1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 We have to be those people that are so full of courage, 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,880 so full of the peace of God, so full of joy, 3 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:11,820 so full of love that whatever's going on 4 00:00:11,820 --> 00:00:14,800 in the darkness around us doesn't affect us. 5 00:00:15,980 --> 00:00:18,060 There'll be no effect 6 00:00:18,060 --> 00:00:22,060 because we will not allow our hearts to melt. 7 00:00:22,060 --> 00:00:35,840 God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out His Spirit on all humanity. 8 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,480 Welcome to Global Outpouring, where we contend for that promised outpouring, 9 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:46,020 we equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. 10 00:00:46,020 --> 00:00:47,240 I'm Philip Buss. 11 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,980 And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. 12 00:00:49,980 --> 00:00:52,440 We're so glad that you're with us. 13 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,320 You know, a little while ago, a few weeks ago, 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:57,580 maybe it's been a month or more, 15 00:00:57,580 --> 00:01:02,360 I had a picture in my mind of melting butter. 16 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:06,120 And I think we did a podcast about something to do with that, 17 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,960 or at least it was mentioned then. 18 00:01:07,960 --> 00:01:14,220 But today we're going to talk about how fear makes the heart melt. 19 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:21,760 And we should take courage. 20 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,180 Thanks for joining us today. 21 00:01:23,180 --> 00:01:25,060 We're so glad that you're with us. 22 00:01:25,060 --> 00:01:30,320 And we trust that this is going to be a life changing podcast for you 23 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:35,320 that will encourage you and give you strength in the days to come. 24 00:01:35,320 --> 00:01:41,580 There are things that are on the horizon that that we need to really get focused 25 00:01:41,580 --> 00:01:44,720 on our courage and get our courage from the Lord. 26 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,380 But before we get started, we want to encourage you, 27 00:01:47,380 --> 00:01:52,680 encourage that you will go to our website, globaloutpouring.net, 28 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,520 if you haven't already done so, 29 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:59,600 and make sure that you are on our email lists so that we can stay in touch with you. 30 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:02,640 And there's also a place where you can give us feedback, 31 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:04,900 tell us what the Lord is doing in your life. 32 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:10,600 If you have prayer requests or if you have something that you want us to share on this podcast, 33 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:13,240 give us an idea of something that you need to hear, 34 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:18,880 that you want more information about or you want some enlightenment from the Holy Scriptures about. 35 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,120 And we'll take it to the Holy Spirit and see what he gives us. 36 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:28,000 And there's also lots and lots of other things out on our website that will be a blessing to you, 37 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,720 that will encourage you and help you to grow in the things of God 38 00:02:31,720 --> 00:02:36,000 as we contend and equip and engage for the outpouring. 39 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,600 So this vision that I had, a mental picture, 40 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:41,500 I'm not sure you'd call it a vision, 41 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:45,740 was just a picture of butter melting. 42 00:02:45,740 --> 00:02:49,740 And, you know, butter just melts under, 43 00:02:49,740 --> 00:02:51,820 it doesn't take a whole lot of, 44 00:02:51,820 --> 00:02:54,020 doesn't take a lot of heat to make it happen. 45 00:02:54,020 --> 00:02:58,580 But there are some things in our lives and some things that are described in the Scripture 46 00:02:58,580 --> 00:03:01,320 about causing the heart to melt. 47 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:07,200 And I find it interesting that the word for courage 48 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,540 comes from a word meaning heart. 49 00:03:11,540 --> 00:03:15,440 So when we're discouraged, 50 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,440 there's something that's missing in our heart, you know? 51 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:23,340 Or if we're encouraged, our heart is strengthened, right? 52 00:03:23,340 --> 00:03:24,480 Yeah. 53 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,240 Encourage thyself in the Lord. 54 00:03:26,240 --> 00:03:27,320 Exactly. 55 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:28,780 David did that many times. 56 00:03:28,780 --> 00:03:30,160 Exactly. 57 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,960 And so there are a number of places in the Word of God 58 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:38,060 that talk about the melting of the heart. 59 00:03:38,060 --> 00:03:41,760 And it's usually caused by fear. 60 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,300 Moses, when he was on the shore of the Red Sea, 61 00:03:44,300 --> 00:03:48,740 he's prophesying as they have gotten through to the other side 62 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:53,180 and Pharaoh's armies have been drowned in the sea 63 00:03:53,180 --> 00:03:55,940 and they're all celebrating on the Red Sea shore 64 00:03:55,940 --> 00:04:00,980 and, you know, Miriam gets her tambourine and is dancing and singing songs. 65 00:04:00,980 --> 00:04:03,560 And one of the things that he prophesies, 66 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:06,660 he declares, who is like you? 67 00:04:06,660 --> 00:04:10,400 Oh, Yehovah, oh Lord among the gods. 68 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,400 Who's like you? 69 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,800 Yehovah among the gods. 70 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:14,840 You know, all the gods have names. 71 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:17,400 And that's why we keep using his name 72 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:20,980 because that's what it says in the original scripture. 73 00:04:20,980 --> 00:04:24,040 It says Yehovah. It doesn't say Lord. 74 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,640 But the translators have followed the protocol 75 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:30,940 that was given to them by the Jewish people 76 00:04:30,940 --> 00:04:32,920 who understood the Hebrew language. 77 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:38,420 And they had been given orders because years and years ago 78 00:04:38,420 --> 00:04:40,420 under the Greeks and again under the Romans, 79 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:41,920 they were forbidden to use the name 80 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:44,200 and they would be executed if they used the name. 81 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:48,160 So they decided it would be better to say it's just much too holy to use. 82 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,180 So Moses is saying, who is like you, oh Yehovah, among the gods? 83 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:54,080 Who is like you? 84 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:59,380 Majestic in holiness, awesome and glorious deeds, doing wonders. 85 00:04:59,380 --> 00:05:01,540 You stretched out your right hand. 86 00:05:01,540 --> 00:05:05,080 The earth swallowed them. Talking about Pharaoh and his army. 87 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:10,380 You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed. 88 00:05:10,380 --> 00:05:14,300 You have guided them by your strength to your holy abode. 89 00:05:14,300 --> 00:05:16,960 The peoples have heard, they tremble. 90 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,900 Pang's have seized upon the inhabitants of Philistia. 