WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: She named him as Joseph Publishing Date: 2023-08-13T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/she-named-him-as-joseph/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:17.000 All righty. Hey, so Sebastian wants to get baptized too. And he may not be here next 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:22.420 week so we'll have to do baptism the week after. So we'll either try and do both together 00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:29.420 or we'll try... When are you back Sebastian? Okay, so we might have to do Davan separately 00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:35.500 and him separately. Can't wait that long. It'll be a problem. You won't be able to read 00:00:35.500 --> 00:00:42.500 the Bible. So we'll work on that. And then guys, when you come up for prayer, if you 00:00:43.460 --> 00:00:50.460 see prayers answered, please testify to them. At the church we were going to rent in Ladner, 00:00:51.100 --> 00:00:56.900 they have a big jar in which they put prayer requests. Whenever a prayer is answered, someone 00:00:56.900 --> 00:01:03.900 drops a pebble into another jar. And it's nice to see one of the jars filling up. So 00:01:03.900 --> 00:01:10.900 prayers answered, please come and talk about it so that the ones who are praying are encouraged, 00:01:13.100 --> 00:01:20.100 among other things. I think that was it. Yeah. 00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:27.460 Okay. We said last time that one of the things God wanted us to know was that as we now moved 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:37.980 from Joyce and we are temporarily here for two months and then move to wherever God will 00:01:40.260 --> 00:01:46.780 hopefully give us a more permanent place, that the next 12 months or so was called the 00:01:46.780 --> 00:01:52.180 year of Joseph. The year of Joseph, that's what we said. So just want to do a one-off 00:01:52.180 --> 00:01:59.180 thing on Joseph this week and then we'll continue with another topic that I want you to look 00:01:59.220 --> 00:02:06.220 at when you go home. Read Acts chapter 2, verse 22. Acts 2, 22. Just want to touch on 00:02:07.660 --> 00:02:11.300 that for a second before I start with this. One of the things that we are seeing, oh, 00:02:11.300 --> 00:02:18.300 by the way, these are offering boxes, not sound boxes. So just in case you thought, 00:02:20.700 --> 00:02:27.420 I saw the kids jumping over it. Yeah. In case you thought it was to plug something in, it's 00:02:27.420 --> 00:02:34.420 to plug your wallets in. Yeah. So Acts 2, 22 says, and Jesus Christ was a man attested 00:02:34.420 --> 00:02:41.420 by God with signs and wonders and miracles, that he was attested by God. And without that 00:02:48.340 --> 00:02:55.340 kind of attestation, most of the things we say kind of begin to sound hollow. There must 00:02:55.740 --> 00:03:01.740 be power to the words that we speak. Words must accompany words. Is that how loud it 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:08.740 is? 00:03:31.740 --> 00:03:38.740 Just so you know, there's no hub. There's no hub meetings for this month and next month 00:03:38.740 --> 00:03:45.740 just because there's enough for everyone to do. And so we'll take a two-month hiatus from 00:03:45.740 --> 00:03:52.740 hub meetings. House Church is still on. Hub is off for the next little while. And then 00:03:53.100 --> 00:03:58.100 for the next little while, we'll have a little bit of a chat. So I'm going to take a few 00:03:58.100 --> 00:04:01.100 minutes to talk about the things that we're seeing. So I'm going to start with the first 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:05.100 thing that we're seeing. So we're seeing the first thing that we're seeing is the 00:04:05.220 --> 00:04:08.220 meeting environment. Checking. So ke MIX. Sorry, there is a makeshift, mostly rumored 00:04:08.220 --> 00:04:12.780 to be tried oncelc, get it onaments. Checking. So we have lord of the 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:32.740 circle, Joseph Chndtvnon. Charting the 00:04:32.860 --> 00:04:33.440 ICH1 00:04:35.100 --> 00:04:37.440 we'll talk about, and she named him Joseph. 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:42.440 That's from Genesis 40, verse 23 and 24 talk about it. 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:46.560 So what does it mean when we say year of Joseph? 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.000 What does it mean for us? 00:04:49.200 --> 00:04:52.160 What happens when we say that the months ahead 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:57.160 is a time when God will do a Joseph for us? 00:04:58.400 --> 00:05:03.400 Is that God will add, God will add. 00:05:03.860 --> 00:05:06.620 And when God adds, he uses another word. 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:07.880 The word is multiply. 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.260 God will add or God will multiply. 00:05:10.260 --> 00:05:12.260 He will generate it. 00:05:12.260 --> 00:05:14.800 He will generate it. 00:05:16.040 --> 00:05:18.940 So kind of expect it in your life. 00:05:18.940 --> 00:05:21.900 Anything that happens from God to a people 00:05:21.900 --> 00:05:24.680 affects every family, every individual. 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.260 So in the different areas of your life, 00:05:27.260 --> 00:05:30.080 be they financial, relational, spiritual, 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:32.760 begin to think like this, that in the next 12 months 00:05:32.780 --> 00:05:37.340 I must expect things to increase for me in every realm. 00:05:37.340 --> 00:05:38.800 It's not just financial. 00:05:40.780 --> 00:05:43.820 I've seen this work many times where someone comes 00:05:43.820 --> 00:05:46.220 and speaks and says this is what's gonna happen 00:05:46.220 --> 00:05:49.500 and then for the next while, without you having 00:05:49.500 --> 00:05:51.900 developed any extra contact, without you having gotten 00:05:51.900 --> 00:05:56.040 another new job, without you having made any investment, 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.140 things begin to prosper. 00:05:58.140 --> 00:06:01.420 I don't know if you remember, but in the, 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:07.240 we were at Pilgrim at that time and for New Year's, 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:12.000 we had Roland, Eddie, Pastor Mike, all these guys 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.040 send video words for the church. 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:18.520 And one of the words that was said was you will invest 00:06:18.520 --> 00:06:22.100 and your investments will see great profit. 00:06:22.100 --> 00:06:24.900 And I actually took that word to heart. 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:26.760 I don't know a thing about investing. 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:30.080 But I just trusted that what God would say 00:06:30.080 --> 00:06:31.320 would begin to happen. 00:06:32.220 --> 00:06:33.300 And the investments that were made were very simple 00:06:33.300 --> 00:06:36.180 investments, but they began to pay off big time. 00:06:36.180 --> 00:06:38.460 I was very surprised, because I've got no skill. 00:06:38.460 --> 00:06:40.300 If you ask me for investment advice, 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:42.100 I guarantee you I'll lose your money. 00:06:43.220 --> 00:06:46.660 So, and yet it began to change. 00:06:46.660 --> 00:06:49.260 Why am I sharing that personal anecdote? 00:06:49.260 --> 00:06:52.420 Because sometimes when God says something to a body 00:06:52.420 --> 00:06:57.040 as a whole, if we are able to receive it and then 00:06:57.040 --> 00:07:00.220 exert a degree of faith, trusting that God is promising 00:07:00.220 --> 00:07:03.400 this, it is possible for those words to come to pass 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:05.400 for each individual, each family. 00:07:06.520 --> 00:07:08.560 And so one of the things being said here, 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:10.840 hey, by the way, just on the side, 00:07:10.840 --> 00:07:13.080 when you read Acts chapter two, what happened 00:07:13.080 --> 00:07:14.380 when the Holy Spirit came? 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:16.960 What is said? 00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:23.020 True, but what was the effect when the Holy Spirit 00:07:23.020 --> 00:07:23.960 came into the room? 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:26.080 That was what happened to them. 00:07:26.080 --> 00:07:27.000 What was the... 