chat today. So, we've got a couple of people jumping in here, but as we get going, good
to be with everyone. We got them, we lost them. As we're going, it's always cool just
to start up with the Hard Things Challenge and hear how people are going. Sue, great
to have you with us. How you doing? Action. Thank you. Very, very good. Very good. So,
let's just chat for a moment now about how things are going for you with the Daily Hard
Things Challenge. And then we are going to launch into part two, following on from last
week's session, the future of the world. And then we're going to be into today's session,
which is unprecedented revival. Hello, hello. How you doing there? Good to see you. So,
who would like to go first? Who would like to say, tell us something about your Daily
Hard Things and how that's been going and what's been happening for you? I'll just confess
that I've not been really great with that. I actually am a bit of a person who doesn't
like routine. But I'm really being convicted of the necessity of what you're teaching, yeah.
That's interesting. I think one thing that's always important to focus on as well, anytime
we're growing. Carol, welcome. Kerry, welcome. Good to see you there. It's always important to
focus as well on transformation, not perfection. I think we talked about this a bit last week. If
we focus on perfection, it leads to comparison and comparison is the thief of joy. If we focus
on transformation, it leads to gratitude and gratitude multiplies joy. So, two important
things as well. Even if we're trying to do something new, if you're like, oh man, I haven't
been good about those in the past, or it just hasn't kind of been my style, but you want to
grow in it, then you just want to celebrate even the tiniest little bit of progress.
Have you been doing any of them or is this just kind of like a new
concept? Just kind of like, oh, what are these guys all doing? Where have you been at with it?
Yeah, I have been doing some of them. But they're very intermittent.
I tend to just do one for a while and then I'll switch to another one and then do that for a while.
It's just getting the whole thing together, but I guess it's a process.
Yeah, it is. A lot of it's a mindset process as well. It's like, why would you? Why bother?
Yeah. That's the thing. That's the point. I noticed this morning I got up and I was just
feeling a bit flat and I'm going, holy spirit, what am I coming into agreement with you? What
is it? And you just lead me to what I need. And you took me straight to last week's teaching on
this. And I'm like, I'm just reading that. I'm going, what? Yes, it's the light of God. It's
like, yes. Come on. Anyway, yeah. It's just like transforming, renewing your mind. It's so massive.
It is a big deal. And I'll tell you what, we need it more than ever right now.
Because it might not be, that's why it's hard things, right? It might not be comfortable.
It might not be what we're used to. It might not be how we've operated in the past. But
discipline is actually something that we need now more than ever before.
Because discipline is what's going to build strength. I can't remember where it is. I
should look it up. Versus I just flashed through my mind just this week. Let me,
one of those verses you read. Here we go. Problems 2410. This is a big deal, I reckon.
If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength?
It's Proverbs 2014. If you falter in a time of trouble, how small is your strength?
But here's the thing, like a time of trouble is not usually something that we plan for.
You know, how often is,
a funeral at a convenient time? How often is a crisis at a convenient time? Or how often
is an operation at a convenient time? It's never convenient, but it's always a blind
side. It's always unexpected. It's always a real pain, you know, but in those life circumstances,
those storms that come at us, they... Tina, good to see you. Love you. Welcome.
Hi, how are you? Very good, very good. Hi everyone.
Here's the interesting thing, right? Jesus was able to sleep in the storm.
Why was Jesus able to sleep in the storm when the disciples weren't, right? What was the
difference? I think I want to suggest that a whole bunch of the difference, right, is that Jesus
did a lot of hard things. Jesus did a lot of hard things. He was always up praying,
but that meant that he had an internal capacity that he'd already built in that gave him the
ability to rule over the storm. He had that ability to rule over the storm, and that's what we're
trying to do, right? For me, that's my focus in discipleship right now, is we have to build people
who can rule over the storm. You don't, you know, like, not just... Sleeping through it is awesome,
but we have got to grow. We have got to go where we've never been before. We've got to be able to
develop the capacity to rule and reign over the storm like never before, because the storms are
coming. And if we aren't preparing ourselves, then we'll find ourselves living, Proverbs 24.10,
which says, you know, if we falter in a time of trouble, how small is our strength?
But if we never train, you know, like we're going to... If we never build strength, then there's no
way we'll stand when storms come. And you ask yourself, what's the difference between one person
that struggles, one person that stands, and one person that rules and reigns over a storm?
You know, three different places. You might struggle in a storm, you might stand and just hold
your ground, or you might actually get up and rule and reign over that storm. What's the difference?
The difference is all the strength. It's the strength that you've built into your life,
and that is what we do on a daily basis. You don't just, you know, like you can't get that
strength from a conference. You can't get it from reading a book. You get it from what you do
on the daily. Cool. All right, fam, who wants to... Someone else give me... We'll take one
more person, then we're going to launch into today, because we've got an exciting session.
Some stories, some feedback on your daily hard things, what's been happening?
I thought it was quite good the other day, when Elise and I and
the other team, I can't forget their name, and we went walking down and doing praying in the
spirit and praying down the street, and that was really encouraging. And that was quite good.
That was quite good. It was quite neat to do two of our arts together.
That's very cool, isn't it, that we've got people in the same location, people all over the world,
but also some people in the same location, jumping on board doing these things together,
which is actually a cool thing to do, you know, like just to actually invite your friends
to jump on board with the hard things challenge with you. And say, hey guys, actually, you know,
who in your world is actually challenging you to get stronger? Who in your world is
challenging you to grow? Who in your world is challenging you to step things up?
It's a really good thing to do with friends, you know, so it's a great thing to just chuck
out there and invite them like, hey guys, let's actually, let's lift the game.
So, Sue, that might be something that you want to explore is like, oh, hey,
I've got a friend who might want to do this with me, we can grow together,
chat about it and see how it goes. Right, you know, we're in lockdown. It's a bit hard to do
that last example. Oh, for sure, where are you? We're about to meet again soon. Yeah,
Northern Beaches in Sydney. Oh, you guys have got some of the worst lockdown. Yes, it's, yeah,
before it broke out, I was saying, oh, Lord, I'm just a bit, you know, just a bit bored. I'd love
to go on an adventure. And then lockdown came. So each day has been, right, here we go, Lord.
We have just gone back into lockdown again last night. What's stage four? Level four,
right across the country. What's that? Level four is like our highest level of lockdown.
Oh, from nothing. Yeah, it's like it's like a fairy tale, right?
Up until midnight, it's no problem. Everyone's
cramming all the supermarkets but then at midnight all of a sudden it's dangerous
and then it's two meters spacing masks on radioactive material everywhere you know it's
like holy moly yeah all right fam hey well let's um let's get ourselves in the zone for
this session unprecedented revival which is the follow-on from last week's um uh the future of
the world and this is session 12 in the 12-week open heaven master class which means it's the last
session in the master class so we have done well haven't we it's been a good adventure
um we've covered a lot of ground and um i've i've loved the journey but we're going to finish
off with a real ripper um but let's start right now let's just take five minutes just to pray in
the spirit and then we'll watch and see uh what god's doing as we do that so let's go feel free
to unmute and feel free to shun it up and we will um we will just go for it but um papa
jesus holy spirit we welcome you uh right now to flood into the space we welcome you to
into the space papa we are in a day we are in an hour when drips are not enough where
little bits of you are not enough we need fullness we need outpouring we need revival
we need awakening we need what's unprecedented we need the promises we need what uh we need
your grace we need your glory we need the freshness and we need the fullness so papa we look to you
our eyes are on you our hearts are on you
flood the space fill the space overwhelm the space but we take this space in your beautiful name
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We are looking to you Lord, we are looking to you, our eyes are fixed on you and we need
your Word, we need your fresh Reima Word to us, we need your leading, we need your guiding,
we need your angels, we need your anointing, your grace, your glory, your favor, your power,
your presence like never before.
