Okay.
If I mute myself you guys can still talk, but I mean, I know that'll come like as we all get to know each other better.
And let's see.
And I will record.
And are there any quick.
Before we get into this evening.
Are there any quickie.
Let me just tag.
I'm
just right. I came in.
Thank you.
I just did. Yeah.
Let's see, and carry just in case she's not sure how to come in.
And
Jill just in case she wants to catch it here, anyone I'm missing anyone else I don't think so.
Okay.
Okay, sweet.
Sweet, sweet, sweet. Okay, I'll come over here to my.
There's Carrie. I actually Terry.
Oh, beautiful romantic tree.
Sitting in my living room.
It looks probably looks like outside.
So the dog can have company otherwise she wants to know where I am.
Oh, that looks so cozy. Yeah, the lights.
Oh.
So okay, any, um, anything highlighted for anyone.
Last night, I was so tired. I was like, almost too tired to keep my eyes open but one of the things the Lord said to me in my writing was I want you to be able to totally receive my love.
And then I did my devotion this morning and it said, I search among my children for receptivity to me. And it just kind of confirmed, I like when his word is sort of confirmed with scripture or devotion the next day and.
Yeah, so I'm writing this down. I love these things he shares with you guys they mean a lot to me.
And I go over them.
I was actually on with Jill wolf earlier we meet on Wednesdays, and, and just kind of going over like what stood out to me I just.
It's so juicy.
So, Carrie, were you able to slip in to the replay, no worries if you hadn't just curious.
I did watch it although I admittedly fell asleep during part of
my key peaceful and calming and
rest. Yes.
I, I think you know like one time I was complaining to the Lord and I said, I get up I come I, I put out my Bibles my journal I want to spend time with you and I keep, I keep falling asleep but kept me from coming to him for so long, because I just for years
I would get up I go pray.
And, and so I was just so mad. I'm like, how do I not fall asleep.
And he said, Hillary when you're on some of you have likely heard this. When you're on a surgeon's table, and you do anything to help the surgeon.
He can do nothing to help you.
Just to put you out of the way. So he can take care of what needs to be repaired and healed and whatnot.
Be still.
And know that I am God.
And so I realized that sometimes when I'm in a scripture, and, you know, even I think, even to save me from my distraction sometime. He would just like.
Sometimes I need to just wake myself up,
but there's a whole other vision he showed me too
of what he does when he puts on a sleep
for those that come and wait upon him.
And it's so powerful and I'll share it.
I don't want to take time today
because we're already eight minutes past,
but I will share that with you
because it helped me not to, it helped me, he's God.
He's God.
And if you've come to him and you fell asleep
but your desire was pressing into him,
sometimes it's so that he can refresh you
and bring stuff to life in you and realign things
and actually just connect with you.
So, all right, so happy you're all here for the second day.
And so what I've done is kind of,
I loved that I got a chance to talk to Jill.
And so that was a lot of scripture yesterday
and a lot of me reading.
So I decided to put it into slide format
and just kind of not go through all those scriptures
but maybe add some more visual and we'll see if that helps.
I know it was a lot, but like the other thing,
like I tell people, your relationship can't,
with God can't be Sundays at church
because Sundays at church,
you're getting a piece of the revelation someone got.
Hopefully that's how they got their message,
but the revelation some got,
sitting in the presence of Jesus,
chewing on his word, studying in the scriptures,
meditating, contemplating, singing.
And so things come together and explode.
And then like you go to tell someone
and they're just like, you know,
and so like I had been in Daniel for a number of days
cause he just kept telling me to go there
and how he brought that together with the Beatitudes.
So I recognize that was your first taste
of what I had been consuming for a few days.
So we'll make it a little more exciting
with some slads.
So let me just pray and we'll go to his feet.
Abba, thank you so much.
Thank you for Jesus.
Thank you for Jesus,
the perfect manifested image of the unseen God
and yet now to us, Jesus, you're unseen yet you're a man.
And thankfully we have all these images of you
in your Jesus clothes and your Jesus hair.
It helps us to see you.
And you have given us our imagination
so that we may use it unto you in faith,
in vision, in pondering, in dreaming,
in forgiving, in hoping,
and in allowing you to speak to us words.
Thank you so much for that.
Words we can see.
Open our eyes so we can see.
Ask you to sanctify this time with the blood of Christ,
canceling every other plan of distraction,
of intrusion, of intimidation, of harassment.
And Lord, I invite all of your heavenly hosts,
all of the angels assigned to all of us
and this time and this sweet secrets of success
and your sermon on the mountain
and everything that you're wanting to accomplish
just to help make this space holy.
We have stepped aside like Moses stepped aside to say,
what is this?
What is this thing I feel?
What is this hunger, this desire, this longing in my heart?
What is this a word?
invitation put out it, I must see and I actually also want to
burn with that fire, that holy fire. So I thank you for helping
us turn away from all that real to what's originally real. And
that is everything in the spirit, everything you are all
that scene comes from unseen. So we want to meet with you,
spirit, soul and body, yielding all of our faculties, our
attention span, our, our energy, our focus, everything about us
to you so that you may renew our minds and heal our hearts and
transform our lives. We're in search of the one thing that's
needful. We don't come with a big list. We actually want you.
We want you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Okay, so all right, let
me share my screen. See how this goes.