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:31.980 Yeah, I thought that there was a mighty rushing wind. 00:07:33.420 --> 00:07:35.500 First time I found out that there was no mighty rushing wind. 00:07:35.500 --> 00:07:37.780 It was just the sound of a mighty rushing wind. 00:07:37.780 --> 00:07:38.700 There was no wind. 00:07:41.540 --> 00:07:43.940 It was just the sound of the mighty rushing wind. 00:07:45.340 --> 00:07:48.580 And people didn't come to, come and gather around 00:07:48.580 --> 00:07:51.220 because they heard the sound of the mighty rushing wind. 00:07:51.220 --> 00:07:55.060 It says they heard the sound of people speaking 00:07:55.060 --> 00:07:56.300 in their own languages. 00:07:56.320 --> 00:07:59.000 They were attracted to people speaking in their own languages, 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:00.500 not to the mighty rushing wind. 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:03.880 I think sometimes we sing songs like, 00:08:03.880 --> 00:08:06.200 come like the rushing wind. 00:08:06.200 --> 00:08:07.560 There was no wind that day. 00:08:08.440 --> 00:08:09.680 It was just a sound. 00:08:10.700 --> 00:08:12.860 And it says, the sounds of heaven. 00:08:13.880 --> 00:08:15.680 And it so happened that it was the sound 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.080 of a mighty rushing wind. 00:08:17.080 --> 00:08:19.020 But it was not blowing candles out. 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:21.960 It was just a sound. 00:08:21.960 --> 00:08:25.320 And then later on, it was the sound of people speaking 00:08:25.500 --> 00:08:27.500 in 12, 13 different languages. 00:08:27.500 --> 00:08:29.500 And people gathered around to listen 00:08:29.500 --> 00:08:31.340 because this was a very strange thing. 00:08:32.860 --> 00:08:34.140 Why did that come up suddenly? 00:08:34.140 --> 00:08:38.180 Guys, use the breath in our lungs and our words. 00:08:38.180 --> 00:08:39.020 Yeah? 00:08:39.020 --> 00:08:41.260 Sometimes without knowing you speak things 00:08:41.260 --> 00:08:43.900 for God or to God in the process. 00:08:43.900 --> 00:08:45.780 Use it, even in very simple circumstances. 00:08:45.780 --> 00:08:47.420 It doesn't have to be a shout. 00:08:47.420 --> 00:08:49.320 This has to be a whisper, but speak it. 00:08:51.860 --> 00:08:53.740 God will add, he will generate it. 00:08:53.760 --> 00:08:58.760 So expect, if you're able to exert faith to walk in this, 00:08:59.640 --> 00:09:01.960 then I believe it will be something 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:04.480 that all of us can benefit from. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:07.160 And so I'll have to exert faith for it too. 00:09:07.160 --> 00:09:09.480 So God will add. 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.840 So in creation accounts, multiplication, 00:09:12.840 --> 00:09:15.560 in all creation accounts, like if we take 00:09:15.560 --> 00:09:17.900 the first two chapters of Genesis, 00:09:17.900 --> 00:09:22.900 you'll find that multiplication is a blessing 00:09:23.760 --> 00:09:28.760 God speaks on Adam. 00:09:30.920 --> 00:09:34.120 God speaks on Adam. 00:09:34.120 --> 00:09:38.000 And then when he recreates in Genesis 11, after the flood, 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:41.280 he again speaks that we need to see 00:09:41.280 --> 00:09:43.160 this as something normal for God. 00:09:43.160 --> 00:09:46.260 It's just that our experience may not say so, 00:09:46.260 --> 00:09:49.140 but let's hear the sound of heaven 00:09:49.140 --> 00:09:51.360 and let's begin to show others 00:09:51.360 --> 00:09:53.600 that this can be true for us even now. 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.000 That just as Adam heard it, just as Noah heard it, 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.920 just as Abraham heard it, so let it be ours too. 00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:05.280 Just as Jacob heard it, just as Jesus heard it, 00:10:06.240 --> 00:10:09.520 just as the 12 heard it on the mountain when he said, 00:10:09.520 --> 00:10:12.420 from Judea to Samaria to the ends of the earth. 00:10:12.420 --> 00:10:14.600 Multiplication is a blessing from God. 00:10:15.900 --> 00:10:17.240 It's not some strange phenomena. 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:18.420 He blesses this way. 00:10:19.280 --> 00:10:24.280 Your father blesses you by multiplying things. 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.680 Your father blesses you by multiplying things in your life, 00:10:28.680 --> 00:10:30.840 not in someone else's life so you can talk about it, 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.200 in your life. 00:10:32.200 --> 00:10:35.500 And as we say multiply, don't focus only on finances. 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:39.060 Multiplication is on many, many different levels. 00:10:41.160 --> 00:10:44.740 For Israel it was children and it was cattle. 00:10:45.820 --> 00:10:47.920 That might not be your favorite thing today. 00:10:48.760 --> 00:10:51.620 But he multiplies this on multiple levels, eh? 00:10:54.720 --> 00:10:57.240 Later multiplication is promised to Abraham. 00:10:58.200 --> 00:10:59.720 It's promised to Isaac. 00:11:01.880 --> 00:11:04.520 It's promised to Israel. 00:11:07.560 --> 00:11:08.820 This is what God does. 00:11:10.280 --> 00:11:14.480 And so in Genesis 49, 22, 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:17.540 God declares it on Joseph, declares it on Joseph. 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:21.240 And he says to Joseph, listen, 00:11:23.560 --> 00:11:25.360 I will make you fruitful. 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:26.880 So another word for multiplication, 00:11:26.880 --> 00:11:28.840 if you wanna get rid of the math, 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:32.800 which I'm sure brings nightmares even today for many of us, 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:35.240 another word for multiplication is fruitfulness. 00:11:36.160 --> 00:11:37.800 Fruitfulness, how about that? 00:11:37.800 --> 00:11:38.920 Being fruitful. 00:11:38.920 --> 00:11:41.880 Again, being fruitful is not with regard to children 00:11:41.880 --> 00:11:43.360 or with regard to a business. 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:44.680 Being fruitful is in every area. 00:11:44.680 --> 00:11:46.160 Don't you want that? 00:11:46.160 --> 00:11:47.200 To be fruitful. 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:50.460 These are blessings of your father. 00:11:51.680 --> 00:11:53.560 These are not strange things in the Old Testament. 00:11:53.560 --> 00:11:55.380 It's for us now to be fruitful. 00:11:56.680 --> 00:11:59.640 And so fruitfulness is another word for multiplication. 00:11:59.640 --> 00:12:04.640 And he says to Joseph, Joseph, you're a fruitful branch. 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:06.880 And so you know what Joseph does? 00:12:06.880 --> 00:12:10.140 See, here's how you believe and walk in something. 00:12:10.140 --> 00:12:13.120 God says to Joseph, hey, man, Prashant, 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.320 you're sitting with your arm around you too now, huh? 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:17.360 Not bad, not bad. 00:12:17.380 --> 00:12:18.380 You guys are married. 00:12:20.140 --> 00:12:22.620 Before it was arms on this side. 00:12:22.620 --> 00:12:23.920 Now it's arm around. 00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:27.340 Alrighty, Pawan, you keep your arms to yourself. 00:12:27.340 --> 00:12:28.180 Okay. 00:12:31.760 --> 00:12:32.600 Okay. 00:12:33.620 --> 00:12:35.340 So, sorry. 00:12:36.980 --> 00:12:39.380 Yeah, so look at what Joseph does. 00:12:39.380 --> 00:12:41.900 God says to him, you're a fruitful branch. 00:12:41.900 --> 00:12:44.180 Guess what Joseph names his son? 00:12:44.180 --> 00:12:45.020 Ephraim. 00:12:45.020 --> 00:12:46.300 And you know what Ephraim means? 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:48.260 Double fruitfulness. 00:12:48.260 --> 00:12:49.960 That's what the word Ephraim means. 00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:51.840 Ephraim means double fruitfulness. 00:12:51.840 --> 00:12:53.840 Faith shows. 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:55.640 Faith shows in the words we speak, 00:12:55.640 --> 00:12:57.560 in the actions we take. 00:12:57.560 --> 00:12:58.680 Faith shows. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.120 What are you gonna call the next 12 months 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:05.980 in your own language, in your own ways? 00:13:05.980 --> 00:13:07.980 What are you gonna call it? 00:13:07.980 --> 00:13:09.080 Joseph did that. 00:13:10.200 --> 00:13:13.960 He said, God said that I am going to be a fruitful branch. 00:13:13.960 --> 00:13:17.100 Well then, I'll name my son Ephraim. 00:13:17.100 --> 00:13:19.860 And Ephraim means double fruitfulness. 00:13:21.020 --> 00:13:21.900 That is faith. 00:13:24.280 --> 00:13:26.180 And so, in the very name Joseph, 00:13:26.180 --> 00:13:30.580 what God is saying is, I will add. 00:13:30.580 --> 00:13:31.860 And God doesn't add once. 00:13:31.860 --> 00:13:36.420 I will add and I will keep adding. 