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And good morning!
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I pray that you are just having an amazing morning.
I know it's early for many of you and maybe you're just starting
and getting your first cup of mojo or whatever you drink
in the morning. Or maybe you've been up for a while
and whatever the case, I'm so glad that
you're here and I welcome you.
As we continue a series that I
think is so very, very important
and that is a
combination. I took two studies that I've taught in the past
and I said, both of those are for right now.
And so I combined
super, excuse me, supernatural
living. Supernatural
living and harnessing
your spiritual power. You see those go together
when you are living the supernatural
life, which God of course intends to be
natural. The supernatural is supposed to be natural.
We are supernatural beings. We have, we're
the temple of the Holy Spirit. I mean the Holy Spirit lives in us.
How much more supernatural can you get? We have the mind of Christ.
We have the power of life and death in our tongues.
Supernatural living
and you know what's really cool about that
I'm not naive to the struggles
that so many are facing today
and how much more important for us to be together
during this time than
when there are struggles because this is the time
instead of being moved
by our circumstances. Whatever those may be, you may be
facing economic circumstances, you might be facing emotional
circumstances, you might be facing relationship circumstances,
business, whatever it is. Rather
than being moved by your circumstances
what if it was God's plan all along
for you to be so powerful that you
move your circumstances.
We're going to talk about that today and
harnessing your supernatural
power. Your supernatural power.
So I'm going to start with prayer and
I can see your comments if you're watching on the Facebook page
actually anywhere that you leave a comment I think I should be able to see
and I
I love your comments. I'll be watching those as I go along, checking those regularly.
And we're going to start with prayer. And if part of this is you need prayer,
please reach out. Please leave a comment that says, yes, I, I need prayer. So good morning,
Pam. First one to comment. Thank you for leaving your comment. Good morning. I'm so glad you're
here. And so let's start with prayer. And then we're going to dive right in. I got a lot of
content today, a lot of scripture, and I feel like you're going to leave today equipped. This
is my prayer. You leave equipped and empowered. Scripture says, having done all to stand,
stand. And that's my prayer. Not only that you will stand, but you will rise. You will rise.
So will you join me in prayer? And then we'll, we'll pick up from there.
Father, I thank you so much for this day. This is the day that you have made and together
collectively, we celebrate it. We rejoice in it. We do again, joy. We ask that we become aware
and that our joy is renewed and refreshed. Scripture says that the joy of the Lord is our
strength. Father God, may joy flood through every home right now, represented on this call.
May they feel your joy today, strengthening them with might in the inner man, in the inner woman,
as you have promised. I pray with Paul when he prayed in Ephesians chapter one and chapter three,
that you will enlighten, you will flood our heart with light, that we can know, we can grasp,
that we can fully understand how great is the power working both in us and through us. Father
God, open our spiritual senses today. Lord, bless every single person on this call. May they be
equipped. May they be empowered. May they feel your presence in such a sweet way. May your peace that
passes all understanding, guard their hearts and mind in Christ Jesus. Lord, I ask in this study
that the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart will be pleasing in your sight, in Jesus' name.
Amen and amen. I'm so glad you're here joining and watching. Okay, let's just see, let's just see here.
I'm going to share, of course, I'm going to put this up really quick and this is what we're doing.
We're looking at supernatural living, the keys to harnessing your spiritual power,
your spiritual power. And I have made some notes here to keep it super simple. You should be able
to see everything. And so let's open with this question.
What keeps you, what is keeping you or what keeps you from fully showing up
if you are not? Some of you are. Some of you are showing up and God is showing out.
But maybe you feel like you're operating on, you know, I don't know if you're an eight cylinder,
let's pretend we're cars, right? If you're an eight cylinder, something I know nothing about,
but you're an eight cylinder vehicle and maybe sometimes you feel like you're operating on six
cylinders or four cylinders. Like you have a sense, you have an inner knowing
that there is so much more available. And you believe it in your heart
and you trust God. But somehow you don't feel like you're completely stepping into
the power you know you could be. If that's you, you know, make a comment,
leave a comment or
Or if you say, I'm, I'm full powered up,
I'm running on all eight cylinders, put that in the comment.
Today, we're going to talk about this question.
What keeps you from stepping into your power?
Or we could flip that question around and how can we,
if we understand that,
then we can fully step into our power, right?
So let's dive into those things.
Number one thing is we
lack spiritual understanding.
You know,
sometimes we just don't know
what we don't know.
