WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Shoulders Publishing Date: 2021-02-13T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/shoulders/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.220 Okay guys, like I felt a few days ago, God saying, can you begin to go to bits and pieces 00:00:16.220 --> 00:00:19.500 from the Song of Songs and teach from that? 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:26.060 And I don't think he was thinking of Valentine's Day, but it just so happens that it kind of 00:00:26.060 --> 00:00:32.220 coincides, but at least I didn't have it in mind. 00:00:32.220 --> 00:00:39.840 So this isn't one of those pastoral Valentine's Day messages, got no such intention or desire. 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:44.980 If you want a title for this teaching, it is Between His Shoulders, Between His Shoulders, 00:00:44.980 --> 00:00:46.460 that's the title for this teaching. 00:00:46.460 --> 00:00:58.860 And so guys, one of the things I've realized is before the world gets caught up in this 00:00:58.860 --> 00:01:02.020 revival, I need a revival. 00:01:02.020 --> 00:01:10.820 Before the world gets caught up in revival, I, Jacob, need a revival. 00:01:10.820 --> 00:01:29.020 The thing with revival is that revival destroys orphanhood, revival destroys legalism, revival 00:01:29.020 --> 00:01:34.340 destroys everything that is transactional. 00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:35.620 I need a revival. 00:01:35.620 --> 00:01:42.180 I've been pleading for one, I've been for hours asking God, Father, revive me first. 00:01:42.180 --> 00:01:45.620 I need a revival before this thing can sweep the earth. 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:47.740 I need one. 00:01:47.740 --> 00:01:53.180 Because a revival destroys orphanhood, it destroys orphanhood. 00:01:53.180 --> 00:01:58.580 Every part of me that still responds like an orphan in situations, every part of me 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:05.360 that is not childlike, every part of me that is not so easily dependent on the parent has 00:02:05.360 --> 00:02:06.360 to go. 00:02:06.360 --> 00:02:10.720 Every part of me that even reeks of legalism. 00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:18.360 Legalism is when I feel that if I don't do these things, this might happen. 00:02:18.360 --> 00:02:22.200 And if I do these things, there's a chance that it will work out well. 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:26.980 It's this place we are caught in where it seems with God that if you don't get it right, 00:02:26.980 --> 00:02:29.000 it could affect us adversely. 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:34.480 And if we get it right, perhaps God will do something for us. 00:02:34.600 --> 00:02:37.320 There are different variations of it. 00:02:37.320 --> 00:02:39.480 It's almost like the COVID variant. 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:45.560 There are different variants of it, but that sense is always present in all our lives to 00:02:45.560 --> 00:02:46.560 some extent. 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.160 And it's a form of legalism. 00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:54.040 Revival dismantles or destroys orphanhood, destroys legalism, and it destroys everything 00:02:54.040 --> 00:02:55.040 transactional. 00:02:55.040 --> 00:02:57.320 There'll be nothing transactional left. 00:02:57.320 --> 00:02:59.840 I've been praying with somebody over the last seven days. 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:04.200 And one of the things I found very refreshing about their prayer is that their prayer was 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:05.720 so relational. 00:03:05.720 --> 00:03:06.720 It wasn't heavy. 00:03:06.720 --> 00:03:07.720 It was childlike. 00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:09.400 And the person's older than me. 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:14.000 But there was a childlikeness that I used to have. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:18.240 When I first became a believer, one of the things that people found attractive about 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:23.720 my life was that, Jacob, you have such childlikeness in your faith and your approach to God. 00:03:23.720 --> 00:03:27.240 And I was listening to this person pray and I suddenly realized that, man, I've gotten 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:32.120 so heavy with my prayers. 00:03:32.200 --> 00:03:39.400 I want everything to return to relationality in my life and in your life. 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:49.640 Maybe you're in a better place than me, but we still have miles we can travel, eh? 00:03:49.640 --> 00:03:52.200 What does a revival revive? 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:57.640 If this is what it destroys, a revival revives. 00:03:57.640 --> 00:04:03.240 A revival revives relationship. 00:04:03.240 --> 00:04:11.000 A revival revives relationship, as in relationship with the Father. 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:19.000 A revival revives joy. 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:27.400 And a revival revives subjective, as in, it's not some kind of objective abstract thing, 00:04:27.400 --> 00:04:40.200 subjective experiential, subjective experiential dwelling in the Father's love. 00:04:40.280 --> 00:04:45.000 In the Father's love. 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:51.400 In the Father's love. 00:04:51.400 --> 00:05:00.120 And I want this for myself and I want this for you desperately. 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.000 Yeah? 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:04.760 A revival revives relationship. 00:05:04.760 --> 00:05:06.280 Everything becomes relational again. 