WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Holding Fast Publishing Date: 2024-08-11T06:04:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/holding-fast/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:23.200 Jesus, you're jealous over us. 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:26.320 You're jealous over me. 00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:29.520 You're jealous over us. 00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:52.720 Jesus, you shed your blood, all of it, so that we become sons and daughters. 00:00:52.720 --> 00:01:03.440 Jesus, you took away religion and gave us relationship. 00:01:03.440 --> 00:01:20.480 Jesus, you are the lover of our souls. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:33.200 Jesus, we don't have anyone else like you. 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:48.000 Jesus, you are king over our lives. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:58.480 Jesus, there is no name like yours. 00:01:58.480 --> 00:02:03.200 Jesus, we look at your cross. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:12.240 We think about and remember your sacrifice. 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:18.080 Jesus, we recognize that there is more we can give you. 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:21.120 There is more we can give you. 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:24.560 There is more we can give you. 00:02:24.560 --> 00:02:29.040 And today, we want to do that. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:30.800 Not just for today. 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.200 With our lives, we want to give you more. 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:40.560 With our lives, we want to give you more. 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:46.240 Jesus, we are not satisfied. 00:02:46.240 --> 00:02:51.600 Jesus, we recognize your hand over our lives. 00:02:51.600 --> 00:03:07.920 Jesus, you're so real, so patient, so kind, so powerful. 00:03:07.920 --> 00:03:11.920 And we honor you. 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:25.760 We can burst out even right now in words, in expressions of surrender, because your presence is here. 00:03:25.760 --> 00:03:31.520 Jesus, you defeated Satan. 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:37.200 And you give us authority and power. 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:46.320 Jesus, when you could have done it all by yourself, you still chose to use us. 00:03:46.320 --> 00:03:53.680 And so this afternoon, we give you our lives. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:57.920 We give you more than we have ever given you. 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:04.000 I give you more right now, Lord. 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:07.360 More than I have ever given you. 00:04:07.360 --> 00:04:16.160 Each of us give you more right now than what we have ever given you. 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:20.320 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:23.520 Amen. 00:04:23.520 --> 00:04:35.520 Jacob asked me to teach from or pick any of the themes from Psalm 91. 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:42.320 And the title for today's message is, Holding Fast. 00:04:42.320 --> 00:04:52.400 Holding Fast. 00:04:52.400 --> 00:05:04.320 So let's read Psalm 91, 14 to 16. 00:05:04.320 --> 00:05:08.880 Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him. 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:13.040 I will protect him because he knows my name. 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.480 Because he calls to me, I will answer him. 00:05:16.480 --> 00:05:18.800 I will be with him in trouble. 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.360 I will rescue him and honor him. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:28.320 With long life, I will satisfy him and show him my salvation. 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:31.600 Psalm 91, 14 to 16. 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:33.520 I'll read the first part again. 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:38.480 Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him. 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:42.320 I will protect him because he knows my name. 00:05:42.320 --> 00:05:49.840 See, this is just one passage in the scripture that talks about holding fast. 00:05:49.840 --> 00:05:54.400 The theme holding fast is prevalent throughout the Bible. 00:05:54.400 --> 00:06:00.960 You'll see several scriptures where you'll read over and over again the theme, the idea of holding fast. 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:02.480 Let's look at a few of them. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.840 Can you go to Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 4? 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:12.000 Proverbs, chapter 4, verse 4. 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:18.160 Let your heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments and live. 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:20.080 Hold fast. 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:24.080 Deuteronomy, chapter 10, verse 20. 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:27.120 Deuteronomy, chapter 10, verse 20. 00:06:27.120 --> 00:06:30.240 Fear the Lord your God and serve him. 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.720 Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:39.280 Hold fast to him and take your oaths in his name. 00:06:39.280 --> 00:06:40.960 We'll read a couple more. 00:06:40.960 --> 00:06:45.360 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 21. 00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:52.960 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 21. 00:06:52.960 --> 00:06:58.400 But examine carefully, examine everything carefully. 00:06:58.400 --> 00:07:01.840 Hold fast to that which is good. 00:07:01.840 --> 00:07:05.120 Hold fast to that which is good. 00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:10.400 Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 6. 00:07:10.480 --> 00:07:16.560 Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 6. 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:23.440 But Christ was faithful as a son over his house, whose house we are. 00:07:23.440 --> 00:07:31.040 If we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:39.520 If we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. 00:07:39.520 --> 00:07:51.440 See, holding fast is a continuous act of leaning on and latching on to the Father's sure and 00:07:51.440 --> 00:07:53.440 steady presence. 00:07:53.440 --> 00:08:05.680 It's a continuous act of leaning on and latching on to the Father's sure presence, steady presence. 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:13.360 We've been talking about it over the last few weeks that his presence is real, whether we feel it or not. 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.800 His presence is absolutely real. 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:20.960 It's as real as the sun. 00:08:20.960 --> 00:08:29.600 And when the Bible keeps on talking about hold fast, hold fast, hold fast, hold fast, what we are being taught 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:34.720 is that there is a chance that we can live through life without holding fast. 00:08:34.800 --> 00:08:42.560 There is a chance that I can go through life without being mindful of the fact that sometimes I've got to move past emotions, 00:08:42.560 --> 00:08:52.160 move past what I think I know, move past what I have seen to be able to hold fast to the Father's steady presence, 00:08:52.160 --> 00:08:54.480 sure presence. 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:56.880 His presence is so real. 00:08:56.880 --> 00:09:01.600 There is nothing more real than that. 00:09:05.680 --> 00:09:15.280 When Iris, Brielle and I, we went to Niagara, we got on the boat that takes you to the falls, right? 00:09:15.280 --> 00:09:21.920 So as you, Iris was on one side, Brielle was with me, and so she's super excited. 00:09:21.920 --> 00:09:23.760 It's the first time she ever got on a boat. 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:28.160 So Brielle is looking around at all of the people because it's really crowded. 00:09:29.040 --> 00:09:32.880 She's looking, people are wearing this red thing that goes over them. 00:09:32.880 --> 00:09:36.640 It's very different because she hasn't experienced anything like this before. 00:09:36.640 --> 00:09:37.840 She's excited. 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:43.520 She's laughing, she's looking around, and then the boat moves, and as we are moving, we get pretty close 00:09:43.520 --> 00:09:48.480 because it gets you close enough so that you can actually feel the falls. 00:09:49.280 --> 00:09:58.080 And around that time, without anyone asking, Brielle just lifted herself up and latched onto me 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:02.240 and just held on closer and tighter than she was doing before. 00:10:02.240 --> 00:10:09.120 It's just an increased latch because she knows that things are going left and right. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:11.520 She's going to have a steady hold. 00:10:11.520 --> 00:10:18.080 And so she grabbed herself, she pulled herself into me, and then latched onto me 00:10:18.080 --> 00:10:23.680 because she knows that I'm standing and that I'm steady. 00:10:24.160 --> 00:10:25.360 I'm steady. 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.400 So she can steady herself by latching onto me. 00:10:29.200 --> 00:10:37.200 So the idea of latching on and the idea of leaning on is really an everyday thing. 00:10:37.200 --> 00:10:38.880 It's a continuous act. 00:10:38.880 --> 00:10:44.160 It's not a one time a week or a few hours a week act. 00:10:44.160 --> 00:10:51.200 It's a continuous desperation, a continuous latching on, a continuous leaning on his sure presence, 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:52.560 his steady presence. 00:10:53.840 --> 00:10:56.880 And the reality is when we hear it, it makes sense. 00:10:56.880 --> 00:11:02.640 But then there are times in our lives when we're not doing things that are, quote unquote, 00:11:02.640 --> 00:11:04.080 considered spiritual. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:10.080 We do things where we have work and work sometimes takes thinking. 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:15.440 Or you're talking with a friend and the friend has, it's not a Christian friend, 00:11:15.440 --> 00:11:18.640 so you're not talking necessarily scripture or about God. 00:11:18.640 --> 00:11:20.640 And it's a completely different scenery. 00:11:20.640 --> 00:11:22.480 It's a completely different place. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.400 Or it's late into the night or early in the morning and you're not feeling like it. 00:11:27.280 --> 00:11:32.560 There is no one in this room who doesn't go through these passages where you don't feel like it, 00:11:32.560 --> 00:11:36.400 where it doesn't really seem like he is there with you. 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:45.040 Always remember, you and I have the ability inside us to push through how we feel. 00:11:45.280 --> 00:11:46.720 Through how we feel. 00:11:48.160 --> 00:11:53.680 Because what we feel cannot and should not dictate how we are. 00:11:54.640 --> 00:11:57.680 What I feel should not dictate how I live. 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.680 The truth should dictate how I live. 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:08.480 So when I first surrender my being, all of what I am to the truth that he is here, 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:14.960 that his presence is here, then my feelings will slowly but surely follow me. 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:18.640 First, I operate with my will. 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.160 There are times in our lives when we have to give precedence to feelings, 00:12:24.160 --> 00:12:26.960 because God is a feelings God. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:28.160 He has emotions. 00:12:28.160 --> 00:12:29.760 He gives us emotions. 00:12:29.760 --> 00:12:32.960 But we can't just rely on emotions. 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:36.560 We can't just rely on how I feel, how you feel. 00:12:37.360 --> 00:12:41.600 I'm telling you, this is so, it can change the way we live. 00:12:41.600 --> 00:12:44.080 It can transform our mornings and evenings. 00:12:44.880 --> 00:12:50.560 When we begin to more and more realize that his presence isn't going anywhere, 00:12:50.560 --> 00:12:52.800 and his presence is right here, right now, 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:57.920 and every moment of my life is divine because he is here. 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.120 I talked about this a month ago or so where I said, 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.360 his presence makes the ordinary divine. 