We can see it. You can? Yeah. Oh, cool. I can see all of you.
This is so neat.
I see you guys on the side like a panel down the side. But four
fifths is your writing on the screen.
Okay, perfect. So because I have that that and then I just have
my regular screen of all your awesome faces. So this is
perfect. Okay, sweet secrets of success from the sermon on the
mountain. We are seeking the one thing, the one thing that's
needful. And I'm asking God to help us help us to even think
that way. I mean, first of all, we're, you know, humans with a
lot on our minds. Secondly, we're women like, how do you
think one thing I just don't even know.
So just having that ability to be single minded, single hearted
and please feel free to unmute all y'all's selves so that, you
know, we can interact in this. And so anyway, if anyone has any
revelations on one thing, I mean, I know, like, the more the
deeper I go in heart healing, the more united I become. The
last, you know, divergent activities going inside me. Oh,
Lord, okay.
One of the things Jesus said to me is, it's necessary to be a
devoted Mary, in order to be an excellent Martha.
Yeah, that's good. That's so good. That's part of that, like,
you know, the Lord knows, you know, I just think, yes, the Lord
knows things need to get done. So if he knows things need to
get done, then we can trust he knows when and how. And I think
a more productive Martha, a more obviously a more loving
Martha, considering more Martha selfless Martha. You know,
whatever you do, do the glory of God. Clearly, Martha was working
on the glory of herself. Not that I've ever been there like,
but, but I
know, I think that's, I think that is a good reminder, because
so many people just always say, you know, just be still and be
still. But I mean, Jesus wasn't still Paul wasn't still, none of
the apostles were still they moved and they worked hard. And
they were active. Yes, of course, the foremost thing is to
be close to the Lord. That's and I was always impressed by Heidi
Baker, because she'll take like two to four hours in the
morning, to just be close to the Lord when she has whatever 30,000
kids to feed, you know, so I you know, I get it. But at the
same time, I think we have to be
very careful to just some people, they just wait on the
Lord for half their life.
Yeah, I just was on today, Ingrid. That's such an excellent
point. I just was on today with Amy Nelson, you know, from our
room five. And she just came back from three months with the
whole. Oh, good. Yeah. What's Heidi Baker's ministries named
Harvest International. Of course, of course, I know. But
yeah, so Iris, and I just, I just positioned myself like
here, she'd been saturated in Israel and South Africa and
Wales, for the entire purpose of your right every day for three
and four hours. That's how they started their day. And she said
for the whole two weeks, they were in Israel. She just
observed how Heidi moved around, and taught and what she did
interacting with this place of the Lord. And, and of course,
the whole purpose of, of why they would press in was to
really hit heavenly places. And then they would be told, then
they're like, whoa. And then they would hear there is yet
more. And they would, they would think like, Oh, my gosh, I don't
know if I could stand and they press in and, and there they'd
be in, in, in deeper and more glory. And I just was like, I
don't know if you can feel it. But I am just pulling on you. I
am just pulling. I am positioned and pulling. I'm
hungry. And so I want you just to keep talking. I am just going
to keep drinking. And it was helping me understand like,
like, remember, Jesus said, who touched me, right, I felt the
power go out of me. And, you know, I, I, the same thing will
happen. I mean, not I'm not comparing myself, Jesus, but
like, when I'm talking to someone, and they're, you know,
I'm if it's my kids, I'm still often trying to push, push, you
will get this, you know. And by when, when somebody's not
hungry, you know, there's not a lot coming out of me. When
someone is hungry, I can just feel it. I don't have to come
up with anything. It is just flowing. It is just moving. And
I can tell people are hungry, I can feel it coming through me
out of me, you know. And so that's what I was doing. I was
just sucking on chill. I was just talking about how earlier I
was on for a while with Amy Nelson, just drawing from her
having just come back from her three months with Iris
International. And of course, they would just pursue the Lord.
There's one cool story. To both your points, Karen and Ingrid.
There's a pastor that, you know, like when someone goes to
request you as a friend, and you just look at Oh, yeah, I
know these people, they're probably safe, and you go ahead
and accept their friendship, right. And so there's a pastor,
she didn't know where this pastor was. Anyway, she's been
posting on her journey. And so while she was in Israel in the
first leg of the three months, this pastor was just watching,
and it was ministering to him. And he knew the itinerary that
they were coming to South Africa, and he was in South
Africa. And he said, Lord, let Amy come to our outreach. And
the Lord said, Do not make a request of her. I've heard you.
And so they left Israel, they were in South Africa, and
they're pressing in Lord, you know, where do you want us to
go? And of course, each person's prayer was Lord, go where you
help me go where you want me. And they're just pressing into
him. And to hear his heart to spend time with them and to be
saturated with them. And when they were presented with all of
the options, she said, I really feel like this place is pulling
me. And so she went, and the pastor was like,
I pray, I ask the Lord to send you here.
Is that like awesome?
He sees on Facebook someone in Israel
and says, Lord, have her come here.
So you're exactly right.
That's the thing is when we'll come to him
when he's our good shepherd, you know,
and we spend that time with him,
he will put us in that most fruitful focused living space
and we will accomplish so much more
than in our hamster wheels, you know?
The one thing, they just sought him
and then, you know, so good.
