doing great I think this is just about to turn my video on hey hey welcome
welcome to the very first session of the 12 week Open Heaven Masterclass this is
a nice gentle session as we start out and I'm just gonna chill out here for a
little bit while I wait for some of you guys to jump on board and feel free to
come and join me in the zoom room here which will be awesome to have you here
in the zoom room so we can connect that way as always just a little check of
tech make sure everything's happening and streaming cool okay so we are
streaming I see a couple of you guys jump on board live so why don't you um
why don't you there we go see some people jumping in here into the group
excellent we'll just take a moment and just let people jump in here into the
group and into the zoom room hey how you doing
good to see you there and yeah well peeps in the just watching on Facebook
and if you're just watching on Facebook then probably awesome is to have you
just commenting chatting so I can see who's there but yeah please feel free to
come join us in the zoom room and we're gonna have a beautiful beautiful session
today so jump on and when you're when you can
red melon how you doing today I'm good thanks Benji how are you yeah
very good very good why don't you tell me a testimony of something good that's
been happening in your world while we just wait for a moment or so just before
we really crank into the session be cool to hear everything's going for you I was
just so blown away by the open heaven intensive and particularly the 24-hour
prayer and worship leading up to it I thought it was just such a beautiful way
to have all that in it was just so exciting to be part of that so yeah just
just amazing yeah yeah very very cool very cool that is great to hear and what
stood out for you from the open heathen master so I see some comments popping up
there and look from the crew as well so I'm saying hi Tony yeah if you can why
don't you guys just jump into the jump into the zoom room be awesome if you
want to join us here yeah very cool yes I want you and just tell me another
thing that stood out for you from the open heaven master class which was a
pretty wild glorious and intense little blasting wasn't it it was it was really
amazing I think it was just this realization of just how high the stakes
are that there is this dark Trinity involved that is really throwing so much
darkness into the world and into the lives of those around us into our own
lives as well and just to recognize it and just to realize that we've been
called to be part of standing up for the light and being part of the light in the
places where we are it's kind of like on the one hand it's incredibly
exhilarating and incredibly empowering to think of that and incredibly
motivating and then on the other hand it's kind of like oh wow take a deep
breath can I really do this and this is what this this is what this master class
is about it's about encouraging to step into that and feel part of something
that's bigger
than just our own individual selves.
Come on.
Okay, that's good.
Thank you very much for sharing.
I'm loving hearing that.
And it would be so great if other people joined us now
at this moment in this Zoom meeting too.
Yes, sweet, for sure.
So that's all right.
Sometimes people can't jump into a Zoom room
at exactly the same time,
but we are gonna get into it anyway.
And so I can see you guys jamming here in the,
yeah, in the,
no worries if you can't jump in Zoom as well.
I can see you just watching it on the Facebook live as well.
Just sending everyone the link by email
in case they can't get it here.
Okay, so.
All right, so fam,
we're about to go deep
deep on this journey.
So let's pray.
And for those as well that are watching Facebook live,
you beautiful people, pray with us.
Let's start with a prayer.
Matthew 6, verse 90 says,
our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name.
Whoa.
That's really enough to start with just that.
It says our Father in heaven,
but he's really still actually speaking
about our Father in the atmosphere.
And actually what he really is saying is our Father,
not just our Father way up in heaven or way far off.
The first thing he actually said about the kingdom,
he said that the kingdom is at hand,
its presence right here.
He's talking about our Father in the atmosphere,
our Father in the heavens and the atmosphere,
our Father actually in the air we breathe.
How beautiful is that?
Our Father that's so close to your hand,
our Father that is in the atmosphere,
our Father that is in the very air we breathe.
He's not creating distance, he's creating oneness.
Okay, when he says our Father in heaven,
he's not saying he's way up there,
he's saying our Father in heaven,
he's saying our Father in the very air we breathe.
Whoa, okay, that's first point.
Well, our Father in the very air we breathe,
how good is that?
How I'd be your name, which is like,
I stop, I become aware of you.
That's really what it means.
I acknowledge your presence, I acknowledge your presence.
I stop and I become aware of your glory.
So let's just start with that prayer right there.
We normally say our Father in heaven,
how I'd be your name,
not necessarily connecting with the core of that name,
but it's our Father in the very air we breathe in.
And you know, he lifts his head.
You know, like religious prayer is always like this,
this was the bowing of the head,
but actually Jesus, he would lift his head to pray.
How good is that?
He would lift his head.
It's like, it's almost like the facial muscles
as well go into a smile when you lift your head.
So he would lift his head.
Which is just such great receiving mode.
He would lift his head and say, our Papa.
And so there's another beautiful thing in there,
it's like our Papa, right?
He wasn't just making him his Papa,
he was making him your Papa.
He's just, he was saying, you know, like,
we are family, it's our Papa.
He's my Papa, he's your Papa, he's our Papa.
Lift your head with me right now and say, Papa.
