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Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver
Episode: Breaking-In
Publishing Date: 2020-12-20T05:00:44-08:00
Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca
Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/breaking-in-2/

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I want us to take this to heart during this week.

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I was watching someone preach and while they were preaching, they put images behind them

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of mothers fleeing with their children as married, pregnant mothers unsure of what will

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happen to their child because they were poor.

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Long arduous journeys that refugees were taking, nations where persecution is happening.

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These were the pictures that were being cast on the screen as the person was preaching.

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And it's very unreal for us, like I said, because of our romanticized stained glass

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version of the nativity.

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I just want to read this scripture and I pray that almost all of us, without exception, will

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be able to partake in these scriptures.

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So I'm reading from Matthew 25 to 40.

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If you haven't watched this movie, and it's a really old movie and people laugh at me

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every time I repeat it every year, it's called The Fourth Wise Man.

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You should watch it, it's a Martin Sheen movie and it kind of goes down this road.

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So let me just read it.

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Matthew 25, 35 to 40.

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For when you saw me hungry, you fed me.

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When you found me thirsty, you gave me something to drink.

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And I had no place to stay, you invited me in.

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When I was poorly clothed, you covered me.

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When I was sick, you tenderly cared for me.

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When I was in prison, you visited me.

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Then the godly will answer him.

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Lord, when, that's godly as in you, then the godly will answer him.

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Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or give you food and something to drink?

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When did we see you with no place to stay and invite you in?

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When did we see you poorly clothed and cover you?

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When did we see you sick and tenderly care for you or in prison and visit you?

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And the king will answer them.

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Don't you know?

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When you cared for one of the least important of these, my little ones, my true brothers

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and sisters, you demonstrated love for me.

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Love that line.

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And the king will answer them.

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Don't you know?

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When you cared for one of the least important of these, my little ones, may you find the

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least important in the eyes of the world who are highly treasured in the eyes of the

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king.

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May you find them between now and Christmas.

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May you find at least one that you can be Christ to.

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Yeah?

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Cool.

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Hey guys, before I preach, I just thought I'll throw this up on the video.

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I really liked what Josh and Charlene did.

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And if you haven't already watched it, here's a chance to watch it.

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It's pretty good.

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The first Noel the angel did say was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay.

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It fields where they lay keeping their sheep on a cold winter's night that was so deep.

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Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.

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Born is the king of Israel.

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A look at up and saw a star shining in the east beyond them far.

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And to the earth it gave great light and so it continued both day and night.

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Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.

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Born is the king of Israel.

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Then let us all with one accord sing praises to our heavenly Lord

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who has made heaven and earth of naught.

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And with his blood mankind has bought.

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Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.

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Born is the king, born is the king, born is the king of Israel.

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Whoo!

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I was trying there, but we should leave the singing to Charlene.

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Okay guys, today's teaching if you want a title is Breaking In, Breaking In, Breaking In.

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Guys, Christmas is a breaking in of the kingdom. Christmas is a breaking in of the kingdom.

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If you go to Galatians 4.4, Galatians 4.4,

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it talks about how at a certain point in the fullness of time,

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when the set time had fully come, God sent his son born of a woman,

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born under the law to redeem those under the law that we might receive adoption to sonship.

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So it's the breaking in of something that God had promised when he spoke to Adam and Eve when they fell,

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that the seed will come and he will crush the serpent's head.

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And so Christmas is the breaking in of the kingdom and Mary actually recognized this.

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Mary recognized this and she sings it in Luke chapter 1, verse 50 to 55.

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Luke chapter 1, 50 to 55, Mary recognizes it and she begins to sing.

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She sings of a flawed world into which a new king enters and he turns things upside down.

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That's literally what she's singing.

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Few think that Mary was actually prophetic, but in this song of praise,

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she's actually prophetic when she says that,

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His mercy extends to those who fear him from generation to generation.

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He has performed mighty deeds with his arm.

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He has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

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He has brought down rulers from their throne, but he has lifted up the humble.

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He has filled the hungry with good things, but sent the rich away empty.

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He has helped his servant Israel remembering to be merciful in Abraham and his descendants forever,

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just as he has promised our ancestors.

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So in this she's talking about a flawed world into which a king enters,

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who throws the tyrants off, brings in new order, who takes care of the poor and the wretched,

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who brings to pass exactly what Jesus later does in Matthew 5 when he talks about the Beatitudes.

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This was something that was already spoken of in Haggai chapter 2, verse 22 and 23.

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Guys, I've got an echo on this thingy, if I could not have it somehow.

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Haggai chapter 2, verse 22 and 23, you see mention of a new king and a new kingdom in the form of Zerubbabel.

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Haggai chapter 2, verse 22 to 23.

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I'm just bringing all this up so you know how neatly the Old and the New Testament are tied up together.

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And so it says in 22 and 23, I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of foreign kingdoms.

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I will overthrow chariots and their drivers. Horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.

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On that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord,

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and I'll make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord Almighty.

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And so we see Mary singing of a new king and a kingdom breaking into a broken world.

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And whenever God wants to break into your life situation, he does it through the Spirit.

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And the Spirit broods or hovers or overshadows whatever God is planning to break into.

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And to the degree that the vessel that is going to be broken into responds, to that degree God accomplishes or births his purpose.

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So if you go to Luke 1.35, you see that happening with Mary.

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I'll read from the message, Luke 1.35.

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Luke 1.35.

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It says there, the angel answered, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the highest hover over you,

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therefore the child you bring to birth will be called Holy, Son of God.

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And so grasp this principally, that whenever God wants to break into something, into your life, into a situation in the world,

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what he does is, before even people know of it, before anybody catches whiff of it,

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he does it through the Spirit.

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So that his desire may be birthed.

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As the same with us, first he wants to break into my life.

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And after breaking into my life, he wants to break into my life.

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And what he does is, he wants to break into my life.

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And then he wants to break into the life of the person who has been born into my life.

