WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.000 If it's fire, it's got to look like fire, feel like fire, smell like fire or something. 2 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:19.880 Welcome to another Raising Home Fire Secret Place training session. 3 00:00:19.880 --> 00:00:24.800 Those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of 4 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.320 the Almighty. 5 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.000 And our prayer and our vision for this time is that you would be further equipped, that 6 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:36.520 you would be taken into a deeper experience of the secret place, into a deeper personal 7 00:00:36.520 --> 00:00:41.620 connection with God, and that you would experience what it's like in a deeper way to come under 8 00:00:41.620 --> 00:00:43.240 the overshadowing of God. 9 00:00:43.240 --> 00:00:48.000 Bill Johnson says, whatever overshadows you will come out in your shadow. 10 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.880 And you know, the book of Daniel, Daniel writes this, he says, those that know their God shall 11 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:53.880 do great exploits. 12 00:00:53.880 --> 00:00:58.520 And so our prayer is that you would grow in your knowledge, not just your knowledge about 13 00:00:58.520 --> 00:01:03.980 God, but your intimate, personal, experiential knowledge of knowing God. 14 00:01:03.980 --> 00:01:05.239 And so enjoy this session. 15 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:11.240 God bless you. 16 00:01:11.240 --> 00:01:13.520 Well welcome to another secret place training session. 17 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:18.760 I'm really excited again to be sharing with you in this session about one of the practices 18 00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:23.000 that I use in my secret place time of my prayers and my prayer space. 19 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.760 It's been a massive blessing to me. 20 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:31.360 And what I want to talk to you about today is the practice of building in the Spirit. 21 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:37.200 We're going to be talking about building in the Spirit, growing in the knowing, and meditation. 22 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:38.360 And this is a really big topic. 23 00:01:38.360 --> 00:01:39.360 I'm just going to touch on it. 24 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:43.160 And I'm going to introduce the practice of building in the Spirit today. 25 00:01:43.160 --> 00:01:49.280 The general idea is that we as people that God has made are made up of flesh and spirit. 26 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.400 We're natural and spiritual. 27 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:57.840 The natural side of us, our flesh, our hands, and our natural functions, we can build things 28 00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:58.840 naturally. 29 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:04.080 In other words, I can take my hands, grab a hammer, bang a nail in, I can build a house, 30 00:02:04.080 --> 00:02:11.080 I can cook dinner, I can paint a painting, I can function naturally in the material world 31 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:18.960 with the elements of my being that are natural, my arms and legs and different things. 32 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:24.520 But I'm also a spirit being, and the same way I can function and build in the natural, 33 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:27.640 I can function and build in the Spirit. 34 00:02:27.640 --> 00:02:33.880 And what I want to talk to you about today is a practice that will cause you and help 35 00:02:33.880 --> 00:02:38.240 you to become intentional with building in the Spirit. 36 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:45.680 Now, on a side note, and you've heard me say this in other sessions, but everything that 37 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:48.440 is visible came from the invisible. 38 00:02:48.440 --> 00:02:50.800 Everything that is material came from the Spirit. 39 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.000 The Spirit comes first. 40 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:57.480 So if we become competent builders of the Spirit and learn how to build things well 41 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:05.920 in the Spirit, in the unseen atmosphere around us, then the physical atmosphere around us, 42 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:12.240 the natural aspect of our lives will actually begin to form around and begin to be shaped 43 00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:17.280 by the spiritual reality that we are intentional to build in and around our lives as we learn 44 00:03:17.280 --> 00:03:22.080 to be competent builders in the Spirit with the Holy Spirit. 