WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 know about the past five days, just because different circumstances and events have tied up my life, 2 00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:13.760 but I've been trying to figure out on how to step into different parts of this all, 3 00:00:13.760 --> 00:00:19.040 with all the training is just so much for me. It's like, oh, I'm getting confused, 4 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:22.480 but I'll just contact support, you know, definitely, definitely. 5 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:29.120 Oh, that's good. Well, they're an awesome team in there. 6 00:00:33.760 --> 00:00:37.120 Where are you? Like a background radio or something going on there? 7 00:00:37.120 --> 00:00:39.840 Oh, can you put in headphones? 8 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:44.720 Sorry, I didn't realize. 9 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:54.320 Oh, good. 10 00:00:55.520 --> 00:00:57.120 Sweet. How you doing? 11 00:00:58.800 --> 00:00:59.760 I'm fine, thank you. 12 00:01:00.720 --> 00:01:03.440 That's great. That's great. What's been happening? 13 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:08.240 I've been very busy translating a PDF. 14 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:13.360 Oh, wow. That will keep you busy. 15 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:18.320 I'm almost done. Just a few more pages. 16 00:01:18.320 --> 00:01:24.160 Amazing. Oh, very well done. Very well done. It took a long time to write it. 17 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:29.680 Well, it's a challenge, especially the poem. It's a challenge. 18 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:37.840 Oh, yeah. The poem will be impossible. You'll never be able to get the poem. 19 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:44.480 You can translate it, but the thing with poetry is it's very difficult to translate a rhyme, 20 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.800 isn't it? Yeah, but I'm not one to give up. 21 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:51.600 Good. Good stuff. 22 00:01:53.520 --> 00:02:01.600 So I got through it. Yeah, it was amazing because I just asked, when I read a new part of it, 23 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:07.200 every time I read a new part, I thought this is not going to work. This is impossible. 24 00:02:08.160 --> 00:02:16.240 And then I started just praying and listening and thinking and I got through it. Yes, I did it. 25 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:24.320 Well done. Well done. Well done. Oh, that's a great effort. And Elise, how are you doing? 26 00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:40.400 My mouse don't have batteries in. No, it's fine. I felt very overwhelmed this morning. 27 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:45.520 I worked hard on my template yesterday and this morning I was just like kind of stuck, 28 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:51.200 literally stuck in my pajamas and in my bedroom at my window. 29 00:02:52.720 --> 00:03:03.760 And yeah, because I'm facing a few giants that, you know, you think you overcame until you really 30 00:03:03.760 --> 00:03:19.600 try to tread there. But I just read your post on your other near-death experience and I was like, 31 00:03:19.600 --> 00:03:23.680 oh my goodness, wow. So that really spoke to me. 32 00:03:24.160 --> 00:03:35.280 I've had plenty of those near-death experiences. So that one and the car one and I'm actually 33 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:40.000 going to post two other ones as well. I'm going to put two other ones up that were all from the 34 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:48.480 same year. Sure. Benji, Benji, that's crazy. I thought that, like I told you about my experience 35 00:03:48.480 --> 00:03:53.040 with the city bus and everything and the whole injury. Dude, you got me topped like crazy. 36 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.520 I feel like, man, this is crazy. You're a warrior, man. 37 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:12.160 Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I just have had a bunch of near-death experiences. 38 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:17.920 And yeah, you got it. Yeah, you got it. 39 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:27.760 Hey, well, team, we're just a small crew for today, but let's pray and we'll get our chat on 40 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:30.800 and it feels awesome to be connecting with you guys. 41 00:04:31.760 --> 00:04:44.560 So yeah, Esther, why don't you pray? Why don't we get the ladies to pray for us 42 00:04:45.280 --> 00:04:49.200 to kick it off and we'll just see what happens. 43 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:59.760 Father in heaven, I just want to thank you for being here with us. 44 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:02.600 We know that you are here. 45 00:05:02.600 --> 00:05:04.840 We know that you are in us and around us. 46 00:05:04.840 --> 00:05:06.720 And you are so wonderful. 47 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.720 Thank you for this journey. 48 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:10.440 Thank you for teaching us. 49 00:05:10.440 --> 00:05:14.320 Thank you for helping us mature and step into the destiny 50 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:15.840 that you have for us, Father. 51 00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:20.280 And I just want to bring this conversation 52 00:05:20.280 --> 00:05:24.120 that we're going to have before your throne 53 00:05:24.120 --> 00:05:28.040 and submit to whatever you have planned. 54 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:29.040 In Jesus' name. 55 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:37.240 Dear Lord, thank you so much for just how you bring us 56 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:43.960 together, how you've planned all the details, 57 00:05:43.960 --> 00:05:46.720 how you've orchestrated our lives to bring us 58 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.440 to this point. 59 00:05:49.440 --> 00:05:52.600 Lord, we don't want to miss it. 60 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:58.360 We want to step into that, that you've brought us here for, 61 00:05:58.360 --> 00:06:06.520 to step into, to step up, to put off, to put on. 62 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:10.000 Everything, Lord, and yeah, I can just speak for myself. 63 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.240 I give you permission. 64 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:15.240 I give you permission, Lord. 65 00:06:15.240 --> 00:06:16.720 And thank you for Benji. 66 00:06:16.720 --> 00:06:18.000 Thank you for his heart. 67 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.400 Thank you for his, yeah, just his passion and his obedience. 68 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:25.600 It's blessing us all. 69 00:06:25.600 --> 00:06:27.200 And I pray for power, Lord. 70 00:06:27.200 --> 00:06:32.880 I pray for power for him to continue to run, to hear you, 71 00:06:32.880 --> 00:06:36.600 and that we all would receive that you have for us, 72 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.800 but that we will also impart to each other. 73 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.040 Just give us boldness and courage, Lord, 74 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.640 to run with what you've given us. 75 00:06:45.640 --> 00:06:46.480 In Jesus' name. 76 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:49.240 Wow. 77 00:06:53.320 --> 00:06:55.960 Oh, wow. 78 00:06:55.960 --> 00:07:02.800 Abba, Yeshua, Holy Spirit, we love you. 79 00:07:02.800 --> 00:07:04.160 We love you. 80 00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:06.200 We love you. 81 00:07:06.200 --> 00:07:11.040 We thank you for your tangible glory that's right here, 82 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:11.640 right now. 83 00:07:11.640 --> 00:07:15.640 We thank you for the wonder of the atmosphere of heaven, 84 00:07:15.640 --> 00:07:20.040 the atmosphere of your presence, the atmosphere that 85 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:22.240 flows from your face, the atmosphere that 86 00:07:22.240 --> 00:07:23.640 flows from your nearness. 87 00:07:23.640 --> 00:07:24.520 We thank you. 88 00:07:24.520 --> 00:07:27.200 Oh, oh, oh, oh. 89 00:07:27.200 --> 00:07:33.000 And nothing compares in this life or the next. 90 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:36.640 Nothing compares to you. 91 00:07:36.640 --> 00:07:41.400 You are our exceedingly great reward. 92 00:07:41.400 --> 00:07:43.880 You are the pearl of great price. 93 00:07:43.880 --> 00:07:50.920 You are beyond explanation in your goodness and your wonder. 94 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.040 There's nothing we've ever tasted 95 00:07:53.040 --> 00:08:01.080 that is more perfect or satisfying or desirable 96 00:08:01.080 --> 00:08:01.720 than you. 97 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.680 You are. 98 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:11.920 You are the satisfaction of the deepest longings of our being, 99 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:15.720 and we love everything about you. 100 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:20.880 I thank you for oneness of you. 101 00:08:20.880 --> 00:08:24.280 I thank you for seamless union. 102 00:08:24.280 --> 00:08:29.200 I thank you that in you we live and move and have our be. 103 00:08:29.200 --> 00:08:34.799 And I thank you for opening our eyes like never before 104 00:08:34.799 --> 00:08:38.760 to the reality of our oneness in you. 105 00:08:38.760 --> 00:08:41.440 Wow. 106 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.760 And I thank you that you are our motivation. 107 00:08:44.760 --> 00:08:47.840 And I thank you that as we chat about motivation, 108 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:56.040 that you will lead and guide and inspire and stir up 109 00:08:56.040 --> 00:08:58.800 our hearts in your beautiful name. 110 00:08:58.800 --> 00:08:59.320 Wow. 111 00:09:05.040 --> 00:09:05.560 Wow. 112 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:06.080 Wow. 113 00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:10.240 Wow. 114 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:16.000 Such a beautiful atmosphere of the presence of God 115 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:18.760 all around me right now. 116 00:09:18.760 --> 00:09:21.800 Oh, love it so much. 117 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:27.400 Something that has just popped into my mind 118 00:09:27.400 --> 00:09:29.880 now is that I didn't know about you guys, 119 00:09:29.880 --> 00:09:34.320 but I grew up in a religious church setting. 