00:13:05.920 --> 00:13:09.680 His presence makes the ordinary divine. 00:13:09.680 --> 00:13:13.520 So even right now, his presence is here. 00:13:14.800 --> 00:13:17.440 So I can be talking, but his presence is here. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:20.320 You're sitting there, but his presence is here. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:21.280 It's so real. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:31.440 And his cry is to get us to a place where we are so much more aware of his presence. 00:13:32.400 --> 00:13:34.800 And I've been trying it over the last few weeks, 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:41.680 where in places and at times where I usually don't recognize his presence, 00:13:41.680 --> 00:13:43.840 I'm beginning to recognize his presence. 00:13:44.880 --> 00:13:53.600 So when I leave home and I'm walking to my car so that I can drive away for work, 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:57.520 that's a period of time sometimes when I'm just thinking about the next thing 00:13:57.520 --> 00:13:59.920 and I'm just in the rhythm. 00:14:00.560 --> 00:14:06.880 So I'm learning how to know, Hey, now is the time where he's here right now with me. 00:14:06.880 --> 00:14:08.560 He's walking with me. 00:14:08.560 --> 00:14:10.640 He has prepared the day for me. 00:14:10.640 --> 00:14:13.120 Whatever is going to come to me after this, 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:14.960 he's aligning things for me. 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:16.480 His presence is so real. 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:18.880 Now, what does it do? 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:21.360 It changes the way I look at my days. 00:14:21.360 --> 00:14:24.800 It changes the way you look at your evenings and your nights. 00:14:24.800 --> 00:14:29.920 And he's all about this transformation coming in our lives because it's so real. 00:14:29.920 --> 00:14:33.680 It can absolutely turn your life upside down. 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:35.680 100%. 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:42.080 You can be a different man, a different woman when you begin to realize 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:44.800 that his presence isn't anywhere else. 00:14:44.800 --> 00:14:46.160 It's right there with you. 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:50.800 And he's just waiting for you to engage his presence. 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:56.080 So you can't hold on to him when you don't know that he is there. 00:14:57.360 --> 00:15:04.720 The first prerequisite of holding on, holding fast is that you recognize that he is here, 00:15:05.280 --> 00:15:08.880 that you recognize that he is wherever you are at. 00:15:08.880 --> 00:15:12.960 And sometimes it causes you to leap in your heart. 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:16.480 Sometimes it causes you to bow down in worship. 00:15:16.480 --> 00:15:19.760 Sometimes it causes you to say, I just can't. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:24.160 I'm not in a place where I can relate to you right now, but help me. 00:15:24.160 --> 00:15:29.600 And he helps you because you begin to push away your feelings. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:35.040 You first operate with your will and the truth that God has taught you. 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:38.720 He has given you and then your feelings will follow you. 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:39.680 Try it, guys. 00:15:39.680 --> 00:15:41.840 Try it more and more and more. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:47.440 Our God is a God who so delights in us transforming. 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.320 He loves it when we look different day after day. 00:15:53.280 --> 00:15:54.880 He's all about that. 00:15:55.840 --> 00:16:01.440 Where one day you wake up and you realize that you're so different from the other. 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:07.440 One day you wake up and you realize that you're so different from how you were even six months ago. 00:16:08.800 --> 00:16:11.360 That is the portion of sons and daughters. 00:16:12.560 --> 00:16:14.960 It is the portion of sons and daughters. 00:16:15.760 --> 00:16:19.200 And I remember saying this with everything I have to say after this too. 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:23.840 See, you have to always recognize that with God and in him, 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:29.280 you can have such speed and acceleration that you can never have on your own. 00:16:30.160 --> 00:16:35.200 In terms of God things, in terms of things that you desire in him, 00:16:35.200 --> 00:16:40.160 in terms of what you think he has for you, don't look back. 00:16:40.160 --> 00:16:46.400 Look at how much acceleration and how much steadfastness he can bring to your life. 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:53.760 Look ahead at the next three or four months of your life before you walk into 2025. 00:16:54.480 --> 00:17:00.160 And realize how much ground you can travel with him in the spirit. 00:17:00.160 --> 00:17:11.680 So much, so much that by the time you're here, if we have a December 31st meeting, 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:16.080 you'll sit here and you'll look back and you'll see and realize that, 00:17:16.080 --> 00:17:20.400 Abba, you've brought me to a completely different place. 00:17:20.400 --> 00:17:26.000 And the thing is he demands this of us, because he can't release certain things to me and to you 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:29.760 unless I am prepared to change while he's a good God. 00:17:29.760 --> 00:17:32.160 And he is a good God. He is a good father. 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.640 His dreams for me and you are so real. 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.880 He wants these things for us, but he's also pulling from the other side and saying, 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:40.240 can you come deeper? 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:42.880 Are you prepared to leave certain things behind? 00:17:42.880 --> 00:17:47.360 Can you hold on to me? Hold fast to me like never before? 00:17:47.840 --> 00:17:55.040 Hold fast to me like never before, because I'm prepared to show you something new that you haven't seen before. 00:17:55.040 --> 00:17:58.400 You don't know what acceleration even means. 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:01.040 You don't know what the gift of speed even means. 00:18:01.040 --> 00:18:02.160 Let me show that to you. 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:09.200 Let me show that to you, because with my spirit and when you're aligned, there are possibilities, 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:17.280 so much possibilities, because I'll have you travel or I'll have you cover the distance. 00:18:17.360 --> 00:18:21.840 So true, guys. So true. 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:26.320 There is not one word that I said that's excessive. 00:18:27.520 --> 00:18:32.080 In fact, I can't explain with my words how real it is. 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:38.560 He gives supernatural speed. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.120 He gives acceleration in the spirit. 00:18:43.120 --> 00:18:51.120 He causes you when you're prepared to leave your ways and latch on to him, lean on to him, hold fast to him. 00:18:51.120 --> 00:18:53.600 He gives you a new start. 00:18:54.560 --> 00:18:58.080 Your days and nights begin to look very different when that happens. 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:05.760 So let's look at a few prerequisites for holding fast. 00:19:05.760 --> 00:19:11.200 One, you cannot hold fast to the Father from afar. 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.280 You can only hold fast from near. 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:18.640 You cannot hold fast to the Father from afar. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.280 You can only hold fast from near. 00:19:21.280 --> 00:19:24.840 only hold fast from near. 00:19:24.840 --> 00:19:28.960 You cannot hold fast to the father from afar. 00:19:28.960 --> 00:19:31.440 You can only hold fast from near. 00:19:36.360 --> 00:19:39.440 If you think he is distant, you can cry out to him, 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:43.320 but you can't hold fast to him. 00:19:43.320 --> 00:19:46.280 But if you're convinced of his nearness, 00:19:46.280 --> 00:19:49.520 and even better when you're dwelling in his presence, 00:19:49.520 --> 00:19:52.060 you can hold fast. 00:19:52.060 --> 00:19:56.440 Read Psalm 91, because a lot of things that we talk about 00:19:56.440 --> 00:20:01.200 will circle around Psalm 91. 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.800 We started with verse 14, but now we 00:20:03.800 --> 00:20:06.320 are going back up to verse 1. 00:20:06.320 --> 00:20:09.760 Read verse 1 with me, please. 00:20:09.760 --> 00:20:12.880 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:15.520 will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 00:20:15.520 --> 00:20:17.880 It's a very familiar scripture, right? 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:23.360 Because this Psalm is Psalm 23, Psalm 91, Psalm 121. 00:20:23.360 --> 00:20:28.400 These are Psalms that I'm sure some of you 00:20:28.400 --> 00:20:32.040 can recite the whole thing. 00:20:32.040 --> 00:20:33.600 Very familiar. 00:20:33.600 --> 00:20:38.160 But when you look at this Psalm, and across scripture, 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.960 you'll find there are certain passages where 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:42.440 there is a condition. 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.240 There is a condition that God says, if you do it this way, 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:47.880 then these things happen. 00:20:47.880 --> 00:20:51.920 And so here, the Psalmist says in verse 1, 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:56.120 he who dwells in the shelter of the Most High 00:20:56.120 --> 00:20:59.960 will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. 00:20:59.960 --> 00:21:03.800 I will say to the Lord, my refuge and my fortress, 00:21:03.800 --> 00:21:07.600 my God in whom I trust. 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:13.760 Go down a few verses and read verse 9. 00:21:13.760 --> 00:21:16.520 Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place, 00:21:16.520 --> 00:21:19.240 the Most High, who is my refuge? 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:20.360 Verse 9. 00:21:20.360 --> 00:21:24.600 Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place, 00:21:24.600 --> 00:21:27.240 the Most High, who is my refuge? 00:21:33.040 --> 00:21:33.960 Think about it, guys. 00:21:37.120 --> 00:21:41.040 The Lord is your dwelling place. 00:21:41.040 --> 00:21:42.400 Just think about it. 00:21:42.440 --> 00:21:45.920 He is your dwelling place. 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:48.360 Meaning, if you had an address, it would be him. 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:56.680 He is your dwelling place. 00:22:06.040 --> 00:22:08.080 Just think about it for a second. 00:22:08.080 --> 00:22:10.080 You are my dwelling place. 00:22:10.080 --> 00:22:12.960 That's why Paul is able to see what's 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:18.160 our first primary calling in life. 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:20.000 What is the primary calling in life? 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:21.920 I'm sure there are different ways to put it. 00:22:21.920 --> 00:22:24.400 But let me put it this way. 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:29.520 Your primary calling in life is to live and move 00:22:29.520 --> 00:22:33.080 and have your entire being in him, which 00:22:33.080 --> 00:22:35.440 is why Paul actually says this. 00:22:35.440 --> 00:22:39.040 Believe in Acts 28 or so. 00:22:39.040 --> 00:22:44.280 He's in Athens teaching the men in Athens. 00:22:44.280 --> 00:22:46.040 He addresses the men of Athens. 00:22:46.040 --> 00:22:48.480 And he goes through a few things. 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:52.240 And then he says, you can have your entire being, 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.400 your living, your moving, your life in him. 00:22:58.520 --> 00:23:01.280 That's what dwelling in him means. 00:23:01.280 --> 00:23:03.280 That's the essence of dwelling in him, 00:23:03.280 --> 00:23:05.680 where there is no aspect of my life, 00:23:05.680 --> 00:23:09.280 there is no aspect of your life that's outside of him. 00:23:09.280 --> 00:23:13.000 And so sometimes we have the head knowledge that, yes, 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:14.960 my dwelling is in him. 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:17.640 I have the head knowledge. 