How are you doing? Let me swap this around. Hey hey, so coming to you live today from our new place
and this is where we are at. It's actually quite distracting having such a beautiful view,
beautiful weather and sitting here in the sun is amazing. So it's great to be with you guys today
and we're going to get into our second chat of four chats this week, unpacking the depths of
divine love. So it's a real honor to be here with you guys and yeah I'm just, I'm delighted about
this series, I'm delighted about this moment and I'm really excited to be
sharing this time and sharing this conversation with you as we go deep into the
depths of divine love. So as you jump on board, whether you are live or delayed,
it'd be great to hear from you and connect with you. So feel free to be chatty in the comments
and yeah and just a heads up as well, if you're loving this content you're more than welcome to
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the group and click invite and you can join invite any friends there. So hi Tony, I see a bunch of
you guys starting to jump on board now, so as you jump on board just say hello and it's great to be
connecting. We're just going to start with a little bit of a prayer for a moment and then we're going
to jump deep into this and we're going to be exploring some really really amazing characters
from history who have really embodied the burning heart of God. We're going to explore what that
even looks like, what that means and how you can align with the burning heart of God for yourself
and what that will actually produce in your life and how you can do it. So hey, let's pray
and then we're going to jump in deeper.
We thank you so much for the divine dance.
We thank you for the wonder of your love. We thank you for the glory and the ecstasy and the
bliss of your love. We thank you that you created us for perpetual adoration. We thank you that
we were designed by you to live in a place of perfect and constant and never-ending delight
and ecstasy. As your love pours over us, as our love arises to you and as your love burns as the
all-consuming fire, as your love consumes us and blazes in us and through us, we welcome, welcome,
welcome your love to fill us, to flood us, to overflow us and to saturate us and inundate us.
We welcome you right now to take us higher and deeper and wider into understanding and revelation
and encounter and experience and the practicalities of walking baptized as a living inferno of love.
And we welcome your Holy Spirit to do more than just, more than just head knowledge in this time.
I thank you that right now your glory will bring a tangible impartation of the fire of your love.
I just release right now the fiery, all-consuming love of Christ over you.
And I want to declare over you, may you receive a fresh baptism in the love of Christ and may the
love of Christ be the all-consuming flame that consumes everything in you that can be consumed
so that, well, so that
only Christ remains, so that only Christ remains. May the all-consuming love of God
burn in you, consume everything that veils Christ in you so that only Christ remains. Well,
Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, let me know. Whoa, let me know. Do you think
that the love of God is an all-consuming fire? What are your thoughts on that? Do you think that
God's love burns and blazes in us and for us and to us and through us? Let me know your thoughts
on that. I've got some scripture for us today. I've got some amazing stories that we're going
to be exploring, some really beautiful, powerful stories today from the past. And we are going into,
yeah,
Really we're going to explore a whole bunch of the dynamics of the burning heart of God
and we're going to focus on two powerful words say awaken and arise. I'm going to do one quick
tech thing right now. Very cool. All right, so Hebrews 12, 29. Come with me to your Bibles.
Hebrews 12, 29. It talks about one of the dynamics of just the nature of God and it says that our
God is a consuming fire. He is a consuming fire. All right, so just think about that. That's how
Hebrews 12, 29. I just want you to think about this dynamic of the nature of God that God is
an all-consuming fire. All right, so the all-consuming fire and then I want
to take you in your Bibles as well. Come with me to
Song of Songs and we're going to go to a beautiful part of Song of Songs or the Song of Solomon and
I'm going to read to you from the English Standard Version. Okay, so Song of Songs 8.6 it says
set me as a seal upon your heart as a seal upon your arm for love is as strong as death
its jealousy is fierce as the grave its flashes are flashes of fire the very flame of the Lord.
The very flame of the Lord and so what I want to bring together for you right now is Hebrews 12,
29 that our God is an all-consuming fire an all-consuming flame and then also Solomon,
Song of Solomon 8.6 which says you know it's flashes the flashes of love are the flashes
of fire they're the very flame of the Lord. So the all-consuming fire of God when we're talking
about God being an all-consuming fire and all-consuming flame that is the very that flame
is the flame of love itself. So love as we're talking about the burning heart of God. God is
a fire. God is love and the love of God is a burning fire. The love of God it is a flame.
God himself is a flame of love and I will move around a little bit let's go outside for a moment
into the sun but I want you to think about this concept right because it's going to tie into
really what we're going to be speaking about today but the love of God is an all-consuming
fire the love of God is an all-consuming flame and really what does that flame want to burn up
you know like fire wants to burn something wants to consume something fire needs fuel
what is that fire about well the fire of God this flame of the Lord this all-consuming fire of love
what that is about it's about consuming everything in us that veils Christ in us the hope of glory so
that absolutely nothing else in uh in so that nothing veils Christ in us so that uh I just
want to declare this over you and just pray this over you right now that the love of God is a fire
the love of God is a flame it's an all-consuming fire and it's coming to consume and burn up
everything that veils Christ in you so that only Christ will remain amen beautiful
hey um we are going to explore like I said these two words okay so the first word that we're going
to explore is uh is this concept of awaken so two words we're going to explore today awaken
and arise but to explore the word awaken first I want you to come with me to Romans 8 in our
bibles um we'll jump to Romans 8 in our bibles a lot of you guys will know this really really well
and we are going to uh Romans 8
and we're going to start at verse 19 so come with me to Romans 8 and uh
I'm going to read to you from the NIV the translation that you read this from is not too
uh too big a deal but Romans 8 verses 19 sorry verse 18
It says, this is Paul writing, says I consider that our present sufferings are not worth
comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed, or
the creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed, is a better
translation.