120 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:41.160 And it probably took me, I don't know, over 20 years. 121 00:09:41.160 --> 00:09:44.720 I was over 20 years old before I even 122 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:47.760 realized you could experience the presence of God, 123 00:09:47.760 --> 00:09:50.160 that it was an actual thing. 124 00:09:50.160 --> 00:09:52.920 And before that, moments where I had experienced 125 00:09:52.920 --> 00:09:57.000 the presence of God in hindsight, like looking back, 126 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.960 I recognized like, oh, that was the presence of God. 127 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.280 back then, but most of, you know, that first 20 something years of my life, 128 00:10:04.280 --> 00:10:08.040 I had no idea that the presence of God was something that you could experience. 129 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:15.000 And now it's the highlight of my existence. 130 00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:21.280 And I'm so grateful as well. 131 00:10:21.280 --> 00:10:23.640 And so there's been two big changes for us. 132 00:10:23.640 --> 00:10:26.080 Share this with you about intimacy with God. 133 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:28.240 There's been two big changes with me. 134 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:33.280 One is discovering the presence of God, 135 00:10:33.440 --> 00:10:36.200 that the presence of God is a. 136 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:39.320 Is it a reality that you can have yet that you can have? 137 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:41.720 You know, that's that's Jeremiah 31, 31. 138 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:45.000 They will all know me from the least of them to the greatest. 139 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:47.400 Jeremiah 31 through to 31. 140 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:51.280 This is one of the three diversity tree that they will all know me 141 00:10:51.280 --> 00:10:54.640 from the least of them to the greatest, which is the word Noah's, 142 00:10:54.640 --> 00:10:59.760 the Hebrew with that, which means intimate experiential knowledge to see, 143 00:10:59.760 --> 00:11:03.480 to hear, to touch, to taste, to smell the greatest. 144 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:07.320 That's the greatest word for intimacy that there is possible. 145 00:11:08.880 --> 00:11:11.960 You know, when they use the word in Genesis, Adam, 146 00:11:12.400 --> 00:11:15.920 yet that Eve and, you know, she bore a son. 147 00:11:16.880 --> 00:11:19.800 So it's the greatest expression of intimacy possible. 148 00:11:20.160 --> 00:11:24.120 And Jeremiah prophesied that everyone would get that 149 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:27.880 from the everyone would have the greatest experience of intimacy 150 00:11:27.880 --> 00:11:30.600 possible from the least to the greatest. 151 00:11:31.160 --> 00:11:36.560 And so the first big shift for me was discovering that that was even a possibility 152 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:42.080 in that God wasn't just a distant being that you prayed to in the clouds, 153 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:47.520 but that you could have a tangible experience 154 00:11:47.520 --> 00:11:51.720 with the reality of supernatural presence right here, right now. 155 00:11:51.720 --> 00:11:55.000 So that was a big first big mind shift for me. 156 00:11:55.000 --> 00:12:00.440 And then the second big minds, my mindset shift for me was realizing that. 157 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:05.480 It didn't have to be just every now and then, 158 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.280 it wasn't like a treat that you got if you were being good. 159 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.520 It wasn't something that was performance based. 160 00:12:11.520 --> 00:12:13.560 It wasn't something that you had to strive for. 161 00:12:13.560 --> 00:12:16.960 But it's actually a present reality. 162 00:12:17.560 --> 00:12:20.840 It's. It's more real. 163 00:12:21.160 --> 00:12:24.080 Your intimacy is more real than disconnection. 164 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:28.680 Separation is an illusion. 165 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:34.000 So it's so when we have when we experience 166 00:12:34.640 --> 00:12:38.440 Yadah, when we experience that tangible presence and that union 167 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:40.960 and that oneness and that intimacy with God, 168 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.440 those are the moments that we actually walk in reality. 169 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:48.760 The moments when we're not walking in the experiential knowledge of God 170 00:12:48.760 --> 00:12:52.360 are the moments when we're walking in an illusion. 171 00:12:53.560 --> 00:12:58.120 So the second big mindset shift was for me that it's a state of being. 172 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:00.440 It's a 24 seven reality. 173 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:04.120 And that intimacy is not that. 174 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:07.000 But, you know, we know James wrote about draw near to God. 175 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:09.000 And he will draw near to you. 176 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.480 You guys know that verse, right? 177 00:13:11.560 --> 00:13:13.880 Well, that's talking about 178 00:13:13.880 --> 00:13:17.560 that's not talking about proximity, it's talking about awareness. 179 00:13:18.200 --> 00:13:23.960 But James, James for a he says, draw near to God and God will draw near to you. 180 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:28.360 It's not about it's not talking about distance as though when we draw near to 181 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:30.520 God, we're actually closing the distance. 182 00:13:30.520 --> 00:13:33.160 It's about consciousness. 183 00:13:33.160 --> 00:13:35.160 It's about being aware of God. 184 00:13:35.160 --> 00:13:37.160 It's about being aware of God. 185 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:39.160 It's about being aware of God. 186 00:13:39.240 --> 00:13:41.240 It's not about consciousness. 187 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:49.080 It's about waking up to the present reality of our oneness. 188 00:13:49.800 --> 00:13:51.320 It's not about trying to create oneness. 189 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:55.400 It's about waking up to the present reality that in him we live and move and have our be. 190 00:13:56.280 --> 00:14:00.920 And when you wake up, when you become conscious of your oneness. 191 00:14:03.880 --> 00:14:05.400 Then everything changes. 192 00:14:05.400 --> 00:14:07.960 And so I just felt like sharing that with you, 193 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.400 because today has been such a beautiful day of intimacy for me. 194 00:14:11.400 --> 00:14:14.120 And the presence is so thick and so strong. 195 00:14:14.680 --> 00:14:18.600 And, you know, for me, if we're going to talk about motivation. 196 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:25.720 You know, that is that is the greatest source of motivation comes from. 197 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.840 Well, comes from oneness with him. 198 00:14:29.720 --> 00:14:36.520 So just open mic now, really, for you guys to chat about chat about motivation. 199 00:14:36.520 --> 00:14:37.640 We have our session. 200 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:41.400 Friday, New Zealand time. 201 00:14:41.400 --> 00:14:46.360 Now we have our first session on Wednesday, chatting about the eight pillars of motivation. 202 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:48.760 And you guys have had the motivator template. 203 00:14:48.760 --> 00:14:52.680 So open mic for you guys just to chat and see what's on your heart. 204 00:14:54.920 --> 00:14:55.960 And I'd just like to. 205 00:14:59.080 --> 00:14:59.560 Say that. 206 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:08.320 You just said, I've gone through that same process coming from a religious background 207 00:15:09.520 --> 00:15:18.320 and when I discovered oneness with God, even though I don't always experience that yet, 208 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:22.080 but it was like being born again again. 209 00:15:23.840 --> 00:15:24.320 Come on. 210 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:33.200 That's just, and I always say I was born again because I've never been without Jesus. 211 00:15:34.560 --> 00:15:43.520 But that just, when that opened up, it was like, wow, so the gospel is really good news. 212 00:15:44.400 --> 00:15:51.120 Like it suddenly dawned on me that God actually means what he says when he says it. 213 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:55.920 And there's so much that has opened up from his words since then, 214 00:15:55.920 --> 00:15:58.880 that I'm realizing that he's serious about when he says it. 215 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.320 That's just awesome. 216 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:09.120 And when it comes to motivation, I think there is no bigger motivation than that. 217 00:16:10.400 --> 00:16:19.600 Just the major desire to see his kingdom manifest on earth as it is in heaven. 218 00:16:20.320 --> 00:16:30.000 That's, for me, that's the core of everything I desire and there's lots of things that I can 219 00:16:32.400 --> 00:16:40.400 pinpoint as desires, but nothing is above that. 220 00:16:41.040 --> 00:16:44.880 That's just, everything boils down to that core thing. 221 00:16:45.680 --> 00:16:55.840 So I don't even care which of my desires comes first, as long as that's just whatever, however, 222 00:16:56.480 --> 00:17:01.920 whatever you want me to do, even if you want me to be on Facebook, I'll go on Facebook. 223 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:03.840 Yeah, come on. 224 00:17:04.560 --> 00:17:05.040 Amazing. 225 00:17:05.760 --> 00:17:08.240 And that's just, that's it. 226 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:08.960 That's it. 227 00:17:09.359 --> 00:17:10.319 That's it. 228 00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:14.079 And that has been my desire all my life. 229 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:23.920 But when I discovered oneness and how marvelous the gospel really is, 230 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:34.320 that just blew up the desire inside me to have everything. 