1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,880 Ask God. 2 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:06,760 He's actually saying He wants to provide for you. 3 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:16,200 Father, He wants you to ask expecting abundance. 4 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,200 Expecting abundance. 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,200 Amen. 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,200 Amen. 7 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:35,040 I've got to preach now, normally we do some other things first, but I need to preach 8 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,600 today because I've got to get on the aeroplane. 9 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:41,680 And a little while ago I preached on how you can sit down by the way. 10 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,760 And I don't have to hurry as much as I think I have to hurry. 11 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:53,000 But a little while ago I preached on how, and I know this is what God is doing. 12 00:00:53,000 --> 00:01:06,800 He is bringing His church back to that John 17 position where the church is not an entertainment 13 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:13,440 center, it's not a one man show, it's a family of God that are united. 14 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:20,960 And He says this is how the world will know that God sent Jesus is by the way they live 15 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:22,560 and love together. 16 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:27,880 And Jesus said, they will be one as we are one, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:34,400 So it's a body that's serving each other in interdependent love and I shared that. 18 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:40,320 And I believe that's what God is doing. 19 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:45,240 He is restoring His church today and it's a glorious thing. 20 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:49,160 One of the things I forgot to mention in that message, I didn't mean but I'll preach it 21 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:56,700 another time is that the church is God's family. 22 00:01:56,700 --> 00:02:02,700 But if that's all it is, the church becomes stoopy. 23 00:02:02,700 --> 00:02:06,800 It is God's family with a mission. 24 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:14,780 Yes, this is how we care about, but our mission is to bring others into the family. 25 00:02:14,780 --> 00:02:16,400 That's why we go and do what we do. 26 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:22,600 It's just as a context, why we go into the nations is because God, Heavenly Father wants 27 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:28,440 to add children to His household and He wants it to be full. 28 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:32,200 So you can pray with me as I go that that very thing happens. 29 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,500 I thought what I'm preaching about today, last time Pastor Ross preached, he preached 30 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,920 on the Prodigal Son. 31 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:44,400 And one of my favorite passages of Prodigal Son, and I was speaking to Ross afterwards 32 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:47,680 and he's preaching a certain aspect of it. 33 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:53,840 And at the end of the message I got up and I said, well, one of the things that we need 34 00:02:53,840 --> 00:03:00,600 to realize about that passage is that Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees when He preached 35 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:01,600 that message. 36 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:08,680 And He was speaking to them because one, they didn't know how He felt about lost people. 37 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,520 The passage is preached in the context of a lost ring, a lost coin and a lost son. 38 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:19,080 They're saying you don't understand how God feels about lost things. 39 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:28,640 And the reason they don't understand is that you don't understand God is a Father. 40 00:03:28,640 --> 00:03:30,080 God is Father. 41 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,640 Because the parable should be called the Prodigal Father. 42 00:03:33,640 --> 00:03:34,640 It's all about the Father. 43 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,040 It's not really about the Son. 44 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,320 It's about how the Father feels about lost things. 45 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,040 And He's not like the Pharisees. 46 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:49,040 They are judgmental, they are harsh, and He's saying this Father is, He just waits, He watches. 47 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:52,040 As soon as the Son comes back, He welcomes. 48 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,160 And Pastor Ross was bringing some of that out. 49 00:03:54,160 --> 00:04:03,080 But I feel today that God wants me to speak more about the Father, heart of God, and knowing 50 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,040 God as your Heavenly Father. 51 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:13,460 And it's significant for me, this message is significant because for years, I became 52 00:04:13,460 --> 00:04:15,160 a Christian when I was young. 53 00:04:15,160 --> 00:04:17,520 I fell away for a few years and I came back to God. 54 00:04:17,520 --> 00:04:21,560 Then I got hot for God and went off to Bible college and I was serving God. 55 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,920 And I'd been overseas doing missions and I was working in the church. 56 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,320 And I was zealous for God. 57 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:31,920 And at Bible college, I learned all about the holiness of God. 58 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,760 The Baptist college was where I went, was very focused on the holiness, the otherness, 59 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:37,960 the transcendence of God. 60 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,600 Not so much on the imminence of God, but very focused on that God was almighty, that God 61 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:44,140 was omniscient. 62 00:04:44,140 --> 00:04:46,360 And that knowledge produced great faith. 