WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.320 Good morning or good day, depending on when you're listening to this, everyone. 2 00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:12.480 Today is day 22 on our journey, wow, over three weeks. 3 00:00:12.480 --> 00:00:16.040 Bringing the glory of God. 4 00:00:16.040 --> 00:00:19.560 Restful one, listen with your spirit to the word of God for you. 5 00:00:19.560 --> 00:00:26.320 So David and the elders of Israel and the commanders of units and of thousands went 6 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:35.360 to bring up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to the house of Obed-Edom with rejoicing 7 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:38.760 First Chronicles 1525. 8 00:00:38.760 --> 00:00:43.180 The Ark of the Covenant was the mark of the manifest presence of God. 9 00:00:43.180 --> 00:00:47.080 The Philistines had captured the Ark over 40 years before. 10 00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:55.560 David wanted to right this wrong and have the glory of God abiding in Jerusalem. 11 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:00.800 With good intentions, but flawed methodology, he took many people to bring the Ark up to 12 00:01:00.800 --> 00:01:01.800 Jerusalem. 13 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:07.200 However, they made a mistake and God killed one of the men. 14 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:13.320 So they stopped and left the Ark in the home of Obed-Edom. 15 00:01:13.320 --> 00:01:20.600 David later brought the Ark up to Jerusalem correctly with great rejoicing. 16 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:27.480 Restful one, your culture is yearning and crying out for something more than religion 17 00:01:27.480 --> 00:01:29.640 or churchianity. 18 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:36.760 It is crying out for the legitimate, powerful presence of God to move among his people. 19 00:01:36.760 --> 00:01:42.080 There is a great deal of mobilization to bring a new move of God. 20 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:49.000 Flawed and inadequate methods have been disappointing and not looked upon with favor by God. 21 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.720 I bless you with a desperate hunger and thirst for bringing the manifest glory of God to 22 00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:55.840 your community. 23 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:02.360 I bless you with the vision and anointing to see what is necessary to prepare the way, 24 00:02:02.360 --> 00:02:06.680 what God requires of you before he will come and tabernacle with you. 25 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:11.800 I bless you with implementing the truth from the word of God that will bring the joy of 26 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:16.800 visitation of God into your family or your community or city. 27 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:23.280 I bless you with being the leader or having a leader with the anointing to implement the 28 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:26.080 necessary components to do the job. 29 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:32.280 The scribes and the Levites who knew the truth and the King who is in a position to organize 30 00:02:32.280 --> 00:02:37.040 everything and bring revival into your community and your family. 31 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:43.560 I bless you with having favor with those who are a part of the gift mix for this to happen. 32 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:48.120 Leaders, followers, the church, the unchurched. 33 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:53.560 Restful one, I bless you with cutting a new path without violating the old path. 34 00:02:53.560 --> 00:02:58.960 David was chosen by God to introduce a new facet of worship into the stream of religious 35 00:02:58.960 --> 00:03:00.120 history. 36 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.960 For 500 years there was no worship with music in the tabernacle. 37 00:03:05.960 --> 00:03:12.040 There were sights, sounds, smells, ceremonies, clothing, and routines of worship that please 38 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.280 God, but no musical worship. 39 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:24.280 God waited over 500 years for his man to have the creativity to introduce music as worship. 40 00:03:24.280 --> 00:03:26.000 David was that man. 41 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:33.000 When David tried to bring up the ark the first time, he had all kinds of musicians, but he 42 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:37.840 violated the way God had prescribed the ark would be moved. 43 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:43.880 In his excitement about embracing the new good thing, he ignored the old, and God judged 44 00:03:43.880 --> 00:03:44.880 the process. 45 00:03:44.880 --> 00:03:50.360 Later, David stood on the foundation of the old and obeyed the commands to carry the ark 46 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:54.660 on staves on the shoulders of the priests. 47 00:03:54.660 --> 00:04:02.480 He stood on the righteous foundation of the past without violating it, and then he added 48 00:04:02.480 --> 00:04:06.640 worship, the new thing he wanted to introduce. 49 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:12.760 I bless you with the wisdom and anointing to stand solidly on the righteous past, yet 50 00:04:12.760 --> 00:04:17.360 not be locked into the forms and manners of tradition. 