Hey, it was persistence, you gotta give it.
It was persistence on your part too, you know.
What was the permit for?
Drive his learner's permit.
And so, um, yeah, like, you know, it's like, like it says that if you discover that you
acted thoughtlessly, you have to slaughter these animals and offer them as a sacrifice.
Really?
Yes.
Like God has been bringing that out to me in like, like last fall, it was like when
I began seeing it in Proverbs, thoughtlessness, it was like jumping out at me, thoughtlessness.
And then I started to cross reference and when I saw it in the law, like, and if you've
acted thoughtlessly or spoken thoughtlessly, and you just, when you discover that what
you did was thoughtless, this is the sacrifice you have to make, like life has to be lost
because like, it's such waste.
So anyway, I wasn't condemning them by saying that I was like saying, Hey, this is what
thoughtlessness does.
Like it, it's no joke, you know, not like, I mean, we laughed about it just like we're
laughing now because then after all, finally, like finally they allowed Caleb to sign some
like affidavit that it was really his address.
And so then they were there for, for like an another hour and a half, they got home
at dinner.
And, you know, I thank God because the way we were coordinating it was all right, listen,
one of these days, because we found out you have to go to one in your County, Caleb goes
to school in a whole different County.
And so, cause yesterday taking them to our old DMV where we used to live near the school.
And so anyway, he's like, okay, I'm going to do it on the way down.
I'm like, be there early.
So your first in line, here's how we'll do it.
So thank God we didn't do it that way.
Cause they would have been like, I would have been, I would have been like, Oh, it would
have been an hour, hour.
Yeah.
It would have been like, Oh, it just would have been bad.
So anyway, we, we, we just hope the lessons learned.
And you know, and then people make fun of people like us and call it overanalyzing,
you know, there's a sacrifice for that.
My son starts saying, mom, they make it so complicated.
I'm like, stop right there.
I'm like, you can not like, do you know how many people get their learner's permit and
deal with the DMV every day?
Not just that one office where you saw there were like hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds
throughout the day.
Like, do not make yourself feel better by even going there.
The answer is no.
But you know, my, my daughter is similar and she, but one thing is she'll make quick decisions
and I have learned to work with that.
If I present the right points, you know, she, sometimes she will make a decision right
then and there that's guided along, but you know, God made, God made everybody different,
you know?
Yeah.
And I know I overanalyze and that's not good either.
Yeah.
No, my, my, my next son up had like, you know, he just, he would have like right now he's
a sophomore in college and he's already taking his practice LSATs exams and analyzing like
which law schools he's thinking of applying to and why and sending me the lists and what
and what their scores are required and their GPA is like, like he, he was considering colleges
at like seven years old.
He's like, here are the ones I'm thinking.
just and then there's this
this one was in the trees i mean you know
he's just they're all different they're all different
so all right we should start but that was good
who asked me how my day was was that you
i could see the wind in the hair look and i thought oh i wonder how your day
went
that was just the sidebar thing happening i'll say
no i kind of gathered that
it is accomplished oh i won't even oh i gotta stop there
okay all right okay
sweet secrets of success from the sermon oh you know what i should do let me go
tag our beloved sisters who are not
in here so that and why don't you why don't you guys share like
what revelations
how's it going
oh i printed something out let me get it but i'm not going to read it all
all right anyone else while ingrid is retrieving
her report
last time when you were leading the guided um
the guided session and jesus was giving us his heart he gave me
a valentine candy heart full of chocolates
and all all all that's in his heart is sweet
good things and yeah oh i love that yeah that one
well as as the three of us had talked at the end i
really it went it went on for a while but i just
i could not stop until i felt like we had gotten through that that was what
i was genuinely perceiving in the spirit
so um anyway i really felt like we were on
the other side of heart surgery it was good
so miss ingrid go ahead um well i i finally i take notes during our
time together and i finally printed it out and put it on my
um my evernote so that i have it and you know these are words that god
gave me to our meeting and they're like over you know several meetings and
you know they're powerful they will guide me mostly they're about my ministry
almost all 90 and uh you know they will guide me so
it's uh um i have been tossed back and forth about how to
approach i need to write an email sequence and
i didn't know because i have a i have to to exhort people
and yet i mean who wants to hear that you know and do i really need to do that
and so i have to tell them what's going on in public schools which
you know i don't want to scare them but i think i'm finding a way
to um i know i i can approach them in love and maybe reach out to the moms
first and in love about parenting and so forth
maybe find some bible verses and every time and then
reach the the mom's heart in love and then also state some of the
difficult things but not too much you know and just provide maybe tools
or how they can help their kids find their identity so
anyhow it was a total mess in my mind for months
and i'm finally uh coming coming more clear with
my message and that it needs to be a message of love because there's so many
out there who just condemn the schools what they're doing
even though it's totally wrong it's not my place to be judgmental as
we've learned so i'm trying to put that into practice
exactly i love that you're that he's giving you
sweet secrets of success in terms of how to practically apply that in the
questions that you have before him that's really cool and that they are
revelations and that's the whole point
is that when we co-labor, when we're co-heirs,
when we're kings and priests
to the one who really carries the deep interest
of this school system, of all the souls represented,
of the moms and their children,
of, you know, it's really his business.
And he, that's like, you know,
you know, that's why we're all here,
is because his name needs to be lifted up
so that people can know that there is God,
that he is holy, that all is owned and due to him.
And that it's about his kingdom coming.
That's why this outpost of earth
and the outposts of our geographies and our industries
and generations and nations exist in these ways
is to manifest the goodness of God
in this special expression called humanity,
the material world in this way.
And so like understanding the simplicity of that
just takes away all the other chatter
and we can see him.
And it's simple.
It's that simplicity of like,
what would you like to do here?
And then we are not listening to the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil, pestering and threatening.
And because we're so filled with the good news
of the voice of our God, who is so much greater,
so much more powerful, so wonderful.
And it's just a matter of like,
who's ready to find that out?
Who's ready to know the good news that you are,
the good news that you have and the opportunity to do good.
And so this verse today, I mean,
we'll pray and enter in, but blessed are the peacemakers
for they are the sons of God.
