a moment now just to hear from people how the Hard Things Challenge is going for you.
Just take a few minutes now to chat on that and then we're going to jump into an exciting session.
So open mic, let me know how you're doing. Michelle, welcome, great to have you with us.
So we're just taking a second now just to hear from people how the Daily Hard Things Challenge
is going and then we're going to launch into the action.
Don't all rush, don't all rush, calm down, please, please calm down, you guys are crazy.
It's going great. It's going great for Patty. Patty, you've been in bed, you've had surgery.
Yeah. How are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing really well, thank you, making really great progress
and yeah, had lots of time. It's quite funny actually, a friend gave me this book for my
birthday earlier in the year called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. It's a rather good book.
Jesus never did anything in a hurry and I've been confined to a snail and tortoise place so
loads of time for doing daily hard things. Excellent, excellent. Michelle, welcome,
good to see you there. A couple of other people share with us about your daily things. Esther,
was that you skipping? Did I see a photo of you skipping? Yes, I thought I'd do some
skipping. Something I usually don't and it was very rainy outside so I couldn't go out
and that was really the only option. But it was hard, five minutes of skipping is, yeah,
I could feel that I hadn't done that in a while. Excellent. Well, very good, good to hear that.
Who else wants to jump in and give us a little story on hard things?
I've been doing really good on the hard things. I've got two training sessions going and still
trying to work out everything on the computer. Plus, I took a job on the weekends and learned
a lot about humility. It's consuming all the water that's difficult. Yeah.
Oh, well, that's a good effort. How much water are you getting in?
Are you getting in more than you would normally? Absolutely. I've been drinking the collodial
silver. It's great healing benefits to that and I've been making it.
That is really good news. One thing that's always important to focus on is that we aim
for transformation, not perfection. When you're doing something like this,
your focus is never perfection because perfection will lead you to comparison
and comparison is a thief of joy, whereas transformation always leads you to gratitude
and gratitude is a multiplier of joy. The focus is not perfection, the focus is transformation.
So how it works again, if you're focused on perfectionism,
it produces comparison and comparison is the thief of joy. If you're focused on transformation,
the result is gratitude and gratitude is a multiplier of joy. Two outlooks on how you view
yourself and view your journey that have a huge impact on the process. That's cool. Let's take
one more person to share a little bit. There's a few good contenders here who've been doing great
stuff on the hard thing. So jump in there, someone. Go once. Okay, Michelle. Who's going in
there? Sorry, Michelle, do you want to go? It's okay, I'll let you because honestly, I haven't
done that well. I'm sure you have. Go for it, Raewyn. I'll just share something that I find
challenging and something that's been really great. As of yesterday, I have lost 5.2 Ks.
Come on. I mean, I'm doing health coaching at the moment. I'm studying, almost finished.
And so
This came along at a really great time.
So I've actually inserted a few of my health goals
in this, clear out my gut.
And my focus has been my gut
and it's feeling a whole lot better.
But as a kind of bonus, I've lost a bit of weight as well,
which is, this feels really great.
And yeah, and I guess the stuff I find challenging,
what I really love is that I'm just learning more
and more about leaning into love.
In lockdown, we've now got multiple cases in our complex
and every day the management's emailing us
more and more cases.
And so, yeah, so I just have to choose
to just lean into love and be love my guide
in terms of how I conduct myself.
And yeah, and I'm not saying it's not challenging
because it is, but I really love the process.
I'm loving the process.
Very cool.
Very, very cool.
Jude, welcome.
Glad to have you with us.
How are you doing Jude?
Oh, gone.
Might've pressed the wrong button.
Sometimes that happens.
All right.
Well, that's very cool.
Hey fam, let's spend some time now praying in the spirit.
I'm really excited about the message
that we're gonna bring today.
I'm excited about what God is doing on the planet.
And so we really wanna just create space
for the spirit of God to move.
So let's jump in.
Symphonia, we're well aware of,
this is week 11 as well, by the way.
Next week is the last week of the Open Heaven masterclass.
So obviously we'll still carry on doing things
in the future in the online school of sonship,
but we've got some cool things coming up soon actually.
We've got a parenting intensive coming up
and there's some really awesome content.
We've been working on that today.
So there's a parenting thing coming up with Tyler.
So he's really amazing actually.
He's full-time in the parenting space.
So it's pretty awesome.
And then Matt Lansdowne is gonna be doing
a school of the spirit, which is gonna be awesome too.
So there's some cool stuff coming up,
but let's pray in the spirit now.
So if you wanna unmute right now, you're welcome to.
And we're just gonna all pray in the spirit together.
So all around the world, Romeo, good to have you with us.
We've got a crew from everywhere.
So Debbie, welcome.
Everyone here, you're welcome.
Sue, welcome.
Emily, welcome.
If I haven't missed anyone,
well, you're all welcome and let's pray.
We'll give it about five minutes
and then we'll just see what is cooking.
All right, let's go.
Thank you, Lord.
and bring the light of revelation and truth into every part of our beings in Jesus name.
We welcome your kabod glory to rest on us. We welcome your spirit to overwhelm us.
We welcome your word to come alive on the inside of us. We welcome your fire to baptize us. We
welcome your eyes to captivate us. We welcome your kingdom to consume us. We welcome the mind of
Christ to align us in Jesus name. We welcome you. We welcome you. We welcome you.
So I just want to encourage everyone right now is to step into the place of receiving
a fresh outpouring, a fresh baptism of the father's love. I just want to encourage you
right now. And Papa, I decree it right now. I declare it right now. I mandate and I release,
I legislate a release of your glory love right now. May your love be like.
fire may it be may it be warmth may be peace may be strength may be comfort may it be tenderness
may it be power may it be might release your glory right now release your glory right now
oh jesus we release your glory jesus be lifted up
papa pour out encounters with your love right now encounters with your love right now i declare
supernatural encounters with the love of god that carry breakthrough that carry freedom that carry
healing to carry life breakthrough in jesus name i declare supernatural signs and wonders and
miracles that confirm the extravagant love of the father over your life
may his tender beautiful love swallow you up may he wrap you up may he consume you
may he baptize you may he immerse you in the wonder of his love in jesus name
right here
if anyone has a prayer on their heart this is your moment to to release it
thank you
this time together we thank you for quickening the word we thank you for the weighty presence
we thank you for your fire we thank you for encounters we thank you for your rainbow word
we thank you for lighting up your word with fire that lights us up whoa right through in jesus name
papa we give you all the glory all the honor
holy spirit i thank you for anointing the words i thank you for anointing our hearts i thank you
for trees that lands in good soil in jesus name thank you that you would cause this time
any everything that's spoken jesus i ask that everything that's spoken produces alignment
with the mind of christ i ask that you by your grace and by your power you would use every word
to align people with the mind of christ wow in your beautiful name jesus amen whoa
oh wow wow
um welcome salome now how do we say your name correctly it's wonderful to have you with us
um i just want to make sure i can say your name right
because salome salome wonderful welcome and where are you based
sorry just sorry come again whereabouts do you live i'm in brisbane you're in brisbane welcome
what a delight to have you with us cheryl it's wonderful to have cheryl with us as well
it's wonderful to have all of you with us welcome to have elisa and sue and jude um everyone it is
just good good good to see you cheryl how are you doing
wonderful thanks benji that's great whereabouts are you today
uh a university library so speaking very softly
in uh whereabouts cost how about australia yeah yeah very cool we love course yeah love
love you benji and uh new zealand as you know is a suburb of australia so we're really excited to
no no no no very cool we'll try and avoid that conversation just wonderful to have you guys
we love you guys i'm gonna launch into it um right now and this message today intriguing message is
the future of the world dun dun dun which is a pretty solid um title and pretty pretty big title
especially for the times that we're living in unprecedented days i mean this to me
uh is reminiscent of neville
Berlin coming back from his meeting with Hitler saying peace, peace in our day. That's what I'm,
that's what I'm thinking. But I want to say that, you know, the mind, the mind of Christ
will make you invincible, right? If you're in alignment with the mind of Christ,
you'll be invincible. We were created to live overwhelmed. And if we're not overwhelmed by the
glory and the love and the wonder of Jesus, then we can be overwhelmed by anything else.
And so I want to talk today about the future of the world. And the most important thing that I
want to do is give you an anchor point, an anchor point for your hope, right? I want to give you an
anchor point for your hope that is rock solid. Because irrespective of any historical context
that we are going through, if we're not glistening with hope, we're under the influence of a lie.