91 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:24,440 Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed. 92 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,480 Trembling seizes the leaders of Moab. 93 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:32,220 All the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away. 94 00:05:32,220 --> 00:05:36,340 Terror and dread fall upon them because of the greatness of your arm. 95 00:05:36,340 --> 00:05:38,820 They are as still as a stone. 96 00:05:38,820 --> 00:05:44,620 Till your people, oh Yehovah, pass by, till your people pass by whom you have purchased, 97 00:05:44,620 --> 00:05:50,200 you will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain. 98 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:56,060 The place, oh Yehovah, which you have made for your abode, the sanctuary, oh Lord, 99 00:05:56,060 --> 00:06:01,340 which your hands have established, Yehovah will reign forever and ever. 100 00:06:01,340 --> 00:06:01,880 Amen. 101 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:04,240 That's from the English Standard Version. 102 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,420 And you can see how Moses is prophesying. 103 00:06:08,420 --> 00:06:14,120 As soon as these people hear that Yehovah has split the Red Sea 104 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,720 and caused all the Pharaoh's armies to drown, 105 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:24,420 they probably have already heard from the traders the stories of the ten plagues that have hit Egypt. 106 00:06:24,420 --> 00:06:28,100 Yeah, and when we were studying those plagues, 107 00:06:28,100 --> 00:06:31,700 it wasn't something that happened maybe all in one week. 108 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:32,200 Yeah. 109 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:36,180 Because the cattle were destroyed and all of a sudden they have cattle. 110 00:06:36,180 --> 00:06:36,680 Right. 111 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,980 Maybe they got them from the Israelites. 112 00:06:40,980 --> 00:06:44,220 So it's not like there was a plague every day. 113 00:06:44,220 --> 00:06:49,320 There was a measure of time between them and what we don't know. 114 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:49,820 Yeah. 115 00:06:49,820 --> 00:06:54,620 So can you imagine the traders, going on the trade routes from Egypt? 116 00:06:54,620 --> 00:06:57,100 They would pass through the land of Canaan. 117 00:06:57,100 --> 00:06:57,700 Yeah. 118 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,400 And they would pass the Moabites and the Edomites, the Canaanites, 119 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:08,780 are all going to hear these stories of the things that the God named Yehovah has done for his people. 120 00:07:08,780 --> 00:07:09,740 Wow. 121 00:07:09,740 --> 00:07:10,500 Yeah. 122 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:14,580 And they have their gods and their gods have names and so on. 123 00:07:14,580 --> 00:07:19,680 And they're comparing the powers of the gods, right? 124 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:26,620 And the plagues were all designed to show that the gods of Egypt had nothing on Yehovah. 125 00:07:26,620 --> 00:07:27,120 Yeah. 126 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,260 That's what Rahab said in Jericho. 127 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:30,760 Right. 128 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,660 And we've heard what happened to the Egyptians. 129 00:07:34,660 --> 00:07:35,160 Yeah. 130 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,040 And so you know that only could have come by the traders. 131 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:38,780 Sure. 132 00:07:38,780 --> 00:07:39,740 Sure. 133 00:07:39,740 --> 00:07:44,500 So it caused the hearts of all of these nations to melt. 134 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:45,440 Melt. 135 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,380 OK. 136 00:07:46,380 --> 00:07:52,780 So in this case, it's the fear of Yehovah that's causing their hearts to melt. 137 00:07:52,780 --> 00:07:59,360 Well, you know, let's think about in these days that we're living in right now, 138 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:03,700 we need to have that fear of the Lord reestablished. 139 00:08:03,700 --> 00:08:04,860 Oh, my, yes. 140 00:08:04,860 --> 00:08:05,420 Yes. 141 00:08:05,420 --> 00:08:11,940 And it's probably going to take some stuff happening to get the fear of Yehovah back to us. 142 00:08:11,940 --> 00:08:14,400 You know, we don't know what it's going to take. 143 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,180 But if you read the Book of Revelation, there's a whole lot of stuff. 144 00:08:17,180 --> 00:08:18,020 Yeah. 145 00:08:18,020 --> 00:08:18,540 Yeah. 146 00:08:18,540 --> 00:08:26,900 And I don't know that we're quite there yet, but we are certainly in a place where we are close to some stuff happening. 147 00:08:26,900 --> 00:08:34,300 Now, the question is, is your heart going to melt when stuff happens? 148 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:41,100 Because when you see the things that Yehovah does and you are in right relationship with him, 149 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,020 you have nothing to fear. 150 00:08:43,020 --> 00:08:45,820 Absolutely nothing. 151 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:50,900 I remember it was Bruce Allen and Bruce has a lot of visitations. 152 00:08:50,900 --> 00:08:53,700 He has a real relationship with the Lord. 153 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:59,240 And he mentioned something that he says, you know, all these characters that you see, 154 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:05,140 you know, like ET and all the gremlins and that little green thing with the pointy ears, 155 00:09:05,140 --> 00:09:08,460 you know, all this stuff, maybe cabbage patch. 156 00:09:08,460 --> 00:09:09,420 I don't know. 157 00:09:09,420 --> 00:09:12,700 But he says all this a lot of this stuff is demonic. 158 00:09:12,700 --> 00:09:13,540 Absolutely. 159 00:09:13,540 --> 00:09:18,020 It's people, you know, a lot of these creators, they've been on drugs, cocaine, 160 00:09:18,020 --> 00:09:21,700 and they see these or they get visited by these things. 161 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:22,420 Right. 162 00:09:22,420 --> 00:09:31,100 And what Bruce had said, he said, the day is going to come when these beings are going to appear 163 00:09:31,100 --> 00:09:36,300 and they're going to be there and people's hearts will melt for fear. 164 00:09:36,300 --> 00:09:36,780 Yeah. 165 00:09:36,780 --> 00:09:43,500 Because this is something that, you know, you're used to seeing it on a page, on a kind of book 166 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:48,860 or on your TV, but all of a sudden, if you see something like happen in front of you, 167 00:09:48,860 --> 00:09:52,540 and he may not have a smile on his face either. 168 00:09:52,540 --> 00:09:55,260 You know, and this is real tribulation stuff. 169 00:09:55,260 --> 00:09:55,620 Right. 170 00:09:55,620 --> 00:09:57,300 We probably won't be here for that. 171 00:09:57,300 --> 00:10:01,460 Well, I don't know what we're going to be here for, but I'll tell you this experience. 172 00:10:01,460 --> 00:10:06,380 I mean, you know about it, but I'll tell it for our listeners that our daughter wanted us 173 00:10:06,380 --> 00:10:10,900 to see the Lord of the Rings trilogy movies. 174 00:10:10,900 --> 00:10:16,940 And I wasn't particularly interested in watching those things, you know. 175 00:10:16,940 --> 00:10:19,220 Because we don't watch a lot of movies anyway. 176 00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:22,860 We don't hardly watch any movies, but she wanted us to see it. 177 00:10:22,860 --> 00:10:26,820 And I knew that Tolkien was a Christian. 178 00:10:26,820 --> 00:10:29,540 And so there's probably something good in it. 179 00:10:29,540 --> 00:10:31,060 And I'll, okay. 180 00:10:31,060 --> 00:10:32,300 Okay. 181 00:10:32,300 --> 00:10:33,740 I'll sit down and watch it. 182 00:10:33,740 --> 00:10:38,100 So we're watching the first one and we're sitting there. 183 00:10:38,100 --> 00:10:44,460 If you know the story of the first Lord of the Rings movie, they're in this mountain, 184 00:10:44,460 --> 00:10:47,580 all these characters that are trying to do what they're trying to do. 185 00:10:47,580 --> 00:10:53,420 I won't go into all those details, but they're in this corridor inside of a mountain 186 00:10:53,420 --> 00:11:02,100 and a cave and they see this red light and they hear this kind of sounds. 