for a sec. Okay. Yay. All right. We are live. Let me. Hi, Jill.
Hi. How was everybody's weekend?
So good. Went cross-country skiing in the sunshine yesterday. Oh, it was just
beautiful. I imagine. That is awesome. And the sun is so good for you. I mean,
in Florida you get it all the time, but up north here, you know, we gotta go out even in wintertime.
Where are you from, Ingrid? Ohio. It's actually snowy today. So beautiful.
We were driving around in the snow the whole afternoon. Nice.
We had shorts and t-shirts on.
Check on you. Yeah. That's the life. In Saskatchewan, shorts and t-shirts at plus one.
It's still so, you know, like I still get like, I just still live here. You know,
like we walked out of the store and it's like, we're looking at palm trees. This is so good.
So, all right. Well, happy Sunday night. This is day eight and we're in Matthew 5-8. So I thought
that's kind of cool. It could be that. I don't know. We're like, I like the number eight. It's
a new beginnings number. And so I just think like, you know, God's been taking us pretty deep.
And can you guys hear me? I'm just going to mute you, Ingrid. Yes. Sorry. Excuse us.
Oh, it's Devin. Oh, sorry about that. It was Devin. No problem. Sorry. I thought it was Ingrid.
Um, no problem at all. No, no problem. Um, so I just think like, you know, we've taken two weeks
just diving deep into the foundation of this Beatitudes upon which we'll see everything else
in the Sermon on the Mount is built. And one thing he's showing us just as he's showing us,
I mean, I know this is Devin's third. I think it's my mom's fourth Sweet Secrets deep dive.
And, um, and we've never done this in the book of Daniel yet. We've never, um, paralleled it this
way. Every single time is different. And what he's showing us is that these are the Sweet
Secrets of success for everyone for all time for him. And, um, they're just surefire failproof
ways, principles, um, word of God. So I'm really super excited about tonight because
who doesn't want purity of heart and the fact that, well, why don't I pray and then we'll just
go read the scriptures and go deep. Okay. Yay. Hi, Carrie. And hi, Devin behind your, your deep.
Your deep. Okay. Oh, Father, thank you so much. So much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you that
you're good. You're glorious. Everything you may. I mean, you tell us that you understood that
everything you made was good. Good. Good. Good. It was so good. It was very, very good.
And, and you are good. And you invite us to taste and see your goodness.
Everything you declare that you do is good. Even, even the
Friday, even the Friday of the Passover lamb,
your Passover lamb sacrifice, Jesus on the cross,
we know it to be good Friday
because of what you and he got to do that day
to make things good for all of us who just couldn't.
Couldn't, couldn't find good, couldn't do good,
couldn't reach good, couldn't think good.
You're perfect and you're pure
and you make us your offspring and we welcome you.
We welcome you King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
We welcome you beloved.
We welcome you to preside.
We welcome you Holy Spirit to help our hearts connect
in gratitude with this living word
that you may bring it to life in us.
And we welcome you Father, Heavenly Father,
that you may teach us how to see your face.
Bring glory to your name.
Bring us into a whole new place today.
We're hungry for the so much more of God in Jesus name.
Amen.
Hello mama.
Okay.
Okay, let me share my screen.
I don't know, I have such an excitement today.
So I am filled with anticipation for what God will do today.
And let me share.
And I so wish I could see you all.
Oh, I wish I could put it on my computer, my Mac book.
We'll try and fix that tomorrow.
Sorry that there was a whole mix up in timing
and so Michael couldn't get there Friday.
Okay.
Alrighty, here we are.
Sweet secrets, sweet, sweet, sweet secrets of success
from the Sermon on the Mount.
Okay, who would like to read Matthew 5, 8?
I will, because I cannot read the other one.
It's too small on my phone.
I'm like, yeah, my old eyes.
Blessed, happy, enviably fortunate,
and spiritually prosperous.
Possessing the happiness produced
by the experience of God's favor
and especially conditioned by the revelation of his grace
regardless of their outward conditions
are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
Couldn't you just weep for they shall see God.
And so, how is it talk about a success principle?
They shall see God.
And it's one thing to lay eyes on the most high.
Which we all desire to do, right?
Prove it to me, right?
Show me some signs.
I need to experience this for myself.
Show me.
Happy, enviably fortunate, spiritually prosperous,
possessing a happiness produced
by the experience of God's favor
and especially conditioned by the revelation of his grace
regardless of their outward conditions
are the pure in heart because they see God.
in themselves. They see what he's doing. They see God in his word.
We can watch birds fly and snow fall and waves crash on the shore and see God.
We can see God in others, in the kind things they do, or even down deep underneath, beneath
the unkind things that they do. There's something that happens to our eyes,
the eyes of our spirit, when our hearts are purified by his blood.
We can see God when we wake up in the miracle of a new day, new mercies, new opportunity
to go see him, new years. Even at the end of the day, when we can practice
just giving him thanks for those things that we couldn't have done on our own or that he
empowered us to accomplish. There are so many good reasons to give thanks.
As we go through this lesson, I am asking him to challenge us in that definition of
seeing God, because he does want us to see him, but he wants us to recognize him.
That's what happens at the tree of life. What was it like for Adam and Eve to hear
the Lord coming? What did that sound like? How could they tell he was near?
Just recently, I read something else. Lord, help me remember. I forgot all about it, but
it was the same. It was like the same scripture, some other part. It was like they could hear
him coming. Oh, yeah. It may have been Ezekiel or it may have been Daniel, actually, later
in the chapter. Anyway, one of them was by the river when the Lord showed up with a revelation
and none of the others could see the vision, the angel that had presented himself, but
they could hear. They could hear that he was there and they went and hid themselves just
like in the Garden of Eden. Isn't that something? Daniel's purity of heart, I think it was in
Daniel. I'm sure we'll find out. His purity of heart allowed him to see and not flee.
The others who did not have the same purity of heart could sense that God was there and
ran and hid themselves just like in the Garden of Eden when they no longer had purity of
heart, had eaten from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, denying
God, agreeing with some lack in him. That shows an impurity of heart because there is
no lack in him. We have a lot of Daniel to read. I've taken from pieces of this chapter
six because it so struck me. Even two verses from now, this will be also appropriate, but
I just loved how the story of how Daniel had a purity of heart which gave him an excellent
spirit which nobody could find fault with, which gave him favor and so many visions and
so much humility of heart to seek God. But it also impacted the sovereignty over him.
