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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Accredited – Time
Publishing Date: 2023-09-10T06:00:44-07:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/accredited-time/

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All righty, guys, let's go.

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So we're talking about, we've been talking about the series called Accredited, and we

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got it from Acts 2 22, and Acts 2 22 says, Acts 2 22 says, Men of Israel, listen to this,

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Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs

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which God did among you through him.

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Men of Israel, listen to this, Jesus of Nazareth, so he's not even saying Jesus the Christ,

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Jesus of Nazareth was a man, it's not saying son of man, son of God, was a man accredited

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by whom?

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By God to you, how?

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By miracles, wonders and signs which God did among you through him.

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And so we've been going down that road as, okay, so how do we get accredited by God so

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that we can in the eyes of the world be shown to be people who have the same things that

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are happening to Jesus of Nazareth happening to us?

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And so we've finished two of these, and so today we talk about another thing that helps

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us get accredited, which is time.

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Last time we talked about faith, today we talk about time.

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Last time we said faith requires prayer, and we were reading that story about Jesus casting

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out the demon from the boy who was being thrown into the fire, one of the things he said to

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his disciples when his disciples came and talked to him, this time does not go out except

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through prayer.

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And so we said that faith requires prayer, but the problem with that is prayer requires

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time.

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Faith requires prayer, prayer requires time.

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And prayer is a form of faith, prayer is a form of faith or a vehicle of faith.

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Prayer is a form of faith that connects today's situation, that connects today's situation,

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that connects today's situation with the grace, with the grace required and available

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immediately, even if it manifests tomorrow.

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We'll go over that before we go on.

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So our struggle is this, that faith requires prayer, but prayer requires time, because

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we're not talking just about conversational prayer, which most charismatics are pretty

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good at doing.

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We're not talking about that kind of prayer, we're talking about prayer which is intentional,

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which is devoted, which Jesus was engaging in on a regular basis every day.

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So that's where we're heading, we touched on it last time.

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Today we're going to talk about, so how do we work this time thing out?

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But before that, prayer is actually a vehicle of faith or a form of faith.

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Prayer is a form of faith that connects today's situation with the grace required.

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Everything is changed by grace.

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Grace is God giving all of himself into a situation.

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Grace is God giving all of himself into a situation.

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That's what grace is, all of himself into a situation.

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Prayer has the ability, or prayer is a form of faith that has the ability to connect today's

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situation with the grace required.

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And it's available immediately.

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This is why Jesus kept saying in Mark 11, 23, whatever you ask, believe that you already

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have, received it.

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So it's available immediately.

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Grace is never tomorrow.

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Grace is never tomorrow.

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You've got to understand that.

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The grace for my situation is available immediately.

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That is my difficulty.

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Till I see a result, I don't believe I have the grace required.

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But grace is available immediately.

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That is what I must receive.

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What do you mean, how do I receive grace?

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I must know that God has for me whatever I need for my sickness, for my need, for my

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guidance, for my ability to do something in my inadequacy.

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There is grace required immediately.

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That I must receive.

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And that is usually couched in a promise.

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And he's the God of Abraham and the God of covenant.

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It's always couched in a promise in the Word.

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It is there immediately for the taking.

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It's like putting my hands in and taking it.

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It's there immediately.

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Then it takes a day to manifest, two days to manifest.

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But every word of God, that's the idea of manna.

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Manna was, what is it?

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Actually, manna is the grace required for daily living.

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That's what it was.

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It was strewn across the desert.

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And it had in it what was required to live.

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Every promise that you have received thus far and will receive in the future has packed

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in it, the grace required.

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And once you open it, it will manifest.

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Why?

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Because he's the God of Abraham and the God of covenant.

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He has history to prove it and what he says he does.

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And when you struggle against it, struggle through it, vent, cry, complain,

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moan, beat his chest and go back to it.

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That's the way it is, man.

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So when it comes to prayer, prayer request requires time.

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Prayer requires time.

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So if you look at Jesus, he had both types of prayer.

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I mean, you look at Luke 6, 12.

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You look at John 6, 15.

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Luke 6, 12.

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John 6, 15.

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Mark 6, 46.

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Matthew 14, 23.

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You look at any of these scriptures and you find that Jesus had this ability to find

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time and it was critical to him.

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He knew that if he didn't have that, it didn't matter that he was the son of the living

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God, he wouldn't have what it took.

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He wouldn't have what it took.

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Matthew 14, 23.

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So Jesus had both conversational prayer, which we are very good at, at least in this

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church.

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One of the things that I find quite endearing is that you can call anyone up and when they

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pray, they sound like they're talking to their father.

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They don't sound like they're talking to God.

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They sound like they're talking to their father.

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That's not easy.

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It's a struggle in most places.

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That you have the ability to do that talks about your relationship with God.

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So on one hand, Jesus would engage in conversational prayer.

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On the other hand, and in conversational prayer, what we need is relationship.

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In conversational prayer, what you need is relationship.

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But on the other hand, he had these intentional times of prayer, intentional times of prayer,

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intentional times of prayer.

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And when you read these scriptures that I gave you, you'll find him engaging in intentional

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times of prayer.

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And the thing with intentional times of prayer is when intentional times of prayer, you need

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devotion.

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If conversational prayer is based on relationship, intentional prayer is based on devotion.

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What do you mean by devotion?

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To devote something is to set apart time, treasure, talent, strength.

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To set it apart and set it apart so that it has a singular focus or an objective.

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That's what devotion does.

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Whenever you're devoted to anything, it doesn't matter whether you're a Manchester United fan.

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For years I've not seen any success.

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You still have this devotion.

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Yeah?

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And so I hope I didn't ruffle any feathers.

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So devotion is when you set aside your time, talent, treasure, strength.

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I wouldn't use the same example for the Canucks.

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That's not devotion, that's delusion.

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It's just been years now.

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But some delusions are fun.

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Every year you hope again like I'm hoping again this year.

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So to devote is to set aside time, treasure, strength solely for a singular objective.

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And in this case, for Jesus it was the Father.

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And once you have intentional times of prayer, you'll find some other things developing.

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Like for instance, when you read those scriptures, you find that Jesus had a favorite place to go to.

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Jesus had favorite places to go to.

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And his favorite place was the mountain.

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Give him a mountain and he'd be happy.

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Sometimes favorite places betray your personality.

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You just are that type.

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I mean I would love mountains but someone would have to helicopter me there before I go climbing up one of those.

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So it depends on your personality.

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Sometimes the place that you go to depends on your personality type.

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Some people just need a couch facing the wall.

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But Jesus had a favorite place to go to.

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And he'd often be in the mountains.

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He'd disappear into them.

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He'd send them off in the boat and then he'd go up into the mountains again.

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Because these were times of intentional prayer.

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So where is your favorite place and how often do you go there?

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Where is your favorite place?

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And how often do you go there?

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And if the answer is I don't have a favorite place or yes I have a favorite place but I don't go there so often.

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It says something about you and IA.

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Where is your favorite place?

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You don't have to have one.

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That doesn't say anything about your prayer life.

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But do you have a favorite place and how often do you go there?

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The reason we aren't devoted.

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The reason we aren't devoted is perhaps because we are charismatic.

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Because we are or think we are charismatic and charismatic needs inspiration.

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And devotional times are not.

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Devotion is not inspiration.

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Devotion requires relationship may be based out of inspiration.

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Oh Jesus I really love you.

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But devotion is based out of discipline.

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Jesus I don't feel anything towards you but I'm going to anyways do what I'm supposed to do.

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So that I begin to feel the things that I need to feel towards you.

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One is discipline.

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Another one is inspiration.

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And so there's a high likelihood in most Pentecostal or charismatic or those kind of circles to wait for that inspirational moment.

