WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Teleios – Renewing Faith Publishing Date: 2020-09-20T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/teleios-renewing-faith/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Cool guys. So I'm starting a new series today called TELIOS. I had a nice picture for it. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:14.000 I don't know if you can still pull it up. And so I believe we've come out of the wilderness 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:19.000 that we were talking about. And now we've got to come into this place called TELIOS. 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:27.000 TELIOS basically means reaching its end or full grown or to be mature. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:35.000 That is the idea of TELIOS where you come into your fullness. 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:42.000 There's a metamorphosis that happens where you come into a place of maturity or perfection almost. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.000 But I'd go with the words reaching its end, full grown, mature. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:55.000 And today I want to start with the idea of renewing our faith for the new post-COVID landscape 00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:58.000 that we have to journey through. And I'll talk about that next week. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.000 What does a post-COVID landscape look like? So I keep repeating that word. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.000 It almost sounds like Jurassic Park 4 or something. 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.000 But next week we'll explain what post-COVID landscape looks like. 00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:17.000 But today we're going to talk about how do we renew our faith because we need faith for what we need to step into. 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:22.000 When it comes to anything that God reveals, because we talked about how in the wilderness 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:27.000 God was revealing things to us, that he was showing us his power so that we can come back part of it stronger. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:31.000 So one of the things that happens is whenever God reveals something, 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:36.000 he reveals it and then gives us permission to walk in it. 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:48.000 And after he gives us permission to walk in it, he expects us to exert faith or release faith or realize it through faith actually. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:56.000 Realize it through faith. So anytime God reveals something, his intent is now that I've revealed it to you, 00:01:56.000 --> 00:02:01.000 I'm giving you permission for it. But you can only realize it through faith. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:05.000 I'm giving you permission to walk in it and I'll even give you the provision. 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:11.000 So for example in Exodus chapter 3 verse 6, God comes and says to Moses, 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.000 Hey Moses, I just want you to know that I am who I am and that is the revelation I'm giving you. 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:25.000 Then he says to Moses, listen Moses, I want you, I'm giving you permission to go back into Egypt and tell Pharaoh, let my people go. 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:30.000 And then in verse 21 he says to Moses, hey by the way Moses, I just want you to know that when you leave Egypt, 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.000 you will not go empty handed, I will provide for you. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:39.000 And now after having said all that, Moses had to step out in faith. 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:43.000 But our problem or at least my problem is very often when it comes to faith, 00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:56.000 I have realized two things that I still lack confidence in some areas and I still operate in fear. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:00.000 Different pen. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:13.000 I still operate, I still lack confidence and I still operate in fear. 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:16.000 I don't know if that's common to you but I'm still struggling with it. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.000 I still suffer in certain areas from a lack of confidence. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:23.000 I'm not confident that God will necessarily do it. 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:27.000 And then I still operate in fear and it shows two things. 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.000 If I'm lacking confidence and I'm operating fear, 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:40.000 it means that I really haven't come to a place called Teleos when it comes to love and when it comes to faith. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.000 The Bible says perfect love casts out fear. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:49.000 If I'm still afraid, it means I haven't matured in love. 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:55.000 And I haven't matured in faith because I still am not confident. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:04:01.000 And my struggle and this again, I could easily say our struggle, 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:07.000 but my struggle is I sometimes find that God is, I had, this was a very difficult teaching to write. 00:04:07.000 --> 00:04:12.000 I had to go and say to God, listen God, I'm going to say something now that is going to make me look ugly 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.000 and make it look like I'm accusing you. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.000 But please can you handle it? 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:18.000 And of course he can. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:24.000 So here's what I've realized that in some areas I find God unreliable. 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.000 I find him unreliable. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:36.000 I'm not sure that if I lean back on him that he'll actually come through. 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.000 I find him unreliable in some areas. 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.000 For some of us it may be a few areas, for some of us it may be some areas, 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:48.000 for some of us it may be many areas. 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:52.000 And then I was telling him that not only do I find you unreliable, 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:56.000 but I find that I can't hold you to account or demand an answer from you 00:04:56.000 --> 00:04:59.000 or keep you answerable to me for being unreliable. 00:04:59.000 --> 00:05:03.000 And that frustrates me even more because when he doesn't come through, 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:06.000 it's not like I can go and say, excuse me, how come you didn't do this? 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.000 I can't do that. He's God. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.000 It's almost like he gets away with it. 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:17.000 This is why I said I told him ahead of time that this is going to be an ugly conversation. 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:21.000 Now either this is my experience and it's not yours, 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.000 or perhaps it's your experience also by the look of your faces. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:29.000 Some of you are pretending, some of you are letting on. 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.000 Any questions, anything you want to add? 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:35.000 Do you understand what I'm saying? 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:39.000 My struggle in my experience of God, our struggle in my experience of God, 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:44.000 I still find that in some areas I think of him as unreliable in those areas. 00:05:44.000 --> 00:05:48.000 As in it's not that he hasn't come through, it's not that he won't come through, 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.000 it's not that he doesn't come through, but I still am not sure that if I lean back that I won't fall. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:59.000 It's like a 50-50 chance sometimes, or a 75-25 chance. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:04.000 And then I find it difficult that if he's unreliable, I can't hold him answerable or accountable. 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.000 Because he's God, so he does what he wants to do. 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:17.000 So what was God's response? God's response was, 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:21.000 Hey Jacob, can you pick an area where you find me highly reliable? 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:27.000 So I started thinking, okay, what area do I find God absolutely reliable all the time? 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:32.000 Where I'm never in doubt that he's totally reliable, I've never doubted it in my life. 00:06:32.000 --> 00:06:38.000 One of the areas that I found where I'm absolutely sure of his reliability is when it comes to forgiveness. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:45.000 I found that it doesn't matter what I do, it doesn't matter how I did it deliberately or unknowingly, 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:51.000 whether I did it with my eyes wide open or my eyes wide shut, it doesn't matter how I did it. 00:06:51.000 --> 00:06:56.000 I find that when it comes to forgiveness, he's absolutely reliable. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:07:00.000 That I can go to him and tell him that I was sorry I did it knowingly, 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:04.000 I knew I could come and talk to him about it after I committed the sin, 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:09.000 and I can go through everything starkly with him, but I'm absolutely sure that God will forgive me. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.000 And he asked me this question, why are you so sure that I'll forgive you? 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:18.000 Why are you so confident that you can rely on me for forgiveness? 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:25.000 And my answer was fourfold. One, his word, I'm absolutely sure of his word in that area. 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:32.000 That if I confess my sins, he's faithful and just too. Forgive me. I'm absolutely sure of that. 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:41.000 His nature, that he is my father, and like any good father, he's willing to let go 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:46.000 once I tell him how repentant I am or how sorry I am or sometimes that I'm not sorry, 00:07:46.000 --> 00:07:52.000 but I wish I was sorry and I'm really feeling bad that I went ahead and sinned anyways. 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:56.000 His nature towards me when it comes to forgiveness is super kind. 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:04.000 And then I found that his covenant I can trust, as in his promise that, 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:10.000 listen, I shed my blood for you so that your sins may be obliterated from my presence. 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:13.000 That even though they were red as crimson, they are white as snow. 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:16.000 That I've removed your sin as far as the east is from the west. 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:22.000 I'm very sure of the death of Christ on the cross as an absolute forgiveness for me. 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:30.000 So there's his word, his nature, his... 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:35.000 And then the last thing I'm very sure of is his heart or attitude towards me. 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.000 His heart or his attitude towards me when it comes to forgiveness. 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.000 You know there's not been a single time in my life where I've asked for... 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:45.000 I'm not exaggerating. There's not been a single time in my life 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:48.000 where I've asked God for forgiveness and not only does he forgive me, 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.000 but after he forgives me, he comes and says something to me that is so blooming nice 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:57.000 that it restores me. It just doesn't leave me forgiven. It restores me. 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:03.000 It's like a parent forgiving a child, but after forgiving a child, 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.000 as a child walks away with their head held in shame thinking, 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:08.000 yes, he's forgiven me, but I shouldn't have done it. 00:09:08.000 --> 00:09:12.000 The parent goes, grabs the child and says, you're my favorite. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:17.000 There's never been a time where I have sinned and he's not come and said, 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:22.000 Jacob, not only do I forgive you, but I just want you to know how precious you are to me. 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:27.000 His heart towards me when it comes to forgiveness is so marvelous. 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:30.000 I never doubt his forgiveness towards me. 00:09:30.000 --> 00:09:34.000 And in answering this question, God said, so now you see your problem. 00:09:34.000 --> 00:09:39.000 Because when it comes to other areas of my life, I'm not able to rely on him 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:46.000 because I find that his word has been diluted by my experience. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.000 His word has been diluted by my experience. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:55.000 His word may say something, but I've experienced the opposite so many times 00:09:55.000 --> 00:09:58.000 that his word is now diluted. It doesn't have the same strength. 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:05.000 That when it comes to his nature, I'm not confident of his nature 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:09.000 because my experience tells me he might fail. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.000 When it comes to his covenant, I feel like yes, he hung on a cross. 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:17.000 Yes, he said it is finished, but the covenant isn't guaranteed enough 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.000 because my experience says otherwise. 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:26.000 What happens in the process, it makes you hesitant to ask for anything in that area. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:31.000 You're scared to ask because if you ask, what if he doesn't come through, 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.000 it'll cause you to be disappointed again, it'll cause you to resent him again. 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.000 Now why would you want to resent the one you love? 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:44.000 And so what do we do? We don't ask, we just hope. Hope ain't good enough. 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:48.000 Hope is a little better than wish. 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:51.000 I wish this would happen to me, I hope this would happen to me. 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:55.000 That still ain't good enough. 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:59.000 So we want to talk about solutions. How do we get past this? 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:03.000 How do I solve this? 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:07.000 This is why many of us would rather resolve things ourselves 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.000 or reason it out in our heads than go to God 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:17.000 because our experience has taught us that this is not an area where you can rely on God. 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:22.000 And you can be stuck there and go to your grave. 00:11:22.000 --> 00:11:26.000 Any questions? 00:11:26.000 --> 00:11:30.000 Yep. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:34.000 Yeah, nature is character. 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:38.000 Attitude is the heart that the character is expressed through. 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.000 So nature is my character. 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:46.000 So let's say I was the most generous person on Earth. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:50.000 That's my character. 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:54.000 The heart attitude is when I actually buy you a car. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:58.000 So that's how it works. 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:06.000 Any questions? 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:10.000 Please, did I just confess a whole lot of my inadequacies or is this real for you? 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:14.000 Sue says it's good. That's the way it is. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:18.000 Anyone else who wants to give me a little more support than that? 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:22.000 You can relate. Karen relates. 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:26.000 Oh, sinful woman. 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:30.000 Okay. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.000 Yeah. 00:12:34.000 --> 00:12:38.000 I wish I could get to a place where I could be a little more supportive. 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:42.000 I wish I could be a little more supportive. 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:46.000 Yeah, I wish I could get to a place where I can say that in every area 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:50.000 I am easily able to rely on him that there is no fear 00:12:50.000 --> 00:12:54.000 and that I'm absolutely confident. Unfortunately, that ain't where I am. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:02.000 Yeah, it's a shame after all these years. 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:06.000 But at some point you have to wake up and smell the coffee. So how do I solve this? 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:10.000 One of the first things we can do, guys, is I know in this church 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:14.000 we talk about being a much loved child. 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:18.000 May I just change it around a little? Instead of going for the 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.000 I'm a much loved child, can you begin your day by receiving 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:26.000 him as your father afresh? 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:30.000 Our confession is usually I'm a much loved child. Why not 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:34.000 change it to every morning I receive you as my 00:13:34.000 --> 00:13:38.000 father. And then 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:42.000 so ever since I started down this teaching, I've been 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:46.000 multiple times during a day I'll go and say 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:50.000 I receive you as a father, but what kind of a father? 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:54.000 I've got my own little acronym for it. You can come up with yours. 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.000 Mine is 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:02.000 I know that doesn't go well with father, but it's the best I could 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:06.000 come up with. 