WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.640 All right, welcome back. 2 00:00:04.640 --> 00:00:10.960 Here we are, we made it to day seven, congratulations. 3 00:00:10.960 --> 00:00:15.160 We have been on a journey and I am so excited. 4 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:22.560 I think today is, I know today is going to wrap it up in such a powerful, practical way 5 00:00:22.560 --> 00:00:30.200 for you so that it's not just knowledge, but it's wisdom, it's applied knowledge. 6 00:00:30.200 --> 00:00:35.600 So I want to congratulate you on really investing in yourself and your spiritual life and your 7 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:41.680 relationship with God and being here, I'm honored to be on this journey with you. 8 00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:43.400 It's been a lot of fun for me. 9 00:00:43.400 --> 00:00:48.120 So let's open with prayer and we are going to dive in. 10 00:00:48.120 --> 00:00:52.120 So father, I give thanks for these seven days. 11 00:00:52.120 --> 00:00:55.240 You've taught us so much Lord. 12 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:56.920 And I thank you for the breakthrough. 13 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:57.920 I thank you. 14 00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:03.960 We celebrate the miracles, the ways that you have showed up and showed off. 15 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:11.200 I thank you for the breakthroughs that are happening personally, professionally, relationally. 16 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.460 And I just, I have so much gratitude for that. 17 00:01:14.460 --> 00:01:18.860 So Lord, I just ask that the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart will be 18 00:01:18.860 --> 00:01:20.060 pleasing in your sight. 19 00:01:20.060 --> 00:01:24.780 I ask that you open our spiritual senses, that we will hear what you Holy Spirit have 20 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:27.100 to say specifically for us. 21 00:01:27.100 --> 00:01:31.520 May we have today, not just the Logos word, but the Rhema word. 22 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:34.740 We just invite angels to be here. 23 00:01:34.740 --> 00:01:38.120 We invite Holy Spirit. 24 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:41.840 We just invite your presence. 25 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:45.000 And we're so grateful in Jesus name. 26 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:46.000 Amen. 27 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:47.000 Amen. 28 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.000 All right. 29 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:53.280 Let me put on a, well, I got to remember to share the screen. 30 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:54.840 That's the first step. 31 00:01:54.840 --> 00:01:55.920 Okay. 32 00:01:55.920 --> 00:02:04.560 So we're going to share the screen and then we are going to rock and roll here. 33 00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:05.560 Slide share. 34 00:02:05.560 --> 00:02:07.560 You guys should be seeing it. 35 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:09.000 All right. 36 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:10.000 There we go. 37 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:11.000 Okay. 38 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:17.960 So, so here we are day seven, that says day six, it's day seven. 39 00:02:17.960 --> 00:02:20.760 And I didn't catch up on that day seven. 40 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:24.960 And I'm just really quick because we've got a lot of new stuff to cover. 41 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:31.040 Just a reminder that this whole journey of partnering with God, it's an inside job. 42 00:02:31.040 --> 00:02:37.040 Yes, there's things we do on the outside, but the whole idea of partnering with God 43 00:02:37.040 --> 00:02:43.040 is to stop being so influenced and become an influencer. 44 00:02:43.040 --> 00:02:46.240 Those of you that want to be an influencer, okay. 45 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:54.120 It needs to be that the spirit of God living through us, that we are affecting our circumstances, 46 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:58.880 our environment, as opposed to us being shaped by that. 47 00:02:58.880 --> 00:03:03.280 So we're transformed by the renewing of our mind. 48 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:06.800 So all week we've been replacing lies with truth. 49 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:14.800 We've been having God unveil within us, his mighty love, his mighty power. 50 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.240 So that we literally, we empty ourselves of everything else. 51 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:24.040 And we're so filled with God that we have the richest experience of God's presence. 52 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:29.760 We become bodies completely filled and flooded with God himself. 53 00:03:29.760 --> 00:03:34.320 So we've talked about different ways that partnering with God shows up. 54 00:03:34.320 --> 00:03:42.480 It shows up in divine direction, a voice behind you saying, go to the left, go to the right. 55 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:50.080 We see this so many times through scripture, what it means to be led by the Holy Spirit. 56 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:58.400 We learned about divine timing, about Kairos, God's perfect timing, not just chronos, chronological 57 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.880 time, but Kairos, God's timing. 58 00:04:01.880 --> 00:04:06.680 We learn the power and the beauty of divine appointments. 59 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:09.560 There's so much to that. 60 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:15.960 We learned about divine order and, you know, I didn't even get into divine healing, which 61 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:24.000 is so huge and I was, I woke up just thinking about the miracles that happen when we partner 62 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:29.360 with God, the healing that happens, the healing in our, in our spirit, in our heart, in our 63 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:34.240 mind, in our body, the amazing healing. 64 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:39.080 And so another time we'll have to go deeper with that. 65 00:04:39.080 --> 00:04:45.720 Today I want to touch on the final aspect of just really what opens the door. 66 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:50.360 And then we're going to go into very practical applications so that you're really able to 67 00:04:50.360 --> 00:04:54.360 experience true lasting transformation. 68 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:58.960 I want to mention about divine goodness. 69 00:04:58.960 --> 00:04:59.960 And this. 70 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:11.680 so important. So Psalms 118 verse 1 says, keep on giving thanks to God for he is so good. So good. 71 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:21.840 I'm going to close my window. Little doggie's barking. Okay. So he is so good. His constant 72 00:05:21.840 --> 00:05:29.920 tender love lasts forever. We were talking before the call about being a people pleaser. 73 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:39.040 And often we have a hole in our heart where we think that we lack and we feel that we're not 74 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:46.560 enough. And so we desperately, we have a hole in our heart that is love. It's a God shaped hole. 75 00:05:46.560 --> 00:05:54.080 Only God can fill that. When, when you get this, you start to realize that you don't have to try 76 00:05:54.080 --> 00:06:02.960 to get up. You don't have to try to earn love that actually love lives in you because you're 77 00:06:02.960 --> 00:06:09.920 the temple of the Holy spirit. And so the Holy spirit lives in you. And so love lives in you 78 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:18.640 and every fiber of you is created in love. So you start coming from a place of love and knowing that 79 00:06:18.640 --> 00:06:23.600 you don't have to perform and you don't have to work. And so I was saying before I was saying, 80 00:06:23.600 --> 00:06:29.760 you know, it's so good to know there's nothing you can do to make God love you anymore. He just 81 00:06:29.760 --> 00:06:37.040 loves you with infinite, infinite love. And there's nothing you can do. You can't mess up bad enough 82 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:45.840 to make God love you any less. And so I love this where it says, keep giving thanks to God for he's 83 00:06:45.840 --> 00:06:56.080 good. His constant tender love lasts forever. That's Psalms 118 one and then Psalms 145 verses 84 00:06:56.080 --> 00:07:04.080 eight and nine in the amplified translation says, the Lord is gracious and full of compassion, 85 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:14.560 slow to anger and abounding in loving kindness. The Lord is good to all and his tender mercies 86 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:23.120 are over all his works, the entirety of things created. Now here's a really big one. Psalms 27, 87 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:32.560 13. This is crucial. It says, I would have despaired had I not believed that I would see 88 00:07:32.560 --> 00:07:38.560 the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living, not just in the by and by in heaven, 89 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:44.480 I would have given up. I would have despaired. I would have, I would have not kept going. 