We need you and our eyes are locked on you Papa, our eyes are locked on you Papa.
Papa will you say release the Moses anointing, release the Elijah anointing, release grace
like we've never seen before in Jesus' name, whoa.
Lord when our heart's burning for you Lord, oh yes Lord, oh yes Lord, oh yes Lord, hallelujah.
Yes, Father God, I just thank you God that you are calling us up, up, up, up, up, up,
Father God you're calling us up, higher, even as the Eagle's come above the currents on
the wind Father God that you're calling us up higher, above all the commotion all the
chaos Father God, you're calling us up higher to have eagle eyes, to see with your eyes
Father God, to see with your perspective Father God and not get caught up on the things that
are happening on the earth Father God, to come up here, come up here, shokotarabasu.
Jesus, Jesus, yeah Papa, we thank you for that, we thank you for that, we're agreeing
with that, we say give us your eyes, give us the mind of Christ, we receive the mind
of Christ, we receive your sight Papa, we receive your sight Papa, that we'll see through
your eyes, we'll see through your eyes, Papa we thank you for taking this space today,
for leading us and guiding us and for flowing in this time, Papa for the words that we need
to hear, that you will breathe them, that you'll breathe fire on them Lord, that there
will be weighty presence, that there'll be impartation, not impartation from me but Papa
that your word that you've released from your mouth, that what you've released will accomplish
that for which you sent it, that the very inherent grace and glory and power that is
on the word that you sent, may that do its work, may it produce the fruit in our lives that you
sent it forth to produce. Lord, may every person here receive exactly what you know they need in
your name, Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Welcome, Valerie. Good to have you with us. All right.
So, we're going into part two. Last week was the future of the world. What a topic, the future of
the world. And today is unprecedented revival. And it's week 12, which is a big deal. We've
made it to the very end of the Open Heaven Masterclass. And a couple of recap moments.
So, last week, the future of the world, we looked at all the most exciting scriptures, right?
You know, they were like the most glorious, hope-filled, beautiful,
amazing scriptures that the Bible has about the future of the world. We looked at Daniel 7, 27,
the court will sit and his power will be taken away. And all the power in heaven will be given
to the saints. The holy ones are the most high. And every ruler will worship and obey him. And
this is the end of the matter. How good is that, right? We talked about how the fact that all the
challenges that we are going through, God is using those because he's got to prepare someone to
actually take those places of leadership and rulership. And so, everything that we're going
through, he's prepping us, testing character, you know, there's good things ahead. So, we looked at
that. I mean, just think about it for a moment. What does it look like when every ruler will
worship and obey him? What does that look like at every level of society, in every nation,
in every island, in every mountain, in every part of the world, every ruler will worship and obey
him. It's going to be glorious beyond what we've ever imagined. Then there's, you know,
Matthew 28, go therefore and make disciples of all nations. That's going to come into fruition.
That's where it's all heading. It's Psalm 2, ask of me and I will give you the nations
as your inheritance. It's all these promises are being fulfilled is what we looked at
last week. And in a sense, humanity is on a runaway train towards that destination.
But if you think about that runaway train, it's probably more like a roller coaster ride
than a nice little tram ride beside the Avon River in Christchurch, you know, nice little flat,
gentle. It's more like a roller coaster, but it's still a runaway train and it's still got
a specific destination that God's taking us and it's still like we are going to get there. That's
our glorious hope. And so we talked about being glistening with hope and having our minds anchored
and our hearts anchored in the promise. But I want to talk this week about bridging the gap,
right? I want to talk about bridging the gap because humanity has been through some dark
days, right? Who would agree with me that since Jesus ascended, humanity's walked through some
dark days? Since Jesus gave us the commission to make disciples of all nations, has humanity
walked through dark days? Have there been hundreds of thousands, millions of Christians martyred in
that time, in that process? Yeah, right. Humanity has walked through a lot of dark, dark days,
but has the promise ever changed? No.
Promise hasn't changed and I want to talk a bit about the fact that
like the bridging the gap, right? There's these beautiful promises ahead of us
and part of our role is to bridge the gap and part of that role of bridging the gap actually
looks like holding fast to those promises and calling them into our day. You know, that actually
is a part of our role, is birthing these promises into the earth. Not just, you know, having a kind
of a mindset that is like, oh well God's sovereign so we don't have to be involved in the process in
any way. And then just kind of neglecting the process. So that's part of what we're going to
talk about, but we're going to start. I've got a PowerPoint for you today as well. So,
We are gonna be doing a bunch of PowerPoint.
I've got a bunch of scriptures here for you
and we're going on a little Bible adventure now.
So I'm gonna share my screen.
And let's jump in here.
Okay.
All right.
So we're gonna start, we'll start here.
We're gonna look at a bunch of things that Paul wrote, okay?
Cause there's some things that Paul prophesied
that we're gonna explore today.
Okay.
So Colossians 1, 28 to 29 in Amplified Bible.
Check this out.
I want you to just let me know if you like the sound of this,
if this has got some hope attached to it or not.
Him we preach and proclaim,
warning and admonishing everyone
and instructing everyone in all wisdom,
comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God
that we may present every person mature, full grown,
fully initiated, complete and perfect in Christ,
the anointed one.
How's that for a mission statement, right?
This is Paul's mission statement.
This is why he preaches.
He preaches with the faith and the conviction
and the belief that the purpose of his preaching
is that he's gonna bring,
who he's gonna bring into it.
Him we preach and proclaim,
warning and admonishing everyone
and instructing everyone in all wisdom,
comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God
that we may present every person mature, full grown,
fully initiated, complete and perfect in Christ,
the anointed one.
How's that for a goal of your ministry
is that every single person will be perfect
and that they will be a mirror image of Christ
as a result of your ministry.
That what you're doing is gonna produce
every single person in your ministry
is gonna be a mirror image of Christ.
That's a big mission statement, right?
Who saw that in the Bible,
just hanging out right there,
that that was Paul's mission statement.
You know, I've had so many people just don't,
so many Christians confused in this,
like, oh, well, we're only human.
Well, actually to be human is to be,
to be fully human is to be fully divine
because we're made in his image.
So that's actually not an excuse or a justification
for not being perfect.
To be fully human actually is to be fully perfect.
So this is Paul's message, his mission statement.
Let's look at the next one.
It says, for this, I labor unto weariness,
striving with all the superhuman energy,
which he so mightily and kindles and works within me.
So that was his focus.
That was his purpose in everything that he's doing.
This is his goal.
And we talk about focus in the 21 day,
you know, in the hard things challenge that we're doing.
We talk about having focus.
Well, this is Paul's focus in every single thing
that he did.
His focus was the perfection of every single person
in his ministry.
That every single person in his ministry
would become a mirror image of Christ in the earth.
That's pretty cool, right?
Yeah.
Who had seen that that was Paul's mission statement
biblically before that you knew and understood.
Paul's mission statement is that every single person
in his ministry would be a mirror image
of Christ in the earth.
Yes or no, you'd seen that?
No.
That's pretty good.
That's a pretty good thing to see.
Okay, here we go.
Permission to dream bigger, fam.
There is coming a time when we will reflect
on these days of revival as though they were the dark ages.
So even now, right now,
there are so many things happening in the world
where God is just breaking out in phenomenal ways, okay?
I mean, there's so many places in the earth
where it's just outrageous moves of God.
The Holy Spirit's being poured out.
People are coming to Jesus by the tens of thousands.
These are wild days that we're living in.
But my point is that there is coming a time
when we will reflect on these days that we're living in
as though they were the dark ages.
And it's because of what God is in the process of releasing.
Unprecedented.
Let's look at this word.
Never done or known before.
