WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Hebrides 2.0 - Awakened Publishing Date: 2024-12-29T05:04:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/hebrides-2-0-awakened/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Music 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:18.480 So every so often, it's not that God is absent, but an awareness of God, 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:32.480 every so often an awareness of God begins to come in across the earth like a tsunami. 00:00:38.480 --> 00:00:44.480 Every so often the awareness of God comes in across the earth like a tsunami, 00:00:44.480 --> 00:00:51.480 meaning you don't see it, it suddenly begins to wash right across the earth. 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:57.480 So every so often an awareness of God comes in across the earth like a tsunami. 00:00:57.480 --> 00:01:03.480 And if you were there for the Christmas Eve service, during worship, 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:09.480 one of the things God started saying was that this is the appointed time. 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:16.480 So we then went down that road and I read out a word to you, and I want to read it out to you again. 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:23.480 So we have context for why we're going down this road today. 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:32.480 So on December 21st, three days before Christmas Eve, this was posted on Facebook by Pastor Mike, 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:38.480 many of you have known him, and he had a dream and he doesn't know how this relates to us. 00:01:38.480 --> 00:01:43.480 So I just posted it online and I read it out during Christmas Eve and it says, 00:01:43.480 --> 00:01:48.480 I had this dream last night. It was so vivid and real. 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:53.480 In this dream, the Lord was revealing to me that 2025 and going forward, 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:58.480 there would be radical changes as the church rises to a new level of maturity 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:03.480 and that this maturity will be expressed through the younger generation. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:05.480 I call them the Joshua generation. 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:11.480 Major works of the Spirit of God will be seen and experienced in several nations. 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:17.480 The young people would be on a quest for more of God, such as we have not seen before. 00:02:17.480 --> 00:02:23.480 In this dream, I remember that I was writing about apostles and apostolic ministry 00:02:23.480 --> 00:02:28.480 and several young believers started asking me all kinds of questions about it. 00:02:28.480 --> 00:02:30.480 Hear me. 00:02:30.480 --> 00:02:36.480 I do believe that things are going to be accelerated in the next while, beginning from 2025. 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:40.480 Miracles and signs and wonders shall be experienced by many. 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:45.480 A lot more happened in this dream, but this is what I was allowed to remember, 00:02:45.480 --> 00:02:48.480 so I immediately wrote it down. 00:02:48.480 --> 00:02:54.480 A lot of this may seem to happen suddenly, but from the Lord's perspective, that is not so. 00:02:54.480 --> 00:03:00.480 All he is doing is answering many years of prayer that has been stored up in heaven 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:04.480 and now was the appointed time for him to bring them to pass. 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:08.480 So get ready, get ready, get ready, for we are in a holy move of God. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:15.480 I read this out on Christmas Eve and he had no idea that we had been praying for this thing 00:03:15.480 --> 00:03:22.480 with what he calls the Joshua generation, that across the earth this may begin to swamp 20s and 30s. 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:26.480 And that is the context for this teaching. 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:31.480 That's why I asked if people were here in 2021, because we talked about this in 2021. 00:03:31.480 --> 00:03:35.480 And some of us may not remember and some of us were not here. 00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:40.480 So every so often an awareness of God comes in across the earth like a tsunami. 00:03:40.480 --> 00:03:49.480 And at present, based on what I just read and based on the years that we've been praying for this, 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:56.480 this is the appointed time we are in. 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:01.480 This is the appointed time we are in. 00:04:01.480 --> 00:04:03.480 And what is this time? 00:04:03.480 --> 00:04:14.480 A going of God among the 20s and the 30s. 00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:23.480 A going of God among the 20s and the 30s, meaning a going out of God among the 20s and the 30s. 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.480 Does God do things like that? Yes. 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:31.480 He has in his own time the desire to visit certain people groups, certain nations. 00:04:31.480 --> 00:04:35.480 He calls it the appointed time. I don't know why he chooses certain times. 00:04:35.480 --> 00:04:43.480 He usually announces it. He almost always announces it before he does it, so that people are aware. 00:04:44.480 --> 00:04:48.480 And then he goes. 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:52.480 He can do it on his own, but like we know, he prefers doing it with his children. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:56.480 A going out of God among the 20s and the 30s. 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:02.480 We've visited this before, but the moment I say 20s and 30s, if you think, ah, that just leaves me out. 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:06.480 No, it's a going out of God among the 20s and the 30s. 00:05:06.480 --> 00:05:13.480 But he goes among them through the 30s and the 40s and the 50s and the 60s and the 20s and the 10s and the 5s. 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:18.480 And the 70s and the 80s, just so Mike is included. 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:23.480 Yeah? So I did talk to him about this before. 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:27.480 Yes, I did take his permission before I brought it up. 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.480 We had a quick discussion before the teaching. 00:05:31.480 --> 00:05:40.480 So everyone is involved in this, though it's a going out of God among the 20s and the 30s. 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:52.480 And so there is, we usually call movements like this, we call them revival. 00:05:52.480 --> 00:05:58.480 But I'd like to have us remember another word every time we use the word revival. 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:02.480 I'm not saying don't use it, but think. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:07.480 Disruptive glory. Disruptive glory. 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:14.480 As in, God in his full splendor disrupting what has been status quo. 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:19.480 God in his full splendor disrupting what is status quo. 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:26.480 Just on the side, eh? 