So Paul says, I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the
glory.
So say glory with me, and that Greek word glory is the word doxa, and that word doxa,
what it means, what the word doxa means, was actually, it's the exact same identity as
God, right?
It's the divine life.
It's the full manifestation of who God is.
It's the pinnacle of what it means to be made in the image of God.
So it says, I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory, with
the full manifestation of the divine life that will be revealed in us.
So just say to me, just say that the divine life will be revealed in me.
All right, and then verse 19 says, for the creation waits in eager expectation, say eager
expectation with me.
That's actually, in the Greek, it basically, it's actually a very funny word in the Greek.
It's apokaradokia, let me just get this right, because it's just a funny sounding word, apokaradokia,
apokaradokia, apokaradokia, that's it, apok, yep, that's it, apokaradokia, and it means
an anxious, persistent expectation.
So it's a faith dynamic, it's a fully persuaded belief, and it's this all-consuming desire,
it's knowing that this will be fulfilled, and this is the desire, a relentless longing
and desiring, an anxious and persistent expectation.
So it's a burning desire, it's a craving, it's a longing that never goes away, it never
dulls down, it always stays at full intensity, so it's a real intense desire.
So all creation has this intense desire for the unveiling of the sons of God, which is
beautiful.
And I want to ask you, what does that look like?
What is it that creation is actually longing for?
Because I want to say that God's longing for the same thing.
So join me here, let's talk about some characters from the past, some characters from history
who've walked in this, because the awakening, the unveiling of the sons of God is one of
the things that God is burning for.
So we're talking about, I want to introduce you to a couple of guys.
Now you might know some of these guys, but they're amazing, amazing people that have
lived, and you've always had these people scattered throughout history, and this first
guy we're going to talk about is Saint Columbanus.
So Saint Columbanus was an Irish missionary, and he ended up going as a missionary from
Ireland.
And he lived in the 500s, so he lived from 540, that's kind of, you know, he was around
that era.
So from 540 AD through to the early 600s, that was the era of Saint Columbanus.
And he walked in this amazing dynamic of the revelation of sons.
And he walked as one of these, all creation is desiring the unveiling of the sons of God,
and he walked as one of those men.
So what did that look like for him?
Some crazy stories about Saint Columbanus is he would actually, he could, animals would
obey him.
So he actually, there's an amazing few stories about him, quite a few stories about him interacting
with animals.
There was a time where wolves surrounded him, and they never touched him or attacked him.
There was another time where he needed a place to stay in a cave, and he actually spoke to
a bear, and a bear actually came out of the cave and gave him up the cave so he could
live there.
Another time, when he was founding a settlement, he needed something to plow for him, and he
actually had a bear, he was able to actually harness up a bear, and a bear plowed for him.
He had times of famine when the people that he was serving were in times of famine, and
through prayer and faith, actually saw their entire, like empty granaries filled up just
by supernatural provision.
Lots of miracles, so many miracles around his life, around that.
But he also, he founded an abbey, he founded a monastery in Bobbio in Italy.
It's now one of the most beautiful towns in Italy, so that's Saint Columbanus.
A lot of you will have heard of Saint Francis of Assisi, right?
So Saint Francis of Assisi...
He's really well-known, but not as a figure, but not that many people know much about him.
But he lived from 1181 roughly, so he's a bit later on after Saint Columbanus.
But Saint Francis of Assisi, he lived from 1180s through to 1226 was when he died.
So he actually only lived about 44 years, so he wasn't an old guy, he didn't live a
long time.
But what he did is he dove in, he went right into the very core and the heart of God and
he lived in this place of extreme intimacy.
Now there's some amazing stories about Saint Francis of Assisi that a lot of people don't
know about.
But Saint Francis of Assisi lived in this place of extreme union, extreme intimacy with
God.
He lived in this place where, to give you an example, one of his disciples wanted to
figure out how Saint Francis did his quiet time.
It's like, oh man, how did you do this?
What do you do?
Do you read your Bible?
Do you meditate?
Do you take some notes?
Do you pray in tongues?
They wanted to figure out what Saint Francis was doing.
So they followed along at a distance and then when they got to this kind of little
brow of a hill, they looked over and what they saw was they saw Saint Francis of Assisi
levitating and transfigured near the top of a tree.
So Saint Francis was in prayer in such a place of amazing divine union, divine ecstasy as
he was praying, as he was seeking the Lord, as he was ministering to the Lord, as in this
place of worship that he actually levitated.
So his disciple saw him levitating up near the top of a tree and completely transfigured.
What does that look like?