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wants to break into my life and after breaking into my life, he wants to break into lives

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through me. First he wants to break into my life and after breaking into my life, he wants

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to break into lives through me. Far before God reveals to me that he wants me to change

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or become something or do something, the Holy Spirit is already brooding and hovering saying,

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I hope Jacob sees what I'm trying to say and responds. At the moment he does, the Spirit of

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God is able to bring the change. And then we are supposed to function the same way with others,

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where we function like the Spirit brooding over them, hovering over them, releasing the word,

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waiting for the moment when they open up. One of the things I sense God saying and sometimes

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dislike using words like this, but what do you do if this is what God is saying? I sense God saying,

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listen, there's an anointing for breaking in that is present today, an anointing for breaking in

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that is present today. As in, I am present with my power, that is what he means by anointing,

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I am present with my power to break into your lives in certain areas and then break through

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your lives into other lives, other situations, other nations as individuals and as a church.

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And my power is present to do that. We read that in the Gospels where it says,

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and the power of God to heal was present with Jesus. And I'm saying to you based on faith,

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and what I heard, that the anointing to break into your life and then break through your life into

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nations, people's, family's situations is present here today. And I'm hoping that at the end of the

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service, we are able to respond. So here are some of the conditions that really catalyze the hovering

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of the Holy Spirit over you and the breaking in of the Holy Spirit over you. Here are some of the

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conditions. Rafful, can I have a tiny bit of volume or let me hear myself a little better?

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One or the other? Okay. So the first principle is know your beginning, know your beginning,

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and I'll explain it. Sounds kind of weird, but know your beginning, know your beginning.

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If you go to Genesis 1 verse 1 and 2, know your beginning. Genesis 1, 1 and 2, it says first,

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Genesis 1, 1 and 2, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without

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form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over

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the face of the waters. Know your beginning, as in know the areas of your void, know the face of

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your waters. Know it. This is my condition, O God. One of the things that happens when we don't know

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our condition is we don't know that we require surgery. We don't know we require replacement.

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We don't know we require change. One of the ways to know your beginning or know your condition or

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know your void or know the face of the waters in your life is the Word, because the Word is

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a perfect mirror that exposes things. That aside, there are others in your life that can help you

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see areas where there is a void or where the face of the waters in your life need to be changed.

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Know your beginning. If you haven't already begun the process, which we started at least two weeks

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ago in this church, then find time. Because otherwise next year will be a repeat of this

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year without COVID. Know your beginning. Know your void. Know the face of your waters. Know the areas

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that you've been failing in. Know the stubbornness, the frustrations, the areas that haven't changed.

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Know it. And the Spirit of God is pointing it out. He's pointed it out many times.

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And He gives you opportunities to correct it. Once you know your void, the next thing to know

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is know the words spoken over you. Know the words spoken over you. Know the words spoken over you.

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Know the words spoken over you. A void is something the Spirit of God loves to fill.

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The face of the waters, if turbulent, He loves to calm. But one of the things He wants to do before

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that is to have you go and check the words spoken over you so that you may agree with Him.

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Agreement with God is what causes God to begin to move in with you because it says in Amos 3,

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verse 3 I think, can two walk together except they be agreed. Know the words spoken over you.

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It causes the hovering of the Holy Spirit now to become a breaking in.

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Function the same way with others. Function like the Spirit over others. Discern their Genesis point.

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Discern where they are at. Discern the void in their lives. Discern the face of the waters in their

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lives. It's not one size fit all. It's one of the favorite things I like doing as I sit with someone

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new is sit with a stranger. Father, what is the void in their life? Father, what is it that

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is happening in their lives? Can you show? Because once He shows, now you can say or do things

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just like the Spirit of God would do with you. Where initially you speak a word that they may be

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able to receive or will receive later. Once they do that, you keep meeting them with them again

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because the Spirit of God broods. The word brood has in it patience and long-term patience.

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We're over a period of time people begin to change. Function like the Spirit over others.

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Discern their Genesis point. Discern the direction of the Spirit. Isaiah 28 verse 23 to 29 puts it so

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well in terms of not treating everybody just as you were treated or just as you think they should

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be treated. Isaiah 28 verse 23 to 29 is so instructive and it comes from the Lord it says,

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give ear and hear my voice, give attention and hear my speech. Does He who plow for sowing plow

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continually? Does He who continually open and harrow His ground? When He has leveled its surface,

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does He not scatter dill, sow cumin and put wheat and rose and barley in its proper place

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and emmer as the border? For He is rightly instructed, His God teaches Him, dill is not

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threshed with a threshing sledge nor is a cartwheel rolled over cumin but dill is beaten out with a

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stick and cumin with a rod. All these things are totally unfamiliar to me. I know salt and pepper.

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Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever. When he drives his cartwheel

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over it with his horses, he does not crush it. This also comes from the Lord of hosts. He's

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wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom. Brilliant! This is how the Holy Spirit deals with

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us. This is how we deal with others. We're not just talking about the Holy Spirit breaking into my

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life. We're talking about the Holy Spirit breaking into my life and then me being able to break into

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other lives, into other situations, into other nations. Acts 29 must have a sense of the Genesis

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point of nations, of the face of the waters and the void in nations so that at the appropriate

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time we are able to enter precisely as the Holy Spirit wants us to because He is brooding over

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certain nations, certain situations, certain families, certain individuals.

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The strange thing is the Holy Spirit chooses to work through people. He can do it himself,

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but He chooses to work through people. The next principle that really helps us

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become absolutely clear is the principle of the Holy Spirit.

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The next principle that really helps us become absolutely pliable to this hovering of the Holy Spirit

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and is breaking in is to be a unified man or woman, a unified man or woman. In Psalm 86,

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verse 11, David says, Unite my heart to fear you, O God. Unite my heart to fear you, O God. There is

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something to being a unified man and I think it's important for us as we go forward into 2021

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as a church. A unified man, as in let your outer man, let your outer man,

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let your outer man, that is your will, your thoughts, your emotions,

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let your outer man and inner man, as in the new spirit man, be in sync.

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Be in sync. Quite often our will is more conditioned to the buzz of the iPhone

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than to the buzz of the Holy Spirit. I mean the way we react to everything is dropped because

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the iPhone is buzzing. It doesn't matter how loudly the Holy Spirit buzzes.