00:05:06.280 --> 00:05:08.840 Nothing is transactional. 00:05:08.840 --> 00:05:14.600 Nothing is, and we'll talk about this tomorrow, but basically the idea of things being transactional 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:21.240 is how come if I did this for you, you didn't do this for me? 00:05:21.240 --> 00:05:25.720 There's an expectation in transactions. 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:30.360 There's an expectation in transactions. 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:35.640 I don't want that expectation anymore, guys. 00:05:35.720 --> 00:05:40.920 I want to have an expectation of the nature of God, but I don't want to be transactional. 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:44.600 One of the questions I've been asking and I ask you right now is that it ain't enough 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:45.480 that God is love. 00:05:45.480 --> 00:05:49.480 The question that has to be asked is, are you drowning in it? 00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:50.920 It ain't enough that God is love. 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:55.720 The question that needs to be asked is, Jacob, are you drowning in it or are you wading through 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:57.880 it ankle or knee deep? 00:05:57.880 --> 00:06:03.880 An ankle or knee deep at this stage in my life and in this season of revival isn't enough. 00:06:03.960 --> 00:06:10.600 I beg you, both here and at home, pay attention. 00:06:10.600 --> 00:06:17.560 Because if God wants us to listen to his cry from the song of songs, then perhaps it's 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:27.400 because he wants to do a massive surgical change in my life and yours. 00:06:27.400 --> 00:06:28.760 It ain't enough that God is love. 00:06:28.760 --> 00:06:31.560 The question one has to ask is, are you drowning in his love? 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:33.000 Are you drowning in his love? 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.760 Or are you wading through it or ankle deep in it? 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:39.880 Let's just pray for that. 00:06:39.880 --> 00:06:47.480 Hey, Father, since you are behind these teachings, you have intent. 00:06:48.600 --> 00:06:54.040 And if you have intent, then you have both the process and the solution and the end. 00:06:56.200 --> 00:07:02.360 And so I definitely submit to your intent, to your process, and to the end. 00:07:03.400 --> 00:07:07.800 I submit myself, I have control over that, Father. 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:13.320 But I also bring everybody else at Acts 29, anyone else who's listening, how we want 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:14.200 this in our lives. 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.600 It is not enough that you are love. 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.840 It must be that I'm drowning in it. 00:07:20.840 --> 00:07:22.280 I'm just surrounded by it. 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:26.600 I find myself just submerged in it. 00:07:28.280 --> 00:07:30.360 I don't want to wade in your love. 00:07:30.360 --> 00:07:32.680 I don't want to be ankle deep or knee deep in your love. 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:37.480 I want to be so surrounded by it that everything about me is relational. 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:41.160 Everything about me is so exhilaratingly joyful. 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:54.600 Everything about me is so experientially embedded in your love, oh God, that I'm so sure of you. 00:07:56.280 --> 00:07:59.880 That circumstances don't affect my certainty of who you are. 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.920 I want this for all of us, Father. 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.080 I don't want to take away from anything else that you provide. 00:08:16.280 --> 00:08:18.040 I don't want to exchange anything for anything. 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:20.200 I don't want to say, oh, God's love is enough. 00:08:20.200 --> 00:08:23.240 I don't want anything else out of what he's done for me. 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:27.880 No, no, no, no, no, that's lowering who you are. 00:08:27.880 --> 00:08:33.720 But I want to be so consumed and I want us to be so consumed with the love of the Father 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:39.080 and so dwelling in the depths of the love of the Father that everything else 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:41.480 is just so naturally flowing over us. 00:08:44.520 --> 00:08:46.040 Father, I seek this for us. 00:08:46.520 --> 00:08:53.640 Guys, it's my daily destiny or my portion to have the love of God poured out on me by the Holy Spirit. 00:08:53.640 --> 00:08:56.600 It's my daily destiny or my portion. 00:08:56.600 --> 00:08:59.960 Like, just like manna was given to the believers, 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:08.680 so it is my daily destiny and my portion to have the love of God poured out on me by the Holy Spirit. 00:09:08.680 --> 00:09:10.920 Romans chapter 5, verse 2, says, 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:12.920 Romans chapter 5, verse 5 talks about that. 00:09:12.920 --> 00:09:17.320 Romans 5, 5 says that the Holy Spirit pours his love into my heart. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:31.000 And so this is a daily portion or a destiny that I must reach out for. 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.800 I must reach out for. 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:46.920 Like, very often since things, I couldn't earn it, I don't deserve it, 00:09:46.920 --> 00:09:48.680 still you give yourself away. 00:09:48.680 --> 00:09:50.520 And this is a daily thing with God. 00:09:51.480 --> 00:09:55.560 I just want us to, I just want to encourage us to, 00:09:55.560 --> 00:10:00.600 before anything else, seek his affection, his intimacy and his love every morning. 