90 00:07:45.200 --> 00:07:55.040 Had I not believed in my heart of hearts, I would see the goodness of the Lord. And so being 91 00:07:55.040 --> 00:08:00.960 motivated, David, no matter what he was going through, he was going through tremendous battles 92 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:08.480 within and without. And what kept him going was the goodness of God. And I will tell you 93 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:14.960 that this will keep you going more than anything. Just meditate, study, come to understand the 94 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:22.240 goodness of God. This is part of those rewiring that we have to get. It's not, it's not like 95 00:08:22.240 --> 00:08:26.640 Santa Claus checking the list. If you've been naughty and nice, you know, it's not like your 96 00:08:26.640 --> 00:08:34.559 parents, you know, I remember I was reflecting on this. I don't know if you grew up in the 97 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:42.080 introduction of canned foods, but they were really big in my childhood. And there was this thing, 98 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:50.880 this nasty, nasty, nasty, let me repeat. Did I say nasty thing called canned spinach? I mean, 99 00:08:50.880 --> 00:08:58.080 this canned spinach, I don't care if Popeye said it made his muscles bulge. This was the slimiest, 100 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:05.600 ickiest, grossest stuff. And do you know that if I didn't eat my spinach at night, which nearly 101 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:11.360 made me throw up and I love fresh spinach, right? I eat fresh spinach in my smoothies and I grow it 102 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:18.640 and everything else, but this nasty, slimy stuff. And if I didn't eat it at night, I was served it 103 00:09:18.640 --> 00:09:26.000 for breakfast. You ever had nasty, slimy, cold spinach? You see, that's like this conditional 104 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:34.160 that you have to behave. You have to conform. That's not the goodness of God. And yet we get 105 00:09:34.160 --> 00:09:42.080 programmed, religion programs us that way. And so despair happens when we do not know or understand 106 00:09:42.080 --> 00:09:49.920 the goodness of God here on earth. If we do not truly believe that God is truly good, then we will 107 00:09:49.920 --> 00:09:58.160 not trust him fully. And so we'll not expect too much. And we will not ask very much. And so do 108 00:09:58.160 --> 00:09:59.920 you remember when we started, part 109 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:05.160 partnership, partnering with God, you've got to know, that 110 00:10:05.160 --> 00:10:08.880 requires time, you've got to trust, that requires 111 00:10:08.880 --> 00:10:13.280 relationship, God, and you've got to know, and you've got to 112 00:10:13.280 --> 00:10:18.800 come to trust who God made you, who you are with Christ in you. 113 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:24.080 And so if we don't trust, then we don't expect too much. And we 114 00:10:24.080 --> 00:10:29.120 don't ask. And so Psalms 8411 says, The Lord is a sun and a 115 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:34.440 shield, the Lord will give grace and glory, and no good thing 116 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:38.840 will he withhold from those who walk uprightly, walk in 117 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:44.480 relationship with him. Psalms 35 says, Let them all say the Lord 118 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:49.200 is great. And he delights in the prosperity of his servants, he 119 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:53.080 delights in your prosperity, he delights to see you filled with 120 00:10:53.080 --> 00:10:57.680 joy, he came that our joy might be full. He delights that we 121 00:10:57.680 --> 00:11:01.280 have peace, he came that we might have peace that passes 122 00:11:01.280 --> 00:11:07.120 all understanding. Luke 1232, in the Passion Translation says, 123 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.440 So don't ever be afraid, dearest friends, your loving Father 124 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:17.320 joyously gives you his kingdom realm with all its promises. 125 00:11:17.760 --> 00:11:23.720 This may be new thinking, if you've been stuck in religion, 126 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.160 which Jesus hated religion, by the way, you missed out what 127 00:11:30.160 --> 00:11:34.920 Jesus talked, the number one thing that God that Jesus talked 128 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:39.520 about was the kingdom, the kingdom of God. And it's here. 129 00:11:39.640 --> 00:11:44.200 And it's now and we have access to that. And if we don't 130 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.920 understand that we don't know what kingdom living is like, you 131 00:11:47.920 --> 00:11:54.040 know, a kingdom has a king, and it's the king's job to provide 132 00:11:54.040 --> 00:11:58.640 he'd be a terrible king, if he doesn't provide a king's job is 133 00:11:58.640 --> 00:12:03.320 to protect he'd be a terrible king, if he didn't. And and our 134 00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:08.040 God is the king of kings, he's the king over all kings. And so 135 00:12:08.080 --> 00:12:13.120 he's a loving provider. He's a loving protector. And he loves 136 00:12:13.200 --> 00:12:18.720 to invite us into the kingdom realm. And the NLT says, Don't 137 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:23.200 be afraid little flock, it gives your father great happiness to 138 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:28.560 give you the kingdom. And so we see examples in history, when a 139 00:12:28.560 --> 00:12:33.760 human being would step into that. And we saw earlier in the 140 00:12:33.760 --> 00:12:38.560 study when Moses when when God was in the mountain longing to 141 00:12:38.560 --> 00:12:43.520 commune have communication with his people. And there was thunder 142 00:12:43.520 --> 00:12:46.480 and fire and power in the mountain shook. And the people 143 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:50.440 said, Oh, we'll pass. They thought God was scary. They 144 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:55.440 said, I think we're gonna die. Moses, you go ahead. You go 145 00:12:55.440 --> 00:13:00.680 ahead and you translate. And from that time, we've had 146 00:13:00.680 --> 00:13:05.520 priests and we've eaten regurgitated spiritual food 147 00:13:05.640 --> 00:13:08.840 constantly. And I'm going to talk about how not to eat 148 00:13:08.840 --> 00:13:12.320 regurgitated. We're not baby birds. We don't need chewed up 149 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:16.800 worms. God wants to give you fresh rhema, fresh manna, fresh 150 00:13:16.800 --> 00:13:21.400 revelation, fresh power, fresh insights, God wants to give you 151 00:13:21.400 --> 00:13:26.520 the real thing you don't need chewed up baby food. And so 152 00:13:26.520 --> 00:13:33.040 Moses said, Please show me your glory. And God said, I will make 153 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:39.800 all my goodness pass before you. And I will proclaim the name of 154 00:13:39.800 --> 00:13:43.280 the Lord before you for I will be gracious to whom I'll be 155 00:13:43.280 --> 00:13:46.880 gracious and I'll show compassion, loving kindness on 156 00:13:46.880 --> 00:13:51.160 whom I will show compassion. Well, the translation of that 157 00:13:51.160 --> 00:13:57.200 actually would be written like this, I will show you as much of 158 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:02.880 the divine goodness as you can comprehend. And of course, we 159 00:14:02.880 --> 00:14:07.680 know that it was so much glory and that he had to actually hide 160 00:14:07.800 --> 00:14:12.800 him in the cleft of a rock and and cover him as he passed by, 161 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.000 