231 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:44.080 It's like, I just don't want, I mean, Jesus died for this. 232 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:58.640 And I don't want just one drop of his blood to go to waste because I didn't step in. 233 00:17:59.600 --> 00:18:02.800 So that's just, that's my motivation. 234 00:18:02.800 --> 00:18:11.120 And I have my dreams, I have no clue how to get there, and things open up and I'm, 235 00:18:12.560 --> 00:18:23.920 you can't be serious about this, but once I get past the emotion and the fear and whatever, 236 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:33.840 and the chaos, every time it comes down to, okay, do you want to go or are you staying here? 237 00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:36.800 But I can't stay here. 238 00:18:36.800 --> 00:18:37.760 I have to go. 239 00:18:39.280 --> 00:18:40.880 Well, yeah. 240 00:18:43.440 --> 00:18:44.880 The choice has been made. 241 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:46.400 I mean, I can't go back. 242 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:49.120 So I have to go. 243 00:18:49.120 --> 00:18:49.680 Yeah, I hear you. 244 00:18:49.760 --> 00:18:52.800 Yeah, that's a big, that's a big deal. 245 00:18:54.560 --> 00:18:55.600 Donna, welcome. 246 00:18:58.320 --> 00:19:00.080 Good to have Donna jumping in here. 247 00:19:00.080 --> 00:19:01.360 I mean, that's huge. 248 00:19:01.360 --> 00:19:07.600 And thank you so much for sharing that core driver. 249 00:19:07.600 --> 00:19:08.720 That's so beautiful. 250 00:19:09.840 --> 00:19:12.560 Love, love hearing that. 251 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:17.840 And we've all got, we've all got, we've all got, we've all got, we've all got, 252 00:19:18.320 --> 00:19:23.680 we've all got, when it comes to motivators, your core drivers are the things that will motivate you. 253 00:19:25.280 --> 00:19:39.040 So I grew up in a town that hosts the V8 supercars and V8 supercar racing, and you've got 254 00:19:39.040 --> 00:19:43.760 best people in the world coming to our town all around the world to race V8 supercars. 255 00:19:43.760 --> 00:19:46.720 But I never went because I just don't care. 256 00:19:48.800 --> 00:19:53.520 You know, there's no, there's no motivation for me there because I don't care about V8 supercars. 257 00:19:54.240 --> 00:19:58.080 But other people, they're just like, oh my gosh, going down to the track. 258 00:19:58.080 --> 00:19:59.760 And I'm like, meh. 259 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:05.200 it never even crossed my mind because there's just no level of, there's no desire there 260 00:20:05.840 --> 00:20:13.520 for that and so there's no there's no core driver inside me but you know I would spend hours and 261 00:20:13.520 --> 00:20:18.960 hours in prayer because there was a different core driver you know so there's people like 262 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:23.680 or you know other people like so excited to go racing and I would way rather go and pray 263 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:31.760 it was a no that's like a no-brainer decision for me like racing or prayer man come on I'm off 264 00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:38.160 I'm off into my secret place so welcome Michelle and welcome Donna good to see you guys 265 00:20:40.800 --> 00:20:48.080 so we're um we're just chatting about motivation and it's open mic time now for you guys to just 266 00:20:48.800 --> 00:20:58.560 chat so if you've got something to share then you can go can I go um I that very much the same kind 267 00:20:58.560 --> 00:21:07.440 of background and when I had my first I had four four back ups and the first one was very dramatic 268 00:21:07.520 --> 00:21:19.440 it was a nine hour op and I didn't I gave up before I actually were in it um and 269 00:21:20.960 --> 00:21:29.040 I actually asked God for another wife for my husband which was ridiculous um who I thought 270 00:21:29.040 --> 00:21:34.960 would be a good mom to my children I was really giving up but in that moment Jesus came 271 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:40.400 very close to me close close close he was standing next to my bed 272 00:21:40.400 --> 00:21:50.880 and I attended a lecture a lecture before about his I I just realized that in my intense pain 273 00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:58.640 his back was really hurting when he was on the cross I mean there was my pain was not uh 274 00:21:59.600 --> 00:22:06.080 uh yeah he really understood what what I was going through and in that moment it was just like 275 00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:10.400 yeah it's a long story anyway I don't want to go into the story but 276 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:18.080 I wasn't a respirator and that kind of stuff so I didn't feel as if I can breathe and as he stood 277 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:24.240 next to me I felt that oxygen was just washing over me and he reminded me a lot about that 278 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:30.880 intimacy I experienced in that moment because I didn't even know that he was that involved in my 279 00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:40.000 life um and and that he cared so much that he was like no you're going nowhere I'm turning this 280 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:51.040 around um and and he's really challenging me that he feels the same way about me all the time and 281 00:22:51.040 --> 00:22:57.440 he also feels the same way about everybody I want to minister to so I'm not I'm not 282 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:06.960 praying in vain and that thing that um Esther said that you know I I experience his presence 283 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:13.280 I'm actually reading Boss John's I'm hosting the presence at the moment but I don't experience it 284 00:23:13.280 --> 00:23:23.840 all the time and it's it's as if my mind still that too good to be true thing um and as I did 285 00:23:23.840 --> 00:23:32.560 the motivation yesterday the why it really hit me that this is this changes everything 286 00:23:32.560 --> 00:23:39.120 if I can keep that why in mind all the time it changes everything um 287 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.480 yeah so yes 288 00:23:46.640 --> 00:23:49.520 that's beautiful beautiful 289 00:23:51.520 --> 00:23:57.920 Donna how are you doing good to see you there I'm doing wonderful thank you 290 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:06.160 that's great what's happening for you what's happening well I've been enjoying a wonderful day 291 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:14.240 a wonderful day um my husband and I took an early morning walk together and um we're just 292 00:24:15.120 --> 00:24:21.840 we're just enjoying each other I'm newly married and um after God rescued me from 293 00:24:22.640 --> 00:24:30.880 years and years and years of stuff so um everything is good and getting better um 294 00:24:31.520 --> 00:24:37.200 were you talking about motivation yeah that's what we're talking about but actually I just 295 00:24:37.200 --> 00:24:44.560 felt like God highlighting you and it would be cool just to um talk about you just hear your 296 00:24:44.560 --> 00:24:48.880 heart and hear your journey and just hear about you I just feel this beautiful spotlight on you 297 00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:55.920 right now so I'd just love to hear some of your story okay well some of my story um 298 00:24:55.920 --> 00:24:59.840 started a long long long long time ago um 299 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:03.440 when I couldn't have children, but God. 300 00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:07.620 And then God blessed me with five biological children 301 00:25:07.620 --> 00:25:11.000 and two adopted birth sisters. 302 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:16.000 And children and family are near and dear to my heart. 303 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.560 My parents were good role models 304 00:25:20.560 --> 00:25:22.600 to keep the family together. 305 00:25:22.600 --> 00:25:25.180 And my parents are now with the Lord. 306 00:25:25.180 --> 00:25:28.840 And I really feel that I'm to be a legacy leaver. 307 00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:33.900 Legacy in so many ways, but kingdom legacy, family. 308 00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:38.240 Looking at the word of God, 309 00:25:39.260 --> 00:25:44.260 God had to break me out of so many walls and in boxes. 310 00:25:45.300 --> 00:25:47.040 I was in a box myself. 311 00:25:47.040 --> 00:25:48.940 I had God in a box. 312 00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:53.060 I had Raelyn and the church. 313 00:25:53.060 --> 00:25:55.700 And God's just through raising royalty 314 00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:58.100 and through meeting everybody online 315 00:25:58.100 --> 00:26:01.460 and just listening, he just like went, 316 00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:06.460 and all walls just, they came down and excitement now. 317 00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:10.340 And I'm just, I enjoy life. 318 00:26:10.340 --> 00:26:12.820 I love living life as a little child. 319 00:26:12.820 --> 00:26:16.940 The simplest things like a butterfly flying by 320 00:26:16.940 --> 00:26:20.820 or the blue sky just make me happy. 321 00:26:20.820 --> 00:26:21.660 So, yeah. 322 00:26:21.660 --> 00:26:24.360 Oh wow, that's beautiful. 323 00:26:24.360 --> 00:26:29.360 Um, so, can I ask you some questions? 324 00:26:32.600 --> 00:26:33.440 How are you feeling? 325 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:35.160 You feeling kind of like an open book right now 326 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:36.760 and adventurous? 327 00:26:36.760 --> 00:26:37.880 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 328 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:38.720 I'm good. 329 00:26:38.720 --> 00:26:40.400 You strike me as a real open book. 330 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:43.840 So we're talking about motivation. 331 00:26:43.840 --> 00:26:48.840 And so I think that motivation and disappointment 332 00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:51.040 can kind of sometimes go hand in hand 333 00:26:51.040 --> 00:26:52.640 because the things that disappoint us the most 334 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:53.760 are often because they're the things 335 00:26:53.760 --> 00:26:54.880 that we desire the most. 336 00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:59.520 So could I just get you to share with me either, 337 00:26:59.520 --> 00:27:04.520 that either, you know, like one of your, 338 00:27:04.600 --> 00:27:05.960 I know you've kind of shared it there 339 00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:07.800 in terms of kingdom legacy, 340 00:27:07.800 --> 00:27:11.160 but can you just go more into, you know, 341 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:13.920 what the greatest desires are for you 342 00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:15.860 or a greatest disappointment? 