Hey, hey, hey family. How you doing? Hope you're doing great. I've just had a lovely
day here in Cutty Cutty with my family and I'm here where my parents are based here in
Cutty Cutty. So, like I mentioned last time we were live, not in my regular office, so
I'm here in the lounge, in my parents' lounge, which is pretty cool. See some of that mum
looking stuff behind me. So, how are you guys doing? Good to be live with you again
tonight. We're going to be having a great night tonight, but keen to say hello. So,
if you're there out in the world of Facebook, just give me a shout, give me a hello. It's
awesome to see you and pumped. Renee, good to see you. Give a thumbs up if you're there,
if you're around. Dean, my man, hey, love you guys. Sharon, good to see you. If you
give a thumbs up, I'll see you there. Dean, my man, good to see you. Who else we got?
Renee, hello. Hey, Jenny, how you guys doing? Such a delight to see you, see you there.
And then, we are going to have a good night tonight. Tonight, I, Sharon, tonight is another
amazing, amazing topic. Tonight, we are going to be talking about systemic revival. Michelle,
good to see you. Good to see you. Shalom to you, Michelle. Massive love to you. And how
have you guys been doing? It's been a few days since we've caught up. I had an amazing
time in Gisborne with the crew there. Jan, good to see you, Jan. Just give a thumbs up
if you're there. Nigel, my man, what a delight to see you. Hello, hello, guys. Hi, Caroline,
good to have you with us. Nige, cheers, my man. Goodness me, what a beautiful, beautiful
bunch of people. Claire, welcome, welcome, welcome, Claire, all the way from South Africa.
What a delight to have you joining us. Oh, wow, guys. Hey, so, oh, Ords, Ords is with us too,
beautiful people. Hi, hi, hi. Sunny, great to have you with us from Germany. And just getting
a message from Bex as well, from Gisborne. She'll join us later. Man, love you guys,
and I've been really loving cruising around the country as well, actually, and seeing some of you
in the flesh, which is cool, and going to be in Hamilton next weekend and Auckland on Friday. So,
this is good stuff. Hey, who enjoyed the Strategic Planner? Who's been checking out
the Strategic Planner? Love you guys, by the way. What a delight to be on this journey together.
Such amazing, God's doing such amazing things in your lives, which I'm so, so happy to hear. But
who has been thinking about the Strategic Planner? Who's been thinking about putting a goal in place
that you could accomplish by the 7th of December? I'd love to hear what some of those goals are.
Remember, we've got to be really intentional. Random actions will betray our dreams,
but precision actions, taken with precision timing, will produce precision results,
and I'm excited to see your dreams coming alive. So, once again, massive love to you all. I'm
going to pray, and then we're going to launch into our message tonight on systemic revival,
which you are going to love. Let me think of a question that I'd love to ask you. No,
that's the one. The question I'd love just to start, just get you thinking, or just reflecting
back on the session from Saturday. Hey, to Neil and Sarah, good to have you guys here,
and Sandy. Love you guys. The question I'd love just to get you thinking about is,
reflecting back to Saturday, what goal do you want to accomplish by the 7th of December that
you can start making a very, very intentional strategic plan towards, because we're going to
do a review. Remember, going to do a review, going to see how you guys got on with your goals,
and I'm really, really excited for that. So, love you guys. Heaps. Beautiful. Hey,
let's pray. Let's just draw our attention onto the presence of the Trinity and draw
our attention into their unconditional and extravagant delight in us. After that,
I'm going to share some testimonies as well from the weekend, but Trinity,
thank you so much. Thank you so, so much for who you are. When we think about you,
when we think about the wonder of who you are.
We are absolutely overwhelmed. We are undone with delight by your goodness and kindness.
We are overwhelmed by the wonder of who you are and we just draw our attention right now onto your
unconditional delight in us. We thank you that before the foundation of the world,
out of the context of delight, you came up with the idea of us in the context of delight and your
delight in us, it has never shifted. While we were your enemies, you reconciled us to yourself.
While you demonstrate your love for us in this, that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
us. And we stop right now, we draw our attention from wherever it's been and we draw our attention
into the laser focus of your unconditional and extravagant delight in us. And Lord,
we drink deep of that fountain of delight right now. I'm personally just going to enjoy
the presence of the Trinity, the delight of the Trinity right now, and I encourage you right now to
just become aware that the face of God is full of delight as He looks at you.
The face of your Father in heaven is a face completely baptized in delight as He looks at
you right now. And I'm just drawing my attention to the face of my Father who's overwhelmed with
delight in me. Whoa. And my heart is just rejoicing, delighting straight back. Oh, wow, wow, wow.
Wow, Trinity, we love you. We love you. We love you. We delight in you. Oh, wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow.
We love you. We bless you. We adore you. Whoa. You are everything to us. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Flood our hearts afresh with the wonder of your presence. Flood our hearts
afresh with a tangible, tangible, supernatural baptism in the fire of your love. Whoa.
Whoa. Receive your love right now. Wow. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Holy Spirit,
I thank you for anointing me afresh tonight to bring a word of life, a word of truth,
a word of revelation, a word of power, a word of inspiration, a word of encouragement tonight,
a word that's coming straight from your throne, a word that is burning, burning, burning with the
fire that burns in your heart, a word that is saturated in love and power and fire. Anoint me
afresh tonight. Lord, just set my spirit on fire and just put every word that's in me. Let it be a
word of fire that's drenched in your presence, drenched in revelation, drenched in your heart.
In Jesus name, amen. Oh, beautiful. So, hello, family. What an honor, what a delight it is to
have you with us, whether you're watching delayed or whether you're watching with us live. I just
got to say I love you guys. Man, I love sharing this journey with you, and I love getting messages
from you guys as well. I love hearing from people how things are going. It's just awesome, awesome,
to hear what Papa is doing in our lives everywhere. A few testimonies for you from
Gisborne from the weekend. I got to head down there and spend time with Ernest and Leighton
Packer, who are the pastors there. Just a phenomenal story of how God delivered them
from darkness only about four years ago. They've been pastoring a church already for a year or so,
and it's going amazing. It's right in the heart of Gisborne and a lot of crazy stuff going on
there. They've got one of the guys saved into their fellowship. He's one of the vice presidents
of the mongrel mob in that area. Another guy, he was the second largest distributor of
methamphetamines in that area. Just life after life, people getting saved, transformed, baptized,
just amazing. I had the privilege while I was there, just the privilege really of being with
them was amazing, but also the privilege of when we went there, I gave them a word about
mobilization. I said to confirm this word, the Lord's going to release healing miracles in the
congregation, in the group. The Lord's going to release healing miracles as a confirmation
that this is His word about mobilization. So I began to, people stood up in the presence,
and the Holy Spirit released a healing wave through the congregation, which was awesome.
And as I spoke words out, I just declared the Lord is healing knees, the Lord is healing wrists,
the Lord is healing people whose hands don't work, the Lord is healing backs.
The Lord is healing. There were some other things that he was healing. Anyway, all of
those things, boom, we saw them all get instantly healed. No one even prayed for them. Just
as the word was released, they got healed right there in the presence, which was amazing.
People who had long-term issues, which was absolutely amazing. Every person that we prayed
for healing on the Sunday, every person that asked for prayer for healing actually received
healing instantly, which was amazing. There was one person who received the healing, but
they actually, their healing didn't last. Now, sometimes that happens, and one thing
I want to encourage you, if you do receive a healing, is don't wonder if this is a for
real thing. You've got to really embrace it by faith. How often did Jesus say, it's your
faith that has healed you. I really want to honor Jesus. It's such an amazing privilege
to see Jesus move really obviously and tangibly, just absolutely blatantly around you when
you go somewhere. People might think, I don't know, God might not be moving much, but I
just want to say, Jesus is with you, and there's fire in your hands, and there's fire in your
words, and what you speak has the capacity just to instantly manifest. When you pray,
and when you go out and love, you're going to see God work, and you're going to see God
do stuff. I really want to encourage everyone, hey, just look for your opportunities. There's
going to be opportunities coming your way, just to reach out and touch someone and love,
and Jesus loves to back you up and get behind you in love and power, and everywhere I go
in the world, I just have this opportunity. It's such a delight just to declare that I'm
not alone. I'm not going by myself, and just to see Jesus is with me. Jesus is with you.