187 00:11:02,100 --> 00:11:08,660 They hear these horrible sounds and they're looking at each other. 188 00:11:08,660 --> 00:11:13,900 And all of a sudden, one of them says, it's a Balrog run for your life. 189 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:19,220 And I'm thinking, I do not want to put my eyes on whatever this is. 190 00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:22,300 And I got up to leave the room. 191 00:11:22,300 --> 00:11:23,820 Do you remember that? 192 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:25,620 You remember that? 193 00:11:25,620 --> 00:11:31,300 And all of a sudden I heard the Holy Spirit say, sit down and watch this. 194 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:34,780 You're going to see worse things than this before it's all over. 195 00:11:34,780 --> 00:11:38,380 You're going to see worse things than that. 196 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:39,380 Yes. 197 00:11:39,380 --> 00:11:47,380 So the point here is, are we going to allow our hearts to melt at the things that are 198 00:11:47,380 --> 00:11:54,200 shown to us by dark powers that have an agenda? 199 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:59,700 We hear all about their agendas, but it doesn't mean they can do all of their agendas. 200 00:11:59,700 --> 00:12:07,420 A lot of things depend on how much we pray and how much we stand on the word of God and 201 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:13,340 our relationship with our Father, with the Lord Jesus, with the Holy Spirit. 202 00:12:13,340 --> 00:12:22,320 So are we going to let His presence in us maintain our hearts? 203 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:28,660 Are we going to have strong, courageous hearts, brave hearts? 204 00:12:28,660 --> 00:12:32,020 Or are we going to have melting hearts? 205 00:12:32,020 --> 00:12:34,060 This is something we need to look into. 206 00:12:34,060 --> 00:12:39,460 We need to pay attention because this is equipping. 207 00:12:39,460 --> 00:12:46,320 Because when the Holy Spirit said to me, what's coming is going to be like the book of Acts 208 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,340 on steroids. 209 00:12:48,340 --> 00:12:52,140 And so we think about, oh, wow, the day of Pentecost. 210 00:12:52,140 --> 00:12:55,860 Oh, wow, the miracles. 211 00:12:55,860 --> 00:13:01,700 The lame man getting up and running and leaping and praising God and all of the miracles and 212 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:06,780 miracles and the shadow of Peter healing people. 213 00:13:06,780 --> 00:13:10,700 And all of these amazing things that go on. 214 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:18,700 But you have to also remember that there was extreme persecution at the same time. 215 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:24,220 So if it's the book of Acts on steroids, the Lord didn't specify that it was just the miracles. 216 00:13:24,220 --> 00:13:27,300 Yeah, glory and judgment go together. 217 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:28,820 Yes, they do. 218 00:13:28,820 --> 00:13:29,860 They surely do. 219 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:38,620 And we shouldn't be afraid of judgment because judgment from God is really bringing justice. 220 00:13:38,620 --> 00:13:40,900 It's going to bring righteousness. 221 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:43,980 It's going to bring order. 222 00:13:43,980 --> 00:13:49,580 We've been praying for ever since Jesus taught His disciples to pray, thy kingdom come, thy 223 00:13:49,580 --> 00:13:54,260 will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 224 00:13:54,260 --> 00:13:56,660 Well, in heaven, there's perfect order. 225 00:13:56,660 --> 00:13:58,420 In heaven, there's perfect righteousness. 226 00:13:58,420 --> 00:14:01,020 In heaven, there's perfect glory. 227 00:14:01,020 --> 00:14:02,020 There's peace. 228 00:14:02,020 --> 00:14:03,020 There's joy. 229 00:14:03,020 --> 00:14:04,020 There's love. 230 00:14:04,020 --> 00:14:07,260 Everything is in order. 231 00:14:07,260 --> 00:14:12,340 So we're asking God to bring His kingdom here. 232 00:14:12,340 --> 00:14:15,740 The kingdom of God is so close. 233 00:14:15,740 --> 00:14:25,140 And the problem is that time itself is the countdown for the devil until he's done. 234 00:14:25,140 --> 00:14:26,140 He's done. 235 00:14:26,140 --> 00:14:27,540 He's almost done. 236 00:14:27,540 --> 00:14:35,940 And he's so close to being in this place where he is, you know, he's upset because his time 237 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:36,940 is short. 238 00:14:36,940 --> 00:14:37,940 Yeah. 239 00:14:37,940 --> 00:14:38,940 Yeah. 240 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:44,180 And in Isaiah, chapter 26, verse 9, and who knew judgment is like Isaiah? 241 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:46,180 I mean, oh, the... 242 00:14:46,180 --> 00:14:47,180 He prophesied it. 243 00:14:47,180 --> 00:14:48,180 Oh, my. 244 00:14:48,180 --> 00:14:55,580 But in 26, verse 9, with my soul have I desired thee in the night, and with my spirit within 245 00:14:55,580 --> 00:14:58,020 me will I seek thee early. 246 00:14:58,020 --> 00:14:59,520 That's the key right there. 247 00:14:59,520 --> 00:15:00,520 That is the key. 248 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,520 You know, that's the key. 249 00:15:01,520 --> 00:15:07,420 For when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will earn righteousness. 250 00:15:07,420 --> 00:15:08,420 Exactly. 251 00:15:08,420 --> 00:15:09,540 Exactly. 252 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:14,660 So the question is whose hearts are going to melt in this time? 253 00:15:14,660 --> 00:15:16,340 Is it the enemies of God? 254 00:15:16,340 --> 00:15:17,340 Yes. 255 00:15:17,340 --> 00:15:19,060 That's what it should be. 256 00:15:19,060 --> 00:15:30,660 It should be that we are so filled with the presence of God that our being is so yielded 257 00:15:30,660 --> 00:15:36,380 to His glory that He can do anything He wants to do through us. 258 00:15:36,380 --> 00:15:38,980 That's the part of the book of Acts that we want to see. 259 00:15:38,980 --> 00:15:39,980 Yeah. 260 00:15:39,980 --> 00:15:40,980 Okay. 261 00:15:40,980 --> 00:15:42,060 That we're so full of light. 262 00:15:42,060 --> 00:15:44,060 We're so full of glory. 263 00:15:44,060 --> 00:15:52,820 We're able to stand because He is operating in us and we have learned to yield to Him. 264 00:15:52,820 --> 00:15:53,940 Yeah. 265 00:15:53,940 --> 00:16:01,140 When we let Him have His way and we just go with Him, we're working in tandem with Him, 266 00:16:01,140 --> 00:16:05,140 and it will cause the hearts of the enemies to melt. 267 00:16:05,140 --> 00:16:06,140 Yes. 268 00:16:06,140 --> 00:16:13,380 You know, the folks that have been trying to do witchcraft and they come up to believers 269 00:16:13,380 --> 00:16:20,300 who are really walking in the things of God and they try to do things to us, we need to 270 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:25,900 have that amount of the glory of God that they don't have any power against us. 271 00:16:25,900 --> 00:16:33,100 Kind of like in Egypt when the Egyptian magicians couldn't do those same things that God did 272 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:37,740 when Moses did whatever he was going to do with his rod. 273 00:16:37,740 --> 00:16:45,500 We have to be those people that are so full of courage, so full of the peace of God, so 274 00:16:45,500 --> 00:16:51,140 full of joy, so full of love that whatever's going on in the darkness around us doesn't 275 00:16:51,140 --> 00:16:53,660 affect us. 276 00:16:53,660 --> 00:16:59,740 There'll be no effect because we will not allow our hearts to melt. 277 00:16:59,740 --> 00:17:05,380 I remember in all of these scriptures that I was looking up, one of them that stood out 278 00:17:05,380 --> 00:17:10,460 to me, because there's a couple different words in Hebrew for this idea of melting, 279 00:17:10,460 --> 00:17:18,460 and they both kind of mean to melt or to faint or dissolve or to vanish, to drop off or to 280 00:17:18,460 --> 00:17:20,940 be discouraged or faint. 281 00:17:20,940 --> 00:17:29,820 One of them is this word that is used when Samson was bound in Judges 15. 282 00:17:29,820 --> 00:17:32,500 Let's just look at that. 283 00:17:32,500 --> 00:17:43,100 So Samson had just, he had just caught 300 foxes and tied two of them together and put 284 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:47,960 a torch in between their tails and lit the torch and sent them out into the Philistines 285 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:49,620 grain fields. 