WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.680 Good morning, good day everyone. It is day 25 and this one is entitled 2 00:00:07.680 --> 00:00:13.880 Generational Covenant of Life and Peace. Restful one, listen with your spirit to 3 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:20.220 God's Word for you. My covenant was with Levi, a covenant of life and peace, and I 4 00:00:20.220 --> 00:00:25.520 gave them to him. This called for reverence and he revered me and stood in 5 00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:31.000 awe of my name. True instruction was in his mouth and nothing false was found on 6 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:36.240 his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness and turned many from sin. 7 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:43.040 Malachi 2 5 through 6. God's original intent was that all twelve tribes would 8 00:00:43.040 --> 00:00:47.920 be priestly tribes, that there would be a nation of priests to the nations of the 9 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:53.480 world. Due to sin in the camp, many of them lost that privilege and Levi as a 10 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.800 tribe was chosen to be the priestly tribe to represent the nation. God 11 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:03.080 created a covenant of life and peace with that tribe. He gave them life and 12 00:01:03.080 --> 00:01:08.760 peace to give to others. Malachi says this called for reverence. God is 13 00:01:08.760 --> 00:01:13.720 inviting you to come into a covenant of life and peace with him. When you enter 14 00:01:13.720 --> 00:01:18.240 into that covenant you receive a richer title than that of Levi. You become a 15 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:22.760 member of the royal priesthood. You have received peace from God and you are 16 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:28.240 learning to walk in that peace and to bring others into that peace. This is 17 00:01:28.240 --> 00:01:36.440 foundational. The next step is to have a reverential awe of God who reconciled 18 00:01:36.440 --> 00:01:42.000 you to himself and gave you such a covenant of life and peace. Ponder the 19 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:48.160 marvel and the privilege of his covenant of life and peace with you and God will 20 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:53.640 place true instruction in your mouth. God's intent is that you will come to 21 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:58.960 know him more deeply as you celebrate the majesty of what he has done for you 22 00:01:58.960 --> 00:02:04.440 in giving you this covenant of life and peace. It will unlock deeper and more 23 00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:09.000 profound truths from the Word of God so that your lips will have an anointing 24 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:15.320 for true instruction. The last step is that Levi turned many from sin as he 25 00:02:15.320 --> 00:02:21.880 walked with God in peace and personal uprightness. I bless you, restful one, with 26 00:02:21.880 --> 00:02:27.760 this same anointing. Although you walk in a different priesthood, I bless you with 27 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:32.240 entering into a covenant of life and peace. I bless you with knowing your 28 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:37.200 father and speaking of him and bringing many others to know him. I bless you with 29 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:42.840 an anointing of revering God that produces wisdom so that true instruction 30 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:48.680 comes from your mouth, being fruitful, life-giving, and transformational. I bless 31 00:02:48.680 --> 00:02:53.200 you with turning many from their sin and bringing many into the same reverence 32 00:02:53.200 --> 00:02:57.720 that you have of the Most High God. The hardness and profound lack of reverence 33 00:02:57.720 --> 00:03:04.280 of your culture is an invitation for God to do bigger things for you than he has 34 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:09.600 ever done in other generations. It has nothing to do with the hardness of the 35 00:03:09.600 --> 00:03:14.960 culture or everything and everything to do with the anointing of God and his 36 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:20.920 revelation. I bless you, restful one, with not taking for granted the anointing of 37 00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:25.360 reverence that you have in the covenant of life and peace. I bless you with 38 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:32.040 waking up each morning with awe that God would choose to be in covenant with you 39 00:03:32.040 --> 00:03:38.240 because out of that blessing of awe of God will come instruction, wisdom, and 40 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:44.240 words of truth from your lips. I bless you with words of truth that are 41 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:51.600 piercing, encouraging, and clarifying. I bless those words of instruction to be 42 00:03:51.600 --> 00:03:58.480 articulated in many ways. I bless you with the blessings that Samuel had 43 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:04.440 that none of his words fell to the ground. 