You know, if we're not glistening with hope, we're under the influence of a lie. Welcome, John.
Goodbye, John. So let's start with some scripture. So come with me if you want to. I'm going to,
I'm going to share my screen. Most of today will be a shared screen kind of dynamic.
So let me share my screen and I've got a whole bunch of Bible ready to go. That one can disappear.
Okay, so here we are. We're in Daniel 7 right now. So grab your,
I am just, just checking as well that this crew in the
online School of Sonship. Hello for any of you guys who are watching there.
Okay. Sweet. And we're going to jump into this. All right. So Daniel 7 is a bit of a dynamic
passage. We're just going to read a little snippet of it. Okay. We're going to take some
snippets out of here and I'm going to bounce around some Old Testament scriptures and get
into it, but let's start at verse 23. Okay. So we're not going to go deep on all of these beasts.
You can do, there's lots of content around that you can go deep on these if you want,
but we're not going to do that today. We're just going to briefly over these because there's
something I want to hit. So here we go. Starting at verse 23 of Daniel 7, he gave me this explanation.
The fourth beast is a fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all
the other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it.
The 10 horns are 10 Kings who will come from this kingdom. After them, another King will arise,
different from the earlier ones. He will subdue three Kings. He will speak against the Most High
and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws.
The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.
Okay. So all I'll say from that, so I'll stop the screen share just for a moment.
I'm just going to speak to you guys. You can read an endless number of books and go through
an endless number of teachings on end times, and they will all give you a different perspective.
So I'm not trying to give you an end times interpretation of beasts, kingdoms, plagues
of wasps or anything like that. Okay. I'm not aiming to give you an interpretation of anything
like that today. Okay. That's not my aim. My aim today is to give you an anchor point
for your hope that can't be shaken. All right. And we're going to work backwards from that
anchor point. So that's the point of this verse. Okay. So I'm going to share my screen again,
but I just want you to remember the point of what we're doing and why we're doing it. So
let's get back to that.
So let's...
verses 23 through to 25. Now listen to verse 26. But the court will sit and his power will be
taken away and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty, power, and greatness
of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of the Most High.
His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship and obey him.
This is the end of the matter. Let me read that again. But the court will sit and his
power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty,
power, and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people
of the Most High. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship
and obey him. This is the end of the matter. I'll stop screen share again for a second here.
That's a good verse, right? That's a good anchor point. And it's interesting to me when I see
people teach on end times how few people emphasize what should be emphasized. You know,
what's the main point of all of that? You know, Daniel has this angelic encounter. What's the
main point of that? The main point is not that there will be testings, all right? If you
listened to Jesus, he prophesied and promised us lots of good things, right? But he also said
you will have tribulation, right? So, tribulation is not something new. It's not, should never be
a surprise for Christians. It's not a surprise right now for us in our little unique western,
for us in our little unique western
bubble. Persecution for a long time has been rare, but not always. There's been many a time when the
gospel has been thoroughly persecuted, when Christians have been thoroughly persecuted.
So, what we have to just understand is that part of the inheritance of being a Christian
is persecution, all right? That is one of the promises that Jesus gave us. He said,
in this life, you will face tribulation. So, that's a promise from Jesus. So, should there
be any surprise at all that we are going to experience tribulation of many kinds? That
should not be a surprise, right? I think it can be a bit of a surprise to people in the west who
aren't used to anything difficult, right? Everything's just lovely and nice, and we're
really, the atmosphere is really important. We go to all the lengths to just create a really
nice atmosphere, and things are very nice, right? But at the same time, right, when we're doing that
and we're on holidays, you've got people all over the world for decades who have been walking
through genocide all over the world, right? All over the world, people are experiencing that.
Christians have been experiencing that constantly all over the world. Christians, you know, have
always been being persecuted to extreme degrees. So, that's the first point. Persecution shouldn't
be a surprise to us. Interestingly, though, pretty much every theological perspective
that you go through suggests that time, times, and half of times refers to three and a half years,
right? Now, you can interpret that however you like, but most people would suggest that that
refers to three and a half years. And so, yes, we might be going through challenges right now, but
that's our, in a sense, persecution is a promise from Jesus, but there's also the promise
of his presence that completely surpasses and overwhelms the promise of tribulation, right?
The promise of tribulation, the beauty of tribulation is that, the beauty of
tribulation is this, right? Is that all you have is Jesus. When you really go through persecution,
like so many have, you know, like our friends in China, our brothers and sisters in China who,
you know, when the bamboo curtain dropped, there was only a, you know, they thought there would
only be about a million Christians in China at that time when the bamboo curtain, you know,
went up and they just made Christianity illegal. And they, actually, interestingly, one of the
things that the communists said is they bragged to the Christians before they took over China,
they bragged to the Christians and they said, we're going to take over China because we spend
all of our money on propaganda.
and you spend all of your money on buildings.
They said, we're gonna take over China
and we're gonna kick you all out
and we're gonna end Christianity, right?
So the bamboo curtain goes up
and there's like a million Christians in all of China.
And then years later, when the bamboo curtain kind of breaks
and people finally starting hearing back from hearing,
you know, being able to see into China
and see what's been happening,
people were wondering if the church even survived.
And then all these stories
like the heavenly man start coming out.
And when they find out there's more
like a hundred million Christians in China, right?
And that the population of Christians in China
is exploded unlike anywhere in the world.
And that the persecution created the context for,
you know, some people will say that, you know,
around 30,000 people a day in China
have been giving their lives to Jesus, you know?
And it's potentially still around that rate.
It's always gonna be hard to pull up,
you know, to get an exact figure.
But what you can understand from that
is an insane explosion, right?
That took place in that time.
And I wanna share one story from China
because this to me is the essence
of what I want to instill in us today.
So this is one of my favorite stories of all time, right?
This Chinese pastor, and who knows, you know,
like who knows maybe before this, maybe he was wealthy.
Maybe he had a whole bunch of land and properties
and maybe he had all sorts of things.
Maybe he didn't, but maybe he didn't.
Maybe he lost everything.
Maybe he lost his family.
Maybe he didn't, all right?
We don't know all those details.
But what we do know is that he had 27 years
in a Chinese prison, right?
I had 27 years in a Chinese prison
and they're notorious for torture, abuse,
being cold, being uncomfortable, you know,
in a starving kind of way.
It is not nice.
There's no holidays.
27 years, right?
And so when he finally got released,
people asked him, man, like, how did you survive that?
And he said to them, what do you mean, how did I survive?
It was my 27 year honeymoon with Jesus.
All right, now I don't know the pastor's name.
It was, I heard the story being shared by a Chinese,
a Chinese man who was speaking at an event that I was at
and he was retelling the story.
And so I'm retelling his story.
So I don't know the man's name,
but how amazing is that, right?
27 years in a prison, terrible conditions,
torture, abuse, all your freedom's gone.
And they said, how did you survive this?
And he said, what do you mean, how did I survive?
It was my 27 year honeymoon with Jesus.
And what that perspective reveals is that
we were created to live overwhelmed,
but we were designed to live overwhelmed by Jesus.
We were designed to live overwhelmed by his presence.
We were designed to live overwhelmed by love.
And if we live overwhelmed by who he is,
then nothing in this world can overwhelm us.
If we live overwhelmed by who he is,
then nothing in this world can overwhelm us, right?
This is Romans eight.
Let me just pull Romans eight up for you for a second.
Here we go, I'm just pulling it up.
Romans eight, 38 to 39.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life,
neither angels nor demons,
neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth,
nor anything else in all creation
will be able to separate us from the love of God
that is in Christ Jesus.
How beautiful is that, right?
So there's that one dynamic, right?
That no matter what we're going through,
no matter what we're walking through,
if we are in alignment with the mind of Christ,
we are invincible, right?
If we are in alignment with the mind of Christ,
then we are invincible.
The mind of Christ,
regardless of context and circumstance,
the mind of Christ is overwhelmed
by the love, overwhelmed by the glory,
overwhelmed by the wonder,
overwhelmed by the goodness of who God is.
How good is that, right?
So our focus is to be in alignment with the mind of Christ
because the mind of Christ,
whatever your circumstance,
if you're in alignment with the mind of Christ,
mind of Christ, you will be in a place of invincibility. That is
you're invincible.
