what a beautiful beautiful day so I think this is us I think we are live now what a delight to
be with you today I'm so excited about this whole event the three-day Open Heaven
intensive and I'm just checking the tech and everything is going there it's all
happening so welcome everyone one final thing I'll check and make sure that we are all
all happening as you jump on board here as you jump on board let me say a massive welcome to you
and please drop in your name let me know where you are from let me know what you're expecting
as we launch into this event together oh well I have been up since 2am this morning had a
beautiful time we had a 24 hour prayer and worship session that has just gone up until
right now really and we are now going to be launching into this but I just thought I would
say hello um look let a bunch of you guys jump on board and um we're gonna get into it but as we do
um let's just let's start with a prayer and um and let's go oh
Rikishi
oh jesus jesus jesus jesus
jesus we thank you so much for this moment we thank you for your spirit that is at work right
now jesus jesus i thank you for every person that is jumping on board i thank you for this
adventure that we are going on jesus i thank you for this three-day open heaven intensive i thank
you that you're releasing the spirit of awakening i thank you that there is an unprecedented move
of god breaking out all over the face of the earth right now and i thank you that you are
catching us up into what you were doing you are lifting us up you are wrapping us up in a spirit
of awakening i thank you for this time i thank you that you pour fire on us i thank you that
you open our eyes and open our ears and set our hearts ablaze holy spirit we acknowledge that
we need you desperately right now holy spirit we acknowledge that we've come to the end of
ourselves and we are desperate to go beyond good to go where we've never been before we long holy
spirit for you to take us into the wilder things into the greater things into the more glorious
things than we've ever known or walked in holy spirit we thank you that you are present here
we thank you for your anointing we thank you for your power we thank you for your glory that is
here right now we thank you that you are setting hearts ablaze setting lives ablaze holy spirit i
think that you are moving holy spirit we release your glory right now holy spirit i thank you that
you wrap us up all over the face of the earth as we come from our lord nations all over the globe i
thank you that you breathe life on us you breathe fire on us you breathe revelation you breathe
healing you breathe redemption you breathe restoration you breathe lord a fresh move of
your spirit right now honest thank you for fire coming right now i thank you for love outpourings
coming right now i thank you for baptisms and your glory coming right now i thank you that it's
for right now right now right now holy spirit i thank you for your fresh move and as i speak
and as we go on this journey together i thank you for spontaneous miraculous supernatural
interventions from heaven i thank you for divine appointments we release heaven right now release
the angels release the cloud of witnesses release the living creatures release the spirit of the
lord the spirit of wisdom and revelation the spirit of counsel the spirit of understanding
the spirit of knowledge the spirit of might and the spirit of the fear of the lord we thank you
for every aspect and facet of heaven being released we thank you for new dimensions of faith
new dimensions of grace new dimensions of anointing and power new dimensions of your
fire in jesus name give us revelation that takes us where we've never been before
breathe on us lead us and we give this time to and we trust you that you will take us where we've
never been before you will show us what we've never seen before and you will catch us up in this move
God that is unfolding all over the face of the earth, and you will raise us up as catalysts
and stewards of a move of God that releases your kingdom in the seven mountains, that
releases your kingdom in nations, that is a move of God that checks darkness, that shuts
down darkness, that brings down giants of darkness, and unleashes your kingdom and your
glory and your presence in Jesus' name like never before.
Amen, beautiful, all right, all right fam, I've just got to do one quick, I've just got to check
one tech thing, just make sure that it is doing what it's supposed to do, and okay, so
we are, right, well we are into it, and what we are checking out right now in this session,
okay, this is the first of six sessions, we're going to do one session, sorry, we're going
to do two sessions a day for three days, okay, so two sessions a day for three days, now
if you want to catch any of the replays or anything like that, there is a unit being
created in this group, so you go to the top of the page, and you click guides, and then
you can find all the information there, in that place there, you can find a schedule
that you can download when all of the events are, it's got international time zones to
help you figure out when it is for you, because I know that I'm in New Zealand time, so you
can go to the guides and look for the Open Heaven Intensive Guide, then you'll find all
the replays will be put in there right after we are done, I'll put them in there, so you'll
be able to find handouts, schedules, all of that good stuff in there, I'll give you one
quick notice as well, that we are doing an Extravagant Love giveaway right now, so there's
a thousand dollar giveaway to someone's amazing dream, just go for the info on that, check
out the Extravagant Love guide, you can vote for someone's dream, you can submit your own,
it's awesome, all the info is in there, so we are checking out, in this session, we are checking out,
we are checking out the top three, right, the top three Open Heavens in the Bible,
so the top three Open Heavens in the Bible, righto, the top three Open Heavens in the Bible
is our session, and we're going to start right into that right now, and we'll start by defining
what an Open Heaven is, okay, so what is an Open Heaven, and we'll start with this, we have to kind
of go right back to the beginning, so let me start, and if you've followed me much, I often start
in this place, as we're going on an adventure, we take it all the way back to the Trinity, we take
it back to the very beginning, and we take it back to this word perichoresis, okay, it's p-e-r-i-c-h-o-r-e-s-i-s,
perichoresis, it's a word that theologians have used to describe the fellowship of the Trinity
for centuries and centuries, to capture the heartbeat of it, and you can translate it best as
the divine dance, okay, so the perichoresis or the divine dance, and to kind of capture that
the best for you, I wanted to share something I'd written with you, which is in my book,
The Science of Dreams, and I've got that link to download the audio and the e-book of that for free,
it is in the description of this video, so if you want to download it for free, you can do it,
so come with me to perichoresis, and we have to start right now at the beginning, so let's go back,
let's go all the way back to before time began, and this is an extract from the book,
before time began there was God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, perichoresis is most
simply translated and described as the divine dance, imagine with me if you can, all that exists
is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, dancing together in a seamless, harmonious union,
infused perfectly with the most dynamic, powerful, extravagant, wild, gentle, and exquisite
expressions of love that have ever and will ever exist, culminating in the most abundant and
glorious demonstrations of delight that have ever and will ever be known, imagine with me if you
will, the fullness of the infinite power of God concentrated into one giant laser.