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:33.480 In Habakkuk chapter 2, and this has nothing to do with the teaching, though it might be a good segue. 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:38.480 In Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 3, it says, this is for an appointed time. 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:46.480 Don't be hassled when it delays or when it looks like it's not going to happen because it will come to pass because it's a promise of God. 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:54.480 Especially during this time of the year, guys, many of us who have been waiting for something to happen or waiting for something new to happen or waiting for a promise to happen, 00:06:54.480 --> 00:06:59.480 when it doesn't happen, it kind of sets you up for the year ahead, eh? Sets you up in a bad way. 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:03.480 It's like, ah shucks, I thought God was going to give it to me, but nothing happened. 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.480 Ah shucks, I thought I was going to qualify. It didn't happen. 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:10.480 Ah shucks, I thought I was going to get this job. I went for the fourth interview and nothing happened. 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:15.480 And literally sets you up for a fall. 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:21.480 God does work chronologically. He has feasts. He has times. 00:07:21.480 --> 00:07:27.480 And so while New Year resolutions are not that important, new starts are important to God. 00:07:27.480 --> 00:07:31.480 And as you approach the first, don't look back at the things that haven't come to pass. 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.480 Don't look back at the things that the next one week that looked like shucks. 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:43.480 They almost came to fruition and then the bottom gave away because it sets you up for a fall. 00:07:43.480 --> 00:07:50.480 Don't go that route. It's a trick. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:55.480 Hope that is crushed makes the heart weary. 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:58.480 Just be aware of that, eh? It's an old trick. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:05.480 And so when it comes to this, again, there's this guy I met long ago. 00:08:05.480 --> 00:08:08.480 His name was Joshua Fowler. 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:14.480 And he writes his book and in the book he says, delay is not denial. 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.480 Delay is not denial. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:23.480 And so sometimes when things take time, we begin to either relax our grip on it 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:26.480 or get distracted and go into other things. 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:32.480 This is one of those things where because you've stayed with this, you will see the fruit of it. 00:08:32.480 --> 00:08:37.480 And if you haven't locked your heart on it, you still have time. 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:42.480 The strange thing is whether you lock your heart on it or not, you will see it. 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:46.480 Or whether you taste it or not is different. 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:52.480 Yeah? Any questions thus far before we go on? 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.480 Any questions? 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.480 Okay. 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:05.480 So what can God do when he turns up to disrupt things? What is his intent? 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:08.480 Like I said, we talked about this in 2021. 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:23.480 One, his intent to come and disrupt things affect the 20s and the 30s is so that he can rebuild David's tent. 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:28.480 Rebuild David's tent. What is David's tent? The church. 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:30.480 He can rebuild David's tent. 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:33.480 Every so often, you renovate your house, you rebuild things. 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:41.480 Because they're either decaying or old or there's newer inventions or newer tech that has come in that will help your house do better. 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:48.480 God does the same thing. He has new things to release here on earth that he thought of before the earth was founded. 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:56.480 So one of the reasons why God does this is because he wants to rebuild David's tent as in the church. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.480 So that's one of the reasons he does this. 00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:02.480 But, Jigga, why is this important? Why doesn't God just do it? Why do we need to learn about this? 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:06.480 Because the people without knowledge will not be able to steward what God does. 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:10.480 The people without knowledge will not be able to steward what God does. 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:16.480 In fact, one of the things that God does when his glory comes into a place, it says in Habakkuk 2.14, 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:24.480 and the glory of the Lord will cover the earth and the knowledge of the Lord will fill the earth as the waters cover the seas. 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:29.480 So it would be so much easier to say, why does it have to go down this road? 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:33.480 Why can't we just have God turn up and revive people and that's it? 00:10:33.480 --> 00:10:41.480 That's simply because one of the things God wants to do is us to think like him, not just us to watch his deeds. 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:50.480 It says about Israel in Psalm 105, I think, that Israel knew God's acts. Moses knew God's ways. 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:57.480 Israel knew God's acts. Moses knew God's ways. To know his ways, we have to know how he thinks. 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:00.480 That is the knowledge of God. 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:20.480 Second, when God turns up like that, he does it so that future spiritual disaster can be averted. 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:26.480 I don't know about recent times, but when the Beatles were on, when Woodstock was on, 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:37.480 when this strange freedom of hallucinogenic drugs and flower power was on, 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:43.480 at the same time, God began to start something called the Jesus people. 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:46.480 It started in the streets of New York. 00:11:46.480 --> 00:11:52.480 And these were hippies who had turned to Jesus. They were still dressed the same way. 00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:58.480 They still had flowers in their ear and they still behaved the same way. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:04.480 But the one thing that had changed is that the free spirit that they had now began to go to different places. 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:09.480 I was in a tiny town called Bukaro in Bihar, which is known as a graveyard of missions. 