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When something hits you and you feel really lovey-dovey about God.

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But devotion does not carry inspiration.

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Devotion requires discipline.

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Which is why most of us don't practice intentional times of prayer.

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And it will show in the weakness of our lives.

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Even though we may be highly gifted.

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Any questions?

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Any questions guys?

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Yeah one of the things you notice in many churches is that people know how to talk to God.

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And it's very respectful and very proper.

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I'm not saying there's anything wrong with it.

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And then there's people that know how to have a conversation with God as Father.

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And that you don't find very often.

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But how do you balance that with the words of prayer?

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Yeah which starts with our Father.

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So the intent, Jesus' intent there was hey can I teach you how to speak to the Father?

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And so he teaches them that.

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I don't even know how it sounded in Aramaic.

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It may have sounded far more personal.

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I mean to think of this guys.

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It's the same word that's used in Aramaic that we use now.

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And that word Abba.

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There's something about the very, very, the idea of calling Abba itself does something.

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It's so common in so many cultures.

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You take the Arabic culture.

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You take Indian culture.

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You take different cultures.

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And the word Abba will have its variation.

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But it will still contain that Fatherness.

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And so I mean this is going off topic.

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But most of us have not a triune God but a quadruune God.

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We have, there's no word called quadruune.

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It's not even Greek.

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So we have the Father.

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We have the Son.

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We have the Holy Spirit.

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And then we have God.

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And most of our annoyance, resentment and bitterness is always against God.

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But the moment you shift to him as Father, you don't know how to be resentful to him.

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Because you know how good he is as a Father.

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The moment you shift to the Holy Spirit, you think to yourself, man, he guides me every day.

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He's so nice to me.

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He talks. I hear him.

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How can you be resentful to him?

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The moment you think of Jesus, oh gosh, every song is about him.

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I cry every time I think of him.

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But then who's left?

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Let's go make God a scapegoat.

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He's the one who faces most of our resentment and bitterness and stuff like that.

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Whenever I find myself bitter with God, I immediately run to the Father.

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And I say, sorry, it's like we got four gods, man.

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It's very hard to be angry with the Father.

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Because you know he's good.

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Every time you feel that rising against God, go quickly to the Father, Son of the Holy Spirit.

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What did the Father do?

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He personalized himself through Jesus.

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What did Jesus do?

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He personalized himself through the Holy Spirit.

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A relationship has to be not with God, but one of the persons of God.

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Theologically, people could shoot holes in that, but it's quite true.

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Devotion isn't inspired.

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It requires discipline.

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Prayer won't increase if not discipline.

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Prayer will not increase without discipline.

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You husbands know, right?

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You can chat to your wife eight hours out of the day, and then she gives you that look and says, we need to talk.

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And you think to yourself, I've been doing that for the last eight hours, but that we need to talk, you immediately know.

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This is at another level.

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It's very intentional.

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Sit down, put your phone away, and stop looking at the TV talk.

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And suddenly you see Vivek switching off Manchester United, just paying full attention.

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So that's how this works.

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It's very intentional.

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And it requires discipline.

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And guys, you might think, why talk about this?

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We know everything about prayer.

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We may know everything about prayer, but we do not know how to be intentionally prayerful.

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Nobody here does this well.

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And if you're doing it well, or if you increase in it, it will show.

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It'll show.

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You might say, but I do.

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Great.

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Do it more so that we may benefit.

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How will it show?

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At times, Dana, let's put it this way.

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If I spent time with you, it will show in certain times.

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If I spent time with you, it will show in certain changes in my life.

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Guaranteed.

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If I had deep, intentional conversations with you, if I spent time with you, it will begin to show in my life.

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If you as a human being can do that to me, it's multiple times with God.

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Because it gives you, I mean, look at what he says after the disciples can't cast out the demon out of the boy.

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He says to them, this kind only comes out by prayer.

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You guys have been with me.

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You're learning from me.

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You're having conversations with the son of God himself, who they acknowledge.

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But you still do not set aside times where you begin to trust.

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There's a statement I'll make later that quietness, to become quiet is to be is ruthlessly humbling.

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Where in the midst of a storm, in the midst of loudness, you ruthlessly humble yourself to be quiet.

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And in that quiet rely on God.

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Psalm 27, verse 4, I long to be in your house.

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I long to spend my time only with you.

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I want to spend time with you.

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When is he saying this?

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When there are threats being made like arrows that are falling.

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When there are people that are coming against him.

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In the midst of that, he says, if I could only find that time, I would be okay.

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That is something we haven't learned because of, because we are so busy, right?

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And legitimately busy. It's not like sometimes we aren't even wasting time.

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The other thing is guys, prayer time can become a ritual.

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And so people say, we don't want to be ritualistic in our prayer time.

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You're right. Prayer time.

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But remember, the time you spend praying intentionally can become a ritual.

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And it's okay.

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The content should not become ritualistic.

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Should not become ritualistic.

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The time can be a ritual.

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Set aside time.

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Ah, don't disturb me between six and seven.

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That sounds so ritualistic.

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Yes, it is.

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But try saying that to your boss.

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Nine to five doesn't work for me.

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I usually wake up at 10.30.

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Can we go 11 to eight?

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The time cannot.

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You can't blame the time for being ritualistic.

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But the content can't get ritualistic.

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Content varies.

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Because now what are you doing?

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You're taking your ability to converse out of the relationship you already have.

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And you're putting it in a box.

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And what's that box?

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Devotion.

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And what does that require?

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Discipline.

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Will it happen in a day?

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No.

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Will it happen over a period of time?

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Yes.

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Do you know that I'm actually walking two days a week?

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Will it ever get to seven?

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I pray God no.

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But two days a week took me six weeks to get to.

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Most days I'm walking in airports anyways.

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But this is like devotional walking.

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It does nothing for you.

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I step on the waiting machine after that.

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It does nothing for you.

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But it brings discipline into your life.

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And one day I will arm wrestle you.

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And I will beat you.

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The day I get to walking on all my foes, you know that the time has come.

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Once we get to this place, to answer Diana's question,

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what happens is prayer then will fuel faith,

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will fuel intimacy.

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And if faith and intimacy are fueled,

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then it is natural that it fuels authority.

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Because all authority is based on intimacy.

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Intimacy is based on time.

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You cannot be intimate with someone without spending time with them.

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So prayer fuels faith, prayer fuels intimacy,

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and prayer therefore fuels authority.

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And a man that has this or a woman that has this,

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it will be evident in their lives.

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You will see a difference.

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When a church begins to behave like this, it's even more evident.

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I'm really not talking about having a planned Bible reading.

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Because that's what usually happens after a message like this.

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Everyone gets a planned Bible reading.

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It is important, but it is not the only thing.

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We'll talk about that.

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Any questions, guys?

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Will you talk more about the art sense of prayer?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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We said also last time that crisis activates prayer time.

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If God could send us all a crisis today,

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we'd be praying like crazy overnight.

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Crisis always activates prayer.

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But when there is no crisis or no pressing crisis,

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there's this contentment.

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It's a sluggish contentment.

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It's a sluggish contentment.

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Things are going well.

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But sluggish contentment is like leprosy.

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Sluggish contentment is like leprosy

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in the sense that it desensitizes you to your bankruptcy.

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It desensitizes you to your bankruptcy, to your spiritual poverty.

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It desensitizes you.

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Because we have everything we need.

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There is no crisis forming.

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There's no need to exert extra faith.

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It's like leprosy.

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It desensitizes you.

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It desensitizes you.

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You're not even aware of what you need.

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And it dulls prayer.

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Pray God that he doesn't send crisis to solve this, eh?

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Any questions?

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Alrighty.

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So let's move on to time.