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.560 How can it trickle down to practical, real life, 00:23:21.560 --> 00:23:25.400 everyday living, where I can't do? 00:23:25.400 --> 00:23:27.240 Well, Jesus says this. 00:23:27.240 --> 00:23:28.080 Jesus says this. 00:23:28.080 --> 00:23:30.800 You can do nothing outside of me. 00:23:30.800 --> 00:23:32.280 But when you think about that verse, 00:23:32.280 --> 00:23:36.840 it seems a little you can do nothing outside of me, 00:23:36.840 --> 00:23:39.680 Jesus said. 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:43.680 If I'm honest, I actually think that I can do certain things 00:23:43.680 --> 00:23:45.840 outside of Jesus. 00:23:45.840 --> 00:23:49.760 If I'm honest to myself, that's how I live. 00:23:49.760 --> 00:23:53.720 I live with a pretty good conviction 00:23:53.720 --> 00:23:57.480 that I could do some things without Christ. 00:23:57.480 --> 00:23:58.320 And that's sad. 00:24:02.280 --> 00:24:05.600 And the truth is what he is saying, of course. 00:24:05.600 --> 00:24:08.360 It's my ignorance that makes me feel sometimes 00:24:08.360 --> 00:24:10.400 that I could do some things without him. 00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:12.640 Because when I look back at my life, 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:15.600 I'm not always thinking of him. 00:24:15.600 --> 00:24:20.360 I'm not always convinced that he is in it. 00:24:20.360 --> 00:24:24.080 I wish I was living like that 24-7. 00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:27.160 But the truth is that outside of Christ, 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:28.600 I cannot do anything. 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:35.240 And so what he is after is to get me to a place 00:24:35.240 --> 00:24:37.920 where the way I speak of this will change, 00:24:37.920 --> 00:24:41.920 where next year, same time, I'll sit here or stand here 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:44.160 or wherever you're at, wherever I am at, 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:47.680 will be able to say, I can't actually 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:50.320 do anything outside of him. 00:24:50.320 --> 00:24:52.400 And you'll mean it. 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:54.760 You'll mean it sincerely. 00:24:54.760 --> 00:24:57.920 That I can't do anything outside of him. 00:24:57.920 --> 00:25:03.120 My living, my moving, my being, all of this is within him. 00:25:03.120 --> 00:25:05.920 He is my dwelling place. 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:07.880 See, all of the things that we are talking about 00:25:07.880 --> 00:25:11.000 with respect to Hebrews 2.0 and all the other things 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:15.480 that God is speaking to us, this is such a prerequisite, 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:20.920 to dwell with him, to be in his presence. 00:25:20.920 --> 00:25:23.800 Acts chapter 17, verse 26. 00:25:23.800 --> 00:25:26.720 And he made from one man, this is Paul speaking, sorry, 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:28.480 it wasn't 28, it was 17. 00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:31.720 And he made from one man every nation of mankind 00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:34.200 to live on all the face of the earth. 00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:36.240 And a few things after that, I'll skip that. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:40.320 And then it says, for in him we live and move 00:25:40.320 --> 00:25:43.080 and have our being. 00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:47.120 For in him we live and move and have our being. 00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:49.720 So there are two things at play here. 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:53.560 The first thing is my understanding of this truth 00:25:53.560 --> 00:25:57.360 that I live and move and have my being in him. 00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:59.520 And that's foundational. 00:25:59.520 --> 00:26:01.040 I need to understand it. 00:26:01.040 --> 00:26:03.800 I need to be convinced of it in my mind 00:26:03.800 --> 00:26:07.280 that I can't live outside of him. 00:26:07.280 --> 00:26:09.240 That anything that I do outside of him 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:12.520 is me building things with my flesh. 00:26:12.520 --> 00:26:14.120 Anything that I do outside of him 00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:18.240 is me building things with my flesh. 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:20.280 Anything that I do outside of him 00:26:20.280 --> 00:26:23.600 is me just choosing my own way. 00:26:23.600 --> 00:26:25.360 And that there is a different way, 00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:28.080 which is when it comes to everyday life. 00:26:28.080 --> 00:26:31.720 I'm not talking about church, I'm not talking about ministry, 00:26:31.720 --> 00:26:35.000 I'm not talking about the next thing that you do 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:36.320 in your Christian group. 00:26:36.320 --> 00:26:38.320 I'm talking about everyday life, 00:26:38.320 --> 00:26:40.600 when you wake up until you go to bed. 00:26:40.600 --> 00:26:43.400 The times in your life when sometimes you feel 00:26:43.400 --> 00:26:44.920 like you're just doing it. 00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:47.800 God is saying, come on Derek, come on Ashish. 00:26:47.800 --> 00:26:50.480 There is a different way where you recognize that 00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:53.800 you are not able to do anything outside of me. 00:26:53.800 --> 00:26:57.600 And you're in my, you are, you are in me, 00:26:57.600 --> 00:26:59.960 moving in me, living in me. 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:03.080 There's nothing outside of it that you can do. 00:27:03.080 --> 00:27:06.040 And so the foundational understanding of this truth 00:27:07.320 --> 00:27:09.560 has to be so real in my mind. 00:27:09.560 --> 00:27:14.120 And that becomes a foundation from where I can move forward. 00:27:14.120 --> 00:27:15.560 But that has to be there. 00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.720 That this is the truth. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:19.800 My Abba, 00:27:21.880 --> 00:27:23.040 covers me. 00:27:23.040 --> 00:27:24.800 I dwell in his presence. 00:27:25.760 --> 00:27:27.160 This is the truth. 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:28.840 I keep, and how do you do it? 00:27:28.840 --> 00:27:31.800 The only way to do it is to keep reminding yourself about it. 00:27:31.800 --> 00:27:33.240 There's no other way to do it. 00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:36.480 You have to keep reminding yourself about it. 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:39.080 When you forget, you keep reminding yourself about it. 00:27:39.080 --> 00:27:41.280 You then keep reminding yourself about it again, 00:27:41.280 --> 00:27:43.200 and keep reminding yourself about it again, 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:46.360 to until one day this becomes so real to you, 00:27:46.360 --> 00:27:48.280 that no one can take it away from you. 00:27:49.360 --> 00:27:51.720 It is so deep inside your being 00:27:51.720 --> 00:27:55.080 that you can give this gift to others. 00:27:55.080 --> 00:27:57.680 That others who come to you will recognize 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:00.440 that there is a different way you can live. 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:02.240 That this is not Christian ease. 00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:03.760 This is life in the kingdom. 00:28:03.760 --> 00:28:05.440 This is Abba and father. 00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:08.240 That is what the world needs. 00:28:09.760 --> 00:28:11.280 That they come to your, 00:28:13.280 --> 00:28:15.400 the quest meetings and the 00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:18.880 pursuit meetings and the warly meetings 00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:21.080 and these meetings here on Sundays, 00:28:21.080 --> 00:28:22.960 and they come to you for, 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:24.760 come with you for dinner afterwards, 00:28:24.760 --> 00:28:27.920 and they are so sure there is something going on with him 00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:29.160 because he seems to be, 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.280 or she seems to be a different person. 00:28:31.280 --> 00:28:32.920 I have never met a person like this, 00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:34.240 so let me ask the question, 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:35.560 why are you like this? 00:28:36.600 --> 00:28:39.000 And you're not doing anything fancy. 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:41.080 You're not doing anything Christian ease 00:28:41.080 --> 00:28:42.480 to get that question. 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:44.040 You are just living your life 00:28:44.040 --> 00:28:46.480 because this is the only reality you know, 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:49.280 and it started with this fundamental understanding 00:28:49.280 --> 00:28:52.200 in your mind that you submitted your mind to 00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:55.560 and said, I cannot do Abba anything outside of you. 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:01.200 I must have my being inside you, in you, 00:29:01.200 --> 00:29:03.560 and my dwelling place is you. 00:29:04.800 --> 00:29:06.000 So that's number one. 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.640 That's the first step. 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:08.960 And the second step is, 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:10.280 now that you have done it, 00:29:10.280 --> 00:29:12.920 align your steps and align your walk, 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.160 align your path with this truth. 00:29:16.080 --> 00:29:18.480 And when those two things combine, 00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:22.040 now you can say what Paul said. 00:29:23.400 --> 00:29:25.000 When those two things combine. 00:29:27.560 --> 00:29:29.600 And so the only way to grow in this 00:29:29.600 --> 00:29:32.200 is to be disciplined in your thinking 00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:34.440 and your walking by trusting 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:37.240 in the helping power of the Holy Spirit. 00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:38.400 I'll read that again. 00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:41.000 The only way to grow in this, 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:45.120 and I'm talking about a lifestyle change, growth. 00:29:45.120 --> 00:29:46.920 I'm talking about a type of growth 00:29:46.920 --> 00:29:48.760 where you never look back 00:29:48.760 --> 00:29:51.200 and you never go back to the person you were before. 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:53.120 And the only way to grow in this 00:29:53.120 --> 00:29:55.800 is to be disciplined in your thinking 00:29:55.800 --> 00:29:58.600 and your walking by trusting 00:29:58.600 --> 00:30:01.400 in the helping power of the Holy Spirit. 00:30:01.560 --> 00:30:04.560 The helping power of the Holy Spirit. 00:30:08.080 --> 00:30:10.440 Trust His power. 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:13.200 His power is helping in nature. 00:30:15.520 --> 00:30:18.080 It is empowering in nature. 00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:21.280 It is empowering in nature. 00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:33.600 The second prerequisite 00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:38.760 is that you cannot hold fast to Him. 00:30:39.800 --> 00:30:41.880 You cannot lean on to Him 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:43.640 and latch on to Him, 00:30:43.640 --> 00:30:45.520 to His sure steady presence 00:30:46.360 --> 00:30:48.440 if you're not dependent on Him. 00:30:49.680 --> 00:30:51.480 You cannot hold fast 00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:54.200 unless you're dependent on Him. 00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:57.360 You cannot hold fast 00:30:57.360 --> 00:30:59.920 unless you're dependent on Him. 00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:11.000 I like the story of Daniel. 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:13.680 I was reading a few weeks ago, 00:31:14.040 --> 00:31:19.040 and the story where he is set. 00:31:21.440 --> 00:31:23.160 So think about Daniel, right? 00:31:23.160 --> 00:31:26.760 He is a guy who God raised in the kingdom, 00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:31.000 and King Darius looks at him and says, 00:31:31.000 --> 00:31:32.440 this whole kingdom that I, 00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:33.880 and it's a huge kingdom, 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:35.960 this whole kingdom that I am ruling, 00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:37.440 King Darius says, 00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:41.880 I'm gonna set 120 satraps over it. 