We just don't know what we don't know. You know,
I went through so many years of my early Christian walk
and I loved God with all my heart and I was in the word and I
attended church and I prayed, I loved God.
And yet I didn't know what I didn't know.
I had never really been taught about the
Holy spirit and about supernatural living.
In fact, I was really taught the opposite. I was taught that miracles,
well, you can read about them in the Bible, but that's where they stopped.
They ended with the Bible and I was taught, well,
all you need now is just the Bible. You don't need that kind of power.
And you know, as I look back and reflect,
I don't know why I bought into that kind of thinking. Uh,
why would God make one generation less powerful?
And the longer we go in history, we become less and less powerful.
That doesn't sound like God,
but I bought into it and it wasn't
until many, many years, like, uh,
25 years into my faith walk
that I discovered there was so much I didn't know.
And that's part of my hope of sharing this is that maybe
as you begin to see some of these scriptures,
it'll stir up a hunger in you. That's, that's what it did for me.
It, as I saw people walking in this power,
it stirred up a hunger in me to say, Ooh, I want that. I desire that.
And, and God was gracious.
And so the first thing that keeps us is we don't know what we don't know or,
or, or in general, we lack spiritual understanding.
And so look at Mark 13, 13,
in the amplified,
it says,
this is the reason I
speak to the crowds in parables. So, you know,
more often than not, Jesus spoke to the crowd in parables.
He didn't just give a straight answer. They would say, you know,
why is something, something, or how can we something, something.
And he would begin with a story. He would begin with a parable.
And they really wondered why is Jesus always talking in stories?
Why is he always talking in parables? And he answers that question.
And he says, this is the reason I speak to the crowds in parables,
because while having the power of
seeing, in other words, they have the ability
to see, they don't
having the power of seeing,
they do not see.
And while having the power of hearing,
they do not hear,
nor do they understand and
grasp spiritual things.
And what I have discovered in scripture is that
we have our five senses. We can see, we can hear, we can feel, we can touch.
That's how we connect with the natural.
That's how we connect with the earth.
It is my sense of touch that, you know, feels this chair underneath me.
It's my sense of seeing that, you know,
looks at your comments and looks at this video. And it's my sense of hearing.
I can hear myself talking. If there's music playing,
I can hear it sound outside.
Those are our natural senses that allow us to connect with the natural.
But did you know that scripture says we also have spiritual senses?
So we have spiritual eyes. So we could see with our physical eyes,
but we may be totally not seeing things correctly.
We may
totally be missing what God is doing on the earth, what Holy Spirit is doing right now.
We only see what our eyes see.
We may be looking at the wrong things, in my opinion.
We may be looking at the news and the media that is so controlled and so designed to create
propaganda and that's what we see, but we're not looking through our spiritual eyes.
We may hear, we may hear a lot of noise, we may hear fear, complaining, grumbling, whatever,
but we may miss hearing with our spiritual ears.
And so, a prayer that I have prayed, and I encourage you, you can pray it often,
Lord, help open our spiritual senses.
Help us to see the way that you see things.
Help us to hear like I prayed.
Open the eyes of our heart that we can truly know, we can truly grasp, what is the Spirit doing?
You see, on the surface, it can look like all chaos is happening.
It can look like things are going from bad to bad, to worse to worse, to fear, to uncertainty.
But what if, what if behind the scenes, we were going into the most glorious scene, the
most glorious period in history?
What if God was waking up so many people?
What if he was changing so many lives?
What if miracles were happening so much?
What if on the deeper things that our natural eyes may not see quite yet, things happen
before our natural eyes see it?
And so we pray, Lord, open our spiritual senses.
Ask God that.
Watch the miracles that happen when you just begin to say, Lord, I desire to see, Lord,
I desire to hear, I desire to hear spiritual things.
Help me to know and grasp and understand, okay?
That's number one.
Number two is a lack of maturity or a lack of spiritual maturity and teachability.
Teachability.
And I'm looking at your comments, pausing to make sure I see those.
Welcome, by the way.
Welcome, Yvonne.
So great to see you.
Thank you guys for your comments.
So lack of teachability and spiritual maturity.
Let's take a look.
First Corinthians 2.6.
Paul was beginning to explain.
He was really following along to what Jesus was doing.
He began to understand that there's different levels of maturity.
He talked about people that need milk, they're babies, they need spiritual milk, they need
formula.
He talked about elementary truths.
And that they got stuck on elementary truths and instead they should be having meat, spiritual
meat.