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What does Satan want to steal from us?

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John 10, 10 says he comes to steal, kill and destroy.

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We don't realize that one of the things Satan tries to steal from us is time.

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Among other things, John 10, 10 applies to time too.

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We don't think so.

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Jesus came to give life and life more abundant.

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Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy.

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What is one of the things he steals from everybody in this room?

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One of the things he steals from you is time.

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He steals time.

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The one who is timeless, the one who is eternal,

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has time that he has given us.

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He is stolen by the enemy.

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And we are poorer for it.

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He steals time.

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But here's the other ugliness to this.

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He knows, as in the devil knows he is short on time.

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The devil knows he is short on time.

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And he is working really hard with the time he has.

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Our enemy knows he is short on time.

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And he works really hard with the time he has

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to steal time from us.

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And so, this is such a critical factor for us guys.

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This Danish theologian, I rarely quote people,

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but he had this beautiful line here.

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He says, the result of busyness,

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the result of busyness,

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is that an individual

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is seldom permitted,

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is seldom permitted to form a heart.

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The result of busyness is that an individual

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is seldom permitted to form a heart.

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As in, it stifles the heart.

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It prevents you from returning to that nucleus

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of being a much loved child.

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Take away time, get busy,

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and your heart never gets formed.

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And the things of God never get formed.

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Take compassion.

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You think you can come up with insta-compassion?

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Takes time.

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Anything that God does through me or in me

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requires a lot of time.

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Anything that God does through me or in me

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requires time, and he needs to form it.

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And that forming takes time.

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But because I don't have time,

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I have to come up with insta-things.

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Insta-compassion, insta-mercy.

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And they are always sound bites

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because the heart is not formed.

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I mean, I would personally prefer that children be born

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around 13 years old or 14 years old.

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Like, they're ready.

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You can train them, you can get them going.

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For my God, they come so helpless.

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And it requires time.

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It's very deliberate.

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And you ask a mother and she'll tell you,

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I hate that my child is growing up so fast.

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I don't understand that.

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You would think that's what everyone desires, but no.

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It takes time.

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Everything that God does that is of any value requires time.

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The things that he wants to pour into me and pour out of me require time.

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And therefore, this guy says, the result of busyness

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is that an individual is very seldom permitted to form a heart about anything.

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To form a heart.

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And this legitimate busyness,

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doesn't matter whether you're retired or whether you're working, it's all the same, eh?

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Kirka.

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It stifles the life of the heart.

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I've said this ages ago, I remember saying this,

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that the most successful Christians that I've met

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are Christians who know what it is to be a much loved child.

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Any successful Christian you will meet,

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successful by any standard you use,

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other than preaching and TV,

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any successful Christian you meet

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will be a Christian who has found that one fundamental thing

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and has gotten it.

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And what is that?

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I am a much loved child.

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He's gotten that somewhere inside him.

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That is his identity, that is his description and definition of himself.

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But to come to that place of I am a much loved child

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on a regular constant basis, on a daily basis,

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which is never undone, which remains solid,

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regardless of what's happening, remains solid,

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that only happens with time,

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because the heart has to be formed.

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So the secret is not scheduling.

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The secret to this is not,

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let me get more organized,

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or let me get more, let me schedule my life a little better.

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That's not the secret.

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It's more along the lines of,

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can I slow life down?

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Can I come back into a place of quietness?

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Can I combine that with trust?

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Can I combine that with rest?

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Where's that found?

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Isaiah 30, verse 15.

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In quietness and trust is your salvation.

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In returning and rest, you will find peace.

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The ability to slow things down.

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It's very hard to slow things down,

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because the demand is on you, right?

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To hasten things up, to slow it down.

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And that is the ruthless humbling that is required.

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To slow things down.

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Isaiah 30, here's how the Spirit of God starts the chapter.

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You're making alliances that I did not ask you to make.

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You're running after the Egyptians who you think will help you.

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You think all this is going to work out.

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You're lighting fires that I'm not lighting.

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So here's what I want to say to you.

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Come, return.

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In returning and rest.

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In quietness and trust, you will find rest.

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In returning, you will find salvation.

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Come back.

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Slow things down.

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Come into a place of rest.

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And this we do not know how to do.

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It's being robbed every day.

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You must understand that on one hand it is our business.

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Things like, remember you carry the world in your pocket.

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I'm talking about the phone.

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You carry the world in your pocket.

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We're trying to free ourselves from the world,

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but we carry the world in our pocket.

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You think that doesn't play its demands on us?

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It is impossible, impossible guys,

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to have a time of prayer without putting your phone at a distance from you,

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where it'll inconvenience you to get up and go check it.

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We are Pavlov's dogs.

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You put it on vibrate, we can hear the vibrate 20 meters away, man.

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Fine tune to it.

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It is not possible to cultivate a time of devoted prayer with your phone next to you.

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Not possible.

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Get this thing called a Bible that has pages.

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Quietness.

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Quietness is the ruthless humbling of the heart.

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In the midst, in the storm, of the heart, in the storm,

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to willingly, to willingly, to willingly,

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in the midst, in the storm, of the heart, in the storm,

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to willingly locate and rely on majesty.

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Take that to the bank, guys.

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Quietness.

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Quietness is the ruthless humbling of the heart.

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It doesn't take nothing for an excuse.

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It chops down your text messages and WhatsApps and Facebook and puts it away.

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It takes care of the soccer teams and the hockey teams.

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It shuts the noise. It is ruthless.

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And then there is the humbling part.

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And what is the humbling?

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That even though there is a storm raging around me,

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I will humble myself to not deal with the storm.

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I know how to mitigate the storm.

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I know how to navigate through it.

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I know how to deal with it.

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I have the wherewithal.

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I just need to make one call here and one call there,

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and there will be people that will help me with the storm.

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But in the middle of it, I will ruthlessly humble myself and say,

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I will not use my mind, my hands, my strength, my money, my contacts.

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I will not use it, but I will go into a place of quiet,

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where I will first locate and then I will rely on majesty.

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It will shift your heart and shape your heart.

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And it will shape your heart to meet that storm so head on that it will go right through it.

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But my God, it is difficult.

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No, it doesn't come with any domain.

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I wish it did.

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I would be so much better off by now.

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Any questions, guys?

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And if you don't do that, then I will tell you what else will kick in.

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Self-reliance.

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This increases with age, eh?

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Self-reliance.

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Because you know how to do it now.

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You have done it so many times.

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Irrational fears.

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Oh my God, if I don't deal with this, what is going to happen?

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And ruin.

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You will find all this in Isaiah 30.

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The Holy Spirit literally says, hey, you are being reliant on yourself.

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Please, please come back into quietness and trust and rest.

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Hey, if you don't, fears will begin to grip you.

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You will run here and there.

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It will only get worse.

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Please stop.

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If you don't, you will come to ruin.

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And then in verse 18, Isaiah 30, verse 18, God still says,

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after you have done all this, I will still be gracious and I will come and help you.

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So it's not like he abandons us at the end of the day.

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Isaiah 30, 18 says, but I will be gracious to you.

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I will show you mercy.

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I'll gather you in.

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But why go through self-reliance, irrational fears and ruin before you come to grace and mercy?

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Any questions, guys?

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So how do I create time then?

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How do I create time?

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How do I create time?

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One, priorities.

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Whatever you prioritize, you'll have time for.

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Whatever you prioritize, you'll have time for.

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And it'll affect, it'll influence your affections, as in what your heart runs after.

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And it'll affect your direction.

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Always remember that, eh?

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Priorities.

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Come.

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I'm okay with you coming.

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Oi.

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Oi.

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Oi.

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Sing a little.

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I'm all right.

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You're all right.

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All right.

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You're all right.