And in between Belteshazzar and King Darius was Belshazzar, the son of Nebuchadnezzar.
in between Nebuchadnezzar and Darius. So there was Nebuchadnezzar's son who was
Belshazzar, who did not have purity of heart, and he was put in the balance.
And he had a huge fear when he saw that, you know, many
tackled, you know, just sorry for the misquote, the writing on the wall. I don't remember what
it was. But like the life, the stability, he was completely devoid of any strength or confidence.
He was filled with fear. And he had no relationship with Daniel. And we find out from that
when his wife approached him and tells him about Daniel. So he calls on Daniel first time ever
since he had begun serving and said, my wife tells me this. And Daniel is pretty sharp with him.
And he said, your father experienced this and you knew that. And then he said, you've been,
you know, he gives the translation of the vision. And then he said, you have been placed
in the balance and found wanting. You don't measure up. So the kingdom is taken from you.
That night he's murdered. Darius becomes king. Darius is sensitive like Nebuchadnezzar was
to the spirit of the Lord inside Daniel. And Daniel has an impact on Darius, which gives him,
because of that, he just has this pure heart toward Daniel and the God of Daniel. So this
is really awesome. So this will take two pages. So, you know, one person can read this part and
then, and I've kind of, you know, pieced together verses. So we're skipping over some of the details,
but, and then we will go and have the same amount to finish up the chapter of six. So
whoever would like to start reading here, that would be awesome. I can see it on my phone.
Oh, great. Awesome. Tell me when to stop. Just read that, read everything you can see under Daniel.
It pleased King Darius to set over the kingdom 120 satraps who should be in charge throughout
all the kingdom and over them three presidents of whom Daniel was one so that the king should have
no loss or damage. Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the
satraps because an excellent spirit was in him and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
Then the presidents and the satraps sought to bring accusations against Daniel concerning the
kingdom, but they could find no fault for he was faithful, nor was there any error in him.
Found in him. Then these presidents and satraps came maliciously together to the king and said
to him, King Darius live forever. All the leaders of your kingdom have consulted and agreed
that the king should establish a firm royal decree that whoever shall petition any god or man
for 30 days except you, oh king, shall be cast into the den of lions.
Now, oh king, establish the decree and sign the writing that it may not be changed
according to the law of Medes and the Persians which cannot be altered.
So King Darius signed the writing and the decree.
When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house, opened the windows in the
times of the day as he was accustomed. Oh, and he went for a sup mom, I mean one lineup.
Oh, opened the windows in his chamber.
In this chamber toward, oh sorry, toward Jerusalem. I moved it too quickly. Toward
Jerusalem, he opened his windows in his chamber toward Jerusalem.
Toward Jerusalem, as he had done every day. Got down on his knees to pray and give thanks before
God three times a day as he was accustomed. Then these men came thronging and found Daniel
praying before his God. And they said to the king, Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah,
does not regard you, oh king. When the king heard these words, he was much distressed
over what he had done and set his mind to deliver Daniel, laboring until the sun went down to rescue
him.
These same men came thronging to the king saying,
no, O king, that it is the law of Medes and Persians
that no decree of statute which the king establishes
may be changed or repealed.
So the king commanded, and Daniel
was cast into the den of lions.
The king said to Daniel, may your God,
whom you are serving continually, deliver you.
Amen.
OK, going down.
OK.
All right, who wants to continue here?
Sorry, I didn't change that title up there.
And a stone was brought and laid upon the moth of the den.
And the king sealed it with his own signet
and with the signet of his lords that there
might be no change of purpose concerning Daniel.
Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting.
Neither were instruments of music or dancing girls
brought before him, and his sleep fled from him.
King Darius arose very early in the morning
and went in haste to the den of lions.
When he came to the den and to Daniel,
he cried out in a voice of anguish,
O Daniel, servant of the living God,
is your God, whom you serve continually,
able to deliver you from the lions?
Then Daniel said to the king, O king, live forever.
My God has sent his angel and has shut the lions' mouths
so they have not hurt me because I
was found innocent and blameless before him and also before you.
O king, as you very well know, I have done no harm or wrong.
King Darius was exceedingly glad and commanded
that Daniel should be taken up out of the den.
So Daniel was taken up out of the den,
and no hurt of any kind was found on him
because he believed in and relied on,
adhered to, and trusted in his God.
And the king commanded, and those
men who had accused Daniel were brought and cast
into the den of lions, they, their children, and their wives.
Before they ever reached the bottom of the den,
the lions had overpowered them and had
broken their bones in pieces.
Then King Darius wrote to all peoples, nations,
and languages in his realm that dwelt in all the earth.
May peace be multiplied to you.
I make a decree that in all my royal dominion,
men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel
for he is the living God, enduring and steadfast forever.
And his kingdom shall not be destroyed,
and his dominion shall be even to the end of the world.
He is a savior and deliverer, and he
works signs and wonders in the heavens and on the earth.
He who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
So this man Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius
and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Praise God.
So we're going to go on to the other scriptures,
but this way I can see everyone's faces.
And just one thing that's been so stunning for all of us
from day one as God has brought us into this Sermon
on the Mount, into these Beatitudes
through the story of Daniel, is the shocking contrast
between Daniel's circumstances, which really
can't be compared to our circumstances, right?
And the life that he lives because his heart
is humble and pure before God and penitent and filled
with the fear of the Lord.
I'm sure he was a student, a continuous student
of the Proverbs.
I'm sure.
He knew them all by heart.
And I just think about like,
when our world is defined by our outward circumstances,
when our attitudes, our thoughts, our speech,
our identity, our worldview, our conversations
are marked and laced and defined by politics,
by history, by the longings and desires of our heart,
by there's just this center right here,
this entitlement that I have to feel the things
I want to feel, say the things I want to say
and blame it on the president, blame it on my spouse,
blame it on where I live, blame it on the times,
blame it on, I mean, you name it, the media, right?
And what impact am I having except to perpetuate,
I'm feeding from that same tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
And I totally miss the fragrance of heaven,
our father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Let your name be exalted, let your name stand out,
let your name be kept holy
and all that I think, say and do, your kingdom come.
I'm in me, I'm through me,
your will be done in me and through me.
You give me this day, what I need for today,
this daily bread, your daily bread.
Give me forgiveness, let me bring forgiveness,
let me bring daily bread.
Keep me, protect me from the wiles of the wicked one.
I don't want to engage, I don't want to reflect,
I don't want to be taken under,
I don't want to take up his warfare
or his weapons or his wiles or anything else.
Lord, let it be about you, yours is the kingdom,
yours is the power, yours is the glory,
the dominion forever and ever.