He's with us, and He's confirming His Word. He's confirming His Word through signs and
wonders that accompany it. So I just want to bless you guys to take risks on that, and
actually, why don't you just put your hands out right now, and let's just enjoy the presence
for a moment longer and say, Papa, I declare healing right now over every single person
that's watching this live and in delayed coverage. Wherever you are right now, just acknowledge
the presence of God, and maybe just put your hand right on the area, if there's an area
in your life that you want to get healed, like part of your body, why don't you just
put your hand there? I declare right now in the name of Jesus that Jesus is with me.
Jesus is confirming the Word that I speak through the signs and wonders that accompany
the Word. So I just declare that Jesus is the King of kings. He's the Lord of lords.
He's our healer and our redeemer, and He reveals the Father, and He restores. He brings many
sons to glory. So I declare healing over your body right now. I declare a breaking off of
all infirmity and of all sickness in Jesus' name, and I declare absolute healing and complete
fullness and wholeness over your life. I declare the realm of the throne of God opening up.
I declare the realm of His dominion, the realm of the throne of God opening up, releasing
dominion all over you, all around you. I see the glory of God just resting over people
right now, and I pronounce shalom, shalom, shalom over you in Jesus' name. I declare
the power of the dominion of the throne of God over your life, that He breaks every yoke,
that He breaks every chain, whether it's mental, spiritual, emotional, physical. I just declare
breakthrough happening over your life right now in the name of Jesus. I declare strength.
I declare courage. I declare that you can run like you've never run before. I declare
strength like you've never had before. I declare faith like you've never had. I declare you're
going to see what you've never seen before. You're going to do what you've never done
before. You're going to go where you've never gone before in Jesus' name, and I proclaim
breakthrough in the power of the name of Jesus, healing life right through your whole body.
I declare breakthrough for you in every area in Jesus' name. Right now, I just release
complete healing. I declare life, life, life over you in Jesus' name. Amen. Beautiful.
Hey, why don't you just check your body? Why don't you just check your body right now to
see if you've received a healing? Just right then, I believe that people absolutely are
going to get healed. Just hearing the words that I'm speaking right now, because there's
power on them, not because they're my words, but because Jesus is with me, and Jesus has
filled me with those words. You declare the words of truth, the words of life and light,
the words that Jesus is speaking to you, and boom, he's going to release healing. If you've
just received a healing, it would be really cool. Why don't you just type up a little
testimony? That would be awesome, and you can do that anytime. We're going to launch
into systemic revival. I've got a PowerPoint for this tonight, so feel free to chuck your
thoughts in as you go. I'm going to be chugging through the PowerPoint, and I'm going to upload
this PowerPoint at the end of the message, so you can take it and you can study it. You
can have it for yourself. You can see all the scriptures in there, and you can just
see the PowerPoints for yourself. Pretty much the whole message is PowerPointed, so you
can have that, which is awesome, and I'll upload that. I'm stoked for tonight's systemic
revival. I just want to give a little bit of context.
The reason that I want to share this message, systemic revival, tonight is because I want
to help you just kind of, I want to zoom out for a little bit.
I kind of did that last week as well with the message on unprecedented revival.
Who liked that?
Unprecedented revival?
Hearing stories from some of the saints of old and just hearing what Jesus is calling
us into, where he's leading us.
That's what I want to do again tonight.
I want to, I want us to kind of step into, oh good stuff guys, welcome.
Hey and just on that note around the healing, why don't you just try your body out, maybe
stand up, try and do something you couldn't do before and see if you've been healed.
I believe people are absolutely getting healed even right now as we're talking.
Healing power is just flowing tonight.
So receive it in Jesus name, live or delayed, the healing power of Jesus is flowing through
your body.
Amen.
Yeah, so thumbs up if you love that unprecedented revival or like woohoo, you loved it or something
you liked about it.
I'm zooming out again tonight with this message on systemic revival.
The whole idea for me now is to create a context.
Oh hey, that's awesome.
Nigel, love it.
Received some healing just then.
That's primo.
Love it, my man.
Yes, 100% in Jesus name, 100% for you, my man.
Zooming out with this message on systemic revival, I want us to help see a picture of
where God's taking us because when we see a picture of where God's taking us, it gives
more significance to us in the process.
It helps us find out why, it helps us find a real level of motivation when the moment
comes where we've got to really push in, we've got to dig deep, we've got to go hard and
really embrace and pour our lives out to pursue, it becomes the motivation, the fire that fills
our hearts and fills our bellies.
So I'm excited to give you this message tonight.
I totally believe that there'll be more motivation, there'll be a greater sense of vision and
clarity for you as well around what the heart of the Father is for where he wants us to
take us as a generation.
So I'm going to launch into it right now with systemic revival.
Boom.
Who's excited?
Give me a thumbs up if you're excited for this.
I'm pumped to be on this adventure together.
So systemic revival, we're going to explore what systemic revival looks like, we're going
to explore what do I even mean by that terminology, systemic revival.
Si, my man, good to see Si Pauly tuning in.
Love all of you guys.
So let's explore what systemic revival looks like.
So the best example that I can find for systemic revival in the Bible is actually not in the
New Testament.
The best example that I know of, the best example that I can find for what systemic
revival looks like is actually the Kingdom of Solomon.
So the Kingdom of Solomon is absolutely amazing and I don't think many people have really
jumped into the heart and to the depth of really the magnitude and the awe and the wonder
of what was really accomplished in the Kingdom of Solomon.
So hold on to your seats, I'm going to get into this and remember I'm going to send you
the PowerPoints at the end of this as well tonight.
So the Kingdom of Solomon is the best example of systemic revival in the Bible and I believe
that the Kingdom of Solomon is also the best example of what heaven on earth looks like
in the Bible as well.
I actually think that the Kingdom of Solomon is the greatest expression of heaven on earth
that the world has ever seen.
So let's look at why.
If you've got your Bibles and you want to, you can jump on board with me, you can tune
with me to 1 Kings chapter 10 starting at verse 1.
If you have your Bibles you can read along, otherwise let me read it to you and then you
can check the PowerPoints out later and you'll have all the scriptures included in those
PowerPoints.
So it starts like this, when the Queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon and
his relationship to the Lord, she came to test Solomon with hard questions.
Arriving at Jerusalem with a very great caravan with camels carrying spices, large quantities
of gold and precious stones, she came out to Solomon and talked with him about all that
she had on her mind.
Verse 3, Solomon answered all her questions, nothing was too hard for the king to explain
to her when the Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon.
So pay attention to this now, it's listing the things that are absolutely blew the Queen
of Sheba away about Solomon's Kingdom.
So we want to explore these tonight, get into them a little bit.
Really fascinating, when the Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the place
he had built, so first of all when she saw the wisdom of Solomon, the palace he had built,
the food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their
robes, his cup bearers, the burnt offerings that he made, well that's seven things.
She was absolutely, absolutely overwhelmed.
She was overwhelmed.
So let's kind of dissect that a little bit, jump into it and kind of enjoy it.
Hey, I just want to just take a moment here and I just want to radiate some delight on
you.
I just want to just really express I'm so delighted to be on this journey.
I just feel like pausing for a moment and just say, hey, I'm delighted in you and the
Father is delighted in you, the Trinity is delighted in you, I love you.
So just wanted to pause and just, I'm thinking about this through the week, I'm thinking
about how blessed I feel, how much I love you guys, just to be on this journey together.
So let's just spread some love.
If you love the guys that you're on this journey with, if you've been loving the lives and
the sharing that's coming out, just put a heart out there or a thumbs up, man, I love
you guys and just massive love to you right now.
I just wanted to, I just want my love just to radiate on you for a moment, but I love
you guys.
Just be, may you be flooded with love.
I just want you to get baptized, baptized, baptized with radical love.
Hey, Tennille, yeah, massive, massive, massive love to you all.
Hope you get flooded and I just declare as well for you supernatural encounters with
the love of the Trinity.
I just declare that some of you are going to get surprised by the love of the Trinity.
They're going to sneak up on you.
They're going to baptize you in love.
They're going to surprise you with delight.
You guys are going to get overwhelmed with love in just amazing ways.
So massive love to you all.
Let's jump back now to 1 Kings chapter 10 and we're going to explore the Queen of Sheba.
She's come, she's checked out the kingdom of Solomon and guess what she says?
It says that she's totally overwhelmed.
Now this is a big deal.
We want to think about the Queen of Sheba, think about who she is.
She was one of the richest and most elite people in the whole world, all right?
So she is a big deal.
She was used to extreme wealth.
She was so wealthy, she gave a gift to Solomon, right, but she was so wealthy that she could
afford to give Solomon a gift of over 4,000 kilograms, over four tons of gold as just
a part of the gift that she gave him.