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It's odd how our outer man, our will, thought and emotions is so conditioned to things that are on

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the external and therefore once you're divided it is very hard for the Holy Spirit to break into

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your life even though he's brooding and hovering. You see this with Mary and with Zechariah. Mary

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was someone who was able to unite her outer and inner person. Zechariah wasn't even though he was

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more learned. Both of them were asked the same question. How can it be? Zechariah was told your

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wife is going to have a son. His question was how can it be because he couldn't believe. Mary was

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told you are going to have a son and you're a virgin yet you're going to have a son. She asks

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the same question how can it be but somewhere in her heart she was able to take what she felt in her

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will, her thoughts and emotion and match it with who she was. The Holy Spirit loves working with

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those that are able to let the inner man rule over the external, rule over the will, rule over the

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thoughts, rule over the emotions. He loves it because now he's not dealing with a divided person.

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It's much easier to break into a person who is one than a person who is divided. When a person is

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divided there is a need to work on the work of the inner man. He's not dealing with the inner man.

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There is a need to work on the will, thought and emotions because the inner man knows what is true

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but now you have this battle with but this is what I want but these are my thoughts, these are my

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desires, there's this clash. I have to learn how to unite my heart to fear God so that the Holy Spirit

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finds me very easy to work with because almost everything he asks of me will be beyond my logic,

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beyond the five senses and contrary to my fleshly desires.

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The soul if allowed to dominate is like an octopus that covers the ears and eyes of the Spirit.

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The soul if allowed to dominate is like an octopus that covers the eyes and the ears of my Spirit

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with tentacles of logic, with tentacles of desire, with tentacles of five senses. It just

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blinds me and deafens me so that the Holy Spirit now has to pull double time because he's got to

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first make my will pliable. He has to renew my thoughts. He has to get me to a place where my

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emotions and my desires don't drive me. He has to get to me to a place where five senses aren't what

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dictates my direction. There is so much more work involved if my person is not united. If you want

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God to hover over you and if you want God to take you through a process without striking you dumb

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like he did with Zechariah then uniting your outer and inner man is critical.

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I remember saying this line four or five years ago and it's a brilliant line.

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Things which are seen in my life must not be made from things that are visible.

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Things which are seen in my life must not be made from things that are visible.

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Hebrews 11.3 talks about it. Significant things in my life, significant events in my life,

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significant movements in my life, significant progress in my life, significant challenges in

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my life, significant adventures in my life, significant directions in my life

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must not be made out of that which is visible. It must be drawn from a realm

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that is invisible but is solidly rooted in God. When that happens, my life begins

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to show God. When that does not happen, my life shows you the best of Jacob. And

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the best of Jacob is like filthy rags on his best day compared to what God can do.

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The third principle that really helps the life of the spirit to hover and then

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break in and flow through you is the idea of operating in order. The idea of

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operating in order. Wherever there is order, it provokes the

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wherever there is order, it provokes the anointing of the spirit and it forges

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unity. Wherever there is order,

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it provokes

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the anointing of the spirit as in his presence and it forges unity. Psalm 133,

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verse 1 and 2 give evidence of this where it says, sure it starts off with

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the idea of how blessed are the brothers and sisters who dwell together. So it

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starts off with the idea of unity but then it talks about how the unity is

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achieved. Unity is achieved because the body is connected to the head and the

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oil that flows from the head begins to go down the face, down the beard, into

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the garments, into the body. The idea is wherever there is order, whenever

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there is divine order anywhere, and the kind of order that is

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prevalent because of a culture of honor, order that is prevalent because of fear,

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order that is prevalent because of forced submission, order that is

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prevalent because of dictatorial leaders is not the kind of order that is tethered

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to the nature of God. Order that is tethered to the nature of God has in it

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on one hand an arrangement or a hierarchy that is based on the principle

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of honor both ways, bottom to top, top to bottom.

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Wherever there is order, you will find two things happening. One, the Holy Spirit

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turns up and two, he forges the kind of one accordness or unity that can only be

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achieved in the church. Only the Holy Spirit knows how to connect one bone to

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the other the correct way to reform the structure of the body. The body is

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reform the structure of the bones to revive dead bones as it says in Ezekiel 37.

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One of the things you can be assured of at Acts 29, I'm not saying it because

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I'm the pastor, I'm not saying it with any degree of pride, but the thing is

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if you join this church you will find that regardless of the condition of the

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bone that you are, whether you're decaying, whether you're thriving, whether

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you are lost, whether you are found, any bone that enters this body will by the

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power of the Spirit be located correctly. If you are a fibia you'll be placed

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next to the tibia. Both bones are wrong. But the point is you'll fit

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correctly in this body. Not because the body has amazing leaders or stuff like

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this, they do, but because the Holy Spirit knows how to put bones together

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in this body. You will always find your place in this body. This is a

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gift that the Holy Spirit has given to this body. You will always find your

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place. You will always know where you best fit and in that fit you will begin

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to grow. Guaranteed. There's one catch though to this whole order thing. You can

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isolate and submit to order or you can be vitally connected and you can submit

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to order. You can isolate and submit to order or you can be vitally connected

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and submit to order. In both cases the benefits are the same but the experience

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is different. I'll illustrate this from the scriptures. This is so important for

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all of us listening and for some of us it is even more critical for you in the

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coming year. Because this church surprisingly is a church that cherishes

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order. But make sure that in your submission to order you're not isolated

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but in your submission to order you are vitally connected. The benefits are the

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same but the experience is different. Don't isolate yourself. Don't isolate

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yourself. It doesn't matter how brilliant you are. Don't isolate yourself.

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Don't isolate yourself. Look at Numbers chapter 11. You'll get all the benefits

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but the experience is just not the same. Numbers chapter 11.

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Verse 16 and 17 first and then we'll go to 25 and 29. Then the Lord said to Moses,

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gather for me 70 men of the elders of Israel whom you know to be the elders of

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the people and officers over them and bring them to the tent of meeting and

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let them take their stand there with me. Again there's an arrangement and order

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always has an arrangement and it is not a structure that doesn't change. The idea

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of God when it comes to arrangements is that we continuously move upwards to his

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calling. And so initially he calls verse 17, and I will come down and talk with you

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there and I will take some of the spirit that is on you and put it on them and

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they shall bear the burden of the people with you so that you may not bear it

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yourself alone. And so when a people appear before God in order at his command,

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God begins to pour his spirit who's been hovering over them upon them. But now

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look at 25 to 29. Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took

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some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the 70 elders. As soon as the

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spirit rested on them, they prophesied but they did not continue doing it. Now

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two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other named Medad, and the

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spirit rested on them. They were among those registered but they had not gone

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out to the tent and so they prophesied in the camp. The benefits were the same.

