WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Take Your Rightful Place Part 4 Publishing Date: 2024-01-28T05:00:44-08:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/take-your-rightful-place-4/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Okay, let's pray. 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:22.700 Abab, we thank you that your word is pure and your word changes us. 00:00:22.700 --> 00:00:24.480 It equips us. 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.480 It transforms us. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:38.240 So we bow our heads to your word so that we can hear and have you do everything you want to do in our lives, Abab. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:41.180 Individually, but also together as a people. 00:00:41.180 --> 00:00:46.560 Jacob started us off with this series and named it, Take Your Rightful Place. 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:52.980 And we want to, Father, we want to take our rightful place. 00:00:52.980 --> 00:00:55.740 So help us, show us, teach us. 00:00:55.740 --> 00:00:59.020 There is no one who is a better teacher than you. 00:00:59.020 --> 00:01:02.180 Speak to our hearts. 00:01:02.180 --> 00:01:08.900 Allow us about to see things that we haven't seen yet so that we can step into those things in you. 00:01:08.900 --> 00:01:12.180 In Jesus name, I pray. Amen. 00:01:12.180 --> 00:01:17.340 Alright, Taking Your Rightful Place, Part 4. 00:01:17.420 --> 00:01:28.300 It's probably been defined already, but rightful place is a legitimate place or position that God has ordained for you. 00:01:28.300 --> 00:01:41.060 Your rightful place that you must take is a legitimate position and a place that God has ordained for you, that the Father has earmarked for you. 00:01:41.060 --> 00:01:44.540 It has your name on it. 00:01:44.540 --> 00:01:50.020 It says, Emmanuel, as in Emmanuel, that Emmanuel. 00:01:50.020 --> 00:01:53.740 If you thought it's the Emmanuel from the Bible, as in Jesus, no. 00:01:53.740 --> 00:01:58.500 It says, Emmanuel, because Emmanuel's name is on it, it's a place reserved for him. 00:01:58.500 --> 00:02:04.100 It says, Tuni and Ile, because it's a place reserved for them. 00:02:04.100 --> 00:02:07.180 It's earmarked for you. 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:10.060 And it's a legal standing. It's a legal position. 00:02:10.060 --> 00:02:13.540 It's rightfully yours to inhabit. 00:02:13.540 --> 00:02:16.860 This place, we've rendered it. There is a contract, I'm sure. 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:24.540 So if someone comes at 345 and says that you guys don't have any access to this place, nope, doesn't work that way. 00:02:24.540 --> 00:02:26.940 There is a contract. It's been signed. 00:02:26.940 --> 00:02:31.260 We pay the bills. We rightfully deserve to come in. 00:02:31.260 --> 00:02:37.460 It's the same thing with your rightful place. 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:41.340 It is already appropriated for you. 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:42.820 So I want you to start thinking. 00:02:42.820 --> 00:02:47.460 It's not that we haven't been hearing this for the last three weeks, but still continue. 00:02:47.460 --> 00:02:50.660 Think along these lines. What is my rightful place? 00:02:50.660 --> 00:02:54.060 You don't want it to be too... you want it to be tangible. 00:02:54.060 --> 00:02:56.300 You need it. You need to touch it. 00:02:56.300 --> 00:02:59.740 You need... only then can you inhabit it. 00:02:59.740 --> 00:03:04.380 It's not an abstract idea floating around or over our heads. 00:03:04.380 --> 00:03:06.460 It's real. 00:03:06.460 --> 00:03:10.660 It has your name on it. 00:03:10.660 --> 00:03:14.060 It has your name on it. 00:03:14.060 --> 00:03:20.180 So then you have to and I have to occupy this place. 00:03:20.180 --> 00:03:24.820 The rightful place that you have, it positions you towards your destiny. 00:03:24.820 --> 00:03:27.980 It positions you towards your destiny. 00:03:27.980 --> 00:03:32.460 If you ask David, David will tell you. 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:38.580 That day I woke up and the Spirit of God asked me to go to this valley. 00:03:38.620 --> 00:03:45.340 And I was there and he kept reminding me that my strength comes from him. 00:03:45.340 --> 00:03:52.420 And I sang a hymn. I sang a song, he would say, because he kept reminding me that my strength comes from him. 00:03:52.420 --> 00:03:55.980 And as I was singing, there came a lion and there came a bear. 00:03:55.980 --> 00:04:04.380 And I went after them because I knew that I had inside me the strength that God has for me. 00:04:04.380 --> 00:04:08.140 It's a place. It's reserved for you. 00:04:08.140 --> 00:04:14.060 If you don't step in, no one else will occupy that place. 00:04:14.060 --> 00:04:17.060 It's earmarked for you. 00:04:17.060 --> 00:04:21.500 And it aligns you with your destiny. 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:23.180 And how do you define destiny? 00:04:23.180 --> 00:04:28.780 Destiny would be the sum total of everything that God has ordained for your life. 00:04:28.780 --> 00:04:36.660 It's the sum total of every good work, every God purpose, every aspiration that God has for you. 00:04:36.660 --> 00:04:42.900 It's a sum total of all of that and that's your destiny. 00:04:42.900 --> 00:04:52.940 And so as I began to ask and as you began to ask and you say, Aba, show me my rightful place. 00:04:52.940 --> 00:04:54.860 He'll show it. 00:04:54.860 --> 00:04:58.580 And some of you have already seen glimpses of it. 00:04:58.580 --> 00:05:02.500 You're at the edge of moving into this place that God has for you. 00:05:02.500 --> 00:05:06.660 For some of you, God is reminding you today, open your eyes. 00:05:06.660 --> 00:05:09.500 I have this for you. Why wouldn't you occupy this place? 00:05:09.500 --> 00:05:11.100 I have this for you. 00:05:11.100 --> 00:05:18.980 And the pathway to this rightful place is paved by the blood of Jesus. 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:21.540 That's why it's legally yours. 00:05:21.540 --> 00:05:25.300 No one can stop you. 00:05:25.300 --> 00:05:31.060 The pathway to this rightful place, it's paved by the blood of Jesus. 00:05:31.060 --> 00:05:36.860 It's fresh blood that was shed for me and for you. 00:05:36.860 --> 00:05:43.180 So there cannot be anyone who can stop me and you from accessing this place. 00:05:43.180 --> 00:05:47.620 Because my mistakes will not prevent me from accessing this place. 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:53.940 The blood has washed my sins away. 00:05:53.940 --> 00:05:56.380 So continue to think. 00:05:56.420 --> 00:06:03.620 What is this rightful place, Aba, this year for me? 00:06:03.620 --> 00:06:07.140 What is it that you're showing? 00:06:07.140 --> 00:06:12.780 Yes, as a church, as a body, yes, there is a place that we have to inhabit. 00:06:12.780 --> 00:06:20.780 But individually for me, what does that look like? 00:06:20.780 --> 00:06:22.380 And what do you hear, what do you sense? 00:06:22.380 --> 00:06:24.900 Write down. 00:06:24.900 --> 00:06:26.300 Write down. 00:06:26.300 --> 00:06:27.940 So that you can go over it. 00:06:27.940 --> 00:06:30.340 And so that the Spirit of God will tell you more. 00:06:30.340 --> 00:06:33.780 He'll add line by line to what is already spoken. 00:06:33.780 --> 00:06:36.020 He'll use others to tell you what it is. 00:06:36.020 --> 00:06:37.540 He'll speak to you directly. 00:06:37.540 --> 00:06:39.500 He'll speak through the word. 00:06:39.500 --> 00:06:41.740 Write it down. 00:06:41.740 --> 00:06:45.540 What is your rightful place? 00:06:45.540 --> 00:06:52.980 In John chapter 14, Jesus says that he is going to prepare a place for us. 00:06:53.020 --> 00:06:58.060 He said, I'm going so that you'll have a place. 00:06:58.060 --> 00:07:04.940 What he also meant is, yes, I am going for the next place that you will inhabit. 00:07:04.940 --> 00:07:08.420 But while you're on earth, the work is finished. 00:07:08.420 --> 00:07:09.420 It is finished. 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:11.380 A place has been readied for you. 00:07:11.380 --> 00:07:16.780 A place for you to operate from has been readied for you already. 00:07:16.780 --> 00:07:18.600 That is done. 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:20.940 It was done before you were born. 00:07:20.980 --> 00:07:24.180 Even before your parents thought of you, it was there. 