00:10:01.640 --> 00:10:05.240 It's a destiny appointed to us, it's a portion appointed to us. 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:08.600 It is poured out on us by the Holy Spirit every morning. 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:16.680 But if it isn't sought, if it isn't run after, then even though it is there, 00:10:16.680 --> 00:10:20.680 it is not, we don't, we don't, we don't take it, we don't eat it, we don't get it. 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:27.080 In the Song of Songs, there's this great shepherd king 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.720 who falls in love with a common peasant woman. 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:33.400 And she's uncomfortable under his gaze. 00:10:34.680 --> 00:10:35.800 She feels unworthy. 00:10:36.520 --> 00:10:40.680 In Song of Songs, Chapter 1, Verse 6, she even protests saying, 00:10:40.680 --> 00:10:42.760 don't gaze at me because I'm so dark. 00:10:42.760 --> 00:10:45.080 I worked with my brothers in the fields. 00:10:45.880 --> 00:10:50.520 My complexion is not right, my hands are rough, my face is dark. 00:10:51.800 --> 00:10:59.320 And the shepherd king responds in a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:06.600 very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:10.280 very, very, very 클�езь. 00:11:10.280 --> 00:11:16.600 And the shepherd king responds in Chapter 1, Verse 15, and she's just called herself dark, 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:19.960 and he says to her, my fair one, you are beautiful. 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:24.760 And he just swings her around, eh? 00:11:26.040 --> 00:11:27.560 That's the first encounter. 00:11:27.560 --> 00:11:35.160 Oh my God man, if you actually sense the words where he calls you, be you guy or girl, he calls you beautiful. 00:11:35.160 --> 00:11:40.560 You find yourself unworthy under his gaze for different reasons. 00:11:40.560 --> 00:11:47.560 In her case it was that I'm just a peasant woman, I worked with my brothers, I've lived a rough life, I'm dark, don't look at me. 00:11:47.560 --> 00:11:53.360 And his immediate response and he's sincere when he says, but you are my fair one and you are beautiful. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:54.760 He calls you beautiful. 00:11:55.160 --> 00:12:00.860 It is important that I hear what he says to me in the morning. 00:12:00.860 --> 00:12:05.460 Hear his voice and you will hear his heart. 00:12:05.460 --> 00:12:15.060 Hear his voice and you will hear his heart. 00:12:15.060 --> 00:12:20.160 Please hear his voice over these next few days. 00:12:20.160 --> 00:12:25.160 It is impossible to be revived without hearing the word of the voice of God. 00:12:25.160 --> 00:12:31.160 His voice carries his word. No revival happens without his voice being heard. 00:12:31.160 --> 00:12:36.160 It's always his voice that revives. What revived the bones in the valley? 00:12:36.160 --> 00:12:42.160 What changes graves into a garden? The voice. 00:12:42.160 --> 00:12:48.160 It's hard to practice. 00:12:48.160 --> 00:12:54.160 But the reason you need to practice it every morning is because his compassion is in you every morning. 00:12:54.160 --> 00:12:59.160 Let his words frame your day. Let his words frame your day. 00:12:59.160 --> 00:13:04.160 Get a head start on the rest of the world. Get a head start on the rest of the world. 00:13:04.160 --> 00:13:11.160 It's hard to practice. It's not easy. But if the main thing is not the main thing, then other things crowd the main thing out. 00:13:11.160 --> 00:13:16.160 And then you're playing catch-up throughout the day. 00:13:20.160 --> 00:13:26.160 Hear his voice and you'll hear his heart. And you'll let his words frame your day. 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:34.160 What are we talking about? We are talking about being drawn by the Father into the depths of his love. 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:42.160 So that you walk regardless of the kind of day you're having with the certainty of his goodness and his fatherhood. 00:13:42.160 --> 00:13:47.160 That's what we are talking about. 00:13:47.160 --> 00:13:54.160 We are talking about him saying things that change the complexion of your day. 00:13:54.160 --> 00:13:59.160 Ugly becomes beautiful. 00:14:00.160 --> 00:14:08.160 He's done this throughout history. In Genesis 3, you hear him crying out one of the most painful words I think. 00:14:08.160 --> 00:14:14.160 One of the most painful words God has uttered is, Adam, where are you? 00:14:14.160 --> 00:14:19.160 Adam, Adam, where are you? He's walking through the garden. 00:14:19.160 --> 00:14:24.160 Sin has just entered. Mankind is ruined. 00:14:24.160 --> 00:14:29.160 Restoration now has to be put into place. Adam, Adam, where are you? 00:14:29.160 --> 00:14:34.160 You hear him saying just one word in another garden where they had buried him. 00:14:34.160 --> 00:14:38.160 All he says is Mary and it changes this woman's thoughts. 00:14:38.160 --> 00:14:42.160 She had come there and she doesn't even realize that it is Jesus. 00:14:42.160 --> 00:14:47.160 You see him a little later on the beach and it's words that restore Peter. 00:14:47.160 --> 00:14:52.160 Boys, do you have any fish? That is the beginning of the restoration of Peter. 00:14:54.160 --> 00:15:01.160 To the voice on the island of Patmos where John was alone and then he hears a loud voice behind him with a trumpet call. 00:15:01.160 --> 00:15:05.160 And he begins to write down the revelation of who Christ is. 00:15:05.160 --> 00:15:08.160 To changing the name of Rachel's second born son. 00:15:08.160 --> 00:15:14.160 She named him Benoni as in one who brings misfortune or one who brings pain. 00:15:14.160 --> 00:15:23.160 As she's dying, she names him Benoni and then God changes it to Benjamin, which is son of my strength or son who brings fortune. 