good morning good afternoon good evening this is day two day two and I want to
thank each and every one of you for taking the time to be with me on this
journey because hey what a quest what a quest it was technical difficulties it
was learning curves technical difficulties more learning curves
dyslexia problems you name it it has come up and I'm just thankful that I'm
that I'm here so I hope you had a chance to view the replay from day one and I
hope you took some takeaways from that I also want to say if there was something
in there something that was said in day one that was a takeaway for you
something that blessed you please let me know that will really be a blessing and
a help to me as we go further so drop that in the chat on the on the Facebook
page and that will be a blessing to me now let's do a quick quick quick quick
recap and first we talked about I share with you my story about my my hard place
my my being stuck between a rock and a hard place and I told you also and I
share with you that it got to the point that it was not just looking at what was
going wrong because God showed me that that rock has to be the promise so by
looking at the promise that is right next to that hard place allows me to see
the face of the one who promised that blows me away to even consider that I
also talked a little bit about what Graham talked about what Graham Cook
talked about about you know that prayer is stepping back into the presence of
God and asking God or watch seeing what God wants to do in the situation and
then asking him to do it and I said for me it's a conversation with my heavenly
father it is stepping into that quiet place that secret place and asking him
God what do you think about this situation and allowing what he says to
be my stance in that circumstance we also talked a little bit about what Mark
Verkle talked about when he when I share with you out of Habakkuk that if we want
to learn to hear the voice of the Lord to hear the voice of God we have to what
find that secret place remember we have to find that secret place I stand at the
watch okay that's quieting myself down to see what he is going to say and then
then I fasten my eyes on the Lord and then I write down I journal what he's
saying and for me that blew me away because one of the things that blessed
me in my travels in my travels and my quest if you want to put it that way in
my quest was getting to the place of wanting to there was a verse out of Acts
remember after on the road to Emmaus that's what I'm thinking about on the
road to Emmaus where Jesus shows up to these guys and starts to walk with them
and opens to them the scriptures and they said after the whole thing was over
with what did not your heart burn within you as he opened them to us the
for me that's where I would go I wanted to be one the one the unnamed one
because it was Cephas and another I was the other in my mind I would visual I
could see myself walking and listening to the Lord talk but what he was talking
about was the things that I needed to hear things I needed to know things I
needed to understand about the situation or the circumstance and then
at that time I would say Lord what do you think about this and I would journal
it down and I would be quiet and before you know it a thought will come up and I
would write it down another thought and I write it down if I had another
question I would ask because I wanted that overflow from the inside the bubble
up now
I'll be totally honest with you that begin to open up doors of prophetic flow for me
and I believe that that's where it begins because hey look most most of us think that
when you talk about the prophetic oh you don't know what's going on because all we hear are the
things that are wrong with we don't hear so much of the things that go right and people taking
responsibility all of those things you can go into that but that's that's just that's just the
frosting if you will of both sides of a circumstance but if we're going after god
wasn't it jesus who promised us that you who are evil know how to do good things with your kids
how much more our heavenly father if we ask is he going to give us you know if we ask for fish is
he going to give us a stone is he going to do something that is terrible is he going to lead
us into a path that that he can't get us out of no just the opposite just the opposite he is a
loving god and that's the thing that we need to see that's where things are and that's where we
need to go and i think that that's awesome so where do we go from here i think that one of the
things that we really really need to to look at is is like like what i talked about in the homework
did you find someone did you have a person that come to mind you know because of the glitches
and stuff one of the things i wanted to do was to you know let you see someone next to you and and
ask god how do you think about them but because of all the things now you have a homework assignment
who is it who would you like to write a letter from god to them so if you did that that would be
nice i don't want you to send me a letter of what you wrote but it would be nice that if you
did that and you sent it to that person did you get a feedback what did you what did they think
about what you wrote was it a blessing did it edify exhort and comfort them if so you did exactly
what god wants you to do because hey the word is breathe is breath it is a living word and it is in