00:07:24.180 --> 00:07:26.020 It's been earmarked for you. 00:07:26.020 --> 00:07:28.300 And your name is on it. 00:07:28.300 --> 00:07:33.340 If you don't step into it, that place no one else can. 00:07:33.340 --> 00:07:36.020 It's absolutely yours. 00:07:36.020 --> 00:07:37.100 You're my son. 00:07:37.100 --> 00:07:40.420 You're my daughter. 00:07:40.420 --> 00:07:46.220 When I brought you forth, I had these plans for you. 00:07:46.220 --> 00:07:50.540 I need you to step into this place. 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:53.580 I need you to occupy this place. 00:07:53.580 --> 00:07:57.340 Because I have dreams for you. 00:07:57.340 --> 00:07:59.980 I have aspirations for you. 00:07:59.980 --> 00:08:07.300 You feel like you don't know it enough, but I have dreams for you. 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:09.700 So open up your eyes. 00:08:09.700 --> 00:08:11.820 So listen to my spirit. 00:08:11.820 --> 00:08:17.500 So say yes to the wind, and you can access this place. 00:08:17.500 --> 00:08:20.100 It's not an idea. 00:08:20.100 --> 00:08:22.020 And this place will evolve. 00:08:22.020 --> 00:08:26.220 As time goes on, this place will evolve. 00:08:26.220 --> 00:08:31.740 All around this place, whatever is around this place always cries out, my purpose is 00:08:31.740 --> 00:08:34.180 for you. 00:08:34.180 --> 00:08:41.820 My purpose is for you are being shouted forth by everything that surrounds you in this place. 00:08:41.820 --> 00:08:44.020 You're not a number in the system. 00:08:44.020 --> 00:08:46.100 You're not just another person. 00:08:46.300 --> 00:08:52.660 These are my purposes purely, clearly that I have always had ordained for you. 00:08:52.660 --> 00:08:57.180 Now you can step into it. 00:08:57.180 --> 00:08:59.660 That is this rightful place. 00:08:59.660 --> 00:09:07.580 And so when Jacob said, this is the theme, each of us must say, Abba, I want this. 00:09:07.580 --> 00:09:10.820 Abba, I need this. 00:09:10.820 --> 00:09:15.060 It doesn't matter what 2023 looked like. 00:09:15.060 --> 00:09:23.940 In 2024, I'm ready to take this place. 00:09:23.940 --> 00:09:28.980 This place demands you to leave the old. 00:09:28.980 --> 00:09:36.220 This place demands you to leave the old. 00:09:36.220 --> 00:09:37.420 And here's the thing, guys. 00:09:37.420 --> 00:09:41.320 The old is not always bad. 00:09:41.320 --> 00:09:47.440 The old is not always evil. 00:09:47.440 --> 00:09:54.960 The old is not always something you should have never acquainted yourself with. 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:55.960 No. 00:09:55.960 --> 00:10:01.120 The old oftentimes was the right thing for you up until now. 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:04.400 But at this point, God is asking you to move. 00:10:04.400 --> 00:10:10.720 And when God says move, if you stay on the same track, which was good for you then, if 00:10:10.800 --> 00:10:17.120 you stay on the same track, then you miss out. 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:22.080 So for you to access this rightful place, there is a demand on you. 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:28.560 And the demand that this place puts on you is to leave the old. 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:30.520 Things may be working just fine. 00:10:30.520 --> 00:10:33.960 Even the old that appears good enough. 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.120 But you must leave it. 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:40.320 Here's the thing with good enough. 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:48.920 Good enough is almost always what the father had for you and what the father had for me, 00:10:48.920 --> 00:10:52.720 plus the best efforts from my flesh. 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:55.800 That's good enough. 00:10:55.800 --> 00:11:04.920 The old that you already know is old, which seems good enough today. 00:11:04.920 --> 00:11:07.320 Others will look at this and go, it's good enough. 00:11:07.520 --> 00:11:10.880 He's doing okay or she's doing okay. 00:11:10.880 --> 00:11:14.200 Your spouse may think it's okay. 00:11:14.200 --> 00:11:17.240 Things seem to be going well with this person. 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:19.040 Your pastor may think so. 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:21.280 Your leaders may think so. 00:11:21.280 --> 00:11:28.000 But do you know if the old has run out of its time and the new is something that you 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:29.160 need to walk into? 00:11:29.160 --> 00:11:37.280 Because if you don't, then you become good enough, which is equal to what the Lord had 00:11:37.640 --> 00:11:42.120 in store for you at a time. 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:49.360 But now to that, all you've added and all you can add is the best effort from your flesh. 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:54.680 So it becomes hybridized. 00:11:54.680 --> 00:11:56.600 And it's good enough. 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:02.640 It does the job. 00:12:02.640 --> 00:12:14.840 People won't be able to see that you haven't moved on because there are flashes of good 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:19.080 in it and you have to be very careful about it. 00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:24.680 And you need to ask yourself, I need to ask myself, are you in the good enough zone or 00:12:24.680 --> 00:12:29.960 are you have you moved on to the new place that God has for you? 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:38.720 See, the thing is, Jesus knew this at 12 years old, because at 12 years old, he was expected 00:12:38.720 --> 00:12:44.240 to be walking back with his parents after the festival. 00:12:44.240 --> 00:12:49.000 But at 12 years old, he knew that he had a rightful place to take. 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:50.520 And where was the rightful place? 00:12:50.520 --> 00:12:56.960 He had to be in the temple, not just in the temple, he had to be among the teachers at 00:12:56.960 --> 00:12:59.000 12 years old. 00:12:59.040 --> 00:13:03.560 He was asking them questions and others listened to his answers. 00:13:03.560 --> 00:13:08.720 And they all said, wow, how can it be that he is 12 years but he speaks with such wisdom 00:13:08.720 --> 00:13:11.160 and such clarity? 00:13:11.160 --> 00:13:16.160 Because at 12 years, he knew this, that on this day, I'm not supposed to walk back with 00:13:16.160 --> 00:13:18.280 my parents. 00:13:18.280 --> 00:13:21.160 On this day, I'm supposed to stay. 00:13:21.160 --> 00:13:26.280 And not only am I supposed to stay, I need to go sit among the teachers because my father 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:31.760 in heaven has ordained for me a seat and I must occupy that because everything that I 00:13:31.760 --> 00:13:35.840 have to say, others have to listen. 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:47.000 At 12 years old, at 12 years old, it's got a name on it. 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:51.200 This rightful place has got a name on it. 00:13:57.280 --> 00:14:05.200 And while all of this is true, here is the other side to it. 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:15.760 On a daily basis, Satan and the systems of the world are always trying to stop you from 00:14:15.760 --> 00:14:18.840 inhabiting this place. 00:14:18.840 --> 00:14:20.640 That's the other side. 00:14:20.640 --> 00:14:22.920 So God has this place earmarked for you. 00:14:22.920 --> 00:14:24.440 This is absolutely yours. 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:26.400 As you step in, things begin to change. 00:14:26.400 --> 00:14:28.480 It positions you towards your destiny. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.760 But there is a fight on the other side. 00:14:30.760 --> 00:14:33.960 And the fight is how can I stop? 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:38.480 How can I stop Matt from accessing this place? 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.640 How can I bring in busyness? 00:14:41.640 --> 00:14:47.840 How can I bring in chores that take up a lot of time? 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.160 How can I bring in chaos? 