45 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:26.840 And so that's what I'm going to be talking about today, is that when God speaks, He doesn't 46 00:03:26.840 --> 00:03:34.000 speak things generally, this is generally speaking, into their matured form. 47 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:39.440 When He speaks things, they come like a seed, and they require stewardship, they require 48 00:03:39.440 --> 00:03:41.600 nurturing, they require building. 49 00:03:41.600 --> 00:03:50.760 There is assembly required to take the seed into the fulfillment of the destination of 50 00:03:50.760 --> 00:03:56.280 the seed, into the fulfillment of God's intention for what that seed will become or what that 51 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:58.160 word will become. 52 00:03:58.160 --> 00:04:03.000 We're given a promise, we're given a prophecy, then we have to go through the process before 53 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:04.920 we reach the promised land. 54 00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:09.400 And what I want to share with you today around building in the Spirit is one of the tools 55 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:15.560 that we can use in the process of taking the seed of the promises of God and seeing 56 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:19.399 them come through the process until they reach the promised land. 57 00:04:19.399 --> 00:04:24.680 Okay, so let me break down building in the Spirit and the practice of building the Spirit 58 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:25.680 a little bit more. 59 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:28.600 What I want to do is I'm going to pull out two scriptures, and we're going to take a 60 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:33.120 few different points from those two scriptures, and I'm going to tell you a few stories, and 61 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.280 then we're going to go from there and we'll end at the activation. 62 00:04:36.280 --> 00:04:39.720 The first scripture is 2 Corinthians 3.18. 63 00:04:39.720 --> 00:04:40.720 It says this, 64 00:04:40.720 --> 00:04:44.520 But we all with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being 65 00:04:44.520 --> 00:04:49.840 transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. 66 00:04:49.840 --> 00:04:52.840 And the point I want to pull out of this scripture is this. 67 00:04:52.840 --> 00:04:58.000 Meditation is really important, and what you choose to give your attention will shape your 68 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.040 experience of life. 69 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.200 and your core beliefs. 70 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:06.580 The Bible says that as a man thinks in his heart, 71 00:05:06.580 --> 00:05:07.420 so is he. 72 00:05:09.200 --> 00:05:12.000 Your experience of reality is not necessarily 73 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:14.920 what God intended your experience of reality to be. 74 00:05:14.920 --> 00:05:18.760 Your experience of reality is not necessarily even reality 75 00:05:18.760 --> 00:05:20.740 in terms of what God has defined 76 00:05:20.740 --> 00:05:22.600 and determined reality to be. 77 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:26.420 Your experience of reality is based on 78 00:05:26.420 --> 00:05:29.320 and is the fruit of what you believe to be real, 79 00:05:29.320 --> 00:05:32.000 not necessarily what's actually real. 80 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.120 And so that's why it's so important to, 81 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:37.560 if your experience of reality is less than the reality 82 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:39.960 that you know God has determined for your life 83 00:05:39.960 --> 00:05:42.160 and less than the reality that you know God 84 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.400 has designed for your life, 85 00:05:44.400 --> 00:05:45.720 then it's so important to ask, 86 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:47.960 God, where am I believing a lie? 87 00:05:47.960 --> 00:05:51.800 And how can I bring my beliefs 88 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:55.320 and the beliefs of my heart into alignment with yours 89 00:05:55.320 --> 00:05:57.720 so that my experience of reality 90 00:05:57.760 --> 00:06:01.520 can be the actual reality that you have designed 91 00:06:01.520 --> 00:06:04.200 for me to be living in, not a lesser reality? 92 00:06:04.200 --> 00:06:06.840 There are many people living in a lesser reality, 93 00:06:06.840 --> 00:06:09.000 and part of the reason for that is this. 94 00:06:10.760 --> 00:06:13.600 What you spend the most time looking at, 95 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:15.120 you'll end up looking like. 96 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:17.400 What you spend the most time beholding 97 00:06:17.400 --> 00:06:21.960 will end up being what you become 98 00:06:21.960 --> 00:06:25.240 and will end up determining your experience 99 00:06:25.320 --> 00:06:28.160 or what your experience of life is like. 100 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.160 We behold His glory as in a mirror 101 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:31.760 and are transformed into the image. 