343 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:18.800 We're cool just to hear along those lines. 344 00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:20.440 Just go a little bit deeper. 345 00:27:21.280 --> 00:27:25.560 Well, I remember when God taught me a big lesson 346 00:27:25.560 --> 00:27:30.040 about disappointment and it's human nature 347 00:27:30.040 --> 00:27:31.880 to look forward to something, 348 00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:34.440 to get our expectations up. 349 00:27:35.880 --> 00:27:38.400 And then, yeah, it's not so nice 350 00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:41.680 when we see them getting crashed down. 351 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.360 But I remember learning a lesson 352 00:27:43.360 --> 00:27:46.180 not to put my expectation in other people. 353 00:27:47.020 --> 00:27:52.020 I can have expectations as I go through life 354 00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:57.380 on various things, like I want to be a legacy leaver 355 00:27:57.860 --> 00:28:00.780 while my expectations are that my finances 356 00:28:00.780 --> 00:28:02.820 are going to soar. 357 00:28:02.820 --> 00:28:05.660 So, but my expectations of that 358 00:28:05.660 --> 00:28:07.980 are riding on the word of God 359 00:28:07.980 --> 00:28:11.020 and what God says about it. 360 00:28:11.020 --> 00:28:14.940 I don't wanna put my expectations in people or things 361 00:28:16.780 --> 00:28:18.880 I've learned too many hard lessons. 362 00:28:20.260 --> 00:28:23.460 So I'm easy to motivate. 363 00:28:23.460 --> 00:28:28.460 I am a extremely positive person and I love adventure. 364 00:28:29.060 --> 00:28:32.620 So I'm motivated to do a lot of things, 365 00:28:32.620 --> 00:28:36.340 but I have to be very, very, very, very, very careful 366 00:28:36.340 --> 00:28:40.780 that I don't go to the left, to the right, 367 00:28:40.780 --> 00:28:45.780 that I'm motivated for what God has for me. 368 00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:49.740 I don't wanna be straight away on tangents 369 00:28:49.740 --> 00:28:51.620 that will get me nowhere. 370 00:28:51.620 --> 00:28:55.540 I need to keep, is it a lot, 371 00:28:55.540 --> 00:29:00.540 Elise was saying that intimacy, 372 00:29:00.660 --> 00:29:05.380 I have to keep that intimacy going with the Lord. 373 00:29:05.380 --> 00:29:10.220 And I'm just motivated to see all that he has for me. 374 00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:15.220 I want to definitely live my destiny in full. 375 00:29:16.220 --> 00:29:18.700 I don't wanna be missing parts of it. 376 00:29:18.700 --> 00:29:22.660 I have to do what God has designed me to do 377 00:29:22.660 --> 00:29:25.380 from before the beginning of the world. 378 00:29:26.860 --> 00:29:28.900 Beautiful, love that. 379 00:29:30.420 --> 00:29:31.820 Oh, welcome Lorraine. 380 00:29:31.820 --> 00:29:33.020 Good to see you. 381 00:29:33.020 --> 00:29:36.140 It's just open mic time now, 382 00:29:36.140 --> 00:29:39.460 just having people share about their motivations. 383 00:29:39.460 --> 00:29:42.940 And so that's been beautiful. 384 00:29:42.940 --> 00:29:47.740 And Jonathan, why don't you share with us, 385 00:29:51.020 --> 00:29:52.500 something, what's going on for you 386 00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:54.780 in this whole space of motivation? 387 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.120 We can't, I don't think we can hear you mate, you haven't unmuted. 388 00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:12.280 There you are, can you hear me now? 389 00:30:12.280 --> 00:30:13.280 Yeah, perfect. 390 00:30:13.280 --> 00:30:14.280 Okay, good to go. 391 00:30:14.280 --> 00:30:20.480 So, this is also exciting because the School of Sonship, the Identity Versus Everyday, 392 00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:24.560 everything is just so fruitful in the life and the prayer with our team and then just 393 00:30:24.560 --> 00:30:29.080 the devotion brother. 394 00:30:29.080 --> 00:30:33.840 I'm so rich, but I've been trying to pursue God for so many years after my story, you 395 00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:38.120 know, with my injury and all my miracles and all the cool things all the time to just, 396 00:30:38.120 --> 00:30:42.920 because I live to taste and see because if I'm not worshiping God, I'm empty. 397 00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:46.600 Well, in that whole deal though, I've been wanting all these things to come forward for 398 00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:53.680 so many years through businesses and goals and triumphs and successes and whatever else 399 00:30:53.680 --> 00:31:00.160 to, but then God, when I found, because I met Zania years ago through a mutual friend 400 00:31:00.160 --> 00:31:07.360 online and then she connected me with you and then I went for a short time, but I was 401 00:31:07.360 --> 00:31:12.160 not in the right place to pursue it all the way and then God said, no. 402 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:17.320 Well then, you know, a few months ago, God came back to me and said, not God came back 403 00:31:17.320 --> 00:31:22.080 to me, I'm sorry, this came across my eyes again and the word goes, Jonathan, this is 404 00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:23.080 your time. 405 00:31:23.080 --> 00:31:25.240 Go run hard. 406 00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:30.040 And it's a lot to learn, but it's, it's a blessing indeed, for sure. 407 00:31:30.040 --> 00:31:36.360 And I'm so excited to see that now all the, as, as our sister here was saying, which everyone 408 00:31:36.360 --> 00:31:40.200 was speaking before this at all the side attractions, you know, trying to stop turning your head 409 00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:44.720 left and right, left and right, you know, all the time to just stay focused. 410 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:51.480 It's such a, such a main goal to stay focused upon because in this all, we're just all going 411 00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:55.480 to be fruitful to each other and just rejoice together. 412 00:31:55.480 --> 00:32:02.480 And this, the, the power of my life now though, that I feel with the achievements so far of 413 00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:08.280 just praying for everyone and then also with each other too, man, we're just one big happy 414 00:32:08.280 --> 00:32:09.280 family brother. 415 00:32:09.280 --> 00:32:10.280 It's so cool. 416 00:32:10.280 --> 00:32:16.240 It's so cool because I, I mean, I've worked with international students here at Milwaukee 417 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:18.560 university for almost 10 years. 418 00:32:18.560 --> 00:32:25.000 And then I also know people are on the world as we all do, but I mean, I know at my age, 419 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:30.120 you know, being in 33, I mean, I know people in probably over 35 countries and people see 420 00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:31.120 me and talk to me all the time. 421 00:32:31.120 --> 00:32:38.120 And I'm like, how do you know so many people like talk to him, you know, he's the one that 422 00:32:38.120 --> 00:32:43.160 makes my connections, but it's so cool to now see that now, now that I've been able 423 00:32:43.160 --> 00:32:50.160 to work in so many ways with these things, the guy's going to blossom my, my agenda and, 424 00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:56.960 you know, just help me to move forward and to find success and balance in order of his 425 00:32:56.960 --> 00:33:02.280 function because I want to serve God all around the world with all that he does in me. 426 00:33:02.280 --> 00:33:10.720 So just, um, uh, did you have, let me ask, did you have a primary goal that's coming 427 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:15.600 up right now that you're going to put through the template, through the motivator? 428 00:33:15.600 --> 00:33:16.600 Um, yes. 429 00:33:16.600 --> 00:33:19.600 Um, this is where I have my memory. 430 00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:22.840 Cause I don't remember what it is right now. 431 00:33:22.840 --> 00:33:31.880 I'm just trying to think that I, yeah, I'm not, I don't recall exactly what I was trying 432 00:33:31.880 --> 00:33:32.880 to do. 433 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:33.880 Yeah. 434 00:33:33.880 --> 00:33:34.880 That's all right. 435 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.880 Let's just see. 436 00:33:35.880 --> 00:33:40.520 Is there anyone that's done the motivator template yet, or that's started, started working 437 00:33:40.520 --> 00:33:41.520 through it? 438 00:33:41.520 --> 00:33:43.160 I know Elisa's started. 439 00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:49.120 Anyone else had a, like got the template out and had a, um, had a look through? 440 00:33:49.120 --> 00:33:50.120 Not yet? 441 00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:51.120 That's all right. 442 00:33:51.120 --> 00:33:52.120 Um, Lorraine, tell me how you're doing anyway. 443 00:33:52.120 --> 00:33:53.120 It's good to see you. 444 00:33:53.120 --> 00:33:54.120 Oh, good to see you too. 445 00:33:54.120 --> 00:33:55.120 Oh, we're doing good. 446 00:33:55.120 --> 00:34:12.239 Um, I was thinking about it this morning, I looked through the motivator and if I had 447 00:34:12.239 --> 00:34:18.360 to identify, um, the biggest thing for me, I thought, you know, it doesn't matter really 448 00:34:18.360 --> 00:34:25.000 what I choose, but everything else pales compared to knowing God. 449 00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:33.960 Because without that, everything else seems to be not worth pursuing if he's not there. 450 00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:38.560 So I haven't put it through the motivator yet, but I did decide which was my biggest 451 00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:45.120 goal and what was worth dying for because everything else is really, it's great, but 452 00:34:45.120 --> 00:34:50.440 it's not really worth dying for if I don't have him. 453 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:54.679 So that was sort of the deciding line for me. 454 00:34:54.679 --> 00:35:00.000 And, um, yeah, we had our, we had. 455 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.800 it. None of you are in Canada, right? 