00:14:50.160 --> 00:14:51.960 How can I bring in noise? 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:54.440 How can I bring in conflicts? 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.200 How can I bring in pressures of the world? 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:02.280 How can I bring in problem A and C and D? 00:15:02.280 --> 00:15:08.960 How can I bring in these things so that Chomey doesn't think along these lines? 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:14.440 And that is the attempt. 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:18.440 And the world always wants you to be a number. 00:15:19.320 --> 00:15:23.600 As you start reading the news, as you start thinking about things, as you hear the news, 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:31.480 as you talk to the people around you, the intent is always to make you one among many. 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.240 Which is why I love what Nick said. 00:15:34.240 --> 00:15:35.280 You are his son. 00:15:35.280 --> 00:15:36.800 You're not one among many. 00:15:36.800 --> 00:15:38.800 You are his son. 00:15:38.800 --> 00:15:40.960 You are his daughter. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:44.920 As soon as you catch it, then you can fight this. 00:15:44.920 --> 00:15:47.360 As soon as you catch this, you can fight it. 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:53.160 But when you don't, then every system around you is working, working, working day and night, 00:15:53.160 --> 00:15:56.480 even when you're sleeping to accomplish this one thing. 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:59.480 How can I keep this person out of this place? 00:16:06.560 --> 00:16:15.480 And so the Spirit of God who is in us is saying, this year I need you to access this place. 00:16:15.480 --> 00:16:22.720 The same tricks that the devil played, the same obstacles that kept you from accessing 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:26.280 this place, from inhabiting this place. 00:16:26.280 --> 00:16:29.040 It can't keep you out anymore. 00:16:29.040 --> 00:16:30.360 I need you. 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:31.800 I need you. 00:16:31.800 --> 00:16:36.040 It's not that I have built this home for you and that if you do well, you get to access 00:16:36.040 --> 00:16:37.040 it. 00:16:37.040 --> 00:16:38.040 If you don't, who? 00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:41.040 No, I need you to access this place. 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:51.600 All of my being thrills at the idea of you stepping in and enjoying everything you have, 00:16:51.600 --> 00:16:56.840 everything I have for you in this place, plus looking at the God purposes over your life 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:08.080 so you can absolutely, absolutely walk into all of those things. 00:17:08.120 --> 00:17:20.280 Mark chapter 3, Mark chapter 4, Jesus has to cross the sea. 00:17:20.280 --> 00:17:23.280 But there is a problem. 00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:25.080 When I, when I, you know the story. 00:17:25.080 --> 00:17:32.840 This is on the other side, there is a demoniac and that person needs to be set free. 00:17:32.840 --> 00:17:38.640 As Jesus is on the boat, there are other boats all around him. 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:43.320 When we read the story, we just look at that one boat. 00:17:43.320 --> 00:17:46.960 But there are other fishermen, other people all around him. 00:17:46.960 --> 00:17:52.640 And as the storm is brewing and as the waves are tozing, now there comes a time when others 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:55.440 are pulling back or others are scared. 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:01.680 But in this boat, there is one man who knows that he has to cross over to the other side 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:04.560 and he is absolutely at rest. 00:18:04.560 --> 00:18:10.520 And there was an attempt to keep him from going over to the other place, to keep him 00:18:10.520 --> 00:18:12.960 from crossing over to the other place. 00:18:12.960 --> 00:18:19.400 And there is an attempt to keep you from crossing over, to keep you from moving on to this 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:21.680 new place that God has for you. 00:18:21.680 --> 00:18:26.080 It comes in very many sizes and shapes. 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:35.440 But right now, if you allow the Holy Spirit to see it, if you allow him to show you what 00:18:35.440 --> 00:18:38.440 it is, he'll reveal it to you. 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:40.320 You can access that place. 00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:42.280 You know what the trick is. 00:18:42.280 --> 00:18:50.600 You know how it's a cycle that always tries to attempt you, that always tries to attempt 00:18:50.600 --> 00:18:53.080 from you accessing what God has. 00:18:56.080 --> 00:19:04.440 I need to read this verse for someone. 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:11.440 So do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:12.440 Do not be overcome... 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:17.120 Man, these lights. 00:19:17.120 --> 00:19:19.880 And they make me sweat. 00:19:19.880 --> 00:19:24.960 That's okay. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:30.920 That's a sacrifice you've got to make. 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:31.920 Exactly. 00:19:31.920 --> 00:19:35.320 Where was I? 00:19:35.320 --> 00:19:39.760 Yes, I need to read this verse. 00:19:39.760 --> 00:19:47.360 So do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. 00:19:47.360 --> 00:19:51.240 It's important for someone. 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:53.960 Don't allow what you're hearing. 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:58.320 Don't allow what's happened to stop you. 00:19:58.320 --> 00:20:01.280 It's not worth it. 00:20:01.280 --> 00:20:04.640 It is absolutely not worth it. 00:20:04.640 --> 00:20:10.440 On the other side, there are things waiting for you, man. 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:13.280 Do not allow it to stop you. 00:20:13.280 --> 00:20:19.720 So when evil comes in the form of people, problems, past, whatever that may be, when 00:20:20.040 --> 00:20:24.400 evil comes, do not be overcome by it. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:29.600 Instead, overcome evil with good. 00:20:29.600 --> 00:20:34.200 Move in the opposite spirit. 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:41.620 It comes as chaos, you stand up and speak peace over it. 00:20:41.620 --> 00:20:48.040 It comes as hurt, you stand up and say, my father has cleansed my wound and he has taken 00:20:48.040 --> 00:20:53.320 care of it. 00:20:53.320 --> 00:21:02.320 So I want to talk about four or five things about your rightful place. 00:21:02.320 --> 00:21:04.360 There's one other thing. 00:21:04.360 --> 00:21:08.880 See as you begin to take your rightful place, as you occupy this place that God has for 00:21:09.880 --> 00:21:20.880 you, people around you will be confused because you begin to speak differently. 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.400 That's what happened to Joseph. 00:21:23.400 --> 00:21:27.600 You've seen something that they haven't seen. 00:21:27.600 --> 00:21:30.420 You begin to speak differently. 00:21:30.420 --> 00:21:36.720 You begin to walk differently. 00:21:36.760 --> 00:21:43.560 There is something that you've seen that others haven't seen yet that causes such boldness 00:21:43.560 --> 00:21:48.360 and courage to spring up within yourself. 00:21:48.360 --> 00:21:53.440 And now you begin to speak things that are way beyond you. 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:59.120 And the other person who is so used to you for the last thirty years begins to listen 00:21:59.120 --> 00:22:05.660 to this and goes, oh, that can't happen. 00:22:05.660 --> 00:22:08.220 This happened all through the Bible, guys. 00:22:08.220 --> 00:22:12.780 You read any man or woman that God used, as soon as they occupied a place, there were 00:22:12.780 --> 00:22:17.260 people around them, even in the case of Jesus, his own siblings who could not understand 00:22:17.260 --> 00:22:19.460 what was going on. 00:22:19.460 --> 00:22:28.500 And so if you truly, if this is a litmus test, if you truly access that place, then others 00:22:28.500 --> 00:22:33.220 around you will have and must have question marks. 