And so that's what keeps like jumping out at me
in this process is I am where I am,
just like Mordecai said to Esther who was like,
cousin, if I go say something to the king,
I might have no head tomorrow.
I mean, that's like the end, I can't say anything
because he kills people that show up in front of him
without being summoned, that's his defense.
And Mordecai says, you're looking in the wrong direction.
You're not there because of the king
or because of what the king does or because of the culture
or because of the ways of this kingdom.
You're here, you're here because they don't know God.
You're there, you're here because there's a God in heaven
who has a plan for his people and a will for his people.
He is enthroned, he is high and lifted up,
seated on the throne.
And if you do nothing, God will find a way,
he will find another, but make no mistake,
if you do nothing, you're not protecting your life.
You're here for such a dangerous,
unpleasant, horrifying time as this.
And that's the life Daniel lived.
He didn't fight with the culture, he didn't mouth off.
I mean, he did his warfare, but not with the devil's weapon.
He fell into no traps that were set for him. I mean, definitely a Jesus, you know, like
a foreshadowing, an image of Christ, a Christ-like character who lived entirely for what God
could do where he was. He placed no blame on God. He totally, with all of those who
had fallen, no fault could be found in him, but he took everything, he took everything
to God. What do you guys think before we move on to the scriptures? How is this resonating
with any of you? He was a wise man. Godly wisdom. Godly wisdom. Matthew 5 in Amplified
says that the pure in heart, those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character will see
God and he seemed to have it all. He had integrity, clearly. He had courage, like crazy, and a
godly character. And it doesn't even talk about him being worried or him being second-guessing
or him praying about it, you know, at least with Esther, it did say, well, she was a little
scared and, you know, I mean, of course, you know, and she was like debating, is this the
best move? There was no debate with him. He just knew right off the bat, this is what
needs to be done. And he planned it. He knew he was violating it from the get-go. So he
was even, I mean, he knew he was going to be in trouble and he still did it. He didn't
have to do it. He could have sidestepped the whole thing. Without demeaning anything from
his incredible character. I didn't realize till the other night's discussion, biologically
and chemically speaking, there's a component there that made this somehow more possible
that he was a castrati, he and the boys. And I wondered, because you read things and say
how in the world, but having that, maybe that one component of the testosterone, yet
not saying that he wasn't already a man of God, loved God, would have done anything for
him. But I said, that's a nasty thought, isn't it? But not really. It might have been a godsend
to him in a very mean way. That that was one component that made it a little more possible
to be so genuinely focused. But again, I don't want to take an iota away from the man that
we see and hear about for all those years.
I was just going to say, I think regardless of the hormones that he had or didn't have,
he has what we have. And he has thoughts and he had beliefs, right? And his were so deeply
rooted in, so he didn't have limiting beliefs in other in the sense that everything was
limited to, this is who my God is. This is who I know him to be. This is how he's behaved
in my life. I mean, I just, like you would think like that. I mean, like we get caught
up in, you know, think of all the limiting beliefs that we come from and that we carry
with us. And the only like this, that renewing of the mind to be so, I mean, cause like Daniel
from the, like his entire life was like challenging that, right? He's into captivity. Like he
had all like way more difficult circumstances than, than I would on a day-to-day basis.
But he has been so submersed in the goodness of the Lord that he would get an edict like
that and just continue to live his life. Like he always did. Right. No change. And he opened
the windows, like, see me, right? Like, I see your injunction. Slams open the windows
and gets on his knees and come on.
Like the men of faith, though, like Paul, and oh, go ahead, Karen, go ahead.
It's like Paul and Joseph and Daniel, they're like extraordinary men of God because the
average human being just doesn't act like that, but they were so faithful.
Like Paul was Saul, once he became Saul, or Paul, he never turned back, I mean, he had
a brutal life, like brutal, and Daniel, like you say, Karen, had no walk in the park, Joseph
had no walk in the park, Moses was in the desert for 40 years to be refined.
I'm kind of curious, like if Daniel had any refining time.
Well, you know, leading up to the exile was that whole tense time, that whole time of
Jeremiah, and the stress of like, and the threats, and of course, you know, Israel was
already in captivity, and so they were very aware of that, and these threats came, and
he was from the royal seed, because it says that Nebuchadnezzar ordered that those, you
know, of the royal descendants, those who, in whom could be found no flaw, in whom, you
know, all of this intelligent, so there was this like, this tension for those who would
idolize God, that, that, you know, this king kept pursuing ungodly counsel, kept defiling
God, kept bringing the nation closer and closer to these warnings that had been issued by
Jeremiah, and indeed, you know, it came.
So there were those, those tests of like, who are you going to believe, you know, you're
growing up in this place, so you're either going to please the king, or you're going to
please God, and so when he had come into the Babylonian land, he had already purposed in
his heart, he would not defile himself against God, like that had to have happened through
that, that didn't come cheap. So whatever it was that, you know, came to that process, as
young men were growing up in the court, he already had, that already had to have been
established in him, in whatever way, I mean, we'll find out, you know, who the grandmother
was, or who the, you know, you know, what, what led to that, and what were the, the
pressures that caused him to make that decision? Because once that decision was made, it
wasn't about a daily meal, he had, he was now coming up to, he understood he was heading
into exile, and he wonders, he understood this was the righteous decree of God, and that
it was his people that had not obeyed God. And this was promised from the Pentateuch.
Like this was promised during the giving of the law. You know, obey, hear all the blessings,
don't obey, you're following after these ways, you're, you're, you're in the law of sin and
death, that's your, your consequence is going to be that this is going to happen, you know, and
it even said, this will happen to your children, this will happen to your young men. So, you
know, and, and to, to Carrie's point, too, is like, you know, I didn't even think of that, like,
I, I don't have that measure of testosterone. But the fear of man sure has played in my life,
where I'm trying to protect myself. And there's compromise. Right?
Well, and I hope and I hope this I mean, when I say this, I'm in the back of my mind, I'm
thinking that's like arrogance. But my hope is that, like Daniel and Paul, aren't these men that
are on some sort of pedestal out there that we can't attain? I don't, I don't believe that at
all. Right? I hope not, because then that means it's not attainable for me. And I don't hope that
that's not the reason the word was given us like this. I think I, my hope is that this is what your
life could be. Right? Because it's a dis I mean, they they made decisions, we all make those
decisions, right? And, and they all have thoughts. They just took their thoughts captive, or maybe I
haven't. Right? Very early on.