Unparalleled, unequaled, unmatched, unrivaled,
without parallel, without equal.
And then I like this.
This is just like what happened when it was on the internet.
You know, like, whoop, there we go.
It just says more.
I like that.
There's a whole lot more coming for us.
So Holy Spirit wants to impart an unshakable hope
for unprecedented revival.
That's part of what we're building in.
into us, you know, into our mindsets last week is that we want to be walking around with an
unshakable hope, right? That no matter how dark the day is that we're in, no matter how
challenging the circumstances are that we're in, that our hope would be unshakable in where
this runaway train is going, right? We need to have that set in our mind, on the forefront of
our mind, an unshakable hope for unprecedented revival. Now some people like the word revival,
some people prefer awakening, outpouring, reformation, it's all pretty similar really,
you can kind of split it up if you really want to get into the semantics, but the whole idea
is the same, that God is about to do what we've never seen him do before. Okay, so Paul had a
vision, something he fought for, something he suffered for, something he prophesied,
it's something that he never saw in his day though, right? He could see it, but he never saw it.
All right, so Colossians 1 28 to 29, let's look at this again. Him we preach and proclaim,
warning and admonishing everyone and instructing everyone in all wisdom, comprehensive insight
into the ways and purposes of God, that we may present every person mature, full-grown, fully
initiated, complete and perfect in Christ, the anointed one. For this I labor unto weariness,
striving with all the superhuman energy which he so mightily enkindles within me.
Just checking in here in the group as well, if anyone's watching there, we've got a few comments
here. Morning Annette, hey Lenny, Louise, Greg, Andrea, Andrea Hutchins and Andrea Moxham, cool, cool.
Lots of love to all the people watching us in the group. Oh, we got a bunch there, so
feel free to be chatty, we're watching that everyone that's watching us on Facebook,
we can see you there as well, we love you heaps too. Feel free to jump in the Zoom room though if you
want to. Okay, so verse 29, for this I labor unto weariness, striving with all the superhuman energy
which he so mightily enkindles and works within me. So this is something that he's seen, let's,
I don't know when it happened for him, right? I don't know when it happened for Paul,
but there was a moment when something happened, I'll stop this share just for a second.
John, good to have you with us. I don't know when it happened, but at some point it happened where
Paul saw something. Hello, Lorraine, good to see you there. I don't know what, at what point it
happened for Paul, but at some point in his God journey, he had some type of encounter where God
took him and showed him what was coming, and when he saw what was coming, he started believing for
it in his day, right? And so what we see him believing for and fighting for and going after
in his day is every single person to be a mirror image of Christ in the earth in his ministry.
That's what his goal was. How wild is that? So not only was he just, obviously that means that
he had faith for that for himself as well, right? And also that everyone around him. So he'd had
faith and he was believing for and fighting for and dreaming for and laying his life down
for this dream where everyone, where corporately, it wasn't just him, it wasn't just a few people,
but it was a corporate manifestation of Christ in every single person. That's what he had seen.
At some point, he knew this was happening. God had taken him into it. He'd seen it. We don't
see when he'd had this encounter, but we see it in all his writings that he was believing that
there was going to come a time when there was going to be a corporate manifestation of Christ
in us to the point where we all corporately step into a full manifestation, a mirror image of Christ
in the earth. That's a pretty big deal. So I want you to kind of just pay attention to that theme
in Paul's writings because you see it over and over and over again. When you listen to Paul,
you see this theme of him believing for, fighting for, dreaming for, and living for a corporate
manifestation of Christ in everyone as a mirror image of Christ in the earth.
Okay, screen share again. Let's check some more scripture on this.
All right. You guys can also see the screen, all right? Ephesians 4. We touched on this last
week as well. Ephesians 4, 12 to 13. 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. Now, we talked about this Ephesians 4, 13, until last week as well,
that it might develop. So say, you know, develop, everyone say develop, develop, develop, or say
grow. That's the idea. His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints.
This is Jesus, God's intention. His consecrated people that they should do the work of ministering
toward the building up of Christ's body, the church. And that's actually in context of
specifically talking about the fivefold ministry, pastor, prophet, teacher, evangelist, apostle,
that the whole role and idea and function there is that they would all do their work.
And the purpose was this, that the fivefold would produce something. And this is what the
fivefold is supposed to produce. As the fivefold works together, it's supposed to produce Ephesians
4, 13, that it might develop or grow, say grow, grow, and it might develop or grow until we all
attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the full and accurate knowledge of the son of
God. So that we would have a perfect revelation of who Jesus is, 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. Is this wild? So I want to point out to you that this little until here
in Ephesians 4, 13, there's an until, that until will be marked on the prophetic timeline. Like
there's going to be a historical moment when we see that until fulfilled, right? There's lots of
prophecies that we see fulfilled and we can mark them off and on the timeline, right? You know,
John the Baptist, a voice crying out in the wilderness, that was Isaiah prophesying, right?
A voice crying out of the wilderness. And we're like, okay, that's, um, and when we look back,
we can say, okay, John the Baptist fulfilled that prophecy, right? Agreed? Yeah. Well, this is Paul
prophesying. Hey, Rod, sorry to bug you. You're probably on the roof. Um, Ruthie was asking for
the remote for the, you know, Austin shack. And I know it's like in the front, but I don't think
that TV's, I told her it's just for games. Hey. Um, back to the screen share. So this until in
Ephesians 4, 13 is going to be fulfilled on the timeline. In the future, we'll look back and go,
wow, that was the moment that it was fulfilled. Uh, and what's it going to look like when it's
fulfilled that this is such a game changer. This is a huge deal. When this is fulfilled,
this is not just going to be a little thing. This is going to be so big on the, on when it's
fulfilled, it's going to be such a big moment in human history that it will change normal on the
face of the earth forever. Let's let's cruise along and let's, but I want you to pay attention
to that. It will change normal on the face of the earth forever. So just let that kind of linger
around your mind. We're going to explore that a little bit. So 2 Corinthians 3, 18 and amplified
again, this is Paul writing and he says, and all of us as with unveiled face,
because we continue to behold in the word of God, as in a mirror, say mirror,
as in a mirror, the glory of the Lord are constantly being transfigured into his very own
image and ever increasing splendor. And from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from
the Lord, who is the spirit say transfigured, transfigured, transfigured. That word transfigured
is used in the Bible and the new Testament four times, I believe, twice in the gospels talking
about Jesus when he turns into a great big ball of light once here and 2 Corinthians 3, 18. And
once in Romans 12, two, it's the Greek word metamorphosis. All right. And in the Greek
and Romans 12, two, it says, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transfigured
by the renewing of your mind. How wild is that? Be transfigured. And when you look at Jesus,
when he was transfigured, what did it look like? He became a great big ball of light. It's like,
and like lightnings, right? If you actually look at the word in the Greek that said, you know,
that there was, it was like a blazing light. It also means lightnings. It was like he was,
Jesus was like this big ball of lightning exploding in front of them on the Mount of
Transfiguration. It's a pretty big deal. And that Paul then uses that exact same word to describe
Jesus transfiguration twice to describe the process that we're going through quite dynamic. Right?
So let's go again.
in. So now, let's check this out. Colossians 2, 9 to 10, for in
him, it's Christ, the whole fullness of the deity, the
Godhead continues to dwell in bodily form, giving complete
expression of the divine nature. Hang on, I'm just gonna move
this in here. And you are in him made full and having come to the
fullness of life in Christ, you too are filled with the Godhead
father, son and Holy Spirit and reach full spiritual stature.