Papa, Papa, Papa.
Wow, Papa, and when you say, Papa,
when you're talking to God and you say, Papa,
you only say Papa when you know the love, right?
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
No one lifts their head with a smile and says, Papa, ha, ha, ha.
No one lifts their head and says, our Papa,
unless they know the love, ha, ha, ha.
Okay, so lift your head and say, Papa.
Papa.
Woah!
Because when you do that, you are setting yourself up to receive, woah, woah, so glorious.
Our papa.
And say our papa, right?
He's just as much your papa as he is my papa.
He's just as much your papa as he is Jesus' papa.
Isn't that a blast in right there?
That he's no more Jesus' papa than he is your papa.
He's the same level of papa to Jesus as he is to you.
Woah!
Oh, woah!
Woah, how crazy is that?
That's the first thing Jesus wanted you to get.
He says our papa.
Woah!
He's just as much your papa as he is my papa.
Can you imagine Jesus saying that?
He's just as much your papa as he is my papa.
Woah, woah, woah.
So he's our papa.
Our papa.
In the very air we breathe.
No separation here.
No separation.
Our papa is just as much your papa as he is Jesus' papa.
He loves you with the same love that he has for Jesus.
The same love that our papa has for Jesus he has for you.
And it's directed at you in full intensity right now.
With full intensity right now.
Wow!
We say our papa.
Our papa.
Receiving.
Not just trickles of love, receiving baptisms of love.
Receiving oceans of love.
Receiving worlds of love.
Receiving waves of love.
Receiving fiery love.
Receiving gentle love.
Receiving healing love.
Receiving providing love.
Receiving abundant love.
Receiving weighty love.
Receiving the type of love that flies every part of your being.
Woah!
Our papa.
In the very air we breathe.
I want you to breathe him in right now.
As you breathe, as you take deep breaths,
I want you to be consciously,
I want you to be aware of the reality that he fills every breath that
you have ever breathed.
He is, in all his glory, filling the air you breathe.
And you, you know,
you can't extract the glory out of the air unless you intentionally
receive it.
But Isaiah 6, the seraphim cry out,
Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God almighty.
The whole earth is filled with his glory.
Woah!
That's exactly the same revelation that Jesus is tapping into here.
He is aware of and stewarding and enjoying the reality that the glory of
God fills the very air we breathe.
But you can only see that glory.
You can only extract that glory from the air you breathe if you do it by
faith.
Woah!
So in faith right now,
which is believing and it's not just believing random things.
It's believing truth.
It's believing present reality that surpasses the illusion that we live
in.
It surpasses the matrix that everyone else is stuck in.
Other people are just breathing air like it's air,
but you could breathe air by faith and extract the fullness of the glory
of God out of every breath that you take.
Woah!
See when we breathe by faith,
we find that every part of our world is smothered in the glory of God.
Our Papa,
in the very air we breathe,
we stop.
We become aware of your glory.
Woah!
Oh, whoa, we stop and we become aware of your glory.
Now, when you become aware of the glory of God is it,
the glory of God is rich.
It's full of abundance.
It's full of every revelation that you're in need of.
It's full of every strategy that you have need of
to be successful in this season in your life.
It's full of every provision that you have need of.
It's full of every healing anointing that you need.
It's full of every breakthrough that you need.
There is no lack in the glory.
And say this with me, there is no lack in the glory.
Whoa, there is no lack in the glory, whoa.
There's no lack in glory, whoa.
No lack in the glory, whoa, sure.
Whoa, no lack in the glory, whoa.
So when we stop and we become aware of His glory,
we become aware of the kingdom dimension
where there's not just no lack.
We become aware of the kingdom dimension
where there is radical overflow.
We become aware of the kingdom dimension
where the supernatural realm of the King of Heaven
is moving and active all around our lives.
We become aware of the dimension of angels.
We become aware of the dimension of the throne of God.
We become aware of the dimension of the spirit of the Lord,
the spirit of wisdom and revelation,
the spirit of counsel and understanding,
the spirit of knowledge and spirit of might
and the spirit of the spirit of the Lord, whoa.
We've become aware of the dimension
of the cloud of witnesses, whoa.
We've become aware of the dimension
where the 24 elders fall before the throne house,
crowns before the throne of God
and this dimension where 10,000 times 10,000 angels cry out,
holy, holy, holy, whoa.
So this casual little,
our father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
is so rich and thick and deep and glorious.
We lift our heads and we say, our papa.
Our papa.
It fills the very air we breathe.
We stop.
And we become aware of the dimension of your glory.
Dimension of your name.
The realm of your glory, the realm of your name
where there is no lack, where there is only abundance.
Where there is majesty, where there is holiness,
where there are wonders.
This realm where all things are possible.
This realm where perfect love casts out all fear.
This realm where perfect love supplies.
Where love meets every need.
Where love supplies, whoa.