Right. And that's that's
Excellent. That's exactly the point is here are the sweet
secrets of success. So they're, they're free. They're here. I
mean, they're, they cost Jesus, everything cost us nothing. But
to choose them, they're offered to us free, they cost us
everything. I mean, I gotta give up my lying. I gotta give up my
selfishness. I gotta give up my tantrums. I gotta give up my
greed and my gluttony, like that easy, cost me everything.
But like, that's why we're walking through this process in
encounter. Because we can fill our, you know, reasoning
intelligent mind with all this information and say, Oh, he
could do it, I could do it. And then and then get triggered and
find out I'm still in kindergarten. Why is that? So,
you know, that's, that's just like, you know, but I love that
you brought that up, mom, because it allows us to say,
like, is there something different for this person,
Daniel, or for any other person that that where this can't apply
to me? And the answer is Carrie saying has to be no, there is
one spirit, one faith, one mind, one God and Father of us all one
baptism, right? For the for the forgiveness of sins. And so
that's the good news. And the more we take, like the more we
allow conviction, to be on the distinction, what's the gap
between my life and Daniel's? Well, you know, much in many
ways, yet. Yet I have a lot in common. I have the Word of God
and yet I have a new and better covenant. I have the Spirit of
God living in me, I have the blood of Jesus and I already
know the sacrifice. This is like, you know, I don't even
have to draw these lines in the sand. I can go and throw myself
at his mercy, connect with his love and the line in the sand
is, I, there is no other way. And so to cry out for those
experiences, because I do believe that Daniel has had many
experiences with God. I mean, we can see that. And no, go ahead,
Carrie,
I was just gonna say, although to Betsy's point, if I'm a man,
in that time of life in that years, and I was castrated, I've
got this part of my life that has been eliminated, right?
Because he knows, like, I'm not having a family, and I'm not
having children. So that's been something that's been
eliminated. And it's like, if we decided, well, I don't drink, so
it just never comes up anymore, because we've decided in our
minds that that's just not something I have to worry about.
So he's had this part of his life, that is a distraction from
the Lord, that for him, this has been eliminated.
Right, I totally see that. I mean, I get mom's point. And I,
the only thing is, is that he was one of many. And, and he was
the one. And then he influenced the other three in his subset.
And, and they all decided that's a better way. We're going to
choose that way, because they still would have, you know,
selfish desires, they'd still want to make something of their
life. And either it's through the knowledge of good and evil,
or it's, it's knowing the one true God. And, and so that's
where, like, you know, I think, yeah, he didn't, he didn't have
that. But that could also contribute to a humongous amount
of bitterness, and resentment, and entitlement, and anger, and,
you know, and separation from God, that wouldn't endear a lot
of people to God, being castrated.
No, I can't.
So, so he had to have, he had to determine, no matter what, it
isn't about me.
Obviously, he was practiced in the traditions, the fasting,
this amount of food, this or this kind of food, this,
whatever, these, all of these things that at a very young age,
I'm not saying made any of it easier, but it just might have
removed a component that made it certainly not easier. But again,
I didn't have to think.
think about those things, I can focus on my job before God, and
to maintain and never budge from what I know is true, which is a
wonderful thing to have found out at a young age.
Well, I've just again, like in that totally could be true, but
he was one of like, again, how many were brought over, and all
in the same condition, all from the same line of David, all from
all from Jerusalem, all from the choice young men that were
being trained up in the ways of the Hebrews, they were all the
same. And only Daniel and then the three that he initially
impacted, excelled above all others, because they had decided
we're not going to defile ourselves. And everyone else
enjoyed the feast of the king, everyone else chose the food of
the king, the wine of the king, the fancy meats, the delicacies.
So I'm just saying like, you know, we all have these same
opportunities. And what's cool too is Nebuchadnezzar had already
been, I mean, he had a brutal reputation. The Chaldeans had a
horrific reputation, horrific, and hated the Jews. But Daniel
had this impact. And then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
had this impact on the king, where his heart was softened,
and God favored him. It was almost like this exile was a
gift to Nebuchadnezzar. And then that was the point Daniel made
to his son, Belshazzar, was you knew these things. You heeded
them not. You defiled what your father understood. Everything is
taken from you. It's over for you. And then he says these
things. And a purple robe is put on him, a chain is put on him,
like, like, I mean, that's like the fear of the Lord, you know.
And then Darius is that night, he's killed Darius is king and,
and, and Daniel is once again, exalted. So Daniel never wavered
nebuchadnezzar recognized it, son did not. Daniel wasn't even
called upon until that last day of his reign. And then Darius
recognized it. And, you know, so it went. So I love that you
brought this up, because it just gives us the opportunity to say,
Hey, is there any reason why Jesus is sweet secrets of
success? He's introducing us into? Is there any reason why I
I'm disqualified? Is there any reason why someone else has a
better chance than I? And the answer is no, there's, there's
one spirit. There's one God one sacrifice. This is one word.
And, you know, I do recognize that some people have this.
Well, we have these different gifts. And some people just have
an incredible, I don't know, there's this tenderness of heart
and other others of us like just but I think it's selfishness. I
mean, that's what God told me. Hillary, where's your
selfishness that led you into victimhood?
Well, the wider it's the wider versus the narrow path, right?
It says all this time and it happens. Like across any
variation of life, you know, like wherever you insert
yourself, you can insert yourself in the business world,
you can insert yourself in the church world. And even in the
church world, the same, there's the wide and there's the narrow
path.
So good. Oh, oh, I was gonna say, I think it's just so
inspiring how self sacrificing they were like, I'm just picking
up on on that so much. And I think of the scripture, he must
increase and I must decrease. And it's a process for us. And
just even hearing what you're saying, helps us to know what
our goal, more of what our goal, like, of course, it's surrender.
But just hearing what you're saying about him, brings that
out so much more in that should be, that should be all of us.
Yeah, yeah. And the good news is like, I mean, if he's saying
it. Just like he said to Mary, like Mary highly favored of the
Lord. The Holy Spirit is going to come upon you. And you shall
be with child, you shall bring forth a son and you shall name
as you shall call him Jesus, for he shall save his people from
their sin. I mean, she could, she could not spend any time on
her qualifications to, to be able to fulfill such a word.
She could in no way afford to think about I mean, she did, she
did say, like, I haven't known a man yet. So I don't know how
that can, how I can do that. And they're like, God's got it. And
then she says, then be it done unto me, according to his word.