Okay, so this is us, just this visual of like,
you know, I'm really wanting us,
if he's inviting us to sit at his feet,
we've been hearing that term for years,
just continuing to understand inside our imaginations,
inside our heart, it just settled in us
what that means to us.
And so there are a few visuals here,
but this was one I really liked,
just seeing like all eyes are so absolutely upon him,
even the children.
And he is just, you know, so pleasant, so in love.
It's so easy to be in his presence
and every person is just like,
has the same expression he has.
It's, there's no work here, right?
Yet how much work, heaven's work is being done.
Come to me, all you who labor in a heavy laden.
I will give you rest for your souls.
So, I mean, the words that he's saying are everlasting life.
And yet it's this, this is what we're made for right here,
this fellowship with Jesus and with one another.
So, so Jill, I was sharing with everyone that we had talked
and my thought was, okay,
rather than me just like read from my revelation,
we'll just have some visual slides here
and see how, see if this helps.
So we're just gonna work on the first two Beatitudes.
Remember that Jesus saw the crowds.
So we're always thinking sweet secrets of success.
So that's, he wanted to have a successful mission,
a successful life for the glory of God,
wanted to have a successful relationship with God,
obviously success in his disciples,
success in exactly the words he should say,
the things he should do.
And so he just was in continuous communication
with his Abba, what should I say?
I have much to say to judge you now,
but he sent me his faithful and true.
So only what I tell, what he tells me,
that's what I tell the world.
And so just that ear and eye focused,
that's where he lived, he was abiding.
That's why he could tell us to abide.
So he sees the crowds
and he doesn't have to worry or wonder.
He sees, have you ever like seen yourself lie prostrate
or seen yourself go up and touch someone in a certain way
or seen yourself, like that's how I see,
like what I see the father doing.
So what I see myself doing in worship to him
or in service to him or in, that's what I go do.
And so it's not like I see God doing that.
Sometimes I'll see Jesus reaching to someone,
but so often the way I see it is I see it in myself
and then I know, oh, okay, that's what he's doing.
So I'll just do that.
I'll just raise my hands.
I'll just march around the house
and declare we have victory.
So I wanted to highlight this Daniel story
just keeps coming out to me.
So if someone wants to read just that first one
from Daniel chapter one of this position of purity
and humility, cause we're on, well, actually,
Someone read this Matthew 5, 3 first.
Who would like to read that?
Just go for it.
I can.
Blessed, happy to be envied and spiritually prosperous
with life, joy, and satisfaction in God's favor
and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions
are the poor in spirit,
the humble who rate themselves insignificant
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Amen.
Okay.
There's so much here.
So we're gonna hear these words over and over again
in the amplified, because I think it's so important
to understand that this blessedness,
it's a state of being.
It's a state of what we feel.
It's a state of our experience.
And it's actually the state of our testimony to others.
So we actually are to be envied by others.
We have deep satisfaction in God's favor and his salvation.
All this is more than enough for us who he is to us,
regardless of our outward conditions.
This is such a key.
The kingdom of God is within us.
And so here we're on the first key,
that God blesses those poor in spirit.
And of course, that's one of those,
when we listen in our English language,
those are one of those difficult sayings, like,
what the heck?
Like, that's like, what, orphan spirit?
What is that?
So I love this, the humble who rate themselves insignificant.
This doesn't mean false humility.
This doesn't mean I put myself down.
That's focus here.
So whether I'm acting in,
I'm talking about how insignificant I am,
or I'm, you know, feeling insignificant, that's me.
Shyness is pride.
You know, putting my, anything focused on me is pride.
Poor in spirit means,
why would I look at me when I could look at you?
Why would I think about me and my life and my situation?
Not that, I mean, of course that occurs to me all day long,
just like, just like God said to Joyce Meyer,
what about me?
What about me?
Like, you all wake up that way.
Like, it's like, so, and,
but when I, the more I behold him,
just the more love, the more goodness radiates onto me.
I don't come in myself.
It just all changes the more I know him.
And the less aware I am of me and my needs,
because I'm so aware of him and his goodness.
And this, of course, this is that process
we were talking about.
Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
So what, what does that mean?
Well, I just thought, here's a good example from Daniel.
So, all right, who would like to read Daniel 1.8,
the position of purity and humility before God?
I can.
But Daniel purposed in his heart
that he would not defile himself
with a portion of the king's meat,
nor with the wine which he drank.
Therefore, he requested of the prince of the eunuchs
that he might not defile himself.
Right, so he just says, like, give us vegetables and water.
Give us, we don't want all these dainties.
And, and, and, you know, we,
here again, we talked about this yesterday.
Daniel is in exile, a young man taken from his people,
from his land, from his manhood,
from his, you know, everything just,
and still his heart is to honor God.
He understands that, you know, this was all foretold.
And, and he had already given himself to God.
Once we've given ourselves to God,
it's like that Romans 12,
I beseech you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, that you would devote yourselves,
give yourselves, commit yourselves,
a living, a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable.
before God. I love how the Amplified puts it, all of your members and faculties
given over and surrendered to Him. They are all possessed of by Him. What I'm
going to think, what I'm going to pursue, how I'm going to be defined, what I what
what my real relationship shall be, where I live and why. All that given over so
that I can prove God's good and perfect and acceptable will of God being
transformed by the renewing of my mind into His image. I'm an image bearer. So
don't bear the image of the world. Don't be conformed to the world, to its culture,
to it, to the ways of this age. But be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
So they understand now they're brought as chosen young men into the king's palace,
into Nebuchadnezzar's palace, and they are given the best of his food and feast and provision.