a vessel you are the vessel and it will bubble up and it will come forth and it will bless
those who need to be blessed you know and i think that that's also an awesome thing to do
the other thing i think that is very very very very important is we talked also about
the orphan mindset you know this that was something that i never even considered for quite a while
that hey when i begin to look back at my hard place and found out that every hard place that
i ever had was also a promise but besides that what caused that hard place was my orphan mindset
because there were things that i didn't allow the lord to be to have his place his his place
his place of authority there's a throne in every one of those situations that jesus is supposed to
be in charge of and that's what the orphan mindset stands against you know um we need to see that
hey uh you ought to take a look at galatians chapter five and read through that part about
the flesh because in those things there you will find that there is a that there is a mindset
against the spirit of god and that's that orphan mindset why do i say that because the lord showed
me a couple of months ago that because i because i asked the question no i just asked the question i
asked was god i i would really like to understand what is behind what is going on with this mindset
and as i sat there all of a sudden i could this thought just rose up within me
that overflow of the thought that lit across my mind was do you want to know who the original
orphan was and and before i could even ask the question yes it was satan was lucifer was the
original orphan he turned away from god
he turned and when the fall happened he wanted to get back and take away
manipulate God into killing off his crown jewel you and I and the only thing
that happened was what God did was made safe passage through blood and
visitation rights for the father don't you love it don't you love it for the
father to intervene I think that that's awesome that's our God that's how loving
he really is do you see that you know even in Scripture when it talks about
the fatherless I think only in a few translations if my memory served me
correctly where it is only translated as often Jesus says I will not leave you as
orphans why because he gave us a comforter a comforter a comforter that
means that that you have someone to represent the heart of the father for
you isn't that awesome but that's the way it is that's how our God is that's
what he really wants to do he wants to be the father that you've never had so
you're no longer fatherless and you know what he always has a heart for the
father that's why we have the story of the what the world calls the prodigal
son which is really the heart of a father you have the young son who wanted
his inheritance and run off and ran off into hog country and he ended up
fighting over scraps with some pigs can you imagine that because I got a wild
imagination I can see him down there him and a pig squaring off over some slop
and he finally came to his senses now how did he come to his senses was a
question that I had to ask and it and I finally saw it because in each one of us
we have that we have that thing that empty space where all of a sudden
there's only one thing that will fill it and that one thing is God and what
happened to him was the thought that he had was you know what my father has
slaves and servants that eat better than this and he said I'll go back to my
father and ask him I am NOT for forgiveness and I have sinned against
God and you and hey I make me I don't even deserve to be your son make me a
servant make me a slave that's all I want I just want to be in your presence
that's it but I'm not worthy to be called a son does that ring a bell
because in every hard place and what the enemy always going to try to do is
to get you to see that you don't deserve to be how God sees you so it's better to
settle for something less but what did the father do for that young son he
waited and he prepared a place he prepared him he prepared a calf now we
don't know how long it was let's say it took him a couple of at least a year or
two to get there but he had this calf that he says when my son comes back we
don't celebrate we don't have some fun you know so this calf is for him maybe
by the time he got there that calf was not a calf anymore if it was in my
place it would have been it would have been one fat big old heifer but the
thing is that he waited and when he saw him afar off he the father ran to him
and in the middle of him trying to explain everything he said hey bring the
bring a road and put the ring on his finger bring the shoes put it on his
feet hey that calf go get it cuz we're gonna party I just love it I just love
it but that's the father's heart for those of us who are out in hard country
and don't even know it but you know what sometimes we miss the son that was
there now when you think of how that son was how he acted you'll see that he had
a orphaned mind spirit too he did a lot of things that only to try to get the
father to notice him and then said you didn't look at your son he even got rid
Of his brother and called him your son because he ain't my brother
Your son went off and did this and your son did this and he did that and you give him a dad
I got the dad that the dad doesn't that sound like
Family but that's not the family that God wanted and what ended up happening was what?