there was only so much of God's goodness and God's glory that he 162 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:19.480 could take without, you know, all circuits, you know, 163 00:14:19.480 --> 00:14:25.000 crashing. And so for us, it's learning to buy relationship by 164 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:30.280 time is learning to increase our capacity to receive our 165 00:14:30.280 --> 00:14:34.920 capacity. That's what it's really about. You know, glory in 166 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:39.120 Hebrew means to be heavy with everything good. It means 167 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.960 weight, it's the weight of goodness. That's what glory 168 00:14:42.960 --> 00:14:48.040 means. And that's what we get to take part in. First Corinthians 169 00:14:48.040 --> 00:14:52.240 two, nine says this is why the scriptures say, things never 170 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:58.080 discovered or heard before things beyond our ability to 171 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:00.080 imagine. These are the 172 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:07.840 things God has in store for his lovers. Are you a God lover? Then what he has for you. 173 00:15:08.400 --> 00:15:15.680 You get to go on this divine exploration as you explore. Scripture says you're seated in high 174 00:15:15.680 --> 00:15:22.800 places with Christ. You get to explore heavenly things. God wants to show you. He wants to show 175 00:15:22.800 --> 00:15:29.680 you things that have never been discovered. He wants to show you things that have never been 176 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:37.360 heard before. Scripture says that he's going to pour out his spirit in the last days. He's going 177 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:44.560 to pour out his spirit on all mankind. It says that the young men will see visions and the old 178 00:15:44.560 --> 00:15:53.440 men will dream dreams and that will prophesy. This is the season we're in. If you have taken 179 00:15:53.440 --> 00:16:00.640 any time to study every breakthrough, technological breakthrough, scientific breakthrough, 180 00:16:00.640 --> 00:16:10.080 human breakthrough, almost always it came as divine revelation. The periodic table that we 181 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:17.120 study, that came in a dream. The understanding of the atom like a solar system with 182 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:24.800 the protons and the neutrons and the electrons going around it came in a dream. Divine revelation. 183 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:34.800 The structure of our DNA came in a dream. God wants to reveal to you things that you've never seen 184 00:16:34.800 --> 00:16:42.800 beyond what you've imagined. This is what's available to us as God lovers. If we can slow 185 00:16:42.800 --> 00:16:51.440 down enough and increase our capacity, God, and not just live on chewed up baby food, it's time. 186 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:56.800 The Bible talks about you can start on milk when you're an infant. You can start on 187 00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:02.640 milk, but God doesn't want to keep you on milk. He doesn't want to keep you on baby food. He says we 188 00:17:02.640 --> 00:17:07.599 don't need to keep going over and over and over the basics that there's baptism and there's 189 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:13.839 resurrection and that Jesus died on the cross. Those things are the basics. 190 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:20.560 We don't need to get stuck there. Jesus isn't on the cross anymore. He's resurrected and scripture 191 00:17:20.560 --> 00:17:30.080 says we're seated in high places with him and so we have full access to the kingdom realm and so 192 00:17:30.080 --> 00:17:36.080 we're so satisfied with so little. We're so satisfied with so little. There's a story 193 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:42.800 back in the time when they would travel from America to Europe by ship and there's a story 194 00:17:42.800 --> 00:17:52.240 of a man that was very poor and he saved up enough money to go on the ship and he packed up 195 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:59.120 his lunch and so day after day he would see the dining cart filled and it had tablecloths and 196 00:17:59.120 --> 00:18:06.560 candles and the chinking of china and laughter and it just looked so beautiful in there and 197 00:18:06.560 --> 00:18:13.440 he would pull out his little sack and he'd have his dry stale bread and he had it portioned his 198 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:20.560 dry fish and he would just kind of chew through it and he'd see them in there and finally he made 199 00:18:20.560 --> 00:18:26.000 it through the long journey. He had gone through his sack lunch and as he was leaving the captain 200 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:31.760 was at the gate. He was greeting everybody, saying goodbye as they were leaving and he said to the 201 00:18:31.760 --> 00:18:39.520 man, he said, I noticed you never dined with us. You never came in and had the wine and the 202 00:18:39.520 --> 00:18:46.160 food you always sat and ate from your paper bag and he said, yeah, I didn't have money for that ticket 203 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:53.840 and he said, all tickets include that and so he suffered because he didn't have an understanding. 204 00:18:53.920 --> 00:19:02.480 We suffer. We live such a puny, puny, non-miraculous life because we believe in lack, 205 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:09.600 because we believe in separation, because we believe that we're not enough, because we have 206 00:19:09.600 --> 00:19:15.760 misconceptions of God. You know, like we saw in the parable of the talents, God was the 207 00:19:15.760 --> 00:19:21.680 generous giver and it says he gave according to their capacity so if they could handle 10, he gave 208 00:19:21.680 --> 00:19:28.240 them 10 talents. If they could handle five, he gave them five. If they could handle one, he knows at what 209 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:33.440 level we're at. You know, we don't put a baby out in the freeway and teach him jogging lessons. We 210 00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:42.560 have capacities and so but he lavishly gave freely but he also wants us to multiply what he's given 211 00:19:42.560 --> 00:19:48.560 to us and so at the end, he comes to see in the one with 10, of course, you know, multiplies, it gives 212 00:19:48.560 --> 00:19:54.160 back 10 more. Well done, good and faithful servant. I'm going to give you even more. I'm going to make 213 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:59.840 you ruler over 10 cities. Our authority grows as we wisely 214 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.080 steward, our inheritance. 215 00:20:02.080 --> 00:20:05.360 And same thing for the five, and I'll make you ruler over five. 216 00:20:05.360 --> 00:20:09.760 The one had a misconception of God. 217 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:12.600 And he said, I knew you to be harsh. 218 00:20:12.600 --> 00:20:15.120 And I knew you to get your money off 219 00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:17.240 the backs of hardworking people. 220 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.840 And I was afraid. 221 00:20:19.840 --> 00:20:21.000 Why was he afraid? 222 00:20:21.000 --> 00:20:22.440 Because God was scary? 223 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:23.200 No. 224 00:20:23.200 --> 00:20:27.680 Because his misconception of God was scary. 225 00:20:27.680 --> 00:20:30.920 And because of that, because he thought he needed, 226 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:33.680 he said, I was scared, so I hid. 227 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:36.240 So I played small. 228 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.440 You see, this is a lesson for all of us 229 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:41.720 to increase our capacity. 230 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:48.680 And so we do that by knowing the goodness, the goodness of God. 231 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:49.320 All right. 232 00:20:49.320 --> 00:20:51.440 Let me go back to what I was sharing. 233 00:20:51.440 --> 00:20:54.320 I get so excited I go off track a little bit. 234 00:20:54.320 --> 00:20:55.000 OK. 235 00:20:55.000 --> 00:20:57.160 So this is why the scriptures say, 236 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:59.720 things never discovered or heard before, 237 00:20:59.720 --> 00:21:01.960 things beyond our ability to imagine, 238 00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:06.400 these are the things God has in store for his lovers. 