102 00:06:31.760 --> 00:06:34.600 The underlying principle there is what you behold 103 00:06:34.600 --> 00:06:36.600 will transform you into its image. 104 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.720 If you are beholding something less than God 105 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:42.000 and less than the reality of God for your life, 106 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:43.880 then the thing that you're beholding, 107 00:06:43.880 --> 00:06:46.080 that lesser reality that you are beholding 108 00:06:46.080 --> 00:06:51.080 will end up shaping your experience of life 109 00:06:51.640 --> 00:06:54.640 and your experience of reality and your belief system. 110 00:06:55.280 --> 00:06:59.120 Where that has happened and in aspects of our life 111 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.040 where we are believing and where we have had our attention 112 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:04.440 on a lesser reality than God's reality, 113 00:07:04.440 --> 00:07:06.120 it's important for us to repent 114 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:09.040 or just to push that reality to the side 115 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:11.920 and look to God and look to the glory of God 116 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:16.280 and look to the face of God to reset our reality, 117 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:20.480 to reset our truth, and to reset what we're beholding 118 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:21.640 and therefore becoming. 119 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:27.600 The other aspect of this is that our lives 120 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:29.880 are made up of many different aspects. 121 00:07:29.880 --> 00:07:33.360 In my life, I've got my family life, 122 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:38.360 I've got my recreation, I've got my financial reality, 123 00:07:38.520 --> 00:07:41.240 I've got my church reality, I've got my work reality, 124 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:44.960 I've got the reality of my health. 125 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:47.400 I've got the, there's many different aspects 126 00:07:47.400 --> 00:07:48.880 that make up my life. 127 00:07:49.760 --> 00:07:53.800 And I can often be, and probably the same with you, 128 00:07:53.800 --> 00:07:58.800 is that I can be in situations where 80% of the aspects 129 00:07:59.400 --> 00:08:02.160 of my life are in the reality of God 130 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:04.560 or at least in a good place. 131 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:06.560 And a couple of the different elements of my life 132 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:10.600 might be, I might be experiencing less 133 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:11.440 than the reality of God. 134 00:08:11.440 --> 00:08:14.960 Well, if I take those elements of my life 135 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:16.960 and bring them before the glory of God 136 00:08:17.520 --> 00:08:20.240 and say, God, teach me how to see these elements 137 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:23.960 of my life, and I begin beholding those elements 138 00:08:23.960 --> 00:08:27.360 of my life, say, for example, my financial reality, 139 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.520 I begin beholding my financial reality, 140 00:08:30.520 --> 00:08:34.480 not from my experience of finances up until this point, 141 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:38.600 but from God's perspective, from God's point of view, 142 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:42.320 and from what God has designed my financial reality 143 00:08:42.320 --> 00:08:44.280 to be like from heaven's perspective. 144 00:08:44.400 --> 00:08:47.360 And I begin beholding my finances 145 00:08:47.360 --> 00:08:51.440 from the perspective of God, 146 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:54.920 then my finances will begin to be shaped 147 00:08:55.880 --> 00:09:00.120 by the way I'm beholding them in the glory 148 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:01.160 and in the presence of God. 149 00:09:01.160 --> 00:09:04.600 They'll begin to be shaped by God's perspective 150 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:05.560 of my finances. 151 00:09:05.560 --> 00:09:07.880 So you become what you behold. 