She gave him so many other things, but I mean, you think about that, who do you know that's
got over four ton of gold that they can just give away at leisure?
I mean, that is some serious wealth.
She is in a whole wild, wild, wild, she is in a whole just outrageous, massive, wild
level of wealth that she walks in.
And so this, and she, you know, she's so wealthy, but she is overwhelmed by Solomon's servant's
clothing and by morning tea.
This is crazy.
Hey, awesome as well, just seeing all the love flowing, guys.
Awesome love flowing, awesome, awesome love flowing around with you guys.
So that is just so cool, just loving all the love flowing.
But the Queen of Sheba, you know, she is this mega elite person, yet she's overwhelmed by
things like Solomon's servant's clothing.
She is overwhelmed by the morning tea that gets served up.
What is going on?
How could servant's clothes?
How could morning tea overwhelm the world elite?
Let's explore that a little bit more.
Verse three, Solomon answered all her questions.
We're going to just, we're just going to recap this.
Nothing was too hard for the king to explain to her.
When the Queen of Sheba saw all the wisdom of Solomon and the palace he had built, the
food on his table, the seating of his officials, the attending servants in their robes, his
cup bearers, and the burnt offerings he made at the temple of the Lord, she was overwhelmed.
Boom.
Amazing love going around, guys, just amazing to see that.
And you guys saw Claire's comment there, so let's just be really intentional about loving
on Claire this week.
If people need love, let's be really intentional about getting around each other and sending
some prophetic words, some encouragement.
Why don't you connect, send messages, and just wrap around each other with massive love.
Boom.
I'm just going to definitely be thinking of you, Claire, and praying for you.
So Papa, right now, for Claire, we thank you for her vulnerability, and we ask that you
baptize her in love, and we ask that this family, online family, would baptize Claire
in love as well.
So surround her with your love, flood her with your love right now in Jesus' name.
Get her Holy Spirit, get her real good.
Amen.
Okay, so the focus, here's something, we're going to dissect, we're going to go backtrack
a little bit, and explore the Kingdom of Solomon, explore how is it that King Solomon's
kingdom can leave someone like the Queen of Sheba totally overwhelmed.
Okay, the focus in Solomon's kingdom was a lesson that David modeled.
You remember when David went to fight Goliath, he didn't try to wear Saul's armor?
You know, he was like, oh, you know, Saul gave him all his armor to put on to go and
fight Goliath, but David was like, no, I can't wear this?
He wasn't trying to ever be Saul. He wasn't ever trying to be someone else
I'm just clarifying it was Saul that tried to give David his armor to go and fight Goliath
David didn't try to be Saul. He was just tried to be himself. He knew how to be the best David
He was focused on being the best that he could be and that is massive and that's a massive focus
That's a massive strength of this the kingdom of Solomon that people don't really
Think about don't really acknowledge
It's kind of got to read between the lines
But you know from the top to the bottom
Everyone is trying to be the best that they could be David modeled this and then the in the kingdom of Solomon
They caught this so the farmers were trying to be the best farmers
The builders were aiming at being the best builders. The bakers were trying to be the best bakers
The architects were the best architects
So you gotta think about this how the heck can the world elite someone who's just on the the mega mega wealthy
How can they get overwhelmed by servants clothing? How can they get overwhelmed by food?
You know, they have all the food in the world that doesn't overwhelm them
but Solomon's Kingdom had the capacity to
Overwhelm the world elite just by looking at the servants clothing and what what's on for?
On for the morning tea menu, this is crazy
So it's you know
Like every person who was in Solomon's Kingdom their focus is to be the best that they could be now
Here's a tip for you
If you want to be empowered to bring heaven to earth if you want to step into systemic revival
Don't compare don't try and be like someone else else just try and you know
Just stay in your lane figure out what you're called to do figure out what the best you looks like and then give a hundred
percent of your focus and energy on being the best you don't look to other people stay in your lane focus on what you're
Called to do and focus on being the best you and King Solomon's Kingdom. That's what they are focused at
They're focused on being the best that they can be staying in their lane
Hey, we're not trying to be Solomon. So be the best you and hey, yeah
Now baking yeah, it really doesn't overwhelm royalty unless it is done with
Unprecedented passion so you don't think about the bakers, you know, the bakers that are baking stuff. They are fully engaged
You know, they've got to be absolutely like phenomenal artisans
You know the you can think about imagine us this culture where the bakers are they that fully invest in being the most?
Phenomenal bakers that they could possibly be they're stewarding their capacity to bake and they're taking it to next level
So that you know when they're creating these little cupcakes
These cupcakes are gonna blow away the world elite leave the world elite completely undone when the people are making the servants
Garments those people that make the servants garments are going man
How can we take this to a whole new level even the people who are providing the material the farmers?
That are doing everything. They're like man. How can we take this product to a whole new level?
So everyone in the kingdom everyone in the community everyone in the farm over in the family is all focused on the being the best
That they can be now. There's a real key for us and
Establishing a culture of systemic revival. Everyone knows what they're called to do. They know what their lane is. They run in their lane
They focused on what they're called to do and they're not focused on comparing competing with other people
They're focused on being the best that they can be
So each person as well in King Solomon's Kingdom
They knew their why they embraced their callings and their dreams and they lived with intense passion now
This is something amazing. They weren't casual about their jobs
You can't be casual about making servants garments and then overwhelm the world elite
You can't be casual about being an architect and create buildings and palaces that overwhelm the world elite
You can't be casual as a priest and overwhelm the world elite with how you present your offerings
So everything like from the top down this kingdom is they've got their focus on what they want. They got a precision vision
They got a focus real clear and they are living with
They're living with intense passion. Now, that's massive. So they traded in casual for intense passion
That is huge. And that is an absolute game changer for us when we change in a casual mindset and start getting really really passionate
They were so exceptional at being the best that they could be as individuals that every detail in the nation
combines to create an
unprecedented level of
Excellence which reflected heaven on earth. So this is amazing. You've got you know, it's not just one or two people pulling their weight
That's the whole community pulling their weight. It's the whole nation pulling their weight
You know, if you've got you know, like only 10% of the nation pulling their weight
There's gonna be 90% of the nation that's really slacking really dragging the chain, but it wasn't like that
It was so phenomenal people, you know
Even the servants are being the best servants that they could be even the servants are being just the most phenomenal servants
they could be you know, you can't just you have to do more than just wear your
Garments, you have to have just more than just nice garments you because a person can read the atmosphere around you
They can read the attitude that you're that you're walking in
So the Queen of Sheba she's being overwhelmed, but it's more than just the material things that happening
There's an attitude on display, there's a level of passion, there's a level of joy
that even the servants have got a great attitude, because you wear your attitude as much as
you wear your clothes, and your attitude produces your atmosphere.
And so much of what would have been overwhelming the Queen of Sheba is the atmosphere that
she's walked into.
She has walked into an atmosphere of heaven.
Now that is a tangible atmosphere.
When there's excellence exploding off everything, when there's excellent attitudes exploding
off every face, that creates a tangible atmosphere of heaven on earth, and you can walk into
it and feel like, whoa, what have I just walked into?
And the Queen of Sheba was like, whoa, what have I just walked into?
This is massive.
One little thing on attitude, your attitude is the most powerful thing that you could
steward.
If you feel like you've lost everything, you've got nothing, or you've got everything, regardless
of whether you've got everything or nothing, the most powerful thing that you can steward
is always your own attitude.
So an attitude of gratitude, an attitude of passion, an attitude that's really focused
about what you want and being the best you, this is massive.
It's leaking out of every person from the top down.
The servants are leaking this amazing attitude.
The bakers are leaking an amazing attitude.
You know, you can taste the difference.
They've actually done scientific tests, and they've done tests on the difference of food
that's created with love, and it's healthier to eat food that's made with love.
So that's what the bakers are putting that into it.
Everyone's putting this massive, massive focus in together.
Every detail in the whole kingdom, so everyone in the whole kingdom combined their efforts
to create an atmosphere that could completely overwhelm literally anyone in the world.
You couldn't have gotten a harder person to please.
The Queen of Sheba is probably the hardest person to please on the whole planet, and
yet she's overwhelmed by the baking, by morning tea and the servants' clothing.
This is crazy.
Let's carry on.
Let's continue in verse 6.
Verse 6, Queen Sheba says, she said to the king, the report I heard in my own country
about your achievements and your wisdom is true, but I did not.
I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes.
Indeed, not even half was told me.