239 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:12.560 And Jesus said in John 16, 24, he said, until now, 240 00:21:12.560 --> 00:21:16.880 you've not been bold enough to ask the Father 241 00:21:16.880 --> 00:21:19.360 for a single thing in my name. 242 00:21:19.360 --> 00:21:22.400 But now you can ask and keep on asking. 243 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:26.200 And you can be sure you'll receive what you ask for. 244 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.400 And your joy will have no limits. 245 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.200 There's a joy in getting miracles. 246 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:35.600 I mean, those of you that have seen the miracles in this 247 00:21:35.600 --> 00:21:39.920 class, all you got to do is look at her joy 248 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:41.840 as she's testing God. 249 00:21:41.840 --> 00:21:46.600 And she's opening a heart to increase her capacity. 250 00:21:46.600 --> 00:21:50.920 And the sales in her business are increasing. 251 00:21:50.920 --> 00:21:53.960 And debt is being forgiven. 252 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:56.120 And there's a joy. 253 00:21:56.120 --> 00:21:59.960 There's a joy in asking and receiving. 254 00:21:59.960 --> 00:22:04.000 And James 4, 2 says, you don't have what you want 255 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.720 because you don't ask for it. 256 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:09.680 You don't have what you want because you don't ask for it. 257 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:13.200 And I think about Jabez and the prayer of Jabez 258 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:15.840 in 1 Chronicles 4, 10. 259 00:22:15.840 --> 00:22:19.480 And Jabez cried out to the God of Israel saying, 260 00:22:19.520 --> 00:22:24.360 oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my border, 261 00:22:24.360 --> 00:22:28.400 enlarge my territory, and that your hand would be with me 262 00:22:28.400 --> 00:22:32.200 and you would keep me from evil so it does not hurt me. 263 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:36.720 And God granted his request. 264 00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:38.800 He asked for an increase. 265 00:22:38.800 --> 00:22:41.120 An increase he got. 266 00:22:41.120 --> 00:22:44.640 All right, so I want to get to the juicy, important stuff. 267 00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:46.240 How are we going to apply all of this? 268 00:22:46.240 --> 00:22:48.080 Because we don't want to just have a theory. 269 00:22:48.080 --> 00:22:50.640 So how do you like my little wrap up? 270 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:52.480 This is a wrap up. 271 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.400 Okay, so here's the key. 272 00:22:55.400 --> 00:22:57.760 Everything I've been sharing this whole time 273 00:22:57.760 --> 00:23:00.680 is about relationship. 274 00:23:01.560 --> 00:23:05.040 God wants relationship. 275 00:23:05.040 --> 00:23:09.840 He said to the disciples, I have not called you servants. 276 00:23:09.840 --> 00:23:13.880 I've called you friends because a servant, a slave, 277 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:16.080 or he said, I've not called you slave. 278 00:23:16.080 --> 00:23:18.160 I've called you friends 279 00:23:18.160 --> 00:23:22.200 because a slave does not know what the master is doing, 280 00:23:22.200 --> 00:23:24.560 but I have revealed to you 281 00:23:24.560 --> 00:23:28.160 and I will reveal all things through the prophets. 282 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:30.480 And so I've called you friends. 283 00:23:30.480 --> 00:23:33.160 I've called you God lovers. 284 00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:36.800 This is about relationship. 285 00:23:36.800 --> 00:23:40.320 Well, relationships like our human relationships 286 00:23:40.320 --> 00:23:45.080 are about communing, about having time. 287 00:23:45.080 --> 00:23:48.040 You cannot enjoy this 288 00:23:48.040 --> 00:23:52.160 if you are not having time with God. 289 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:54.640 So I want to open with that part 290 00:23:54.640 --> 00:23:56.320 of where do you go from here? 291 00:23:56.320 --> 00:23:58.720 I want to share something I read 292 00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:00.920 and it's really beautiful. 293 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:04.880 It is from a book that's becoming my favorite, 294 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:08.600 The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. 295 00:24:08.600 --> 00:24:11.160 And it's by John, 296 00:24:12.160 --> 00:24:15.680 oh, by John Mark Comer, John Mark Comer. 297 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:20.680 And it's a beautifully written book and very inspiring book. 298 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:23.880 And he goes through that one of the key disciplines, 299 00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:25.560 one of the key habits, 300 00:24:25.560 --> 00:24:30.560 one of the key ideas of being able to commune with God 301 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:35.640 is having silence and solitude. 302 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:39.920 And he said, are any of you old enough? 303 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:44.920 Are any of you old enough to remember like being bored? 304 00:24:45.120 --> 00:24:48.400 Or you would say, I'm so bored, right? 305 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:51.440 Because he says, you're on a plane 306 00:24:51.440 --> 00:24:53.200 and you finished the book early 307 00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:55.240 and now you got to just sit there and wait 308 00:24:55.240 --> 00:24:58.040 or you're in line, waiting for the coffee 309 00:24:58.040 --> 00:25:00.080 and it's going really, really slow. 310 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.880 You see, since the age of technology and our appendages here, we don't have boredom anymore 311 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:12.520 because we just instantly, you know, we text, we follow up, we check the weather, we talk 312 00:25:12.520 --> 00:25:19.320 to our friends, we leave a tweet, we, you know, we're nonstop, you know, doing this. 313 00:25:19.320 --> 00:25:25.720 And so we are in an era of total busyness. 314 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:31.640 And that's an era that has no room for silence and solitude. 315 00:25:31.640 --> 00:25:39.120 And the Bible says, be still and know that I am God. 316 00:25:39.120 --> 00:25:46.680 You see, to know and to have that know that you know, that you love, that you trust requires 317 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:49.640 us to be still. 318 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:55.720 That means we have to quiet not only our outside, but we have to learn to quiet our 319 00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:58.600 minds, our minds. 320 00:25:58.600 --> 00:26:04.920 And so, you know, he talked about how Jesus, no matter how busy he got, constantly references 321 00:26:04.920 --> 00:26:11.960 him going into solitude, going into solitude and, and having time. 322 00:26:11.960 --> 00:26:14.580 Now this is not isolation. 323 00:26:14.580 --> 00:26:15.580 Isolation is fear. 324 00:26:15.580 --> 00:26:16.680 That's different. 325 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:18.800 Isolation is loneliness. 326 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:22.080 Solitude is joy and fullness and relationship. 327 00:26:22.080 --> 00:26:24.080 It's being still. 328 00:26:24.080 --> 00:26:29.200 And I love this, reading some of this stuff. 329 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:37.120 And I was reading a quote by Mother Teresa when Henry Nguyen asked him what the secret 330 00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:40.080 was and she was just plain and simple. 331 00:26:40.080 --> 00:26:46.880 And she said, well, when you spend one hour a day adoring our Lord and never do anything 332 00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:49.760 that you know is wrong, you'll be fine. 333 00:26:49.760 --> 00:26:52.360 And I thought, wow, that's really good. 334 00:26:52.360 --> 00:26:58.480 Do we have an hour of just loving God, of just being in his presence? 335 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.800 Well, the truth is that most of us don't. 336 00:27:01.800 --> 00:27:06.480 And so look at the consequences of what happens if we don't. 337 00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:13.440 If we don't have that time alone with God, we feel distant from God. 338 00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:18.480 And so we end up living off of someone else's spirituality. 