being of pure, supernatural, divine love. So wonderful that words could never hope to articulate
even a single percent of its unspeakable, unfathomable goodness, warmth, kindness, wonders,
ecstasy, bliss, euphoria, happiness, joy, and delight. Now imagine with me, God the Father
turning that giant laser cannon of divine love on Jesus and blasting him with absolutely everything
it had, holding nothing back, completely unleashing the entirety of his divine love on his son.
Imagine Jesus being hit with this laser cannon of pure love, more powerful than a million bolts
of lightning, except these intense beams of love are not actually coming from a cannon,
rather they are coming from the Father's eyes, and every glance of his eyes is like a thousand
waterfalls of love, like lightning, like fire, like oil, like being consumed in an ocean of divine love.
As Jesus is hit by the Father's gaze, everything slows down. The love that comes from his eyes is
softer than silk, but stronger than steel. It's the most gentle love there has ever been, yet it is
the greatest force in existence. It is calming and soothing, yet it is a raging fire of love that
consumes every aspect of his entire being. It is an intense encounter, yet it is in perfect harmony
with the most eloquent dance that has ever been danced. Then Jesus turns his gaze, which is just
as intense and powerful, on Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit turns his equally intense gaze upon Jesus,
then on the Father, and they relentlessly throughout eternity blast each other with the purest,
most extravagant, most overwhelming measures of divine love that have ever and will ever exist.
I am aiming to help you capture the wonder of the divine dance. It's an indescribable, unbroken
cycle of the most flawless, spectacular masterpieces of love in all creation and beyond. It's a perpetual
expression of divine love that never flinches. It never relents and never reduces in intensity or
consistency. Each member of the Trinity receives this divine love perfectly and gives perfect
expression of this divine love to the other members of the Trinity in the most creative,
the most outrageously abundant, and the most excellent ways divinely conceivable.
The fellowship of the Trinity, perichoresis, the divine dance is an explosion of the most
mind-bending expressions of love divinely conceivable. Each member of the Trinity pours
out the fullness of their power. They hold absolutely nothing back but spend themselves
entirely in their exuberant, extravagant, heartfelt expressions of love that they lavish on one
another. It was in this setting, in the context of this radical love that the Trinity conceived,
one of the most powerful ideas that they have ever had. That idea was you. The original idea
that they had was that you would be a perfect dance partner created with the capacity to
participate equally in the dance. They created you in their image so that you would be fully capable
of participating perfectly in perichoresis. Wow, I love that. So this perichoresis,
I want to start here because this is the heartbeat of heaven. This is the very essence of heaven.
The heartbeat of heaven is the fellowship of the Trinity. It's an unbroken cycle of divine love.
And when we're talking about an open heaven, we have to understand that the kingdom of heaven
is an expression of the king. The kingdom of heaven, an open heaven is an expression of the
king himself. And an open heaven is when you have direct access to that glory that leaves you so
undone and such awe and so consumed and baptized by that love that you are swallowed up in it.
So, wow.
So when we're talking about an open heaven, that's the context. That's what an open heaven is.
It's a mirroring of the person. It's a mirroring of the presence. It's the mirroring of the
atmospheres and the values and the culture of the Kingdom of Heaven. That perichoresis,
that fellowship of the Trinity, is the heartbeat of Heaven. It's the foundation of Heaven. It's
the epicenter of Heaven. It's the very epicenter. It's the very essence and the nature of the King
of Heaven. It's the nature of God. And that, my friends, that is the epicenter. It's the core
of Heaven. And when we're talking about an open Heaven, we're talking about Him,
we're talking about the presence, we're talking about who God is and direct access to that.
So when we use the term open Heaven, though, it can usually refer to a few different things. So
we're going to explore that. So an open Heaven can refer to, it could be experienced by an
individual person, could walk in an open Heaven. An open Heaven could be experienced by a community,
or an open Heaven could be experienced in a geographical area. And the Bible,
it's also important to distinguish that an open Heaven is different to a heavenly encounter.
One is you go to Heaven, the other is you carry Heaven. So the Bible has a bunch of stories about
amazing heavenly encounters. You've got Exodus 24, where Moses and 70 of the elders of Israel
and Nadab and Abihu actually get taken up to Heaven. And they have a feast with God. So let's
look at this. Exodus 24, which verse will we start with? We'll start with verse 9. Moses and Aaron,
Nadab and Abihu and the 70 elders of Israel went up, or they ascended and saw the God of Israel.
Under his feet was something like a pavement of lapis lazuli. This is the sea of glass that John
saw, as bright blue as the sky. God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites.
They saw God and they ate and they drank. So that's 73 of the people of Israel. So Moses,
Nadab and Abihu and 70 of the elders, they all get sucked up. They go, they ascend together
and have a covenant feast with God in Heaven on the sea of glass. How wild is that? You have two
Corinthians 12. Paul says, I know a man who 14 years ago was called up to the third Heaven.