He was radiating just like Jesus transfigured on the hill.
Wow!
So there's Saint Francis transfiguring.
This is not the only time Saint Francis had many times when he was recorded as being transfigured.
Most of the time this would have happened in secret and private and no one would have
known about it.
But there was another time when Saint Francis was staying at an island off the coast and
he was staying in this island.
He was in this, just in this, just a simple place that he was staying, just a simple inn
and he was staying there.
And then the story goes that he got up and started praying.
But people on the mainland, right?
People on the mainland, they got up, they're like, oh wow, it's morning time.
They got up, they started putting on their clothes and they started getting ready to
start the day.
But it was actually the middle of the night and what was actually happening is that Saint
Francis was praying out on the island and the glory of God came with such extreme intensity
that it actually lit up that whole area.
Like the glory of God just supernaturally lit up that whole area and people were, people
got up in the middle of the night and started putting their clothes on because they're like,
oh my gosh.
Well, they didn't even realize it was a supernatural thing, they just thought that the sun was
rising.
Now let me show you a quick picture of something that's actually really amazing as well in
terms of how God can do stuff like that.
You might not be able to see this so well, let me just show you this picture though.
This picture happened in Tiana, it was taken where I live, so you can kind of see the rays
from the sun there coming up, right?
Does that look kind of like, like a sunrise there?
Let me know if you think that image kind of looks a little bit like a sunrise and I want
to tell you why this picture got the entire town talking about what was going on for months,
because what is happening in that picture is this picture is taken facing east, right?
The sun rises in the east, so that's like, that's the east, it's right where the sun
would, would rise, the sun rises in the east and it sets in the west, but this picture
was taken in the evening and that's the east, right?
So this was taken in the evening and in the west at the same time, the sun is actually
going down.
So this picture taken facing east was taken at sunset when the sun is setting in the exact
opposite place.
So this got the whole town talking and there was a season there for a couple of months
where this happened multiple times.
It was a season when we would be really talking a lot about these testimonies of St. Francis
and these testimonies of the Eastern Gate and these testimonies of greater glory and
testimonies of signs and wonders in the heavens and in the earth and it was just amazing that
this happened multiple times.
got the whole town talking no one understood no one had ever seen anything like that in the town
before no one's ever seen anything like that since it was just a short season there and we were like
wow god um just a radically supernatural thing so saint francis another beautiful story of
saint francis is one time saint francis uh received an invite from um from the nuns
right and we're near where he lived so saint francis uh and the monks went to have a dinner
with the nuns and what happened was saint francis was there and they just invited him to come and
speak with them over dinner um he uh and and what they wanted to just ask him that was just like hey
just talk from your heart about the beauty the ecstasy of knowing god tell us about the divine
life and so they're in there they're in there chatting over dinner a whole bunch of nuns and
monks they're in there they're chatting but here's something crazy what was happening outside of that
place is outside of that place in the towns either side of the convent both towns looked and what
they saw was they saw that the convent was completely ablaze with flames they the two
towns either side of the convent could see the fire on the convent and so people from both towns
rushed to the convent to put out the fire and when they got there they realized nothing was burning
it was a supernatural flame and when they went in there into the convent to actually see what
was happening they found everyone there just in this place of absolutely overwhelmed with divine
ecstasy as saint francis has been talking just their hearts have been burning this fire and a
supernatural flame broke out over the building now that type of dynamic of a supernatural fire
a supernatural flame has been seen many times throughout church history azusa street uh as a
place where they had fire engines called multiple times to the church because people could report
flames burning on the church building and that's happened you know in modern times as well i've had
a friend in a place where they were running meetings had exactly the same thing happening
that the fire engine got called out because people could see supernatural flames burning
over the building so uh here's what i'm saying one of what i want to say to you about you know
just kind of on the back of that is that all creation is longing for the unveiling of the sons
of god all creation is longing for this unveiling to happen for us to be brought into the deeper
things of christ into uh into the it's it's the unveiling of sonship it's the fullness it's the
it's john 14 12 uh manifest which jesus said anyone who has faith in me will do what i've
been doing they will do even greater things than these and so when we're talking about the burning
heart of god what is the burning heart of god actually burning for we see there in romans 8
and 19 uh that all creation 8 and romans 8 18 and 19 that all creation is longing burning
intensely desiring a thing right just like god right now he is burning longing intensely desiring
a thing and what's that thing that he's burning for and longing for well one of them is an
awakening right one of those things that the the heart of god is just burning for desiring longing
for intensely seeking after with great expectation is that you and i will step into the greater works
that you and i will step into the greater things that you and i will actually transcend everything
that we've known and go into a realm above and beyond where we've ever been before wow and that
looks so i just i wanted to paint a bit of a picture there for you of what that can look like
let me give you a couple of uh just maybe one more one more quick guy that i'll um i'll share
with you so saint francis of payola all right saint francis of payola he lived a little bit
later again he was actually named after saint francis of assisi and saint francis of payola
he lived around 1500 so he was born 1507 and he died um uh sorry sorry he died in uh 1507 he was