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Hi.

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Sing.

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Hi.

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Priorities.

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How do I create time?

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I create time to, guys, we don't need to labor this.

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You know this is true.

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Whatever you prioritize, you have time for.

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Here's a question you need to ask yourself now.

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What do you think God expects of you in any given day?

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What do you think God expects of you any given day?

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One thing only.

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Love him.

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That's it.

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The one thing he expects of you every day,

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any given day, is can you love me?

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Can you receive my love and then love me?

00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:37.500
When he says love him, he always means,

00:35:37.520 --> 00:35:40.860
can you come and receive my love so you can love me back?

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When do we see this?

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Luke 1042.

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What's the story?

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Marsha, Marsha, why are you so anxious about everything?

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Mary has chosen the right portion

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and it'll never be taken away from her.

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There's only one thing that he expects of you every day.

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Everything else comes out of that.

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You don't have that, you got squat.

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This is why Christianity is so common to everybody.

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There's no special people here.

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It's the same requirement of everyone.

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Doesn't matter how famous a pastor you are

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or whether you're a newbie who just started today.

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The requirement is the same.

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What is it that God expects of you any given day?

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Love, not productivity, not efficiency,

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just can you find time to be loved and to love?

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Again, it requires time.

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You know, you have children.

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You know.

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The main thing must become the main thing.

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And slowing down is one way you allow this to happen.

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Slow down.

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Find time.

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Slowing down always allows you to sense God.

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In the midst of the complexities of the world,

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you will always be able to sense God when you slow down,

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which is why many weeks ago I said,

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even if you try getting to places in time,

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you will get to sense God more

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than when you're driving in haste.

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It's crazy how a simple thing like that

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changes what you see.

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Iris, stop looking at Derek.

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Psalm 27, verse four.

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Let me just read it.

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Psalm 27, verse four.

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Psalm 27, verse four.

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Psalm 27, verse four.

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One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek,

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that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

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all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord

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to seek him in the temple.

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Let me read that again, eh?

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One thing I ask of the Lord, and this is what I seek,

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that I may dwell in the house of the Lord

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all the days of my life to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord

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and to seek him in his temple.

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Gazing and seeking requires time,

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but look when he's writing this.

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Verse two.

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When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh,

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when my enemies and my foes attack me.

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Verse three.

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Though an army besiege me.

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Verse 12.

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Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes

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for false witnesses rise up against me,

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breathing out violence.

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In the middle of that, he knows.

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This boy who would sit on a rock and write songs

00:38:34.040 --> 00:38:36.760
and beat up the predatory animals

00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:38.360
that would try to come and take his sheep,

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this boy knows what it is to have the ability

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to quiet himself down.

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It's critical to our existence as a church.

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The next one.

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Discipline.

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Discipline.

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How do I create time?

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This is all under how do I create time.

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How do I create time?

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I create time through priorities.

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I create time through discipline.

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As in, can I diligently apply and subdue my flesh

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to create a habit?

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Can I diligently apply myself?

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And like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 9.27, train my body.

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Or can I diligently apply myself and subdue my flesh?

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Subdue my flesh to create a habit.

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And then can I move from discipline to delight?

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All discipline must end up in delight.

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Begin in this place called delight.

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Let it provoke you to into discipline

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and then have you end in delight.

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I know I've said this many times before,

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but why does an athlete get up in the morning

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and then have to go to the gym?

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Why does an athlete have to go to the gym?

00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:18.280
Why does an athlete have to go to the gym?

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Why does an athlete get up in the morning

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and run 10 kilometers?

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Why?

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Because he delights in running.

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And so he gets up and it's a discipline of running.

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And then there is delight after when he wins an award.

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But it is creating habits.

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Spiritual exercises that were of old got dry,

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but my God, they were helpful in creating habits.

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Anybody here who does anything successfully

00:40:46.760 --> 00:40:49.200
is because you created a habit.

00:40:49.200 --> 00:40:51.400
You think May woke up one day

00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:54.720
and just started skiing down a hill and voila,

00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:56.680
she was a great skier.

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Is that how it happened?

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Yeah.

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Don tried that.

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How did that go?

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He stopped.

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He was delighting in it until his legs went this way.

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And then he said, this is not for me.

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Yeah.

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So anyone here who has any success

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with anything in your life is because of a habit.

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Third, rewards.

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Habits of grace, habits of grace,

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create channels for God's power and love to flow.

00:41:36.580 --> 00:41:38.300
Habits of grace,

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habits, godly habits, create channels

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for God's power and love to flow.

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Next one, rewards.

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There are rewards, man.

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There are rewards to creating time for things, for prayer.

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In fact, in Psalm 90, verse 12, it says,

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oh God, if I number my days,

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I will increase in the one thing

00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:22.700
that we are all short of and need desperately in wisdom.

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Anyone who knows how to steward time

00:42:26.580 --> 00:42:27.820
will increase in wisdom.

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Anyone who knows how to steward time

00:42:31.540 --> 00:42:32.820
will increase in wisdom.

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This might sometimes require sitting down and saying,

00:42:36.980 --> 00:42:40.260
okay, I gotta throw this out, not do this, not do this.

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That's required, eh?

00:42:42.140 --> 00:42:43.500
That's another hard thing.

00:42:43.500 --> 00:42:45.060
It's like trying to clean a house,

00:42:45.060 --> 00:42:46.460
you don't know what to throw out,

00:42:46.460 --> 00:42:48.660
then you take everything into the next house.

00:42:53.140 --> 00:42:56.860
Anyone who knows how to,

00:42:56.860 --> 00:43:00.460
anyone who knows how to steward time

00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:02.180
will increase in wisdom.

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On, on one hand, God says, ask me and I'll give you wisdom.

00:43:05.780 --> 00:43:09.100
On the other hand, he says, hey, you want to do well?

00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:10.460
Steward time well and I'll show you

00:43:10.460 --> 00:43:11.820
how to increase in wisdom.

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Fourth, how do you create time?

00:43:17.740 --> 00:43:18.580
Redeem it.

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Redeem it as in, buy it back, buy it back.

00:43:25.180 --> 00:43:29.740
Buy, not bite back, buy it back.

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What do you mean?

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Find out the things that you are being idle in,

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purposeless in.

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Find ways to unstuck yourself.

00:43:46.380 --> 00:43:48.700
Find ways to unstuck yourself.

00:43:52.220 --> 00:43:53.340
Redeem time.

00:43:53.340 --> 00:43:55.460
Redeem time is to buy it back.

00:43:55.460 --> 00:43:57.060
What are you idle in?

00:43:57.060 --> 00:43:58.900
What's the last thing you do before you go to sleep?

00:43:58.900 --> 00:43:59.740
Facebook?

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Just one last look through it.

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You've looked through it 18 times already

00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:06.100
in the last three hours,

00:44:06.100 --> 00:44:08.100
and you've looked through it 18 times already

00:44:08.260 --> 00:44:09.460
in the last three hours,

00:44:09.460 --> 00:44:10.340
but before going to bed,

00:44:10.340 --> 00:44:12.300
surely someone must have said something.

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Go through it again.

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Buy back time from idleness.

00:44:20.220 --> 00:44:23.260
Buy back time from stuff that I do

00:44:23.260 --> 00:44:25.580
that's absolutely purposeless.

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You know, there are things that we do

00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:29.620
that are absolutely wasteful.

00:44:30.820 --> 00:44:35.140
Waste some time, but don't waste time on wasteful stuff.

00:44:35.140 --> 00:44:36.860
Waste some stuff.

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You think there's some stuff

00:44:37.700 --> 00:44:40.220
that is just absolutely wasteful.

