Hey guys. Hey, hey, hey. I'm excited to be sharing with you this morning. I just want
to show you where I am. I'm in a boom lift and in a second I'll show you a little bit
about what I've been doing up here in this boom lift. Actually, I wonder if I should
show you now. I wonder if I should just quickly show you what I've been doing in this boom
lift. Let me just see here. Let's make sure I don't hit anything. Let's just have you
come over here. Let's just have a look here. I've just been painting this wall. I'll show
you a little bit more later, but I'll move back here. It's sort of raining a little bit
so I found a little sheltered spot. Back we go. I'm going to talk to you this morning
about David Stones, which I'm really excited about. I'm just keeping an eye on this to
make sure that the thing, the boom lift doesn't hit the wall. It's kind of a different place
to teach from. There we go. I want to talk to you about David Stones, guys. I'm really
excited about this. I love King David and I love his life. I think he's such a prophetic
prototype of what is true of our generation, what's available for our generation. I want
to begin by saying, I think, let me backtrack, sorry, before I get into that. I'm going to
share from Matthew 20. I'm going to talk about the story of David and Goliath. I'm also possibly
going to talk about Matthew 16. Then we're going to pray. I think it's going to be an
awesome time. I remember being in India a little while ago. My friend Andy and I were
walking through a village. God was moving. It was amazing. We saw lots and lots of miracles.
People were getting saved. People were getting delivered of demons. We just went for a walk
through this village. It was awesome. If you've ever been to India, you know it's super hot
and sometimes the heat can be a little bit exhausting. At the end of, of course, we'd
just been speaking at this conference, so we'd been going pretty hard. At the end of
this time in this village, I was thinking, man, I'm loving this so much. This is so amazing.
But man, I am wasted, man. I am absolutely smashed. I don't know if I have anything left
to give. So I just thought, man, I'm going to walk to the van and I'm going to jump in
and see if we can head back to the place we're staying just to get some rest. As I was getting
in the van, this girl who had been healed previously in our time in the village, she
comes running up and she's dragging her friend with her. She stops me before we get to the
van and she says, hey, hey, pray for my friend, pray for my friend. I noticed obviously she's
talking to me through an interpreter. I say, man, okay, what does she need? What does she
need? I'm thinking, oh, just one more prayer. But I'm thinking, man, I'm pretty wasted.
Maybe it's just a blessing. I'll just bless her. I really feel like I need some rest.
I feel a little bit exhausted. And she showed me her rib and out from under her bottom
rib, there was this cricket ball sized tumor coming out from under her bottom rib. And
it was pretty gnarly. It had lots of scar tissue around it and it was just a crazy kind
of a thing. And I thought, oh, man, like, I don't know if I have the energy for this.
I don't know if I have, I don't think I have, I don't think, I don't know if I've got, I
think I might have spent the anointing. That's what I was thinking. And I, and I just felt
like that was, even though we'd seen a bunch of miracles, I just felt like, oh, man.
This feels like hard work, and then I remembered this beautiful truth.
I remembered, God, I don't have anything to give here, but I know you do.
And the only thing I can give in this situation is to trust that you're with me, and then
to say, God, I'm trusting that you will do what I can't do.
And obviously that's what he'd been doing the whole time.
But it's interesting when we get to the end of ourselves, it sort of pushes us into a
corner where we're forced to realize that, well, God is really the one that's doing the
stuff, not us.
It's a beautiful truth, and it's such a freeing truth.
So I laid my hands on this girl, and I said, in the name of Jesus, I command that tumor
to go.
And that's all I really had the energy to say, I command that tumor to go.
But I just leant back into a place of trust, that God, you are here, and you can do what
I can't do.
And instantly, guys, the tumor went, and completely disappeared.
And I've got a photo of her face, actually, after she's feeling around, and she starts
poking in under her rib, and the tumor is completely gone.
It was just an amazing thing to watch.
The best thing about it was to watch her face.
And the thing that I took away from that was, not only has God dissolved tumors, but God
is with us even when we feel like maybe we're not feeling His presence with us.
But He's with us all the time, and simple trust is one of the, if not the greatest key
to the Christian walk.
And so I want to share a little bit about that.
And in Matthew 20, 21, I think that's the scripture.
It says that the stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
Of course, it's talking about, the scripture is talking about, it's using temple language.
It's talking about, it's talking about the building of a new temple.
And of course, we are the stones in the new temple.
And of course, temple speaks of the place that God dwells.
We together are the place that God dwells on earth.