456 00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:10.600 We've got the Netherlands. We've got yeah, we've got the UK, New 457 00:35:10.600 --> 00:35:13.480 Zealand. Donna, we're about to you. 458 00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:16.800 I'm on the west coast of Florida. 459 00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:19.880 West Florida. And Jonathan, where are you? 460 00:35:23.680 --> 00:35:26.000 I'm in Illinois, two hours south of Chicago. 461 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.920 Okay, so we're pretty spread out today. And then we hit, we've got 462 00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:34.040 Michelle, and I think Michelle is in the UK as well. 463 00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:42.200 We, we had a wonderful night last night of declarations. And 464 00:35:42.280 --> 00:35:48.600 it was really, it was really neat to see prayer that, you 465 00:35:48.600 --> 00:35:51.680 know, we were sort of almost praying from a different realm 466 00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:59.440 because if we, how do I put this? If we're just praying, you 467 00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:04.720 know, for things God has already given us, then he's like, well, 468 00:36:04.720 --> 00:36:08.360 I've already given you that. So instead of praying for those 469 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:12.400 things, we were declaring them in, you know, declaring them 470 00:36:12.400 --> 00:36:14.960 because we know that God has given us all those things 471 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:22.600 already. So we had, we had a wonderful, wonderful time 472 00:36:22.640 --> 00:36:31.960 yesterday of declaring things. And yeah, so little, well, I 473 00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:32.880 guess I won't say that. 474 00:36:36.120 --> 00:36:37.040 What would you say? 475 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:44.600 Oh, I was, well, it's just very encouraging to see people 476 00:36:44.600 --> 00:36:49.600 hungry for the Lord and hungry for his presence. And really 477 00:36:49.600 --> 00:36:54.080 appreciate this group and appreciate all the, all the 478 00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:58.960 information and all the, the really the support in pursuing 479 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:02.880 God. Yeah. So and the encouragement to do so because 480 00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:06.400 you can kind of get stuck right in, in just with all the 481 00:37:06.400 --> 00:37:07.440 distractions. 482 00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:12.680 Yeah. Have you guys seen any of Dana's worship sets? 483 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:15.600 No. 484 00:37:17.200 --> 00:37:23.640 Dana is in Canada. And she, so if you, in the Masterclass group, 485 00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:28.080 so the other one with, you know, the 14,000 odd people in there, 486 00:37:28.560 --> 00:37:31.360 in that group, the Masterclass group, if you click there, 487 00:37:31.360 --> 00:37:35.240 there's a room called, there's a guide called the burn room. And 488 00:37:35.240 --> 00:37:38.560 we put the, when there's worship sets and prayer sets, we put 489 00:37:38.560 --> 00:37:42.040 them into the burn room. Man, I've just, I mean, there's some, 490 00:37:42.040 --> 00:37:45.040 there's a great worship set there from Tyler and several 491 00:37:45.040 --> 00:37:48.800 really good ones from Dana. I've just been putting those on in 492 00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:53.800 the morning and getting undone. It's so glorious. It's wildly 493 00:37:53.800 --> 00:38:00.120 like, just so good. Yeah, you're gonna, yeah, you'll, you'll love 494 00:38:00.120 --> 00:38:02.720 those. You know, it's just a great, it's, you know, it's not 495 00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:04.680 a teaching thing. So it's a great thing just to put on when 496 00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:08.480 you're having fun with the Lord. It's so good. She's such an 497 00:38:08.520 --> 00:38:15.200 amazing worship leader. Yeah, it's beautiful. And, you know, I 498 00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:19.200 love hearing that, Lorraine, and I quote that, you know, I've 499 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.600 seen, it's really stood out to me last week or so, it's like a 500 00:38:22.600 --> 00:38:27.040 Wigglesworth quote. And he said, you know, if you truly, 501 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:31.400 paraphrase, but it's basically this, if you truly fill with the 502 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:38.080 Holy Spirit, you'll achieve more in one year than you would in 503 00:38:38.080 --> 00:38:43.000 50 years of your own striving, 50 years of your own effort. And 504 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:48.080 it's like, oh, yeah, totally. Because things just go into, 505 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:58.200 things just go into warp drive when he's doing stuff. And so 506 00:38:58.200 --> 00:39:01.680 our next, our next template that we're going to do next week is 507 00:39:01.680 --> 00:39:13.080 the, the strategic planner. Right. And, Donna, were you 508 00:39:13.080 --> 00:39:19.080 gonna say something? No? Okay, I think you might be muted. 509 00:39:20.080 --> 00:39:25.040 Is it the one with the dreams? The strategic planner? 510 00:39:26.680 --> 00:39:29.520 No, that's another, that's another one. So kind of where 511 00:39:29.520 --> 00:39:36.040 we're at in the process now is, the first three weeks are kind 512 00:39:36.040 --> 00:39:38.920 of general, they're kind of generalized. So the, yeah, the 513 00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:42.640 first one's the dream activator, where we start, you know, really 514 00:39:42.640 --> 00:39:45.920 dreaming into all of our things. And then we do the, you know, 515 00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:49.720 we're processing failure, and then we're stewarding success. 516 00:39:49.720 --> 00:39:53.800 And this week is the motivator. And it's at this point that 517 00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:56.840 things start getting, you know, streamlined into actually 518 00:39:56.840 --> 00:39:59.880 choosing one dream as your main dream that you want to focus on. 519 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:09.000 Because the way that these templates are designed is that they're designed, the last four especially, 520 00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:16.000 are designed to help you take one particular dream and really bring it to life. 521 00:40:16.000 --> 00:40:27.000 So, with the motivator, you take one particular dream and you put it in there and it's so exciting what happens to a dream when you put it through the motivator. 522 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:32.000 Just the level of focus and the level of like, oh my gosh, I want this so much! 523 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.000 Just asking yourself, what will the world miss out on? 524 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:42.000 And, you know, who's counting on you? Who depends on you for you to get your breakthrough? 525 00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:46.000 It's a big question. Who's actually depending on you? 526 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:50.000 You know, for you to actually walk in your destiny? 527 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:56.000 I think this is such a huge thing and it's so serious and it's such a big deal, but I think it's so often neglected. 528 00:40:56.000 --> 00:41:01.000 You know, we don't like to ask painful questions and we don't like to embrace painful realities, 529 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:09.000 but the reality is that the dreams that God placed in you are there for other people. 530 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:24.000 And if we don't steward the dreams that he places in us, it's actually, to be honest, I would suggest that if we don't walk in our destiny, multitudes of people miss out. 531 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:33.000 If you imagine the power of, you know, like what Smith Wigglesworth is saying, of a life completely surrendered to the Holy Spirit, 532 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:38.000 there's no way that that life can't be a fire that lights up the world. 533 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:42.000 It's impossible. It's impossible for a person who's walking in their identity. 534 00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:45.000 It's impossible for a person who's walking in intimacy. 535 00:41:45.000 --> 00:41:52.000 It's impossible for a person who's walking in their calling not to set the world on fire. 536 00:41:52.000 --> 00:42:05.000 You know, if God's heart for every single one of us is Ephesians 3.20, which is to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all that we've ever did to ask, dream, pray, think, or even dare to imagine. 537 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:13.000 If that's his heart for all of us and we're walking in that, it is impossible for that type of life not to impact multitudes of people. 538 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:23.000 So when we ask ourselves, who's counting on us to actually walk in our calling? 539 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:29.000 Now it's just multitudes of people, you know, and how much does it mean to those people whether we walk in our destiny or not? 540 00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:35.000 Life or death? Knowing him or not knowing him? Being oppressed versus being set free? 541 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:55.000 The implications and the consequences and the scale and the opportunity attached to our destiny, our calling, it's, you know, it's totally parallel to Ephesians 3.20, which is the potential and the opportunity and the risk and the reward and the consequences 542 00:42:55.000 --> 00:43:04.000 and who's exceedingly abundantly above and beyond to dare to ask, dream, pray, or even imagine, which is a pretty big deal. 543 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:13.000 So I think sometimes we don't, we avoid the hard questions or no one's having the conversation. 544 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:18.000 I actually find that most of the time, just no one's having the conversation and no one's having this conversation. 545 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:22.000 Everyone's busy doing stuff, but not having these type of conversations. 546 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:28.000 And I find it, you know, I find that it's actually a real tragedy. 