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a moment now just to hear from people how the Hard Things Challenge is going for you.

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Just take a few minutes now to chat on that and then we're going to jump into an exciting session.

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So open mic, let me know how you're doing. Michelle, welcome, great to have you with us.

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So we're just taking a second now just to hear from people how the Daily Hard Things Challenge

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is going and then we're going to launch into the action.

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Don't all rush, don't all rush, calm down, please, please calm down, you guys are crazy.

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It's going great. It's going great for Patty. Patty, you've been in bed, you've had surgery.

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Yeah. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing really well, thank you, making really great progress

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and yeah, had lots of time. It's quite funny actually, a friend gave me this book for my

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birthday earlier in the year called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. It's a rather good book.

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Jesus never did anything in a hurry and I've been confined to a snail and tortoise place so

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loads of time for doing daily hard things. Excellent, excellent. Michelle, welcome,

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good to see you there. A couple of other people share with us about your daily things. Esther,

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was that you skipping? Did I see a photo of you skipping? Yes, I thought I'd do some

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skipping. Something I usually don't and it was very rainy outside so I couldn't go out

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and that was really the only option. But it was hard, five minutes of skipping is, yeah,

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I could feel that I hadn't done that in a while. Excellent. Well, very good, good to hear that.

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Who else wants to jump in and give us a little story on hard things?

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I've been doing really good on the hard things. I've got two training sessions going and still

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trying to work out everything on the computer. Plus, I took a job on the weekends and learned

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a lot about humility. It's consuming all the water that's difficult. Yeah.

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Oh, well, that's a good effort. How much water are you getting in?

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Are you getting in more than you would normally? Absolutely. I've been drinking the collodial

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silver. It's great healing benefits to that and I've been making it.

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That is really good news. One thing that's always important to focus on is that we aim

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for transformation, not perfection. When you're doing something like this,

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your focus is never perfection because perfection will lead you to comparison

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and comparison is a thief of joy, whereas transformation always leads you to gratitude

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and gratitude is a multiplier of joy. The focus is not perfection, the focus is transformation.

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So how it works again, if you're focused on perfectionism,

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it produces comparison and comparison is the thief of joy. If you're focused on transformation,

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the result is gratitude and gratitude is a multiplier of joy. Two outlooks on how you view

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yourself and view your journey that have a huge impact on the process. That's cool. Let's take

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one more person to share a little bit. There's a few good contenders here who've been doing great

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stuff on the hard thing. So jump in there, someone. Go once. Okay, Michelle. Who's going in

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there? Sorry, Michelle, do you want to go? It's okay, I'll let you because honestly, I haven't

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done that well. I'm sure you have. Go for it, Raewyn. I'll just share something that I find

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challenging and something that's been really great. As of yesterday, I have lost 5.2 Ks.

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Come on. I mean, I'm doing health coaching at the moment. I'm studying, almost finished.

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This came along at a really great time.

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So I've actually inserted a few of my health goals

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in this, clear out my gut.

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And my focus has been my gut

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and it's feeling a whole lot better.

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But as a kind of bonus, I've lost a bit of weight as well,

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which is, this feels really great.

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And yeah, and I guess the stuff I find challenging,

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what I really love is that I'm just learning more

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and more about leaning into love.

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In lockdown, we've now got multiple cases in our complex

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and every day the management's emailing us

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more and more cases.

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And so, yeah, so I just have to choose

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to just lean into love and be love my guide

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in terms of how I conduct myself.

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And yeah, and I'm not saying it's not challenging

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because it is, but I really love the process.

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I'm loving the process.

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Very cool.

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Very, very cool.

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Jude, welcome.

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Glad to have you with us.

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How are you doing Jude?

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Oh, gone.

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Might've pressed the wrong button.

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Sometimes that happens.

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Well, that's very cool.

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Hey fam, let's spend some time now praying in the spirit.

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I'm really excited about the message

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that we're gonna bring today.

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I'm excited about what God is doing on the planet.

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And so we really wanna just create space

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for the spirit of God to move.

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So let's jump in.

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Symphonia, we're well aware of,

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this is week 11 as well, by the way.

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Next week is the last week of the Open Heaven masterclass.

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So obviously we'll still carry on doing things

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in the future in the online school of sonship,

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but we've got some cool things coming up soon actually.

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We've got a parenting intensive coming up

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and there's some really awesome content.

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We've been working on that today.

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So there's a parenting thing coming up with Tyler.

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So he's really amazing actually.

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He's full-time in the parenting space.

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So it's pretty awesome.

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And then Matt Lansdowne is gonna be doing

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a school of the spirit, which is gonna be awesome too.

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So there's some cool stuff coming up,

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but let's pray in the spirit now.

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So if you wanna unmute right now, you're welcome to.

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And we're just gonna all pray in the spirit together.

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So all around the world, Romeo, good to have you with us.

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We've got a crew from everywhere.

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So Debbie, welcome.

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Everyone here, you're welcome.

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Sue, welcome.

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Emily, welcome.

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If I haven't missed anyone,

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well, you're all welcome and let's pray.

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We'll give it about five minutes

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and then we'll just see what is cooking.

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All right, let's go.

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Thank you, Lord.

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and bring the light of revelation and truth into every part of our beings in Jesus name.

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We welcome your kabod glory to rest on us. We welcome your spirit to overwhelm us.

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We welcome your word to come alive on the inside of us. We welcome your fire to baptize us. We

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welcome your eyes to captivate us. We welcome your kingdom to consume us. We welcome the mind of

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Christ to align us in Jesus name. We welcome you. We welcome you. We welcome you.

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So I just want to encourage everyone right now is to step into the place of receiving

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a fresh outpouring, a fresh baptism of the father's love. I just want to encourage you

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right now. And Papa, I decree it right now. I declare it right now. I mandate and I release,

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I legislate a release of your glory love right now. May your love be like.

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fire may it be may it be warmth may be peace may be strength may be comfort may it be tenderness

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may it be power may it be might release your glory right now release your glory right now

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oh jesus we release your glory jesus be lifted up

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papa pour out encounters with your love right now encounters with your love right now i declare

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supernatural encounters with the love of god that carry breakthrough that carry freedom that carry

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healing to carry life breakthrough in jesus name i declare supernatural signs and wonders and

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miracles that confirm the extravagant love of the father over your life

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may his tender beautiful love swallow you up may he wrap you up may he consume you

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may he baptize you may he immerse you in the wonder of his love in jesus name

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right here

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if anyone has a prayer on their heart this is your moment to to release it

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thank you

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this time together we thank you for quickening the word we thank you for the weighty presence

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we thank you for your fire we thank you for encounters we thank you for your rainbow word

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we thank you for lighting up your word with fire that lights us up whoa right through in jesus name

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papa we give you all the glory all the honor

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holy spirit i thank you for anointing the words i thank you for anointing our hearts i thank you

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for trees that lands in good soil in jesus name thank you that you would cause this time

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any everything that's spoken jesus i ask that everything that's spoken produces alignment

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with the mind of christ i ask that you by your grace and by your power you would use every word

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to align people with the mind of christ wow in your beautiful name jesus amen whoa

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oh wow wow

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um welcome salome now how do we say your name correctly it's wonderful to have you with us

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um i just want to make sure i can say your name right

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because salome salome wonderful welcome and where are you based

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sorry just sorry come again whereabouts do you live i'm in brisbane you're in brisbane welcome

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what a delight to have you with us cheryl it's wonderful to have cheryl with us as well

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it's wonderful to have all of you with us welcome to have elisa and sue and jude um everyone it is

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just good good good to see you cheryl how are you doing

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wonderful thanks benji that's great whereabouts are you today

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uh a university library so speaking very softly

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in uh whereabouts cost how about australia yeah yeah very cool we love course yeah love

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love you benji and uh new zealand as you know is a suburb of australia so we're really excited to

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no no no no very cool we'll try and avoid that conversation just wonderful to have you guys

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we love you guys i'm gonna launch into it um right now and this message today intriguing message is

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the future of the world dun dun dun which is a pretty solid um title and pretty pretty big title

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especially for the times that we're living in unprecedented days i mean this to me

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uh is reminiscent of neville

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Berlin coming back from his meeting with Hitler saying peace, peace in our day. That's what I'm,

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that's what I'm thinking. But I want to say that, you know, the mind, the mind of Christ

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will make you invincible, right? If you're in alignment with the mind of Christ,

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you'll be invincible. We were created to live overwhelmed. And if we're not overwhelmed by the

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glory and the love and the wonder of Jesus, then we can be overwhelmed by anything else.

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And so I want to talk today about the future of the world. And the most important thing that I

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want to do is give you an anchor point, an anchor point for your hope, right? I want to give you an

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anchor point for your hope that is rock solid. Because irrespective of any historical context

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that we are going through, if we're not glistening with hope, we're under the influence of a lie.

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You know, if we're not glistening with hope, we're under the influence of a lie. Welcome, John.

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Goodbye, John. So let's start with some scripture. So come with me if you want to. I'm going to,

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I'm going to share my screen. Most of today will be a shared screen kind of dynamic.

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So let me share my screen and I've got a whole bunch of Bible ready to go. That one can disappear.

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Okay, so here we are. We're in Daniel 7 right now. So grab your,

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I am just, just checking as well that this crew in the

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online School of Sonship. Hello for any of you guys who are watching there.

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Okay. Sweet. And we're going to jump into this. All right. So Daniel 7 is a bit of a dynamic

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passage. We're just going to read a little snippet of it. Okay. We're going to take some

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snippets out of here and I'm going to bounce around some Old Testament scriptures and get

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into it, but let's start at verse 23. Okay. So we're not going to go deep on all of these beasts.

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You can do, there's lots of content around that you can go deep on these if you want,

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but we're not going to do that today. We're just going to briefly over these because there's

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something I want to hit. So here we go. Starting at verse 23 of Daniel 7, he gave me this explanation.

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The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all

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the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.

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The 10 horns are 10 Kings who will come from this kingdom. After them, another King will arise,

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different from the earlier ones. He will subdue three Kings. He will speak against the Most High

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and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws.

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The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.

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Okay. So all I'll say from that, so I'll stop the screen share just for a moment.

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I'm just going to speak to you guys. You can read an endless number of books and go through

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an endless number of teachings on end times, and they will all give you a different perspective.

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So I'm not trying to give you an end times interpretation of beasts, kingdoms, plagues

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of wasps or anything like that. Okay. I'm not aiming to give you an interpretation of anything

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like that today. Okay. That's not my aim. My aim today is to give you an anchor point

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for your hope that can't be shaken. All right. And we're going to work backwards from that

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anchor point. So that's the point of this verse. Okay. So I'm going to share my screen again,

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but I just want you to remember the point of what we're doing and why we're doing it. So

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let's get back to that.