They shouldn't need to be living on baby food anymore.
They should actually be teachers after all of this time.
Something was happening.
You know, the years were passing.
It's like a baby.
You imagine that a baby is still living on a bottle when they're six years old.
Imagine a 14-year-old living on baby formula.
This is not natural.
It's not natural in the natural and it's not natural in the spiritual.
We're not meant to stay stuck on baby food.
The most basics.
Paul says, you know, the fact that Jesus came, he lived and he died, you know, the
Christmas story, the Easter story, if you will, he said, that's elementary.
You should know that.
We should not have to keep going over that.
We need to move on, Paul said.
And so often we don't step into power because we're still stuck little baby Jesus in the
manger.
We're still stuck.
And he said, we do speak wisdom.
There is a wisdom.
We do speak wisdom among who the spiritually mature.
Well, who are the.
spiritually mature
Believers who have a teachable heart
If you're not
Experiencing the power that you desire. I would ask you how is your teachability?
how open how
Receptive are you to?
Fresh word. Are you living in old?
Revelation
Are you still stuck when you you know when you found, you know Christ?
20 years ago 30 years ago five years ago, whatever it was
Are you still stuck in the past or do you have revelation from this morning?
Did you wake up this morning and say here? I am Lord
speak I
Hunger and I I thirst after righteousness. I I hunger, you know David said
My soul it is like the deer it pants for water
He he said one thing I long that will I seek
To dwell in your presence to be to behold the beauty
Are you waking up and is the first thing that you're saying is
Oh-god, it's morning and
You start going over your troubles
Or are you saying Oh morning? It's God
God I'm so ready for what you have today
What adventure are we going on today?
Who are we gonna bless
Who are we gonna love?
What miracles are you gonna do today?
Is your heart in a receptive posture a
Receptive posture
You know, I think it was yesterday. I was in a coaching session and I was talking about
feminine energy and
masculine energy
And this is really important to understand for so many areas of our life
But for those of us that are women who have been successful
successful in the marketplace
We've spent a lot of our time a lot of our lives in
masculine energy
Masculine energy is very linear. It's very forward-moving. It's very goal oriented. It's very
production oriented it gives it produces
Feminine energy is very open. It's very pliable
a lot of movement
Right. It's very open. It's very
Receptive and I'm not saying that, you know, I'm not putting this to a gender because we both operate in those energies
But I was saying so often we come to God with a masculine energy. Okay, God, here is my list
God, please protect my family. Please keep me from getting sick and getting kovat God. I really need provision God
Please bless my business God and we just come with this like
Shopping list like this like like he is a vending machine, you know
and
there's very little of of
this
Relationship, it's not about religion. If all you've known is religion
Religion is dry. Jesus hated religion. Jesus had the most problem with the religious leaders
This is not about
External regulations, it's not about do's and don'ts it's about openness and receptivity
To the very Spirit of God that that lives in us and
So he says we do speak to the spiritually mature who have teachable hearts
Greater understanding, but it's a higher wisdom. It's not
the wisdom of
This current age. It's not the wisdom of this current age
Who welcome Jerry. Thank you for your comments loving that you guys I can see your comments. I'm so excited. I love you guys
I'm so blessed that you're here
Okay, so
Wisdom comes
When we have teachable hearts when we are able to receive this higher wisdom
he says we speak God's wisdom in a
mystery
I've often heard Bill Johnson say God is not hiding things from you. He's
Hiding things for you
He's hiding things for you. You see the joy scripture says it's the glory of of kings
to discover
And and I believe that this is part of the divine adventure
When every day you can discover a new facet of god, which by the way helps you discover a new facet of you
There is this divine adventure
Adventure, but let me tell you what i've learned as as a coach
so many many many
Create
Self-imposed prisons
It's not god doing it. It's not even the devil. It's our own
thinking
That believes
And and beliefs are firmly held opinions, right?
believes
That life has to be hard
Um believes that there's lack
believes that there's separation
Believe, you know, there's these beliefs that create our own
prison
and so paul says
We speak god's wisdom in a mystery. Look at this. It's a wisdom once hidden from now from man
But now revealed to us by god
That wisdom which god predestined before the ages
to our glory and so so god
Predestined this wisdom. In other words, like I said, he's not hiding things from you
He's hiding things for you. This was put in place this mystery and all
All the revelation knowledge that you could desire all the god all the wisdom
All the understanding we're called to go from glory to glory. It's all
Available is hidden
But it's now being revealed
As we seek his face as we as we say, oh I want to know
Okay
number three
Keeps us from walking in our power
Spiritual not having spiritual revelation or
Interpretation
We need revelation and we need to be able to interpret, you know, it says that the sons of isaac are
understood
the times
They were a they were a school of the prophets in the old testament
and
iron would sharpen iron
And and and these prophets could look at what was happening
And believe me
They had as much yuck as we have
They had all kinds of political mess. They had all kinds of racial issues
They had I mean, are you kidding the jews called the gentiles dogs?