Okay, what might that look like? Let's have a little bit of a
look at what this could look like for us. So this guy, can
you see this guy here? Some of you will be familiar with this
story. I've told it a few times because it's one of my
favorites. And so this is St. Francis of Paola and his little
lamb Montetello. So he was from southern Italy and Paola is born
March 27, 1416. And he lived till April 2, 1507. Okay, so
the story, if you haven't heard the story of Montetello, which
I've tried to make famous, right, I'm trying to make this
story famous. And not just the story of the land, the story of
St. Francis of Paola because so few people have heard of him. So
I'm trying to make this story famous. So people can kind of
remember, you know, that this is not just this guy, St.
Francis of Paola, possibly one of the most, well, almost not
possibly, definitely one of the most supernatural guys that's
ever lived in history. Pretty wild guy. But so Montetello is
his little lamb. And he had he had a few different pets.
Montetello, maybe I'll give you a little bit more context about
St. Francis first. But St. Francis was a very famous monk.
He lived a life devoted to intimacy. We talk about our
daily hard things. Well, St. Francis of Paola, he rocked the
daily hard things. And he rocked that so much that his life got
radically transformed. You know, he just spent his life was
devoted to intimacy. And that's really the key. So say devoted
to intimacy.
Devoted to intimacy.
Yeah. So St. Francis of Paola as well as someone that would be
labelled as a mystic. So there's lots of people who are labelled
as as mystics throughout history. Really, if you
understand the definition of a mystic, a mystic is just a
person who experiences extreme intimacy with Jesus. So if you
like the idea of experiencing extreme intimacy with Jesus,
then you fit into the the kind of the definition of a mystic.
Alright, so biblically, all Christians should be mystics,
right? Because biblically, we're all designed for intimacy. So
Montetello, St. Francis of Paola, he goes out and they're
out there building these monasteries all over the place
that they could create places of prayer. So they wanted to just
create places of prayer where people's lifestyles would
revolve around prayer and working the land and education
and creativity and, and missions and serving God. So he was
building these monasteries all over the place. And he he went
out one day and he came back to the monastery where they were
building and his lamb had been left there when he got back.
Montetello wasn't there. He couldn't find Montetello
anywhere. He's like, guys, where's Montetello? And
eventually the builders kind of confessed, oh, we got really
hungry. So we ate him. And they're like, Oh, no. And he
said, Oh, you ate Montetello. He said, Well, where did you throw
the fleece in the bones? And they said, Well, we threw it in
the furnace. So he went up to the furnace. And he prays and he
looks into the furnace and he speaks and says, Montetello,
come forth. Wow. And Montetello leapt out of the flames. Wow.
recreated, resurrected, alive, leaps out of the flames. Wow.
Sister Water, another time they're building a monastery and
that didn't have a good water source. So he went and he was
praying. And he looked at the stream and he was praying and he
said to the stream, he said, Sister Water, follow me. So you
see his staff there in the picture as well. He put his
staff down on the ground. And he traced the line back to the
monastery. And the stream followed him. Wow. That's a big
deal. He had supernatural strength. When they were
building the monasteries, you know, that often have guys all
working on trying to, you know, place the boulders and cut
things. And they'd sometimes get to a point where they just
couldn't move something or get stuck. And he would just walk
over and pick it up for them. You got whole teams of guys
working with all their machines trying to try to put something
in place. And he would just walk over there and pick it up. He
had
You know, oftentimes, a length of timber
would be cut too short.
He would pray for it and it would grow to the right length.
The testimonies from St. Francis of Paler
just go on and on and on.
Transfiguration, so he had multiple testimonies
of transfiguration, you know,
where he just started glowing supernaturally.
A light would just start glowing out of his body.
He had multiple stories as well
of levitating during prayer.
He'd be in a place of intimacy and he's praying
and then all of a sudden he'd start floating around.
So, I'm gonna say this, I said this last week,
but I'll say it again.
When seasons change, what was once rare becomes common.
All right, so what fruit have you guys got
on your trees right now?
Limes, oranges.
You got limes and oranges?
Yep.
Yep, very good.
How about some of the fruits?
Pardon?
Avocados.
Oh, avocados, yes.
So good.
Who else has got, let me stop the share for a second.
Who else has got fruit trees and what's on them?
Yes, what have you got in Canada right now?
Apples.
Apples in Canada.
That's beautiful.
Do you have much citrus happening in Canada right now?
Long season.
No, no citrus.
See, you've got no citrus, we've got citrus.
I've got oranges and lemons on the lawn.
Who else, who's got fruit trees with something on them?
Blackberries.
Blackberries, nice.
Summer, is it summer?
Like, blackberries are summer stuff, right?
No, well, it's coming into autumn, actually.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
Sweet.
Going into autumn, so you've got blackberries.
Here's the thing, right?
Let me go back to the screen share,
but when seasons change, what was once rare becomes common?
And I've talked about this a bunch before, right?
But in the past, praying in the spirit,
praying in tongues was extremely rare.
But after you had the Welsh revival
and after you had Azusa Street,
especially after Azusa Street,
praying in tongues went from being extremely uncommon
to now hundreds of millions of Christians
around the world praying in tongues.
What's the difference?
You know, like, people were praying before,
you know, before Azusa Street happened,
people were praying, right?
You still had lots of people who were praying,
but it's just, a lot of the time with God,
the breakthrough that you get
will depend more on the season that you're in
than the prayer that you pray.
Amen.
I want you to hear this, you know,
a lot of the time with God,
the breakthrough that you get will depend more
on the season that you are in
than the prayer that you pray, right?
So for example, if you say, pour it out, God, pour out,
you're like, God, do what you wanna do.
If you were praying that 1906 to 1909,
what are you getting?
1906 to 1909 in Azusa Street,
and you're saying, pour it out, God,
what you're getting is Shekinah glory clouds
filling the meeting every single day
and an outpouring of the spirit that produces baptism
and the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.
But when seasons change,
what was once rare becomes common.
And so I wanna highlight that Ephesians 4,
13, that until is speaking of a season change
where what has been very, very rare throughout all history,
that until is gonna signify a season change
when what Paul's been speaking about
and prophesying is gonna start being fulfilled.
Okay.
Jesus is the model of our sonship, John 14, 12.
Very truly I tell you,
whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing,
and they will do even greater things than these
because I am going to the Father.
Romans 8, 29, for those God foreknew,
he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son
that he might be the firstborn
among many brothers and sisters.
What's this about?
This is about being a mirror image, right?
For those God foreknew,
he also predesigned or predestined to be conformed
to the image of his son to become a mirror image
that he might be the firstborn
among many brothers and sisters.
Jesus is the model for our sonship.
He's the blueprint.
This is where everything is going.
Everything, every time you saw Jesus doing something right, every act of extravagant
love, his extreme intimacy, dominion, walking on water, multiplying food, authority over
all the works of evil, transfiguration, healing every sickness and disease, how many times
did he have meetings where he healed every single person, raising the dead, appearing
and disappearing, interacting with angels, revealing the father, raising up sons, building
family, defying gravity when he flies off the end, Jesus is the model for our sonship
and what Paul's talking about when he's saying a mirror image is everything that you saw
manifest in the life of Christ being manifest in our lives as a brand new normal.
That's what the Ephesians 4.13 until is about, a shift, a moment in history when there's
going to be a shift that's so dramatic that the seasons are going to shift so dramatically
that there's going to be a corporate manifestation of the sons of God.
What's that going to look like?
Romans 8.19, for the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
So creation is waiting for this, creation knows it's coming.
Creation knows it's coming, it's waiting, it's longing with eager expectation for the
revealing or the unveiling of the sons of God.
Something's coming, creation knows it.
Romans 12.2, do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind.
And the Greek word here, we see it's metamorpho, which is be transformed or actually be transfigured.
We've looked at that, we just talked about that, right?
Every other place it's used, it's translated as transfigured.