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:16.480 One day, these guys turn up. It looked like they jumped out of an Archie comic book. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:21.480 And they were there on the streets and they had guitars and long hair. 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:29.480 And they came up to me and they asked me, do you know Jesus? 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:34.480 I don't know what they carried. I didn't even know what to say. 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:39.480 All I knew is it meant something and I burst into tears. And I was 11. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:51.480 Why am I bringing that up? Because God always raises up a group of people to avert future disaster. 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:58.480 One of the reasons God is trying to affect, not trying, one of the reasons God will affect the 20s and 30s 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.480 is simply because the future disaster will be averted. 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:06.480 What Woodstock and what The Beatles and what a whole generation was supposed to do 00:13:06.480 --> 00:13:11.480 also ended up creating a people that were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit 00:13:11.480 --> 00:13:14.480 because Azusa happened just shortly before that. 00:13:14.480 --> 00:13:18.480 People began to speak in tongues. People began to see healings. 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:25.480 It is strange how it is countered. God is no man's fool. He sees it before time. 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:36.480 I wish there was a way that I could convey to us the truth or the fact that for some strange reason 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:44.480 God wants to initiate this through this church. That is the foolishness of this. 00:13:45.480 --> 00:13:53.480 If somehow we could hook on to that and become aware of that and yeah, 00:13:53.480 --> 00:13:59.480 it should be like a finger in and you don't let go. 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:08.480 That it is, that something that is supposed to go across the earth is going to be initiated through you. 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:13.480 How absurd is that? How brilliant is that at the same time? 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:21.480 That is the beauty of this. The third thing is why does God want to do this? 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:25.480 The reason I am speaking about this is because of what happened on the 24th 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:29.480 and because of the dream that was seen, not for us but really for us. 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:35.480 Third thing, it brings course correction. It brings course correction. 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:40.480 As in, if the ship is going off course, it brings correction. 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:51.480 And it births a whole new set. It births a whole new generation of reformers. 00:14:55.480 --> 00:15:03.480 So imagine a Caleb in Belfast who perhaps goes back, has spent three weeks here doing my laundry, 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:10.480 but is affected by the Spirit present in our midst. 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:12.480 The Spirit of God is present everywhere. 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:17.480 The Spirit of God is present in Belfast, is present in every corner of the earth. 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:25.480 But the Spirit of God does things through certain people, certain persons on a ski hill in a church. 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:29.480 And what if he gets affected by this? 00:15:29.480 --> 00:15:33.480 What if he gets affected to a point where he is affected more than any of us? 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:35.480 What then happens in Belfast? 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:40.480 20s and 30s start getting affected. He is only 20. 00:15:40.480 --> 00:15:45.480 One of the things we were talking about is how can we build incubators in different parts of the world 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:51.480 so that 20s and 30s can get cultured in an incubator? 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.480 Two nights ago, and I am sorry I am picking on him, 00:15:53.480 --> 00:15:56.480 two nights ago he had this really sad face and he said, 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:58.480 I am going back and it won't be the same. 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:02.480 And then he went and sat out in the balcony in the cold and I had half a mind to lock him 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:05.480 and then I thought, no, the guy is really hurt. And so I didn't. 00:16:05.480 --> 00:16:12.480 But the point is this, when he goes back, what is there? 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:16.480 But what if something could be created in different parts of the world? 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:19.480 That's why we have been talking about Go over the last three weeks. 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:23.480 Peru, Nepal, Papua New Guinea. 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:29.480 More places will be added to that. 00:16:29.480 --> 00:16:32.480 What a marvellous privilege we have, church. 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:38.480 Why did this get buried into our DNA? 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:42.480 We can't avoid this. 00:16:42.480 --> 00:16:52.480 It will never die, unless this whole church dies, this thing will not die. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.480 Four. 00:16:55.480 --> 00:16:58.480 There will be divine visitations. 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:02.480 There will be divine visitations. 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:05.480 That will quicken. 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.480 That will quicken us. 00:17:08.480 --> 00:17:11.480 And just break religion. 00:17:11.480 --> 00:17:14.480 Break religion. 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:19.480 Could you, could you, don't respond to satisfy me, 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:24.480 but couldn't you, let me put it that way, couldn't you taste, 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:32.480 couldn't you taste a bit of a divine visitation when Dilna came up and started singing? 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:37.480 Didn't you suddenly realise that, ah, Tunis is a worship leader, 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:43.480 Jacob can say stuff, but this guy comes up and he doesn't have a voice as good as Tunis. 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:51.480 But as he sings and as he speaks, didn't you suddenly realise that, ah, shucks, this is God. 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:57.480 Imagine that multiplied through all of us, happening again and again and again. 00:17:57.480 --> 00:18:04.480 Divine visitations that quicken and break religion, eh, destroys religion. 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:12.480 Visitation always destroys religion. 00:18:12.480 --> 00:18:15.480 Next one. 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:18.480 It affects your lifestyle. 