Heavenly encounter. Isaiah 6. Remember, Isaiah 6 gets sucked up into Heaven before the throne of God.
He sees the seer from crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. And then you've got
Revelation 4. This is just a few of them, right? So heavenly encounters. Revelation 4.
John, who writes the book of Revelation, it starts like this. After this, I looked and there before
me was a door standing open in Heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a
trumpet said, come up here and I will show you what must take place after this. And then after
that, he has wild encounters in Heaven. So that's heavenly encounters, but an open Heaven is
different. An open Heaven is when you carry the fullness of Heaven. You carry Heaven here and now
you carry Heaven in this place. You carry the glory in the earth. So we can look at the top three
expressions of an open Heaven in the Bible. But before we get to the top three, I've got two
honorable mentions. So two honorable mentions. The first one is, the first honorable mention
is Moses. Check this out in the Exodus 33 verses 7 to 11. Now, Moses used to take a tent
and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the tent of meeting. Anyone
inquiring of the Lord would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp. And whenever Moses went
to the tent, all the people rose and stood at the entrances to their tents, watching Moses until he
entered the tent. As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at
the entrance while the Lord spoke with Moses. Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud
standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshipped, each at the entrance to
their tent. The Lord would speak to Moses face to face as one speaks to a friend. Then Moses would
return to the camp, but as young age, Joshua, son of Nun, did not leave the tent. Now this,
Moses gets an honorable mention because this is possibly the single greatest
verse in the whole Bible about someone who had the ability to shift an atmosphere and just
unleash an atmosphere of an open Heaven. So what, let's just look at this again. As Moses
into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down and stay at the entrance while the Lord
spoke with Moses. So you've got the Shekinah glory comes here. Moses walks to that tent
and the Shekinah glory comes. Now something happens, there's an atmospheric shift that
takes place here, okay? And watch what happens. Whenever the people saw the pillar of cloud
standing at the entrance to the tent, they all stood and worshiped at the entrance to their tent.
Now the conservative estimates is that there's at least, at very bare minimum, a million people
here. How wild is this? So the manifest Shekinah glory cloud comes down and there's a shift and
you've got over a million people and whatever they're doing, they just stop. How wild is this?
They just stop as Moses goes to pray. It shifts the entire atmosphere of a nation and they all
rise up and they all lift their hands and begin to worship. Now we know that these guys aren't all
like, they are all over the place. They've got all sorts of crazy things going on. They've been idol
worshiping, they've been rebellious, they're all sorts of stuff, right? But something happens. Now
this is the thing with an open heaven is it shifts the atmosphere and even if a person's heart isn't
right, even a person isn't like, isn't walking righteously, when their atmosphere shifts, it
will cause a change. It will shift the atmosphere over them. This is why a huge thing that we're
going to be talking about in the intensive is that the atmosphere shifts and when the atmosphere
shifts, they actually come into a place of freedom where they're not bound by whatever demonic
mindsets might have been holding them back in the past. They come into a place, everyone comes into
this place of extreme worship. Wow! Can you imagine that? You having the ability where when you pray,
it shifts the atmosphere in an entire nation and people who were once bound up, restricted,
addicted, whatever, they just got free and they were able to stand up and worship in total freedom
the moment you stood to pray. So Moses gets an honorable mention for that as possibly the greatest
person ever to live with the ability to shift an atmosphere, actually release an open heaven
just when he went to pray. Is that wild or what? Okay, so the next honorable mention is Paul and
Paul gets an honorable mention because Paul understood the power of the renewed mind.
Paul talked in Romans 12, he said, do not conform to the pattern of this world but be
transfigured by the renewing of your mind. Most people will read their Bibles and it'll say
transformed but the Greek word there is metamorpho. It's used four times in the New Testament,
twice of Jesus being transfigured, once referring to Moses being transfigured because Moses when he
came down from the mountain, he was glowing. In 2 Corinthians 3.18, it says we are all transfigured
from one degree of glory to another. So it's actually 2 Corinthians 3.10 that says that which
came with glory, which is Moses, now has no glory in comparison with the surpassing glory and
we're living in the days of the surpassing glory. So 2 Corinthians 3.18 says as we behold God, as we
look on his face, we are transfigured from one degree of glory to another. And Paul understood
this transfiguration, it's stepping into the fullness of your identity, of who you are.
So Romans 12.2, it talks about the renewed mind and Paul had so much to say about the mind. He
understood the power of the mind and Paul understood that a renewed mind is an open
heaven. So say this with me, a renewed mind is an open heaven. A renewed mind is an open
heaven. Paul talked about the futile mind. He talked about the depraved mind in Romans 1.
We're going to look at that in our next session, the futile mind, the depraved mind and then he
also says in Romans 8.6, the mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the spirit
is life and peace. So the word life, it's the Greek word zoe, which is the divine life. Paul
understood that the mind governed by the spirit is an open heaven that actually steps into and
functions from and actually lives in heaven on earth. It lives in a full measure of the divine
life right here and now. Wow. So Paul gets an honorable mention for that. He understood that
the renewed mind is an open heaven. All right, sweet. So now number three, we're going to look
at the number three. So we've got the top three open heavens in the Bible. The third one is open
heaven in a community. Any guesses on this? Any guesses on what you think is going to be?