1 Samuel 3 19. I bless you with 44 00:04:04.440 --> 00:04:10.120 words of instruction so that anointing with the wisdom instruction so anointed 45 00:04:10.120 --> 00:04:16.079 with the wisdom and reverence of God that you turn many from sin. I bless you, 46 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:22.440 restful one, with a profound generational anointing of peace on your life that 47 00:04:22.440 --> 00:04:28.040 will bring reverence and wisdom to generations after you. I bless you that 48 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:33.480 the family line you established may be known as a family of peace, a family that 49 00:04:33.520 --> 00:04:39.440 imparts peace, a family of wisdom, of reverence, of holiness. I bless you with 50 00:04:39.440 --> 00:04:44.440 bringing many in the next generation into reverence of God so that they have 51 00:04:44.440 --> 00:04:49.880 the wisdom of God. They in turn may turn many to a covenant of life and peace 52 00:04:49.880 --> 00:04:55.080 with God so that the next generation would revert, would reveal God and have 53 00:04:55.080 --> 00:05:01.960 words of wisdom for the next generation after that. I bless you with 54 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.880 laying the foundation for many godly generations 55 00:05:03.880 --> 00:05:07.200 through being in a covenant of life and peace 56 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:09.120 with Most High God. 57 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:12.840 I bless you with all these blessings of peace 58 00:05:12.840 --> 00:05:15.240 in the name of the Prince of Peace, 59 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:17.860 in the name of the God who makes peace, 60 00:05:17.860 --> 00:05:21.040 who instructs you and mentors you in peace, 61 00:05:21.040 --> 00:05:23.900 so that all your children and children's children 62 00:05:23.900 --> 00:05:25.120 will have great peace. 63 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.460 I bless you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 64 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:45.000 Oh Lord, that we would really understand the fear of the Lord. 65 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:49.560 Lord, there's a misunderstanding, I think, for many 66 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:56.240 about what living in the fear of the Lord is. 67 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.400 As a part of transparency, Lord, 68 00:05:58.400 --> 00:06:07.520 I knew what it was to know what an angry father is. 69 00:06:07.520 --> 00:06:14.000 And I really balked at the idea of the fear of the Lord 70 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:18.160 because I didn't, I think for many, 71 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:21.280 they have a misunderstanding of who the father is to begin with, 72 00:06:21.280 --> 00:06:25.240 and I didn't, I assumed of the fear of the Lord 73 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:29.280 as being afraid of God. 74 00:06:29.280 --> 00:06:36.080 And I'll just say that some of my generational lineage 75 00:06:36.080 --> 00:06:39.720 comes from streams, or a stream, 76 00:06:39.720 --> 00:06:47.080 in which the being afraid of God is the motivator to obey God, 77 00:06:47.080 --> 00:06:49.760 is the permanent thing. 78 00:06:49.880 --> 00:06:56.000 There are great roots in the very early parts of what that is, 79 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:03.000 but what grew over generation and generation 80 00:07:03.000 --> 00:07:09.840 was just lots of baggage and religion 81 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:13.520 and all of those types of things. 82 00:07:13.520 --> 00:07:18.680 And the point is that, Lord, I pray that we not just have a legacy 83 00:07:18.840 --> 00:07:24.840 and a lineage to be afraid of God, 84 00:07:24.840 --> 00:07:28.320 but, Lord, that we have a fuller anticipation and understanding 85 00:07:28.320 --> 00:07:34.880 of what the fear of God is, which is all in wonder. 86 00:07:34.880 --> 00:07:37.520 It is a fearful thing to be put in the hands 87 00:07:37.520 --> 00:07:43.120 of an almighty and all-powerful God, for sure. 88 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:46.800 But, Lord, I pray for the majesty of God, 89 00:07:46.840 --> 00:07:51.080 the magnificence, the enormity, the endlessness, 90 00:07:51.080 --> 00:07:56.400 just like it is hard for any brain to really conceive of the fact 91 00:07:56.400 --> 00:08:00.920 that space is limited, is unlimited, there is no end, 92 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:05.280 or what eternity really is, just to sit and meditate 93 00:08:05.280 --> 00:08:11.880 on there being no end, or that there be no beginning and no end. 94 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:14.320 There's no far left and far east. 95 00:08:14.320 --> 00:08:18.920 There's no end to outer space as far as we understand it. 96 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:22.800 Just like that is impossible to really understand, 97 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:26.960 just like for there to be a God that there is no end and beginning to 98 00:08:26.960 --> 00:08:32.400 just blows our mind, so there be some encapsulation, 99 00:08:32.400 --> 00:08:37.760 some opening, some revelatory drop, Lord, today 100 00:08:37.799 --> 00:08:44.200 about coming to grips with all that you really are 101 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:49.680 and all that you, the unlimited God, have paved the way 102 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:55.760 and given into us, including the covenant of life and peace. 