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:20.480 It begins to affect our lifestyle. 00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:25.480 It begins to affect our way of living. 00:18:25.480 --> 00:18:38.480 Because now we are very aware, aware of the greatness, the nearness and the holiness of God. 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:42.480 We become aware of it. 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:47.480 We become, and what is one word that encapsulates all of it? 00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:48.480 Presence. 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:54.480 One of the things that happens when God goes out this way through a people or amongst a people 00:18:54.480 --> 00:19:02.480 is that there's an awareness, a nearness, there's an awareness of the nearness, the greatness and the holiness of God. 00:19:02.480 --> 00:19:07.480 In our midst, when we are not here, when we are at home tomorrow, when we wake up tomorrow, 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:10.480 when we go to work, when we are driving, that's when it catches. 00:19:10.480 --> 00:19:12.480 This place is easy, guys. 00:19:12.480 --> 00:19:16.480 Jumping here, feeling holy and pure here is easy. 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:18.480 It's after we leave here that it really counts. 00:19:18.480 --> 00:19:21.480 But this begins to affect our after. 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:23.480 It begins to affect our after. 00:19:23.480 --> 00:19:30.480 Because the more we get marinated in this, the harder it is to squeeze that marinade out of you. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:35.480 Doesn't matter which frying pan you throw me in, I'll still smell of it. 00:19:35.480 --> 00:19:38.480 That's when life begins to change. 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:53.480 So, I would say to you, he who has a year, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:54.480 Yeah? 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:56.480 That I wrote down deliberately. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:20:02.480 It's from the Book of Revelation, but I'm saying it to you very plainly and very openly 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:12.480 so that we understand this moment in time, that he who has a year, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.480 The Spirit of God is releasing the winds of heaven from this place across the earth. 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:40.480 He is releasing winds of heaven, releasing winds of heaven from this place, from this people across the earth. 00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:44.480 It's not from some other place. 00:20:44.480 --> 00:20:46.480 It's not at some other conference. 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:49.480 It's from this place across the earth. 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:52.480 And it will break upon the young. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:21:01.480 It will break upon the 20s and 30s. 00:21:01.480 --> 00:21:05.480 Any questions, guys? 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:06.480 Anything you want to ask? 00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.480 Go ahead, Caleb. 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:11.480 What is this place? 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:13.480 Acts 29. 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:17.480 This church, all the churches connected to it, this people. 00:21:17.480 --> 00:21:25.480 So that's why let's cut out from this place and think of it more along the lines from this people across the earth. 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:31.480 That's why I'm saying, he who has a year, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. 00:21:31.480 --> 00:21:44.480 He who has a year, let him hear what the Spirit of God is right now saying to this church and to churches. 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.480 Can you go to Isaiah 62? 00:21:48.480 --> 00:21:55.480 Isaiah 62. 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:58.480 Actually, we'll look at it later. 00:21:58.480 --> 00:22:07.480 So if this is a case where God is releasing something like this, we have to ask the question, what? 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:11.480 And what is the promise? 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:13.480 What is the promise? 00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:15.480 What is God releasing? 00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:18.480 What is he releasing? 00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:20.480 Because there's one thing to say, God is going out. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:22.480 But to do what? 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:24.480 What is the promise? 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:30.480 And the question that we can take the arrow, like King Ahaz did when Elisha asked him to, 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:33.480 what is the arrow that we can take and start striking the ground? 00:22:33.480 --> 00:22:38.480 What will God going out among the 20s and 30s produce? 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.480 That's a question that must be asked. 00:22:40.480 --> 00:22:50.480 And the answer must, if possible, be memorized so that you can be asked anytime, and it'll come out like water. 00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:59.320 through so I'll just write it. What is the promise? The promise is I am sending, I am 00:22:59.320 --> 00:23:19.400 sending a purifying fire. I am sending a purifying fire from heaven that burns up 00:23:19.680 --> 00:23:44.040 religious and historical junk. That's from Hebrews 12 27 to 29 and then I will 00:23:44.040 --> 00:24:01.640 enter as the divine warrior. That's from Psalm 24 verse 7 and 8. Now you can see 00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:09.640 why Tooney's song is a song we sing often because he wrote the song based on 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:15.240 this promise. Now we will sing it at the end of the service. What is the intent of 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:29.880 God turning up like this? Because I want to set young men and women free. Where's 00:24:29.880 --> 00:24:42.440 that from? That's from Isaiah 42 verse 3 and 4. What's he going to do? He's going 00:24:42.440 --> 00:24:58.000 to take them, I will take them out of nations into the kingdom. I'll take them 00:24:58.120 --> 00:25:05.480 out of nations into the kingdom. Where's that from? Revelation 5 verse 9 and 10. 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:21.800 What will he call them? I will call them sons and daughters. Hey what thrills me is how's he going 00:25:21.800 --> 00:25:27.400 to do this through you and me? How is he going to be aware of being sons and daughters through 00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:33.800 you and me? Do you know what it would mean for 20s and 30s to discover fatherhood? Can you 00:25:33.800 --> 00:25:39.680 imagine it? Look at your lives and my life. Look at the difference it has made to know God as 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:48.600 father. It's been life-changing and it's not normal. I go to church after church after church 00:25:48.600 --> 00:25:57.380 and they love the Lord and they do more work than us. They know him as Savior and Master but not 00:25:57.380 --> 00:26:04.660 too many people know God as father. It's a beautiful thing and to be able to tell 20s and 00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:14.380 30s about it, it's revolutionary. It changes life. So calling them sons and daughters and it's done 00:26:14.380 --> 00:26:22.460 through us. The other thing that boggles my mind is guys there may be times where I am failing. 