63 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:48,080 So I always had the gift of faith. 64 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:52,840 God gave me that gift and I believed that God could do anything, that God was able to 65 00:04:52,840 --> 00:04:54,240 do almighty things. 66 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,640 I had great faith. 67 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:02,880 But I had this encounter once where God just completely undid me. 68 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,960 And I was actually fasting. 69 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,880 I was on this long, long fast. 70 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:08,880 My wife was worried I was going to fade away. 71 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:17,960 But I was fasting for the favor of God and for more of God and for more souls and for 72 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:19,240 growth in the church. 73 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,880 All these good, all good things. 74 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,200 I was on this long fast. 75 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:28,240 And I'll never forget, I was waking at these extraordinary early hours, two and three o'clock 76 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:33,800 in the morning during that season, seeking God and spending hours in His presence. 77 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:39,400 And I'll never forget, I heard God's voice say to me, eat. 78 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,040 And I was fasting. 79 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,440 And I was thinking, that must be my voice. 80 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:43,640 And I heard it again. 81 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,960 Eat, in my spirit. 82 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:46,960 Eat. 83 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:56,600 And in that moment, God revealed Himself personally as my Father. 84 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,360 That He didn't care about my fasting. 85 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,760 You know, when God makes a revelation to you, it sounds shallow, but it comes loaded. 86 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,960 When God says the word eat, it's not just the word eat. 87 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:09,780 It comes loaded with meaning. 88 00:06:09,780 --> 00:06:14,920 And the word was loaded, was like, I don't, I'm not your God because of what you do for 89 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:15,920 me. 90 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,020 I'm your Father. 91 00:06:18,020 --> 00:06:24,120 And I was absolutely delivered and changed from that moment. 92 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,400 I remember saying to Michelle after I had that encounter with God, I said, I don't even 93 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,840 know if I'm going to do ministry. 94 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:36,120 I said, because if I just, I know I'm a child of God and all I want to do is please my Father 95 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,440 and if He tells me to go and stack shelves and put words for the glory of God, I want 96 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,240 to do that. 97 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,240 And I was absolutely set free. 98 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:50,520 And I came to know, and it was a progression, I came to know more and more and more. 99 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:52,400 My relationship with God changed. 100 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:58,320 I was relating to Him and I came to relate to Him today as a child of God. 101 00:06:58,320 --> 00:07:02,220 And He is my Father and He is a good, good Father. 102 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:06,080 And He is a Father who loves to bless His children. 103 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:09,040 He loves to bless His children. 104 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:16,480 And like Jesus told that story, the Pharisees, because they didn't understand God as Father. 105 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:22,560 And I believe one of the great manifestations of the religious spirit is that we, God is 106 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:25,120 still a mystery to them. 107 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:30,560 Until God comes in and reveals Himself as your Father, He's a mystery to them. 108 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,000 That's what my testimony is. 109 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,600 God was a mystery, but He wasn't personal. 110 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:43,520 He is only personal when we know Him. 111 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:51,840 And what people don't understand is one of the, the reason Jesus Christ came into our 112 00:07:51,840 --> 00:08:00,240 world was to manifest God as Father to us, or to reveal God as Father. 113 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,840 You know, He's referred to as Father so many times, hundreds of times in the New Testament, 114 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:09,240 only six times in the Old. 115 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:19,760 And Hebrews chapter 11, there's, sorry, chapter one says, God who at various times, in various 116 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:26,280 ways spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, as in these days spoken to us 117 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:28,720 by His Son. 118 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,400 In other words, He's, this is something that religious really were struggling with. 119 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:35,560 He's saying there's two ways God spoke. 120 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:40,960 He spoke through the prophets, but the prophets only had a certain revelation, but in the 121 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:46,720 last times, He spoke through Jesus, His Son. 122 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,300 Why? 123 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,560 Because the prophets didn't have a full revelation of God. 124 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:56,120 That's why God is not referred to as Father often in the New to Old Testament, but Jesus 125 00:08:56,120 --> 00:09:04,280 came to reveal His Father, and the reason He came was that only a Son can reveal a Father. 