00:13:36.420 --> 00:13:38.220 Because God doesn't stop. 00:13:38.220 --> 00:13:39.860 I didn't pick that song deliberately, 00:13:39.860 --> 00:13:42.020 but one of the words in that song says, 00:13:42.040 --> 00:13:44.520 you fill me up and when I am full, 00:13:45.680 --> 00:13:47.760 you, what does it say? 00:13:47.760 --> 00:13:51.640 You fill me up when I am full. 00:13:51.640 --> 00:13:54.800 You give me more till I overflow. 00:13:56.280 --> 00:13:58.200 What a beautiful line. 00:13:58.200 --> 00:14:00.760 He doesn't stop because he's added. 00:14:00.760 --> 00:14:02.440 This must become our expectation. 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.280 It's very hard for us to think of a God like this. 00:14:05.280 --> 00:14:07.240 But this must become our expectation. 00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:09.900 Even if two people here have this expectation, 00:14:09.900 --> 00:14:11.180 then it'll catch. 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:14.720 Two people here have that expectation, it'll catch. 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:17.080 In a congregation this size, 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:18.680 you don't need more than two or three. 00:14:20.800 --> 00:14:21.920 And it'll start catching. 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:25.240 And it's not about finances. 00:14:25.240 --> 00:14:27.560 Fruitfulness covers so many areas. 00:14:27.560 --> 00:14:29.360 Beginning with the Holy Spirit 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:31.360 and the fruit that he cultivates in our life. 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.040 There is no greater fruitfulness 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:35.440 than the fruit of Christ born in our lives. 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:36.760 Even that is part of this. 00:14:36.760 --> 00:14:37.800 These are blessings. 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:40.760 And this is what he's saying. 00:14:40.780 --> 00:14:41.940 And this is what he's saying. 00:14:41.940 --> 00:14:44.180 The next 12 months can be for you 00:14:44.180 --> 00:14:45.780 if you can receive this ticket. 00:14:51.820 --> 00:14:56.100 Next one is multiplication of fruitfulness. 00:14:56.100 --> 00:15:01.100 Multiplication of fruitfulness begins with God, 00:15:04.060 --> 00:15:07.220 not with man. 00:15:07.220 --> 00:15:09.180 It begins with God. 00:15:09.180 --> 00:15:10.660 It begins with God. 00:15:11.560 --> 00:15:13.160 You see that in Genesis 11. 00:15:13.160 --> 00:15:17.280 In Genesis 11, Nimrod gets all the people together 00:15:17.280 --> 00:15:18.840 around the Tower of Babel. 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:20.880 And he says, let's gather together. 00:15:20.880 --> 00:15:23.320 And by coming together, we can be stronger 00:15:23.320 --> 00:15:25.600 and we can do great things. 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:27.200 And it ended up in division. 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:30.360 And yet, in Genesis 12, God multiplies everything 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:31.880 through one man, Abraham. 00:15:31.880 --> 00:15:34.120 God multiplies through one man. 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:35.360 God multiplies through one man. 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.680 In Isaiah it says, look at your father and your mother. 00:15:38.680 --> 00:15:41.460 Look at the quarry that I have dug you out of. 00:15:41.460 --> 00:15:43.940 Out of one man, I created nations. 00:15:45.780 --> 00:15:50.780 So God multiplies with just one man 00:15:53.700 --> 00:15:58.700 or little oil or two fish or one staff. 00:16:03.500 --> 00:16:05.620 It's always with very, very little. 00:16:05.620 --> 00:16:07.100 So there's no one exempt here. 00:16:07.100 --> 00:16:09.000 No one exempt from this. 00:16:09.000 --> 00:16:11.720 That's a great thing about any blessing that God gives. 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:15.740 Blessings of God aren't something 00:16:15.740 --> 00:16:19.580 that you require certain qualifications for. 00:16:19.580 --> 00:16:21.400 There are some blessings that are conditional. 00:16:21.400 --> 00:16:23.860 You do this, I'll do this. 00:16:23.860 --> 00:16:26.020 And then there are some blessings that are natural. 00:16:26.020 --> 00:16:27.020 Natural to whom? 00:16:27.020 --> 00:16:28.060 Natural to him. 00:16:29.740 --> 00:16:31.420 There are some blessings that are conditional. 00:16:31.420 --> 00:16:33.860 If you obey me, I will do this. 00:16:33.860 --> 00:16:36.420 And then there are some blessings that are natural. 00:16:36.420 --> 00:16:37.260 Natural to whom? 00:16:37.260 --> 00:16:38.100 Natural to him. 00:16:38.100 --> 00:16:39.840 It is how he does things. 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:42.460 When he blesses, it is very natural for him 00:16:42.460 --> 00:16:45.740 to take the little that you have and then increase it. 00:16:45.740 --> 00:16:48.380 You don't have to go and get more for this to happen. 00:16:54.100 --> 00:16:55.380 So start with what you have. 00:16:55.380 --> 00:16:57.840 If you're able at any point tonight or this week 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:00.740 to go and say, okay, I want to believe this 00:17:00.740 --> 00:17:03.260 or I do believe this or help my unbelief, 00:17:03.260 --> 00:17:04.700 then you start this process. 00:17:06.820 --> 00:17:08.160 I've seen it work, guys. 00:17:12.020 --> 00:17:12.860 Yeah. 00:17:13.740 --> 00:17:15.760 Multiplication is initiated by God. 00:17:15.760 --> 00:17:17.500 It's the work of the Holy Spirit, really. 00:17:17.500 --> 00:17:19.420 The Holy Spirit initiates it. 00:17:23.860 --> 00:17:27.400 Initiates it and then he sustains it. 00:17:29.780 --> 00:17:31.780 So how does this work? 00:17:31.780 --> 00:17:34.960 It is sustained according to your capacity. 00:17:35.040 --> 00:17:37.960 It's sustained according to your capacity 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:40.160 and it's sustained according to your faith. 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:43.200 That is something that can increase 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:46.340 or keep the blessing at a certain level. 00:17:46.340 --> 00:17:47.500 So what do you mean by that? 00:17:47.500 --> 00:17:49.400 Guys, one of the things God does is 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.840 he knows he wants to bless and then he'll say, 00:17:52.840 --> 00:17:54.240 you give them something to eat. 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:55.480 What does he want you to do? 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:57.080 Take the little that you have and say, 00:17:57.080 --> 00:17:58.240 all right, I trust you. 00:17:59.260 --> 00:18:01.400 When did the oil stop? 00:18:01.400 --> 00:18:03.560 When the vessels ran out. 00:18:05.080 --> 00:18:09.920 How I work with God when he has a desire to bless 00:18:09.920 --> 00:18:13.480 often depends on how my capacity is 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:14.960 and the faith that I have. 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:21.280 Let's just stop there if you have any questions. 00:18:24.040 --> 00:18:25.520 If I had a question, my question is, 00:18:25.520 --> 00:18:27.640 what do you mean by capacity? 00:18:30.320 --> 00:18:33.320 Capacity is increased through expectation and faith. 00:18:33.360 --> 00:18:35.760 Capacity is increased through expectation. 00:18:35.760 --> 00:18:36.960 What's your expectation? 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:43.400 And your expectation increases through your knowledge of God. 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:47.020 The more you know somebody, the more your expectation of them. 00:18:47.020 --> 00:18:49.920 I have different expectations of people. 00:18:51.120 --> 00:18:54.080 The more I know you, the more I can expect of you. 00:18:55.000 --> 00:18:57.040 If I needed something, the more I know you, 00:18:57.040 --> 00:18:58.780 the more I can expect from you. 00:18:58.780 --> 00:19:01.840 The less I know you, the less I can expect from you. 00:19:01.840 --> 00:19:04.900 So capacity is dependent on expectation. 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:11.660 Capacity is dependent on expectation. 00:19:14.600 --> 00:19:19.600 Expectation is dependent on knowledge of God. 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:25.480 The more you know him, the more you expect, 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:27.200 the greater your capacity. 00:19:27.200 --> 00:19:30.880 And therefore, God is then able to keep on, keep on, keep on. 00:19:31.840 --> 00:19:36.840 Add to that faith, and now you have a great combo. 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.060 Once you have these three, exert faith. 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:50.180 This is how people did things in the Old Testament 00:19:50.180 --> 00:19:51.280 and the New Testament. 