Number three. Okay, what's going to be number three in your mind? So here it is. Number three
is the community of believers in Acts. There was so much going on here, okay? And so,
you remember, we can have the open heaven carried by a person, open heaven in a geographical
context, or open heaven in a community. And so, the community of believers in Acts, they actually
carried this dynamic of an open heaven. And there's so many things happening there. You've
got Pentecost, where the Shekinah glory of God comes on them as they're praying, the sound of
a mighty wind, the supernatural sound that just gets the attention of the entire city. And then
you've got the baptism in the Holy Spirit, where there's tongues of fire, flames of fire,
the Shekinah glory flames burning above their heads. And then thousands of people getting undone
in the presence. They have a crazy amount of angelic activity. You know, Peter getting set
free from... In Acts 12, when Peter gets set free from prison by an angel, something amazing happens.
It's like, he goes and knocks on the door of his friends. He's back there. And then the girl looks
and says, oh, he's back. And everyone's like, no way, Peter can't be back. It must just be his
angel. So if they had to logically choose, is Peter standing at the door knocking or is an
angel that just looks like Peter standing at the door knocking? They're like, it's way more likely
to be an angel, right? So there's just so much angelic activity, resurrections going on. And
then, you know, Acts 17 verse 6, they get referred to like this. It says, these men who have turned
the whole world upside down have come here also. So not only are they carrying something, they're
carrying something that's turning the entire world upside down. You have Acts 4.32, the fellowship
of believers, where they shared everything. How beautiful is that? One of the most beautiful
expressions of church in history when no one had any need whatsoever and everyone just shared what
they needed. Check the power out. Let's read this from Acts 5 verse 12. The apostles performed many
signs and wonders among the people, and all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's
colonnade. No one else dared join them. So there's this dynamic of the fear of God in that community.
And I tell you what, when you do have an open heaven, there's this extreme love, the extreme
baptism of the love of God. But there's also an awe, there's a phenomenal awe of God that you
just do not mess with His glory, all right? You don't want to mess with His glory. There's a fear,
a reverence of like, oh my gosh, God is real. God is in this place. He's not to be dishonored. He's
not to be messed with. He is holy and awesome. And that reverence of the Lord was on them so strong
that no one wanted to, they didn't want to mess with them. They didn't want to join them lightly.
But even though there was that fear on them, it says this, even though they were highly regarded
by the people, nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to
their number. As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so
that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by. How's that? They were just,
there's so much glory on them as a community that just their shadows would heal people. Just as
they're walking by, they're not even trying to do healings. People are laying them on the streets
because they know just the shadow of Peter, whoa, will bring a total shift in people's lives. Crowds
gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure
spirits and all of them were healed. Whoa, whoa, this is phenomenal. So that's pick number three.
And then number two, okay, we're going for number two. Number two is phenomenal. Okay, now this one,
this is an open heaven in a geographical area. Okay, so we're going to look at this one in a
few different levels. Feel free to chuck out your picks there of who you think or where you think
or what you think this one's going to be. Let me, you'll get it as soon as I read this, but this is
1 Kings chapter 5, verse 4. And I will read this to you from the New King James Version.
It says, but now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side. There is neither adversary
nor evil occurrence. Now, look, we're going to pause here for a moment. Okay, so now the...
Lord, my God has given me rest on every side.
There is neither adversary nor evil occurrence.
Here are the so a few key, there's two really key words here,
but now the Lord, my God has given me rest or peace, that is the word Shalom.
OK, so this is Solomon writing it out.
OK, so we're looking right now at the beginning of Solomon's kingdom
and what the world was like at the beginning of Solomon's kingdom.
So now the Lord, my God has given me peace or Shalom.
And Shalom means everything functioning according to divine design.
Wow. Everything functioning according to divine design.
So imagine a Solomon speaking about his kingdom.
He said, now the Lord has caused everything in my kingdom
to function according to divine design.
And there is neither adversary nor evil occurrence.
Now, this is wild.
OK, this is talking about a whole geographical region
where there's no evil occurrences.
It doesn't matter what translation you look at it.
You go back to the Hebrew on this.
It literally means that he's saying that nothing evil was happening
in his kingdom. This is phenomenal.
This is unprecedented. This is amazing.
Now, here's something that goes even crazier.
When you look at the word adversary in the Hebrew,
it's a word that we're well familiar with.
The Hebrew word for adversary is Satan.
So he said, now the Lord has caused everything in my kingdom
to function according to divine design.
There is no Satan and nothing evil ever happens.
Wow. Wow.
That is why you got to picture this. OK.
But can you imagine a kingdom where nothing evil ever happens?
Wow. What is that? That is an open heaven.
Now, I've had a really interesting story at church
when we were pastoring at church.
A guy came into church and he said when he came into church,
he used to have demons that tormented him.
But the moment he stepped over the threshold into our church,
those demons couldn't hinder him anymore.
They actually stayed at the door.
And he said when he left the building,
demons would be waiting for him.
But there was always less.
Every time he came in, he'd go out and there'd be less
that would actually be there.
Now, there's one day where he was in church
and he was down on the ground.
Well, I wonder what's happening with him.
He was having a heavenly encounter where he was taken into heaven.
And he had this face to face time with God.
And when he left that day, there was there were no more demons there.
Nothing there to oppress him.
So what Solomon had in his kingdom was a realm, an open heaven realm
where the demonic realm was not functioning.
Now, Solomon started with this.
He didn't have that at the end.
He totally lost that.
But let's look at where this came from.
OK, can you imagine this a demon free zone?
And God wants to restore this.
And I tell you what, when we create habitations of the glory of God,
when we create habitations of the kind of glory of God,
we're going to see this restored again.
We're going to see areas where you just with demonic realm.
This cannot function.
They cannot operate.
They have no access.
It'll be a demon free zone.