That's that purity of heart. Like even Moses was like, I
don't know, God, like, I stutter. I'm out here in the
wilderness, right? So he looks at himself. And each time, you
know, someone comes to that place where they'll go ahead and
just cry out to God for who he is. Like, I don't even, it's not
even about my needs anymore. I, I've got to know you. And, and
they have this encounter with God, like it changes
everything. Isaiah, right? John, Daniel, like each time
there's this, and it's not everybody. Everybody saw Jesus
when he was walking the earth. But only the pure in heart could
see God in him. So that's the thing we cry out to like, you
know, cleanse my heart. Oh, God. Right. So okay. So let's go
back to the scriptures. I so appreciate this conversation.
And, you know, these are important questions to ask.
Because each of us has this opportunity right where we are
to ask God to help us to see him in the morning, in his word, in
the mirror. In the mirror is so key. Because until we can see
him in us, we won't believe him. Until we've got that love alive
in us, we can't trust him. Right? And then how do we love
others? That part has to be set. My life is not like how many
kids I have. My life is not how much money I have. My life is
not in which country I live. My life is not any of these. It's
not the sum of anything. There is a one who wanted me. And from
the dreams of his own heart, he breathed me into life. He knew
about me from before the foundation of the world. And I
exist because he wants me. And then he sent his son to die on
the cross, so that I wouldn't be lost to him forever. And I could
know him. And that's all his idea. And that takes away so
much of the contest. Hey, Joe, that takes away so much of the
contest. So much of the jockeying, so much of the
proving, so much of the fear, so much of what I've lost, so much
anything on the outside. If his presence is the fullness of joy,
that's my goal.
green again, and we'll keep reading scriptures. Okay. All
right, left column, starting with Proverbs 2211. I love this
verse, I put it first, because there I was in Proverbs 22 today
and felt like I was reading in one verse, the story of Daniel
and Darius. And I thought that was so cool. So whoever wants to
read, go for it, just just jump in. I might interrupt because of
what's jumping out at me, or you can, but let's read these
verses.
He loves purity and the pure heart because of the grace of
his lips. Will he have the king for his for his friend? Beloved
we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet
appeared but we know that when he appears we shall be like him
because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who hopes in
him purifies himself as he is pure. Pray to me a clean heart
Oh God and renew a right spirit within me.
So good. Okay, thank you, Karen. So first, Daniel loved purity
because he loved God, he honored God, he feared God. And he
didn't want to be separated at all from God. And so he loved
also the pure in heart. And being pure in heart, of course,
as a man thinketh in his heart, like so is he out of the
abundance of the heart, a man speaks. And, and that purity of
heart led him to say things that the king highly esteemed, because
he had a heart that that could be touched by wisdom by truth by
grace. And and he recognized that Daniel, he recognized it
was beneficial to him to have Daniel, right? Didn't the
scripture say that, so that he would have no loss? This is how
he appointed those who were leading and, and Daniel was to
be the greatest of all because he esteemed that what Daniel
carried was best for him and his kingdom. And if all these
people, all these leaders, these say traps and governors and, and
lords and and and presidents and how they, you know, kind of that
hierarchy, that was a lot of treasure. Those were a lot of
decisions being made. Those were a lot of projects being rolled
out a lot of taxes to account for a lot of and and so overall,
he would place Daniel so that none of it would be lost to him.
That came from Daniel's purity of heart, he could trust Daniel
above any other. And, and then this, like, realizing so here I
see this in this first john three, two and three is just he
understood that he came from God. And, and that God being pure
God being only good, only righteous, only holy, was that
he would also not want to defile himself because their Heavenly
Father so holy, he knew the scriptures. So he would make
himself he would he would carve out for himself what made his
life pure. And we know from his prayers and from his fasting,
and, and, and, and from his times of supplication, that he
cried out to God for those things. He cried out to God for
forgiveness, he cried out to God for purity of heart. And, and
that we see in David right here in Psalm 51. When he was in
significant, you know, sin, and found in significant sin, and
Psalm 51, he has no way to purge himself from his sin, and cries
out to God, you know, clean me with hyssop, hyssop is how they
applied the blood over the door at Passover, and created me a
clean heart, make my heart pure, renew a right spirit in me, he
could not do it. So he depended on God for that. Okay, Matthew
25. This is just a
piece of this long outcry of God to the stewards of the faith
who had defiled it so. And so somebody can read Matthew 25
these portions, this is just a little bit of what he was saying.
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you
clean the outside of the cup and the plate but inside there full
of greed and self-indulgence, you blind Pharisee. First clean
the inside of the cup and the plate that the outside also
might be clean. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly
appear beautiful but within are full of dead people's bones and
all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to
others but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate, abandoned and left
destitute of God's help. For I declare to you, you will not see
me again until you say, Blessed, magnified and worshiped, adored
and exalted is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
Thank you, Jill. So like, I mean, if you know Matthew 25 on
and on, woe to you and he's just crying out because of the
devastation of the ways of these religious people. So impure of
heart, so corrupt in heart, so defiling the Word of God, so
imprisoning the people of God, right? You make your followers
twice as fit for hell as you are to yourself. Woe, you vipers!
You brood of vipers. And so he's telling them, you have this
outward appearance that looks pure. But you are not hiding who
you really are on the inside. You're dead on the inside. And
he, he wants them to see it. You're hypocrites. You're
totally unclean, completely impure. You appear righteous,
but you're lawless and full of hypocrisy. You look and act and
tell everyone that you carry the favor of God and they don't
because they're sinners born in sin, as if you're not. But you
are absolutely, actually abandoned and left desolate with
God's help. You help yourselves. You approach not God. You
represent not God. You recognize not God. And so, seeing as you
see not God here, neither will you see me. Until you say,
Blessed be the Lord. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord. So I know he's also talking about his entrance into
Jerusalem, and they're just as corrupt there. But this whole
idea that if we don't take the business of our heart, and
cleanse our heart and purify our heart and let him heal our
heart, he so longs to heal our heart. This is what Jesus was
getting at. You are lost. How many times could he tell them?
You're blind guides. And so, this is just a reminder that we
never should be focused on the behavior. We should always be
focused on the heart of the matter. And then just like
Daniel, just stick with that heart of the matter. Okay, he
was already known as excellent. They could find nothing in him.
No error. So they knew he would not defile God. So they had to
make a law he could defile because they knew he'd be
faithful to God. So I guess that's that question. Would you
be guilty? Would I be guilty in a court of law of prioritizing
God, even if it meant my death? Okay, Psalm 24, the first six
verses.
Anybody who wants to read? Go ahead, John.
Psalm 24, 1 to 6, a Psalm of David.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness of it.
The world and they who dwell in it.
Or he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the currents and the rivers, who shall go up into the mountain of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted himself up to falsehood or to what is false or sworn deceitfully.