We become aware of the dimension, the realm of supply.
Whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Mm, amen.
Oh, beautiful, wow, how was that, guys?
Oh, oh, beautiful, wow, feeling so undone, whoa.
Oh, wow, how's that just for one, yes, whoa.
So rich, so beautiful, so priceless.
Mm, beautiful.
Well, Papa, as we find ourselves
in the dimension of your presence,
this realm where there is abundance.
supply. We give you all the glory. We give you all the honor. We give you all the glory,
Jesus. We give you all the glory. We give you all the glory. Holy, holy, holy. Majesty,
we love you. We thank you for the beginning of this 12-week Open Heaven Masterclass. We thank
you that as we begin this journey, you would infuse our thoughts, you would infuse our direction,
you would set our compass, you would flood our minds, you would overwhelm our hearts,
you would be the all in all for us, that there would be a fresh kiss from heaven for each one
of us, there'd be a fresh awakening in each of our hearts, there'd be a fresh outpouring of your glory
in your beautiful name, Jesus. Amen. Whoa.
How are you doing? My gosh, that was luscious. Feel free to unmute for those who are there,
if you just want to say hello. Wow. I'm just checking the comments here for our Facebook guys
as well. Beautiful, beautiful. Neil, how are you doing, my man?
Yeah, I'm good, Andy. That was great. That's so good.
That's amazing.
I just even love this dynamic that when Jesus prays, he doesn't bow his head.
It always says, he lifted his head and gave thanks.
Isn't that beautiful? He lifted his head and gave thanks. His nature, his practice
was that when he prayed, his practice was to lift his head to heaven.
Yeah, it's so good.
It's such a beautiful richness of his presence. Whoa. I don't know about you guys, but I actually,
man, I got really blasted in that open heaven intensive, eh? It was fresh, and in the 24-7
prayer leading up to it, and just that beautiful process, just feel a real fresh hunger, which is
this, even at that level of deep, cries out to deep. We were talking about beyond, going beyond.
We prayed so many times, God, take us beyond. I feel that when you pray, God, take us beyond,
that awakens this deep unto deep hunger. It's one of the first things that starts
happening is this deep unto deep hunger, a hunger that's actually deeper than your
conscious understanding, right? It's spirit. It's not belonging to our natural realm,
but it's the spirit hunger that doesn't necessarily have words, but whoa.
I briefly talked about Charles Finney in that. In the 1800s, he was one of the main guys in the
second great awakening, but a little bit more depth to it. I told you briefly as well about
Father Nash or Daniel Nash, but Father Nash, Daniel Nash, go before him. Man, this guy,
he just carried a deep unto deep hunger, right? It was beyond words that this hunger was so intense
that it just would have him rolling on the ground. This is where tongues, the gift of tongues is
groanings. It's just groanings, whoa, and just be on the floor in this completely immersed in the
spirit just with groanings. It was so deep unto deep crying out with groanings, but there was
a, this groaning and this deep unto deep, it actually hit a harmony, a symphonio with the
frequencies and the sound of heaven, right? He touched something in the heart of God and he
harmonized with something in the heart of God that was so powerful that when he...
harmonized with the heart of God in that way it broke open the heaven so outrageously dramatically
powerfully that he was actually when people look at it and they study history American history
they actually go like if there's a reason if there's a if there was one man to blame for
America being a Christian nation they blamed Charles Finney wow wow that's that's the extent
of the impact that he had but Charles Finney he blamed everything on brother Nash
you know to the extent that he when brother Nash died Charles Finney no longer continued the
ministry wow there's look there's no point there's no point without brother Nash I can't
offer a fight in the realm I can't do what I did whoa without brother Nash I can't do it
there's no you know they were a team fused in heaven to birth something the world hadn't
seen like that before them so there's this don't underestimate the power
of a hunger that starts stirring in your spirit that you can't put language to
because that's but what I would what I would recommend you do when you start feeling hunger
that is deeper than you can articulate I would just say lean into that hunger whoa because that
hunger is going to be the very birthplace of breakthrough beyond what you've ever imagined
wow so that's luscious so lean in and let me let me pray on that right now but papa
for all of us we're asking as we begin this journey that it would be birthed
out of that place of desire that would be birthed out of a place where our spirits cry out for more
of you at a level of deep unto deep at a level of deep unto deep that our spirits would cry out
to you papa I ask you release and awaken a deep unto deep hunger and desire
beyond what we have known or walked in before in your beautiful name
amen
lovely deep unto deep well fam hey um so good to be together here and um
we we've got like this first session this hey Vicky welcome
hi Vicky good to have you with us hello where are you where are you joining us from today Vicky
Pocatello Idaho Idaho very cool Pocatello did you say yes okay kind of uh almost had a hot potato
kind of ring to it
yes hot potato Idaho very good cool and Dawn good to see you there my beautiful friend we've got
Gabby and Carrie and Andy and Patty all in the zoom room as well and then beautiful people in
the Facebook um Facebook side of this as well so um
the first couple of weeks as we go on this journey we're really what we're going to do is
set the set the tempo and set the structure for where we are going because 12 weeks we've got um
we've got time and who answer answer me this whether in the comments or the chats or jump
and and I'm really happy to have these um have people jumping into the zoom as well because we
can really just kind of chat and be a little bit more intimate um on this journey so feel free
always feel free to jump into the zoom room chats for you know as we're going on in this 12-week
master class part of the beauty of the online school of sunshine because we're a more intimate
group and we can go deeper and we can feel free to interrupt um most of the time and just share
you know go questions and all of those things so um but who would like it
If, at the end of this 12 weeks, you had redesigned your life, who would like it if, at the end
of this 12 weeks, you had created a new state of being?