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:10.000 So how do I, so I go to him 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:14.000 quite often, I mean I've already done it twice this morning, where I 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:18.000 say father I come to you and I receive you as a father first. Every morning I'll 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.000 receive you as a father. Because I have to once again catch 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.000 the fact that you're a good father. So for me father when it comes to this 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:30.000 father I receive you as a willing father. 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:34.000 You're a willing father. You're a willing father. 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:40.000 The other one was either 00:14:40.000 --> 00:14:44.000 holy or hallowed father. Meaning there is something about you father 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:48.000 that ain't, that isn't ordinary. 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:52.000 There is still a sacredness, a holiness about you. Why 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.000 is it important to put that in? Because it makes you realize that in his ways with 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:00.000 you he cannot compromise holiness. 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.000 That he's not a father who can do anything that is impure or wrong. 00:15:04.000 --> 00:15:08.000 The next one really caught me. 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:12.000 He's highly aware of what's happening in my life. He's not 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:16.000 unaware. It's not, remember guys when we talk to him in prayer 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:20.000 it's not like he's going oh really I didn't know. 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.000 Prayer is not informing him. Prayer is 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.000 admission of your condition which he already knows. So I find 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:32.000 this very helpful that he's aware, he's aware of every ache, 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:36.000 pain, thought, sadness, fear. 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.000 He's aware. He's aware of my 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:44.000 restlings and my agony and my how am I going to manage this. He's aware. 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:48.000 I find that very helpful. I mean 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.000 if I being as evil as I am, when I become aware of 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:56.000 something in your life, the way I get involved I'm fascinated that I 00:15:56.000 --> 00:16:00.000 actually care for you. Really it surprises me. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:04.000 And if I can feel that way about you and become aware 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:08.000 of something and do something about it, how about this father who is highly aware? 00:16:08.000 --> 00:16:12.000 The next one is he's in control. 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:16.000 He's in charge. That is very helpful because there's nothing 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:20.000 that's happening in my life that he can't fix. He's in charge. He's in control. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:24.000 None of the universe, of the universe yes, but he's in charge of my life 00:16:24.000 --> 00:16:28.000 and he's highly responsible as a father. 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:32.000 He takes his responsibility seriously. 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:36.000 He takes his responsibility for Jacob seriously. 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:40.000 He takes his responsibility for Jacob seriously. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:48.000 Finally 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:52.000 he is kind. He is kind. He is kind. 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:56.000 So I've been doing this 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.000 for a little while now. Going to him and receiving him as a father. 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.000 And what then happens is in really difficult situations, situations of fear, 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:08.000 in situations of not being confident, this begins to renew confidence, 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:12.000 bring me back to a place of not being afraid. 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:16.000 It stops me from sinking into orphanhood. 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:20.000 Orphanhood is when you abandon help from the 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:24.000 father and try to solve things yourself. It prevents 00:17:24.000 --> 00:17:28.000 me from being the elder brother. The elder brother is the one who lives in the house 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:32.000 but doesn't know he is loved. It prevents me from being the prodigal son. 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:36.000 The prodigal son is the one who just wants the promises but doesn't 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:40.000 want the father. The prosperity gospel is prodigal. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:44.000 That's too 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:48.000 general a statement, but it fits in a few places. 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:54.000 So that's the first step. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:58.000 The second step is can you try 00:17:58.000 --> 00:18:02.000 and see if you can make obedience 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:06.000 if you can make obedience 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:10.000 and pleasing him 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.000 the main 00:18:14.000 --> 00:18:18.000 focus instead of the outcome. 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:24.000 Instead of the outcome. 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:28.000 Part of the reason we are afraid is because we 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:32.000 don't know what the outcome is. We don't know whether it will work. 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:36.000 I mean I remember Darshan saying to me yesterday, hey Jacob when I go back to Toronto I don't know if this is going to work man. 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:40.000 Like I said here, this is my last shot. I've tried everything else. I'm not going to be able to do it. 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:44.000 I'm going to be able to do it. I'm going to be able to do it. 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:48.000 I'm going to be able to do it. I'm going to be able to do it. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.000 This is my last shot. I've tried everything else. I don't know if this is going to work. 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.000 And yet in his obedience he has pleased God. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.000 Can I shift my focus to obedience and pleasing God? 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:04.000 Where oh God this is what you've asked me to do at present. I'll do it. 00:19:04.000 --> 00:19:08.000 Oh God I want to please you. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:12.000 How do you do obedience and pleasing? What is obedience an outcome of? 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:16.000 Obedience is an outcome of love. Pleasing him is an outcome of faith. 00:19:16.000 --> 00:19:22.000 Because without faith it is impossible to please him. And if you love me you will obey me. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:30.000 What if in every area of my life, be it when my body is hurting, be it when I'm scared of something nasty happening, 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:38.000 be it when I'm running out of money and don't have a job, be it when I'm stuck in a situation that I can't extricate myself out of. 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:44.000 What if my two main foci, focus, whatever the word is, 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:48.000 would be one, hey father I'll be obedient in whatever you ask me to do. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:52.000 And I'll try to please you by trusting you. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:58.000 How the outcome works out, I'm going to pick up the desired outcome that I have in my heart and give it to you like play dough. 00:19:58.000 --> 00:20:04.000 So that you can shape it. Because this I know, that whatever you do will be beyond what I can ask, think or imagine. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:08.000 Because Efficient 320 says that. So here is my desired outcome. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:12.000 I'm not going to abandon my desired outcome. I'm going to have expectations. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:16.000 But here is my desired outcome. This is what I'm hoping will happen. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:22.000 But here is the play dough of my desired outcome. Could you now begin to mold it with your nail scarred hands? 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:28.000 Because I know for a fact that it is going to come out better than I can ask, think or imagine. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:34.000 So it doesn't matter whether it's a pain in my body, whether it's money I need, whether it's the salvation of somebody, 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:40.000 whether it's the freedom of somebody, whether it's marriage, whether it's finding the right person. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:44.000 It doesn't matter what it is. These two things kick in. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:55.000 Because we can only control our obedience. We can only control pleasing him. He controls the outcome. 00:20:55.000 --> 00:21:00.000 The Bible says it again and again. Man can throw the dice. God controls the outcome. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:05.000 And the thing is, when it comes to his children, I do not, you know in hindsight, 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:09.000 I do not think that everything that I look at has turned out better than I desire. 00:21:19.000 --> 00:21:21.000 Any questions? 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:29.000 Okay. Third. 