He shall receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
This is the generation description.
I could have taken that out.
It's just the Amplified. Yeah.
This is the description of those who seek him, who seek your face, Jacob.
Sorry, I'm not sure how to read those.
So the Amplified takes the words and expands upon it.
So here's the generation or the description of those who seek him, who inquire of and for him, and of necessity require him who seek your face, O God of Jacob.
So, yeah, that's that.
There's a lot of words in the Amplified, but it helps kind of pull out like an accordion, you know.
Here's what we're talking about.
Like here, you know, everything is the Lord's.
The earth is the Lord's.
We keep, you know, talking about that.
Like it's all about God.
It's all his.
It's all his plans, program.
I'm not the center of the world.
I'm not even the center of my own life and situation.
And I'm not the purpose of it.
He created everything for us.
But it's all because he's good.
And there's this humility that says, I totally acknowledge you.
And so show me the right way.
Show me the right way to approach you.
Show me the right way to pray.
Lord, show me the right way to honor you.
Show me the right way to meditate on your word.
Show me the right way to relate to others.
Show me the right way to think.
Show me the right way to speak.
Right?
Even Jesus wouldn't allow himself his own opinions or judgments.
It was, it was, father, what, what, what do you think?
Teach me how to respond to the situation.
To this trap, to this family matter, to, to these, these Pharisees.
So here, all things he admits, all things are about God.
And then he's saying, wow, who, who can even go up to the Lord to see him,
to stand before him.
And then he says he has clean hands. I forgot to bold this part.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart.
In other words, who from his heart toward God.
Who has pure works for God.
And who has not lifted himself up to falsehood, to lies, to, to,
to swear deceitfully.
He shall receive blessings from the Lord. God has a way.
There is a way.
To pray, but he invites us to find out it's not.
You know, there is a way to think there is a way to speak.
He keeps it not a secret.
He, he wants us to know we have, we have so much scripture.
Okay. Hebrews 10, 19 through 22.
And therefore,
brethren since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the
Holy of Holies by the power and virtue in the blood of Jesus.
By this fresh new and living way, which he initiated.
Dedicated open for us through the veil, separating curtains.
The Holy of Holies that is through his flesh.
And since we have such a great and wonderful and noble priest.
Who rules over the house of God.
We have been drawn near with food.
Honest and sincere hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute
conviction.
And gendered by faith.
That leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust
and confidence in his power, wisdom, and goodness.
Having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty or evil
conscience.
And our bodies cleansed with pure water.
I love that.
The way is not something I have to earn.
It's not something I can perform. Thank you, Jill.
It's not something that I need to be born into.
It's not something I need to have been taught.
It's my dependence.
on God. It's the blood that he shed that never loses its power
that washes me clean. It's it's it's the new and living way to
come behind the veil into the Holy Holies. It's through his
flesh. It's through his blood. It's through his sacrifice that
I pass from death into life. It's that lamb that was
sacrificed for me, that Passover lamb, so that I can
come and draw near in in in true, sincere heartedness with
unqualified assurance. What's my assurance? Like, am I saying
God, you have to prove it to me? Is it God? What about this? What
about that? No unqualified assurance. I am totally,
completely convinced that your sacrifice was more than enough.
And, and that I am leaning my entire human personality on you
God with absolute trust and confidence that all the power,
wisdom and goodness is yours to be able to sprinkle my heart
with blood and purify even my conscience with the washing of
the water of your word. It's in his hands. He can do it. And I
come in poverty of spirit, he gives me that kingdom within me.
And if I come with with sorrow for sin, he comforts me that I
am set free. And if I come with purity of heart, I can see him
hungering and thirsting for righteousness. This is such good
news. So once again, we find that there is no person who can
qualify more for this than anyone else, apart from faith,
so that no one can boast. It is the work of God. That's success.
It's, it's up to him. I just can agree and say, I doubt every
doubt. I disagree with myself. I don't want to agree with myself
anymore. I'm done agreeing with myself. Okay, Hebrews 12, one and
two. And if you have any comments or questions, like
please feel free to jump in.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about the so great a
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin
which so easily besets us. And let us run with patience, the
race that is set before us, looking into Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at
the right hand of the throne of God. Follow peace with all men
and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord, looking
diligently, lest any man fail, of the grace of God, lest any
root of bitterness, springing up trouble you, and thereby, many,
many be defiled.
It's just one piece of good news after another. Like, you know,
here we are, we're talking about all the witnesses that we have.
We've mentioned Daniel, like countless times, we've mentioned
Paul and Moses and Joseph and Isaiah and Jeremiah. And, and,
you know, so many, there are so many to testify to us, his word
is true. His word is true. His word is true. His spirit is
right. His love is real. He can do it. His holiness is not in
your face to tell you that you can't make it. His holiness is
given to you. Be holy, as I am holy, enter into the joy of the
Lord. And so go ahead and lay off. Like go ahead and like, no,
I don't need that anymore. I don't need that selfishness. I
don't need that anger. I don't need that frustration. I don't,
I don't, I don't need the bitterness. And what is the race
before me, each of us have this, like we were talking when we
first got on here, where everybody is, well, like,
there's a race, we have a race, a set of circumstances, in the
city we live in, in the family we live in, in the, in the
neighborhood we live in, in the home we live in, in the, in the
generation we live in, in the industry we work in, we have a
race set before us.
That's
That's where Jesus's opportunity to bring his kingdom
in that unique expression and series of circumstances
in which we find ourselves.
But we can look unto Jesus who also we know
had a series of circumstances that just sucked.
I mean, like from the time he was born,
his family had to be on the run.
He was lying in a feeding trough in the hay for animals,
food, they eat that food and he's laid there.
That's where he was born.
Like, you know, I mean,
and immediately the king wants to kill him.
Immediately they have to run to Egypt,
immediately and his life is all about the satisfying
of scripture, the satisfying of the father
in step after step, situation after situation
with incredible amounts of oppression, slavery, sin.
Who can he talk to?
He can't even go talk to the men of God
about these things weighing upon him,
about these things that are in him.
He cannot go to them.
There is no counselor for him.
There's one person who recognizes him, John the Baptist
and he gets taken away and then says,
hey, are you the one or are we looking for another?
Knowing he saw it, knowing he was sent to witness him,
knowing God saw him, knowing he saw the Holy Spirit,
knowing he baptized him, but still like,
there wasn't one person who could validate Jesus.
You know, his mother held these things in her heart
and shared with him.
Joseph, while he was alive, had that testimony of the Lord,
but they were human.