339 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.240 I talked about that regurgitated food. 340 00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:24.280 We live on regurgitated food. 341 00:27:24.280 --> 00:27:27.440 We feel distant from ourselves. 342 00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:32.200 We lose sight of our identity and our calling. 343 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:36.800 This is, there's such a crisis right now of, of knowing who we are. 344 00:27:36.800 --> 00:27:39.960 There's too many people that are just trying to be someone else. 345 00:27:39.960 --> 00:27:42.240 They're trying to be copycats. 346 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:43.840 God made you an original. 347 00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:46.480 He never meant you to be somebody else. 348 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:50.960 But we don't even know who that is anymore because we haven't slowed down enough. 349 00:27:50.960 --> 00:27:58.520 We feel an undercurrent of anxiety that rarely, if ever, goes away. 350 00:27:58.520 --> 00:28:04.640 The sense that we're always behind and always playing catch up. 351 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:09.720 You see, we lose the ability to be in the present. 352 00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:11.720 This is where life is happening. 353 00:28:11.720 --> 00:28:17.920 This moment, this now, this is where God is in this moment, in this moment. 354 00:28:17.920 --> 00:28:20.320 This is where the miracles are happening. 355 00:28:20.320 --> 00:28:21.560 This is where the healing is. 356 00:28:21.560 --> 00:28:23.040 This is where the downloads are. 357 00:28:23.040 --> 00:28:24.760 This is where the revelation is. 358 00:28:24.760 --> 00:28:26.440 This is where the joy is. 359 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.960 This is where the peace is. 360 00:28:27.960 --> 00:28:35.640 But if we get stuck in the past, looking in the rear view mirror, now we have shame. 361 00:28:35.640 --> 00:28:36.880 We have regret. 362 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:37.880 We have guilt. 363 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:38.880 We have disappointment. 364 00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:46.120 We have all kinds, or we have nostalgia where we think it was better and we miss our blessing. 365 00:28:46.120 --> 00:28:49.280 And so living in the past, the past is gone. 366 00:28:49.280 --> 00:28:55.000 It's just a memory in your brain and you can choose to harvest the blessings, learn the 367 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:58.960 lessons, but release it, bless it, let it go. 368 00:28:58.960 --> 00:28:59.960 It's gone. 369 00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:01.880 You can't change the past. 370 00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:03.200 It does not exist. 371 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:04.600 It's a memory. 372 00:29:04.600 --> 00:29:10.880 But being in the now is where the joy, the peace, the love, the miracles are. 373 00:29:10.880 --> 00:29:13.600 We get in the future, right? 374 00:29:13.600 --> 00:29:19.600 And now, the past is not here and the future is not here. 375 00:29:19.600 --> 00:29:26.040 And so now we get into the future and now we get fear and anxiety and worry and we get 376 00:29:26.040 --> 00:29:27.320 into what if? 377 00:29:27.320 --> 00:29:28.320 What if this happens? 378 00:29:28.320 --> 00:29:29.320 What if this doesn't happen? 379 00:29:29.320 --> 00:29:30.320 What if I run out of money? 380 00:29:30.320 --> 00:29:31.320 What if I end up homeless? 381 00:29:31.320 --> 00:29:32.320 What if I can't eat? 382 00:29:32.840 --> 00:29:37.520 What if they're, you know, and, and, and, and again, there goes our peace. 383 00:29:37.520 --> 00:29:39.040 There goes our joy. 384 00:29:39.040 --> 00:29:40.800 There goes our love, right? 385 00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:43.840 All that stuff just disappears. 386 00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:47.000 And we're always feeling like we're behind. 387 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:49.120 That's, that's where striving happens. 388 00:29:49.120 --> 00:29:50.120 Okay. 389 00:29:50.120 --> 00:29:54.120 And I'm writing a book about kind of the end of striving. 390 00:29:54.120 --> 00:30:00.000 And so we then, okay, all of that, then we get exhausted. 391 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.760 it. Then we get exhausted, right? We wake up and our first 392 00:30:04.760 --> 00:30:09.320 thoughts are already, I can't wait to go to bed. And and we 393 00:30:09.320 --> 00:30:13.160 lag through our days, our gift, you know, or we I've heard it 394 00:30:13.160 --> 00:30:16.280 said, you know, my brother used to say, I'm killing time. I'm 395 00:30:16.280 --> 00:30:19.640 like, why would you kill the most valuable thing that we 396 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:25.400 have, you know, and so we because we're not knowing how to 397 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:30.480 enjoy and be blessed by the gift of life. And so then we're 398 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:36.960 exhausted. And so we lag through our days on low grade energy on 399 00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:41.920 loan from our stimulants of choice. Okay, even if we catch 400 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:46.680 up on our sleep, we feel a deeper kind of tired. And then 401 00:30:46.880 --> 00:30:53.080 we turn to escapes of choice, we run out of energy to do what is 402 00:30:53.080 --> 00:30:58.840 actually the giving for our souls, like prayer. And instead 403 00:30:58.840 --> 00:31:02.960 we turn to the cheap fix another glass of wine, a new 404 00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:09.480 show, streaming online or social media, porn, whatever it is. And 405 00:31:09.520 --> 00:31:15.600 then we become easy prey for the tempter. And then our emotionally 406 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:20.640 our emotional unhealth sets in. So we start living from the 407 00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:26.040 surface of our life, and not the core. And then even the 408 00:31:26.040 --> 00:31:31.160 smallest thing becomes a trigger. So the opposite, if we 409 00:31:31.160 --> 00:31:37.040 can learn to, to be still, and know that he has got if we will 410 00:31:37.080 --> 00:31:42.040 create time, this is is so so so important. So the key to 411 00:31:42.040 --> 00:31:45.280 everything you've learned about partnering with God can be 412 00:31:45.280 --> 00:31:50.320 summarized with relationship, which can be summarized as 413 00:31:50.320 --> 00:31:55.840 communion, which can be summarized as time with God. 414 00:31:56.600 --> 00:32:02.640 Right, actually just basking in his presence. Just just wanting 415 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:08.200 to discover the mysteries to become a mystic, the mysteries of 416 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:11.920 God is talked about all the way through the New Testament. You 417 00:32:11.920 --> 00:32:15.360 know, if you talk to a child, they will tell you love means 418 00:32:15.360 --> 00:32:20.440 time ti me, if you're married, you know, no time together, 419 00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:24.240 there's no marriage. Okay. And so it's the same with our 420 00:32:24.240 --> 00:32:28.760 relationship with God. So we can do that. Of course, it starts 421 00:32:28.760 --> 00:32:33.320 with the private prayer, prayer for wisdom, prayer for direction, 422 00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:37.320 prayer for the opening of doors and prayer for divine 423 00:32:37.320 --> 00:32:41.640 appointments. If you haven't watched the movie war room, went 424 00:32:41.840 --> 00:32:46.800 what she does, the war room is in her closet. Okay. And it's so 425 00:32:46.800 --> 00:32:50.480 powerful. And so you can find that on YouTube, you can rent it 426 00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:56.000 if you haven't seen it already. But the power of having that 427 00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:02.640 time alone with God, and you know, start noticing all the way 428 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:07.680 in the four gospels, how many times that Jesus would break 429 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:11.640 away, I mean, no one was busier, or had more demands on 430 00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:14.720 his life, even when he would try to get away, he tried to get to 431 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.920 a boat and go to the coast, they'd run to the other side and 432 00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:21.960 be there by the time he got to the other side. And so sometimes 433 