Yes, yes, yes.
Who would like to create a new state of being that, at the end of this 12 weeks, the world
that you live in, you are living in more of an open heaven than you've ever lived in before?
Who would like to go on that journey?
Oh, yes.
Yes.
So, here's a few of my goals for everyone who shares this journey.
I've got seven goals for everyone.
Right?
And these goals are bodies of spirit goals because everything is fused.
So, here's my seven goals for everyone that I think all of these seven goals culminate
into an existence, a state of being that is a greater open heaven than you've ever
lived in before, a greater oneness than you've lived in before, a greater participation in
the divine dance than you've lived in before.
So, here's my seven goals.
I would like you to be thinking better.
All right?
Remember we talked about a renewed mind as an open heaven?
Yes.
But at the end of this 12 weeks, I would like everyone to think better.
I'd like everyone to pray better.
I'd like everyone to love better.
I'd like everyone to eat better.
I'd like everyone to drink better.
I'd like everyone to sleep better.
And I'd like everyone to feel better.
Does that sound like a great idea?
How quickly does three months go by?
Right?
Just like that.
You know, it's nearly June already.
Didn't we just start?
Didn't we just start 2021?
Didn't we just have New Year's and it's nearly June?
So, you know how quickly three months just flashes by, right?
All the time.
And what happens?
How many structural life changes normally happen in three months?
None, right?
Like, normally it's just like gone.
Roll.
Oh, here we go.
Flip.
Another three months.
And before we realize, like, another three months has gone by.
And in that time,
how often do we really experience structural
change in our state of being, in our life?
Not that often, really, eh?
You know, we have incremental changes.
So what I'm wanting to do is take the next couple of weeks
to allow people to really intentionally engage with the process
and the journey and the structure, okay?
Because the open heaven intensive, right?
What it was, it was all revelation.
And revelation will, revelation will take you a certain distance,
but it's like when the Israelites took over the land,
God didn't want them to take over too much land at one time until
they'd occupied that land.
Because he said, if you don't take over that,
if you don't occupy that land and you take it over, then, you know,
all the wild animals and the thorns are going to take it over, you know,
like all that land that you took over,
all the wild animals and the thorns, they're going to,
they're going to go up and they're going to have it, you know,
and it's actually just going to get ruined.
So in a sense, what happens is if you have,
if your level of revelation and discipline don't meet up, right?
What happens, you know,
if your level of discipline's down here and your revelation's up here,
all of that space of revelation that you have, if you,
if you don't occupy it, if you don't occupy it with,
with, with discipline in a sense,
if you don't occupy that space with,
with.
a way of living that sustains that revelation, then it will be lost to you. Does that make
sense? We have to implement, we have to steward. If you're not stewarding the revelation, then
it won't have its, it won't outwork itself in you. You won't come to this place where
you are an incarnation of the word, right? The word has to become flesh in you. So we
this is what, so revelation is like the first stage of transformation, right? And it's powerful,
it's powerful. Revelation is powerful, but revelation, in order for revelation to
translate into incarnation, in order for the word to become flesh, we actually have to start
living it out and start implementing it in our daily life, which you have to, you know,
so that's what we want to be doing on this journey, is we want to be going on a journey
where we are implementing a lifestyle that takes the beautiful revelation that we're getting,
and then the word becomes flesh in us, right? So it's not just a concept of an open heaven
that we carry, we don't want to heed knowledge, which is a Greek way of thinking, but a Hebrew
understanding of knowledge, you know, like Greek mindset is to knowing about something is okay,
a Hebrew mindset is that you have intimate experience of it. So for a kind of a Greek
mindset, it'd be okay to know that open heavens are good, it'd be like the history that I've
talked to you about, you know, and the intents of that, you can just handle the history and
some of those, oh that's very good, there's a few verses on it, but a Hebrew mindset around
knowing is no, you have to walk in it, you have to experience it for yourself, you have to know
the riches of his glory for yourself. So does that make, does that sound good
that we go on it? Patti, I see you. Yeah. What do you want to say, Patti? Just, it's the knowing,
isn't it? It talks about that we may know him, and I'm just so hungry to know him in a greater
depth than ever before, and all the stories, the revival stories, the amazing things that God has
done, Patrick and everything, it just stirs me so much, but makes me incredibly desperate that I
want to know him like that, I'm not satisfied just to know that other people knew him like that,
I want to know him like that, absolutely, I want to apprehend it and make it mine.
