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It is great to be on this adventure together today.
And we are gonna have a glorious, glorious time.
So join me now as we jump into this.
I'm gonna do the classic, do a quick checkup of the tech
and make sure that everything's streaming
like it should be.
As I do that, why don't you get comfortable,
start getting like posturing your heart
in a place of prayer.
And we're gonna pray for a moment
and then we're gonna launch into it.
So look at that, we are live.
Everything's going how it should be.
Hey, it is awesome to be with you.
And what would be really cool is
let me know some of the things that have been a blessing
to you so far on this adventure.
And we're going to pray
and we are going on a glorious, glorious adventure.
This is gonna be amazing story time today.
It's gonna rock your world.
It's gonna give you foundations to understand
what God is doing in the earth
and how we can be a part of it,
which is gonna be wild.
So let's pray.
Ah, Papa.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Whoa, Yeshua, wow.
Holy Spirit.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Oh, we thank you so much for oneness with you.
Wow.
We thank you for,
we thank you for the bliss of effortless union.
Wow.
We thank you that in you,
we live and move and have our being.
We thank you that you have,
we've always been one with you.
We thank you that we have been swallowed up in your love.
Wow.
We thank you that your heart showers ecstasy on us.
Your heart showers delight on us.
The divine dance showers unspeakable love
and wonders over us.
Wow.
And we want to give you all the glory and all the honor.
Whoa.
And Papa, we don't just,
we love you outrageously.
And we love you so much that our hearts burn
and long and shake with desire for more of you.
And so Papa, what we have, what we know,
what we understand, our experience of you,
our experience of the divine life,
it's glorious beyond measure,
but we want to go beyond what we've ever known,
beyond what our experience speaks of,
beyond what, where we've ever imagined,
beyond what we understand,
beyond what we've seen,
beyond where our faith has taken us,
beyond where our level of revelation has permitted us to go.
We want to go beyond.
So Papa, whoa,
would you pour it out?
Whoa, the revelation we need,
the grace we need,
the mantles we need,
the wonders we need.
Would you unlock new dimensions of faith,
new dimensions of the ecstasy of oneness,
new dimensions of face-to-face, spirit-to-spirit,
new dimensions of union with the divine nature?
Would you take us deeper?
And would you unleash power in us
and through us and around us that reveals your glory
like we have never imagined?
Whoa, would you break out?
Would you do again what you've done in the past
as we lay our lives down,
as we consecrate ourselves and set ourselves apart?
Would you do whatever it takes in us
to have your heart's desire in us
that we would be those that carry this move of God
that's burning in your heart?
You do a work in us.
So Papa, we lay down,
we lay down,
we lay down our current understanding and say,
Papa, we don't even know what we don't know.
But what we do know is we desperately need you
to take us beyond where we are.
Take us beyond.
Papa, we need open heavens.
We need revelation.
We need more of your glory,
more of your truth, more freedom.
Papa, we don't even know what we don't know.
And we're just asking, fill in our blind spots,
fill in our gaps,
and let your burning heart consume us.
And not just a little bit,
but infernos and tsunamis and explosions and hurricanes
and just explosions of wonder.
Don't just take us a little bit.
Take us all the way, Papa.
Take us way, way, way, way,
way beyond what we did to dream.
Way, way, way beyond what our culture has said is possible.
Way, way, way, way beyond what we've believed is possible.
Take us, take us, take us.
Whoa, Papa, in your beautiful name.
Ha, ha, ha.
all the glory and all the honor. We adore you. We devote our lives to perpetual adoration of you.
And you'll get it.
You're our one thing. You're the thing we burn for and long for. We say come, pour out that
all-consuming fire. Leave no stone of ignorance untouched. Pierce where our minds have been
corrupted and defiled and we can't even tell. Would you pierce the darkness in our own minds?
Would you pierce the areas where there's closed heavens, where there's a lack of revelation?
Would you pierce those with an explosion of the most glorious revelation that we've ever
imagined? That we would not just talk about the greater works, but we would live
the greater works in your beautiful name, Jesus.
Amen. Wow, family. Beautiful. Such an honor to be on this journey together and
where we are going is we're going into a realm of ecstasy beyond what we've ever known. We're
going into a realm of glory beyond what we've ever tasted, of wonders and signs and miracles
that go beyond what we've imagined. So just join with me in this declaration.
I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate that this wild move of God is taking us beyond,
beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond where we've ever gone before in Jesus name. One more time.
I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate that this wild move of God is taking us above and
beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond, beyond where we've ever dared to dream or imagine
in Jesus name. Wonderful. Well, fam, we're going to get into it and just a quick recap on some of
the things we've talked about. This is the three day open heaven intensive. So let's remind ourselves
what an open heaven is, what it looks like. An open heaven gives you easy access to truth, easy
access to revelation, right? Wow. And what does revelation produce? Jesus said, you know, the truth
and the truth will set you free. And what does freedom look like? It looks like, we have to be
really careful with this because freedom looks like the divine life, but most of us don't know
what the divine life looks like because it's so good. Because of the history of the church,
our image of what the divine life looks like has been corrupted. All right. So what does it look
like? What does freedom look like? Freedom, I'm going to tell you, and we've got to be honest,
if we're going to be humble and real and authentic, we've got to say that the divine life, it's beyond
what we've ever imagined. Take everything that you've ever seen that's glorious and outrageous
and phenomenal and wonderful. It's better than that. It's multiplied exponentially beyond what
we've ever imagined, right? So open heaven gives easy access to revelation that produces freedom
that looks like the divine life. It's seamless union. It's ecstasies and wonders and power
and glory like we've never imagined. And what's a closed heaven, right? So, I mean, open heaven,
it's heaven on earth, but heaven on earth is union with the divine nature. Heaven on earth is
oneness with the Trinity. Heaven on earth is the divine dance. That's the goal of heaven on earth
is the divine dance, to be swallowed up in the divine dance as individuals, as communities,
and as geographical regions, as the glory habitations in ballot entire nations. That's
the whole dream of heaven on earth. What's a closed heaven? A closed heaven is the exact opposite.