51 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:22.980 I bless you with seeing outside the traditions and norms of the religious movement into which 52 00:04:22.980 --> 00:04:24.120 you were born. 53 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:31.400 I bless you with eyes to see the new paths, to minister to new forms of serving God with 54 00:04:31.400 --> 00:04:32.760 new songs. 55 00:04:32.760 --> 00:04:38.000 I bless you with the ability to sing the song of the gospel in a different key, doing 56 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:44.640 no violation to the word or the message that must remain unchanged. 57 00:04:44.640 --> 00:04:51.080 I bless you with the blessing of David, to hold the truth of the old and bring in revelation 58 00:04:51.080 --> 00:04:55.520 of the new, and to experience the manifest presence of God in your community. 59 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:58.120 I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 60 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:11.000 Lord, over and over I think all of us have heard about the new thing. 61 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:17.000 Now everybody seems to know that there's a new thing coming and in a fashion or a form 62 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:23.400 that what we are doing isn't working. 63 00:05:23.400 --> 00:05:29.960 Not being critical, people have observations or opinions about it, but they don't really 64 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:35.960 know exactly from your perspective what's wrong. 65 00:05:35.960 --> 00:05:40.960 But they certainly and they all seem to agree that there is something new that is getting 66 00:05:40.960 --> 00:05:46.360 ready to come, but we don't know when and we don't know what it is. 67 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.000 What is this new thing? 68 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:54.760 I've always been fascinated, Lord, by that passage that said, the talk of the ancient 69 00:05:54.760 --> 00:05:59.960 paths and show us the right way. 70 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:05.480 There's an aspect of things that are old, way so far old, that have been forgotten and 71 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:12.800 lost that need to be recovered and redeemed that are right and may even be new to us but 72 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.160 not new to you. 73 00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:20.280 And there are things, foundations, that we can never stray from. 74 00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:23.560 Of course, one thing that must inhabit all that we do is love. 75 00:06:23.560 --> 00:06:36.560 We can do all the great things in the world and then without love it's meaningless, it's 76 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:39.640 empty. 77 00:06:39.640 --> 00:06:45.000 Even just in our natural lives we're to honor our mothers and fathers, even though the older 78 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:51.840 we get, God bless them all, no matter how wonderful they are, we realize that our parents 79 00:06:51.840 --> 00:07:01.280 aren't you and our kids and friends and spouses and all have figured out long ago that we're 80 00:07:01.280 --> 00:07:03.840 not you either, that we're not perfect. 81 00:07:03.840 --> 00:07:11.320 But the point is that we have these elders in our lives that we need to honor and respect 82 00:07:11.320 --> 00:07:17.720 and treasure the things they've taught us, as Proverbs would say, and yet we're supposed 83 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:24.000 to not just emulate and do just what they did, that even every parent wants their child 84 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:30.640 to prosper and do beyond what they did, but there is the baton that is passed. 85 00:07:30.640 --> 00:07:36.080 There's an aspect of something that was started that has not been finished, that in fact even 86 00:07:36.080 --> 00:07:40.880 the gray cloud of witnesses, I believe it's in Hebrews, that speaks of the fact that there's 87 00:07:40.880 --> 00:07:46.140 a race that they started that has not finished and they're all waiting in a sense of, with 88 00:07:46.140 --> 00:07:53.960 bated breath, for us to see us carry things further down and that there are things that 89 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:59.800 are timeless that we can never lose, like Jesus saying that not one dot or tittle will 90 00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:06.560 be removed from the Word of God, that there's an aspect of timelessness that we can't do 91 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:12.320 away with the Old Testament, for instance, but there is something new, an aspect of you, 92 00:08:12.320 --> 00:08:19.440 there's something that is to be released or revealed that has not yet been seen or experienced 93 00:08:19.440 --> 00:08:25.720 or a revelation that nobody's heard yet, or even the things that have been sealed up in 94 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:47.560 the scrolls of Daniel that were not yet for that time. Or in a fashion, it is like, you 95 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:51.520 know, if we don't know our history, we're doomed to repeat it. There's certainly an 96 00:08:51.520 --> 00:08:57.560 aspect of it, or that my people perish for a lack of knowledge or a lack of vision at times. 