Yeah, absolutely. Now here's something that not many people talk about around when it comes to
the saints and people like that, is very few people talk about their diet. Hey, do you ever hear,
do you hear that many people talking about the diet of the mystic saints? Not that many people
most of them were actually vegetarians. Saint Patrick was a vegetarian, most of them just had
a very, very simple diet, and I'm not saying we have to be vegetarians, I love eating a good
vegetarian, but what I am saying is they were actually very, very conscious about every part
of their life, every part of their life was very, very, very intentional, there was no area
in their life where they weren't extremely focused, and there wasn't any area in their
life where they weren't extremely intentional about what they were doing, how they were doing
it, but every part of their life was very, very intentional. You know, they were also very,
very big on exercise, just the whole monastic dynamic, it revolved around prayer, it revolved,
you know, the Celtic monasteries, they revolved around prayer, and working the land,
and training, studying, mastering the craft. How amazing is that, right? So they're involved
around, you know, becoming a master of your craft, so if you were a young person that was
education, getting the basics, otherwise after that, you kind of, you developed and you flourished in your
craft, that's why they developed some of the most amazing creatives that have ever lived, they all
worked the land, all of them, all of them, they were all, all did manual labor on a daily basis,
and they, you know, they ate really good food, because they grew all their own food, and they ate
really, really rich, nutritious, wonderful food, and that was a bit, that's a big deal. And so
We're going to talk about those things a little bit more, but I'm going to set homework, because
this was kind of like, if this 12-week Masterclass, if our goal was just to give you some information,
then you wouldn't need homework, right?
But it's not about information.
It's not just about revelation.
It's about incarnation.
It's about the word becoming flesh in you.
And the only way that you can go from revelation to incarnation is implementation.
Let me say that again slowly, nice little rhymes for you, hopefully it makes it a little
bit more memorable.
The only way that you can go from revelation to incarnation is implementation, which means
you have to find daily practices, you have to find daily practices that turn revelation
into incarnation, and the word becomes flesh in you.
Who knows about Brother Lawrence?
Who's heard of Brother Lawrence?
Yes.
Brother Lawrence?
Well, Brother Lawrence was famous.
He wrote a book called The Practice of the Presence.
Even that's just a glorious word, isn't it?
The Practice of the Presence.
And so for Brother Lawrence, everything was about incarnation, right?
And the process of incarnation, the process of the word becoming flesh in his life was
always through implementation.
But Brother Lawrence carried such a phenomenal manifestation of the tangible glory of God
on his life that people would travel, they would walk for miles and miles and miles just
to come and watch him do simple tasks like doing the dishes.
How crazy is this?
Because of his capacity, he developed the capacity to practice the presence of God in
the day-to-day moments, in the little things, in the little moments, his life revolved around
practice.
Now, we sometimes call practice discipline, we call it implementation, but for Brother
Lawrence, he called it The Practice of the Presence.
And it turned his life from, it's, say, set apart, say that, say that with me, say set
apart.
Set apart.
I'm going to ask you, how many Christians do you know carry such a powerful measure
of the presence of God that you would travel from another country to watch them do the
dishes because of the presence that's on their life?
And not in a meeting, just when they're doing the dishes, just when they're doing their
day-to-day, just when they're doing their mundane.
For Brother Lawrence, it was the practice of the presence, which was his daily habits.
So a practice becomes a habit, a habit becomes a reflex, a reflex becomes a lifestyle, and
a lifestyle becomes a state of being.
So for us, if we want to go on a journey for the next 12 weeks that really causes us
to shift our entire state of being, it's impossible to get there by revelation alone.
It's impossible to get there by teaching alone.
It requires practice, which requires implementation, which requires you making this 12-week season
not about just showing up for a couple of trainings a week, it means that it makes this
season about you focusing on practicing the presence of God like you've never practiced
the presence of God before.
And that's what will set you apart.