00:44:40.220 --> 00:44:43.460
Watching Hannity, and then watching,

00:44:43.460 --> 00:44:44.740
if you watch Fox News,

00:44:44.740 --> 00:44:48.060
over and over again, the same news again and again.

00:44:48.060 --> 00:44:48.900
Wasteful.

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Watching three hours of a game you know you're gonna lose.

00:44:57.980 --> 00:44:59.420
Wasteful.

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Watching the Leafs in the playoffs.

00:45:01.900 --> 00:45:03.500
Absolutely wasteful.

00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:06.060
How does that make it look in the playoffs?

00:45:06.060 --> 00:45:07.500
We never make the playoffs.

00:45:09.300 --> 00:45:11.700
Playoffs are like seven game series.

00:45:11.700 --> 00:45:13.060
I mean the Leafs, it's worse,

00:45:13.060 --> 00:45:15.180
because they go to the seventh game and lose.

00:45:15.180 --> 00:45:17.860
You've now watched seven days.

00:45:17.860 --> 00:45:19.460
You don't know how difficult it is.

00:45:19.460 --> 00:45:20.700
Well, we'll take a look at the question,

00:45:20.700 --> 00:45:22.740
and then we'll actually give it another.

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Pardon?

00:45:23.580 --> 00:45:24.420
We'll actually give it another.

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Yeah, yeah, I don't watch a full game.

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I just watch the first 10 minutes,

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and I know where it's heading.

00:45:28.100 --> 00:45:29.260
Then I check the score.

00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:30.420
What's the score?

00:45:30.420 --> 00:45:31.260
What's the score?

00:45:31.260 --> 00:45:32.100
What's the score?

00:45:32.100 --> 00:45:32.940
What's the score?

00:45:32.940 --> 00:45:34.620
And if I go and actually watch a game,

00:45:34.620 --> 00:45:36.300
I never stay till the end.

00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:38.180
There is no last minute Hail Mary

00:45:38.180 --> 00:45:39.980
that's gonna happen with the Canucks.

00:45:41.620 --> 00:45:45.580
Nobody knows how much I prayed at the finals in 2011

00:45:45.580 --> 00:45:46.420
for a miracle.

00:45:51.620 --> 00:45:52.660
How do I create time?

00:45:52.660 --> 00:45:53.500
Redeem.

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Last one, how do I create time?

00:45:57.580 --> 00:45:58.860
Beware.

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Beware of what we talked about last time, mental drift.

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Mental drift.

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Mental drift is when you just start praying

00:46:10.700 --> 00:46:14.220
and either something legit gets your mind

00:46:14.220 --> 00:46:17.700
or you have a busyness that begins to occupy your mind

00:46:17.700 --> 00:46:20.180
or you're unable to concentrate.

00:46:20.180 --> 00:46:23.460
There's weariness, there's tiredness.

00:46:23.460 --> 00:46:26.180
Mental drift is when you begin with God

00:46:26.180 --> 00:46:28.940
and you either can't make any progress

00:46:28.940 --> 00:46:31.260
because there are 100 different thoughts

00:46:31.260 --> 00:46:34.020
that are demanding equal time,

00:46:34.020 --> 00:46:36.180
and it's called mental drift.

00:46:36.180 --> 00:46:39.540
And it is a disease that is common across this room.

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You say beware of it, so what do you do about it?

00:46:44.580 --> 00:46:47.060
One of the ways you change mental drift

00:46:47.060 --> 00:46:49.780
is by going after your mind that is wandering.

00:46:51.100 --> 00:46:55.900
So one of the examples someone taught me long ago was,

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if you have a $100 note in your pocket

00:46:59.420 --> 00:47:02.420
and it flies out of your pocket, what do you do?

00:47:03.420 --> 00:47:05.660
You go running after it and you pick it up

00:47:05.660 --> 00:47:07.260
and you put it back in your pocket.

00:47:07.260 --> 00:47:09.460
But it happens a second time.

00:47:09.460 --> 00:47:10.540
What do you do?

00:47:10.540 --> 00:47:12.540
You still go after it, you pick it and bring it back.

00:47:12.540 --> 00:47:14.220
It happens a third time, what do you do?

00:47:14.220 --> 00:47:18.300
Do you say, hmm, that note looks like it needs to be free?

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:19.420
No.

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You go back a third time

00:47:22.340 --> 00:47:24.540
before someone else takes its freedom away.

00:47:25.420 --> 00:47:28.700
And you go take it and put it back in your wallet.

00:47:28.700 --> 00:47:30.820
When it comes to a $100 bill,

00:47:30.820 --> 00:47:33.060
you will go after it as many times

00:47:33.060 --> 00:47:34.620
as it flies out of your pocket.

00:47:36.500 --> 00:47:40.820
When my mind wanders, the way we combat mental drift

00:47:40.820 --> 00:47:44.500
is in the beginning by going after it as many times,

00:47:44.500 --> 00:47:48.100
because it's only a mind that's wandering, bring it back.

00:47:48.100 --> 00:47:50.060
This is part of 2 Corinthians 10,

00:47:50.940 --> 00:47:53.700
which talks about bringing into submission

00:47:53.700 --> 00:47:56.300
every thought, every reasoning, every argument,

00:47:56.300 --> 00:47:58.300
every lofty thing that raises itself up

00:47:58.300 --> 00:47:59.580
against the knowledge of God,

00:47:59.580 --> 00:48:02.780
bringing it into submission to Christ, bring it back.

00:48:07.220 --> 00:48:08.820
And over a period of time,

00:48:08.820 --> 00:48:12.580
you will find that it doesn't wander as much.

00:48:12.580 --> 00:48:15.140
It's only a matter of creating a habit, guys.

00:48:15.260 --> 00:48:17.220
Remember when you had to chew food 32 times?

00:48:18.740 --> 00:48:21.180
Oh, okay, this was when I was a kid.

00:48:21.180 --> 00:48:23.300
You had to chew food 32 times.

00:48:24.620 --> 00:48:26.940
I had only 28 teeth at that time.

00:48:30.580 --> 00:48:32.340
Still have only 28.

00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:33.780
So that's a different story.

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Beware of mental drift and beware of satanic attacks

00:48:39.340 --> 00:48:40.860
when you sit down.

00:48:40.860 --> 00:48:43.740
Beware of satanic attacks when you sit down.

00:48:43.780 --> 00:48:46.220
When you sit down to

00:48:49.100 --> 00:48:51.460
spend devotional time with God.

00:48:51.460 --> 00:48:55.940
Satan aborts prayer time by bringing in sleepiness,

00:48:55.940 --> 00:48:57.940
stupor, and distractions.

00:48:57.940 --> 00:48:59.820
Stupor is actually a spirit.

00:48:59.820 --> 00:49:01.980
Bible talks about a spirit of stupor,

00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:03.700
where everything is fine

00:49:03.700 --> 00:49:06.900
till you begin to read the Bible and or focus on God.

00:49:06.900 --> 00:49:09.020
And then there's this dullness that takes over

00:49:09.020 --> 00:49:11.860
where your mind doesn't even want to connect.

00:49:11.860 --> 00:49:13.820
It's like your mind doesn't want to connect.

00:49:13.820 --> 00:49:16.140
Mind doesn't even want to engage God.

00:49:16.140 --> 00:49:18.060
And it's very hard.

00:49:18.060 --> 00:49:21.260
One of the fascinating things that I find about airplanes,

00:49:21.260 --> 00:49:22.740
and you might see a connection

00:49:22.740 --> 00:49:24.340
when I get to the end of the story,

00:49:24.340 --> 00:49:29.340
is that they have those big rubber blocks, chunks

00:49:31.340 --> 00:49:33.780
that they take and put under the wheel of a plane.