00:22:33.220 --> 00:22:36.500 How about that? 00:22:36.500 --> 00:22:40.740 They must have questions. 00:22:40.740 --> 00:22:46.420 Your spouse must think, oh, something changed. 00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:54.100 Your friends must see that you talk different. 00:22:54.100 --> 00:22:56.500 That is a litmus test. 00:22:56.500 --> 00:23:02.340 Otherwise, these ideas float in the cloud all above us. 00:23:02.340 --> 00:23:09.780 It has to translate to flesh being offended. 00:23:09.780 --> 00:23:13.580 Not for the sake of others being offended, guys, but because that's how it works. 00:23:13.580 --> 00:23:15.740 It is how it's always worked. 00:23:15.740 --> 00:23:18.900 Why would it be different for you? 00:23:18.900 --> 00:23:23.620 When you fully access this place, when it has become yours, when you live in it and 00:23:23.620 --> 00:23:28.740 operate from that place, you are not operating in the same realm that you've been operating 00:23:28.740 --> 00:23:29.740 at. 00:23:30.140 --> 00:23:31.580 It's a different place that you speak from. 00:23:31.580 --> 00:23:40.300 And then the words that come out of your mouth seem much bigger than who you are. 00:23:40.300 --> 00:23:44.900 It does not look right. 00:23:44.900 --> 00:23:46.680 It does not look right. 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:54.340 And it must not look right. 00:23:54.340 --> 00:23:59.540 So as you begin to take your place, your rightful place, your words begin to change. 00:23:59.540 --> 00:24:00.860 What you see begins to change. 00:24:00.860 --> 00:24:03.220 Your actions change. 00:24:03.220 --> 00:24:10.660 And you begin to operate like a man or a woman who is not of this world, who has seen something 00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:18.020 different and has tasted something different and is not bound by the same things that used 00:24:18.020 --> 00:24:19.020 to pull you back. 00:24:19.020 --> 00:24:21.300 It has changed. 00:24:21.300 --> 00:24:26.100 It is a thing of the past. 00:24:26.100 --> 00:24:30.800 So if you think about the rightful place, these are things that you need to now begin 00:24:30.800 --> 00:24:36.500 to say, okay, where am I at with respect to these three or four things or five? 00:24:36.500 --> 00:24:41.900 Number one, your rightful place gives you right of access. 00:24:41.900 --> 00:24:47.940 Your rightful place gives you right of access. 00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:54.660 Mark's rightful place will give Mark right of access. 00:24:54.660 --> 00:25:10.020 You see an orphan girl named Hadassah who did not have much to boast about and talk 00:25:10.020 --> 00:25:17.860 about occupying a new place in the palace. 00:25:17.860 --> 00:25:21.900 And she spent 12 months. 00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:25.100 It says in the process of being beautified. 00:25:25.100 --> 00:25:31.500 But I can assure you those 12 months were for Hadassah, Queen Esther, a process for 00:25:31.500 --> 00:25:36.500 her to recognize her rightful place. 00:25:36.500 --> 00:25:40.060 Bible actually says it for a time such as this. 00:25:40.060 --> 00:25:42.340 She was there. 00:25:42.340 --> 00:25:48.260 So for others around her, it seemed like the whole purpose was a time of beautification. 00:25:48.260 --> 00:25:54.820 But for Hadassah, she knew that this is the time that my father has put me in this place 00:25:54.820 --> 00:26:00.460 for me to now see things that I hadn't seen before, for me to now speak the words that 00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:02.060 he wants me to speak. 00:26:02.060 --> 00:26:09.260 And now as I occupy this place, step one, you first occupy the place, step one, two, 00:26:09.260 --> 00:26:13.720 then there is a right of access to the king. 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:17.420 You first occupy the place that God has given you. 00:26:17.420 --> 00:26:24.300 And as you occupy that place, then there is a right of access. 00:26:24.300 --> 00:26:28.980 You're not waiting for the right of access to happen before you occupy. 00:26:28.980 --> 00:26:41.220 You first occupy that place and then there is a right of access. 00:26:41.220 --> 00:26:46.700 Because in the new place that God has for you, in this place that God has for you, you 00:26:46.740 --> 00:26:50.240 need fresh supplies. 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:55.900 You absolutely need new manna, fresh supplies from him. 00:26:55.900 --> 00:27:04.320 Because you've been asked to do things, to be things that you haven't been before. 00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:07.420 You cannot run with the old flames. 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:10.540 You need new fresh supplies. 00:27:10.540 --> 00:27:14.740 But don't wait because you haven't got tender supplies. 00:27:14.780 --> 00:27:22.860 Just the place and then you will get the supplies. 00:27:22.860 --> 00:27:29.620 And that's important because otherwise we wait for certain things to fall in alignment 00:27:29.620 --> 00:27:32.700 before we will do some things. 00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:39.100 And you must not wait for things to fall in alignment because they will fall in alignment 00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:48.180 as soon as you obey the one who asked you to occupy the space. 00:27:48.180 --> 00:27:54.180 Do not wait for the resources and fresh supplies to open up before you, before you access the 00:27:54.180 --> 00:27:57.980 place God has for you. 00:27:57.980 --> 00:28:03.200 Do not wait for all of the conditions to be right before you step into what God has for 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:04.200 you. 00:28:04.200 --> 00:28:09.060 Because there will never be a time when all of the conditions are right. 00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:12.900 If you're waiting for the conditions to be right, it will never happen. 00:28:12.900 --> 00:28:18.780 There will always be something that's not right or not in its place. 00:28:18.780 --> 00:28:25.780 So I can't and you can't wait for the conditions to be right. 00:28:29.020 --> 00:28:33.300 As you occupy the space, there is right of access. 00:28:33.300 --> 00:28:37.300 Right of access. 00:28:37.460 --> 00:28:41.460 Yes, Pawan. 00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:51.740 Yeah, how do you decide when to wait and when to go for it? 00:28:51.740 --> 00:28:58.260 I would say when God said there is a rightful place for you, you never wait. 00:28:58.260 --> 00:29:01.620 You always go for it. 00:29:01.620 --> 00:29:07.280 Because in the going forth, even when things and conditions don't match, they are not aligned 00:29:07.320 --> 00:29:12.600 You're obeying the word that said go until he says either through people or to you that 00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:16.120 you have to change the way you operate. 00:29:16.120 --> 00:29:20.760 The place that's been opened for you is for you to occupy today. 00:29:20.760 --> 00:29:24.160 The world will tell you that you're not ready for it. 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:28.040 Your experiences will tell you that you may not be equipped for it. 00:29:28.040 --> 00:29:30.180 I'll tell you the story. 00:29:30.180 --> 00:29:36.220 The story of in Zechariah chapter 3, Joshua, he is standing. 00:29:36.220 --> 00:29:41.860 This is the vision that Zechariah has and in the vision, Joshua is standing before God 00:29:41.860 --> 00:29:46.380 and at his right hand is Satan. 00:29:46.380 --> 00:29:47.980 And what does Satan do? 00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:49.740 Satan accuses Joshua. 00:29:49.740 --> 00:29:52.300 He's the high priest. 00:29:52.300 --> 00:29:57.780 The high priest. 00:29:57.780 --> 00:30:02.380 He accuses Joshua and look at Joshua, he's got garments that are filthy. 00:30:02.380 --> 00:30:07.280 The high priest before God has garments that are filthy and there is an accuser that says 00:30:07.280 --> 00:30:14.120 no, no, no, no, he can't, he can't, he can't. 00:30:14.120 --> 00:30:19.920 And God rebukes Satan and he's given new clothes. 