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:45.680 120 rulers over it. 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.360 And above these 120 rulers, 00:31:48.360 --> 00:31:51.160 I'm gonna keep three people to watch over everything. 00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:54.200 So Daniel was one of the three. 00:31:55.800 --> 00:31:58.040 And then a point came 00:31:58.040 --> 00:32:01.680 wherein the Bible says the spirit of excellence in him. 00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:04.240 The point comes when King Darius says, 00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:05.920 you know what, I'm gonna take you 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:09.000 and you're gonna be the top guy looking after everything. 00:32:09.640 --> 00:32:12.440 So the other two high officials 00:32:12.440 --> 00:32:14.160 and the 120 satraps, 00:32:14.160 --> 00:32:15.760 they'll all report to you. 00:32:15.760 --> 00:32:18.320 You look after the whole kingdom for me. 00:32:19.560 --> 00:32:20.400 Think about it. 00:32:22.160 --> 00:32:24.880 Should be a very busy man to be able to do it. 00:32:28.360 --> 00:32:30.000 Should be a very busy man. 00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:35.600 And it's not like the people who are around him 00:32:35.600 --> 00:32:38.880 are the kind of people who are looking for his best thing. 00:32:39.560 --> 00:32:41.520 In fact, they're all against him. 00:32:41.520 --> 00:32:44.280 Because you see a few verses down, 00:32:44.280 --> 00:32:46.280 all of these guys coming together, 00:32:46.280 --> 00:32:47.920 two King Darius to say, 00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:55.240 for the next 30 days, 00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:57.920 make sure that you write an injunction 00:32:57.920 --> 00:32:59.760 and sign a document 00:32:59.760 --> 00:33:03.760 according to the law of Medes and Persians. 00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:06.640 And we'll talk about it another day perhaps, 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:07.920 but it's not a, 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.720 when it says in the law of Medes and Persians, 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:12.320 it isn't just a law. 00:33:12.320 --> 00:33:15.320 It's actually spiritual powers behind what's happening. 00:33:15.320 --> 00:33:17.800 But we'll talk about it a separate time. 00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:20.160 And they say, sign this document, 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.480 set this injunction that no man in this kingdom 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.680 can pray to anyone outside of you, King. 00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:31.880 And you know the story. 00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:38.720 Daniel hears about it. 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:47.920 He hears that the King has signed the document. 00:33:49.880 --> 00:33:51.960 And once he recognizes 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:53.920 that the King has signed the document, 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:56.040 he goes home. 00:33:58.320 --> 00:34:00.120 He goes to his upper chamber 00:34:01.440 --> 00:34:03.320 where the windows of his upper chamber 00:34:03.320 --> 00:34:05.240 are open towards Jerusalem. 00:34:07.640 --> 00:34:08.960 And then it says, 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:12.480 he knelt down and prayed. 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:16.640 He thanked God and he knelt down and prayed. 00:34:16.640 --> 00:34:18.360 And here is the part that I love, 00:34:19.400 --> 00:34:22.920 as he had been accustomed to. 00:34:24.040 --> 00:34:28.200 Here is one day when the entire gang of people around him 00:34:28.200 --> 00:34:29.720 turned against him, 00:34:29.720 --> 00:34:33.160 and they made the King sign a document against him. 00:34:33.160 --> 00:34:35.880 They brought in an injunction against him. 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.880 And that day, 00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:39.800 instead of turning to the King, 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:41.480 instead of going and telling the King that, 00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:43.200 hey, I have a better idea, 00:34:43.200 --> 00:34:44.920 because he could have done that, 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:46.960 instead of choosing to go somewhere 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:49.080 and conspire with others, 00:34:49.080 --> 00:34:53.280 because he has always been conspiring with the Holy Spirit, 00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:56.760 because he was always conspiring with the Lord, 00:34:56.760 --> 00:34:59.400 because he always had this habit 00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:00.640 of going up 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:04.120 to his chamber, 00:35:04.120 --> 00:35:05.840 where the windows of his chamber 00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:09.400 were open towards Jerusalem. 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:10.520 And he knelt down 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:13.840 in thanksgiving 00:35:15.080 --> 00:35:15.920 and in prayer. 00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:19.080 That is discipline. 00:35:20.160 --> 00:35:22.400 That is a lifestyle 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:24.760 where it doesn't matter what you're hearing. 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:27.760 It doesn't matter what has been told to you. 00:35:27.760 --> 00:35:29.360 You have the confidence 00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:32.760 that I knelt before the King of this universe yesterday. 00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:35.880 I knelt before the King of this universe this morning. 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.200 I knelt before him my life, 00:35:38.200 --> 00:35:40.560 and I am going to bow down before him, 00:35:40.560 --> 00:35:42.640 because when I bow down before him, 00:35:42.640 --> 00:35:45.520 when I am desperately in need of his protection, 00:35:45.520 --> 00:35:46.640 his covering, 00:35:46.640 --> 00:35:49.080 his name will protect me. 00:35:49.080 --> 00:35:51.200 His presence will protect me. 00:35:51.200 --> 00:35:53.200 He is so convinced of it 00:35:53.200 --> 00:35:56.320 that he doesn't fret his way out any other way. 00:35:56.320 --> 00:35:58.480 He goes to this one place 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.160 that he has always gone to, 00:36:01.160 --> 00:36:05.000 because he knows that's the place that he finds refuge. 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.600 That's the place where he finds comfort. 00:36:07.600 --> 00:36:10.280 That's the place where he knows there is a tomorrow 00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:11.960 because God has already said it. 00:36:14.040 --> 00:36:17.000 You cannot hold fast to the Lord 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:18.800 unless you're desperate for him, 00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:20.600 unless you are depending on him. 00:36:20.600 --> 00:36:22.880 Because if you don't have dependence, 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.520 why would you need to? 00:36:24.520 --> 00:36:27.560 If I don't depend on him for something, 00:36:27.560 --> 00:36:30.480 what's the need for me to hold fast to him? 00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:31.680 There's really no need. 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:35.200 And this dependence, 00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:39.800 when it moves away from just important things 00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:41.960 to everything, 00:36:41.960 --> 00:36:46.080 that is transformational living. 00:36:46.080 --> 00:36:49.480 Where this dependence is not just about 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:52.880 who do I get married to. 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:55.760 This dependence is not just about 00:36:55.760 --> 00:36:58.000 do I leave my job and look for something else 00:36:58.000 --> 00:36:58.960 or do I stick? 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:02.760 This dependence is not just about finding a place. 00:37:02.760 --> 00:37:05.280 This dependence is not just about 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:08.040 important things in your life. 00:37:08.040 --> 00:37:11.240 This dependence is an everyday thing 00:37:11.240 --> 00:37:13.720 where you live and you move 00:37:13.720 --> 00:37:18.480 and you have your being within him, inside him. 00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:19.920 There is no other way. 00:37:21.960 --> 00:37:23.720 So you cannot hold fast. 00:37:24.600 --> 00:37:27.200 You cannot hold fast 00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:29.560 unless you're dependent on him. 00:37:30.560 --> 00:37:33.080 And our father is looking for children 00:37:33.080 --> 00:37:35.960 who are ever dependent on him, 00:37:35.960 --> 00:37:36.880 day and night. 00:37:37.720 --> 00:37:39.360 They're dependent on him 00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:41.640 because they can't do anything outside of him. 00:37:41.640 --> 00:37:43.880 They're convinced of that in their minds 00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:48.600 and after having been convinced of it in their minds, 00:37:48.600 --> 00:37:52.200 their steps now align with that truth. 00:37:52.200 --> 00:37:56.800 Real dependence will cost you to build an altar of prayer. 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:00.720 Real dependence will cost you 00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:03.520 to build an altar of prayer. 00:38:06.400 --> 00:38:08.600 This is the way to measure your dependence. 00:38:09.720 --> 00:38:13.880 This is the real way to measure my dependence on Abba. 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:20.320 If you look at my prayer life, your prayer life, 00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:24.800 it'll really tell you how dependent you are on the Lord. 00:38:28.200 --> 00:38:32.720 John 15, five, I am the vine and you are the branches. 00:38:32.720 --> 00:38:37.160 He who abides in me and I in him bears much fruit 00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:40.840 for without me, you can do nothing. 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:53.880 Real dependence will cost you to build an altar of prayer. 00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:59.240 In this generation, the times we live in 00:38:59.240 --> 00:39:03.400 need men and women of prayer to rise up. 00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:04.480 It is a truth. 00:39:05.720 --> 00:39:09.800 This time in history, perhaps like any other time, 00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:12.840 but this time, because this is the only time we know of. 00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:14.520 We don't know what happened 80 years ago 00:39:14.520 --> 00:39:15.760 except for reading it. 00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:17.520 But I'm telling you, it's so true. 00:39:17.520 --> 00:39:20.640 This time, this moment, right now, 00:39:20.720 --> 00:39:25.720 requires, demands men and women of prayer to rise up. 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:30.480 Men and women of prayer to rise up. 00:39:31.640 --> 00:39:34.760 And let's make everything real, guys. 00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.960 Tell yourself, talk to Abba even now and say, 00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:39.480 I've got four more months, is it? 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:41.880 Something like that, for the rest of this year. 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:48.240 Train me up, Abba, that my prayer life changes. 00:39:48.760 --> 00:39:51.560 It goes to a completely different level. 00:39:52.600 --> 00:39:55.240 Where previously, you couldn't do it 00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:58.880 past a particular time, but now you're seamlessly in it 00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:00.400 because he has given you a key. 00:40:01.560 --> 00:40:04.080 Where you're not working too hard to make it happen. 00:40:05.640 --> 00:40:08.400 Where there's something that has happened 00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:11.200 because there is a real desperation inside your heart. 