So the mind of Christ is overwhelmed
by the love, overwhelmed by the glory,
exciting, right? Is that not a good? Is that not a good hope?
overwhelmed by the wonder,
Is that not a good hope, a good opportunity that we can Rachel
welcome? Is that not a good hope that we can have a level of
alignment with the mind of Christ that leaves us invincible
to any circumstance? The first thing that the enemy will try
and steal is your joy. That's the first thing that Satan will
come after is he will come after your joy. But if he can't steal
your joy, he can't steal anything. Right, let's jump
forward a little bit. Rachel, great to have you with us. I'm
going to screen share again, and we're going to jump into some
more scriptures. Okay, let's just touch this one one more
time. But the court will sit and his power will be taken away
and completely destroyed forever. Then the sovereignty,
power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be
handed over to the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom
will be an everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship and
obey him. And a couple of points I want to bring out of this for
you. So can you just picture this for me for a moment? Because
this scripture here is one of the anchor points for me for an
unshakable hope. Then the sovereignty, power and greatness
of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to
the holy people of the Most High. His kingdom will be an
everlasting kingdom and all rulers will worship and obey
him. This is the end of the matter. Now I would like you to
picture what the planet looks like when every ruler worships
and obeys him. What does the planet look like when every
ruler worships and obeys him? Yeah, so this is still Daniel
seven, 2026 2728 this bit. But take a moment just take close
your eyes not if you're driving like not if you're driving,
don't close your eyes. But if you're driving, if you're not
driving, close your eyes for a moment and just think about this
that what does it actually look like? What's the picture of it?
What's the picture? What does it look like? When every ruler
worships and obeys him in every single nation and every single
tribe and every every geographical place? What does
the earth look like? What does the earth become when every
single ruler worships and obeys him? When I look at my world
map, and I imagine this, I just see these wild, amazing sounds
and frequencies and colors and dances and creativity exploding
off my map, just a world where every single person will worship
and obey him. Oh my goodness, it is wild. Every every leader in
every household, every leader in every region, every leader of
every nation, this is a wild explosion. Now this is the this
is what alignment with the mind of Christ looks like, right?
Because the mind of Christ is not distracted for a moment from
the end goal. You got to start with the end in mind, because
Jesus starts with the end in mind. Remember the cross, how he
went through the cross, he said, you know, considering the joy
that was set before him. Now, there's no point in going through
persecution without considering the joy that is set before you.
Right? Because the joy that is set before you is the reward in
the midst of your persecution. Right? The joy that is set before
you is designed so that you can enjoy it in the midst of
persecution. Right? That's your portion. If you're going through
trial, your portion is the joy that was set before you that you
get to enjoy it. Now, you get to consider it. Now you get to
think about it. Now you get to enjoy it right now. Be grateful
for it right now. Celebrate it right now. Remember, in Acts,
we've just read Acts and there's Paul, Paul gets arrested, beaten,
thrown in prison in the middle of the night. What are they
doing? How do they respond to the persecution? Worship. They're
in this place of such amazing worship, that the whole prison
gets shaken.
And when the prison door flings open, you know, the guard, he runs in there and falls on his face.
And he says, what do I have to do to be saved? Now, how does he even know
to say, what do I need to do to be saved? There's something of the atmosphere of the glory of God
that he runs into. Boom! And listen, what that is, is that's Paul understanding that the joy
that is set before you is designed to be experienced in the presence of persecution
as you're going through things. So for us, alignment with the mind of Christ,
it means it looks like being fused with these promises. On a daily basis, regardless of what
we're going through, we get to enjoy this reality. Then the sovereignty, the power,
and the greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people
of the most high. His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all rulers will
worship and obey him. This is the end of the matter. So as we're going through everything,
processing everything, our hope comes from alignment with the mind of Christ, and the
mind of Christ is fixed on the end goal of where he is taking us all. Is that good news?
Yeah. So the key thing, right, we're going to explore some more dynamics, but the key
dynamic of everything that we're going to explore today is that our hope must be fused with the mind
of Christ. And to be fused with the mind of Christ, we have to start with the end
in mind. It has to be filling our mind. Now let me ask you this, how often do you think about that?
Right, because I would suggest to you that when you meditate on how good things are going to be,
when you meditate on that, you open up an entire world of extreme joy.
Right, that when you meditate on that promise, that promise is the gateway into a world of
unshakable ecstasy and delight and bliss in the midst of any persecution, in the midst of any
challenge that you're going through, that promise is a gateway into a whole world of bliss. And I
want to ask you, how often do you explore that world? How often do you camp in that world? How
often do you live in that world? How often do you marinate in it? How often do you let it overwhelm
you? How often do you let it leave you completely undone? And how often do you allow like that to be
a catalyst of worship and gratitude and adoration that leaves you just like, wow, God, good chicken,
right? Okay, we're going to jump back in there. We've got another angle on this verse that we're
going to look at right now. Okay, one more, one more thing to pull out of here.
So, but the court will sit and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.
I wasn't going to mention much on this, but that's interesting, right, that
that God can just take away Satan's power whenever he wants, and it's not, it's not
difficult for God, right? God is not strained. God, there's a wild dynamic and it might be difficult
There's a wild dynamic and it might be difficult to understand, and we're not going to jump into this right now,
but the sovereignty of God, Satan's on a leash, times and seasons, that's all he's got. He's just
got times and seasons. Okay, so he's got times and seasons and God is using those times and seasons
for his purposes, but the devil is on a leash and God can sit him down whenever he likes and take
everything away. So that's good, but in the midst of this, God is actually using the devil for a
purpose. Say there's purpose in the process, right? There is purpose in the process. Now, what does God
need in this, in this scenario here? God needs something in this scenario. God's looking for
something in this scenario. God is looking for people, because look at this, then the sovereignty,
power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven will be handed over to the holy people of
the most high, right? So who would you want to be entrusted with a kingdom? Who would like it if
some of your current leadership of any level of society had some better character development?
Who would appreciate it if there was more holiness, there was more love, there was more
wisdom, there was more righteousness, there was more integrity, there was more moral character,
there was more love for Jesus, there was more kingdom value.
use in the leadership, in their area and their families, maybe
in their parents, maybe in their children, maybe in their
families of some sort, maybe in their local area, their regional
area, their national area, or international, global, in the
spiritual realm, who thinks that there's room for better, more
qualified leadership? Yeah.
Whoo. Yeah, absolutely. Right. And so look, who, what do you
think should be the prerequisites of someone who's
going to be given an everlasting kingdom? You know, if you're
given a kingdom, right, if you if you're in a place of a
kingdom, it's not a place of being voted in. It's a place,
you know, like you receive a place of authority. So what do
you what type of prerequisites Do you think, you know, what
should they do a three year degree? What should they have to
go through to be qualified to rule and reign an everlasting
kingdom? So when I say there's purpose in the process, the
purpose in the process is the fact that through everything
that we go through in life, look, it's like I've, I've
talked a bunch about with the parable of the miners, and
your parable of talents, what God's looking for something
right, he is looking for good stewards, how we steward our
money, how we go through persecution, how we live this
life, how we steward our time, how we steward our attitude, how
we steward our relationships, how we steward our finances, how
we steward everything that is placed in our hands, is purpose
in the process. And whatever we're going through, Jesus
promised us tribulation. And part of that part of the purpose
of the tribulation is that the tribulation creates the context
for us to demonstrate godly character. See, the prerequisite
for taking a place of authority in an everlasting kingdom is
that you look like Christ. You smell like Christ, you think
like Christ, you act like Christ, you walk like Christ,
you talk like Christ, you move like him, you look like him.