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verses 23 through to 25. Now listen to verse 26. But the court will sit and his power will be

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taken away and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty, power, and greatness

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of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High.

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His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship and obey him.

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This is the end of the matter. Let me read that again. But the court will sit and his

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power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty,

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power, and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people

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of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship

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and obey him. This is the end of the matter. I'll stop screen share again for a second here.

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That's a good verse, right? That's a good anchor point. And it's interesting to me when I see

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people teach on end times how few people emphasize what should be emphasized. You know,

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what's the main point of all of that? You know, Daniel has this angelic encounter. What's the

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main point of that? The main point is not that there will be testings, all right? If you

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listened to Jesus, he prophesied and promised us lots of good things, right? But he also said

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you will have tribulation, right? So, tribulation is not something new. It's not, should never be

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a surprise for Christians. It's not a surprise right now for us in our little unique western,

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for us in our little unique western

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bubble. Persecution for a long time has been rare, but not always. There's been many a time when the

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gospel has been thoroughly persecuted, when Christians have been thoroughly persecuted.

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So, what we have to just understand is that part of the inheritance of being a Christian

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is persecution, all right? That is one of the promises that Jesus gave us. He said,

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in this life, you will face tribulation. So, that's a promise from Jesus. So, should there

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be any surprise at all that we are going to experience tribulation of many kinds? That

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should not be a surprise, right? I think it can be a bit of a surprise to people in the west who

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aren't used to anything difficult, right? Everything's just lovely and nice, and we're

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really, the atmosphere is really important. We go to all the lengths to just create a really

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nice atmosphere, and things are very nice, right? But at the same time, right, when we're doing that

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and we're on holidays, you've got people all over the world for decades who have been walking

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through genocide all over the world, right? All over the world, people are experiencing that.

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Christians have been experiencing that constantly all over the world. Christians, you know, have

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always been being persecuted to extreme degrees. So, that's the first point. Persecution shouldn't

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be a surprise to us. Interestingly, though, pretty much every theological perspective

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that you go through suggests that time, times, and half of times refers to three and a half years,

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right? Now, you can interpret that however you like, but most people would suggest that that

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refers to three and a half years. And so, yes, we might be going through challenges right now, but

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that's our, in a sense, persecution is a promise from Jesus, but there's also the promise

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of his presence that completely surpasses and overwhelms the promise of tribulation, right?

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The promise of tribulation, the beauty of tribulation is that, the beauty of

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tribulation is this, right? Is that all you have is Jesus. When you really go through persecution,

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like so many have, you know, like our friends in China, our brothers and sisters in China who,

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you know, when the bamboo curtain dropped, there was only a, you know, they thought there would

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only be about a million Christians in China at that time when the bamboo curtain, you know,

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went up and they just made Christianity illegal. And they, actually, interestingly, one of the

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things that the communists said is they bragged to the Christians before they took over China,

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they bragged to the Christians and they said, we're going to take over China because we spend

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all of our money on propaganda.

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and you spend all of your money on buildings.

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and we're gonna kick you all out

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and we're gonna end Christianity, right?

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and there's like a million Christians in all of China.

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and people finally starting hearing back from hearing,

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you know, being able to see into China

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and see what's been happening,

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people were wondering if the church even survived.

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like the heavenly man start coming out.

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like a hundred million Christians in China, right?

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is exploded unlike anywhere in the world.

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you know, some people will say that, you know,

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around 30,000 people a day in China

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have been giving their lives to Jesus, you know?

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is an insane explosion, right?

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because this to me is the essence

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of what I want to instill in us today.

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So this is one of my favorite stories of all time, right?

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This Chinese pastor, and who knows, you know,

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like who knows maybe before this, maybe he was wealthy.

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and maybe he had all sorts of things.

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Maybe he lost everything.

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Maybe he lost his family.

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Maybe he didn't, all right?

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But what we do know is that he had 27 years

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in a Chinese prison, right?

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I had 27 years in a Chinese prison

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and they're notorious for torture, abuse,

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being cold, being uncomfortable, you know,

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in a starving kind of way.

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27 years, right?

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people asked him, man, like, how did you survive that?

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It was my 27 year honeymoon with Jesus.

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a Chinese man who was speaking at an event that I was at

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and he was retelling the story.

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but how amazing is that, right?

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27 years in a prison, terrible conditions,

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torture, abuse, all your freedom's gone.

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It was my 27 year honeymoon with Jesus.

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we were created to live overwhelmed,

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but we were designed to live overwhelmed by Jesus.

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We were designed to live overwhelmed by his presence.

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We were designed to live overwhelmed by love.

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then nothing in this world can overwhelm us.

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then nothing in this world can overwhelm us, right?

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This is Romans eight.

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Let me just pull Romans eight up for you for a second.

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Here we go, I'm just pulling it up.

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Romans eight, 38 to 39.

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For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

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neither angels nor demons,

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nor any powers, neither height nor depth,

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nor anything else in all creation

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will be able to separate us from the love of God

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that is in Christ Jesus.

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How beautiful is that, right?

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So there's that one dynamic, right?

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if we are in alignment with the mind of Christ,

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we are invincible, right?

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then we are invincible.

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regardless of context and circumstance,

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the mind of Christ is overwhelmed

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by the love, overwhelmed by the glory,

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overwhelmed by the wonder,

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overwhelmed by the goodness of who God is.

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How good is that, right?

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because the mind of Christ,

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whatever your circumstance,

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if you're in alignment with the mind of Christ,

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mind of Christ, you will be in a place of invincibility. That is

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you're invincible.

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by the love, overwhelmed by the glory,

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exciting, right? Is that not a good? Is that not a good hope?

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overwhelmed by the wonder,

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Is that not a good hope, a good opportunity that we can Rachel

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welcome? Is that not a good hope that we can have a level of

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alignment with the mind of Christ that leaves us invincible

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to any circumstance? The first thing that the enemy will try

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and steal is your joy. That's the first thing that Satan will

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come after is he will come after your joy. But if he can't steal

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your joy, he can't steal anything. Right, let's jump

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forward a little bit. Rachel, great to have you with us. I'm

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going to screen share again, and we're going to jump into some

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more scriptures. Okay, let's just touch this one one more

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time. But the court will sit and his power will be taken away

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and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty,

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power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be

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handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom

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will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship and

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obey him. And a couple of points I want to bring out of this for

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you. So can you just picture this for me for a moment? Because

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this scripture here is one of the anchor points for me for an

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unshakable hope. Then the sovereignty, power and greatness

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of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to

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the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an

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everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship and obey

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him. This is the end of the matter. Now I would like you to

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picture what the planet looks like when every ruler worships

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and obeys him. What does the planet look like when every

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ruler worships and obeys him? Yeah, so this is still Daniel

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seven, 2026 2728 this bit. But take a moment just take close

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your eyes not if you're driving like not if you're driving,

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don't close your eyes. But if you're driving, if you're not

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driving, close your eyes for a moment and just think about this

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that what does it actually look like? What's the picture of it?

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worships and obeys him in every single nation and every single

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tribe and every every geographical place? What does

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the earth look like? What does the earth become when every

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single ruler worships and obeys him? When I look at my world

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map, and I imagine this, I just see these wild, amazing sounds

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and frequencies and colors and dances and creativity exploding

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off my map, just a world where every single person will worship

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and obey him. Oh my goodness, it is wild. Every every leader in

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every household, every leader in every region, every leader of

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every nation, this is a wild explosion. Now this is the this

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is what alignment with the mind of Christ looks like, right?

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the end goal. You got to start with the end in mind, because

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Jesus starts with the end in mind. Remember the cross, how he

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went through the cross, he said, you know, considering the joy

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that was set before him. Now, there's no point in going through

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persecution without considering the joy that is set before you.

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the midst of your persecution. Right? The joy that is set before

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you is designed so that you can enjoy it in the midst of

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persecution. Right? That's your portion. If you're going through

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trial, your portion is the joy that was set before you that you

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get to enjoy it. Now, you get to consider it. Now you get to

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think about it. Now you get to enjoy it right now. Be grateful

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for it right now. Celebrate it right now. Remember, in Acts,

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we've just read Acts and there's Paul, Paul gets arrested, beaten,

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thrown in prison in the middle of the night. What are they

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doing? How do they respond to the persecution? Worship. They're

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in this place of such amazing worship, that the whole prison

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gets shaken.

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And when the prison door flings open, you know, the guard, he runs in there and falls on his face.

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to say, what do I need to do to be saved? There's something of the atmosphere of the glory of God

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that he runs into. Boom! And listen, what that is, is that's Paul understanding that the joy

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that is set before you is designed to be experienced in the presence of persecution

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as you're going through things. So for us, alignment with the mind of Christ,

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it means it looks like being fused with these promises. On a daily basis, regardless of what

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we're going through, we get to enjoy this reality. Then the sovereignty, the power,

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and the greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people

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of the most high. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will

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worship and obey him. This is the end of the matter. So as we're going through everything,

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processing everything, our hope comes from alignment with the mind of Christ, and the

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mind of Christ is fixed on the end goal of where he is taking us all. Is that good news?

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Yeah. So the key thing, right, we're going to explore some more dynamics, but the key

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dynamic of everything that we're going to explore today is that our hope must be fused with the mind

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of Christ. And to be fused with the mind of Christ, we have to start with the end

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in mind. It has to be filling our mind. Now let me ask you this, how often do you think about that?

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Right, because I would suggest to you that when you meditate on how good things are going to be,

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when you meditate on that, you open up an entire world of extreme joy.

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Right, that when you meditate on that promise, that promise is the gateway into a world of

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unshakable ecstasy and delight and bliss in the midst of any persecution, in the midst of any

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challenge that you're going through, that promise is a gateway into a whole world of bliss. And I

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want to ask you, how often do you explore that world? How often do you camp in that world? How

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often do you live in that world? How often do you marinate in it? How often do you let it overwhelm

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you? How often do you let it leave you completely undone? And how often do you allow like that to be

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a catalyst of worship and gratitude and adoration that leaves you just like, wow, God, good chicken,

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right? Okay, we're going to jump back in there. We've got another angle on this verse that we're

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going to look at right now. Okay, one more, one more thing to pull out of here.

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So, but the court will sit and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.

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I wasn't going to mention much on this, but that's interesting, right, that

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that God can just take away Satan's power whenever he wants, and it's not, it's not

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difficult for God, right? God is not strained. God, there's a wild dynamic and it might be difficult

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There's a wild dynamic and it might be difficult to understand, and we're not going to jump into this right now,

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but the sovereignty of God, Satan's on a leash, times and seasons, that's all he's got. He's just

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got times and seasons. Okay, so he's got times and seasons and God is using those times and seasons

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for his purposes, but the devil is on a leash and God can sit him down whenever he likes and take

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everything away. So that's good, but in the midst of this, God is actually using the devil for a

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purpose. Say there's purpose in the process, right? There is purpose in the process. Now, what does God

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need in this, in this scenario here? God needs something in this scenario. God's looking for

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something in this scenario. God is looking for people, because look at this, then the sovereignty,

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power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of

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the most high, right? So who would you want to be entrusted with a kingdom? Who would like it if

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some of your current leadership of any level of society had some better character development?