born in 1416 so he he lived a long time he was much older than saint francis of assisi he lived
a lot long so saint francis of assisi only lived about 44 years and saint francis of payola he
lived what was it uh
oh yeah 80s in his 80s so older older guy but let me tell you a couple of stories about saint
francis of payola one of the so saint francis of payola what he had is he had a very strong
discipline a very strict regime around spiritual practices and and so he was
teaching all the people about spiritual practices and you know lots of things
were happening shifting changing they were experiencing and awakening crazy
miracles of breaking out supernatural stories that are coming up and change is
happening for the people there's amazing growth and transformations taking place
for the people and he'd implemented you know strict regimes of you know his diet
was stricter and his prayer life was intense he'd actually from the time I
think it was about when he was 17 he actually requested to go and live in a
cave just so that he could seek after God right this is something beautiful
about these Saints is that they lived with you know I've just been saying this
this line a couple of times recently and it's stuck in my head from a prayer
movement that's really amazing but that we this is the this is the line of the
prayer movements that they say our lives are devoted to perpetual adoration our
lives are devoted to perpetual adoration I just think that is phenomenal and with
all these Saints that I'm talking about their lives were devoted to perpetual
adoration of God and out of this place of having their own burning hearts see
it's one like God has a burning heart but when we have a burning heart for God
everything changes in our world so St. Francis of Paola he lived with this
burning heart for God he lived with perpetual adoration he spent years
seeking God alone in a cave and then he came out of that place and just was set
ablaze right and so the King sent some some envoys to St. Francis of Paola
asking them basically to calm down and saying hey you know like these these
people that you're you know that you're talking you know that you're training
that you're raising up you know it's you're taking it too far you know he
said if this works for you because you're of peasant stock you know so this
is what the King's envoy is saying to St. Francis of Paola he's like this strict
discipline works for you because you're of peasant stock but for everyone else
it's too much he's like calm down and St. Francis of Paola what he did is he
reached into the fire right he picked up with his bare hands burning coals and
flames and so he's got all this burning coals and flames in his hand it's not
burning him it's not impacting but all he's carrying them in his hands and he's
looking at the King's envoy there and he says yes sarcastically basically he says
yes it's because I'm of sturdy peasant stock that I can do these things and and
you know then put the put the fire down but what I'm trying to share with you is
that these Saints lived in a really special dimension something happens with
the unveiling of our sonship something happens when we step into this John 14
12 life where it's we can do all things we can do any John 14 12 Jesus said
anyone who has faith in me will do what I've been doing they'll do even greater
things than these but something happens in this process of stepping into that
and Jesus modeled something beautiful about identity he didn't just model who
we are right Jesus was an example not just an example for us but an example of
us okay but there's something about our identity of what we are see we are body
and soul and spirit and what Jesus modeled is that Jesus modeled that your
spirit can actually your spirit can come into a place of alignment where
your your first a spirit with a soul in a body but what's happened for majority
of humanity is that our flesh has kind of taken over the place of the spirit
right but when your spirit comes into a when your flesh comes into submission to
your spirit as Jesus modeled what you see is that nothing is impossible how
could Jesus walk on water how could Jesus defy gravity how could Jesus at
the end of his life fly away right that that is amazing how is it because the
spiritual dynamic swallows up the flesh dynamic because the flesh dynamic has
its limitations but the spirit becomes limitless so let me share another story
of st. Francis of payola because these Saints amazing things about them is
everywhere they went they were planting monasteries right they were planting
monasteries establishing monasteries at one time there was a monastery that
they were building but they didn't have a water supply so st. Francis of payola
he put down his staff and he actually walked with his staff drawing a line in
behind him before he did that he actually walked to a stream and he said
sister stream follow me he placed
his staff on the ground and drew a line behind him and as he walked, he walked to the monastery
they were building and the stream redirected its course and followed him to the monastery.
Now this is wild and what has it got to do with the burning heart of God?
Here's what it has to do with the burning heart of God.
Is that God is longing, burning intensely, outrageously, blazing and desiring passionately
the unveiling of the sons of God because he's longing for us to step into our inheritance.
He's burning for us to step into our inheritance.
He's burning for us to step into our sonship.
He's burning for us to step into limitlessness.
He's burning for us to step into alignment, body, soul and spirit.
He's burning for us to step into the promises of John 14, 12.
Let me talk to you a little bit about the burning heart of God.
Something that we probably need to address here when we're chatting about the burning
heart of God is we need to address the context of the concept of the wrath of God.
So say the wrath of God.
This is something that gets a lot of people caught up but the wrath of God.
Now if we look in the Greek when we look at the wrath of God we're going to get a little
bit awkward.
It gets a little bit awkward when we look at the wrath of God in the Greek because of
the actual word used for wrath in the New Testament.
We're going to talk about that in a moment but God's wrath is never separate from his
love.
God's wrath is only ever an expression of his love.
So let me give you a story to help illustrate the wrath of God for you.
So this story, this is an amazing story actually.
It's got a couple of guys in it and both guys' names are Ron.
So we're going to have Ron Sr. and Ron Jr. to help you distinguish between the two.
This story took place in Wyoming and Ron Sr. and Ron Jr., a father and a son, they're out
hunting.