547 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:39.000 People are so busy doing stuff that the main thing isn't the main thing. 548 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:48.000 Yeah, so Lorraine, let's jump back to you because you were kind of part way. I'm just, I'm loving your, I'm loving your dream there just around being about the presence. 549 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:57.000 So just go more on that. 550 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:07.000 I was just typing a note, I actually really resonated with that. Who, who, who misses out if we don't walk in our destiny. 551 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:21.000 We were talking last night and, you know, the people that we go out to the grocery store, if we have the presence of the Lord, if we have the light shining in us, the light displaces the darkness. 552 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:26.000 Everywhere we walk, we displace the darkness. 553 00:44:27.000 --> 00:44:36.000 Our neighbors, anyone we meet, our colleagues, we displace the darkness. 554 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:39.000 We are, we are light. 555 00:44:39.000 --> 00:44:44.000 And His life is in us, and there is no darkness in there. 556 00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:56.000 And just the destiny that we have in Christ is, is so amazing. It's so beyond what we can hope or expect. 557 00:44:56.000 --> 00:45:00.000 And, I mean, the healing, praying for others. 558 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:08.160 Setting the captives free, all of those things are just part of every one of us who live 559 00:45:08.160 --> 00:45:09.160 in Christ. 560 00:45:09.160 --> 00:45:12.680 It's part of every one of our destinies. 561 00:45:12.680 --> 00:45:18.880 I mean, even, you know, there's, he's put desires and dreams in each one of us just 562 00:45:18.880 --> 00:45:27.460 for the calling and basically the area that we go into, but not only, you know, working 563 00:45:27.460 --> 00:45:33.140 in the world and being a part of the world, but, and being a part of the body, we all 564 00:45:33.140 --> 00:45:40.740 have different giftings, but every one of us can be responsible to explain why the 565 00:45:40.740 --> 00:45:52.540 light is in us, you know, to give a reason for the hope of our calling. 566 00:45:52.580 --> 00:45:55.900 I'm really overcome with that. 567 00:45:57.420 --> 00:45:57.940 Wow. 568 00:46:01.220 --> 00:46:02.220 Yeah, that's massive. 569 00:46:08.140 --> 00:46:09.020 Oh, wow. 570 00:46:09.020 --> 00:46:23.140 Um, my, my kids, uh, uh, my son nicknamed the, nicknamed me, the chaplain captain, captain. 571 00:46:26.900 --> 00:46:27.900 That's right. 572 00:46:29.140 --> 00:46:30.260 That's beautiful. 573 00:46:32.340 --> 00:46:38.180 Cause quite often I end up praying with my colleagues and just ministering to them, the 574 00:46:38.180 --> 00:46:39.020 word of God. 575 00:46:39.020 --> 00:46:47.580 And, you know, it just comes kind of organically just with the stress of, of, um, just the, 576 00:46:47.580 --> 00:46:53.940 the, you know, the airline industry and the people that are, you know, losing their jobs 577 00:46:53.940 --> 00:47:02.820 and, and just, um, having a whole world change and just, and so quite often when I go to 578 00:47:02.820 --> 00:47:08.500 work, I need to be ready to pray for whomever I come in contact with because they're very 579 00:47:08.500 --> 00:47:09.180 stressed out. 580 00:47:10.420 --> 00:47:10.900 Wow. 581 00:47:13.060 --> 00:47:17.820 So that was one of my dreams to, to be nicknamed, to live up to that nickname. 582 00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:24.060 I love it. 583 00:47:24.220 --> 00:47:25.500 That's a great nickname. 584 00:47:27.620 --> 00:47:28.540 That's so cool. 585 00:47:29.300 --> 00:47:32.140 Hey guys, let me tell you, um, let me tell you all a story. 586 00:47:32.700 --> 00:47:34.620 Who's heard of John Leonard Dover? 587 00:47:39.100 --> 00:47:39.620 No. 588 00:47:40.660 --> 00:47:41.060 Okay. 589 00:47:41.060 --> 00:47:48.580 Well, uh, seven, imagine with me, you guys are good at imagining, right? 590 00:47:50.460 --> 00:47:50.820 Yeah. 591 00:47:50.820 --> 00:47:51.900 Got a good imagination. 592 00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:52.780 Okay. 593 00:47:52.780 --> 00:48:00.380 So imagine with me at 1732, 1732. 594 00:48:00.380 --> 00:48:03.180 So we're talking nearly 300 years ago. 595 00:48:05.060 --> 00:48:10.140 Not quite, but nearly, nearly 300 years ago, 289 years ago. 596 00:48:11.140 --> 00:48:21.340 So 289 years ago, imagine with me that we're standing on a dock and there's a big sailboat 597 00:48:22.180 --> 00:48:23.660 that is about to leave. 598 00:48:24.460 --> 00:48:27.820 And I want you to imagine that you're a little kid. 599 00:48:28.420 --> 00:48:28.900 Okay. 600 00:48:29.900 --> 00:48:31.540 You're a little kid there with your mom. 601 00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:39.780 You're standing there on the docks and your dad's there too, but you're saying goodbye 602 00:48:39.780 --> 00:48:40.460 to your dad. 603 00:48:41.060 --> 00:48:45.380 And it's not a relationship breakup or anything like that, but you're saying goodbye to your 604 00:48:45.380 --> 00:48:48.660 dad and you don't know if he will ever come back because he's about to get on a ship. 605 00:48:48.660 --> 00:49:00.180 The, the crazy thing about him getting on the ship is that he's sold himself into slavery. 606 00:49:03.220 --> 00:49:06.020 Your dad, your own dad has sold himself into slavery. 607 00:49:07.900 --> 00:49:08.100 Okay. 608 00:49:08.100 --> 00:49:14.660 So this is what happened with a guy named John Leonard Dover in 1732 and his friend, 609 00:49:14.980 --> 00:49:24.900 David Nitschman, might be saying that slightly wrong, but David and John both sold themselves 610 00:49:24.900 --> 00:49:33.060 into slavery and the money, we'll talk about money later, but they sold themselves into 611 00:49:33.060 --> 00:49:36.820 slavery, not for money, you know, that you don't, you don't sell yourself into slavery 612 00:49:36.820 --> 00:49:38.180 for getting money. 613 00:49:38.180 --> 00:49:45.220 They sold themselves into slavery because it was the only way that they could get passage 614 00:49:46.020 --> 00:49:54.820 on a ship to the West Indies to reach the tens of thousands of slaves in the West Indies. 615 00:49:56.260 --> 00:49:59.860 So John Leonard Dover and David Nitschman were the. 616 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:03.120 first missionaries of the Moravian mission movement. 617 00:50:05.240 --> 00:50:09.400 So a lot of people have heard of the Moravian prayer movement, 618 00:50:09.760 --> 00:50:11.840 but they had a missions movement as well. 619 00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:14.840 So out of the prayer movement, 620 00:50:15.200 --> 00:50:19.320 God put such a desire in them that they were called to reach 621 00:50:20.040 --> 00:50:23.480 those that are in slavery in the West Indies. 622 00:50:23.720 --> 00:50:26.040 They could just hear the cries of these people, 623 00:50:26.040 --> 00:50:28.280 the tens of thousands that didn't have the gospel. 624 00:50:28.320 --> 00:50:30.800 And so they went there. 625 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:33.080 The only way they could get there, because they couldn't, 626 00:50:33.080 --> 00:50:36.320 you couldn't go there as a missionary, wasn't an option. 627 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:39.600 And the only way they could go there is to sell themselves into slavery 628 00:50:39.600 --> 00:50:40.640 and actually go as slaves. 629 00:50:40.640 --> 00:50:44.640 So when they got there, because they were white and, you know, educated, 630 00:50:44.920 --> 00:50:47.920 they got the option of staying, you know, having a 631 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.280 having a better deal than the regular slave. 632 00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.600 But they actually said, no, we don't want to stay in the house. 633 00:50:52.600 --> 00:50:54.280 We'll actually stay out with the slaves. 634 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:57.760 Because their mission was to reach the slaves. 635 00:50:59.200 --> 00:51:05.600 And so there they are standing on the dock, though, with their, you know, 636 00:51:06.920 --> 00:51:09.560 you're the little girl and you're 637 00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:12.960 crying out to your dad not to go. 638 00:51:17.880 --> 00:51:19.480 And your wife's in tears. 639 00:51:21.680 --> 00:51:23.280 And you're heartbroken. 640 00:51:25.280 --> 00:51:28.960 But you know that God has called you to go. 641 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:33.240 He's asked something of you enormous. 642 00:51:33.240 --> 00:51:35.960 He's asked something enormous of you, of your life, 643 00:51:36.920 --> 00:51:42.840 that you would actually make a horrendous sacrifice 644 00:51:43.960 --> 00:51:49.960 of your life to go with the gospel to a place that your wife and your kids can't go. 645 00:51:50.640 --> 00:51:54.280 And so David and John said, yes. 646 00:51:55.880 --> 00:52:00.240 The money that was made from the selling themselves into slavery, 647 00:52:00.240 --> 00:52:03.560 they actually gave to start the Moravian Mission Fund. 648 00:52:04.520 --> 00:52:08.520 And they went there and. 649 00:52:11.120 --> 00:52:15.040 Now, this is a huge cost that they've there's a huge price that they paid, 650 00:52:15.040 --> 00:52:17.040 a huge sacrifice that they made. 651 00:52:17.040 --> 00:52:20.320 And I suggest that, you know, fire always falls on sacrifice. 652 00:52:22.240 --> 00:52:25.040 And so they made this huge sacrifice, 653 00:52:26.040 --> 00:52:29.800 but years went by as they were over there. 654 00:52:30.240 --> 00:52:33.680 But as the years went by, God began to move. 655 00:52:34.680 --> 00:52:36.640 And they saw an outpouring of the spirit. 656 00:52:36.640 --> 00:52:40.520 And over 30,000 slaves gave their lives to Jesus. 657 00:52:40.520 --> 00:52:44.320 And you think of the legacy of a move of God like that, 658 00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:47.280 where over 30,000 people give their lives to Jesus. 659 00:52:48.680 --> 00:52:52.240 And if we talk about core motivators. 660 00:52:53.560 --> 00:52:57.560 For those two guys and John Leonard Dover said something on the ship 661 00:52:57.560 --> 00:53:01.760 as he was parting, what he shouted back to his family was, 662 00:53:02.320 --> 00:53:04.880 may the lamb receive the lamb. 663 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.280 And he said, may the lamb receive the lamb. 664 00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:11.320 And he shouted back to his family was may the lamb 665 00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.320 receive the reward for his suffering. 