286 00:17:49,620 --> 00:17:52,660 They were not happy. 287 00:17:52,660 --> 00:18:01,020 And he was busy trying to take out the economics of the Philistines by doing that. 288 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:02,020 That's how you do it. 289 00:18:02,020 --> 00:18:03,020 You destroy the crop. 290 00:18:03,020 --> 00:18:06,700 But the way he did it. 291 00:18:06,700 --> 00:18:14,300 And so then the men of Judah, when the Philistines came up, this is in Judges 15 verse 9, it 292 00:18:14,300 --> 00:18:19,860 says the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and spread themselves in Lehi, or 293 00:18:19,860 --> 00:18:20,940 Lehi. 294 00:18:20,940 --> 00:18:24,180 And the men of Judah said, why have you come up against us? 295 00:18:24,180 --> 00:18:30,980 And they answered, we have come to bind Samson to do to him as he has done to us. 296 00:18:30,980 --> 00:18:38,120 Then 3000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rocky tom, which is where Samson was, 297 00:18:38,120 --> 00:18:44,140 and said to Samson, have you not known that the Philistines are rulers over us? 298 00:18:44,140 --> 00:18:45,700 What is this that you've done to us? 299 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:48,300 He said, as they did to me, so have I done to them. 300 00:18:48,300 --> 00:18:50,540 Well, they tricked him out of his wife. 301 00:18:50,540 --> 00:18:55,060 You know, he had a Philistine bride and that didn't go well. 302 00:18:55,060 --> 00:18:56,700 Won't take time for that. 303 00:18:56,700 --> 00:19:02,480 And they said unto him, we've come down to bind you that we may deliver you into the 304 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:04,220 hands of the Philistines. 305 00:19:04,220 --> 00:19:09,260 And Samson said unto them, swear to me that you will not fall upon me yourselves. 306 00:19:09,260 --> 00:19:13,980 And they said unto him, no, we will bind you fast and give you into their hand. 307 00:19:13,980 --> 00:19:16,060 But surely we will not kill you. 308 00:19:16,060 --> 00:19:20,840 So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock. 309 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:26,020 And when he came to Leahy, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. 310 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:31,980 Here's the verse and the spirit of the Lord came mightily upon Samson and the ropes on 311 00:19:31,980 --> 00:19:39,420 his arms became as flax that had caught fire and his bonds melted off his hands. 312 00:19:39,420 --> 00:19:40,420 Okay. 313 00:19:40,420 --> 00:19:43,220 So yeah, they melted. 314 00:19:43,220 --> 00:19:45,500 So here's the picture. 315 00:19:45,500 --> 00:19:53,580 When the anointing comes on you, whatever has been binding you is going to fall off. 316 00:19:53,580 --> 00:19:59,820 So if you have some fear that's melting your heart, what you need is for the anointing 317 00:19:59,820 --> 00:20:02,540 to come down on you. 318 00:20:02,540 --> 00:20:05,820 So how do you get the anointing to come down on you? 319 00:20:05,820 --> 00:20:08,700 What do you do when you're discouraged? 320 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:10,620 Just worship, praise God. 321 00:20:10,620 --> 00:20:11,620 Exactly. 322 00:20:11,620 --> 00:20:12,620 Praise God. 323 00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:13,620 Wow. 324 00:20:13,620 --> 00:20:20,380 Worship, praise, dance, dance, spend time quietly in his presence. 325 00:20:20,380 --> 00:20:24,060 He will encourage you because he's inside of you. 326 00:20:24,060 --> 00:20:26,260 If you've allowed him to be in you. 327 00:20:26,260 --> 00:20:33,560 As you have studied his word, his word begins to come up inside of you. 328 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:42,540 And it comes up to give you a word that you can use to go to battle against the darkness 329 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:47,340 because you are a light in the world listener. 330 00:20:47,340 --> 00:20:48,860 You are a light. 331 00:20:48,860 --> 00:20:49,860 You are a light. 332 00:20:49,860 --> 00:20:52,820 You are the child of the father of lights. 333 00:20:52,820 --> 00:20:54,220 He put you here. 334 00:20:54,220 --> 00:20:55,600 He lit you. 335 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,700 He has a purpose and he wants you to be a light. 336 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:01,820 And you can't be a light when you're hidden under. 337 00:21:01,820 --> 00:21:05,460 Well, you're still a light, but you don't hide under a bushel basket. 338 00:21:05,460 --> 00:21:06,460 Yeah. 339 00:21:06,460 --> 00:21:12,500 You know, in James chapter four, verse eight says, draw nigh to God and he will draw nigh 340 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:14,140 to you. 341 00:21:14,140 --> 00:21:15,500 Cleanse your hands. 342 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:18,340 He sinners and purify your hearts. 343 00:21:18,340 --> 00:21:20,260 He double minded. 344 00:21:20,260 --> 00:21:22,860 So don't be double minded. 345 00:21:22,860 --> 00:21:23,860 Yes. 346 00:21:23,860 --> 00:21:25,660 How would you describe double minded? 347 00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:31,020 Well, I would describe double minded as when you're trying to figure out, do I do this? 348 00:21:31,020 --> 00:21:32,180 Do I do that? 349 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:33,180 Do I do this? 350 00:21:33,180 --> 00:21:34,180 Do I do that? 351 00:21:34,180 --> 00:21:38,340 You're weighing the pros and the cons and you know, part of you wants to do this and 352 00:21:38,340 --> 00:21:40,100 part of you wants to do that. 353 00:21:40,100 --> 00:21:45,500 And you have to let go of the flesh that is fighting with your spirit. 354 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:46,500 Yeah. 355 00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:54,660 It's like you have one foot in the world and one in the kingdom and it's going to fight 356 00:21:54,660 --> 00:21:55,660 against each other. 357 00:21:55,660 --> 00:21:56,660 It's true. 358 00:21:56,660 --> 00:22:01,380 So if you're double minded in all your ways, your thinking is going to be double minded. 359 00:22:01,380 --> 00:22:02,380 Yes. 360 00:22:02,380 --> 00:22:04,420 And you're not going to be full focused. 361 00:22:04,420 --> 00:22:05,420 Yeah. 362 00:22:05,420 --> 00:22:12,180 During the World War II it was, there was a particular ship and the guy in the radar 363 00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:18,420 fell asleep, you know, and all of a sudden woke up and all of a sudden they're within 364 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:23,380 range of, you know, an enemy ship or something like that. 365 00:22:23,380 --> 00:22:29,460 You know, because, you know, he fell asleep and missed, you know, they did get out of 366 00:22:29,460 --> 00:22:34,980 it, but if you fall asleep at the wrong thing, it could take you out. 367 00:22:34,980 --> 00:22:35,980 Right. 368 00:22:35,980 --> 00:22:37,460 You can't fall asleep at the wheel. 369 00:22:37,460 --> 00:22:38,460 Yeah. 370 00:22:38,460 --> 00:22:39,460 I did that once. 371 00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:40,460 What happened? 372 00:22:40,460 --> 00:22:48,980 Yeah, I was doing 65 miles an hour and going down 294, you know, Chicago, it's a toll 373 00:22:48,980 --> 00:22:49,980 way. 374 00:22:49,980 --> 00:22:51,540 It was a big mile long bridge. 375 00:22:51,540 --> 00:22:52,540 Oh my. 376 00:22:52,540 --> 00:22:53,540 I'm in the middle lane. 377 00:22:53,540 --> 00:22:54,780 I remember it was raining. 378 00:22:54,780 --> 00:22:56,220 I had a big car. 379 00:22:56,220 --> 00:22:57,740 It was a 72 Chevy. 380 00:22:57,740 --> 00:22:59,780 That's back when they made them big. 381 00:22:59,780 --> 00:23:03,440 And I drifted off and I went into the rear wheels. 382 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:04,940 It was a double trailer. 383 00:23:04,940 --> 00:23:09,140 You know, the 18 wheelers, I have another trailer on the back of it. 384 00:23:09,140 --> 00:23:14,840 I went into the back wheels, you know, the door and it bounced the car back. 385 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,860 So I was able to maintain control. 386 00:23:16,860 --> 00:23:20,740 And I'll tell you what, I woke up real quick. 387 00:23:20,740 --> 00:23:24,220 So what do I do anymore if I get real tired when I'm driving? 388 00:23:24,220 --> 00:23:25,820 I kind of think about that. 389 00:23:25,820 --> 00:23:27,620 I do something about it. 390 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:31,260 You know, don't wait until you fall asleep at the wheel, you know, if you're tired, do 391 00:23:31,260 --> 00:23:32,260 something. 