The very children of God are about their father's business
and it is peace.
It is peace.
My peace I give you, my peace I leave you.
Not as the world gives, give I thee.
Not with conditions, not with manipulations,
not with just, let not your hearts be troubled.
Neither let them be afraid.
You've believed in God, believe also in me, peace.
So good.
So learning these ways of God,
that there really is his way in everything
we go to accomplish, especially in approaching him.
You know, people say, well, I worship this way
or I pray this way or I, you know, whatever it's,
it's really his way.
That's what the disciples learned.
Wow, Jesus, like the way that you pray
and the way that you do religion,
it's not what we were taught.
And yours works, like you got it going on.
And what we've learned is not the same way.
And it's heavy and burdensome and tormenting and,
well, peace.
Peace.
That's why the sinners came.
That's why the disciples came.
Okay, thank you, Lord.
Thank you so much for bringing your peace.
And we do receive your peace and speak your peace
and release your peace.
And we thank you that as we bring all of our requests
to you with thanksgiving, without anxiety,
because we trust you're right here
and you're faithful, it's your desire
to answer the prayers of your children,
that we may.
know you, that your will may be done and your kingdom come on earth as in heaven,
that your name may be holy, that good may occur,
that, Lord, you stand garrisoned around our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus
so that we don't have to strive in even guarding our hearts.
You do it with your peace. When our trust is in you, our dependence upon you, you do it with
your peace. And then we can think as you think, with excellence, with virtue, what's worthy of
praise, of good report. So good. And I love that you'll guide our business that way, our homes
that way, our concerns of our ministries and our work and our relationships, even as we process
our memories, considering ourselves or another, there's this garrison of peace around our hearts
and our minds in that secret place with you so that we don't have to let our hearts be troubled,
agitated, anxious, afraid. No, that's not our report.
So we thank you for teaching us, Lord, with this word today and bringing us into an encounter where
we can understand it in all the parts of our heart, all the parts of our being, even in our body,
in every part of us, so that whatever tumult, whatever dis-ease, whatever's out of alignment,
whatever's agitated, can just be brought into your peace. I'm asking that today, Jesus,
all things, all things concerning us being brought into alignment with your peace.
I ask this in Jesus' name. Thank you. Amen. Okay. All right. So, let me share my screen
and we'll get right into it. So, because, what the heck? Wait a second.
Oh, I keep forgetting that I only can see part of you anymore. Okay. I have to figure that out.
I have to figure that out. All right. So, for the sake of time, I'm going to summarize this
first slide. Although, just who would like to read to us this Matthew 5-9 we're on today,
fundamental key to success.
Blessed, enjoying, enviable, happiness, spiritually prosperous, with life, joy, and satisfaction in
God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions, are the makers and maintainers
of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God. So, how we all came on to this call,
just, you know, laughing and yet abundant in our lives and not taking consideration of all that's
going on in the world, but just rejoicing in the funny things that happen and, you know, and
just that's life. That's the way God intended life, even as we approach a challenge. I mean,
we have to have challenges. That's why you need peace. It's just like we need joy because there's
there are reasons or threats against it. And I love, like, Ingrid, you know, what you do. Imagine
if you're known as, like, this joyous apostle to the public school systems with such good news.
Like, that's irresistible. It's hard to do it too, you know. But not here. Not according to
his sweet secrets of success.
It's actually the Spirit.
Praise God.
That's like, blaster, you stay in peace.
Enjoy happiness.
Enjoy like an enviable happiness that people will be like, how can you be so happy?
There's such bad news.
It's like, no, but it's nothing compared to the good.
Do you know what they've done? Let me tell you about what he's done.
Wow.
And, and, like, yeah, but there's so opposed. Yes, but God is so in favor of like, and we have his favor. We cannot fail.
It is they're just acting like who they believe they are.
But we can act like who we believe we are.
Oh, this is this is just getting really good. Okay.
All right, so we won't read this first page. This is in the second chapter of Daniel Nebuchadnezzar has a dream that torments him.
And he can't sleep he has no peace and he can't even remember the dream.
So he calls all of his magicians, when they stand before him and, and he's like, tell me the dream and the interpretation of the dream and they're like, tell us the dream and we'll give you the interpretation and he's like you're stalling.
I told you it's escaped me.
This is why I've called you. And they're like, No, no king just tell us the dream.
And we'll give you the interpretation and he's just like, you know, and this goes back and forth.
Then, finally, he's like, I already told you, you would be destroyed. Every, every wise man in all of the Babylonian kingdom would be destroyed. If you could not do this.
Like, no, no one has ever asked such a thing like nobody can do that. Like, only the gods can can know such a thing and they don't dwell with flesh.
What a setup, huh.
And so for this cause he's so angry and furious and he commands that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
Let's just start at 15 and then we'll, we'll, we'll proceed on the next.
I can read it then Daniel heard and set to area, the king's captain.
With this decree so urgent and hasty from the king area explained the matter to Daniel.
Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation.
So I love that that like, you know, he's like, you know, he doesn't get he doesn't fly off into a storm.
Okay, everybody's going to lose their head.
And he's just like, including, you know, the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
So I love that that like, you know, he's like, you know, he doesn't get he doesn't fly off into a huff.
Okay, everybody's going to lose their head.
And he's just like, including, you know, Daniel and the, and his, his three pals.
And so he's like, why, why is this, this is irrational, why so, why, why so severe why so hasty, and he explains to me it's like, let me ask the king for this much time and then he goes back, and they press in and pursue God, okay, who wants to start with 19.
And just read that whole thing.
How far are we reading down. Yeah, just read the whole thing Joe.
Oh, then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night, and Daniel bless the God of heaven. Blessed be the name of God forever and ever for wisdom and might are his.
He changes the times and the seasons, he removes kings and sets up kings, he gives wisdom to the wise knowledge to those who have understanding.
He reveals the deep and secret things he knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him.
I thank you and praise you Oh God of my father's who has given me wisdom and might, and has made me wise.