See, that is what Jesus is doing here in the he is creating the
context and the opportunity for us to put on Christ, to
demonstrate Christ to wear Christ. Good chicken, right? So
this is this is one of the big deals here about the purpose and
the process is that he how you respond, how you steward how you
act, he is looking right, he is looking for you to be he is
looking for you to rise up to the challenge in the midst of
whatever we're going on. That's what he's looking for. Alright,
so let's Oh, yes, that's great. I can shift that thing. Okay,
let's have a look at some other stuff here. Right. So we're
going now to Isaiah nine. And we'll start at verse six. For to
us a child is born to us a son is given and the government will
be on his shoulders. And he will be called wonderful counselor,
mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, of the
greatness of his government and peace, there will be no end. Now
peace is the word Shalom, right, which is everything functioning
according to divine design. That is good news, right? Imagine if
your family imagine if your society functioned perfectly
according to divine design, nothing was missing, nothing was
broken. Everything was in alignment with divine design. Is
that not good news? Of the greatness of his government and
peace, there will be no end. He will reign on David's throne and
over his kingdom establishing and upholding it with justice and
righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord
Almighty will accomplish this. Beautiful. Let's check out
another little bit here. Isaiah, Isaiah two, verse two, in the
last days, the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established
as the highest of the mountains that will be exalted on the
hills and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will
come and say, come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to
the temple of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his way so that
we may walk
in his paths, the law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He will judge
between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against
nation, nor will they train for war anymore. Come, descendants of Jacob, let us walk in the light of
the Lord. Now, has anyone seen a time in history where that promise has been fulfilled? Nation
will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. That hasn't happened
yet, has it? That's before us. This is something that we want to put our good hope on. We want to
anchor our hope into these things. Now, Psalm 2, let's just read Psalm 2 a little bit for a moment.
Why do the nations conspire in the people's plot in vain? The kings of the earth rise up and the
rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their chains
and throw off their shackles. The one enthroned in heaven laughs. The Lord scoffs at them. He rebukes
them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, I have installed my king on Zion,
my holy mountain. I will proclaim the Lord's decree. He said to me, you are my son. Today I have become
your father. Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance. Or ask of me and I
will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. You will break them
with a rod of iron. You will dash them to pieces like pottery. Therefore, you kings, be wise,
be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and celebrate his rule with trembling.
Kiss his son or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction. For his wrath
can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him. How wild is this? And I think
most of us would know this verse well, but he said to me, you are my son. Today I have become your father.
Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession.
So let's stop. I'm gonna read that one more time. Ask me and I will make the nations your inheritance
and the ends of the earth your possession. Okay, so let's look at something right now on the planet.
What are Christians focused on all over the earth, right? Like what are we
focused on? Is it just, there's all sorts of things that Christians could be focused on, but
you guys are getting more and more familiar because you're in here. You're more and more
familiar with the concept of building in the spirit, right? That's a big part. If you're
doing the Daily Hard Things Challenge, that's a big part of why we do the daily declarations, okay?
This is a big part of why we do the daily declarations because daily declarations are about
framing our future.
Let me say that again. Daily declarations are about framing up our future. According to your
faith, be it unto you. Now, what is it going to produce in the earth if all Christians are doing
is worrying? If all we're doing is asking for nations and not partnering that with building
in the spirit? Michelle, were you trying to do a high five or what was happening there?
Yeah, you were doing a high five. Okay, I'm feeling you. I'm feeling you.
So, here's a really important piece of the puzzle.
I like a Bill Johnson quote, right? Bill Johnson says that Christ is going to return for his bride,
but he wants her to be in the right proportion in the sense that he doesn't want his head to
be way bigger than her body. He wants the bride to be in proportion to the head,
which means full maturity, right? So, full maturity looks like something and full maturity
births something. Full maturity will produce something in the earth, okay? Full maturity
of sonship will produce something. Full maturity of sonship will look like something,
and when we mature in our sonship, it has a huge impact on how we pray, right? Because our
prayer life becomes more about co-laboring with God and building in the spirit than it
is about asking him, right?
Asking him for the nations becomes about, you know, like 2% of our prayer life.
The rest of the process is building with him in the spirit.
So if we want to build with him in the spirit and co-labor with God in the spirit towards
the production of the future that he's prophesied, right?
Which is what we just looked at at Daniel 7, where every ruler will worship and obey
him, right?
Building in the spirit, when Jesus said, according to your faith, be it unto you, he's talking
about building in the spirit.
So if all the Christians in the world are just full of fear and anxiety, or we're just
hoping to survive, right, then we are not building in the spirit in alignment with the
mind of Christ.
If we're in alignment with the mind of Christ, our focus will be on the fact that every ruler
will worship and obey him.
Our mindset will be that all the nations are going to be ours.
Our mindset will be that everyone, right, like that all the kingdoms will be handed
over to the holy ones of the most high.
This is what, when we're in alignment with the mind of Christ, this is what we see, regardless
of the darkness, right?
You might be in a tunnel, but you know what's on the other side.
Okay, maybe we're going through a tunnel right now.
Maybe we're in an Isaiah 60 tunnel right now, which is behold, arise and shine for your
light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
For darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon
you and his glory is seen on you.
So if you're in darkness, if the world is in darkness and chaos, where all we are in
is in a tunnel, all we're on in is in a moment of time before the full light of his glory
manifests.
It's just a moment of time we are passing through a tunnel if we're in a context of
darkness.
You can't see any darkness on the earth, right?
So maybe you can see some darkness, maybe you can't, but if you can see any darkness
on the earth, you are only in a tunnel for a finite, listen, a finite, tiny little moment
in time.
Let me ask you something.
Was the cross fulfilled according to prophecy?
Was Jesus raised from the dead according to prophecy?
Do we have any reason to be confident in the prophetic heritage that we have, the same
prophetic heritage that saw Jesus Christ fulfill every single word prophesied about him?
Do we have any reason for confidence in our prophetic heritage?
We have extreme reason for extreme confidence that if anyone has stepped into a place of
authority or if the world has come into any place of darkness for any reason, we are merely
in a tunnel, but a glorious blinding light is about to break out because this is a finite
dynamic, right?
Now, I've talked about this before, that love outdreams darkness.
Darkness has a finite existence compared to the infinite.
So let me ask in your mindsets, in your mindsets, how much bandwidth does the finite reality
of darkness have compared to the infinite reality that every ruler will worship and
obey him?
This is why I say that alignment with the mind of Christ will make you invincible.
Because if our minds are in alignment with the mind of Christ, if our minds are in alignment
with the mind of Christ, then we see darkness for what it is, a fleeting shadow, a fleeting
shadow.
Now, the body of Christ must come into this place of awakening and awareness that darkness
is a fleeting shadow.
It's barely even real.
Listen, it's so...
temporal. Its existence and its influence is so fragile. In the
context of eternity, it's so, so, so fragile. It's on a knifey
just gonna, it's here, it's gone. Then an everlasting
kingdom. It's a pretty big deal, right? In terms of our
mindsets. But what we have, more often than not, more often than
not, what we have is the body of Christ hugely overwhelmed with
darkness, as though darkness is infinite, and the promises of
God are finite. Can you understand how that would change
and impact our state of being? Right? Like if, if we viewed
darkness as something of huge concern, and the promises of God
of something of little weight, then it would produce fear in us.
If we brought our mind into alignment with the mind of Christ,
and we viewed darkness as a finite substance, that as
fleeting as a shadow. And if we viewed his everlasting kingdom as
an infinite reality, how much fear would that produce in us?
Right, it would be zero, what it would produce in us is a
ridiculous level of faith, an unshakable sense of
invincibility. And even if we're going through tribulation, if we
go through tribulation with our mind in alignment with the mind
of Christ and our mind anchored, right, our mind anchored to hope
our mind anchored to the prophetic heritage that we have
our mind anchored to the Word of God, our mind anchored to the
mind of Christ, if we go through our tribulation with our mind
anchored, then we go through it like our pastor from China that
we talked about before he went through 27 years of torture and
imprisonment and abuse. And when asked how did he survive it? He
said, What do you mean? How did I survive? It was my 27 year
honeymoon with Jesus. Why was it a honeymoon for him? Alignment
with the mind of Christ makes all the difference. Not only does
alignment with the mind of Christ make all the difference in
us, alignment with the mind of Christ shifts reality in the
earth. All right. It shifts reality in the earth, because we
are all constantly producing something according to our faith.
You know, whether it's producing fear, which then overtakes us, or
if it's producing breakthrough that we then get to live in. Now
think about this on a corporate global context of all humanity,
right? Everyone all over the place. How much fear is being
projected into the atmosphere of the planet right now? All right,
how much fear because listen, non you don't have to be a
Christian to be powerful in your ability to create right? Hey,
words become worlds whether you're a Christian or not. Yeah.
Who's who's ever not followed Jesus and reaped the you know,
like seeing that how powerful the words are to create how
powerful their minds are to create right? We understand that
whether you're following Jesus or not, the principles are still
powerful. So if we think look at humanity all over the face of the
earth right now and think about how much fear is being projected
into the earth. What's that birthing? What's that producing?