00:19:52.360 --> 00:19:56.760 Our problem is we find it very hard to think of a God 00:19:56.760 --> 00:19:59.920 who blesses just like that. 00:19:59.960 --> 00:20:03.640 It's not our experience, or it's not our present experience, 00:20:03.640 --> 00:20:06.760 both as a church at Acts 29 and churches outside. 00:20:08.040 --> 00:20:09.280 Are we not talking about wealth? 00:20:09.280 --> 00:20:10.920 Please don't confine it to wealth. 00:20:14.520 --> 00:20:15.360 Pardon? 00:20:16.560 --> 00:20:18.000 There are certain things where God says, 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.480 if you do this, I will bless you. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:24.960 If you do this, then you will be robbed by the enemy. 00:20:24.960 --> 00:20:26.720 So that is when it's conditional. 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:30.000 So even the blessing of eternal life is conditional. 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:33.200 Eternal life is not mine till I receive Christ, 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:35.320 and see Christ says, Lord. 00:20:35.320 --> 00:20:37.000 So his love is unconditional, 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.600 but eternal life is conditional. 00:20:45.080 --> 00:20:47.720 This can't be worked in a day because it's very hard. 00:20:47.720 --> 00:20:51.720 So one has to see what one's expectation is. 00:20:51.720 --> 00:20:53.200 Here's another secret. 00:20:54.040 --> 00:20:56.920 Not a secret, but you can call it a secret. 00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:58.640 You can determine your capacity 00:21:02.200 --> 00:21:03.040 better 00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.240 by knowing 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:15.400 what you are called or supposed to do. 00:21:15.520 --> 00:21:16.680 Or supposed to do. 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.680 That's another small hint. 00:21:25.840 --> 00:21:29.240 If you're supposed to be someone who feeds the world, 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:33.440 then you know that your capacity has to be 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:35.200 to feed millions of people. 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:38.320 If you're only supposed to feed a small daycare, 00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:41.480 then you know your capacity is much lesser. 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:44.080 Knowing who you are supposed to be 00:21:44.080 --> 00:21:48.760 helps you figure out the capacity you must have. 00:21:49.880 --> 00:21:51.400 And that also increases. 00:21:55.120 --> 00:21:56.760 All that Gideon wanted to do 00:21:56.760 --> 00:21:59.640 was just crush some grapes for his family. 00:22:01.480 --> 00:22:03.920 That was all the capacity he needed. 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:05.760 All the widow wanted to do 00:22:05.760 --> 00:22:09.480 was just have just enough oil to bake one more meal 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:12.880 so that her son and she can die not hungry. 00:22:15.080 --> 00:22:18.080 So an idea of who you are really helps 00:22:18.080 --> 00:22:20.280 with expanding expectation. 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:37.800 Yeah, that's another secret, but it's not really a secret. 00:22:44.120 --> 00:22:47.120 God loves turning up 00:22:50.200 --> 00:22:52.080 and inviting you 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:55.360 to increase 00:22:57.960 --> 00:22:59.040 your capacity. 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:03.160 So he turns up with Gideon. 00:23:03.160 --> 00:23:04.800 He turns up in a teaching. 00:23:04.800 --> 00:23:05.920 He turns up in a scripture. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.200 He turns up in a dream. 00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:09.000 He turns up in a prophetic word. 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.160 God invites you into this. 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:11.000 Why? 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:13.280 Because greater your capacity 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:16.280 is greater the pouring out, 00:23:21.280 --> 00:23:24.280 greater the benefit to others. 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:33.680 So rather than get some people in his house 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:35.000 a bottle of wine, 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:38.840 now Gideon is setting a whole nation free. 00:23:39.800 --> 00:23:43.520 So knowing what you're about to do 00:23:43.520 --> 00:23:45.760 or what you're called to do really helps 00:23:45.760 --> 00:23:47.760 because now you know the logistics 00:23:49.120 --> 00:23:50.400 of what you need to do. 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:01.960 It's like, I remember the first time I was in college, 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:05.560 I was in a college in the U.S. 00:24:06.360 --> 00:24:11.080 It's like, I remember the first time Derek went camping. 00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:14.240 He was all gung-ho. 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:16.920 I went to two, three shops 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:20.240 and he was going with Matt and Rachel up a mountain. 00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:22.400 He was very excited saying he brought new shoes 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:24.720 that he'd never climbed with, 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.840 gear that you'll sweat climbing in. 00:24:26.840 --> 00:24:30.440 But he was like one of those poster children for. 00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:34.200 And then Matt, Rachel, and Derek are going up this mountain 00:24:34.240 --> 00:24:36.640 and Matt and Rachel are hauling a lot of weight 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:37.960 and Derek is hauling a lot of weight. 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:38.800 Why? 00:24:38.800 --> 00:24:40.920 Because Derek had about 300 marshmallows 00:24:40.920 --> 00:24:43.240 and 72 sausages in his bag 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:46.880 because he thought that's how you go camping. 00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:51.120 Acts 29 ate those sausages for three barbecues after that. 00:24:51.120 --> 00:24:56.120 So sometimes it's good to know what you are called to 00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:59.240 so that you can kind of fix your capacity. 00:24:59.240 --> 00:25:01.520 Another time, and these are Derek's stories, 00:25:01.520 --> 00:25:03.720 another time we had an outreach 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:05.720 where we invited eight people 00:25:05.720 --> 00:25:08.040 and asked Derek to organize a pizza 00:25:08.040 --> 00:25:11.040 and he bought eight boxes of pizza. 00:25:11.040 --> 00:25:14.520 So it's important to know how much. 00:25:14.520 --> 00:25:17.480 That way, once you know what you're called to, 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:20.960 I think jokes are less funny in this building 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:22.120 for whatever reason. 00:25:22.120 --> 00:25:27.120 So with a name like Alan Emmett, 00:25:27.960 --> 00:25:29.920 you have to come up with really strong jokes 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:31.960 otherwise it doesn't shine. 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.760 Anyways, at the end of the day, 00:25:35.760 --> 00:25:38.320 one of the coolest definitions of multiplication 00:25:38.320 --> 00:25:40.040 is the transference. 00:25:40.040 --> 00:25:43.120 Multiplication is the transference 00:25:46.080 --> 00:25:47.240 of the life of God 00:25:51.760 --> 00:25:56.040 to a people that he favors. 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:00.720 It is his life that causes multiplication. 00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:04.120 He transfers his life. 00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:06.840 Anything that he touches multiplies. 00:26:06.840 --> 00:26:09.560 Anything that he touches springs to life. 00:26:09.560 --> 00:26:11.360 And it's the kind of life that is fruitful. 00:26:11.360 --> 00:26:15.480 It's not life that's just zoey life as in come alive. 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.160 Anything that he touches multiplies. 00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:23.920 Somehow, if you can, during the week or at some point, 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:25.400 squeeze a line of prayer saying, 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:28.160 Father, I just am willing to believe this. 00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:29.960 Please, can you do this with my life? 00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:32.960 And then add an extra line saying, 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:35.560 Father, it does involve money and wealth too, 00:26:35.560 --> 00:26:37.880 but I would like to go beyond that. 