00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:28.020 There may be times where I look at you and think you are failing and despite all that, 00:26:28.020 --> 00:26:39.420 this God trusts us with a message that is supposed to affect the earth. That? Why? 00:26:39.420 --> 00:26:53.820 That is weighty guys. Appointed to this place for a time such as this, each one of us, 00:26:53.820 --> 00:27:06.980 with all our warts and pimples. Yeah. I'll call them sons and daughters and then what will you do? 00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:16.020 I'll call them sons and daughters and I will invite them. I will invite them. You must understand 00:27:16.020 --> 00:27:32.540 how God has set us up. I will invite them into that circle of dancing, abundance and joy. What 00:27:32.580 --> 00:27:40.020 will God do? God will invite these young men and women set free into a circle of dancing, 00:27:40.020 --> 00:27:47.260 abundance and joy. This idea of singing Brandon Lake's praise song or singing when you move to 00:27:47.260 --> 00:27:53.380 the left and move to the right and all this stuff, it may seem like, okay, why do we do this song 00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:59.180 all the way? Why does he call us out always? Because we need to create a circle of dancing, 00:27:59.180 --> 00:28:05.940 abundance and joy that these ones can enter into. It is deliberate. When I think of it in retrospect, 00:28:05.940 --> 00:28:12.580 I think to myself, oh shucks, you're setting us up so that these young men and women realize 00:28:12.580 --> 00:28:20.240 that they're coming into a different place where it's not strictness, non-laugh, lip-sword before 00:28:20.240 --> 00:28:24.820 you come into church, but it's a place where there is abundance, there is joy and there is dancing. 00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:37.020 Joy must be expressed. It is not British. Sorry, Caleb. It must be expressed. There goes all the 00:28:37.020 --> 00:28:49.220 20 and 30 year olds in Britain. Sometimes when this happens, dare to do it not because of the 00:28:49.220 --> 00:28:55.340 church, not because of the music. Dare to do it because you're doing something prophetically. 00:28:55.340 --> 00:29:01.100 I know that sounds heavy, but it's not. It's a simple prophetic act that you're engaging in 00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:07.540 knowing that a time is coming when others will enter into the circle of dance. You see this in 00:29:07.540 --> 00:29:18.580 the Middle East and in Israel very often. Jordan from Abu Dhabi, Jordan went to Israel some months 00:29:18.580 --> 00:29:25.100 ago and he went to a church on Mount Carmel, on the actual Mount Carmel, and a Japanese pastor 00:29:25.100 --> 00:29:31.780 pastors that. So he was sitting there and he's got feet that are bigger than most of us. He's 00:29:31.780 --> 00:29:38.860 wearing these red shoes and this little lady comes along and grabs him. Then before he knows it, 00:29:38.860 --> 00:29:43.940 he's joined the circle and there's this tall guy hopping around with all of them. I've got videos 00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:50.180 of it. It is hilarious, but it is very normal in the Middle Eastern culture or in Israeli culture 00:29:50.180 --> 00:29:58.100 to create circles of dance and people just keep joining. It is supposed to be a communal thing 00:29:58.100 --> 00:30:03.900 and it is supposed to be when people join it, it is supposed to now portray to you that you have 00:30:03.900 --> 00:30:12.340 become part of this. So sometimes do it more as an act in the future than anything else. I will 00:30:12.340 --> 00:30:25.300 get a WhatsApp from Jordan today. Invite into the circle of dancing abundance and joy before, 00:30:25.300 --> 00:30:36.140 I love this line, before the lion and the lamb, as in both the one who is absolute king and the 00:30:36.620 --> 00:30:47.220 slain. And then one last line before the lion and the lamb. That's Jeremiah 31, verse 12 and 13. 00:30:47.220 --> 00:31:02.940 Now who will they become? I will make them a torch bearing generation. A torch bearing generation. 00:31:02.940 --> 00:31:07.460 I will make them a torch bearing generation that goes forth 00:31:07.460 --> 00:31:30.420 and does not return empty. That's from Isaiah 55, 11 and 62. Guys, I assure you, you guys know me 00:31:30.420 --> 00:31:36.540 well enough at least, the ones that have been here for a while, I cannot write this. This is a 00:31:36.540 --> 00:31:44.420 God thing. This is in the work of man. A purifying fire from heaven that burns up religious and 00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:51.220 historical junk. That's what I'll be sending. And then I will enter as a divine warrior. I want to 00:31:51.220 --> 00:31:57.860 set young men and women free. I will take them out of nations into the kingdom. I will call them 00:31:58.340 --> 00:32:07.620 sons and daughters. I will invite them into a circle of dancing abundance and joy before the 00:32:07.620 --> 00:32:12.780 lion and the lamb. I will make them a torch bearing generation that goes forth and does not return 00:32:12.780 --> 00:32:28.980 empty. Any questions? So whenever God gives a promise, where the promise comes, provision. 00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:37.300 Where the promise comes, permission. I want you to understand that when it says provision, 00:32:37.300 --> 00:32:42.740 it doesn't mean that the church will have more money. It means that anytime you take a promise 00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:48.980 of God that's given to a people, any part of it that you take on for yourself, God will provide 00:32:48.980 --> 00:32:56.500 so that you can do what you need to do. It's not that, oh, suddenly there'll be more offerings given. 00:32:56.500 --> 00:33:02.180 It is, let's say she goes to do something that has to do with it. God will remember that with a 00:33:02.180 --> 00:33:08.660 promise comes provision and permission. What do you mean by permission? That, hey Jacob, start dreaming. 00:33:08.660 --> 00:33:14.100 I'll help you. I'll give you a green light. Keep going with the green light till I turn it red. 00:33:14.820 --> 00:33:23.140 Don't be afraid. Don't wait for 42 confirmations. Like one pastor said, don't wait for a pygmy and 00:33:23.140 --> 00:33:28.420 an admiral suit to come and sell you bread before you believe something. Just trust that 00:33:29.140 --> 00:33:34.900 once he gives you a promise, you have the green light to walk in permission till it turns red. 00:33:38.740 --> 00:33:44.820 That's how Paul would do it. Paul knew the promise. I'm sending you out into the Gentile nations. 00:33:46.100 --> 00:33:52.660 And so he starts going. Whenever he meets a red light, then he stops. But he does not mean that 00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:58.260 he stops and waits for confirmation now. He just stops, goes to bed, and then he goes on moving. 00:33:58.260 --> 00:34:01.380 That's the appointed time dynamics. 00:34:01.380 --> 00:34:08.820 Okay, green lights. Let's just take what you did. You wouldn't have come up unless you were given 00:34:08.820 --> 00:34:17.300 permission. Once you were given permission, I asked you whether you had a song to sing. 00:34:18.180 --> 00:34:22.980 And you came up and instead of just singing the song, you started speaking in between. 