But Daniel and Mishael and Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, I should remember their
Asheriah and something anyway, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, and Daniel, whom they named Belteshazzar,
they decide we don't want to lose who we are to God. We cannot defile
ourselves from God. They had already given themselves over to that. That way they didn't
have to decide day by day not to eat the things. They were just never going to go there because
they had already given themselves over. Okay, so hopefully that's not too many words to explain the
same thing. But all right, Daniel 1.17, look at how they receive the kingdom
and the power by separating themselves unto him and not feeding themselves. Okay.
If somebody wants to read that. I'll read it. Thank you. As for these four, God gave them
knowledge and skill and all learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and
dreams. And the king communed with them, and among them all was found none
like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in all
matters of wisdom and understanding that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times
better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm. And Daniel
continued even unto the first of the year of King Cyrus. That's like 70 years. That's the whole of the
time of the exile. And so yes, among them all. Now I can't even remember. I think it actually says like
of all the young men. It might even give a number in that first verse of Daniel. I'm not
sure first or second or so verse of Daniel, but or the first few verses. But of all of those that
were chosen young men and taught the language of the Chaldeans and taught the culture and
and taught the ways and taught skills, they separated themselves unto God in the midst of
them working, mind you, doing all this work, doing all their studies, doing all these things. They
received from God supernatural kingdom skills, wisdom and understanding. And so of all the young
men that had been brought, none were found. And here are their original names like Daniel, Hananiah,
Mishael and Azariah. And so here they humbled themselves. They considered it wasn't about them.
It wasn't about their entitlement, about their talent, about what was taken from them, about
it was all about God. They just didn't rate themselves in the matter. They just honored God.
And he abundantly gave to them kingdom. And literally here they were exalted
in the greatest kingdom on the earth at the time.
So blessed are the poor in spirit. Theirs is the kingdom of God. And here in Isaiah 57, 15,
if you guys would just read these three verses and just like even feel free to accentuate what
each says to you. But well, actually, there are four verses here. But just thinking about
blessed are the poor in spirit. So I'm blessed when I'm poor in spirit.
and spirit. And it's tough, because if I'm thinking, am I
poor in spirit, I'm already like thinking. But understanding,
you know, the thought of that helps me realize, you know, it's
kind of like looking into the mirror of the Word, looking into
Proverbs, okay, I'm, I can tell I'm on the foolish side of this
equation. Or I thank God, I'm on the wisdom side of this
equation, Lord, that's your doing in me. I know, that's the
growth that you've given me. So. So okay, if you guys would
just go ahead and grab one verse at a time. Isaiah. It's okay, if
you've already spoken, or, you know, just
you're asking us to read. Yep.
For thus says the one who is high in the pit up, who inhabits
eternity, whose name is holy, I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit to
revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the
contrite.
Look at that. I dwell in the high and holy place. And also
with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit to revive the
spirit of the lowly to revive the heart of the contrite. And
so, you know, here, we are like, you know, his name is holy,
everything about him is holy. And when we don't rate
ourselves, holy or significant or worthy or anything, he comes
in with all of his holiness, with all of his worthiness, with
all of his goodness with all of the value he holds in himself,
and for us, and that's what fills us. That's our
significance is his significance shared with us. So as we're
positioned here with the Lord, and in life, in all
relationships, it just removes all entitlement, and all the
need to get in position and jockey. When, when, ah, if I
just come to him, he positions me with himself in himself. Does
does anyone have any? Does this is this clear? Like, like, he'll
do it. My position is him. My value is him. My rights, him,
my, you know, I just, I'd so much rather spend my time on the
eternal one, the Holy One. And this is making me hungrier. For
that I just see like, wow, the life I've wasted pursuing
things for myself, when I think I've been living in the backyard
digging in the dirt when there's, you know, there's a
massive unlimited expense. Okay, James two kind of quotes this
verse.
But there's a expectation in our culture to be doers. So if
someone said to you, what did you do this morning? Oh, I spent
time with God, we'd be seen as lazy, we'd be seen as not being
productive in our time, we'd be seen as by people who don't
understand that, that's not a worldly expectation of that.
So to that, we just say, like, who I know, right? You know,
that's like, that's, that's the big. That's the fear of man. And
the fear of man is always a snare. So it's totally true. But
that's like, just shows you, if I conform to that, I'm a loser,
where am I going? You know what I'm saying? Like, Oh, yeah, I'm
so impressive. I'm busy. I mean, whenever, like, my nephew was
young, and he said, Auntie, you're always busy, aren't you?
I was like, that's so disgusting. Like, my nephew
isn't saying Auntie, you're always so fun, or Auntie, like,
you seem to be like, you know, if so many friends are
accomplishing so much, and I was just like, Oh, my gosh, that's
like, that's like, Oh, good. I'm spinning all the time. Oh, yes,
and I just thought that I don't want that.
Exactly. I don't want that. So what's cool is if we're the moon and we're reflecting the light of the sun and they're all under that dominion of darkness in the law of sin and death, which we were dead in our trespasses too, trying to find value, trying to get acceptance,
trying to be impressive, trying to be in some kind of position, trying to avoid pain, trying to gain pleasure. Those are the heights of narcissistic life.