It's very difficult to get access to truth. You have to go crazy hard out to get access to
truth. Like we looked at Josiah, he grew up in this place of a closed heaven, and it was ridiculous
how long it took him to get revelation. It took him 18 years to figure out that they shouldn't
have a giant statue of an Asherah pole, which is a giant penis erected in the temple, and then
worship Asherah with having male and female prostitutes. That's what a closed heaven
does. It restricts your access to revelation, which restricts your access to freedom and restricts
your access to the divine life and restricts your access to heaven on earth. And the fruit is hell
on earth, oppression, dysfunction, chaos, a defiled mind, a corrupt mind, a futile mind that will try
and tell you that what is evil is good and what is good is evil. So that's our little
recap of where we've been. And the dark trinity achieves hell on earth by eradicating truth,
and it's been going after truth in the church for centuries right from the beginning. So join
with me and just make this declaration. Let's get it back. I'm just going to declare this.
I decree and I declare. I mandate and I legislate. We're going to get truth back in Jesus' name. I decree
and I declare. I mandate and I legislate.
We're going to get truth back in Jesus' name. I decree and I declare, I mandate and I legislate,
we're going to get truth back in Jesus' name. Right now, I can just tell that God's opening
up revelations. He's opening up portals of revelation and I release over you 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 in Jesus' name.
And I prophesy over you right now realms of revelation opening up to portals, doors, gates,
into the realms of revelation opening up and revelation descending on you. I declare right now
that revelation is being released to you, imparted to you, not just from me but directly from
heaven from the throne of God. Revelation is being deposited in your spirit right now in Jesus' name.
Amen. So let's go after this adventure. Today we are looking at how mystic saints
saved the world, right? The mystic saints that saved the world. Is that a cool title
or what? Let me know what you think. So we better start by explaining what a mystic is. So here's a
quick dictionary definition. A mystic is a person who seeks by contemplation
and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the deity or the absolute
or who believes in spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect. So a
Christian mystic is a person who seeks extreme intimacy with God, who regularly practices
spiritual disciplines and who consistently hears God speaking to them, right? So as far as the term
mystic goes, you don't have to be worried about that. The definition to a mystic is fitting to
anyone who is intentionally seeking to cultivate a healthy relationship with God. So if you're
seeking to cultivate a healthy relationship with God, where you have relationship, you're hearing
from him and you're following him, you, my friend, are the dictionary definition of a mystic.
And we have to understand that the majority of the heroes of the Christian faith, actually every
single hero of the Christian faith, is accurately called a mystic, okay? So Saint Patrick,
Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Anthony of Padua, Catherine of Siena, Madame Guyon, the list
just goes on and on, okay? So to understand the context of how of the mystics, the mystic saints
that saved the world, what we have to do is we have to actually understand the world that they
lived in. So put your seat belts on, get ready, let me know if you're ready for a crash course in
history. This is going to be wild, okay? So now let me know, you know, as we're going in now,
let me know again, you know, just anything that you're loving, anything that's been of value that
you can enjoy, put those comments in there. I love seeing those testimonies. And do you love
church history or not? Yes or no? If you love it, say yes, I love it. If you don't, say no,
not interested. But we're going to go deep on church history and it's going to give you the
context. The reason we have to go deep on this is because we have to understand when and how
truth was robbed, when and how the church was corrupted, and what we're actually fighting
for, all right? This is going to be a crazy journey into wild realms of church history and
glory. So buckle up, here we go into it. So we're going to go all the way back to the beginning,
okay? So if you don't know AD or Anno Domini, it doesn't mean after death, right? It means
in the year of our Lord. So it refers to the year that Jesus was born. So we're starting now with
how the church was corrupted, and we have to look at the history of persecution to do that,
okay? So in 35 AD, just not long at all after Jesus was crucified, Stephen got martyred, okay?
So I mean, Jesus was crucified. Basically, there's never been a period where the church hasn't been
persecuted. 35 AD, when Stephen was martyred, things ramped up a little bit, but they never
stopped, okay? So you've got to understand the church has always been violently persecuted.
People have been martyred since Jesus, right? The first martyr, and it never stopped. But in 202 AD,
the Roman Emperor Septimius, he actually forbade anyone. He's like, it is forbidden, forbidden,
my friend, forbidden to become a Christian, okay? So it's illegal now to become a Christian. So that
puts a little bit of a pressure on you when you're about making the whole world Christians, right? So
the persecution ramped up then. Then in 250 AD, okay? 250 AD, just a couple hundred years after
Jesus, the Emperor Decius, he ordered universal sacrifice, okay? So what that meant was that
every single person in the Roman Empire had to get a certificate that said that they had
sacrificed to the pagan gods, all right? And if you didn't, they would chuck you in jail. So this
is a bit of a problem for the Christians, right? So, and I think that there's a bunch of people
right now that are like, oh my gosh, you know, just in terms of funny things like the Vatican.
not really that funny, but they're like, well, if you don't get the vaccine, you can't travel
a little bit like in Israel right now. If you haven't had the vaccine, you're like a second
class citizen. So this was way, way, way more serious than that. You know, you're going straight
to jail if you don't sacrifice to a pagan God. Now, after that, there was a little bit of a
reprieve where they kind of chilled out on demanding that. And then a bunch of the people
who had sacrificed to the pagan gods who were Christians actually went back into the church
and actually caused a bit of a problem in the church because there's all these people who were
staunch who've just been tortured in prison. They've had people dying all around them and
they're released and they're like, okay, sweet, we're going back to the church. And then they
find all these ones that have sacrificed to pagan gods that are coming into the church too. And
they're like, hey, you guys denied the faith. And so there was a little bit of a, you know,
just a tension there in the church. And some people who were like, no, no, we are all about
real purity. We're all about, we're full on for purity. They actually started leaving
the mainstream church there. And the first famous person to do that was Anthony the Great.
So in 270 to 271 AD, Anthony the Great, he went out into the desert and just started
praying, just seeking Jesus. And he's like, man, all I want is the authentic gospel.
I want heaven on earth. I want relationship with you. I want you, Jesus.