In wisdom and wealth, you have far exceeded the report I heard.
Oh my gosh, let's stop at this one for a moment as well.
She says, not even half was told me, but even that report, she didn't believe it.
She didn't believe even half of the report that she was told.
So say this is where Solomon's kingdom is up here.
She's given a story, and it's probably my thought on this, and I could be wrong, but
my thought on this is that she probably had servants go and check out Solomon's kingdom
and get a report for her, like, hey, let's send someone out there, let's check it out,
let's see if it's actually worth going and investing my time.
She's a busy lady ruling a kingdom, and so she gets this report back, and I just kind
of have a little bit of a fun just thinking about what it would be like if these guys
bring this report back.
I can think of these two guys having a conversation going, well, they've been to Solomon's kingdom
and they've just been rocked themselves, and they're just so overwhelmed, so undone
by what they've seen that they're like, oh my gosh, how can we tell the queen about this?
And there's no way that the queen will ever believe us if we tell her the full extent
of what's going on in the kingdom of Solomon, she'll never believe us.
So they say, right, could we tell her 70% of what's going on?
And they're like, no way, she would never believe 70%.
Could we tell her 50%?
No way, she wouldn't even believe 50%.
So they've pitched it at maybe somewhere between 30% to 40% of what was really actually
happening in the kingdom of Solomon, and even when they only relate 30% to 40% of the wonder,
the awe, the magnitude, the majesty of the kingdom of Solomon, even when they just tell
her this really, really downscaled report, she doesn't believe it.
Oh my gosh.
So she gets a report of like 30% to 40% of what's actually happening in the kingdom of
Solomon, and even at that level, only 30% to 40% maybe, not even half of what is happening
in the kingdom of Solomon was told her.
And she's like, no, that's not possible.
It's just not possible.
It's never been done before.
It couldn't be accomplished.
I've never seen it.
I've never done it.
I could never accomplish that.
It's just not possible.
No one could ever accomplish that.
It's not possible.
So she's coming in as a skeptic, not even believing half the report.
And when she gets there, boom, it just explodes.
The atmosphere of heaven is surrounded, like just saturates everything.
Every person that's there, she's just walking into this amazing atmosphere of heaven and
she's like, oh my gosh, she can't believe it.
She's totally overwhelmed.
She's undone.
She's just like, wow, she's blown away.
She loses her royal countenance.
She's like, oh my gosh.
You know, she's literally.
blindsided by the awe, the wonder, the majesty, the magnitude, the excellence and
just the phenomenal culture that Solomon's created. So verse 8, let's carry
on. How happy your people must be, how happy your officials who continually
stand before you and hear your wisdom. Praise be to the Lord your God who has
delighted in you, that's good to hear, he has delighted in you and placed on you
the throne of Israel because of the Lord's eternal love for Israel he has
made you king to maintain justice and righteousness. And she gave the king,
it's present time now, and she gave the king 120 talents of gold which is
4104 kilograms so 4.104 ton, that's a stack load. Just give a thumbs up or
something like wow oh my gosh if that's a lot of gold, if you think that's a lot
of gold, just like respond some way like a shock face or a wow or how much? Yeah
4104 kilograms of gold is just part one of the gift. She's so
impressive, oh my gosh give him, like let's honor this guy. And then large
quantities of spices and precious stones. It says never again were so many
precious spices brought in as those the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
Beautiful funny faces like that's crazy, she is rocked by this, she's so impacted
it's massive. Let's have a look as well at some of the other wealth that's
coming into King Solomon's kingdom. So Hiram's ships brought gold from Offa and
from there they brought great cargos of almagwood and precious stones. The king
used almagwood to make supports for the temple of the Lord and for the royal
palace and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almagwood has
never been imported or seen since that day. King Solomon gave the Queen of
Sheba all she desired and asked for besides what he had given her out of his
royal bounty. Then she left and returned with her retinue to her own country.
That's yeah so she's had a good trip we're gonna come back to this in a
moment we're gonna explore this a little bit deeper. The weight of the
gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents or 25 tons. So this is just
one of the little side gigs that he's got going. So on one of his little
enterprises Solomon's got 25 tons of gold coming in a year that's just one
little side gig right. So that's not including the revenues from merchants
and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the
territories is verse 15. So just something to be aware of when it comes
to kingdoms and when it comes to governments of how they make their money
enterprise and you know that is usually one of the the lowest forms of income.
The highest form of income for governments and kingdoms is generally
tax. That's usually how they like really bring in their ching ching. So the
serious money for King Solomon didn't come from his golden enterprise. The
main incomes from his kingdom is from taxes and King Solomon he didn't just
have his own nation to tax. He was taxing entire nations because after David
submitted like he subdued all the nations around them all those nations
paid tribute. So you've got entire nations paying tribute to Solomon. So
that's huge huge huge taxes so that they didn't get wiped off the face of the
earth. So the gold price the gold price at last year in August what in New
Zealand currency it was sorry in US in US it was forty one thousand five
hundred and fifty eight dollars and six cents per kilogram. Okay so if we look at
that in US that means that Solomon's annual income from gold not including
gifts commercial taxes was forty one thousand five hundred and fifty eight
dollars and six cents times twenty five thousand for the twenty five tons that
he got in. So in US his annual gold enterprise was worth one billion thirty
eight million nine hundred and fifty one thousand and five hundred dollars. In New
Zealand the value for that is one billion four hundred and eighteen
million one hundred and seventy thousand four hundred and fifty nine dollars and
eighty two cents. So there's a pretty good little score there. So the daily
income from that in New Zealand New Zealand dollars is three million eight
hundred and eighty five thousand three hundred and ninety eight dollars and
fifty two cents every day just coming in from one little enterprise just
one side gig.
Let's think, I just want to help contrast this for you in the context of governments
and nations.
Give you a bit of an idea of the level of wealth that Solomon was walking in, the type
of finances that he would have had at his disposal.
So the New Zealand government annual income is, in the 2015-16 financial year, was $76.1
billion.
That's their total income for the year.
And the level of tax, most of that came from tax, and the tax was $70.4 billion worth of
tax in the 2015-16 financial year for the New Zealand government.
So that tax is 92.5% of the New Zealand government income.
So majority of Solomon's wealth is coming through tax and tributes that he's generating.
So Solomon, like the gold, it's like just a little side gig.
So over a billion dollars worth of gold, that's barely even registered on the scale.
All his main income is coming through taxes, which is pretty wild.
So the US, American government, their annual income in the 2015 year was $3.18 trillion.
And for them, $2.8517 trillion, so $2,800,000...
Let me just...
This is a big number.
Let me get my head around this.
Say wow if you think this is a big number.
This is how much the American government raised in taxes in 2015.
So the American government in 2015 raised $2,800,000,000,000, and $517,000,000 in tax.
So that was 89.67% of their total income is tax.
Like wow.
So that's a lot of ching ching.
So I'm trying to get to the concept that Solomon was...
He would have been walking in trillions.
He would have walked in billions and billions and probably trillions in our current model
today is what he would have been having accessible at his disposal.
So he would have been most likely operating in the realm of trillions.
Billions is just like a little side gig for him.
So he's got a lot of other things going on.
You're not just talking billions.
Billions was kind of nothing for Solomon.
So we're probably talking in the realm of trillions for Solomon's income.
And I have a little question for us as sons.
Who is getting ready to steward trillions for the purposes of bringing heaven to earth?
If we want to bring heaven to earth like King Solomon did, then we're going to actually
start having to change the way that we think.
We're going to have to start elevating our vision.
We're going to have to start lifting our sights.
We're going to have to start increasing our capacity to dream with God because God likes
to dream in the context of trillions and he enjoyed dreaming with Solomon in the context
of trillions, which is a big crazy deal.
It's outrageous.
It's massive.
And he wants sons who can dream with him.
So he's really, really, really, really, really wanting to lift the bar for us in terms of
how we can dream with him.
Building the kingdom of Solomon, it would have cost trillions of dollars to build the
kingdom to that degree that he had it.
So here's a thought that I have is I just don't believe that the kingdom of Solomon
is supposed to be the greatest expression of heaven on earth in world history.
I don't think the Old Testament is supposed to be where the greatest expression of heaven
on earth was.
I think we're supposed to go from glory to glory.
I don't think it's supposed to go, yeah, the Old Testament, like the peak and then the
cross and then everything gets worse.
I'm like, what?
We should not be thinking that things are going to get worse.
After the cross, Jesus is absolutely set.
He's completely 100% set on going from glory to glory.