And so when they say, that's all you did, we can just smile with a face full of mercy like Jesus has for us, you know, and they can ask us questions or they can go on their way.
I'm learning not to react to the things people say, because it's a trap. And so when people do say things, and I don't have to defend myself, I don't have to position myself, it's actually what they said is still hanging there in the air.
That's right. It's more a thought than an actual encounter, though. You know, it's like culture and our relationship in the kingdom is two diverse things.
Yeah. I mean, come to me. All you who labor and are heavy laden. I mean, we think it's a badge of honor to worry, to work, to go sleepless and oh my gosh, like, no, I mean, I have to learn how to sleep. That's a big thing for me.
And, and it's going to make me so much more productive like I've, you know, Shabba. So, anyway, I.
What is that something I don't know.
When, when something's happening my husband's driving and I'm like, how's your friends, like, I don't know things come out, they don't really bring in times. Okay.
All right, James to five who wants to read.
Oh, sorry I started. Go ahead. Yeah, keep yourself unmuted so that just somebody can dive in and it's okay just we're at we have plenty more to read.
Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him.
And I thought, Okay, you're climbing the ladder. And as I think it was john Maxwell and heard it from first like what if you find out all your life you've been climbing the ladder and the ladders leaning against the burning building, and you're all the way up.
Right.
So,
it's like, you know,
whom do I do anything to impress you know for whom do I do anything to impress. So, what, what is the purpose of my activity.
Who, who is it here God is saying, like, those who are poor in the world here's another beautiful way of saying poor in spirit like I'm not huffed up.
Because of my academic degrees, because of my titles in life because of my experiences, because of my networking and people I know, the beach across.
You know just I just laugh at that because people like don't rub it in like no it's so new to me. Anyway, there's me, that's me see I'm talking about me.
When it's just not, you know, me puffed up with anything well I been there or I know that or I. And, and it's just, that's rubbish as Paul said, everything he had achieved and known and possessed it was done was poop.
So, God gives to those who are instead rich in faith for him.
the kingdom. That's his desire is to share his kingdom, that
his kingdom comes, his love, the ways of his purity and
faithfulness. And just think about that. If his kingdom is
alive in me, if his ways are alive in me, his generosity, his
wisdom, his knowledge, his peace, his joy, his patience,
come on, his faithfulness, his self-control. I mean, I mean,
then, I mean, think of just the world around me. Oh, so good.
Okay. Oh, see, when we get him, we get so much more. I don't
have to go learn one thing at a time. It all is given. That's a
cool revelation, huh? When we get the kingdom, and he says
that, why do you go after clothes? Why do you go after
food? Why are you chasing after money? Like you don't have a
God? You know, just your father knows, just seek his kingdom.
What's right to God? He possesses, is given to you
besides all these things that he already knows you need. Is that
awesome? You don't have to learn how to get them one at a time.
Okay. Oh, man. Kingdom equals everything. Yes. We're ready for
Luke 4.8. Yeah, go ahead. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me
because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and
recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are
oppressed.
That's the kingdom, right there, guys. So not only everything I
need. I'm looking at the time. I have so many more slides. Okay.
The kingdom is time. Infinite amounts of time, right? So, um,
look at that in his kingdom. You know, those he said, you know,
God has not God chosen those who are poor in the world. He's got
good news for those that are poor, in whatever way we're
poor, but especially if we're just not all puffed up, and all
that. He's got good news, liberty, recovery of sight,
vision, right? And, you know, freedom from all oppression.
That's that freedom from the world, regardless of the world
around you. Like, who could oppress Jesus? All of Israel
were the slaves and property of Romans. And all of the people
were subject to this religious bondage as well. And so much,
but who could oppress them? Look at Daniel, who could oppress
him? He was so given over, he was so yielded. Like I love Paul
says, I'm the bond servant of Jesus, James, Peter, I'm the
bond servant, I'm the slave of Jesus Christ. And in that
totally given over, they found all the freedom, all of the
provision, all of the does it mean they weren't surrounded by
difficulty? I mean, we can't say that in Paul's life, Peter's
life, James life, not any of them. Okay, last one here.
Can I just say something really quick? I, I, yeah, that's so
powerful. Like, like you're saying, Paul's life, right? He
didn't change literally. And he just his responses worship, and
then the chains break off, and then someone gets saved. It's
like, like, yes, Lord, like, let me just let me learn to live in
that place. But it also reminded me of a personal encounter with
a personal encounter with the Lord. I think I shared this with
you Hillary before, but it was just like, I found myself, like,
I was a Pharisee, a married Pharisee, I found myself in
this really, like, rough place in my marriage. And I'm like,
hiding in the closet trying to encounter Jesus. And my husband
stood over just like a look of disapproval. And, um, and the
Lord said to me in that moment of just like, just not a safe,
you know, not a safe, loving, nothing.
miserable in my mindset, oppressed in my, right, in just like my thinking of like,
oh dear God, I signed up for life for this, and it's just like, ah!
But, but, he spoke into my heart right in that moment, into his spirit,
I have freedom for you right here. Right here.
Doesn't matter what we're experiencing externally.
There is, there is a place where we are completely free.