And what does darkness feed off in the first place? That like
darkness feeds off fear. That's what fuels darkness. So if we
but here's what happens right when we start growing. So
imagine sonship is like a like a cancer to darkness. Imagine
that right if sonship was like a cancer to darkness because what
happens when people start maturing in their sonship is
that fear dries up in their lives. And they get swallowed up
with invincibility. And then instead of producing, actually
releasing fear, right, we actually start releasing
something completely different, right? What are we doing? We're
building in the spirit. And if our
minds are anchored in alignment with the mind of Christ and if our minds are fixed on the
prophetic heritage that we've got, if that's what we are fixed on, that's what we will
start to release and produce into the earth.
We will start building in the spirit with him, not just for your daily declarations,
for your life, but he wants to co-labor, us to co-labor with him for his historical purposes,
for generations and for kingdoms.
He wants us to partner with him in this and be locked in, be anchored in on this hope,
this prophetic hope that we have that the mind of Christ, that the mind, like when we're
anchored into this place of the mind of Christ, that we actually start then partnering and
co-laboring with God in the, and we're building in the spirit with him to produce the fruition
of Daniel 7, to produce the fruition of Psalm 2, to produce the fruition of Isaiah 9, to
produce the fruition of Isaiah 2.
Let me pull up, to kind of bring it to like, start landing things, let me bring up one
more verse for you as a key verse.
I've got one more verse for you and it's in Ephesians 4.
So get ready with me, if you're in your Bible, you can go to Ephesians 4, I'm going to share
the screen in a second.
Okay, I'm going to read it to you out of the amplified version, still screen share, come
with me.
Okay.
Righto.
Oh, there we go, Ephesians 4, you guys can see that, here we go, 12 to 13 in the amplified
version.
Give you some context, this is Paul speaking about the fivefold ministry gifts and the
whole reason for why Jesus released the fivefold gifts, okay?
This is why Jesus has released prophet, pastor, teacher, apostle, evangelist, here we go.
Ephesians 4, 12 to 13, his intention, meaning Christ's intention, this is the focus, this
is why, this is why Jesus did what he did, his intention was the perfecting and the full
equipping of the saints, his consecrated people, that they should do the work of ministering
toward building up Christ's body, the church, that it might develop until we all attain
oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the
son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of personality,
which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection, the measure of
the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in him.
Now, let me like slow this down and share this again, because this is a little bit wild.
And did I see Janice just jumped in?
Janice, if you're there, jumped in, not in.
I thought I saw Janice.
Oh, yeah, there you go.
Welcome, welcome.
Good to have you with us, Janice.
There you are.
Cool, cool.
So let me just jump back to that screen share.
His intention.
So this is Jesus intention, his aim in releasing the fivefold ministry, prophets, apostles,
pastors, teachers, evangelists.
This is his purpose.
His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints, his consecrated people.
Just say perfecting with me for a little bit.
Say perfecting.
Perfecting.
This was just saying was perfecting you, right?
And not according to your own image of yourself, but according to his image, right?
Perfecting you in his image.
This was his dream, his intention, his desire.
His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints as consecrated people
that they should do the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body, the church.
All right.
And here's where he wants it to go.
It might develop until now, say until, say with me, say until, because this until is
huge.
This is so, so pivotal.
Say until.
Until.
All right.
This until represents a moment on the timeline, right?
This word, this word.
until here represents a moment in the prophetic timeline in the history of the planet. This
until is enormous in its significance. It's absolutely huge and pivotal in the purposes
of God and the future of the world. All right, so he's talking about, you know, that he gave
the fivefold so that the fivefold would be there to minister to the minister to the body of Christ,
that it might develop until, all right, again, say again with me, say until. Until. All right,
so this until moment, if we actually look at Paul's writings, Paul was prophesying this,
this is what he fought for, this is what he prayed for, this is what he prophesied,
this is what he laid his life down for, was the fruition of this promise. And it's scattered all
throughout Paul's writings, Romans, Colossians, it's all, the theme of it all the way through
is this, of what happens in this until moment. Until we all, now say we all. We all. We all.
Until we all. So something is waiting. This is what Paul, he never saw this, he prophesied it,
but he never saw it. He lived for it, but he never saw it. But he was fully hopeful and expectant
that a group of people would walk into this until moment, that this would be fulfilled,
this was a prophecy, and this until we all is a prophetic moment that we have great confidence,
just as the prophetic moment of the cross was fulfilled to a T, not one letter missing,
not one promise missing, not one angle missing, every promise fulfilled to the tiniest little
degree, until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate
knowledge of the Son of God, that we might arrive at really mature manhood, the completeness of
personality, which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection.
The measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in him.
How wild is that? Wow. This is so, so glorious and so wild that this was God's intent. I feel like I should
share with you a couple more scriptures on this.
Let me stop this share for a second. Let me stop this share for a second, and I'll just give you
a couple more scriptures to help you track with this.
Hang on, that's why I've got to press somewhere here.
I've got a slideshow here, and it's not
working for me. It's not working for me, so we'll just leave it.
What was the scripture? I just had a whole compilation of scriptures for you,
so I won't read them this time. We can look at it another time. Actually, I'll tell you what,
we'll do that for our session next week. We'll finish up with this on where things are going,
what God's dream is for sonship breaking out on the planet. We'll finish up with that next week, but
I hope that has been exciting for you guys, because I think that here's where it goes,
as we step into that until moment. That until moment is a time in history that God wants us
to step into. When that until happens, that will be a moment after that history will never be the
same. That until is the fulfillment of Paul's prophecy in Romans 8, which is the unveiling of
the sons of God. All creation is groaning for the unveiling of the sons of God. When that happens,
it looks like something, and Ephesians 4 is Paul prophesying what that looks like.
Romans 8, he prophesies all creation is groaning for the unveiling of the sons of God. Ephesians
4 is a prophecy of what that actually looks like, that every person starts walking in fullness,
starts walking in perfection. Now, this might sound difficult, but listen, when seasons change,
what was once rare becomes common. So much of this is about times and seasons,
God's times and seasons. Listen, if you want to enjoy the times and seasons, you've got to be in
alignment with the mind of Christ in order to be in step with the time and the season that we're
actually living in. So alignment with the mind of Christ, not only will it make you invincible,
it will also bring you in tune, in step into what God's doing in this hour.
And when that Ephesians 4 moment is fulfilled, we'll actually start seeing, you know, like
the seasons change.
And when seasons change, what was once rare becomes common.
Let me give you a scriptural example of this just from what we've read already today.
Daniel 7, it says, then the court will sit and they will take away all the power of Satan
in that just in that moment.
Do you think that the that the season will change at that moment?
Do you think at that moment that what was once rare will start becoming common?
You know, what was once rare will start becoming very, very, very common when that moment of
time is fulfilled.
The same like, but before that moment in time is fulfilled, we will see Ephesians 4 fulfilled.
Right.
Ephesians 4 is the fruition of what Paul prophesied in Romans 8, which is all creation is groaning
for the unveiling of the sons of God.
Ephesians 4 is speaking about the fruition of that promise.
And when that promise is fulfilled, things will start changing.
Nothing will ever be the same that until we'll split history, a brand new season on the planet.
So we're going to talk about that more next week for our last session of the Open Heaven
Masterclass.
It's going to be very, very, very glorious.
Yeah, lots of love to everyone.
I just see some bye-byes in the messages.
See you later, Rachel.
So we'll wrap this up next week.
I'll just create a space now for a moment if anyone's got any questions, any questions,
thoughts, feedback.
Open mic for a couple of minutes.
I guess one question, Benji, is in light of everything that you've shared and the particular
moment that we're in right now with what's happening with all the government lockdowns
and restrictions and all of that kind of stuff, do you have any insight for how, as Christians,
we could respond in a way that's healthy to all of this?
Yeah, absolutely.
So it's another big conversation, right?
It's another big conversation in terms of what we're really looking at right now is
kind of like prophetic timelines, prophetic promises, the prophetic future of the world.
That's kind of what we've been looking at, which is really, really critical to help us
in the process of aligning our mind with Christ.
So that is one element that's so critical, is to have our mind aligned with the mind
of Christ.
Because if our mind is aligned with the mind of Christ, it changes everything in terms
of how we process everything, how we walk through everything, our brain function, how
our bodies are doing, the chemicals in our body, everything has changed.
