the meeting that I was in.

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It was the way that God was leading was different.

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And it wasn't based on a method.

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It was based on a subtle leading.

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then the power of God flows much, much, much, much, much more.

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I mean, I've got about another five stories in my head that are just ready to spell out.

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They're just on the top of my head right now, but I won't share them right now, maybe at another time.

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But all that to say, sorry, let me just...

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Let me just make sure I haven't missed anything here.

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Cool, okay. And there's obviously lots of different dynamics that come in. I mean,

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this principle doesn't just apply to supernatural ministry or the gifts of the Spirit.

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It applies to so much stuff. I remember just one more story. I remember being in

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the Philippines in a slum area. It was a real dangerous slum, actually. It was a real gang area.

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which I was pretty sure was correct, for healing. And he just looked at me and said,

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you can't pray for me and get out of here. He was not happy with us being there.

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And he seemed to be the leader of the thing. And we had a few more words of knowledge,

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and people were responding, but he wouldn't let us pray for anyone.

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And I just bought this brand new hat, and I felt this real faint impression.

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Now, my general pattern of ministry in that kind of environment is just to find sick people and

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pray for them, because it just seems to open things up real fast. So that's my go-to.

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I felt like the Holy Spirit said to me, give him your hat. I really didn't want to do that,

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but I thought, okay, I'll do it. So I took my hat off, and I said, before I go,

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I just want to give you this hat. I just bought this hat, and I bought it for you.

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It's one of my memory stone photos, which I talked about in the last session.

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And he just got so blessed. And we were walking away, and he said, wait, wait, stop. You can pray

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for us now. We started praying for them, and a whole bunch of people got healed, and people

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got saved. And it was just really, really cool. But that wouldn't happen unless I'd

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leant into the still, small voice that led me in a way that was beyond my normal method,

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that was beyond my expectations. And God will do that. God will often lead you out of your

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expectations, out of your learnt ways, out of the things that you have become familiar with,

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and into new territory, and into new things that you weren't expecting. And that's just part of

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the way God is. And so this is my prayer as we come to the end of the School of the Spirit,

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in this last little session. I was really weighing up whether I wanted to even put

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this session in the school, but I did want to put it in as the seventh session.

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And to be honest, I feel like there's a lot more to be said about this.

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But in essence, part of me also thinks there might not be too much more to say about this.

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And because the reason for that is because I really, this session is really,

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the main motivation for me to share this is to invite you into your own journey of discovering

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for yourself what the subtleties of God looks like in your life. And they may look completely

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different to how they've looked in my life. And so I want to, part of this session is really to

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inspire, to stir up a hunger, and to invite you into the subtleties, to invite you to be a person

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that looks, that sees and responds, to invite you to be a person that notices. And I really

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want to pray just right now that God would give you the same kind of grace that he gave me

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at that moment, that he would give you a grace to notice, and that he would

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give you a spirit of wonder, that he would restore wonder on the inside of you,

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wonder at the simple beauty of his voice. And so if you want to receive that, just drop a comment

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on the comments, just say Amen, or Me, or Yes. And I'd love to pray for you right now.

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And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you to do something. So Father, right now.

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Father, right now. Father, right now. Father, right now. Father, right now.

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Shora maraba se te leharu doma she za voro to kare te li meru kia tonoka maore te kia anai.

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Jesus, right now. Jesus, right now.

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We honor your presence, God, I release through this teaching, through the screen, through

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this Facebook live and the replay and in the live, I release on people right now tuned

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in.

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I release a spirit of wonder and a grace to notice.

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God, I declare eyes to see in Jesus' name, eyes to notice, eyes to be aware, eyes to

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be hungry, eyes that look Father over every single person.

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And I pray that you would dust off their spiritual senses.

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I pray that you would enliven and that you would awaken their senses, God.

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I pray for the gift of revelation to be strong on them in Jesus' name.

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Thank you, God.

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Thank you, God.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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Awesome.

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Well, in closing, guys, here is my activation for you.

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My activation for you is I want to invite you to go on a treasure hunt with God.

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And to do that, what I'm going to invite you to do is spend a few minutes, I'd love for

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you to do this in the very, very near future, like as in the next 24 hours, preferably even

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right now.

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I want to ask you to go for a walk around your community.

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But before you do, take some time and just ask the Lord to give you some clues.

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And you're going to go on a treasure hunt with God.

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Give Him some clues.

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Ask Him, first of all, if there are any locations.

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He might give you an actual place.

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He might give you a picture of a grass field, or He might give you a picture of a boat,

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or He might give you the number of a street number.

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But just take note of any little clues you get of locations.

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Ask Him if there are any people that He wants you to talk to.

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And you might get a person's name.

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You might get the color of their clothing.

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You might get a detail about part of their clothing.

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Ask Him about if there are any prayer needs.

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And you might get some healing needs, or you might get marriage, or you might get whatever

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you might get.

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Just listen to the still...see if you can just pay attention to the still small voice

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and just roll with it.

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Just roll with it.

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I mean, the light is green until it turns red.

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It's not red until it turns green.

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You've got permission from God to just go for it and explore.

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You can have fun with this.

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And the last question to ask God as you're asking Him before you go on your treasure

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hunt is, is there anything else of significance that I should know about our little walk that

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we're going to take?

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Place, people, prayer needs, and anything else.

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Expect there to be a little bit of mystery involved.

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And just write that down in as much detail as you can, and then just go for a walk with

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that list.

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And who knows, just see if you can find your way to the place that God is leading you.

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See if you can find your way into a conversation with the person that God is leading you to

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talk to, and see if you can even have the opportunity to pray for that person in the

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area that they need prayer.

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We've had some amazing stories from things like this, but this is a great way to learn

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the subtle voice of God, is to do the treasure hunt activation.

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And so, I encourage you to do that, and I also encourage you, once you've done that,

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to share what happens on the comments of this teaching, would be so cool.

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Anyway, God bless you, and I really am looking forward to hearing the testimonies.

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And again, I'll share the link for the three-week challenge, three-week activation, on this

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as well.

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So, once it's posted and published on the Raising Royalty site.

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Okay, awesome, God bless you, and thanks again so much for joining me on these three days

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under the School of the Spirit.

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I'll keep you posted as well, because like I said, there'll be more to come.

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And this is the foundation of other schools that we'll do in the future.

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And if there are any things that you would love to learn about that are related to this

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school, I know that Tia, you were talking about wanting to learn about the gift of tongues

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and the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

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So if there's just anything that you would say, hey Mac, in a future school, could you

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teach on this, then just drop that in the comments too, that would just be helpful for

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me in terms of planning for the future.

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Thank you, Tia.

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Big love to you guys. Have an amazing rest of your day or night. Whatever time

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of the day you're in. And big love. Melody, you're going to the laundromat tomorrow.

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That is epic. That's a absolutely perfect opportunity. You are 100% correct about

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that. Let us know how it goes. Okay, awesome. Yep, more teaching on the

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gifts of the Spirit. Cool. Yep, I did want to do this foundation first and then

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move into the gifts of the Spirit. So, yep, receive that. That's cool. Thank you.

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So good. Okay, awesome guys. Well, bless you.