00:49:33.780 --> 00:49:36.380
When the plane has come to a standstill,

00:49:37.260 --> 00:49:39.660
okay, this isn't going anywhere.

00:49:39.660 --> 00:49:42.060
You don't seem to know about these rubber blocks.

00:49:45.500 --> 00:49:47.140
Yeah, you put it there,

00:49:47.140 --> 00:49:50.180
and the strange thing is you can gun that plane

00:49:50.180 --> 00:49:51.300
as much as you want,

00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:53.540
and it will not be able to go forward.

00:49:53.540 --> 00:49:57.020
All it is is this bigger chunk of rubber.

00:49:57.020 --> 00:49:58.060
That's it.

00:49:58.060 --> 00:50:00.540
But despite the fact that this can carry

00:50:00.540 --> 00:50:02.140
thousands of tons in flight,

00:50:02.140 --> 00:50:05.300
it cannot get over that small little block,

00:50:05.300 --> 00:50:09.220
regardless of how hard you pump those engines.

00:50:09.260 --> 00:50:11.580
Sometimes these things are like that block.

00:50:11.580 --> 00:50:13.660
It doesn't matter how much power you have.

00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:18.540
If you are not able to get over that initial thing

00:50:18.540 --> 00:50:21.700
by just somehow deciding that,

00:50:21.700 --> 00:50:23.740
I will not allow this to stop me.

00:50:23.740 --> 00:50:25.060
Stupor is a spirit.

00:50:25.060 --> 00:50:26.300
It affects people.

00:50:26.300 --> 00:50:27.700
It's a satanic attack.

00:50:27.700 --> 00:50:29.540
Sleepiness is another thing.

00:50:30.700 --> 00:50:32.380
Soon as you begin to talk to God,

00:50:32.380 --> 00:50:34.060
you begin to fall asleep.

00:50:34.060 --> 00:50:35.380
Distraction is another thing.

00:50:35.380 --> 00:50:37.180
Sleepiness and distractions can be overcome.

00:50:37.180 --> 00:50:38.980
Find a time when you're not sleepy.

00:50:41.700 --> 00:50:43.140
I'm a night person.

00:50:43.140 --> 00:50:46.900
I just love having devotional times

00:50:46.900 --> 00:50:48.180
just before I go to bed.

00:50:48.180 --> 00:50:49.380
Good luck with that then.

00:50:54.900 --> 00:50:55.740
Okay.

00:50:57.180 --> 00:50:58.780
Now we answer the next question.

00:51:03.380 --> 00:51:05.940
What should our quiet time

00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:08.340
or devotional times involve?

00:51:10.540 --> 00:51:11.900
I have different names for them.

00:51:11.900 --> 00:51:14.300
You can choose whatever name you want.

00:51:14.300 --> 00:51:17.900
First thing that I try and practice is

00:51:18.900 --> 00:51:23.900
I try and figure out who I am in God,

00:51:28.140 --> 00:51:32.260
who he is to me,

00:51:33.260 --> 00:51:38.260
who he wants me to change into.

00:51:44.100 --> 00:51:47.340
And I begin to talk to him about it,

00:51:51.420 --> 00:51:54.700
seek his mind about it.

00:51:57.620 --> 00:51:58.820
That's the first thing.

00:52:00.580 --> 00:52:02.100
You may not have to follow this order,

00:52:02.940 --> 00:52:04.420
but I usually start with identity.

00:52:04.420 --> 00:52:06.140
I said, hey, Father, has it come to spend time

00:52:06.140 --> 00:52:07.060
with you right now?

00:52:07.060 --> 00:52:09.020
It's gonna be very intentional time.

00:52:09.020 --> 00:52:11.820
Can I remind myself of who you see me as?

00:52:11.820 --> 00:52:14.180
Because that gives me a confidence of approaching you.

00:52:14.180 --> 00:52:17.020
Sometimes it might just be this idea of sinking

00:52:17.020 --> 00:52:19.900
into that absolute confidence of being a much loved child.

00:52:19.900 --> 00:52:21.500
Sometimes it is more than that.

00:52:22.740 --> 00:52:25.980
But it is important for me to know who I approach you as.

00:52:25.980 --> 00:52:29.660
You told me to approach the throne

00:52:29.660 --> 00:52:31.740
with boldness, with confidence.

00:52:31.780 --> 00:52:33.820
Well then, how do I approach you today?

00:52:33.820 --> 00:52:38.020
And as I come to you, who do you want me to see you as?

00:52:38.020 --> 00:52:40.260
Do I come running into your arms as Father,

00:52:40.260 --> 00:52:43.700
or do I come with an odd kind of reverence

00:52:43.700 --> 00:52:45.260
because today you're a commander?

00:52:45.260 --> 00:52:46.900
How do you want me to approach you?

00:52:46.900 --> 00:52:49.700
Do you want me to come to you asking for help

00:52:49.700 --> 00:52:51.620
or based on the songs we sang today,

00:52:51.620 --> 00:52:54.380
do I approach you as one who has tremendous faith

00:52:54.380 --> 00:52:56.580
to do whatever you say you said you will do

00:52:56.580 --> 00:52:59.500
and to stand and show the world that you can do it?

00:52:59.500 --> 00:53:02.940
I think part of everyday devotional times

00:53:02.940 --> 00:53:05.260
is to establish your identity

00:53:05.260 --> 00:53:07.260
and try to do that early in the day

00:53:07.260 --> 00:53:09.820
so that the rest of the day can be faced that way.

00:53:10.900 --> 00:53:12.900
Sometimes what I have here

00:53:12.900 --> 00:53:14.940
may take you the entire day to get through.

00:53:14.940 --> 00:53:16.500
It's only five things,

00:53:16.500 --> 00:53:17.780
but these five things may take you

00:53:17.780 --> 00:53:19.500
the entire day to get through.

00:53:19.500 --> 00:53:20.700
But perhaps two months from now

00:53:20.700 --> 00:53:23.220
you can get through it in three hours.

00:53:23.220 --> 00:53:25.820
Three hours in a day, Jacob, are you nuts?

00:53:25.820 --> 00:53:26.660
Yep.

00:53:29.500 --> 00:53:30.900
That's just one hockey game.

00:53:42.180 --> 00:53:44.580
But Jacob, I don't have three hours.

00:53:44.580 --> 00:53:45.820
You'll be poorer for it.

00:53:48.300 --> 00:53:49.780
Put first things first

00:53:49.780 --> 00:53:51.420
and you will get the second also.

00:53:51.420 --> 00:53:52.700
Put second things first

00:53:52.700 --> 00:53:54.900
and you will not get the first or the second.

00:53:56.140 --> 00:53:57.820
Put first things first.

00:53:57.860 --> 00:53:59.020
Put first things first.

00:53:59.020 --> 00:54:00.900
C.S. Lewis, put first things first

00:54:00.900 --> 00:54:02.340
and you will get the second also.

00:54:02.340 --> 00:54:03.460
Put second things first

00:54:03.460 --> 00:54:06.020
and you will get neither the first nor the second.

00:54:11.220 --> 00:54:13.060
So this time that I spent, sometimes,

00:54:13.060 --> 00:54:16.500
so what about women who have a nursing baby?

00:54:16.500 --> 00:54:20.740
What about someone who has twins and two more children?

00:54:20.740 --> 00:54:21.820
What about times like that?

00:54:21.820 --> 00:54:24.980
What do you do when there are legitimate cries

00:54:24.980 --> 00:54:27.420
for food and feeding and all that stuff?

00:54:27.460 --> 00:54:28.660
Here's the odd thing.

00:54:28.660 --> 00:54:30.380
You are devoting time.