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Who would appreciate it if there was more holiness, there was more love, there was more

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wisdom, there was more righteousness, there was more integrity, there was more moral character,

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there was more love for Jesus, there was more kingdom value.

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use in the leadership, in their area and their families, maybe

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in their parents, maybe in their children, maybe in their

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families of some sort, maybe in their local area, their regional

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area, their national area, or international, global, in the

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spiritual realm, who thinks that there's room for better, more

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qualified leadership? Yeah.

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Whoo. Yeah, absolutely. Right. And so look, who, what do you

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think should be the prerequisites of someone who's

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going to be given an everlasting kingdom? You know, if you're

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given a kingdom, right, if you if you're in a place of a

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kingdom, it's not a place of being voted in. It's a place,

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you know, like you receive a place of authority. So what do

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you what type of prerequisites Do you think, you know, what

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should they do a three year degree? What should they have to

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go through to be qualified to rule and reign an everlasting

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kingdom? So when I say there's purpose in the process, the

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purpose in the process is the fact that through everything

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that we go through in life, look, it's like I've, I've

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talked a bunch about with the parable of the miners, and

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your parable of talents, what God's looking for something

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right, he is looking for good stewards, how we steward our

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money, how we go through persecution, how we live this

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life, how we steward our time, how we steward our attitude, how

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we steward our relationships, how we steward our finances, how

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we steward everything that is placed in our hands, is purpose

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in the process. And whatever we're going through, Jesus

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promised us tribulation. And part of that part of the purpose

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of the tribulation is that the tribulation creates the context

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for us to demonstrate godly character. See, the prerequisite

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for taking a place of authority in an everlasting kingdom is

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that you look like Christ. You smell like Christ, you think

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like Christ, you act like Christ, you walk like Christ,

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you talk like Christ, you move like him, you look like him.

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See, that is what Jesus is doing here in the he is creating the

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context and the opportunity for us to put on Christ, to

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demonstrate Christ to wear Christ. Good chicken, right? So

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this is this is one of the big deals here about the purpose and

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the process is that he how you respond, how you steward how you

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act, he is looking right, he is looking for you to be he is

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looking for you to rise up to the challenge in the midst of

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whatever we're going on. That's what he's looking for. Alright,

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so let's Oh, yes, that's great. I can shift that thing. Okay,

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let's have a look at some other stuff here. Right. So we're

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going now to Isaiah nine. And we'll start at verse six. For to

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us a child is born to us a son is given and the government will

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be on his shoulders. And he will be called wonderful counselor,

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mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, of the

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greatness of his government and peace, there will be no end. Now

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peace is the word Shalom, right, which is everything functioning

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according to divine design. That is good news, right? Imagine if

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your family imagine if your society functioned perfectly

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according to divine design, nothing was missing, nothing was

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broken. Everything was in alignment with divine design. Is

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that not good news? Of the greatness of his government and

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peace, there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and

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over his kingdom establishing and upholding it with justice and

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righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord

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Almighty will accomplish this. Beautiful. Let's check out

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another little bit here. Isaiah, Isaiah two, verse two, in the

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last days, the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established

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as the highest of the mountains that will be exalted on the

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hills and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will

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come and say, come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to

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the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his way so that

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we may walk

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in his paths, the law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge

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between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords

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into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against

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nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of

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the Lord. Now, has anyone seen a time in history where that promise has been fulfilled? Nation

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will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. That hasn't happened

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yet, has it? That's before us. This is something that we want to put our good hope on. We want to

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anchor our hope into these things. Now, Psalm 2, let's just read Psalm 2 a little bit for a moment.

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Why do the nations conspire in the people's plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the

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rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their chains

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and throw off their shackles. The one enthroned in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them. He rebukes

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them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, I have installed my king on Zion,

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my holy mountain. I will proclaim the Lord's decree. He said to me, you are my son. Today I have become

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your father. Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance. Or ask of me and I

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will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will break them

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with a rod of iron. You will dash them to pieces like pottery. Therefore, you kings, be wise,

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be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.

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Kiss his son or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction. For his wrath

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can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. How wild is this? And I think

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most of us would know this verse well, but he said to me, you are my son. Today I have become your father.

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Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.

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So let's stop. I'm gonna read that one more time. Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance

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and the ends of the earth your possession. Okay, so let's look at something right now on the planet.

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What are Christians focused on all over the earth, right? Like what are we

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focused on? Is it just, there's all sorts of things that Christians could be focused on, but

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you guys are getting more and more familiar because you're in here. You're more and more

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familiar with the concept of building in the spirit, right? That's a big part. If you're

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doing the Daily Hard Things Challenge, that's a big part of why we do the daily declarations, okay?

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This is a big part of why we do the daily declarations because daily declarations are about

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framing our future.

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Let me say that again. Daily declarations are about framing up our future. According to your

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faith, be it unto you. Now, what is it going to produce in the earth if all Christians are doing

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is worrying? If all we're doing is asking for nations and not partnering that with building

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in the spirit? Michelle, were you trying to do a high five or what was happening there?

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Yeah, you were doing a high five. Okay, I'm feeling you. I'm feeling you.

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So, here's a really important piece of the puzzle.

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I like a Bill Johnson quote, right? Bill Johnson says that Christ is going to return for his bride,

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but he wants her to be in the right proportion in the sense that he doesn't want his head to

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be way bigger than her body. He wants the bride to be in proportion to the head,

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which means full maturity, right? So, full maturity looks like something and full maturity

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births something. Full maturity will produce something in the earth, okay? Full maturity

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of sonship will produce something. Full maturity of sonship will look like something,

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and when we mature in our sonship, it has a huge impact on how we pray, right? Because our

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prayer life becomes more about co-laboring with God and building in the spirit than it

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is about asking him, right?

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Asking him for the nations becomes about, you know, like 2% of our prayer life.

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The rest of the process is building with him in the spirit.

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So if we want to build with him in the spirit and co-labor with God in the spirit towards

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the production of the future that he's prophesied, right?

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Which is what we just looked at at Daniel 7, where every ruler will worship and obey

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him, right?

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Building in the spirit, when Jesus said, according to your faith, be it unto you, he's talking

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about building in the spirit.

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So if all the Christians in the world are just full of fear and anxiety, or we're just

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hoping to survive, right, then we are not building in the spirit in alignment with the

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mind of Christ.

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If we're in alignment with the mind of Christ, our focus will be on the fact that every ruler

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will worship and obey him.

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Our mindset will be that all the nations are going to be ours.

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Our mindset will be that everyone, right, like that all the kingdoms will be handed

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over to the holy ones of the most high.

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This is what, when we're in alignment with the mind of Christ, this is what we see, regardless

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of the darkness, right?

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You might be in a tunnel, but you know what's on the other side.

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Okay, maybe we're going through a tunnel right now.

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Maybe we're in an Isaiah 60 tunnel right now, which is behold, arise and shine for your

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light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.

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For darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon

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you and his glory is seen on you.

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So if you're in darkness, if the world is in darkness and chaos, where all we are in

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is in a tunnel, all we're on in is in a moment of time before the full light of his glory

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manifests.

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It's just a moment of time we are passing through a tunnel if we're in a context of

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darkness.

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You can't see any darkness on the earth, right?

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So maybe you can see some darkness, maybe you can't, but if you can see any darkness

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on the earth, you are only in a tunnel for a finite, listen, a finite, tiny little moment

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in time.

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Let me ask you something.

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Was the cross fulfilled according to prophecy?

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Was the cross fulfilled according to prophecy?

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Was Jesus raised from the dead according to prophecy?

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Do we have any reason to be confident in the prophetic heritage that we have, the same

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prophetic heritage that saw Jesus Christ fulfill every single word prophesied about him?

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Do we have any reason for confidence in our prophetic heritage?

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We have extreme reason for extreme confidence that if anyone has stepped into a place of

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authority or if the world has come into any place of darkness for any reason, we are merely

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in a tunnel, but a glorious blinding light is about to break out because this is a finite

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dynamic, right?

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Now, I've talked about this before, that love outdreams darkness.

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Darkness has a finite existence compared to the infinite.

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So let me ask in your mindsets, in your mindsets, how much bandwidth does the finite reality

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of darkness have compared to the infinite reality that every ruler will worship and

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obey him?

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This is why I say that alignment with the mind of Christ will make you invincible.

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Because if our minds are in alignment with the mind of Christ, if our minds are in alignment

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with the mind of Christ, then we see darkness for what it is, a fleeting shadow, a fleeting

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shadow.

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Now, the body of Christ must come into this place of awakening and awareness that darkness

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is a fleeting shadow.

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It's barely even real.

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Listen, it's so...

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temporal. Its existence and its influence is so fragile. In the

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context of eternity, it's so, so, so fragile. It's on a knifey

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just gonna, it's here, it's gone. Then an everlasting

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kingdom. It's a pretty big deal, right? In terms of our

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mindsets. But what we have, more often than not, more often than

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not, what we have is the body of Christ hugely overwhelmed with

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darkness, as though darkness is infinite, and the promises of

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God are finite. Can you understand how that would change

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and impact our state of being? Right? Like if, if we viewed

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darkness as something of huge concern, and the promises of God

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of something of little weight, then it would produce fear in us.

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If we brought our mind into alignment with the mind of Christ,

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and we viewed darkness as a finite substance, that as

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fleeting as a shadow. And if we viewed his everlasting kingdom as

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an infinite reality, how much fear would that produce in us?

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Right, it would be zero, what it would produce in us is a

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ridiculous level of faith, an unshakable sense of

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invincibility. And even if we're going through tribulation, if we

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go through tribulation with our mind in alignment with the mind

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of Christ and our mind anchored, right, our mind anchored to hope

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our mind anchored to the prophetic heritage that we have

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our mind anchored to the Word of God, our mind anchored to the

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mind of Christ, if we go through our tribulation with our mind

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anchored, then we go through it like our pastor from China that

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we talked about before he went through 27 years of torture and

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imprisonment and abuse. And when asked how did he survive it? He

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said, What do you mean? How did I survive? It was my 27 year

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honeymoon with Jesus. Why was it a honeymoon for him? Alignment

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with the mind of Christ makes all the difference. Not only does

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alignment with the mind of Christ make all the difference in

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us, alignment with the mind of Christ shifts reality in the

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earth. All right. It shifts reality in the earth, because we

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are all constantly producing something according to our faith.