126 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:10,440 So He comes and He speaks and His role is to reveal the Father, and you see this in 127 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,440 so many places. 128 00:09:11,440 --> 00:09:17,120 In John 17, which I preached on about how God is resetting the church, Jesus prayed, 129 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:22,800 and He prayed this prayer, and this is for the church, this is for the disciples, and 130 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,800 He spoke, I'll just read from verse 23 of John 17, I in them and you in me, that they 131 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:33,240 may be made perfect in one, that's what I preached on, and that the world may know that 132 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:41,360 you have sent me and have loved them as you have loved me. 133 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:47,600 So He's talking about His Father and He's saying, I want them to know, I know myself, 134 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:55,040 Jesus knew as I'm loved by the Son, as the Son, by my Father, and I want them, the disciples, 135 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,520 to know that they are loved just as much as I am loved. 136 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:05,760 Because Jesus died to bring many sons to glory, and that's the revelation I got. 137 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,760 God loves me as much as He loves Jesus. 138 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:18,160 He does, I'll prove it to you through the word. 139 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:23,520 He wants us to know that we are loved children. 140 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:33,960 And in verse 6, He says, I have manifested your name to the men. 141 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,760 Why did He, I have manifested your name to the men who have given me out of the world, 142 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:42,700 why did He manifest His name as Father? 143 00:10:42,700 --> 00:10:49,080 Because they knew Him as Yahweh, the name the Jews used, and they wouldn't even speak 144 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:55,840 it but they would write it, and when they spoke it, they referred to Him as Jehovah. 145 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:04,920 But He said, I came to manifest or to reveal God as Father, which means you cannot know 146 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:08,000 God as Father except through Jesus Christ. 147 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:15,160 He's the only one who can reveal to you that God is a Father and He is your Father. 148 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:20,360 You can't come to that knowledge any other way. 149 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:27,680 But Jesus said, I have manifested your name to the men you've given me out of the world. 150 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:33,600 He revealed it because it was hidden. 151 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:41,240 In Matthew, hallelujah, someone's happy, in Matthew 11, Jesus says a well-known passage, 152 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:45,320 I thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the 153 00:11:45,320 --> 00:11:52,080 wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes even so, Father, also seem good in your 154 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,440 sight, all these things have been delivered to me by my Father and no one knows the Son 155 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:03,400 except the Father, nor does anyone know the Father except the Son and the one to whom 156 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:05,880 the Son reveals Him. 157 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:13,480 So you cannot know the Father except through Jesus revealing Him to you. 158 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,820 Nor does anyone know the Father except to the Son and the one to whom the Son wills 159 00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:17,820 to reveal Him. 160 00:12:17,820 --> 00:12:22,960 Come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. 161 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:28,000 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you will 162 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,480 find rest for your soul. 163 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:31,560 My yoke is easy and my burden is light. 164 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:37,000 What that is saying is that the reason we need to have God revealed as Father through 165 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:45,240 Jesus Christ, he says, because when God reveals Him as Father, then and only then you will 166 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,720 go to Him in your prayer closet and only then you can receive rest. 167 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,820 My goodness, how this world needs rest today. 168 00:12:52,820 --> 00:12:58,160 The only way you ever receive rest is by knowing God as Father. 169 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:03,040 Otherwise you'll work, work, work, work, strive, strive, but when we know God as Father, we 170 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,360 know He cares for us, we know He's tendered us, we know He's more concerned for our welfare 171 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:12,280 than we are and we can go to Him, pour out our burdens on Him and He gives us rest. 172 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:18,920 That's a deep peace, a deep... your burdens are released in that place. 173 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:24,080 You can cast your burdens on Him and He gives you rest for your souls. 174 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,760 I love that verse more than any other thing. 175 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:35,200 Because He alone can give you rest for your soul and that rest can only be received when 176 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:41,240 you have received revelation from Christ that God is your Father. 177 00:13:41,240 --> 00:13:45,440 You can't do any ministry until you get that. 178 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:50,440 Jesus didn't start until He heard the word, you're my beloved Son. 179 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:57,840 I'll tell you why we need to know God as Father and particularly this generation, this 180 00:13:57,840 --> 00:13:59,800 millennial generation. 