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And a young man ran and told Moses, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.

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And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth said, my Lord

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Moses stopped them. But Moses said to him, are you jealous for my sake? Would that

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all the Lord's people were prophets that the Lord would put his spirit on them?

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And Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp. The point here being Eldad and

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Medad did choose for whatever reason not to go up when Moses summoned them up the

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mountain. They stayed in the camp, they had the spirit of God fall upon them, they

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prophesied. But guess what they missed out on? You can have the benefits but you can

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miss out on the experience. And what is the experience? The experience was being in the

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presence of God, being consumed by the same Shekinah cloud that Moses was to experience later.

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Being in the presence of God and having something happen to them and being away from the

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presence of God and having something happen to them. The benefits were the same. The

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experience was completely different. I plead with you and I know I'm getting bolder sometimes in

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my preaching but I plead with you, stop your isolation. Be vitally connected.

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Just on a point on the side, I love verse 29. Moses said to them, are you jealous for my sake?

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Would that all Lord's people were prophets that the Lord would put his spirit on them?

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And it did happen on Pentecost man. And it is okay and normal for Christians to prophesy,

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encourage edification and exhortation according to 1 Corinthians 14. It is something that churches

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must engage in. That everybody in a church prophesies or prophesies particularly along

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the lines of 1 Corinthians 14.3 is very normal. It should be the norm. It's not abnormal.

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Just because the prophetic is abused does not mean that it becomes untrue. Only that which is

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true is abused so that it may get a bad rep and maybe put away. The next point, what are we talking

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about? What helps the Holy Spirit who hovers over us to break into our lives with ease? What helps?

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What catalyzes it? What makes it something that you enjoy entering into an experience?

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What makes it easy? The next one is rest. Rest. Rest. Rest really helps the Holy Spirit do what

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he wants to do. Rest is desisting from self-effort. Rest is to desist from self-effort.

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Rest is to desist from self-effort. To forsake self-effort. To move only when the cloud moves.

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To move only after hearing a proceeding word. Exodus 40, verse 36 and 37. Israel learned that

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and every so often forgot that. Exodus 40, verse 36 and 37. Throughout all their journeys, whenever

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the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. But if the

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cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up. As in, if it

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stayed put for 40 days, there ain't no movement for 40 days. Can you imagine that kind of life?

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That is when you forsake self-effort and you move only by the cloud and the proceeding word of God.

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Rest is critical to the Holy Spirit who hovers over you, coming into your life. Because guys,

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we don't think like this, but God has appointed times for everything and the reason he has appointed

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times is he knows when the moment is mature. So the disciples waited in Jerusalem 10 days after the

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Ascension. They didn't leave. They went up to that mountain, saw Jesus disappear behind the clouds

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and they could have gone back to their old ways, but he had told them, wait in Jerusalem.

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And so they wait. One day, two days, three days, four days, five days, six days, seven days, surely

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seven is God's favorite number, time to go back to Jerusalem. But they didn't leave. They went up to

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that mountain, saw Jesus disappear behind the clouds and they could have gone back to their old ways,

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but time to leave now. No, eight days, nine days, 10 days.

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And then suddenly the wind of the Spirit breaks in, in the form of tongues of fire and it changes

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the entire world. Guys, it changes the entire world. Do you know the number of people that leave

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a day before it is actually going to happen? I remember this really sad story told by a friend

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of mine in South Africa who had a man who was trusting God for a change in fortunes and nothing

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happened. And then two weeks before the incident occurred, he comes up to this pastor called Seigi

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and he says, all this stuff is so untrue. It's not real. God isn't faithful and all this stuff. And

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he leaves. Two weeks later, a man comes to him, comes to the pastor with an envelope, with a check.

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That is so massive. And he gives him the check saying, I want to give it to this man. And he

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names the man. But the man had left. He did not give a forwarding address. He was very upset and he leaves.

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That story makes it a little more tangible. What about intangible things that we can't measure in

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terms of money and stuff like that? The number of times people leave because they cannot rest

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anymore. And when they leave, what are they leaving to? They're leaving to engage in frantic

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activity to bring to pass what God had said because resting ain't cutting it because it feels like

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you're doing nothing. But the strange thing is inactivity from God's point of view is some of the

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best times to learn his nature.

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Rest is a time of training and building

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where you possess nothing but God and his nature by faith through his word. Guys, for me, when COVID

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began, it is like a horse with a bit in its mouth. I was traveling every two and a half weeks.

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I was pleading with God, please send me somewhere. I don't, it's okay. I can go during COVID. Let me

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serve you during COVID. I tried every trick in the book to manipulate him.

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It's been 10 months since I saw the inside of a plane and it has been some of the best months of

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my life. One, because I get to spend it with you and I mean that in such sincerity that even I am

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a little surprised. And two, it's just enriched my life and has enriched others' lives because of

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what God has been able to do. The point being, rest is a time of training and building

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where you possess nothing

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but God and his nature through the word by faith. And times of rest precede burning bush encounters.

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Hear me, hear me, hear me. These are, these are the things that I have to do. I have to do

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it. Hear me, hear me, hear me. These are, these are patterns in the word.

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Times of rest precede burning bush encounters. I've experienced this in my life. I've seen it in

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the Bible. I've seen it in other people's lives. It precedes burning bush encounters.

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It preceded Moses's burning bush encounter, 40 years of rest. It preceded Jesus's encounters,

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40 days in the wilderness. It precedes Paul's encounters, years spent in the deserts of Sinai

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and in Damascus. It precedes the revelations of John on the island of Patmos.