So Paul had a vision, a viral outbreak of sonship, a corporate manifestation of Christ
in us, the hope of glory.
This is what all his writings are infused with, the prophetic promise of a corporate
outbreak of sonship, a corporate dynamic where the body of Christ becomes a mirror image
of Christ.
Not a future where the body of Christ is struggling, not a future where we hear people say, oh,
well, we'll never be perfect.
That's exact opposite of what Paul taught.
Paul always taught on perfection, Paul always taught on perfection.
Colossians 1.27, to whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are
the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the hope of
realizing the glory.
And let's come back here again.
This is Paul's anthem of his, like this is his mission statement.
Colossians 1.28-29, him we preach and proclaim warning and admonishing everyone and instructing
everyone in all wisdom, comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God, that we
may present every person mature, full grown, fully initiated, complete and perfect in Christ,
the anointed one.
For this I labor unto weariness, striving with all the superhuman energy which he so
mightily enkindles and works within me.
So Paul's vision was a viral outbreak of Sonship and I like the whole world is like
got this language now of like viruses and viral.
It's so funny because I've been speaking about this for a long time and I just find it interesting
how the word viral is breaking up.
But this is God's dream and it's actually giving us a really good picture of what God
wants to do with the unveiling of the sons of God.
He wants to make it viral.
He wants to make it airborne, you know, like in the atmosphere, you're just catching Sonship
in the atmosphere.
It's so contagious, you know, like we've never seen anything as contagious as what God wants
to release and what God wants to unleash, which is a viral outbreak of Sonship.
So it's an army of the sons of God.
So an army of the sons of God is beginning to rise up all over the planet already.
It's like it's dripping.
It's like it's the first kind of signs of rain.
These sons of Jesus as their model and are beginning to step into his limitless footsteps.
There's massive changes taking place right now in the mindsets in the body of Christ.
We are stepping it like this is starting to emerge now.
What Paul's prophesied until like we're starting to get closer to it, the mindsets attached
to that of a corporate manifestation of the sons of God, it's starting to pitter patter
in the earth.
You know, like whereas 100 years ago, people weren't talking like this, weren't thinking
like this, weren't praying like this, weren't believing for promises like this.
You know, they were just getting you know, they just had the outpouring of of the Holy
Spirit.
doing something else. This is why I'm saying, you know, when you pray for God to pour, it's
more about the breakthrough that you get is more about what God's doing in that season
than the prayer that you're praying in that moment. Right? Because if you start praying,
God pour it out right now, you're going to start getting revelation of sonship. You're
going to start getting big things start changing. So how is the father raising an army of sons
through a global revelation of his unconditional love and delight? You know, what's going to
happen if you start praying right now, I'll tell you what, if you devote your, your will
to prayer right now, you're going to start having radical encounters with the father's
love. You're going to get undone to the core of your being. You're going to get baptized
in love. You're going to get saturated in love. You're going to have encounters with
the fire of God's love. You're going to have encounters that just completely undo you marinate
you, consume you, light you up like crazy and set you on fire. Yay. It's wise because
that's what God's doing. And it's a precursor to this explosion of a viral outbreak of sonship.
So how can we participate in the viral outbreak of sonship? Be loved. This is so, so key.
If you want to do this, if you want to step into this outbreak of sonship, what do you
do on a daily basis to position yourself for it? What do you want to do is you want
to just position yourself to receive God's love on a daily basis and mature sonship.
What it looks like is the ability to receive divine love perfectly and the ability to give
perfect expression to divine love. So good. The father's love is being poured out through
powerful, supernatural love encounters. One guy that was part of our ministry a while
ago, we saw him, it was actually the first day of one of our training schools. We were
in worship time and he was lying on the floor. We're like, oh, you know what's happening
with him? We couldn't really tell. But when he got off the floor later on, he told us
what happened. He'd been sucked into heaven and he had an encounter where he was sitting
on the father's lap and just receiving this radical encounter with love as the father
just poured his love onto him. He's like, oh my gosh, you know, like he, I'd actually
led him to the Lord in my living room. So he didn't have a real like massive Christian
background. It wasn't a Christian family he came from. And then these things start happening.
You're sucked into heaven and encounter with the father's love. It's just like, whoa, totally
revolutionizing his world. The father's love, again, it's being poured out like fire.
This one guy I prayed for, you know, for this baptism and we sometimes talk about the baptism
in fire, right? Well, sometimes the love of God comes as a baptism in fire. And this one
guy I prayed for as the love of God came on him, he burnt for three months. Just had this
burning with the father's love. And so there's supernatural love encounters being poured out.
And they're the foundation, right? This is the beginning. This is the foundation of stepping
in. And so it looks like this journey into sonship looks like being consumed and baptized
and marinated in love at every step of the journey. Why? Because so much of the purpose
of the journey is to become love, right? That's the end goal. That's what being a mirror image
of Christ looks like is to become love. So it starts with experiencing love like we've never
seen before. It starts by, and then we go deeper in love and deeper in love and deeper in love.
Why? Because love is the blueprint for our identity. And this whole journey is about becoming
love so that if people cut you, you bleed love. Like Jesus, when he's on the cross,
he was bleeding more love than he was bleeding blood. All right, here we go, fam. One more time
into the Ephesians 3.16. May he grant you, oh, this, you'll love this. We've read this a few
times, but I just want you right now just to kind of just get in receiving mode for a moment.
Get in receiving mode and let's share this with you. So you can relax, receive, and it's time for
a little bit of a love encounter moment. So may he grant you out of the riches of his glory
to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through his spirit in your inner self,
indwelling your innermost being and personality so that Christ may dwell in your heart through faith
and you, having been deeply rooted and securely grounded in love,
may be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints, God's people, the word of God.
and length and height and depth of His love,
fully experiencing that amazing endless love
and that you may come to know practically
through personal experience, the love of Christ,
which far surpasses mere knowledge without experience.
That you may be filled up throughout your being
to all the fullness of God,
so that you may have the richest measure
of God's presence in your lives,
completely filled and flooded with God Himself.
Oh, how glorious is that?
This process of becoming a mirror image of Christ
in the earth is the process of becoming love,
and the process of becoming love starts by being loved.
Outrageously, and like how many times,
I'm just going to skip a little bit here.
I'll read this.
Before we can become limitless, we must become fearless.
This is where we're going.
It's kind of like backwards in the process.
Before we become fearless, we must become love.
The process of becoming sons
is the process of becoming love,
and the process of becoming love
is the process of being loved.
So on the daily, what's one of the most important things
on the daily that's actually going to position you
for the greatest transformation, reformation
in world history is on the daily,
connecting in vitally with that depth and beauty
and richness and vitality of the love
of your father in heaven.
That's one of the things that I love about the trigger,
you know, practicing our trigger,
is that every time we practice our trigger,
it anchors us into that place.
It takes us back to this place.
So countless times a day, countless times a day,
we can anchor ourself back into that love encounter.
Whoa, so that right throughout the day,
we're experiencing deeper and higher and richer
and fuller and more beautiful experiences of his love.
On the daily, we're plugging ourselves back
into the source constantly, not just once,
but multiple times a day, over and over again,
are plunging ourselves into the depths of his love.
And it's in that place
that the greatest things are going to take place.
It's in that place of encountering his love
that you're going to see the greatest shifts
in your life take place.
The maturity of our sonship is seen
in our capacity to receive divine love perfectly
and our capacity to give perfect expression to divine love.
All right, what is the evidence?
What's the proof that we're growing in our sonship?
Is it miracles?
Is it our stories about angels?
Is it our stories about encounters?
No, it's actually the evidence is actually your ability
to receive divine love perfectly
and your ability to give perfect expression to divine love.
That's the litmus test.
That's the proof.
That's the evidence of your maturity in your sonship.