00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:13.320 There is a real desire within your heart 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.800 and he gives it, as we were singing this morning, 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:21.080 pour it out, he pours it out, he pours it out. 00:40:21.080 --> 00:40:24.400 When there is real dependence, when there is real desire, 00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.600 he truly, truly, truly pours it out. 00:40:30.520 --> 00:40:32.560 So may you yourself know this, 00:40:32.560 --> 00:40:34.760 that I've been this way, Abba. 00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:36.040 This is how I've been. 00:40:36.040 --> 00:40:39.200 But now, Lord, take me to a different place in prayer. 00:40:40.120 --> 00:40:43.480 I wanna build an altar of prayer in my life. 00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:46.080 I wanna build an altar of prayer. 00:40:47.680 --> 00:40:51.440 Because that is what today demands. 00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:52.760 And when I say today demands, 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:54.480 I'm not talking about our lives. 00:40:54.480 --> 00:40:56.520 Of course, our lives demand it for ourselves, 00:40:56.520 --> 00:41:01.040 but I'm talking about for everything we talk about, 00:41:01.040 --> 00:41:02.640 everything we dream about, 00:41:02.640 --> 00:41:06.360 with respect to the agenda of the king for this kingdom, 00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:11.280 it requires you to build an altar of prayer. 00:41:11.280 --> 00:41:16.280 Not an altar of prayer where it's the same way we've been, 00:41:18.880 --> 00:41:22.880 but an altar of prayer where something has changed. 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:26.600 And you know for a fact that new oil has been poured out. 00:41:26.600 --> 00:41:29.680 You know for a fact that the wind is different, 00:41:29.680 --> 00:41:31.120 as Tuni was singing, 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:33.680 that there is a freshness to this wind. 00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:36.920 And these aren't just some sort of ideas out there. 00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:37.760 This is real. 00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:38.600 This is real. 00:41:38.600 --> 00:41:39.440 This is real. 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:40.720 These are ideas out there. 00:41:40.720 --> 00:41:42.440 This is real. 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:43.280 That when you, 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:45.680 there is such a desire that no one has, 00:41:45.680 --> 00:41:49.040 you don't have to kind of pull yourself into praying. 00:41:49.040 --> 00:41:51.280 It's there, it's such a desire, such a dream, 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:52.360 such a, not a dream, 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:54.920 such a pleasure to be praying, 00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:56.880 such a pleasure to be praying. 00:42:02.200 --> 00:42:05.120 So holding fast cannot happen 00:42:05.120 --> 00:42:07.840 unless you're truly dependent on him. 00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:11.680 Three, the act of holding fast is strengthened 00:42:11.680 --> 00:42:14.000 by a revelation of his love for you. 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:15.920 The act of holding fast. 00:42:18.600 --> 00:42:20.680 Someone texted me saying, 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.120 there's some problem with the speakers. 00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:29.280 The act of holding fast is strengthened 00:42:29.280 --> 00:42:31.320 by a revelation of his love for you. 00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:35.720 Is it because I keep moving? 00:42:36.720 --> 00:42:38.360 All right. 00:42:38.360 --> 00:42:39.200 Okay. 00:42:40.040 --> 00:42:42.360 Psalm 91 verse 14, 00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:45.720 because he holds fast to me in love, 00:42:45.720 --> 00:42:47.640 I will deliver him. 00:42:47.640 --> 00:42:50.760 The act of holding fast is strengthened 00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:53.240 by a revelation of his love for you. 00:42:53.240 --> 00:42:55.000 I won't spend too much time on this one, 00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:58.680 but just this idea, guys, 00:42:58.680 --> 00:43:00.560 just this idea that, 00:43:00.560 --> 00:43:03.480 yes, you can't really hold fast to him 00:43:03.480 --> 00:43:06.360 when you're not fully convinced of his love for you. 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:09.040 And I know that all of us are convinced 00:43:09.040 --> 00:43:10.200 of his love for you. 00:43:10.200 --> 00:43:12.520 We are convinced of his love. 00:43:12.520 --> 00:43:13.360 All of us are. 00:43:15.200 --> 00:43:16.040 But, 00:43:17.800 --> 00:43:19.160 can we gaze 00:43:21.160 --> 00:43:26.160 upon the Christ who is crucified on the cross? 00:43:26.720 --> 00:43:27.960 Can we gaze 00:43:29.240 --> 00:43:30.920 on the risen Christ? 00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:33.840 Just those two things. 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:41.760 Just those two things. 00:43:41.760 --> 00:43:44.080 When you do it continually, 00:43:44.080 --> 00:43:47.600 when you make it a habit to look at, 00:43:47.600 --> 00:43:50.000 when I say gaze, I actually mean 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.000 to look steadily with admiration. 00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:56.000 Always with admiration. 00:43:56.000 --> 00:44:00.200 Spending time looking at the crucified Christ. 00:44:00.600 --> 00:44:04.160 Spending time looking at the risen Christ. 00:44:06.640 --> 00:44:08.640 See, you know one thing that will do? 00:44:08.640 --> 00:44:11.960 It will absolutely change our hearts 00:44:11.960 --> 00:44:14.840 to become so much more soft in him. 00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:20.760 Because sometimes we go past these truths, 00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:23.800 knowing it very well and being convinced of it, 00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:25.920 but without really giving it time. 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:27.520 Without really giving it time. 00:44:29.200 --> 00:44:31.960 Can you look at the risen Christ? 00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:33.720 Can you keep gazing at him? 00:44:34.560 --> 00:44:36.960 Looking at this Christ who is crucified. 00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:39.960 Looking at the Christ who is now risen. 00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:42.200 To see how much he loves you. 00:44:42.200 --> 00:44:45.840 Because when you're in places like that in your life, 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:49.800 it is impossible not to be touched by his love. 00:44:49.800 --> 00:44:52.800 It is impossible to be leaving that room, 00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:54.680 that space when you do this, 00:44:54.680 --> 00:44:56.680 without something transformational, 00:44:56.680 --> 00:44:58.680 truly happening inside your being. 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:02.920 Make it a habit. 00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:05.600 Make it a habit of looking at him. 00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:09.520 I'm not talking about praying. 00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:11.920 This is different. 00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:12.760 This is, 00:45:16.120 --> 00:45:17.760 don't have words for it. 00:45:17.760 --> 00:45:19.560 I don't have words for it, Abba, 00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:22.120 but I just want to look at you, Christ. 00:45:22.120 --> 00:45:23.120 I want to gaze upon you, 00:45:23.600 --> 00:45:25.880 which is what is said in Psalm 27. 00:45:27.160 --> 00:45:28.680 Psalm 27. 00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:32.760 Verse four, one thing I ask from the Lord, 00:45:32.760 --> 00:45:34.080 this only do I seek, 00:45:34.080 --> 00:45:35.760 that I may dwell in the house of the Lord 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:37.120 all the days of my life, 00:45:37.120 --> 00:45:40.200 to gaze on the beauty of the Lord, 00:45:40.200 --> 00:45:42.480 and to seek him in his temple. 00:45:43.520 --> 00:45:44.600 So true. 00:45:44.600 --> 00:45:45.920 It requires time. 00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:47.160 So create time. 00:45:49.640 --> 00:45:52.800 See, another thing that's very practical, 00:45:53.480 --> 00:45:54.760 and I hope it will be helpful for you, 00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:57.280 is also cultivate 00:45:58.520 --> 00:46:03.520 a discipline of an undistracted heart. 00:46:03.520 --> 00:46:05.200 And I'll explain it. 00:46:05.200 --> 00:46:06.040 Cultivate 00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:11.320 the discipline of an undistracted heart. 00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:15.000 It's so helpful, 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.280 because sometimes we have the best of intentions 00:46:18.280 --> 00:46:20.080 to be with him, 00:46:20.080 --> 00:46:21.800 but our heart is distracted. 00:46:23.800 --> 00:46:26.200 There's no shortage of desire, 00:46:26.200 --> 00:46:27.560 but the heart is distracted, 00:46:27.560 --> 00:46:29.560 because there is something that's going on, 00:46:29.560 --> 00:46:31.160 or your mind easily, 00:46:31.160 --> 00:46:32.760 you know, you're doing it for five minutes, 00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:34.160 and then the sixth minute, 00:46:34.160 --> 00:46:36.960 your mind just easily goes somewhere else. 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:40.160 Or you do it for 15 minutes, 00:46:40.160 --> 00:46:42.720 and then your mind just goes into the next thing, 00:46:42.720 --> 00:46:44.560 or maybe you're on your phone all of a sudden, 00:46:44.560 --> 00:46:45.600 you're looking at things, 00:46:45.600 --> 00:46:46.960 and then you're like, oh, I'm on my phone, 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:48.120 I've been on my phone for two minutes, 00:46:48.120 --> 00:46:49.080 let me put this on the side, 00:46:49.080 --> 00:46:50.760 and let me get back to it again. 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:56.960 Learn the discipline of an undistracted heart, 00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:03.320 where you're set in your mind to be undistracted, 00:47:04.080 --> 00:47:06.200 and it keeps improving. 00:47:06.200 --> 00:47:09.840 You keep getting better at being undistracted. 00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:13.640 Like Mary, 00:47:13.640 --> 00:47:16.280 it doesn't matter what's happening here and there, 00:47:16.280 --> 00:47:20.000 she has chosen the better portion. 00:47:20.520 --> 00:47:22.560 She has chosen the better portion. 00:47:24.520 --> 00:47:26.360 I don't want to talk more about it, 00:47:26.360 --> 00:47:29.400 but cultivate it, we all need it. 00:47:29.400 --> 00:47:30.600 We all need it. 00:47:30.600 --> 00:47:33.040 It looks differently for different people, 00:47:33.040 --> 00:47:34.840 but if you can cultivate it, 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:37.880 an undistracted heart, it'll bless us immensely. 00:47:40.120 --> 00:47:42.200 So we'll begin to wrap up. 00:47:42.200 --> 00:47:45.080 How does the scripture say we can hold fast to him? 00:47:45.080 --> 00:47:45.920 How do we? 00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:48.440 So these are the prerequirements, 00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:49.560 what we've talked about. 00:47:50.160 --> 00:47:52.960 They were the prerequirements to hold fast, 00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:54.720 but how does the scripture say 00:47:54.720 --> 00:47:56.960 we can hold fast to him today? 00:47:59.040 --> 00:47:59.880 Number one, 00:48:01.200 --> 00:48:05.480 you hold fast to him by holding fast to his commandments. 00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:09.880 You hold fast to him by holding fast to his commandments. 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.280 Joshua chapter 22, verse five, 00:48:17.320 --> 00:48:19.840 but be very careful to keep the commandment 00:48:19.840 --> 00:48:22.120 and the law that Moses, 00:48:22.120 --> 00:48:23.880 the servant of the Lord gave you, 00:48:23.880 --> 00:48:25.160 to love the Lord your God, 00:48:25.160 --> 00:48:27.400 to walk in obedience to him, 00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:30.280 to keep his commands, to hold fast to him. 00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:31.200 I'll repeat it. 00:48:31.200 --> 00:48:32.840 To walk in obedience to him, 00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:35.480 to keep his commands, to hold fast to him. 00:48:36.520 --> 00:48:41.520 You hold fast to him by holding fast to his commandments. 00:48:42.520 --> 00:48:47.520 Psalm 119, verses nine to 11. 