181 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:02,240 What generation are we up to now? 182 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:06,000 Generation X, third generation Y. 183 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:12,320 We must be back to A. Or are they just all millennials? 184 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:18,800 I don't know, but why we need to know God as Father, it's so important for us to know 185 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:27,920 Him because fathers give children identity. 186 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:32,560 In the Old Testament, you see all these things, they're called genealogies and the New Testament 187 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:39,040 starts in Matthew with a geneality and the geneality is referred to so and so, the Son 188 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:40,920 of. 189 00:14:40,920 --> 00:14:46,040 So and so, the Son of because their identity comes from their Father. 190 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:52,200 And even we have names that we call William's son and John's son. 191 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:59,840 It actually means Son of John because fathers give us our identity. 192 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,680 And this generation, I see they have an identity crisis. 193 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:07,960 And I'll tell you, you never know who you are till you know whose you are. 194 00:15:07,960 --> 00:15:14,740 But once you know yourself as a child of God, the Father, you know who you are. 195 00:15:14,740 --> 00:15:19,640 You know how precious you are, you know how loved you are, you know how valuable you are, 196 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:21,200 you know what your purpose is. 197 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:26,520 And this is why people today, they're fascinated and obsessed with brands. 198 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,560 Because brands are giving them an identity. 199 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:34,040 I wear Gucci or whatever it is because there's something about that I want to identify and 200 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:35,580 I don't know who I am. 201 00:15:35,580 --> 00:15:41,960 I get a tattoo because that tattoo tells me something about who I am. 202 00:15:41,960 --> 00:15:44,480 When people look at me, they look at me a certain way. 203 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:50,720 I wear lots of makeup in a certain way because I want people to identify me as XYZ. 204 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,560 But you don't need any of that when you come into the knowledge that God is your Father. 205 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:55,560 I mean it. 206 00:15:55,560 --> 00:16:02,200 There is a great deliverance that comes when you actually know that you truly are Almighty 207 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:03,200 God's child. 208 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,160 He is your Father. 209 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:08,160 And it's so critical. 210 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:14,840 And I really believe this revival, there are so many young people out there who are so 211 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:18,480 lonely, so lost because they don't know who they are. 212 00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:21,080 They don't know why they're here and they are struggling. 213 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,040 There's so much mental illness because people don't have their identity. 214 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,960 And the last verse in the Scriptures says the hearts of the fathers are going to be 215 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,920 turned back to the sons to the fathers and the fathers to the son. 216 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:35,760 It's going to be a revival based on fatherhood. 217 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:43,080 The fathers give you your identity and when you have a father, you know who you are. 218 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:45,800 When you have a father, you also know where you're going. 219 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,400 When you have the heavenly father, you know you… 220 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:53,240 And you know what you know, when I say you know where you're going, what you know and 221 00:16:53,240 --> 00:17:00,240 you know it in your knower is that we're just passing through this world. 222 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,120 We are sojourned. 223 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:10,600 And I know without a doubt and it's so freeing, this world is not my home. 224 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:16,920 I've had many houses and I'm not phased about it because they've never been my home. 225 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:18,920 Heaven is my home. 226 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,800 Earth is my mission. 227 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:25,040 Heaven became my home when I come to know God as my father. 228 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:30,760 And a lot of people, before I knew God as father, heaven was a place and it was a destiny 229 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,200 and I used to think maybe we're going to sit on a cloud and there's going to be lots 230 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:34,600 of worship up there. 231 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:37,040 Maybe we're going to go and occupy planets and there's going to be mission. 232 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:45,560 I had all these theories about what heaven was but when I come to know God as my father, 233 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:49,920 I now know heaven is my home. 234 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,780 I have a home. 235 00:17:52,780 --> 00:17:58,680 If you look to John 14, I have an eternal home. 236 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:01,400 And I'm so looking forward to going there. 237 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:06,200 In fact, I have to check myself sometimes. 238 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:08,080 Be careful. 239 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:11,200 I'm not frightened of death at all. 240 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,840 Sometimes I think about my heavenly home. 241 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,960 Jesus said, not let your heart be troubled. 