A baptism in the fire of the father's love
is being poured out and everything that veils Christ in us
will be consumed by the fires of love.
Only Christ in us will remain.
Well, how good is that?
A baptism in the fire of the father's love
is being poured out and everything that veils Christ in us
will be consumed by the fires of love.
Only Christ in us will remain.
That is glorious.
So when you're plugging yourself into,
some people might think, oh, I've kind of matured past
needing just to kind of connect with the love of God.
The thing is that you're not going to mature above
needing to connect in with the love of God, right?
That's not a place of like, oh, you just have to,
you're just, you're not very mature.
You need to plug it.
No, that is the place where we are,
where everything that veils Christ in us is consumed.
That's the place where everything
that can be shaken in us will be shaken.
That's the place in us where,
where everything that veils Christ is removed
is in that place of encounter with the father's love.
So song of songs, let me set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm for love is as strong as death.
Jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord.
And what that's kind of connecting us with
is that the flame of the Lord is what?
The flame of the Lord is love.
The flame, it's flashes.
This is talking about love.
It's flashes, the flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
The flame of the Lord is his love.
For our God is an all-consuming fire, Hebrews 12, 29.
For our God is an all-consuming fire.
And he wants to pour out his love on us until everything that can be consumed is consumed
to the point that only Christ in us remains.
And when we look at this again, when seasons change, what was once rare becomes common.
So what are we experiencing now?
What's different in the season that we're living in right now?
What's different in the season that we're living in right now is that there's never
been so many testimonies.
There's never been so much supernatural activity.
God's never been on the case of humanity so much in this whole idea of flooding us with
his love, of baptizing us with his love.
This is the single greatest season that humanity has ever experienced with encountering the
supernatural love of God.
And we want to sit up and pay attention to that because that's a precursor to something.
That love baptism that we're experiencing is the precursor to a corporate outbreak of
what God has coming.
We are in the season of sonship.
The father is releasing a viral outbreak of sonship on the planet.
But that sonship, before the sonship comes, you have a love baptism that leads to everything
that veils Christ and us being consumed by his all consuming flame to the point that
only Christ in us remains.
What's that going to mean?
What's that going to look like?
It's going to look like this millions of these guys.
You know, like this is an actual picture of St.
Francis of Paola, and I wanted to use that right.
I could use the picture of Jesus.
And we all know John 14, 12.
But psychologically, there's something different when we see a picture of someone that's not
Jesus. Right. And we see a picture of someone that's a man that stepped into the promise.
Well, what's the story about this guy, St.
Francis of Paola? St.
Francis of Paola is rare, right?
How many testimonies have you heard of people picking up boulders with supernatural
strength? How many testimonies have you heard of people speaking to things that have
been killed and cremated and those things not just being resurrected, but being
recreated? Plenty of stories of resurrection, but being recreated.
That's a testimony.
Now, that's like, wow.
And so I wanted to use this picture to help us, because this is not Jesus.
This is a man who followed what Jesus said and got the fruit of what Jesus promised.
But also he's rare.
And when seasons change, what was once rare becomes common.
And this is what Paul was prophesying this whole time when he's prophesying a corporate
outbreak of a mirror image of Christ.
What's it going to look like? Millions of these guys.
That's what it's going to look like.
Does that sound fun?
You mentioned this millions of people roaming the Earth with radical supernatural
power, ruling and reigning over the storm, ruling and reigning over the elements, ruling
and reigning over gravity, ruling and reigning over the very fabric of reality,
bending reality everywhere they go with supernatural power.
What's that going to lead to?
Right. See, what you're going to have is we're going to have a corporate outbreak of
sunship, and those that walk in that sunship are going to be the ones that bridge the
gap from where humanity is and to what we talked about last week, which is the future
of the world. There's actually going to be that group that walk in that supernatural
power, that walk in that sunship, that actually call into our day and actually bridge
the gap from the darkness and the chaos into this unprecedented, glorious future that
is so, so exciting, where every ruler will worship and obey him, where heaven on Earth
is manifested in fullness and goodness.
Is that exciting or what?
We're not taking that, we're moving on from that.
Yeah, let me say this, the season has changed, the season has changed, the season has
changed. Evidence of it is the fact that just put your hand up and who's
experienced a really significant encounter with the love of God?
Who's been experiencing that on a regular basis?
encounters with the love of God. Just going to wave your hand
around like, yep, that's me. I'm experiencing regular encounters
with the love of God. Well, regular encounters with the love
of God are breaking out. And it's a precursor to this
corporate manifestation of sonship. It's happening. It's a
little by little. But it's more, let me say this. It's little by
little, but it's more than ever before. You see that? Like, we're
in a place of, it's little, little by little, there's
change. But it's more than ever before that what we're seeing.
Yeah. These are days of transition, reformation and
revolution. Days of transition, reformation and revolution.
That's what we're living in right now. So much is changing.
So much is changing. God is doing so much. Now we could have
our eye just on what we could have our eyes just on what the
enemy's doing, right? If we've got our eyes just on what the
enemy's doing, it's going to be like, whoa, we're going to be in
a place of chaos. Now, it's important not to pretend that
the enemy is not doing what the enemy is doing. Otherwise, we
can't be an authentic expression of love, right? Because love is
going to meet the needs of people. And if the enemy is
doing something, it's going to cause needs in the people. And
the nature of love is to supply. So if we are going to be love,
it doesn't look like pretending that Satan isn't doing stuff,
right? Love is vitally connected to what people are going through
all around us. But it's not focused exclusively on what the
enemy is doing. Let's kind of carry on through here. I got a
couple of thoughts and then we're going to wrap up. That's
the end of the slideshow. Let me wrap that up. Nkechi, welcome.
Good to have you with us. A couple of people jumped on
board. Estrella, welcome. Good to have you on board. So we've
got our crew on Facebook as well. Good to see you guys. I'm
just going to check the comments there. Andrea, good to see you.
Oh, Lani has coconuts, star apples, bananas, avocados.
Rambutan in the Philippines. Yum. Neil, good to see you, my
man. And Jackie. Hello, hello. Very cool. Sweet. So any thoughts
there, guys? Anyone want to just chuck anything out? Questions,
thoughts, feedback? I've got a couple of thoughts that I'll
finish with before we wrap this up. But I'm just going to create
a little bit of space now for you guys to feedback.
Praise God. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Yes. He's bringing
it on. Yes. Beautiful. Yes, more of that. I've got a quick window
here for you guys if anyone's got questions or feedback or
something that stands out to them. This is a little open
mic moment before I kind of bring into a bit of a close.
And I have felt like I've been through an intensive training
period in the last, well, since the beginning of this year,
really. Yeah. Absolutely. And God needs to kind of step it up,
right? He needs to turn it up. Because we've got so much
growing to do. Right? If we grow at the same speed that we've
always been growing at, crikey, this is going to take forever.
God wants to get some stuff done. You know, so he's
adjusting the intensity. He's like, no, no, no, we're going to
adjust the intensity so that you can keep up with what I'm doing.
We can't, we got to turn things up. He's like, I'm moving way
faster than you are. And if you want to play, like, it's going
to get a little bit more intense, because he's running so
fast. So just and it just means like our growth has to like, our
growth has to increase exponentially to keep up with
what God's doing.
I got the sense that he's just baking, he's making more room
for himself because he's like, yeah, I love you that much. Like
he needs room and space and time to be with us. And I know for
myself, I can run pretty cluttered mentally, emotionally
and spiritually.
So he's like, well, we're making room.
So in the last few days,
I just felt like he just cleared out a bunch of space.
And I was like, oh, hi pops.
Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah.
He's like, yeah.
Like, remember this?
Yeah, that's right.
When seemingly or had the experiential
all the time in the world to be with him,
which we actually do,
because his space and time dimension is different.