392 00:23:32,260 --> 00:23:33,260 Right. 393 00:23:33,260 --> 00:23:35,380 Get out, run around the car or let somebody else drive. 394 00:23:35,380 --> 00:23:36,380 Right. 395 00:23:36,380 --> 00:23:37,380 Right. 396 00:23:37,380 --> 00:23:42,620 You know, because when you pray, when you, before you go out on a trip, we were in Scotland, 397 00:23:42,620 --> 00:23:50,380 we were coming back and I'm in the back seat, which with Sharon and our founders, Sister 398 00:23:50,380 --> 00:23:55,900 Gwen and Colonel Jim, Colonel Jim was driving and I was just sleeping in the back and it 399 00:23:55,900 --> 00:23:58,180 was just the Holy Spirit just woke me up. 400 00:23:58,180 --> 00:24:03,340 My eyes popped open and I'm looking at Colonel Jim and he's bobbing. 401 00:24:03,340 --> 00:24:06,140 I mean, he's already, you know, and I look at the speedometer. 402 00:24:06,140 --> 00:24:07,540 His head was bobbing. 403 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:08,540 His head was bobbing. 404 00:24:08,540 --> 00:24:15,440 And we're doing about 135 kilometers an hour, you know, and I just go, I do a real loud 405 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,300 cough and he wakes up and, you know, after five minutes, he says, do you want to drive? 406 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:24,860 I didn't want to because the steering wheel is on the other side of the car and we're 407 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:26,820 on the other side of the road. 408 00:24:26,820 --> 00:24:29,820 That was my first experience, but at least it was an automatic. 409 00:24:29,820 --> 00:24:30,820 Yeah. 410 00:24:30,820 --> 00:24:34,160 But it was the Holy Spirit was faithful to wake me up. 411 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:39,700 So even if you fall, you know, if maybe that you're falling asleep or something, then the 412 00:24:39,700 --> 00:24:45,300 Holy Spirit alerts somebody else to, you know, to kind of jerk the slack out of you. 413 00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:46,300 Right. 414 00:24:46,300 --> 00:24:47,300 Right. 415 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:52,100 And this idea of melting hearts, I mean, your heart was kind of melting when you saw him 416 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:53,580 falling asleep at the wheel. 417 00:24:53,580 --> 00:24:54,580 Yeah. 418 00:24:54,580 --> 00:24:56,020 Like, what do we do now? 419 00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:57,020 Okay. 420 00:24:57,020 --> 00:24:58,020 Clear your throat. 421 00:24:58,020 --> 00:25:04,180 You know, if you want to have a melting heart, you know, come down in an airplane on a real 422 00:25:04,180 --> 00:25:08,900 tough landing, you'll feel, you know, a praying in tongues. 423 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:09,900 Yeah. 424 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:13,300 You know, there's something that you read. 425 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:18,460 I don't know if you read it on the podcast, but you read it in the message that you gave 426 00:25:18,460 --> 00:25:20,320 a few weeks ago. 427 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,940 That was Reese Howells. 428 00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:30,060 When he was talking about praying through regarding the air raids that were happening, 429 00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:31,740 and they were happening in Wales as well. 430 00:25:31,740 --> 00:25:33,100 It wasn't just in England. 431 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:34,940 It was the whole UK. 432 00:25:34,940 --> 00:25:42,940 And what he was saying, I can't quote it exactly, but it was something about you have to know 433 00:25:42,940 --> 00:25:47,220 that you have the protection of the Lord. 434 00:25:47,220 --> 00:25:48,860 You have to be so secure. 435 00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:52,620 It's not that you just say, well, the Lord is my shepherd. 436 00:25:52,620 --> 00:25:55,660 I shall not want, I'll be okay. 437 00:25:55,660 --> 00:25:57,500 The Lord's going to watch over me. 438 00:25:57,500 --> 00:25:59,600 You have to know. 439 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:05,140 And I think in that prayer too, is like when you go to sleep at night, you know, is when 440 00:26:05,140 --> 00:26:10,860 the air raids or something, you know, are you going to be able to withstand it? 441 00:26:10,860 --> 00:26:11,860 Yes. 442 00:26:11,860 --> 00:26:13,860 I'll give you enough God in you to withstand this. 443 00:26:13,860 --> 00:26:20,380 And that's really the point that we're trying to make here is that we have such a relationship 444 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:24,540 with our Father and that we are listening for His voice. 445 00:26:24,540 --> 00:26:32,420 And He is giving us the word of the Lord of what to do next or what not to do next, that 446 00:26:32,420 --> 00:26:37,100 we're hearing Him giving us instructions. 447 00:26:37,100 --> 00:26:41,360 And if we don't hear anything, we don't do anything. 448 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:47,980 Sometimes we get presumptuous and it's time for us to stop presuming. 449 00:26:47,980 --> 00:26:54,700 And I'm not saying anything against repeating scriptures because we need to repeat the scriptures. 450 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:57,340 We war with the word of God. 451 00:26:57,340 --> 00:27:02,100 We use the word of God as a sword in our battles. 452 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:10,920 But the idea is that we become so confident in the word of God that we know it so well 453 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,220 and we know that this is the word of the Lord. 454 00:27:14,220 --> 00:27:17,220 Now we were in preparation for this podcast. 455 00:27:17,220 --> 00:27:21,900 We were talking about a moment when your heart melted. 456 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:27,960 Oh, we were in, we were in Tibet and we were leaving Tibet. 457 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:32,460 We were in three old land cruisers when we were on our going through the mountains of 458 00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:33,460 Tibet. 459 00:27:33,460 --> 00:27:40,220 And so now we're in Nepal and just crossed the border and we picked up a, it was like 460 00:27:40,220 --> 00:27:43,080 a 25 seat Mercedes bus. 461 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:44,380 It was just so really nice. 462 00:27:44,380 --> 00:27:46,620 You know, I thought, wow, this is really good. 463 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:49,180 It was comfort compared to the land cruisers. 464 00:27:49,180 --> 00:27:54,020 And we didn't get, get real far, maybe 45 minutes. 465 00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:55,300 And all of a sudden we're stopped. 466 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,760 There's this line of traffic ahead. 467 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,620 So I wonder stopped completely stopped. 468 00:28:00,620 --> 00:28:07,120 We went down, you know, walked about a little ways there and crossed over a little hill 469 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:12,100 and looked down and down in the bottom of the road is like a hill in this down little 470 00:28:12,100 --> 00:28:13,100 valley. 471 00:28:13,100 --> 00:28:15,860 Here is a truck blocking the road. 472 00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:21,260 I mean, why didn't transport truck, a big truck and go, cause this is a narrow two lane. 473 00:28:21,260 --> 00:28:26,880 He's right smack in the middle of the road and he's broke down and I get out and I looked 474 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:34,340 underneath and they have the gears, you know, the, the, the rear axle pulled apart and my 475 00:28:34,340 --> 00:28:42,460 mechanical buying my heart melted because my mechanical knowledge told me, you know, 476 00:28:42,460 --> 00:28:45,780 this isn't something that you fix in an hour or two. 477 00:28:45,780 --> 00:28:51,660 This is a major, major breakdown on a vehicle and they can't even move it. 478 00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:54,820 You know, and our heart just kind of melted. 479 00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:56,580 I thought, man, what do we do? 480 00:28:56,580 --> 00:28:57,740 How do we even go back? 481 00:28:57,740 --> 00:29:03,700 Do we go back, cross the border back in a Tibet where the last hotel was? 482 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:06,700 And you know, we're responsible for the team of 12 that we have. 483 00:29:06,700 --> 00:29:08,780 We're the tour leaders on this, right? 