Thank you.
known to me now what we desired of you, for you have made known to us the solution to the king's
Thank you.
problem. Therefore Daniel went to Ariok whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of
Babylon and said, do not destroy the wise men of Babylon, bring me in before the king and I will
show the king the interpretation. The king said to Daniel, are you able to make known to me the
dream which I have seen and the interpretation of it? Daniel answered the king, the secret which
the king has demanded neither the wise men, enchanters, magicians nor astrologers can show
the king. But there is a god in heaven who reveals secrets and he has made known to king Nebuchadnezzar
what it is shall be in the latter days as the end of days. Your dream and the visions in your head
upon your bed are these. As for you, O king, as you were lying upon your bed thoughts came into
your mind about what should come to pass thereafter and he who reveals secrets was
making known to you what shall come to pass. But as for me, the secret is not revealed to me
or any wisdom that I have more than anyone else living, but in order that the interpretation
may be known to the king and that you may know the thoughts of your heart and mind.
Look at that beautiful, thank you, Jill. Look at that beautiful peace and service just to glorify
God, to bless the king. I mean like we're surrounded by evil yet God's a blesser
and Daniel knows that about God and so everything he does just brings peace. He believed he could
go to God and get the answer and there wouldn't have to be this mayhem or this violence and he
could have made it about him like hey don't kill me because I'm gonna get but but that's not the
nature of God. God does good to all and he knows that and so he says don't you know first God
God reveals to him what he asked of him he believed that about God he he lived just wholly
unto God and so and so he gets that interpretation he's like call off the execution preserve
everybody's lives even though these people weren't good but the whole reason that God
had said that he was there was to bring the goodness of God that's what God spoke through
Jeremiah do not hide on the outskirts when you're taken into exile go in and live among the people
and be a blessing to the people that the people may be blessed and prosper and many rebelled
many hit on the outskirts and they're like we're not we're not gonna enter you know mingle we're
not going to you know join their communities I mean they they didn't obey God in their cities
and then when they were taken into exile they weren't obeying God but but Daniel understood
the word of the Lord and said when you're taken into exile go in and live among them there were
times they were told not to live among you know not to live among the people but here they're
saying I'm sending you as a blessing to lift the people up you know so he was telling them
here's what to do this time and that's what Daniel did he lived to be a blessing to this
king in this kingdom and so then he starts to reveal to him um uh that you know God God was
giving you this insight King he chose you he chose to give it to you
and and Daniel didn't draw attention to himself at all okay who wants to finish up this part of Daniel
the great God has made known to the king what shall come to pass
hereafter the dream is certain and the interpretation of it is sure
then King King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and paid homage to Daniel as a great prophet of
the highest God and ordered that an offering and incense should be offered up to honor
to up to him and honor his God the king answered Daniel of the of a truth your God is the God
of Gods and the Lord of Kings and a reveler revealer of secret mysteries seen secret
mysteries seen that you could reveal this secret mystery then the king made Daniel great and gave
him many great gifts and he made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon and to be
chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
And Daniel requested of the king,
and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
over the affairs of the province of Babylon.
But Daniel remained in the gate of the king
at the king's court.
Okay, Daniel sought peace.
He didn't seek anything for himself.
He sought to save a number of many lives,
save the kingdom from bloodshed,
save the king from making a big huge mistake, seek God.
Okay, this is about a dream.
He's uptight about his dream.
Daniel didn't know what was about the dream.
It's just like the king's in an uproar
because no one will tell him his dream
and now heads will roll.
So he's like, peace, don't kill anybody yet.
Let me go talk to God.
And even all the people are like,
only the gods know these things
and they don't dwell among flesh.
But here he goes to God.
In all peace, he goes to God.
In peace, he brings the solution.
In peace, he presents the dream and its interpretation.
And look, Nebuchadnezzar,
the greatest king in all the earth,
he held more authority over more of the earth
than I think any other person before or since,
I think, correct me if I'm wrong.
He fell on his face
before Daniel paying homage to him
as a great prophet of the most high God.
He understood you are speaking for the most high God
and he prostrated himself on his face.
This is the king,
the king that was gonna slaughter all these people
because he could.
He could determine if people live or die.
That power of life and death was in this king's hands.
What would happen to people?
He put himself on his face before Daniel
acknowledging Daniel's God,
that he was from God.
And then made him great,
even incense to Daniel in honor of his God
and great gifts.
And then Daniel could then speak to the king and say,
hey, could you also bring in my friends?
Yes, yes, we'll bring in your friends.
So, I mean, who has that kind of influence over a king?
Like, except he determined
that this was a power even over himself.
And the king humbled himself as if this was a child of God,
an offspring of God, a prophet of God.
So this is just like,
this is our opportunity in the situations we're in
is we've been taught
that there are many different ways to respond,
different personalities of response.
But then there's this other than response.
This God response, this heaven's response,
this response from eternity.
And like, that's ultimate success.
This access to heaven itself, himself.
And he brings peace and peace hit the kingdom,
joy hit the kingdom, celebration hit the kingdom.
And all the while this one who prostrated himself
was being exalted by God, was being exalted by Daniel.
You see how everybody's lifted up in peace.
Nobody's put in their place.
Nobody's put down, nobody's scolded.
That's why the king was so angry with the other men.
I want you to do this.
It's impossible.
You're a lunatic.
No one's ever done this, right?
They're ridiculing him.
They're telling him he's irresponsible.
And instead Daniel says,
give me some time to do what you're requesting.
Man, is this like,
this is hitting every cell of my body right now.
Like, this is what we have access to.
This is so totally.
different a way to respond. It's like this isn't about me. This
isn't about my opinion. This isn't about good or evil, right
or wrong. He didn't. He didn't judge the king for his request.
He didn't judge all the people for he didn't have his opinion.
Hillary in Jesus name. He did not like even say one word of
gossip about those he was just like, don't kill anybody. Would
you give me some time? Would you give me this much time that I
may satisfy your request? Because he had access to God.
Oh, wow. Wow. Okay. All right. These are pieces all from Luke
six. And maybe someone can read like, someone read the first
someone read the second, and I'll, I'll kind of take this
third one. And then we'll just have a few more scriptures. And
then we'll take it to the Lord. But man, this is gigantic, isn't
it? We are so much grander. We are enviable. That's why they
detested Daniel. They were all chickens in the chicken coop.