Um, the romans were dogs, you know
um, I mean they're
Racism prejudice. This is not something brand new to the us of a okay
It's being drawn to our attention right now for this season
But this stuff has been going on
since the beginning of time
And so the sons of issachar could look past all the noise they could look past the propaganda
The propaganda
Uh, I I remember living in south korea for a couple of years
And of course the border the dmz
of north korea
and you know the
Propaganda would build all along the dmz
to make it look like
You know roses and unicorns the happiest place on earth
right
propaganda
It's again
We cannot just trust our eyes or we're going to be deceived. We must have
spiritualized and we must have
revelation
Remember i've talked about the word that there's the logos word, which is the written word
And that's so important. You have to have a foundation god
The holy spirit will remind you of the written word, you know, I can just pull up, you know
So many years
Of being in the word, you know, it just it just flows
But equally exciting to me
Is the rhema word that's the reveal that's the revelation that's the fresh manna for you today
That's the application for where you are today
Wouldn't you love to hear what god has to say for you?
you today. And so the revelation knowledge, it says in 2 Corinthians 2.10, I'm still in
the same letter, just reading further, it says, for God has unveiled. So picture unveiling,
you know, picture a bride and, you know, you don't see her face totally, but at that moment,
you lift the veil and you can see clearly this is what God's doing right now. So much
is being revealed. There's so much positive change. Any of you want to talk to me privately
where things look disastrous on the outside? There's so much God is doing behind the scenes.
Talk to anybody that walks in the prophetic. God is moving. There is a great awakening
happening right now. There is a stirring. There is an increase in power, in prospering. I mean,
businesses that are just prospering, in families that are coming back together, in healing,
in reconciliation, governmentally cleaning up so much corruption, it's being revealed.
It's all coming to the surface. It's being revealed for God has unveiled and revealed
them to us. To who? To us, to you and me. How? Through the Holy Spirit. Now look at this.
For the Spirit, capital S, searches all things diligently. You know, the Spirit, from the time
earth was created, the Spirit was over all things, searching diligently, even sounding and measuring
the profound depths of God. You know, I look at the sounding and measuring. If you've been on a
boat, you need to know the depths and you've got the little depth finder on your boat. You know,
my son is a fisherman and they want to know, you know, how deep it is. And so what does it do? It
sends down these, I don't even know how it works. So there, how about that? I don't know if it's
sound or whatever it's sending down, but anyway, I don't need to know how it works. I just know it
does. Right. So it, it, it tells you how deep that it is right there. Right. And it says that
the Holy Spirit is doing that to the things of God. It's, it's going into the deep places.
You see the babies that are living on the superficial level just want, Oh God, please
bless me. Please keep me. Please protect. Yes. I pray Psalms 91 over myself every day. Yes. I love
God's blessing. I love God's protection. I love God's word. I speak, I wake up speaking God's word.
Okay. I love that. But I also hunger and thirst for the deep understanding of God, the deep
revelation of what God is doing in this season, in your life, in, in my life. And so that's the role
of the Holy Spirit is, is searching all of these things. And it says for what person knows the
thoughts and motives of a man, except the man's spirit within him. So also no one knows the
thoughts of God, except the spirit of God. But look, look, look, look, look next verse.
Now we, you, me, now we have received not the spirit of the world. No, no, no, no, no. We're
not walking by that spirit. Not you, not me, not here, not now. We're not walking by that spirit.
That spirit. So what do we have access to? We're talking about tapping into power.
What do we have access to? Not the spirit of the world, but the Holy Spirit who's from God.
So that we may, you get that? So that, so that, so that we may what know and understand
the wonderful things freely given to us by God. You get this? This is why Jesus explained to them
at the end of his life. It's so good that I go away because I know you want me right here.
you want to hug me, you want me to do the work for you, you want me to calm the waves and the storm,
and you want me to feed the 5,000, and you want me to heal your lame, but that's not the original
plan, Jesus said. That's not the original plan. He said, greater things will you do. He said,
it's so good that I go away, because if I go away, the comforter, the counselor, the helper,
the standby, the advocate, the paraclete, the Holy Spirit, if I go away, the Holy Spirit will
be in you, and you will do greater things. Can you imagine? You will do greater things
than Jesus. That was the original plan. That's the mystery from before the creation of earth.