152 00:09:07.880 --> 00:09:10.000 And when you take an element of your life 153 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:12.560 and you bring it into alignment with God's perspective 154 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.320 and you begin beholding that element of your life 155 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:19.120 from God's perspective, God's perspective on that element 156 00:09:19.120 --> 00:09:22.360 will begin shaping that particular specific element 157 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:23.240 of your life. 158 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:26.280 That's the key to building the spirit in this. 159 00:09:26.280 --> 00:09:28.800 Another scripture I wanna read to you is Isaiah 40. 160 00:09:28.800 --> 00:09:30.160 So let's go there. 161 00:09:30.160 --> 00:09:32.480 Isaiah 40 verse 31 says, 162 00:09:32.480 --> 00:09:34.680 but those who wait on the Lord 163 00:09:37.760 --> 00:09:38.880 shall renew their strength, 164 00:09:38.880 --> 00:09:40.640 they shall mount up with wings like eagles, 165 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:41.800 they shall run and not be worried, 166 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:43.920 and they shall walk and not faint. 167 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:48.440 That word wait means to be bound together or woven into. 168 00:09:49.640 --> 00:09:51.120 And to wait is really, 169 00:09:52.520 --> 00:09:54.600 an element of that word is to meditate. 170 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.440 So those who wait on the Lord in a state of meditation, 171 00:09:58.440 --> 00:10:00.240 or it's really two different things. 172 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:07.880 Those who take time to intentionally behold God, to intentionally behold the glory of 173 00:10:07.880 --> 00:10:13.680 God, those who take time and are intentional to wait on the Lord, meditate on the Lord, 174 00:10:13.680 --> 00:10:18.400 are then woven into and bound into the life of God. 175 00:10:18.400 --> 00:10:24.200 And whatever element of our lives we take with us in that place of waiting, that element 176 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:33.160 of our lives is then woven into the life of God and the experience of God, and that life 177 00:10:33.160 --> 00:10:39.480 of God begins to transform that element of our lives until that element of our lives 178 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:45.520 is formed into what God has intended originally to be our experience of that particular element 179 00:10:45.520 --> 00:10:47.520 of our lives. 180 00:10:47.520 --> 00:10:51.200 So to illustrate what I've been talking about and to illustrate this principle and this 181 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:56.080 practice, what I want to do—and like I said, I use this practice, I use this tool 182 00:10:56.080 --> 00:11:01.360 in just about every area of my life at different times to build and to shape and to be intentional 183 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:06.160 about bringing those elements of my life into what God has intended my experience of those 184 00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:08.000 elements of my life to be. 185 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:13.360 But I wanted to share one story of a building in the Spirit moment. 186 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:17.480 And this is actually not one of my stories, but I was teaching my interns how to build 187 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:20.940 in the Spirit, and I want to share that story. 188 00:11:21.680 --> 00:11:26.780 A few years ago now, I had a bunch of interns and I was teaching them about this practice 189 00:11:26.780 --> 00:11:31.700 of building in the Spirit, and we started to go through an activation of building in 190 00:11:31.700 --> 00:11:32.700 the Spirit. 191 00:11:32.700 --> 00:11:39.420 The activation was we took a truth and we took one of the truths of God, and our goal 192 00:11:39.420 --> 00:11:43.540 and the goal of building in the Spirit is to wrap your life around that truth, around 193 00:11:43.540 --> 00:11:48.140 that reality, to intertwine our life into that reality. 194 00:11:48.140 --> 00:11:55.220 So the truth we had was, everywhere I go, God goes to. 195 00:11:55.220 --> 00:11:57.780 Everywhere I go, God goes to. 196 00:11:57.780 --> 00:12:01.180 And therefore, everywhere I go is where God is. 197 00:12:01.180 --> 00:12:07.540 And if it is where God is, then what God does can just naturally happen wherever God is. 198 00:12:07.540 --> 00:12:10.540 And so the simple truth was, everywhere I go, God goes to. 199 00:12:10.540 --> 00:12:15.340 And so we took that truth and we kind of put it in the Spirit, in the middle of the group, 200 00:12:15.340 --> 00:12:18.860 and we just took turns to pray. 201 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:25.620 And the whole thing with this building the Spirit with meditation is that we imagine, 202 00:12:25.620 --> 00:12:28.920 and so what we did is we said, Holy Spirit, come into our imaginations. 203 00:12:28.920 --> 00:12:35.100 We give you our imaginations, and Holy Spirit, we ask you, and this is what I always do, 204 00:12:35.100 --> 00:12:42.900 I ask the Holy Spirit, what does it look like and what does it feel like when this truth 205 00:12:42.940 --> 00:12:46.260 has fully outworked its way in my life? 206 00:12:46.260 --> 00:12:48.900 What does it look like and what does it feel like? 207 00:12:48.900 --> 00:12:52.580 Because whatever I see and feel in the Spirit, I can have in the natural. 