103 00:08:56.760 --> 00:09:00.760 Lord, for so many, I believe that when we get to heaven, 104 00:09:00.760 --> 00:09:05.760 we will be held accountable for every idle word. 105 00:09:05.760 --> 00:09:09.760 But as Bob Jones once said, the prophets are known on earth for what they say, 106 00:09:09.760 --> 00:09:14.760 and on heaven, they're known for what they don't say. 107 00:09:14.760 --> 00:09:18.760 I believe, Lord, that it's, when you say you judge a person by their words, 108 00:09:18.760 --> 00:09:22.760 you judge a person by their actions. 109 00:09:22.760 --> 00:09:26.760 I believe, Lord, that it's, when you say you judge a person by their heart, 110 00:09:26.760 --> 00:09:30.760 that there are whole things that have nothing to do with what we 111 00:09:30.760 --> 00:09:34.760 ever publicly say that we're going to be held accountable to 112 00:09:34.760 --> 00:09:38.760 and that we will be known for. 113 00:09:38.760 --> 00:09:42.760 That there are incidental things where, just like the children that are always watching 114 00:09:42.760 --> 00:09:46.760 and imitating their parents, that there are people all around us all the time that are noticing things 115 00:09:46.760 --> 00:09:50.760 and that we're going to have impact 116 00:09:50.760 --> 00:09:54.760 in, on, good or bad that we have no 117 00:09:54.760 --> 00:09:58.760 intentional or conscious knowledge of. 118 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:19.400 Lord, open up for a moment, even just this moment, an expansion of our imagination of 119 00:10:19.400 --> 00:10:20.400 you. 120 00:10:20.400 --> 00:10:28.100 And if you promise, if you say in your word that it's beyond anything that we could ever 121 00:10:28.100 --> 00:10:38.420 hope or imagine, there's an ever increasing aspect of us having an idea, a knowledge of 122 00:10:38.420 --> 00:10:47.460 you, imagining something bigger, and then realizing that beyond our imagination lies 123 00:10:47.460 --> 00:10:55.500 a greater reality of who you are, of what's available, of in a sense, who we are because 124 00:10:55.500 --> 00:10:58.860 of you. 125 00:10:58.860 --> 00:11:06.780 I pray, Lord, that we grab the invitation, a real greater appreciation of what we already 126 00:11:06.780 --> 00:11:18.200 have in you, and that, Lord, that our culture, which is really your culture, that your culture, 127 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:24.900 our heavenly home, that we are aliens to this world, that your culture, our home culture 128 00:11:24.900 --> 00:11:32.600 of heaven, to be imputed in some fashion to us today, that there be some communal thing, 129 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:39.400 just like, you know, you are in us, we are in you, we are one in a sense, just like marriage 130 00:11:39.400 --> 00:11:47.060 is like a picture of our relationship with you, that there's some aspect in which we 131 00:11:47.060 --> 00:11:50.260 are seated with you in heavenly places and we're here at the same time, that there be 132 00:11:50.260 --> 00:11:58.380 some common union, a communion today with you, and that place to open up for us to have 133 00:11:58.380 --> 00:12:14.880 some grander encapsulation, experience, comprehension, or sense of a reality that we know of but 134 00:12:14.880 --> 00:12:16.740 we may not know. 135 00:12:16.740 --> 00:12:24.740 In Spanish, Lord, there are two words that say, I know. 136 00:12:24.740 --> 00:12:34.520 There's ser and conocer, ser would be to say, yo se, is I know. 137 00:12:34.520 --> 00:12:36.800 I know of. 138 00:12:36.800 --> 00:12:46.460 So when someone would ask you, do you know, do you know Ashley? 139 00:12:46.460 --> 00:12:55.960 Or do you know Bill Johnson? 140 00:12:55.960 --> 00:13:02.300 They're asking, you know, depending on which word they're using, they're asking if you 141 00:13:02.300 --> 00:13:06.840 know them personally, or if you know about them. 142 00:13:06.840 --> 00:13:09.480 Do you know where this person lives? 143 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:17.380 Are you saying that you know where, as in you know their address, or have you actually 144 00:13:17.380 --> 00:13:21.820 been to their home? 145 00:13:21.820 --> 00:13:26.980 So it'd be like, you know, you'll say, you know, you'll say Bill Johnson, like I know 146 00:13:26.980 --> 00:13:28.820 about him, but I've never met him. 147 00:13:28.820 --> 00:13:30.820 I don't know him. 148 00:13:31.340 --> 00:13:34.300 Pero yo conozco Ashley. 149 00:13:34.300 --> 00:13:37.700 I personally know her. 150 00:13:37.700 --> 00:13:43.980 And that same thing, just like there are many words for love, three words of love in the 151 00:13:43.980 --> 00:13:49.260 Greek language, that there are things, I think there's a color in all of the languages that 152 00:13:49.260 --> 00:13:55.140 have ever been created since the Tower of Babel that somehow could give a fuller expression 153 00:13:55.140 --> 00:14:04.180 of concepts and ideas that our language does not have context for. 154 00:14:04.180 --> 00:14:12.780 And that, Lord, that we want to know you in that fashion of, you know, I think that's 155 00:14:12.780 --> 00:14:14.600 what you're asking. 