Well, he became, you know, one of the great, probably the great founder of the Desert Fathers
Movement. And what happened was all of these people just started moving to the desert
and devoting their lives to prayer. So you had this monastic movement where they're just praying
all the time, 24-7 prayer. And by the time he died in 356 AD, there was thousands and thousands and
thousands of people who'd become nuns and monks and just moved out into the desert. And they
just moved out into the desert. And Athanasius, one of the church fathers, when he wrote about it,
he said, indeed, here's his exact words. He said, the desert has become a city.
So there was this whole movement there of purity just going after it. So then in 298 to 300 AD,
all right, Christians are forced to leave the Roman army. Now, if you're getting rid of all
the Christians out of the army, you know something's about to go down. In 303, a crazy huge
persecution broke out against the church. Churches were destroyed. Christian literature was burnt.
There was a systematic slaughter. And this time, instead of, it wasn't just, you know, like it
wasn't just sacrifice to go to prison, it was sacrifice to pagan gods will die on the spot.
Well, so this is crazy. So Christians got driven to the catacombs, Christians hiding everywhere.
This is going crazy. All right. So then say Emperor Constantine. Okay. So Emperor Constantine
in 312 AD. Actually, let me give you an exact date. This is a really interesting story.
On the 27th of October in 312, Emperor Constantine, he was actually, there was three
emperors. He was one of three and he was battling for control. And so this is his last, you know,
one of his last battles for control of the Roman empire against the other emperors.
And he, what he saw is he had a vision and it said, this is his words. In the vision, it said,
in this sign conquer. And he saw a vision of a cross. So he got rid of the Roman eagles. He
painted crosses on all their shields and he went to war in the, under the banner of the cross and
he won. And then in 313, the very next year in January. So just a few months after that.
So you've got full on pagan Rome. That's full on. That's absolutely like slaughtering Christians
like crazy. And then it goes, boom, changes like that. He has this vision and this conquer
in the sign conquer. He gets that cross. He takes over the emperor, not like the empire.
He does have a couple more battles later on to just get absolute supremacy, but he's basically
got the whole majority of the empire at that point. And he makes Christianity legal, not just
Christianity. He gives freedom of religion. So everything changes just in a moment. And then
just not, not just as he make freedom of religion, he actually ends up favoring Christianity. And so
he makes Christianity the religion of the state. So you've got overnight, basically you've got
full on pagan Rome switches from pagan Rome to Christian overnight. All right. Now this is a
little bit crazy because you've got, you know, like all these Christians who are being slaughtered
like crazy. They're just being massacred. And the next thing, you know, oh, they're in like,
they are favored by the emperor and all of a sudden becoming a Christian is cool, right? This is the
cool club now to be a Christian. So there were cool benefits as well, right? Like all the pagan
priests, if you're a pagan priest, whatever the roles of pagan priests had, boom, just switched
over that. Now the Christians are in those places of influence, all the pagan buildings and temples,
they all get given to the Christians. Constantine start giving the church.
heaps of money. So Constantine has got a lot of money there, a lot of influence, a lot of control.
Now Constantine himself wasn't actually a Christian, and he didn't get baptized until
he was on his deathbed. And when he did get baptized, he got baptized by an Arian bishop.
And the Arians were one of the biggest heretic, like one of the biggest kind of problems to the
early church ever, because they had this belief that Christ wasn't fully divine, okay. So even
when Constantine did get baptized on his deathbed, it was into a cult, well I would just say a
movement that denied the deity of Christ, right. So that, well right there, that's an issue. And
there's a lot of the early church fathers that just gave their lives to try and defend that,
and that's what Constantine aligned with. So he was really influential in the church,
but he wasn't actually a Christian. So all of a sudden, it's the call club to be in,
you got benefits, like you didn't have to pay taxes. All these things started happening,
you got access to a whole lot of government money. So you've got all these people who aren't
even close to being Christians jumping into the leadership of the church. And can you imagine that
that might just create a little bit of crazy town, a little bit of chaos, where you've got
you've got these hardcore people who were just dying for their faith by the thousands, and then
all of a sudden a big switch, and you've got all these random pagan guys who don't even follow
Jesus leading the church. And so, but the thing is, in that stage, it was the Catholic church, but
the word Catholic, all it means is universal, it's because there was only one church. So what
do you name the church if there's only one church? Universal church, the Catholic church, it's just
the one church, there's only one church, it's the universal church. So there was no other church to
go to, and now there's this collision inside of this, all this wrestling going on in the inside
of the church itself as a structure. Now, we fast forward a little bit, right, so go forward a little
bit, and the Roman Empire starts crumbling away. Okay, the Roman Empire is enormous, they occupy
territories all over the world, but there's uprisings happening everywhere, they start losing
their power, and by 400 AD, the Roman Empire had lost, was starting to lose its power like crazy.
And then in 476 AD, the Roman, like Rome itself, it fell as an empire. So what happened, right, as
the dust settled, is actually the church arose as the power rather than the government, okay.
And the church at the time created a folk, a fake document, right, they created a fake
document, which was called the Donation of Constantine. It was a fake document that they forged,
which said that Constantine gave them the authority to rule the empire, right. So they create this
fake document, and basically they get all the power, and so instead of having like the government,
you know, ruling over the church, now the church rules over the government, and that's how the
Catholic Church came into absolute supremacy. So what you've got there is you've got the good,
the bad, and the ugly all mixed in together. You've got a movement of thousands of people in this
monastic life where they're just going after intimacy, radical intimacy with Jesus. There's
mystics, you've got all these survivors of martyrdom and their descendants, you know, like
the descendants of those people. You've got all sorts, it's a real mountain top, the church,
but also at this point when the Catholic Church emerges as this universal power, the church has
already had 150 years of corruption. So what is that corruption going to do? It's going to close
the heavens, isn't it, okay. They're not teaching the truth about Jesus, and then they're just
teaching whatever feels good, whatever sounds good, whatever's going to give them the best
favor or what's going to give them the best political advantage, okay. So they're just
preaching whatever, okay. So they're using it for power and control, and you can tell that that's
what they're after because they fake a whole document just to create the pretext to seize
control, okay. So it's pretty messed up, okay. So you've got a melting pot of the good, the bad,
and the ugly, and into that context right there enters one of our next things. So the first guy
that we talked about is Anthony the Great, who was the father of the desert movement, which
spawned thousands of mystics, thousands of these people. They just moved there by the thousands,
and he wasn't the only one. There was also some other fathers just kept going, kept going,
kept going, kept growing out of that. It was like a seed of thousands of seeds of these mystics
that then started going all over the place and carrying that seed, all right. So they've got
that, but the majority of Christianity is stuck under the influence of this corrupt Catholic
regime, which was really tyrannous and brutal, and so it's just craziness, right. But at that time,
coming into the scene is Saint Patrick, okay. So with Saint Patrick, who loves Saint Patrick?