208 00:12:52.580 --> 00:12:54.160 That's the principle. 209 00:12:54.160 --> 00:12:59.500 And so what does it look like and what does it feel like when the truth of, God, you are 210 00:12:59.500 --> 00:13:04.380 with me wherever I go, is fully outworked in my life? 211 00:13:04.380 --> 00:13:10.500 And so we took that truth, we asked that question, and then we started to imagine what our lives 212 00:13:10.500 --> 00:13:14.780 looked like and what they felt like when that truth was fully outworked. 213 00:13:14.780 --> 00:13:17.580 And so we'd be as specific as possible. 214 00:13:17.580 --> 00:13:23.340 And so I say, I want you to imagine that from right now, after the session finishes, you're 215 00:13:23.340 --> 00:13:26.580 walking home, what does it look like to walk home? 216 00:13:26.580 --> 00:13:29.580 And so we start dreaming into it. 217 00:13:29.580 --> 00:13:32.820 And we've done this a few times now, so they had kind of learnt the ropes. 218 00:13:32.820 --> 00:13:39.500 But one of the interns was like, I can imagine that I'm walking down the road and I can just 219 00:13:39.500 --> 00:13:43.340 feel the presence of God and I feel happy, I feel joyful. 220 00:13:43.340 --> 00:13:47.660 And out loud with words, the intern is describing the feeling. 221 00:13:47.660 --> 00:13:49.140 And it's important that you use words. 222 00:13:49.140 --> 00:13:50.380 Don't keep it in your mind. 223 00:13:50.380 --> 00:13:55.220 We've just done two sessions, a session on words and a session on speaking in tongues. 224 00:13:55.220 --> 00:13:58.220 And they're speaking words out around what it feels like. 225 00:13:58.220 --> 00:13:59.220 It feels so good. 226 00:13:59.220 --> 00:14:00.220 God, I feel peace. 227 00:14:00.220 --> 00:14:01.220 I feel calm. 228 00:14:01.220 --> 00:14:02.220 I feel joyful. 229 00:14:02.220 --> 00:14:07.740 I feel like, and they're just going into as much description as they can with their words 230 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:12.580 from what they're feeling as they're imagining what life is like when this truth is fully 231 00:14:12.580 --> 00:14:13.580 outworked. 232 00:14:13.580 --> 00:14:18.940 And, Lord, I'm walking down the road and as I'm walking down the road, I can imagine, 233 00:14:18.940 --> 00:14:23.900 I can see there's someone in my imagination, I can see someone, they're leant up against 234 00:14:23.900 --> 00:14:27.740 a transformer, against a green box, and they've got crutches. 235 00:14:27.740 --> 00:14:31.540 And I walk up to them, I say, listen, what's going on? 236 00:14:31.540 --> 00:14:32.540 What happened to your crutches? 237 00:14:32.540 --> 00:14:33.540 But I don't feel afraid. 238 00:14:33.540 --> 00:14:37.260 I feel confident because I know you're with me, God. 239 00:14:37.260 --> 00:14:40.460 He says to me, it's my birthday, and I've broken my ankle. 240 00:14:40.460 --> 00:14:42.820 I just broke it. 241 00:14:42.820 --> 00:14:44.420 So I feel the presence of God. 242 00:14:44.420 --> 00:14:45.620 I feel the pleasure of God. 243 00:14:45.620 --> 00:14:46.620 I feel the excitement. 244 00:14:46.620 --> 00:14:48.300 God, I feel your excitement. 245 00:14:48.300 --> 00:14:50.020 And they're just imagining this. 246 00:14:50.020 --> 00:14:51.620 And I say, hey, listen, can I pray for you? 247 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:54.220 Because I believe God wants to heal you today. 248 00:14:54.220 --> 00:14:56.820 Now these guys have never seen a miracle before this point. 249 00:14:56.820 --> 00:14:58.980 This is the first time they've done this. 250 00:14:58.980 --> 00:14:59.980 And so in the 251 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.000 In this Building in the Spirit session, they lay hands on this person and they say, 252 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:07.000 In the name of Jesus, be healed. 253 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.000 And they're like, Whoa! 254 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:10.000 Oh my gosh, she just threw her crutches away. 255 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:11.000 She's running around. 256 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:12.000 She's completely healed. 257 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.000 She's saying there's no more pain. 258 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:18.000 And that was the imagination. 259 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.000 That was the Building in the Spirit. 260 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:22.000 That was what they saw and felt in the Spirit. 261 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:25.000 After they asked the Holy Spirit to come into my imagination, 262 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.000 help me wrap my experience of life around this truth. 263 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:36.000 And so my experience of life comes into alignment with your reality. 