484 00:29:08,780 --> 00:29:12,420 You know, and then Sharon just pipes up with this word. 485 00:29:12,420 --> 00:29:15,260 We are going to be in Kathmandu. 486 00:29:15,260 --> 00:29:18,180 That's the capital of Nepal on the 4th of July. 487 00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:23,180 And it was the 4th of July and I didn't have faith for that. 488 00:29:23,180 --> 00:29:24,180 Okay. 489 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:29,780 But we had a word of the Lord because our accountant, Sandy Baldwin told us before we 490 00:29:29,780 --> 00:29:31,780 left, she had a dream. 491 00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:32,780 Yeah. 492 00:29:32,780 --> 00:29:38,340 She says, I had a dream and in my dream, I don't remember if she saw it or she heard 493 00:29:38,340 --> 00:29:45,120 it or whatever, but the message of the dream was that our team was going to be in Kathmandu 494 00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,620 on the 4th of July. 495 00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:52,340 Well, we actually planned our journey based on that word. 496 00:29:52,340 --> 00:29:58,700 We set up the whole itinerary so that we would be in Kathmandu on the 4th of July. 497 00:29:58,700 --> 00:30:03,240 So to me, that was a proceeding word of the Lord. 498 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:09,620 So I was determined and in full expectation that no matter what this looks like, we're 499 00:30:09,620 --> 00:30:12,780 going to be in Kathmandu on the 4th of July. 500 00:30:12,780 --> 00:30:19,020 So you know, the story goes that we went beyond there and somehow I got the idea that there's 501 00:30:19,020 --> 00:30:24,780 buses that are trying to get to the border that can't get to the border because of this 502 00:30:24,780 --> 00:30:28,980 truck, but they could turn around and go back to Kathmandu. 503 00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:29,980 Yeah. 504 00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:36,420 And this gentleman in a car, he was English, so he spoke English and Nepali and he saw 505 00:30:36,420 --> 00:30:40,100 a predicament and his car was narrow enough. 506 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:45,480 They dug part of the bank of the road out so the small cars could get by and he went 507 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:51,140 up and negotiated with a bus that was up there and he came back and he says, yeah, they will 508 00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:52,820 take you to Kathmandu. 509 00:30:52,820 --> 00:30:55,180 So we just hired a bunch of guys. 510 00:30:55,180 --> 00:30:59,700 They came and just got all of our luggage for trouble bus, carried it on their head 511 00:30:59,700 --> 00:31:01,620 past the broken vehicle. 512 00:31:01,620 --> 00:31:05,940 Then we got onto this, I've always wanted to get one of these big buses they have in 513 00:31:05,940 --> 00:31:06,940 India. 514 00:31:06,940 --> 00:31:13,180 It's manufactured by Tata, T-A-T-A and they have these abrasive air horns that are far 515 00:31:13,180 --> 00:31:17,460 worse than any train you've ever heard and it just rattles your eardrums. 516 00:31:17,460 --> 00:31:21,520 And I've always wanted to ride one of those things and God gave us the desire of our hearts 517 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:28,580 and we got to ride one of those and we pulled into Kathmandu at 9.15 in the evening. 518 00:31:28,580 --> 00:31:30,260 On the 4th of July. 519 00:31:30,260 --> 00:31:39,420 So having a word of the Lord gives you courage and it causes that melting heart to stop melting 520 00:31:39,420 --> 00:31:43,060 because we're going to see the word of the Lord come to pass. 521 00:31:43,060 --> 00:31:47,500 Now sometimes the word of the Lord comes to us in scripture. 522 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:53,580 If you have immersed yourself in scripture then a phrase from the scripture will come 523 00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:57,440 into your spirit and give you guidance. 524 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:00,160 It happens to me all the time. 525 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:06,600 It's not like I'm always hearing the voice of the Lord giving me a prophetic word. 526 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:08,500 It doesn't happen often. 527 00:32:08,500 --> 00:32:09,640 Sometimes it does. 528 00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:18,540 But many, many, many, many times I get a phrase from the scripture that comes into my mind, 529 00:32:18,540 --> 00:32:25,240 comes into my spirit and I go look up that scripture and it gives me the next step. 530 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,980 That's often how we get the leading for what to do in a podcast. 531 00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:28,980 In a podcast, yes. 532 00:32:28,980 --> 00:32:29,980 Yeah. 533 00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:36,700 I just get a word, a phrase and as I go and look it up and there's the word of the Lord. 534 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:42,020 So we can be guided by the word of the Lord that's in our spirit. 535 00:32:42,020 --> 00:32:48,300 The Holy Spirit that's inside of our spirit will bring up those words and we'll find that 536 00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:56,000 there is something that is giving us courage to go forward even when the enemy is trying 537 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,460 to do something to cause us to fear. 538 00:32:58,460 --> 00:32:59,460 Yes. 539 00:32:59,460 --> 00:33:00,460 Oh, that's right. 540 00:33:00,460 --> 00:33:03,280 So we don't let our hearts melt. 541 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,220 We make the enemy's heart melt because of the glory of the Lord that he's working in 542 00:33:08,220 --> 00:33:09,360 our lives. 543 00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:15,840 All of these things that the devil tries to put on us, when we recognize who it is, that's 544 00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:22,580 when we start to go to battle and we win because the word of the Lord always works. 545 00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:23,920 The word works. 546 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:24,920 The word works. 547 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:25,920 The word works. 548 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:26,920 Yes, that's right. 549 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:27,920 The word works. 550 00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:35,500 So we stand with Samson in those moments and let the spirit of the Lord come upon us and 551 00:33:35,500 --> 00:33:41,520 all those things that are trying to bind us up and keep us from moving forward. 552 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,380 Those things are going to be melted. 553 00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:48,180 So there's another scripture that talks about being melted with fervent heat. 554 00:33:48,180 --> 00:33:55,080 That phrase came to me when I was preparing all these notes and that's in 2nd Peter chapter 555 00:33:55,080 --> 00:34:00,840 3 verses 10 to 12 it says, but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night 556 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:06,540 in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the elements shall melt 557 00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:08,100 with fervent heat. 558 00:34:08,100 --> 00:34:13,340 The earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 559 00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:16,900 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved. 560 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:23,960 What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation or all holy lifestyle 561 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:29,700 and godliness looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God where in the 562 00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:34,420 heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fervent heat. 563 00:34:34,420 --> 00:34:38,020 Well, it sounds like the book of Revelation and tribulation. 564 00:34:38,020 --> 00:34:39,020 Exactly. 565 00:34:39,020 --> 00:34:43,640 You know, I spoke with Dean Braxton about this, about, you know, what is this going 566 00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:44,640 to be like? 567 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:48,320 Because, you know, he went to heaven, spent an hour and 45 minutes there. 