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:38.960 Don't shy away from it. 00:26:38.960 --> 00:26:41.520 That's an area he wants to bless us in 00:26:41.520 --> 00:26:43.360 so that we can pour it out to others. 00:26:47.640 --> 00:26:48.480 Next one. 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:53.480 Multiplication of fruitfulness is fueled 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:02.200 in the context of an impossible vision, preferably. 00:27:18.520 --> 00:27:19.360 Preferably. 00:27:20.760 --> 00:27:24.640 As in, can you not just multiply 00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:25.880 for the sake of multiplying? 00:27:25.880 --> 00:27:28.400 Can you not just want fruitfulness 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.840 for the sake of fruitfulness? 00:27:29.840 --> 00:27:34.040 Can it be because you're also approaching God saying, 00:27:34.040 --> 00:27:37.120 Jesus, we want something impossible? 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.160 He loves doing the impossible. 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.080 That's when he's at his best. 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:47.080 He's at his best when you ask for something impossible. 00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:50.840 And then he begins to change you and then source you. 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:54.920 This is why faith is required for this. 00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:56.640 This is why we only ask, 00:27:56.640 --> 00:28:01.200 we need to exert very little faith for work, job, salary. 00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:04.560 That's where most of our faith currency is spent. 00:28:04.560 --> 00:28:06.840 But it has to be much larger than that. 00:28:06.840 --> 00:28:11.040 And that is why we need faith to have a really big God dream. 00:28:11.040 --> 00:28:11.960 Not our own dreams. 00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.240 Our own dreams usually fall flat, but a God dream. 00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:17.880 It must not just border on the impossible. 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:19.480 It should be so impossible 00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:21.640 that you're scared to talk about it to others 00:28:21.640 --> 00:28:22.880 because they may laugh. 00:28:24.260 --> 00:28:29.260 How do you know an impossible ridiculous dream? 00:28:29.520 --> 00:28:30.420 People laugh. 00:28:32.160 --> 00:28:33.720 They just walk away thinking. 00:28:39.360 --> 00:28:42.880 Yeah, there's a border between delusion and reality. 00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:50.240 I think one of the ways is to validate it 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:53.600 with someone you trust. 00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:57.560 That's one way because they know you. 00:28:57.560 --> 00:29:00.360 Not because they know your failures. 00:29:00.360 --> 00:29:05.360 Not because they know how skilled or unskilled you are. 00:29:06.360 --> 00:29:08.800 But they know you well enough to know 00:29:08.800 --> 00:29:12.200 that they've not always had this. 00:29:13.060 --> 00:29:14.240 They know something inside you 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:18.800 that there's always this drive in them in this area. 00:29:18.800 --> 00:29:22.280 He may have failed multiple times, but there is this in him. 00:29:22.280 --> 00:29:25.680 Those kind of people may be able to validate a delusion 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:26.840 from a real thing. 00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:30.000 And all of us have someone like that. 00:29:32.560 --> 00:29:34.420 All of us have someone like that. 00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:36.360 Sometimes if it's not your spouse, 00:29:36.360 --> 00:29:39.520 it'll be a friend or a son or a daughter or a brother. 00:29:39.520 --> 00:29:41.720 There's always someone who can validate it. 00:29:42.560 --> 00:29:47.040 I mean, you think Zipporah or Aaron 00:29:47.040 --> 00:29:49.320 trusted what Moses was saying? 00:29:49.320 --> 00:29:52.540 You think Jesus was trusted by Mary and the brothers? 00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:56.440 You think Saul was trusted 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:58.520 by any of the apostles in Jerusalem? 00:29:58.520 --> 00:30:00.320 Barnabas had to go and get him and introduce him 00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:02.120 because no one wanted to touch him. 00:30:02.120 --> 00:30:04.680 You think David was trusted by his brothers? 00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:05.840 His brothers frowned at him. 00:30:05.840 --> 00:30:08.120 You think Joseph was trusted by his family? 00:30:08.120 --> 00:30:09.020 They sold him. 00:30:09.020 --> 00:30:11.020 But these were all people with vision. 00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:17.460 Because an impossible vision is really good substance 00:30:17.460 --> 00:30:20.300 for God to fuel with multiplication. 00:30:21.900 --> 00:30:23.740 And any vision he constructs 00:30:23.740 --> 00:30:26.100 is always to the benefit of others. 00:30:27.300 --> 00:30:29.060 It's always to the benefit of others. 00:30:29.060 --> 00:30:32.500 The older we are, the wiser we can do this. 00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:34.820 The younger ones have a lot of energy, 00:30:34.820 --> 00:30:36.220 but very little direction. 00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:39.380 They're like Saddam Hussein's missiles. 00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:43.500 You shoot them one way, they land in another country. 00:30:43.500 --> 00:30:47.500 But when it comes to being older, 00:30:48.380 --> 00:30:51.660 the advantage is you have the wisdom 00:30:51.660 --> 00:30:54.980 to do things accurately with less effort. 00:30:57.620 --> 00:31:01.140 But the danger of being older is we become barzalized, 00:31:01.140 --> 00:31:03.700 not able to do things accurately. 00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:06.780 The danger of being older is we become barzalized, 00:31:06.780 --> 00:31:07.620 not Caleb's. 00:31:09.780 --> 00:31:10.620 We let go. 00:31:11.620 --> 00:31:12.940 This is not my thing. 00:31:22.420 --> 00:31:25.820 And it is possible that some of them will be delusions 00:31:25.820 --> 00:31:27.180 and you'll learn the hard way. 00:31:28.940 --> 00:31:30.740 But show me a man who did not have a delusion 00:31:30.740 --> 00:31:31.580 and made it big. 00:31:31.860 --> 00:31:35.380 Take any of these guys who presently run empires, 00:31:35.380 --> 00:31:37.620 tech empires, business empires, 00:31:37.620 --> 00:31:39.780 and you will find that not one of them 00:31:39.780 --> 00:31:41.380 made it there without a mistake. 00:31:47.060 --> 00:31:48.540 That Sunday school is noisy. 00:31:52.020 --> 00:31:53.980 If you have an impossible vision, 00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:57.900 here's what happens, guys, it changes you first. 00:31:57.900 --> 00:31:58.900 It changes you. 00:31:59.260 --> 00:32:02.460 If you don't have an impossible vision, 00:32:02.460 --> 00:32:03.980 there is no need to change. 00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:09.100 There's no need to change. 00:32:10.100 --> 00:32:12.700 If, for instance, I'm just speaking on Aaron, 00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:17.380 if, for instance, Aaron wants to be a great accountant, 00:32:18.420 --> 00:32:19.660 that's not a big vision. 00:32:20.660 --> 00:32:22.660 He just wants to be a great accountant. 00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:27.700 And so, doesn't need much. 00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:32.740 But what if Aaron wants to run a sports management company? 00:32:34.780 --> 00:32:37.580 Where he manages sports personalities 00:32:37.580 --> 00:32:40.340 or concentrates on one particular sport 00:32:40.340 --> 00:32:44.860 and begins to manage sports personalities 00:32:44.860 --> 00:32:47.540 and minor league teams and stuff like that. 00:32:47.540 --> 00:32:49.260 What if he begins to dream like that? 00:32:49.260 --> 00:32:50.100 Why am I saying this? 00:32:50.100 --> 00:32:52.420 Because there was a prophetic word on his life about it. 00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:56.380 That is an impossible, ridiculous dream. 00:32:58.700 --> 00:33:00.620 Now, Aaron will have to change 00:33:00.620 --> 00:33:05.060 and Renny will have to change before that can happen. 00:33:06.900 --> 00:33:09.020 So one of the things with impossible dreams is 00:33:09.020 --> 00:33:13.140 it changes you before it can be activated. 00:33:13.140 --> 00:33:15.780 Otherwise, we always just run faster, stronger, 00:33:15.780 --> 00:33:17.100 or jump higher. 