So if the majority of Christians will never walk in the fullness of the promises of God,
if the majority of Christians aren't living in the greater works of John 14 and 12,
do you want to be normal do you want to be average if the standard of average is
really really low no do you want to be just above average when the standard is
really really low no do you want to be set apart from average do you want to be
set apart from normal because the thing that is going to set you apart from a
a low standard of Christianity which we have in our generation if you want to be set apart from
an average Christian existence it's gonna be like average is always determined by what you practice
you know that not many people not many Christians actually read their bibles
it's just not a common thing it's not if you look at the actual statistics
do you actually look at the statistics the statistics are terrible statistics show that
actually you're more likely as a Christian you're more likely to be in you know into porn than into
your bible now that's not that's not a good standard right you wonder why we've got a little
bit of dysfunction why because it's what we practice if we're if Christians as a body of
Christ are practicing porn more than they're practicing the presence do you think we might
have a challenge on our hands you know like would you like to be set apart from that standard would
you like to be set apart from that normal my suggestion is that's why you're here so let me
give you your homework and we're not going to rush into this you will need to be diligent with it
because you'll find that two weeks is going to be just going to fly by real real quick but by the
end of week two what I would like everyone to have now this might sound simple but it's really
profound and you possibly have never done it before but by the end of week two I would like
everyone to have drawn a picture
I'd like everyone to have drawn a picture that represents
the deepest level of intimacy that you can possibly imagine was God
now that picture doesn't have to look like anything it might just be symbolic so it
might just be color but it has to be something that you are deeply connected with and it has
to be a picture that you personally understand that when you look at that picture it means
nothing else to you other than this is the deepest level of intimacy that I can imagine with God
so to do that it's going to require some meditation it's going to require some
some thoughts going to require some some depth to go into it I'm doing I'm going to be doing it
with you as well so when you're having your time with the Lord over the next couple of weeks one
of the big things that you want to do is get some get a pen and paper out get some colored pencils
get something out that you can draw with and you're going to draw a picture that represents
to you the greatest level of intimacy with God that you can imagine sound good yes I like that
you like it yeah very cool now here's why the picture is going to be important is the picture
is going to be important because we're going to put some practices in place as we go on this journey
right and the practices that we put in place are going to be daily practices
and the daily practices are going to require a commitment from you okay
they're going to require you to actually show up and they're going to require you to
actually practice they're going to require you to do something and I want you to always see
your picture there of what you are fighting for why you want to be set apart because it's going
to take some consecration right that's what the word set apart means to be consecrated to be set
apart it's going to take
take some consecration, it's going to take some setting apart in order to shift our state of being
to come to a state of being that is a greater level of an open heaven, a greater level of
union with God than we've ever experienced before. And who thinks that's worth a little bit of
practice for the sake of a world where we think better, we pray better, we love better, we eat
better, we drink better, we sleep better, and we feel better. Yeah? Yes. Come on, that's good. Right,
let me check the comments. We've been buzzing along here in the comments on Facebook.
Yeah, yes, Rachel, we almost see there. Hello, Andrea, Tony, hi, yes, Jackie, hi, Lavinia, hi,
baby, hi. Very cool. Beautiful. Thanks for sharing all your lovely words there. Tina, hello.
Darren, hey, buddy. Yeah, very cool. I see Darren, that's a great comment. I want to explore more
into how to bring kingdom to earth and being multi-dimensional and how to carry that everywhere
I go. Absolutely. Well, this is where it starts, right? That's where that journey starts of,
so what Darren, his comment is, he says, I want to explore more into how to bring kingdom to earth
and being multi-dimensional and how to carry that everywhere I go. Does that sound awesome or what?
That sounds amazing. And if you want to be a person like that, which is exactly
what Brother Lawrence was, right? That's exactly what Brother Lawrence was,
is that, and that's exactly what all the saints of old were, is they were, again,
it's this word incarnation, you know, where Bethel, you know, the word Bethel is house of God, you know,
you are a house of God. And what does that mean? It means you're a portal. You are a multi-dimensional
being and you're an open door into heaven. You're an ark of the glory of God.
You are, and you're an open door. You're an open gate that heaven flows through effortlessly,
an open door, an open gate. And so this is where that starts
with the practice. And I tell you what, all the mystical people
in the world that you will meet and connect and you talk with, they will, they might put
different language around it. They might say it's work or they might say it's prayer or they might
say it's this or it's that, but you know, they'll have their own word for practice. Brother Lawrence
called it practice. I sometimes say that the secret to effortless bliss is hard work.
It's not actually hard work, it's the renewed mind or whatever, but there's going to be something that
produces the renewed mind. It's going to be something that produces that incarnation in you.
It's always going to be practice or it's going to be hard work or it's going to be prayer of some
sort. And it's not necessarily that it's actually hard work, but there is a dynamic
of it where you're practicing is probably going to hit a wall at some point, right?
Your practice is probably going to get uncomfortable at some point because a new practice is colliding
with a lifestyle of habits, you know, like a whole lifetime of habits that you've created.