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You know, whether it's producing fear, which then overtakes us, or

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if it's producing breakthrough that we then get to live in. Now

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think about this on a corporate global context of all humanity,

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right? Everyone all over the place. How much fear is being

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projected into the atmosphere of the planet right now? All right,

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how much fear because listen, non you don't have to be a

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Christian to be powerful in your ability to create right? Hey,

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words become worlds whether you're a Christian or not. Yeah.

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Who's who's ever not followed Jesus and reaped the you know,

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like seeing that how powerful the words are to create how

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powerful their minds are to create right? We understand that

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whether you're following Jesus or not, the principles are still

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powerful. So if we think look at humanity all over the face of the

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earth right now and think about how much fear is being projected

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into the earth. What's that birthing? What's that producing?

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And what does darkness feed off in the first place? That like

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darkness feeds off fear. That's what fuels darkness. So if we

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but here's what happens right when we start growing. So

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imagine sonship is like a like a cancer to darkness. Imagine

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that right if sonship was like a cancer to darkness because what

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happens when people start maturing in their sonship is

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that fear dries up in their lives. And they get swallowed up

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with invincibility. And then instead of producing, actually

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releasing fear, right, we actually start releasing

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something completely different, right? What are we doing? We're

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building in the spirit. And if our

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minds are anchored in alignment with the mind of Christ and if our minds are fixed on the

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prophetic heritage that we've got, if that's what we are fixed on, that's what we will

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start to release and produce into the earth.

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We will start building in the spirit with him, not just for your daily declarations,

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for your life, but he wants to co-labor, us to co-labor with him for his historical purposes,

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for generations and for kingdoms.

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He wants us to partner with him in this and be locked in, be anchored in on this hope,

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this prophetic hope that we have that the mind of Christ, that the mind, like when we're

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anchored into this place of the mind of Christ, that we actually start then partnering and

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co-laboring with God in the, and we're building in the spirit with him to produce the fruition

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of Daniel 7, to produce the fruition of Psalm 2, to produce the fruition of Isaiah 9, to

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produce the fruition of Isaiah 2.

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Let me pull up, to kind of bring it to like, start landing things, let me bring up one

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more verse for you as a key verse.

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I've got one more verse for you and it's in Ephesians 4.

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So get ready with me, if you're in your Bible, you can go to Ephesians 4, I'm going to share

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the screen in a second.

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Okay, I'm going to read it to you out of the amplified version, still screen share, come

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with me.

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Okay.

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Righto.

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Oh, there we go, Ephesians 4, you guys can see that, here we go, 12 to 13 in the amplified

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version.

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Give you some context, this is Paul speaking about the fivefold ministry gifts and the

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whole reason for why Jesus released the fivefold gifts, okay?

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This is why Jesus has released prophet, pastor, teacher, apostle, evangelist, here we go.

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Ephesians 4, 12 to 13, his intention, meaning Christ's intention, this is the focus, this

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is why, this is why Jesus did what he did, his intention was the perfecting and the full

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equipping of the saints, his consecrated people, that they should do the work of ministering

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toward building up Christ's body, the church, that it might develop until we all attain

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oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the

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son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of personality,

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which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection, the measure of

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the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in him.

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Now, let me like slow this down and share this again, because this is a little bit wild.

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And did I see Janice just jumped in?

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Janice, if you're there, jumped in, not in.

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I thought I saw Janice.

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Oh, yeah, there you go.

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Welcome, welcome.

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Good to have you with us, Janice.

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There you are.

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Cool, cool.

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So let me just jump back to that screen share.

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His intention.

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So this is Jesus intention, his aim in releasing the fivefold ministry, prophets, apostles,

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pastors, teachers, evangelists.

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This is his purpose.

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His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints, his consecrated people.

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Just say perfecting with me for a little bit.

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Say perfecting.

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Perfecting.

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Perfecting.

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Perfecting.

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This was just saying was perfecting you, right?

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And not according to your own image of yourself, but according to his image, right?

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Perfecting you in his image.

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This was his dream, his intention, his desire.

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His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints as consecrated people

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that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body, the church.

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All right.

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And here's where he wants it to go.

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It might develop until now, say until, say with me, say until, because this until is

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huge.

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This is so, so pivotal.

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Say until.

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Until.

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Until.

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Until.

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All right.

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This until represents a moment on the timeline, right?

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This word, this word.

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until here represents a moment in the prophetic timeline in the history of the planet. This

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until is enormous in its significance. It's absolutely huge and pivotal in the purposes

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of God and the future of the world. All right, so he's talking about, you know, that he gave

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the fivefold so that the fivefold would be there to minister to the minister to the body of Christ,

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that it might develop until, all right, again, say again with me, say until. Until. All right,

762
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so this until moment, if we actually look at Paul's writings, Paul was prophesying this,

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this is what he fought for, this is what he prayed for, this is what he prophesied,

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this is what he laid his life down for, was the fruition of this promise. And it's scattered all

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throughout Paul's writings, Romans, Colossians, it's all, the theme of it all the way through

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is this, of what happens in this until moment. Until we all, now say we all. We all. We all.

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Until we all. So something is waiting. This is what Paul, he never saw this, he prophesied it,

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but he never saw it. He lived for it, but he never saw it. But he was fully hopeful and expectant

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that a group of people would walk into this until moment, that this would be fulfilled,

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this was a prophecy, and this until we all is a prophetic moment that we have great confidence,

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just as the prophetic moment of the cross was fulfilled to a T, not one letter missing,

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not one promise missing, not one angle missing, every promise fulfilled to the tiniest little

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degree, until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate

774
01:11:45.280 --> 01:11:51.280
knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of

775
01:11:51.280 --> 01:11:58.080
personality, which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection.

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The measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in him.

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How wild is that? Wow. This is so, so glorious and so wild that this was God's intent. I feel like I should

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share with you a couple more scriptures on this.

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Let me stop this share for a second. Let me stop this share for a second, and I'll just give you

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a couple more scriptures to help you track with this.

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Hang on, that's why I've got to press somewhere here.

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I've got a slideshow here, and it's not

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working for me. It's not working for me, so we'll just leave it.

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What was the scripture? I just had a whole compilation of scriptures for you,

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so I won't read them this time. We can look at it another time. Actually, I'll tell you what,

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we'll do that for our session next week. We'll finish up with this on where things are going,

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what God's dream is for sonship breaking out on the planet. We'll finish up with that next week, but

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I hope that has been exciting for you guys, because I think that here's where it goes,

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as we step into that until moment. That until moment is a time in history that God wants us

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to step into. When that until happens, that will be a moment after that history will never be the

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same. That until is the fulfillment of Paul's prophecy in Romans 8, which is the unveiling of

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01:14:02.880 --> 01:14:08.080
the sons of God. All creation is groaning for the unveiling of the sons of God. When that happens,

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it looks like something, and Ephesians 4 is Paul prophesying what that looks like.

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Romans 8, he prophesies all creation is groaning for the unveiling of the sons of God. Ephesians

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4 is a prophecy of what that actually looks like, that every person starts walking in fullness,

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01:14:26.480 --> 01:14:31.920
starts walking in perfection. Now, this might sound difficult, but listen, when seasons change,

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01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:39.840
what was once rare becomes common. So much of this is about times and seasons,

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01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:45.200
God's times and seasons. Listen, if you want to enjoy the times and seasons, you've got to be in

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alignment with the mind of Christ in order to be in step with the time and the season that we're

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actually living in. So alignment with the mind of Christ, not only will it make you invincible,

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it will also bring you in tune, in step into what God's doing in this hour.

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And when that Ephesians 4 moment is fulfilled, we'll actually start seeing, you know, like

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the seasons change.

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And when seasons change, what was once rare becomes common.

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Let me give you a scriptural example of this just from what we've read already today.

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Daniel 7, it says, then the court will sit and they will take away all the power of Satan

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in that just in that moment.

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Do you think that the that the season will change at that moment?

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Do you think at that moment that what was once rare will start becoming common?

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You know, what was once rare will start becoming very, very, very common when that moment of

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time is fulfilled.

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The same like, but before that moment in time is fulfilled, we will see Ephesians 4 fulfilled.

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Right.

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Ephesians 4 is the fruition of what Paul prophesied in Romans 8, which is all creation is groaning

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for the unveiling of the sons of God.

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Ephesians 4 is speaking about the fruition of that promise.

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And when that promise is fulfilled, things will start changing.

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Nothing will ever be the same that until we'll split history, a brand new season on the planet.

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So we're going to talk about that more next week for our last session of the Open Heaven

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Masterclass.

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It's going to be very, very, very glorious.

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01:16:44.880 --> 01:16:46.600
Yeah, lots of love to everyone.

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I just see some bye-byes in the messages.

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See you later, Rachel.

825
01:16:50.240 --> 01:16:56.880
So we'll wrap this up next week.

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I'll just create a space now for a moment if anyone's got any questions, any questions,

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01:17:01.920 --> 01:17:05.480
thoughts, feedback.

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Open mic for a couple of minutes.

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I guess one question, Benji, is in light of everything that you've shared and the particular

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moment that we're in right now with what's happening with all the government lockdowns

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and restrictions and all of that kind of stuff, do you have any insight for how, as Christians,

832
01:17:32.280 --> 01:17:36.880
we could respond in a way that's healthy to all of this?

833
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Yeah, absolutely.

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So it's another big conversation, right?

835
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It's another big conversation in terms of what we're really looking at right now is

836
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kind of like prophetic timelines, prophetic promises, the prophetic future of the world.

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That's kind of what we've been looking at, which is really, really critical to help us

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01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:06.120
in the process of aligning our mind with Christ.

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So that is one element that's so critical, is to have our mind aligned with the mind

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of Christ.

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Because if our mind is aligned with the mind of Christ, it changes everything in terms

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of how we process everything, how we walk through everything, our brain function, how

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01:18:23.440 --> 01:18:27.360
our bodies are doing, the chemicals in our body, everything has changed.

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And also it changes our access to the Spirit of God, it changes our access to revelation,

845
01:18:33.600 --> 01:18:39.440
it changes our access to faith, to grace, to favor, to power, to the supernatural, to

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01:18:39.440 --> 01:18:41.920
breakthrough, it changes everything.

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So there's that old song, it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, and that's

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what gets results.

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So what I'm talking about here is, if we're going through a tunnel, everyone's got to

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01:18:54.800 --> 01:18:56.680
go through a tunnel together, right?

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But what if one person goes through a tunnel depressed, a depressed Christian on anxiety

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01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:05.680
medication, and what if another Christian goes through their transfigured?

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You know, it's a totally, totally different walk.

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So it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.