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Moses in Exodus 24, 15 to 18, God calls Moses up the mountain but Moses is smart. He knows how

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this God works. If you go to Exodus 24, he won't move till he hears a command. It is a hard thing

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to do. It is like horses that are trained not to move a muscle till you say so.

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So God's already called Moses up starting at verse 14, chapter 24 Exodus. And he said unto the elders,

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wait here for us until we return to you and behold Aaron and her are here with you.

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Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them. Then Moses went up to the mountain and the cloud covered

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the mountain as in... Go ahead.

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So what if you did not wait and you moved on ahead and now what happens? Does that

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opportunity that you missed come back? How does that work? Different ways. One, God sends the

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opportunity your way again because God is interested in your growth not in time. So he has all the time

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in the world so he'll have the same opportunity come again so that you may have another shot at it.

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Hopefully by now I've learned because I can again make the same mistake.

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God keeps bringing back opportunities into my life. The only difference is the more opportunities I

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squander, the lesser time I have to accomplish what he has set for me. So if there was a task I was

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supposed to do over a period of seven years and I kept messing up the first three years and finally

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get the hang of it. I now have four years to do it when I could have had seven years to do it.

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Now the way he restores is by giving you back the years the locusts have eaten because sometimes

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missing an opportunity comes to sheer disobedience and rebellion and that is when locusts enter too.

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It's not just missing an opportunity because you were stubborn or because you squandered something

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out of just callousness. This is deliberate rebellion and disobedience. In times like that

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even with Ahab, a very evil king, God would give them another opportunity. He would try to restore

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the years the locusts have eaten. That's the second way it happens. The third is to

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beg with tears saying oh God I missed out please please please please father please can you come

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back and give me another shot at it and like Hezekiah you can get another shot at it but if

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you make a habit of it then another scripture from Hebrews 13 kicks in or Hebrews 12 kicks in which

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says that Esau begged with tears but it was of no avail. So God doesn't mind being taken advantage

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of. God doesn't mind being exploited but God is not mocked and there is this fine line between

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taken advantage, exploited and mocked and it is when I cross into the mocking that things become

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a little difficult. Moses would not go up. So verse 16, the glory of the Lord dwelt on Mount Sinai

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and the cloud covered it six days and on the seventh day he called out to Moses out of the

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midst of the cloud and here is Moses waiting. I'm talking about seven days man he's waiting on the

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mountain. God's already said come up but he won't step into the cloud till he hears the proceeding

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word saying come. Then he steps up. Six days he waits. Seven days he steps into the cloud

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and then he's in the cloud for 40 days and 40 nights. What is this cloud? The cloud with the

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absolute glory, the Shekinah of God that Moses now enters.

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There is this thing to resting till God says come or till God says go and it is such a hard

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thing to learn because most of us want to be wild stallion thoroughbreds who roam the

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whatever stallions roam and God's really not interested.

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That aside, rest if learnt. Disadvantage is the devil. Rest if learnt. Disadvantage is Satan

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because he can't use external circumstances to bait you into error. He can't use external

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circumstances to bait you into error. He can't use external circumstances to bait you into error.

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He can't use external circumstances to bait you into error because now you've learnt rest.

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You ain't moving till you hear. You ain't moving till the cloud moves. You ain't moving till you

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know that the Spirit of God is saying all right time to move on. Now that that happens, Satan finds

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himself at a disadvantage because he's not able to use logic. He's not able to use your natural

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desires. He's not able to use your five senses to draw you into failing aimlessly or exerting

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yourself or using your human strength and your mental powers to bring to pass what God has ordained.

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It puts him at a disadvantage. This is why Saul lost his kingdom. He was told specifically wait

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Samuel will come and offer the sacrifice. Saul couldn't wait. It gets to you man.

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This idea of doing something is so important. Activity is seen as growth and progress and

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strength in God. Inactivity is the hardest thing. Activity is easy.

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Inactivity is not the absence of a work ethic. You still work hard

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but you work as you are told. Holy Spirit loves it when I can walk like this because now I'm not

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tinkering with what God does perfectly. Holy Spirit loves it that I wait because now that he can tell

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me when where it's optimal it happens exactly as it's supposed to happen.

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I'm always reminded of Mongolia. That was something else man. Talk about rest.

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Landing there being taken to a hotel having no contact except this one person that I emailed

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and he sent someone to pick me up and I'm sitting in my hotel. First day goes by, second day goes

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by, third day goes by and I'm getting scared. I've got to do something. I've got to make something

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happen. I can't go back to Acts 29 and say God send me to Mongolia but I have nothing to show.

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I stayed in a hotel and came back. That would be embarrassing. And on the third night this pastor

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emails me saying I'll come and see you on the fourth morning. He comes and the first question

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he asked me is why are you here? What have you come to do? I'm saying got nothing

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that I've come to do and he says that's not possible because everybody from the west

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who comes to Mongolia comes with an agenda. I'm saying I don't have an agenda and he takes me

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for a long walk in proper shoes throughout Mongolia. Couldn't tell a stranger that this

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is not my favorite mode of transport. And after walking for two or three hours he brings me

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back to the hotel and says if you're doing nothing you can come to church.

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Thinking really? That's all? So I turn up at church. Doesn't give me a front seat sitting in the back.

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Tells me to sing a song in Hindi

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which I do so I was part of the cultural thingy.

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I'm thinking to myself boy this trip sucks and so I'm leaving the next day evening and after

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all that is over he calls me home and I found out later that when you're called home it's usually

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a sign of some respect and then he says these words that two years ago someone came to this

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church and said there will be a person coming from a place that is on the same latitude as

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Ulaanbaatar and when he comes to your church listen to him and do whatever he asks you to do

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and he says I've watched you for two and a half days you actually don't have an agenda

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but you are welcome to use this church and tell us what to do and we will do it.

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That was the beginning of a four-year journey where from 2013 to 2017

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we kept going back to Mongolia. People from Acts 29 went too.

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This is what I mean by the Holy Spirit brooding over you,

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seeing that you're at rest, that you're not jumping the gun and swooping in like an eagle

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and doing what he wants to in seconds. This is a great thing with rest. People who walk in rest

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can accomplish in five days what it takes others three years to complete. I'm not kidding you man

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and so what does that do? So Jacob what's the advantage of rest? If you finish in five days

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what people take three years to do you realize how many extra days you have to do nothing and

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to watch hockey and to do things. You realize that you have to do a lot of things.