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:39.000 Let's redefine faith. Let's redefine faith. I know you know what faith is, but I'm just writing it down differently. 00:21:39.000 --> 00:21:47.000 Faith is the assurance. 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:57.000 I love it. Faith is the assurance. It's his absolute assurance, all the title deed. 00:21:57.000 --> 00:22:03.000 This is an old way of saying it. A title deed was what you would get when you would buy a home. 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:07.000 Before you occupied the home, you would get a title deed saying the home belongs to you. 00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:11.000 I remember getting a call from this guy called Raj in Surrey saying, 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:17.000 hey, just want you to know you qualified for your car. And I was behaving as if I already had the car. 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:20.000 Why? Because he just called me and told me I have the car. 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.000 This is the word of a man who said, hey, I have the car. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:29.000 This is the word of a man who's saying I've gotten the car, I've been approved, you got the car. 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:34.000 And so I'm behaving like I already have it. I'm cleaning my old car because I'm going to return it. 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:40.000 But it's the word of a man. The title deed is something you have in your possession, 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.000 even though you haven't occupied what is actually yours. 00:22:43.000 --> 00:23:00.000 It's the assurance or the title deed of things I hope or expect because it's divinely guaranteed. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:05.000 Because it is divinely guaranteed. 00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:16.000 It's divinely guaranteed. 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:29.000 So it is important to hope and expect. You must have a hope or an expectation. 00:23:29.000 --> 00:23:38.000 It must be divinely guaranteed, as in either in the word or God has already shown it to you. 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:45.000 And then you already have the assurance or the title deed. 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:50.000 It is perceiving as Tortue. 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:57.000 It is perceiving as real fact that which hasn't been revealed to my senses. 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:03.000 It's perceiving as real fact that which hasn't been revealed to my senses. 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:04.600 revealed to my senses. 00:24:04.600 --> 00:24:07.660 It is perceiving as real fact that which hasn't been 00:24:07.660 --> 00:24:08.900 revealed to my senses. 00:24:14.700 --> 00:24:16.840 And so I started cleaning my car. 00:24:16.840 --> 00:24:19.520 I started getting everything out of the car. 00:24:19.520 --> 00:24:19.840 Why? 00:24:19.840 --> 00:24:23.340 Because I was going to return the car and get the new one. 00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:25.520 There was no guarantee I had on paper. 00:24:25.520 --> 00:24:27.800 It was just the word of a man saying, you've been approved. 00:24:27.800 --> 00:24:30.120 You can come and pick up your new car. 00:24:30.120 --> 00:24:33.200 And that caused me to begin to walk as if I already had it. 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:35.560 This is important, guys. 00:24:35.560 --> 00:24:37.280 This is important. 00:24:37.280 --> 00:24:40.480 It's not a denial of your present circumstances. 00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:42.440 It's not a denial of your present circumstances. 00:24:46.800 --> 00:24:48.720 But it is imposing a new value. 00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:50.680 It is imposing a new value. 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:52.160 It is imposing a new value. 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:57.160 It is renaming what you are going through. 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:24.680 There's a cool story in Second Kings 4. 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:28.320 It's about this woman who had a son, a son that was given to 00:25:28.320 --> 00:25:30.520 her as a promise from God. 00:25:30.520 --> 00:25:31.920 And he dies. 00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.120 He has a headache, and he dies. 00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:40.720 He dies, and she rushes to meet the prophet for help. 00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:43.520 And as she's going on her way, they ask her, what's wrong? 00:25:43.520 --> 00:25:44.120 It's a Sabbath. 00:25:44.120 --> 00:25:45.920 How come you're rushing away? 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:47.840 And she says, it is all good. 00:25:47.840 --> 00:25:49.080 All is well. 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:57.360 And then she goes further down, and people ask her, where are 00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:57.840 you going? 00:25:57.840 --> 00:25:59.000 Is everything OK? 00:25:59.000 --> 00:26:01.440 And she keeps saying, it is well. 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:03.600 She gets to the prophet's servant, Gehazi. 00:26:03.600 --> 00:26:06.040 Gehazi asks her, is everything OK? 00:26:06.040 --> 00:26:06.760 It is all right. 00:26:06.760 --> 00:26:08.400 It is well. 00:26:08.400 --> 00:26:09.480 What was she doing? 00:26:09.480 --> 00:26:16.720 She was assured of things that she was expecting or hoping, 00:26:16.720 --> 00:26:18.640 because she knew it was divinely guaranteed. 00:26:19.320 --> 00:26:22.680 So she began to walk and talk and behave as if it was a done 00:26:22.680 --> 00:26:23.920 deal. 00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:27.800 And so the prophet comes, and he finds the boy dead. 00:26:27.800 --> 00:26:29.800 He lays down on the boy, prays for him. 00:26:29.800 --> 00:26:32.200 The boy wakes up and sneezes seven times. 00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:35.360 I was thinking, poor guy, if it was a COVID case, they would 00:26:35.360 --> 00:26:38.440 send him back into isolation immediately after having raised 00:26:38.440 --> 00:26:39.080 him from the dead. 00:26:39.080 --> 00:26:41.200 But that was just a thought on the side. 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:42.840 Because he sneezed seven times. 00:26:42.840 --> 00:26:45.600 Sneezed twice, and you get thrown into isolation nowadays. 00:26:45.640 --> 00:26:52.200 So you see this in 2 Kings 4.23, where the woman keeps 00:26:52.200 --> 00:26:52.960 saying it is well. 00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:55.720 Guys, one of the things you have to realize is it is 00:26:55.720 --> 00:26:59.000 important for you to speak what you believe, and we'll 00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.560 get there slowly. 00:27:00.560 --> 00:27:01.800 Any questions on this? 00:27:05.240 --> 00:27:07.280 Learn this by heart. 00:27:07.280 --> 00:27:12.240 Faith is the assurance or the title deed of what I hope and 00:27:12.320 --> 00:27:15.000 expect, because it's divinely guaranteed. 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:17.080 I have to keep going back there. 00:27:17.080 --> 00:27:23.680 I've got a rotator cuff that is so painful that I can't play 00:27:23.680 --> 00:27:25.280 Mike's guitar. 00:27:25.280 --> 00:27:27.200 Last week, I asked Mike to bring his guitar. 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:30.160 I started playing it and realized that it is so painful 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:31.560 that I can't play the big guitar. 00:27:31.560 --> 00:27:33.160 So I asked, what's her name? 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:33.880 Emily? 00:27:33.880 --> 00:27:34.640 No, not Emily. 00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.080 Jane to get me her guitar. 00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:37.160 And I played the small guitar. 00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:39.800 I had to change the length of the guitar. 00:27:39.840 --> 00:27:42.840 I had to change the length of the belt today. 00:27:42.840 --> 00:27:43.960 Sheldon helped me do it. 00:27:43.960 --> 00:27:47.720 Because in any other position, my arm will hurt like crazy. 00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:50.240 It's been very painful when I go to sleep and stuff like 00:27:50.240 --> 00:27:50.760 that. 00:27:50.760 --> 00:27:56.560 But having said that, I also know that faith is the 00:27:56.560 --> 00:27:59.480 assurance of things I hope or expect. 00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:00.960 And what is my hope or expect? 00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:02.880 That will be completely repaired. 00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:05.880 That will be completely healed. 00:28:05.880 --> 00:28:08.720 Completely healed. 00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:11.480 Now, why do I have this hope or expectation? 00:28:11.480 --> 00:28:13.640 Because it's divinely guaranteed. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:22.160 But I still have to go back to the father who is willing, who 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:27.200 is holy, who is highly aware of the pain that I have, who is 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:31.120 in charge and in control, and who is super kind. 00:28:31.120 --> 00:28:33.920 And so I already know the outcome. 00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:37.160 So even though it may pain, it will not stop me from playing 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.800 the guitar or going about life as normally as possible. 00:28:40.800 --> 00:28:42.880 Because it is just around the corner. 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:44.400 It cannot be stopped. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.560 It must happen. 00:28:45.560 --> 00:28:47.200 I'm not even saying it will happen. 00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:48.440 It must happen. 00:28:55.760 --> 00:28:59.720 And so what if two minutes from now I feel otherwise about it? 00:28:59.720 --> 00:29:03.720 Well, three minutes from now, I'll go back to this. 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:06.560 What if eight minutes from now I feel bad again? 