They're hunting for elk and they are bow hunters and the first day out Ron Sr. has had a bad
day.
He couldn't, he didn't hit anything, it was a bad day and so he'd kind of been a little
bit upset about that bad day on the first day where he hadn't hit anything and so he
prayed that morning, he's like, God help me today to hit the mark true.
So then they go out, they're off stalking for elk and they turn around and just out
of nowhere, in a flash, out of absolutely nowhere comes a full grown male grizzly bear
charging.
He comes bounding over, he's right and he's right on top of them and Ron Jr., he starts
sprinting for it and the bear turns and follows Ron Jr. and the bear is after Ron Jr. and
Ron Sr., he has a flash of a moment where he turns, he draws and he releases an arrow
and as the bear takes off and then the bear, you know, the bear doesn't stumble or flinch
or anything, the bear just keeps on running past, he runs past Ron Sr. and right past
him and after Ron Jr. who was running and Ron Jr. tried to run and jump and actually
got stuck in the fork of a tree.
So Ron Jr., the son, he's stuck in the fork of this tree and a male, full grown adult
male grizzly bear, you know, you know how big the claws on those things are, the claws
on those things are huge, they're like massive blades, he's just going whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
This grizzly is tearing apart, the son, he's just tearing apart and you know what Ron Sr.
does?
He does something absolutely crazy, right?
This doesn't, this almost doesn't even make any sense because the grizzly could turn around
with one stroke, just about cut him in half, so Ron Sr. runs up to the grizzly bear just
with his bow and he just starts pounding that grizzly bear with his bow, he just, you could,
and I want you to get into the intensity of this moment, Ron Sr. can't even see his son,
all he can see is this bear that is tearing him to pieces, he doesn't know if his son
is alive or dead and Ron Sr. starts thrashing him, thrashing him, thrashing him with this
bow, he's going all in, he's thrashing him, pouring out, and this is where we would say
he's pouring out wrath, you know, like Ron Sr. is doing everything he can to pour out
his wrath on this bear and then amazingly, two things happen, one, the grizzly doesn't
attack him, which is just amazing, the second thing is that the grizzly actually stopped
the attack on his son, just completely stopped, walked away, it didn't walk that far at all,
and then fell over, and it fell over stone dead.
One arrow that Ron Sr. had released as the grizzly ran past, had gone straight through
its chest and straight into its heart.
And they got over there and it was dead.
He runs to his son, Ron Jr., who's amazingly still alive, and they end up getting a medical
evacuation.
He goes into hospital, he gets looked after, and he actually survives.
Which is even like, wow, this is such a crazy story.
Now, here's the thing about the wrath of God.
What does the wrath of God look like?
The wrath of God.
See, we talk about the burning heart of God, and some people might think, oh, this is like
the wrath or the anger of God.
The burning heart of God is intense emotion, intense desire.
And so when we think about the wrath of God, we've got to understand that the wrath of
God is only and ever an expression of the love of God.
The wrath of God never acts independently or separately from the love of God, but the
wrath of God is an expression of divine love.
How is that?
Well, just like Ron Sr., right, who ran after the bear that came to destroy the thing that
he loved, the wrath of God will fiercely and passionately oppose the things that would
destroy what God loves, alright?
So sin, right, lies, the enemy would come to destroy, would come to tear you up, would
come to be like that grizzly bear in your life and just wreak death and destruction.
And God will be like that loving father who comes with his wrath.
He's like, wah!
Because it's the love of God that drives the wrath of God.
The love of God fuels the wrath of God.
And the wrath of God, now let's look at this in the Greek, because here's where it gets
kind of awkward and a little bit like, wah!
And also kind of shift our mindset of wrath, but the Greek word for wrath is that, one
of them, one of the main Greek words for wrath is orge.
Now say orge, it's O-R-G-E, alright?
Say orge, O-R-G-E.
Now what orge is, is it means to reach out, to possess, to be shaking with intense emotion
and desire, to apprehend and to pursue, to grasp, to hold a thing, to possess a thing.
You're shaking with intense desire to possess a thing.
Or it can also mean intense emotion.
Now you can rightfully translate orge as intense emotion, but to translate it as intense hatred
is just wrong.
And in the New Testament it's often translated as intense hatred, which is wrong.
And it causes a lot of misperception about who God is and the nature of God.
But that word orge, what it actually means is, the word orge actually means, it's the
root word for the word that we have now, orgasm.
Oh my gosh, what?
Now that is a crazy mind shift, right?
The wrath of God, the root word for that is orge, which is where we get the word orgasm.
Now that is crazy, right?
Does that sound, does that, it doesn't really sound like a word that you would use for intense
hatred, right?
It's not.
It just means intense emotion or intense desire.
So the wrath of God, when we think about the burning heart of God, it could be the wrath
of God.
There is this burning heart of God.
And God's hatred of sin is an expression of His intense love.
And it is intense.
You know, like we see another picture of this, because sometimes we think about the love
of God and divine love, it's just weak and not much emotion to it.
But it is intense.
And it's so intense that Jesus even went out and created a whip, right?
How wild is that?