We'll do an overview of Saint Patrick, and he's so, so critical to church history,
to world history, and he's so critical. One of his prophecies that we're going to look at
is so critical to the move of God that is unfolding in the earth right now. So he was born in the
late 300s, there's a little bit of dispute around the exact dates of St. Patrick, but late 300s,
so just as the Roman Empire is starting to collapse is when St. Patrick is born. He's born,
he's just one of these guys that's marked from the outset with a real, real love for Jesus.
You may know the story, when he's 16, he gets kidnapped by Irish pirates, and when he's there
as a slave in Ireland, he learns the language, he learns the culture, but he also takes this
real amazing love that he already had for Jesus, he took it real deep, and he went to this crazy
level of wild intimacy with God, with heaven, he engaged with angels, he had visions, he had
supernatural miracles and signs and wonders following him even from the time he was a child,
so he is marked by God right from the beginning, and after six years in captivity, he has a vision,
and the vision shows him where a ship is waiting from 200 miles away, and some people say it was
an angel named Victor, Victory, that actually showed him this and led him, so he walked 200
miles, bear in mind that if he'd been caught, he would have been executed as a runaway slave,
and then he gets a ship back, the same ship he saw in the vision goes back to England,
and he's in his 20s, and at this point he actually has a vision where he receives a call to go back
to Ireland and minister to the Irish, but he doesn't go right back, he actually spends decades
training for that calling, it's not till he's 60 that he goes back, he travels all around Europe,
and he goes and connects with a lot of these amazing mystical saints that are all around Europe,
and then in his 60s, he gets commissioned by the Pope and everything, and he goes over
with this mandate, and in his heart, he's not just going to make disciples in nations,
in Saint Patrick's heart, he's got a mission he's been preparing for for decades, and the mission is
to disciple the entire nation, that was his goal, that was his heart, that's what he was after,
and you see it right from the outset of what he does, so get ready, let me know if you're
excited about Saint Patrick, because this goes wild, so he starts, one of his first acts,
not his exact first act, but one of his first and most significant acts is when he goes to Ireland,
he starts a fight with one of the kings, now there were multiple kings, not just one king,
but there was a really, really influential king, and he started a fight with the king,
can you imagine that? This is his very first act, he goes and starts a fight with the king,
so here's how he did it, there's a particular feast that happened around Easter at that time,
for this pagan festival, there was a particular feast that was happening, and no one was allowed
to light a fire before the king, so he couldn't cook on any fire, he couldn't have any fire,
there was no fire permitted in all of that region, until after the king had lit his big bonfire,
and then everyone could light fires everywhere, and have a big party, but the king had the honor
of lighting the first fire, so Saint Patrick makes this massive bonfire, and lights it on a big hill,
right opposite where the king is, to start this big fight with the king, so the king's like, what?
And then his, interestingly, in the culture, the Celtic culture, up until that time, they already
had, through their druids, and in their culture, embedded, and they actually had a prophecy saying
that a person like Saint Patrick was coming, and that he was actually going to really change the
nation, he's going to be a man of huge influence, they even described, you know, the type of dress
that he was wearing, so they had this, and there was a little bit of apprehension thinking, oh my
gosh, is this the prophecy fulfilled when Saint Patrick turned up? So the king, actually his
advisors, his druids, they said to him, listen, if you don't put that fire out before morning, it will
become a fire and island that never goes out, and the man who lit it will be more famous than kings
and queens, wow, that's what they said to him, so they rush over there, and they start this
battle with Saint Patrick, basically, they send some people over, say, hey, bring him over,
and then the first power encounter is with this druid who says, I've got so much power, and he's
boasting in all his demonic power, he starts levitating in front of them, like, just boasting,
this is like a David and Goliath moment, right, where he's just boasting in, you know, in demonic
powers, and Saint Patrick starts praying, and the druid dies and falls to the ground dead,
wow, now, I haven't really prayed for anyone to, you know, to die in my ministry before, you know,
and who, I didn't, Patrick was necessarily praying for him to die, but Patrick's praying,
here's the thing, though, is that sometimes where the move of God comes, sometimes with the glory,
and we saw that with Uzzah, when we looked at it yesterday, Uzzah reached down, he touched the glory,
and sometimes you can cross the line with God, majority of the time, you know, like, the loving
heart of the Father never changes, but there is a dynamic of the glory that you can't mess with,
and there is a dynamic as well, that if you get a covenant with demonic powers, that sooner or
later, you can experience the consequence of that, and
boom this guy he gets uh he dies right there in front of everyone they're like whoa what happened
and that guy's followers they started raging right they started drawing swords they're going after
saint patrick saint patrick starts praying and a storm comes right and all of those guys that
were trying to come and kill him they all start they just turn on themselves and they just start
fighting themselves and they killed about 50 of themselves uh and saint patrick standing there
unharmed so we can see that the hand of god really is on saint patrick protecting him like
very few other people have ever been protected in fact in the whole process of the taking of island
this place that was full of druids full of kings who hated saint patrick full of enemies full of
people always trying to take them out in that whole time there was only one recorded martyr
in the whole process of the discipling of the entire nation of ireland now that is absolutely
unheard of okay it's because this fear of god came around them not just fear of god but sovereign
protection so you had to kind of watch out anytime someone was going to try and kill saint patrick
something was going to happen you know god protected him like crazy and you're going to see
why god protected his life like crazy in a moment so after those guys start you know like kill each
other that things calm down and the king says right why don't you come to the palace tomorrow okay so
they uh the king lays a trap an ambush for saint patrick uh on the way to the palace so saint
patrick is going along he's praying it's the day that he actually made up saint patrick's prayer
he just kind of prophetically released this amazing prayer we don't have time for it today
but then while they're going through towards the palace there's these you know all these men all
these druids and soldiers and wait uh to kill them but all they see is saint patrick so saint patrick
took eight uh eight of his disciples with him and what they saw is they saw eight deer and a fawn
walk in front of them and then they turn up at the palace and the king can't believe it that
they've actually made it through the ambush he's got no idea how they're there so he gives them a
drink and right the drink is poison so patrick tips the drink upside down and the poison falls
out of it now this dynamic of saint patrick this is uh this these stories are all recorded but it
takes it's like whoa these are wild it's it gets pretty wild and outrageous the story here but
there's so much fruit and so much uh like there's written accounts of it but the most obvious