00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:08.160 Ten minutes from now, I'll go back to it. 00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:13.560 What if? 00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:18.960 Yes, there are two ways of speaking. 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:21.280 One is to speak because you believe. 00:29:21.280 --> 00:29:24.160 Two is to speak so that you believe. 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:25.000 Yeah. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.520 Kids do that all the time. 00:29:26.520 --> 00:29:28.120 I know daddy's going to get me a car. 00:29:28.120 --> 00:29:29.680 I know my daddy's going to get me a car. 00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:30.440 I know my daddy's going to get me a car. 00:29:30.440 --> 00:29:34.320 And when he sees his daddy coming, it gets louder. 00:29:34.320 --> 00:29:35.440 So there's two ways to do it. 00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:37.200 Either you speak because you believe it. 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.960 That is a preferred method. 00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:41.280 Or you speak it till you believe it. 00:29:41.280 --> 00:29:43.560 One is you're saying it because you made it. 00:29:43.560 --> 00:29:47.200 The other one is faking it till you make it. 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:49.480 These are not biblical scriptures or anything. 00:29:49.480 --> 00:29:50.320 Just telling you. 00:29:51.760 --> 00:29:52.800 And rename it, guys. 00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:54.200 It's not a denying of my... 00:29:54.200 --> 00:29:57.280 I'm not denying that my hand hurts like crazy. 00:29:57.280 --> 00:29:58.840 I find it hard to put this jacket on. 00:29:58.840 --> 00:30:02.200 I was asking Jeevan to help me put this jacket on. 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:05.560 So I'm not denying the circumstances, 00:30:05.560 --> 00:30:07.280 but I refuse to focus on it. 00:30:07.280 --> 00:30:09.560 Instead, I know a new value will be imposed 00:30:09.560 --> 00:30:11.120 and that value will be healing. 00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:14.320 Rename. 00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:18.000 Rename what you're going through. 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.240 Is your hand not well? 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:20.560 Rename it. 00:30:20.560 --> 00:30:21.400 Hand is well. 00:30:26.360 --> 00:30:29.080 Doubt, on the other hand, is wavering between two minds. 00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:32.720 What doubt does is it believes God's ability, 00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:36.440 but it questions his methods, it questions his motives, 00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.560 and it questions his character. 00:30:37.560 --> 00:30:39.360 Doubt is not... 00:30:39.360 --> 00:30:40.760 For us as Christians, 00:30:40.760 --> 00:30:43.160 doubt is not thinking God cannot do it. 00:30:43.160 --> 00:30:46.440 Doubt is believing God is able, 00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:50.400 but questioning his methods, his motives, his character. 00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:54.440 And so you drown in what, why, how, when. 00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.680 You drown in what, why, how, when. 00:30:57.680 --> 00:30:58.800 What's gonna happen? 00:30:59.760 --> 00:31:01.200 Why isn't it happening yet? 00:31:01.200 --> 00:31:02.440 How is it gonna happen? 00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:03.480 When is it gonna happen? 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:04.320 And you drown. 00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:15.320 And the only way to overcome doubt 00:31:15.320 --> 00:31:16.720 is to go back into the word. 00:31:16.840 --> 00:31:19.840 Next one, 1 John 5, 14, 15. 00:31:19.840 --> 00:31:21.960 1 John 5, 14, 15. 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:23.080 Beautiful verses. 00:31:23.080 --> 00:31:25.960 These verses you must learn by heart. 00:31:28.200 --> 00:31:30.800 This is a confidence that I have. 00:31:30.800 --> 00:31:34.240 That if I ask God anything according to his will, 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:35.560 he hears me. 00:31:35.560 --> 00:31:36.400 He hears me. 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:37.240 He hears me. 00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.080 He hears me. 00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:38.920 He hears me. 00:31:38.920 --> 00:31:39.760 He hears me. 00:31:39.760 --> 00:31:40.600 He hears me. 00:31:40.600 --> 00:31:41.440 He hears me. 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:42.280 He hears me. 00:31:42.280 --> 00:31:43.120 He hears me. 00:31:43.120 --> 00:31:43.960 He hears me. 00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:44.800 He hears me. 00:31:44.800 --> 00:31:45.640 He hears me. 00:31:45.800 --> 00:31:47.000 He hears me. 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.760 And if he hears me, 00:31:48.760 --> 00:31:52.560 then I know that I have as my present possession 00:31:52.560 --> 00:31:53.800 whatever I asked of him. 00:31:53.800 --> 00:31:54.640 Just listen to it again. 00:31:54.640 --> 00:31:56.160 It's just crazy. 00:31:56.160 --> 00:31:59.120 It is so, it is so straightforward. 00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:00.880 This is the confidence that I have. 00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.080 That if I ask God for anything according to his will, 00:32:06.080 --> 00:32:06.960 he hears me. 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:09.560 And if he hears me, 00:32:09.560 --> 00:32:13.040 then I can be sure that I can have as my present possession 00:32:13.040 --> 00:32:14.800 whatever I asked him for. 00:32:16.640 --> 00:32:18.960 So make sure when you ask that you fit your asking 00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:20.200 into his will. 00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:23.600 Make sure when you ask that you fit your asking 00:32:23.600 --> 00:32:25.360 into his will. 00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:26.520 Sometimes God will say, 00:32:26.520 --> 00:32:28.520 hey, do you want to rephrase it again? 00:32:31.280 --> 00:32:33.320 Father, I want a million dollars, Father. 00:32:33.320 --> 00:32:34.400 Can you rephrase it again? 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:35.760 Father, can I have a hundred dollars? 00:32:35.760 --> 00:32:37.760 Cause I have this need to meet immediately. 00:32:39.360 --> 00:32:42.600 Meaning fit it so that it is within his will. 00:32:42.800 --> 00:32:43.920 It is within his will. 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:47.120 Find out what God's desire and will for you is. 00:32:47.120 --> 00:32:48.520 Fit it into his will. 00:32:49.800 --> 00:32:51.600 Know the parameters within which 00:32:51.600 --> 00:32:53.600 you are supposed to operate at present. 00:32:55.480 --> 00:32:58.120 And then once you do, you have to behave. 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:00.040 Here's the scripture. 00:33:00.040 --> 00:33:01.760 It says you can have, you... 00:33:04.560 --> 00:33:06.200 This is the confidence that I have. 00:33:06.200 --> 00:33:08.960 That if I ask anything according to his will, 00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:10.320 he hears me. 00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:12.040 And if he hears me, 00:33:12.080 --> 00:33:14.840 I know with certainty that I can have 00:33:14.840 --> 00:33:16.440 as my present possession, 00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:18.080 what I have asked him for. 00:33:23.640 --> 00:33:26.400 And so it goes back to the whole idea of behaving 00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:27.600 as if you have it, 00:33:28.680 --> 00:33:30.840 even though it hasn't come into your hands yet. 00:33:30.840 --> 00:33:31.680 Go ahead, Ruth. 00:33:33.560 --> 00:33:36.720 First John five, 14 and 15. 00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:39.360 You have to behave like you have it, 00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:40.840 even though you haven't received it. 00:33:40.840 --> 00:33:41.680 Really, Jacob? 00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:42.920 This is like brainwashing. 00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.720 It's psyching yourself up. 00:33:44.720 --> 00:33:47.480 You would think so, but unfortunately Jesus said it. 00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:51.960 Mark 11, verse 23, where he says, 00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:54.640 when you pray, believe that you have already 00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:58.280 received it and it shall be yours. 00:33:58.280 --> 00:33:59.280 I know these... 00:33:59.280 --> 00:34:01.920 I mean, the churches don't even talk about this anymore 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:04.240 because they think it's a faith movement. 00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:05.800 No, it's Jesus' movement. 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:08.680 In Mark 11, 23, he said this. 00:34:09.560 --> 00:34:12.400 Whatsoever, Jacob, you believe. 00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:15.920 You say in prayer that whatever you pray, 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:19.040 believe, Jacob, that you have received it 00:34:19.040 --> 00:34:21.040 and it shall be yours. 00:34:28.680 --> 00:34:30.400 You have to behave like you believe 00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:31.960 before you receive it. 00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:33.760 You have to believe. 00:34:33.760 --> 00:34:35.280 Learn how to behave. 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:38.360 Learn how to behave like you believe 00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:39.760 before you receive it. 00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:44.280 Examples, Abraham. 00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:49.120 Guy's 99 years old, but he behaves like 00:34:49.120 --> 00:34:52.360 he actually believes God that he's gonna have a child. 00:34:54.520 --> 00:34:57.200 Peter, never walked on water, 00:34:57.200 --> 00:34:59.200 behaves like he actually believes it 00:34:59.200 --> 00:35:00.800 because he steps out of the boat. 00:35:02.080 --> 00:35:03.880 One of the things I love doing, 00:35:03.880 --> 00:35:05.680 whenever there's a challenge of faith, 00:35:05.680 --> 00:35:09.080 is I like doing something that'll defy 00:35:09.080 --> 00:35:10.480 what I'm going through. 00:35:11.600 --> 00:35:13.080 So I remember once... 00:35:14.080 --> 00:35:15.280 Don't try this at home. 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:18.080 This is only for professionals, like the most TV ads say. 00:35:18.080 --> 00:35:23.080 So one day I felt like my left side of my chest 00:35:23.080 --> 00:35:25.280 was hurting and my hand was hurting. 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.480 I'm thinking, I've got to do something about this. 00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:29.880 So I used to have a treadmill then 00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.480 that was graciously given to me by a few people. 00:35:32.680 --> 00:35:34.080 So I don't know why. 00:35:34.080 --> 00:35:38.080 But so I decided to go on the treadmill 00:35:38.080 --> 00:35:41.480 and I decided, well, if my chest is hurting 00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:43.880 and my hand is hurting, let's just go 00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.680 and really wreck this treadmill for the next 30 minutes. 00:35:47.680 --> 00:35:49.680 And so I was on the 30 minutes. 00:35:49.680 --> 00:35:51.480 That's the longest I've ever been on the treadmill 00:35:51.480 --> 00:35:52.480 in my life. 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:54.880 And after 30 minutes I got off and I thought to myself, 00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:57.080 looks like you're in fine shape, so keep going. 00:35:57.080 --> 00:35:58.880 So I'm not asking you to try it out. 00:35:58.880 --> 00:36:02.080 All I'm saying is sometimes you have to try it out 00:36:02.080 --> 00:36:05.280 and sometimes you have to behave like you actually believe 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:06.680 that you have received it. 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:16.280 Any questions? 00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:19.680 Any questions? 00:36:20.880 --> 00:36:21.680 Go ahead. 00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:24.880 How do you know God's will? 00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:28.080 The easiest way would be if the word says so, 00:36:28.080 --> 00:36:30.680 then you know it is yours. 00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:32.280 That is the easiest way. 00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.280 And most, many, many, many things are covered 00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:39.080 just through the simple promises of God in the Bible. 00:36:39.080 --> 00:36:41.480 And then there are specific things said to you 00:36:41.480 --> 00:36:45.680 where you have this absolute surety it's God 00:36:45.680 --> 00:36:46.880 and you've got to step out. 00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:49.280 And you may find that you're falling flat on your face, 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.880 but it's soon you know how to get up and keep walking. 00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:57.080 Like every trip I've gone on, I've had to step out in faith. 00:36:57.080 --> 00:36:58.280 Go to Mongolia. 00:36:58.280 --> 00:37:00.080 Don't know anybody there, but you go there. 00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:02.480 And then whatever needs to happen happens. 00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:05.080 Your dad and me have gone to places together 00:37:05.080 --> 00:37:08.080 where we knew nobody, but something would transpire. 00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:11.880 So either it is because you've heard his voice 00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:13.680 or it is because of the Word of God. 00:37:15.680 --> 00:37:16.880 What is the risk? 00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:20.480 You might lose a lot of money and you might look really foolish. 00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:22.680 I mean, you think you don't look foolish? 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:26.680 Look at what you've gone and done. 00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:29.280 Who in their right mind would do this? 00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:32.280 You had an apartment, you had a job, you had a girlfriend. 00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:36.280 Anyone who had any sense would stay there. 00:37:36.280 --> 00:37:38.680 But you've taken this ridiculous step of faith 00:37:38.680 --> 00:37:40.080 and you've stepped out here. 00:37:41.280 --> 00:37:42.280 Crazy, right? 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:46.280 You don't laugh. 00:37:51.080 --> 00:37:55.280 But this is what adventures and adventures are all about. 00:37:55.280 --> 00:38:00.480 This is what adventures and God moments are made up of, guys. 00:38:02.080 --> 00:38:07.480 This opens doors so wide, so wide, that it changes everything. 00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:13.080 Behave as if you have already received it. 00:38:13.080 --> 00:38:14.280 I'll take five minutes more. 00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:18.480 Here's another crazy, crazy thought. 00:38:18.480 --> 00:38:21.080 Whatever you ask for in prayer according to his will, 00:38:21.080 --> 00:38:24.680 you actually receive it immediately in your spirit. 00:38:24.680 --> 00:38:26.280 You've got to realize this. 00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:29.080 God ain't delaying stuff. 00:38:29.080 --> 00:38:30.280 Whenever you ask for something, 00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:32.080 know that you've received it in your spirit. 00:38:32.080 --> 00:38:34.080 Receive it in your spirit. 00:38:34.080 --> 00:38:35.080 It is his will. 00:38:35.080 --> 00:38:37.280 The Bible says in the Amplified, it actually says, 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:39.680 you have it as your present possession. 00:38:39.680 --> 00:38:42.880 How can you behave as if you've already received it? 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:44.680 If you don't think you've already received it. 00:38:46.080 --> 00:38:49.280 You have in your heart to begin to believe that, 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:52.280 ah shucks, God, I asked according to your will, 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:54.280 so it is granted to me. 00:38:54.280 --> 00:38:56.480 Receive it in my spirit. 00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:59.080 And then, having received it in my spirit, 00:38:59.080 --> 00:39:04.480 I begin to watch it transpire in the physical. 00:39:05.680 --> 00:39:08.080 And if that takes a second, a minute, 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:12.480 a year or 25 years like Abraham, 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:15.680 I'll keep going to the fact that I will still behave 00:39:15.680 --> 00:39:18.680 like I believe it because I have received it. 00:39:18.680 --> 00:39:21.080 There's this thing called immediacy of faith 00:39:21.080 --> 00:39:23.680 and the eventuality of faith. 00:39:23.680 --> 00:39:27.080 One is you receive it immediately and then it says, 00:39:27.080 --> 00:39:29.680 with patience, cultivate the promise. 00:39:29.680 --> 00:39:31.480 Hebrews 10, 34 and 35. 00:39:32.680 --> 00:39:35.280 Patience and immediacy have to work together. 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:39.280 When they combine, you have what you believed for 00:39:39.280 --> 00:39:40.280 and you receive it. 00:39:44.080 --> 00:39:46.680 You know, I think Acts 29 has a corporate ability 00:39:46.680 --> 00:39:48.080 to believe for great things, 00:39:48.080 --> 00:39:51.880 but has not yet built up the individual capacity 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:54.880 to receive things that are ridiculous. 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:56.680 We have the corporate ability. 00:39:56.680 --> 00:40:00.280 We, as a people together, can achieve great things, 00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:03.480 putting our faith, but when it comes to individual lives, 00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:05.880 we have to up our game some more. 00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:11.080 This involves a little bit of work, guys. 00:40:11.080 --> 00:40:12.880 It involves going to the word. 00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:14.880 It involves believing God. 00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:16.880 It involves receiving the Father. 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:18.480 It involves going through this process. 00:40:18.480 --> 00:40:19.480 Why go through all this? 00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.880 Just resign yourself or call up the banker 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:24.880 or call up your mother or call up your father and fix it. 00:40:26.480 --> 00:40:29.880 But you never get to enjoy the adventure of God 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:31.080 when faith is absent. 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:34.080 Never. 00:40:44.480 --> 00:40:46.080 Remember you have an active enemy. 00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:49.080 Remember you have an active enemy. 00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:50.680 The devil. 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:52.280 Now here's the thing. 00:40:52.680 --> 00:40:56.680 The devil knows that he cannot penetrate the shield of faith. 00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:02.280 Ephesians 6 verse 16 says that you can quench the arrows 00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:05.280 of the evil one with the shield of faith. 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.680 So the devil knows that he cannot penetrate the shield of faith. 00:41:08.680 --> 00:41:09.680 So what does he do? 00:41:09.680 --> 00:41:12.280 He tries to dissuade you from taking it up 00:41:12.280 --> 00:41:14.480 or persuade you to lay it down. 00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:16.680 And what trick does he use to do this? 00:41:16.680 --> 00:41:17.680 Viriness. 00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:19.280 He viries you. 00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:23.880 He viries you so that you won't go again and pick it up 00:41:23.880 --> 00:41:25.480 because you picked it up too often. 00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:28.680 He either dissuades you from picking it up 00:41:28.680 --> 00:41:31.080 or persuades you to lay it down 00:41:31.080 --> 00:41:35.880 because the weapon that he uses most effectively is attrition. 