242 00:18:16,960 --> 00:18:18,500 Believe in God, believe also in me. 243 00:18:18,500 --> 00:18:22,560 In my father's house are many mansions. 244 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:24,680 If it were not so, I would have told you. 245 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,340 I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again 246 00:18:28,340 --> 00:18:30,720 and receive you to myself. 247 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:39,440 So, as soon as I die, as soon as I die, I know the first thing my eyes will see is actually 248 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:47,680 before I see Jesus digressing, I believe I'm going to see angels. 249 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:52,600 John Wesley once said, someone's come to John Wesley and they said, somebody so and so died 250 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:59,400 and his answer was, did they die in peace or did they die in glory? 251 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,840 There's a parable where Jesus tells a story about a rich man in Lazarus and when the poor 252 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:11,160 man Lazarus dies, it says, the angels came and carried him to Abraham's bosom. 253 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:18,200 And I believe where I die, angels are coming for me and they're going to carry me and the 254 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,620 gates are going to open. 255 00:19:20,620 --> 00:19:23,600 And you know, here it says, and some people disagree with me this and don't leave the 256 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:31,080 church, it's an interpretation of the Bible, but it says, some people, it says here, Jesus 257 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:33,680 has gone away to prepare a place for us. 258 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:39,660 So everybody who's a Christian has a place for them, prepared. 259 00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:42,200 And in that father's house are many mansions. 260 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:47,700 I don't believe everybody gets a man because the Bible says some people are going to make 261 00:19:47,700 --> 00:19:51,560 it, they're just going to make it by the skin of their teeth, everything's going to be burned 262 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:57,040 up because they believed in Jesus, but they believed a lot of wrong things. 263 00:19:57,040 --> 00:20:03,540 But in the father's house, there are many mansions. 264 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:08,180 And you know why heaven is a home? 265 00:20:08,180 --> 00:20:11,000 Because the father's there. 266 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:16,040 Takes a father to make a home. 267 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:22,160 So heaven is there because the father is there. 268 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:34,440 And we know God is father, we know he's prepared a home, place, waiting. 269 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:40,840 You know, in that place, I know God is show. 270 00:20:40,840 --> 00:21:07,920 In my time, many, many poor people, many people from... 271 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:13,560 I'm here because you cared enough to go, I'm here because... 272 00:21:13,560 --> 00:21:16,200 That's where we go. 273 00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:18,320 We go. 274 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,760 We go to get people into the father's house. 275 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:26,360 They're going to be people who stay. 276 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:31,120 Doesn't that stir you? 277 00:21:31,120 --> 00:21:35,200 That so motivates me. 278 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:48,240 Jesus also said in John chapter 10, verse 29, he said, these words, he said, my father 279 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:54,600 who has given them to me, he's speaking about how he's the shepherd. 280 00:21:54,600 --> 00:22:00,360 He says, the father who has given these sheep to me is greater than all and no one is able 281 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:07,560 to snatch them out of my father's hand, I and my father are one. 282 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,280 When you have a relationship with God is father, also, you not only know where you're going, 283 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,760 but you also, while you walk in this earth, you are completely... 284 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:22,720 I mean, there is total security when you know God is father. 285 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,600 No one is able to... 286 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,280 There was a thing on the television a little while ago. 287 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:33,320 I was passing a store and I looked inside and there was a thing about the big earthquake 288 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,320 in Turkey, Turkey. 289 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,480 Turkey, there's a big earthquake. 290 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,800 And in the midst of the... 291 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:43,000 On the television, there was this picture and I thought it was so wonderful that there 292 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,600 was chaos everywhere and there was smoke and there were emergency people running everywhere 293 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,720 and there was noise and it must have been just after the earthquake. 294 00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:58,040 And then there was a picture of a man and he had a very, very young child and the young 295 00:22:58,040 --> 00:23:02,080 child was completely oblivious to what was going on. 296 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:10,000 The young child was completely secure in the strong arms of this father. 297 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,800 That's how God wants us to live. 298 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,200 The Word of God says, he sees every sparrow fall to the ground. 299 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:21,040 He knows the number of my hairs. 300 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:26,960 He knows how many fell out yesterday. 