00:54:30.380 --> 00:54:31.780
Once you devote time,

00:54:31.780 --> 00:54:34.060
a guy like me may be able to spend three hours,

00:54:34.060 --> 00:54:36.260
you may be able to spend 15 minutes.

00:54:36.260 --> 00:54:39.300
You will get in 15 minutes what I get in three hours.

00:54:39.300 --> 00:54:40.140
Why?

00:54:40.140 --> 00:54:42.620
Because God looks at the time that has been devoted

00:54:42.620 --> 00:54:44.260
in the middle of feeding a baby,

00:54:44.260 --> 00:54:46.140
in the middle of juggling the second one

00:54:46.140 --> 00:54:48.300
and holding the third one before it falls,

00:54:48.300 --> 00:54:49.940
you spend five minutes

00:54:49.940 --> 00:54:51.980
and those five minutes are far more effective

00:54:51.980 --> 00:54:53.660
than the 20 minutes that I spent.

00:54:54.700 --> 00:54:56.420
This is God we are talking about.

00:54:56.420 --> 00:54:58.740
The one who lives in timelessness.

00:54:58.740 --> 00:55:02.340
The one who brings up accents to the surface of the water.

00:55:02.340 --> 00:55:04.140
This is the one we are talking about.

00:55:06.420 --> 00:55:10.700
But he sees it based on knowing the demands

00:55:10.700 --> 00:55:12.060
on your time, Jacob.

00:55:12.060 --> 00:55:13.620
What are you devoting to me?

00:55:13.620 --> 00:55:15.340
And that will require sacrifice.

00:55:15.340 --> 00:55:17.340
For a mother who is feeding,

00:55:17.340 --> 00:55:19.700
to be able to do something like this,

00:55:19.700 --> 00:55:21.020
it requires a sacrifice.

00:55:21.020 --> 00:55:22.420
What's your sacrifice?

00:55:22.420 --> 00:55:25.580
Devotion always means sacrifice

00:55:25.580 --> 00:55:27.660
because it's a setting apart of time.

00:55:30.580 --> 00:55:32.780
It must sting, it must cost,

00:55:32.780 --> 00:55:34.540
it must be painful to give,

00:55:34.540 --> 00:55:38.420
it must cause you to give up something to have something.

00:55:38.420 --> 00:55:41.220
If that is not there, then you must know

00:55:41.220 --> 00:55:42.940
that our prayers are a pittance

00:55:42.940 --> 00:55:45.500
and they are pretty useless for a church like this.

00:55:45.500 --> 00:55:47.300
And I'd like to say to us as a church,

00:55:47.300 --> 00:55:49.540
and I'm the pastor and I'm starting with me,

00:55:49.540 --> 00:55:54.540
is that we in this church do not sacrifice time

00:55:55.540 --> 00:55:56.940
in terms of prayer.

00:55:58.900 --> 00:56:01.140
The grace of God was sufficient as now.

00:56:02.780 --> 00:56:06.180
Now it might require a bit of extra work.

00:56:08.180 --> 00:56:11.180
And I'm not saying that we should not sacrifice time

00:56:11.180 --> 00:56:12.500
in terms of prayer.

00:56:12.660 --> 00:56:14.820
It might require a bit of extra work.

00:56:19.500 --> 00:56:20.460
Okay, the next one.

00:56:23.460 --> 00:56:26.700
I call it dispatch, you can call it anything you want.

00:56:26.700 --> 00:56:28.460
Dispatch is when I begin to,

00:56:28.460 --> 00:56:30.500
it's like a guy who dispatches messages,

00:56:30.500 --> 00:56:35.020
so it'll be, okay, pray for Derek,

00:56:35.940 --> 00:56:39.060
or pray for someone's surgery,

00:56:39.060 --> 00:56:41.580
or pray for someone's need.

00:56:41.580 --> 00:56:44.700
These are things that God puts in your heart and mind

00:56:44.700 --> 00:56:45.820
to do for others.

00:56:45.820 --> 00:56:48.740
Dispatch, dispatch prayers.

00:56:48.740 --> 00:56:51.460
Someone has a need, pray for their need.

00:56:51.460 --> 00:56:53.100
And don't take too much.

00:56:53.100 --> 00:56:55.980
Just remember the ones you're supposed to pray for.

00:56:55.980 --> 00:56:57.540
Start with three or four.

00:56:57.540 --> 00:56:58.620
These are the three things, Father,

00:56:58.620 --> 00:57:00.060
that I come to you and appeal to you.

00:57:00.060 --> 00:57:01.380
I'm gonna spend time over it

00:57:01.380 --> 00:57:03.780
so that I actually can figure out what you want.

00:57:06.380 --> 00:57:07.700
Someone comes and says, pray for me.

00:57:07.700 --> 00:57:08.780
Oh, Jesus, I just pray for them.

00:57:08.780 --> 00:57:09.700
Please make them well.

00:57:09.700 --> 00:57:10.820
That's not a prayer.

00:57:10.820 --> 00:57:12.780
That's getting rid of a responsibility.

00:57:19.260 --> 00:57:21.140
The other amazing way to do all these prayers is,

00:57:21.140 --> 00:57:23.420
Father, for all the known requests and unknown requests

00:57:23.420 --> 00:57:24.500
of all the people in the church,

00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:25.780
I now bring them before you.

00:57:25.780 --> 00:57:27.860
Oh, Father, you know their hearts, you know their minds,

00:57:27.860 --> 00:57:29.100
you know their unspoken requests.

00:57:29.100 --> 00:57:31.020
Meet them in the name of Jesus Christ.

00:57:31.020 --> 00:57:32.460
70 people done in one shot.

00:57:33.300 --> 00:57:34.260
That's not prayer.

00:57:36.980 --> 00:57:38.380
That's just being pastoral.

00:57:41.100 --> 00:57:41.940
Third one.

00:57:43.460 --> 00:57:45.660
There are certain things given to you to steward.

00:57:46.540 --> 00:57:48.020
Spend time over that.

00:57:48.020 --> 00:57:50.420
There are certain things given to you to steward.

00:57:51.260 --> 00:57:52.620
As in, he's given you charge

00:57:53.940 --> 00:57:55.980
or he was given you responsibility.

00:58:00.460 --> 00:58:03.180
Well then, hone in on those.

00:58:03.180 --> 00:58:07.540
Ask for wisdom to rule well.

00:58:11.820 --> 00:58:13.460
It could be your office.

00:58:13.460 --> 00:58:15.140
It could be the ones that work under you.

00:58:15.140 --> 00:58:17.780
It could be your children.

00:58:17.780 --> 00:58:19.060
It could be a church.

00:58:19.060 --> 00:58:20.140
It could be a house church.

00:58:20.140 --> 00:58:22.740
Ask, Father, how do I do this?

00:58:22.740 --> 00:58:25.860
Solomon, man, when he was good, he was really, really good.

00:58:25.860 --> 00:58:28.020
When he was bad, he was lousy.

00:58:28.020 --> 00:58:29.980
But one of the times when he was good,

00:58:29.980 --> 00:58:30.820
he pressed his prayer.

00:58:30.820 --> 00:58:33.380
He says, oh God, these people,

00:58:33.380 --> 00:58:34.780
I don't know how to lead them.

00:58:35.780 --> 00:58:37.420
You're giving me a blank check saying,

00:58:37.420 --> 00:58:38.820
ask whatever you want.

00:58:38.820 --> 00:58:41.420
I can ask whatever I want, but here's what I ask for.

00:58:41.420 --> 00:58:43.500
Give me wisdom to rule these people.

00:58:49.860 --> 00:58:51.340
Your work, your business.

00:58:52.580 --> 00:58:54.100
Spend some time to...

00:58:54.100 --> 00:58:55.900
So this is something I...