156 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:21.460 You ask the disciples, who do people say that I am? 157 00:14:21.460 --> 00:14:22.460 Some say you're a prophet. 158 00:14:22.460 --> 00:14:23.460 Some say you're Moses. 159 00:14:23.460 --> 00:14:24.460 Some say you're Elijah. 160 00:14:24.780 --> 00:14:28.980 And he says, well, but who do you say I am? 161 00:14:28.980 --> 00:14:32.340 And you're asking the same question today. 162 00:14:32.340 --> 00:14:33.740 Who do you say that I am? 163 00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:36.300 That's the only question that really matters. 164 00:14:36.300 --> 00:14:39.300 You're none other than the Son of the Living God. 165 00:14:39.300 --> 00:14:43.460 Flesh and blood is not revealed as to you, Peter, but my Father in heaven only. 166 00:14:43.460 --> 00:14:45.340 And upon this rock, we will build the church. 167 00:14:45.340 --> 00:14:47.940 Upon this revelation, we're going to build the church. 168 00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:52.860 Lord, let it be today that there's something that we know. 169 00:14:53.860 --> 00:14:54.860 Konosco. 170 00:14:54.860 --> 00:14:59.860 There's something that we know today, intimately know, that we know. 171 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:08.440 never knew before. Some aspect, some facet of you would expand. 172 00:15:08.440 --> 00:15:14.760 And that Lord, that there be something in our lives established, founded, that is handed 173 00:15:14.760 --> 00:15:24.520 down through the generations like a DNA, but it's not religion. 174 00:15:24.520 --> 00:15:32.560 It isn't just looking back on a time or a list of do's and don'ts, but there be a relationship, 175 00:15:32.560 --> 00:15:38.840 there be a culture that is established that sets a new record, a new way of being, a new 176 00:15:38.840 --> 00:15:46.160 path forward that is infectious, that captures everyone else around us, that puts a sheen 177 00:15:46.160 --> 00:15:51.480 on our lives, a scent, an aroma that people are like, what is that? What is that ingredient? 178 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:58.560 What is that flavor? I just have to have whatever that thing is, that Lord, there be something 179 00:15:58.560 --> 00:16:05.400 like that that is imputed from heaven into us, into what we're establishing and creating, 180 00:16:05.400 --> 00:16:13.720 whether it's in our own family, where physical children or spiritual children are in our 181 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:21.400 businesses or in any aspect of our lives, and that there be, as a generational lineage, 182 00:16:21.400 --> 00:16:27.920 that there be something transcendent that will last, a legacy for lack of a better term, 183 00:16:27.920 --> 00:16:35.080 that is founded and originated, the origins of which are from you and from heaven. 184 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:39.720 They would overwrite anything here, that they would last. 185 00:16:40.720 --> 00:16:44.920 Of course, Ashley says that it would be from the eternal, the things that are birth of 186 00:16:44.920 --> 00:16:49.560 the spirit are eternal, everything else is wood, hay, and stubble. Lord, we are tired 187 00:16:49.560 --> 00:16:54.600 of the wood, hay, and stubble, and in a way, I remember saying, Lord, I don't want any 188 00:16:54.600 --> 00:17:04.160 more opinions. I'm not going to use that euphemism, but basically, everybody's got one, and most 189 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:13.800 of the opinions stink, right? I don't want any more opinions. I want to know the truth. 190 00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:19.240 I want to know what you say. I want to know what my father is saying. I want to be about 191 00:17:19.240 --> 00:17:24.560 my father's business. Lord, I want to do as you did, to do only see what I do, my father 192 00:17:24.560 --> 00:17:29.440 doing, where they ask if I need food, and it's like, I have food of another type that 193 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:41.640 you know not of. It's to do the will of my father. Lord, for us all, but I pray especially 194 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:46.960 for these ones that I am praying for now, God, that there be an expansiveness like there 195 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:57.280 has never been. Open up for them today, and I pray, God, for an alignment, an awareness, 196 00:17:57.280 --> 00:18:03.600 an attunement, a positioning, an opening, a softness of heart for us to be able to receive 197 00:18:03.600 --> 00:18:09.720 that there be a greater capacity than there ever has been, and it will completely create, 198 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:16.120 change our culture, not just improve it. It's like when we die and we are resurrected into 199 00:18:16.120 --> 00:18:23.080 new life, we are a new creation, that there be something in our DNA that literally changed 200 00:18:23.080 --> 00:18:31.640 today, but is really born out of our perspective to change of who you are, and all that you've 201 00:18:31.640 --> 00:18:37.920 done for us, and all that is available, Lord, that the majesty of God unfold before us, 202 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:42.440 and that we never be the same. We bless you and love you, in Jesus' name.