If people want to experience God, if people want to inquire of God, if people want to
know where God lives, God lives in His house, and we are the new house.
We are the new temple.
And each of us are stones in that temple, fit together as the Lord fits us together.
That's why it's important to look after your relationships, because God has set you amongst
a group of people.
And it's a good idea for you to not, sorry, it's a good idea for you to cooperate with
God's setting and to protect those relationships.
But we are each stones in the new temple.
And that's an amazing thing, that we get to be the house of God.
I mean, what that means, guys, what that means is we get to be the place that God dwells
on earth.
This is an amazing truth.
But if you go into, I studied that scripture a little bit, and if you go into some of the
original language of some of those words, of course it's New Testament, so it's Greek,
but it's referring to an Old Testament scripture.
And if you go into that Old Testament scripture and you look up the Hebrew word for stone
in that scripture, it's such a prophetic word and it's so amazing.
It's the Hebrew word Abin, which, and this is what I want to introduce you to today,
is this prophetic word.
It's this deep, meaningful word.
It's a beautiful word.
There are different Hebrew words that we translate to stone, and this is only one of them.
But it's a Hebrew word Abin, and it's a compound Hebrew word made up of two Hebrew words, Aba,
which means father or dad, and Ben, which means son.
Abin, and Abin is a prophetic picture of a relationship, the relationship between the
father and the son, that the son is walking in the father and the father is walking in
the son.
The father and the son are one, and that's a prophetic picture of you and I.
You are one with your father and your father is one with you.
You cannot go anywhere without your father going with you, and learning to trust that
truth will unlock some of the greatest experiences in your life.
Learning to trust that truth will literally unlock your destiny as God has designed it
to be to you.
It's so powerful.
And so if we look at the story of David and Samuel, and we look at particularly the story
of David and Goliath.
I want to draw some pictures.
some truth out of that story.
You've got David, he's looking after his sheep and his dad says to him, hey can you
go and take some supplies, some food to your brothers who are fighting
on the front line of battle, they're fighting the Philistines. And David
says, yeah sure dad, I'll go take some food for them, absolutely. And he
goes on his way and his expectation at this time guys, is he's expecting to
simply just give food to his brothers because his dad asked him to do it.
That's his expectation, that's what he's going with. So he leaves his sheep, he
goes to the front line of battle and he sees this big commotion happening on the
front line. When he gets to the Israeli army, he sees his brothers and
he sees this big giant in the middle of the field yelling things out, saying
who's going to come and face me? And who's the
one worthy to challenge me? And he's taunting the armies of Israel.
And David says to the army and to his brothers, he says, well
who's going to go? And they're like, oh man, you know, no one's going, like this
guy's intense, this guy's insane, he's like massive. We've got no
chance, one-on-one we've got no chance. And David's like, well why don't I go?
And why don't I go? And he, sorry there's just a guy down there, he's waving at me.
But David says, well why don't I go? And they laugh at him and they say, David you're
just a boy, like you know, we're trained soldiers, we've got qualifications,
we've got battle experience, we've been doing this
for, you've not even had one day on a battlefield, like what makes you think
you can do what we can't do? And David's like, in his heart he's thinking, guys
have you forgotten like, it's not about your battle experience, it's not about
your qualifications, it's not about any of that stuff, it's not about what you
can do, it's about have you forgotten that you have a God that's with you, that
the creator of the universe is on our side and he's with us and
it's not about what you can do, it's about what he can do. And anyway he says,
listen I'll go do it. And they say, no you can't do it, you can't do it. But he
ends up being taken to King Saul. He says to Saul, listen if no one else will go, I
will go. And Saul says to him, man you're only a boy, you're a kid, you're scrawny,
you're not fit enough, you're not strong enough, you don't have the
qualifications, you haven't been trained, you don't have weapons, you haven't
learned how to use a sword, you don't, all the stuff that would disqualify him,
all the stuff that would write him off is just like, you can't do this David. And
David says, well listen I've killed a lion and a bear and of course Saul's
like, well okay that's fair enough, you've killed a lion and a bear. And he says,
also the God of Israel is with me, God is with me. And Saul says, okay well
listen, since no one else will go, I suppose you can go. And he says, but take
my armor and take my sword and spear, take my shield, take my gear with me, with
you. And so David puts on Saul's gear which represents the ability of man, it
represents what you can achieve on your own strength. And he puts it on and he
tries to walk out with that armor on and he gets a couple of steps in and he just
says, man I can't hardly move with this stuff. And when you're relying on
your own strength, when you're relying on your own ability and your own
capacity, you get to a point pretty soon, not far into the journey where you start
to feel that feeling like, man gee I don't know if I can carry on, this is
heavy, man this is weight, there's a weight on me that I wasn't designed to
carry. Because you weren't designed to live on your own, you're designed to live
with God, you weren't designed to live relying on your own strength. That's
tiresome and it was tiresome for David who is a prophetic picture of what is
true of our generation. Our generation is trying to go through life relying
on their own strength at the moment and they're getting tired and they're
getting exhausted and there's an increase in depression, there's an
increase in anxiety, there's an increase in mental health issues, there's an
increase in burnout and brownout, there's an increase in all these types of things,
fatigue and all these types of things.