There'll be so much kind of glory
that demons will not be able to access that realm.
Wow. And Solomon's kingdom
had a geographical demon free zone.
Wow. But where did it start?
You know, this all started.
And let's go back to where it started, which is it started with David, right?
It started with the heart of David.
So we'll go back to
we'll go back to second Samuel six and we'll look at this.
Actually, this story is recorded in second
in Samuel six, and it's also recorded in Chronicles 15.
We're going to look at the one Chronicles 15 version.
It says David brought together all the young men of Israel.
30,000. Wow. That's a gathering.
He and all those men went to Bala and Judah to bring up from there
the ark of God.
How amazing is the ark of the glory of God?
God said about himself that his glory dwells.
He himself dwells.
His glory dwells in that ark.
When Moses created in Exodus four, it says that God, God dwells.
He God wrapped himself into that ark.
God dwells in that ark.
It was the ark of the glory of God.
And then we know in verse seven,
verse six, it says that Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark.
Boom. So this is
so this is reading from
Samuel six. All right.
But Uzzah, he touched the ark and he died.
And then Dave was totally.
disappointed, right? Here it says, Uzzah reached out and took
hold of the Ark of God because the oxen stumbled. The Lord's
anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act.
Therefore, God struck him down and he died there beside the
Ark of God. Then David was angry because the Lord's wrath had
broken out against Uzzah. And to this day, that place is called
Perez Uzzah. David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, how
can the Ark of the Lord ever come to me? I wonder if you've
ever had a disappointment, or you felt like you've waited so
long and it hasn't happened, or you've been longing for this
promise, or for some reason, disappointment or discouragement
has got into your heart as you've been seeking God. You're
like, wow, where is it, God? Discouragement and
disappointment can get into a heart and got into David's
heart. And he was not willing to take the Ark of the Lord to
be with him in the city of David. Instead, he took it to
the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite. The Ark of the Lord
remained in the house of Obed Edom, the Gittite for three
months, and the Lord blessed him and his entire household. Now
this guy, Obed Edom, just think about him for a moment. This
guy, Obed Edom, you don't really hear about him much before this.
But after that, Obed Edom, the Ark goes to his house for three
months, right? And he looks after it in his house for three
months. And then they come later on, and we'll read this in a
second. And they take the Ark from Obed Edom's house. But Obed
Edom, after that time, he won't go anywhere except where the Ark
is. He leaves everything just to be with the Ark. Verse 12. Now
King David was told, the Lord has blessed the household of
Obed Edom, and everything he has because of the Ark of God. So
David went to bring up the Ark of God from the house of Obed
Edom to the city of David with rejoicing. When those who were
carrying the Ark of the Lord had taken six steps, he sacrificed a
bull and a fattened calf. You imagine that every six steps,
there's a sacrifice. So this took a long time. And it was an
insane amount of sacrifice. What we're going to realize here is
that David went away. And it's actually David's mind was the
problem. David's mind was the problem of why he couldn't carry
the Ark of God. So when we look before Paul, he understood a
futile mind. He understood the dynamic of a futile mind. Well,
David was caught up in that. But then David actually dealt with
it, right? David had stuff in himself that had to be dealt
with. And we've got stuff in ourselves that needs to be dealt
with. If we want to go beyond where we've ever gone and
carrying the glory of God and carrying the Ark of God, you
will create to carry the Ark of His glory. But we've got to,
we've got to, we get stuck. And we need a renewed mind that will
enable us to go beyond where we've ever gone before, to carry
the Ark and carry the glory like we've never carried the glory
before. Wow. Wearing a linen ephod, David was dancing before
the Lord with all his might, while he and all Israel were
bringing up the Ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of
trumpets. And we know that Michal, the daughter of Saul, his
wife watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping
and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart. And
you know what, when you were going all in to carry the glory
of God, you're going to have enemies, you'll be polarizing.
Nevermind, verse 17, they brought the Ark of the Lord and
set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched
for it. David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship
offerings before the Lord. This is amazing, right? Because this
is in the time where Moses had instructed how the Ark of the
Lord was supposed to be stored, it was supposed to be in this
tent, there was supposed to be all these veils set up, there
was supposed to be all this, all of this protocol around the Ark
of the glory of God in terms of how it was supposed to be set
up. But David, he just set up a single tent, they put it in a
single tent, and they worship before the Ark of the glory of
God. They worship before the Ark of the glory of God. Now, what
we're doing is we're connecting right now, why Solomon inherited
a kingdom where he could say there was no Satan, or evil
occurrence. We're exploring why Solomon had one of the greatest
expressions of an open heaven in the entire Bible. And it comes
back to this moment where David brought back the Ark of the
Lord. So that was in 2 Samuel 6. Give me one second.
Yeah, 2 Samuel 6, that was David bringing it back.
Now, if you look in Chronicles for this story as well, it happens in 1 Chronicles 15 and
1 Chronicles 16.
But something beautiful and powerful happens that says, so David left Asaph and his brothers
there before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to minister regularly before the Ark
as each day required.
So just a minute, I want you to capture what's happening here.
David sets up one tabernacle, one tent with the Ark of God's presence, the Shekinah glory
that dwelt between the cherubim as they overshadowed the mercy seat.
And God said, my glory will dwell there always.
And the Shekinah glory of God dwelling there in the Ark of God.
And they would come and not like Moses' tent, Moses' tent, Moses' tabernacle, they said
you have to have this veil and this veil.
You can only go in, the high priest can only go in there once a year.
Well, David didn't do that, David ignored all the instruction.