00:48:47.520 --> 00:48:51.520 Psalm 119, verses nine to 11. 00:48:54.200 --> 00:48:57.920 How can a young man keep his way pure? 00:48:57.920 --> 00:49:01.240 By guarding it according to your word. 00:49:01.240 --> 00:49:04.520 With my whole heart, I seek you. 00:49:04.520 --> 00:49:06.920 Let me not wander from your commandments. 00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:09.440 I have stored up your word in my heart, 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:11.160 that I might not sin against you. 00:49:13.520 --> 00:49:14.360 Wow. 00:49:15.560 --> 00:49:19.240 How can a young man keep his way pure? 00:49:19.240 --> 00:49:22.680 By guarding it according to your word. 00:49:22.680 --> 00:49:25.320 With my whole heart, I seek you. 00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:28.360 Let me not wander from your commandments. 00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:31.360 I have stored up your word in my heart, 00:49:31.360 --> 00:49:33.960 that I might not sin against you. 00:49:33.960 --> 00:49:36.560 That I might not sin against you. 00:49:53.520 --> 00:49:56.440 Some of these scriptures from Psalm 119, 00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.080 I'm saying it only because, 00:50:00.200 --> 00:50:04.040 I'm saying it because it has helped me so much in my life. 00:50:05.120 --> 00:50:07.080 I remember when I was very young, 00:50:07.080 --> 00:50:09.960 probably, I don't know, nine or 10, whatever, 00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:12.240 a pastor came to me when we were praying, 00:50:13.520 --> 00:50:18.240 and he laid his hands on me. 00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:21.880 I'm so young, I don't know anything. 00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:24.000 And he said, be like David. 00:50:26.000 --> 00:50:27.720 And I really took that seriously. 00:50:28.680 --> 00:50:30.760 I said, I really want to be like David. 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:32.640 I don't know about David, I don't know too much, 00:50:32.640 --> 00:50:34.920 but I really want to be like David. 00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:36.280 And so I had times, 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.840 I'm sharing this because a lot of you guys go to school, 00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:43.960 and this is Trinity Western and other schools 00:50:43.960 --> 00:50:47.480 that you guys go to, or UCW, whatever else. 00:50:47.480 --> 00:50:49.080 I thought I'll add this because, 00:50:50.040 --> 00:50:54.200 what I did during that time, it changed my life forever. 00:50:55.120 --> 00:50:59.720 Because I really believed that I could be a man 00:50:59.720 --> 00:51:02.080 whose heart was after God. 00:51:02.080 --> 00:51:05.120 Of course I sinned, of course I made mistakes, 00:51:05.120 --> 00:51:07.960 of course I wasn't, I'm still not perfect. 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:09.680 That's a given, of course. 00:51:10.600 --> 00:51:13.840 But you don't know how much trouble I got out of 00:51:13.840 --> 00:51:15.280 because I took it seriously. 00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:21.040 How much trouble I got out of 00:51:21.040 --> 00:51:24.240 because I received that as a 10 year old or whatever, 00:51:24.240 --> 00:51:28.680 and said, yes, Aba, as best as I can, 00:51:28.680 --> 00:51:32.040 I want to guard my ways, as best as I can. 00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:37.200 As best as I can, I want to live for you, 00:51:37.200 --> 00:51:38.600 as best as I can. 00:51:40.560 --> 00:51:45.360 You've got to be in your schools, wherever you are, 00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:47.240 you've got to be people like that, 00:51:47.240 --> 00:51:50.200 where you have a zeal that's so different 00:51:50.200 --> 00:51:52.080 from those around you. 00:51:52.080 --> 00:51:54.280 And it's not because they don't have the zeal, 00:51:54.280 --> 00:51:57.240 it's because you've been given something special. 00:51:57.240 --> 00:51:59.760 The truth has been shared with you. 00:51:59.760 --> 00:52:01.560 Some of them don't know the truth. 00:52:02.520 --> 00:52:04.560 But when the truth has been given to you, 00:52:04.560 --> 00:52:06.760 you've got to do something with the truth. 00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:12.320 See, the more we know, the more responsible we should be. 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:16.760 The less we know, we have more room. 00:52:16.760 --> 00:52:19.400 But the more we know, the less room we have. 00:52:21.200 --> 00:52:23.640 Because we are on a short leash at that time. 00:52:25.480 --> 00:52:30.480 And this isn't just for young, as Pawan calls it, 00:52:30.480 --> 00:52:33.080 he's not here, he said, well, I won't say the first part, 00:52:33.080 --> 00:52:35.480 he said, young kings and old something. 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:37.680 I won't say what the old something is. 00:52:37.680 --> 00:52:39.240 He put me in that category too. 00:52:39.240 --> 00:52:40.720 But he said, young kings. 00:52:40.720 --> 00:52:41.960 This is for the young kings, 00:52:41.960 --> 00:52:44.320 but it's not just for the young kings. 00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:48.760 This is for us, who are older than the young kings, 00:52:49.520 --> 00:52:51.760 and for people older than me. 00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:53.240 Even though the verse says, 00:52:53.240 --> 00:52:57.720 how can a young man guard his way or stay pure? 00:52:57.720 --> 00:53:00.440 It's not just for young men and women. 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:02.440 This is for any one of us here. 00:53:04.680 --> 00:53:06.680 And it's so not religion. 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.920 It's so not religion. 00:53:10.920 --> 00:53:13.560 This is just wanting, 00:53:15.080 --> 00:53:18.000 in the best way possible, to love him back. 00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:20.720 That's what it is. 00:53:20.720 --> 00:53:24.720 This isn't, you shall not, you shall not, you shall not. 00:53:24.720 --> 00:53:28.040 And of course, all you shall nots are right and true. 00:53:28.040 --> 00:53:30.680 And we must fear at the you shall nots. 00:53:30.680 --> 00:53:32.720 There's no problem saying that. 00:53:32.720 --> 00:53:34.280 That's the word. 00:53:34.280 --> 00:53:35.680 But this is more than that. 00:53:35.680 --> 00:53:39.960 Where you say, Aba, I really want to live for you. 00:53:39.960 --> 00:53:42.120 Wanna please you, help me. 00:53:42.120 --> 00:53:43.960 I made mistakes yesterday. 00:53:43.960 --> 00:53:45.920 I made mistakes two days ago. 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:48.120 But now, let me start afresh, 00:53:48.120 --> 00:53:50.760 so that I will not fear making mistakes, 00:53:50.760 --> 00:53:52.680 because I wanna love you so much more, 00:53:52.680 --> 00:53:54.400 and I wanna do you well. 00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:55.440 I wanna please you. 00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:57.400 That's what it is. 00:53:57.400 --> 00:54:00.440 So it's not a count of how many mistakes we did in the past. 00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:01.760 It's not a measure of, 00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:04.040 oh, will I not do the same thing again? 00:54:04.040 --> 00:54:06.160 It's truly, Aba, I know for a fact 00:54:06.160 --> 00:54:08.560 that I can't do it myself anyway. 00:54:08.560 --> 00:54:09.720 My life has taught me that. 00:54:09.720 --> 00:54:11.040 Your life has taught you that. 00:54:11.040 --> 00:54:12.760 You can't do it on your own anyway. 00:54:12.760 --> 00:54:14.840 But with him, I wanna love you. 00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:17.120 With your spirit, I wanna please you. 00:54:17.120 --> 00:54:19.640 With your spirit, I wanna make you proud. 00:54:21.720 --> 00:54:23.080 Now, that is good. 00:54:23.080 --> 00:54:27.000 Because now, it's not a list of do's and do nots. 00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:31.600 It is truly a thing where your heart pleases him. 00:54:31.600 --> 00:54:34.560 Your heart and the way you are pleases him. 00:54:34.560 --> 00:54:36.560 So you cannot hold fast, 00:54:37.720 --> 00:54:40.960 or you hold fast by holding on to his commandments. 00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:46.480 And you do that even when the pressure is mounting. 00:54:47.120 --> 00:54:50.120 You do that even when the pressure is mounting. 00:54:58.800 --> 00:55:01.000 Guys, I wanna say this, 00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:03.160 because it's important. 00:55:03.160 --> 00:55:07.000 At no time in our life should we allow the devil 00:55:07.000 --> 00:55:11.640 to convince us that because we made mistakes in the past, 00:55:11.640 --> 00:55:12.840 it's too late. 00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:16.600 Because we made mistakes in the past, it's too late. 00:55:17.640 --> 00:55:22.440 At no time should we allow the devil to convince us 00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:25.160 that because we made mistakes in the past, 00:55:25.160 --> 00:55:28.120 the future can't be as good as what it could have been. 00:55:28.120 --> 00:55:31.040 That is a lie from the pit of hell. 00:55:35.920 --> 00:55:38.880 The truth is that the blood of Jesus Christ 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:41.400 washes me clean. 00:55:41.400 --> 00:55:44.800 The blood of Jesus Christ washes you so clean 00:55:44.800 --> 00:55:49.800 that it's as far from the east as from the west. 00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:52.200 That's what the Bible says. 00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:57.440 So do not ever allow the devil to cause you 00:55:57.440 --> 00:55:59.000 to look back at your life, 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:02.880 an event or events that you have turned away from, 00:56:02.880 --> 00:56:04.680 to tell you, to convince you 00:56:04.680 --> 00:56:07.440 that your future will be dependent on what you did 00:56:07.440 --> 00:56:09.040 or what happened to you. 00:56:09.040 --> 00:56:11.000 Do not give him that power 00:56:11.000 --> 00:56:14.520 because the power lies with Christ. 00:56:14.520 --> 00:56:16.560 And if you choose to walk with him, 00:56:16.560 --> 00:56:18.960 the power is yours to overcome that. 00:56:21.080 --> 00:56:24.440 And whenever you see commandments in the Bible, 00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:28.320 wherever you read commandments for us to follow, 00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.080 always look at it from a place of, 00:56:30.080 --> 00:56:33.360 Abba, I don't have the power to do all of this, 00:56:33.360 --> 00:56:36.200 but with you, I have the power to do all of this. 00:56:36.200 --> 00:56:38.640 And set that as a thing in your mind 00:56:38.640 --> 00:56:40.840 because the more you're convinced that 00:56:41.680 --> 00:56:43.320 I can't, then you can't, 00:56:43.320 --> 00:56:47.120 but the more you're convinced that you can with him, 00:56:47.120 --> 00:56:48.120 then you can. 00:56:49.120 --> 00:56:51.040 That's the key. 00:56:51.040 --> 00:56:53.360 The more you're convinced that you can't 00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:57.320 because it's difficult, then you can't. 00:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.400 But the more you're convinced of this truth 00:56:59.400 --> 00:57:03.240 that you can with his power, you can. 00:57:03.240 --> 00:57:05.920 You can, you can. 00:57:05.920 --> 00:57:07.320 That is the truth. 00:57:11.840 --> 00:57:14.440 Number two, you hold fast to him 00:57:14.440 --> 00:57:16.440 by holding fast to his promises. 00:57:18.800 --> 00:57:22.200 You hold fast to him by holding fast to his promises. 00:57:27.640 --> 00:57:29.960 I won't read it, but I'll let you guys go home 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:31.400 and read it or read it later. 00:57:31.400 --> 00:57:34.360 Hebrews chapter three, verse 14. 00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:36.960 It talks about holding fast 00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:39.720 to the beginning of your assurance. 00:57:41.840 --> 00:57:45.560 Holding fast the beginning of our assurance firm 00:57:45.560 --> 00:57:46.640 until the end. 00:57:46.640 --> 00:57:49.680 Hebrews chapter three, verse 14. 00:57:56.960 --> 00:58:00.080 Hebrews chapter three, five and six, 00:58:00.080 --> 00:58:01.720 talk about the same. 00:58:01.720 --> 00:58:04.120 Holding fast your confidence 00:58:04.120 --> 00:58:08.000 and your boasting in your hope in Christ. 00:58:11.840 --> 00:58:14.840 You hold fast to him by holding fast to his promises. 00:58:14.840 --> 00:58:16.880 So there are two types of promises. 00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:21.880 One is the written word which contains promises. 00:58:22.880 --> 00:58:25.120 And then there is the spoken word, 00:58:25.120 --> 00:58:27.560 prophetic words, Rhema words, 00:58:27.560 --> 00:58:29.800 words spoken over your life. 00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:31.920 Both sets of promises. 