of things. And one of the main contributors to that is the heart
position of life that says, I'm relying on my own strength. And most of that's
subconscious, but it's an exhausting place to be. And so David said, Saul, sorry
I can't take your armor. I have to be me. I have to be me. I'm gonna go onto that
battlefield as David, not as Saul, not as someone that I'm not. I'm just gonna go
as me. And he walks out onto the battlefield and before he does he goes
to a stream and he pulls out five smooth stones. Of course the word for stone
there is Abin, which means father and son. It's a prophetic picture of the son
being in the father and the father being in the son. It's a prophetic picture of
our union with God. He reaches in and he pulls out the stone. He pulls out this
revelation, which is a picture to say, man, I'm not trusting in
sword and spear. I'm trusting in the fact that I am a son of God and God is
with me everywhere I go. And if I step on the field, God steps on the field. And
it's not about what I can do. It's about what he can do. It's about what my dad
can do. I'm just a little boy with a big papa. And if I lean back into that truth,
I'll see that truth manifest through my life. This is a powerful thing, guys. And
he steps out on the field and Goliath says to him, what am I, a dog? Do you
come to me with sticks and stones? And David says something along the lines of,
today I'm gonna chop your head off. You come to me with your strength, but I come
to you in the name of the God of Israel. In other words, I come to you knowing who
he is and knowing that he's a God that is with me everywhere I go. I come to you
in the strength of God. You look at me and you say, oh, you're a
little boy. You're a dog with sticks and stones. And I may not have the capacity
to defeat you today, Goliath. And you may be stronger than me by a significant
amount. And I may have no chance on my own strength. But what you don't see is
this, that the God of the universe is standing right behind me. And it's not
about what I can do on my strength. And if it was on me, I couldn't take you out.
But let me tell you this right now, Goliath. Today I will take your head.
Today you will be defeated because it's not about me, it's about him. And he has
the capacity to do what I can't do. And so they run for each other, I'm assuming.
And hey Benji, love you too, man. And he gets a sling out and he slings that
stone. What is that? It's more than just throwing a stone, guys. He's
throwing a revelation. He's throwing a foundational revelation.
It's such a prototype for what is true of our generation. He throws his
revelation. He throws his truth. He leans his life back into the truth
and the reality of my God is with me. And if he's not, I'm totally dead. And he
throws his stone and Goliath, a small stone, knocks him in the head and he
falls flat on his face. And David takes his head off and defeats the army of the
Philistines. And they win. And he wins as a little boy, an unqualified
shepherd boy. He wins a victory for his entire nation and liberates a nation. Let
me tell you this. It was a revelation of his sonship. It was a revelation of the
nature of God who never leaves us nor forsakes us that won it for the nation
of Israel that day. It's a revelation of the fact that my God is faithful to
never leave me nor forsake me that David was walking in in that moment. That David
leaned into. He leaned into the richness and the truth and the power and the
reality and the glory of that truth. And he leaned his life back into that truth.
And he brought his actions into alignment with that reality. And
something was unlocked that day that liberated a nation. And the same
can happen today guys when sons and daughters learn to trust into and lean
back into the reality that they truly are the sons and daughters of God. And
that God truly is with them everywhere they go. Man, when you step on the field,
he steps on the field. And you might have giants in your life right now that are
staring down at you. That are taunting you. That are
intimidating you. That are sapping your strength. But if you will learn to lean
back into the truth of this reality that he's with you everywhere you go, then
something will begin. And it might start in a seed form but something will
begin to get unlocked in your life. And you see this again in the
birth of the church. The foundation of the church. The whole church is built on
this foundation. And you see the foundation of the church.
Matthew 16 where Simon Peter, where Jesus is asking his disciples, guys, who do men
say that I am?