And David went and created this one tent, just one room.
Everyone came around the Ark and everyone spent time before the very Shekinah glory
of God.
And David said he left Asaph and his brothers who were priests there before the Ark of the
Covenant of the Lord to minister regularly, whoa, before the Ark as each day required.
But that word regularly in the Hebrew is the word Tormid, okay, Tormid, Tormid, and it
means always, it means forever, it means perpetually, continually, it means forever more.
And so what actually happened, that was the very first birthing of a corporate 24-7 worship
time where David actually employed the priests and the Levites to minister, to worship before
the Ark of God's glory 24-7.
And you know what?
This prayer meeting, this worship meeting before the Ark of God, it went on for between
36 and 37 years, whoa, somewhere around 36 and 37 years, they worshiped, they ministered,
they gave glory and honor, and they worshiped before the throne of God.
And now that is why King Solomon could say, I have shalom on every side, you've given
me shalom, the Lord has given me shalom because the kingdom was established in 24-7 prayer
and worship, and it created a geographical open heaven where there was no Satan or evil
occurrence.
Now, that is wild.
Now, that's what Solomon started with, but he obviously, he lost it, whoa, let me know
if you think that is wild glory, whoa, it's just amazing, Papa, whoa, there's glory on
that, Papa, Papa, would you restore that glory on us in Jesus' name, whoa, wow, so
it goes on, whoa, just the presence is beautiful right now, oh, let's just take a moment just
to sit there, Papa, there's a grace, there's a grace that David carried, there's a grace
that that generation carried.
We ask you to release that grace on us, we wanna walk in that glory, we wanna know geographical
open heavens, whoa, Jesus, we wanna know your glory, we wanna walk in your glory like David
walked in it, we wanna know that glory, that open heaven that Solomon had, whoa, we want
that on our nations, whoa, let me know if you want that, let me know if you want that,
that's what God wants to do, he wants to restore open heavens, but think about this,
remember this, that it began with the first organized corporate 24-7 prayer and worship,
that's when this was birthed and went 36 to 37 years, just stewarding the glory of God,
worshiping, ministering to the Lord, because worship, it shifts the atmosphere, we're gonna
look at this more as we go on, but let's look at number one, okay, we're gonna look at the
number one open heaven in the Bible, okay, so open heavens can be on a community, open heavens
can be geographical or an open heaven can be on an individual, man, can you, like how amazing
was that, that Moses, he had the ability that when Moses decided to pray, he would go to the
tent and the Shekinah glory of God would fall as he went to the tent of meeting,
wow, and the atmosphere shifts so radically that over a million people would just stand
to their feet and worship, over a million people, listen, the good, the bad and the ugly,
those that love God, those that didn't love God, the atmospheric shift when Moses went to
pray was so phenomenal that over an entire group of people, over everyone that was there, they all
stood and they just came in this place of abandoned worship until Moses finished praying.
You think that those guys, you think that Moses went in to pray for five or ten minutes? Moses
would have been in there for hours and the whole community was in this place of hands raised
worship before, wow, worship just sold out in worship. This is phenomenal guys. We've got to
think about the power of that atmospheric shift. It was huge. So Moses carried this ability to
shift an atmosphere and release the atmosphere of an open heaven over people, those that were,
and that's amazing. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine walking into a city and when you
go to pray, the Shekinah glory of God falls from heaven and there becomes such an awareness
of the awe and the wonder and the glory of God that people who know Jesus and people who don't
know Jesus are undone by the wonder of his beauty. They just come into this place where even though
they don't even know him, they're just like, wow, what is this? They just begin to step into worship.
They begin to step into adoration, wow. And you know what David called the priests to do,
there's a prayer movement that has, this is their statement, let me know if you love this,
the prayer movement is, our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration. Our lives are devoted to
perpetual adoration and that is exactly what David commanded the priests to do. He commanded them to
come into a place of perpetual adoration and as a community for 36 to 37 years they lived in a place
of perpetual adoration of God and it shifted the atmosphere so powerfully on that geographical
region that after 36 to 37 years, the demonic realm couldn't operate or function in that
territory, wow. So let's now look at the number one example, the number one open heaven in the
entire Bible. I'd love you to try and guess what this is. Remember an open heaven can be
on a community, it can be on a region or it can be on an individual and this one was on an individual
and I'm sure you've probably guessed it but here's a quote from that individual, that individual said
I am the way, whoa, I am the way, I am the truth and I am the life, wow. Now that word life, this is
Jesus. Jesus is the greatest example of an open heaven in the entire Bible, wow. Jesus is the
greatest example of an open heaven in the Bible. He, listen that word life, it's a Greek word
Zoe, right, the Greek word Zoe and it is, Jesus defined that Greek word in this moment when he
said I am the life, that is the divine life. It is, what does it mean? It's, we're going all the way back
to the beginning of this message that started with the divine dance, the divine dance, the divine
life, Zoe is the divine dance, Zoe is the exact same emotional state of being as God, catch this,
whoa, is that wild crazy? Zoe is the divine life, it's the exact same
feelings as God, the exact same emotional state of being as God, wow, the, it's oneness with God, it
is the divine life, wow, it's the unbroken cycle of divine love crashing over us, flowing over us
and in us and through us, it's an unbroken cycle of divine love that consumes us and baptizes us
and immerses us, it blazes as a raging fire in the inside of us, it releases his glory over us,
it releases his wonders in us and through us, it infuses us with the divine nature, wow.