00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:24.960 he'd have to just stay up all night on the mountain by himself 434 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.040 to get away. But he knew that being with his father was more 435 00:33:29.040 --> 00:33:33.760 important even than sleep. And so if you've neglected what you 436 00:33:33.760 --> 00:33:37.840 experienced, your public victory, your public victory is 437 00:33:37.840 --> 00:33:43.200 going to be a result of your private prayer. And so people 438 00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.280 ask me, what's the most important, you know, way of 439 00:33:46.280 --> 00:33:52.040 ordering your day, I say, have a morning spiritual practice, that 440 00:33:52.040 --> 00:33:55.000 will affect your health, your finances, your relationships, 441 00:33:55.000 --> 00:34:00.160 your spiritual, everything more than anything else is your 442 00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:04.360 morning routine. Many years ago, I created the prosper 443 00:34:04.360 --> 00:34:10.239 daily plan, you can ask me for it, the top of it deals with the 444 00:34:10.239 --> 00:34:14.280 morning routine. And it's got a place just to remind you about 445 00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:18.960 prayer and meditation, about our words, our affirmations, our I 446 00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:21.960 am because the power of life and death is in our words, we got to 447 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:27.440 retrain our tongue about our declarations, about about 448 00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.800 journaling, I've taught you about journaling about about 449 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.960 visualizing about seeing it in our minds, eyes and allowing God 450 00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:41.760 to give us downloads about about gratitude. So there's so much in 451 00:34:41.760 --> 00:34:46.280 there. And it starts by the first fruits of your morning. 452 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:50.840 And then you can join together with others and create an 453 00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:55.280 atmosphere of prayer with your staff with your team, with your 454 00:34:55.280 --> 00:35:00.000 friends, you know, with other couples, not ritual, this 455 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.560 This is not about religion, but Matthew 18 says, 456 00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:06.680 I give you an eternal truth. 457 00:35:06.680 --> 00:35:11.200 If two of you agree to ask God for something 458 00:35:11.200 --> 00:35:12.960 in a symphony of prayer, 459 00:35:12.960 --> 00:35:15.280 my heavenly father will do it for you. 460 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:18.640 For wherever two or three come together 461 00:35:18.640 --> 00:35:22.760 in honor of my name, I'm right there with them. 462 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.500 And so the power of agreement, 463 00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:28.040 you've got to look at your life. 464 00:35:28.100 --> 00:35:32.400 Who or what are you in agreement with? 465 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:33.740 What are you agreeing to? 466 00:35:33.740 --> 00:35:35.340 Are you agreeing to sickness? 467 00:35:35.340 --> 00:35:38.060 Are you agreeing to disease? 468 00:35:39.220 --> 00:35:42.420 I'll never forget, I haven't had a chance 469 00:35:42.420 --> 00:35:45.700 to talk too much about healing, 470 00:35:45.700 --> 00:35:48.460 but there's so many stories I want to share with you. 471 00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:50.500 Really quick, I want to share two. 472 00:35:50.500 --> 00:35:55.060 One is a man named Walter, and Walter was a painter. 473 00:35:55.060 --> 00:35:58.060 And Walter was beginning to, he was a prophet. 474 00:35:58.060 --> 00:35:59.220 He was a man of God. 475 00:35:59.220 --> 00:36:02.940 He was really starting to get crippling arthritis. 476 00:36:02.940 --> 00:36:05.140 And he went to his doctor's visit, 477 00:36:05.140 --> 00:36:08.340 and the doctor pointed, this is the power of agreement. 478 00:36:08.340 --> 00:36:11.980 The doctor pointed to the wheelchair and said, 479 00:36:11.980 --> 00:36:15.260 Walter, this is where you're going. 480 00:36:15.260 --> 00:36:16.420 This is where you're headed. 481 00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:18.780 You need to start making preparation. 482 00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:20.980 You need to put down the paintbrush 483 00:36:20.980 --> 00:36:22.600 and you need to get ready. 484 00:36:22.600 --> 00:36:25.120 Now, most of us come into agreement with doctors. 485 00:36:25.120 --> 00:36:27.080 Doctors are our highest authority. 486 00:36:27.080 --> 00:36:28.240 We put them above God. 487 00:36:28.240 --> 00:36:29.520 We put them above everything. 488 00:36:29.520 --> 00:36:30.920 If they say it, that's it. 489 00:36:30.920 --> 00:36:32.440 It goes into our subconscious. 490 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:33.640 We believe it. 491 00:36:33.640 --> 00:36:34.840 But he was a man of God. 492 00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:37.520 He was a prophet, and he did something so powerful. 493 00:36:37.520 --> 00:36:39.360 He walked out the front door and he said, 494 00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:43.180 Lord, I've heard the word of the doctor. 495 00:36:43.180 --> 00:36:44.680 Now, what's your word? 496 00:36:44.680 --> 00:36:46.560 What do you say? 497 00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:49.040 And he got a rhema revelation. 498 00:36:49.040 --> 00:36:52.520 And he said, there's people you're going to meet 499 00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:55.080 that have something that you need. 500 00:36:55.080 --> 00:36:56.200 You're going to be healed. 501 00:36:56.200 --> 00:36:58.120 It'll be part of your healing. 502 00:36:58.120 --> 00:37:02.640 Well, he got home and there was a message on his recorder 503 00:37:02.640 --> 00:37:06.800 inviting him to a worship gathering 504 00:37:06.800 --> 00:37:10.240 where my ex-husband and I happened to be 505 00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:11.640 when we were founders 506 00:37:11.640 --> 00:37:13.840 of a nutritional network marketing company 507 00:37:13.840 --> 00:37:17.080 that had a product that God gave us 508 00:37:17.080 --> 00:37:19.240 that God used for healing. 509 00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:23.000 And long story short, he came 510 00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:28.000 and he recognized us out of the crowd and he was healed. 511 00:37:28.240 --> 00:37:29.280 He was healed. 512 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:33.440 So sometimes God will use a tool in the Bible. 513 00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:36.240 Sometimes the man had to go into the pool of Siloam 514 00:37:36.240 --> 00:37:37.880 and put mud on his eyes, 515 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:40.560 or sometimes he would spit and put mud. 516 00:37:40.560 --> 00:37:45.020 Sometimes it requires a physical thing for your healing. 517 00:37:45.020 --> 00:37:47.480 And other times it's just the word of God. 518 00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:51.520 It has a lot to do with your capacity. 519 00:37:51.520 --> 00:37:53.080 I'll never forget. 520 00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:55.400 I had a woman in my Bible study. 521 00:37:55.400 --> 00:37:58.480 I used to do Bible studies in the company 522 00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.400 and she was not a believer 523 00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:03.480 but she started coming all the time. 524 00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:05.480 She just loved the environment. 525 00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:09.280 And I found out she had a very bad biking accident 526 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:12.880 and her ankle was just completely mangled. 527 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.040 And it was huge and black and blue. 528 00:38:16.040 --> 00:38:17.560 And she was on one of those things 529 00:38:17.560 --> 00:38:20.960 where you put your leg on and you stroll along to get along 530 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.520 and she had not been able to put foot on it. 531 00:38:23.520 --> 00:38:26.080 And I said, could we come and pray? 532 00:38:26.080 --> 00:38:27.760 And that was a little scary for her. 533 00:38:27.760 --> 00:38:29.840 She wasn't sure if she believed in all of that 534 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:31.280 but she agreed. 