And now you want to practice something different and your whole body and soul and spirit rages
against the new practice and it shouts out, this is hard, this is difficult, this is too much,
this is uncomfortable. No, no, no. And we are, you know, you'll get a headache from that because
you have to, you know, I know many of you know this already, but you have to,
you know, physically, this process is going to require you to physically
reshape your brain and restructure your brain. At the end of this 12 weeks since they did a
brain scan on us, for those
to actually track with this and hold fast with this and stay with the process if you had a brain scan
right now and you had a brain scan at the end of those 12 weeks your brain would not be the same
okay because your brain's going to develop new pathways it takes 21 days to create a new pathway
in your brain and at the end of 21 days it can actually be seen and you know you're doing
neurological brain scan you can see a physical new pathway in your brain is created after 21 days
but after 63 days so three sets of 21 actually gets ingrained in there it's like boom you've
rewired your brain in 63 days so we are going to be rewiring our brains so our brains are
physically not going to be the same um see our brains will physically not be the same
and so we're going to have to have some we're going to help them out with some brain food
we're going to help them out with some water we're going to help have to help yeah we're
going to have to help our brains out with um by carrying an attitude of gratitude so there's all
sorts of things that we're going to be doing and we're going to take the next two weeks to kind of
just work on putting those structures in place of what it's going to look like and so i'm going
to just talk you through through some of these things because we want to give ourselves the
best shot right we we don't want to we don't want to be trying to um drive the car with the handbrake
on yeah who agrees i'm going to take the handbrake off my friend borrowed my van a number of years
ago drove it all the way to town from the country you know 100k an hour got back and she said yes
doesn't have that much pickup does it i was like oh you know it's a van it's not like super fast
but i got out and she's like oh but i had this funny red light on the whole way it's like an
exclamation mark with these red you know these kind of um brackets around i was like you mean
like the international symbol for handbrake and she's like oh is that what that is i was like this
lady spit there's a lady where have you been just destroyed my hand right
we don't want to be driving we don't want to be going to all this effort but with the handbrake
on so it's going to be some simple things that we're going to talk about that are body soul
spirit things that are going to actually help our brains to rewipe they're going to help and if we
can help our brains to rewire we're going to really really help that's going to really really
help us to create a new practice and if we can create a new practice we can create a new heaven
create a new habit we can create a new reflex and if we can create a new reflex then we can create a
new lifestyle if we can create a new lifestyle we can create a brand new state of being but
our brains have a big big part to play in that process and so we need to look after our brains
and we can you know if you want to get a head start on that you know what you eat will look
after your brain what you drink will look after your brain how you sleep will look after your
brain how you think will look after your brain another thing here as well as um who who does
physical exercise on a regular basis just put your hand up if you do physical exercise on a
regular basis yeah a little bit of physical exercise there going on now the older we get
the more important it is for us to stretch right you know like a young person they're kind of like
a rubber band an older person their muscles a little bit like a rubber band that's been left
in the sun too long you just jerk it real quickly and it's probably going to snap like whoa so you
kind of need to stretch it up um well your brain actually needs the same thing your brain needs a
little bit of stretching and um that's called neuroplasticity um if you haven't been working
your brain out then it loses its neuroplasticity right which is its ability to shape its ability
to create new pathways it gets sluggish it gets slow it's like oh man it's struggling right your
brains in struggle mode so it's going to be harder to learn new things and that but one of
the best ways to increase neuroplasticity and to really stretch your brain out all the studies
come back unanimous about this is that one of the single best ways to increase your neuroplasticity
is gratitude how good is that right rejoice i will say it again rejoice so if you want to get it you
know if you want to get a head start we'll wrap this up now but if you want to get a head start
gratitude, delight, love, adoration, worship, there's not many things that you can do that
are better than that to increase your neuroplasticity. Praying in the spirit, people don't realize is
increasing your neuroplasticity of your brain. It's one of the reasons why praying in the spirit
is just better for your mental, emotional, physical health because it helps your brain,
one of many things. So at the end of the next 12 weeks, we're going to think better.
Who likes this idea that by the end of the next 12 weeks, we're all thinking better,
we're praying better, we're loving better, we're eating better, we're drinking better,
we're sleeping better, we're feeling better. Now those might sound like some real basic things,
but if you take care of the basics, then those big things like what Darren wants, which is
just carrying a level of the glory of God that creates and you are ushering in the presence
of God everywhere you go. You're creating, you're opening up the realm of the kingdom and it's
flowing effortlessly through you everywhere you go. It's like Smith Wigglesworth, I'll finish
with this last story. Smith Wigglesworth had a famous prayer meeting when he was here in New
Zealand. Some New Zealand pastor who really didn't know what he was talking about started
bagging Smith Wigglesworth a little bit, not too much, but he's like, because what happened was
Smith Wigglesworth carried, Smith Wigglesworth was set apart. Just say set apart again, right?
Okay, so set apart looks like something. So here's what set apart looked like on Smith Wigglesworth
life, right? When Smith Wigglesworth was in New Zealand and he started praying in the prayer
meetings, the glory of God would start coming so thick that people left the prayer meeting.
One by one, they left every single one of them. No one could stay in the same atmosphere
as Smith Wigglesworth because of the level of the glory of God that was on him. And this pastor
heard about it and said, whatever, no one carries the presence that much. They didn't even probably know what that
meant. So whatever, I'm not going to leave. I'm going to stay in there the whole time, right?