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You get so many more days to do nothing and you get so many more days to do a lot.

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Fourth point, perseverance, perseverance which is very similar to rest. Perseverance.

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The Holy Spirit can break into lives. The Holy Spirit who hovers over us even before we know

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something is going to happen can break into our lives when we persevere and don't do anything.

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Don't amend what God is trying to accomplish because we do not have the endurance and the patience

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to walk through it. In Genesis 8 verse 1 it says, God remembered Noah and sent the wind

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12 months and 11 days later. That's how long that lockdown lasted. 12 months and 11 days.

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God remembered Noah and sent the wind 12 months and 11 days later and Noah and his family

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disembarked from the ark. The guy had the ability to stay. What if he decided this is getting too

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much? No more masks, no more sitting in the ark. Let's just step out. Didn't happen that way man.

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Somewhere between the word that is released and the word being realized our minds resign because

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of the delay. Somewhere between the word being released and the word being realized our minds

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resign because of the delay. And once you resign it doesn't matter that you're walking. Once you

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resign your walk is slow, your face is glum, your mind is resentful and your heart is closed.

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My problem is not that I might have times of down, feelings like ah shucks lot this is taking too

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long. My thing is doesn't matter that you're feeling this way can you keep your mind active

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about what God has said so that you don't resign in your mind. The moment you resign in your mind

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remember your walk slows down, your heart closes, your mind is resentful.

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I love what Abraham does in Genesis 15. Genesis 15 God comes and tells him hey Abraham I'm going

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to give you a promise but before I confirm that promise to you here's what I want you to do. I

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want you to take some animals bring them cut them in half and lay them before me and I also want you

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to bring some birds and I lay them before me and so Abraham does that. So you go to Genesis 15 and

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you read it. Genesis 15 verse 5 and he brought him outside and said look towards the heaven

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and number the stars if you're able to number them then he said to me so shall your offspring be.

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So this begins let's assume let's say it's a Saturday this begins on this begins on a Saturday

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night because God calls him out into the open and shows him the stars and this doesn't end on a

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Saturday night. The next day Abraham and so then God says bring me a sacrifice Abraham brings him

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a sacrifice verse 10 and he brought him all these cut them in half and laid each half over against

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the other but he did not cut the birds in half and then the birds of the prey come birds of prey

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don't come at night they come during the day so he started on Saturday God has shown him a promise

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he knows God is going to turn up he has to persevere he stays he he takes branches he takes clothes he

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starts driving away the birds of prey it's through the night onto the day the birds of prey come he

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keeps chasing them away where verse 12 as the sun was going down a deep sleep fell on Abraham this

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is the next day Sunday evening and behold dreadful and great darkness fell upon him it is the dread

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of the god of Jacob as in the fear of God that falls upon him and then in verse 17 you see when

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the sun had gone down and it was dark behold a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed

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between these pieces and God confirms his covenant to Abraham guys if you want to walk in covenants

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that God wants to establish with you persevere persevere persevere chase away the things that

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come to draw you away to distract no you got to persevere

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in 2012 we'd been praying for Australia for years it was one of the first nations we began to pray

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for was praying for Australia for years you can ask Heidi and a few others who were there at that

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time we had a flag from Australia that we would gather around and pray for and finally felt go

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to Australia land up in Sydney again just like Mongolia two days go by and nothing happens and

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I'm getting scared and I remember asking this question from Germany and I remember asking

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this question from Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 11 God asking me what do you see and in my eyes with my

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eyes closed I'm saying father I see a lighthouse and I'm walking the streets because when you don't

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know anybody you can't sit in a hotel for more than 48 hours so you actually do things you don't

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like like walk and so I'm walking the streets and I've just asked God's asking me what do you see and

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I say I see a lighthouse I'm thinking to myself okay father what that's what you've shown but what

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does it mean and I come to this place called Darling Harbor and I've just told the Lord I've

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seen a I see a lighthouse and I turn around the corner and there's a maritime museum and as I turn

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around the corner there is this lighthouse that they've taken from some coast and placed in the

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maritime museum and as soon as I see it God says to me you have seen correctly don't worry that

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nothing's happened over the last two days persevere and I'll bring to pass what I want to in Australia

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years later eight years later now when I see what's happening in Sydney in Brisbane I marvel at God's

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faithfulness guys we sometimes think God is not faithful because we do not know how to persevere

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to see God's faithfulness because there are so many things that are happening at the same time

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when God is doing something God isn't just interested in proving to you that I am faithful

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he ain't going to jump off the steeple every time you want proof for his faithfulness when he is

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about doing something with you he's also doing it with 40 50 60 and sometimes an entire nation

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12 2012 August was when I went the first time to Sydney eight years later eight and a half years

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later I can say to you that what God is presently doing in Sydney and Brisbane is beyond what you

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and I could imagine and it's not even started birth remains because there was a promise given

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by more man called Paul in India that out of Perth will come such rich stock that you and your

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church will be blessed that word was given in 2009 in 2010 I remember having something called the

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state of the union some of the guys like Marcus and Heidi and Chris and all I remember where this

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promise was given that out of Australia we will have a lot of stock st ock

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it'll come to pass the faithfulness of God is often seen through perseverance

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there is something to persevere till the fullness of appointed times like it says in habakkuk 2 3

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this vision is for an appointed time

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do not worry it will come to pass there is something to waiting till the fullness of appointed times

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and as young people learn it

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that we must learn so that God can bring things together into maturity so that God can bring

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things together into maturity I used to have this recurring dream for years where every few months

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I'd have this dream for years on end after I became a believer and in the dream I'd be chased

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by people or what looked like people and I'd come to the edge of this cliff then I'd jump off the

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cliff and every time I'd jump off the cliff I land in this most beautiful valley on my feet

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and it's the most amazing beautiful valley that I could ever have landed in and I used to think ah

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so God wants me to jump off cliffs and he'll make sure he has me land in amazing valleys till one day

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God said to me no what I'm trying to convey through this dream over and over again to you