He had to depend upon God.
Nobody else could give him assurance
that he was who he said he was.
Even his disciples continuously bickered.
He was, his life was threatened continuously.
Like looking unto Jesus,
he had to alter and perfect this faith
because he had nowhere else to get such assurance.
Like we can come together and feed one another
and uplift one another and invite one another
and share with one another.
He didn't have that.
He had no human fellowship that could assure him.
Even his brothers mocked him.
Who for the joy that was set before him, results,
he was only gonna be moved by results,
not day in, not day out, not time and time,
not decision after decision.
He endured the cross, the cross,
despising its shame.
I've despised so much that I've walked through.
I have not, as the next verse says, which isn't in here,
I have not shed my blood for sin,
but I've complained.
And so he sat down now at the right hand
of the throne of God.
He did everything he did for God.
And so now, now we are invited into this life.
We have the witnesses, we have the testimonies,
we have the Holy Spirit, we have the faith,
we have the finish, we've got the promises.
Therefore follow peace with all men.
Be not concerned with the flesh,
be not contentious, pursue holiness
without which no one can see the Lord.
Looking diligently, lest any man fail the grace of God,
lest any root of bitterness bring up and trouble you
and thereby many are defiled.
What I bring influences and impacts the world around me.
So is it his breath?
Is it his grace?
Is it his good news?
Is it his invitation?
Is it the same peace like Paul writes?
If you have received comfort,
if at all you've been comforted with Christ,
then comfort others.
And so we can lay aside everything that has snared us.
We can do that now.
We'll walk into time with the Lord,
but these secrets of success are so liberating.
We are set free today from our past,
from our circumstances, from our broken hearts,
from everything, because we can bring it all to Him.
The testimonies are there.
If you place your faith instead in God and live for Him,
there's a whole hall of fame of faith.
You will be honored.
You will be rewarded.
It really is success.
Jesus has finished it for you, authored and finished it.
Okay, Ezekiel 36, 24 through 29,
and then we will encounter the Lord, 22, 22.
For I will take you from among the nations
and gather you out of all countries
and bring you into your own land.
Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you
and you shall be clean from all your uncleanliness
and from all your idols.
I will cleanse you.
A new heart I will give you
and a new spirit I will put within you.
And I'll take away the stony heart out of your flesh
and give you a heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you
and cause you to walk in my statues.
And you shall heed my ordinances and do them.
And you shall dwell in the land that I gave your fathers
and you shall be my people and I will be your God.
I will also save you from all your uncleanliness
and I will call forth the grain and make it abundant
and lay no famine on you.
Lord, you've known all along
how we have needed our hearts healed.
You have known all along
how we would require your forgiveness,
how we would not know how to respond
to the traumas of life,
how we would not know how to distinguish
between your voice and the voice of the liar,
of the accuser, of the condemner, of the abuser.
You knew all along we could neither save ourselves,
heal ourselves, cleanse ourselves,
make ourselves fit for you ever.
You knew what it would cost
and you determined in advance, having counted the cost,
that you would pay the full price.
Just so that when we do finally turn to you
and you have been there our whole lives,
that when we do turn to you,
we could partake of all that would make us holy,
all that would give us a godly life,
all things pertaining to life and godliness,
every spiritual blessing in heavenly places
to give us a whole new heart, a whole new spirit,
to make us a whole new creation
so that we could live for all that you declare as good,
for all those great desires in your heart
for why you made us.
And I thank you that all of us are still here.
I think each one of us could attest to the fact
that there are many reasons why we could not be here
had it not been for your mercy and goodness
throughout our lives.
And so, Lord, we, like Daniel, like David,
like we saw that the Pharisees would not do,
we come to you with open hearts.
asking you to heal our hearts.
And we first, all of us, each offer you thanks that we can.
Thank you for this lesson.
Thank you, you still, no matter how long we've been saved
or known you or known your word
and however long it's taken us,
you still want us to know
how to enjoy and succeed in the life you've given us.
It's just not too late.
It's never been something you've asked us to perform.
It's always been something that you have finished,
that you authored.
And I love that you've given us all of these,
these witnesses who decided to lay down their own lives
and to come and pursue your word, your holiness,
your faith, your presence, your pleasure, your way.
Lord, if there's anything on our hearts today
that would keep us from connecting with you now,
would you please reveal that
so that we could bring it to you and you could cleanse us?
Thank you.
Lord, in these areas we thank you
that we can bring these thoughts, these mindsets,
these memories, whatever it is we can bring to you,
fully persuaded that you're well able
to keep all that we commit unto you against that day.
And so we commit shortcomings, guilt,
things we've held on to, compromise.
Whatever, Lord, you're bringing up,
we're committing it to you,
believing it will not be held against us
and that right now you cleanse us
by the blood of your son, Jesus.
You cleanse our consciences from dead works,
that you even rebuke the devourer
and all his part in how we were led astray to this point.
And we confess the ways we've agreed with a lie
with a lie rather than the truth of your word.
Lord, would you also take the veil,
remove the veil like we heard about in scriptures
that separates us from the holy of holies.
And we plead the blood of Jesus
that makes that entrance possible
so that no ungodly thoughts,
no ungodly beliefs,
no ungodly mindsets or habits can come in here
that you are cleansing us by your blood
and bringing us into your presence
by virtue of your sacrifice and our faith in your sacrifice
to set us apart to meet with you.
Beloved Jesus,
we are like the Shulamite.
you see things wrong with us. But in your eyes, we see acceptance. In your word, we
hear an invitation. In your heart, we find a welcome home. And so we believe you. Lord,
would you show us how you see us? Who am I to you, Lord?
Lord, would you show us how you see us? Who am I to you, Lord?
Bless our eyes and ears and hearts with your Shalom. To be able to receive what you're
saying to us. Give us that, that pure heart to see you. Help us to come gratefully to
you believing that you always respond to our requests when they are your requests. I have
nothing to prove to you, God. I believe you love me. I believe you see yourself in me. I believe
you see the one you've always wanted. The one you've saved. The one you hold.
Lord, what would it look like for me to give you my heart? To not take possession of it
any longer? You would be the king and the keeper and the defender and the owner of my heart. What
would it look like if I was no longer in possession of my heart, but you were? And that I could come
to you with all requests and you would protect my heart and my mind with your Shalom and the thoughts
of all your excellence, all your virtue, all your purity in heart. Lord,
Help me give it all to you, to trust you with all the painful parts, the questioning parts,
the happy parts, successful parts, the humiliated parts.
Be fully persuaded that my heart is better in your possession than in mine.