testimony of the truth of this is the fact that in a very short time saint patrick was able to
convert an entire nation from full-on druidism to one of the greatest open heavens the world has
ever seen so hold on we're gonna um go deeper in this so he tips this cup upside down the poison
falls out the drink stays in there and he drinks it and he's fine then they have another big power
encounter another druid dies and then that druid's followers they come after saint patrick too and
they want to kill him they've drawn their swords and what happens is the ground actually opened up
and swallowed them oh my gosh this is insane signs wonders and miracles and that's one of the reasons
why i compare saint patrick to the the moses of the new testament right he was so if you don't
know the ins and outs about uh saint patrick right it was it'd be like if the israelites didn't know
about moses okay saint patrick is a part of your spiritual heritage and not just a little part he
is one of the most critical characters possibly the most important christian in the last 2 000
years was saint patrick okay so he is like the moses of the new testament and i just you know
for most people our inheritance is being robbed from us so one of the next things that saint
patrick does is he goes up on what's now called mount patrick and he spends 40 days and 40 nights
just like moses and while he's up there he is battling the forces of satan he's having angelic
encounters he's having angels visit him he's having a huge amount of demonic oppression
it's recorded that black birds from everywhere came and landed on the mountain and then when
saint patrick got his breakthrough the black birds disappeared and white birds descended
on the mountain but the crazy thing is that after that moment uh things just broke open in
ireland like crazy okay so you've got to think you know a pagan barbarian society that that rages
against jesus right that's worshiping all sorts of other things oh it just breaks open there's
this massive breakthrough in the spirit realm where saint patrick he deals with the spiritual
principalities and powers that are causing remember they're causing what are they causing
they're causing a closed heaven they're restricting the access to truth it's difficult for people to
access truth he goes up on the mountain he battles he does warfare with these spiritual forces in high
places and he gets the breakthrough and uh and then woof it begins this crazy outpouring of an open
heaven in ireland that ireland became one of the greatest and i would suggest that we possibly
right now obviously i wasn't there but based on saint patrick's prophecy based on history based
on the accounts that came out of that irish open heaven
seems to me that the island that St. Patrick created was the single greatest outpouring of
an open heaven that we have seen in the New Testament definitely. I think the only thing
that could possibly rival it would have been Solomon's kingdom at the very beginning, but
my guess is, as I look at all things, I think it was possibly the single greatest
open heaven in world history. We'll look at that a little bit more in a moment, but
what we have to understand is there was a realm of revelation, okay, this is what I want
you to help you grasp, but there was a dimension of an open heaven in that place
that allowed them to walk in an open heaven, allowed them to walk in access to revelation that
transcends what most of us have ever experienced. We cannot underestimate the impact
of what it would have been like to live in the open heaven in Ireland at that time. The open
heaven in Ireland at that time was so great that there was no dark ages in Ireland, right? There
were no dark ages in Ireland. Instead of that, what they had is St. Patrick himself baptized
around 120,000 people, planted 300 churches, established monasteries all over that, but then
he raised up five generations of bishops. He lived and ministered there for 60 years. He actually got
to minister and raise up and coach and lead five successive bishops, but he had people that he
ministered to as a child that raised up, you know, and became leaders and he knew them with gray hair.
So this is, he was there for 60 years or roughly ministering in Ireland and he saw this huge
transformation and so you're thinking like monasteries all over the place with 24-7 prayer,
and I'm saying that wrong for sure, but Ireland is one of the most famous ones, and then these
disciples were phenomenal. They were some of the greatest missionaries and evangelists in world
history and amazing things were happening. So they had these monasteries and their monasteries weren't
just, you know, just a prayer meeting or some fadida people. They were full of full-on mystical
revivalist missionaries, creatives, scientists. So what you had in these missionaries are places of
amazing education. Kings and queens from all around Europe would send their kids to be raised in
these monasteries and then they'd also be raised, you know, like educated right alongside the common
kids. There was 24-7 prayer going on all over the time. They devoted themselves to the perpetual
adoration of God. How wild is that? A culture devoted to the adoration of God. Wow, this is
wild, and it wasn't just ones or twos. You're talking like these monasteries that they created,
thousands of people would come to some of these places. Some of the monasteries that they created
became cities as a result because there'd be thousands of people coming to pray. Can you
imagine that? Cities would, you know, places that they go into remote places just to pray,
and they become massive, and some of the Irish monks, right, what they did is they went and they
put a monastery out on one of the remote islands off the coast of Ireland because they thought that
was the end of the world, and they devoted themselves because they thought that was the
end of the world where Satan kind of entered the world from, but they were like, right, we're going
to position ourselves here at the end of the world to do battle with Satan to protect the world. How
wild is that? They just placed themselves on the ramparts battling for humanity, and so you had
actually hundreds of years Celtic missionaries going out from that place. So it wasn't until
the Vikings started raiding that they really started messing up some of the Celtic missions,
but they still didn't stop. So you had this one Saint, Saint Columba, he was raised there in that
Irish, he went to Scotland, and he established off the coast of Scotland a monastery called Iona,
one of the most famous monasteries in the world, and they had 24-7 prayer. They had people coming
there with technologies and amazing creatives. It was the Irish monasteries that preserved much of
the literature, much of the creative arts that we have still preserved. They were preserved in those
monasteries and created there. The whole world was like, wow, Ireland's this place of phenomenal
creativity, and there was amazing artists and amazing jewels and creations constantly flowing
out of this place. So, and then one of the royals, King, let me try and grab his name for you,
I'm trying to remember his name, King Oswald, that's right, King Oswald, he'd been sent
in fear for his life. They sent him to Iona, and he was raised there with Columba, and then he
went back and became a king, and then he called the Celtic monks back to Britain. So
a little bit of context again, so you had the Roman Empire crumbling, so when Saint Patrick left
from Britain, it was a Roman colony, but when Columba
and the other Celtic missionaries, when they started going back, all the Romans had left,
the Roman occupation had ended, it was all back to crazy barbarian pagan worship. So you're in
danger for your life. So Columba, he goes to Scotland, and he won all of Scotland in a similar
way to how Patrick won Ireland. This is crazy. He won a whole nation, right? And then they got
called by King Oswald to evangelize Britain, and they established another monastery, Lindisfarne.