00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:25.400 And as he's given new clothes, one thing is made clear. 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:32.300 Your past, what you did, your present cannot stop you from accessing what I have for you. 00:30:32.420 --> 00:30:37.500 In fact, a few verses down, if you read Zechariah chapter 3, it says, God told him, I'm giving 00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:40.800 you the right of access. 00:30:40.800 --> 00:30:46.000 So when God said, I have a place for you, you never wait. 00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:49.260 You always go for it. 00:30:49.260 --> 00:30:50.980 Always. 00:30:50.980 --> 00:31:00.580 When God tells me, Derek, I need you to do this or I need you to occupy this place with 00:31:00.660 --> 00:31:05.900 respect to the people around you, with respect to your marriage, it is something that's been 00:31:05.900 --> 00:31:08.220 crafted for me. 00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:14.020 There is no reason if he has crafted it for me, there is no reason why I should wait. 00:31:14.020 --> 00:31:16.660 It's always open for me. 00:31:16.660 --> 00:31:21.600 The truth is, when it comes to new things that God asks us to do, there are question 00:31:21.600 --> 00:31:26.340 marks that either the world or the devil will bring up to make you question if you're ready 00:31:26.340 --> 00:31:27.540 for it. 00:31:27.540 --> 00:31:32.220 You make your question if you're equipped enough for it, and the answer is you are. 00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:35.460 If he called you, you are. 00:31:35.460 --> 00:31:40.420 If he asked you, you're ready. 00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:45.740 And the result doesn't matter because you're on a path where you will figure out, you will 00:31:45.740 --> 00:31:52.820 learn as you go. 00:31:52.820 --> 00:31:55.980 I'm talking about right of access. 00:31:55.980 --> 00:32:04.660 A few months ago, maybe a couple of months ago, Iris and I decided that we need to look 00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:10.060 for a new place because we need a little more space compared to where we are living right 00:32:10.060 --> 00:32:11.060 now. 00:32:11.060 --> 00:32:14.540 We felt that we need a space, a place with a lot more space. 00:32:14.540 --> 00:32:17.260 So we sat down one day. 00:32:17.260 --> 00:32:20.940 If you remember, I had told you the story from a while ago when first time I landed 00:32:20.940 --> 00:32:23.300 in Vancouver. 00:32:23.300 --> 00:32:27.940 I was a student and I did not have enough money. 00:32:27.940 --> 00:32:31.380 I was trying to keep my expenses to a minimum. 00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:37.300 It was amazing how God always opened up places for me, always. 00:32:37.300 --> 00:32:42.400 When I needed to move to Prince George, I needed a car because who will trust transit 00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:43.700 in Prince George? 00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:45.020 I had to get a car. 00:32:45.020 --> 00:32:50.680 So I got a secondhand car and the guy who sold it to me said, you pay me in installments. 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:53.560 Why would anyone allow me to pay in installments? 00:32:53.560 --> 00:32:58.440 So I paid him in installments for the next four months and I got a car. 00:32:58.440 --> 00:33:00.960 So that's how God took care of me. 00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:05.960 Dawn and I, about six years ago, we were like, okay, we need to move to this new place because 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:10.760 we don't want to, we want to be in Surrey because work is in Surrey. 00:33:10.760 --> 00:33:17.800 We decided we would move and I remember frantically looking up Kijiji and Craigslist so that I 00:33:17.800 --> 00:33:20.280 can find a place for us to move to. 00:33:20.280 --> 00:33:27.200 And I remember doing this and then I was at the house church at Mark and Rhonda's place 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:29.240 and I was leading the house church. 00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:34.040 Anne and Elmer were sitting right across me and before I even started the meeting, Anne 00:33:34.040 --> 00:33:36.480 and Elmer, Anne said, hey, I have something to say. 00:33:36.480 --> 00:33:37.480 Okay, Anne, go ahead. 00:33:37.480 --> 00:33:41.940 And Anne says, I feel that there is someone here who is operating out of rest and God 00:33:41.940 --> 00:33:45.800 wants him or God wants you to know that you need to operate in rest. 00:33:45.800 --> 00:33:49.600 As soon as you said that, I was like, that is so me. 00:33:50.480 --> 00:33:55.520 Because there is a way that God brought me up and I have forgotten his ways to now rely 00:33:55.520 --> 00:34:00.120 on Craigslist and Kijiji to find a place for me. 00:34:00.120 --> 00:34:06.040 That's what six years could do for you. 00:34:06.040 --> 00:34:09.240 And so Dawn and I decide, no, we ain't taking this place. 00:34:09.240 --> 00:34:14.000 We had already found a place using Craigslist which was very close to work, about 15 minutes 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:15.000 from work. 00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:21.680 We were like, no, you know, from 45 minutes to 15 minutes, even though it's close enough, 00:34:21.680 --> 00:34:22.800 we ain't taking this place. 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:23.800 We decide no. 00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:35.240 And we go back and we say, Aba, this is the way you have raised us so we don't want to 00:34:35.240 --> 00:34:38.320 go the way of Craigslist and Kijiji. 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:39.640 You open a place for us. 00:34:39.640 --> 00:34:40.640 So he did. 00:34:40.640 --> 00:34:45.960 And the place that we ended up staying at ended up being two minutes from work. 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:46.960 Two minutes. 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.160 It was great for the time we were there. 00:34:51.160 --> 00:34:52.720 So that's the story. 00:34:52.720 --> 00:34:58.000 So Iris and I, about two months ago, we'd sit down and we were like, okay, we need to 00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:02.040 now move and you have to learn from your mistakes, yeah? 00:35:02.040 --> 00:35:07.720 So this time I decided with Iris, we ain't frantically looking because God teaches you 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:11.680 and as you learn, you have to practice these things that you're learning. 00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:18.440 So we were talking one night and we said, why don't we write down everything we need? 00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:23.520 And so Iris being the woman she is and she needs to take care of the family, she had 00:35:23.520 --> 00:35:26.520 a list of items that she needed at this new place. 00:35:26.520 --> 00:35:30.380 And I had one item that I wrote down. 00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:36.680 And so we write this and a few days later, we find this ad on Kijiji, but the way we 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.280 approached it, very different. 00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:44.520 And I text this person and the lady responds and turns out we have a mutual friend and 00:35:44.520 --> 00:35:47.920 turns out she's like, we need you to be our tenants. 00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:49.720 Please come, please take this place. 00:35:49.720 --> 00:35:55.520 So we go there and this was a month ago, we get the keys and everything that Iris asked 00:35:55.520 --> 00:35:58.480 for is there. 00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:04.540 And Iris actually, because we wrote it down, Iris said, there is this one thing, this may 00:36:04.580 --> 00:36:07.500 be way beyond because I can't sum up all of this in a line. 00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:09.860 So there are two, three things, but I'm not even writing it. 00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:14.700 The three things that she did not write, we have access to it at this new place. 00:36:14.700 --> 00:36:21.700 But I only had one item, which was easy access to parking. 