301 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:28,520 He knows all about me. 302 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:34,880 He knows my goings and my comings and he watches over as I go out and as I come in and I am 303 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,080 perfectly secure that nobody can touch me apart from him allowing to touch me. 304 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:45,120 Nothing can take my life until he says, your number is up. 305 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:52,040 To the believer who knows the Father, when we live like that, there really should be 306 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:57,840 no place for anxiety and we've got to move into this and we're learning about it more 307 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,320 and more and applying it more and more and every now and then we may slip back in but 308 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:05,880 we've got to just, when you feel yourself becoming anxious, you just have to go back 309 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:10,160 and speak to God as your Father because it says, perfect love casts out fear and when 310 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:16,720 we know that he loves us so much, we're held in his hands, that he watches over us as we 311 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:24,080 watch over our children, that's the place that we feel. 312 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,320 The only place we feel. 313 00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:32,320 Jesus said that no one can snatch them out of my hands. 314 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,040 He also said this. 315 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:40,840 He said, when you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He and then I 316 00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:47,520 do nothing of myself but as my Father taught me, I speak these things. 317 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:54,780 That means the key to the prophetic ministry is the Father heart. 318 00:24:54,780 --> 00:24:58,880 If you're someone who has a prophetic ministry, you want to develop in the prophetic ministry, 319 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:06,360 the key is knowing God as Father because when you know God as Father, you'll hear him speak 320 00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:11,040 because he speaks to his children. 321 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,440 As my Father taught me, I speak these things and he who sent me is with me. 322 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:27,440 The Father has not left me alone but I always do those things which please him. 323 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:34,760 When we know God as Father, we are pure, we know where we're headed but knowing God as 324 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:42,080 Father, Jesus says, I only do those things which please him. 325 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:50,160 And if you have a ministry, the motivation for every act of service ought be to please 326 00:25:50,160 --> 00:25:51,160 him. 327 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:57,840 It ought be to please him that we know God has said, would you go to this certain place? 328 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:03,040 That's me, I'm an evangelist and I don't go because I want to stay. 329 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,640 I don't go to compare or compete. 330 00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:11,880 I go, I love my Father, I just want to please him. 331 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,920 That's the motivation and I believe one of the problems in the Western Church, the reason 332 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:24,440 the Western Church has not thrived is because there is competition amongst churches, amongst 333 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:32,120 ministries that the motivation is not, we don't do what we do just to please him. 334 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:36,000 Success has become an idol in the Western Church. 335 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:42,600 But when your motivation is to please the Father, you're not aiming for success, you're 336 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:45,000 aiming for faithfulness. 337 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:50,360 We want to be faithful to the Father and if I've been faithful and pleased the Father, 338 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:57,360 I don't care what it looks like but if worldly success is an idol, we'll always be measuring 339 00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:02,880 ourself, who's got more and who's got more and who's doing this and who's doing that. 340 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:10,280 And the trouble is, when you live like that, there's insecurity in that place because once 341 00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:16,080 you become successful, you become afraid who's going to take it away. 342 00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:22,560 But when you live just to please the Father, there's complete freedom in that. 343 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,040 There is complete freedom. 344 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,040 Lord, I live before an audience of one. 345 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:29,880 Let me please you. 346 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:39,120 So when you have a, like you're driving along and you're anger rising up, in that moment, 347 00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:45,680 what you want, you want your conduct to please the Father. 348 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:56,640 When you're just living in your home, you want your conduct to please your Father. 349 00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:06,560 That's where the motivation for all Christian service has to come out, that my Father, who 350 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:14,200 gave His Son for me, who paved the way into heaven for the blood of His Son. 351 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,200 He's given everything. 352 00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:19,240 I just want to please Him. 353 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:20,960 I don't want to do works. 354 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:26,760 I want to do only those things which I hear the Father asking me to do but I want to do 355 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:27,760 them. 356 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:31,520 I want to please my Father. 