Jesus, Jesus is always the perfect picture of what divine love looks like.
And he goes out and he, he gives us a revelation of what love looks like when he makes a whip.
How amazing is that?
He makes a whip and making a whip is an expression of divine love.
And Jesus cleared the temple with that whip.
And he cleared the temple more than a couple of times.
He only makes the whip once, but he clears the temple a couple of times.
And I just want to say to you that sometimes love makes a whip.
Let me give you another expression of this burning heart of God.
And we talked about this yesterday coming straight out of the broken heart of God.
I just read a story recently that was from last year.
This happened in February 2020.
There was a man in the Philippines and a sting operation was set on this man in the Philippines
because it actually, there was a man arrested in the United Kingdom who had pornographic
material and they looked at it, looked at it, they tracked it down.
They realized this was current material being produced and they tracked it down to a man in the Philippines and what this man in the Philippines
Was actually doing with his with his wife's
full knowledge is he was actually
Creating pornographic material by sexually abusing his son on
Camera and creating pornographic material for it and I mean like that is crazy
So they set up a sting operation
There was a Christian organization
Involved in this process that actually helped work with a bunch of other law enforcement
Agencies and they set up a sting operation. They actually caught the guy. They got the son free and
The you know, the father was arrested and so was the mother and put on trial for what they've done
But listen, that's just one little tip of the iceberg
story that is actually
Happening the sexual exploitation of babies and children and men and women is happening all over the world right now
We talked about this
Yesterday in the context of the broken heart of God
And so now we want to put this dynamic of it's out of the broken heart of God that the burning heart of God
erupts and
What is it? It's there's a there's a dynamic of the wrath of God. There's a dynamic
It's not it's not about intense hatred, but it's intense
desire extreme
Passion that imagine, you know
We imagine the passion again of Ron senior as he attacked that bear with no thought or regard for his own life
Just to just the intense desire to save the life of the son
Can you see that God has that same intense desire to save his kids to spare his kids that that is an expression of the
Then the intense emotion of God desiring to save his children so it's that
It's that desire right that is accompanied with
Romans 8 when God all creation longs for the unveiling of the sons of God
When it comes to God desiring the unveiling of the sons of God
it's connected to that passion that broken heart that longing is the it's like it's not just a
It is an intense
Desire it's burning. It's the burning heart. He's longing for his craving for his burning
He's like yeah, and he's burning what he's burning for. He's burning for us to awaken to heaven's finest
He's burning for us to awaken into our inheritance
He's burning for us to awaken into the very finest promises that he has for his burning for us to awaken to arise to
Step up to where we've never gone before to what we've never experienced before
Because God knows that if we awaken into our inheritance, we will blow this world apart
We'll set it on fire and flip it upside down. He's longing for us to awaken right? He's longing for us to
Awaken to the dreams that he has for us
He's longing for us to awaken to our calling which is to make disciples of all nations Matthew 28
19 and 20 Jesus said go therefore and baptize and make disciples of all nations
Baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit if you really want to know what the heart of God
Is burning for more than anything else?
it's not just burning for us to walk in our inheritance because our inheritance is designed to get us to a
destination and what God's heart is burning for more than anything else is the
Destination that he longs us to get to which is baptized to make disciples of all nations
That is the thing that God's heart is burning for more than anything else. It's to make disciples of all nations in this
Concept of making disciples of all nations is something that hasn't been in the forefront of the church
But listen
There's a power here and I want to talk to you about the power of alignment for a moment because if you want to see
The momentum of heaven break out on your life
If you want to see the favor of God break out on your life
Like you've never seen before
then I tell you what you want to do is you want to align with the
Burning heart of God because when you align with the burning heart of God you actually align with heaven's momentum
You know when you're praying and seeking what what should your season look like when you're praying you're seeking God and say hey
What should I be about in this season? What should I be seeking?
What should I devote my life to well what you want to do is you want to not ask?
What do I want? What am I seeking you want to ask God? What do you want?
What are you seeking in the season? What are you seeking God? What are you after in this time?
What are you looking for?
All right
And if you ask God that one of the things that you will find is that what is his heart burning and you don't want
To say God we wouldn't want casually you want to plunge yourself into the fiery
Dynamic of the burning heart of God and say God. What are you burning for? What are you longing for?
What does your heart cry out for? What is your intense emotion longing for and desiring?
What is it that you crave with all of your being and what you'll hear and what you'll find is that the thing that God
Is craving for yes
He has a massive, massive burning heart for you to step into your inheritance, absolutely.
But the reason, right, the bigger picture of why He wants you to step into your inheritance
is because as you step into your inheritance you'll be able to step into, actually be able
to be a part of bringing to fruition the real desire of God, the real burning heart, which
is discipling all nations and making disciples of all nations and baptizing them, completely
immersing them, saturating them, inundating them in the nature of the Father, the Son
and the Holy Spirit.
It's immersing entire nations in the divine dance.
That is what God is longing for and as we see yesterday in the broken heart of God,
God's broken as He's waiting for us, but not just ones and twos, to come into the divine
dance.
God is lovesick, broken hearted, waiting for entire nations to come into the divine dance.