00:36:23.500 --> 00:36:27.420 That's all I cared about because everything else is Iris' problem. 00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:31.180 And so I just needed it because I used to live at a place where I had to take three 00:36:31.500 --> 00:36:34.940 levels down and then go around and around and then go park. 00:36:34.940 --> 00:36:38.020 It's just too much walking and too much noise. 00:36:38.020 --> 00:36:40.980 So it's easier if I have easy access to parking. 00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:45.920 But that day we didn't get a chance to go to the parking the day we got our keys. 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:52.920 But today I went and turns out all I need to do is press forward, get up, go straight 00:36:53.020 --> 00:36:54.900 park. 00:36:54.900 --> 00:36:56.620 I have never been at a place like this. 00:36:56.620 --> 00:36:58.500 I don't need to turn left or right. 00:36:58.500 --> 00:37:00.500 I just go straight and I park. 00:37:00.580 --> 00:37:02.860 There are 400 lots all around me. 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:09.420 I'm the only one in that building who will be able to go straight park. 00:37:09.420 --> 00:37:14.300 And what I did today is I drove in and I laughed. 00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:15.700 I laughed. 00:37:15.700 --> 00:37:17.260 Why? 00:37:17.260 --> 00:37:24.260 Because when you occupy your rightful place, because this is a place he designed for us. 00:37:25.260 --> 00:37:30.260 This isn't just spiritual guys. 00:37:30.260 --> 00:37:35.260 This translates into every area of your life. 00:37:35.260 --> 00:37:42.260 Because we have a habit to spiritualize everything so that it's cloudy enough in the head. 00:37:42.260 --> 00:37:45.260 It's so tangible. 00:37:45.260 --> 00:37:48.260 You can touch it. 00:37:48.260 --> 00:37:49.260 Touch it. 00:37:49.260 --> 00:37:56.260 And when you occupy your rightful place, there is right of access. 00:37:56.260 --> 00:38:03.260 So you don't wait when God says, I have this place for you. 00:38:03.260 --> 00:38:04.260 Never wait. 00:38:04.260 --> 00:38:05.260 Always go. 00:38:05.260 --> 00:38:12.260 Because God is looking for a people who will leave anything and everything behind so that 00:38:12.260 --> 00:38:17.260 you will say, if he said, I'm running, I don't know all the answers, but I'm running. 00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:20.260 I don't know how it will turn out. 00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:24.260 And I'm going to look foolish, but I'm running. 00:38:24.260 --> 00:38:27.260 He needs a people like this. 00:38:47.260 --> 00:38:51.260 Yeah. 00:38:51.260 --> 00:38:56.260 Let's go back to exactly what Iris said at the beginning. 00:38:56.260 --> 00:38:58.260 Two things. 00:38:58.260 --> 00:39:02.260 The prodigal son, Luke chapter 15. 00:39:02.260 --> 00:39:04.260 He's away from his father. 00:39:04.260 --> 00:39:06.260 He has made a bunch of mistakes. 00:39:06.260 --> 00:39:10.260 He has, the stuff he has done can't be written in the word. 00:39:10.260 --> 00:39:16.260 So the only thing you can say is he's the prodigal son who went away and did a bad, that's what he did. 00:39:18.260 --> 00:39:20.260 He was corrupted. 00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:23.260 He lost track of everything. 00:39:23.260 --> 00:39:26.260 And he was close to dying. 00:39:26.260 --> 00:39:32.260 But there was a rightful place that he could inhabit. 00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:36.260 All he had to do was take the first step. 00:39:38.260 --> 00:39:45.260 Sometimes all you need to do is I know that's the direction, so I'll take the first step. 00:39:47.260 --> 00:39:52.260 Because in you taking the first step, the next step becomes visible. 00:39:52.260 --> 00:39:57.260 In you not taking the first step, nothing seems visible. 00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:05.260 Take the first step back to the father's house. 00:40:05.260 --> 00:40:07.260 You know the direction. 00:40:07.260 --> 00:40:12.260 You don't want to go because how can you even face him? 00:40:13.260 --> 00:40:15.260 But take the first step. 00:40:16.260 --> 00:40:18.260 Let's go back to the second story I was shared. 00:40:18.260 --> 00:40:22.260 Deborah, judges four or five. 00:40:23.260 --> 00:40:32.260 One day she wakes up and there is a call on her life for her to rise up so that others can be led to what God has. 00:40:32.260 --> 00:40:33.260 What does she do? 00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:35.260 She begins to speak. 00:40:37.260 --> 00:40:44.260 So these things translate in actions, either words or things or places that you actually inhabit and do. 00:40:45.260 --> 00:40:52.260 That's how we move away from things being too abstract to things being tangible. 00:40:52.260 --> 00:41:01.260 So then I was talking with someone here at this at X yesterday and the person was saying, God has always told me about Indonesia. 00:41:01.260 --> 00:41:04.260 And Indonesia is a place that I'm supposed to go to. 00:41:04.260 --> 00:41:10.260 And the person was saying, I am doing this and this so that I go to Indonesia. 00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:20.260 So you can have the word being spoken over your life saying that you are going to Indonesia and you can wait for someone to call you to go to Indonesia. 00:41:20.260 --> 00:41:28.260 You can wait for all of the conditions to be right until you go to Indonesia or you can say he has called me. 00:41:28.260 --> 00:41:29.260 I'm ready. 00:41:29.260 --> 00:41:33.260 And because I'm ready, I'm preparing for this already. 00:41:40.260 --> 00:41:46.260 And you we've all got to think what are these things that God is inviting us into? 00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:54.260 And I said, when you occupy, it does not mean you haven't occupied. 00:41:54.260 --> 00:41:57.260 You know if you've occupied or not. 00:41:57.260 --> 00:42:11.260 For me, when I look at my life, I was sharing with the Jake, this with Jacob, I always run into trouble when people ask and then I give a lot of answers, a lot of answers with a lot of information. 00:42:11.260 --> 00:42:14.260 There you go. Here is one for you, Nick. 00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:18.260 I was talking with Jacob about a couple of weeks before. 00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:21.260 Yeah, I think it was a couple of weeks ago. 00:42:21.260 --> 00:42:30.260 I was talking with him and I was telling him there is this one thing that I know God spoke over me last year because I was in New York with Jacob. 00:42:30.260 --> 00:42:37.260 We went on a walk and my heart was restless because I knew that there was something that God wanted for me. 00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:42.260 And I remember talking with Jacob about it and my heart was still restless. 00:42:42.260 --> 00:42:50.260 And on the flight back from New York to Vancouver, I'm in the flight. 00:42:50.260 --> 00:42:54.260 And 630, right? 00:42:54.260 --> 00:43:01.260 I'm in the flight and I know that God wants me to do something. 00:43:01.260 --> 00:43:05.260 Actually, no. God gave me a name. 00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:07.260 He gave me a name. 00:43:07.260 --> 00:43:09.260 And I was like, wow, this is so beyond me. 00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:14.260 Because about a year and a half before that, he had given me a name. 00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:16.260 And he said, you're a rebuilder. 00:43:16.260 --> 00:43:18.260 And so I said, how can I be? 00:43:18.260 --> 00:43:24.260 And I said, OK, well, in my life, then you're going to rebuild things in me and through me other things. 00:43:24.260 --> 00:43:30.260 So at work, at Wally, wherever you are, you're rebuilding because that's the name. 00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:35.260 And so a year and a half later, I'm restless inside me and God says, here is your name. 00:43:35.260 --> 00:43:38.260 And I get this name and I'm like, this is so not me. 00:43:38.260 --> 00:43:40.260 I can't do it. 00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:44.260 And I remember that was about eight months or nine months ago. 00:43:44.260 --> 00:43:51.260 And just a couple of weeks ago, I was telling Jacob, I haven't occupied that place. 