We don't rely only. I mean, of course, the foundation is that Jesus died and rose again.
That's why we have the power and the connection, but Jesus saying it doesn't stop there.
The book of Acts didn't stop at the book of Acts. You and I are the book of Acts. Healing is supposed
to be natural. Miracles are supposed to be natural. Word of knowledge and revelation and seeing into
the future. That's what it said the Holy Spirit would do, to guide us into all truth, to show us
things to come. We're not meant to be blindsided. We're not meant to walk around in the dark, just
hoping that somehow we survive. Never in God's plan. He said, it's good that I go away, because
if I go away, the very spirit that raised Christ from the dead will be in you. Revelation,
knowledge, look, look, look, look, look, watch what happens now. It says, let me make sure I'm
getting it there. We also speak of these things, not in words taught or supplied by human wisdom,
but in those taught by the spirit. I'm a firsthand witness of that. You see, I was living my little
isolated, suburban, you know, El Dorado Hills, Christian lifestyle. I was in my little bubble.
I homeschooled my kids. I didn't have a TV. I hadn't even listened to secular music. And I was
in my little bubble. And remember, I opened, I said, you don't know what you don't know.
And one day, you know, you see in scripture, but God, but God, one day, I walk into my office on a
4th of July weekend, thinking that I was going to prepare a talk for a conference I was doing in San
Francisco. And I heard the Holy Spirit say, you're not going to do that right now. Take down your
Bible and read 1 Corinthians chapters 12 through 14. And I did. And the veil, the revelation
knowledge that we're talking, because it wasn't like I hadn't read that. I've read the Bible
cover to cover many, many times. I'm a student of the word. I've been a teacher of the word.
I'm an ordained minister of the word. I'm not foreign to the word. So it's not like I was
reading something for the first time. This is what you got to get. When, when revelation,
Raymond knowledge comes, we see not with our eyes, but our spiritual eyes. And so something I read
so many, many, many times, I mean, that it's in the New Testament. I'd read it extra more. It's
right next to, you know, verse chapter 13 is the love chapter. I've been all around that.
And all of a sudden I saw things I'd never seen. Why, what we're talking about here,
when you're hungry and your heart is open and you go to the word and you say, teach me Holy
spirit, show me, give me understanding, give me revelation. And all of a sudden what I saw
was opposite of what I'd been taught. I was in a non-denominational church and I was taught
taught opposite of this. And literally I had this conversation with God. I said,
but that's not what I was taught. And the Holy spirit said, but what does it say? And I said,
but that's not what I was taught. And the Holy spirit said, but what does it say? And here's
where receptivity comes. I had a choice. I had a choice right then and there I could choose religion
or I could choose relationship. I could choose dogma or I could choose revelation.
I could choose my past, or I could walk into a new future.
And I literally said to God, I want that.
I desire that.
It's the moment my life turned upside down.
So much happened.
I filled up 12 journals with miracles.
I was, remember, I didn't have a TV.
I'd never been to a spirit-filled church.
I'd never heard this preached.
I'd never read it.
It hadn't been taught.
This is what this verse is talking about.
When you're open and you're receptive,
it says that those taught by the Spirit.
Let me ask you, are you being taught by the Holy Spirit?
Or are you stuck in yesterday's dogma?
Are you stuck in yesterday's religion?
Because it's like stale manna.
It's meant to be a stepping stone, like Paul said.
But we've got to move on.
We're called to go from glory to glory to glory.
You're not meant to be confused.
You're not meant to be in the dark.
He says those taught by the Spirit.
Look at this.
Combining and interpreting spiritual thoughts
with spiritual words.
So there is this combination when the Holy Spirit teaches us
that we begin to have spiritual thoughts
and we begin to have spiritual words, spiritual thoughts.
So revelation, knowledge, and interpretation.
OK, number four, let's move up quick here.
Spiritual discernment and appreciation.
We need spiritual discernment and appreciation.
Let's keep going.
Still, 2 Corinthians 2, verse 1.
But the natural man.
Understand, you have a natural man
and you have a spiritual man.
The natural man does not accept these teachings and revelations
of the Spirit of God.