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:33.160 If I don't hear the voice of his love in the morning, I'll have to go with my theology, my strengths, my abilities, my faith. 00:15:33.160 --> 00:15:39.160 I'll have a whole lot of good things to go on. But my God, I need to hear the voice of my father in the morning. 00:15:39.160 --> 00:15:42.160 And I'm talking about God wanting to do this with love. 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:47.160 For whatever reason, he thinks that the people at Acts 29, that Jacob needs to be revived. 00:15:47.160 --> 00:15:56.160 Revived into relationship, into joy that he hasn't known, into a subjective experiential dwelling in the Father's love. 00:15:56.160 --> 00:16:03.160 Where he is never transactional, where there's nothing legalistic in his life, where there is no orphanhood. 00:16:03.160 --> 00:16:08.160 Orphans can only beget orphans. 00:16:08.160 --> 00:16:12.160 If I don't change, you don't get anything better either. 00:16:17.160 --> 00:16:26.160 In Deuteronomy 33, 12, talking about Benjamin, Deuteronomy 33, 12, here's what it says, 00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:35.160 About Benjamin he said, Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long. 00:16:35.160 --> 00:16:39.160 And the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders. 00:16:39.160 --> 00:16:42.160 That's kind of what I want to conclude with. 00:16:42.160 --> 00:16:52.160 Deuteronomy 33, 12, about Benjamin he said, Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him, for he shields him all day long. 00:16:52.160 --> 00:16:57.160 And the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders. 00:16:57.160 --> 00:17:01.160 The one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders. 00:17:01.160 --> 00:17:06.160 You know the Father can't disconnect me from his love, because he disconnected Jesus to connect me in. 00:17:06.160 --> 00:17:09.160 And he will not spite that sacrifice. 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:11.160 The Father cannot disconnect me from his love. 00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:16.160 I can disconnect myself from the Father's love, but the Father cannot disconnect me from his love. 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:26.160 Because he actually disconnected Jesus and connected me in and he will not spite that sacrifice. 00:17:26.160 --> 00:17:29.160 It's I who can disconnect, but he won't. 00:17:29.160 --> 00:17:35.160 So the question I want to ask you is, and I ask myself this and the answer is not always, 00:17:35.160 --> 00:17:39.160 are you consciously resting between his shoulders. 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:45.160 Are you consciously resting between his shoulders as the one that the Lord loves? 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.160 I want to show you the 3 pictures. 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:04.520 And the intent of showing you these three pictures is to give you an idea what it is to rest between his shoulders 00:18:05.280 --> 00:18:07.560 pardon the first one is 00:18:09.080 --> 00:18:14.880 With me sitting with this girl hold in my lap. Can I see it on the screen? 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.160 Okay 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:33.160 That's resting between your shoulders a 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:40.280 There are many different ways that God has his rest between shoulders between our shoulders between his shoulders 00:18:40.280 --> 00:18:43.800 There are many different ways God has us rest between his shoulders 00:18:44.360 --> 00:18:51.160 There is this resting between his shoulders that needs to happen. Is this your permanent position? 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:54.160 Is this your permanent position? 00:18:54.160 --> 00:19:00.520 Resting between God's shoulders like this brings you to a place where there's safety. There's absolute safety 00:19:00.520 --> 00:19:02.520 There's nothing that can perturb you 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.520 Doesn't matter that 00:19:05.520 --> 00:19:08.880 Pure later hasn't turned up. It doesn't matter that DHL hasn't delivered 00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:13.440 It doesn't matter that your calls are not getting through doesn't matter that virtual chat sucks 00:19:14.480 --> 00:19:17.840 This is the absolute safety that God has for you 00:19:17.840 --> 00:19:22.400 It doesn't matter that your calls are not getting through doesn't matter that virtual chat sucks 00:19:23.440 --> 00:19:30.120 This is nothing that can get you to a place where you feel that anything can disturb or 00:19:32.520 --> 00:19:34.520 Dismantle your rest and your safety 00:19:35.040 --> 00:19:37.820 It's this place where you're weaned from your troubles 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:45.800 Are you weaned from your troubles? You are you are satisfied there. You are hilariously satisfied. You're hilariously satisfied 00:19:46.360 --> 00:19:52.360 It's not even a it's not even a mild satisfaction a mild satisfaction is horrible in God a 00:19:53.120 --> 00:19:55.120 mild satisfaction is lukewarmness 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:59.480 Hilariously satisfied I 00:20:00.040 --> 00:20:06.560 Just happen to find this picture on my phone and I thought man this so sums it up to rest between his shoulders 00:20:06.840 --> 00:20:08.840 So 00:20:11.280 --> 00:20:17.200 As a first question these pictures just convey what resting between his shoulders look like when I see these pictures 00:20:17.200 --> 00:20:20.000 I think to myself but Jacob this is not how you live 00:20:23.120 --> 