00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:36.920 So you hold fast to him by holding fast to his promises. 00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:39.880 Rhema words, words spoken over your life. 00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:42.160 Both sets of promises. 00:58:42.160 --> 00:58:43.280 And when you know for a fact, 00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:45.920 the written word for sure you know 00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:47.360 is his promise to you. 00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:49.320 And whatever you're convinced 00:58:49.320 --> 00:58:51.840 God spoke over your life through men 00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:55.480 as a promise for your future, 00:58:55.480 --> 00:58:58.200 hold it tight, hold it fast. 00:59:00.440 --> 00:59:03.200 And prophetic words spoken over you 00:59:03.200 --> 00:59:05.400 do not relax and say, 00:59:05.400 --> 00:59:08.840 well those things will happen at some point 00:59:08.840 --> 00:59:11.440 or two years later or three years later. 00:59:11.440 --> 00:59:13.480 Sometimes God gives you a word 00:59:13.480 --> 00:59:15.600 so that you can use that word 00:59:15.600 --> 00:59:18.880 as something you can stand on and take the next step. 00:59:18.880 --> 00:59:21.920 It is never to be put on the shelf. 00:59:21.920 --> 00:59:24.840 It's a word given so you can stand on it. 00:59:24.840 --> 00:59:27.080 See Peter when he stepped out of the boat, 00:59:27.080 --> 00:59:28.760 he didn't step on water. 00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:31.720 He actually stepped on the word that Jesus spoke. 00:59:32.640 --> 00:59:34.400 He stepped on that. 00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:36.880 And of course then he floundered with him thinking 00:59:36.880 --> 00:59:38.320 and looking at different things. 00:59:38.320 --> 00:59:40.280 But you have to have a sure footing 00:59:40.280 --> 00:59:43.520 when it comes on the promises spoken over your life, 00:59:43.520 --> 00:59:46.760 either through the word that you're convinced about 00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:50.080 or prophetic words that have been spoken over your life. 00:59:50.080 --> 00:59:52.280 And you have to hold them close. 00:59:52.280 --> 00:59:54.600 You have to hold fast to them saying, 00:59:54.600 --> 00:59:57.320 Abba, I am looking at these things. 00:59:57.320 --> 00:59:58.920 I'm thinking of these things. 00:59:58.920 --> 01:00:00.680 I am reminded of these things. 01:00:00.680 --> 01:00:02.160 Show me what's next. 01:00:02.160 --> 01:00:03.160 Content with him. 01:00:03.160 --> 01:00:04.160 Ask him. 01:00:05.120 --> 01:00:05.960 Don't put it on the shelf. 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:08.560 Don't say, well, I'll get to it six months from now. 01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:10.840 Don't say it will happen a year from now. 01:00:10.840 --> 01:00:12.880 You have to be a type of people. 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:14.160 I have to be a man. 01:00:14.160 --> 01:00:15.400 You have to be a woman. 01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:18.000 You have to be people who brings it all together 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:20.480 and says, I hold fast to these things. 01:00:20.480 --> 01:00:23.400 I remind myself of these promises that you have said. 01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:25.800 And this is not for two years from now. 01:00:25.800 --> 01:00:27.360 It is for now. 01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:29.200 I ready myself right now. 01:00:29.200 --> 01:00:31.440 I align my life right now. 01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:34.320 And when you do that, now, now, now, 01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:37.120 you're setting up for yourself an orbit 01:00:37.120 --> 01:00:41.360 that will take you closer to where God wants you to go. 01:00:43.520 --> 01:00:46.040 Cling on to his promises. 01:00:46.040 --> 01:00:47.320 Don't put it on the shelf. 01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:50.360 Don't say, yes, I know it will happen. 01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:54.400 Work with him so that it happens at his time. 01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:56.280 And it's not passive. 01:00:56.280 --> 01:01:00.560 It's an active, vigilant, guarding of the promises 01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:01.840 that God has given you. 01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:05.920 It's an active, vigilant, guarding of the promises 01:01:05.920 --> 01:01:07.160 that God has given you. 01:01:07.160 --> 01:01:10.400 It's an active, vigilant, walking in line 01:01:10.400 --> 01:01:13.280 with the promises God has given you. 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:16.240 And that is when you realize as you're going ahead 01:01:16.240 --> 01:01:20.840 in your life, you realize that most of these things 01:01:20.840 --> 01:01:22.640 have happened, but I need more. 01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:26.520 That's the way it should be. 01:01:26.520 --> 01:01:29.200 That father, these prophetic words, oh, I received it. 01:01:29.200 --> 01:01:31.840 I list them down here, one, two, three, four, five. 01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:33.760 Five out of six is done. 01:01:33.760 --> 01:01:35.480 Now give me more. 01:01:35.480 --> 01:01:37.960 You're not waiting until you're 70 for that to happen 01:01:37.960 --> 01:01:39.680 or 80 for that to happen. 01:01:39.680 --> 01:01:42.480 You're looking for it now. 01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:44.280 You're looking for it today. 01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:46.040 And if you're 70, you're saying, 01:01:46.040 --> 01:01:48.080 Abba, here is everything that happened 01:01:48.080 --> 01:01:50.960 in my 70 years of life, but for the next five years, 01:01:50.960 --> 01:01:54.320 I'll be like a Caleb who will achieve in you more things 01:01:54.320 --> 01:01:56.360 than I've ever done in the first 70. 01:01:57.320 --> 01:01:59.320 Because that's the promise. 01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:03.560 That I'm not limited to the first 70 of my life 01:02:03.560 --> 01:02:05.960 and the pace at which the first 70 went. 01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:09.600 From 70 to 75 is more than enough for me 01:02:09.600 --> 01:02:11.920 to accomplish way more in you 01:02:11.920 --> 01:02:14.240 than I've accomplished in the first 70. 01:02:14.240 --> 01:02:18.720 And all these things are so true and real and practical 01:02:18.720 --> 01:02:20.320 for anyone who wants it. 01:02:20.320 --> 01:02:22.160 Hold fast to your confession. 01:02:23.560 --> 01:02:25.840 Hold fast to your confession. 01:02:31.920 --> 01:02:35.880 Psalm 91, verse two, 01:02:35.880 --> 01:02:40.880 I will say to the Lord my refuge and my fortress, 01:02:41.040 --> 01:02:44.040 my God in whom I trust. 01:02:44.040 --> 01:02:46.000 I will say to the Lord, 01:02:46.000 --> 01:02:50.160 my God in whom I trust. 01:02:50.160 --> 01:02:51.920 I will say to the Lord, 01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.080 my refuge and my fortress, 01:02:54.080 --> 01:02:56.400 my God in whom I trust. 01:02:57.360 --> 01:03:02.080 Your confession can alter your future. 01:03:04.680 --> 01:03:07.960 Some of us have played Exploding Kitten so many times. 01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:09.960 You know the alter the future card? 01:03:12.200 --> 01:03:14.600 Take that and you're gonna change the... 01:03:16.560 --> 01:03:19.560 It's like your confession can alter your future. 01:03:21.120 --> 01:03:23.960 And this is not, you speak whatever you wanna speak, 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:25.560 it'll just come to you and happen to you. 01:03:25.560 --> 01:03:30.560 No, this is a confession with your mouth using words 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:37.000 that you hear, that spirit realm hears, 01:03:37.000 --> 01:03:40.000 that you're confessing because you're confident 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:42.080 of what he is, who he is, 01:03:42.960 --> 01:03:46.400 and your guaranteed assurance in those things 01:03:46.400 --> 01:03:48.080 causes you to confess. 01:03:48.080 --> 01:03:51.120 So in Psalm 91, interestingly, 01:03:51.120 --> 01:03:53.720 the Psalmist says, I will say, 01:03:55.200 --> 01:03:58.240 it is important for you to say, 01:03:58.240 --> 01:04:00.360 it is important for me to say. 01:04:01.680 --> 01:04:02.920 And I'll tell you this, 01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:07.000 our Lord loves people who speak. 01:04:07.240 --> 01:04:12.240 Never think that I can be as much as a good Christian, 01:04:12.320 --> 01:04:17.320 never think that I can be as much of a right Christian, 01:04:17.840 --> 01:04:19.520 but I'm just not vocal. 01:04:20.840 --> 01:04:25.040 It is foolishness. 01:04:26.720 --> 01:04:29.240 You must use your words. 01:04:29.240 --> 01:04:31.680 Your words carry power. 01:04:31.680 --> 01:04:34.680 Your words dictate where you're going. 01:04:34.680 --> 01:04:37.840 Your dictate where you're going. 01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:08.320 Yeah, confess with your mouth. 01:05:09.760 --> 01:05:11.280 Practice this, guys. 01:05:12.280 --> 01:05:13.680 Don't curse yourself. 01:05:13.680 --> 01:05:15.480 It's amazing how many times 01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:19.960 without knowing, you could be cursing yourself 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:22.640 because you're used to speaking of things a certain way. 01:05:25.160 --> 01:05:26.480 Don't curse yourself. 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:29.280 Because by saying you can't do it, 01:05:29.280 --> 01:05:32.680 or by speaking or aligning with the words 01:05:32.680 --> 01:05:34.720 or speaking or aligning with... 01:05:40.680 --> 01:05:41.520 How you? 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:47.600 Oh, yeah, sure. 01:05:47.600 --> 01:05:49.080 I'll give you an easy example. 01:05:50.080 --> 01:05:52.200 You can be sitting, the question is, 01:05:52.200 --> 01:05:54.400 can you give an example of how you can curse yourself? 01:05:54.400 --> 01:05:56.480 See, when we think the word curse, 01:05:56.480 --> 01:05:58.400 we often think of curse as, 01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:01.920 you have to say something so bad, 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:03.520 and that's what a curse is. 01:06:03.520 --> 01:06:04.840 Curse is not just that. 01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:06.520 I'll give you an easy example of a curse. 01:06:06.520 --> 01:06:08.160 You can be sitting here right now, 01:06:08.160 --> 01:06:10.840 and you can be convinced in your mouth with your mind, 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:12.640 and you'll put it out in your mouth 01:06:12.640 --> 01:06:13.960 when you're outside of here. 01:06:13.960 --> 01:06:15.200 That you know what? 01:06:15.200 --> 01:06:18.600 When it comes to sermons, I can understand most of it, 01:06:18.600 --> 01:06:21.120 but somehow not all of it. 01:06:21.120 --> 01:06:23.320 I have heard people say it. 01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:24.400 That's a curse. 01:06:25.720 --> 01:06:27.080 It starts like that. 01:06:27.080 --> 01:06:29.160 Because you've essentially told yourself 01:06:29.200 --> 01:06:32.160 that somehow the spirit of God inside you 01:06:32.160 --> 01:06:34.120 can't help you understand all of it. 01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:37.760 So when I say curse, 01:06:39.800 --> 01:06:44.480 think things that don't align with the scripture, 01:06:44.480 --> 01:06:45.760 with the nature of God, 01:06:45.760 --> 01:06:48.000 that you have accepted for yourself 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:49.680 and have confessed with your mouth. 01:06:54.920 --> 01:06:58.120 And when one of my friends told me this, 01:06:58.120 --> 01:06:58.960 I told him, 01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:02.080 you can if you want to. 01:07:02.080 --> 01:07:04.360 The first thing you can do is speak 01:07:04.360 --> 01:07:06.760 that you can understand every single thing 01:07:06.760 --> 01:07:07.840 written in the word, 01:07:07.840 --> 01:07:09.840 and being taught through the word, 01:07:09.840 --> 01:07:12.640 so that you now begin to tell yourself, 01:07:12.640 --> 01:07:15.760 encounter and cut off every word 01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:18.320 until this point in your life agreed to 01:07:18.320 --> 01:07:20.000 that was against the scripture. 01:07:20.000 --> 01:07:22.520 And from here on, align with the scripture. 01:07:22.520 --> 01:07:23.480 It changes you. 01:07:23.480 --> 01:07:25.320 It's as simple as that. 01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:28.040 Your confession matters. 