00:43:51.260 --> 00:43:53.260 I haven't. 00:43:53.260 --> 00:43:55.260 But I trust me. 00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:56.260 I know. 00:43:56.260 --> 00:43:58.260 I know it was God. 00:43:58.260 --> 00:44:01.260 I know it is him inviting me into it. 00:44:01.260 --> 00:44:04.260 I know that when I do, things will change for me. 00:44:04.260 --> 00:44:06.260 I know that is my name. 00:44:06.260 --> 00:44:10.260 I know he calls me by that name. 00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:12.260 But I did not occupy that place. 00:44:12.260 --> 00:44:14.260 I know that deep inside me. 00:44:14.260 --> 00:44:16.260 But I'm ready. 00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:18.260 I'm not going to waste that. 00:44:18.260 --> 00:44:27.260 Now that I know, now that I have spoken about it and do this, speak about your failures, your mishaps to people around you. 00:44:27.260 --> 00:44:28.260 Why would you hide? 00:44:28.260 --> 00:44:30.260 Trust me, you are not perfect. 00:44:30.260 --> 00:44:31.260 I'm not perfect. 00:44:31.260 --> 00:44:37.260 It's pretty easy game. 00:44:37.260 --> 00:44:38.260 So then you know. 00:44:38.260 --> 00:44:41.260 And now I'm ready. 00:44:41.260 --> 00:44:44.260 Now I'm like, Abba, I need to inhabit this place. 00:44:44.260 --> 00:44:46.260 I need to enter into this place. 00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:55.260 Because when I do, I know that things in me will change and it will benefit others too. 00:44:55.260 --> 00:44:56.260 So it's very tangible. 00:44:56.260 --> 00:44:58.260 You can touch it. 00:44:58.260 --> 00:45:02.260 Okay. 00:45:02.260 --> 00:45:04.260 I won't finish this. 00:45:04.260 --> 00:45:10.260 But we'll do two more points. 00:45:10.260 --> 00:45:26.260 The other thing, guys, is whenever there is an attempt to stop you, like there was an attempt against Jesus crossing over, speak, rebuke the devil. 00:45:26.260 --> 00:45:29.260 You see that over and over again in the Bible. 00:45:29.260 --> 00:45:33.260 You're not praying when opposition comes. 00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:35.260 Sometimes you need to pray. 00:45:35.260 --> 00:45:38.260 But sometimes praying is not the answer. 00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:50.260 Sometimes when opposition comes, the response that God expects of you is to rebuke certain things. 00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:55.260 Satan comes and begins to tempt Jesus. 00:45:55.260 --> 00:45:58.260 This and that and this. 00:45:58.260 --> 00:46:05.260 At the end, Jesus says, Be gone, Satan. 00:46:05.260 --> 00:46:06.260 He's in the boat. 00:46:06.260 --> 00:46:08.260 He's crossing over. 00:46:08.260 --> 00:46:10.260 There is storms. 00:46:10.260 --> 00:46:14.260 There is a storm and there are waves. 00:46:14.260 --> 00:46:16.260 Jesus says, Be still. 00:46:16.260 --> 00:46:17.260 It's done. 00:46:17.260 --> 00:46:18.260 Use words. 00:46:18.260 --> 00:46:20.260 Use words. 00:46:20.260 --> 00:46:21.260 Use words. 00:46:21.260 --> 00:46:22.260 Use words. 00:46:22.260 --> 00:46:28.260 When you see it's a pattern, when you see it's the same trick, you rebuke the devil. 00:46:28.260 --> 00:46:31.260 It is your rightful portion. 00:46:32.260 --> 00:46:40.260 Inside you, if you have the Spirit of God, you have everything you need to speak peace into a situation, 00:46:40.260 --> 00:46:46.260 to speak God words into a situation, and to rebuke the devil. 00:46:46.260 --> 00:46:56.260 The second point is your rightful place is in the throne room of God at the right hand of the Father. 00:46:56.260 --> 00:47:01.260 Your rightful place is in the throne room of God at the right hand of the Father. 00:47:09.260 --> 00:47:12.260 Hebrews chapter 4 verse 14. 00:47:12.260 --> 00:47:16.260 Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens. 00:47:16.260 --> 00:47:18.260 I spoke about this some time ago. 00:47:18.260 --> 00:47:22.260 Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast our confession. 00:47:22.260 --> 00:47:30.260 Jesus, our elder brother, who now sits at the right hand of God, he passed through heavens. 00:47:30.260 --> 00:47:44.260 When every power, every principality on earth, wherever, tried to stop Jesus from going through the heavens to be seated at the right hand of God, 00:47:44.260 --> 00:47:46.260 nothing could stop him. 00:47:46.260 --> 00:47:50.260 Same way, as I said, there is an attempt to stop us. 00:47:50.260 --> 00:48:02.260 But when you say, no, none of these things can pull me back, and you begin to take, you begin to operate out of the authority that God has given you, you press ahead. 00:48:02.260 --> 00:48:04.260 You have that authority. 00:48:04.260 --> 00:48:07.260 I have that authority. 00:48:07.260 --> 00:48:09.260 I have the power. 00:48:09.260 --> 00:48:11.260 You have the power. 00:48:11.260 --> 00:48:20.260 The devil wants to limit your vision. 00:48:20.260 --> 00:48:22.260 He wants to limit your vision. 00:48:22.260 --> 00:48:27.260 He always wants you to see less than what God has for you. 00:48:27.260 --> 00:48:32.260 God always wants you to see everything that he has for you at this specific time. 00:48:32.260 --> 00:48:37.260 And the devil, on the other hand, he tries continually to limit your vision. 00:48:37.260 --> 00:48:44.260 But when you live out of the throne room, you see in the present that which is to come. 00:48:44.260 --> 00:48:55.260 When you and I begin to live out of the throne room, we begin to see that which is already to come. 00:48:55.260 --> 00:48:58.260 It's not here yet, but it is ready to come. 00:48:58.260 --> 00:49:01.260 It's not here yet, but it's already there. 00:49:01.260 --> 00:49:04.260 You begin to see things. 00:49:04.260 --> 00:49:12.260 Which is why Abraham, when he was 75 and impotent, he couldn't dream of having a child. 00:49:12.260 --> 00:49:15.260 But God said, you'll have a son. 00:49:15.260 --> 00:49:18.260 God said, you'll be the father of a nation. 00:49:18.260 --> 00:49:20.260 God said, there'll be your generations. 00:49:20.260 --> 00:49:22.260 I'll bless it. 00:49:22.260 --> 00:49:26.260 I'll bless. 00:49:26.260 --> 00:49:33.260 Jesus, the son of a carpenter, has to walk to now breathe life into Lazarus. 00:49:33.260 --> 00:49:42.260 The physical reality is always going to challenge, raise question marks against that which God wants to release into your life. 00:49:42.260 --> 00:49:43.260 Get in. 00:49:43.260 --> 00:49:47.260 Jacob talked about him a couple of weeks ago. 00:49:47.260 --> 00:49:51.260 The dude had called up about 22,000 people to go fight a battle. 00:49:51.260 --> 00:49:55.260 And God says, no, let's go down to 10,000. 00:49:55.260 --> 00:49:57.260 And then there is 10,000 people to go against. 00:49:57.260 --> 00:50:01.260 And God says, no, 300. 00:50:01.260 --> 00:50:02.260 The physical. 00:50:02.260 --> 00:50:08.260 How can you go battle against a giant army with 300 people? 00:50:08.260 --> 00:50:20.260 Your physical reality will always question that which God wants to birth in the spiritual and what he births in the spiritual. 00:50:20.260 --> 00:50:29.260 You will see it in the physical. 00:50:29.260 --> 00:50:38.260 So when you live with heaven's perspective, you disregard the noise and align your life to the call over your life. 00:50:38.260 --> 00:50:44.260 You align your life to the call over your life. 00:50:44.260 --> 00:50:46.260 Let's go to number three. 00:50:46.260 --> 00:50:51.260 Your rightful place is a place of resolve to lead those around you to true sonship. 00:50:51.260 --> 00:51:01.260 Your rightful place is a place of resolve to lead those around you to true sonship. 00:51:01.260 --> 00:51:05.260 So when you occupy this place, there is conviction. 00:51:05.260 --> 00:51:08.260 It's a loud no to certain things. 00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:11.260 It's a strong yes to certain things. 00:51:11.260 --> 00:51:14.260 It's not under the basket Christianity. 00:51:14.260 --> 00:51:16.260 It is strong. 00:51:16.260 --> 00:51:19.260 You know exactly what God has asked you to do. 00:51:19.260 --> 00:51:20.260 And you're very clear about it. 00:51:20.260 --> 00:51:22.260 You're convicted by it. 00:51:22.260 --> 00:51:24.260 And you speak your convictions. 