535 00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:34.760 And so I took a few kids from Bethel 536 00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:38.640 that just have faith sky high, that love to pray. 537 00:38:38.640 --> 00:38:43.000 And we went and we began by just getting in that space 538 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.880 of being in relationship with God 539 00:38:46.720 --> 00:38:49.320 and just honoring God and praising God 540 00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:51.560 and walking in gratitude 541 00:38:51.560 --> 00:38:54.240 and studying the miracles of healing. 542 00:38:54.240 --> 00:38:57.880 Cause we knew we had to build her capacity to believe. 543 00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:02.880 And then we laid hands and I was privileged to put my hands 544 00:39:03.560 --> 00:39:08.560 on this huge black and blue mangled ankle. 545 00:39:09.040 --> 00:39:12.520 And so I was right there front and center. 546 00:39:12.520 --> 00:39:17.360 And as we prayed, the swelling went down 547 00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:19.200 and the black and blue disappeared 548 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:23.880 and the beautiful pink returned. 549 00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:28.480 You could see her whole ankle and she stood up 550 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:32.160 and she could put weight on it for the first time, 551 00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:33.880 I think in months. 552 00:39:33.880 --> 00:39:36.800 And so we all were rejoicing. 553 00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:39.840 We left, but like I said yesterday, 554 00:39:39.840 --> 00:39:42.000 got to hold on to your healing. 555 00:39:42.440 --> 00:39:44.320 So I thought I'm going to call or just encourage her, 556 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:45.800 hold on her healing. 557 00:39:45.800 --> 00:39:49.520 And I called, she goes, you'll never guess where I am. 558 00:39:49.520 --> 00:39:50.360 And I go, where? 559 00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:52.160 She goes, I'm grocery shopping. 560 00:39:52.160 --> 00:39:54.880 I haven't been able to walk through the stores 561 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:58.200 and I'm just like dancing through the aisles. 562 00:39:58.200 --> 00:40:00.120 And she showed up at the next. 563 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:07.600 Bible study, she had on cute little heels, and she ended up running a marathon shortly thereafter. 564 00:40:07.600 --> 00:40:14.640 So I want you to remember the power of Christ in you and the power of love and faith and healing 565 00:40:14.640 --> 00:40:21.520 you have not because you ask not. Okay, I get carried away, too many stories. So corporate, 566 00:40:21.520 --> 00:40:29.600 corporate prayer, power of agreement. Okay, and then there's intercessors. This becomes 567 00:40:29.680 --> 00:40:35.360 really important, especially if you have a business. You will see that the church would 568 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:43.520 often go into a season of intense intercession. That's like having God pray for a person or an 569 00:40:43.520 --> 00:40:52.000 entity, maybe. In this case, it was, I think it was, I think it was Peter. Yeah, Peter was in 570 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:57.680 prison. And so they're in intense intercession asking God to free him. So here they are, 571 00:40:57.680 --> 00:41:03.440 they're gathered in a room, they're interceding, Peter's in the prison. And the night before 572 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:10.240 Herod was planning to bring him to be trial, he made sure Peter was securely bound with two chains. 573 00:41:10.240 --> 00:41:17.360 And Peter was sound asleep between two soldiers with additional guards stationed outside his cell 574 00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:22.560 door. We were not going to have a resurrection, right? They did not. They made sure he was 575 00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:26.480 chained, and then he had guards, and then he had guards on top of the guards. 576 00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:33.600 And all of a sudden, look what the intercession did. Verse seven, an angel of the Lord appeared, 577 00:41:33.600 --> 00:41:40.160 filling the prison cell with a brilliant light. And the angel struck Peter on the side to wake 578 00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:46.320 him up and said, hurry up, let's go. So can you imagine, sound asleep. Angels are all the way 579 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:51.200 through the Bible, by the way. This is something very neglected in our modern church. And so the 580 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:56.880 angel is there getting them out of there. And so the angel says, get dressed, put on your sandals, 581 00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:02.800 get your cloak, come on, follow me. And so Peter leaves the cell following the angel. And he 582 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.680 thought it was a dream or a vision, because it just seemed so unreal. He couldn't believe it 583 00:42:07.680 --> 00:42:13.280 was really happening. So he thought he was having a dream. And there they go. They walk unseen past 584 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:18.720 the first guard post, and then the second before they come to the iron gates that lead to the city. 585 00:42:18.720 --> 00:42:24.800 And the gates swung open all by itself in front of them. And they went out into the city and were 586 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:30.480 walking down a narrow street, when all of a sudden the angel did the job. The angel disappears, 587 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:37.840 and Peter realizes he's not having a dream. He said to himself, this is really happening. The 588 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:45.120 Lord sent his angel to rescue me from the clutches of Herod, and from what the Jewish leaders plan 589 00:42:45.120 --> 00:42:52.320 to do to me. That was in Acts 12. So all of that that Peter experienced, Peter was asleep. It was 590 00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:58.880 the intercessors, the power of people praying. And so this becomes super important. I remember when 591 00:42:58.880 --> 00:43:05.360 we had a child abduction right in my neighborhood, and all of us gathered and prayed and prayed, 592 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:13.520 and they found her. And it was such a miracle. And so also being in the word, you've got to be 593 00:43:13.520 --> 00:43:19.680 grounded. This is how we've been able to erase the lies, right? But you got to know what the 594 00:43:19.680 --> 00:43:25.520 truth is, or you're going to still have these misconceptions, or this regurgitated religion. 595 00:43:25.520 --> 00:43:31.520 And so you've got to be in the word privately, and then even in community. And that's what 596 00:43:31.520 --> 00:43:39.280 we're doing here. So that there's the logos, the written word, and the rhema, the revealed word. 597 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:48.880 And first Corinthians 14.1 says, pursue this love with eagerness. Make it your goal. Yet earnestly 598 00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:57.120 desire and cultivate the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy to foretell the future, to 599 00:43:57.120 --> 00:44:03.520 speak a new message from God to the people. So pray that you get this rhema word. Pray that you can 600 00:44:03.520 --> 00:44:11.120 prophesy. That instead of being afraid when something happens, a pandemic hits, or an AI, or 601 00:44:11.120 --> 00:44:19.280 any many things that can happen, instead of being afraid, you're ahead of the game, and the Lord 602 00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:27.120 leads you, and you know you're like the sons of Issachar. That you know, you know what is 603 00:44:27.120 --> 00:44:36.240 the season, and what to do in that season. This is what God wants for us. And so, being in the word. 604 00:44:36.240 --> 00:44:42.400 And so we see this all the time. We see in Acts 11, that they could see a great famine was coming, and 605 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:51.120 they knew what they, what to do. So we see this all the time, that God will reveal. And finally, it's 606 00:44:51.120 --> 00:44:59.760 not meant to be just hoarding, okay? We are meant, like everything in life, to be in flow, okay? Our finances, 607 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:07.600 We give and we receive. We can't just receive. We can't just give. There is a flow. We breathe in, 608 00:45:07.600 --> 00:45:13.360 and so we breathe in truth and life and prayer and God's presence, and we've got to breathe it 609 00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:20.080 out. And so many women are stuck either in the inhaling, they're just spiritually hoarding, 610 00:45:20.640 --> 00:45:25.840 or they're stuck in the exhale that they're just giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, 611 00:45:25.920 --> 00:45:31.600 until they're totally depleted. And so we are called. We're called to take these gifts 612 00:45:31.600 --> 00:45:39.280 and serve one another, and when we do that, we're doing it for Christ. Matthew 25, 35 to 40 says, 613 00:45:39.280 --> 00:45:46.720 Jesus said, I was hungry, and you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. 