Eagles. Eagles don't talk to chickens. I mean, they probably
eat them. But like, he didn't even go down to he didn't even
appease them. He didn't try to gain their approval. Just
nothing. Just right. Right in the in the proper protocol. In
order to approach the king, he didn't go in boldly. He asked
permission of the chief who had come to give him the message
that all were were but were were perished. And it even says
I didn't put that verse in there. But it says he approached
Ariok with great wisdom, say asking, why the urgency? No
defense, no, no defense. I didn't do anything wrong. Like I
wasn't there. I wasn't no accusation just with, with
wisdom and integrity. He just asked why the sense of urgency?
Why so harsh? What's, what's up with the king? Okay. All right,
let's go quick.
I can do the first one. Go ahead.
No, you go ahead. One Sabbath while Jesus was passing through
the field of standing grain, it occurred that his disciples pick
some of the spikes and eight of the grain rubbing it out in
their hands. But some of the Pharisees asked them, asked
them, why are you doing what is not permitted to be done on the
Sabbath days? Jesus replied to them, have you never so much as
read what David did when he was hungry? He and those who were
with him, how he went into the house of God and took and ate
the sacred loaves of the showbread, which it is not
permitted for it, which is not permitted for any except only
the priests to eat and also gave to those who were with him. And
he said to them, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.
So I, I, I loved this chapter because especially in these two
first two passages, these are direct attacks against Jesus on
the Sabbath of his treatment of the Sabbath, which is a day for
rest, a day for enjoying one's labors, a day for peace, a day
for like for recognizing God's the source of all life, and he
gives us to work as a pleasure. And he gives us to celebrate our
work as a feast. And, and so they're just there on the
Sabbath, they're walking through field, they're hungry, and
because they have to, you know, you have to rub the grain to, to
get a bit the kernels, that's like, you know, they're, they're
violating the Sabbath. But of course, they're, they're missing
peace, they have no peace, they have no sense of rest. They have
no, they're missing it. And so he's identifying here, the Son
of Man is, of course, that anointed one that's to come, the
son of God, and he's saying, like, the son of man is the Lord of the Sabbath. Like, I'm
not under, we're not under the Sabbath. The Sabbath isn't given to us to be a weight,
but to be a joy. So here's another attack on the Sabbath in the second one.
On another Sabbath, as Jesus went into the synagogue and taught, a man was there whose
right hand was withered. The scribes and Pharisees kept watching to see whether Jesus would heal
on the Sabbath in order that they might accuse him. Jesus was aware all along of their thoughts
and said to the man with the withered hand, come and stand here. He arose and stood there.
Then Jesus said to him, I ask you, is it lawful and right on the Sabbath to do good so that
someone derives advantage from it, or to do evil, to save a life and make a soul safe,
or to destroy it? Then he glanced around at them all and said to the man, stretch out
your hand. The man did so, and his hand was fully restored like the other one, but being
filled with a lack of understanding and senseless rage, they discussed with one another what
they might do to Jesus.
The Sabbath. That's that mindset that is so bound. I can't fail the Sabbath. We can't
do wrong on the Sabbath. I understand that perspective. There was penalty of death for
doing wrong on the Sabbath, but without knowing God, then that's all it is. Just like Job
says, okay, before I heard about you, but now I see you. I have nothing more to say.
Always repenting. That's what our eyes do when we're asking Holy Spirit, bring your
word to life in me. Someone who is carrying the responsibility of the Sabbath, rather
than the Sabbath being something to which they can enter into with God, and know him,
and find that rest they long for, and that joy they long for, then it's really too heavy.
It's really a torment. As much as we can see their ridiculous fault here, I think that's
only because of the revelations that we have, but it's so easy to see. Hi, mom. It's so
easy to see that people can be so twisted, and just to have compassion, that Jesus didn't
do what Nebuchadnezzar was going to do. What should this person do? Remain limping, gimping,
broken, because you are so ignorant? You're playing God with this person. He just didn't
do that. He challenged them, but he's really always presenting this invitation by presenting
the distinction of the good news versus the ridiculousness of our religious torment.
I just thought those really stood out to me. Wow, they're on the Sabbath, and we're talking
about making peace, and that's what the Sabbath is for, and we become the children of God.
All right. Here, this is, of course, part of Luke's version as Jesus goes
into immediately after these verses in Luke 6. Luke's version
of this, of these of the Sermon on the Mount. And we just see
like, the distinction here, but I say to you, you know, this is
what this is what the child of God, the one who, who lives in
peace does for others love your enemies. That's what that's how
Daniel lived. Love your enemies, treat well, do good, act nobly
toward those who detest you with hatred. Can you imagine, invoke
blessings upon them, and pray for the happiness of those who
curse you. Implore, this is so specific. This is one of those
like, hey, did God really say like, implore God's blessing and
favor upon those who abuse you, who revile, reproach, disparage
and misuse you? Because God knows like, you're his, you're
you're entitled to so much better. Like you don't deserve
that. No, no, Jesus doesn't say that. He says, pray that for
them. And to the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer him the
other cheek also, like this would be in red. And from him
who takes away your coat, give to him your shirt as well. Is
there anything else you would like because we know that God is
so much bigger than the thing someone's trying to take. And
there's something so much greater at stake here. And that
is the souls. The revealing of God and his glory to the souls
who are so separated from him, that they must steal, that they
must hate, that they must, like, you know, abuse and complain and
and betray and detest. And as you would desire, well, give away
to everyone who begs of you, who is in want of necessities, and
of him who takes away your goods, do not demand or require
them back. Like, justice, like I am very righteousness and
justice. That's like kind of my core. You know, that's what I
fight for. This one, I just have to like sit, this is, I
have to look at this from the lens of peace. And of course,
the life of Jesus. And of course, the entire revelation of
God, from Genesis to Revelation. Do not demand or require what
was taken from you back again. Let him have it. I mean, like,
guys, when, so my husband had been married before. And, and so
we lived for many years, in and out of court. And there was just
constant demands. And, and when, when the mother of when when
Michael's first wife, the mother of his oldest children, was not
satisfied with what she was getting, she went to the judge
and asked that he include my income in what she should get
in child support. And he gave it to her. And I, well, I mean, you
guys, for years, for years, if you would ask me, how are you?