264 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:41.000 And so anyway, they did that. 265 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:42.000 And then I sent them home. 266 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:43.000 They came back the next day. 267 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:45.000 And when they came back the next day, they said, 268 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.000 Matt, you'll never guess what happened. 269 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:50.000 I was walking down the road, and I got to that green box that I imagined 270 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.000 in our Building in the Spirit time. 271 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.000 And the lady was there. 272 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.000 She had crutches. 273 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.000 And I said, Listen, have you broken your ankle? 274 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:58.000 She said, Yes, I've broken my ankle. 275 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:59.000 It's my birthday. 276 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.000 I said, I knew it was your birthday. 277 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:02.000 And then I said, Can I pray for you? 278 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.000 And as I prayed for her, I felt the same feelings. 279 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:06.000 And the power of God hit her. 280 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.000 She threw her crutches away. 281 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:08.000 She started running around. 282 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:09.000 She got completely healed. 283 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.000 And I was like, Oh, my gosh. 284 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:14.000 And then you'll never guess what happened next. 285 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:16.000 They haven't seen a miracle before this, guys. 286 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:18.000 They go to the library. 287 00:16:18.000 --> 00:16:21.000 They said, We went to the library, and the next person we saw come 288 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.000 out of the library had crutches. 289 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.000 So we prayed for them too, and they got healed. 290 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:27.000 And they were so excited. 291 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:31.000 The reality that you build in the Spirit today will be the reality you 292 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:33.000 live in tomorrow. 293 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:37.000 If you can see it and feel it in the Spirit in your time of meditation, 294 00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.000 in your time of building in the Spirit, if you can see it, 295 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:43.000 the more you can see it, the more you can feel it, 296 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.000 the more you can have it in the natural. 297 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:49.000 And so what we're going to do now is we're going to go into a time 298 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:53.000 of activation, and we're going to go through a process like what my 299 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.000 interns went through, and we're going to go through that right now. 300 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:58.000 We're going to go through a building in the Spirit process. 301 00:16:58.000 --> 00:17:04.000 I hope I've managed to unpack the principle behind this and the practice 302 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:07.000 of this, and we're going to enter into this now in this activation. 303 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:08.000 Awesome. 304 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:22.000 Well, welcome to the activation. 305 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:25.000 I hope you had a good time in that session. 306 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:30.000 What we're going to do is we are going to go into a time of building 307 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:31.000 in the Spirit. 308 00:17:31.000 --> 00:17:34.000 We're going to take a truth of God. 309 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:39.000 We're going to take one of the principles of God, one of the truths of God, 310 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:43.000 part of the reality of God, and we're going to take that, 311 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:45.000 and we're going to set that in the middle of our minds, 312 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.000 and we are going to begin to build our lives around that reality. 