In fact, they're foolishness to him.
They're foolishness.
Sometimes I feel like I look crazy to people.
It's foolishness.
It goes against the grain.
It's the opposite.
When my relatives and the news are saying, hey, pull back,
draw back, conserve, save every penny.
This is the darkest area.
This is the darkest time.
Save your money.
We're going into the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
yuck, yuck, yuck.
And the Holy Spirit is saying, oh, no, no, no.
I want you to expand.
This is the season.
Here's your new website.
Here's your new membership platform
so everybody can have access to all of these studies,
all this teaching 24-7.
Let's start making a difference.
You're going to have a very powerful, very high-tech,
very expensive membership site.
Oh, yeah, and I want you to start a TV show, Prosper TV,
a very expensive deal.
So in other words, the Spirit is saying,
when everybody else is drawing back and contracting,
I want you to expand.
And I want you to lead by example
because this is what I'm calling my children.
I'm calling them to be light.
And I'm calling them to be salt.
And I want to model.
I want them to model the goodness of God.
I want them to see that there's no fear on your face.
There is no uncertainty on your face.
I want them to see the goodness of God.
That's what we're called, to model.
And so it says, the natural unbelieving man
does not accept these revelations of the Spirit
because they're foolishness, they're crazy.
What, you're telling me to spend my life?
You're telling me to give my last money right now?
You're telling me to sow it?
That's crazy.
You're telling me to expect, that's crazy, right?
It says he's incapable.
This doesn't make any sense to the natural man.
But look at 2 Corinthians 2.14,
because these things are spiritually discerned
and appreciated.
There is a saying, it applies spiritually and naturally.
Whatever you appreciate, appreciates.
If you so appreciate the word of the Lord,
it's going to appreciate.
If you so.
Appreciate the power of God is going to appreciate
Write that down in your notes, whatever you appreciate
Appreciates
Whatever you appreciate
appreciates write that down in your notes, whatever you appreciate
appreciates
So these things are spiritually discerned and appreciated
The natural man's unqualified to judge or make any sense out of this
This is something left for the spiritual man
The spiritually mature Christian who has the ability to judge all things
The Spirit of God and you will detect when something's not right
The Spirit of God will tell you to do something. You know what I found
God
Often tells me to do something something expensive before I even have the money. Can I can I be real with you?
I
Mean the kind of thing like where it's tens of thousands of dollars and it it keeps you up
See, I don't teach anything that I don't get tested into right the kind of stuff that wakes you up at 4 in the morning
and you're like
where is that going to come from and
You come to the place with God and you say I trust you I
Trust you if you've called me to do this
Then you're gonna provide
You're gonna provide whatever the research and I step forward before I have it
You see most people say when I see it, I'll believe it
No, when you believe it, you'll see it write that down for everyone who sees this post
most people think
That you have to see it to believe it. That's back to the natural eyes. You have to see it to believe it. No
spiritually
When you believe it
You will see it you must faith happens before your eyes can see it
Faith
Happens when you plant that seed in the ground
You cannot see the plant you can't see the seed and for a long while when it's in the dark
in the
gestation period you can't see the roots coming out and
Spreading out to gather the water and you can't see the stem. It's still below the ground
Your natural eyes don't know that miracles are happening growth is happening
Breakthrough is happening. Healing is happening. Your eyes can't see it yet. It's still in gestation still under the ground. Why?
You're hungry and you trust and I say I trust you. I trust you. I trust you and all the sudden
Kind of like Elijah with the cloud. He saw a small cloud
What did Elijah do? God's putting this on my heart to share with you. What did Elijah do when there had been no rain?