00:20:30.000 Situations draw me out from between his shoulders. I start flailing I lose my rest. I'm not hilariously satisfied 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:35.840 I begin to question I have doubts things become transactional. I don't want that 00:20:37.360 --> 00:20:39.360 Do you 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:44.560 And then if we go down this route and don't change we spawn another generation 00:20:45.360 --> 00:20:51.960 That is the same or worse because every generation gets more potent in terms of both good and evil 00:20:58.080 --> 00:21:04.080 If you're talking about a revival then I say oh god revive me first change me completely I don't want half changes 00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:08.720 So 00:21:09.760 --> 00:21:14.560 This first picture is one of safety a to be loved by God is to be 00:21:16.840 --> 00:21:18.840 To dwell subjectively 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:25.400 Experiencially in the depth of the father's love is to be safe is to be weaned is to be hilariously 00:21:25.800 --> 00:21:28.400 Satisfied is to be rest at rest 00:21:29.320 --> 00:21:35.280 Nothing perturbing you putting your head on the pillow and going off to sleep at the helm of the boat in the middle of the 00:21:35.280 --> 00:21:37.280 Storm is what we're talking about 00:21:38.520 --> 00:21:43.400 This is how one knows if one is being subjectively 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:45.400 Experiencially 00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:50.000 Embedded in the depth of the father's love. We're not even talking about how we love him 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:53.600 We're just talking about being being rooted in the father's love 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:56.240 This is how Jesus lived 00:21:56.280 --> 00:21:58.280 This is childlikeness 00:22:02.520 --> 00:22:04.520 Let's look at another picture 00:22:05.280 --> 00:22:08.920 Let's look at another picture the two that come together 00:22:13.520 --> 00:22:15.520 This was another picture where 00:22:16.560 --> 00:22:22.320 It's this idea of resting on resting between God's shoulders and here the intent is 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:28.760 Reaching higher where resting on God's shoulders allows me as to reach further it 00:22:29.800 --> 00:22:30.440 my 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:32.440 My aspirations change 00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:34.480 My aspirations change I 00:22:35.960 --> 00:22:39.080 No longer operate from within my abilities I 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:47.920 Reach further reach higher. I'm a man. I'm enabled and I'm learning to dream in the father's house 00:22:48.840 --> 00:22:51.140 I'm learning to dream in my in the father's house 00:22:55.080 --> 00:22:58.680 The one who is loved rests between his shoulders 00:22:59.120 --> 00:23:06.760 I'm constantly reaching for beyond my grasp when I am resting between my father's shoulders 00:23:06.760 --> 00:23:14.340 I am like Joseph who has no problems dreaming dreams that are far beyond me because my father's house is a 00:23:14.560 --> 00:23:17.120 Type of house that allows a son to dream 00:23:18.840 --> 00:23:20.960 It is a place where I'm enabled 00:23:21.760 --> 00:23:26.520 When you read Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 11, it'll give you an idea 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.520 Deuteronomy 32 11 Deuteronomy 32 11 00:23:36.280 --> 00:23:38.240 Reading from the message 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:44.040 It's a sense of he was like an eagle God was like an eagle hovering over its nest over shadowing 00:23:44.040 --> 00:23:48.720 It's young then spreading his wings lifting them up into the air 00:23:49.080 --> 00:23:54.880 Teaching them to fly God lifted him onto the hilltops so he could feast on the crops in the fields 00:23:54.880 --> 00:23:58.440 It's that sense a way where you have someone see 00:23:59.000 --> 00:24:02.760 Resting between your shoulders and you have this ability to reach further 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:07.400 This is what happens when I'm embedded in the father's love 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:14.320 No longer am I conscious no longer am I conscious of my inadequacies even though I have them 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:22.900 Do you see why we need this because when I look at myself and I when I look at you 00:24:22.900 --> 00:24:26.220 I do not see this in us 00:24:28.620 --> 00:24:35.220 But I do see this in me and in you in the coming days because of the work of the father 00:24:38.940 --> 00:24:43.020 Where childlikeness attempts from between the father's shoulders 00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:46.320 Dreams that the father puts in your head 00:24:47.120 --> 00:24:50.840 Enablement that comes because you are seated on his shoulders 00:24:51.480 --> 00:24:55.080 Reaching past what you are ever going to be able 00:24:56.080 --> 00:24:58.520 Because you know your father has the tools for it 00:25:01.400 --> 00:25:03.400 And the third picture 00:25:10.560 --> 00:25:12.560 And the third picture is 00:25:12.720 --> 00:25:18.280 Where you are actually seated between your father's shoulders 00:25:19.000 --> 00:25:21.520 And it gives you a completely different perspective a 00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:27.720 It gives you a perspective that you would never have from ground level never have from ground level 00:25:30.280 --> 00:25:32.280 And strangely enough that 00:25:33.400 --> 00:25:35.920 There's this playfulness about it 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.920 Playfulness about it 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:44.880 When one of the things that happens