So you've got these monasteries, they're just hubs, they're open heavens is what they're
creating, these open heavens, and they're full of prayer and worship and miracles and creativity,
and they're just amazing, wonderful places. But they're also exploding out missionaries
all over the continent of Europe, who are going out and taking monasteries and this whole DNA
that St. Patrick had, they're taking it with them. So then Celtic missionaries, they actually won
back England. That's why England was a Christian nation, because of the Celtic missionaries. And
then you have this guy St. Columbanus. So St. Columbanus, he goes all the way to Italy, and he
founds the monastery in a remote place called Bobbio. And St. Columbanus, he was famous for
things like when whole groups of people were running out of food, he would pray, and like
their whole storehouses would be replenished with food supernaturally. How wild is that?
St. Columbanus was like, you know, saints like St. Francis. If you look at the pictures of St.
Francis of Assisi, you will see all these animals around him, because he was famous for preaching to
birds, and all sorts. You had these mystics at the time who could communicate with animals, they
would preach to fish, they would preach to birds, they would speak to the wolves. There's a famous
story about the wolf of Bior, who was killing people, and one of the saints spoke to the wolf
of Bior, and he actually became civilized in a sense, and actually became a pet in the village,
where before that he'd been killing people. There's so crazy supernatural stuff that's going
on with the interaction with nature. St. Columbanus, he needed a cave to go in, and so there was a bear
in this cave, and he asked the bear nicely, and the bear actually left. It's recorded as well that
St. Columbanus, he needed to plow some fields, and he didn't have, you know, an ox or anything to
plow. He actually spoke to a bear, and harnessed a bear, and a bear plowed his fields with him. This
is crazy, all right? So the supernatural dynamics, the signs, the wonders, just amazing, and because
they've been stewarding royalty, they've had royalty coming in from all over the place, then they end
up getting favor all over the world. You know, as they go to these different places, the king's like,
oh yeah, I love Celtic, I was, you know, I was raised in a monastery, and so they've got favor
popping up all over the place, and actually the monastery that Columbanus set up in Bobbio in
Italy is now like a huge city, and it's, you know, just revered as one of the most beautiful architectural
places in Italy. So these guys broke out all over the world in a time, and remember, the time is
you've got all this crazy corruption going on in the Catholic Church, and then you've got this wave
of Celtic missionaries, and monks, and bishops who are bringing open heavens like crazy, all right?
All spawned out of the work that Patrick did that created one of the greatest open heavens
in world history. So right on St. Patrick's deathbed, he started having this vision, and in the
vision, he saw the open heaven slowly eroding, much the same as how, probably over a slower process
than Solomon's, but Solomon's open heaven, it faded. In the vision, St. Patrick, on his deathbed, saw that
after he died, over a period of centuries, the open heaven would collapse, the place would get covered
in darkness, and so he's like, God, no! He really started seeking God before he died, and then God
gave him the next part of the vision, which was a prophecy that showed the light, popping up,
showed the open heavens breaking out once again, and that prophecy right now, that, I believe that
is what God has been trying to bring us back to for centuries, and I believe that is what is being
fulfilled right now. God is moving us radically towards the fulfillment of the prophecy that he
gave St. Patrick, you know, nearly 1500 years ago, and that prophecy, God is getting busy working on it.
So yeah, when we're talking about open heavens, and we're talking about God take us beyond where
we've ever been before, this is what I mean. They walked in a realm, they walked in a dimension of
faith, they walked in a dimension of the supernatural, they walked in a dimension of
adoration or dimension of intimacy with God that few of us have ever imagined, and not just ones
or twos, thousands of them. They created open heavens over geographical regions, and this is
wild, and God wants to bring us back there, and then take us from glory to glory. Who thinks that
would be crazy, right? Who thinks that that, to go glory to glory from beyond what St. Patrick had,
imagining that in our world, who thinks that that would be crazy, right? Well, I guarantee you,
that's where God's taken us. So let's
a look at another couple of people who were mystic saints just quickly. So let's look at
Saint Francis Xavier. So Saint Francis Xavier, he was in the 1500s and he had an 11-year period
from 1541 to 1552 where he was actually sponsored by King John II of Portugal. So he was a sponsored
missionary and in that 11 years things went crazy for him. So King John III from Portugal sponsored
Saint Francis Xavier to go on amazing missionary endeavors all over the place. So he, we'll talk
about this more tomorrow, but he lived in the days of the Reformation with Martin Luther and Calvin
and the major crazy church split there and so there was war and all sorts of things happening
there. He actually at one point, yeah we won't go any deeper on that, but in 1535 he just began
falling in love with Jesus. So let's look at some of the miracles that came out of a life, again,
just a life devoted to perpetual adoration and let's look at what happened. So he was a
missionary to India, Madagascar, Malacca, Ceylon, Indonesia, and Japan. And so one of the first
miracles that happened, you know, outrageously for Saint Francis Xavier was the gift of tongues,
okay. This is before most people have got the gift of tongues and, but he could speak any, everywhere
he went he preached and everyone understood him in their native tongue. That's amazing. So everyone,
and estimations are people from about 30 different languages that he preached to and everyone could
always understand him. He was on a ship at one point and he was preaching to it on this ship
and there's people from all around the world, just like an axe, people from all around the world
and everyone could understand him. And because that was a, it's a pretty big, like, welcome, right?