So we better be expecting that things are going to get better than the kingdom of Solomon.
I just am absolutely 100% convinced that God goes from glory to glory.
The Trinity goes from glory to glory.
We're not going backwards.
We're going forward.
So we can start expecting greater expressions of heaven on earth than the kingdom of Solomon.
So let's jump into it a little bit further.
Verse 16, still in 1 Kings 10.
King Solomon made 200 large shields of hammered gold.
600 shekels of gold went into each shield.
He also made 300 small shields of hammered gold with three miners of gold in each shield.
The king put them in the palace of the forest of Lebanon.
Okay, now what I want you to do, what I want you to be thinking of is I want you to start
thinking along the lines of how crazy, how wild, how phenomenal, how awesome is the kingdom
of Solomon that we're actually reading about here because God's taking it from glory to
glory.
So everything you can see in the kingdom of Solomon
You can expect upgrades.
You can expect more.
You can expect glory to glory.
You can expect it to go next level.
That's where the Lord is taking things.
That's where the Trinity is going, and He wants us, His sons, to ride with Him, to be
a part of this wild, wild adventure of dreaming with the Trinity, bringing Heaven to Earth
from the top down over nations.
This is what systemic revival is.
It's top down, all areas of influence and nations absolutely, absolutely perfectly resonating
with the atmosphere and the culture of Heaven.
So let's go deeper.
Verse 18.
Then the king made a great throne with ivory and overlaid with fine gold.
The throne had six steps and its back had a rounded top.
On both sides of the seat were armrests with a lion standing beside each of them.
Okay, so here's something that's really important to note, and something that's absolutely amazing
with wealth.
When we start walking into wealth, wealth starts changing the economy.
I think some of us can relate to this.
Just like, just say, yes, amen, I absolutely agree, or I can relate to that.
If you can relate to the fact that poverty or lack has restricted your ability to walk
out your dreams.
Is there any way, is there any way in your life that you have been restricted from fulfilling
any of your dreams because of a lack of finance?
Just respond to that.
Yes, totally, absolutely.
For myself, absolutely.
In my life so far, I have been restricted by lack, by the lack of finances to do so
many things.
I'm working on it.
I'm hustling.
I'm seeing great breakthroughs.
I'm seeing God doing so much in the area of finance in my life and all around us.
In our church, we're seeing great breakthrough on that.
We're seeing great challenges as well, but we're seeing breakthrough over and over again
because what happens with wealth, when we start walking into wealth, is wealth actually
changes our economy.
Now, who's experienced this level of frustration?
You're going to work, but it's not the job you want to do.
You're doing something out of obligation in life because you're like, man, I'd really
love to be doing this passion.
I'd love to be following this passion.
I'd love to be painting.
I'd love to be writing.
I'd love to be going to this place and exploring this place.
I'd love to be building this relationship.
I'd love to be going with my family to this thing.
I'd love to support this mission.
I'd love to get these people here out of poverty.
I'd love to look after these orphans.
I'd love to do this.
I'd love to do that.
I'd love to support more ministries.
I'd love to do all these things, but restricted.
Who's experienced that frustration of like, I'd love to do these things, but I'm restricted
and held back by wealth?
Well, when that actually changes, when finance changes and when wealth comes into your world,
your economy shifts.
Your economy shifts from finances to passions.
And that's one of the amazing things about the Kingdom of Solomon is that there was so
much wealth, there was so much abundance in that kingdom that people's economies changed.
The economy changed from obligation to do things just to provide financially to a freedom
to pursue your passions, whatever it is in life.
So that's one of the reasons why the whole Kingdom of Solomon is just going amazing and
just thriving so much because people aren't being forced into things because of an obligation
to provide financially.
People are running into things because they're pursuing their passions and their whole like,
yeah, they're going after it.
So Solomon, one of the amazing things that he did, one of the ways that he expressed
the greatest expression of heaven on earth is because he absolutely destroyed poverty.
In every way, he destroyed poverty and he changed the economy in his nation.
This has never been done or seen before as far as I'm aware in world history.
He changed the economy from finances to passions by destroying poverty completely.
Poverty was absolutely broken down, destroyed, eliminated, and everyone was free.
And that's what I want to see in my family.
I'm working, I'm hustling right now in my life because I want to set my family free
from any form of poverty whatsoever and I want to change the economy in our family to
passions rather than finances.
I don't want to ask my kids as they grow up, I don't want to be asking my kids, okay, how
are you going to earn a living?
That is not the type of question that I want to instill in them.
I want to say, what do you want to do?
Who do you want to be?
What do you want to create?
Where do you want to go?
What is in you?
What has God put in you that you're called to birth into the earth?
What value have you got to offer the world?
And I want to see them free and liberated.
Not just them.
I mean, that's my dream for you guys.
That's my dream for our ministries everywhere we're going.
I'm like, man, let's get people liberated, set free, shift the economy so that people
can chase and pursue their passions rather than just having to, out of obligation, go
and be slaves to the clock.
Enslaves to the hour just so that they can just be you know just make it just survive
We're not going after that's not what heaven looks like heaven is radical radical abundance, and it's time for us to change things so
That's why I wanted to just stop there
You know with the throne with the throne that King Solomon had nothing had ever been seen like it before before
yeah, and it's what happened is in the kingdom of Solomon as they hit an
unprecedented level of
Creativity you know you think about this you've got an entire nation of people who aren't obligated by poverty
They aren't obligated by survival in any way, but they are completely
Liberated to pursue their passions and some of them are called to be bakers some of them are called to be
Designers some of them are called to be servants some of them are called to be farmers some of them called to be architects
Designers some of them are called to work with gold and jewelry and others are called to work with wood or stone
But they're absolutely phenomenal and so from the top down you've got this whole culture this whole nation
That's pursuing their passions being the best that they could be thriving, and it's creating this world that it can effortlessly
Overwhelm the world elite boom boosh
That is wild who thinks that's wild who wants to who wants to live in a world like that who wants to fight?
For a shift from a kind of economies from obligation and a survival and
finances to an economy based on passion and
Freedom and creativity heck yeah, I'm in for that give a thumbs up or something if you're in for that that type of
life so
Let's go on again
All King Solomon's in verse so now we're skipping forward to verse 21
All King Solomon's goblets were gold and all the household articles in the Palace of Lebanon
were pure gold
Nothing was made of silver because silver was considered of little value in Solomon's days
Oh my gosh. Do you hear that it was only poor poor poor people that
That ate off silver like oh you eat off silver. Oh my gosh who eats off silver. Do you guys eat off silver?
I don't eat off silver, but in Solomon's Kingdom. That was like that was like that was a sign of poverty
It's like they didn't make in the Kings house on no way
Are they gonna stoop to making anything any type of cutlery out of silver everything is pure gold and okay?
Think about this as well when I say everyone's cutlery was made of pure gold
I'm gonna give you some numbers shortly on how many people would have been eating in the Kings household right so get ready to do
Some crazy maths on how many people are eating in the Kings household to get a gauge on how much cutlery we're talking
But nothing was made of silver that was considered just way too poor
Verse 22 the king had a fleet of trading ships at sea along with the ships of Hiram once every three years it returned with
carrying gold silver and ivory and apes and baboons now I always get a laugh out of this that
that they were
That
They like every three years. They just bring in more baboons more baboons more baboons
Yeah, Solomon's like okay guys you good going out for three years all his fleets are going out
What do you want us to get you Solomon? We're going anywhere in the world. You've got you know
There's no limits you can have whatever you like you can literally he could literally have anything
He wanted from anywhere in the world, and he's constantly just sending out these ships like more baboons more baboons more baboons
I kind of think that's funny so apes and baboons. He had something going on for apes and baboons
I always find that a bit of a laugh verse 23
Actually when I was in South Africa a little while ago, and we went out to the Cape point
You know the very the very point of South Africa there at the Cape, and there's all these baboons there, man
They've got some scabby looking, but say something look nasty the big school. It's like because that you can see their butts
It's like God. It's like God made baboons for a joke
They're so funny, but they look so rude and and when they're like oh some of them are so nasty looking
I'm sure Solomon just had pretty ones, but those ones like scary nasty
Crazy things so clear. What do you reckon clears from South Africa? Do you like baboons?
I'll be interesting who likes baboons give me a thumbs up or a thumbs down if you love or don't love baboons personally
I would not be getting ship loads of baboons, but yes, you're right
There was ship loads of baboons in Solomon's Kingdom, and he liked it like that so
Verse 27 the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as
stones
What?