And also it changes our access to the Spirit of God, it changes our access to revelation,
it changes our access to faith, to grace, to favor, to power, to the supernatural, to
breakthrough, it changes everything.
So there's that old song, it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it, and that's
what gets results.
So what I'm talking about here is, if we're going through a tunnel, everyone's got to
go through a tunnel together, right?
But what if one person goes through a tunnel depressed, a depressed Christian on anxiety
medication, and what if another Christian goes through their transfigured?
You know, it's a totally, totally different walk.
So it's not what you do, it's the way that you do it.
That's kind of the foundational hope that I've been trying to anchor into people right
now, to give the ability to, OK, so right, once you've got them, once you're in that
place of aligning with the mind of Christ, now what are you going to do?
OK, because the things could change.
Now, it really depends a lot on how much grace there is or grace there isn't on that
moment. And times and seasons change and ebb and flow.
You know, if you guys have been following along, you know, I love St.
Patrick. Who blows it up, but so you've got different stories, right?
You've got a St. Patrick moment, which is amazing.
He's a hero of mine.
But another hero of mine is the pastor who spent 27 years in jail.
So, what I guess what I'm trying to do there is just paint a broad spectrum of what the
grace of God might look like for you.
At that same time, there's one pastor there, he spends 27 years in jail.
And then there's another, you know, Brother Yun, who is the main character in the book
The Heavenly Man.
Well, he's in prison with his legs broken.
And then God comes upon him, tells him it's time for him to leave.
He stands up, all his broken legs get supernaturally healed.
Every door in the prison swings wide, and he walks out of a maximum security Chinese
prison on what were broken legs.
And when he gets out, God had already told people to be there standing there waiting
for him, and they pick him up and they leave and he's gone.
And he just walked out of a maximum security Chinese prison.
And what happens to the other guy?
The other guy is still there for 27 years.
So grace is going to look different.
What you're going through is going to look different.
What can be the same for all of us, if we will really lean in for it, is our alignment
with the mind of Christ.
That's the thing that you and I, you know, like we can, that's because I guess what you
want to do is, and I've had this conversation a lot, I don't know if you guys noticed it,
but this last week, I have felt a huge shift in the spirit.
Has anyone else felt that?
In the last week, the shift in the spirit, the conversations, the intensity, the urgency.
Now, obviously, I was already living in urgency and intensity, but you can feel it.
You know, like when the tide rises, it's like, well, the tide has risen.
There's no like it's just changed.
And I know that like every single conversation I've had in the last five days is just super
charged with a massive shift in the atmosphere.
It is so thick, so prevalent that even when we're supposed to be having other conversations,
business conversations, the business conversation starts with 40 minutes conversation around
the spiritual dynamics unfolding around us because it's so thick, such a dynamic shift.
So, but there's two spaces to this, right?
One's the reactive processing, because we're going through so much shock treatment, right?
The media currently is is specifically traumatizing everyone.
Now, let me ask you one thing.
How much have you heard about terrorists lately?
Where have all the terrorists, where's all the terrorism gone?
It's like just all of a sudden, all the terrorists just gave their lives to Jesus, and now they're
all like praying somewhere in a monastery.
What happened to all these terrible terrorists that we lived in fear of for 20 years?
You know, for like over 20 years, the media, my whole childhood growing up until just a
couple of years ago, maybe even less, maybe like 18 months ago, every single night on
the news without fail, terrorism.
You know, oh, my gosh, like when was the last time you saw, you know, saw on the news some
Americans blowing up some Arab country like that was the news every single night of my
childhood. You know, it's like, oh, my gosh, the UN stepping in over here, the Americans are
blowing up this guy. Oh, my God, like this was like this was my whole childhood.
It's like 20 years of media intensity in your face.
All of a sudden, 18 months ago, all the terrorists that have just been plotting and scheming
for decades and decades and decades and just can't stop blowing stuff up, all of a sudden
they've become saints.
You know, they've all got their masks on.
They're all, you know, they're all very well behaved.
Very well behaved. You just don't even hear of them.
Why? Because now there's all sorts of other things flooding the media, right?
It's not no one's talking about terrorism even anymore.
Why? And how does that just change just like that overnight?
All of a sudden there's no terrorists.
Right. Because for the last 20 years, there's been a shock and awe media agenda
specifically trying to get us into, you know, to justify certain actions like, yeah, of
course, of course, America should be blowing up those countries.
Yeah. I mean, they've got really bad children over there.
They're terrible children.
I just drop more.
You know, I'm just saying like we had this way that the media portrayed the world that
made everyone feel like it was justified to go and invade other countries.
That's where we've been at. But now the media story has completely shifted.
You don't hear a word about terrorism anymore.
The thing that was the biggest threat to humanity, all of a sudden, no, no, they're all
good now. We've done a deal.
They're all good. And now there's another dynamic unfolding and there's relentless shock
and awe tactics unfolding that are designed to traumatize you subconsciously to bring
you into the place where you can be controlled, right, to completely destroy your
self-control, to completely destroy the mental fortitude of self-control, of willpower,
which.
is the exact thing that we're working on in the 21, you know,
in the Hard Things Challenge, right? In the Hard Things
Challenge, what we're working on is to develop in you mental
fortitude that can withstand and not just withstand, which can
far supersede everything that's being thrown at you in the world
right now. So the reason I'm saying this is because so much
of the conversation at the moment is around processing the
relentless shock and awe tactics that are being unleashed on you
every single day. Every single day, there is something that is
just so wild and crazy that you throw your head up and like, Are
you serious? Like, Israel, France, it's now mandatory
vaccines. No, like no jab, no nothing. In France, it's, you
got no rights without it. In Israel, same thing. Does that
not shock you? Does that not sound like, you know, is this
not exactly the same thing that was happening before Hitler?
Right? And is not the church being like Neville Chamberlain
saying, peace, peace in our time, when Jeremiah said, there
is no peace. There is no peace. That is a joke. That is
ridiculous. You better not be thinking that there's peace in
our time, because there is an agenda that's coming after you.
There is a rope around your neck that is tightening every
second. So there's this shock and awe dynamic that's happening
that we have to have space to process. So that's one huge
dynamic, right? But we and it's right to process that. It's good
to process that. But the problem with that is that so many people
get stuck in reactive processing, and they never move
to proactive action. There's two things at play here, which are
extremely, extremely important. There's the reactive processing
that we have to do. So we can actually process crazy things
that we're hearing all the time. Like, in New Zealand, I just
heard from some people who are well connected with the
leadership of gangs and the mongrel mob in New Zealand,
just only like, I don't know, a month or so ago, New Zealand
government gave the mongrel mob, the biggest gang in New Zealand
that makes all its money from selling P, you know,
methamphetamine, the biggest producer of methamphetamine in
the country, they just gave them over $2 million of cash that had
been seized through gang raids, to fund the mongrel mobs
methamphetamine recovery program. So they have a they
have a methamphetamine program, a recovery program that they
run. But at the same time, they're also the biggest
suppliers in the country. So why not maybe just actually give
that to someone who's not involved in the process of
supplying it. And the first time, in the first place, well,
here's what's going on behind the scenes, the government has
already had the conversations with the mongrel mob and the
mongrel mob has already agreed because they're the biggest gang
in the country. And they've already had an agreement that
that mongrel mob will work with them in enforcement of door to
door rollouts of a particular medical experiment. Because they
said that we don't know that we our police and army is going to
be enough. We need some extra laborers. Right? So this is the
type of chaos that you're hearing, boom, relentless, boom,
relentless, boom, relentless, this is shock and awe of the
highest level of chaos that we're constantly processing. So
there's that reactive dynamic to what's happening where we really
need to process it. But then Rod, to get to what you're
saying is there's this also, right? The proactive action. Now
this is one of the reasons why the mind of Christ is so so so
critical, because if you don't have alignment with the mind of
Christ, the way you process your process like a victim, even if
you're not normally a victim, the scale and the magnitude of
the chaos unfolding around us is so vast, so extreme, that unless
you go through this with an invincible mindset, you will not
have the mental fortitude to then step into the place where
you take proactive action. Now, this is a space where we've got
to go, okay, right, what does this look like? What does it
look like for you and I to now take proactive action? Now, the
only way that you're going to take real proactive action is if
you're in alignment with the mind of Christ, because your
situation and my situation is going to be vastly different.
There's going to be an infinite, different number of
challenges that you're going to face and that I'm going to face.