When you go in somewhere and you can speak their language perfectly and you've never even been there
before, well, it's wild. So, yeah, everywhere he went, those types of things were happening. Let's
have a quick look at some of the miracles as well. So he had resurrections all the time.
There was a bunch of resurrections. He resurrected one guy who was like already well decomposed,
nastiness. He had really amazing as well, by location miracles where he would be in two places
at the same time. One of those was actually on a ship where they were on a ship and there was a
storm and there was like a girl and a few other people on this lifeboat, but the rope snapped
and they got lost in the storm. St. Patrick goes and he prays in the, sorry, not St. Patrick,
St. Francis Xavier. He prays and the storm clears and everyone's all gutted because they lost the
life raft with all the people on it. But he says to them, don't worry, on the third day they will
return. And sure enough, on the third day they return, but everyone who's on the boat, they all
jump on and they're like, oh, hey, where's Francis? Because they were expecting him to get out of the
boat too. And they all said that he was on the boat with them the entire time. All right. So
here's this guy, he's just got crazy miracles and like his impact was just, it was huge. So he was
leading and baptizing and immersing, you know, just thousands of people into the faith. And they were
getting really like, they were fired up on fire, Jesus loving people that he was raising up in a
time where it really was a closed heaven time in many ways. And there's this one guy carrying his
own bubble of revival, his own bubble of awakening. And that's this amazing thing, right? Like how one
person can just carry something phenomenal regardless of the open heavens. If your hunger,
if your humility, if your work ethic is there and that grace is there, then you can carry an
open heaven regardless, right? Because what's an open heaven? A renewed mind is an open heaven.
So if you'll go to the effort, if you'll take it seriously enough and you renew your mind,
you can live in an open heaven in all its glory right now. And many people have, and that's what
I'm trying to communicate with these stories of the saints. The list of these saints just goes on
and on and on and on and on. These people have lived in radical supernatural power. They've
lived in a radical open heaven because they devoted themselves to intimacy with the Lord.
And it brought about this phenomenal open heaven and a bubble and they walked with radical signs
and wonders. Another, let me read his account of some miracles. So this is an account by Francis
himself, Francis Xavier, to one of his leaders, another epic saint, to master Ignatius Loyola
from Francis Xavier sent from Cochin in India, December the 31st, 15.
1443. I and Francis Mancius are now living among the new Christians at Comorin. They are very
numerous and increasing every day. The fruit that is being reaped here I trust heartily.
By the grace of God they show an ardent love for Jesus and an extraordinary zeal for learning
and imparting it to others. Every day a vast number of sick natives come to us for prayer.
There are too many to pray for each day. So I have taught the children to pray and the great
number of sick persons are restored daily to health by way of their prayers. I've also taught
these children to teach the rudiments of the Christian gospel, sharing it with those who
are healed. And so daily the message of Jesus is spread throughout the villages. Jesus has made
the very disease of their bodies the occasion of calling upon his name and into salvation.
The Holy Spirit is drawing them into faith almost by force. There remains therefore for only one
reason for me not becoming Christians and that is that there are not enough laborers to tell them.
How wild is that? Okay so he carried this open heaven that just didn't just bubble up over
himself it just bubbled up in a region and he saw it all over these places these nations that he
went India, Madagascar, Malacca, Ceylon, Indonesia and Japan over and over and over again he saw the
same thing. Radical awakening. He carried an open heaven personally that actually impacted places
geographically everywhere he went. This was wild. Lepers healed. And I'll read to you one more
account from a historian that is just crazy. So this is from the historian Bartoli and he wrote
this and I just want to read it to you from the historian's words because it's such a crazy story
okay. So it would appear that the invasion of Travancore was made by a formidable army
who then turned their attention to the fishery coast. The particular, so an army is invading right
in this place where Saint Francis Xavier is, the particular attention of this attack appears to be
the villages of the new Christians and when Francis heard of the imminent attack he marched toward
the oncoming army holding a cross and he rebuked them in the name of Jesus.
This is a historical account of Saint Francis Xavier marching against an entire army
just holding a cross right. The front ranks stopped and urged those behind to turn around
because standing in front of them they saw a man of great height of terrible and majestic appearance
in a black robe overawed and frightened. They could not bear the fire that flashed from his
face and eyes. The leaders fell to the ground by some unknown power and the rest of the army
turned and fled. More than a dozen witnesses came forward to testify in writing all recounting the
same story. That is wild right and there's still a church there to this day celebrating that event.
Moving on let me tell you one more story before we wrap this up. So this is the lady and do you
like those stories? Do you like that? Like is that wild? There are so so many like that's just a
snapshot of his testimonies but there's so many mystical saints that walked like this
that it's crazy. So and they were in a time where there was this real in one sense there's this real
closed heaven and massive amount of corruption in the church but these people would devote themselves
to the perpetual adoration of God to a monastic lifestyle where they just live for God and out of
that came the most radical open heavens right because a renewed mind is an open heaven right.
You when you spend that type of time with Jesus it changes your psychology so you encounter the
truth as a person you counter the truth as a revelation when you and just devote your life
to truth it changes everything right. Your psychology is your spirituality everything
shifts when you encounter truth like this and that's the whole point of a of an open heaven
is easy access to truth so you start getting momentum there and things start blowing open
and so what we've what we can see from history is that these other generations that have lived
in a just radically outrageous higher deeper wider dimension of an open heaven they've had
access to so much more revelation and faith than our generation has even come close to all right.
They are so far beyond what we know as normal Christianity and God wants us to God wants to
take us there he wants to bring us into that realm is that wild or what let me show you one more story
uh this is this is a story about a lady and she's called the lady in blue all right so she was born
in 1602 uh and at age of 12 she finally convinced her parents to allow her to become a nun again
she's one of these people that just loves
Jesus, St. Francis, from a young child, St. Francis of
Xavier, he wasn't like that, you know, it wasn't till his latter
years that he really started to follow Jesus. But at the age of
12, she's like, yes, Jesus, she commits to becoming, you know,
her mum allows her to become a nun, she takes her vows, and she
becomes known as a saint, she becomes known, not as a saint
then, but she becomes known as Maria of Jesus de Agreda. So,
interestingly, she is probably the most famous missionary to
Texas, even though she never left her home there in Agreda.