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That's kind of the foundational hope that I've been trying to anchor into people right

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01:19:21.000 --> 01:19:26.960
now, to give the ability to, OK, so right, once you've got them, once you're in that

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01:19:26.960 --> 01:19:29.560
place of aligning with the mind of Christ, now what are you going to do?

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OK, because the things could change.

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Now, it really depends a lot on how much grace there is or grace there isn't on that

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moment. And times and seasons change and ebb and flow.

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You know, if you guys have been following along, you know, I love St.

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01:19:44.360 --> 01:19:49.520
Patrick. Who blows it up, but so you've got different stories, right?

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You've got a St. Patrick moment, which is amazing.

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He's a hero of mine.

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But another hero of mine is the pastor who spent 27 years in jail.

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So, what I guess what I'm trying to do there is just paint a broad spectrum of what the

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grace of God might look like for you.

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At that same time, there's one pastor there, he spends 27 years in jail.

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And then there's another, you know, Brother Yun, who is the main character in the book

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The Heavenly Man.

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Well, he's in prison with his legs broken.

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And then God comes upon him, tells him it's time for him to leave.

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He stands up, all his broken legs get supernaturally healed.

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Every door in the prison swings wide, and he walks out of a maximum security Chinese

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prison on what were broken legs.

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And when he gets out, God had already told people to be there standing there waiting

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01:20:41.720 --> 01:20:43.920
for him, and they pick him up and they leave and he's gone.

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And he just walked out of a maximum security Chinese prison.

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And what happens to the other guy?

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The other guy is still there for 27 years.

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So grace is going to look different.

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What you're going through is going to look different.

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What can be the same for all of us, if we will really lean in for it, is our alignment

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01:21:02.040 --> 01:21:03.320
with the mind of Christ.

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That's the thing that you and I, you know, like we can, that's because I guess what you

886
01:21:07.280 --> 01:21:10.800
want to do is, and I've had this conversation a lot, I don't know if you guys noticed it,

887
01:21:10.800 --> 01:21:16.400
but this last week, I have felt a huge shift in the spirit.

888
01:21:16.400 --> 01:21:17.400
Has anyone else felt that?

889
01:21:18.400 --> 01:21:25.120
In the last week, the shift in the spirit, the conversations, the intensity, the urgency.

890
01:21:25.120 --> 01:21:29.920
Now, obviously, I was already living in urgency and intensity, but you can feel it.

891
01:21:29.920 --> 01:21:33.800
You know, like when the tide rises, it's like, well, the tide has risen.

892
01:21:33.800 --> 01:21:36.080
There's no like it's just changed.

893
01:21:36.080 --> 01:21:43.120
And I know that like every single conversation I've had in the last five days is just super

894
01:21:43.120 --> 01:21:46.280
charged with a massive shift in the atmosphere.

895
01:21:46.360 --> 01:21:50.920
It is so thick, so prevalent that even when we're supposed to be having other conversations,

896
01:21:50.920 --> 01:21:55.760
business conversations, the business conversation starts with 40 minutes conversation around

897
01:21:55.760 --> 01:22:00.840
the spiritual dynamics unfolding around us because it's so thick, such a dynamic shift.

898
01:22:01.160 --> 01:22:05.120
So, but there's two spaces to this, right?

899
01:22:05.120 --> 01:22:11.440
One's the reactive processing, because we're going through so much shock treatment, right?

900
01:22:11.440 --> 01:22:16.520
The media currently is is specifically traumatizing everyone.

901
01:22:17.440 --> 01:22:19.200
Now, let me ask you one thing.

902
01:22:19.400 --> 01:22:21.960
How much have you heard about terrorists lately?

903
01:22:24.120 --> 01:22:26.600
Where have all the terrorists, where's all the terrorism gone?

904
01:22:26.600 --> 01:22:31.200
It's like just all of a sudden, all the terrorists just gave their lives to Jesus, and now they're

905
01:22:31.200 --> 01:22:33.880
all like praying somewhere in a monastery.

906
01:22:34.800 --> 01:22:38.960
What happened to all these terrible terrorists that we lived in fear of for 20 years?

907
01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:44.280
You know, for like over 20 years, the media, my whole childhood growing up until just a

908
01:22:44.280 --> 01:22:49.560
couple of years ago, maybe even less, maybe like 18 months ago, every single night on

909
01:22:49.560 --> 01:22:52.640
the news without fail, terrorism.

910
01:22:53.960 --> 01:22:59.640
You know, oh, my gosh, like when was the last time you saw, you know, saw on the news some

911
01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:05.760
Americans blowing up some Arab country like that was the news every single night of my

912
01:23:05.880 --> 01:23:10.600
childhood. You know, it's like, oh, my gosh, the UN stepping in over here, the Americans are

913
01:23:10.600 --> 01:23:15.080
blowing up this guy. Oh, my God, like this was like this was my whole childhood.

914
01:23:15.080 --> 01:23:19.440
It's like 20 years of media intensity in your face.

915
01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:23.800
All of a sudden, 18 months ago, all the terrorists that have just been plotting and scheming

916
01:23:23.800 --> 01:23:27.880
for decades and decades and decades and just can't stop blowing stuff up, all of a sudden

917
01:23:27.880 --> 01:23:28.880
they've become saints.

918
01:23:29.440 --> 01:23:31.560
You know, they've all got their masks on.

919
01:23:31.760 --> 01:23:34.240
They're all, you know, they're all very well behaved.

920
01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:36.480
Very well behaved. You just don't even hear of them.

921
01:23:36.680 --> 01:23:42.160
Why? Because now there's all sorts of other things flooding the media, right?

922
01:23:42.160 --> 01:23:44.720
It's not no one's talking about terrorism even anymore.

923
01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:48.320
Why? And how does that just change just like that overnight?

924
01:23:48.320 --> 01:23:49.720
All of a sudden there's no terrorists.

925
01:23:49.920 --> 01:23:54.760
Right. Because for the last 20 years, there's been a shock and awe media agenda

926
01:23:55.080 --> 01:24:00.120
specifically trying to get us into, you know, to justify certain actions like, yeah, of

927
01:24:00.120 --> 01:24:02.600
course, of course, America should be blowing up those countries.

928
01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:04.800
Yeah. I mean, they've got really bad children over there.

929
01:24:04.800 --> 01:24:06.040
They're terrible children.

930
01:24:06.040 --> 01:24:07.040
I just drop more.

931
01:24:07.200 --> 01:24:12.000
You know, I'm just saying like we had this way that the media portrayed the world that

932
01:24:12.000 --> 01:24:15.200
made everyone feel like it was justified to go and invade other countries.

933
01:24:16.800 --> 01:24:21.600
That's where we've been at. But now the media story has completely shifted.

934
01:24:22.800 --> 01:24:25.440
You don't hear a word about terrorism anymore.

935
01:24:25.440 --> 01:24:30.640
The thing that was the biggest threat to humanity, all of a sudden, no, no, they're all

936
01:24:30.640 --> 01:24:32.080
good now. We've done a deal.

937
01:24:32.080 --> 01:24:38.080
They're all good. And now there's another dynamic unfolding and there's relentless shock

938
01:24:38.080 --> 01:24:45.760
and awe tactics unfolding that are designed to traumatize you subconsciously to bring

939
01:24:45.760 --> 01:24:50.680
you into the place where you can be controlled, right, to completely destroy your

940
01:24:50.680 --> 01:24:59.600
self-control, to completely destroy the mental fortitude of self-control, of willpower,

941
01:24:59.600 --> 01:25:00.080
which.

942
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:02.560
is the exact thing that we're working on in the 21, you know,

943
01:25:02.560 --> 01:25:05.320
in the Hard Things Challenge, right? In the Hard Things

944
01:25:05.320 --> 01:25:09.080
Challenge, what we're working on is to develop in you mental

945
01:25:09.080 --> 01:25:13.560
fortitude that can withstand and not just withstand, which can

946
01:25:13.560 --> 01:25:17.000
far supersede everything that's being thrown at you in the world

947
01:25:17.000 --> 01:25:21.080
right now. So the reason I'm saying this is because so much

948
01:25:21.080 --> 01:25:24.320
of the conversation at the moment is around processing the

949
01:25:24.320 --> 01:25:28.280
relentless shock and awe tactics that are being unleashed on you

950
01:25:28.280 --> 01:25:31.200
every single day. Every single day, there is something that is

951
01:25:31.200 --> 01:25:35.320
just so wild and crazy that you throw your head up and like, Are

952
01:25:35.320 --> 01:25:38.760
you serious? Like, Israel, France, it's now mandatory

953
01:25:38.760 --> 01:25:45.840
vaccines. No, like no jab, no nothing. In France, it's, you

954
01:25:45.840 --> 01:25:49.520
got no rights without it. In Israel, same thing. Does that

955
01:25:49.520 --> 01:25:52.960
not shock you? Does that not sound like, you know, is this

956
01:25:52.960 --> 01:25:57.000
not exactly the same thing that was happening before Hitler?

957
01:25:57.400 --> 01:26:01.000
Right? And is not the church being like Neville Chamberlain

958
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:04.440
saying, peace, peace in our time, when Jeremiah said, there

959
01:26:04.440 --> 01:26:09.360
is no peace. There is no peace. That is a joke. That is

960
01:26:09.360 --> 01:26:12.880
ridiculous. You better not be thinking that there's peace in

961
01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:15.800
our time, because there is an agenda that's coming after you.