And so what do we do in terms of specifically, what do I do? Well,
you are going to need the mind of Christ to answer that, you
know, like no pastor is going to ever be able to answer that for
anyone anymore. What are you going to need? You're going to
need extreme intimacy.
That's going to be the answer.
That's going to be the only way that you can answer that is you're going to need
the mind of Christ. You're going to need extreme intimacy.
You're going to need to have a genuine relationship with the spirit of wisdom
and revelation that is going to coach you and guide you on a daily basis to
figure out exactly what you have to do and when you have to do it.
Like I constantly have God waking me up at like three o'clock in the morning.
It's kind of like doesn't fit so well with my normal schedule,
but he'll wake me up for a couple of hours of like planning time.
And I'm like, OK, so I was kind of going to get up early already,
but I've just been up for hours in the night.
And so I'm getting up a little bit later than I would normally.
But it's because I've been up for hours
just having planning time with God, with the spirit of wisdom.
You got to do this. You got to do this.
It's like, OK, OK.
Intimate moment, step by step in alignment with the mind of Christ
and with everything God's calling you to do.
So I hope that's helpful.
There's not like there's not a directive.
I'll give you one thing that I one thing that that I can see coming.
Is that and this is just something that might just be for me, right?
It might just be for me and a handful of other people.
But it could be for you is that
I hear God calling out right now the Zinzendorfs and the Moravians.
Right, this is what I hear God calling us out,
calling out the Zinzendorfs and the Moravians.
So Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf was the guy who like he was a rich guy in Germany.
He had a bunch of land.
And then the Moravians were refugees who were being persecuted
because of their beliefs around Christianity, mainly by other Christians.
But so they ended up this mob of refugees ended up on Zinzendorf's land.
So Zinzendorf had land.
He had wealth.
The Moravians didn't have land and wealth.
They were refugees.
They needed somewhere to go.
But Zinzendorf opened up the land, created space for them to live.
So they lived and then they started a prayer movement.
They started a 24-7 prayer meeting that lasted for over 100 years.
Not long after they started 24-7 prayer, the first Great Awakening broke out.
It was the Moravians that were responsible really for stirring up the fire.
And John Wesley and you had a spiritual like the first Great Awakening broke out,
broke right across England, broke out like crazy.
Right. And so England got the Great Awakening and the French got the French Revolution.
And that's because the Moravians impacted John Wesley so powerfully
that he got set on fire and the world came to watch him burn.
And then after that, it sparked a missions movement like the world had never seen before.
You know, like the John, John Leonard Dover, who was him and another guy.
I think it was John and Ben.
Anyway, they were the first Moravian missionaries, right?
They sold themselves into slavery and they took back their possessions in a coffin
because that was the only way that they could get to the West Indies to be missionaries was to go as slaves.
So they sold themselves into slavery, used the money from the sale of from selling themselves into slavery.
They used that money to start the Moravian Missions Fund, which sparked a missions move that went all around the world.
And their family are all on the docks, young family.
And they say, we go that the land may receive the reward for his suffering, not knowing if they'd ever return.
They ended up seeing a move of God, probably around 30,000 people gave their lives to Jesus.
And they did end up coming back to their families eventually.
But they saw God do a phenomenal work over there.
So Zinzendorf and the Moravians, I sense that God wants to birth prayer movements like our generation hasn't seen.
That's that's some and I think some of them will be like Zinzendorf and the Moravians and a little bit like the
monastic movements that St. Patrick set up that shook all of Europe back in his day.
So, yeah, Angie, can I just say, like, that really resonates with me.
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
is going to be in the populated areas.
And so he's wanting people who have wealth to buy land in the more country areas, the regional areas, and actually set up
communities there because, yeah, like they can grow their own food.
They can live a bit off grid, you know, all of those kinds of things.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely. There's, there's a big dynamic to that. And it's a
really interesting dynamic, like, that's what we're working
on right now, you know, like behind the scenes, we're trying
to do that right now. But I think that it's gonna, in the
past, we've been very, very individual, like, if you've got
money, and you've got time, and there's no pressure, you do it
by yourself, right. But I think that's changing. And there's a
demand on community. And there's a demand on like, in a sense, in
the past, we could go it alone. But now, I think what, put your
hand up if there's low interest rates where you live. The low
interest rates comparatively, is it like in terms of bank
loaning, it's low interest rates comparative, like record lows in
New Zealand, you know, record lows. What does that mean? That
means that people can afford on an interest only loan, right on
an interest only loan, people can afford to get big loans.
House prices go right up, people get big loans, 3% interest only
loan. And, but that's a person's maxed out on paying interest
only, right at 3%. What happens when that interest rate doubles
to 6%? They lose everything, right? Who gets it all? Exactly.
Right. So, so the challenge right now in buying land, etc. This is
where the Zinzendorfs come in, right? Zinzendorfs are the land
owners, the Moravians, the monastic prayer movement that will
work the land, pray, be the epicentre of missions and
creativity, and education. So, yeah, it's a real, real balance.
And I think that God's got 1000 things happening. I mean, there's
so many things happening that we don't see as well in terms of,
you know, in terms of the spectrum of light, we can only
see 1% of the bandwidth with our naked eye, right? We can see 1%
of the bandwidth. So we can see pretty much everything that the
enemy is doing, because it's all on the news all the time. But
what God's doing is hidden. I tell you what, there are so many
outrageous, huge, massive things that God is doing, but most of
them are all under the radar. But don't think that he is not
moving in the most phenomenal ways, because he is moving in
extreme ways. Right now, it's just the enemy tries to get all
the attention, and God doesn't care, he doesn't need the
attention, he'll do it in secret. But he's still moving
like crazy. So dominoes are getting lined up all over the
world.
So are you going to be a bit of a Zinzendorf in New Zealand,
Benji?
Well, we're not really positioned to be a full
Zinzendorf, right? My whole life, everything I've done has
been voluntary, up until the last couple of years. So, you
know, like we have not, we've had a house and we sold that. So
we've got a little bit of land, but we don't have enough capital
right now just to go and outright buy, just buy land. So
even though like, like, we're in the process of talking, we were
about to buy a house, but we're just processing everything right
now and go, man, do we really buy this house? Like, because
right now we can afford to buy a house. And we can afford to buy
a little bit of land, but we go, man, if we do that, according
to the current mindsets around getting a big loan, we're
potentially setting ourselves up to lose everything. So it's a
really dynamic space, even in New Zealand, right? The
government sold all of New Zealand's wood to China.
Yeah, I've been there, done that, mate. Don't go there.
Yeah. New Zealand's government sold all of New Zealand's wood
to China. There is mountains of wood. But New Zealand is
basically they don't know if there's going to be a building
industry next year. It looks like all the builders are on
edge think it's going to collapse because they're out of
bread, out of bricks out of wood. It's a year's wait for
flooring supplies at six months wait for anything. So what that
will do is that will cause a massive spike in housing prices.
And then the interest rates, when the interest rates go up a
little bit, when my parents were, you know, were raising me
interest rates were like 20% over 20%. Which is insane. So if
we're at 3% right now, they can only go up. So if they double and
go to 6%, or 10%, then what happens is everyone loses
everything, but also the house prices crash. So it's just kind
of like a dynamic, really dynamic economic space to be in
too. So what I'm
just saying to that off the back of that is, we're really trying
to consider options of how we go about things with no, like, we
need Zinzendorfs. That's why I'm saying we need the Zinzendorfs
who want to buy land, or either like, or either do it
collectively in community styles, but there needs to be
land freehold. And there needs to be movements of prayer,
monastic movement. So that's just one thing, right? Don't
limit God, because we see 1% of the bandwidth, and he's, he is
flat out busy on the other 99%. And if you stick your head into
the throne room, there is the sound of war. There is the sound
of victory, there is a sound of invincibility, there is a sound
of joy, there is a sound of worship, there is a sound of
adoration, but there is not one sound of fear. There is not one
sound of anxiety, there is not one sound of hopelessness, there
is not one sound of, oh, I hope this works. Right? It's
invincibility is the sound of heaven. That's what we talked
about a couple weeks ago, Symphonia, right? And for us,
that's what the prayer movement is about, is about creating
Symphonia. So we release the sound of heaven in the earth.