It depended upon my mood, I could throw up all over you all
about what we were going through. And so I mean, that was
enough hatred. And in a sense of injustice, like I was working.
And the money didn't go to my kids, or my family, I was
working so that that she could get the money. Like, do you,
like, I can still feel just some of the remnant of like, what I
felt in that. And I had like, so much hatred. And one day, the
Lord said to me, Hillary, so what you work and she gets the
money.
I'm just like, I mean, of course, the way he says it, it makes so much sense, yet I'm
in this like tug of war inside me, but this right here is freedom.
That was freedom.
Okay, so what?
I work, she gets the money, he's like, can't you bless that money?
Like he's showing me where I have power.
He actually was putting power into my hands.
This wasn't being done to me, right?
We hear this was being done for me to be able to impact this family with an authority because
it was money I earned.
It was work I had done, and I could release that and put my trust in God and not in what
was happening.
I mean, I have a lot of stories like that, where I just had every right, and he just
like took the rug right out from under that.
And why?
Because it's what he's like.
So what?
You work, she gets the money, like, so why can't you pray over that?
So then what am I going to do?
Start arguing with him?
But what about the kid's agitation?
What about the food?
What about, as if he doesn't know, I mean, I'm, I'm suddenly the idiot.
And he's not feeling that way.
That was just like, but I, I literally just the amount of, you know, looking, remember
looking carefully, lest any root of bitterness springing up and thereby many are defiled.
Oh, the defiling, like, I'm laughing.
It's really not funny.
Like, it's so like, it's really, I mean, okay, all right.
So anyway, that's how practical these verses need to be to us.
Not so we can tell someone else, but so that we can live successfully in these times where
our life doesn't come from what's happening around us.
Our life is so much more powerful if we consult the one who is in us and all of his kingdom.
He owns it all.
His ways are superior to all.
That's what Daniel did.
He didn't get tied up in knots.
He went to the one who knew better, Lord, you gave, you gave him an abacadnezer, a dream.
He doesn't remember it, but you do.
Could you tell me what the dream was and what it meant so that we don't have to die?
And he did.
Okay.
And as you would desire that men would do to you, do so exactly to them.
If you love those who love you, what credit and thanks is it to you?
For even the sinners love those who love them like, okay, what do you want metal?
And if you are kind and good and do favors to and benefit those who are kind and good
and do favors to and benefit you, what credit and thanks is that to you for even sinners
do the same?
Like how many times were like, you know, all that I've done, you know, how I've loved you,
you know, I mean, so many times I said to my kids, I'm the one that wiped your rear
end.
Like, you know, just, I mean, there's just no need for that.
Here God is like giving me breath to say stupid things like that.
Okay.
And if you let, well, no, no.
And if you lend money at interest to those from.
And if you lend money, peace, peace and interest to those from whom you hope to receive, what
credit is that to you?
Even notorious sinners lend money at interest to sinners.
So as to recover as much again, but love your enemies and be kind and do good, do good doing
favors so that someone derives benefit from them and lend expecting and hoping nothing
in return, but consider nothing as lost and despairing of no one.
None of it's lost.
I just, I.
learned to make all things that were taken seed in God's hand.
It's just seed, Lord, just do good to them, let it bless them.
And then your reward will be great, rich, strong, intense and
abundant. For you will be sons of the Most High. For he is kind
and charitable and good to the ungrateful, to the selfish and
to the wicked. So be merciful, sympathetic, tender, responsive
and compassionate, even as your Father is all of these things.
Before we go just read these last few verses. Does anybody is
anyone hit with anything like
like I have been
Okay.
So, Ephesians five, one and two, whoever wants to read the
Ephesians and the Philippians, go ahead and do that. But we're
looking at so, mom, the scripture today is 5.9. Blessed
are the peacemakers, the makers and maintainers of peace, for
they are the children of God, they are perceived and called
the children of God.
Therefore, be imitators of God, as beloved children, and walk
in love, as Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us, a
fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.
Philippians 2.12. Therefore, my beloved, as you have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my
absence, work out your own salvation, with fear and
trembling. I always used to hate that one. For it is God who
works in you, both to will and to do for his good pleasure. Do
all things without complaining and disputing. Do all things
without disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless,
children of God without fault, in the midst of a crooked and
perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the
world, holding fast the word of life, so that I may not rejoice
in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, or
labored in vain.
Amen. So we're just seeing, God loves, God gives, God exalts,
God celebrates, God heals, God helps, God embraces God
comforts, God restores, because that's who he is. So as
children of God, we are so as he is, right? We are as he was in
this world. So are we and so being other otherwise, there's
really no distinction. I mean, if I say, I believe in life for
the children of God, yet I despise the life of those people
who don't know to esteem life, or to esteem God. I'm not really
in the truth. I'm really not being honest, because I'm, I'm
hating their life. For the sake of loving the lives they haven't
saved, instead of just mourning and crying out and praying for
all life, all life is given by God. So same like if I'm, he's a
righteous and a holy God. So there are many of us who have
learned that I did not know it till I till I got saved till I
was in his word, right? So the more I know it, the more what I
use it to despise those who were like me, who thought that
people like me, were lunatics. And, you know, what what is this
holiness for? What is this revelation for? That's what
Daniel understood. I mean, really, like his life is so
flawless. In every way he was persecuted and robbed of, of
privilege and just would keep like, you know, his life
threatened his peace.