962
01:26:15.880 --> 01:26:20.320
There is a rope around your neck that is tightening every

963
01:26:20.320 --> 01:26:25.560
second. So there's this shock and awe dynamic that's happening

964
01:26:26.560 --> 01:26:29.680
that we have to have space to process. So that's one huge

965
01:26:29.680 --> 01:26:33.640
dynamic, right? But we and it's right to process that. It's good

966
01:26:33.640 --> 01:26:36.880
to process that. But the problem with that is that so many people

967
01:26:36.880 --> 01:26:40.360
get stuck in reactive processing, and they never move

968
01:26:40.360 --> 01:26:44.920
to proactive action. There's two things at play here, which are

969
01:26:45.000 --> 01:26:50.600
extremely, extremely important. There's the reactive processing

970
01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:54.080
that we have to do. So we can actually process crazy things

971
01:26:54.200 --> 01:26:57.360
that we're hearing all the time. Like, in New Zealand, I just

972
01:26:57.360 --> 01:27:00.120
heard from some people who are well connected with the

973
01:27:00.120 --> 01:27:03.360
leadership of gangs and the mongrel mob in New Zealand,

974
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:07.880
just only like, I don't know, a month or so ago, New Zealand

975
01:27:07.880 --> 01:27:11.360
government gave the mongrel mob, the biggest gang in New Zealand

976
01:27:11.360 --> 01:27:14.240
that makes all its money from selling P, you know,

977
01:27:14.240 --> 01:27:17.960
methamphetamine, the biggest producer of methamphetamine in

978
01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:22.880
the country, they just gave them over $2 million of cash that had

979
01:27:22.880 --> 01:27:27.400
been seized through gang raids, to fund the mongrel mobs

980
01:27:27.400 --> 01:27:33.440
methamphetamine recovery program. So they have a they

981
01:27:33.440 --> 01:27:36.440
have a methamphetamine program, a recovery program that they

982
01:27:36.440 --> 01:27:38.840
run. But at the same time, they're also the biggest

983
01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:43.240
suppliers in the country. So why not maybe just actually give

984
01:27:43.240 --> 01:27:45.560
that to someone who's not involved in the process of

985
01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:49.000
supplying it. And the first time, in the first place, well,

986
01:27:49.000 --> 01:27:51.840
here's what's going on behind the scenes, the government has

987
01:27:51.840 --> 01:27:54.520
already had the conversations with the mongrel mob and the

988
01:27:54.520 --> 01:27:56.480
mongrel mob has already agreed because they're the biggest gang

989
01:27:56.480 --> 01:28:00.120
in the country. And they've already had an agreement that

990
01:28:00.120 --> 01:28:05.280
that mongrel mob will work with them in enforcement of door to

991
01:28:05.280 --> 01:28:14.640
door rollouts of a particular medical experiment. Because they

992
01:28:14.640 --> 01:28:18.120
said that we don't know that we our police and army is going to

993
01:28:18.120 --> 01:28:23.200
be enough. We need some extra laborers. Right? So this is the

994
01:28:23.200 --> 01:28:26.800
type of chaos that you're hearing, boom, relentless, boom,

995
01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:30.200
relentless, boom, relentless, this is shock and awe of the

996
01:28:30.200 --> 01:28:33.600
highest level of chaos that we're constantly processing. So

997
01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:36.720
there's that reactive dynamic to what's happening where we really

998
01:28:36.720 --> 01:28:40.440
need to process it. But then Rod, to get to what you're

999
01:28:40.440 --> 01:28:46.720
saying is there's this also, right? The proactive action. Now

1000
01:28:46.720 --> 01:28:51.240
this is one of the reasons why the mind of Christ is so so so

1001
01:28:51.240 --> 01:28:53.880
critical, because if you don't have alignment with the mind of

1002
01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:58.080
Christ, the way you process your process like a victim, even if

1003
01:28:58.080 --> 01:29:02.200
you're not normally a victim, the scale and the magnitude of

1004
01:29:02.200 --> 01:29:10.160
the chaos unfolding around us is so vast, so extreme, that unless

1005
01:29:10.160 --> 01:29:14.560
you go through this with an invincible mindset, you will not

1006
01:29:14.600 --> 01:29:18.480
have the mental fortitude to then step into the place where

1007
01:29:18.480 --> 01:29:23.320
you take proactive action. Now, this is a space where we've got

1008
01:29:23.320 --> 01:29:25.440
to go, okay, right, what does this look like? What does it

1009
01:29:25.440 --> 01:29:29.760
look like for you and I to now take proactive action? Now, the

1010
01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:33.560
only way that you're going to take real proactive action is if

1011
01:29:33.560 --> 01:29:35.880
you're in alignment with the mind of Christ, because your

1012
01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:39.560
situation and my situation is going to be vastly different.

1013
01:29:41.040 --> 01:29:44.200
There's going to be an infinite, different number of

1014
01:29:44.200 --> 01:29:47.040
challenges that you're going to face and that I'm going to face.

1015
01:29:47.200 --> 01:29:50.680
And so what do we do in terms of specifically, what do I do? Well,

1016
01:29:50.680 --> 01:29:53.480
you are going to need the mind of Christ to answer that, you

1017
01:29:53.480 --> 01:29:56.240
know, like no pastor is going to ever be able to answer that for

1018
01:29:56.240 --> 01:29:58.600
anyone anymore. What are you going to need? You're going to

1019
01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:00.000
need extreme intimacy.

1020
01:30:00.000 --> 01:30:01.120
That's going to be the answer.

1021
01:30:01.120 --> 01:30:03.920
That's going to be the only way that you can answer that is you're going to need

1022
01:30:03.920 --> 01:30:06.080
the mind of Christ. You're going to need extreme intimacy.

1023
01:30:06.080 --> 01:30:10.320
You're going to need to have a genuine relationship with the spirit of wisdom

1024
01:30:10.440 --> 01:30:14.520
and revelation that is going to coach you and guide you on a daily basis to

1025
01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:17.720
figure out exactly what you have to do and when you have to do it.

1026
01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:21.680
Like I constantly have God waking me up at like three o'clock in the morning.

1027
01:30:21.920 --> 01:30:25.240
It's kind of like doesn't fit so well with my normal schedule,

1028
01:30:25.680 --> 01:30:28.400
but he'll wake me up for a couple of hours of like planning time.

1029
01:30:30.400 --> 01:30:32.800
And I'm like, OK, so I was kind of going to get up early already,

1030
01:30:32.800 --> 01:30:34.960
but I've just been up for hours in the night.

1031
01:30:35.200 --> 01:30:37.560
And so I'm getting up a little bit later than I would normally.

1032
01:30:37.560 --> 01:30:39.440
But it's because I've been up for hours

1033
01:30:39.720 --> 01:30:42.280
just having planning time with God, with the spirit of wisdom.

1034
01:30:42.640 --> 01:30:43.880
You got to do this. You got to do this.

1035
01:30:43.880 --> 01:30:45.080
You got to do this. You got to do this.

1036
01:30:45.080 --> 01:30:46.080
It's like, OK, OK.

1037
01:30:46.080 --> 01:30:49.800
Intimate moment, step by step in alignment with the mind of Christ

1038
01:30:49.800 --> 01:30:51.200
and with everything God's calling you to do.

1039
01:30:51.200 --> 01:30:54.720
So I hope that's helpful.

1040
01:30:57.440 --> 01:30:59.400
There's not like there's not a directive.

1041
01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:05.760
I'll give you one thing that I one thing that that I can see coming.

1042
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:13.160
Is that and this is just something that might just be for me, right?

1043
01:31:13.160 --> 01:31:15.840
It might just be for me and a handful of other people.

1044
01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:18.080
But it could be for you is that

1045
01:31:18.080 --> 01:31:23.280
I hear God calling out right now the Zinzendorfs and the Moravians.

1046
01:31:25.000 --> 01:31:27.160
Right, this is what I hear God calling us out,

1047
01:31:27.520 --> 01:31:30.040
calling out the Zinzendorfs and the Moravians.

1048
01:31:30.040 --> 01:31:37.320
So Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf was the guy who like he was a rich guy in Germany.

1049
01:31:38.280 --> 01:31:39.320
He had a bunch of land.

1050
01:31:39.320 --> 01:31:43.120
And then the Moravians were refugees who were being persecuted

1051
01:31:43.120 --> 01:31:48.320
because of their beliefs around Christianity, mainly by other Christians.

1052
01:31:48.320 --> 01:31:54.680
But so they ended up this mob of refugees ended up on Zinzendorf's land.

1053
01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:56.560
So Zinzendorf had land.

1054
01:31:56.560 --> 01:31:58.160
He had wealth.

1055
01:31:58.160 --> 01:32:00.520
The Moravians didn't have land and wealth.

1056
01:32:00.520 --> 01:32:01.360
They were refugees.

1057
01:32:01.360 --> 01:32:02.120
They needed somewhere to go.

1058
01:32:02.120 --> 01:32:06.360
But Zinzendorf opened up the land, created space for them to live.

1059
01:32:06.640 --> 01:32:09.440
So they lived and then they started a prayer movement.

1060
01:32:10.080 --> 01:32:14.240
They started a 24-7 prayer meeting that lasted for over 100 years.

1061
01:32:15.440 --> 01:32:20.360
Not long after they started 24-7 prayer, the first Great Awakening broke out.

1062
01:32:20.560 --> 01:32:25.360
It was the Moravians that were responsible really for stirring up the fire.

1063
01:32:25.360 --> 01:32:31.120
And John Wesley and you had a spiritual like the first Great Awakening broke out,

1064
01:32:31.160 --> 01:32:36.000
broke right across England, broke out like crazy.

1065
01:32:36.080 --> 01:32:40.320
Right. And so England got the Great Awakening and the French got the French Revolution.

1066
01:32:45.080 --> 01:32:48.320
And that's because the Moravians impacted John Wesley so powerfully

1067
01:32:48.320 --> 01:32:51.280
that he got set on fire and the world came to watch him burn.

1068
01:32:52.280 --> 01:32:57.520
And then after that, it sparked a missions movement like the world had never seen before.

1069
01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:06.560
You know, like the John, John Leonard Dover, who was him and another guy.

1070
01:33:06.600 --> 01:33:07.520
I think it was John and Ben.

1071
01:33:07.520 --> 01:33:10.960
Anyway, they were the first Moravian missionaries, right?

1072
01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:17.280
They sold themselves into slavery and they took back their possessions in a coffin

1073
01:33:17.640 --> 01:33:22.360
because that was the only way that they could get to the West Indies to be missionaries was to go as slaves.

1074
01:33:22.640 --> 01:33:28.040
So they sold themselves into slavery, used the money from the sale of from selling themselves into slavery.

1075
01:33:28.040 --> 01:33:33.560
They used that money to start the Moravian Missions Fund, which sparked a missions move that went all around the world.

1076
01:33:33.800 --> 01:33:38.040
And their family are all on the docks, young family.

1077
01:33:38.240 --> 01:33:44.240
And they say, we go that the land may receive the reward for his suffering, not knowing if they'd ever return.

1078
01:33:45.160 --> 01:33:50.880
They ended up seeing a move of God, probably around 30,000 people gave their lives to Jesus.

1079
01:33:50.880 --> 01:33:53.360
And they did end up coming back to their families eventually.

1080
01:33:53.640 --> 01:33:57.160
But they saw God do a phenomenal work over there.

1081
01:33:57.160 --> 01:34:07.800
So Zinzendorf and the Moravians, I sense that God wants to birth prayer movements like our generation hasn't seen.

1082
01:34:08.520 --> 01:34:16.600
That's that's some and I think some of them will be like Zinzendorf and the Moravians and a little bit like the

1083
01:34:19.400 --> 01:34:24.520
monastic movements that St. Patrick set up that shook all of Europe back in his day.

1084
01:34:24.960 --> 01:34:30.440
So, yeah, Angie, can I just say, like, that really resonates with me.

1085
01:34:31.280 --> 01:34:36.920
One of the things God's been speaking to me about is just the cities and how a lot of the control that's going to come in

1086
01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:39.360
is going to be in the populated areas.

1087
01:34:40.400 --> 01:34:47.000
And so he's wanting people who have wealth to buy land in the more country areas, the regional areas, and actually set up

1088
01:34:48.280 --> 01:34:53.920
communities there because, yeah, like they can grow their own food.