But at a scale never seen before, never done before, what
else is happening at the same time, a viral outbreak of
sonship is taking place on the planet right now, like never
before, God is moving all over the planet, bringing people into
sonship. What does that look like? It's moving everyone
towards the Ephesians for until and when that until happens,
what does that produce? It produces an unprecedented level
of Symphonia in the earth. And what does that produce? It
brings us into a place where we're co laboring with God for
the fruition of Daniel 727, where every ruler will worship
and obey him. What does heaven sound like? It sounds the same
as Daniel 727. What does it sound like? When every ruler
will worship and obey him? It sounds the same as the throne
room. Those two spaces, that moment in time, where every
ruler will worship and obey him, and the throne room are in
Symphonia, it's the same sound. And so he's calling us into that
space of the same sound. And the more we align with Symphonia,
the more momentum we have on all fronts. And yeah, so God is
doing a massive, massive, massive amount of work on all
fronts. And our focus is to ensure that we're in alignment
with the mind of Christ. Whether you're in prison, like the
pastor, what's your priority alignment with the mind of
Christ? Whether you're a missionary in Vietnam stuck in
lockdown, like Raewyn, what's your priority alignment with the
mind of Christ? For Patty, just had an operation sitting in bed.
What's your priority? Alignment with the mind of Christ. For
every single one of us, what's our priority? Alignment with the
mind of Christ. It's not what you do. It's the way that you do
it. And that's what gets results. You will find that when
you're in alignment with the mind of Christ, how you process
will lead to proactive action, as opposed to getting stuck in
the process and becoming a victim of the systematic trauma
that's being unleashed on you.
Any other thoughts there, guys? That was good chicken.
A few good thoughts there.
That's fabulous, Benji. Thank you so much. I was going to ask
how we can accelerate the fulfillment of all those
prophetic scriptures and you just really answered all of
them.
Cool. Well, I'll tell you how. Do hard things. Why do you think
that I do hard things? It's very, very premeditated. Like
this whole, we do hard things, it's all designed around this.
It's all designed because this is the way that we're going to
step into it. The daily hard things challenge is that's what
we need. Because above anything, you need grit. You need
testicular fortitude. You need willpower and self-discipline.
Is it going to be easy? No, it's going to be extremely difficult.
So if you can't do hard things, get ready to get wiped off the
mat. If you can't do hard things, you will not be a part
of this game. You will check yourself out. So that's why I'm
relentless on this. We do hard things, right? Because we just
have to do hard things. Otherwise, we've got so much
ground to catch up on and to
of the doing hard things there's so much like there's so much for us to catch up on because
our culture has made us weak
and so it's time for us to really like really take that back uh and the daily hard things
challenge is is all about that you know like uh it and it requires like it's going to require a
holistic strength you know like if you want to be in step with god what god's doing right now
like sort your health out sort your mind out sort your finances out sort everything out
and you know like a lot of people are about to lose everything so you can still have your
finances and you know your heart around finances perfect you can have your mindset around finances
and you can have your heart around finances fine and still go bankrupt right that's not like
kingdom economics uh doesn't mean that you won't necessarily go bankrupt you know because so many
businesses are about to collapse you know if a building industry collapses that topples so many
things in a whole economy did anyone do anything wrong no they were awesome they were brilliant
business people they did a great job they were employing lots of people they were helping so
many people someone crashed the economy on them uh so i guess what i'm saying here is you know like
there's a lot going on sort your heart out sort your mind out most importantly align with the
mind of christ but do hard things every day i'll chuck one other thing in there that i don't know
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
did an all right job of but god's preparing people right now to be in that space where they are
being they're being prepared to be those rulers who will be ruling over nations and kingdoms
so this is your training ground this is your moment this is your training for reigning
this is god testing you and say hey are you ready to uh to rule in my kingdom uh how would you like
a place of leadership in an even lasting kingdom this is your moment to train for it and if you
can't do things now you know like you're not going to be given real responsibility that's what jesus
said if you if you can't steward things you know like worldly riches who will get who will entrust
you with true wealth like ruling nations and kingdoms of an everlasting kingdom yeah yeah
absolutely sweet fam well who wants to pray for us we wrap it up
you saw that oh i was just gonna share real quick something yeah please do
but um this this is just so motivating and confirming god has really been dealing with
me about passivity in my own life and he gave me a song to um part of a song it's not finished yet
about what you just said about um how he's placing dominoes that we can't see and just so cool
talking about this and praying into this and just growing in this direction doing the hard things
it's awesome thank god yeah it's very cool
very very cool thanks janice i've been d can i jump in here for a minute
yes please do my lovely goodness gracious you're talking about my son here he is just
so radical benji it would take me probably 20 minutes to say some of the things that he's been
through but he is unstoppable um in the courts in the minds i tell you my husband and i would
often say to him hey listen you're a bit um what's the word honey um sinful i suppose and
his approach but benji they have not been able to hold him down in all his honest approaches by
knowing that um he was at high risk at one stage he ended up in the jailhouse for five days
initially they were going to deport him um because of well i can only say this as mom because it's a
mom's heart speaking here um because of his boldness his truthfulness and his ruggedness
um he he is born again he loves the lord um he evangelized melbourne with another friend of a
group of people actually um taking the word of christ to mainly the churches um and dare i say
he was also charging some of them in the high court um which came to
no result really in the eyes of men. We don't know what was happening behind doors but shortly afterwards
Julia Gillard was removed from her position. I'm not saying it was because of that but he
did a lot of work there. And the latest issue was on the mine sites. His lunch was stolen.
He operates the biggest crane on the mine site. He went for lunch. His lunch was taken
as well as another person's. He reiterated his disgust in the behavior and his disappointment
in the way that it was being managed. As a result of that they threw him down and asked him to go
back but he refused to go back. He's now in another mine site operating another crane.
So I guess what I'm saying a lot of what you were saying is where I'm going to start encouraging my
son but under the umbrella of God of course. This has helped me as well Benji to grow
because I feel that movement in my body to go forward and it was just recently that I
aired my views at a church meeting saying that I didn't align to what they were practicing
and oh boy I tell you I came under such fire and felt so alone. But it's this sort of stuff
that you're teaching that encourages me to push on and I feel that I am aligned.
I just need more encouragement I guess and more of what you're teaching and I'm off.
Come on that's exciting. Thank you. Thank you so so much.
Yeah thanks Benji. Hey no worries. Who would like to wrap it up for us with a prayer?
Well I will Benji. Oh yep Lavinia and then Michelle. Sounds awesome. Okay.
Father God. Go Rowan.
Who's going? You go for it Lavinia and then Michelle. Father I thank you for the anointing
that's being poured out at this moment. I thank you for the unstopped ears that are hearing what
you are saying but it goes beyond that Father and I thank you Lord that you know that that you will
quicken it to each and every listening heart Father God to take hold of what you are saying
Father to step out in boldness to align Father God to what you are calling us to do. I thank you
that we cannot do this in our own flesh in our own strength but only in you but we need not be
concerned for anything but everything in Christ we push on towards the goal to take hold of the prize
that awaits us Father. We thank you Father as we wait patiently upon you expectant Father God of
what you would continue to do in the hearts Lord that are desiring so much more and more of you
here on this earth as it is in heaven. I thank you for what is being done Lord in the background
Father God like Benji was saying only one percent of what you please correct me Benji of what you
are doing Lord is known to man and Lord you pour out more as we seek you. We thank you for this
time we thank you for this moment in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.
Thank you. Yes Father God we just thank you according to your word we know that all creation
is groaning in expectancy for the sons and daughters of God to arise at this time and we
just call them up in the mighty name of Jesus. We call them up to arise and shine for your light
has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you and even in the darkness Father God that you
are calling us up in the darkness just call up the sons and daughters in the mighty name of Jesus
and we decree and declare that we will align our minds with the mind of Christ
that we will rule and reign on the earth with you Jesus. We thank you Jesus that you will
strengthen us in this time that we will press into you in intimacy with you we thank you Father
God for that place of intimacy Jesus where you will reveal your mind to us Jesus we just thank
you for it right now just ask you for a fresh anointing upon us a fire to run this race with
endurance that is set before us keeping our eyes on Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith
so we just thank you Jesus I ask you to bless Benji Father God and his family Lord that you
will fill him and bless him for that he will be able to run this race with endurance that
is set before him in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Beautiful family love you very much
we're going to finish with a bang next week that was exciting and
yeah awesome awesome time together so love you
Thank you very much, Ma'am.
Thank you.
Bye.