to Christianity when it gets intense is that it loses its playfulness 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.500 I had a friend who would always warn me 00:25:48.160 --> 00:25:50.560 They would say to me Jacob you're getting too intense 00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:54.800 Every 00:25:54.800 --> 00:25:59.780 Ocean has a shore if you do not know how to be shallow with God 00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:06.380 And if all that comes out of you is intensity then you will be no good among publicans prostitutes 00:26:06.860 --> 00:26:08.860 fishermen and tax collectors 00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:13.660 There must be a shallowness and a playfulness 00:26:14.300 --> 00:26:20.200 In my relationship with God that comes surely out of this fact that I know how much you love me 00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:22.820 And I know how hard you work to make me look good 00:26:22.820 --> 00:26:25.220 I'm just gonna rest between your shoulders 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:32.860 It gives me a bird's-eye perspective of everything you are doing at a place much higher than others that I would never get from ground level 00:26:33.060 --> 00:26:39.140 So please oh God can I come back between your shoulders on your neck holding on to your hair? 00:26:39.620 --> 00:26:41.620 there's a scene in one of the 00:26:42.620 --> 00:26:45.060 episodes of Chronicles of Narnia where 00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:48.300 Lucy and her sister 00:26:49.260 --> 00:26:53.380 Go to Aslan who has just risen from the dead and there's the 00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:57.740 White witch and the battle going on and at one point Aslan walks 00:26:57.980 --> 00:27:02.340 Forward a bit and then he lowers himself down and he says climb on my back 00:27:02.780 --> 00:27:08.440 Lucy opened her mouth in shock and quickly obeyed his order along with Susan 00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:14.180 We have far to go and a little time to get there and you may want to cover your ears says Aslan 00:27:14.220 --> 00:27:21.380 They did as he released a roar that bounced off every Nick and corner of the world and then hanging on to his mane 00:27:21.420 --> 00:27:23.420 They dash off into battle 00:27:24.100 --> 00:27:30.160 They dash off into battle on Aslan's back as he roars and everything 00:27:31.060 --> 00:27:36.820 Shudders as he rose they win the battle not because of any other reason but because they are holding on 00:27:37.060 --> 00:27:40.540 To Aslan's mane and having the right of their life 00:27:41.260 --> 00:27:44.860 Absolutely certain of the king 00:27:46.380 --> 00:27:48.900 I pray God that these images help us 00:27:49.940 --> 00:27:55.780 Understand both the perspective and the playfulness and the riding the wind on Aslan's coattails 00:27:55.780 --> 00:28:00.860 I hope we get it. That was my reason for showing you these pictures because sometimes 00:28:02.660 --> 00:28:05.260 Nobody can explain it the way God wants it explained 00:28:10.940 --> 00:28:15.500 Galatians 4 verse 6 & 7 is what we sang 00:28:16.020 --> 00:28:22.020 Galatians 4 6 B & 7 A as in starting half way down 6 and half way into 7 00:28:22.020 --> 00:28:27.100 It says God sent the spirit of his son into our lives crying out Papa father 00:28:27.260 --> 00:28:32.100 God sent the spirit of his son into our lives crying out Papa father 00:28:32.540 --> 00:28:38.660 Doesn't that privilege of intimate conversation with God make it plain that you are not a slave 00:28:38.660 --> 00:28:40.660 But a child the song that we just sang 00:28:44.060 --> 00:28:47.500 Guys we got to recover this eh, we got to recover this 00:28:48.740 --> 00:28:52.820 Deeply rooted deeply embedded in the father's love 00:28:53.820 --> 00:28:58.780 Not something abstract very subjective very experiential dwelling in his love 00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:06.980 With these three pictures in mind, I know as grown-ups we sometimes find it hard to think 00:29:07.940 --> 00:29:12.580 Like these little children, but the idea is to convey what you can aspire for 00:29:14.860 --> 00:29:18.820 The father from today on I learned how to be safe in you unafraid 00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:25.260 My rest not disturbed. I learned how to be weaned from trouble safe between your shoulders 00:29:25.260 --> 00:29:29.900 I learned how to be hilariously satisfied because you are like that 00:29:29.900 --> 00:29:34.480 And if I am not then it is not because you are not it is because I haven't learned how to 00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:37.120 The father I'm gonna reach higher 00:29:38.120 --> 00:29:44.880 Your shoulders are a home where I can learn to dream and I must learn to dream the dreams that you give me 00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:46.880 I must be enabled 00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:52.920 I must have Deuteronomy 32 verse 11 and 12 happened to me where you teach me how to fly Oh God 00:29:52.920 --> 00:29:59.080 I abandoned myself to you so that you can show me from a perch how things are below me 00:29:59.360 --> 00:30:01.360 Zest light space life 00:30:02.360 --> 00:30:06.040 These are things that come out of living in the father's love 00:30:06.040 --> 00:30:12.720 I like how one of the psalms starts that way it says in the message zest life space light 00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:16.200 What a far cry from most of our Christians lives 00:30:17.120 --> 00:30:19.120 zest light space life 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:23.920 Qualities that God possesses that our father possesses 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.000 We have the privilege of stepping into 00:30:28.240 --> 00:30:30.240 That's the kind of life you're