Yeah, the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones. Yes, that's the Bible
that's one Kings chapter 10 verse 27 says the king so King Solomon made silver as common in Jerusalem as
Stones oh my gosh and cedar as plentiful as sycamore flowers
fig trees in the foothills. That is wild. So verse 20. So we're going to change now.
1 Kings chapter 4 verse 20. So new chapter but same kingdom. The people of Judah and
Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They ate, they drank, and they were
happy. Now how cool is this? They ate and they drank and they were happy. They ate and
they drank and they were happy. You know, most kingdoms back in the medieval days, like
throughout history, most of those kingdoms, it's like, oh my gosh, most of those kingdoms,
they were not eating, drinking, and being happy. Like the average person was not happy.
The average person was struggling for survival or they're being sacrificed to some demon
or you know, there was war, there was poverty, there was disease like crazy. When you just
look at history, world history, so many of these colonies and civilizations and kingdoms,
they were just filled with, it was absolute tragic stories. It was tragedy after tragedy
but not in Solomon's kingdom. Like the average person is way happier than most people nowadays.
It says they ate, they drank, and they were happy. They're chasing their dreams. They're
living their passions. They're exploding with creativity. This is wild. And Solomon ruled
over the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines as far as the border
of Egypt. These countries brought tribute and were Solomon's subjects all his life.
Let's check out now verse 22. Solomon's daily provisions, so 1 Kings chapter 4 verse 22,
Solomon's daily provisions were 30 cores of the finest flour and 60 cores of meal. Now
that sounds interesting, doesn't it, right? Okay, that's not that big a deal until you
figure out what a core is. You know, what's that? So a core is 5.5 tons. So let's go back
to what I just said. So Solomon's daily provisions were 30 cores or 5.5 tons of the finest flour.
This is every day. He's going through 5.5 tons of the finest flour every day. This is
outrageous. And 11 tons of cereal every day, okay? So Solomon's daily provisions were 5.5
tons of the finest flour and 11 tons of meal or grain. Like what? That's his baker's, right?
His bakery is going through 16.5 tons of goods every single day. Oh my gosh, now that is
crazy. 16.5 tons of, like that's going through the bakery, okay? So you've got, you know,
just think about this. At every level, every person in the whole kingdom, they're just
charging, they're just blowing up, they're just ripping up. So the farmers, they're like,
they are dedicated, devoted to producing the absolute best produce. Then the people who
transport it, you know, the people who raise the horses, they're raising the most exquisite
horses possible. The carpenters who are building the carts, the most exquisite carts possible.
Now, how big is the bakery got to be? How big is the bakery got to be when they're like
cranking out this massive bakery that can produce, that can take 16.5 tons of bakery
goods every single day. No leftovers, boom, going through, boom, going through, boom,
going through. Clear it out and it's all gone in that day and then they start again the
next day. What? This is crazy scale. So they have built the most epic, I don't know if
there's a bakery in the world that, you know, that could compete with this. This is wild.
And my wife's a, you know, like a health coach and studies nutrition and she did the
maths on that and you could be feeding just with that, just with that alone, without anything
else that Solomon has got. But just with that alone, he could be easily feeding 30,000 people
a day in the Solomon's, this is Solomon's daily provisions. This is for Solomon's daily
provisions. This is his household. This is what he's looking after in his household.
So you could easily feed 30,000 people a day just off those, just off those goods there.
And remember, there's no silver, nothing's like, they don't do silver, it's all gold.
So all of those 30,000 people at bare minimum are all eating off gold. Like where are you
going to put 30,000 people for dinner in your house? Like, oh, hi guys, come for dinner.
Oh, what? This is crazy. He's got over, he'll be having over 30,000 people a day that he's
feeding just off the bakery goods alone. So let's, this gets crazier. In 1 Kings 4 verse
23 it says, then he also had 10 head of stall fed cattle, 20 of pasture fed cattle. So that's
30 cattle, 30 cattle a day that are just rolling in, boom, butchered, cooked later. And remember,
this is all done at such a high standard that it can overwhelm the world elite. So they're
not just pumping it out and just like average scabby stuff coming out. This is the top
night's best.
Baking and world history coming out to the point where like someone sees one of the cupcakes that gets churned out and it
Overwhelms the Queen of Sheba like oh my gosh what she sees this she tastes it
It's exquisite every person who's involved in the process is fully engaged fully passionate and fully engaged in this whole
economy of
Passion yeah, Sandy's just said seven star. I think that they would have knocked the star ratings out off the charts
I think we're probably going ten star and beyond this as well
So you got 30 cattle and then it says I and a hundred sheep and goats as well as dear gazelles
Robux and choice foul
For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates from tips out to Gaza and had peace on all sides
So you're talking 30 cattle a day plus at least a hundred sheep and goats a day
Plus you've also got dear gazelles Robux and choice foul that is off that chart
So you're thinking with all of that type of stuff going on, too
I mean the amount that they can be feeding is just crazy
Crazy crazy numbers and they're all eating off gold and they're all eating in Solomon's household. This is nuts
How what are the scales that just go?
Oh, you're getting blown away by the scale and so it says that he had peace on every side. Okay verse
24 1 Kings 4 verse 24. It says he had peace on every side now that word peace. It means
It's the Hebrew word Shalom now people think that Shalom just means peace, but it's not just Shalom doesn't just mean peace
Shalom refers to the peace that comes. Oh, come on hundred star. Boom
Shalom refers to the peace that comes when everything in your world is functioning according to divine design
All right
so peace or Shalom the Shalom is the peace that comes when absolutely everything in your world is
Functioning according to divine design when everything is functioning the way God designed it to you get Shalom Shalom
Name I mean Shalom is the atmosphere of heaven if you want the you know
One of the best descriptions of what Shalom is Shalom is the atmosphere of heaven if you want to personify this
Like if you wanted to see Shalom personified Jesus is Shalom personified
So if you actually look at the Hebrew word the ancient Hebrew pictogram
Hey guys, good to have some other crew jumping in on as well
If you look at the ancient Hebrew pictogram for Shalom, which this picture is included in the PowerPoint
So you can see if yourself there, but there's four characters that make up the ancient Hebrew
Word for Shalom, so the first picture is shanti
So sharp teeth refers to a sharp teeth. It means to destroy. The next thing is a shepherd's rod and the shepherd's rod means
Yeah, it represents authority and then the next thing is a tent peg which means to attach and then the final picture is
Water or represents water or chaos. So the actual meaning the meaning of the word
Shalom and the literal meaning is to destroy
The authority attached to chaos and that's exactly what happens, you know, Jesus personifies that, you know
There's a peace that comes when everything functions according to divine design and when everything functions according to divine design boom
It just starts absolutely destroying chaos destroying darkness light dispels darkness darkness
effortlessly Jesus dispels darkness
Effortlessly, and that's what Shalom is. Shalom is a full picture. It's like a picture of the atmosphere of heaven
It's a picture of the nature of Jesus and it's saying that he had Shalom on all sides
So all around him he had the atmosphere of heaven manifested on all his borders right around his kingdom wild stuff
So
Let's look at verse 25 1 Kings 4 verse 25 during Solomon's lifetime
Judah and Israel from Dan to be Sheba lived in safety
Everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree, okay
Everyone lived under their own vine and under their own fig tree. So that's basically saying like everyone had their own
Accommodation everyone had their own land. Everyone had their own inheritance
Yes, so Sandy's just mentioned there as well as Shalom is nothing broken or nothing missing
Absolutely, if something's functioning according to divine design, that means that nothing can be out of alignment
Nothing can be missing. Nothing can be broken. It's also
It's also connected, you know, the Greek word sozo in the New Testament that's used for salvation
Also means nothing missing nothing broken. They're quite similar counterparts
Shalom and sozo. So yeah, nothing missing nothing broken everything functioning according to divine design
And it's the peace that comes when everything is functioning as God intended it. Boom
That's awesome. So verse 25 says everyone's living under their own fig tree or under their own vine
Which means everyone has got their own property. Everyone's got their own inheritance. Everyone's living with inheritance
Everyone's living
Abundantly, how cool is that? No one's renting. No one's in poverty
There's no homeless people not a homeless person in the nation
Everyone under their own tree and under their own fig tree another expression that Solomon destroyed poverty in there in their nation
And
Now here's something crazy we're going to skip to 1 Kings chapter 5 verse 4
So 1 Kings chapter 5 verse 4 I'm going to read it for you in a couple of different translations
But you'll see that I've actually got a in the PowerPoint. I've got a
An image which has got five different translations. They all basically saying the same thing
Let's look at the English revised version of 1 Kings 5 verse 4 it says
But now the Lord my God has hath given me rest on every side and there is neither adversary nor evil
occurrent
The
Webster's Bible translation says but now the Lord my God hath given me
rest on every side so that
There is neither
Adversary nor evil occurrent and then just in the American Standard Version as well
But now Jehovah my God hath given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary nor evil occurrence now