And it may be a journey and a process but, oh my goodness, it's so glory.
And you know what, let's not lose this, all this, blessed, happy, to be envied,
spiritually prosperous, spiritually prosperous, not dry, not, not isolated,
not, you know, just with life, joy and satisfaction in God's favor.
It's okay if we don't have man's favor. It's okay.
I mean, so often we're, we're in the situation we're in because it's a situation.
Because it actually needs somebody who will cry out to God
and allow him to bring his kingdom in the situation.
And we find ourselves in those situations and think, what?
You will do this to my life? My life, my one life.
Those were actually my words.
You're actually going to, you're, you're going to treat me like this?
My life? Like, I actually was there.
And that's not poverty of spirit.
That's like, you're a dirt bag because you're doing this to me.
Instead of, oh wow, you're stuck. You're trapped.
You're poor. You're whatever.
And so now, like, I know the Redeemer.
So that's what Daniel positioned himself to do.
That's what Jesus positioned himself to do.
That's what Paul positioned him to him, you know, himself to do.
It's like, you're going to put me in prison?
No, he, he praised God.
You know, back torn to shreds in rat poo, whatever else was there.
And so he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's,
he's just, he's just can't even imagine.
And he is.
And he's bringing that he realizes.
This is why I'm here. These people are oppressed.
These people are blind. These people are captive.
These people are poor.
This is why I'm here.
When it's not about us, when it is about him, we're so free.
So he really wants that for us.
To feel his joy, to bring his joy.
Why do we need it from the Holy spirit?
Why, why.
When we are,
whether we're in a marriage or a neighborhood or the DMV.
Why do we need love from the Holy spirit?
Because there isn't any where we are.
Why do we need the kindness of God?
Because it's not found where we are.
Why do we need his patience?
His peace.
His faithfulness is joy.
Because it's so desperately needed.
That's this verse you just read.
Why do we need love from the Holy spirit?
Because it's not found where we are.
Why do we need his patience?
His faithfulness is joy.
The Lord is upon me.
Why to tell you all that you all fall short.
You're a bunch of miserable, negative.
Complaining scoundrels.
Selfish in all your ways.
No.
Because you're poor and you need good news.
Because you're, you're,
you're in prison and you need deliverance.
You think you can see, but you need sight.
Because you're in prison and oppressed and you need deliverance.
Isn't that something.
This is why we go to him.
Already we get to be transformed into his image.
Okay. Carrie McFadden.
Matthew 1125.
Oh,
Hopefully I don't fumble.
I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and rebuild them to the little children.
You know, the secrets of God.
All the preciousness of God, the wisdom of God, the life of God
that's given to those who come as children.
Hungry, dependent, anticipating, needy.
So I'm seeing the time. So this is where we'll now just like head into an encounter with the Lord.
Lord, I thank you so much for what you're teaching us.
And I thank you for how you're showing us how you would go even to your own father in those wee hours, either all night long or early in the morning when it was still dark, or those times you would you would disappear.
And you would go set with the Father.
Knowing that every person you knew on the earth,
they had nothing for you.
They needed everything from you.
And you just kept drawing near and deeper, more trusting, more yielded, more obedient, more loving, more devoted to the Father.
Before you were a living sacrifice.
Before you were the slain sacrifice.
Lord, here we are.
Would you show us what it looked like for you
to pray to the Father when you were living amidst such neediness, such desperate neediness?
Would you help us catch a glimpse, an impression, something of what it was like for you?
Would you show us what it was like for you to pray to the Father when you were living amidst such neediness, such desperate neediness?
How?
Lord, would you show us what it would be like for us to join you?
Is there anything that you want to highlight tonight, Lord, that we could entrust to you
for living in that place with you?
And would you fill us, would you fill us with what you're showing us of your kingdom?
Make this so real in us.
Make this a part of our lives.
Bring this word to life in us, Lord.
Seal this.
Take us even deeper.
Take us into this rest.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
Wow.
Any shares?
What he showed me is to be in the kingdom means to walk naturally, supernatural.
That sounds like a cliche, but one of the things Jesus impresses upon me is he knew his whole plan through his everything.
He knew Judas would betray him.
He knew every step of the way.
He knew the disciples.
He knew to seek out Paul.
As he walked with the Lord and the Lord showed him what to do, I call that naturally supernatural because he humbled himself as a man and came to earth.
But he was supernatural all the way.
And so as we connect ourselves with the Lord, we can do the same for the Lord to work through us and reveal all things.
As he was in this earth, aren't we?
As he was, so are we in this earth.
Yeah.
That's so good.
The kingdom is walking naturally supernatural with him.
Thank you, Karen.
Thank you.
something to share.
And I, when you asked how he walked amongst the weary and the
needy and how he felt, I just felt like the scripture, the joy
of the Lord is my strength. And he just he lived unto sealed by
his joy. And then when he said, What does it look like when we
when we walk with him, and I got an instant picture of he and I
like after they pronounce you man and wife, you walk down the
aisle so jubilant with holding your flowers. And it was like,
not not like, look at us like this. But it was like, the
bride, the church, the bride connected to him and just
sharing in his life like a bride and a groom.
That's so good. That's so good. And it's all his idea. I just
love that.
Go ahead, Gary.