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and you don't seem to get it is why is it that you always jump off before I tell you to

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that I'm having you land in decent places is my grace but can you stop jumping off till I tell you

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to can you persevere can you wait because my life was a series of incidents or events during that

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time where God would say something and I would immediately do it the idea of timing was missing

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perseverance as the ability to take what God is saying take time take obedience put it all together

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and wait for things to mature go to James chapter 5 verse 11 James 5 11

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I'm reading from the passion translation James 5 11

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actually I'm reading from the message James chapter 5 verse 11 from the message

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what a gift life is to those who stay the course you've heard of course of Job's staying power

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staying power is perseverance what a gift life is to those who stay the course you've heard of

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of course of Job's staying power and you know how God brought it all together for him at the end

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that's because because God cares cares right down to the last detail sometimes when we don't persevere

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we don't get all the details you get something that does not have the cumin and the

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dill added in it gets baked before all the ingredients go in and then it doesn't taste good

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and last point if you want the Holy Spirit to break into your life or break into anything you're

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building if you want the Holy Spirit is hovering over things to enter into your life and then

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through your life flow into others guys I love this one and this is something that I pray God

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that we do at Acts 29 you do at your house churches whatever you're in charge of make sure

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by pattern, that you build by pattern. There's two ways you build by pattern. One by building

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according to His nature and two by building according to His plan. It's not enough to

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have one or the other, it has to be both. You have to build according to His nature,

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meaning God can give me a plan and I can be a slave driver as I drive you into that plan.

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And that does not, it is not conducive to the work of the Spirit. I need to have the plan that

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God gives and I also need to have the nature that God has if something is to have the Spirit of God

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absolutely validated. Nor can I have just the nature of God and not have the plan of God because

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then I do have God's nature but I don't know where I'm going. It has to be both. Whenever you

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build, build according to pattern and the Holy Spirit will come upon it like a ton of bricks.

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You see that in the Bible. Moses built by pattern. You look at Exodus 25, Exodus 25 verse 40,

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Exodus 25 verse 40. God says to Moses, hey Moses as I, go ahead. How can you make the

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difference between? How do we know the difference between God having us wait and God and the devil

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delaying plans? What I do when things don't happen is I go and ask God, so how come it's taking time

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Father? Is this you trying to sort out details, sort me out or is this the devil trying to interrupt

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and stop? Because based on what you, based on the answer you arrive at will be your response. If

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it is the devil doing it then we need to combat it and drive him out of it so that things begin

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to flow. If it is God doing it then I have to make the changes that I need to make. You see this with

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Nehemiah. There was a time when Nehemiah was building the wall and a guy who's friends with

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Tobiah I think comes to Nehemiah and says to him, hey Nehemiah it might be best that you stay within

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the temple because people are out to kill you so stay in here. And Nehemiah realizes this ain't

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from God and he says am I going to hide? This is a method being used by the enemy to cause me to

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hide so that they will go and say Nehemiah is hiding, don't worry nothing is going to be built.

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Nehemiah knew that it was a trick of the enemy. So one asks God when things get delayed, Abba is

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this something that you are trying to prevent, you are trying to sort out, you're trying to fix,

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you're trying to show or is this the enemy and if it is the enemy father show me how to combat it

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and if it is you show me what you want to change. We must get to a point where when we talk like

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this we don't think it is a hard thing because when we talk like this we think oh so I got to go

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talk to an invisible God who will then speak back in an inaudible voice, how's that going to work?

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We don't think like that because we know it works and that it is becoming more and more normal.

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So we don't even go down that route of this ain't going to be easy, this answer won't come,

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this will be guesswork again, not true.

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1 Corinthians 2 says spirit people will be shown spirit truths by the Holy Spirit who lives within

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you, who knows the mind of God and reveals it to you. Building by pattern, so Exodus 25 40 God says

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see that you make everything that I've told you according to the pattern shown to you on the

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mountain when he disappears into that cloud God begins to show him the pattern according to which

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things have to be made. Moses does it exactly as he's told. Go to Exodus 40, Exodus 40 verse 34

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whenever you build according to pattern see what happens Exodus 40 verse 34.

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I started verse 33 then Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and altar and put up the

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curtain at the entrance to the courtyard and so Moses finished the work then the cloud covered

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the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Guys it doesn't matter

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whether it's your business, it doesn't matter whether it's your baby, it doesn't matter whether

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it's Acts 29, it doesn't matter whether it's your travel plans, whenever you build according to

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pattern God by his power, by his glory descends to validate what you have built because whenever,

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whenever anybody takes the plan of God and the nature of God and employs it in building anything

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God says this piece was created by me I need to sign it so that they know this piece is authentic.

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In every area of life if you're a businessman my God build according to the nature of God

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and the plan of God.

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If you're planning to start a business same principle applies.

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Man these things that I'm saying these principles are so precious for life it could give us such a

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smooth 2021 with only the devil to deal with which is easy in the name of Christ it is us

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that's hard to deal with.

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Now the example is David. David makes this really cool statement in first chronicles

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chapter 28 verse 10 even when he got directions for the temple man God literally gave it to him

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I don't know how he gave it to him go to first chronicles 28.

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It's fascinating how the Bible just slips in these lines as if it was matter of fact

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first chronicles 28 verse 10.

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So he's telling Solomon listen consider now for the Lord has chosen you because David's got all

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the stuff to leave for Solomon and consider now for the Lord has chosen you to build a house as

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a sanctuary be strong and do the work goes go to verse 19.