313 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:52.000 We're going to begin to go into a process of letting that reality, 314 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.000 letting that truth reshape our experience of life. 315 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:59.000 And so I'm going to choose it for the sake of this activation. 316 00:17:59.000 --> 00:18:02.000 You can do it with any truth you want at another time, 317 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:04.000 and I encourage you to do so. 318 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:09.000 But I'm going to take this truth, that this is the truth, 319 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:16.000 that God is, that Jesus is the Prince of Peace, 320 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:18.000 and that Jesus is with you everywhere you go. 321 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.000 Therefore, peace is with you everywhere you go. 322 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.000 And we're going to ask the Holy Spirit this question. 323 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:29.000 Holy Spirit, what does it look like and what does it feel like 324 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:35.000 when our lives are in the full experience of the peace of God, 325 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:39.000 where our lives are fully baptized, where our lives are in the full, 326 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:43.000 full experience of walking in the fullness of your peace? 327 00:18:43.000 --> 00:18:44.000 What does it look like? 328 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.000 And so what we're going to do is I just encourage you 329 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:51.000 to close your eyes right now, and I'm going to start you off. 330 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:54.000 And when I finish this, you can feel free to press pause 331 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:57.000 and keep going as long as you want. 332 00:18:57.000 --> 00:18:59.000 So I want you to repeat this after me. 333 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:08.000 Holy Spirit, I give you my imagination, and I ask you, 334 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:14.000 what does it look like and what does it feel like 335 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:22.000 when my life is fully experiencing the truth of your peace, 336 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:27.000 when I am walking in the fullness of peace? 337 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:29.000 What does it feel like? 338 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:33.000 And I want you just to imagine a certain scenario 339 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:34.000 that is common in your life. 340 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:35.000 Maybe it's your home life. 341 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:38.000 Maybe it's going shopping in a supermarket. 342 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:43.000 For me, I'm going to imagine walking into my house, 343 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:47.000 and I'm going to speak out what I'm seeing, what I'm feeling, 344 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.000 and then, like I said, you can press pause 345 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.000 and you can begin to speak out what you're seeing 346 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:52.000 and what you're feeling. 347 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:57.000 But, Holy Spirit, what I see is I'm pulling up in my driveway. 348 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.000 I've had a hard day at work. 349 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.080 but I'm not feeling stressed out. 350 00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:04.940 I feel like you've got the whole world in your hands. 351 00:20:04.940 --> 00:20:06.540 God, my whole life is in your hands. 352 00:20:06.540 --> 00:20:08.140 I feel secure. 353 00:20:08.140 --> 00:20:09.860 I don't feel like I have to fight for anything 354 00:20:09.860 --> 00:20:11.700 with my own strength. 355 00:20:11.700 --> 00:20:13.860 I feel free. 356 00:20:13.860 --> 00:20:15.620 I feel like I have room. 357 00:20:16.660 --> 00:20:19.500 I feel like I have room to invite people into my world. 358 00:20:19.500 --> 00:20:21.660 I feel like I have space around me. 359 00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:25.580 I feel like I can take a deep breath. 360 00:20:25.580 --> 00:20:26.780 I'm not in a rush. 361 00:20:26.780 --> 00:20:27.900 Sometimes I'm in a rush, 362 00:20:27.900 --> 00:20:32.460 but today, because of this peace, I'm not in a rush. 363 00:20:32.460 --> 00:20:33.940 I'm not feeling rushed. 364 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:36.520 I'm feeling free. 365 00:20:37.500 --> 00:20:40.220 And I step out of my car and something about this peace 366 00:20:40.220 --> 00:20:42.120 is causing me to feel energized. 