614 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:54.480 I was a stranger, and you welcomed me. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, 615 00:45:54.480 --> 00:46:01.600 and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me. He said, truly, I tell you, 616 00:46:02.560 --> 00:46:08.560 whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. 617 00:46:08.560 --> 00:46:17.120 I want you to understand the distinction. It's not giving out of religious duty. Nobody enjoys 618 00:46:17.120 --> 00:46:23.360 that. Do you love it if somebody does something for you out of duty? None of us enjoy that, 619 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:29.200 right? It's love. It's love, and you know that when you're doing for one of these least. You 620 00:46:29.200 --> 00:46:35.920 know, this morning, I was taking my puppy for a walk before this class, and a man, a homeless man 621 00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:42.240 had his bike, and he had a trailer hooked to the bike, and that thing was so full that it had tipped 622 00:46:42.240 --> 00:46:49.040 over, and so he's trying to manage lifting up his cart and keep the bike from going all over, 623 00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:54.640 and he's really struggling in the middle of the street, and I said, can I help you? Do you want me 624 00:46:54.640 --> 00:47:00.640 to hold the bike? Well, you guys, you've got quite a load there. You know, how do we know that's not 625 00:47:00.640 --> 00:47:10.240 Jesus right there? How do we know? Are we so scared? How do we know? So, you know, 1 Peter 4, 626 00:47:10.240 --> 00:47:18.560 10 and 11 says, each of you should use whatever gift you've received to serve others as faithful 627 00:47:18.640 --> 00:47:25.680 stewards of God's grace in various forms. So we've all been given gifts, and those gifts are meant to 628 00:47:25.680 --> 00:47:35.280 serve, and that's how we steward. We're stewards. We have on loan what the king has given us, 629 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:42.000 and that's how we manifest God's grace. Each of us shows God's grace in a different way. 630 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:49.760 1 Corinthians 13 says, if I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but I have not love for others 631 00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:56.320 growing out of God's love for me, then I have become only a noisy gong or a clanging 632 00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:01.440 cymbal. In other words, I've become just an annoying distraction. Look, there's plenty of 633 00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:06.160 people preaching, and preaching is important. How will they know if they've not heard? But if you're 634 00:48:06.160 --> 00:48:13.600 only preaching, and it doesn't get backed by love, we just become an annoying distraction, 635 00:48:13.600 --> 00:48:21.440 and that's how many preachers are looked at. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and I speak a new 636 00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:28.080 message from God to the people, and I understand all mysteries, you know, the New Testament is just 637 00:48:28.080 --> 00:48:33.360 loaded. We're supposed to understand Mysterian. We're supposed to get into the mysteries of God. 638 00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:40.000 We're supposed to be mystics, and possess all knowledge. And if I have sufficient faith, so I 639 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:47.600 can move mountains, but I don't have love that's reaching out to others, well, the truth is I'm 640 00:48:47.600 --> 00:48:56.000 nothing. If I give all my possessions to feed the poor, if I surrender my body to be burned, 641 00:48:56.800 --> 00:49:09.040 but I don't have love, it does me no good at all. Bottom line, love. Everything that I have taught 642 00:49:09.040 --> 00:49:19.120 these seven days can be summarized in four letters. L-O-V-E. You know, when Peter went through his 643 00:49:19.120 --> 00:49:28.160 journey, and he got scared, and he denied Jesus three times. He denied knowing him. He didn't, 644 00:49:28.160 --> 00:49:36.080 he didn't want to be face across. Three times. And then he remembered the prophecy that Jesus said, 645 00:49:36.080 --> 00:49:43.600 before the rooster crows three times, you're going to deny me three times. And he had so much guilt, 646 00:49:43.600 --> 00:49:52.240 and so much shame. And I think he carried that for a long time, until Jesus was resurrected 647 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:59.840 from the dead. And Jesus took the time to meet him. And Jesus said, 648 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.120 Peter, do you love me? 649 00:50:04.240 --> 00:50:08.480 Well, Peter was so filled with shame and he's like, yeah, of course, God, you know, I love you. 650 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:13.680 He said, Peter, second time, do you love me? 651 00:50:15.360 --> 00:50:21.200 And he answered again, very flippantly, yes, you're my friend, not the intimate word of love. 652 00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:28.720 And the third time, it cracked through. He could see the love in Jesus' eyes. 653 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:37.200 And he was healed three times, he had denied them. Now, three times he could love and say, 654 00:50:37.200 --> 00:50:43.280 I love you. This is one of the most powerful exercises you can do. Just get still. 655 00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:55.280 And just be with God. And remember, I'm in you. Just say that I'm in you because the Bible says 656 00:50:55.280 --> 00:51:06.880 we're hidden in Christ, right? So I'm in you and you are in me. Scripture says we're the temple 657 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:13.440 of the Holy Spirit, Christ in me, the hope of glory. I'm in you, you're in me. We are one. 658 00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:21.280 We've got to break the lie of separation. We are one. I'm in you, you're in me. We are one. 659 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:29.280 And then do a Peter. I love you. How many times do you tell Jesus you love him? 660 00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:35.360 I fall asleep at night. I love you. I love you. I love you so much. I love you. 661 00:51:38.960 --> 00:51:50.400 I love you. You love me. In spite of any flaw, mistake, shortcoming, 662 00:51:52.240 --> 00:52:05.200 I love you. You love me. We are one. We are one. Now go forward from that place of oneness. Break 663 00:52:05.200 --> 00:52:12.080 the lie of separation. Go forth. It says we're seated in high places with Christ. 664 00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:20.640 Go forward from that place of love. Let partnering with God be a divine adventure. 665 00:52:20.640 --> 00:52:28.320 How fun can it get? How much joy can you experience? How much love can you give? 666 00:52:29.360 --> 00:52:36.640 How many miracles can you experience? That's the divine adventure that I call 667 00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:44.480 partnering with God in business. I pray that this has just woken up something in you. 668 00:52:45.200 --> 00:52:52.400 The Bible says, wake up, sleeper, for the light of God is shining on you. Wake up, 669 00:52:52.960 --> 00:53:01.520 for the glory of the Lord is upon you. I pray you step into that. I pray that I've made you hungry, 670 00:53:01.520 --> 00:53:07.520 I've made you thirsty for more of God's goodness, that you'll be like we learned today. 671 00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:12.960 I would have despaired if I just looked at the craziness in the world. I would have 672 00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:20.400 despaired had I not believed in the goodness of God. Had I not believed, I would see the 673 00:53:20.400 --> 00:53:25.680 goodness of God. I believe in all the craziness of the pandemic. So much good happened. 674 00:53:26.640 --> 00:53:32.400 I believe in all the craziness of AI and all the disruption that is coming. 675 00:53:33.200 --> 00:53:37.760 So much good is going to happen for those of us that are one with Christ. 676 00:53:39.280 --> 00:53:42.000 Go forth. I pray this is blessed to you. 677 00:53:43.200 --> 00:53:47.520 Let's go ahead and have our mastermind. Let's talk about this together.