God is lovesick, broken hearted, as He waits for nations to come and join the divine dance.
He's lovesick like a father, He's lovesick like a romantic, waiting for nations to come
into that, but also waiting for us, the other dynamic is waiting for us to go, right?
That's what breaks His heart, He's like, ah, whom shall I send and who will go for us?
So the first word that we're talking about today is awaken.
God wants you to awaken to present reality.
He wants you to awaken to your inheritance of what you're actually able to walk and He
wants you to awaken to the unveiling of the sons of God.
He wants you to awaken to that this is one of His desire, massive burning desires on
the heart of God.
So the second word that we're going to look at is arise.
Now, if you've been following me, this word arise has been really significant.
It's been like prophetically, this is one of the most significant words for 2021 is
the word arise.
So if we look at Isaiah 60, it says, arise and shine for your light has come and the
glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Behold, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord
rises upon you and His glory is seen over you.
All right, let's say that again.
Arise and shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
Behold, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord
rises upon you, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory is seen upon you.
Some really cool parallels here with Romans 8 as well is that Romans 8 is all about that
revealing of the glory, the awakening of the glory.
And that's the same dynamic of Isaiah 60 is that God's wanting you to awaken to the fact
of the glory, which the word doxa in the Greek is used in Romans 8, it speaks of your identity,
He's wanting you to awaken to your identity.
So this word arise, right, the first word there in Isaiah 60, arise and shine, arise
is the Hebrew word kum, okay, it's Q-U-M, kum, kum, kum, right, that word arise is such
a powerful word because it's the word that they would use when they were summoning people
to battle, okay, like when the trumpets blew, when it was time, when they were assembling
people, when the trumpets were blowing and there was a call to war, when the trumpets
blew and there was a call to war, this is what it meant, it meant you needed to kum,
okay, when you heard those trumpets blowing and summoning for battle, summoning for war,
your response in the Hebrew context, you had to kum at that point, okay, and what kum meant
is to get ready for battle, to prepare yourself for battle and ask yourself right now, what
would change right now if you were to prepare for battle, okay, if all of a sudden you found
out that the world was at war, like it was, you know, July the 28th, 1914 and World War
One started, kum, the world came into this place where the world, kum, the world started
to prepare for battle, so it brings an immediate urgency and this is the second word that I
want to highlight to you of, if we want to experience the momentum of heaven and if we
want to experience the favor of God, if we want to experience backing from God like never
before, we want to align with these two words, we want to align with His word for awakening
and we want to align with His word for, to arise, now there is a major, major urgency
connected to that word kum, that word kum changes everything, you go from casual to
intense, you go into peacetime to war, the core of it.
Is that urgency changes like never before your priorities shift your priorities change and you
Uh, it's like time to get battle ready. It's time to prioritize and put
The call of god at the very forefront of your life now, let me tell you a story, uh to kind of
capture this capture the essence of this and then
um
we're going to wrap it up for today, but you've heard let me know if you've heard of the
Uh the titanic right you would have heard of the titanic no doubt. Yes or no. Yes. No, you heard of the titanic
Yes, I bet you have right but have you heard of the empress of ireland? All right
Most people not island ireland like ireland
um, so have you heard of the empress of ireland because the empress of ireland was canada's version of the
titanic, okay, and um
uh
so
Most people don't know about the empress of ireland because she actually sank on our wedding anniversary may the 29th
Not like but the date that may 29th is when we got married. So may the 29th
1914
Uh, just six weeks before well just two months before world war one began
The empress of ireland sunk
So most people don't hear about it because it got eclipsed by the fact that world war one was starting up
Now let me tell you what happened with with that because um during this time
uh
like
Well, let's just tell the story. So the empress of ireland is out on the st. Lawrence river
Uh, we're going all the way back to 1914
And it's not long after the titanic has sunk
Okay, so everyone's on high alert because the titanic sunk and it's like oh my gosh
So the titanic sunk only two years beforehand, right? The titanic sunk in 1912
And it's only 1914. So big, uh, beautiful princess
The princess of ireland is a luxury passenger liner and so they're taking extra precautions. Everyone's real
Like on edge after the titanic so, uh, they're out on the st. Lawrence river
and
thick fog comes down and then a
uh
Another boat ends up colliding with them in the fog. Okay, so this boat collides with them in the fog. Um
And
there was
On board there was 1477 people. It's winter. So the st. Lawrence river is absolutely freezing
now
The ship goes down
into freezing
waters
There were a lot of life jackets around but not everyone was able to grab them
But on board there was a youth group from the salvation army. Okay now the salvation army william booth did a great
Job in naming his movement the salvation army because it captured the heart of this word quam
To arise to be battle ready to step into a place in a sense of urgency
Which is exactly what the lord wants from us in this season in this hour a sense of extreme
Urgency for our calling a sense of extreme urgency to awaken
There's an extensive extreme urgency in the spirit right now to awaken
To your calling to step into the unveiling of the sons of god
There's an extreme urgency in the spirit right now for you to take ownership for your calling to be
A significant part of the process of making disciples of all nations
God has a beautiful significant piece for you in the process of discipling nations
Okay, there's something there for you. That's absolutely critical
that's beautiful and god is calling you to arise to prioritize that to put that at the very
Forefront of your life and your existence. Okay, so
william booth did a great job naming the salvation army and
There was a group there from the salvation army a youth group and they were going over to be a part of
In europe a part of a big gathering of the salvation army, but this ship went down
and
14 there's
1477
1477 passengers on board and of that number
1012 of them died. So over a thousand people drowned in this in this moment
Okay, and there was um, there was
167 people there from the salvation
Army, and they were right by right the salvation army members were right by the life jackets. That's where their quarters were
They were right by the life jackets and they so they actually had life jackets
And so they were really confused about why all these it was a young group
Okay, it was like a youth group and so they were really concerned and confused afterwards
About why they all died when they had so much access like they were right by the life jackets, and they got life jackets on so
159
Members of the Salvation Army youth group died right only eight survived
159 died eight survived, and why did they serve? Why did they dice?