threatened, his manhood taken, his home taken, his family
separated from his beloved family, he's told who he is, his
name is taken, he's given a different name, he's told whom
to worship and how, and all these people who are so vulgar
and perverse, he's lumped together with them all, you
know, the magicians and the centraps and the Kaldians and
the, you know, all of all of those people and, and, and he
never in any way uses the revelation to distinguish
himself as better. It's always about God being better. Him
being the same, the only difference is God. And as much
as all these difficulties became opportunities to allow God to
reveal himself, okay, my life's threatened. He didn't even cry
out for his life. He cried out for the revelation, so that all
the lives could be saved. And the king could have peace. It's
so different. We, this world is not our home, we're not of this
place. So the distinction has to come because we live here, not
wanting this world to be perfect, but wanting the
imperfectness of this world, to realize the perfect love, and
goodness and holiness and help of God. That's so different than
using the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and those
weapons to prove something. I mean, when the Lord told me one
day, Hillary, agreement is more powerful than being right. I was
like, I'm supposed to agree with being wrong. Like, how does that
make sense? And he said, if you're fighting for being right,
aren't you already wrong? Like, you've lost it. Daniel didn't
get involved in all he didn't wrangle with the wrong, just
like, like Paul said to Timothy, don't even engage in those
stupid debates. Just don't go there. Just be the light walk as
children of your father, in the light in love. If you say that
you know God, and you have not love for your brother for the you
know, then you you're you're lying, you're found to be a
liar. You don't know God and you have not the truth. So these are
like just so just being in this place at Jesus's feet makes all
this so simple. It's just simple. Thank you, Jesus. So
here like we live in the midst of a crooked and perverse
generation. So we don't become crooked and perverse in our
minds, in our manners in our in our speech, like, oh my gosh,
the the vile anger and stuff that I experienced because of
the injustices, unrighteousness. And, and I was just like, there
was, I had, I, the Lord told me one time, Hillary, your banner
of self-righteousness is, is no better. It's just as putrid.
Like, I don't know about you guys, he just has this way of
telling it to me. Saying like, they're leading people astray.
And he's like, what about that, that flag you're flying there
about? Like how much better you are right there. He doesn't even
talk to me about them and they were doing so much wrong.
You know, I have a question about that, actually. That's
that's something, you know, in our household, my husband is
just into politics, you know, and he fills his mind all day
long with it. And I, I like
I just, I can't take it anymore, you know. I'm like, but I have to be a good wife. I have to
listen to him and not just pretend listen and have some good answers. As a good wife, I gotta
have some decent answers, you know. There's gotta be a dialogue. And, but I keep telling him so often
when Jesus came, there were, there was even worse turmoil. I mean, they had, it's not like the
country went downhill. They, they actually lost their whole country. It was gone. It was like
Russia taking over Ukraine, you know. It's like they took over Israel. And I mean, they had every
right to fight against that. Jesus never mentioned it. Give Caesars what Caesars. But my husband is
so, it's like this, this constant fight. It's like, well, do something. Get on a school board,
you know, do something. Or pray an hour or two hours a day, you know, do something. No, no.
And it's never ending. And I don't know if I'm right or wrong. On, on one hand, I feel like,
you know, but on the other hand, people did fight to end abortion and it's ended. So that was a good
thing too. So I'm kind of confused in my mind, you know. So what, what is good? What isn't?
Right. Well, if you think about, oh goodness, what's his name? Ladies, he, Lou Engle.
Lou Engle for so many years, they, they stood in front of the Supreme Court without saying a word.
They prayed. Even the media made attention to the fact that, wow, they're not like hollering and
yelling and screaming. And, and he's like, you can't argue in silence. They prayed, they fasted
and prayed with specific intentionality that Roe v. Wade, the impossible could happen,
could happen that Roe v. Wade could come down. And so as much as there were all these fights,
there were, there was so much petitioning to God in silence, in humility, in, in crying out in,
in groups of prayer where it wasn't taking up like, you know, life against life. It was,
it was, it happened in the secret place.
And that's what won the war. And so what, what happens when we listen to the puppets of speaking
the enemy's voice, like my sheep know my voice and the voice of another, they will not follow.
People are just saying what they know to say, and you have to know the spirit behind what's
being said. Whose voice is that? That's what I have to ask myself. I have to ask that of my kids,
my husband, who's saying that? Whose voice is that? And then when I realize, oh my goodness,
this is a familiar voice I've heard like all my life or for years or whatever, Jesus, this is not
Jesus. This is not your voice. Therefore, I bring it to you in subjection to you.
And I, I, I ask you to give me what you have to say in return. So you're absolutely right that in
that day, Jesus kept everything about God and his kingdom into anything else. And when they tried to
entrap him, he just looked to God and his kingdom and said exactly what God had to say, because God
himself honors authority, the authority he gives in the world. That authority has to answer to God,
just like every other person has to answer to God. So he doesn't get it. I mean, judge not,
lest ye be judged for with, for what is it?
Uh, pressed down, shaken together and overflowing into your bosom shall men give unto you. That's,
that's, that verse goes with judge not lest ye be judged. That's Malachi 3.10. I never knew those
go together. No, in Luke, in Luke. I mean the press down shaken. That's well, there is one in
Malachi 3.10 where the Lord opens up the windows of heaven, pours out a blessing. There's not
enough room to retain it. Okay. Cause I've always loved that. I did that verse in calligraphy.
But you know, you hear God's voice, you know that.
But not everybody recognizes, I mean, not everybody recognizes that this might not be
a voice from God, that this might be, you know, an angel or the devil in disguise as
an angel, you know.
So yeah, I think it's in Luke where it says, um, um, one second, I lost my search button.
Okay.
Anyway, I think it's in Luke might have even been in this chapter right here.
I skipped to the end for the purpose of peace.
But you know, it's just like, what are God's ways?
God already knows that all these things are needs, that people need to be protected.
The truth needs to be brought forth, that fairness, you know, and equity need to be
the way.
And, and, and so if God knows that Jesus said, don't, don't strive for those things, fight
for those things, or, you know, just like, just seek you first, God's kingdom and righteousness,
like violence is trying to besiege the kingdom of God, right?
The kingdom of heaven suffers violence.
The violent are taking it by force, right?
So but why are we allowing that?
So what does it mean to be in the kingdom of God to be established, to be seated at
the right hand of God in Christ Jesus, all authority in heaven, earth and under the earth
has been given unto me go ye therefore and make disciples.
He didn't say go and watch the news or go and pick it or go and, you know, make, bring,
bring unto me, bring unto me, bring the little children unto me, heal the sick, deliver from
demons, raise the dead, baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
He gave us like, okay, what is religion?