So, Jesus is the number one example of an open heaven in the Bible, in John 14, 12, just after
this, right, where he said, I am the life, he says, anyone who has faith in me will do what I've been
doing, they will do even greater things than these. Listen, Jesus has said that it's
possible for us to step in and be an even greater expression of heaven on earth than he was. Now,
if it wasn't Jesus that said that, no one would believe it, everyone would say,
like that was heresy, everyone would say, you can't dream that big, you can't think that crazy,
you can't be that wild, but Jesus
said, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing.
And what was he doing? He was the greatest expression of
heaven on earth, the greatest open heaven that the world has
ever seen. Jesus was a portal to the exact nature of the Father.
When you looked on Jesus, you saw the Father. When you looked
on Jesus, you saw heaven. When you looked on Jesus, you saw
love. When you looked on Jesus, you saw the glory of God. Not
only this, they will do even greater things than these. Let's
look at John 8, 12. Now this is wild. Okay, in John 8, 12, Jesus
said, I am the light of the world. Whoa. How beautiful is
that? I am the light of the world. Whoa. I am the light of
the world. How amazing is that? He's the light of the world. He
is the greatest open heaven. I am the light of the world that
he makes that statement. And it's an identity statement.
Right. And then he doesn't go anywhere. He's not moving. He
hasn't shifted anywhere. And he says, whoever follows me. Right.
So he's not talking about geographically following him.
He's talking about whoever thinks about themselves like I
think about myself. I am the light of the world as an
identity statement. And Jesus says, whoever follows me, whoever
thinks the same about me, whoever believes the same about
themselves that I believe about myself will, here's what they'll
do. They will never walk in darkness, a sinless existence,
my friends. That's what we're called for, created for, a
sinless existence. They will never walk in darkness. And I
promise you that when you step into your identity, you will
never walk in darkness. They will never walk in darkness, and
they will have the light of life. The Greek word that would
have you might not think that there's much to it. But the
Greek word is echo. The Greek word echo. It means to hold in
one's hand means to possess in your hand, right? It also means
to put on like a garment. It means to be and obviously, it
means the word echo to mirror to be an exact expression. What
will they? So let's look at John 8 12. Again, I am the light of
the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness. But
they will have what will they have, they will have, they will
possess in their hands, they will mirror on earth as in
heaven, they will wear it like a garment, the light of life.
That's the divine nature. That's the divine life. That's the
fullness of the divine life. And Jesus is saying that he even
though he is the greatest expression of heaven on earth
that the world had ever seen, that's what you were created
for. You've been created to step into that same place to be
followed after Jesus is the greatest expression of an open
heaven the world has ever seen. Wow. John 17 26. Let's look at
this. Jesus said, and I have this is an amplified
translation, and I have made you known to them or I've revealed
you to them. He says I have made your name known to them. And I
will continue to make it known your name, your nature, I will
continue to make you known to them. So that the love which you
have for me, so that the love with which you have loved me may
be in them, overwhelming their hearts, and that I may be in
them. Let's read this again. John 17 26. And I have made your
name known to them, and will continue to make it known. So
that the love which with which you loved me may be in them,
overwhelming their hearts, and that I myself may be in them.
Wow. If you look at this right back to the start where we
started this message with the divine dance, where the Father
and the Son and the Holy Spirit each lavish each other with the
most exquisite, phenomenal, powerful, outrageous outpourings
of love that they can possibly be. And Jesus says here, he has
revealed the Father to you for this purpose, right? So Jesus is
the greatest open heaven there ever is. He's an open portal.
He's an open door. When you see him, you see heaven. When you
step close to him, you step in, you step close to heaven. And
what's happening here is that when you step close to Jesus,
there's a baptism in love that's so powerful, it will completely
overwhelm
you in love. Whoa. And that's what happens in an open heaven. As you get undone, you get undone
by the awe, by the majesty, by the wonder of who God is. And you get overwhelmed, saturated,
inundated, outrageously smothered in the baptism of the Father's love. Whoa.
Shukuruku. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. So I want you to imagine this, right? I want you to
imagine this with me because this open heaven that Jesus carried, God is getting set to do
something greater with it than we've ever seen, right? Jesus carried this as an individual,
but you imagine what would happen when this starts becoming an atmospheric shift,
like when Moses went to pray and the atmosphere shifted of over a million people. Well,
they didn't have this degree of the open heaven. This is why Jesus is the single greatest expression
of an open heaven is because he was the greatest expression of love. He was the greatest open door
and to be being swallowed up in a baptism of the love of God. Jesus is the greatest expression of
an open heaven that has ever existed because when you come close to Jesus, you get baptized,
you get saturated, you get marinated, you get undone and overwhelmed by the all-consuming
fires of divine love. They consume your body and soul and spirit. Now, this open heaven that
Jesus carried, he said, anyone who has faith in me will do what I've been doing. They will do
even greater things than these. And I'll tell you one of the greater things that I believe is coming
is that Jesus is calling our generation to step into an awakening where we carry an awakening,
where we carry an outpouring, an atmospheric shift that enables this awakening to break
out over entire regions where what was the greatest expression of heaven on earth
that was contained in Christ is no longer contained in Christ, but it becomes
a geographical, communal outpouring of love, of open heaven. Wow. So Jesus right now, pour it out
right now. Jesus right now, release this open heaven, release this baptism into the wonder
of divine love. Wow. Release a baptism into the wonders of divine love right now. Wow.
And I want to say to you something about the nature of love and when you step into this realm
of an open heaven, when you step into this realm of being immersed and undone by this open heaven
that Jesus carries, when you step into that, the nature of love is to supply, right? Say that with
me. The nature of love is to supply. So whatever needs you have, they get met in that place, right?