357 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:40,360 So God wants to reveal Himself to all of us, not just as omniscient, not as just God Almighty 358 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,960 who comes down the mountains, movers. 359 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:53,360 He sent Jesus to manifest the Father so we would know our identity. 360 00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,400 We would know who we are. 361 00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,400 Why we're here. 362 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:05,600 Have our identity established in Him as His children. 363 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:10,480 That we would know where we are heading, that we have a home. 364 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,680 You know the difference it makes? 365 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:17,080 When you know heaven is your home, you don't sweat the small things. 366 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,080 You don't sweat worrying about the economy or losing stuff. 367 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,920 You know one of my favorite scriptures? 368 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,120 Blessed are the meek, they will inherit the earth. 369 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,520 And I often joke, I drive along with my children, I'll talk about this, this or that and I say 370 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:37,880 I'm not worried, I own it all. 371 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,000 We're going to inherit the earth. 372 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:48,040 But if you really know where you're going, it makes such a difference how you live. 373 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:50,840 Heaven is my home. 374 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,120 All passing away. 375 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:58,800 I am secure because I'm held in my Father's arms. 376 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:00,880 Everything I do. 377 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:04,480 My relationship with Him. 378 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:07,160 You know I don't have to strive. 379 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,320 I don't have to work. 380 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,720 If it pleases Him that I rest, rest. 381 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,760 Pleases Him that I give. 382 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:25,360 If it pleases Him that I go, I go. 383 00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:30,880 But do it because I've become His child. 384 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,120 Really is. 385 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,000 I just know there are people everywhere. 386 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,920 Both outside the church, inside the church as well. 387 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,920 And I know if I live that way for a long time, there are people in this room here today that 388 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,880 you are saved. 389 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,200 You know Jesus died for your sin. 390 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,420 That's all in your head. 391 00:30:56,420 --> 00:30:57,420 And it's all true. 392 00:30:57,420 --> 00:31:03,040 And it's all, and you know God is loving and He's kind and long-suffering and He's merciful 393 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:05,400 and He's kind. 394 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:14,760 But as I said, only Jesus can reveal God as your Father. 395 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,920 And some people, you know God as well. 396 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,200 Some people I know haven't received that revelation. 397 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:28,520 I believe today. 398 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,120 Some people He wants to reveal. 399 00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,600 You know what revelation is? 400 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:36,880 It's like when something is not seen yet, you can't see it. 401 00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:40,920 The lid is lifted, it is revealed, then you can see. 402 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:58,040 In the Spirit, that's what happens when Jesus, when I reveal His, not as the, just like Jesus. 403 00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:11,360 Another Father, my Daddy, mighty Daddy, my Father, He wants you to know Him intimately, 404 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:21,600 who watches over you, who provides for you, who protects you, loves you more than you 405 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:22,600 comprehend. 406 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:28,320 You don't have that revelation. 407 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,120 You want the word. 408 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,160 No, there's other things you can do. 409 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,680 Just come out here and just pray gently some music. 410 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:42,120 I do believe that the Holy Ghost wants to do something here. 411 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:52,560 He wants to take you deeper, deeper in your relationship with God and to remove blockages. 412 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:55,440 You know, revelation is progressive, just as it was for me. 413 00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,000 I knew God as this, I knew God as that, I knew God as that. 414 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:01,280 Then I knew Him. 415 00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,520 Maybe you're somewhere along that journey, but I know the Holy Spirit today wants to 416 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:06,520 do something. 417 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,520 You need that. 418 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:10,520 You need that, you just come. 419 00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:12,480 No one's going to pray for you. 420 00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,480 Just line up here. 421 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,760 Trust that the Holy Spirit will do something wonderful in your heart. 422 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,960 Amen.