To minister to the widows and the orphans and to keep yourself undefiled from this world.
So it's, it's like, you know, it's not my brand of righteousness.
It's not my brand of Christianity.
It's not my, it's not my, my upbringing or my church or my experience or, or what, or
my revelation.
It's it's, it's his, it's all his, what does he say?
This is, this is the secret to success.
Jesus remained separated from allowing himself to develop his own opinions, his own judgments,
his own, his own rights, his own self, his own life, totally given over.
He was the possession of God on the mission for God completely.
He would allow himself no, no other leeway.
That's what we see in Daniel and the stories, the crazy miracles.
Like we have to realize like, like a lion's den, a fiery furnace, the things like, okay,
everyone death, death sentence, like the things that they got out of and became exalted in
the midst of, not because they hollered, not because they yelled, not because they
made podcasts, but, but because they, they would not defile themselves before God.
They wouldn't involve themselves in what the world was doing.
Okay.
All right.
Romans eight, sonship through the spirit, history of the bonds of the spirit of peace.
Okay.
Who wants to read that quickly?
Time is up.
Sorry, guys.
Therefore, brethren, we are debitors, not to the flesh, not to the flesh, to live according
to the flesh.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die.
But if you live by the spirit, you will, you put to death the deeds of the body.
You will live for as many are led by the spirit of God.
These are the sons of God for you did not receive the spirit of bondage.
again to fear, but you receive the spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if
children, then heirs, and heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer
with him, that we may also be glorified together.
Thank you so much, Karen. We are children and joint heirs of a far greater kingdom than
the United States of America. That's how the United States of America came to be,
is because these men and women, these families were committed to the kingdom of heaven on earth,
not being about a kingdom, or a culture, or a people. They wanted to come out from among them
and live the kingdom revelation that they had, the righteousness that they had to live under God.
That's how we came to be. So as soon as we became about America, or about whatever other country,
we lost that. So whatever generation we're in, once we become the children of God,
that happens when we put to death the deeds of the body and live by the Spirit, being led by the
Spirit, not by the news. And I'm not picking on your husband, Ingrid. I think all of us probably
in this room have been there. I think that's part of our journey. Once we realize what righteousness
is, we're so angry at all the unrighteousness. I totally get it. I totally get being consumed
by all those things. It doesn't mean that I don't also listen to some of those things and have to
say, okay, God, get me back. Get me back from the abyss. Help me back. And then just to just allow
him hit his Lord, what do you want me to do with this? You know, I was guilty of that myself too,
because when this thing happened with Meghan Markle, I'm reading up on it, and I can tell I
don't wish her well. And there's something stirring up. I really don't like her. And then I realized
I'm really judging that woman. I don't even know her, you know. And when we talked about judgment
the other day, yeah, I'm really judging her. So I haven't read up on it since, because before I
would enjoy, you know, because, yeah. You know, you get to suck into that, and it's not right.
It's not right. It's judgment. Yeah. I'm even like in my mind come up all these things like,
oh yeah, but you know, just like, oh yeah, you know, yes. We're so easily ensnared. I'm sorry,
Jill. Bless your embrace. Oh yeah, it's so easy for us to just, all right.
Okay, Lord, we just right now, we give you Meghan Markle and Prince Harry, and Lord,
I thank you for the opportunity to be able to stand here on their behalf,
to humble ourselves and pray, and whatever led to their deep deceptions, and to take
people along with them. Lord, I just say forgive them. We ask you to forgive them. We ask you to
clear away the veils on their hearts, on their minds, the entitlements, those voices that have
totally had their way for all these years, to make them feel like they're right to lie,
or they're right to betray. Lord, that's not how you made them. That's your enemy.
We ask you, God, for the vengeance against your enemy, that these two, and all their family,
and all the people that have followed them, Lord, that this would become a testimony for you,
and for your righteousness, that somebody like we are now would be caught interceding for them.
Just so you could answer the prayer, draw them into your light, draw them into salvation,
into your peace, to become children of God.
Let them not be lost.
And Lord, we're just so sorry for all the ways that they have and that all of us have
just contributed to the dominion of darkness and made a mess.
And we just say, Lord, hold it not against them.
Lord, send your labors into their life with mercy, with kindness, with love, until their
hearts are tenderized and they can come, repent, and be saved in Jesus' name, amen.
Thank you for bringing that up, Ingrid.
Isaiah 59 says, God doesn't wonder why those in darkness couldn't find the light and those
in corruption could find no justice, he says.
He wondered why there was no intercessor.
So he stretched forth his own arm of salvation, praise the Lord.
Okay, last verse here, living before our God, therefore, gird up the loins of your mind.
Oh, this is not Psalm 24.
Gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that
is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children.
This is 1 Peter, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts as in your ignorance,
but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy, and in all your conduct, because
it is written, be holy, be holy, for I am holy.
And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one's
work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here.
This is not your place here.
This is not your home.
Your stay here in this culture, in this world, in fear, knowing that you are not redeemed
with corruptible things.
We weren't redeemed by arguing and vulgarity and in any sentiments that could also become
used by the enemy.
Not even like silver or gold redeemed us, but from your aimless conduct, your thoughtlessness
received by the tradition from your fathers, but you are redeemed with the precious blood
of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
Lord, the ultimate sacrifice, just so we could have peace with you, peace on earth
and goodwill toward men, peace with God, being brought back together with you, with one another,
in the holy bonds of peace found in the Holy Spirit.
Because you are Yahweh Shalom, Sar Shalom, you are peace.
And we welcome your peace to just wash over us, Lord.
Wash over all of our minds and our thoughts.
All the things that seem to be bringing us an anxious pressing.
I know for me, like what time it is, I just feel an anxiousness of that.
So I just give that to you.
I let you wash that over with peace.
You know how to bless everyone here.
Peace, peace.
And I thank you, Lord, for helping us to hand to you all of the obligations we carry, the
people we carry, the questions we carry, and all of the things that we have to deal with.
we have physical conditions, situations, just all of that
going to you. All of it being handed to you. Lord, help us to
really see you. Thank you for the gift of our imagination.