One moment in the presence of the Lord
is like a thousand years.
So whatever the way that goes, but yeah.
So just this idea of he can,
just a moment with him can literally solve
literally a lifetime of pain.
And so just to remember that,
that it is always wise to be in his presence
because I mean, he's the dad,
so he kind of knows what he's doing.
And so it's like, yeah, it's like,
do you want to do that all by yourself?
Are you sure you want to?
I know you can, but with me, it's better.
It's way better.
And he reminds me of that all the time.
And yeah, so, just like I said,
just the last couple of days,
I was wrestling with him, like,
we're just trying to get things done,
doing it my way, whatever.
And then his way is way better.
His way is so much better.
And it's, and his way is so,
there's so much love and compassion and freedom.
It's amazing.
God's so kind.
He's so kind.
He loves us so much.
So we don't, oh, just to sit at his feet,
like Mary was doing the better thing,
he didn't, he said the better thing.
Like, of course there's other things to do,
but it was the better thing.
So that's something that is really nice to remember.
It was the better thing.
It's like where I have the choice, let me choose him.
And so, you know, especially as a lot of us
do get to choose a lot more than we think,
things get chosen for us if we allow that,
but we do get to choose.
So that's what I feel like I'm in a season
of re-remembering this choice that he engaged me in first.
He pursued me and the rebirth, reborn, you know,
waiting, the Pentecost, the fires coming,
and like, you know, just wanting to be filled and fueled
because we cannot do this version
of what's going on right now.
We can't do that alone.
So praises.
Thank you, Benji.
Blessings.
Welcome.
That's awesome.
Beautiful.
Thanks, my friend.
Anyone else want to jump in there?
Otherwise I'm just going to step into kind of my
wrap up.
Yeah, I am.
I was just remembering like an encounter
where I was singing unto the Lord
and it was really awesome.
And I stopped and all I saw was a choir.
I saw the whole, no, an instrumental choir,
like the instrumental band.
Like I had, you know, I had the heavenly band,
like violin, you know, it was just amazing.
I've never heard that before.
And it was just amazing the more
that you get into your presence.
And I don't know, I've just got an unction
that the Lord wants me to sing out a word.
So is that all right if I do that or?
Yeah.
Take a moment.
Don't sing for like an hour.
But yeah.
No, no, no.
Sing your word, sing your word.
It's a word that the Lord wants me to sing.
Um.
As you go deeper
through me
laying on me
letting me guide you through
I'll show you many things
and give you deeper revelation
of what is going to come
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
Beautiful.
Well, maybe one more person,
if someone's really keen, jump into it.
Hi Benji, I'll maybe just confirm
what you've been saying of,
just been feeling that a lot lately
is the Romans 8 verse 19
of just creation and the earth groaning
in expectation for the revealing of the sons of God.
So I really confirm that which you're saying.
So I thought I'd share that.
Beautiful.
Thanks so much.
Some, just a quick update.
I can anticipate that going forward
we're going to have more and more
kind of sensitive material that we want to share
that we can't share in your Facebook.
So we've been working pretty hard
and with developers and we've got our own platform
being developed where we can, we can't get deep platform.
We can say whatever we want to say.
We can be, so that's really cool.
spend a lot of time and money getting that developed so it's happening in the background
so stay tuned for that because we will start doing every now and then some of our sessions
will start happening on our new platform it's it's maybe a couple of months away or maybe less
in terms of before we start bringing this up but I just want to say there's you know there's going
to be space for that because not everything that we're going to say now we need to say
is going to be Facebook friendly so just kind of be prepared that that's coming but I here's
kind of where I want to talk about right now is like bridging the gap I just kind of like
want to talk this bridging the gap like what's happening what's changing what's God doing and
some things that I've seen is like really really reshaping and reshaping happening right now so
you guys maybe all be in different different places so I'll just be kind of transparent and
I may have to be cryptic a little bit just depending on what I say so you just have to guess
but my perspective of what we're seeing right now is that we're seeing a level of evil
in the earth right now that's greater than we've ever seen before more evil more systematic
than anything we've ever seen openly manifest before and
in 2009 God started showing me this like exposing this and I had a whole season of encounters
where he was showing me all sorts of things in this time basically you know and then I try and
start talking to people about it no one's like oh that could never happen right persecution of
Christians in the west could never happen that's what people were like there's not it's not a
possibility but I was saying this like 2009 I was like man guys I'm seeing serious persecution
coming in the west like that's a really intense really systematic and from the top down not you
know not some random group but like actually orchestrated systematic oppression and they're
like nah it'll never happen it can't happen it's happening right it is happening right now
uh and and everything that we're seeing right now we um we haven't even it hasn't even started
but but God right but God's always doing something in the midst so what's what's
the God thing that's happening in the midst of it and I think that we need to really focus in
on this because um what I believe is going to happen is that we are about to see the greatest
prayer movement in world history birth all right and I think that no matter how good our intentions
are and how good our hearts are there's something that changes when you lose your freedom or when
persecution comes you pray in a way that you couldn't have prayed before right when persecution
comes you can't it's like you can't fake that type of praying it in that context it births
something that can't be birthed outside of that context like some seeds can only be germinated
with fire and when we're comfortable and when we've got everything we need and there's just
so much abundance in that we pray uh we pray we pray the types of prayers associated with abundance
and that's good and that's glorious and and that's actually ultimately where we're going to
get to right um and in the midst of in the midst of transitioning through chaos we still transition
through in a way that we rule over the storm as we go through it right that's the goal that's what
sonship looks like it actually looks like ruling over the storm while you go through it amen don't
mistake anything of what I'm saying now for us losing authority losing dominion but what I'm
saying is there's going to be a birth of the birthing of prayer a global prayer movement like
we haven't seen before I think this is going to unfold in all sorts of different ways I think
it's going to be an online prayer movement I think it's going to be local churches uh praying but I
also believe that one of the things that we're going to see is a resurgence in monastic prayer
right so communities that come together communities that revolve around prayer so
geographically based on the same space you know like working the land um a a rhythm of prayer
um hosting the presence and this is what I started to see in 2009 was this
dynamic where um people were coming together and they were creating glory habitations
so habitation of the glory of God which was is what they saw in Azusa street 1906 to 1909
every single day pretty much they had a manifest shekinah glory cloud in their meetings um
to varying intensity. And they prophesied, William Seymour and Charles Parham both prophesied at the
end of that, that in around 100 years, God's going to begin to restore the shokinah glory of God back
to the church. And that's been coming in driplets here and there. I believe what we're going to
start seeing in these communities, in these monastic communities, is the greatest expressions
of glory habitations that the world has seen. We're going to start seeing whole new dynamics
of this, but it's also going to be the hotbed of transformation, the hotbed of the unveiling of the
sons of God taking places in these places. I feel like it's going to be bubbles, right? This is what
God showed me. It's going to be like a habitation, like a group of people in this part of the world
will get together and they will dominate it, right? They will just own prayer and they will
break open this whole dynamic of a corporate unveiling of sonship. You know, like we just
looked at St. Francis of Paola, they're going to start seeing that like popcorn, you know,
imagine popcorn, you create the context for it, and they create that place of fire, or they create
that place of prayer, create that habitation, and then it's like popcorn, like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop,
and then another habitation over here in this part of the world starts doing the same thing, and
another one over here. And so what I'm seeing and what I'm believing is going to start happening
is that as persecution starts stepping up, we're going to see the greatest prayer movement that the
world has ever seen before. And that prayer movement is going to start giving birth to the
unveiling of the sons of God in unprecedented ways. So wherever you are, I feel like this is God
bringing a call to prayer for us as individuals, but also as a corporate dynamic that there's,
I want to encourage everyone in this season, like how can you be connected with a corporate prayer
dynamic in some way? So he's been really challenging me on that. So we are going to be,
we're not too far away from it, probably a couple weeks time, we're going to launch our first 24-7,
which is going to be a week of prayer. So the idea is that people will take a half an hour
slot, right? So you just say, okay, this time, this half an hour slot during the day, that's when I'm
going to pray, and you would take that slot for seven days. So we're going to test that out for
seven days. And then we're going to see if we can maintain it and do a good job for seven days.