568 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,680 He saw lots of things. 569 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:51,160 So earth time and our 45 minutes. 570 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:58,200 Yeah, our earth time and you get outside of time and it's like a long time. 571 00:34:58,200 --> 00:34:59,200 That's without limit. 572 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,920 A day of the Lord is like a thousand years. 573 00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:03,920 Right. 574 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,780 So it was like he spent years there. 575 00:35:05,780 --> 00:35:09,800 So anyway, I was asking him, what is this going to be about? 576 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,280 Because I was a little scared of it. 577 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,200 You know, where are we going to be? 578 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:18,520 And what he explained was that everything that's out of order is going to be burned 579 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:24,400 up so that that which is kind of like the shaking that's talked about in Hebrews, that 580 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:28,920 everything that can be shaken will be shaken so that that which cannot be shaken will remain. 581 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,760 The things of the kingdom of God will remain. 582 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:39,000 I think didn't Dean say the Lord just loves his earth so much to destroy it like that? 583 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Was that Dean that said that? 584 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:41,300 It wasn't Dean that said that. 585 00:35:41,300 --> 00:35:48,120 That was Howard Storm when he was with Jesus after he died and he came back into his body. 586 00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:56,320 He asked Jesus, will the earth be destroyed by nuclear armaments? 587 00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:59,880 And Jesus said, no, I love my earth too much to let that happen. 588 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:00,880 Wow. 589 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,120 So that gives you a great yeah. 590 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:06,560 I think that's a word of the Lord that we can hang on to. 591 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:09,400 We do not have to fear these things. 592 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:15,440 And if you think about the atomic bombs that went off in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I mean, 593 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,800 those were horrific. 594 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:23,480 The people that were at ground zero were completely vaporized and all that was left of them was 595 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,800 their shadow. 596 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:30,160 But there were the group of, I think they were maybe just priests. 597 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:37,200 It was a monastery or a group home of priests, Catholic priests that were right at ground 598 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:44,960 zero or near ground zero and everybody else all around them died and they were unharmed 599 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:47,040 because they were living in the presence of God. 600 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:48,040 Wow. 601 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:49,800 So radiation just bounced off them. 602 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,680 See they were radiating the glory. 603 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,400 They were living in prayer. 604 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:57,040 That prayer was their thing. 605 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:03,160 And so it's the presence of the Lord that will protect you from those kinds of fervent 606 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:10,320 heats that will melt the enemy, that will melt things that don't belong. 607 00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,800 Please I'm not saying anything about the innocent Japanese people that were wiped out. 608 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:21,320 I'm not saying that they were the enemy, but the Japanese military was, the Japanese government 609 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,680 was that started the war. 610 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:29,980 They were the enemy and why they chose to knock out a city, I don't understand. 611 00:37:29,980 --> 00:37:37,040 But anyway, the point is that when you are in the presence of God, when you are walking 612 00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:43,320 where you're supposed to be, it doesn't matter how bad the circumstances get, the presence 613 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:49,920 of God is with you and everything else will melt, but you don't have to melt. 614 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,920 That's good. 615 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:51,920 Okay. 616 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:52,960 That is the point. 617 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:58,640 And we just need to be so in our trust in God. 618 00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:04,240 And you know, sometimes we get faced with things that are scary. 619 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:09,620 Sometimes we get faced with, like look at Joshua, at the beginning of the book of Joshua, 620 00:38:09,620 --> 00:38:15,820 at the end of Deuteronomy, God tells Moses to bring up Joshua, set him in front of everybody 621 00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:20,080 and say, okay, this man is going to take you in. 622 00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:25,520 The Lord says, I can't go because I lost my temper and hit the rock when he told me to 623 00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:30,360 speak to the rock and it's all your fault because you made me mad. 624 00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:34,680 He kind of did a little blame shifting there, but he was angry with the hardness of their 625 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:35,680 hearts. 626 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:43,960 And he says, Joshua, you be strong and courageous and lead this people in. 627 00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:52,480 So after Moses dies and the people are there waiting, they spend 30 days in mourning in 628 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,800 honor to Moses. 629 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:01,040 And then God says to Joshua, Moses, my servant is dead. 630 00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:06,240 And I'm reading from Joshua chapter one, verses one through three says, after the death of 631 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:12,480 Moses, the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, 632 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:14,520 Moses, my servant is dead. 633 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:19,560 Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people into the land that 634 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,720 I'm giving to them, to the people of Israel. 635 00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:27,480 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you just as I 636 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:29,360 promised to Moses. 637 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:33,680 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. 