666 00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:19.760 May the lamb receive the reward for his suffering. 667 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:26.360 And this is this huge 668 00:53:27.640 --> 00:53:30.160 sacrifice, huge obedience, 669 00:53:31.320 --> 00:53:34.920 a horrific calling. 670 00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:39.640 You know, it's just a terrible situation. 671 00:53:39.640 --> 00:53:43.280 It's like Abraham and Isaac on the mountain. 672 00:53:44.720 --> 00:53:47.640 In a sense, but it's just a place of horrific 673 00:53:48.200 --> 00:53:52.560 sacrifice where God asks you of something enormous of you. 674 00:53:53.600 --> 00:53:56.840 And so he says. 675 00:53:56.840 --> 00:53:59.680 John and David said, yes. 676 00:53:59.680 --> 00:54:04.160 And. But 677 00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:05.120 they saw a move of God. 678 00:54:05.120 --> 00:54:09.480 But the interesting thing for those guys is the core motivator is that they were. 679 00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:13.280 Now, they it's not like they took that decision lightly, 680 00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:16.440 and it's not that they didn't want to be fathers and husbands. 681 00:54:17.600 --> 00:54:21.160 But their focus and their core motivator was on eternity. 682 00:54:22.200 --> 00:54:24.720 And the value was obedience and surrender. 683 00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:29.600 And they said, look, you know, we have to say yes to this call. 684 00:54:29.920 --> 00:54:32.560 We love everyone here. 685 00:54:32.560 --> 00:54:34.880 We love you guys with everything that's in us. 686 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:37.160 But we just have to say yes to this calling. 687 00:54:39.160 --> 00:54:43.000 And so they said yes, they saw a move of God and beautifully. 688 00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:47.680 I mean, I think John was over there for about 28 years. 689 00:54:48.520 --> 00:54:54.040 And but he ended up he actually was that he actually did return years later. 690 00:54:54.160 --> 00:54:58.000 I don't know if he came and went at all, but he did move back to 691 00:54:59.600 --> 00:55:00.000 to. 692 00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:08.000 Germany to where the Moravian base was eventually and he eventually died back at home. But the 693 00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:18.720 just talking about motivators, what are our motivators? Where does eternity fit in the 694 00:55:18.720 --> 00:55:27.120 picture? Are we, you know, talking about motivators and thinking about Smith Wigglesworth that 695 00:55:28.080 --> 00:55:34.000 you can do, you can accomplish more in one year if you're radically filled with the Holy Spirit 696 00:55:34.000 --> 00:55:41.280 than you could accomplish in 50 years of your own efforts. So yeah, there's a couple of, just a 697 00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:46.480 couple of thoughts to chuck out there to you and it's a story that I thought was really powerful 698 00:55:46.480 --> 00:55:57.840 around the concept of motivation. So yeah, open mic team, anyone who wants to jump in and say anything? 699 00:56:06.880 --> 00:56:13.920 Remember I was just talking about how family is near and dear to me, that kind of 700 00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:21.840 sacrifice is way beyond, I don't know, it's huge, it's so huge that I can't grasp that. 701 00:56:22.640 --> 00:56:31.120 But that is total dedication and obedience to know, to know that he knew he was called there 702 00:56:31.760 --> 00:56:39.200 in order and to leave his family is humongous. Yeah, big motivator though, how many came to 703 00:56:39.200 --> 00:56:45.760 know the Lord? And also just another point on that, because here's the thing, sometimes you 704 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:50.400 just don't understand when God calls you to something and sometimes it doesn't make sense. 705 00:56:52.160 --> 00:56:54.880 But the other dynamic, apart from the fact that they 706 00:56:56.880 --> 00:57:01.120 reach tens of thousands of people, the other dynamic is actually what happened as a result 707 00:57:01.120 --> 00:57:06.880 of their obedience, of what that story sparked in the hearts of believers all over the world. 708 00:57:07.680 --> 00:57:14.800 It actually birthed the missions movement and the legacy of that one act of surrender 709 00:57:15.600 --> 00:57:20.160 is now a legacy that I would suggest in terms of all the people reached to this day that would trace 710 00:57:20.160 --> 00:57:27.360 their spiritual lineage back to that dock in 1732, of all the people that were reached, because 711 00:57:27.920 --> 00:57:34.960 the testimony of that has been doing, you know, in your heart what it's done to the hearts of 712 00:57:35.520 --> 00:57:44.400 believers for centuries, which has birthed missions movements over and over again. And so 713 00:57:44.400 --> 00:57:48.560 I would suggest that at bare minimum you've now got, because of the obedience of those two men, 714 00:57:49.280 --> 00:57:53.200 millions, more likely tens of millions of people who trace their 715 00:57:53.200 --> 00:57:57.280 spiritual lineage of knowing Jesus back to that dock in 1732. 716 00:57:58.240 --> 00:58:07.200 But I hear you as well, the concept of leaving your family, even for six months, you know, 717 00:58:07.200 --> 00:58:16.960 who wants to do that? Even in our nice cushy missions scenario that we have now, 718 00:58:16.960 --> 00:58:20.320 who wants to leave their family two months? Probably a lot. 719 00:58:20.960 --> 00:58:29.600 Yeah, I've left my adult children in South Africa and if it wasn't for the peace that both 720 00:58:29.600 --> 00:58:34.960 of us had to come here, and that carried me through, because both of them really battled. 721 00:58:35.840 --> 00:58:45.280 It was hard. My son was newly married and it was tough for both of them. And I never stepped into 722 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:51.840 once, the enemy said to me, you left your children. And I was like, I didn't. I didn't. 723 00:58:51.840 --> 00:59:01.600 Because I didn't. We just came in obedience. But to leave your little boy, I can't imagine it. 724 00:59:02.640 --> 00:59:04.000 It's beyond my... 725 00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:08.340 Yeah. 726 00:59:09.060 --> 00:59:15.220 And, you know, in those days as well, countless missionaries died just on the way. You know, 727 00:59:15.220 --> 00:59:18.500 people just died on the boat. You had no idea whether someone was going to live or die. 728 00:59:19.700 --> 00:59:23.220 It's not like they're going to get there and then jump on a Zoom and 729 00:59:23.220 --> 00:59:28.340 chat with them back in the UK or, you know, back in Germany. That's not going to happen. 730 00:59:29.300 --> 00:59:33.780 It's just a world of total unknown. Whether it was a world of total unknown, 731 00:59:34.580 --> 00:59:40.580 it's just a world of total unknown. Whether it was a week or a lifetime, you would still 732 00:59:40.580 --> 00:59:46.740 have no certainty of survival. The amount of missionaries that died was just horrendous. 733 00:59:52.900 --> 00:59:59.700 Yeah. So that's a big, big thing there. And I guess in that story, it's like, what do you call 734 01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.960 us and for me that story challenges me so much because my core driver is family, 735 01:00:06.640 --> 01:00:12.080 you know that's what I live for, multi-generational is what I live for every day, 736 01:00:12.080 --> 01:00:19.200 you know it's the pouring love into these kids and if I'm not with them then what I'm doing is 737 01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:24.720 to create a legacy for them, so everything revolves around them, 738 01:00:27.520 --> 01:00:34.720 you know everything revolves around, I don't know if there's anything that I do that doesn't in some 739 01:00:34.720 --> 01:00:42.160 way have a benefit to my kids, my life revolves around that, my life revolves around family, 740 01:00:42.160 --> 01:00:46.720 so the concept of leaving and I guess it's a big question for us as well as in terms of 741 01:00:47.280 --> 01:00:56.800 motivation is eternity, where has eternity slotted itself into our value system 742 01:00:57.840 --> 01:01:06.800 and where has the value of eternity for others slotted itself into our value system, 743 01:01:06.800 --> 01:01:16.480 you know for those guys the concept of you know of whole people groups not knowing the gospel, 744 01:01:17.520 --> 01:01:21.520 their value for eternity and their value for the gospel 745 01:01:26.640 --> 01:01:30.400 and their value for obedience, it was 746 01:01:30.560 --> 01:01:41.680 it put them in a really dynamic place, we've got these mutual values where we love our families 747 01:01:41.680 --> 01:01:48.080 so much but this word of the gospel it hasn't reached these entire nations, these entire 748 01:01:48.080 --> 01:01:54.320 people groups that will never hear if someone doesn't go and you know and if not us then who, 749 01:01:55.280 --> 01:02:03.680 so there's a question for us as well around motivation is that if you don't fulfill your calling who will, 750 01:02:09.200 --> 01:02:16.720 if not you then who, if not now then when, if not here then where. 751 01:02:17.120 --> 01:02:24.080 I think it's also about your mindset being, 752 01:02:27.600 --> 01:02:38.080 you tend to think about your own surroundings and your own time and your own town and your own country 753 01:02:39.760 --> 01:02:42.080 and that's just not God's perspective, 754 01:02:42.640 --> 01:02:55.280 and that's maybe it's crazy but one of the things that Zoom has helped me do in the past year 755 01:02:56.720 --> 01:03:03.440 connected to a lot of people from a lot of countries and that broadened my horizon to the 756 01:03:03.440 --> 01:03:11.360 fact that the kingdom isn't Dutch and of course that's it's stupid I always knew that the kingdom 757 01:03:11.360 --> 01:03:24.640 wasn't Dutch, would be a really small kingdom but knowing this and actually looking at it from above 758 01:03:24.640 --> 01:03:36.880 and seeing it a broader spectrum and not just our time but times to come, you just need to take time 759 01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:42.640 to come to the realization of these things before you can actually do something about it. 760 01:03:44.720 --> 01:03:52.080 I never even realized that I was thinking really small until I started looking over the garden wall 761 01:03:53.120 --> 01:03:57.440 and then it sort of hit me that there was actually more than my own front yard, 762 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:07.600 so that's just, I think it's all part of renewing your mind and having the mind of Christ 763 01:04:09.440 --> 01:04:14.720 and I'm just, well I'm taking baby steps getting there. 