01:07:28.040 --> 01:07:30.760 Your confession matters. 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:33.080 Your confession can alter your future. 01:07:33.080 --> 01:07:36.800 Your confession can change the destiny of your life. 01:07:37.800 --> 01:07:38.760 And the last thing. 01:07:51.800 --> 01:07:52.640 Yeah. 01:07:58.040 --> 01:07:58.880 Yeah. 01:08:18.760 --> 01:08:20.560 Yeah, it's a good question. 01:08:20.560 --> 01:08:22.240 Because the moment you start, 01:08:24.040 --> 01:08:24.880 repeat the question. 01:08:24.880 --> 01:08:25.720 Yes. 01:08:25.720 --> 01:08:26.720 What is set up here? 01:08:28.880 --> 01:08:30.160 It's a great question. 01:08:30.160 --> 01:08:31.120 Crystal asked, 01:08:31.120 --> 01:08:33.440 what's the difference between what I just said 01:08:33.440 --> 01:08:35.720 and the name it and claim it movement? 01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:38.440 Because the name it and claim it movement is, 01:08:38.440 --> 01:08:41.000 I'm gonna get as an example, 01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:44.280 I'm gonna get that job tomorrow. 01:08:44.280 --> 01:08:45.240 And I'll get it. 01:08:45.240 --> 01:08:46.760 That job is mine. 01:08:46.760 --> 01:08:48.720 Let's start with something as simple as that. 01:08:48.720 --> 01:08:49.560 Two, 01:08:52.080 --> 01:08:54.360 I'm gonna win that jackpot. 01:08:54.360 --> 01:08:57.520 Two, I'll be really prosperous. 01:08:57.600 --> 01:09:00.360 Two, a million dollars is coming my way. 01:09:00.360 --> 01:09:03.320 Two, I'm gonna get a wife in the next six months. 01:09:03.320 --> 01:09:05.560 All I need to do is just keep saying, 01:09:05.560 --> 01:09:07.600 I'm gonna get a wife in the next six months. 01:09:07.600 --> 01:09:10.080 And the drop of the hat, six months from now, 01:09:10.080 --> 01:09:11.280 I'll get a wife. 01:09:11.280 --> 01:09:15.320 That's examples of name it and claim it. 01:09:15.320 --> 01:09:20.320 What I'm saying is being convinced of the nature of God 01:09:20.360 --> 01:09:23.640 to know that my father, 01:09:23.640 --> 01:09:25.160 if you're a single guy, 01:09:25.160 --> 01:09:26.640 you're looking for a wife. 01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:30.080 My father created me, 01:09:30.080 --> 01:09:32.120 and my father said, 01:09:32.120 --> 01:09:36.720 I will bring a suitable helper for you in my time. 01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:38.680 And you then go to the scripture and say, 01:09:38.680 --> 01:09:43.680 Lord, like Isaac needed an Eliezer, 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:45.640 you be my Eliezer. 01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:48.080 You operate from that place first. 01:09:48.080 --> 01:09:49.720 And then from there you say, 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:51.720 Abba, in your time it will happen. 01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:54.440 That's a different confession than, 01:09:54.440 --> 01:09:57.760 without having a scriptural reference point 01:09:57.760 --> 01:09:59.240 for what you're asking for, 01:09:59.240 --> 01:10:01.480 without having a scriptural mandate 01:10:01.480 --> 01:10:03.480 for what you're asking for, 01:10:03.480 --> 01:10:04.400 you can't have it. 01:10:05.400 --> 01:10:07.560 Because God is not about, 01:10:07.560 --> 01:10:11.720 God is not about just blessing us outside of his will. 01:10:11.720 --> 01:10:13.040 See, the great thing is, 01:10:13.040 --> 01:10:13.880 it's a great question. 01:10:13.880 --> 01:10:14.720 The scripture, 01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:18.640 this book is the boundary 01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:20.720 that I have 01:10:21.720 --> 01:10:24.160 to know what I can expect from God. 01:10:25.400 --> 01:10:29.240 God is bound to his word through the scripture. 01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:34.840 He is bound to his word through the scripture. 01:10:34.840 --> 01:10:39.120 And so when I confess something from this word, 01:10:39.120 --> 01:10:42.680 when I confess something from this word, 01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:45.880 that changes my future. 01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:47.360 Because that's, at that point, 01:10:47.360 --> 01:10:49.840 it's not name it and claim it. 01:10:50.080 --> 01:10:53.000 That is me submitting my being, 01:10:54.080 --> 01:10:59.080 submitting my thinking to the truth of the word. 01:11:00.120 --> 01:11:03.840 And then saying, Lord, you said it. 01:11:03.840 --> 01:11:05.680 This is who you are. 01:11:05.680 --> 01:11:07.800 It looks like it can't happen, 01:11:07.800 --> 01:11:10.360 but I submit my being and my thinking 01:11:10.360 --> 01:11:12.520 and my future to your truth. 01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.600 And then from that place you stand up 01:11:15.600 --> 01:11:19.040 and you say, I declare and I decree 01:11:19.080 --> 01:11:22.960 that those who put their trust in the Lord, 01:11:22.960 --> 01:11:25.600 their head will not bow down in shame. 01:11:25.600 --> 01:11:28.440 And now that is a declaration 01:11:28.440 --> 01:11:31.200 because that came right from your spirit man. 01:11:31.200 --> 01:11:34.040 After you having been convinced of the truth 01:11:34.040 --> 01:11:38.440 that this word is something that he binds himself to. 01:11:38.440 --> 01:11:40.760 He can't be false to his word. 01:11:40.760 --> 01:11:42.880 You can always stand on his word. 01:11:44.240 --> 01:11:45.600 100%. 01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:48.640 And if you're a wise man or you're a wise woman, 01:11:48.680 --> 01:11:51.960 what you will do is you will look through the word 01:11:51.960 --> 01:11:55.880 for his promises that you can ascribe to. 01:11:55.880 --> 01:11:58.360 Because sometimes we're like that. 01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:02.800 See, I got this laptop. 01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:04.360 I'll wrap it in the next two minutes. 01:12:04.360 --> 01:12:06.360 It's only because of Crystal. 01:12:06.360 --> 01:12:09.520 This, I got this laptop 01:12:09.520 --> 01:12:11.440 and I've been using it for a few days. 01:12:11.440 --> 01:12:13.440 And this morning Iris comes in. 01:12:13.440 --> 01:12:17.760 Brielle wanted to click on the keypad and stuff. 01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:22.240 And so she's there and Iris comes and touches on the screen 01:12:22.240 --> 01:12:23.640 and does a bunch of things. 01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:26.280 And I realized that I have a touch screen. 01:12:26.280 --> 01:12:27.280 I did not know it. 01:12:30.480 --> 01:12:32.080 And so I was like, moving this around, 01:12:32.080 --> 01:12:33.080 oh, it's a touch screen. 01:12:33.080 --> 01:12:35.560 I was like, oh, I didn't know it. 01:12:35.560 --> 01:12:37.560 I've been using it for a good month. 01:12:39.280 --> 01:12:42.280 See, that's how you and I are 01:12:42.280 --> 01:12:45.280 when we don't go through the Bible, 01:12:45.360 --> 01:12:48.480 study the word to understand his promises. 01:12:48.480 --> 01:12:49.680 What are my promises? 01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:52.480 When it comes to opposition against your life, 01:12:52.480 --> 01:12:55.480 can you stand up and say, because of my Lord, 01:12:55.480 --> 01:12:58.600 the bones of my enemies will be scattered 01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:01.520 when he rises up in judgment against those 01:13:03.560 --> 01:13:06.200 who follow his name, follow his will. 01:13:06.200 --> 01:13:07.480 It's Psalm 89. 01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:11.800 There are these promises, many of them, 01:13:11.800 --> 01:13:13.920 that you can hold fast to. 01:13:13.960 --> 01:13:15.920 If you're a wise man, you'll do it. 01:13:15.920 --> 01:13:17.880 If you're a wise woman, you'll do it. 01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:20.840 And then you'll stand on it and then you'll declare it. 01:13:20.840 --> 01:13:24.160 Last thing I'll say and finish this. 01:13:24.160 --> 01:13:26.040 See, when you pray, there are six types of, 01:13:26.040 --> 01:13:29.160 or four or five types of prayer, maybe six, we'll see. 01:13:29.160 --> 01:13:33.360 One, when you're praying, you can pray in tongues. 01:13:35.920 --> 01:13:39.080 And if you don't pray in tongues, 01:13:39.920 --> 01:13:41.960 trust me, ask for this gift. 01:13:41.960 --> 01:13:43.920 And it's an amazing gift to have. 01:13:44.840 --> 01:13:49.840 Not having it or not desiring it could be like me 01:13:52.840 --> 01:13:55.680 having the laptop but never utilizing the touchscreen. 01:13:57.320 --> 01:13:58.840 Because there are certain benefits 01:13:58.840 --> 01:14:01.520 that come with the touchscreen 01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:05.480 that I will never be able to use and take advantage of 01:14:05.480 --> 01:14:06.880 when I don't use the gift. 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:11.320 So praying, praying in tongues. 01:14:11.320 --> 01:14:16.320 Two, declarations, faith declarations, 01:14:16.600 --> 01:14:18.200 like I was saying before. 01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:24.520 Three, warfare prayers, warfare prayers. 01:14:26.680 --> 01:14:31.680 Four, prayers of thanksgiving and supplication. 01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:38.800 Five, prayer of inquiry, where you go to the Lord and say, 01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:43.800 I don't want to go on this path unless you tell me. 01:14:45.120 --> 01:14:47.360 Should I go on it or not? 01:14:47.360 --> 01:14:48.600 David did it. 01:14:48.600 --> 01:14:52.200 David said, should I pursue this army? 01:14:52.200 --> 01:14:53.520 Should I overtake them? 01:14:53.520 --> 01:14:54.400 I don't know. 01:14:54.400 --> 01:14:57.320 He inquired of the Lord and then the Lord answered. 01:14:59.120 --> 01:15:02.400 These are very quickly four or five ways to pray. 01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:07.720 And with each of these ways of praying, 01:15:07.720 --> 01:15:10.560 if we were to immerse ourselves in it, 01:15:10.560 --> 01:15:11.960 it'll change the way we are. 01:15:11.960 --> 01:15:14.600 And declarations are a big part of it. 01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:18.800 It's a big part of your life. 01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:21.560 So don't be like me having the laptop 01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:24.400 but not knowing how to use the touchscreen. 01:15:25.440 --> 01:15:28.760 Because those are gifts that you should use. 01:15:28.760 --> 01:15:31.560 Somehow this morning the Lord reminded me 01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:33.280 about the gift of tongues. 01:15:33.280 --> 01:15:36.840 And I did not mean to, I completely forgot about it, 01:15:36.840 --> 01:15:39.520 but your question kind of took me in that direction. 01:15:41.360 --> 01:15:44.440 Aspire for the gift of tongues if you don't have it. 01:15:44.440 --> 01:15:46.480 Please, if you don't have it, 01:15:46.480 --> 01:15:51.120 go to your leader and say, I don't have the gift of tongues. 01:15:51.120 --> 01:15:53.360 I would love to have the gift of tongues. 01:15:53.360 --> 01:15:55.480 Don't look at yourself and say, oh, I don't have it. 01:15:55.480 --> 01:15:57.920 No problem, it's a sure gift you can have. 01:15:59.200 --> 01:16:00.840 It's as easy as that. 01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:02.240 But don't despise it. 01:16:02.240 --> 01:16:03.720 Don't say, well, I don't need it. 01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:05.160 Oh, it's a little, it's, 01:16:06.160 --> 01:16:08.800 we have done ourselves a disservice by 01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:14.600 looking at the deviations of what it should have been 01:16:14.600 --> 01:16:17.520 and then saying, well, because of that, I don't want it. 01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:18.600 So don't do that. 01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:22.360 Father, we thank you for your word. 01:16:22.360 --> 01:16:24.760 We thank you that we can stand on your word. 01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:26.920 We thank you that we can trust your word. 01:16:29.480 --> 01:16:32.040 Aba, we want to hold fast to you. 01:16:32.040 --> 01:16:34.800 Hold fast to you with everything we've got. 01:16:35.320 --> 01:16:38.880 Desperate, dependent, in love. 01:16:40.440 --> 01:16:42.920 Hold fast to your commandments. 01:16:42.920 --> 01:16:45.680 Hold fast to you, to your promises. 01:16:45.680 --> 01:16:49.240 Hold fast to you by way of confessions. 01:16:49.240 --> 01:16:50.400 Hold fast to you. 01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:52.920 Hold fast to your name. 01:16:54.040 --> 01:16:55.880 We want to be a people like that, Aba. 01:16:57.160 --> 01:17:00.680 Lord, I thank you that your word transforms us 01:17:00.680 --> 01:17:02.160 and right now it does. 01:17:02.160 --> 01:17:03.640 In Jesus' name, amen. 01:17:04.120 --> 01:17:24.000 친구에게arı 01:17:24.000 --> 01:17:27.800 친구에게으 01:17:27.800 --> 01:17:28.840 including