638 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,960 Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 639 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,520 I will not leave you nor forsake you. 640 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:46,880 Be strong and courageous for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore 641 00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:54,080 to their fathers to give them only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according 642 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,640 to all the law that Moses, my servant commanded you. 643 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:03,360 Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left that you may have good success wherever 644 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,520 you go. 645 00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:09,620 This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day 646 00:40:09,620 --> 00:40:15,260 and night so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. 647 00:40:15,260 --> 00:40:19,600 For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success. 648 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:23,000 Have I not commanded you be strong and courageous? 649 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:28,060 Do not be frightened and do not be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever 650 00:40:28,060 --> 00:40:29,060 you go. 651 00:40:29,060 --> 00:40:30,060 Yes. 652 00:40:30,060 --> 00:40:31,060 Be strong. 653 00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:38,600 So how, so in this scripture we are given some keys to how to be strong and courageous. 654 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:42,760 First of all, you just take it into your heart to do what God said to do. 655 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:48,400 But it also said, take hold of this book that I've given you. 656 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:55,600 These instructions that I gave to Moses, that word law there means instructions. 657 00:40:55,600 --> 00:41:03,400 These instructions that I gave to you, just do them and nobody's going to be able to stand 658 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,040 against you. 659 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:13,440 Just take courage, be strong, do it and meditate on this word day and night. 660 00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:21,000 It's the meditating on his word that gives us the strength and it gives us the heart. 661 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:26,840 It gives us the courage to do what the Lord is telling us to do because every single one 662 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,880 of us has an assignment on this planet. 663 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,200 It may be being a plumber. 664 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,400 It may be being an airline pilot. 665 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,600 It may be being a lawyer. 666 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:43,000 It may be being a pastor or a missionary, but it may be being a teacher. 667 00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:49,880 It could be any job on the planet, but you are to be so filled with the Holy Spirit and 668 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:57,120 so filled with the word of God that the glory that's on the inside of you will cause you 669 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:04,080 to be able to stand and be strong and be courageous in this time. 670 00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:09,340 Psalm 57 says, my heart is fixed, O God. 671 00:42:09,340 --> 00:42:10,340 My heart is fixed. 672 00:42:10,340 --> 00:42:13,200 I will sing and give praise. 673 00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:22,480 When we have a courageous heart, a strong fixed heart, a set heart, a steadfast heart, 674 00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:28,320 giving praise and singing is going to give us strength. 675 00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:33,160 The fixing of our heart and the singing of praise goes together. 676 00:42:33,160 --> 00:42:34,960 This word, my heart is fixed. 677 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,800 It could be steadfast, confident, set. 678 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,920 Psalm 112 verse seven says, he shall not be afraid of evil tidings. 679 00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,920 His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. 680 00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:49,680 It's our trust that comes from knowing him. 681 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:55,880 When we have seen him do stuff and we've seen him do plenty of stuff, we've lived long enough 682 00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,320 to see him be faithful over and over and over. 683 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:04,160 Maybe you haven't lived long enough or maybe you haven't walked with the Lord long enough 684 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:06,080 to know that he's faithful. 685 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,120 We're telling you, we've seen it. 686 00:43:08,120 --> 00:43:12,800 He is faithful and you can anchor your soul in him. 687 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,960 You can put your trust in him. 688 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:20,560 This word fixed means to be stable, to be established, to be set up. 689 00:43:20,560 --> 00:43:25,360 And it comes from a root word that means to be erect or stand perpendicular. 690 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,120 In other words, you're standing up. 691 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:30,440 It gives you the strength to stand. 692 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,340 When you have a fixed heart, you are ready to stand. 693 00:43:35,340 --> 00:43:40,240 And so you can be as strong as a lion. 694 00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:47,400 The anointing that melts your bonds like it melted Samson's gives you the strength to 695 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,340 stand in front of the enemy. 696 00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:53,380 And it's like standing up to a bully. 697 00:43:53,380 --> 00:43:59,880 We heard a story the other day from apostle Bobby Hogan where he was fed up and he told 698 00:43:59,880 --> 00:44:04,520 how when he was in sixth grade, these boys would bully him and chase him home every day 699 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,240 running down the railroad tracks and chase him and chase him. 700 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:09,760 He was running with fear. 701 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:10,840 They were older than him. 702 00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,240 They were bigger than him and he would just run. 703 00:44:14,240 --> 00:44:23,120 And so one day he got fed up and he borrowed his daddy's knife and he was ready for them 704 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,560 this day and they start chasing him. 705 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:30,480 He starts running and all of a sudden he says, if I don't do it now, I'll never do it. 706 00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:37,840 And he stopped and he turned around and he pulled out that knife and he threatened them 707 00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:42,080 and they looked at each other and turned and went the other way. 708 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,080 Yeah. 709 00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:44,720 It never bothered him again. 710 00:44:44,720 --> 00:44:47,200 Never bothered him again. 711 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:48,540 You got to get fed up. 712 00:44:48,540 --> 00:44:50,480 You got to get that courage. 713 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:57,960 You've got to get that knowing that God has put you on this planet for a purpose and you 714 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,800 will stand in his anointing. 715 00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:07,480 That Spirit of the Lord will come upon you and cause those bondages to break off of you 716 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:13,600 and you will be filled with the light of God and cause darkness to flee. 717 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:14,600 Yes. 718 00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,600 In the name of Jesus. 719 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,300 Amen. 720 00:45:22,300 --> 00:45:28,240 If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts 721 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:30,840 or wherever you listen to podcasts. 722 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