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He's explaining to Solomon listen follow the plan and then he says all this David said I have in

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writing as a result of the Lord's hand on me and he enabled me to understand all the details of

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the plan just imagine this you think God is not willing to let you in on his plans then why does

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he say stuff like Jeremiah 29 11 my plans are good for you really father what are those plans

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oh I won't tell you no his plans if they're good if they're meant for a future are meant to be

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revealed to you if you can do it to David in the old covenant how much more to Jacob in the new

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covenant look at what David is saying he's saying that he's going to do it to David in the old

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covenant look at what David is saying all this David said I have in writing as in as God dictated

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or as God showed guys started writing why because he's got to leave it for Solomon we got to leave

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plans for the generation after us so that they don't have to start from scratch

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so that they can build a second tier not the ground floor

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I have in writing as a result of the Lord's hand on me and I don't know what that meant

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whether it was like Ezekiel the Lord's hand was on me or the spirit of God showing him or a vision

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and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan as in almost like an architect or an

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engineer David was able to understand what God was saying and he began to write it down so that he

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knew how round what the diameter of the bronze lava was supposed to be how the pomegranates were

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supposed to be how the pillars were supposed to be everything in detail and the spirit of God

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enabled him to understand it and look what happens when Solomon decides

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to build according to pran first kings 8 11 first kings 8 11

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oh my god man this is something else

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and when the priests okay so Solomon has now built the thing built the temple

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and then he brings the ark into the temple and starting at verse 9 first kings 8 verse 9

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there was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb

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where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt

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when the priest withdrew from the holy place the cloud filled the temple of the Lord

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and the priests could not perform this service because of the cloud for the glory of the Lord

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filled the temple do you see it's a standard line the glory of the Lord filled the temple

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the Moses the glory of the Lord filled the tent of meeting Solomon the glory of the Lord filled

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the temple you build according to the plan of God that constitutes two things contains two things

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the nature of God and the actual schematics of God you build according to the plan of God

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the glory of the Lord will fill the temple every time acts 29 employs any schematic that God gives

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for the building of this church and does it according to the nature of God it does not matter

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how uneducated and illiterate your leaders may be if it is built this way God turns up and he

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validates what is built and how does he validate it with his glory and what is his glory his

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glory is his presence his glory is his power his glory is his goodness and his glory is his laughter

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I don't use the word joy because joy has become so Christian that we don't even smile at it

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except when we sing joy to the world laughter God's glory is God's presence God's power God's

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goodness and God's laughter

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God validated and then it doesn't matter that you might be a fisherman with no education

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you suddenly have the greatest weapon of the kingdom dwelling upon you the glory of God

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it is the greatest weapon in the kingdom it is the greatest tool of evangelism

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it breaks upon you you wear it and then it breaks through you it becomes your sword it becomes your

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sickle it becomes your plow the glory of God becomes your sword becomes your sickle becomes your plow

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this picture that I put up on the screen I don't know if you can see it but the idea of this picture

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was the ability to break in doesn't matter how hard things are God has a strange ability to take

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you a tender shoot like his son was as it says in Isaiah 53 a tender shoot he takes and he has the

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power to break into hard nations hard situations hard lives but let him first flow to you and let

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him first flow to you so that you begin to open up and once you open up he can take you and put you

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into the hardest of nations hardest of grounds hardest of lives hardest of situations and you

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end up cracking the foundation of that place take these points man sometimes when I teach these

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points I think to myself oh shucks this is brilliant where did this come from

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so like I said before we started the power for breaking in is here the anointing for breaking in

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is here it is here and it is present and therefore it is there in your house and it is present

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and he hovers over us right now the Holy Spirit in God's faithfulness hovers over us the promise is

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the promise is I want you guys to become a people who can break in

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the situations I have placed before you in 2021 but first allow me to break into your lives and

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the response is Luke 138 look at Luke 138 and then we'll pray Luke 138

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it's Mary's response and her response is I am the Lord's servant Mary answered may your word to me

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be fulfilled may your word to me be fulfilled so I'll just let you pray quietly for a minute and

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then I'll end up praying and what are we praying that Holy Spirit you who brood over us right now

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you who hover over us so that you may break into our lives

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bring forth fruit and then break into lives through us this is something that you want to

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give us an anointing for as in you're giving us the power to do that not starting on January 1st

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starting today but continuing into 2021 some of it may show forth in healing some in prophecy

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some in comfort some in teaching some in helping the naked the prisoners the poor

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but you will have us break into hard ground that needs just a touch from the master

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so just pray on your own in your house for a minute and then I'll conclude

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you

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you

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you

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you

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you

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you

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by the way thank you for your words thank you that you're doing something new about

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yes you're doing something new

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it's almost like we are at that place where you're saying allow me allow me if you allow me

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the long desires of your heart for many many years the things that you wanted to see even as it says

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in the book of hey guy with the days of ladder glory which will be greater than the days of

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former glory that is going to that's going to happen father none of these things can happen

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without us giving you time none of these things can happen without us yielding to you

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so right now right now as a body as a people as acts 29 we say yes father we say yes

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I want to give you the time about for your seed to break forth we want to give you the time for

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your seed to break forth we want to allow you god and we want to say our emotions the ways we feel

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about things the ways we hear sometimes sometimes it being mutated by the ways of our old thinking

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no no no we are surrendering that we are surrendering that because jesus you're saying

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i'm going to break forth a new thing life is going to shoot forth and i want to surrender

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everything father so even right now even right now all of us at acts 29 regardless of when and

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where we hear from we say yes holy spirit break forth into my life break forth into our lives

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so that through our lives others lives will be broken open

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so that others lives will be broken open father i pray that this week and moving forward

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let there be stories about stories of healing breaking open stories where addiction stop

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stories where heaven comes down stories where the treasures of earth are exposed

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the treasures of earth are exposed father i ask you for your eyes so that when we go out into the

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world we will see the the treasures of the earth the treasures of the dark places which is lives

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lives lives that jesus is wanting to break into oh father i thank you i thank you that you have

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given us this word today and we surrender we surrender individually we surrender corporately

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and we say yes to your breaking into our lives yes to your breaking into our lives

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enough is enough father enough is enough we have heard much now we want to do now we want to act

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now we want to see now we want to see lord and so when we go go forth when we when we when we are

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out in the world we expect to see we expect to see the treasures of darkness coming out because

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you're seeing appear you're seeing come out and so our words will say the same words appear come

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out prison doors broken open blind eyes seeing ears hearing because the word of the lord is going

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forth father we say yes we say yes father i say one more thing and this is my prayer for

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axe 29 that when these things happen about let us not hide it and say this is a small thing oh yeah

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it happened there's something else is going to happen after and then i'll share it with others

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no no no come out speak it speak it speak it speak it speak it from the rooftops let others see

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let others hear the goodness of god in jesus name we pray amen