00:34:24.020 --> 00:34:30.020 I could have stopped you and asked you to sing the song. And you said, no, I'm not going to sing. 00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:35.940 I could have stopped you anytime. Or I could have cut in and interrupted in a way that wouldn't 00:34:35.940 --> 00:34:40.420 embarrass you, but would take it a different direction. But you kept going because you knew 00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:46.420 you had a green light. Till it turns red, you can keep going. It's a simple thing like that. 00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:52.740 And it's the same in complicated things too. Most divine things or most spiritual things 00:34:52.740 --> 00:34:59.140 always have an easy physical parallel that we can use to explain it. And once you have a green light 00:34:59.780 --> 00:35:05.060 begin to move till it turns red. That is the very dynamics of appointed times. 00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:17.620 As a provision will come to individuals and to what we need to do. And with it will come 00:35:17.620 --> 00:35:24.100 permission to see what God wants to show us, agree with him, build things. 00:35:24.100 --> 00:35:27.140 I don't know if you remember, I'm sure Derek remembers this. 00:35:31.460 --> 00:35:40.420 A man woke up one day in March of last year. He is a very godly man. He's planted about 800 00:35:40.420 --> 00:35:46.100 churches in one of the hardest places in India where they beat you and burn you. But he's planted 00:35:46.100 --> 00:35:52.660 800 churches. I don't know why he thinks well of me. Every time I think about it, I think, 00:35:53.460 --> 00:36:00.740 every time I see him, I want to like acknowledge him. But Tidus met him too. Gillian's met him. 00:36:01.300 --> 00:36:08.260 And so he one day gets up and he writes to me saying, I heard he can't, he doesn't speak English. 00:36:08.260 --> 00:36:15.300 He hardly can speak English. So he gets these three words, Samaritan, Netherlands, 00:36:16.100 --> 00:36:23.220 go and build. Those are the three words he gets. He has no idea what it means. So he gets up in the 00:36:23.220 --> 00:36:29.700 morning and he asks the Lord, how do I connect the word Samaritan, Netherlands and go build? 00:36:30.340 --> 00:36:35.940 And at some point the Lord begins to speak to him and he realizes that it's not Samaritan, 00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:42.980 it's Saint Martin's. But he doesn't know better when he writes it, he writes it as Samaritan's. 00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:49.860 He writes it down as Saint Martin's. And then he realizes that there's an island and half of it 00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:57.620 is French and half of it is Dutch. The French side is called Saint Martin's, the Dutch side is called 00:36:57.620 --> 00:37:02.740 Saint Martin's. And then he calls me and says, Jacob, last night the Lord woke me, he spoke to me 00:37:02.740 --> 00:37:07.460 in a dream and he said, you need to go to Samaritan, Netherlands and build something. 00:37:07.460 --> 00:37:11.860 But this morning when I asked the Lord, he clarified it and he said, he said, I went and 00:37:11.860 --> 00:37:16.580 started looking in the atlas. I couldn't find Samaritan and Netherlands, but I did find Saint 00:37:16.580 --> 00:37:22.180 Martin's, that is the Dutch side of the island. And so would you go there? Because if you go there, 00:37:22.180 --> 00:37:31.060 you and your church will build things there. So I'm going on Jan 5th. So what happens? Green light. 00:37:31.060 --> 00:37:34.100 What do you do there? I don't know, but when we get there, we'll find out. 00:37:38.260 --> 00:37:41.540 And if I don't go there, then it'll be disobedience because it was given in March. 00:37:42.420 --> 00:37:44.580 There is a shelf life on promises. 00:37:49.540 --> 00:37:54.580 So let's see what happens there. When I announced it in church in March or April, I said that a day 00:37:54.580 --> 00:38:03.140 will come when just like YWAM has a place in Kona in Hawaii, so we will have a place in Saint Martin's 00:38:03.700 --> 00:38:08.100 in the Caribbean. I don't even know where it is. I tried looking, it's not easy to find. 00:38:08.100 --> 00:38:14.900 It got a fabulous airport. This is a beach and this is the airport. The planes fly over the 00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:20.980 beach and if you stand in the way of a 747, you get sand in your face. That's just on the side. 00:38:20.980 --> 00:38:30.020 It has no kingdom value. So guys, if this is a promise, what are we supposed to do? 00:38:30.820 --> 00:38:36.260 Do you think you will do this? You're sitting up front, so I'm picking on you. Do you think you 00:38:36.260 --> 00:38:43.620 will do this? Will you take this promise and wrestle and try to grasp it? Or will work? Will 00:38:43.620 --> 00:38:48.420 two kids and a wife and a dog take over? Mia, you're getting a dog for New Year. 00:39:00.980 --> 00:39:07.620 Sorry. All right. So my question to you, Vivek, is will you be able to take the time despite your 00:39:07.620 --> 00:39:14.900 schedule and legitimate stuff that you have to do? Will you be able to wrestle and grasp with the promise? 00:39:17.860 --> 00:39:24.340 Pardon? I want to. Yeah. And then once you begin to do that, you'll begin to 00:39:24.340 --> 00:39:30.340 start living it. Once you start living it, only then will you be able to announce it. 00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:35.300 Once you announce it, others will get ignited, as will you. 00:39:39.620 --> 00:39:51.300 Once you ignite, then you will carry it to the nation of Surrey and Nepal. 00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:59.780 Yeah. So that's how this works. What is our responsibility in all this? This is our 00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:06.420 responsibility. First responsibility is will I wrestle and grasp it? Will I wrestle and grasp it? 00:40:07.300 --> 00:40:13.140 Once I wrestle and grasp it, then will I live it? I have to live it to a point. 00:40:14.340 --> 00:40:18.900 Not live it perfectly, but will I begin to live it? Will I, every time I see a 20 or a 30-year-old, 00:40:19.140 --> 00:40:25.860 something leap in my heart? Every time I dance here, will I remember that, 00:40:25.860 --> 00:40:28.500 yeah, a day is coming when many others will join the circle? 00:40:31.620 --> 00:40:37.300 Will I think like that? Will I begin to live it? Purifying fire, is my life getting any purer? 00:40:38.980 --> 00:40:46.100 I mean, what's his name? Just emphasizing that throughout worship today. Will my life get any purer? 00:40:46.580 --> 00:40:56.260 Sorry, Tony. And then after that, once this happens, you can't announce what you don't adore. 00:40:57.140 --> 00:41:02.100 You cannot announce what you don't adore. So now that I've begun living it, can I announce it? 00:41:02.100 --> 00:41:07.700 You only announce things you're excited about. Will I announce it? Once I announce it, people 00:41:07.700 --> 00:41:14.100 catch fire. Everything is ignited with words, guys. God always ignites things with words. 00:41:14.100 --> 00:41:19.620 So do we. We imitate the God we serve. We announce it, and it ignites. Once it ignites, 00:41:19.620 --> 00:41:27.300 you can carry it. You can carry it into different nations or across the street. This is how it works. 