Why do they all die it's because here's what happened right because these Salvation Army members this youth group
They had come to a place of quorum right where they didn't understand. They understood the urgency of the gospel
They understood the urgency of their calling and so what they did it is this
1477 people dying in the water there
They are swimming around to these people and they're saying to them. Do you know Jesus and
If they answered no then the youth group those members of the youth group
They gave those people their life jackets, and then said then you need this more than me
and they gave them the life jackets and
then
Just died in the water. They drowned in the water and so only eight survived
159 of them died
because they'd come to a place of quorum, but I
Read a beautiful story afterwards of this really
Rough guy
testifying afterwards that you know he was given this young girl swam up to him and
Gay and asked him do you know Jesus?
And he said I don't know Jesus and like really aggressive like not into Jesus, and you know just and really
Anti and against this concept of being asked do I know Jesus even though he's in the waters drowning and she said well
Then you need this more than I do and this young girl this young girl gave this
Older angry man her life jacket, and he took it and she died and then he gave his life
to Jesus
afterwards and
There's a really powerful
Legacy of all the things that actually happened as a result of those young people swimming around and giving their life jackets away
But the point of that is that they had quorum
They had come to a place of understanding their calling that had come to a place of
Prioritizing the urgency of the gospel and so we're going to wrap it up
for there today
Tomorrow we're going to explore love the sessions called love unstoppable and what we're going to look at tomorrow is we look at
ways that
When people have actually done this what's happened when people awaken what's happened when people arise what's happened when people have?
Aligned with the heart of God to dream for discipling
Nations, okay
Because something happens when we align with the heart of God to disciple nations where the impossible can happen
What something happens with and I want to say this and I want to speak this over your life and declare this over your life
I want to pray as we bring this to a close
But I want to declare it over your life as you come into alignment, right?
God loves it when we come into alignment before assignment. So as you come into
Alignment by awakening by you know
By just allowing this fresh hunger allowing this fresh desire
Allowing this fresh awakening to your calling that you are called to walk in the greater things. You are called to do
The impossible you are called to walk like those saints of old like Christ himself
You're called to live in you at the fullness of your inheritance
and there's a reason why God wants you to live in the fullness of your inheritance because when you step into the fullness of
Inheritance, you're actually empowered to go after and fulfill the real burning desire of the heart of God the real burning heart of God
the real burning heart of God is to
Seek and to save the lost it's to disciple nations
And when we come we we align with that where we awaken to that
Something happens right and the same thing happens when we awaken to this call to quorum. Is it we?
We come to a place
Where the favor of God
the power of God
The momentum of heaven comes upon our life and backs our life like we have never seen
before
So what we're going to explore tomorrow is what happens when people actually do that and how?
Christians have been able to stand together to actually disciple nations and that's going to be a big part of what we're going to
Be out to our chat tomorrow on love unstoppable. So
Let me pray for this for you right now Papa
We thank you. I thank you for every single person hearing. I thank you for every single person listening
I thank you that you are the all-consuming flame. You are the all-consuming fire
I thank you that you have in you this outrageous
relentless
Unstoppable burning love that desires to be with us
that desires to a walk in union and oneness with us. I thank you Holy Spirit for releasing that
fire of God, that all-consuming flame. I thank you for releasing the fire of God, the flame of God.
I thank you for releasing that fire of God over every heart that will consume everything that
veils Christ, that only Christ remains. I thank you for a release of anointing and a capacity
and a grace to awaken the greater things in Jesus. Now I thank you for a grace to step into
urgency, to quim, to awaken, to align like never before in Jesus name. I thank you Lord for a
an impartation from your spirit, an impartation of your burning heart. That's what we're longing for
and we just lean in right now and we say yes Lord you've said to us whom shall I send and who will
go for us and we're saying yes Lord would you pour out your burning heart on us, yes Lord would you
pour out your burning heart on us, would you awaken us, would you align us, would you arise us, would
you quim us, would you put it out of your spirit, would you do a work in us. Lord we just thank you
for the example of those Salvation Army youth and we just ask that you put that quim, that urgency
in our spirits in Jesus name. Amen. Right I love you family, bless you and we'll catch you real soon.