764 01:04:17.280 --> 01:04:21.920 Beautiful, that's great. Hey Kerry, welcome. Good morning. 765 01:04:22.800 --> 01:04:28.240 Good to see you and you're probably arriving just in time for us to wrap up. 766 01:04:30.880 --> 01:04:38.720 Yeah, we're just about to wrap up but it's been a really beautiful 767 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:46.320 session with everyone but unless anyone's got some kind of, any kind of final words that you 768 01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:52.080 want to drop in after that then I think we'll wrap up there but that's been really powerful, 769 01:04:53.600 --> 01:04:59.760 deep stuff this morning. 770 01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:07.680 I have a friend who has been called to Kuwait and she's been teaching over there for a number 771 01:05:07.680 --> 01:05:14.760 of years and sometimes her husband can join her and sometimes he can't for a few months 772 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:23.480 of the year and so most of the church does not understand why you know they don't understand 773 01:05:23.480 --> 01:05:30.400 it but if you've been called then it's a big sacrifice and they have Zoom and Skype and 774 01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:37.920 all of that but I can't even imagine not even knowing if the person is alive or dead but 775 01:05:37.920 --> 01:05:50.880 God I mean Jesus did talk about who is your family and sometimes Francis Chan has said 776 01:05:50.880 --> 01:05:56.640 sometimes we make an idol out of our kids and because I I mean there's no place I'd 777 01:05:56.640 --> 01:06:03.840 rather be than just hanging out with my family just hanging out with my kids and sometimes 778 01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:14.920 God calls us to other people he calls us to you know I think below the age of 18 yeah 779 01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:21.160 they're our responsibility and even even more than that I mean obviously I love my kids and 780 01:06:21.720 --> 01:06:26.600 I'll be there for them the rest of their lives but if God calls me somewhere else then 781 01:06:27.560 --> 01:06:35.320 it's a good it's it it's thought-provoking to to see people who've actually given up that 782 01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:42.200 close connection my my aunt and uncle actually went to missionaries went as missionaries to China 783 01:06:42.200 --> 01:06:49.800 in there after they had retired and gave up connection with their grandkids and their kids 784 01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:59.160 and for years and years back when we didn't have this kind of communication so it's a big sacrifice 785 01:07:00.120 --> 01:07:07.320 yeah and I think that something that that this is like a double-edged sword right there's a 786 01:07:07.320 --> 01:07:14.760 tension between this is that he doesn't call everyone the same and so you can never compare 787 01:07:16.600 --> 01:07:21.000 because if you're called for something you'll have grace for it as well 788 01:07:22.360 --> 01:07:27.720 and if you're not called for it you won't have grace for it so without the grace it'll be very 789 01:07:27.720 --> 01:07:34.600 difficult to understand grace is a very real very tangible thing and grace enables you to do what 790 01:07:34.600 --> 01:07:40.920 you once thought was impossible so even if you right now think that you know one particular 791 01:07:40.920 --> 01:07:47.240 aspect of the call of God is impossible for you if the grace of God comes on you for that 792 01:07:47.240 --> 01:07:54.440 particular task then it won't seem impossible anymore you know it might but it might seem 793 01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:58.440 mostly impossible but there'll still be that like I know I've got the calling and there's a grace 794 01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:04.600 there to actually step into it but doesn't doesn't make it easy it just makes it possible 795 01:08:06.680 --> 01:08:16.040 um actually trying to remember his name another missionary from China inland mission 796 01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:25.640 started China inland mission Hudson Taylor he said um he said you know regarding the call of 797 01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:33.800 God it is usually impossible and then it is difficult and then it is done 798 01:08:37.399 --> 01:08:45.720 impossible difficult done that's what he that's how he kind of worded it because 799 01:08:45.720 --> 01:08:51.000 you know one of the very first missionaries to the you know to inland China 800 01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:59.640 um but again another person who would have been inspired by John Leonard Dover and David Nietzschman 801 01:09:01.880 --> 01:09:07.960 and now you look at China and the result of that gospel in mainland China 802 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:19.880 sorry can I can I share something quickly yeah my husband was born in Zimbabwe 803 01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:28.920 and he gave his heart when a missionary from Japan came to Rhodesia he was four years old 804 01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:37.640 and when they got home he said to his mom he wants to give his you know um he wants to surrender 805 01:09:38.439 --> 01:09:44.040 and she has to pray with him and she was like but you have already and and he was like no I haven't 806 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:50.200 and uh yeah he remembers it clearly and he was he was four he was three or four 807 01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:53.479 yeah and then yeah it was just yeah 808 01:09:55.400 --> 01:09:59.560 cool all right family well thank you so much hey um 809 01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:07.040 Kerry, wonderful to have you. Sorry you just got the tail end for today, but how about you 810 01:10:08.480 --> 01:10:15.840 pray with us and why don't we just get Donna and Kerry and Lorraine to pray 811 01:10:17.040 --> 01:10:22.320 to wrap it up for us. Be wonderful. Kerry, how about you start and always good to see you. 812 01:10:22.320 --> 01:10:30.400 Thanks. Oh Lord, thank you for the day and thank you for the friendships that we are forming. 813 01:10:30.400 --> 01:10:38.400 I just come to you in just with a heart of love and praise and just thank you for everything that 814 01:10:38.400 --> 01:10:44.720 you're doing in everybody's life. Make grace available and strength available to us all 815 01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:50.160 just as we unite and grow strongly in you and bring in your kingdom on earth. Thank you. 816 01:10:52.320 --> 01:10:59.600 You go for it, Donna. 817 01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:06.080 Thank you, magnificent Abba Father. 818 01:11:08.160 --> 01:11:16.240 You are wowing us with your glory, with your presence, Holy Spirit teaching us, guiding us. 819 01:11:17.120 --> 01:11:23.600 We are learning so much and it is amazing to have brothers and sisters in Christ all over the world. 820 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:30.000 I love it. I thank you for what you did here today, what was said here today. I know I am 821 01:11:30.000 --> 01:11:37.440 taking nuggets away. I just bless what you're doing. I bless everybody here and all their 822 01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:46.560 loved ones. I thank you Lord that each one of us by your grace alone are going to live 823 01:11:47.120 --> 01:11:52.400 out and walk our destinies. I thank you in Jesus name. Amen. 824 01:11:56.000 --> 01:11:56.880 Thank you, Abba. 825 01:11:57.840 --> 01:12:07.760 Abba Father, thank you so much, Father, for giving us opportunity to worship together, 826 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:17.520 to seek you together, to learn. Father, we just stay in your presence, Lord. Give us opportunity, 827 01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:25.440 give us divine appointments to share your light, to share the hope that is within us. 828 01:12:27.040 --> 01:12:34.800 Father, thank you that you have blessed us beyond what we can even hope or expect. 829 01:12:34.800 --> 01:12:41.120 Thank you for giving us every gift that is and everything that is yes and amen in Jesus Christ. 830 01:12:41.120 --> 01:12:48.800 Thank you for opening the door for us, for making all things possible, for removing the barriers, 831 01:12:48.800 --> 01:12:55.440 Father. Thank you that we have this open invitation from you to come into your presence. 832 01:12:56.960 --> 01:13:02.240 We just follow in that. Thank you. I just pray that we would be more and more surrendered to you 833 01:13:02.240 --> 01:13:10.400 every day and walk in our destiny. I just declare our destinies over us in Jesus name. Amen. 834 01:13:12.400 --> 01:13:16.080 Beautiful. Thanks, guys. You guys are amazing. Love you very much. 835 01:13:16.240 --> 01:13:30.720 And well done on just tracking. I'll drop the times for next week in here as well. 836 01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:36.320 So it'll probably be, I think we'll probably try and do afternoons next week, just try and rotate 837 01:13:36.320 --> 01:13:41.280 it a little bit. So it'll probably be afternoons New Zealand time next week. So probably about 838 01:13:41.840 --> 01:13:47.680 two or three in the afternoon New Zealand time. That's probably what we'll go for, 839 01:13:47.680 --> 01:13:52.240 probably about two o'clock. So watch that. I'll put posts up. That's roughly what we'll be 840 01:13:52.240 --> 01:13:56.960 tracking for as we kind of rotate. And then we'll do two weeks and then we're going to have a break 841 01:13:57.520 --> 01:14:03.200 because I'm going to be in the mountains for two weeks hunting stags. 842 01:14:04.160 --> 01:14:13.280 I'm going to struggle to get internet. So that's going to be really... 843 01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:18.640 Hopefully, one of the things that I want to make sure that I'm doing as well is 844 01:14:18.640 --> 01:14:24.160 actually modeling living my dreams. I don't want it to be all theory. So I'll come back 845 01:14:24.160 --> 01:14:32.240 with some cool pics for you guys of being out in the mountains. And I'm going to share a story 846 01:14:33.040 --> 01:14:40.560 in the Masterclass group today as well. I'm going to go live at 12. So it's about an hour 847 01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:48.000 and a half. I'm just going to talk a little bit about my dad and losing my dad. So that's kind 848 01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:52.480 of the theme. So I'm going to talk to you about that. And then if you're around, it won't be 849 01:14:52.480 --> 01:14:59.760 a really long one, but love you guys heaps. And we'll see you when we see you. Bye. 850 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:02.000 Love you guys. Bye-bye.