00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:18.220 That's not impossible. 00:33:27.900 --> 00:33:32.900 And it's a change that happens that triggers multiplication. 00:33:35.580 --> 00:33:39.060 It's a change that happens that triggers multiplication. 00:33:39.060 --> 00:33:41.820 When you change, it triggers multiplication. 00:33:41.820 --> 00:33:46.820 When you change, it triggers fruitfulness or multiplication. 00:33:50.820 --> 00:33:52.740 So did Abraham change here? 00:33:52.740 --> 00:33:54.740 When he changed, multiplication happened. 00:33:54.940 --> 00:33:58.660 Gideon changed, multiplication happened. 00:33:58.660 --> 00:34:01.900 Peter changed, was willing. 00:34:01.900 --> 00:34:03.780 First, he didn't want Jesus in his boat. 00:34:03.780 --> 00:34:05.500 No, no, no, he was willing to be obedient. 00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:06.780 Throws the net on the other side. 00:34:06.780 --> 00:34:08.900 Willing to change, he's a fisherman. 00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:10.220 Multiplication happens. 00:34:12.140 --> 00:34:12.980 Next one. 00:34:13.980 --> 00:34:15.340 I'll go for another 15 minutes 00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:17.500 because we need to be out of here by nine. 00:34:18.700 --> 00:34:20.980 Just tell me at 8.15 to stop. 00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:25.660 Multiplication presumes humility. 00:34:26.500 --> 00:34:29.740 Multiplication presumes humility. 00:34:32.100 --> 00:34:34.620 As in God subtracts you, 00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:37.980 God subtracts you 00:34:40.660 --> 00:34:42.540 before multiplication begins. 00:34:43.380 --> 00:34:44.860 For a Joseph here, 00:34:46.700 --> 00:34:50.660 God will subtract us as in he'll take away things. 00:34:50.660 --> 00:34:55.660 He'll make us willing to give away our privileges. 00:34:55.660 --> 00:34:59.460 He may even sometimes take you 00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:02.980 through what might seem like a time of 00:35:06.180 --> 00:35:09.180 not being able to give away your privileges. 00:35:09.580 --> 00:35:14.340 Not niceness or humiliation 00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:17.100 because of what others might do. 00:35:18.060 --> 00:35:20.660 But he subtracts you so that he can increase you. 00:35:21.820 --> 00:35:24.940 You take any of the guys in the Bible who multiply, 00:35:24.940 --> 00:35:27.660 they were always subtracted before they increased. 00:35:27.660 --> 00:35:30.900 Abraham had his family subtracted, 00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:34.620 his country subtracted, his clan subtracted, 00:35:34.620 --> 00:35:36.100 his relatives subtracted. 00:35:37.100 --> 00:35:40.380 Hagar and Ishmael subtracted, 00:35:40.380 --> 00:35:42.580 but then he increases to the son of promise. 00:35:46.100 --> 00:35:49.260 There's always a subtraction before an increase. 00:35:49.260 --> 00:35:50.780 What's a subtraction about? 00:35:50.780 --> 00:35:53.580 It is to bring you to the core of who you are 00:35:53.580 --> 00:35:57.100 with nothing else but you and God wrestling 00:35:57.100 --> 00:36:00.220 at the Fort of Jabok and now increase happens. 00:36:02.140 --> 00:36:04.060 You have contended with God and prevailed. 00:36:04.060 --> 00:36:05.220 Now I will bless you. 00:36:06.420 --> 00:36:11.420 When you are subtracted, you feel inadequate. 00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:24.660 You feel inadequate. 00:36:27.460 --> 00:36:30.260 It is the greatest kingdom feeling on earth. 00:36:36.620 --> 00:36:40.780 Anytime you feel inadequate, 00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:43.820 know that you are powerful in the hands of God. 00:36:45.500 --> 00:36:47.580 Anytime you feel inadequate, 00:36:47.580 --> 00:36:50.260 know that you are powerful in the hands of God. 00:36:50.260 --> 00:36:51.820 And Betty, what were you saying? 00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:56.860 Okay, because you're feeling totally inadequate. 00:36:56.860 --> 00:36:59.500 Yeah, there's nothing like inadequacy. 00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:01.700 It's one of the kingdom's greatest strengths. 00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:04.980 As a leader, if you're inadequate, 00:37:05.860 --> 00:37:07.060 your people will be blessed. 00:37:07.060 --> 00:37:11.180 As a leader, if you think you're highly adequate, 00:37:11.180 --> 00:37:13.820 then your people will get the best of you. 00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:14.980 And that is so sad. 00:37:27.820 --> 00:37:30.020 Joseph was hated without cause, 00:37:30.020 --> 00:37:32.860 sold by his brothers for shekels of silver, 00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:34.860 stripped of his tunic, mocked, 00:37:35.700 --> 00:37:38.500 was accused falsely, was considered dead, 00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:39.980 and he comes back to life. 00:37:39.980 --> 00:37:41.380 He's a type of Jesus. 00:37:43.660 --> 00:37:46.300 But then he's subtracted to a point where now 00:37:46.300 --> 00:37:48.700 there's only him and there is God, 00:37:48.700 --> 00:37:52.020 and now begins what changes the earth. 00:37:56.020 --> 00:37:58.340 And then he's taken to the next level. 00:37:58.340 --> 00:37:59.940 He's taken to the next level. 00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:01.380 He's taken to the next level. 00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:02.780 He's taken to the next level. 00:38:03.780 --> 00:38:07.780 Humiliation may hurt, but hurt for a little while, 00:38:07.780 --> 00:38:08.620 and then get up. 00:38:11.180 --> 00:38:16.180 Because sometimes it is important to be a slave 00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:19.180 to step into glory. 00:38:19.180 --> 00:38:21.180 Jesus did it, Joseph did it. 00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:23.340 Wear it well. 00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:28.300 Tony still got jet lag. 00:38:29.300 --> 00:38:30.820 Tony still got jet lag. 00:38:33.060 --> 00:38:36.660 Don't worry, Tony, you're excused for another three days. 00:38:36.660 --> 00:38:38.260 After that, I'll shout euticus. 00:38:39.300 --> 00:38:41.500 But don't worry, nobody heard, so it's okay. 00:38:44.140 --> 00:38:44.980 Here's another one. 00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:49.980 Multiplication is the activity of the Holy Spirit. 00:38:54.820 --> 00:38:57.620 What, do these kids respond to each other or something? 00:38:58.980 --> 00:39:01.980 Let's take it easy on multiplication. 00:39:05.980 --> 00:39:08.980 Sorry, that just, maybe. 00:39:10.380 --> 00:39:13.380 Multiplication is the activity of the Holy Spirit. 00:39:13.380 --> 00:39:15.780 Multiplication is the activity of the Holy Spirit. 00:39:17.420 --> 00:39:20.900 You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. 00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:23.460 Guys, here's a simple formula. 00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:24.780 Inadequacy, 00:39:25.060 --> 00:39:26.860 here's a simple formula. 00:39:26.860 --> 00:39:27.700 Inadequacy, 00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:33.340 admission, 00:39:37.740 --> 00:39:38.580 power, 00:39:41.820 --> 00:39:42.740 of the Spirit, 00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:45.300 multiplication. 00:39:49.020 --> 00:39:53.060 What do you have to set aside during this process? 00:39:53.060 --> 00:39:53.900 Feelings. 00:39:55.620 --> 00:39:56.460 Very simple. 00:39:57.860 --> 00:39:59.140 This is the process. 00:39:59.140 --> 00:40:02.780 Inadequacy must, is not enough. 00:40:02.780 --> 00:40:05.300 We are all actually bankrupt and inadequate, 00:40:05.300 --> 00:40:06.140 only we don't know it. 00:40:07.220 --> 00:40:10.220 Inadequacy must then go into the next phase, 00:40:10.220 --> 00:40:12.180 which is an admission of it. 00:40:13.220 --> 00:40:15.420 That I am actually inadequate and bankrupt. 00:40:16.380 --> 00:40:18.060 Once you go to the admission of it, 00:40:18.060 --> 00:40:20.820 then the Spirit, power of the Spirit falls, 00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:23.420 because now there's a crevasse that has to be filled, 00:40:23.420 --> 00:40:25.500 or a depression that has to be filled. 00:40:25.500 --> 00:40:27.260 There's room to flow into. 00:40:27.260 --> 00:40:32.260 When I'm not willing to admit my inadequacy, 00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:34.380 pride seals off the depression. 00:40:37.900 --> 00:40:40.180 But when I'm willing to admit my inadequacy, 00:40:40.180 --> 00:40:42.740 which I should recognize on a regular basis, 00:40:42.740 --> 00:40:44.980 especially when it comes to kingdom activity, 00:40:46.100 --> 00:40:47.620 because it's not by might nor by power, 00:40:47.620 --> 00:40:49.060 but by the Spirit, 00:40:49.060 --> 00:40:51.060 then the power of the Spirit comes in. 00:40:51.060 --> 00:40:52.900 And when the power of the Spirit hits anything, 00:40:52.900 --> 00:40:54.220 it gives life. 00:40:54.220 --> 00:40:57.740 And the transference of life of God always multiplies. 