97 00:08:57.560 --> 00:09:04.360 You know, I think that, Lord, that there's an aspect of knowing and holding true the 98 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:18.360 moorings that keep us anchored correctly while having a vision and having the flexibility, 99 00:09:18.360 --> 00:09:25.320 for lack of better term, to be able to co-create with you and to have innovative new solutions. 100 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:36.920 There's aspects, even in the natural realm here on earth, of invention where there is 101 00:09:36.920 --> 00:09:42.040 something profound that changes everything, changes society. The invention of the wheel, 102 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:50.120 electricity, the light bulb, the telephone. There are all of these things that come along, 103 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:55.720 the combustion engine. And then there's all these improvements upon the base thing. 104 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:59.560 And then every once in a while, when we think we, you know, something that 105 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.140 that has never been seen comes on the scene 106 00:10:03.140 --> 00:10:05.080 and again, everything shifts. 107 00:10:06.520 --> 00:10:08.420 Lord, I believe that there are people here 108 00:10:08.420 --> 00:10:12.240 that are supposed to improve upon what has already been done 109 00:10:13.420 --> 00:10:14.980 without losing the base things. 110 00:10:14.980 --> 00:10:16.940 And then there are those that, Lord, 111 00:10:16.940 --> 00:10:18.320 you're wanting to entrust. 112 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:21.580 As a matter of fact, they're in preparation right now 113 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:28.440 to be one of those ones that there's an actual term for it, 114 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:34.080 disruptive technology, that like disruptive technology, 115 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.800 which is basically that it's a technology 116 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:42.800 that is introduced that literally disrupts how things are, 117 00:10:44.200 --> 00:10:47.360 that Lord, that you're wanting to shake things up, 118 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:49.880 that there's something coming, Lord, 119 00:10:51.020 --> 00:10:55.360 in so many facets that we have not seen 120 00:10:55.360 --> 00:10:59.520 or in a way we have not seen yet 121 00:10:59.520 --> 00:11:01.240 that you're wanting to introduce 122 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:04.440 that's going to upset the apple cart, so to speak. 123 00:11:06.640 --> 00:11:11.640 And believe it or not, restful one, 124 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:17.200 you are an apple cart turner 125 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.480 that you're one of the ones that God is putting his hand on 126 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.080 that is wanting to, 127 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:31.880 through respecting and not throwing off the old, 128 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:35.040 but where he is wanting to entrust 129 00:11:35.040 --> 00:11:37.720 and do something new through you. 130 00:11:39.280 --> 00:11:42.080 Father, I pray that you give us all the boldness, 131 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:45.600 the courage, that was a thing that the apostles prayed for. 132 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:47.880 They didn't pray for more miracles and wonders. 133 00:11:47.880 --> 00:11:49.400 They prayed for boldness. 134 00:11:49.400 --> 00:11:51.280 During hard times, they prayed for boldness. 135 00:11:51.280 --> 00:11:53.440 Lord, I pray for boldness for us, Lord, 136 00:11:54.360 --> 00:11:55.800 that we be attentive to you. 137 00:11:57.280 --> 00:11:59.000 But Lord, I pray for boldness, Lord, 138 00:11:59.000 --> 00:12:03.080 and that this mystery of how to honor what was 139 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:04.600 without being stuck, 140 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.040 without being stuck in the old 141 00:12:11.040 --> 00:12:14.640 is something that everyone seems to battle. 142 00:12:14.640 --> 00:12:17.320 And I don't remember where I heard this 143 00:12:17.640 --> 00:12:20.600 or if it was just my own simple way of speaking, Lord, 144 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:23.880 it was that, Lord, we're just a bunch of box builders. 145 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:28.240 And we just like to build boxes. 146 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:30.880 And we like to try to put you in a box. 147 00:12:30.880 --> 00:12:32.080 And you don't like boxes. 148 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:35.200 So you, it always just looked to me like, 149 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:36.840 you know, we put you in a box 150 00:12:36.840 --> 00:12:39.280 and then you come and you break our boxes. 151 00:12:39.280 --> 00:12:41.040 And then we take all the pieces of that box 152 00:12:41.040 --> 00:12:42.560 and we build a bigger box. 153 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:44.640 And then we just, you blow that box up 154 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:47.080 and then we just, and you blow that box up. 155 00:12:47.080 --> 00:12:51.120 And then you just keep breaking our boxes 156 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:52.160 and we keep building them, 157 00:12:52.160 --> 00:12:54.080 even though we seemed like we've learned 158 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:55.720 and we never seemed to learn. 