He got the word the revelation knowledge from the Spirit to start digging ditches to capture the water
Not a drop of rain dig the ditches
Before
Before the natural eyes and it was a while the ditches there and suddenly the natural eyes could
Suddenly see what he'd seen spiritually a little cloud in the distance
the size of a man's hand
And of course the rain came you must
spiritually dig the ditches
Dig the wells before you have water
This is the faith walk I'm learning the joy is I go forward and then God provides
Supernaturally Wow, you're like, okay Lord. That was cool. You go forward and then God it's not the opposite
God doesn't provide and then you go forward
So many of you are waiting for God to do something before you step forward
It doesn't work that way if he has given you peace
Let peace be your umpire if he has called you and you know, you're supposed to be doing something
But you haven't seen the resources yet
You step forward and then the resources come I am like seeing this a lot in this season
I mean God is stretching me financially. I won't joke the stuff that I'm doing right now in this season
Okay, but he is so supernaturally doing cool stuff after I take a step after
Right. No, it didn't start building the ark after he saw the first raindrop and oh man, we better hurry and catch up
Elijah didn't dig the ditch after the first raindrop
We're not called to dig the ditch after the signs come even
Unbelievers can do that. No, you're called to lead by example
talking to anybody? Is this, is this hitting you? Is this hitting you? Because
God's just giving me this fresh right now. It wasn't in my notes. All right, I
got to wrap this up. Let's get through this here, okay? All right, but who has
known the mind and purposes of the Lord so as to instruct him? But we have the
mind of Christ to be guided by his thoughts and purposes. I want you to
remember that. We have the mind of Christ. Number five, awareness. Number five, I
opened with this prayer from Ephesians. And I pray that the eyes of your heart,
the very center and core of your being, your spirit, may be enlightened. Yeah,
enlightenment is not just a New Age concept. It's biblical. It's biblical.
Look at the history. Look at Jesus in the transfiguration when he turned into a
body of light. Look at the ancient paintings and there was always halos
over people. What was that? We've lost sight. May be enlightened and flooded
with light by the Holy Spirit so you will know and cherish. Look at that. Look
how they go together. It goes back to the appreciation. Not only you'll know, but
it's not enough to know. We must treasure this. We must cherish the fact that the
Spirit of God lives in us. That we can we can cherish this. The hope we may know,
the divine guarantee, the confident expectation to which he has called you,
the riches of the glorious inheritance in God's people. Number six, these are the
things to have you step into your power to live a supernatural life. If you're
not doing them, you're not living fully powerfully you. If you are, then these are
the things you can focus on doing even more to walk even more powerfully. Faith.
The degree of faith. What are you believing for? What are you trusting God?
Where are you being stretched? What's your degree? Did you know faith comes in
measures? It comes in degrees? Jesus answered, because of your little faith, he
defines it, your lack of trust and confidence in the power of God. Because
of your little faith, I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he's like, I
can't make my point strong enough. You know, almost I put my hand on the Bible
and swear, right? Solemnly say to you, if you have living, right now, active, living
faith, just the size of the mustard seed, that teeny tiniest thing in existence, if
you have just that much faith, then you can say to this mountain. Now there may
be a time that it's for physical mountains, I believe that's possible, but
I believe he's talking to the mountains in your life. That I open by saying
instead of being moved by your circumstances, you're walking down the
trail of life and boom, there is a mountain ahead of you. You think about,
you know, the westward journey in our own country and when they suddenly hit the
mountains, it was like insurmountable. So we do not let the mountains in our life,
the circumstances in our life, move us. This is saying, we move our circumstances,
we speak to the wind and the waves, the anxiety, the stress, the uncertainty, we
speak to it and we say, be still, hush up, be done, I am not listening, la la la la la.
Peace, be still and then what happens? And then the wind and the waves stopped and
I'm not sure that he was speaking that to the wind and the waves. I think he was
speaking to the disciples. I have a lot of reason when he said peace, be still,
but he was talking to their anxiety, their stress and
The external is always a manifestation of what's going on in the internal as they could have internal peace
External peace resulted I could do a whole bible study on that
But you have to trust me because we're out of time, okay
But if you have this grain of mustard seed faith
You can speak to the mountains in your life you can speak to the circumstances in your life and it'll move
And nothing
No
thing
nothing
no
thing
will be
Impossible for you. This is why we're called to do greater things. No thing
Will be impossible for you
We see it again in matthew 15 28 jesus answered her woman your faith
Faith
Notice the consistency when jesus always redirected from what he was doing to their faith
when
He did calm the storm
They said wow, even the wind and the waves obey him and he looked at them and said oh ye of little faith
In other words, why didn't you do this?
We see this time and time and time again
and so here
jesus commands faith
Woman
And she was a woman
And she was quote unquote a dog
And yet he addresses her woman
Some translation will say daughter your faith
Your trust and confidence in my power because what had she been thinking what had she been speaking the lord the the bible
The lord gives us revelation on that
She kept on saying if only I touch the hem of his garment I shall be healed
I gotta press through these crowds. I can't I got I gotta ignore the mountains in front of me
My eyes are on the lord if I just touch him, I will be healed
I will I will I will be healed if I just touch him. I will be healed
We got a glimpse into what was going on in her mind and
Jesus saw it is she actually pulled the virtue. She pulled the power out of him
He wasn't facing her. He wasn't coming toward her. She pulled it out of him so much that he said who touched me
He says your faith
your faith
Is great and it'll be done for you as you wish
Shh
Another one matthew 9 29. He touched their eyes and he said according to your faith
Your there it is again the amplified says what how is your trust level
In god's power
How how is your confidence?