00:40:57.740 --> 00:41:01.700 The thing I have to ignore in this equation is what I feel. 00:41:03.220 --> 00:41:05.100 Because even when the power of the Spirit 00:41:05.100 --> 00:41:06.260 is working through me, 00:41:06.260 --> 00:41:08.340 I might still feel inadequate. 00:41:08.340 --> 00:41:10.940 I might still feel like I'm not doing a good enough job. 00:41:10.940 --> 00:41:13.380 I might still feel like nothing happened. 00:41:15.660 --> 00:41:18.700 And yet, what I don't realize is, 00:41:19.340 --> 00:41:21.260 what I don't realize is, 00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:23.220 I'm just a vessel through whom he is flowing. 00:41:23.220 --> 00:41:24.660 He's affecting others. 00:41:24.660 --> 00:41:26.020 And he doesn't care too much 00:41:26.020 --> 00:41:28.060 whether I'm feeling good or not about it. 00:41:29.220 --> 00:41:32.100 So many times, you will lead worship and you'll think, 00:41:32.100 --> 00:41:34.820 ah, tasted like sawdust. 00:41:34.820 --> 00:41:37.300 But that sawdust was life to somebody else. 00:41:39.260 --> 00:41:42.580 All that story I always talk about South Africa. 00:41:42.580 --> 00:41:44.140 The lady writes to me saying, 00:41:44.740 --> 00:41:47.780 you went up, you sang in a monotone. 00:41:47.780 --> 00:41:49.580 I was hoping you would sit down. 00:41:49.580 --> 00:41:51.260 You were spoiling good worship. 00:41:52.700 --> 00:41:54.740 And it is after that, 00:41:54.740 --> 00:41:56.980 that she hears the words. 00:41:56.980 --> 00:41:59.180 And she said, as I listened to the words, 00:41:59.180 --> 00:42:02.340 I felt God dipping me into a pool of crystal pure water, 00:42:02.340 --> 00:42:03.180 pulling me out. 00:42:03.180 --> 00:42:04.820 And for the first time in 10 years, 00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:06.700 my depression had lifted. 00:42:06.700 --> 00:42:07.860 Her name is Cecilia. 00:42:08.820 --> 00:42:12.540 And it's been six, four, five years now, still free. 00:42:12.740 --> 00:42:14.740 But I literally promised 00:42:14.740 --> 00:42:17.220 I would never sing like that again 00:42:18.060 --> 00:42:19.460 because God had let me down. 00:42:23.020 --> 00:42:26.980 So ignore your feelings at this stage. 00:42:26.980 --> 00:42:28.220 This is where we get stuck. 00:42:28.220 --> 00:42:30.500 We start feeling, oh, it wasn't good. 00:42:30.500 --> 00:42:32.020 Nobody said anything. 00:42:32.020 --> 00:42:33.380 Nothing happened. 00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:34.660 This is not working out. 00:42:34.660 --> 00:42:36.700 Someone else did it better. 00:42:36.700 --> 00:42:38.260 I wish I could do it like them. 00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:39.260 I wish I could do it like them. 00:42:39.260 --> 00:42:41.180 I wish I could do it like them. 00:42:43.020 --> 00:42:44.420 That is what pulls you down. 00:42:58.500 --> 00:43:00.900 Multiplication varies in speed. 00:43:00.900 --> 00:43:04.540 Multiplication varies in speed. 00:43:05.540 --> 00:43:08.540 As in, for some, it may happen 00:43:11.900 --> 00:43:12.740 in days, 00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:15.100 others, 00:43:16.660 --> 00:43:17.500 months. 00:43:18.420 --> 00:43:20.100 You might say why. 00:43:20.100 --> 00:43:22.540 Sometimes the need is immediate. 00:43:24.100 --> 00:43:28.620 Sometimes the need is planned over a period of time. 00:43:28.620 --> 00:43:33.620 Sometimes a person changes quickly. 00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:37.060 Sometimes a person takes longer. 00:43:39.460 --> 00:43:40.300 There are different reasons. 00:43:40.300 --> 00:43:42.100 We can go over many, many reasons. 00:43:42.100 --> 00:43:45.700 But when that happens, don't start comparing. 00:43:45.700 --> 00:43:48.660 One person may realize multiplication quickly, 00:43:48.660 --> 00:43:50.420 another might not see it fully. 00:43:53.220 --> 00:43:54.060 So just be aware of that. 00:43:54.060 --> 00:43:54.900 Don't compare. 00:43:54.900 --> 00:43:55.740 Don't compare. 00:43:55.740 --> 00:43:57.940 You know, I know guys who are 00:43:59.460 --> 00:44:00.940 aggressive, arrogant, 00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:05.420 ungodly in their speech, 00:44:08.180 --> 00:44:10.140 and not nice to people. 00:44:10.140 --> 00:44:12.140 Not nice to sometimes their employees. 00:44:13.340 --> 00:44:16.140 But the one thing that they seem to flourish in 00:44:16.140 --> 00:44:18.060 is great generosity. 00:44:18.060 --> 00:44:21.700 The kind of generosity that you and I wouldn't even imagine. 00:44:21.700 --> 00:44:24.460 I mean, I'm not saying that they're not nice to people. 00:44:24.660 --> 00:44:26.740 You and I wouldn't even imagine. 00:44:26.740 --> 00:44:29.780 Giving away not 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 00:44:29.780 --> 00:44:32.580 talking about 60, 70% being given away. 00:44:32.580 --> 00:44:35.140 And God just prospers them. 00:44:35.140 --> 00:44:37.900 And you scratch your head thinking, how does this work? 00:44:39.060 --> 00:44:41.940 You are living a godly life and nothing is happening. 00:44:41.940 --> 00:44:44.620 This person lives a relatively ungodly life, 00:44:44.620 --> 00:44:45.460 but they prosper. 00:44:45.460 --> 00:44:46.620 We don't know the reasons why. 00:44:46.620 --> 00:44:48.900 Sometimes God will allow things to go on, 00:44:48.900 --> 00:44:52.300 just because this person's generosity is so widespread 00:44:52.300 --> 00:44:53.380 that many benefit. 00:44:54.700 --> 00:44:57.660 Comparison is never complete 00:44:57.660 --> 00:45:00.060 because you do not know the context. 00:45:02.460 --> 00:45:06.180 Paul would say this, you don't know the scars on my back. 00:45:06.180 --> 00:45:07.860 Mel Gibson would say that too. 00:45:07.860 --> 00:45:10.300 You don't know how many bullet holes I've taken. 00:45:11.500 --> 00:45:12.340 Sorry. 00:45:15.100 --> 00:45:18.060 It's lethal weapon too, but don't worry about it. 00:45:18.060 --> 00:45:23.060 Let me conclude because we have to leave. 00:45:27.220 --> 00:45:32.220 One of the things Joseph does guys, is he liberates people. 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:35.580 He lives, here's what Joseph does. 00:45:35.580 --> 00:45:38.700 In the year of Joseph, expect this to happen through you. 00:45:38.700 --> 00:45:42.700 You will stir up in people a discontent. 00:45:48.900 --> 00:45:50.100 And a restlessness. 00:45:56.420 --> 00:45:58.940 With their life. 00:46:00.900 --> 00:46:05.460 Because when Joseph was born, when Joseph was born, 00:46:05.460 --> 00:46:10.460 Jacob got very discontent with continuing 00:46:10.580 --> 00:46:11.580 in Laban's land. 00:46:12.580 --> 00:46:13.780 So expect that to happen. 00:46:13.780 --> 00:46:15.980 When they see your life this year, 00:46:15.980 --> 00:46:17.060 people will be discontent. 00:46:17.060 --> 00:46:22.060 They'll be restless and saying, hey echo, Fuyo's there. 00:46:23.380 --> 00:46:25.140 Everybody, hi Fuyo. 00:46:27.140 --> 00:46:28.860 See what happens when you wave Fuyo. 00:46:30.860 --> 00:46:35.860 So expect this year that your life, your work, 00:46:35.940 --> 00:46:37.740 your life will be discontent. 00:46:37.740 --> 00:46:40.980 Expect this year that your life, your words 00:46:40.980 --> 00:46:44.420 will make others discontent and restless with their lives. 00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:45.700 There'll be a restlessness. 00:46:45.700 --> 00:46:47.860 It'll be like, I wish I could break out. 00:46:48.860 --> 00:46:49.980 Expect that. 00:46:49.980 --> 00:46:52.780 And don't, sometimes pounce on them like a tiger, 00:46:52.780 --> 00:46:55.660 sometimes trap them like a spider. 00:46:58.420 --> 00:47:00.220 Tiger, spider. 00:47:02.300 --> 00:47:04.020 What is on video? 00:47:04.020 --> 00:47:05.700 Okay, too bad. 00:47:06.300 --> 00:47:10.380 Okay, but know that you will create, 00:47:12.020 --> 00:47:13.220 it feels like one of those 00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:17.660 swinging panda, silly monkey movies. 00:47:17.660 --> 00:47:21.420 Anyways, so this will happen through you. 00:47:21.420 --> 00:47:23.580 So be aware of that. 00:47:23.580 --> 00:47:26.860 Jacob was content in Laban's land for 14 years 00:47:26.860 --> 00:47:31.860 and along comes Joseph and suddenly he says in verse 25, 00:47:32.020 --> 00:47:34.580 and it came to pass when Rachel had born Joseph 00:47:34.580 --> 00:47:36.940 that Jacob said unto Laban, send me away 00:47:36.940 --> 00:47:39.460 that I may go unto my own place and to my country. 00:47:39.460 --> 00:47:41.100 Let me go. 00:47:41.100 --> 00:47:42.300 That'll happen, eh? 00:47:42.300 --> 00:47:43.420 Just be aware of that. 00:47:44.620 --> 00:47:47.740 And live your life out so others can get discontent. 00:47:47.740 --> 00:47:50.180 Live your life out so others can get discontent. 00:47:50.180 --> 00:47:52.660 Show your worship so others can get discontent. 00:47:55.020 --> 00:47:57.780 Exert faith so that others can get discontent. 