And some say, and they say to him, some say John the Baptist, some, you know, sorry, I
might have got that wrong, Elijah, someone of the prophets, blah, blah, blah.
They spout off a bunch of names.
And then he says, well, who do you say that I am?
And Simon Peter, which was his name at the time, says, you are the son of the living
God.
And Jesus says, well done, flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father
who is in heaven.
And he says, from now on you will be called Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
What is that?
One of the clearest urban encounters, one of the clearest moments where someone actually
received the revelation of urban in the scripture, and it is the foundation of the church.
What you see is, you see Peter looking at Jesus, and in Jesus he sees the Father, and
then when he sees the Father, he sees in the Father Jesus.
And then when he sees Jesus, he sees in Jesus the Father.
And what Jesus is saying is, you looked at me, and in me you saw the Father.
And then in the Father you saw me, and in that, there is a revelation of union that
we get to have with God, and Peter, this revelation is now your revelation, and upon this rock
or upon this stone, upon this urban, I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall
not prevail against it.
He gives the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and he gives the keys, and he rests the keys
of the kingdom of heaven, upon that revelation, upon that revelation, I want to just share
with you that authority, victory, destiny, and the destiny and the victory and the fruitfulness
of the church rests on this revelation.
This is the foundational revelation that the church is built on, the revelation of sonship,
the revelation of sonship.
And so there's a lot more that I have to share on this topic, and I really just wanted to
kind of have a little chat with you about that this morning while I'm up here on the
cherry picker.
And we actually have another school coming up.
This is the Sonship Masterclass right now, which is just a short three-week school, but
we're going to be having a more in-depth school coming up soon, and in that school I'm going
to share a little bit more in-depth about the subject of urban, about this whole thing,
and I'm excited about that.
But for now I believe that in that moment in Matthew 16, Peter received, I believe that's
the moment he received the spirit of adoption.
Now some people might not agree with that, but I believe he received a revelation, and
in that revelation something awoke on the inside of him, and he received this spirit
of revelation, a revelation of his own sonship and a revelation of the nearness of God that
changed his life, and on that revelation and on that spirit, God gave authority and
God gave the grace for the entire church to be built on.
And I believe that we can each receive a spirit of adoption.
I remember when I received a spirit of adoption, and I'll share that in the next school, but
I want to pray for you right now, and I just want to pray that God really unlocks this
revelation on the inside of you, that God really unlocks within you a revelation of
your own union with God, a revelation of your own union with the Father.
I want to pray that God unlocks a revelation of your own sonship.
I want to pray that you feel the nearness and the closeness of God so deeply today that
it literally changes the rest of your life.
And so Father, right now I just declare over everyone that's tuned in, over everyone that
will watch this session, God I declare the spirit of adoption over people.
I declare Arban over people.
I declare a revelation of sonship.
I declare that you are loved by your Father.
I declare that you are adored by your Father.
I declare that right now over you that you are your Father's happy place, that you are
the house of God, that you are the...
place of God that you are the one in whom God delights you are the one that
God is pleased with you are the one that God looks at with great delight you are
God's child you are God's son you are God's daughter and he loves you so so
so so so so so so so so so so so so so much and there is no step that you can
take today that is outside of his presence everywhere you go he is with
you in Jesus name I declare a spirit of adoption amen
I want to encourage you today that as you as you walk out into the rest of
today to just to just let your actions line up with that reality to just bring
your actions into alignment with that reality that God's with you maybe you're
in the supermarket and maybe you see someone on crutches well just why don't
you just go over to them and just trust that God will heal them you don't have
to heal them but God can heal them and you can just be the one that brings God
to them and so hey God bless you have an amazing day today what I might do
this before I finish is I might just show you I might just show you the
painting I've been working on would would anyone watching just like to see
that right now you can just comment if you do it's common if you want to receive
if you just want to quickly have a look at that I'll take that
how many as a yes and I'll just now just excuse me while I just
all right we're going in right here we go guys here we go here we go we're going
now actually I should show you what I'm what I'm looking at right here how do I
turn this camera on here we go okay so drive with me okay so we've got
this little button here this little guy here
there's Mikey T down there hey Mikey
so we're just driving over here
there we go
it doesn't move that fast this thing and when it does it swings like crazy
it has and we're just watching those power lines there that we don't go
straight into those I think this might be slightly illegal
but I'm not 100% sure so okay here we go guys
there it is
I can't fit it all into my frame but there it is guys
many hands make light work many hands make the light work so god bless you
have an amazing day today love you