Thank you. We can, we can be like children who have an
imagination for you, for your goodness. We can allow you to
flood our, our imagination with, with seeing you remove all of
the burdens, all of those things that steal our peace in all of
the places of our heart, of our soul, of our mind, of our
strength, all being released to you, freely releasing to you.
You say to any, any lie that would say we are not able to be
released. We say the Lord rebuke you. The Lord who chose
Jerusalem and chose us here and is Lord here, the Lord rebuke
you. We ask you Lord to just quiet every voice that's not you.
As we say the voice of another we won't follow. We're free in
the blood of Jesus. To just, just be before you God. Jesus,
just like Mary sitting at your feet. And your own mother on
earth just had to forego every other thought or argument or
consideration or question and had to simply release that to
you. We release, we release everything Lord. Everything, all
the hurts, all the regrets, all the shame and the difficulties,
all the other people and the things they do or don't do.
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you so much Lord. And you know, you
said that the greatest commandment is to love the Lord
your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. And that
and that the second is like it, just like it. To love one
another as to love others as we love ourselves. So Lord, as all
that is being released, we ask for the release of your love.
Your love brings peace. Your love reconciles. Your love
rectifies. Your love forgives. Your love comforts. Your love
sets at ease. Your love brings wisdom. Your love is patient.
Patient, relying on the goodness of God. Knowing that you know
how to work all things together for the good of those who love
you and are called according to your purpose, which all of us
are. We're in your hands. We do believe that what you began in
us you will complete. And you're teaching us how to connect by
faith. As we receive your peace, your word, your incorruptible
word, your impregnated word. Thank you, Lord. Thank you,
Lord. Lord, would you show us what peace looks like? For those
situations and people and places that we are giving to
you.
What does peace look like when we receive peace as your children? That blast assurance
that sees you and all you've accomplished as greater and bigger, more relevant, more
powerful. I think about how through faith and patience they inherited the promises.
And you said that those people, their generations weren't even worthy of them
because they had so much faith in you, like Daniel.
That's what we're looking for, Lord. We're looking to give you all of the hurt and pain
and shame and questions and entitlements and opinions, all of it. Like Paul said,
I am fully persuaded that he is able to keep all that I have committed unto him against that day.
So it's all about an eternal treasure and how eternity can be manifested here
in our minds, in our lives. Thank you for this flowing of peace, this answer of peace.
Lord, is there anything else we're holding onto that would keep us from being completely let go
and surrendered in your peace?
Lord, would you please lift that heaviness with all its root system
out of us as it having no hold on us and being yours?
As if that weight, that relationship, that financial situation, that business,
that person, that dream, that to-do list, as if it entirely belongs to you. Entirely.
Entirely. Lord, show us what it looks like for these people and situations to be in your hands.
Lord, show us what it looks like for these people and situations to be in your hands.
Lord, what does it look like for me to enter into the secret, safe, and secure space of
your peace while all of that remains but is in your hand? How do I partner with your
peace by allowing myself to have your peace so that I may rejoice?
Thank you, Lord. Thank you that none of these things are my possessions. None of these people
are my possessions. They're all yours, Lord. I bow before you. You are God. I'd so much
rather have your joy. What would you like us to receive in place of all that we've
given over, Lord? What do you want me to have instead from you?
What do I do with that? What does it look like? Please give me understanding. Wisdom.
Thank you, Lord.
Lord, would you flood me with your peace and seal me in your peace and open my eyes increasingly
to see you as a God of peace, not according to what's going on outwardly, but to see
more than anything the peace that you are and have and bring in the midst of what's
going on, just like Jesus did, just like Paul did, just like Daniel did. And I ask
too that you would help us to know you as the God of peace and we as your children.
That means a lot to you. Peace. When your children bring peace, you, your peace, just
like Daniel, just like Jesus, in the way you intended, not as the world gives. Have
you given us your peace?
that our joy may be full and your joy may remain in us. Be adonned to us according to
your word of peace and joy. We are your offspring. You know what's going on. You can handle it.
We let go. That we may be held on to by you in Jesus' name. Amen.
Wow. Oh, sorry. I forgot to stop share. Sorry about that. Wow.
This idea that if he has his hold on me, I'm held inside of peace. I'm going to appreciate
getting to know that, Hillary. The Hillary held inside of peace. Anyone want to share?
I just heard peace like a river tendeth my soul.
It is well. It is well. It is well. It is well.
It is well. It is well. That's the truth. Anyone else? Any gems? Any revelations?
I saw that when we give everything to him, he teaches us to play again like children.
And I was like, what does that look like? And he said, it looks like a heart of joy
in all things. Just like my youngest. He'll just climb up into my lap, 17 years old.
And just always hanging on me. He just has a heart of joy in all things.
And so he's not presuming. And I'm like, get yourself together. Get off my hair.
Having a heart of joy in all things allows us to be playful, allows a whole different experience
and perspective. There's always reason to give thanks, always reason to rejoice,
even when it's super hard. That's what he was showing me. And if I let him hold on to me and
he holds on to everything else, I am at peace. And I love that.
That if peace like a river attends my way, it is well. Even if sorrows like sea billows.
Well, it is well. If I allow him to hold me, there's this different place.
And I can know him in that way.
All right. Well, okay. Lord, help me make these shorter. And love you ladies so much.
See you tomorrow.
Thank you Hillary.
Night everyone.
Good night.
You all right mama.
Irritated eyes that they're gluing down the carpeting in the hall, I noticed my eyes are itchy so I had to walk out in it to get my laundry.
He drops in.
Oh, please. Those are the least of my.
Well still, it's still something a place to get peace it's still an area.
Begging for peace begging.
Receiving that's like letting him take the things.
We give it's an exchange that's what I'm learning. All right, I give you this, I release this.
And I receive your piece.
Let's pray that pray that for you mom.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Sorry, get on right away I tried every which way but loose.
Now I did, you know, again come back to the, the phone which then started saying, no more power.
plug it in again, so you know until you're until you're able to get on you know you can flip it I'm on Facebook and I always
know, as soon as I do on Facebook I was listening. Oh good. Okay.
I'm going to go take care of these I thinks it's driving. Okay.
Love you mama God bless you.