00:58:55.900 --> 00:58:56.740
Yeah.

00:58:58.540 --> 00:58:59.380
Next one.

00:59:00.260 --> 00:59:01.100
Blueprint.

00:59:02.060 --> 00:59:02.900
Blueprint.

00:59:09.300 --> 00:59:14.300
How are you building what God has asked you to?

00:59:26.300 --> 00:59:28.860
And if you don't know what God has asked you to build,

00:59:29.700 --> 00:59:33.620
then that's part of getting the blueprint.

00:59:33.620 --> 00:59:35.940
It's Moses went up the mountain, 40 days,

00:59:35.940 --> 00:59:36.780
he got a blueprint.

00:59:36.780 --> 00:59:37.900
He came back, he did it.

00:59:39.020 --> 00:59:41.260
David, fascinating thing about David is

00:59:41.260 --> 00:59:43.140
we don't hear of him going up a mountain.

00:59:43.140 --> 00:59:44.660
We don't hear of him doing anything,

00:59:44.660 --> 00:59:46.140
but here's the statement he makes.

00:59:46.140 --> 00:59:47.300
And now I have built,

00:59:47.300 --> 00:59:50.900
now I have arranged for everything, my son Solomon,

00:59:50.900 --> 00:59:52.620
that you need for the temple.

00:59:52.620 --> 00:59:55.180
And you need to do it exactly according to the blueprint

00:59:55.180 --> 00:59:57.140
that was handed over to me by God.

00:59:57.140 --> 00:59:58.340
Where God handed it,

00:59:58.380 --> 01:00:00.300
how he handed it, nobody knows.

01:00:00.300 --> 01:00:01.780
But whatever you're building,

01:00:01.780 --> 01:00:05.260
be it Nick building a school for young kids

01:00:05.260 --> 01:00:07.300
in some remote nation,

01:00:07.300 --> 01:00:12.300
be it Dilna doing something in Wall-E,

01:00:12.380 --> 01:00:16.100
be it Dawn starting another Wall-E somewhere else,

01:00:16.100 --> 01:00:17.940
be it Jacob building something here

01:00:17.940 --> 01:00:19.140
or in some other nation.

01:00:20.860 --> 01:00:21.860
Doesn't matter who.

01:00:24.780 --> 01:00:25.660
What's the blueprint?

01:00:25.660 --> 01:00:26.980
How do you build this?

01:00:26.980 --> 01:00:27.820
Ask for it.

01:00:28.700 --> 01:00:30.620
And if you don't know what you're supposed to build,

01:00:30.620 --> 01:00:31.460
ask for that too.

01:00:31.460 --> 01:00:32.540
Surely you will not hear

01:00:32.540 --> 01:00:34.980
and place here on earth to attend a service.

01:00:40.140 --> 01:00:41.940
Blueprints are given through prayer.

01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:45.340
He spends an entire night in the mountains,

01:00:45.340 --> 01:00:48.820
comes down and there are hundreds and hundreds of people,

01:00:48.820 --> 01:00:49.780
but he's walking.

01:00:49.780 --> 01:00:51.060
And as he walks, he says,

01:00:51.060 --> 01:00:52.740
James, John, follow me.

01:00:52.740 --> 01:00:53.980
Peter, follow.

01:00:53.980 --> 01:00:55.780
Andrew, how's he picking them?

01:00:55.780 --> 01:00:57.300
What did he see that night?

01:00:57.300 --> 01:00:58.860
What did he see that night?

01:00:58.860 --> 01:01:00.860
He spent an entire night in the mountains.

01:01:00.860 --> 01:01:04.300
He comes back and he calls out 12 who are his apostles.

01:01:04.300 --> 01:01:07.300
And he also knows that one of them will betray him.

01:01:07.300 --> 01:01:09.060
How does he do this, man?

01:01:09.060 --> 01:01:11.980
I'm telling you, it's super simple, super simple.

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Super simple, a people that pray.

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Super simple.

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Your lives will change if I become this,

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which is an admission that it isn't.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Last one, word.

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What should I discover from scriptures?

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What should I discover from scriptures?

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What should I discover from scriptures?

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What theme?

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What rama?

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As in a word that fits the occasion.

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What theme?

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What rama?

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What should I discover from scriptures?

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Start with those five guys.

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And then if you still don't know how to do,

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like I said last week, take Psalm 139,

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pray Psalm 139, take Ephesians 116 to 18,

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pray Ephesians 116 to 18, take Matthew 11,

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sorry, Matthew 6, go over the Lord's Prayer,

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take Psalm 23, go over it line by line.

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You won't make it.

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You won't even make it through one sentence a day.

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The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.

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You won't get through it.

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The Lord, shoot, he's my savior, he ain't my Lord yet.

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You get stuck there.

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He is my shepherd, really?

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I shall not want, my God, I want, I want, I want, I want.

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Psalm 23 will take you a month.

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Psalm 91.

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Can we pray?

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Sure.

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In number five, what should I explore in scriptures?

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Is that sort of like, is this like a

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consecutive thing or is this what you're doing

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the entire time?

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I try and get these five things in every day.

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I sometimes make it a three, sometimes a four,

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but try and go through this every day.

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And so scriptures should be part of it.

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And some scriptures deliberate intentional reading,

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some scriptures reading.

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But I think it's important to start with the identity part.

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By identity, you're not trying to say,

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Jesus, I'm a champion in you, not that kind of stuff.

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Hasn't, can I for a second think of who,

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how you think of me?

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It just lifts you up or pulls you down and fits you in.

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Start there, man.

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Let's pray.

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Father, I just ask by the power of the Spirit of God

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that you would help this church get into a habit

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of intentional devoted prayer.

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I ask that you would help me become someone

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who can accomplish this day after day after day,

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regardless of what you do.

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I ask that you would help me become someone

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who can accomplish this day after day,

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regardless of what's happening in my life,

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whether I'm traveling, whether I'm not,

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whether I'm in town, whether I'm out of town,

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that this would become a practice for me

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for the rest of my days here on earth.

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Why?

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Not so that I get stronger,

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but so that everybody around me benefit.

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I desire that for myself.

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Having desired that for myself,

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I desire the same thing for everyone here, everyone here.

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There have been promises given.

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God of Abraham, God of covenant,

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there have been promises given.

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You are not short on fulfilling things.

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But sometimes if you wanna send a harvest,

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one needs to build a barn or a granary to handle the harvest.

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This is one way to construct a granary

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so that when the harvest comes in, it'll be storable.

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There'll be harvesters, there'll be laborers.

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Jesus, I ask by the power of the Spirit of God,

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because there's nothing else that can accomplish this.

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The flesh, the Spirit is willing,

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but the flesh has been weak.

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The Spirit is willing, the flesh is weak.

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Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus Christ,

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could you cause a deep desire, hunger?

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Could you cause something to fall upon us,

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our hearts, our minds, our hands, our feet,

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something upon us, upon our mortal bodies

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that will not be able to escape the pressure

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of cultivating this habit?

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Give us a head start, give us a head start.

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Give us that extra boost.

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We need help with the start.

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Please, oh God, we do that for children.

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We help them begin their first few steps.

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Spirit of God, please, for us, give us a head start.

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Give us that boost we need.

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Help us to create this habit.

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I ask this, we ask this.

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There are hungry people here

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who have failed again and again.

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We come to start again, for your namesake,

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for the sake of King and Kingdom,

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for the sake of others in the world,

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for the sake of all the promises you have given this church,

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all the things you're looking forward to accomplish.

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One more time, oh God, do it again.

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One more time, do it again, oh God.

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Renew it, Jesus, renew it, I pray.

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As a people, as a people,

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in Jesus' name, amen.

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Thank you, guys.

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Pleasure.