Maybe and let me unpack why this is more and more important in this context. It's because the
One and I mean this is crazy
So in a little bit of context for us as well here in 1 Kings chapter 5 Solomon is writing a letter
he's taking the time to write a letter and record the what their kingdom looks like because
You know people that lived in that day didn't believe how amazing this kingdom was and so they're like they've got to record this down
He's actually writing a letter to another king, but he's recording how phenomenal this is
so the Bible captures the just of that all the wonder of how massive how huge the kingdom of Solomon is and
So, you know when we look at that this is the most one of the most
Phenomenal testimonies of revival or one of the most phenomenal testimonies of
Systemic revival or heaven on earth that there has ever been in world history. This is
Absolutely off the charts next level phenomenal and now recording it for us so that we can capture
The absolute magnitude of what's going on there and when Solomon describes that he describes it like this
He said there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence. Now. How cool is that that there isn't they don't have anything evil happening
It's like crime to report zero
domestic violence to report zero
Yeah
broken marriages to report zero
You know physical sexual mental abuse to report zero
Murders to report zero. Okay, so at its peak
Solomon's kingdom is off the charts. There is no evil occurrence to report whatsoever on all its boundaries nothing to report
No evil going on. There's Shalom on all sides. And then it also says there is neither
Adversary, so there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence. Now the word adversary in the Hebrew the Hebrew word for adversary is
Satan it's spelt s a t a n. It's where we get the word Satan from because it's the Hebrew word
Therefore adversary so he says there is knee and there is no Satan or evil occurrence
What that's crazy when when Solomon's describing his own kingdom
He says there is no Satan and there is no evil occurrence. Now. How wild is that? There is no Satan
There is no evil occurrence. That's their own testimony about how
phenomenal their kingdom is their experience of life is it's a next-level kingdom and the great thing is the
Exciting thing for us is that God is going from glory to glory. He's not going backwards. He's going forwards
We don't have the cross and then the anti-climax because not we never see anything greater than the kingdom of Solomon
No, we're absolutely going to
Future that's a better brighter future than we have ever seen before a better brighter future that is going to surpass the kingdom of Solomon
I absolutely a hundred percent and fully persuaded that our future is a better brighter future that
Surpasses the kingdom of Solomon and the father is looking for sons who will dream with him to partner with him to begin
to bring this level of manifestation of heaven to earth and he wants to dream with you and he wants to partner with you and
He wants to destroy poverty and lack of your life
so you can be liberated into a new economy based on passions and creativity and your calling rather than a
an economy based on lack and poverty and obligation
We're going there. Come on. How amazing is that?
So the king like King David passed on to King Solomon the great
greatest inheritance in world history. He passed on to him the greatest inheritance
I believe that has ever been handed on in world history. And not only did Solomon receive
a kingdom which no one dared to attack, which nations were subdued and paying tribute to,
he received a nation who had actually been baptized in 24-7 prayer for somewhere around
36 years of 24-7 prayer and worship. When David became king, he established, not long
after he became king, he established 24-7 praise and worship in Jerusalem around the
Ark of the Covenant. And so they had 24-7 prayer and worship around the Ark of the Covenant.
Remember the tabernacle of David wasn't like the tabernacle of Moses, it was just one big
tabernacle where everyone lived, they could come face to face before the Ark, before the
glory of God, before the supernatural manifest presence of God that dwelt between the cherubim
above the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant and boom, they could come there and worship
and they did. David just created this nation of worshipers and they worshipped 24-7 for
somewhere around 36 years. So you've got to understand when Solomon is saying there's
neither adversary or evil occurrence, that's a massive part of it that's coming through
from the spiritual inheritance that David has passed on to Solomon where they had open
manifestation of the glory of God for nearly four decades and 24-7 worship for nearly four
decades just breaking open the heavens spiritually. So David, when he provided an inheritance
for Solomon, he provided spiritually and financially. So in the spirit and in the natural, a phenomenal
provision. He didn't just provide financially either, he provided literal territory, a geographical
territory, a kingdom was passed over to him and a kingdom is like a business, you know,
so it's producing. So Solomon was provided for the inheritance he gave him, it was spiritual,
it was financial, it was commercial and it was geographical. Wow, come on, what a wild
inheritance. 1 Chronicles 23.5 says, 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the musical instruments
that I have provided for that purpose. So David was providing and empowering, he was
paying the way for people to be worshippers. Worshippers were paid to be worshippers. David
empowered people even in his generation, no, if you're called to be an intercessor, boom,
you go and do that, let me fund you. If you are called to be a worshipper, boom, let me
fund that. If that's what you want to do, let's have an economy focused on passions
not obligations. How wild is that? So thousands of people are being liberated to prayer, to
intercession, to worship. So we are coming towards a wrap up on this. So just in closing,
I just want to bring up a concept called the seven mountains. You know, the seven mountains
of influence in a nation are government, media, business, family, education, religion and
the arts and entertainment. Arts and entertainment is one. So think about this, these seven mountains
are the seven influential factors that shape culture and shape society and shape nations.
It's government, media, business, family, education, religion, arts and entertainment.
That again, that is in the PowerPoint that I'm going to be posting at the end of this
so you'll be able to get it in the announcements and I'll also message it to you as well. So
the thing that set Solomon's kingdom up for success is that Solomon was ruling and reigning
in power and love from the top down. So for us in this season, this is a season like never
before the Lord is calling sons to dream with him but he's also opening doors of influence.
So I'm going to prophesy over you right now and I'm declaring this over you right now
that doors of influence are opening for you. Now I saw someone, I think it was Gabriel
just made a post before about, you know, there was a season where she trusted, she lived
by faith for years and now she feels like she's getting a little bit comfortable. Now
listen to me about this. I've done the same thing. I've lived by faith for years but you
know what, it's time for us, for our faith to change for bigger, better things. We don't
want to be living at the bottom. We're called to be the head and not the tail. We're called
to rule and reign in power and love from the top down over every sphere of influence in
society. We're called to rule and reign in power and love from the top down over every
area of influence in our society. If you're a mum or a papa in your family, you're called
to rule and reign in power and love over that sphere of influence. If you're a principal
in a school, you're called to rule and reign in power and love over that sphere of influence.
If you're in your workplace, you are the head and not the tail. You represent heaven's government
in that place. You represent the ecclesia, the called out ones, called to rule and reign
in power and love from heaven.
into earth. So we're in a season now where the Lord is calling us up to actually step
up and dream with God and be sons that rule and reign and empower and love over every
sphere of influence in nations and to actually disciple nations. Now the Great Commission
is in Matthew 28, it says, Go therefore and make disciples of all nations. It's not talking
about going and making disciples in all nations. The Great Commission is to make disciples
of all nations. And if we're called to make disciples of all nations, if that's the Great
Commission, it's because Jesus intends to see that fulfilled. So you and I, He's lifting
us up. He's lifting our capacity to dream. He's lifting up our identity. He's lifting
up who we are. He's positioning us for sonship. Look, it's going to require us to be able,
it's going to require us, if we want to step into this place where we're ruling and reigning
and power and love over every sphere of influence in nations, He's going to promote sons. You
know, sons will get promoted. Sons will receive an inheritance. Psalm 2 says, Ask of me and
you will receive the nations as an inheritance. Isaiah 9 says, Of the increase of His government
and shalom, there will be no end. Come on, how awesome is that? Daniel 7 says that it
will come to the point where every ruler will worship and obey Him. This is, it's talking
about nations and kingdoms. Now this is where things are going. This is where the Lord's
calling us to go. This is where He's taking things. This is, this is where He's leading
us. He's leading us to this place where sons are raised up to rule and reign and power
and love over every sphere of influence in nations so that we can actually disciple nations,
so we can be cultural architects over nations. That's what He's calling you to. He's going
to open doors. Now, if you want to receive nations, position yourself in your sonship,
which means if you've got to do work on stepping into your identity, man, this is the time
to hustle like never before. If you want a phenomenal inheritance, then position yourself
in understanding your sonship. Do the hard work of replacing all the deep, deep, deep
lies inside of us with truth. Do whatever it takes. It is time to go hard, do whatever
it takes, and you're going to get elevated. You're going to get lifted up. You're going
to get raised up to rule and reign and power and love over every sphere of influence. Now,
whatever your nation is, you can prophesy, you can prophesy systemic revival because
that's Jesus' intention, Matthew 28, making disciples of all nations a systemic revival.