00:41:29.300 --> 00:41:31.300 So that's something we need to do. 00:41:36.820 --> 00:41:41.780 One of the questions I was asking God years ago and they still ask is, why ask? 00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:49.140 Besides his sovereign choice, besides the fact that he works with nobodies, 00:41:50.580 --> 00:42:00.580 because he is more obvious then. Besides that, why ask? And here was a response for the last 00:42:02.100 --> 00:42:06.900 20 years through Ticken Tin. 00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:10.260 I know through is spelled wrong. Yeah, through Ticken Tin. 00:42:12.180 --> 00:42:31.060 For the last 20 years, through Ticken Tin, you, Acts 29, have lived out Genesis 26.18. What does that say? 00:42:31.220 --> 00:42:35.220 Genesis 26, 18. 00:42:40.100 --> 00:42:45.620 And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, 00:42:46.260 --> 00:42:52.020 which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, and he gave them names that his father 00:42:52.020 --> 00:42:59.380 had given them. And so God's intent is, you've kept coming back. You've kept coming back. 00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:10.340 You've kept coming back to my blueprints. You kept coming back to my blueprints, 00:43:11.860 --> 00:43:17.860 renaming things as I have named them. 00:43:18.100 --> 00:43:22.340 As I have named them. 00:43:25.940 --> 00:43:27.380 Digging up ancient wells, 00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:36.340 opening ancient gates, 00:43:36.420 --> 00:43:51.380 ascending the hill of the Lord. That's one of the reasons the Lord said that he wants to work with us, because 00:43:52.980 --> 00:43:58.980 consistently over the last 20 years as a church, we haven't sought anything else, man. 00:44:00.100 --> 00:44:03.940 The only desire we've had is, oh God, you show us a blueprint, we'll obey it. 00:44:04.660 --> 00:44:10.340 Show us what to do. And we may mess up. We may really make blunders. 00:44:12.260 --> 00:44:16.100 But at the end of the day, it's the only thing we've desired. We haven't desired numbers. We 00:44:16.100 --> 00:44:24.820 haven't desired anything but this simple thing. And that's one of the reasons. Why us? Because 00:44:24.820 --> 00:44:30.340 for the last 20 years, through thick and thin, you Acts 29 have lived out Genesis 26.18. I go 00:44:30.420 --> 00:44:33.940 tell you to dig somewhere, you'll go dig somewhere. I go tell you to climb a mountain, 00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:38.020 you'll go climb a mountain. I go tell you to open a door, you'll open a door. Whether you have the 00:44:38.020 --> 00:44:41.060 money for it, whether you have the people for it, whether you have the skill for it, whether you have 00:44:41.060 --> 00:44:47.540 the knowledge for it, you're too dumb. You'll do what I ask you to. And he's thrilled with that. 00:44:48.740 --> 00:44:50.820 You don't know how flexible you are as a church. 00:44:53.220 --> 00:44:57.220 Someone asked me, so when is your service? I said 345. They said it wasn't at 615. 00:44:57.220 --> 00:45:00.740 I said that was last year. But wasn't it 1030? No, that was two years ago. 00:45:04.340 --> 00:45:07.140 Caleb doesn't know where we meet every time he comes. 00:45:11.540 --> 00:45:17.220 So this is one of the reasons. And bless you for that. No one man can do it. No two men can do it. 00:45:17.220 --> 00:45:21.620 No leaders can do it. It's an entire church that God picks. He always works with the people. He 00:45:21.620 --> 00:45:27.460 never likes working with solos. He works with the people. 00:45:30.420 --> 00:45:32.660 Take it as a path on your back from him. 00:45:36.020 --> 00:45:42.260 Every one of you, it's like that song, So Will I. Every one of you, precious, 00:45:42.820 --> 00:45:48.100 picked for a time such as this, for an appointed time such as this, precious, picked. 00:45:51.620 --> 00:45:58.900 And the other reason, this is the first reason. There are only two reasons he gave me. 00:45:58.900 --> 00:46:09.620 The second reason is, I love this. Your young people are free. 00:46:10.580 --> 00:46:15.460 Your young people are free and have learned 00:46:18.340 --> 00:46:25.940 to run after the things of the kingdom 00:46:30.100 --> 00:46:32.900 because they trust 00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:46.660 my goodness to take care, to take care of the things of life. 00:46:47.620 --> 00:46:52.580 I love this reason. Your young people are free, as in the young that are in the church, 00:46:52.580 --> 00:46:57.780 and by that I mean the 20s, 30s, 40s. Dilna, you missed it by this much. 00:46:57.940 --> 00:46:59.780 Dilna, you missed it by this much. 00:47:02.180 --> 00:47:08.100 So the young in the church, the 20s, the 30s, and the 40s, have learned to run after 00:47:09.860 --> 00:47:16.580 the things of the kingdom because they trust my goodness to take care of the things of life. 00:47:16.580 --> 00:47:21.220 It's understandable if the grown-ups think like that because they've had more time to learn the 00:47:21.300 --> 00:47:27.780 Lord. But as young ones, instead of running after career, instead of running after time, 00:47:27.780 --> 00:47:32.180 treasure, talent, you've decided to run after this, 00:47:35.220 --> 00:47:38.020 knowing that the goodness of God will take care of the rest. 00:47:41.380 --> 00:47:47.140 I don't mean to pick on people to elevate them or make them special, but I remember guys like 00:47:47.140 --> 00:47:53.700 Jeevan, like Derek, like Jillian, like Dawn, these guys had job offers. I remember May, 00:47:55.700 --> 00:48:01.060 job offers in places, but they would not leave because they knew that it would be better to be 00:48:01.060 --> 00:48:06.020 without a job for six months than to go and get a job and miss out on something. 00:48:06.020 --> 00:48:13.620 That is silly. You've just come out of UBC. You've got a debt. You don't even have money. 00:48:14.340 --> 00:48:22.020 Can I share that? I mean, Ann and Kamal, Kamal got baptized. Kamal and Ann decided to throw 00:48:22.020 --> 00:48:32.420 a baptism lunch at May 17th. Derek is so broke that he's not going to be able to eat anything. 00:48:32.420 --> 00:48:44.580 Derek is so broke that he does not have money to take a bus from May and May 17th. I don't know why 00:48:44.580 --> 00:48:49.540 he didn't ask me, but he walked, which meant he ate a lot because he was really hungry after that. 00:48:50.340 --> 00:48:55.700 But the point is he could have easily gotten a job after UBC. There was a job waiting for him. 00:48:55.700 --> 00:49:02.020 She could have gotten a job in Edmonton. Dawn lived off his brother for 18 or 19 months. 00:49:02.740 --> 00:49:09.140 Dawn could have gotten a job, but these guys refused to. May had a decent job and she throws 00:49:09.140 --> 00:49:13.940 it away because she feels the Lord asking her to go somewhere else. I can tell you story after 00:49:13.940 --> 00:49:19.220 story. There are others here, but the point is this, guys. Somehow the young in this church 00:49:19.220 --> 00:49:26.100 have learned how to pursue the kingdom because they know that God will take care out of his goodness 00:49:26.100 --> 00:49:31.300 for the other things of life. Well done. This is impossible without you. 00:49:32.820 --> 00:49:36.580 Tomorrow I might find fault with you, but today, oh my God, you guys are the best. 00:49:46.820 --> 00:49:50.500 These were the two reasons that God supplied and I wanted you to know. 00:49:56.740 --> 00:50:03.940 What will this look like? I'll just take one point and won't do the others today. What will this look like? 00:50:06.500 --> 00:50:11.860 He won't, he won't, he won't. What will this look like? 00:50:11.860 --> 00:50:25.060 Give me clean hands, give me pure heart, let me not lift my soul to another. 00:50:26.020 --> 00:50:32.900 That's one main thing, guys. Clean hands and a pure heart here. We'll deal with the rest later. 