Then we're going to see if we can actually work towards making our 24-7 more of a permanent
24-7 space where we're actually creating, where we as a community are praying 24-7 all the time.
So I feel like there's going to be the online dynamic. I feel like there's going to be a local
dynamic where prayers, like churches start stewarding this, community starts stewarding this.
And then I feel like there's going to be a community, like residential on-site monastic
dynamic of this as well, which is going to be one of the things that really catalyzes
what we're talking about. So yeah, I feel like that's kind of the essence of what I wanted
to share there, because what I'm talking about, there's some big stuff, right? It's a big
deal, a big concept of a corporate unveiling of the sons of God. And we need to go, okay, right,
we're not there yet, right? That's coming. Where are we in the timeline? Where we are in the
timeline is where the people that get to pray and birth the Ephesians for until. And what if
all the pressure around us, God is allowing all that pressure so that we will reprioritize prayer
so that we can give birth to the Ephesians for until, which is probably the most important
thing on God's agenda right now. Priority list for God. What's God's priority list? It's probably
not your comfort. It's probably more along the lines of a corporate unveiling of the sons of God.
And so don't be surprised if things don't get comfortable in the way that we've used to them
being comfortable, because comfortable didn't produce the until. Yeah. Yeah. Comfortable
didn't do it. Comfortable hasn't produced what we need in the earth yet. So get ready for discomfort
that is going to produce something phenomenal. But at the same time, get like what we're doing
in the daily hard things. And what we're doing here is helping you to prepare to roll and rain
over the storm. Even if the storm isn't comfortable, you can fall in rain. Like we
talked about the Chinese pastor last week who went to prison for 27 years of torture.
And they said, how do you survive? And he said, what do you mean? How do I survive? It was my 27
year honeymoon with Jesus. Why? Why was it? It's because he learned how to roll over the storm
in the midst of the storm. So get ready to grow and rolling over the storm.
in the midst of the storm, but allowing the storm to be a catalyst for prayer that wouldn't
come any other way, prayer that births the Ephesians 4, 13, until, which at that point
we see an explosion of the corporate manifestation of the sons of God.
And that corporate manifestation of the sons of God becomes the bridge that bridges the
gap unto the Daniel 7, 27 wild, outrageous dreams that we have at hand.
So yeah.
Wow.
Praise God.
Cool, fan.
Hey, well, let me pray and then we're going to wrap it up.
Just go into receiving mode and let's watch and see what Papa will do.
Papa, Papa, we love, love, love you.
We love, love, love you, Papa.
We love, love, love you.
Papa, you know where we are all at, every single one of us in our journey, and Papa,
we just thank you for, we thank you that you've got a specialized plan of growth for each
one of us.
You've got a journey, you've got a direction, you've got a process for each one of us.
And I thank you, Papa, for coming in right now for every single person with a huge enveloping
in your love.
I thank you for a huge baptism in your love right now.
I thank you for swallowing us up, for wrapping us up for a huge encounter with your love
right now.
I thank you for swallowing us up in your love.
Thank you.
I thank you for swallowing us up in your love.
And I thank you, Papa, right now for a release from heaven, an impartation from heaven of
faith, of faith in your promise, an impartation of heaven right now, of grace that rules and
reigns over storms in Jesus name, Jesus name, Papa, I thank you for the grace of giant slayers
being released in Jesus name.
I thank you for the grace to rule and reign in Jesus name.
I thank you for a grace to pray like we've never prayed before.
I thank you for a grace to have eyes to see what no other generation has seen before and
grace to have faith for what no other generations had faith before.
Papa, I thank you for taking us into unprecedented revival.
I thank you for taking us where we've never been before, showing us what we've never seen
before.
Papa, I thank you for your spirit on us and in us and through us.
I thank you for your breath breathing on us.
I thank you for the angelic realm coming around us.
I thank you for, Papa, a whole new dimension of dominion and authority being released over
your people, Lord, that causes us to rule and reign.
Papa, I thank you for the mantles that were on Elijah and the mantles that were on Moses.
Lord, the mantle that was on Elijah that enabled him to rule and reign over the prophets of
Baal and bring restoration to the people of God.
I thank you for the mantle that was on Moses that enabled him to rule and reign over
governmental powers and structures in Jesus name.
I thank you for that grace that was on Moses and the grace that was on Elijah.
Papa, I thank you that you restore the mantle of Moses and the mantle of Elijah to your
people in Jesus name, that there would be a great uprising, Lord, that there'd be a
great overthrowing of the prophets of Baal, that there'd be a great overthrowing, Papa,
of structures and systems designed to oppress your people, and that there'd be a great
release, Lord, of extravagant freedom.
That there'd be a great release of heaven on earth.
There'd be a great birthing, Papa.
We're calling forth, Papa, the until in Ephesians 4, we're calling forth in Jesus name the corporate
manifestation of the sons of God in Jesus name.
Papa, I thank you for a faith for that, a grace for that, to be released right here
on your people right now, that there'd be grace to have faith to believe what Paul believed,
to dream for what Paul dreamed for, to live for what Paul lived for, a corporate manifestation
of the sons of God in Jesus name, amen.
Amen.
Well, lots and lots of love to you all and life-changing 12 weeks, Benji, it's been amazing.
Oh, you're very welcome. It has been a wild 12 weeks, hasn't it?
Benji, can we catch up on the ones we've missed out?
Yeah, if you just go to the guides, let me show anyone who hasn't seen this,
I'll just do a screen share. You guys can all see that, eh?
Yep.
Okay, so guides, if you've ever missed anything,
it's pretty much always in the guide section here. So just click on guides,
and you go here, there's the orientation course, give you a bit of info,
gonna ground you here. This is the foundations course.
In this, the Seven Sacred Pathways to Intimacy,
Ilana and I will be live again on Friday with that.
And here's the Open Heaven Masterclass. Oh, look, I haven't put the,
somehow the week 11 one didn't get in here. So I'll put the week 11 one in here,
but you have, you've got all of the, all of the stuff in here.
So that'll be there. If you haven't done this foundations course,
I really highly recommend that, like to go through that.
It's really powerful, really gives some awesome foundations and sonship.
Yeah, there's lots of good stuff in here. This is the 40-day Extreme Ownership Adventure
that we did, which was seven weeks of goodness. There's worship with Dana.
Yeah, so there's quite a, quite a good chunk of good stuff in here.
Thank you.
No worries. So, oh, let me,
hang on.
Oh, I didn't even, did I actually even share that screen?
Yes.
Yep, you did. Okay, cool.
All right. What's happening here?
I've lost you guys. Is it still shared? Is it? Oh, there it is. Stop share there. That's why.
I lost my little button. Sweet.
So we'll take a bit of a break next week. Alana and I will be live Fridays still with
Seven Sacred Pathways. We won't do this next week. We've got a School of the Spirit coming
up with Matt Lansdowne, which is going to be really powerful, really good.
We've got a really cool parenting course coming up too, which we've been working on a bunch
for that. So I think you're going to really enjoy that parenting side of things,
kind of wherever you're at, it's going to be really good, good chicken.
But yeah, there'll be lots, lots of good stuff coming from here. So I'm going to sign off for
now and say lots of love to you all and bless you and we'll catch you soon.
Thank you. Bye.
Bye.
See ya.