1089
01:34:53.920 --> 01:34:57.320
They can live a bit off grid, you know, all of those kinds of things.

1090
01:34:57.320 --> 01:34:58.720
So, yeah.

1091
01:34:59.400 --> 01:34:59.760
Yeah.

1092
01:35:00.000 --> 01:35:05.400
Absolutely. There's, there's a big dynamic to that. And it's a

1093
01:35:05.400 --> 01:35:07.360
really interesting dynamic, like, that's what we're working

1094
01:35:07.360 --> 01:35:10.360
on right now, you know, like behind the scenes, we're trying

1095
01:35:10.360 --> 01:35:13.440
to do that right now. But I think that it's gonna, in the

1096
01:35:13.440 --> 01:35:16.000
past, we've been very, very individual, like, if you've got

1097
01:35:16.000 --> 01:35:18.560
money, and you've got time, and there's no pressure, you do it

1098
01:35:18.560 --> 01:35:21.920
by yourself, right. But I think that's changing. And there's a

1099
01:35:21.920 --> 01:35:30.320
demand on community. And there's a demand on like, in a sense, in

1100
01:35:30.320 --> 01:35:42.040
the past, we could go it alone. But now, I think what, put your

1101
01:35:42.040 --> 01:35:46.520
hand up if there's low interest rates where you live. The low

1102
01:35:46.520 --> 01:35:49.160
interest rates comparatively, is it like in terms of bank

1103
01:35:49.160 --> 01:35:52.960
loaning, it's low interest rates comparative, like record lows in

1104
01:35:52.960 --> 01:35:57.040
New Zealand, you know, record lows. What does that mean? That

1105
01:35:57.040 --> 01:36:01.680
means that people can afford on an interest only loan, right on

1106
01:36:01.680 --> 01:36:05.520
an interest only loan, people can afford to get big loans.

1107
01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:12.120
House prices go right up, people get big loans, 3% interest only

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loan. And, but that's a person's maxed out on paying interest

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01:36:16.760 --> 01:36:19.800
only, right at 3%. What happens when that interest rate doubles

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to 6%? They lose everything, right? Who gets it all? Exactly.

1111
01:36:27.280 --> 01:36:35.560
Right. So, so the challenge right now in buying land, etc. This is

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01:36:35.560 --> 01:36:39.840
where the Zinzendorfs come in, right? Zinzendorfs are the land

1113
01:36:39.840 --> 01:36:44.760
owners, the Moravians, the monastic prayer movement that will

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01:36:44.760 --> 01:36:51.160
work the land, pray, be the epicentre of missions and

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01:36:51.160 --> 01:36:58.080
creativity, and education. So, yeah, it's a real, real balance.

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And I think that God's got 1000 things happening. I mean, there's

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01:37:01.480 --> 01:37:05.160
so many things happening that we don't see as well in terms of,

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01:37:05.560 --> 01:37:08.400
you know, in terms of the spectrum of light, we can only

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01:37:08.400 --> 01:37:14.120
see 1% of the bandwidth with our naked eye, right? We can see 1%

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01:37:14.120 --> 01:37:18.280
of the bandwidth. So we can see pretty much everything that the

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01:37:18.280 --> 01:37:21.000
enemy is doing, because it's all on the news all the time. But

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01:37:21.000 --> 01:37:26.240
what God's doing is hidden. I tell you what, there are so many

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01:37:26.280 --> 01:37:32.120
outrageous, huge, massive things that God is doing, but most of

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01:37:32.120 --> 01:37:35.400
them are all under the radar. But don't think that he is not

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01:37:35.400 --> 01:37:38.960
moving in the most phenomenal ways, because he is moving in

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01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:43.200
extreme ways. Right now, it's just the enemy tries to get all

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01:37:43.200 --> 01:37:45.360
the attention, and God doesn't care, he doesn't need the

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attention, he'll do it in secret. But he's still moving

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01:37:48.400 --> 01:37:51.840
like crazy. So dominoes are getting lined up all over the

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world.

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01:37:55.640 --> 01:37:58.480
So are you going to be a bit of a Zinzendorf in New Zealand,

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01:37:58.480 --> 01:37:58.880
Benji?

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01:37:59.720 --> 01:38:03.520
Well, we're not really positioned to be a full

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01:38:03.520 --> 01:38:07.680
Zinzendorf, right? My whole life, everything I've done has

1135
01:38:07.680 --> 01:38:12.800
been voluntary, up until the last couple of years. So, you

1136
01:38:12.800 --> 01:38:16.080
know, like we have not, we've had a house and we sold that. So

1137
01:38:16.080 --> 01:38:18.760
we've got a little bit of land, but we don't have enough capital

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01:38:18.760 --> 01:38:25.560
right now just to go and outright buy, just buy land. So

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even though like, like, we're in the process of talking, we were

1140
01:38:28.680 --> 01:38:31.400
about to buy a house, but we're just processing everything right

1141
01:38:31.400 --> 01:38:35.760
now and go, man, do we really buy this house? Like, because

1142
01:38:35.760 --> 01:38:39.800
right now we can afford to buy a house. And we can afford to buy

1143
01:38:39.800 --> 01:38:43.120
a little bit of land, but we go, man, if we do that, according

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01:38:43.120 --> 01:38:47.600
to the current mindsets around getting a big loan, we're

1145
01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:51.040
potentially setting ourselves up to lose everything. So it's a

1146
01:38:51.040 --> 01:38:54.160
really dynamic space, even in New Zealand, right? The

1147
01:38:54.160 --> 01:38:56.640
government sold all of New Zealand's wood to China.

1148
01:38:57.280 --> 01:38:59.240
Yeah, I've been there, done that, mate. Don't go there.

1149
01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:04.400
Yeah. New Zealand's government sold all of New Zealand's wood

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01:39:04.400 --> 01:39:08.280
to China. There is mountains of wood. But New Zealand is

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01:39:08.280 --> 01:39:10.240
basically they don't know if there's going to be a building

1152
01:39:10.240 --> 01:39:12.320
industry next year. It looks like all the builders are on

1153
01:39:12.360 --> 01:39:14.200
edge think it's going to collapse because they're out of

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01:39:14.200 --> 01:39:17.960
bread, out of bricks out of wood. It's a year's wait for

1155
01:39:17.960 --> 01:39:22.120
flooring supplies at six months wait for anything. So what that

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01:39:22.120 --> 01:39:28.520
will do is that will cause a massive spike in housing prices.

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01:39:31.320 --> 01:39:34.800
And then the interest rates, when the interest rates go up a

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01:39:34.800 --> 01:39:39.520
little bit, when my parents were, you know, were raising me

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01:39:39.520 --> 01:39:46.200
interest rates were like 20% over 20%. Which is insane. So if

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01:39:46.200 --> 01:39:48.920
we're at 3% right now, they can only go up. So if they double and

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01:39:48.920 --> 01:39:52.600
go to 6%, or 10%, then what happens is everyone loses

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01:39:52.600 --> 01:39:55.000
everything, but also the house prices crash. So it's just kind

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of like a dynamic, really dynamic economic space to be in

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01:39:58.520 --> 01:39:59.520
too. So what I'm

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01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.560
just saying to that off the back of that is, we're really trying

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01:40:03.560 --> 01:40:08.640
to consider options of how we go about things with no, like, we

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01:40:08.640 --> 01:40:11.360
need Zinzendorfs. That's why I'm saying we need the Zinzendorfs

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01:40:11.360 --> 01:40:15.560
who want to buy land, or either like, or either do it

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01:40:15.560 --> 01:40:18.680
collectively in community styles, but there needs to be

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land freehold. And there needs to be movements of prayer,

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01:40:23.600 --> 01:40:26.520
monastic movement. So that's just one thing, right? Don't

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01:40:26.520 --> 01:40:32.160
limit God, because we see 1% of the bandwidth, and he's, he is

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01:40:32.280 --> 01:40:37.480
flat out busy on the other 99%. And if you stick your head into

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01:40:37.480 --> 01:40:43.080
the throne room, there is the sound of war. There is the sound

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01:40:43.080 --> 01:40:47.240
of victory, there is a sound of invincibility, there is a sound

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01:40:47.240 --> 01:40:50.360
of joy, there is a sound of worship, there is a sound of

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adoration, but there is not one sound of fear. There is not one

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01:40:54.960 --> 01:40:59.280
sound of anxiety, there is not one sound of hopelessness, there

1179
01:40:59.280 --> 01:41:03.520
is not one sound of, oh, I hope this works. Right? It's

1180
01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:07.640
invincibility is the sound of heaven. That's what we talked

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about a couple weeks ago, Symphonia, right? And for us,

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01:41:11.600 --> 01:41:14.280
that's what the prayer movement is about, is about creating

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01:41:14.280 --> 01:41:18.640
Symphonia. So we release the sound of heaven in the earth.

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01:41:19.760 --> 01:41:23.040
But at a scale never seen before, never done before, what

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01:41:23.040 --> 01:41:25.520
else is happening at the same time, a viral outbreak of

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01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:27.920
sonship is taking place on the planet right now, like never

1187
01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:31.320
before, God is moving all over the planet, bringing people into

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01:41:31.320 --> 01:41:34.520
sonship. What does that look like? It's moving everyone

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towards the Ephesians for until and when that until happens,

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what does that produce? It produces an unprecedented level

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of Symphonia in the earth. And what does that produce? It

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01:41:46.000 --> 01:41:49.960
brings us into a place where we're co laboring with God for

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01:41:49.960 --> 01:41:53.960
the fruition of Daniel 727, where every ruler will worship

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01:41:53.960 --> 01:41:57.760
and obey him. What does heaven sound like? It sounds the same

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01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:02.680
as Daniel 727. What does it sound like? When every ruler

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01:42:02.680 --> 01:42:05.280
will worship and obey him? It sounds the same as the throne

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01:42:05.280 --> 01:42:11.120
room. Those two spaces, that moment in time, where every

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01:42:11.120 --> 01:42:14.880
ruler will worship and obey him, and the throne room are in

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Symphonia, it's the same sound. And so he's calling us into that

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space of the same sound. And the more we align with Symphonia,

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01:42:22.760 --> 01:42:26.760
the more momentum we have on all fronts. And yeah, so God is

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01:42:26.760 --> 01:42:31.640
doing a massive, massive, massive amount of work on all

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01:42:31.640 --> 01:42:35.440
fronts. And our focus is to ensure that we're in alignment

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01:42:35.440 --> 01:42:40.120
with the mind of Christ. Whether you're in prison, like the

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01:42:40.120 --> 01:42:43.480
pastor, what's your priority alignment with the mind of

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01:42:43.480 --> 01:42:48.600
Christ? Whether you're a missionary in Vietnam stuck in

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01:42:48.600 --> 01:42:52.560
lockdown, like Raewyn, what's your priority alignment with the

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01:42:52.560 --> 01:42:57.600
mind of Christ? For Patty, just had an operation sitting in bed.