They get met in that place of an open heaven. They get met in that place of coming face to face
with love. So whatever you have need of right now, I just want you just to say,
wow, like, wow. Whatever you have need of right now, the realm of love, the nature of love
is to supply. The nature of love is to supply. Whatever your needs are, when you come into an
open heaven, it's a realm of abundance and the nature of love supplies that need. Wow.
And whatever your need is right now, I just want you to open up and just say, Papa, I receive, wow.
So stretch out, just declare, put it in the comments or whatever, whatever your needs are.
If you need healing, if you need breakthrough, if you need God to move on your behalf, you step
into Christ, you step into that open realm and you'll find that love casts out all fear. How
does love cast out all fear? Love casts out all fear by supplying the lack that produces the fear
in the first place, the nature of lack, right? Lack produces fear, but love supplies every need
and destroys lack and brings abundance that casts out all fear and meets every need.
So right now, whether you need healing, whether you need restoration, whether you need breakthrough,
whatever your need is right now, open up into a realm of supply. Love is the realm of supply.
Love is the realm of abundance. Love is the realm of breakthrough. Jesus is the realm of breakthrough.
So I release over you right now in Jesus' name. I release anointing that breaks every yoke. I
release anointing right now that heals and restores in Jesus' name. I release anointing
of love. I release love outpouring. I release a love outpouring. I release the glory of love.
I release the supply of love over you in
Jesus name. Not that it would just supply your need and heal your body and break through for you
and change your circumstances. Not just that, but the love. Here's what I see for you right now.
Whoa, I see you being a carrier. I see you being a catalyst. I see you being a carrier of the open
heaven of love. Whoa, whoa. I see you being a carrier of the open heaven of love.
Jesus released healing right now. Jesus released restoration right now.
Jesus released peace right now. Jesus released hope restored right now.
And I just see as well that David was discouraged and disappointed and he gave up on carrying the
ark. You're called to be like David to carry the ark back into your nation. You're called to be
like David to carry the ark of God back to your people. You're called to be like David to carry
the ark back right now. You're called to be like those that David commissioned to perpetually
this is what you were commissioned for. You're commissioned to devote your life to the perpetual
adoration. You're called to devote your life to perpetual adoration. Whoa, and I see this coming.
I release it right now. The ability to carry an open heaven in Jesus name. The ability to carry
an open heaven, not just to receive an open heaven, not just to receive from an open heaven,
but to carry an open heaven in Jesus name, to be the breakthrough, to be the love that supplies,
to carry the grace in Jesus name. I thank you Papa for release. Whoa, a release of the capacity
to carry the ark of God. Papa, I thank you for right now out of the realm of love,
out of the realm of supply, healing every disappointment, healing every discouragement,
healing everything that has caused people to stop carrying the ark of your presence.
And I just declare in Jesus name. I just see this word happening for people right now.
I see this word happening that where you were disappointed and waiting for God, there's
restoration there. There's fresh hope there. There's fresh life coming on you, on your capacity to carry
to carry the ark of God's presence. Wow, there's fresh capacity. There's fresh capacity. Whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa, there's what it is. It's if you were disappointed, if you gave up waiting for God,
if you gave up waiting for God, you'd waited so long for God to move. You had high expectations.
And then you would like David and you stopped carrying the ark of God, that God, this is what
God's saying. God's saying you pick the ark up again, carry the ark again, because here's what
happened for Solomon. He wants you to step into that place where you are not the disappointed
David, but you're the victorious David, where you carry the ark back. And so as we go this
next three days, we're going to look at how we can actually carry that ark of God, how we can
actually create atmospheric shift, how we can bring that atmospheric shift, how we can step into
an open heaven as individuals, how we can step into carrying the open heaven as a community,
and how we can step into bringing an open heaven over geographic regions. So love you very much,
and may you be healed. If you've received healing yesterday on the video, multiple people received
healing immediately, instantly. So check your body right now, be healed in the name of Jesus,
and share your testimonies here of your healings, your breakthroughs, because love is, there was
such a powerful anointing there. I could tell people were getting healed. I could tell God was
moving, whether it's the replay, whether it's a delay, whatever, whether it's live, just put your
testimonies in there. It's going to be so exciting family. As we go through for the next few days,
I'll look forward to seeing you in session two. Session two, we're looking at the dark trinity,
and we're looking at how the enemy opposes an open heaven, and we're looking at how we get that
breakthrough when the enemy is going after a closed heaven. So love you, bless you, and we will
see you real soon. See you fam. Bye-bye. The next session is live at 3 p.m New Zealand time. I'll be
sending the email out to the email list for that, and also watch the space here. It's a live.
now. So four hours from now. Love you so much. This is going to get deeper. It's going to get
juicy. And we are going to never be the same by the end of these six sessions. So I want actually,
as I just closed, I just want to encourage you to commit to the six sessions, because something's
going to happen by the time we get to the end of these six sessions, where the spirit of awakening
is going to be on you. And you don't want to miss out on that. You want to be a part of this process,
the spirit of awakening gets on you, and you actually get wrapped up in this ability to be a
catalyst and a steward of an open heaven. And not just an open heaven as we've seen in the past,
because God's doing something unprecedented right now. And I promise you, God's going to take us
beyond what we've known, beyond where we've been, beyond what we've seen. He's going to take us
beyond. So stick with me for these six sessions over three days, and we will never be the same,
bless you, love you, and we'll catch you soon. Bye-bye.