All right. Now, this is crazy, right? Why is she the most
famous missionary to Texas? Because in the 1620s, from the
time she was 18 to 29, while in her prayer, something amazing
began to happen. Now, let me read how someone described her
prayer times. Meanwhile, her mystic life began, began before
the eyes of a beggar in 1620, intensified. Almost daily, as
she prayed, her spirit soared into the realm of ecstasy,
trance, and rapture. She saw visions, her mystical journeys
carried her into the presence of God himself. She's been taken to
heaven, this is ascension, she's been taken to heaven. She's
having radical encounters. She told her natural mother and the
sisters of her convent, as if in an answer to her prayers, he
commanded her to take his message to the native peoples of
New Spain, including the deserts of the southwest. So what she
was telling them is she gave them, she was sharing the
testimonies, what was happening in these encounters, and God
commissioned her to take the gospel to this group of Indians
right in Texas. She's like, what? But what happened is from
that time, from the time she was 18 to 29, she began to
biolocate to Texas. Okay, so she's there praying in Spain.
And but she simultaneously, she's in Texas preaching the
gospel to two different groups of Indians, the Titlas and the
Germano tribes. Okay, so that might sound crazy. She was
telling people about these biolocation experiences. And
they're probably not believing her. Some people were actually
like, I'm not sure. And some people actually wanted to
investigate it. But it took a while for them to investigate
it. But in the meantime, in Texas, right? The first
evidence of that is happens in San Antonio, right at the San
Antonio Della Letta mission. So this one day, 50 of these
Germano Indians turn up to the mission, and they knock on the
door, they're like, hey, guys, I don't think they knocked on the
door, but they're like, hey, guys, and they started, you
know, chatting with the missionaries there and telling
them that they wanted to be baptized. And they're like,
what? How do you even know the gospel? Because they've walked
from a long way. And they're like, what? Yeah, well, there
was actually a picture of a nun at the mission. They said,
well, a lady like her, but a lot younger, and in blue, came and
told us the gospel. And these guys are perplexed, right?
They're like, what? There's no missionaries out there. And
definitely no woman. This is crazy. So but they went out
there with the 50 Indians from the Germano tribe that went out
there. And what they found is 2000 people instantly got
baptized because they already knew the gospel. They were
already well instructed and taught by her in the gospel.
One account that I've read, it said that she trans she
bilocated hundreds and hundreds of times in that, in that
decade. How wild is that? Right? So oh, my gosh, just that's
wild, crazy, phenomenal stuff, right? So does this, does this
shift some thinking to you? Does this help open up your
mindset that it's possible that despite what we know in the
church, and these people lived in a time when the church was
infinitely corrupt, you know, St. Francis Xavier, and, you
know, St. Maria, they lived in a time where there was hundreds
of years of war followed the Reformation, it's crazy, but
they stepped into a place of devoting their life to intimacy,
and it popped open and open to heaven for them that ended up
impacting 1000s and 1000s of lives, St. Francis Xavier, his
impact is probably millions of lives that are now impacted as
his legacy. So St. Patrick, you've got St. Patrick, the open
heaven that they created an island that is probably to this
date, on par if not greater than than the you know, what the
Kingdom of Solomon had and possibly the greatest open
heaven in world history, and God is calling us back there. How
wild is that? So in our next session tomorrow, we're going to
go into exploring this whole dynamic of how God has been
successively bringing us back, bringing us back, bringing us
back to this point for centuries, how the heart of God,
the burning heart of God is longing to bring us back into
this place where we are discipling nations. Just imagine
this, right? Just imagine this. Imagine the power of just having
just one St. Patrick in our world right now, right?
one person who walked in that same anointing or mantle that St. Patrick and Moses walked in.
If you only need one person to walk like that, and both St. Patrick and Moses brought down
superpowers. Moses especially brought down the entire kingdom of Egypt, right? He was invincible,
they couldn't touch him. And it was easy for him to disciple, like, just to, you know, like,
what I'm trying to say is that when God starts moving, he's unstoppable, he's invincible,
you cannot, there's nothing you can do. Like St. Patrick, they tried to kill him all the time,
nothing happens. It doesn't matter what they brought against him, no plan prospered. So
the prophecy of St. Patrick, right? What St. Patrick saw in his day, he prophesied
with his last, you know, in his last days, he prophesied that what we've had here is going to
be restored. Now, let me ask you, if you would want to align with that, if you would want to be
a part of that, for me, I'm like, yes, God. So let's wrap it up now with a prayer. And tomorrow,
we're going to start getting into a little bit more like understanding as well. I'm like, okay,
what do we actually need to do? Because there's some things that we can do to actually start
aligning ourselves with this. And we're going to start having momentum coming. Oh, sorry,
it's not tomorrow. It's the next session, right? The next session, 3pm today. So the next session,
we're going to go into this deep. So Jesus, you are phenomenal. You are glorious. You're wonderful.
What we want, Jesus, what we want is we pray for beyond. What we want is your heart fulfilled.
We want your burning heart's desire fulfilled. What we want, Jesus, we remember the word of
the Lord that you gave to St. Patrick centuries ago of where you're going to take us, where you're
going to bring us as the church. And Papa, we just say, take us there. Do whatever you have to do in
us. Papa, Papa, Papa, would great grace come upon us? Would great grace come upon us?
Would great grace come upon us to go where we've never gone before? We want to go into your heart.
We want to follow your heart. We want to go, Jesus. We want that same anointing. We want that
same mantle. We want that same grace, the same open heaven, the same revelation, the same faith
that you have put on hundreds of mystics in the past, on thousands of people in the past. We're
asking that you give us that birthright, that you release it to us, that we could go, Jesus,
beyond what we've ever experienced. We could be launched into everything you have for us in your
beautiful name, Jesus. Amen. All right, fam. Hey, that's us for now. I'll see you 3 p.m. We're going
to go get practical on this. I'll see you 3 p.m. New Zealand time today. It is going to be wild.
Love you very, very much. We'll catch you soon. Have an amazing few hours before we go live again
soon. Bless you. Actually, and just drop in the comments what you've loved, what stand out,
what's been of value to you. Boom. Catch you soon. Bye-bye.