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01:42:57.840 --> 01:43:00.960
What's your priority? Alignment with the mind of Christ. For

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01:43:00.960 --> 01:43:04.080
every single one of us, what's our priority? Alignment with the

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01:43:04.080 --> 01:43:07.160
mind of Christ. It's not what you do. It's the way that you do

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01:43:07.160 --> 01:43:11.440
it. And that's what gets results. You will find that when

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01:43:11.440 --> 01:43:14.120
you're in alignment with the mind of Christ, how you process

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01:43:14.240 --> 01:43:21.000
will lead to proactive action, as opposed to getting stuck in

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01:43:21.000 --> 01:43:24.240
the process and becoming a victim of the systematic trauma

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01:43:24.240 --> 01:43:25.520
that's being unleashed on you.

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Any other thoughts there, guys? That was good chicken.

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01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:39.840
A few good thoughts there.

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That's fabulous, Benji. Thank you so much. I was going to ask

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how we can accelerate the fulfillment of all those

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prophetic scriptures and you just really answered all of

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them.

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Cool. Well, I'll tell you how. Do hard things. Why do you think

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01:43:59.760 --> 01:44:03.960
that I do hard things? It's very, very premeditated. Like

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01:44:04.960 --> 01:44:11.160
this whole, we do hard things, it's all designed around this.

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It's all designed because this is the way that we're going to

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step into it. The daily hard things challenge is that's what

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01:44:19.800 --> 01:44:23.880
we need. Because above anything, you need grit. You need

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01:44:24.440 --> 01:44:30.640
testicular fortitude. You need willpower and self-discipline.

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Is it going to be easy? No, it's going to be extremely difficult.

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So if you can't do hard things, get ready to get wiped off the

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01:44:38.240 --> 01:44:43.280
mat. If you can't do hard things, you will not be a part

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01:44:43.280 --> 01:44:50.240
of this game. You will check yourself out. So that's why I'm

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relentless on this. We do hard things, right? Because we just

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01:44:55.160 --> 01:44:58.200
have to do hard things. Otherwise, we've got so much

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01:44:58.200 --> 01:45:00.000
ground to catch up on and to

1237
01:45:00.000 --> 01:45:05.440
of the doing hard things there's so much like there's so much for us to catch up on because

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01:45:06.960 --> 01:45:09.520
our culture has made us weak

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01:45:12.720 --> 01:45:18.960
and so it's time for us to really like really take that back uh and the daily hard things

1240
01:45:18.960 --> 01:45:24.400
challenge is is all about that you know like uh it and it requires like it's going to require a

1241
01:45:24.400 --> 01:45:31.280
holistic strength you know like if you want to be in step with god what god's doing right now

1242
01:45:31.920 --> 01:45:37.520
like sort your health out sort your mind out sort your finances out sort everything out

1243
01:45:38.080 --> 01:45:44.800
and you know like a lot of people are about to lose everything so you can still have your

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01:45:44.800 --> 01:45:51.040
finances and you know your heart around finances perfect you can have your mindset around finances

1245
01:45:51.040 --> 01:45:56.480
and you can have your heart around finances fine and still go bankrupt right that's not like

1246
01:45:56.480 --> 01:46:02.720
kingdom economics uh doesn't mean that you won't necessarily go bankrupt you know because so many

1247
01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:08.320
businesses are about to collapse you know if a building industry collapses that topples so many

1248
01:46:08.320 --> 01:46:13.120
things in a whole economy did anyone do anything wrong no they were awesome they were brilliant

1249
01:46:13.120 --> 01:46:16.800
business people they did a great job they were employing lots of people they were helping so

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01:46:16.800 --> 01:46:23.760
many people someone crashed the economy on them uh so i guess what i'm saying here is you know like

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01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:30.080
there's a lot going on sort your heart out sort your mind out most importantly align with the

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01:46:30.080 --> 01:46:40.000
mind of christ but do hard things every day i'll chuck one other thing in there that i don't know

1253
01:46:40.000 --> 01:46:51.520
if i really come on well but daniel 727 right uh there's god's i think i've touched on it a bit i

1254
01:46:51.520 --> 01:47:01.280
did an all right job of but god's preparing people right now to be in that space where they are

1255
01:47:02.160 --> 01:47:09.680
being they're being prepared to be those rulers who will be ruling over nations and kingdoms

1256
01:47:10.640 --> 01:47:14.320
so this is your training ground this is your moment this is your training for reigning

1257
01:47:14.320 --> 01:47:22.160
this is god testing you and say hey are you ready to uh to rule in my kingdom uh how would you like

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01:47:22.160 --> 01:47:26.400
a place of leadership in an even lasting kingdom this is your moment to train for it and if you

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01:47:26.400 --> 01:47:36.080
can't do things now you know like you're not going to be given real responsibility that's what jesus

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01:47:36.080 --> 01:47:43.040
said if you if you can't steward things you know like worldly riches who will get who will entrust

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01:47:43.040 --> 01:47:49.120
you with true wealth like ruling nations and kingdoms of an everlasting kingdom yeah yeah

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01:47:50.880 --> 01:47:56.320
absolutely sweet fam well who wants to pray for us we wrap it up

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you saw that oh i was just gonna share real quick something yeah please do

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but um this this is just so motivating and confirming god has really been dealing with

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me about passivity in my own life and he gave me a song to um part of a song it's not finished yet

1266
01:48:19.360 --> 01:48:28.000
about what you just said about um how he's placing dominoes that we can't see and just so cool

1267
01:48:28.000 --> 01:48:34.640
talking about this and praying into this and just growing in this direction doing the hard things

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it's awesome thank god yeah it's very cool

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very very cool thanks janice i've been d can i jump in here for a minute

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yes please do my lovely goodness gracious you're talking about my son here he is just

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so radical benji it would take me probably 20 minutes to say some of the things that he's been

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through but he is unstoppable um in the courts in the minds i tell you my husband and i would

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often say to him hey listen you're a bit um what's the word honey um sinful i suppose and

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01:49:13.760 --> 01:49:20.880
his approach but benji they have not been able to hold him down in all his honest approaches by

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knowing that um he was at high risk at one stage he ended up in the jailhouse for five days

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01:49:27.440 --> 01:49:33.760
initially they were going to deport him um because of well i can only say this as mom because it's a

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mom's heart speaking here um because of his boldness his truthfulness and his ruggedness

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01:49:40.960 --> 01:49:48.720
um he he is born again he loves the lord um he evangelized melbourne with another friend of a

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01:49:48.720 --> 01:49:55.520
group of people actually um taking the word of christ to mainly the churches um and dare i say

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01:49:55.520 --> 01:49:59.680
he was also charging some of them in the high court um which came to

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no result really in the eyes of men. We don't know what was happening behind doors but shortly afterwards

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Julia Gillard was removed from her position. I'm not saying it was because of that but he

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did a lot of work there. And the latest issue was on the mine sites. His lunch was stolen.

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01:50:18.400 --> 01:50:23.120
He operates the biggest crane on the mine site. He went for lunch. His lunch was taken

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01:50:23.120 --> 01:50:29.120
as well as another person's. He reiterated his disgust in the behavior and his disappointment

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01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:35.040
in the way that it was being managed. As a result of that they threw him down and asked him to go

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back but he refused to go back. He's now in another mine site operating another crane.

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So I guess what I'm saying a lot of what you were saying is where I'm going to start encouraging my

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son but under the umbrella of God of course. This has helped me as well Benji to grow

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because I feel that movement in my body to go forward and it was just recently that I

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aired my views at a church meeting saying that I didn't align to what they were practicing

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01:51:05.920 --> 01:51:11.920
and oh boy I tell you I came under such fire and felt so alone. But it's this sort of stuff

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01:51:11.920 --> 01:51:18.000
that you're teaching that encourages me to push on and I feel that I am aligned.

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01:51:18.960 --> 01:51:25.680
I just need more encouragement I guess and more of what you're teaching and I'm off.

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Come on that's exciting. Thank you. Thank you so so much.

1296
01:51:33.440 --> 01:51:38.720
Yeah thanks Benji. Hey no worries. Who would like to wrap it up for us with a prayer?

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Well I will Benji. Oh yep Lavinia and then Michelle. Sounds awesome. Okay.

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Father God. Go Rowan.

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Who's going? You go for it Lavinia and then Michelle. Father I thank you for the anointing

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that's being poured out at this moment. I thank you for the unstopped ears that are hearing what

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you are saying but it goes beyond that Father and I thank you Lord that you know that that you will

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01:52:08.480 --> 01:52:13.600
quicken it to each and every listening heart Father God to take hold of what you are saying

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01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:21.360
Father to step out in boldness to align Father God to what you are calling us to do. I thank you

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01:52:21.360 --> 01:52:26.400
that we cannot do this in our own flesh in our own strength but only in you but we need not be

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01:52:26.400 --> 01:52:31.360
concerned for anything but everything in Christ we push on towards the goal to take hold of the prize

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01:52:31.360 --> 01:52:38.160
that awaits us Father. We thank you Father as we wait patiently upon you expectant Father God of

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01:52:38.160 --> 01:52:44.960
what you would continue to do in the hearts Lord that are desiring so much more and more of you

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here on this earth as it is in heaven. I thank you for what is being done Lord in the background

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Father God like Benji was saying only one percent of what you please correct me Benji of what you

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01:52:56.800 --> 01:53:03.120
are doing Lord is known to man and Lord you pour out more as we seek you. We thank you for this

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time we thank you for this moment in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

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Thank you. Yes Father God we just thank you according to your word we know that all creation

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is groaning in expectancy for the sons and daughters of God to arise at this time and we

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just call them up in the mighty name of Jesus. We call them up to arise and shine for your light

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has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you and even in the darkness Father God that you

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are calling us up in the darkness just call up the sons and daughters in the mighty name of Jesus

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and we decree and declare that we will align our minds with the mind of Christ

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that we will rule and reign on the earth with you Jesus. We thank you Jesus that you will

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strengthen us in this time that we will press into you in intimacy with you we thank you Father

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God for that place of intimacy Jesus where you will reveal your mind to us Jesus we just thank

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you for it right now just ask you for a fresh anointing upon us a fire to run this race with

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endurance that is set before us keeping our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith

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so we just thank you Jesus I ask you to bless Benji Father God and his family Lord that you

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will fill him and bless him for that he will be able to run this race with endurance that

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is set before him in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Beautiful family love you very much

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we're going to finish with a bang next week that was exciting and

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yeah awesome awesome time together so love you

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Thank you very much, Ma'am.

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Thank you.

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Bye.

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