Well, I, what came to mind is, when Jesus, we read in the
Bible, Jesus would pull away and he'd go into the quiet spots to
spend time with the Lord. But with the exception of in the
garden of Gethsemane, where he asked the Lord, take this cup
from me, if it's your will. We don't get these long
dissertations of Jesus asking all that talk, doing all this
talking with the Lord, right, like going through his list of
all his concerns and his worries. And, you know, we don't
get any of that. So what if it's really just solitude? I
mean, the Lord knows what we need. And it's just the being
and that's where, you know, that he tells us to rest in him. And
that's where the refreshment and the restoration and everything
comes from. And when you ask the question, what would it be like
if we did that with him, I immediately saw him on a couch
and me bouncing on the couch with him. And we're just sitting
back, like on a couch relaxing, right? Like, it's casual. It's
like, almost like hanging out with a buddy kind of thing. But
nothing, you know, stressed or wound up or none of that, like
angst or anything about that at all.
That's so good.
It just reinforces, you know, we've been to Ibiza, I told you
about that. I was just reading Spore saying I'm reading that
book, Solitude and Silence, it's reinforcing that whole
aspect of that.
You know, I saw I saw God on the couch too. When when Hillary
when you when you asked, How is it? How did Jesus pray to God? I
thought, yeah. And, and I felt like he really trusted God. What
more than I did, I'm sure I do. And, and then I felt like he
probably thought God was really, really close. And I always
imagine God, like up in heaven somewhere, you know, and, and
God says, No, it's like, it's like, if you trust somebody, you
talk to somebody that sits on the couch next to you, and you
talk to them, and then you trust them more, because the person is
closer. So and then you said that carried. So that really
that that's another confirmation for me, because I
really believe in confirmation that I need to take. Yeah, I
need to bring God a little bit closer. Because ultimately,
that's all God wants is trust. It's faith. That's all God wants
from us is faith and trust. And I can trust him better when he
sits on the couch over there, instead of, you know, high in
heaven. So yeah, I'm gonna have to hang on to that. And then God
also told me to not ever try and figure things out on my own
anymore before asking him. I was trying to wreck my brain and
like when I could just ask God and so yeah, that spoke to me
too. Nice. That's awesome. Okay, so cool. Anyone else?
When we asked that first question, I just, you know, just
really like, just connecting with Jesus. As a man having
given up so much, like humbled himself so much. He he spoke to
me the spirit of wisdom and revelation allowed me to
perceive at a heart level. And it filled me with compassion.
And he was just showing me how I've been tiny bit scratching
the surface tapping into that as I've been pursuing heart
healing I'm like
my gosh these people are just responding from their pain like I can now be compassionate towards
their horrible responses to me like it's so crystal clear now that I know now that I
understand what's going on and not that I understand everyone's heart to the level
that he did of course it's just I've tasted a little bit of that and and he said
abundance mindsets right like the mind of Christ there is no lack in his mind in the
father's mind in the son's mind like abundance mindsets because because you specifically said
among such neediness and I was reminded Hilary of your conversation with the Lord about like
I want you to learn to love you know my grace for their neediness and their need of my grace
right like like that is what I was like it was kind of in that atmosphere I was reminded of
that and that's where he's speaking to me from that place of like I just was filled with
compassion and he said abundance mindsets kept the flow on like you know the spirit rested on him
and never left like he he walked in perfect holiness and he never like quenched or grieved
the spirit with dumb whack thoughts right like those are from the enemy and so what he reminded
me of is this um recent encounter where trying to remember what I asked him in that moment
it was he was showing me that there was stuff that he was showing me like the river of God
that flows from the throne and and a friend that I was praying with was like wow that river like
you know you see it in this bible verse and that bible verse but we have to remember it's not like
some far-off place it's also like the throne of our heart like he is enthroned in our heart so
there's a river of God within us right and so we're asking like what can what can we agree with
rather than the lie I've been agreeing with I repented of that and then this was his his
response to me of like now what can I agree with um and he showed me like this tapping in like
the river of God he showed me John was it John 7 somewhere in there um the the flow of the spirit
but he showed like he became a bartender and I'm like I I've never even spent time in a bar like
this isn't my you know this isn't how I expected you to relate to me I literally had to go ask
my sister what what do you know about something being on tap because I know nothing in the natural
like this doesn't mean as much to me as someone who's spent a lot of time in a bar but anyway
it was so insightful her because it's all like this all ties into the abundance mindset of like
the flow like and I love what she said she's like so it means there's an unlimited supply
somewhere underneath the bar and I'm like yes that's exactly what I needed to hear
and so just he was just reminding me of like Devin it's on tap like you when you have that mindset
that there's no lack you don't have limited resources because he showed me as a bartender
he's like oh and it was like almost like the storehouse of heaven it was like limit like
just infinite right like it was like oh you need self-control it's on tap like and it was so good
and so what my heart needed I guess anyway it didn't didn't resonate with me in the natural
but I was like that is a picture that I'm gonna fully grab hold of to see in the midst of the
neediness instead of being overwhelmed by the neediness I'm be overwhelmed by the goodness
that's on hold on hey man wow that's so good
by the goodness on tap
rather
I had forgotten that thank you for reminding me Hillary love my grace to
meet their neediness and love their neediness for my grace I have forgotten that thank you
for remembering Devin Jill did you want to share you don't have to yeah um I'm a very visual person
so I and I've been really enjoying the chosen lately so for me he was in that land and you had
contextualize it saying that in a in a place where the people had nothing
for him and needed everything from him. He'd go out to pray. And so at first I saw him
underwater in the river and I could hear the molecules of the water like reverberating
this beat. And then he stood up on this hill and all of nature sang. So there was this
praise. When we couldn't offer it, when humanity could offer him nothing, nature praised him.