What these guys what he did was he said isn't that all that I have yours
That must have not only busted his bubble, but it must have filled him with
And
Sometimes we don't see that we have all of who God is
In us and we need to see that we need to understand that and I think that's awesome
I think that that's really awesome. So
We have that
Then the other thing that I really thought that we should talk about is the fact of prayer
Prayer is important, you know, and I think that
You know when we go back into our quiet spot a quiet place and we're asking God what's going on
What can I do? And he begins to share stuff with us. We do that out of we enter in how by
Thanksgiving and praise remember that's what we do
We enter in his presence with Thanksgiving and praise and you know what? Like I said, it takes time
It takes time it's not oh Lord
I thank you for allowing me entrance into your into your presence. Amen. And then you were out the door
No, no, no, it takes time and you're gonna have to set aside time and it's hard
Sometimes for me I do that before I go to bed
Sometimes I do it in the morning before I get up and sometimes in the middle of the day
I want to get to the place in my life that I will stop whatever I'm doing and say Lord. I
Thank you
Thank you for this moment
Show me what I need to know. Show me where where did where to go?
I want right now more than anything else is a light unto my feet. Where do I set my feet?
And then the first thought that comes up into my head I go, okay, I'll do that and
That's the point that's the point, you know that I think that allows us to see
God's heart for me and then my response is yes. I
Love it. I love it. And I hope you do too. Um, the other thing is
If you have
Started writing a
A letter to one of your friends. I
Want you to think about one other thing?
that you are connecting to the God of the universe because he sees exactly what
what's going on and he is more than willing to let you know what's happening so that you could write it out and
Be that blessing that they need maybe somebody you haven't even talked to in a in in quite a while
That might be the best place to go start there
Start with somebody you don't know. I've done that a couple of times wrote a letter sent it off
I you know, they didn't have you know, I'm a little older. So there's some people that aren't very
Savvy with a computer. So I wrote him a letter and I put it in the mail
And I said, hey if you get that call me and let me know what you think did it bless you and
I was surprised to see that yet. They were
blessed now
Why do I bring up all of those things is because I want you to see that you are
Important and this is what the Lord showed me
was
Pick do you remember I
remember when I was young and
Junior high schools specifically I had and I was in woodshop and we always had to make the spice rack for mom
So I'll make this spice rack bring it home and my mother would look at go. Oh, that's nice
Put it on the wall over the kitchen put in their spices
I began to see that that God the Creator has created each and every one of us
Uniquely we are unique before him and I got this picture of
of a spice rack.
Each and every one of us is on God's spice rack.
We are unique.
And there is a flavor that God has placed
within each and every one of us.
So what would happen when he begins to grab this person
and this person and put them together?
There is an aroma that is,
ah, it must just put a smile on God's face
because it's doing exactly what he intended.
Ah, that almost brings me to tears when I think about that
because that's important.
That's family in and of itself
because that's one of the things
that has always seemed to be really missing
when it comes to prayer, when it comes to even living
because you know what?
A prayer quest is a life quest.
It really is.
It is a stepping stone.
It is a place where we go in to be in communion
with the creator of the heavens and the earth.
And there's a quest there.
Ha, ha, ha.
And that's what it is.
Can you imagine that, that he could take two, three, four,
maybe it could be just two people, take a married couple.
Most of them are so different and yet together, ah, ah.
You see, that's why God worked hard to make sure
that the one he chose as my wife,
I would not be dumb enough to leave.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
Do you see it?
That's the important thing.
That's it, that's it in a nutshell.
So, let that be the guiding place, the guiding point
to see that you are the flavor of God's favor on you.
Wow, think about that.
So the next time you're talking to someone, ask God,
God, what's the flavor that is missing
that you want me to help speak into and let it bubble up
so together, ah, we are a sweet aroma.
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
To the God of the universe.
Ah, I love it, I love it, I love it.
So, hey, God bless you.
I love you and I'll see you in the quest.