So this guy, he ends up in the prayer meeting with Smith Wigglesworth and he is not going anywhere,
right? He is holding on for dear life. But then the presence of God got so thick, so heavy, so
insanely intense that this pastor crawled out, right? On his belly, dragged himself out. He held
on as long as he possibly could. He dragged himself out fearing he was going to die in the glory. He
was like, this is just too much. I cannot handle this presence. What is this? But what was that?
Smith Wigglesworth was set apart and he lived in a different dimension and he carried a different
realm of the glory of God that was on his life. But those things, it's just like what Brother Lawrence,
you know, that's what Brother Lawrence did. He carried a measure of the glory of God that had
him set apart. But what we have to understand is that it always starts with the simple things.
Now, if you want that to be more than just a nice story, but to be something that is actually,
the word becomes flesh in you. If you want a testimony like that to become flesh in you,
then it starts with mastering the basics, okay? It always, always, always starts with the basics.
Like, you're getting enough sleep, you know? What are you wasting your time on that you're
not sleeping? What's so important that it's keeping you up so you're not getting the sleep
that you need to shift your entire state of being? What's more important to you than being set apart
as an archivist's presence? What's more important to you than carrying the glory of God in such a
tangible way that people think that, you know, people have to crawl on their hands and feet
away from you? You know, Catherine Corden, they actually, they created another access way for her
to go to the airport. Because every time she went to the airport, staff were like,
all these people just fall.
out in spirit around her because of the glory of God that she carried set up her and so they said
look Miss Coleman if you're coming to the airport like we're going to bring you around in a special
way so that you don't like disrupt the airport but who would like to carry the glory of God in
such a powerful way that you disrupt everything who would like to carry the glory of God in such
a powerful way that you you you walk up you know into your parliament into your government or
whatever no one touches you because every single person within a two mile radius just falls out in
the spirit as you approach so you can go anywhere do anything say anything and nobody can touch that
type of glory but isn't that what our world needs right now some people who carry the glory like
that you know people who carry the glory like old school revival so people are getting just
knocked out in the spirit 50 mile in a 50 mile radius of the meeting
i gotta tell you it it starts with your alarm clock that type of glory starts with
little thing little little little thing little thing little thing so we're going to work on
some little things your homework we'll wrap this up with a prayer how about um
okay would you be happy to pray for us to wrap this up sure that'd be fantastic
mickey coming to us from hot potato in idaho
lord we just thank you for this day and um lord for the message that we received tonight lord and
i just ask you to to lead us and guide us every day lord as we go about practicing
and mastering the things that we need to to become closer to you and we thank you for
just giving us um the ability to to make it through we just thank you lord and jesus may my
amen amen beautiful great stuff guys so our next session um it's going to be thursday um
wait what's today today is tuesday monday yes good i just had to just check that file in my
brain yes it's monday new zealand time sunday for a lot of you other guys but our next session we
will do uh thursday at 10 a.m new zealand time okay thursday 10 a.m new zealand time and it'll
be a q a session okay so whatever you want to hit up right whatever you want to uh just
no no limits on the q a session for thursday 10 a.m we're going to do so this can be bringing
back to the reform like to any of the reformational teaching that i'm bringing
been bringing you but my two my two points that i'm really wanting you know like if there's anything
in you at all that disagrees with the fact that you're as perfect as perfect can be
if you've got any resistance in your theology in your mindset if it's difficult in any way to
struggle you struggle in any way with the belief that you're a hundred percent perfect
as perfect as god is in your identity all right if there's anything that that resists that or
is troubled by that i was like doesn't like that when i say you're as perfect as god is
right if there's anything in you that resists that we want to talk about it okay we want to
get it out there we want to get in the q a if you've got any theology that endorses the fact
that you're anything less than as perfect as god is then i want to talk about that theology okay we
want to destroy the resistance because that will be self-destructive in the process that we're
trying to accomplish and if there's anything in you that suggests that you're anything less than
seamlessly one with god and you have been before you were born and you always have been you always
will be if there's anything in you that that opposes or resists the concept that you are as
one with god as you possibly could be that is you you're as much of part of the trinity as the holy
spirit right in terms of how included you are then we want to talk about that okay so bring
those things bring those wrestles bring those struggles bring the challenges to me i'll be
wrestling with it for a long long time so we can chat about all of that stuff um so the next couple
of weeks we're going to do q and a's in our second session so it's going to be mondays and thursdays
all right we will watch and just see how the timelines go for people if we bounce them around
i know everyone's all over the world so just trying to get things that fit that's why i'm
doing a morning and an afternoon so we've got monday at three they might bounce around a
little bit and thursday at 10 a.m
Zealand time and you're going to have to get used to being bilingual in your time zones and
converting from New Zealand time. Sweet. Okay, well done guys. Love you very much.
Bless you and we'll see you all very soon. Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye.