WEBVTT NOTE Podcast: Acts 29 Vancouver Episode: Wilderness Publishing Date: 2020-08-09T06:00:44-07:00 Podcast URL: https://acts29.ca Episode URL: https://acts29.ca/wilderness/ 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000 So we move on with this whole topic called Wilderness 40. 00:00:05.800 --> 00:00:08.820 Wilderness 40, almost feel like calling it WD 40, 00:00:08.820 --> 00:00:10.940 but then we might get into problems with that. 00:00:10.940 --> 00:00:13.240 So I'll just stick to Wilderness 40. 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:15.840 And so, oh my God, it's gonna be one of those days, 00:00:15.840 --> 00:00:16.680 looks like. 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:22.400 Okay, no more funnies, everything serious from now on. 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:26.060 Okay, so Wilderness 40, 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:30.300 today's topic is abiding in presence, abiding in presence. 00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:35.300 So last week, we followed the spirit into the wilderness 00:00:36.540 --> 00:00:39.640 to prepare for a post-COVID world. 00:00:41.300 --> 00:00:46.300 And the plan is to return in 40 days and 40 nights, 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:53.060 very dependent upon God, clothed with power, 00:00:53.060 --> 00:00:56.180 and with an overwhelming revelation of God, 00:00:56.180 --> 00:00:59.880 ready for a new phase on the earth come mid-September. 00:01:01.380 --> 00:01:03.700 That's what we did last week. 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:06.420 We following the spirit of God, 00:01:06.420 --> 00:01:09.620 last week we followed the spirit of God as a people 00:01:09.620 --> 00:01:12.820 into the wilderness to prepare for a post-COVID world 00:01:12.820 --> 00:01:16.460 and then return in hopeless dependence, 00:01:16.460 --> 00:01:20.260 as in helpless dependence, clothed with power, 00:01:20.260 --> 00:01:22.340 with an overwhelming revelation of God, 00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:25.140 ready for a new phase on earth mid-September. 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:27.900 And one of the things God will do over the next six weeks 00:01:27.900 --> 00:01:31.820 is he'll begin to contour what a post-COVID landscape 00:01:31.820 --> 00:01:34.060 looks like on earth, as in, hey guys, 00:01:34.060 --> 00:01:36.340 this is what the earth will look like 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:39.380 once we begin to come out of post-COVID. 00:01:39.380 --> 00:01:42.680 And then he'll also tell us the shape of the church. 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.540 How do you position the church in a post-COVID landscape 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:48.860 so that the church can be most effective? 00:01:48.860 --> 00:01:49.680 Why is he doing it? 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.980 Because he loves people and he loves the earth. 00:01:53.340 --> 00:01:56.380 We'll talk about that in the coming weeks. 00:01:56.380 --> 00:01:58.820 One of the things I wanna applaud you 00:01:59.780 --> 00:02:01.220 for doing over the last one week 00:02:01.220 --> 00:02:03.620 is I was very surprised at the intensity 00:02:03.620 --> 00:02:07.540 with which you responded to last week's message. 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:11.180 There are people who are going on 40 day, 40 night fasts, 00:02:11.180 --> 00:02:12.260 having just one meal a day. 00:02:12.260 --> 00:02:14.660 I was quite surprised to hear that. 00:02:14.660 --> 00:02:19.660 There are people who aren't watching TV like they used to 00:02:20.660 --> 00:02:25.660 and taking time off from TV to spend time aside with God. 00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:30.660 There are people who are changing the way they use time 00:02:30.660 --> 00:02:34.180 with one intent, that, oh God, if you are inviting us, 00:02:34.180 --> 00:02:35.780 then we wanna follow you into the wilderness 00:02:35.780 --> 00:02:37.260 because that's where change happens. 00:02:37.260 --> 00:02:39.140 If you haven't taken a step like that 00:02:39.140 --> 00:02:40.960 and responded with an intensity 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:43.020 that is required of you at a time like this, 00:02:43.020 --> 00:02:44.960 then the Spirit of God is inviting you. 00:02:45.760 --> 00:02:48.760 We don't ask for such things at Acts 29. 00:02:48.760 --> 00:02:50.760 And so Acts 29 is not asking you to. 00:02:50.760 --> 00:02:52.960 It's the Spirit of God who's inviting you to. 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.760 But you are able to carve out time 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:04.280 so that you can be focused on what God wants to do, 00:03:04.920 --> 00:03:08.120 not just in our bits, but really for the sake of the earth, 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:11.520 through us and through many other churches 00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:12.360 around the world. 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:14.320 But the strange thing with God is 00:03:14.320 --> 00:03:16.960 he always takes a seed and plants it 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:19.560 and then allows that mustard seed to become a tree. 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:23.160 And we're not the only ones he's doing it with. 00:03:23.160 --> 00:03:25.560 I'm sure he's doing it at different parts of the earth. 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.560 But I'm so grateful that he chooses that for these things 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:33.360 because, I mean, it always fascinates me 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:34.760 that when we started this church, 00:03:34.760 --> 00:03:38.760 we decided we'd start with a 500 piece puzzle 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:41.160 and we'd start with a 500 piece puzzle 00:03:42.160 --> 00:03:45.960 and as members come, we'll give them a piece of the puzzle 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:47.760 and then one day we'll be 500 00:03:47.760 --> 00:03:49.760 and we'll put the puzzle together again. 00:03:49.760 --> 00:03:50.960 Over the last 15 years, 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:52.960 we've given out 45 pieces of the puzzle, 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:54.760 so we've got a way to go. 00:03:54.760 --> 00:03:57.960 So we're a very small church. 00:03:57.960 --> 00:03:59.560 But for whatever reason, 00:03:59.560 --> 00:04:02.360 God keeps giving us these assignments 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.760 and hopefully by the time Phoebe is a mom, 00:04:04.760 --> 00:04:06.760 we will have 500 people. 00:04:06.760 --> 00:04:08.960 So there is still hope. 00:04:09.960 --> 00:04:13.360 So if you were to look at Luke chapter four, verse one, 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:15.560 you will find that it says the spirit of God 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:18.360 led Jesus into the wilderness. 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:21.160 The spirit of God led Jesus into the wilderness 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.560 and the intent of leading him into the wilderness 00:04:25.560 --> 00:04:28.360 was so that he would find or locate 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:29.560 the abundance of the spirit. 00:04:29.560 --> 00:04:31.160 Yes, it says being tempted by the devil, 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.560 but in our case, we are being led into the wilderness 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:34.960 not to be tempted by the devil, 00:04:34.960 --> 00:04:36.760 but we are being led into the wilderness 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:38.960 to locate... 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:42.960 Aaron. 00:04:44.760 --> 00:04:47.560 A lot of gifts given away in this church, man. 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:51.360 Locate the abundance of the spirit. 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:52.760 We are being led into the wilderness 00:04:52.760 --> 00:04:55.560 to locate the abundance of the spirit. 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:58.760 If you want to know what the wilderness looks like, 00:04:58.760 --> 00:05:00.560 listen to the message from last week. 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:02.360 We are being led into the wilderness 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:05.360 so that we may locate the abundance of the spirit 00:05:05.360 --> 00:05:07.560 and then as it says in Luke 14, 00:05:11.160 --> 00:05:12.560 that we may return 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:18.160 in the fullness of the spirit. 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.360 Because whatever needs to happen post-COVID on the earth 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:24.960 needs the fullness of the spirit. 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.160 It's like a new phase that the earth will be introduced to 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:33.960 because the earth has never seen a stoppage 00:05:33.960 --> 00:05:36.160 as it has seen over the last six months. 00:05:41.160 --> 00:05:45.960 So we are being led into the wilderness 00:05:45.960 --> 00:05:48.360 to locate the abundance of the spirit 00:05:48.360 --> 00:05:52.960 and to return clothed in power as it says in Luke 4, 14. 00:05:56.160 --> 00:05:59.760 Which means then that if I choose not to follow him into the wilderness, 00:05:59.760 --> 00:06:03.360 which is a place that is different from what I used to occupy, 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:08.360 then I will not be able to locate the abundance of the spirit. 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.960 This is why I'm saying respond to the invitation. 00:06:13.760 --> 00:06:18.560 Find time to sharpen the focus. 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:22.160 The abundance of the spirit 00:06:26.960 --> 00:06:31.160 is always found by abandon to the spirit. 00:06:33.960 --> 00:06:38.560 The abundance of the spirit is always found by 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:42.960 in your abandon to the spirit. 00:06:42.960 --> 00:06:46.560 Abundance of the spirit is by abandon to the spirit. 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:52.160 Abundance of the spirit is by abandon to the spirit. 00:06:52.160 --> 00:07:08.960 The thing is, abandon is always directed by our affection. 00:07:13.760 --> 00:07:16.360 Abandon is always directed by affection 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:20.560 and affection is measured in time. 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:36.560 Abundance of the spirit is by abandon to the spirit. 00:07:36.560 --> 00:07:41.360 Abandon is always directed by my affection. 00:07:41.360 --> 00:07:46.560 It is the things that I'm affected by or have an affection towards 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:50.160 that then allows me to abandon myself to it. 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:56.560 Be it a good thing or an evil thing, be it a person or an inanimate thing. 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:03.560 And my affection is always measured in terms of the time I spend. 00:08:05.560 --> 00:08:10.160 So to say that I'm affectionate towards my spouse has to be measured 00:08:10.160 --> 00:08:12.160 in the time that I spend with my spouse. 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:13.960 Affection is measured in time. 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:26.360 Time for time waiting on time moving towards. 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:31.160 Time for time waiting on time moving towards. 00:08:34.560 --> 00:08:38.160 It's not a mindless kind of time where, 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:40.760 okay, so you decide to spend some time with your wife 00:08:41.160 --> 00:08:44.560 and you're sitting there on the sofa bored out of your skull 00:08:44.560 --> 00:08:46.960 and just listening to her. 00:08:46.960 --> 00:08:50.760 That ain't how affection is measured in time. 00:08:50.760 --> 00:08:56.360 It is time for time towards something, time waiting on something. 00:08:56.360 --> 00:08:57.360 That's how it's measured. 00:09:00.160 --> 00:09:05.960 This is why what Mary did was highly applauded by Jesus. 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.160 Time spent is a measure of your affection. 00:09:09.160 --> 00:09:12.560 Your affection determines your abandon. 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:15.560 Your abandon gets you abundance. 00:09:15.560 --> 00:09:17.560 It's just a simple principle. 00:09:17.560 --> 00:09:18.560 It just applies here. 00:09:18.560 --> 00:09:20.360 It applies to most other things too. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:22.360 Good and bad. 00:09:23.560 --> 00:09:29.360 So what Jesus is inviting us as a people or a church to do is to 00:09:31.760 --> 00:09:34.160 come into a place where we can be a part of it. 00:09:35.160 --> 00:09:40.760 Come into a place of reset where you get desperate enough to discipline your life. 00:09:41.560 --> 00:09:44.160 Where you get desperate enough to discipline your life. 00:09:45.560 --> 00:09:49.360 Desperation is always shown in disciplining. 00:09:49.360 --> 00:09:50.760 People can say they are desperate. 00:09:50.760 --> 00:09:52.560 You know, I'm really desperate for this. 00:09:52.560 --> 00:09:54.360 Show it to me in your discipline. 00:09:56.160 --> 00:09:59.760 Desperation is always shown in the discipline of life. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.560 Are you desperate to get an Olympic medal? 00:10:03.560 --> 00:10:06.560 Well, you'll see the discipline of sport. 00:10:06.560 --> 00:10:09.160 Are you desperate to learn more about God? 00:10:09.160 --> 00:10:11.360 You will see it in the discipline of reading. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:13.160 Are you desperate to lose weight? 00:10:13.160 --> 00:10:15.760 You will see it in the discipline of exercise. 00:10:17.360 --> 00:10:19.760 Are you desperate to keep a clean home? 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:22.960 You will see it in the discipline of cleaning up every day. 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:31.960 So God is calling us to a reset where you get desperate enough to discipline your life in the Father's love. 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:37.760 Where you get desperate enough to discipline your life in the Father's love. 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:40.960 And in the process make the Father's love your home. 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:42.960 John 15 10 talks about it. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:51.960 John 15 10, Jesus says, I keep my Father's command and I have made myself at home in his love. 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.760 And I would suggest to you that you do the same. 00:10:55.160 --> 00:10:56.960 Jesus' words in John 15 10. 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:04.960 I remain in my Father's love or I make my home in my Father's love by keeping his commands and I'm asking you to do the same. 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:09.760 So it's a reset where you get desperate enough to discipline your life in the Father's love. 00:11:09.960 --> 00:11:14.560 And one of the disciplines that God is calling us to is can you set aside time for me? 00:11:14.760 --> 00:11:24.760 Can you set aside time for me by flipping your affections around so that things that you had an affection for are less important now? 00:11:25.160 --> 00:11:26.360 That is required of us. 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:27.960 That's when it becomes a discipline. 00:11:28.560 --> 00:11:29.960 Otherwise, it's not a discipline. 00:11:36.160 --> 00:11:50.960 If we were to do this for the next six weeks, you will find that you will become so conscious of the Spirit of God that his abiding presence will become your home. 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:53.160 His abiding presence will become your home. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:54.760 And it's very easy. 00:11:54.960 --> 00:12:06.760 We'll just talk about two or three simple habits we can cultivate over the next 40 days and it will revolutionize not the church but the earth because of the church being revolutionized. 00:12:07.960 --> 00:12:08.560 Why the earth? 00:12:08.560 --> 00:12:10.960 Why do you go just straight to the earth? 00:12:10.960 --> 00:12:19.760 Why don't you just stick to Vancouver because God looks that way Vancouver, BC, Canada, the earth. 00:12:19.960 --> 00:12:21.160 It's very simple for him. 00:12:21.960 --> 00:12:24.960 Especially if it's a church that likes going out. 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:35.760 So abiding presence can become your home so much so that when you leave it, you'll start feeling homesick. 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:45.060 So much so that when you realize that our shucks don't have his abiding, a stepped out of his abiding presence, it'll be like a fish out of water. 00:12:45.660 --> 00:12:46.960 Wouldn't that be nice? 00:12:47.460 --> 00:12:48.560 Wouldn't that be nice? 00:12:48.560 --> 00:13:00.660 There are these moments during a day, hours during a day where I can be so connected to the Spirit of God and what he's doing and then there'll be hours when I just completely opt out of it and then I realize, 00:13:00.660 --> 00:13:05.460 ah man, didn't even realize that I'd slipped out of costume. 00:13:08.860 --> 00:13:11.260 But what if for 40 days you practice this? 00:13:12.960 --> 00:13:16.260 It's an amazing habit that lasts your lifetime, man. 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:28.460 Once you go there and you know the presence of God, presence of God then allows worship to just spring forth without effort. 00:13:29.460 --> 00:13:34.060 Once worship springs forth without effort, your prayers will come straight out of the will of God. 00:13:35.760 --> 00:13:48.160 There are so many cool fallouts or benefits or byproducts from this simple exercise that we can indulge in for the next 40 days where knowing someone's presence 00:13:48.160 --> 00:13:59.860 makes you want to adore the person's presence and in adoring the person's presence you begin to become conscious of how the person thinks and you begin to do things out of the person's will. 00:14:05.060 --> 00:14:08.160 Abiding in presence leads to adoration of presence. 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:15.860 Adoration of presence leads to an acknowledgement of the will of that person or presence and then it's easy to pray. 00:14:15.860 --> 00:14:16.960 It's easy to walk in it. 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:25.060 It all goes back to this one thing again and again and again which Moses discovered long ago, which Adam knew and lost. 00:14:25.060 --> 00:14:32.060 Moses rediscovered in, ha God, if your presence doesn't go with us then what does it matter whether we get the promised land? 00:14:32.360 --> 00:14:34.360 What does it matter that you send an angel with us? 00:14:34.860 --> 00:14:37.560 What does it matter that we inherit what you promised Abraham? 00:14:37.560 --> 00:14:41.760 I'm not really worried about the inheritance because my portion is you. 00:14:42.660 --> 00:14:48.360 When your portion becomes God inheritance is just something you inherit because you out of your relationship. 00:14:48.860 --> 00:14:53.360 People who want to inherit something out of relationship are like the prodigal son. 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:56.760 All like the older brother. 00:14:58.260 --> 00:15:02.960 When relationship matters inheritance is normal and it's just a byproduct of the relationship. 00:15:03.860 --> 00:15:07.160 You can be an orphan in your father's house, which is so sad. 00:15:12.760 --> 00:15:13.660 Any questions? 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:20.860 It's okay. 00:15:23.160 --> 00:15:23.860 Any questions? 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:27.660 Okay. 00:15:29.160 --> 00:15:34.160 So let's look at two or three habits we can cultivate over the next 40 days that will train us to abide in presence. 00:15:34.160 --> 00:15:42.260 Let's look at two or three habits that we can cultivate over the next 40 days so that it will train us to abide in presence. 00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:57.460 So the first one is guys daily invite the Spirit of God to rest on you and in asking him to rest on you what you're doing is becoming conscious of him and resting in him. 00:15:59.060 --> 00:16:01.960 Daily and everyone here can do this. 00:16:04.260 --> 00:16:05.760 Because Phoebe is not in the room right now. 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:08.460 Everyone here can do this. 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.860 Where you invite the Spirit. 00:16:12.860 --> 00:16:17.060 Where you invite the Spirit to rest on you. 00:16:19.860 --> 00:16:31.760 What you're really doing is not because he already lives in you, but in inviting the Spirit to rest on you, you're consciously saying Spirit of God, I want to be found in you today. 00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:33.160 I invite you. 00:16:33.160 --> 00:16:42.960 I know you're in me, but I don't want to be like Jacob in Genesis 32, Genesis 28 where he said God is in this place and I did not even know it. 00:16:44.160 --> 00:16:47.160 I invite you daily Holy Spirit this morning when I woke up. 00:16:47.160 --> 00:16:52.060 I invite you Holy Spirit to rest on me and in that I find myself in you. 00:16:52.060 --> 00:16:52.860 That's the first thing. 00:16:52.860 --> 00:16:53.960 It's a habit. 00:16:54.060 --> 00:16:54.860 It's a habit. 00:16:55.360 --> 00:17:10.160 A habit when it is practiced as a discipline has to be done on a daily basis multiple times not because it is your duty, but because the reward that lies ahead of you is so humongous that it is worth the pain and the discipline of learning. 00:17:12.460 --> 00:17:14.060 Invite the Spirit to rest on you. 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:18.360 But after that protect the treasure of the Spirit of God. 00:17:18.560 --> 00:17:21.160 Protect the treasure that he is. 00:17:21.460 --> 00:17:24.960 Protect the treasure that he is. 00:17:25.060 --> 00:17:33.260 Protect the treasure that he is so that he may remain on you so that he may remain on you. 00:17:34.560 --> 00:17:42.160 In John 1 32, it says that John the Baptist is saying this in John 1 32. 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:49.360 He says and I saw the Spirit of God descend on him like a dove and it remained on him. 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.560 There is this remaining thing that I have to learn over the next 40 days. 00:17:53.760 --> 00:17:54.360 The Spirit of God. 00:17:54.360 --> 00:18:02.060 Yes, it's one thing to invite you to rest on me and in the process what I'm really doing Spirit of God is I'm finding myself in you. 00:18:02.060 --> 00:18:11.860 But having done that I have to carry you as a precious treasure now so that you remain on me so that I'm aware of you. 00:18:13.260 --> 00:18:19.060 To remain on me Galatians 5 25 talks about this live by the Spirit and walk and step with him. 00:18:19.360 --> 00:18:21.760 Live by the Spirit and follow in his steps. 00:18:33.060 --> 00:18:43.260 One of the things that requires is required of me if I want to protect him as if he is the most amazing treasure I carry is to walk in ways that will not grieve him. 00:18:43.560 --> 00:18:45.960 It's a walk in ways that will not vex him. 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:49.460 Is it to walk in ways that just thrill his heart? 00:18:51.360 --> 00:19:02.760 Because he has become one with my spirit any collision that happens in my life is a collision that is actually impacted on his life. 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.760 Because he has become one with my spirit. 00:19:05.760 --> 00:19:08.960 This is the most vulnerable thing about the Holy Spirit. 00:19:09.060 --> 00:19:15.460 This is the thing that made Jesus say you can blaspheme the father you can blaspheme the son, but do not blaspheme the Holy Spirit. 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:21.460 Because he has become so one with me that there is no separation between Jacob Spirit and the Holy Spirit. 00:19:21.460 --> 00:19:27.460 It also then gives me access into the very mind of God the very spirit of the father. 00:19:27.460 --> 00:19:34.860 But in the process he is also impacted by the things I do which is why it is required of me that I protect the treasure that is in me. 00:19:35.760 --> 00:19:39.160 And he gives me the ability to protect the treasure that is in me. 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:40.160 Him. 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:43.160 Any questions? 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:45.160 He doesn't need protection. 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:52.160 He's not some little dove that flies away when someone whispers an F word or something. 00:19:52.160 --> 00:20:02.160 But what we're trying to say is listen do everything in your power so that he may remain on you in full throttle glee. 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:10.160 There's nothing like knowing the pleasure of someone you love. 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:25.160 Parents love the pleasure of a child who has that gurgly chuckly kind of laugh. 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:30.160 You'll do anything to make that child laugh that way. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:32.160 It's delightful to the ears. 00:20:32.460 --> 00:20:41.460 I pray God that we find the pleasure of God over our lives and it matters to you so much that it is very hard to part ways with that. 00:20:41.460 --> 00:20:43.460 It becomes important. 00:20:50.460 --> 00:20:52.460 Here's another thing you need to do. 00:20:53.460 --> 00:20:56.460 Turn your affections to him at night. 00:20:56.460 --> 00:20:58.460 Before you go to bed. 00:20:58.760 --> 00:21:01.760 Spend time turning your affections towards God. 00:21:02.760 --> 00:21:10.760 See most of us in this room right now and many that are hearing we use our evenings to tune down. 00:21:10.760 --> 00:21:16.760 It's like alright I've had a hard day, alright I've spent a whole lot of time reading and praying. 00:21:16.760 --> 00:21:23.760 It's evening, let's turn on the television, let's turn on a book, let's turn on, you turn on books also now. 00:21:24.060 --> 00:21:32.060 Let's turn on, yeah it's true, you turn on books, you turn on television, you turn on your Facebook. 00:21:32.060 --> 00:21:40.060 Your way and my way of entering into the night is usually by doing something mindless. 00:21:40.360 --> 00:21:56.360 It is fraught with danger for some of us and it is usually packed with nothingness, uselessness for most of us and danger for some of us. 00:21:56.360 --> 00:22:06.360 It's caused us so much harm over so many years through things like pornography and through sexual scenes and pictures and 00:22:06.660 --> 00:22:10.660 be it on Facebook or be it whatever you watch. 00:22:10.660 --> 00:22:17.660 The thing is in Genesis 1, 5 it said and then there was evening and then there was morning and it was the day. 00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:23.660 Let's kind of go back to Genesis 1 and think that your day actually begins when you go to sleep. 00:22:23.660 --> 00:22:31.660 You'll be surprised at how if you change this simple habit and took the last half hour of your day 00:22:31.960 --> 00:22:37.960 not to read yourself to sleep but turn your attention and affection onto the living God. 00:22:39.960 --> 00:22:46.960 You will see something transpire in your life that will be so different over the next 40 days that will change your life. 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:56.960 I know a preacher who does this and he's talked about it and when I heard it I marveled at it that this is something he does. 00:22:57.260 --> 00:23:01.260 Song of Songs chapter 3 verse 1, it talks about it. 00:23:01.260 --> 00:23:05.260 Let me just see, Song of Songs 3, 1. 00:23:12.260 --> 00:23:15.260 Song of Songs, where is it? 00:23:15.260 --> 00:23:17.260 Song of Songs 3, 1. 00:23:17.260 --> 00:23:21.260 All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves. 00:23:21.260 --> 00:23:23.260 I looked for him but did not find him. 00:23:23.260 --> 00:23:25.260 That was the first time I saw him. 00:23:25.560 --> 00:23:27.560 I looked for him but did not find him. 00:23:27.560 --> 00:23:29.560 That was her problem. In our case that won't be the problem. 00:23:29.560 --> 00:23:35.560 All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves. 00:23:35.560 --> 00:23:37.560 Chapter 5 verse 2. 00:23:39.560 --> 00:23:41.560 I slept but my heart was awake. 00:23:41.560 --> 00:23:43.560 Listen my lover is knocking. 00:23:43.560 --> 00:23:47.560 It is all good in Psalm 16 verse 7. 00:23:50.560 --> 00:23:54.560 I will praise the Lord who counsels me even at night. 00:23:54.860 --> 00:23:56.860 My heart instructs me. 00:23:56.860 --> 00:23:58.860 I have set the Lord always before me. 00:23:58.860 --> 00:24:00.860 Try this. 00:24:00.860 --> 00:24:04.860 I've been trying this and it is crazy how you wake up the next morning. 00:24:08.860 --> 00:24:12.860 Because you are not now trying to restart the day. 00:24:12.860 --> 00:24:14.860 You already started it before you went to bed. 00:24:16.860 --> 00:24:20.860 And you just continue into something new. 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:23.160 Turn your affections towards him at night. 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:29.160 Any questions? 00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:36.160 So that's the second thing. 00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:38.160 The first one was the Invite the Spirit. 00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:40.160 We'll just do three habits. 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:42.160 Maybe next week we'll do one or two more. 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:44.160 But these will be so revolutionary I'm telling you. 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:46.160 It will be impossible for us to be the same. 00:24:46.160 --> 00:24:48.160 Hey Aaron, next week we'll do a new habit. 00:24:48.460 --> 00:24:50.460 Just on the side. 00:24:54.460 --> 00:24:58.460 Last week it was iced tea and a few people told me I was speaking really fast. 00:24:58.460 --> 00:25:06.460 So this time when Aaron said iced coffee and so this time when Aaron said iced coffee I said no Aaron I might speak really fast. 00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:08.460 But let's try an extra shot. 00:25:08.460 --> 00:25:10.460 So this time we'll do one more. 00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:12.460 So this time we'll do one more. 00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:14.460 So this time we'll do one more. 00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:16.460 So this time we'll do one more. 00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:20.760 So let's try an extra shot in it and let's see how it works. 00:25:20.760 --> 00:25:24.760 I'm speaking at a proper pace right now. 00:25:26.760 --> 00:25:28.760 Next week we shall see. 00:25:30.760 --> 00:25:32.760 Last week it was like wilderness party. 00:25:32.760 --> 00:25:36.760 Last week we followed the spirit into the wilderness to prepare a place for us in the post-COVID world. 00:25:36.760 --> 00:25:40.760 And I thought to myself, boy when I listened to it I thought man that was fast. 00:25:40.760 --> 00:25:42.760 And I knew you were to blame. 00:25:42.760 --> 00:25:44.760 Yeah. 00:25:45.060 --> 00:25:47.060 This is a thankless job. 00:25:47.060 --> 00:25:49.060 So why do you want to do a job in it? 00:25:49.060 --> 00:25:53.060 Because we're doing a test on the whole thing. 00:25:53.060 --> 00:25:55.060 It will benefit St. Arbux in the end. 00:25:55.060 --> 00:25:57.060 So it's coffee because it's more down-synced than St. Arbux. 00:25:57.060 --> 00:25:59.060 No it's for St. Arbux. 00:25:59.060 --> 00:26:01.060 No it's for St. Arbux. 00:26:07.060 --> 00:26:09.060 Okay that didn't go down well. 00:26:09.060 --> 00:26:11.060 That's okay. 00:26:11.060 --> 00:26:13.060 Alright so the third one. 00:26:13.360 --> 00:26:15.360 Is a very simple principle given in the Bible. 00:26:22.360 --> 00:26:24.360 40 days of this. 00:26:24.360 --> 00:26:26.360 After 40 days it will become a habit. 00:26:26.360 --> 00:26:28.360 It will be so amazing for this church. 00:26:28.360 --> 00:26:30.360 I'm looking forward to all of us becoming like this. 00:26:30.360 --> 00:26:32.360 Rejoicing and thanksgiving. 00:26:32.360 --> 00:26:34.360 1st Thessalonians 5, 16, 17. 00:26:34.360 --> 00:26:36.360 What does it say? 00:26:36.360 --> 00:26:38.360 Rejoice forever. 00:26:38.360 --> 00:26:40.360 Rejoice forever. 00:26:40.360 --> 00:26:42.360 Rejoice forever. 00:26:42.360 --> 00:26:44.360 Rejoice evermore. 00:26:44.360 --> 00:26:46.360 Pray without ceasing. 00:26:46.360 --> 00:26:48.360 In everything give thanks. 00:26:48.360 --> 00:27:00.360 So this idea over the next 40 days of spending your time waking up and during the day and at different times indulging in this thing called rejoicing and thanksgiving. 00:27:00.360 --> 00:27:02.360 Because it is the will of God. 00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:04.360 It is heaven's language. 00:27:06.360 --> 00:27:10.360 It is the Holy Spirit's master key. 00:27:12.360 --> 00:27:32.360 With which he is able to open a door that gives you a way out of the vortex that you are trapped in. 00:27:34.360 --> 00:27:36.360 You are drowning in. 00:27:42.360 --> 00:27:44.360 It is heaven's language. 00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:46.360 There is so much rejoicing in heaven guys. 00:27:46.360 --> 00:27:48.360 It's nuts. 00:27:50.360 --> 00:27:54.360 It will be very strange for some Christians to enter heaven. 00:27:54.360 --> 00:27:56.360 They will think what are you guys doing? 00:27:56.360 --> 00:27:58.360 Rejoicing? 00:27:58.360 --> 00:28:00.360 Because they lived in churches and never rejoiced. 00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:02.360 So it will be pretty hard out there. 00:28:06.360 --> 00:28:08.360 Rejoicing and thanksgiving is the will of God to begin with. 00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:10.360 It is heaven's language. 00:28:10.360 --> 00:28:12.360 And it's the Holy Spirit's master key that brings God into your vortex or helps you get out of your vortex. 00:28:12.360 --> 00:28:14.360 This is why in Habakkuk chapter 3 verses 17-19 if you were to read the message version it says I'm doing cartwheels of joy. 00:28:14.360 --> 00:28:16.360 The cherry tree has not blossomed. 00:28:16.360 --> 00:28:18.360 The cattle have fled. 00:28:18.360 --> 00:28:20.360 There is nothing in the stalls. 00:28:20.360 --> 00:28:22.360 But I do cartwheels of joy. 00:28:22.360 --> 00:28:24.360 And as I do it I do it with joy. 00:28:24.360 --> 00:28:26.360 So I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:26.360 --> 00:28:28.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:28.360 --> 00:28:30.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:32.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:32.360 --> 00:28:34.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:34.360 --> 00:28:36.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:36.360 --> 00:28:38.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:38.360 --> 00:28:40.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:40.360 --> 00:28:42.360 I'm doing it with joy. 00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:44.360 And as I do it I become stronger. 00:28:44.360 --> 00:28:46.360 I develop the hind feet of a deer. 00:28:46.360 --> 00:28:48.360 And I begin to scale the heights. 00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:54.360 So you're talking about 00:28:54.360 --> 00:28:56.360 So what would this look like practically? 00:28:56.360 --> 00:28:58.360 Practically it would look like getting up in the morning 00:28:58.360 --> 00:29:00.360 10 minutes earlier 00:29:00.360 --> 00:29:02.360 and beginning to thank God first with a song that you know 00:29:02.360 --> 00:29:04.360 rejoice before God with a song that you know 00:29:04.360 --> 00:29:06.360 in the midst of your pain 00:29:06.360 --> 00:29:11.000 in the midst of a storm, in the midst of what you're going through and beginning to rejoice in him 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:18.840 beginning to give thanks to him on a daily basis multiple times as much as you can do because you 00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:23.720 most of you are working at home and some of you aren't working and some of you are pastors you 00:29:23.720 --> 00:29:34.760 got plenty of time so in the process what happens guys is rejoicing and thanksgiving will enrich 00:29:34.760 --> 00:29:44.040 your root it will enrich your root as in the root of your life will be enriched in the middle of a 00:29:44.040 --> 00:29:50.040 famine or a drought your root will be supplied by the water of the word because rejoicing and 00:29:50.040 --> 00:29:55.400 thanksgiving cannot be done except by seeking out what you know about god and then it expresses 00:29:55.720 --> 00:29:58.680 in thanksgiving two it'll express your faith 00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:08.200 it'll express your faith because it's in the middle of a storm or a difficult situation that 00:30:08.200 --> 00:30:19.960 you're beginning to choose to rejoice and thank god three it will end the battle of your mind 00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:26.200 it will end the battle of your mind as in whatever you're struggling with which is hard to believe 00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:33.400 which you find dark when darkness clouds his holy face or whatever that line says 00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:39.800 i rest on his unchanging grace but if i rest on his unchanging grace i must express it in faith 00:30:39.800 --> 00:30:46.600 it must come out of me it makes my roots rich and it begins to now change the thinking of my mind 00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:49.880 it ends the battle of my mind and then the fourth one is 00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:59.960 it is the essence of effective prayer it is the essence of effective prayer it is the essence of 00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:09.080 effective prayer philippians four with thanksgiving make your requests known to god it is the essence 00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:14.680 of effective prayer it's sandwiched between rejoice forevermore in everything give thanks 00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:19.800 and it is the essence of effective prayer prayer pray unceasingly try this for the next 40 days 00:31:19.800 --> 00:31:25.240 let this church become a church that god says oh my god there they go again thanksgiving and rejoicing 00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:30.760 thanksgiving and rejoicing opportunities that come up in difficult situations i know what i'll do 00:31:30.760 --> 00:31:37.640 i'll give thanks and i will rejoice these are simple things that if practiced over a 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.520 period of 40 days will completely change your life 00:31:46.760 --> 00:31:52.040 it's the door to his presence guys some hundred verse four says so i will this is the day that 00:31:52.040 --> 00:31:57.320 the lord has made i will enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart it is a door to his 00:31:57.320 --> 00:32:06.600 presence it is a door to his presence it is such an easy door to his presence man if we can get 00:32:06.600 --> 00:32:14.760 these three things right we learn what it is to dwell in his abiding presence in difficult 00:32:14.760 --> 00:32:21.560 situations when thanksgiving and rejoicing kick in what happens is you see the table that he has 00:32:21.560 --> 00:32:26.120 prepared for you through the smoke of the battle in the presence of your enemies you see the table 00:32:26.120 --> 00:32:29.480 he has prepared for you in the presence of his enemies of your enemies 00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:34.280 you know how difficult it must be for an enemy who's coming to battle against you and you just 00:32:34.280 --> 00:32:42.120 are sitting down for dinner right before his eyes there he's thumping his chest and all the stuff 00:32:42.120 --> 00:32:47.080 and you're spreading out tablecloth and sitting down for dinner why you can only do that because 00:32:47.080 --> 00:32:53.000 you're sure of the battle it's as in let's eat a good meal before you die as in before you die 00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:56.200 you're having a last supper on the enemy's behalf 00:33:00.120 --> 00:33:02.120 any questions 00:33:08.280 --> 00:33:13.240 okay can you try this guys 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:16.760 you must try it not can you try this 00:33:27.160 --> 00:33:30.680 you end the day and start the day like this you'll have to 00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:33.240 you'll have to find help to sin 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:38.200 you'll have to go get someone who can help you sin 00:33:44.120 --> 00:33:49.000 so what will change if you do this what will change if you do this guys i'm telling you these 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:54.040 are the things that you can do to help you sin and you can't do anything about it you can't 00:33:54.440 --> 00:33:59.880 do anything about it so what will change if you do this what will change if you do this guys i'm 00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:05.400 telling you these are mustard seeds but you practice them for 40 days you will find a tree 00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:13.560 growing in your house so what will change one you'll find that you're wearing linen garments of 00:34:13.560 --> 00:34:18.680 the spirit the whole the priests would have to wear linen garments didn't matter what they were 00:34:19.160 --> 00:34:27.000 over it they had to wear linen garments within you will find that our shucks as i begin to follow 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:32.040 these three simple principles that throughout the day i'm wearing linen garments of the spirit of 00:34:32.040 --> 00:34:39.000 god linen garments of the spirit you'll find that three strange things are beginning to increase in 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:47.640 your life righteousness peace joy in the holy ghost you're not making an effort but you're living 00:34:47.640 --> 00:34:55.320 righteously you're not praying much but there's a strange calm that exudes into you and out of you 00:34:57.080 --> 00:35:02.120 and you're not going haha but you're pretty joyful 00:35:09.640 --> 00:35:16.120 righteousness peace and joy increasing in me and increasing through me the nature of the world 00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:21.400 around you will is always subject to the presence of god flowing through you the nature of the 00:35:21.400 --> 00:35:28.520 world around you is always subject to the to the presence of god flowing through you 00:35:28.520 --> 00:35:36.120 the nature of the world around you is always subject to the presence of god flowing through 00:35:36.120 --> 00:35:41.480 you jesus proved it paul proved it peter proved it 00:35:46.120 --> 00:35:53.520 The nature of the world around you is subject to the presence of God flowing through you. 00:35:53.520 --> 00:35:57.440 Any questions? 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:04.800 Hey, there are people on live stream, right? 00:36:04.800 --> 00:36:06.920 7-0? 00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:10.920 It's one of those days, Adon. 00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:12.200 Okay. 00:36:12.200 --> 00:36:27.320 When Christ used to go around Jerusalem, people would touch him and they would be healed. 00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:31.800 He would know healing would flow from him. 00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:37.360 Demons would be subject to him and he was absolutely human. 00:36:37.840 --> 00:36:47.720 What was happening was sheerly by the presence of God working through him. 00:36:47.720 --> 00:36:52.280 Things were affected because of the presence of God in him and through him. 00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:56.720 Sometimes he didn't know it, sometimes he'd find out only after someone had been affected. 00:36:56.720 --> 00:37:00.040 Other times he was aware of it. 00:37:00.080 --> 00:37:08.360 Other times he would make statements like, the power of God is present to heal. 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:15.240 They tried to throw him over a cliff, they could not. 00:37:15.240 --> 00:37:20.520 He could do so many things sheerly by the presence of God in him. 00:37:20.520 --> 00:37:23.960 And I would suggest to you that he engaged in these very things, 00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:27.320 these very habits right from when he was small. 00:37:39.080 --> 00:37:46.160 I can walk into a situation that is turbulent or is in turmoil, sometimes it is a nation 00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:51.680 that has a certain thing happening with absolute knowledge of what God wants to do and therefore 00:37:51.720 --> 00:37:55.360 very confident of how his majesty will govern the situation. 00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:59.480 And when I go in, I know the thing will change. 00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:04.320 And I might be the only person entering that nation with that mindset at that time. 00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:12.560 But I know that either before I leave or in a short time, something will give. 00:38:12.560 --> 00:38:20.280 I saw that 25 or 28 years ago where in a meeting, demons began to manifest, people began to 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:21.280 fight. 00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:26.520 And the first time it happened, I just sat there not knowing what to do. 00:38:26.520 --> 00:38:31.400 The second time it happened, I started singing hallelujah. 00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:38.240 The third time it happened, I remember knowing what God wanted me to do and stepping into 00:38:38.240 --> 00:38:44.400 the situation and everything going back to normal. 00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:48.200 The world around you is subject to the presence of God flowing through you. 00:38:48.600 --> 00:38:51.600 And by presence of God, we do have the presence of God. 00:38:51.600 --> 00:38:57.200 But now to walk in the awareness of what God in you wants to do through you to the world 00:38:57.200 --> 00:38:58.200 around you. 00:38:58.200 --> 00:39:05.200 Sorry? 00:39:05.200 --> 00:39:11.520 I knew exactly what to say, I knew exactly who to address, I knew exactly how to say 00:39:11.520 --> 00:39:13.640 the tone, the posture, everything. 00:39:14.080 --> 00:39:19.400 It was not a shouting thing, it was not scolding somebody, it was not intimidating. 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:22.720 The presence of God doesn't use intimidation. 00:39:22.720 --> 00:39:26.880 He only uses intimidation against the enemy and he uses intimidation just by standing 00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.880 up. 00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:38.480 He doesn't do anything else. 00:39:38.480 --> 00:39:44.200 Since you asked, let me give you another incident which was so cool and many here have 00:39:44.200 --> 00:39:45.200 heard it before. 00:39:45.200 --> 00:39:51.000 I was in Indonesia in the middle of a forest in a stadium where they were having a meeting 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:55.760 and these witches would keep coming up and there were television crews there from the 00:39:55.760 --> 00:40:01.440 nearby city to shoot the whole thing. 00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:05.600 These witches would come up and I realized that if I walk towards the witches without 00:40:05.720 --> 00:40:09.640 doing anything, I just stand there as they come up the steps that God would take care 00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:10.640 of it. 00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:14.240 So as they come up I go and stand by the steps and as I would stand by the steps, not say 00:40:14.240 --> 00:40:17.760 a word, they would just fall flat on the face. 00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:19.600 And the cameras are shooting this. 00:40:19.600 --> 00:40:25.040 One by one they would come up and all of them would go flat on their faces. 00:40:25.040 --> 00:40:29.120 I tried it with many of you, it never works. 00:40:29.120 --> 00:40:35.160 But it did work then. 00:40:35.160 --> 00:40:40.880 So sometimes, yeah, I guess that explains it. 00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:46.160 I saw it later on, I saw it on the recorded version, it was fascinating. 00:40:46.160 --> 00:40:49.760 Because when it's happening you don't realize, when you see it later you go, oh shucks. 00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.680 Then you try it with someone else and it doesn't work. 00:40:52.680 --> 00:40:58.600 So the next thing that happens is guys, if I begin to walk down this road, if these are 00:40:58.600 --> 00:41:04.280 the three simple habits we practice, you will find that you will begin to love with mercy 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:08.320 and truth more than you've ever had. 00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:13.960 That when you begin to love people there's a certain mercy and truth in your love that 00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:19.160 is flowing out of you towards people even when they are being offensive or difficult 00:41:19.160 --> 00:41:25.040 just because Romans 5 says that the Holy Spirit pours into our hearts the love of God. 00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:28.980 The Holy Spirit pours into our hearts the love of God. 00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:32.240 These three simple things can change so much. 00:41:32.240 --> 00:41:37.040 It is worth it because we are preparing for a post-COVID world where God is going to do 00:41:37.040 --> 00:41:39.960 something strange across the earth. 00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:43.480 Hey Ryan. 00:41:43.480 --> 00:41:51.760 And when I say I will love with truth and mercy, it is not love without discernment 00:41:51.760 --> 00:41:56.200 but it is love that discerns and shows mercy. 00:41:56.200 --> 00:42:03.280 The third thing that will change is suddenly God will become my sufficiency. 00:42:03.280 --> 00:42:04.840 He will become my resource. 00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:09.040 He will become my exceeding great reward and shield and I will have no more concern for 00:42:09.040 --> 00:42:12.280 the cares of the world that choke out God life. 00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:16.760 Jesus said that the cares of the world choke out the life of God in you. 00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:21.000 As you go down this process of thanksgiving, of rejoicing, of asking the Spirit to rest 00:42:21.640 --> 00:42:27.040 on you, of locating him and of protecting the treasure of the Spirit of God in you. 00:42:27.040 --> 00:42:32.360 As you begin to engage in thankfulness, as you begin to engage in rejoicing, as you turn 00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:37.320 your affections to him every night, ending the day or beginning the day actually in a 00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:42.160 sense of speaking, with I will look for him. 00:42:42.160 --> 00:42:47.000 If that is the way you are going to dive into the night and get up in the morning, you will 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:54.000 find that oddly enough, you go to bed well and you get up and you give him thanks for 00:42:54.920 --> 00:43:01.920 the day and you are not concerned with the cares of the world. 00:43:02.360 --> 00:43:09.360 Work, earning a living is no longer important because he suddenly takes on the bigness of 00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:16.680 being your all sufficiency, of being the one who will be your resource and your exceeding 00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:23.760 great reward and shield as it says in Genesis 15.1. 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:30.760 There is nothing like being set free from the tyranny of work and there is nothing like 00:43:31.120 --> 00:43:38.120 working because you enjoy what you were made for. 00:43:38.120 --> 00:43:45.120 There is a side point but it is important, I just included this because I thought it 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:50.040 will help some of us. 00:43:50.040 --> 00:43:57.040 To crave, to covet, to grasp with greed is to pull into your life the desire to be able 00:44:08.120 --> 00:44:11.760 to do what you want to do. 00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:18.760 Is to pull into your life out of season and out of sequence things God planned to reward 00:44:28.520 --> 00:44:35.520 you with which now become what you are now. 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:45.280 Which now battles your affections and resists the kingdom. 00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:57.920 This is someone else's quote but when I read this I thought, man I have done this so many 00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:02.760 times. 00:45:02.760 --> 00:45:07.960 To crave for something where I know that it will come my way, I know that God is interested 00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:09.240 in giving it. 00:45:09.240 --> 00:45:13.440 To crave for something, to covet it as in want it because someone else has already got 00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:17.080 it and I am still waiting for it. 00:45:17.080 --> 00:45:24.080 Or to grasp with greed as in the need to gratify a desire immediately is to inadvertently pull 00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:33.920 into your life out of sequence and out of time that which God was planning to reward 00:45:33.920 --> 00:45:38.120 you with at the right time. 00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:44.640 But having pulled it into my life out of sequence and out of time, I now have that very thing 00:45:44.640 --> 00:45:48.840 battle my affections and resist the kingdom. 00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:51.240 And that's such a shame. 00:45:51.240 --> 00:45:58.240 Make sure you avoid that eh. 00:45:58.400 --> 00:46:05.120 It can be things, it can be people, it can be spouses, it can be houses, just because 00:46:05.120 --> 00:46:08.400 spouses and houses rhyme. 00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:11.400 It can be a whole lot of stuff like that. 00:46:11.400 --> 00:46:12.440 Yeah. 00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:13.800 Pardon? 00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:20.800 I know what I am craving. 00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:28.800 I know that the difference between desiring and craving is desiring has the patience to 00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:39.840 wait, craving has the need to be gratified. 00:46:42.200 --> 00:46:46.200 Yeah. 00:46:47.200 --> 00:46:52.960 I change the goalposts when I am craving. 00:46:52.960 --> 00:46:58.240 I do not move ancient boundary lines when I am desiring. 00:46:58.240 --> 00:47:01.280 I know God has said, okay Jacob stay within this, it will come. 00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:02.280 Sure Lord. 00:47:02.280 --> 00:47:06.080 But then if I am really craving for it, it's like, well God isn't looking, just move the 00:47:06.080 --> 00:47:13.080 stone a little because yeah, that's how it looks like. 00:47:13.280 --> 00:47:19.160 Where you want something so badly that you are willing to compromise. 00:47:19.160 --> 00:47:23.360 Where you want something so badly that you will not ask people who are wise because you 00:47:23.360 --> 00:47:27.400 are scared of the answer, so you won't ask them. 00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:33.320 You will come up with scriptures like, I consulted the Lord and I do not consult flesh and blood. 00:47:33.320 --> 00:47:38.320 Stuff like that you will come up with. 00:47:38.320 --> 00:47:45.000 Whenever I want to make a decision that I don't want input in, I will make the decision 00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:46.800 and then tell people about it. 00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:52.200 Or whenever I want to do it in a godly fashion, I always call people up and hear their wisdom 00:47:52.200 --> 00:47:55.360 before I do it. 00:47:55.360 --> 00:48:02.360 It's not fun at my age. 00:48:03.160 --> 00:48:05.280 That's just on the side. 00:48:05.280 --> 00:48:12.280 I just felt that this quote was important enough to present to you. 00:48:12.280 --> 00:48:14.360 So moving on. 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:19.400 Here's another really important thing for us as a church that will happen and it is 00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:20.960 so important that it happens. 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:27.280 I will begin to speak and my words will become spirit and life and my tongue will be tamed. 00:48:27.280 --> 00:48:32.340 If you indulge in thanksgiving and rejoicing, if you ask the Spirit of God to rest on you, 00:48:32.340 --> 00:48:38.060 if you begin to learn how to protect the treasure of the Spirit of God in your life, 00:48:38.060 --> 00:48:44.740 if you begin to spend the first hour of your day and the last, not hour, as you dive into 00:48:44.740 --> 00:48:49.500 the night and as you come out in the morning, if you begin to turn or direct your affections 00:48:49.500 --> 00:48:54.500 towards this one you love, I assure you, you will begin to speak and the words you speak 00:48:54.500 --> 00:48:57.740 will be spirit and life and you won't say them too often. 00:48:57.740 --> 00:49:01.180 You will say them once or twice and you will know that there is something in the words 00:49:01.180 --> 00:49:08.180 that I have spoken that are so spirit and life that it is sufficient. 00:49:09.620 --> 00:49:13.420 The strange thing is the more we indulge in thanksgiving and rejoicing, the more you will 00:49:13.420 --> 00:49:15.820 find that your tongue is tamed. 00:49:15.820 --> 00:49:21.580 And the more your tongue is tamed, the closer you are to being a perfect man, a teleos man, 00:49:21.580 --> 00:49:22.780 a mature man. 00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:29.780 James 3 verse 2. 00:49:31.580 --> 00:49:35.700 Like it or not guys, your spirit man is linked to your vocal cords. 00:49:35.700 --> 00:49:39.540 Your spirit man is linked to your vocal cords. 00:49:39.540 --> 00:49:44.700 Your spirit man is linked to your vocal cords. 00:49:44.700 --> 00:49:45.920 Whether you like it or not. 00:49:45.920 --> 00:49:51.520 So even though God has made you that way, many of us will still hide in our shyness, 00:49:51.520 --> 00:49:55.640 we will hide in our culture, we will hide in our spiritual introversion, we will hide 00:49:55.680 --> 00:50:02.680 in our unbelief and we will hide in our laziness and I pray God that it changes. 00:50:03.440 --> 00:50:08.440 Your spirit man is connected to your vocal cords. 00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:15.440 And so I pray God that as we begin to rejoice and give thanks, as we let the spirit of God 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:21.440 rest upon us, as we begin to protect the treasure of the spirit of God who is in us, as we dive 00:50:21.640 --> 00:50:27.280 into the night and come out in the morning with the chief love of our lives, as the one 00:50:27.280 --> 00:50:32.000 who takes us in and brings us out, you will begin to see that you are beginning to speak 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:37.080 words of spirit and life more fluently than before, that you really begin to realize that 00:50:37.080 --> 00:50:43.920 man, the spirit man is connected to me voicing things and that I will refuse now to hide 00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:47.920 behind culture, be denominational, sacred or secular. 00:50:48.400 --> 00:50:54.400 I will begin to give away the shyness that I hide under, the spiritual introversion that 00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:57.240 kicks in the moment I come into a church. 00:50:57.240 --> 00:51:02.240 I will stop this, I will begin to give voice to it. 00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:06.280 Sometimes it's sheer laziness. 00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:13.280 It's strange how expressing praise is so difficult that it is easier to be lazy. 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:24.920 And sometimes it's unbelief because you know that the words you're saying are actually 00:51:25.840 --> 00:51:32.840 sawdust but as you begin to engage in thanksgiving and in rejoicing you will find that it isn't 00:51:34.520 --> 00:51:40.040 sawdust anymore. 00:51:40.040 --> 00:51:42.320 Be in no hurry to practice it right now eh? 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:45.320 Just start tomorrow. 00:51:45.720 --> 00:51:52.720 As I begin to speak you will, we'll do that another time. 00:52:01.720 --> 00:52:06.720 Hey guys, sometimes, no? 00:52:06.720 --> 00:52:12.280 And I said this last week, I said that the time we are entering into will be a time of 00:52:12.280 --> 00:52:16.440 increased angelic activity. 00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:23.440 One of the ways you begin to see angelic activity in your vicinity is by speaking words that 00:52:23.640 --> 00:52:28.480 are actually spoken in the throne room that you release here on earth through your voice 00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:33.000 because the Bible says in Psalm 103 verse 20 that the angels listen to the voice of 00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:40.000 his word. 00:52:43.280 --> 00:52:49.080 When you actually begin to speak things that you have heard in the throne room because 00:52:49.080 --> 00:52:56.080 you have learned what it is to abide in presence, then you won't have to repeat it too often. 00:53:06.080 --> 00:53:09.600 With words like that which are critical in the time ahead. 00:53:09.600 --> 00:53:10.600 Critical. 00:53:10.600 --> 00:53:12.520 This is not about prophecy. 00:53:12.520 --> 00:53:18.240 This is about hearing words and speaking them once or twice. 00:53:18.240 --> 00:53:24.520 You can begin to impose a military peace upon the waves and go back into rest. 00:53:24.520 --> 00:53:26.120 Be still. 00:53:26.120 --> 00:53:28.680 Those were words heard in the throne room that Jesus spoke. 00:53:28.680 --> 00:53:30.280 He didn't labor. 00:53:30.280 --> 00:53:31.800 Be still. 00:53:31.800 --> 00:53:36.800 It was enough. 00:53:41.000 --> 00:53:44.000 Last point. 00:53:44.000 --> 00:53:47.400 And we will expand on this next week. 00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:54.080 Guys, I pray that during these next 40 days, and I'll really touch on it strong next week, 00:53:54.080 --> 00:54:00.920 that we begin to discover and then begin to be governed by the majesty of God. 00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:07.920 That we discover and then are governed by the majesty of God. 00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:13.480 Or by majesty. 00:54:13.480 --> 00:54:18.160 What do I mean by majesty? 00:54:18.160 --> 00:54:20.080 God sovereign strong. 00:54:20.080 --> 00:54:21.800 God king. 00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:24.840 God nothing can stand against. 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:26.680 God supreme. 00:54:26.680 --> 00:54:29.320 God lord. 00:54:29.320 --> 00:54:34.160 That in the process of the next 40 days, this is something we'll find because the starting 00:54:34.160 --> 00:54:37.280 point for confidence is majesty. 00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.280 The starting place for confidence is majesty. 00:54:40.280 --> 00:54:46.800 The starting place for confidence is majesty. 00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:52.520 That is what allows you to go and do what normal people wouldn't do and wouldn't go 00:54:52.520 --> 00:54:53.520 to. 00:54:53.520 --> 00:54:57.920 The starting place for confidence is majesty. 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:03.440 That is what will make us a people who go where normal people wouldn't go and do what 00:55:03.440 --> 00:55:05.240 normal people wouldn't do. 00:55:05.240 --> 00:55:09.640 You look at the Bible and you see this continuous process, 00:55:09.640 --> 00:55:14.640 or a procession of people who were able to discover 00:55:15.020 --> 00:55:16.960 and then be governed by majesty. 00:55:16.960 --> 00:55:20.400 You look at Isaiah and you see Isaiah in chapter six, 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:22.360 beholding the majesty of God, 00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:26.980 and his immediate response is, I will go, send me. 00:55:26.980 --> 00:55:31.700 You look at Matthew 17 and you see Peter, James, and John 00:55:31.700 --> 00:55:35.060 witnessing Jesus' majesty on the Mount of Transfiguration, 00:55:35.060 --> 00:55:37.140 and you see them later in second Peter, 00:55:37.140 --> 00:55:39.660 in verse one to six, where Peter begins to say, 00:55:39.660 --> 00:55:41.860 in second Peter one, verse six, he begins to say, 00:55:41.860 --> 00:55:43.880 but we beheld his majesty, 00:55:43.880 --> 00:55:45.940 and we have not come up with fables, 00:55:45.940 --> 00:55:48.060 and so we will now go forth 00:55:48.060 --> 00:55:49.980 because of the majesty that we have seen. 00:55:49.980 --> 00:55:52.240 You look at Revelation chapter one, verse 14, 00:55:52.240 --> 00:55:55.280 where you see John, he hears a voice and he turns 00:55:55.280 --> 00:55:57.820 and he looks, and there is one like the son of man 00:55:57.820 --> 00:55:59.740 walking amongst the lamp stands, 00:55:59.740 --> 00:56:01.740 and John is on Patmos exiled, 00:56:01.740 --> 00:56:03.820 and he begins to write the most amazing book 00:56:03.820 --> 00:56:06.180 that begins to show you what the future looks like. 00:56:06.180 --> 00:56:10.060 You look at Daniel in Daniel chapter seven, verse 14, 00:56:10.060 --> 00:56:13.940 and Daniel begins to see one who is like the son of man 00:56:13.940 --> 00:56:15.860 standing next to the ancient of days, 00:56:15.860 --> 00:56:18.400 and to him was given all power, all authority, 00:56:18.400 --> 00:56:21.540 all sovereignty, and he begins to describe who Jesus is, 00:56:21.540 --> 00:56:25.140 and Daniel changes the course and the history of nations, 00:56:25.140 --> 00:56:27.420 not just through his writings, 00:56:27.420 --> 00:56:30.300 but while he was still there amongst various kings. 00:56:30.300 --> 00:56:33.620 You look at Ezekiel in chapter one, verse 26 to 28, 00:56:34.420 --> 00:56:39.420 and you see Ezekiel beholding one who was above the dome, 00:56:39.540 --> 00:56:44.540 and he had above his waist the physique of burnished bronze 00:56:45.420 --> 00:56:47.940 and below the waist of flaming fire, 00:56:47.940 --> 00:56:50.660 and there was a rainbow that sprung forth from the dome, 00:56:50.660 --> 00:56:53.300 and as he looked and marveled at majesty, 00:56:53.300 --> 00:56:54.460 he heard a voice saying, 00:56:54.460 --> 00:56:57.540 Ezekiel, here is what I have for you. 00:56:57.540 --> 00:57:00.900 At the end of the day, discovering majesty will allow you 00:57:00.900 --> 00:57:02.380 to be governed by majesty, 00:57:02.420 --> 00:57:04.900 and if this is sovereign king, bow to your feet, 00:57:04.900 --> 00:57:07.780 kiss this ring, and then stand up and say, 00:57:07.780 --> 00:57:11.480 I serve at your command, I serve at your pleasure. 00:57:11.480 --> 00:57:13.060 What is your will or command? 00:57:13.060 --> 00:57:14.140 There I will go. 00:57:14.140 --> 00:57:16.100 It doesn't matter how foolish it is. 00:57:16.100 --> 00:57:18.260 Normal people won't step into the places 00:57:18.260 --> 00:57:19.220 that you will go to. 00:57:19.220 --> 00:57:21.540 This has been the history of the Old Testament 00:57:21.540 --> 00:57:22.420 and the New Testament. 00:57:22.420 --> 00:57:24.540 Why should it be any different for a people 00:57:24.540 --> 00:57:27.580 who are being led by the spirit into the wilderness, 00:57:27.580 --> 00:57:29.620 and it's not the coffee talking right now? 00:57:33.220 --> 00:57:34.980 This is what we're being called to. 00:57:37.340 --> 00:57:40.140 You look at Abraham in Genesis 15, 00:57:41.420 --> 00:57:43.780 where he was in the wilderness, 00:57:43.780 --> 00:57:47.000 had a sacrifice laid before God. 00:57:47.000 --> 00:57:50.940 It became dark, a heaviness and a dread began to settle. 00:57:50.940 --> 00:57:53.140 It was a kind of dread that comes with the dread 00:57:53.140 --> 00:57:55.900 of Yahweh coming over a certain place, 00:57:55.900 --> 00:57:57.580 and he begins to chase away the vultures 00:57:57.580 --> 00:57:59.340 that came to pray on his sacrifice, 00:57:59.340 --> 00:58:02.460 and then behold, when he gets up from this dark heaviness, 00:58:02.460 --> 00:58:04.700 he sees a torch blazing through cutting, 00:58:04.700 --> 00:58:06.700 and that's when God begins to speak to Abraham saying, 00:58:06.700 --> 00:58:10.220 hey, listen, look what I have for you. 00:58:10.220 --> 00:58:12.500 You look at Moses, and you see him entering 00:58:12.500 --> 00:58:15.740 the tent of the meeting, and then he goes to Mount Sinai, 00:58:15.740 --> 00:58:19.780 and he sees Yahweh in his splendor in Exodus 33. 00:58:19.780 --> 00:58:22.060 Majesty, nobody can touch him. 00:58:22.060 --> 00:58:26.900 Power, presence, goodness, glory, 00:58:26.900 --> 00:58:29.260 and that man can never be the same again. 00:58:30.180 --> 00:58:31.500 The same man who delivered you out of Egypt 00:58:31.500 --> 00:58:33.500 now takes you to the promised land. 00:58:34.340 --> 00:58:36.660 You're talking about a post-COVID world that needs help? 00:58:36.660 --> 00:58:39.420 It is impossible to do without first discovering 00:58:39.420 --> 00:58:41.740 the majesty of God, and then being governed 00:58:41.740 --> 00:58:44.460 by the majesty of God, because any man who discovers 00:58:44.460 --> 00:58:46.600 the majesty of God does not have a choice 00:58:46.600 --> 00:58:48.820 but to be governed by the majesty of God. 00:58:48.820 --> 00:58:51.700 Therefore, the best thing, if you want to stay where you are, 00:58:51.700 --> 00:58:54.180 is refuse to discover the majesty of God. 00:59:00.260 --> 00:59:03.260 Don't go there, because if you go there, 00:59:03.260 --> 00:59:05.860 and then you turn away after what you've seen, 00:59:07.420 --> 00:59:10.260 there's very little place for your tears or your repentance. 00:59:16.980 --> 00:59:21.980 Paul, in Acts chapter 26, is recounting his conversion 00:59:24.180 --> 00:59:27.820 to King Agrippa, and he says, I saw a blinding world 00:59:28.020 --> 00:59:30.420 and I saw a blinding white light, 00:59:30.420 --> 00:59:33.220 a blazing white light that knocked me off my horse, 00:59:33.220 --> 00:59:35.780 and I got up and I heard a voice. 00:59:35.780 --> 00:59:38.460 These are people that were changed by majesty. 00:59:42.740 --> 00:59:46.940 You know, when was it? 00:59:46.940 --> 00:59:48.100 May something. 00:59:50.020 --> 00:59:55.020 We made a statement here, we said that when COVID begins 00:59:55.020 --> 01:00:00.020 to end, we should come out better than when we first went in. 01:00:01.620 --> 01:00:05.380 I deliberately, definitely plan to, 01:00:05.380 --> 01:00:07.140 and I expect the same of you. 01:00:09.740 --> 01:00:12.700 We have to come out richer, better, kinder, 01:00:12.700 --> 01:00:16.020 more passionate, holier in our walk, 01:00:16.020 --> 01:00:20.140 willing to do anything at any cost, nothing else mattering. 01:00:20.140 --> 01:00:25.140 And once we touch this thing called majesty, 01:00:25.140 --> 01:00:29.140 you will know what it is to walk as king-priests. 01:00:30.940 --> 01:00:33.540 And that's what we'll be talking about in the future. 01:00:33.540 --> 01:00:36.740 What is it to be governed by majesty? 01:00:36.740 --> 01:00:40.740 And then what is it to be walking then as ones 01:00:40.740 --> 01:00:42.340 who are both kings and priests? 01:00:42.340 --> 01:00:45.940 Because that is what the landscape ahead requires, 01:00:45.940 --> 01:00:48.340 and that is the way God is going to position the church. 01:00:48.340 --> 01:00:51.540 There's so much that I've already put down 01:00:51.540 --> 01:00:53.940 in terms of what God wants to do that I'm not sharing, 01:00:53.940 --> 01:00:57.340 and it'll come out in bits and pieces whenever the time is right. 01:00:59.540 --> 01:01:00.940 Why am I saying that? 01:01:00.940 --> 01:01:05.540 It's not to make you think, oh, Jacob knows a lot. 01:01:05.540 --> 01:01:06.940 No, don't know too much. 01:01:06.940 --> 01:01:08.140 I just pretend I do. 01:01:08.140 --> 01:01:09.540 But here's the thing. 01:01:12.340 --> 01:01:16.940 This is not a step in the right direction. 01:01:17.940 --> 01:01:19.340 A stab in the dark. 01:01:19.340 --> 01:01:20.940 This is not planless. 01:01:20.940 --> 01:01:23.140 What I'm doing is intentional. 01:01:23.140 --> 01:01:25.540 It is deliberate, and it is being done 01:01:25.540 --> 01:01:28.540 from the perspective of the king himself, 01:01:28.540 --> 01:01:31.940 not from the perspective of let Acts 29 do well. 01:01:33.740 --> 01:01:34.540 No. 01:01:35.540 --> 01:01:36.340 There's a blueprint. 01:01:36.340 --> 01:01:37.940 There's an intent behind this. 01:01:39.340 --> 01:01:42.540 It is just far bigger than we can handle, but so what? 01:01:42.540 --> 01:01:44.340 Mustard seeds grow into trees. 01:01:45.540 --> 01:01:46.740 Yeah. 01:01:46.740 --> 01:01:47.740 Let's pray. 01:01:49.140 --> 01:01:55.540 Father, it's such a privilege about that's all I can say. 01:02:02.740 --> 01:02:08.740 Father, I just pray that we get desperate enough 01:02:08.740 --> 01:02:13.940 to discipline our lives in your love, 01:02:13.940 --> 01:02:16.540 that we get desperate enough to try just these three things. 01:02:16.540 --> 01:02:19.140 These are three simple things you've given us 01:02:19.140 --> 01:02:20.340 that we've known all our lives, 01:02:20.340 --> 01:02:22.540 but now you're calling us to practice this 01:02:22.540 --> 01:02:23.740 over a period of 40 days. 01:02:24.540 --> 01:02:27.140 I pray, Father, for those of us who haven't yet 01:02:27.140 --> 01:02:28.940 responded to your invitation, 01:02:29.940 --> 01:02:31.540 that we would set aside time. 01:02:32.940 --> 01:02:35.740 Father, you're not asking all of us to do the same thing. 01:02:35.740 --> 01:02:38.540 One or two may be able to eat a meal a day 01:02:38.540 --> 01:02:40.540 for the next 40 days or 40 nights. 01:02:40.540 --> 01:02:43.340 Many of us, most of us won't go down that route. 01:02:44.140 --> 01:02:46.140 Some of us will give up. 01:02:46.340 --> 01:02:48.140 Social media watching, others won't. 01:02:48.140 --> 01:02:50.140 Some of us will give up TV, others won't. 01:02:50.140 --> 01:02:52.340 But at the end of the day, what you require is, 01:02:52.340 --> 01:02:54.740 hey, Jacob, come, draw a sign. 01:02:58.340 --> 01:02:59.940 You've never asked us of us. 01:03:01.740 --> 01:03:03.540 I'm so glad you did. 01:03:05.940 --> 01:03:07.540 Everything is on the table, Abba. 01:03:08.940 --> 01:03:10.140 Everything is on the table. 01:03:10.140 --> 01:03:11.140 Ask what you want. 01:03:16.140 --> 01:03:18.140 Father, I'm not interested in a strong church. 01:03:18.140 --> 01:03:20.340 I'm just interested in us as a people 01:03:20.340 --> 01:03:21.740 being at your beck and call. 01:03:30.340 --> 01:03:34.540 So, Father, we've got four minutes, 01:03:34.540 --> 01:03:36.740 but what's her name?