00:50:34.740 --> 00:50:40.580 Clean hands, pure heart. Don't give up on that, eh, church? It's critical because God is holy, 00:50:40.580 --> 00:50:47.220 right? And he's saying, I'm coming. What did he start with? I'm sending a purifying fire. Let it 00:50:47.220 --> 00:50:53.460 first fall on us, right? Clean hands, pure heart. It's critical for this, eh? It's one of the few 00:50:53.460 --> 00:51:02.900 ways we can quench this. And so even though it is bloody and painful, the circumcision of heart 00:51:02.900 --> 00:51:10.980 and the issues of the flesh is important. Clean hands, pure heart. We won't go through the other 00:51:10.980 --> 00:51:16.820 five or six points that are there, but this, don't let go of it. This you hold on to like crazy. 00:51:16.820 --> 00:51:23.860 This you hold on to even if your leaders mess up. You hold on to it because this is not a leader 00:51:23.860 --> 00:51:28.740 thing. It is a church thing. You hold on to it that, oh God, I would like to be like this. 00:51:29.460 --> 00:51:32.100 Purify my heart. Let me be as gold. 00:51:44.580 --> 00:51:47.140 Listen to this. Some of you have heard it read before. 00:51:47.620 --> 00:51:58.020 In 1949, the spirit of grace and supplication fell upon a congregation in the village of Arnold. 00:51:58.020 --> 00:52:03.060 Can you put up the picture of the village that I sent you, Brandon? Is it possible? 00:52:17.140 --> 00:52:46.740 Ah, still a small village. I titled this message Hebrides 2.0-Awakening. 00:52:47.540 --> 00:52:53.060 This is the village. It's still pretty small. There's another village next to it called 00:52:54.020 --> 00:52:58.260 Barners, which is just down. You can see it in the distance. And the rainbow just 00:52:58.260 --> 00:53:06.340 happened to appear that day. In 1949, the spirit of grace and supplication fell upon a congregation 00:53:06.900 --> 00:53:15.460 in the village of Arnold on the Isle of Lewis in the Scottish Hebrides. They prayed for revival. 00:53:17.140 --> 00:53:24.100 Will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? Will you not revive us again 00:53:24.100 --> 00:53:29.940 that your people may rejoice in you? Show us your mercy, Lord, and grant us your salvation. 00:53:29.940 --> 00:53:35.060 That was from Psalm 85, verse 6 and 7. They kept praying it. One night, like this, 00:53:36.180 --> 00:53:42.660 they crowded into the home of the blacksmith, a smith whose name happened to be Smith. 00:53:43.620 --> 00:53:50.820 But the spiritual atmosphere was dry. A sense of deadness prevailed as one after another 00:53:51.380 --> 00:53:59.540 tried to break through in prayer. Duncan Campbell, a visiting evangelist, called on Mr. Smith to pray. 00:54:00.020 --> 00:54:07.700 So when we went there, we met Mr. Smith's son. He's now 60-something, and he remembers 00:54:08.660 --> 00:54:14.340 how his father talked about this. He was very young then, but we met his son. I have a picture 00:54:14.340 --> 00:54:23.220 of his son. A sense of deadness prevailed as one after another tried to break through in prayer. 00:54:23.780 --> 00:54:31.300 Duncan Campbell, a visiting evangelist, called on Mr. Smith to pray. The prayer was short and sharp. 00:54:32.180 --> 00:54:38.820 Oh, God, you made a promise. That's why the promise is so critical, eh? Oh, God, you made a promise 00:54:38.820 --> 00:54:46.100 to pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground. And then listen to this line. 00:54:46.100 --> 00:54:54.740 It's so honest. And, Lord, it's not happening. That's what he prays. And, Lord, it's not happening. 00:54:54.820 --> 00:55:04.020 He paused and then continued in a rising voice. Lord, I do not know how Mr. Campbell or these 00:55:04.020 --> 00:55:12.500 other men standing with you are. I do not know them. But if I know my own heart, I know that I am thirsty. 00:55:13.700 --> 00:55:20.660 You have promised to pour water on him who is thirsty. If you don't do it, how can I ever 00:55:20.660 --> 00:55:27.940 believe you again? Your honor is at stake. You are a covenant-keeping God. Fulfill your covenant 00:55:27.940 --> 00:55:32.100 engagement. That's what this young kid prays. It seems demanding. 00:55:35.620 --> 00:55:43.700 At that instant, the granite house shook like a leaf and a power was unleashed that swept the 00:55:43.700 --> 00:55:50.900 entire parish. Campbell said, I could only stand in silence as wave after wave of divine power 00:55:50.900 --> 00:55:56.900 swept through the house. And in a matter of minutes, following this heaven-sent visitation, 00:55:56.900 --> 00:56:03.220 men and women were on their faces in distress of soul. He stepped outside and discovered that the 00:56:03.220 --> 00:56:09.940 whole village was astir. Though it was 11 o'clock at night, people with lanterns and flashlights 00:56:09.940 --> 00:56:14.020 were making their way along the roads and across the fields towards the meeting place 00:56:14.020 --> 00:56:15.780 as if summoned by a silent bell. 00:56:18.500 --> 00:56:22.500 Why is it that we should have the privilege of seeing Hebrides 2.0 00:56:22.500 --> 00:56:24.500 release through our lives and from this place? Why? 00:56:28.660 --> 00:56:31.780 Why should it happen again? Why should we get a ringside seat? 00:56:33.300 --> 00:56:34.980 Why should we get into the ring with him? 00:56:34.980 --> 00:56:38.900 I do not understand it. 00:56:43.140 --> 00:56:46.740 This is what awaits us guys. It's just too marvelous. 00:56:48.420 --> 00:57:03.700 It'll be opposed, but so what? When you have something so marvelous, what's a little opposition? 00:57:05.300 --> 00:57:06.980 I think it's a little bit of a 00:57:06.980 --> 00:57:08.100 question. 00:57:10.900 --> 00:57:12.900 Second Kings 2.14. 00:57:17.140 --> 00:57:26.980 Elijah's gone. There's a mantle that has fallen and it's lying on the floor. It's the mantle that 00:57:26.980 --> 00:57:34.900 Elijah used to wear. And so, Elisha rolls it up and he strikes the water with his cloak. 00:57:35.380 --> 00:57:40.660 That's what Second Kings 2.14 says. Elisha struck the waters with the cloak and said, 00:57:40.660 --> 00:57:42.500 where is the Lord God of Elijah? 00:57:44.500 --> 00:57:47.780 In the excerpt I just read, there was a man called Smith. 00:57:48.500 --> 00:57:52.740 You always need at least one man who is shamelessly bold. 00:57:54.020 --> 00:57:56.180 You need one man who is shamelessly bold. 00:57:56.180 --> 00:58:07.380 Once that one man turns up, a covenant-keeping God will be true to his covenant engagements. 00:58:09.540 --> 00:58:14.900 We need to be shamelessly bold. A covenant-keeping God, as in a God who makes a promise, 00:58:14.900 --> 00:58:17.060 is a God who engages the promise here on earth. 00:58:18.500 --> 00:58:24.260 But in the story, it was Smith. You need one man to be shamelessly bold. 00:58:26.260 --> 00:58:29.540 For the last three years, I have been shamelessly bold about this. 00:58:31.060 --> 00:58:34.660 And I keep striking the water saying, oh God, where is the God of Elijah? 00:58:35.300 --> 00:58:38.820 And it will open. There have been others that have risen up to do the same. 00:58:39.700 --> 00:58:45.300 Now is our time to be one man shamelessly bold. Not an individual I'm talking about. One man. 00:58:46.580 --> 00:58:49.380 Go back to what I was asking Vivek. 00:58:51.460 --> 00:58:54.100 Can you find time to wrestle and grasp it? 00:58:54.820 --> 00:58:58.740 Can you begin to slowly live it? Even in little bits, begin to live it. 00:58:59.940 --> 00:59:02.260 Once you begin to live it, can you begin to announce it? 00:59:02.260 --> 00:59:05.540 As you announce, people get ignited and you get ignited. 00:59:06.340 --> 00:59:09.780 And then you have the ability to carry calls from heaven. 00:59:11.220 --> 00:59:15.700 To set a light one life at a time. Cities, villages, nations. 00:59:16.420 --> 00:59:19.380 It will happen. I'm so glad you're part of it. 00:59:20.340 --> 00:59:20.580 Yeah. 00:59:20.580 --> 00:59:31.620 Come to me.