And Lord, what would it look like for you to give me your heart, that new heart you told about in Scripture?
What would it look like for us to share your heart?
Amen.
Lord, I don't want to leave here without a pure heart.
How is it you want me to know that it's finished?
What do I do with that?
Thank you.
Lord, Jesus, thank you for reminding us that this is a living, breathing intimacy with you.
It's just the beginning.
There's really so much more.
And that it's impossible not to have a pure heart when we're near you, when we depend upon you and look to you, not about you, not to talk about you.
about you or think about you or read about you, but actually with you, in you? What does
it look like about how close we are when I give you my art and you give me yours? What
does that look like practically?
Jesus, thank you. Thank you.
Would you show me one thing that you want to do, that you want us to do or that you
want to do in my life right now or in one of the situations I'm in or one of the questions
in my heart? What's something you want to show me or you want me to see or say or believe
or hope or trust you in?
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for showing us that you are the
pure heart, the new pure heart you've always longed to give us. That's always been the
key. A new day, a new life, a new way.
How grateful you are that we will give you our hearts full of so many, and receive your
heart so completely pure, so excellent, so virtuous, so full of hope and love and kindness
and patience, so gentle and tender and forgiving, so able to be still, to pray, to trust, so
at peace, so full of faith, so rejoicing, so close to the Father.
Lord, is there any part of me that doesn't want to make this exchange, that is not sure,
yet?
Jesus, would you go to that part, that doubting part, that hurting part, that cynical part?
I just call in those parts. I just say, come. This is for you, too.
Nobody may have told you that Jesus's heart is for you.
But today I want you to hear that this is for you, too.
Every part, every part of your heart, of your mind, of your soul, of your body,
every part is invited this day to give Jesus everything.
Everything that has been, everything that's uncertain, everything unfinished, everything broken,
every accusation, all condemnation, everything.
And let him see you. Holy Spirit, would you help us to see all this go on to Jesus
as we give our permission to say, take it all. Take all the trauma, the abandonment,
the abuse, the heavy weights. Take all the fear and the crying and the pain,
the uncleanness, the humiliation, the vulgarity. Take it all.
Take it all, Jesus, and everything I don't know how to reach.
You can have it this day. I trust you. I trust you.
I trust you.
You can have it all.
Thank you for suffering all that suffering on the cross.
I see that, Lord. I choose to see that it's really been you who has protected me.
It's really been you who has loved me. It's really been you who has pursued me and helped me.
It hasn't been me. It's really been you. I give you all my
weariness, all my self-righteousness and my
struggling and my worry. I give it all to you. It's only been
your heart that's pure, not mine. Thank you for having it
all. Passing me through that cross with you to purify me and
give me the heart of your resurrection. The heart of the
King of Kings, the Lord of Lords and the Savior of all so that I
can now be here on my father's business, seeing what you've
done to take care of all my business on the cross. All the
people are yours. All the days are yours. All the
circumstances are yours. I am yours and you are mine and we're
never separated again.
Lord, what would you like me to know
or have right here?
Lord, what would you like me to know or have right here?
Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you for sealing all this in your
precious blood. Holy Spirit, thank you for filling us. Thank you for filling us. Thank
you for making us new, making us the holy temple of God in every place, every nook,
every cranny, every crevice. Thank you Lord. Thank you that you're the source for everything,
everything we really desire, all joy, all peace, all wisdom, all pleasure, all fun,
all answers. And I thank you that no person can handle what's just happened. No, none
of us can sustain it. It is not by might, nor is it by our power, but it is by your
Holy Spirit that we are made new this evening. We are made new. Our minds are being renewed.
We have new relational neurons firing in our connection with you and with your pure heart.
You're giving us new memories about how we have the pure heart of God because your word
says so. You've taken out our stony, bitter heart. You took it upon yourself and were
crucified and we were hidden in you and brought through, passed through death in you, made new
at the heart of Christ, living and breathing.
with you. That's just the truth. One, indistinguishable, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all. Thank you, Abba. I ask you to give us dreams that help solidify this in our consciousness.
And I thank you for helping us, Lord. I feel like we've just come out of surgery. We just
have to agree it's finished and how to live with our new heart. And that's moment by moment,
day by day, breath by breath. Give us a hunger and a thirst for your word and your presence
every day. In Jesus' name, Amen. Wow. Wow. Thanks for sticking it out, ladies. Let me
see if everybody's on Facebook here. It's just us. Yeah, anything you want to share?
No, I'm, I'm going to listen to this. The last one I listened three and a half times.
And the one before three times, and I'm going to listen to this one again, too. That that
heart surgery, that was good. Yeah. I got rid of some things. I know. Gave the ministry
to the Lord. Yeah. It's good. It's it's it's hard healing. Yeah. Yeah, this is really brilliant.
That I never saw this before that. He's the pure in heart. It's, you know, he's not waiting for us
to become pure in heart. It's his heart that's pure. And that's why we can see him
and align with him. Because it's his heart. And now. Yeah. Wow. Thank you.
I didn't know if I'd open my eyes and anybody would be there. I appreciate you.
Hey, I am not gonna miss out on that one.
I just was like, I had to. I really felt like there was some laboring in there. Like,
you know, there was some things to overcome some things to pass through some, some things to,
to, to find assurance in and I just, yeah, I couldn't leave it unfinished.
Amen. We're blessed to have you. And it's working out for me. It's working out nice.
The schedule that we have actually have a little break in between sometimes that we could
listen to it again. And work through it and make sure we get it. So yeah.
Good. Thank you, Jill. How are you doing, my friend? Good.
Yeah, thanks. That was so beautiful. So beautiful.
Wow. All right. Well, I won't keep you guys. It's almost tomorrow here and for Ingrid too,
right? Are you Eastern Ingrid? What time is it your time, Hillary?
It's 11. Yeah. So we're just an hour ahead of you until.
So it's 10 o'clock at your place? Yeah. That was one.
Yeah. When we do daylight, then we're two hours ahead of, of Jill. But right now, yeah, we're an
hour ahead of Karen and John. So. All right. I'll let you go in case you want to catch up with your
mom. Well, actually, I'm gonna go make. Mama might be asleep. I'm not sure.
So, I have to go. Oh, there you are.
Yes.
Upside down. We see her.
She's been waiting for you. That's a mom's heart.
All right.
You're muted mom. Love you ladies.
Love you too. Bye.
I just had to go where I could plug in the phone because it was dying.
Oh, okay.
Oh!
Mom?
Did it die? Your phone might have died.
All right. Love you. Bye y'all.