It's not just in church. It's going beyond good meetings. It's revival in the government.
It's revival in the media. It's revival in business. It's revival in entertainment. It's
revival in education. It's revival in religion. It's revival in arts and entertainment, and
revival in the education. It's a manifestation, a perfect manifestation of heaven on earth,
just like in Solomon's kingdom. And Solomon's kingdom was successful because there was a
sun ruling and reigning in power and love from the top down. Now, if we want to see
nations succeed and step into their potential, then we're going to have to see sun step into
their potential. We're going to have to see you step into your potential. If you want
your nation to step into its potential, you're going to have to step into your potential.
You're going to have to get raised up to rule and reign in power and love. It's time for
us to engage with our sonship like never before because it's as we engage with our sonship
like never before, we're going to get elevated. We're going to get lifted up. We're going
to get promoted by the Lord. Not self-promotion, but we're going to get favor from the Lord.
Doors are going to open up. Spheres of influence are going to open up, and you will receive
from heaven, not from a man. You'll receive an inheritance from heaven. Psalm 2 says,
Ask of me, and I will give you the nations as an inheritance, which means sons actually
receive nations as an inheritance, and you can receive a nation as an inheritance from
the Lord if you position yourself as a son. So get ready, get ready, get ready for massive
levels of inheritance, massive levels of open doors, massive levels of promotion, massive
levels of new spheres of influence, massive levels of promotion to the point where you
get to rule and reign in power and love over nations and kingdoms, where you're the one
making the decisions for the government, where you're the one making the decisions for education,
for families, for religion, for arts and entertainment, for business, for the media. That is who we
are called to be. So may the Lord bless you in that. I'm going to just pray one time and
then wrap it up shortly. I just want to make one comment. It was King David who laid the
foundation for King Solomon's kingdom. Now, I believe we're in the stage prophetically
like David was. David transitioned a tribal group, an oppressed tribal group. You know,
when Saul was reigning, that time Israel was oppressed by Philistines and by Malachites
and by all these other tribes that wanted to come and give them the beat down or bully
them or rob them or terrify them. Then those nations could just come through and just give
Israel the beat down. They're just an oppressed tribal group. But when David was done, you
know,
He killed Goliath, he was a giant slayer,
and then the people that got around him
became giant slayers, and then they developed
a reputation of giant slayers, and they went around
and actually started wiping out giants,
and they actually started giving nations the beat down,
and in one generation, in one generation,
he transitioned Israel from an oppressed tribal group
into a world superpower.
Oh my gosh, how crazy is that?
In one generation, in one generation,
in one generation, in one generation,
David transitioned Israel from being
an oppressed tribal group into being
a global superpower in one generation.
Now, then Solomon took that global superpower status
and turned it into the greatest expression
of heaven on earth in world history.
Now, I had an encounter, I had an encounter last year
where in this encounter, I had this encounter,
and David and Solomon came up to me,
and they both laid hands on me and released an impartation.
I don't think this was specifically about me,
but I believe this is to express the heart of the Father,
and the heart of the Trinity for this generation.
Both David and Solomon laid their hands on me
in this encounter and released an impartation to me
to do in one generation what took them to.
Oh my gosh, imagine this, imagine what it would look like
if we did in one generation what took them to,
where we raised up a tribe of giant slayers,
an international global tribe of giant slayers
that were actually raised up as sons.
This is a viral outbreak of sonship.
As we see a viral outbreak of sonship taking place,
we are gonna, our sons are gonna be elevated
to positions of rulership, of leadership,
where they're gonna rule and reign
in power and love over nations and kingdoms.
It is gonna change, the world is gonna change.
The world is never gonna be the same.
It's gonna be the manifestation I talked about,
the until of Ephesians 4 last week, the until,
and boom, we're gonna see this massive viral awakening
of sonship on the planet.
It's gonna break out like crazy.
There might be all sorts of persecution and chaos
and that all happening in the midst of it,
but you, I'll guarantee you, sons are gonna be raised up.
Sons are gonna be ruling and reigning
over nations and kingdoms, and this whole world
is gonna get radically transformed,
and sons are gonna be dealing with trillions of dollars,
and they're gonna invest that money
into bringing heaven to earth,
and sons are gonna outdream the darkness,
and sons are gonna destroy chaos,
and you are called to be a part of that.
Now, that is a high calling in Christ Jesus
that I think is worth laying your life down for.
So let me pray we're done for tonight.
I love you.
Holy Spirit, thank you so much for this amazing family.
I thank you that you're knitting our hearts together
in love, and I thank you for inspiration like never before,
for people to engage in this beautiful journey of sonship,
to engage with it, to wrap their hearts around it,
to just launch into it, to transition like never before
from the orphan illusion into the bliss of sonship.
Papa, I just declare anointing.
I declare the spirit of wisdom and revelation
over everyone that's here in Jesus' name like never before.
I prophesy doors of wisdom and revelation
opening over people right now.
I prophesy seasons of wisdom and revelation
descending on people.
I prophesy freedom like never before.
Freedom in every area.
Freedom from lies like never before.
I declare revelation, revelation, revelation,
destroying lies like never before in Jesus' name.
I declare revelation breaking through.
I declare revelation of sonship.
I declare truth breaking through.
I declare freedom like never before
from past hurts and past injuries
and past offenses and past traumas and abuses.
I declare a generation.
I declare these ones here that can hear my voice
being raised up as part of a viral outbreak of sonship.
I declare that they are exclusively defined
by the Trinity in Jesus' name.
I declare that no life experience
has authority to define them in Jesus' name.
And I declare over their lives
a viral awakening of sonship in their lives,
a viral awakening of dreams in their lives in Jesus' name.
I prophesy fulfillment of their dreams.
I prophesy, Lord, the manifestation of their dreams
like never before.
I call into life.
I prophesy life, life, life over your dreams in Jesus' name.
And I prophesy upgrades and open doors in Jesus' name.
I prophesy favor being released on you
like never before in Jesus' name.
I prophesy the high calling manifesting over your life
that you've been called.
You are called to be those that would rule and reign
and power and love from the top down
in every sphere of influence over nations
and kingdoms in Jesus' name.
And you will rule and you will reign
in power and love in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Boom.
I just declare that over you.
You were born for this.
So may this baptism in his love and fire
just come on you afresh.
May the delight of the Father swallow you up.
May your week just be amazing.
I can't wait for tomorrow night.
We're gonna have a Q&A.
So if you've got questions,
I'm looking forward to answering those
and engaging in those.
And I'm also really, really excited
for seeing some live posts and some posts as well
about what people are doing with their strategic plans.
What are your strategic plans?
What are the goals you're going after?
I wanna hear how you are engaging your high calling
to be a son who's called to rule and reign.
Nations and kingdoms boom love you guys like crazy. Let's just start putting some posts up either on this post now or
You could do a live later on you could do something, but what are you called for? What are you burning for?
I want to hear your dreams
Let's hear your dreams and I hear your strategies as well your goals how that's going
I can't wait to hear from you guys more. I love you so much and bless you
I hope you have loved that just give a massive thumbs up or a fire or something awesome if you love that
And and in closing
And in closing I would just love to hear from you, what's one thing
What's one thing that was a real takeaway?
What was one thing of real value for you from tonight, and I'd also love it
I would love it so much will be so valuable if you could jump on board do like a 60-second live even
Or a 30-second live idea to step out some people a little bit shy about these lives
But it's been cool getting people on there
Why don't you jump on to a 30-second 60-second live about what was valuable? What was a takeaway?
What's something that you could really engage in that's had value for you tonight from this?
From this time yeah great to see some dreams coming out now, so why don't you chuck that out there dreams that you've got for?
The future I either put them out here or put them in the air do a live and and what's something of value
Really would love to hear. What did you find valuable from tonight that you can take away boom?
Love you good
Love you heaps and can't wait to catch up and I'll see some of you in the flesh over the next a couple of weeks
Love you. See you soon family tomorrow night again same time 830 for Q&A so if you've got questions boom
see you there can't wait to unleash on those and
Saturday Saturday morning, we're gonna have a another session you're gonna love that we're gonna talk about Kingdom building community for half an hour on
Saturday morning boom love you