00:41:36.880 --> 00:41:40.880 Where the intent is can I keep up this pressure 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:42.280 so that Jacob decides, 00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:44.080 eh, this is too much work. 00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:49.280 But if you can stand, 00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:53.080 you will break a bastion that he has built over years 00:41:53.080 --> 00:41:54.680 and it will never rise again. 00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:56.680 Never rise again. 00:41:58.680 --> 00:42:01.080 You can't imagine the number of times 00:42:01.080 --> 00:42:05.280 I had to stand up with faith against sickness. 00:42:06.680 --> 00:42:08.680 For years I did that 00:42:08.680 --> 00:42:11.280 when now that bastion's crumbled 00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:13.880 and it is not much of a fight. 00:42:13.880 --> 00:42:15.680 When you arm wrestle someone, 00:42:15.680 --> 00:42:17.880 once you beat them three times, 00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:19.680 they come to the table afraid. 00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:26.880 I've tried it with my 11-year-old nephew. 00:42:28.080 --> 00:42:30.480 He is dead scared of me now. 00:42:37.680 --> 00:42:38.680 So, 00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:42.280 don't cast away your confidence. 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:44.680 There's an old song, children's song, 00:42:44.680 --> 00:42:47.480 keep the switch of faith turned on. 00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:49.280 Don't cast away your confidence, 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:51.280 keep the switch of faith turned on. 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:52.680 Don't cast away your confidence, 00:42:52.680 --> 00:42:54.280 Hebrews 10.35, 00:42:54.280 --> 00:42:56.280 because great are the rewards. 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:57.880 Great are the rewards. 00:43:03.280 --> 00:43:04.280 So, 00:43:04.280 --> 00:43:06.680 don't cast away your confidence. 00:43:07.680 --> 00:43:09.080 Let me conclude. 00:43:09.080 --> 00:43:10.280 Use words, guys. 00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:11.880 When you feel like you're weary, 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:13.480 when you, my God, man, 00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:17.280 this is such a cancer in our midst. 00:43:17.280 --> 00:43:19.280 We do not use words. 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:23.080 If after being persuaded you cannot use words, 00:43:23.080 --> 00:43:26.880 it's highly unlikely that you will use words at home. 00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:30.680 Guys, I know that most of you are resilient and stubborn, 00:43:30.680 --> 00:43:32.080 but may I say something to you? 00:43:32.080 --> 00:43:33.280 You're not disciplined. 00:43:37.080 --> 00:43:38.880 It doesn't, it's not a blanket statement. 00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:40.680 Maybe some of you are very disciplined, 00:43:40.680 --> 00:43:43.080 but by a general rule, 00:43:43.080 --> 00:43:45.080 we are stubborn, but we are not disciplined. 00:43:45.080 --> 00:43:47.880 Stubbornness is what happens when we take a stubborn stand. 00:43:47.880 --> 00:43:49.680 Nope, this is the way I want it. 00:43:49.680 --> 00:43:51.480 It's not childlike, it's childish. 00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:52.480 It's churlish. 00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.080 It just demands its way. 00:43:54.080 --> 00:43:55.280 Discipline is something else. 00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:57.280 Discipline happens in here. 00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.080 Discipline repeats, repeats, repeats, repeats, 00:44:00.080 --> 00:44:02.480 and that is painful. 00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:03.880 And if we don't learn it now, 00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:06.480 we will not learn it in our old age. 00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:07.480 Unfortunately. 00:44:11.480 --> 00:44:13.280 Stubbornness and discipline are two different things. 00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:14.280 Don't confuse them. 00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:17.480 Just because you can take a stubborn stance 00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:18.880 doesn't mean you are disciplined. 00:44:18.880 --> 00:44:20.080 It just means you're stubborn. 00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:24.680 I need to make that very clear 00:44:24.680 --> 00:44:26.680 because I've seen people in this church 00:44:26.680 --> 00:44:28.880 who really can stand, 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:30.480 have a high threshold of pain, 00:44:30.480 --> 00:44:32.880 can be stubborn, can get things done, 00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:34.480 but ask them to do something repeatedly 00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:36.280 over a few weeks, months, 00:44:36.280 --> 00:44:37.880 and you don't have the discipline for it. 00:44:49.880 --> 00:44:52.080 These things are learned through discipline. 00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:53.680 You got to do it again and again. 00:44:53.680 --> 00:44:54.280 What? 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.480 Just because you get knocked down five times a day, 00:44:56.480 --> 00:44:57.680 you're going to stay down? 00:44:57.680 --> 00:44:58.480 Really? 00:44:59.680 --> 00:45:00.880 Phoebe would never walk. 00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:05.880 I'm sorry, I'm getting irritated. 00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:09.680 Use words, guys. 00:45:10.480 --> 00:45:12.080 No, actually, I'm not sorry at all. 00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:14.080 Use words. 00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:15.880 Use words. 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:17.880 Use words when you're feeling weary, 00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:19.280 when you're feeling beaten down. 00:45:19.280 --> 00:45:19.880 Use words. 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.280 Your faith or the lack of it speaks. 00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.680 Your faith or the lack of it speaks. 00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:25.480 Use words. 00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:28.680 It has the power to impart life or impart death. 00:45:28.680 --> 00:45:29.880 I know you know that. 00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:30.880 But use words. 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:31.880 Use words. 00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:32.880 Use words. 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:34.080 I know you know that. 00:45:34.080 --> 00:45:36.080 It's in Proverbs 18, verse 20. 00:45:37.080 --> 00:45:38.080 Use words. 00:45:40.080 --> 00:45:42.480 Steal your ship to the port of his calling 00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:43.880 by agreeing with him, 00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:46.480 by confessing things that he is saying about you. 00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:48.280 Remember, he said, 00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:50.680 whoever says to this mountain, be removed. 00:45:50.680 --> 00:45:53.680 Whoever says to this mulberry tree, be removed. 00:45:53.680 --> 00:45:55.880 There is this combination when you use words 00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:57.680 of faith and of authority, 00:45:57.680 --> 00:45:59.280 where you begin to speak to things. 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:00.280 Be foolish. 00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:01.880 Speak to things. 00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:04.680 Speak to your back. 00:46:04.680 --> 00:46:06.280 Speak to my shoulder. 00:46:06.280 --> 00:46:08.080 Speak over people. 00:46:08.880 --> 00:46:10.880 Keeping it in our heads will not do any good. 00:46:10.880 --> 00:46:13.080 You don't know how many times I've said, 00:46:13.080 --> 00:46:14.880 rotate a cuff, you will heal. 00:46:14.880 --> 00:46:15.880 You will be repaired. 00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:18.080 God has healed my body over and over again 00:46:18.080 --> 00:46:19.280 in the last 32 years. 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:20.480 This hand will be healed. 00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:23.080 And why am I saying it so confidently before you? 00:46:23.080 --> 00:46:25.280 Because I'll come and show you soon. 00:46:25.280 --> 00:46:28.080 This hand moving like a famous cricket bowler. 00:46:28.080 --> 00:46:29.080 Yeah. 00:46:29.080 --> 00:46:30.880 Right now I'm like that Sri Lankan bowler 00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:32.680 who has to throw the ball like this. 00:46:32.680 --> 00:46:34.080 What's his name? 00:46:34.080 --> 00:46:35.880 Okay, sorry. 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:38.280 Apologies, apologies all around. 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:40.280 Yeah. 00:46:40.280 --> 00:46:43.280 But soon, it'll be back in form. 00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:44.680 It's only a matter of time. 00:46:44.680 --> 00:46:47.080 This shoulder will repair. 00:46:48.080 --> 00:46:50.880 I'm not saying, God, you better do it, okay? 00:46:50.880 --> 00:46:52.480 My dignity is at stake. 00:46:52.480 --> 00:46:53.480 No. 00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:55.080 I'm not saying, God, you better do it, okay? 00:46:55.080 --> 00:46:56.080 My dignity is at stake. 00:46:56.080 --> 00:46:57.080 No. 00:46:57.080 --> 00:46:59.680 It's the most normal thing for him to do. 00:46:59.680 --> 00:47:04.680 After all, he's my father and he's back. 00:47:04.680 --> 00:47:07.880 He's willing, he's holy, he's aware, 00:47:07.880 --> 00:47:10.880 he is in charge and he's kind. 00:47:12.680 --> 00:47:13.680 Yeah. 00:47:15.080 --> 00:47:16.680 Use words, guys. 00:47:16.680 --> 00:47:18.480 Use words. 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:19.880 And let me end with this sentence. 