00:47:59.700 --> 00:48:02.580 Speak of your father so others can get discontent. 00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:04.980 Talk about the Christ that you serve 00:48:04.980 --> 00:48:06.700 so others can get discontent. 00:48:08.180 --> 00:48:09.980 Talk about your expectations, 00:48:09.980 --> 00:48:12.780 what you expect so others can get discontent. 00:48:12.780 --> 00:48:16.580 Show them the things that God is making new in your life 00:48:16.580 --> 00:48:18.380 so that others can get discontent. 00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:22.420 Never forget that he has come to make all things new. 00:48:22.420 --> 00:48:27.420 Show them so that that song may come to pass. 00:48:27.420 --> 00:48:29.060 I can feel your goodness, I can feel your grace, 00:48:29.060 --> 00:48:30.900 I receive your mercy, I receive your grace. 00:48:30.900 --> 00:48:32.740 I delight myself at your table of God. 00:48:32.740 --> 00:48:34.620 You do all things well. 00:48:34.620 --> 00:48:36.100 Just look at my life. 00:48:36.100 --> 00:48:39.980 I assure you guys that there is not a single life here 00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:43.420 that does not have something to show for what God has done. 00:48:43.420 --> 00:48:44.740 Take that and show them. 00:48:44.740 --> 00:48:48.620 There might be 20 really sucky areas in your life, 00:48:48.620 --> 00:48:50.860 but I assure you for every 20 areas, 00:48:50.860 --> 00:48:52.660 there are five good areas. 00:48:52.660 --> 00:48:55.500 Show them that and hide the rest for now. 00:48:56.460 --> 00:48:57.300 For now. 00:49:03.260 --> 00:49:05.980 Last point, Joseph removes reproach. 00:49:05.980 --> 00:49:10.060 This year, expect that through your life 00:49:15.420 --> 00:49:17.540 to remove 00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:22.260 or take away 00:49:22.260 --> 00:49:27.260 shame or disgrace 00:49:31.780 --> 00:49:35.500 from the lives of people. 00:49:35.500 --> 00:49:37.900 Doesn't matter whether they are Christians 00:49:37.900 --> 00:49:41.300 or non-Christians, I assure you this will happen. 00:49:41.300 --> 00:49:44.860 Expect through your life to remove or take away shame 00:49:44.860 --> 00:49:47.020 or disgrace from the lives of people. 00:49:48.700 --> 00:49:50.100 Shame or disgrace. 00:49:50.100 --> 00:49:54.020 And having said that, expect 00:49:57.020 --> 00:49:58.100 the same for yourself. 00:49:58.100 --> 00:50:01.740 Expect shame and disgrace 00:50:04.060 --> 00:50:06.900 or reproach. 00:50:06.900 --> 00:50:09.060 That's another word that covers it. 00:50:09.060 --> 00:50:10.100 In your life, 00:50:11.980 --> 00:50:12.980 to be rolled away. 00:50:17.260 --> 00:50:19.900 What is it that you feel ashamed about? 00:50:20.740 --> 00:50:21.580 Is it a physical condition? 00:50:21.580 --> 00:50:22.660 Is it a spiritual condition? 00:50:22.660 --> 00:50:25.780 Is it a mindset condition? 00:50:25.780 --> 00:50:28.020 Is it a financial condition? 00:50:28.020 --> 00:50:29.260 What is it? 00:50:29.260 --> 00:50:31.940 Hallelujah, year of Joseph. 00:50:31.940 --> 00:50:34.380 It is the year of rolling away of reproaches 00:50:34.380 --> 00:50:36.060 in our own lives. 00:50:36.060 --> 00:50:38.740 Conditions of shame, conditions of disgrace, 00:50:38.740 --> 00:50:42.140 conditions of reproach being rolled away from our lives. 00:50:42.140 --> 00:50:45.660 And then our lives being used to set others free too. 00:50:47.300 --> 00:50:48.740 This is the year of Joseph. 00:50:48.780 --> 00:50:50.420 This is how it works. 00:50:50.420 --> 00:50:52.660 Before Israel entered the promised land, 00:50:52.660 --> 00:50:54.540 they stopped at a place called Gilgal 00:50:54.540 --> 00:50:56.180 where they were circumcised. 00:50:56.180 --> 00:50:58.340 And the reason they call that place Gilgal 00:50:58.340 --> 00:51:01.420 was God saying, listen, I roll away the reproach 00:51:01.420 --> 00:51:04.220 of 400 years of slavery today. 00:51:04.220 --> 00:51:06.420 And I have you cross over. 00:51:06.420 --> 00:51:11.420 Every day from today on till the 13th of August, 2024, 00:51:11.580 --> 00:51:15.980 may reproaches shed like molting skin from us church. 00:51:19.740 --> 00:51:22.740 And then while that is happening, not after it happens, 00:51:22.740 --> 00:51:24.900 while that is happening, be assured 00:51:24.900 --> 00:51:26.460 that when you speak to people, 00:51:26.460 --> 00:51:29.500 their condition of shame or disgrace will be exposed 00:51:29.500 --> 00:51:31.540 in a way that is so gentle 00:51:31.540 --> 00:51:33.820 that you'll be able to take it away from them. 00:51:36.580 --> 00:51:38.260 For some you'll use a chisel, 00:51:38.260 --> 00:51:40.180 for others it'll be just a scalpel 00:51:40.180 --> 00:51:42.900 or for some others balm, but it will go. 00:51:44.060 --> 00:51:47.220 God gives these years for the benefit of others. 00:51:49.620 --> 00:51:51.300 That's why he does this. 00:51:51.300 --> 00:51:52.140 Yeah. 00:51:53.020 --> 00:51:54.940 This is the one-off teaching that I thought we'll do 00:51:54.940 --> 00:51:57.780 so that you know where you're going and what we expect. 00:52:00.740 --> 00:52:01.580 Let me just pray. 00:52:05.780 --> 00:52:07.980 Father, we thank you for the year of Joseph. 00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:08.820 Father. 00:52:17.300 --> 00:52:21.380 On behalf of us as a people, 00:52:21.380 --> 00:52:24.500 I voice our gratitude to you saying thank you 00:52:24.500 --> 00:52:28.020 for making us fruitful over the next 12 months. 00:52:28.020 --> 00:52:33.020 It'll be fruitfulness in money, at work, in our lives, 00:52:34.380 --> 00:52:36.180 just like Deuteronomy 28 said, 00:52:36.180 --> 00:52:37.820 in the city, in the country, 00:52:38.700 --> 00:52:42.860 in our bread, in our crops, in our work, 00:52:42.860 --> 00:52:46.100 in the work of our hands, in our families, 00:52:46.100 --> 00:52:48.580 with our children, fruitfulness. 00:52:50.340 --> 00:52:52.420 The second thing, Father, I thank you for 00:52:52.420 --> 00:52:56.580 is that you will use us to cause a discontent, 00:52:56.580 --> 00:52:58.980 to stir up discontent and restlessness 00:52:58.980 --> 00:53:01.940 in people who'll say, can I have this too? 00:53:02.940 --> 00:53:07.940 But we ask, Holy Spirit, that you remind us of this. 00:53:08.380 --> 00:53:11.060 And thirdly, oh God, you'll do something 00:53:11.060 --> 00:53:14.780 that we love doing, taking away the shame and disgrace 00:53:14.780 --> 00:53:17.100 and the reproach that is upon people 00:53:17.100 --> 00:53:19.900 and conferring worth on them through us. 00:53:19.900 --> 00:53:22.820 And while you're doing that, you'll strip me of my shame, 00:53:22.820 --> 00:53:25.220 my disgrace, my condition of reproach, 00:53:25.220 --> 00:53:28.380 which is basically a mindset that is so deeply ingrained 00:53:28.380 --> 00:53:30.300 that it triggers the same response. 00:53:30.300 --> 00:53:32.020 Take it away from me too, Jesus. 00:53:32.860 --> 00:53:34.500 This is the year you're giving us. 00:53:34.500 --> 00:53:37.260 You're inviting us in, come, can I do this for you? 00:53:37.260 --> 00:53:40.860 And we as a church said, please, Jesus, this would be awesome. 00:53:40.860 --> 00:53:44.260 May this church be fruitful, may this church prosper. 00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:49.500 In body, in soul, in spirit, in money, 00:53:49.500 --> 00:53:53.740 in fruitfulness, spiritually, relationally, financially, 00:53:53.740 --> 00:53:56.420 increase in our numbers, in every which way, oh God, 00:53:56.420 --> 00:53:58.700 we desire this, granted spirit, oh God, 00:53:58.700 --> 00:54:00.100 we don't need to beg for this. 00:54:00.100 --> 00:54:04.140 It's an invitation, so we step into it, Jesus, we thank you. 00:54:04.140 --> 00:54:06.820 Father, and as we go, we just pray that as prashant 00:54:06.820 --> 00:54:09.060 and yet you go that your hand of protection 00:54:09.060 --> 00:54:11.460 will be upon them as they travel. 00:54:11.460 --> 00:54:14.260 There'll be a time of strengthening for them, 00:54:14.260 --> 00:54:16.980 time of strengthening relationally and spiritually, 00:54:16.980 --> 00:54:18.620 so we bless them as they go now. 00:54:19.620 --> 00:54:22.860 We thank you for this place you've given us for two months. 00:54:22.860 --> 00:54:24.620 We as a church are particularly grateful 00:54:24.620 --> 00:54:27.980 for the sound guys, for Evan, for Brandon, 00:54:27.980 --> 00:54:30.020 what Evan is doing in this regard, Lord. 00:54:30.940 --> 00:54:34.340 It's a huge thing that we open our eyes and recognize. 00:54:34.340 --> 00:54:36.860 So we bless him, Father, bless him, Father. 00:54:36.860 --> 00:54:39.380 May these two months be so fruitful 00:54:39.380 --> 00:54:42.660 in the lives of these guys who make it possible for us. 00:54:43.540 --> 00:54:47.060 This is what we pray now, in Jesus' name, amen. 00:54:47.060 --> 00:54:50.300 Bless you guys, please help with dismantling. 00:54:51.180 --> 00:54:52.860 The only ones who are spared are anyone 00:54:52.860 --> 00:54:53.700 who's been married.