367 00:20:43.260 --> 00:20:44.660 I feel energized. 368 00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:46.300 I feel healthy. 369 00:20:46.300 --> 00:20:47.780 I feel happy. 370 00:20:47.780 --> 00:20:49.340 Peace is bringing me joy. 371 00:20:50.260 --> 00:20:53.940 I'm walking down my pathway to my front door 372 00:20:53.940 --> 00:20:56.860 and I can see my little daughter, Mila, 373 00:20:56.860 --> 00:21:00.820 and she's in the window and she's waving at me. 374 00:21:01.780 --> 00:21:06.460 And she looks like she's a little bit sad. 375 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:08.820 She's maybe a little bit grumpy. 376 00:21:08.820 --> 00:21:10.060 And so I open the door. 377 00:21:10.060 --> 00:21:13.700 I'm excited to see her and I'm carrying peace. 378 00:21:13.700 --> 00:21:17.580 And as I open the door, there's peace all around me. 379 00:21:17.580 --> 00:21:18.860 And I get down on my knees 380 00:21:18.860 --> 00:21:20.740 and I just give my daughter a hug. 381 00:21:22.340 --> 00:21:25.740 And I just feel all of the tension drop off of her shoulders 382 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:28.820 and she gets a big smile on her face. 383 00:21:28.820 --> 00:21:32.620 And my wife says to me, man, what just happened in the house? 384 00:21:32.620 --> 00:21:34.720 What just happened in the house? 385 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:37.660 Mila's just got, everything's just gone calm. 386 00:21:37.660 --> 00:21:40.100 And a calm comes right into the house, 387 00:21:40.100 --> 00:21:43.700 into every room in the house, into everybody in the house. 388 00:21:43.700 --> 00:21:48.120 And everything just gets calm and still and free. 389 00:21:50.380 --> 00:21:52.840 And there's joy. 390 00:21:54.380 --> 00:21:55.380 There's joy. 391 00:21:56.700 --> 00:21:58.140 There's joy. 392 00:21:59.780 --> 00:22:01.460 And even right now in this meditation, 393 00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:03.460 I'm starting to lose any pressure 394 00:22:03.460 --> 00:22:07.220 to have to come up with another thing to say right now. 395 00:22:07.220 --> 00:22:08.540 But I'm just, 396 00:22:08.540 --> 00:22:10.960 it's like I could just stay in this place in my lounge. 397 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:12.260 I'm in my imagination right now, 398 00:22:12.260 --> 00:22:14.540 but I'm imagining that I'm in my lounge 399 00:22:14.540 --> 00:22:16.140 with my kids and my wife. 400 00:22:16.140 --> 00:22:17.100 And we can just sit down, 401 00:22:17.100 --> 00:22:19.140 we can just enjoy one another's company. 402 00:22:19.140 --> 00:22:22.900 And there's no rush. 403 00:22:22.900 --> 00:22:26.540 Peace has chased away the rush. 404 00:22:26.540 --> 00:22:28.620 There's no anxiety. 405 00:22:28.620 --> 00:22:32.300 And time is on my side. 406 00:22:32.300 --> 00:22:35.500 I felt like I've been fighting against time. 407 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:36.860 Like I haven't had enough time, 408 00:22:36.860 --> 00:22:39.980 but time is on my side 409 00:22:39.980 --> 00:22:42.480 because God has my life in his hands. 410 00:22:43.660 --> 00:22:46.000 Peace is freedom. 411 00:22:47.340 --> 00:22:52.340 And this is an example of a building in the spirit. 412 00:22:52.340 --> 00:22:53.260 I just take my life 413 00:22:53.260 --> 00:22:55.980 and I could just go through any different aspect of my life. 414 00:22:55.980 --> 00:22:57.540 If there are any aspects of my life 415 00:22:57.540 --> 00:22:59.660 that I'm not experiencing peace, 416 00:22:59.660 --> 00:23:01.540 I could go into those different aspects 417 00:23:01.540 --> 00:23:03.180 or scenarios in my life. 418 00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:04.860 And I could bring the truth of God's peace 419 00:23:04.860 --> 00:23:06.780 into those aspects of my life. 420 00:23:06.780 --> 00:23:09.100 And those aspects of my life and those scenarios 421 00:23:09.100 --> 00:23:12.740 would begin to be reformed in accordance 422 00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:15.740 and in alignment with the truth of God 423 00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:18.280 as a God of peace that's with me everywhere I go. 424 00:23:18.280 --> 00:23:19.900 So I wanna encourage you to keep doing that. 425 00:23:19.900 --> 00:23:21.800 I wanna encourage you to press pause now 426 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:23.680 and just carry that on. 427 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.480 And you say your part now, 428 00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:27.840 you say what you're seeing. 429 00:23:38.840 --> 00:23:41.200 So take about five to 10 minutes every day, 430 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:43.240 taking that truth you've decided on 431 00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:44.480 and take that five to 10 minutes 432 00:23:44.480 --> 00:23:46.760 to put into practice the practice 433 00:23:46.760 --> 00:23:48.280 of building in the spirit. 434 00:23:51.800 --> 00:23:52.680 Thank you.