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:21.880 In my... 00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:24.880 The more I quote COAT, 00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:28.880 the more I quote my heart with faith, 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:32.480 the more I will reflect God's presence and promise. 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:33.880 The more you do this, 00:47:33.880 --> 00:47:37.880 the more your heart gets coated with fresh... 00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:40.880 the fresh paint of faith. 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:42.480 And if you don't, 00:47:42.480 --> 00:47:44.880 your heart will reflect your circumstances. 00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.880 If you do, your heart will mirror God's promise and provision. 00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:51.880 That's the strange thing with faith. 00:47:51.880 --> 00:47:53.880 You can't take a vacation, 00:47:53.880 --> 00:47:55.880 because when you take a vacation, 00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:59.880 the paint dries and it begins to reflect your circumstances. 00:47:59.880 --> 00:48:03.880 But as you begin to walk in faith on a daily basis, 00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:05.880 and here is a question I've asked Axe21 before. 00:48:05.880 --> 00:48:07.880 Is it your preference to walk in faith, 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:10.880 or is it something you use when things are difficult? 00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:16.880 Jesus' preference was to walk in faith. 00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:18.880 It wasn't like, oops, no food today. 00:48:18.880 --> 00:48:20.880 Let's go fishing. Let's believe for fish. 00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:22.880 No, it was his preference. 00:48:22.880 --> 00:48:27.880 And so then your heart gets coated with faith 00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:32.880 and it begins to always reflect the promises and provision of God, 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:35.880 while otherwise it will mirror your circumstances. 00:48:35.880 --> 00:48:38.880 And so faith has this ability to pull or connect 00:48:38.880 --> 00:48:41.880 what is available from my Father in heaven 00:48:41.880 --> 00:48:42.880 to my circumstances on earth. 00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:44.880 What a beautiful sentence. 00:48:44.880 --> 00:48:46.880 I don't know whether I came up with this sentence, 00:48:46.880 --> 00:48:47.880 beautiful sentence. 00:48:47.880 --> 00:48:49.880 I don't know whether I came up with it. 00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:51.880 Really, I forgot. 00:48:51.880 --> 00:48:53.880 Maybe it's someone else's, because it sounds really good. 00:48:53.880 --> 00:48:58.880 Faith pulls or connects what my Father has in heaven 00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:00.880 to my circumstances on earth. 00:49:00.880 --> 00:49:03.880 It's like when you pull two wires and connect them 00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:06.880 and the Christmas tree suddenly comes alight. 00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:07.880 It's like that. 00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:12.880 Faith pulls from heaven what my Father has for my situation 00:49:12.880 --> 00:49:14.880 and connects it to my circumstances on earth, 00:49:14.880 --> 00:49:16.880 and suddenly things begin to transpire. 00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:17.880 Any questions? 00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:25.880 Okay. 00:49:25.880 --> 00:49:27.880 Sheldon, you want to come and play for a second? 00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:30.880 Emily, you want to sing Miracle Worker? 00:49:33.880 --> 00:49:36.880 We'll end with that, and then if anyone needs prayer, 00:49:36.880 --> 00:49:38.880 we can pray for you. 00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:39.880 Okay. 00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:42.880 Pardon? 00:49:42.880 --> 00:49:44.880 You are here. 00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:51.880 Please believe that you receive it and behave like you receive it. 00:49:51.880 --> 00:49:53.880 It's critical. 00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:55.880 So important. 00:49:56.880 --> 00:49:58.880 Why are you standing in the middle of the hall? 00:49:59.880 --> 00:50:00.880 Let it show. 00:50:01.880 --> 00:50:02.880 Let it show. 00:50:09.880 --> 00:50:11.880 Let's sing the song as I play it. 00:50:12.880 --> 00:50:13.880 Please pray. 00:50:17.880 --> 00:50:19.880 Can I have the words for Waymaker? 00:50:19.880 --> 00:50:20.880 Thank you. 00:50:34.880 --> 00:50:41.880 You are here, moving in our midst. 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:44.880 I worship you. 00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:48.880 I worship you. 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:55.880 You are here, working in this place. 00:50:56.880 --> 00:50:58.880 I worship you. 00:50:59.880 --> 00:51:02.880 I worship you. 00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:10.880 You are here, moving in our midst. 00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:13.880 I worship you. 00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:17.880 I worship you. 00:51:18.880 --> 00:51:24.880 You are here, working in this place. 00:51:25.880 --> 00:51:27.880 I worship you. 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:31.880 I worship you. 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:39.880 Because you are Waymaker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, 00:51:39.880 --> 00:51:46.880 Light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. 00:51:47.880 --> 00:51:55.880 You are Waymaker, Miracle Worker, Promise Keeper, 00:51:55.880 --> 00:52:03.880 Light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. 00:52:03.880 --> 00:52:05.880 That is who you are. 00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:11.880 That is who you are. 00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:18.880 Yes, that is who you are. 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:26.880 You are here, touching every heart. 00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:30.880 I worship you. 00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:33.880 I worship you. 00:52:34.880 --> 00:52:41.880 You are here, healing every heart. 00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:45.880 I worship you. 00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:49.880 I worship you. 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:56.880 You are here, and you're turning lives around. 00:52:57.880 --> 00:53:00.880 I worship you. 00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:04.880 I worship you. 00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:11.880 You are here, a man in every heart. 00:53:12.880 --> 00:53:14.880 I worship you. 00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:17.880 Let's sing that part again. 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:25.880 You are here, working in this place. 00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:29.880 I worship you. 00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:33.880 I worship you. 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:41.880 You are here, mending every heart. 00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:44.880 I worship you. 00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:47.880 I worship you. 00:53:48.880 --> 00:53:49.880 You are here, turning lives around. 00:53:49.880 --> 00:53:56.880 You are here, turning lives around. 00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:00.880 I worship you. 00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:02.880 I worship you. 00:54:03.880 --> 00:54:04.880 You're mending every heart. 00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:10.880 You are here, mending every heart. 00:54:11.880 --> 00:54:14.880 I worship you. 00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:18.880 I worship you. 00:54:19.880 --> 00:54:25.880 You are here, a way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper. 00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:33.880 Light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. 00:54:34.880 --> 00:54:41.880 You are a way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper. 00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:48.880 Light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:56.880 You are a way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper. 00:54:57.880 --> 00:55:04.880 Light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. 00:55:04.880 --> 00:55:11.880 You are a way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper. 00:55:12.880 --> 00:55:20.880 Light in the darkness, my God, that is who you are. 00:55:21.880 --> 00:55:25.880 Even when I can't see it, you're working. 00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:29.880 Even when I can't feel it, you're working. 00:55:29.880 --> 00:55:33.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:37.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:41.880 Even when I can't feel it, you're working. 00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:44.880 Even when I don't see it, you're working. 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:48.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:55:49.880 --> 00:55:52.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:56.880 Even when I don't see it, you're working. 00:55:56.880 --> 00:56:00.880 Even when I don't feel it, you're working. 00:56:01.880 --> 00:56:03.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:56:04.880 --> 00:56:07.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:56:08.880 --> 00:56:11.880 Even when I don't feel it, you're working. 00:56:12.880 --> 00:56:14.880 Even when I don't see it, you're working. 00:56:15.880 --> 00:56:17.880 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:21.520 You never stop, you never stop working. 00:56:21.520 --> 00:56:24.120 You never stop, never stop. 00:56:24.120 --> 00:56:29.120 You are way maker, miracle worker, 00:56:29.120 --> 00:56:33.720 promise keeper, light in the darkness. 00:56:33.720 --> 00:56:38.720 My God, that is who you are. 00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:44.800 You are way maker, miracle worker, 00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:49.200 promise keeper, light in the darkness. 00:56:49.200 --> 00:56:54.200 My God, that is who you are. 00:56:54.560 --> 00:56:57.560 That is who you are. 00:57:02.240 --> 00:57:06.240 That is who you are.