00:51:24.260 --> 00:51:26.260 This world, please hear me. 00:51:26.260 --> 00:51:37.260 This world is desperately in need of people who are truly convicted of what they believe in. 00:51:37.260 --> 00:51:47.260 Christians think that people look at Christian Christians think that people look at their convictions and are offended. 00:51:47.260 --> 00:51:48.260 It is true. 00:51:48.260 --> 00:51:52.260 The cross is an offense for a lot of people, for everyone. 00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:59.260 But it is also true that the world, people around you are looking for people with strong convictions. 00:51:59.260 --> 00:52:04.260 People who will say yes to certain things and people who will say no to certain things. 00:52:04.260 --> 00:52:11.260 In your campus, there are tons of students who need you to be convicted about certain things that you believe in. 00:52:12.260 --> 00:52:19.260 And your convictions have to flow through your mouth with strong yeses and loud shout nos. 00:52:19.260 --> 00:52:23.260 Because then they'll see that there is something different about you. 00:52:23.260 --> 00:52:31.260 You try to make everything tolerant for others. 00:52:31.260 --> 00:52:33.260 That's the last thing you need to do. 00:52:33.260 --> 00:52:40.260 There is already enough people, especially in Canada and around the world, where there is enough tolerance offered to everything. 00:52:40.260 --> 00:52:44.260 What this world needs is people who are convicted. 00:52:44.260 --> 00:52:47.260 And when you are, you become like Daniel. 00:52:47.260 --> 00:52:58.260 Daniel in chapter one, where there is offered to him all sorts of good stuff that the king has provided. 00:52:58.260 --> 00:53:07.260 But he says, when you read it, it clearly says, he resolved that he will not eat and partake of that which was placed in front of him. 00:53:07.260 --> 00:53:15.260 The thing is, Shadrach, Meshech, Abednego, their names aren't included in the first list of, along with Daniel. 00:53:15.260 --> 00:53:16.260 They came after. 00:53:16.260 --> 00:53:21.260 I like to think that Daniel resolved first that he won't eat it. 00:53:21.260 --> 00:53:26.260 And then Shadrach, Meshech, Abednego looked at him and said, I want to stand with him. 00:53:26.260 --> 00:53:28.260 Will you be that person? 00:53:28.260 --> 00:53:35.260 Will you be that person wherever God has planted you to say, I have resolved that I will operate like this? 00:53:35.260 --> 00:53:40.260 When people enter your homes, when people enter your cars, when people enter wherever you are at, 00:53:40.260 --> 00:53:48.260 there is a long term continual resolve that you have to show that people will see and they will change. 00:53:48.260 --> 00:53:50.260 That is how it works. 00:53:50.260 --> 00:53:54.260 It can be a long term relationship that you have with a bunch of people. 00:53:54.260 --> 00:53:57.260 They'll see it over a long period of time. 00:53:57.260 --> 00:54:01.260 Or it could be an instant thing where you had an encounter with this person. 00:54:01.260 --> 00:54:06.260 You had something to do, speak, act on, and you did, and there is a change. 00:54:06.260 --> 00:54:08.260 I was in Chicago last week. 00:54:08.260 --> 00:54:16.260 I'm leaving the hotel to fly back to Vancouver, and I'm in the car, and there's a lady driving, 00:54:16.260 --> 00:54:19.260 and we begin to have a conversation. 00:54:19.260 --> 00:54:28.260 And I know that this conversation has to go beyond high and by and how your day is going. 00:54:28.260 --> 00:54:31.260 So I begin to talk, and she begins to talk. 00:54:31.260 --> 00:54:33.260 I was supposed to get back to the airport in 40 minutes. 00:54:33.260 --> 00:54:37.260 It took 50 minutes because we were talking. 00:54:37.260 --> 00:54:39.260 You should laugh for that, please. 00:54:39.260 --> 00:54:40.260 Thank you. 00:54:40.260 --> 00:54:42.260 It makes me feel better. 00:54:42.260 --> 00:54:48.260 And, Gillian, I'll stop in 10 minutes. 00:54:48.260 --> 00:54:54.260 As we're talking, she opens up her life. 00:54:54.260 --> 00:55:02.260 And she begins to say, my kids treated me like this, and these things have happened. 00:55:02.260 --> 00:55:06.260 And I know why I'm in that car. 00:55:06.260 --> 00:55:09.260 I know why I'm placed there. 00:55:09.260 --> 00:55:12.260 I know what I need to speak, and now it's up to me. 00:55:12.260 --> 00:55:15.260 Do I speak it or do I not? 00:55:15.260 --> 00:55:17.260 And so I choose to speak. 00:55:17.260 --> 00:55:21.260 And if, you know, you want to go back to your, go back to the airport, 00:55:21.260 --> 00:55:29.260 and 40 minutes become 50 minutes, but it's well worth it because everything that the Holy Spirit wanted to accomplish, you accomplished. 00:55:29.260 --> 00:55:34.260 And oftentimes when people tear up, a barrier is broken. 00:55:34.260 --> 00:55:36.260 Something changed. 00:55:36.260 --> 00:55:37.260 Something was released. 00:55:37.260 --> 00:55:39.260 Something was shifted. 00:55:39.260 --> 00:55:41.260 You do your job and you move on. 00:55:41.260 --> 00:55:50.260 You need to be, and I need to be, men and women of strong resolve who will lead others around you to this one father. 00:55:50.260 --> 00:55:55.260 Father who likes having his sons and daughters return to him. 00:55:55.260 --> 00:56:02.260 Last thing. 00:56:02.260 --> 00:56:04.260 Your rightful place is in the valley of men. 00:56:04.260 --> 00:56:07.260 Your rightful place is in the valley of men. 00:56:07.260 --> 00:56:11.260 I'm just going to read something out. 00:56:11.260 --> 00:56:13.260 This is what Jesus modeled for us. 00:56:13.260 --> 00:56:19.260 You must come down from the mountain and go through some area outside your comfort. 00:56:19.260 --> 00:56:25.260 So if you want to take your rightful place, you have to operate out of your comfort zone. 00:56:25.260 --> 00:56:28.260 You must come down the mountain. 00:56:28.260 --> 00:56:33.260 You must come down the mountain and confer worth upon people. 00:56:33.260 --> 00:56:36.260 Those around you confer worth. 00:56:36.260 --> 00:56:40.260 People at work confer worth. 00:56:40.260 --> 00:56:44.260 People on the streets confer worth. 00:56:44.260 --> 00:56:48.260 You must come down not in the robe of priests, kings, but in humaneness. 00:56:48.260 --> 00:56:50.260 Open your life. 00:56:50.260 --> 00:56:52.260 Show how real and human you are. 00:56:52.260 --> 00:56:53.260 Show your mistakes. 00:56:53.260 --> 00:57:00.260 Show that you've had a past that God took you out of. 00:57:00.260 --> 00:57:03.260 You must come down and associate with outsiders. 00:57:03.260 --> 00:57:05.260 It can be lepers, Samaritans, prostitutes. 00:57:05.260 --> 00:57:11.260 You must associate with outsiders. 00:57:11.260 --> 00:57:20.260 Brielle is saying I need to stop, so I'll stop. 00:57:20.260 --> 00:57:21.260 Last thing. 00:57:21.260 --> 00:57:30.260 In the kingdom, you're expected always to be on the front lines. 00:57:30.260 --> 00:57:35.260 Once you're a matured Christian, you're always expected to be on the front lines. 00:57:35.260 --> 00:57:38.260 You need to ask the question, are you? 00:57:38.260 --> 00:57:53.260 Are you on the front lines advancing what God has? 00:57:53.260 --> 00:57:58.260 Yeah. 00:57:58.260 --> 00:58:11.260 Wherever you are, you're living to an audience of one. 00:58:11.260 --> 00:58:25.260 And you're very mindful of every God purpose that he has for you wherever you are. 00:58:25.260 --> 00:58:39.260 So Aba, I thank you that this is something you have crafted for us. 00:58:39.260 --> 00:58:42.260 You've been talking to us for weeks now. 00:58:42.260 --> 00:58:47.260 And all of us, Aba, we submit our lives to you. 00:58:47.260 --> 00:58:55.260 We submit our lives to you so that you can have us do everything you want us to do. 00:58:55.260 --> 00:59:06.260 Become, because more than doing or before doing or as you're doing, become everything you want us to become. 00:59:06.260 --> 00:59:20.260 Aba, out of this house, you will raise men and women who will go way beyond the confines of this place, 00:59:20.260 --> 00:59:24.260 the confines of this building, the confines of this land, the nation. 00:59:24.260 --> 00:59:29.260 They'll go and do things for you, Aba. 00:59:29.260 --> 00:59:36.260 Aba, help us as a people to inhabit this new rightful place you have for us. 00:59:36.260 --> 00:59:41.260 In Jesus' name, Amen. 00:59:41.260 --> 00:59:44.260 Are there any announcements? 00:59:44.260 --> 00:59:48.260 That's it, everyone. 00:59:48.260 --> 00:59:51.260 Oh yeah, there'll be people praying here. 00:59:51.260 --> 00:59:53.260 So if you have, if you need prayer, just come up.