In god's power how much confidence scale of one to ten
Do you have that god will move in your life in this circumstance?
In this mountain degree of faith scale of one to scale of ten
What's your confidence it says here in my ability to heal scale of one to ten let's have you know
Let's that truth talk here
What is
Your confidence
in
god's power
What is your confidence
in god's
power
It will be done whatever that is whatever your degree
Of trust and confidence it is a power
It is power and ability to heal it will be done
Number seven
fear
This is the prison that most people put themselves in they get themselves all worked up into a fear
The fear comes by worrying about something in the future and not staying in the present
Not looking that right here right now. You have everything that you need. No you project into the future
What if what if I run out of money? What if I lose my job?
What if my kids go south what if and you create all this fear?
Which is not a sound mind
This is man-made fear. You created it. You can uncreate it. It's not from god
It says god did not give us a spirit of timidity or cowardice
Or fear, you know, you see the disciples hiding behind locked doors for fear of the jews because they don't want to be killed
They don't want to be in prison and so now here we are
You know 2020 if you're watching this live and we are obeying like robots because we are
afraid
What if I catch it? What if my family catches it?
What what if I lose my job? What if I can't pay my rent? What if my business closes?
We're got this whole fear going on
What if this could be the greatest season in your life ever
God did not give us the spirit of timidity or cowardice or fear
He's given us the spirit of what did he give us? Did you catch this?
What God didn't give you fear. God did not give that to you. What did he give you?
spirit of power and love
Sound judgment and don't forget personal discipline
Because if you lack discipline
You're headed to a lot of trouble
And
Those result what's the result? What's the fruit? How do you know if you're walking it out a calm?
well-balanced mind and self-control
So this power is a gift from God
The Phillips translation says God has not given us the spirit of fear, but a spirit of power
We're talking about power. God gave you the power. It's available. You have full access to it and
Full access to love and full access to a sound mind. Okay, I got to wrap this up last one real quick
It's also not having a sound mind
But this is the illusions that we live and there's so many things that we
Consider our reality that are absolute illusions. The belief in lack is one of those
You have to retrain your mind
Around the concept of lack because our society is built to program you to believe in lack so you'll buy more things
Okay, so this is one of the illusions
That that there are there's many there's separation, but let's just see what scripture says here
It says the truth is that although of course we live normal human lives
The battle we are fighting is on a spiritual level, please remember that
please
Stick to the main thing
love the people and
Battle the spiritual issues. I don't care if you're red love the blue if you're blue
Love the red if you're white love the black if you're black love the white this whole pitting us against each other is
Deliberate it is planned. It is one of the oldest war strategies get them
Separated divided killing each other then you won't notice, you know
You know keep your eye on the left hand, you know, it's it's the Democrats or the Republicans. It's the black. It's the white
It's China keep your eyes on that so you won't see what the right hand is doing to steal your freedom
To steal your liberty to put you into bondage
It's deliberate guys
so
Although we live normal human lives. The battle is on a spiritual level and the weapons we use are
Not human. We've got to be fighting spiritual things spiritually for the destruction of the enemy's
strongholds and
Look at this. Our battle is to bring down every
deceptive
Fantasy, I love the amplified translation or I think this might be Phillips. Yeah, it is. This is Phillips translation
Look at that what if the battle this is where I say the self-made prison, how do I know this?
how can I absolutely know besides the word says it because I've been coaching and
Mentoring for years and years and years and years and I see breakthroughs in a minute in a second
And as soon as these fantasies these illusions these crazy ways of thinking get broken in an instant
I see their whole life just come alive. I see businesses come out of nowhere
I see prosperity come out of nowhere
I see joy come out of nowhere in an instant when we break these crazy fantasies these these self-made
illusions and that's our job to bring down every deceptive fantasy and
every imposing defense that man erects against the true knowledge of
God and
How do we do that? We capture every thought we must
Become aware we must think about our thinking we must be aware
and take every thought to the obedience of Christ.
My goodness, we covered a lot of territory.
I cannot believe we've been at this for an hour
and I could just keep going and going and going.
I love you guys so much.
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