And so I could just see him just drinking this in. Father, Son, Holy Spirit right there.
This is his creation. And it's still a sinful one, but this nature that didn't necessarily
need anything from him in that moment just praised him. Then he was sitting on a log
where people walked by and he could hear the thoughts of everybody that came by. And it
began to get louder and louder and louder. And then he just closed his eyes and it's
like he did like almost a 360 around. And all that sound came blurry to silence and
single voices he would hear. And the Holy Spirit was highlighting who he was going to
be reaching. So this is where I'm working and this is where you're going to go and this
is not necessarily a timeline, but highlighting the voice and the thought in the hearts of
who he was going to be seeing that day. And then just about that time, sun, sunrise. And
it was, it was this, this supernatural interaction of him with nature's just right over there.
So it was, it was beautiful. And I was like, can I join you? And so, you know, the question,
what does it look like if I join you on this? And he said, join in with nature and listen
to listen to how nature sings to me and sing with it. And then stand in a room and close
your eyes and let the sound blur down and let the Holy Spirit highlight. And that's
the person I want you to talk to. Like, okay.
Oh, don't you just love how like,
how different each?
Yes. This is what, um, so mine was so similar to like, I kind of had pieces of a lot of
these things. But the first thing he said was kind of what what came to Jill cook to was,
I fed on the father's joy. That was my strength. I fed on the father's joy. I played at the
father's feet. Like a child. I, I mourned and I cried for all I saw. I cried out for all I
needed. I expressed my dependence. I spoke the word. I let him love and hold and comfort and
fill and minister to me. Then we you know, all of God, then we got up from prayer together and
went on our way. So it's kind of like, you know, if you've seen me, you've seen the father, for it's
he that does the work like Ingrid, you were saying, he was actually with the father, the
father, you know, even though the father is in heaven, by through the Holy Spirit, you know, this
was just amazing. So, okay, what would it look like, if I were to join you? Well, you would play
with us. And we would teach you and we would all soak together. And we would love you. Just like a
child needs all of these things to be taught, to be loved, to be held, to soak, to play. And how can I
join you? And he said, come Hillary. It's just that, that simple. And like, yeah, Jesus, everything he
needed, he got from, he got from the father. And that's how he knew childlikeness. That's how he
knew recovery of sight. That's how he knew good news for the poor. That's how he knew the kingdom.
That's how he knew revival of spirit and, and God being the holy place.
dwelling with those that come to him. He personally experienced all of that, you know,
blessedness and life joy and spiritual prosperity and enviable happiness despite his outward
circumstances. Okay, wow, we are going deep. This is so good. I just love you guys.
To me, it's really reassuring all those Bible verses earlier too about, you know, it goes on
and on. He really likes the ones that are poor in spirit, you know, and don't have their act
all together, you know, and I'm like, yeah, that's me. That's pretty good, you know.
Those are the ones he chose, you know. All the 12 disciples are like, that's kind of cool,
you know. It's like, you know, I'm like this horrible perfectionist and it's like I should
not have all the ducks in a row because like Pedro said, they're never in a row.
His ducks are never in a row. And it's so freeing to know he actually wants people who are
not that self-confident or not that full of themselves that are just, you know, that
are teachable, I guess, and that still listen to him, whatever his reasons. But it's nice to know
that he is not only looking for the polished and that we are not expected to have a fully
polished product right out of the gate. Otherwise, he would not pick people like this.
Well, look at 2 Corinthians where Paul's like, for crying out loud, Jesus, this thorn in my
flesh, this irritation, this stumbling block for me, like, I've already asked you three times,
take it away. And Jesus says, he says these completely enigmatic things until they become
revelation. My grace is sufficient for you. Like everything you need, you have in me.
My strength is made perfect in weakness. My strength, all the power and capacity
of heaven is nothing. It's only perfected when someone needs his strength, cries out to him,
cries out to him. And then, and then he gets to rest on them. That's why Paul goes into that,
you know, those, those verses I so hated. Choice and impermanence, persecutions, and I'm like,
you could have quit with the grace, horrible things. I just get so excited because then I'm
like persecution. He just knows that his king is coming riding in on his white horse. Cause he's
like, this is what it's for. This is what the grace is for. And so like, it's for the thorn in
our flesh. It's for that person that's, that's, that's, that's irritating. It's for that weakness
of ours. It's for like, you know, just, um, this is what, this is why we come like, this is what
he's known that all along, just like Jesus didn't try to do it on his own. He needed the father,
he needed the Holy spirit. He needed, you know, they, they're one. So we're, we're folded into
that perichoresis that dance that, that, you know, circle of absolute love.
All right. Okay. This is good. Good. Awesome. Okay. I love you guys. See you tomorrow. I'm
so excited. I just feel like, wow, we're like, we're just barely scratching the surface. I'm
so excited. Okay.
All right. See y'all tomorrow. God bless. Peace.