159 00:12:55.720 --> 00:12:57.840 But just in a sense of that, 160 00:12:58.800 --> 00:13:01.720 there's an aspect of expansion that you're wanting. 161 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.080 Sometimes just to improve on what was done. 162 00:13:06.280 --> 00:13:07.760 But there are times, Lord, 163 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:10.320 where you're not just wanting 164 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:12.720 to just improve what already is, 165 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:16.040 you're wanting to do something or an aspect of you, 166 00:13:16.040 --> 00:13:18.320 or just like in David's worship. 167 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:20.880 I can't imagine how radical that must have been. 168 00:13:20.880 --> 00:13:25.080 I remember, Lord, the first time I heard 169 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:27.800 that there were electric cars in church. 170 00:13:27.800 --> 00:13:30.680 And I said, that is just bizarre. 171 00:13:30.680 --> 00:13:33.400 I just did something to my mind. 172 00:13:34.720 --> 00:13:37.400 You know, and now I don't bat an eye. 173 00:13:37.400 --> 00:13:40.160 I've seen some of the wildest worship I could ever, 174 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.800 I never even imagined that it was possible. 175 00:13:42.800 --> 00:13:44.400 And I would never wanna go back. 176 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:49.160 Or like the first time that I fought getting a cell phone. 177 00:13:49.160 --> 00:13:50.680 But once you get a cell phone, 178 00:13:50.680 --> 00:13:52.840 you can't ever imagine not having it. 179 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.360 There's something just like that, 180 00:13:57.560 --> 00:13:59.720 that you're wanting to birth in the lives 181 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:00.880 of each and every one of these. 182 00:14:00.880 --> 00:14:04.040 But more than that, you're cultivating them 183 00:14:04.040 --> 00:14:07.560 to be conduits of that very thing, just like David did. 184 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:10.680 And I thank you, Lord, that you're so patient, 185 00:14:10.680 --> 00:14:12.280 you're so loving and kind, 186 00:14:12.280 --> 00:14:17.280 that you're going to instill in us the things that we need, 187 00:14:19.440 --> 00:14:21.600 the foundational things that we need 188 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:26.280 so that we can be entrusted to do right 189 00:14:26.280 --> 00:14:28.440 by the things that you are wanting to release. 190 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:31.840 And I thank you, Lord, that you've born us into a time 191 00:14:32.280 --> 00:14:37.280 when there's no other time on earth like it. 192 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.920 And for some crazy reason, you've put us together 193 00:14:41.920 --> 00:14:44.920 as a tribe and called us into this time. 194 00:14:44.920 --> 00:14:47.080 And so, Lord, I pray that, Lord, 195 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:50.080 that we would bring glory to you, 196 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:54.400 but there's ways of ushering in timeless things 197 00:14:54.400 --> 00:14:55.760 that we cannot go past. 198 00:14:57.080 --> 00:14:58.200 And I think that's a lot of things 199 00:14:58.200 --> 00:14:59.520 that we all need to do. 200 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:01.120 And I think that's a lot of things 201 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.720 I'll learn what you think we've learned. 202 00:15:01.120 --> 00:15:02.400 that we all need to do. 203 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:03.560 We're young. 204 00:15:03.560 --> 00:15:05.480 We always want to skip past things. 205 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:06.920 We want to take the shortcut. 206 00:15:08.360 --> 00:15:10.400 So Lord, I pray today for each one 207 00:15:11.800 --> 00:15:13.680 to come into that place of rest, 208 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:16.440 but that Lord, that we would sit before you 209 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.120 and you would start to whisper the things 210 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:21.680 that you're wanting to do and not to bring criticism. 211 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:24.400 David didn't bring criticism, 212 00:15:25.280 --> 00:15:27.520 but there's things that are, 213 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:29.440 there are certain things that will need to be corrected, 214 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:31.840 but there are things that you're wanting to do 215 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:33.040 that have not been done. 216 00:15:34.160 --> 00:15:36.360 And I think that's the main thing. 217 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.000 Lord, what is it for each person here 218 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:40.800 that you're wanting to do and create 219 00:15:41.680 --> 00:15:46.680 and transmute or to transmit to them and through them? 220 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:54.920 And Lord, and what are the base things to hold to 221 00:15:55.920 --> 00:15:57.680 that will keep us moored in this journey 222 00:15:57.680 --> 00:15:59.280 as we move into the unknown? 223 00:15:59.280 --> 00:16:03.120 We bless you and we love you in Jesus' holy name.