looking at 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:32.760 To have perspective that only we can have from 00:30:32.760 --> 00:30:39.440 Resting between his shoulders that you'll never have from ground level to have that perspective 24 7 so that even when you're sleeping 00:30:39.440 --> 00:30:43.640 Psalm 16 goes into effect and he counseled you during the night seasons 00:30:44.120 --> 00:30:46.120 Him positioning you 00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:52.000 So that you see what you need to see and then saying as he lowers himself 00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:54.720 Come climb on my back 00:30:55.720 --> 00:31:00.600 We have to go far and little time to get there and you may want to cover your ears 00:31:01.080 --> 00:31:03.520 They did as he released a rose from his chest 00:31:03.520 --> 00:31:07.520 He said I'm going to go to the top of the mountain and I'm going to go to the top of the mountain 00:31:07.520 --> 00:31:11.520 I'm going to go to the top of the mountain and I'm going to go to the top of the mountain 00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:18.400 They did as he released a road that bounced off every Nick and corner of the world as they grabbed on to his mane 00:31:18.400 --> 00:31:21.280 And the ass land started bounding towards battle 00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:26.720 Do you know what it is to fight perched on 00:31:28.120 --> 00:31:32.560 God's neck between his shoulders. Do you know what those battles look like you watch 00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:37.680 Moses did it he understood this for a second. He was a meekest man on earth 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:40.600 There's something about meekness that mixes with childlikeness 00:31:41.760 --> 00:31:47.640 And God's word to him was the same thing that ass land says to Lucy stand still and see the salvation of God 00:31:55.280 --> 00:31:56.960 What do you call him 00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.560 Abba papa daddy in Malayalam aperture 00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:03.120 Father, what do you call him? 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:08.760 Take time right now way just to repeat again and again those words to him me 00:32:09.240 --> 00:32:15.640 Just repeat those words to him let the fatherhood of God just cover you like an umbrella like a canopy 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:23.960 Like a shadow like a cloud like a cloud. There's lower my mic so that it's not totally off, but that it's low enough 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:33.560 It's not vain repetition just calling out to him in words that you often use 00:32:34.040 --> 00:32:41.080 To attract his attention remember guys I said this before when we were doing the revival meeting I 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:46.040 Don't need to draw God's presence as a son 00:32:46.760 --> 00:32:52.600 Father is attracted towards his son his presence is here. I'll never be disconnected 00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:59.900 Just however you call him just call him just call him. That's all I'm asking that you do just call him 00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:08.780 Father just lower my mic guys actually lower it a lot so that it's hardly a whisper that can be heard on 00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:11.620 livestream, but it's not love 00:33:13.180 --> 00:33:15.180 Father 00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:32.900 I 00:33:59.900 --> 00:34:01.900 I 00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:31.900 Was my father 00:34:45.900 --> 00:34:47.900 I 00:34:50.420 --> 00:34:53.660 We don't like TV anymore, it's not like we can't use words 00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:57.540 We use words we say other father 00:34:58.380 --> 00:35:01.020 You taught us how we call you 00:35:25.220 --> 00:35:27.220 I 00:35:27.540 --> 00:35:29.540 I 00:35:35.260 --> 00:35:42.020 Take away my often who don't God take away my often there be nothing left of an orphan in my life for God 00:35:42.740 --> 00:35:44.740 Take away my orphanhood 00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:51.500 Take away anything that's transactional or God that questions you that suspects you 00:35:52.660 --> 00:35:54.660 And there be no doubt 00:35:57.540 --> 00:35:59.540 I 00:36:01.660 --> 00:36:05.420 Father take away anything that is legalistic and afraid 00:36:06.060 --> 00:36:09.660 Because perfect love casts out fear. There's no torment 00:36:10.220 --> 00:36:16.500 There's no torment in your love for me. I want to be rid of all torment all doubt all suspicion all fear 00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:18.500 I don't want it anymore. I 00:36:21.140 --> 00:36:23.460 Don't want to live a life of rewards enough 00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:28.260 Judgment I don't want to I want to be rid of it. I want to be free of it 00:36:28.580 --> 00:36:32.820 If I'm not free of it, I won't be able to show others what it is to have a father like you 00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:40.460 Father revival requires that a God be presented to people without distortion 00:36:40.460 --> 00:36:44.380 I'd say father father every thing that you are 00:36:44.700 --> 00:36:49.100 Let it be so in our lives of God. Let it be so in our lives of our father 00:36:49.980 --> 00:36:51.260 father 00:36:51.260 --> 00:36:52.740 father 00:36:52.740 --> 00:36:58.620 We may have had difficult fathers in our lives, but copies do not take away the 00:37:00.060 --> 00:37:03.220 purity of the original so I say father 00:37:04.020 --> 00:37:06.540 father father father father father 00:37:07.260 --> 00:37:09.460 father father father 00:37:11.700 --> 00:37:13.700 Father father 00:37:14.020 --> 00:37:16.020 father 00:37:16.140 --> 00:37:18.140 Father 00:37:19.140 --> 00:37:21.140 Father 00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:23.380 Father father 00:37:24.060 --> 00:37:26.060 Father 00:37:26.060 --> 00:37:28.060 Father, thank you for hearing my cry 00:37:28.220 --> 00:37:34.620 Thank you for giving me an instinctive cry an instinctive intimacy that was given to me the day 00:37:34.620 --> 00:37:35.660 I was born again 00:37:35.660 --> 00:37:39.940 I got the same instinctive intimacy that Jesus had with you since 00:37:40.260 --> 00:37:45.700 The beginning of time and even before that I have given that I will not be robbed of it 00:37:45.740 --> 00:37:48.940 I will not be robbed of that. I will not settle for orphanhood 00:37:48.940 --> 00:37:50.940 Abba father Abba father 00:37:51.700 --> 00:37:58.300 I need revival first. I need revival first. I need revival first 00:37:58.300 --> 00:38:01.980 Abba father Abba father Abba father 00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:03.980 Abba father 00:38:03.980 --> 00:38:05.980 Abba father thank you that you hear me 00:38:05.980 --> 00:38:07.980 I know that I'm being heard right now 00:38:07.980 --> 00:38:09.980 Abba father 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:11.980 I'm being heard 00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:13.980 I'm grateful for you 00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:16.260 I'm grateful for you 00:38:16.260 --> 00:38:18.260 I'm grateful for you oh God 00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:20.260 I'm grateful for you Abba father 00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:22.260 Abba father I'm grateful for you 00:38:22.260 --> 00:38:24.260 Abba father 00:38:24.260 --> 00:38:26.260 Abba father 00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:28.260 I'm grateful for you 00:38:32.260 --> 00:38:34.260 Do whatever needs to be done in our lives 00:38:34.260 --> 00:38:38.260 So that all that must be dismantled and destroyed will be destroyed 00:38:38.260 --> 00:38:40.260 And all that needs to be put in will be put in 00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:42.260 So that we can be something that 00:38:42.260 --> 00:38:44.540 Reflect you without distortion 00:39:12.260 --> 00:39:14.540 Many times 00:39:42.540 --> 00:39:44.540 Many times I've let you down 00:39:48.540 --> 00:39:50.540 But you're never far away 00:39:54.540 --> 00:39:56.540 Father you want us to come back 00:39:56.540 --> 00:39:58.540 You're saying to the prodigal come back 00:40:00.540 --> 00:40:02.540 You're saying to the older brother come back 00:40:04.540 --> 00:40:10.540 You're saying to those that haven't sensed that you love them because of circumstances that aren't working out 00:40:10.820 --> 00:40:12.820 Come back 00:40:12.820 --> 00:40:20.820 You're saying to us who have come into a place of distance through either sin or disappointment come back 00:40:28.820 --> 00:40:30.820 You're saying to the orphan come back 00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:38.820 You're saying to those that don't know you even through the song know me come back 00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:42.820 Many times I've let you down 00:40:52.820 --> 00:40:54.820 But you're never far away 00:40:57.820 --> 00:40:59.820 All I had to do 00:41:01.820 --> 00:41:03.820 Was turn my face to you 00:41:05.820 --> 00:41:07.820 And I knew where love and mercy lay 00:41:10.820 --> 00:41:12.820 And your forgiveness 00:41:14.820 --> 00:41:16.820 Fills my being 00:41:18.820 --> 00:41:20.820 Like a river deep and wide 00:41:24.820 --> 00:41:26.820 A stream of 00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:30.820 Living water 00:41:32.820 --> 00:41:34.820 Flows from deep inside 00:41:35.100 --> 00:41:37.100 No, I may not understand you 00:41:44.100 --> 00:41:46.100 But one thing I know 00:41:50.100 --> 00:41:52.100 You are all my heart's desire 00:41:58.100 --> 00:42:00.100 You will never let me go 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:02.380 Your love for me 00:42:06.380 --> 00:42:08.380 Is a mystery 00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:12.380 And I don't understand 00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:17.380 How you can 00:42:19.380 --> 00:42:21.380 Keep on loving me 00:42:24.380 --> 00:42:26.380 Exactly as I am 00:42:30.380 --> 00:42:32.380 I may not always understand you 00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:41.380 But one thing I know 00:42:45.380 --> 00:42:47.380 You are all my heart's desire 00:42:53.380 --> 00:42:55.380 You will never let me go 00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:02.380 Your precious 00:43:05.380 --> 00:43:07.380 Always dear to me 00:43:09.380 --> 00:43:11.380 And I am feeling sure 00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:16.380 That you will never 00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:20.380 Ever let me down 00:43:22.380 --> 00:43:24.380 I know that I'm secure 00:43:26.380 --> 00:43:28.380 One more time 00:43:28.660 --> 00:43:30.660 Your precious 00:43:32.660 --> 00:43:34.660 Always dear to me 00:43:36.660 --> 00:43:38.660 And I am feeling sure 00:43:41.660 --> 00:43:43.660 That you will never 00:43:45.660 --> 00:43:47.660 Ever let me down 00:43:49.660 --> 00:43:51.660 I know that I'm secure 00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:53.940 I may not understand you 00:43:58.940 --> 00:44:00.940 But one thing I know 00:44:04.940 --> 00:44:06.940 You are all my heart's desire 00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:14.940 You will never let me go 00:44:18.940 --> 00:44:20.940 Your precious 00:44:21.940 --> 00:44:23.940 You are all my heart's desire 00:44:29.940 --> 00:44:31.940 I will never let you go 00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:38.940 You are all my heart's desire 00:44:44.940 --> 00:44:46.940 Father, you'll never let me go